Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Our biggest road works contractor Fulton Hogan are reportedly complaining about their inability to secure staff. Here’s how to solve their problem. Lift the percentage of current staff actually working from the present 5% to 10% and thereby double production. The remaining 90% of
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Olympic Games, once a highlight in the sporting calendar, as with all individual sports, have now become corrupted by excess. With the Olympics this constitutes adding ever more events, in the process diluting the value of an Olympic medal. Such is the way of
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Despite massive labour shortages across the land the public are currently forking out through taxation, benefits for circa 100,000 allegedly unemployed. I’d wage that I, and for that matter most folk, could find jobs for at least 80,000 of these so-called unemployed
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Wellington commercial real estate agent Chris Gollins certainly secures some interesting properties to sell. Currently he’s advertising a strata floor for sale in a multi-level Lower Hutt office building “as is, where is”. The “where is” clearly implies a capability to shift it elsewhere,
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Cabinet minister Kris Faafoi surprised when he announced earlier this year that he was pulling stumps on politics after 12 years. Then 3 months later he announced he would form his own consultancy firm. The pompous reaction from journalists, editorial writers and opposition politicians was
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Late last century it became evident worldwide that whenever economists agreed on a future economic forecast, invariably the opposite occurred. To the best of my knowledge, I was the first to point this out in my newspaper columns at the time. In my comic novel
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Our print media are currently up in arms over the proposed merger of Radio NZ and Television NZ at a ludicrous cost of a third of a billion dollars. They claim it will produce a dominant news powerhouse and destroy competition. Feasibly that’s possible
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I’ve kept a record, now 70 strong, of the fictitious human rights claims that have arisen in the media over the last six years. But one five years back, given its source, probably still takes the prize for insanity. This was from the then
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com When I was young one read about the likes of Jack the Ripper, the 19th century mystery killer of five London East End prostitutes as an extraordinary phenomenon. Also, as a child, my sister and I eager to read the Evening Post, were forbidden until
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I suspect most people were happy with the Peter Ellis Supreme Court verdict given some of the alleged victims’ stories were so obviously fantasy. Doubtless, they then thought no more about it. But underlying the verdict which had legal complications due to time lapses and
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Up until a couple of years back Matthew Hooton was in my view our most insightful political commentator and his Herald essays a sheer delight for their colourful expression. Then it all went haywire, hitting the absolute pits when he became the active advocate for
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A new name to me on Stuff’s website, Conor Knell, opened his reporting career this week with a spectacular blunder, so; “When Ricky Mitrov and his wife moved from Hawkes Bay to Dannevirke…” Conor you goose; Dannevirke is in Hawkes Bay. Indeed I recollect
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Back in the 1990s when our once largest circulation newspaper Truth finally went belly-up. I bought the bound pre-war copies from the receivers for $15,000. These large volumes of broadsheet size papers make wonderful reading about an age when values were certainly different. For
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I was staggered to read that our biosecurity officials were mystified as to who imported the 176 dead bats they’d intercepted. I presume this was in Auckland as it’s certainly common knowledge who they’re for in Wellington. That is the capital’s
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com My company targets diverse investment locations for permanent building acquisitions and have people on the ground there. For very good reasons, in eastern Europe, Riga and Budapest are our main location goals. Electricity costs in Hungary have risen 700% so far this year. The state-owned
