“Since I have been here, I've had eight or nine friends call and say they've seen friends of ours dead and floating in the water. That is the news I have been getting while my mind is on my daughter.”
“If people were aggressively concerned about falling house prices, rising interest rates, you would not expect to see a leap in consents being issued for houses.”
“As a result profitability is being slashed tremendously amongst New Zealand businesses and especially of course those in the exporting and importing competing sectors.”
