MOAN MOAN MOAN .... WHINGE WHINGE WHINGE

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Let us sell at Easter: retailers

By SHANE COWLISHAW - The Southland Times | 5:00AM - Friday, 19 March 2010

Wanaka retailers will again decide if they will run the gauntlet and open their businesses over Easter as an influx of potential customers arrive for Warbirds Over Wanaka.

Most of the town's businesses are banned from opening on Good Friday or Easter Sunday, while neighbouring Queenstown is exempt from the law.

The rule has been controversial in Wanaka, with many shops choosing to open on the busy days and risk prosecution.

Wanaka business owners spoken to yesterday were reluctant to reveal opening plans for the Easter trading days but all believed they should have the option.

One owner said he would not be opening, but because he wanted to spend time with his family rather than fear of a fine.

"It's a farce, it's absolute bollocks," he said.

Chapter 5 owner Claudia Mcaulay, whose shop is in Pembroke Mall, which has a clause to trade, said even if she was not allowed to open she would.

"We're all New Zealanders and we all pay the same rates, so why can't we be given the same rights?" she said.

But National Distribution Union general secretary Robert Reid said New Zealand had the most liberal trading laws in the Western world and the few holidays left should be preserved.

He would rather see Queenstown's exemption to trade removed than Wanaka included, he said.

A private member's Bill by Rotorua MP Todd McClay briefly raised retailers' hopes, but it was narrowly defeated in December.

Mr McClay, whose electorate of Rotorua is also banned from trading on the holidays, worked closely with Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean on the Easter trading issue.

Yesterday Mr McClay said the defeat of the bill had been disappointing and was the 12th time a bill on Easter trading had been voted down.

He had not given up, however, and continued to work with Mrs Dean to explore other options in progressing the matter, he said.

The bill had been defeated by just two votes, the closest margin ever, so getting support for the next attempt was vital, he said.

Department of Labour spokesman Colin Patterson confirmed enforcement officers would be checking Easter trading compliance across the country but would not say if they would be in Wanaka.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/business/3474228/Let-us-sell-at-Easter-retailers

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Meanwhile, those Wanaka retailers who actually have a bit of intelligence between their ears are smart enough to realise that the hoardes of people who visit Wanaka over Easter weekend during the even-numbered years aren't actually in Wanaka town during the day, but are instead at Wanaka Airport. Those smart Wanaka retailers lease a site at the airport and set up shop there for the weekend (where they CAN legally trade over Easter) and make a killing in sales from the airshow patrons (up to 30,000 people on Good Friday, 100,000 people on the Saturday and about half that number on the Sunday).

Unlike the moaners and whingers who are dimwits; and haven't yet gained the intelligence to comprehend that the REAL crowds are at the airport!

[guest49]

Its all the fault of the Americans!

[Magoo]

Its all the fault of the Americans!

And the Nats.

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

There's even a Wellington retailer who orders a huge amount of stock and sets up shop at Wanaka Airport every second Easter.

He tells me he sells more books over the three days of the Warbirds over Wanaka airshow during Easter than he sells over three months from his bookshop in Featherston Street, Wellington. He reckon's it's a very profitable trip down to Wanaka every two years!

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Its all the fault of the Americans!

The only thing the 'mericans were responsible for was a shitload of paranoia over a Mitsubishi Zero fighter plane being transported to New Zealand for the airshow. The 'mericans have a dumb law that classifies even a vintage aeroplane such as a Mitsubishi Zero (with inactive guns) as being a weapon of war, so they require the owner of the aeroplane to get bogged down in a shitload of red-tape and paperwork before they will allow said aeroplane to be exported, even temporarily. The dumb 'mericans dumped the same crap on Doug Brooker when he purchased a Spitfire from an 'merican owner and wanted to export it to NZ.

Perhaps the dumb Yanks think we're going to supply Spitfires and Zeros to the Bogeyman or Al Quada?

Faaaaark!!! 

[AnFaolchudubh]

Its all the fault of the Americans!

And the Nats.

And the spy base...

and the japanese whalers...

and the NZ farmers....

