Problem is under “radio silence”

Broom to Boardroom Career Path Praised & Recommended for Public Sector Take up . The MSC Newswire service sector panel again this year highly commended the New Zealand service sector for the way in which it consistently presented a cheerful and helpful approach to customers. The retail sector was singled out for special praise. Panelists singled out the way in which the grocery and hardware multiples especially infused their staff work with a sense of promotion scope and therefore opportunity. The multiples were also praised for their staff selection procedures which at the outset and regardless of age or formal…

Isolation imposed time lag continues as New Zealand characteristic The delivery of the earthquake struck coastal township of Kaikoura with the second syllable pronounced as in “cow” has become the signal shibboleth or password designed to reveal the utterer, and the organisation that employs them, as being politically correct. Kai- COW – ra has now replaced as the dominant pc call sign the previous place-name pronunciation which was KIDDY –KIDDY for the far northern township of Kerikeri. Both these hallmark pronunciations had their genesis in New Zealand’s government broadcasting operation. This was in spite of the state broadcasting corporation’s late…

Political Class-Media Armageddons Recalled Three scaremongering and imminent disaster predicted without qualification by the political classes that would paralyse civilisation in the new millennium have now conspicuously failed to come to pass. The millennialist threats in terms of the disaster they were predicted to precipitate were:- The Y2K computer paralysis Food miles Peak oil The Y2K COMPUTER paralysis was predicted to hit civilisation with the advent of the current millennium, the second millennium. In the event global data processing continued as before. The pretext for the scare was that computer operating system clocks were said to be self-eliminating at the…

Donald Trump Ends Watergate Era by Exiling Power of the Press How National Press Club/MSC Newswire predicted Trump win  View the orginal release and subsequent predictions here From the MSCNewsWire reporters' desk    

Media-encouraged hysteria feeds false hopes. The first priority of the National government’s new dream team is to confront a nightmare. A real one. It is the moral issue of the Pike River aftermath and which takes the form of reopening the mine in order to seek for the mortal remains of the 29 brave miners who perished there. It is a fevered issue which must now be cauterised in the national interest and in the interest of the bereaved. . The new prime minister Bill English is the authority figure to do it. He must now state quite definitely that…

Questions Float about IPO ticket-clip   -   The mooted litigation-funded class action against the Wynyard Group faces an immediate two-fold problem. This is exactly what entities are in the firing line of this proposed action, and how will any desired reparations be extracted from these entities? Are we looking here, for example, at Britain’s Skipton Building Society? This financial services organisation is usually cited as controlling the Jade computer services organisation from which the Wynyard Group originated. There are several problems here.One is that the Skipton Building Society–Jade organisation’s association with Wynyard Group is rather more tenuous than is…

Sudden disappearance of New Zealand civil engineering institution led to standards decline claims correspondent   The rush to bury the reality and the memory of the old New Zealand Ministry of Works had a singular and tangible outcome. This was the standards vacuum. The subsequent leaky building problem and the modern buildings which collapsed due to earthquakes in Christchurch are the result of this. This state of affairs was referred to, but not at the length it deserved by your original correspondent who correctly described the New Zealand “way” in which entities once believed to be of value are suddenly…

US-made First Alert extinguisher had undisclosed additional safety catch trigger A US-made fire extinguisher on sale in New Zealand features an undisclosed second-tier safety trip which is in addition to the standard pull-pin release mechanism. The second tier safety device on the extinguisher is comprised of a barely visible plastic filament. This must be pressed simultaneously with the white trigger at the top. No indication is given on the instructions of the existence of this additional filament-press detonation mechanism. The three part operating instruction only states to Pull Pin/Aim/Press Lever. Absolutely no mention is made of the barely visible filament…

Oceania Free Trade will give Lowlands a conflict-free market zone which Canada deal will not The EU’s stop-go trade deal with Canada points up the obvious advantages that the Lowlands, notably Belgium, will derive from a similar such arrangement with New ZealandThe Walloons, the Belgium-region which vetoed the Canadian deal, has been scorned for its obstructionism. Yet in fact a single market with Canada poses immense problems to Belgium which was once the European powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution. Here are some of them:-  Canada’s heavy engineering sector, notably in the form of Bombardier, will compete directly with EU’s heavy…