New Zealand's Island Names Confusion

24th October 2013

A Report was posted on line last week from an English Historian studying the Pre Colonisation of New Zealand... and he says there is no Historical Record of the New Maori Placenames for the North and South Islands of New Zealand... Captain Cook was allways very exacting about such detail but there was no...

http:// oxforguardian/Stanberg/qst8739/stamp/873410/Myths/New Zealand/

Radio NZ - The Meaning of Life is...

Posted 19th October 2013 to Nights on Radio New Zealand.

I don’t know why there is so much speculation about the Meaning of Life
And Listeners Asking you about it repeatedly...

The Never Ending Quest of Life is to “Adapt Adopt and Improve”
And any life form worth it’s salt will do these three things or eventually it will stop becoming a life form.

No Doubt in difficult times Humans have to follow that rule too, but given a choice they would rather sit still and Complain to the Cosmos for not being fair: )




(in the Hichhiker's guide to the galaxy this is rule number 42)

ODT- Southlland's New Mayor Resinates

Posted to the Otago Daily Times  10 October 2013

Of all the Candidates for the Southland Mayor, Garry Tong had a better Branding advantage for attracting the Voters, especially with his
“Tick Tong” campaign, Tong is a name with a Resonance and Tick is associated with the passage of time. It gives a feeling of a Great Tolling Bell ringing times up for the other Contenders! So Much so we think Next Election Garry should use the slogan Tick Toc, time for Tong!

There was some confusion with younger people not familiar with the voting process...  One was heard to say he thought “Tick” was Mr Tong’s actually Name or childhood Nick Name.

All puns aside I think Garry TONG should make a good strong Honest Mayor and set a new TONE for Southland.
  

Radio NZ- Homeless People of NZ

Posted 18 October 2013 to Afternoons on Radio New Zealand

Jim:
It is NO secret that the People who run this Country are believers in the survival of the fittest and punishment of losers.

Indeed the whole purpose of work and Income these days seems to be focused on getting people off their books at any cost, there is  little
Interest in people who are too weak to support themselves and even less in the general level of happiness of their clients.

But hey, that’s what our voters seem to want when they go to vote and only voters get represented in this brave new world,
The rest are politically invisible, displaced people.

As Douglas Adams once wrote “Nearly all the Problems of today’s Modern Galaxy are caused by Displaced People!”

Simple, but true!

Mayor Len Brown Confirms Affair - Stuff

15 October 2013 stuff.ed.co.nz

Auckland Mayor Len Brown has said he caused his family "harm, shame and humiliation" by having an affair but will not step down.

He appeared on TV3's Campbell Live this evening just hours after news broke that he had had an affair with a junior council advisor - named as Bevan Chuang.

Earlier, he said in a statement: "I told my wife previously, and she and I are working through the issues privately. We are looking to protect our children as best we can."

Brown was elected for a second term on Saturday, and said he had told his wife and daughters about the affair last week.

"This evening my house is surrounded. As I go through this, I ask the community and the media to respect my family," he said.

"I’ve cost my wife and children harm and shame and humiliation."

Details of the affair were revealed after Cameron Slater's Whaleoil blog published an account of a woman, her identity not revealed, detailing a  two-year affair.

The mayor, who refused to confirm Chuang's name, said she was not a council employee but served on a council advisory board and stood at this year's election for a ward seat.

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Odentroll Says: I see no good reason a Man can not have sex and make a good Politician, infact it should be considered a "perk" of the Job, in fact some of our Best Leaders have had Sex on a regular basis. 

Or to put it another way, The Leadership of a City is more important than one wife's Ego.

Otago Daily Times - Queenstown Convention Centre

Posted 14th October 2013 to the Otago Daily Times

I am amazed that Queenstown is asking Central Government to Fork out some 20 Million for an Ugly Convention Centre
Perched on some of the Towns Prime Real-estate.. Job Creation is the issue, but Considering Queenstown has to import workers from overseas and average kiwis can afford to live there,  added to that is the Government trying hard to Promote Auckland as a Convention Centre it all seems a bit of a long shot..
I recall Dunedin Actually Clocks in Massively More tourists than Queenstown Yet Nobody is Talking about giving Dunedin a Taxpayer funded Windfall..

Patricia Edgar on Radio New Zealand

Posted 13th October 2013 to Patricia Edgar via Radio NZ

Interesting Interview with Kim Hill and Patricia Edgar yesterday...
It put me in Mind of “Blade Runner” where Rutger Howard demanded from his designer to Give him More Life F****R.

I know someone who is 80 and insists on running a business (7 Motels) single handedly.
And though we try our best to help she insists on total control of every detail despite bad eyesight, bouts of severe back pain and memory glitches..

Yes it is Great to be allowed to be a useful Member of the Community for as long as you can but it is not something one should insist on if one is not really able to do the job.

As Human are not Robots this point in time can come at any age  from 8 to Eighty.  It’s about Bad Luck, Again we as a society tend to punish people with bad luck and that is our real shame. Not the Issues about ageing.

The Message I get from Patricia is that she is pissed off about the process of dieing... But so, I think everyone is... We need to find out how to turn off our termination genetics*, not grouch at our Children for being young... That dosn’t fix anything!

*But if we can Self Repair our age damaged DNA, we first need to have a serious discussion with the Catholic Church about Population control.

Dominion Post - Costa Concordia NZ

Posted 10th October 2013 to the Dominion Post

Dear Sir:
I had an Interesting Talk to a Civil Defence Coordinator for Southern New Zealand on the Subject of the 100 some odd Cruise ships Planning to Visit the Fiordland Area this coming Season and I asked him what if we had a Costa Concordia type Accident in Fiordland and He had to admit it would be a total disaster. If a Large Mega Liner was to loose power off the Fiordland Coast it would be Violently Destroyed with in minutes in a westerly storm... If it Lost Power in the Sounds it would Take Weeks for a Tug to be dispatched from Singapore and evacuation would overwhelm the Local Rescue services.

It’s all a big Gamble but as more and more tourists avoid the Land  and our local pay rates the Ships will increase and so will the Chances of a mishap

Who would Pay for it Is another Problem... But on the bright side any “Costly Recovery” from sinking would be near impossible in the South West Corner of New Zealand.
A pity about the environment though.

Fiordland Focus - Te Anau Potential

Posted 12th of October 2013 to the Fiordland Focus

I hear voices being raised from the likes of Mervyn Cave , Andrew Welsh and Jack Murrell that our community is not very open to new business opportunities to support our population.

But I recon we have to take stock of a few Historical Facts about the settlement of this basin, Like it only exists because of Central & Local Government initiatives and all private enterprise here is just a spin off of that Government insistence in Infrastructure.

It is a fair bet nothing new and exciting is ever going to happen here unless it comes from Wellington and as long as this area is a safe Political Seat there will be no need to change anything unless we have the money to lobby.

Another important Thing to contemplate is that The World now wants our area to be a Last Great Wilderness and by definition that means No People or Infrastructure.
So the upshot is don’t expect Private Enterprise to come to our rescue out here on the Fiordland Frontier... We just have to make due with what we got, Landcorp, Rugged individuals, stray tourists and Retiring Fontera Farmers for the foreseeable future.