Last year, Otago employed more than 94,600 full-time equivalent workers in more than 26,000 businesses, producing nearly $9 billion of gross domestic product, but more work can be done in Dunedin.
Two years after the collapse of boutique Queenstown insurance
company Western Pacific Insurance, creditors owed $67 million
have been told the liquidators require at least another six
months more to complete their task.
New Zealand's April trade surplus looked ''a bit wretched''
at $157 million compared with market expectations of $515
million, BNZ senior economist Craig Ebert said yesterday.
