Friday, 03 May 2013 16:04

Protest too much!

Written by 

THE HOUND notes that the Feds were lightning fast to distance themselves from the recent tour of New Zealand by well-known climate-change sceptic Lord Monckton.

The farmer lobby was quick to issue a media release denying it was supporting the controversial peer’s anti-climate change tour after Monckton said in a television interview that his tour was organised and supported by Federated Farmers of New Zealand. “This is incorrect,” vice president William Rolleston was quoted as saying. 

Featured

Open Country opens butter plant

When American retail giant Cosco came to audit Open Country Dairy’s new butter plant at the Waharoa site and give the green light to supply their American stores, they allowed themselves a week for the exercise.

National

Machinery & Products

» Latest Print Issues Online

The Hound

Political colours

OPINION: Your old mate welcomes the proposed changes to local government but notes it drew responses that ranged from the reasonable…

True agenda

OPINION: A press release from the oxygen thieves running the hot air symposium on climate change, known as COP30, grabbed your…

» Connect with Rural News

» eNewsletter

Subscribe to our weekly newsletter