How long is NZ?
VulcanSpirit
Richard & Alison Brunstrom
Tue 17 Dec 2013 09:57
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An amusing correspondence has been playing out in
the NZ newspapers recently, viz. how far is it by road from Cape Reinga at
the northern tip of NZ to Bluff at the southern tip of South Island? A pretty lame question you might think, but some wag had
noticed that if you look at the displayed signs at each location you get
different answers!
Here is Alison at Bluff, with Cape Reinga 1416km
away:
 But when she was at Cape Reinga a month earlier the
sign clearly showed Bluff to be 1452km distant:
 The signs are erected by the New Zealand AA,
and a fascinating (to me at least, even if not to you) round of buck passing
ensued with many and various state and local agencies all trying to blame
someone else while creative letter writers came up with all sorts
of reasons, some ingenious and some quite bizarre, for the difference.
It was a hoot. The issue was never resolved to my
knowledge.
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