The late Bob Norman - ex-Ministry of Works commissioner, notable engineer and raconteur - addressed 50 new engineering cadets, myself included, back in 1970.
Bob told the tale of an East Coast stock drover who said, “I’ve been everywhere man, from the top of the North, to the bottom of the South”.
Quick as a flash, Bob responded, “But how did you cross the Cook Strait?”
To which the drover sheepishly replied, “Oh, we didn’t go that way”.
The moral of this story is for the Government to get their act together, and get those Cook Strait ferries sorted, quickly.
Ihaka Morete
