Recently, AT YOUR EXPENSE, a delegation of maori wideboys flew to London to conduct pretentious ceremonies and sing songs at the British museum. Why?

It’s long overdue for some restraints on the Historic Places outfit, currently travelling under the Heritage NZ monicker. Why incoming governments constantly change departments and agencies names is a mystery, never more so than with the current hopeless lot by a country mile, the worst government in our post-war history. Re-branding departments and agencies in maori, a language almost no-one speaks, was infantile.

Surely it’s way long overdue for legislation to prescribe the role of local government. Currently, it’s seemingly carte blanche as reflected by a recent extraordinary action by the Wellington City Council. Specifically, it (or some of its Councillors) decided to become involved in international politics.

Currently Kiwis are losing nearly 200 million dollars annually to scams. It is an extraordinary amount which testifies to the decline of our newspapers’ readership, they regularly publishing warnings against accepting plausible sounding messages purporting to come mainly from banks, but also other activities.

It’s no secret the Anglican church is on its deathbed everywhere, both memberships and church attendance in free fall and churches being closed and sold. So too with the Church of Scotland now on the verge of collapse. Half a century back with a population then a third of today’s the church had 1.4 million members. Today it’s down to 270,000, mostly elderly, of whom a mere 60,000 still attend services.