Double standards
OPINION: Imagine if the Hound had called the Minister of Finance the 'c-word' and accused her of "girl math".
OPINION: Speaking of correcting misrepresentations, the canine crusader would like to pay homage to ODT agriculture editor Sally Rae for an excellent article in December that put to rights much of the unmitigated spin and bulldust about Lake Hawea Station in Central Otago.
The station was bought back in 2018 by shameless self-promoters and self-professed ‘marketing whizzes’ Geoff and Justine Ross who – in yet another act of sanctimonious self-promotion – recently published a book about their journey to farming the station.
Unfortunately, this work of fiction portrays the station’s previous owners, the well-respected Rowley family, as poor stewards and guardians of the property, which had been in the family for more than 100 years.
However, Rae’s article outlines the real truth of how the property was neither ‘neglected’ nor ‘run down’ as the Ross’ claim, but in fact was a successful and well managed property.
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OPINION: Imagine if the Hound had called the Minister of Finance the 'c-word' and accused her of "girl math".
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