Last Friday’s Dominion Post ran a cover photo on the increased intake of maori police-women, this showing some mostly largish lady cops.

When I read of the Peace Pact between China and the Solomon Islands my heart went out to the millions of mainland Chinese citizens who could now breathe a sigh of relief, the threat of a Solomons Islands invasion of China having been thwarted.

After three decades in public life, first as an MP and subsequently as Christchurch mayor, Lianne Dalziel has pulled stumps.