What have we sold to the Aussies?
Theres a small (and I mean small) piece in the Sunday Star Times today about the Overseas Investment Office. This is the body that was set up a few years ago to “protect” New Zealand from greedy overseas investors intent on buying up huge tracts of pristine NZ. If I recall correctly – after an unholy furore when Shania Twain bought a rather large hunk of land near Lake Wanaka and wanted to not be seen by the local plebs.
Essentially if a foreigner wants to buy large properties here, they need to get permission from the OIO.
It seems that in their latest list of transactions that they have approved, one is so sensitive, that they wont actually say what it is that has been sold, who sold it, or who to.
Nothing except as the article puts it: “something, somewhere, was sold by its New Zealand owner to an Australian Buyer”.
Hmmmm – have we sold Christchurch I wonder? Got rid of Auckland? Sold the Government?
Answers on a postcard….
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3 Comments on What have we sold to the Aussies?
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Phil on
Mon, 5th Apr 2010 11:10 am
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Avalon on
Mon, 5th Apr 2010 5:24 pm
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Hubby on
Mon, 5th Apr 2010 11:42 pm
Would we really miss Auckland?
Lol 
Possibly Parliament – well possibly not if it means being a State of Aus.
Auckland airport?
A lake or two? – they are short of water
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