Just in PASSING

• No May Issue

IN late March we entered Covid Level 4 lockdown and broadcast the factoid that we were going to skip publication of the May issue of this magazine due to the restrictions placed on magazines by NZ’s coalition government. Our broadcast came after magazines were initially classed an “essential item in grocery lines and necessary for the wellbeing of people”. It was then the rules reversed and we were declared “non-essential” and given no choice, and no say in the matter. The draconian news was