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    Oh, buoy!

    Mar 14, 2021 4 minutes
    JANE CLIFTON

    A certain notorious ex-politician is likely slinging a jaunty fishing rod in Northland right now and muttering, “I told you so!” If he’s not, Winston Peters certainly deserves gloating rights for a couple of recent developments.

    Since Oprah Winfrey is in the news, one in her canon of wise, warm maxims seems relevant. The TV-talk queen always says that when God is displeased, He, She or They first dispatch a hail of pebbles. If that salvo is ignored, what comes next is a huge boulder.

    If Peters hadn’t gone into bat a couple of years ago for a Civil Defence upgrade, having noticed a few pebbles

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