[Lovelee]

Theres debate raging as to whether TradeMes members that are businesses should be allowed to sell on the banned days this year 

Time we caught up with the rest of the world ...

reminds me off that joke about the plane arriving in NZ, the pilot comes over the intercom and says, "we are now entering NZ air space, please turn your clocks back 10 years

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

“But National Distribution Union general secretary Robert Reid said New Zealand had the most liberal trading laws in the Western world and the few holidays left should be preserved.”


There's actually more than a grain of truth in that.

As an example, in the so-called “Land of the Free” (Jesusland aka the USA), many States (the redneck fundy religious ones) have considerably more restrictions on shops opening on certain days of the year than New Zealand does.

[Lovelee]

I think David Farrar puts it well ..


I doubt there is any law as inconsistent and illogical as our current Easter shop trading laws.

Let us start with the fact this law bans employees from being able to earn extra money. We’re in a recession and times are tough. A shop assistant  could earn say an extra $450 if they were allowed to work this Friday and Sunday. That would be enough money so they could then actually afford a holiday later in the year.

Then let us look at the fact Easter Sunday is not a public holiday. We have a law that bans you from being able to work on a day which is not even a public holiday. It is simply a religious day. Easter Monday is a public holiday and you are allowed to work that day, but in most cases not on Easter Sunday.

Some may claim the law allows people the weekend off. Apart from the fact that the law removes any choice from employees, it does not. People can be forced to work on Easter Saturday. Would it not be far superior to say have a law that says no employee (except essential services) can be forced to work over the four Easter days, but that they can do so if they wish. As present they can be forced to work on at least one of those days, and have no choice about working the other two.

Then we have the anomalies. Where do you start. How about a four square can not open but a Star Mart can? How about the fact a souvenir shop can open but a gift shop can not?  And the garden centre amendment that allowed them to open on Easter Sunday, but not Good Friday?

And that is before we even deal with regional anomalies. Shops in Queenstown can open, but not Wanaka. Taupo is okay, but not Rotorua.

The law is a mess. It is anti-worker and anti-choice. We have a law that stops many workers from being able to earn extra money – some of it as holiday and penal rates. It is nothing to do with protecting workers – it is about compelling them. Workers already have protection from being forced to work on protected days under the Act:

No worker shall be required to work on a protected day or at night. No undue influence shall be applied to any worker in an attempt to induce that worker to agree to work on a protected day or at night. No action shall be taken to discriminate against or disadvantage any worker not wishing to work on a protected day or at night.

Now again Easter Sunday is not a public holiday. It is a religious day. Removing from workers the ability to choose to work that day (if their employers wish to open) does not guarantee them Easter off – they can be forced to work Easter Saturday.

Rotorua MP Todd McClay has a private members bill that is a small step forward. It allows local communities to decide whether or not shops can open on Easter Sunday. Hopefully Parliament will do the right thing and not cave into to the unholy alliance between the religious right and the union left.

http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2009/04/my_annual_rant_on_easter_trading.html

We havent even started on the separation of church and state yet.

[ssweetpea]

Bear in mind that Easter (Good Friday and Easter Sunday) are the most significant holy days in the Christain year. Bigger than Christamas.

That aside many of the inconsistances in the current trading hours law date from before Saturday and Sunday trading were allowed.

Here on the North Shore we can shop in Browns Bay at Easter because once upon a time it was a tourist destination.

I am not even sure if there is more than one motel there now, there isn't a souviner shop anymore. Browns Bay is deep in suburbia.

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Kosher rules may pull chicken off the menu

By MARK HOTTON - The Southland Times | 5:00AM - Wednesday, 02 June 2010

Rabbis in Sydney and Dunedin have criticised the Government's new code of welfare for the commercial slaughter of animals that prevents them from being killed in accordance with kosher rules.

The code of welfare, introduced by Agriculture Minister David Carter this month, outlines guidelines for humane slaughter practices.

All animals commercially slaughtered in New Zealand have to be stunned before slaughter. But kosher rules prevent the use of pre-slaughter stunning — a sharp knife must be used to cut the oesophagus, trachea, carotid arteries and jugular veins in one action.

Rabbi Moshe Gutnick, acting president of the Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia, told The Southland Times that MAF had suggested there was no need for kosher chicken processing in New Zealand because there was no interest.

"They're trying to pretend that there's nothing wrong with the decision because it doesn't affect anybody, but it does.

