On the Money: Butter, Meat, Water, and other NZ essentials

The meat industry had a better time this week than the dairy industry, but all had a better time than the water guy. (Image: NZME/Supplied/BusinessDesk)

Dileepa Fonseka

Sat, 26 Jul 2025

On The Money (OTM) is our column of general frippery we observed within the worlds of business and government this week.Usually, we’d say “pics or it didn’t happen”, but it was too dark for proof when one of our spies stepped off the pavement into Lambton Quay last Monday, only to narrowly escape death by e-scooter.So far, so normal, in this brave new age of urban micro-mobility, but when our spy looked more closely at who was on said scooter, they realised it was none other than Trade Minister Todd McClay. Clearly...

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