A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
Speaking again of “Wally regimes”, we have to look no further than Tuesday's national news to see that even our NZDF is steeped deep in “wallydom” when they reject a plan to mark rifle magazines to identify them as NZDF property. In the next breath NZDF admits to having “lost”
more than a thousand rifle magazines.
You do not “lose” that many magazines. The majority of them will have been stolen or otherwise illegally dealt with, so why would the NZDF not mark them, given that they would be illegal to be in anyone's possession other than for defence force purposes? The real “cat to be let out of the bag” would be the revealing of how many actual military rifles and other ordinances have been “lost” also.
The public could be forgiven for thinking that the refusal to mark military property might well be because of the embarrassment when it is revealed that military personnel are stealing items to sell to mates, or secrete away themselves to form little militias in these troubled times, if that is in fact what is happening.
Dennis Pennefather