"There's no question there's a need and no question the decision was a hasty one."

Kosher beef and lamb would have to be imported from Australia but regulations mean unprocessed chicken cannot be imported.

He visited Invercargill about a year ago to oversee the kosher killing of about 800 chickens for supply throughout New Zealand. But that processing plant closed at the end of July last year.

Rabbi Shmuel Kopel, of Chabad House in Dunedin, said the Invercargill processing plant was used only two or three times, with the last time in June. Processed chickens were frozen and used over time and, when stocks ran down, more were processed.

Most of the kosher killing was done in the North Island, where the main Jewish population was based, he said.

"They're trying to regulate us out of doing kosher chicken.

"It completely destroys our ability to do kosher chicken. For those keeping kosher, it means they can't eat chicken until we do something about this law or if they own chickens," Rabbi Kopel said.

Mr Carter ignored a recommendation that kosher killing be exempted from the code.

New Zealand had a well-deserved reputation for animal welfare and the new code reinforced that by aiming those involved with the commercial slaughter of animals to adopt the highest welfare standards, he said.

"Pre-slaughter stunning of animals is already widely done by commercial operators in New Zealand and the new code provides for a more consistent approach.

"The code also reflects the advances made in humane slaughter methods and technology over the last four decades," Mr Carter said.

The new guidelines came into effect last Friday.

National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC) chairman John Hellstrom said the code provided clear guidelines on how people cared for animals beyond the farm and set out best practice guidelines to ensure animals did not suffer "unreasonable or unnecessary pain and distress" when they were killed.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3765477/Kosher-rules-may-pull-chicken-off-the-menu


Jewish community upset at ban on kosher killing

By AMANDA FISHER - The Dominion Post | 5:00AM - Wednesday, 09 June 2010

The Jewish community is outraged at a new animal welfare code that bans kosher slaughter — a move usually confined to anti-Semitic countries, including Nazi Germany.

The Organisation of Rabbis of Australasia acting president, Moshe Gutnick, said the decision was "beyond comprehension" and defied the country's proud tradition of tolerance.

Kosher slaughter of animals, known as shechita, is a ritual where the blood drains from an animal's severed throat.

The tradition is an oral law and a tenet for orthodox Jews.

The Agriculture and Forestry Ministry commercial animal slaughter code released last week makes the stunning of all animals before slaughter compulsory — which contravenes shechita.

"This is something that is usually done by countries that are anti-Semitic, which is something that New Zealand is certainly not, so the decision is incredulous," Rabbi Gutnick said.

The National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee, which made code recommendations to Agriculture Minister David Carter, recommended an exemption be made.

But Mr Carter decided against the exemption, in the interests of animal welfare and New Zealand's export market.

Rabbi Gutnick said the Jewish religion gave the world human and animal rights and kosher killing was as humane as any other method.

"It's really a slap in the face to suggest that our religious practices are anything but ... humane.

"The science is wrong, but even if the science wasn't wrong it infringes on the religious rights of the community."

Rabbi Gutnick said many in the community were hurt by the decision and were planning legal recourse.

An Auckland Hebrew Congregation spokesman said the community was deeply concerned and was looking at options for reversal.

Forty-two public submitters opposed the ban on religious grounds, and the advisory committee report recommended an exemption for the "exceptional circumstance".

It stated: "In order to balance animal welfare and religious rights imperatives a dispensation should be allowed."

Mr Carter said he had "with reluctance" decided against the exemption as high animal welfare standards were a priority.

"Above all else I was conscious of New Zealand's position as an export nation trying to maintain [high standards] for our primary production exports."

Information presented to him showed animals not stunned before slaughter "suffered for a considerable period of time".

He did not believe the decision would have widespread effects as only 300 lambs were being slaughtered kosher annually, and about 2000 chickens last year — and this operation had since shut down. "I have no doubt that the New Zealand Jewish community will not welcome this decision [but] I hope they will consider carefully the facts in front of me and respect my decision."

They would still be able to import kosher meat.

He accepted the community may seek legal recourse but said neither the Bill of Rights nor animal welfare legislation gave religious practice priority over animal welfare.

