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Wednesday, 06 December 2017 17:17

Not a peep!

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Hard on the heels of NZ First’s lack of complaints over the sale of iconic NZ company Icebreaker to US interests, news that multi-national syndicate Craigmore Permanent Crop Ltd Partnership recently bought 17.5ha of kiwifruit orchards in Te Puke did not so much as raise a peep from the bauble-takers.

The partnership, described as a veritable mini-United Nations -- German, Hong Kong, Swiss, British, Finnish, American and NZ investors – has the green light from the Overseas Investment Office (OIO) to buy the properties. Perhaps NZ First’s deafening silence is down to one of the owner/managers of Craigmore being one Forbes Elworthy – scion of former Federated Farmers president Sir Peter Elworthy – and a generous donor over the years to one of its current political partners… the Greens? You may very well think that, but this old mutt couldn’t possibly comment.

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