Cricket?

 Spring and Summer weather in Canterbury, particularly for the Canterbury Plains, is predictable: Almost every year late October and November produce warming, dry and settled conditions, December and early January have all sorts of crap conditions, often hot and cold in the same day with constant showers (rather than steady rain), late January, February and March are usually back to warm settled stuff, all with the possibilities of the odd hot (36-40C) day thrown in.

So why does NZ Cricket continue to schedule Hagley Oval test matches in ChCh for December?

Do they hate test cricket (The only form of real cricket!) that much? 

Maori Electorate Voters

 I draw attention to the Point-of-Order column: Labour winning all the Māori seats would be good for NZ

It's not worth reading but it only takes two minutes so go for it.

I draw attention because it is the latest column I've seen of utter irrelevant rubbish fed to gullible readers. 

The only thing good for New Zealand that can be done is a general information campaign explaining to most people with Maori heritage that removing themselves from this elitist racism bullshit and signing up for a General electorate, therefore avoiding the circus sideshow that is Maori-only elections, will give them far more influence on the governance of their country.

Such a campaign will need to be, and should be, led by a non-political organisation maybe based around Hobson's Choice or similar.