Kiwiblog published a mindblowingly illiterate statement issued by the staff of Naenae Primary school. Naenae is a low income Lower Hutt suburb. What hope for these kids with teachers lacking basic grammar, let alone common sense?

The NZ Herald reports the existence (I’m not making this up) of a Professional Dog Walkers Association.

Senior Stuff journalist Nicholas Boyack, writing of a major and grossly excessive central Lower Hutt roading project known as the Melling Interchange, told readers that the new construction date “rapidly approaches”.

A couple of weeks back I was in Auckland for three days. I’ve passed through the city regularly over the last decade to travel abroad but otherwise never stayed overnight. This is a benefit of owning a private jet, specifically, if something arises one can nip up in the morning, attend to it and return home the same day without incurring the unavoidable time-consuming horrors implicit with commercial airlines.

Understandably there’s been a huge volume of comment on the election, for two reasons.