Places
Places related to your search results. This map shows just part of our unpublished collections – there's more coming as we add location information to records. Learn how to use the map.
"Hit any foreign investors?" "Mostly local shareholders.." 6 March, 2008
Date: 2008
From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]
Reference: DCDL-0005660
Description: Scene shows Finance Minister, Michael Cullen piloting a small biplane. His co-pilot leans out and drops a bomb on Auckland International Airport. Michael Cullen asks if he hit any foreign investors and the co-pilot says that he hit mostly local shareholders. Refers to the bid by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board for 40 per cent of the outstanding shares in Auckland International Airport at a price of $3.65 for each share acquired. But the government has introduced a special regulation that imposes a foreign-ownership control test on the country's "major strategic assets," including Auckland Airport. The Canadian investment board confirmed it would continue with the offer and played down the significance of the law. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).