February has been an excellent month for our company with many new contracts and positive decisions received. Other highlights this month are;

• A study has found that Kiwis want cigarettes to be banned by 2020. (NZ Herald)
• Telecom appears to have a battle on their hands. XT outages and mall treatment of clients have given a competitive advantage to their main rivals who are using this as a tool to try to obtain a larger slice of the market.
• New car registrations are well up on last year. Are we in an economic crisis?
• John Key advises that GST may increase to 15% and that benificiaries are facing tough new measures.
• MP Jeanette Fitzsimmons (The Greens) is leaving parliament. She joined parliament in 1996 and has been repected as a hardworking, honest PM with intregrity.
• Government is saying that a leap in population is behind the unemployment levels reaching their highest levels since 1999. See our news item. To blame a leap in population (i.e. immigration) is in my view an incorrect assessment. Perhaps I have not all the information at hand, but the majority of new comers to NZ are only granted residence when hey have provided evidence of a job or are starting a company. Therefore, the unemployment rise is in my view a pure result of companies and or organisations closing its doors for business.