SIMON WATTS: Maureen Pugh is just reminding me how fortunate I was. Once again, I was fortunate. I spent some time there on Sunday. It's not a short trip from Auckland, but we got down there and met with a number of that community in the local government community, and it reinforced to me the important role, particularly in rural and provincial New Zealand, that local government plays in terms of supporting those communities. These individuals are individuals that carry multiple roles within their communities, and in the case that I had, I met with a number of the individuals that were business owners, were members of the volunteer fire brigade; they were coaches and parent help at the local school, one chap involved in driving the bus or acting as the part-time security guard at the local RSA, and all of that type of aspect that's so critically important and is the fabric, I think, of New Zealand rural and provincial communities.