Is good friend had invited him who was the guest speaker.
And when coached to ask my son to come and watched him it had the desired result.
My son said "okay"
Which made is much easier to get the alarm clock set for 5am wake up.
But I am going to switch to the club sandwiches or tea afterwards with the old ladies.
Talk tuned to upcoming elections.
My son was listening to two conversations at the table with five old dears sitting around us and five more in the kitchen while other just came into the other side of the room and used a paper towel to take food off the remaining tables and return to the bigger area in the Tokoroa Club.
What he was privy to was the kitchen talk of who was going to be Mayor and Councillors in the district.
On my side I was talking to a women who was in the next district up in Taupo district and how for $200 and two people to nominate her the retaining officer will give her money back if she gets close to being elected in not elected.
But on my son's side he knew what was being talking about and said after that he water to run for Mayor himself. That is great for a 13 year old boy to want to serve and to see his 16 year old friend be the guest speaker in front of the Associate Minister of Local Government.
But a lot can be gleaned from what he observed.
The impressions of the town can be gathered from the 200 people out of the 23,800 who attended the main town in the district dawn service out of the town folk of 14,000 people.
This sample group of 200 who woke earlier to gather are a good sample group and the 30 people who are part of the kitchen staffing and supporting body are statistically significant.
So what my son heard at the table and wanted to toss hi hat in the ring too was that a younger generation is looking for a candidate to rally behind.
The current leadership in the district is Deficient in the way that the singing at 9am service was unlead.
The 200 people had a lovely programme printed out in the finest colour off the council printing presses but no person to stand and lead the words written on the page.
The music played load but no voice of leadership.
Only the national anthem of Australia played with words. The hymns and New Zealand national anthem was Inaudibly mumbled as deputy mayor and associate minister sat to one side in the vacant space of an open mike unattended at the lectern.
Where was Mayor Sinclair? Well it happen exactly the same earlier years with him present with music playing and no words being sung.
Was it that obvious that something is going on?
Well a wide open race has opened up and inelegable teenagers are filling the current expectant void.
When will a real leader in New Zealand stand to give a clear vision of better quality goods for less price.
We are the dumping ground In the pacific of inferior products imported from overseas and going into international debt to purchase them.
Better quality requires a group of Mayors to approach central government with the woes of the land and demand more for the payment of taxes.
When asked who is going to win the mayoral election my son replied. "I have no idea!"
So with TPPA still on the books to be signed we have a renegotiation team from the USA meeting this week with the Govt to build the walls around law breakers. Watch this space for the whiplash New Zealand.
Better quality for less price is the aim of locals but worse quality do far higher price is what will head to the courts.
The sole New Zealander taking a class action against a multi national company with the lurer of crown minerals at 1% payment of the wholesale price (not value added price).
Remember that New Zealand comes with a big ticket item on Antarctica also.
2016 was our last lovely summer in the sun. That decelerating feeling will kickin on signing TPPA and the warning light that goes on is the petrol tank is empty with 1% to get you home as you are 50% into a journey.
As the TPPA partners wave to you out the window as they drive past you while walking the dusty road with a jerry can in the middle of nowhere. You hear the car horn toot as it disappears over the hill to the sound of the latest music on the stereo.
Do you pick up the crumpled beverage can littering the side of the road and be a tidy kiwi now your new owners are inspecting the estate?
Raspberry Pi3 in blue 3D printed case with repurposed phone cases held on with rubber bands.
This is an example of better quality for less price. Under TPPA all New Zealanders are advised to own and learn to program a Pi3. Your future depends on it.
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