The Hound is already highly suspicious of just how good Shane Jones is with our money, especially since he was caught paying for his own hotel porn on the Government credit card a few years back. This nervousness increases with the news that an East Coast banana growing venture is now tapping into the provincial growth fund ‘hoping to capitalise on NZ’s love for bananas’. While bananas might be the most popular fruit in NZ, you’d have to question whether this is the right country to be growing the fruit – unless climate change really picks up its act. So your old mate questions whether giving taxpayers’ money to help develop a banana growing industry centred on Gisborne is just bananas.
