Kate Hawkesby: How deep is the prezzy card pot?

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Sep 12, 2023 · 3m

I'm just wondering if there's a big box of prezzy cards stashed somewhere inside the Beehive, or somewhere all the bureaucrats can go, to just bundle up endless prezzy cards to hand out to people.

In the latest prezzy card scandal —and let's not forget there've been a few— 'defendants on serious charges', it was reported, got $75 dollar prezzy cards to attend meetings. These were meetings in Hawke's Bay at the courts, and it was reportedly to ‘share ideas and court experiences.'’

So the news report said 'about 50 people attended the meetings'. This was at the start of the month, a couple of…