It is a trifle unsettling to check out the Geonet pages, notice the large cluster of continuing aftershocks around “25kms east of Seddon”, and then to realise that looking out my window I can more or less see that spot. It surprises me quite how much damage and disruption Wellington has already had despite being several hundred kilometres from Culverden and the site of Sunday night’s major quake.
US politics and a good book make worthwhile distractions.
I’ve just been reading The Broken Decade: Prosperity, Depression and Recovery in New Zealand 1928-39, by the local historian Malcolm McKinnon. It is, as far as I’m aware, the first substantial scholarly history of the depression years in New Zealand.
The Great Depression was a tough time for many people in many countries, New Zealand not excluded.
Whereas for the UK, the fall in real per capita GDP wasn’t much larger than the…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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