Wednesday, 15 January 2020 13:12

Funny names

Written by  The Hound

Over the years, a mate of the Hound’s has always been quick to point out to him people in roles whose names either match or clash with the organisations they work for.

For instance, many moons ago the head of local red meat promotions agency Beef+Lamb NZ was a bloke with the highly appropriate name of Ian lamb.

One that particularly tickled this old mutt’s mate was Roger Carbon who headed up the Environment Ministry a few years back. And now the name-checker has found another one – the chairman of Blueberries New Zealand is a guy named Dan Peach!

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