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To: abuelita who wrote (79406)	9/10/2011 4:46:42 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 217550

Hi Rose, I'm not a rugby enthusiast. I'll keep an eye on it, watched the opening show on tv, went to the "Party Central" location today [and enroute to the newly opened art gallery which was actually quite impressive]. NZ is in a bit of a recession and people generally are a bit beaten up. There has been years of annoying and ridiculous hype about the event. It's as though NZ is going to retire on the profits. It will be trivially nothing. NZ is going down the gurgler at NZ$1.4 billion per month so 60,000 visitors spending even NZ$10,000 each [which they won't] would be a one-off $600 million or 2 weeks losses covered. But they will actually spend less than that so it's going to be invisible in the financial scheme of things. As with all sports, sometimes there are inspiring people. Richie McCaw is one. Mqurice