Our Shanghai-based correspondent looked at the aftermath of the Chinese New Year and some of the domestic tourism and spending numbers associated with it.
Vanessa Winning:
The chief executive of Irrigation NZ is rapt with the Prime Minister’s assertion that building dams is “absolutely critical” to the New Zealand economy.
Ben Picton:
We found Rabobank’s Sydney-based senior market strategist in Tokoroa, where he was on a speaking tour commenting about the outlook for the New Zealand economy and where our interest rates were going.
Shane Jones:
The Prince of the Provinces, Matua Shane Jones, a great chief fond of speaking about himself in the third person, had no time for Ginny Anderson’s comments, “nephs” on the couch, bank economists and “dim-witted frogs” getting in the way of infrastructure projects and mining.
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