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Materialism is a good thing. That's why Australia is a 1st world country and NZ is not.

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That ad is pretty close to the truth. The RNZAF asked for some new planes to replace the ancient ones they had and that stupid communist woman that they had running the country decided that they were too expensive and basically did away with the air force.

Royal New Zealand Air Force is now called Royal New Zealand Air.

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They have a band:

http://www.airforce.mil.nz/operation...78ffddd%7D.htm

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Outstanding! I love the photo of their Vietnam-era Huey.

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Did we donate our old ones when we phased them out and bought Blackhawks? or did we mothball them?

Must have been about 2004.

Never liked the bloody things. :D

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Perhaps if they played "Ride of the Valkyries" they'd sound like a proper air force.

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That would scare the enemy.

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Maybe they intend buying new fighters with the proceeds of CD sales.

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It's funny but it's an American programme.

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The RNZAF is in the process of launching a Reserve Scheme to provide an available pool of appropriately qualified personnel who can seamlessly integrate annually into and out of the RNZAF for various durations.

http://www.stepup.mil.nz/jobs-in-the...es/default.htm

The air force you have when you don’t have an air force?

They left part off the end. It originally read: “The RNZAF is in the process of launching a Reserve Scheme to provide an available pool of appropriately qualified personnel who can seamlessly integrate annually into and out of the RNZAF for various durations when we can get a loaner….” :rofl:

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Many third world countries (eg India) have better transport infrastructures than that.


thats only because the british built it for them :thumbup:

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I was joking in my posts yesterday, but a comment in this thread really shocked me:

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=644466

I quote:

Plumbers are no longer in shortage here in New Zealand. They were removed from the shortages lists a few months ago at the last review. In fact, many plumbers and tradespeople have found themselves short of work or out of work during this past year. My husband has been on short hours for the best part of the year now. Trade firms in their efforts to keep their tradesmen employed have been known to operate a rota scheme of 4 / 3 day weeks. Apprentices, which cost a firm virtually nothing, have been set down in some case.


Most all of the trade skills were removed from the shortages lists at the last review. There is just not enough work to go around at the moment.

Man, NZ really is stuffed. All jokes aside, I feel dreadfully sorry for them.

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Apart from being a great place to visit, great lamb and great rugby, NZ has nothing to offer the rest of the world. It's a basket case.

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I know you haven't been posting on the forum long, but if you read back a few months on the Aus forum you will find almost identical posts. You'll find stories of people who came, spent months looking for work, then went home again. I've seen recent positive posts on the NZ forum re work in homebuilding etc, so it can't be all that stuffed.

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My FIL says that lots of tradesmen in his area of NZ are advertising in the local paper for work.....

Here I'm having trouble finding trades who have any spare capacity.

Buzzy