Otago University religious law expert Rex Ahdar said the Jewish community had a good legal case and it was irrelevant that religion had no legal priority over animal welfare.

"That doesn't take the argument one way or the other. The point is [the code is] certainly challengable in a court of law."

The onus would be on the Government to show there was a compelling reason to ignore the exemption for religious practice and issue a blanket ban.

A court could issue a declaration that the code was inconsistent, and the Jewish community could use this to lobby Parliament to amend the law.

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GUIDELINES

New animal welfare commercial slaughter guidelines:

• All birds and animals slaughtered must be pre-stunned and processed by approved methods.

• The time-honoured tradition of dropping crayfish and crabs straight into a boiling pot is over — they must first be rendered insensible through a volt, cold water or some other means.

• New procedures for handling and killing finfish caught and held for killing at a later time, such as in a restaurant.

• Eels must be killed before they are deslimed. All slaughterhouses must implement a quality assurance programme.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/national/3788878/Jewish-community-upset-at-ban-on-kosher-killing

[ssweetpea]

Interesting.....I hope that the jews do take it to court even though I think that sticking to the historic method when a more humain method is availible is silly.

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

MOAN MOAN MOAN .... WHINGE WHINGE WHINGE — all land transport routes in and out of Wairarapa were NOT closed during the big snowstorm.

Route 52 (the former SH52) was still passable; and the railway line to Wellington was still open, with several passenger trains (and a couple of freight trains) continuing to operate every day SH2 was closed over the Rimutaka Hill Road and over Mount Bruce.


Stranded in Wairarapa

By AMIE HICKLAND - Wairarapa Times-Age | Thursday, 25 August 2011


WHITE BARRIER: Last week's polar blast
closed the Rimutaka Hill Road.

TWO TREACHEROUS ROADS continue to leave Wairarapa cut off from the rest of the country during periods of adverse weather but officials say they will deal with any worst-case scenario when it happens.

Last week, State Highway 2 was closed at both the northern and southern entrances to the region, leaving motorists stranded and trucks unable to deliver supplies to the region.

New Zealand Transport Authority Wellington operations manager Mark Owen admitted that when the two main routes to Wairarapa were closed it left the region isolated "in terms of road access".

He said State Highway 2, near Mount Bruce, had been closed three times in the past six weeks due to heavy snow fall, and the Rimutaka Hill Rd closed for at least a three-day period last week.

Mr Owen said the contractors focused on clearing the northern route, as they knew the Rimutaka Hill Road would take much longer.

"I got the team to really focus on Mount Bruce as quickly as possible," he said.

"The time to clear that [Rimutaka Hill Road] was going to be longer than Mount Bruce."

He said the extreme weather was a once-in-50-year event and the authority would have a debrief to discuss how to clear the roads faster — although it expects to close the hill once a year due to the weather.

One way contractors had done this was by using calcium magnesium acetate or CMA to stop ice forming, which was a barrier in opening the road.

He said while this was very expensive, it was better for the environment than road salt.

The snow also brought another obstacle for the NZTA.

When graders were clearing snow on the hill, the cats eyes in the middle of the road were smashed.

Mr Owen said these were a safety feature, and would be replaced in the next few weeks.

He said the total bill for the cats eyes and the snow clearing work was unknown but would be a "significant" amount.

"The challenge with this event is it was widespread," he said.

Wairarapa Civil Defence emergency management officer Paul Walker said in a worst-case scenario, where the two roads were closed for a week, they would look for alternative road routes.

"You've got other corridors into Wairarapa," he said.

Mr Walker said contractors would work as fast as possible to clear the routes, although it was unlikely both roads would be closed for that long.

"We'll have what we have on the day," he said, when asked about emergency supplies.

In the past, Civil Defence has also looked at air and sea travel where necessary.

He said years ago Mataikona was isolated after a road slip and it was unsuitable to use a boat to get supplies to local residents. "Therefore we flew it in," he said.

http://www.times-age.co.nz/news/but-why-do-we-face-this-highway-hell/1080179

[Crusader]

Moan Moan Moan Whinge Whinge Whinge. Is that like bitching and moaning about Waihopi even though you know fuck all about what goes on in there?

