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This is an interesting sidelight on business interests in NZ/AO. We are supposed to be one of the easiest countries in the world to start a business in. So start up a company, register it, and what? This gazetted list shows a big interaction in company names. Are they opened for nefarious purposes? Or just to do one or other transaction to get useful advantages from our company law or lore?
https://gazette.govt.nz/notice/id/2024-ds2228
I hope they are charged for opening and closing. The combined fees would provide a bulwark of revenue for our hungry, starving pollies and their administrative cuckoos, or vice versa for the birds. The tui can have the last word; a throat clearing, a croak and then a whistle. You’ve got it mate.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/517222/hamilton-fatal-crash-drink-driver-jack-halliday-ignored-plea-not-to-drive
…On the evening of 21 July 2023, Halliday, 26, finished work at 5.53pm and joined his workmates for drinks in the workshop.
CCTV footage showed he had five drinks before leaving in his work ute at 8.15pm to head to a pub in Matamata.
There, he met several workmates whom he had dinner with and drank “several” more handles and “at least” two whiskeys.
One of his co-workers, who was not drinking, was concerned Halliday was over the limit and suggested he stay at his place or another associate’s, as he had done previously.
Ignoring those concerns, Halliday left the bar at 10.45pm and drove to Hamilton, opting to take the quieter roads.
Around this time, Prasad was travelling from Hamilton towards his home in Eureka, which he shared with family.
At 11.19pm, Halliday approached Newstead on State Highway 26, on the outskirts of Hamilton. The ute’s GPS data tracked him travelling at, or just over, 100km/h in dry weather conditions.
Prasad continued heading east and was in a line of traffic when the vehicle in front of him took evasive action as Halliday’s vehicle drifted across the centre line.
Missing the first vehicle, Halliday’s ute collided with Prasad’s vehicle.
As a result of the crash, Prasad suffered several brain and head injuries and died at the scene. His New Zealand resident visa arrived just days later.
Halliday was taken to Waikato Hospital with minor injuries and was discharged sometime later.
A blood sample taken from Halliday returned a blood alcohol level of 144mg per 100ml of blood. The legal limit is 50mg.
‘I thought I was under the limit’
When spoken to by police, Halliday admitted drinking but said he believed he was under the limit.
As for the crash, he said he remembered “looking down and then looking up and then hitting the headlights” in front of him….
He didn’t think at all! Alcohol is something that is the major problem in NZ. And serious drying out boot camp exercises need to be carried out on those over the limit. Those who have caused injuries or death should be put away for ten years away from alcohol and worked on farms as labour; if they refuse, be locked up in jail. Nothing will get through the thick heads of people who are used to heavy drinking. And removing them from society would be cheaper than putting up with, and so continuing this laissez faire attitude to personal responsibility. With freedom and availability comes a requisite restraint.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/517176/rule-change-to-protect-powerlines-from-being-hit-by-trees
The authorities will have to ask Bogor for advice on how to approach the trees about this.
https://teara.govt.nz/en/cartoon/41827/bogor
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/517235/backlash-as-uk-supermarket-trials-sale-of-new-zealand-lamb
We had better watch out. If the supermarket chain is undercutting local lamb then we are shooting ourselves in the foot. I remember decades ago similar controversy in the USA which we were not prime movers of, but did us no good. We need to negotiate not on bulk but on a special slot for prepared cuts of certain quality from exotic, romantic New Zealand/Aotearoa! Let’s hit the alluring, notable button. I think it still works. Or chomp it up and sell it for hamburgers with a Greek style, perhaps with a free copy of Zorba to dance to for barbecue time!
Perhaps a special deal with a Greek restaurant chain?
Off google – The Real Greek has 16 restaurants throughout UK.
It says there are in the UK 990 Greek restaurants.
We need to try something different in marketing as we seem to have lost some zeal – since we went neolib. So new zeal is called for eh!
Crosby Stills and Nash sang Suite: Judy Blue Eyes – I think it was composed about Judy Collins.
While listening I thought we could adopt it as a song to our country New Zealand/Aotearoa – those of us who care about what we had, not perfect but changing for good.
Here is a version with lyrics and birds edging the screen – rather nice. And the words are right for feeling Kiwis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7vJdY_mJMY
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