INTEGRITY
In my last column I alluded to the Minister of Transport giving the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) a ‘pull-through’ over some warrant-of-fitness (WOF) problems, and also mentioned that Vehicle Inspection New Zealand (Vinz) was apparently certifying its own imports, amounting to some 175,000 vehicles a year. I said that was akin to placing Cookie Bear in charge of the cookie jar!
Since then I’ve done some more research into this and discovered that, in the end, we have yet another classic government backdown to powerful industry interests.
In November 2018, one Thomas Coughlan, a Newsroom reporter, did an exposé on the