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

It was interesting to note that during the time one of the covers was missing from an antenna at Waihopai, a surveyor was able to work out a triangluation on where the antenna was aimed at and determine that our government spooks were spying on a country which is regarded as friendly to NZ. Presumably they weren't doing that at the behest of the NZ government, but were instead having their puppet strings pulled by the government of the United States of America.

I reckon someone needs to purchase a property within immediate radar range of Waihopai and use a radar set aimed at the place to obtain a constant image of where those antennas are pointing, then make it public exactly which country's satellites are being spied on from day to day.

That would make the Americans froth at the mouth, eh? 

[Crusader]

So what is the difference from these people having a whinge about opening over Easter and other people whinging about Waihopi?

[AnFaolchudubh]

So what is the difference from these people having a whinge about opening over Easter and other people whinging about Waihopi?

Ones about conspiracy!

[reality]

BOOcy........"It was interesting to note that during the time one of the covers was missing from an antenna at Waihopai, a surveyor was able to work out a triangluation on where the antenna was aimed at and determine that our government spooks were spying on a country which is regarded as friendly to NZ. Presumably they weren't doing that at the behest of the NZ government, but were instead having their puppet strings pulled by the government of the United States of America.


mm....sounds alot like bullshit to me


BOOcy...."I reckon someone needs to purchase a property within immediate radar range of Waihopai and use a radar set aimed at the place to obtain a constant image of where those antennas are pointing, then make it public exactly which country's satellites are being spied on from day to day."

...good idea....and good luck...hope it works out for you  down there



 BOOcy...."That would make the Americans froth at the mouth, eh? "



yeah ....they'll be shitting themselves..I dont how Obama and his generals sleep...wondering what NZ will do next 

[Newtown-Fella]

it amazes me that they havent attacked Tangimoana after all it is another so called spy base in NZ ....

but then again i suppose theres not the pretty big white balls sitting in a paddock to destroy .....

[ssweetpea]

BOOcy........"It was interesting to note that during the time one of the covers was missing from an antenna at Waihopai, a surveyor was able to work out a triangluation on where the antenna was aimed at and determine that our government spooks were spying on a country which is regarded as friendly to NZ. Presumably they weren't doing that at the behest of the NZ government, but were instead having their puppet strings pulled by the government of the United States of America.


mm....sounds alot like bullshit to me


BOOcy...."I reckon someone needs to purchase a property within immediate radar range of Waihopai and use a radar set aimed at the place to obtain a constant image of where those antennas are pointing, then make it public exactly which country's satellites are being spied on from day to day."

...good idea....and good luck...hope it works out for you  down there



 BOOcy...."That would make the Americans froth at the mouth, eh? "



yeah ....they'll be shitting themselves..I dont how Obama and his generals sleep...wondering what NZ will do next 

Sounds more like basic triganomitry to me. The only hard part is figuring out whose satalite is the target.

[reality]

Sweety...."Sounds more like basic triganomitry to me. The only hard part is figuring out whose satalite is the target"

yeah...once you convince the countries concerned to keep you informed of their  satelite locations it would be a breeze..I'm sure they'll be falling over themselvrs to provide that information

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Sounds more like basic triganomitry to me. The only hard part is figuring out whose satalite is the target.

Sssssshhhhhh.....you'll make Reality feel inadequate because he is too dumb to know what trigonometry is and how you can use it to work out triangulations for survey purposes AND calculating which communications satellites spooks' spy antennas are aimed at!

Reality was probably too busy himself when his maths teacher was talking about trigonometry at high school.

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

yeah...once you convince the countries concerned to keep you informed of their  satelite locations it would be a breeze..I'm sure they'll be falling over themselvrs to provide that information

Communications satellites are in geosynchronous orbit, so always stay in the same place relative to any location on the surface of the planet (why do you think your Sky dish doesn't have to move around to track the satellite it receives TV signals from?).

Are you too thick to comprehend basic stuff like that? 

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

from The Press....

Turbo props: slower, noisier, more cramped. Does
Air NZ think Christchurch travellers are suckers?

By DEVIN DORE | 9:03AM - Thursday, 04 August 2016


There are no security checks before boarding an ATR. Probably because hijackers and
terrorists don't like flying them either. — Photograph: Andy Jackson/Fairfax NZ.

IS OUR national air carrier exploiting our pride and loyalty to the point where it is arrogantly and surreptitiously taking us in Christchurch for suckers. I think so, and here is why I think so.

In my lifetime, the Christchurch-Wellington sector which we used to call the “Main Trunk” has been serviced by the DC3, the Vickers Viscount and the Fokker Friendship aircraft.

We left behind the lower, slower turbo prop aircraft and entered the jet age, first with the prodigious Boeing 737 followed by the Airbus A320 which provided excellent service before being replaced by the lower slower ATR 72 and Q300 turbo prop aircraft.

Now of course if you don't fly between Christchurch and Wellington more than a couple of times a year this won't bother you too much, but never the less consider these facts:

• According to Air New Zealand's website schedules, The ATR and Q300 aircraft are around 30 percent slower than the A320.

• If you don't fly regularly you are more than likely not aware that the ticket you have purchased is not for a flight on a modern jet service until you reach the airport. Yes there is always palpable sense of WTF on an ATR between CHC and WLG.

• Of 11 flights from Christchurch to Wellington on a typical day, nine of these — yes nine — out of 11 are either ATR or the even smaller Q300 propeller driven aircraft.

• Boarding is from the recently built but often over crowded regional lounge designed for flights to smaller centres like Westport or Oamaru or Blenheim. If indeed they still fly there of course.

• If you're into exercise you'll enjoy the 250 metre trek just to get to the gate before you pass the puffer jacket clad flight attendants who ensure you don't walk into a spinning prop or board the wrong aeroplane. Forget using the Koru Club it's even further to walk.

• There are no security checks on passengers boarding an ATR or Q300. Probably because hijackers and terrorists don't like flying in them either.

• There are no airbridge facilities available for the ATR or Q300. This means that you are subjected to all weather conditions to board your aircraft and we all know what Wellington for example can turn on in that department.

• It is much noisier in the cabin of a turbo prop aircraft and they are subject at times to significant vibration.

• The seating is more cramped, it has to be, the cabin is much smaller.

• The navigation systems in an ATR are not as sophisticated as an A320. What this means is that if you are flying to Queenstown in an ATR you are often diverted to Invercargill and given a free 2 hour bus ride to Queenstown. An A320 on the other hand can use RNP to fly into Queenstown operating to a much lower weather minima.

The Airbus A320 is significantly faster than an ATR turbo prop aircraft.
 — Photograph: Bevan Read/Fairfax NZ.

Get this, a seat on an ATR is the same price as an Airbus A320 and often more.

Now as mentioned previously, of 11 flights from Christchurch to Wellington on a typical day, nine of these are either ATR or Q300 turbo prop aircraft.

Also on a typical day there are 14 flights between Wellington and Auckland. Every single one of these is an A320 yet this sector is only a few minutes longer than Christchurch to Wellington. Try just once putting an ATR on this sector and there would be huge indignation. That's one way of putting it.

Which begs the question, why are we in Christchurch being treated so poorly by Air New Zealand.

There are other issues of course, such as I discovered when I went to book a trip to Sydney a few days ago. Of five Air New Zealand flights from Christchurch to Sydney the only direct flight at 6.15am was on a Virgin Australia service, say no more, but at least it was a jet service.

The rest were through Wellington, Melbourne or Auckland taking either 7 hours 15 minutes or if you are really lucky 6 hours and 35 minutes. As it happens I am I am taking the shorter Auckland route to Sydney on Sunday. And look, when was the last time you saw one of our Boeing 787 Dreamliners or one of our Boeing 777's here in Christchurch.

It may seem to some readers that all this is no more than an attempt to win an Air New Zealand Whine Award but just in case the point has been missed we are talking here about our national airline servicing our country's second biggest city. The word servicing of course can have a number of different meanings as those in the bloodstock industry will acknowledge. I can't help but feel at times that it's the latter servicing that Air New Zealand has in mind for Christchurch.

Come on Air New Zealand we know you own the skies in this part of the world, in other words you have no real opposition and if you do, you buy into them or come to an arrangement, but please don't take the mickey, we deserve better down here, especially on the Main Trunk.

• Kevin Dore is a Christchurch businessman, frequent traveller, aircraft owner and holder of a current private pilots licence.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/business/82769956