Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

A timely reminder, an important one too, for me last night. I'm in Wellington, flew into the schmozzle storm yesterday for an event.  It's easily one of the most beautiful cities in New Zealand, is it not? Can we all agree on that? With the hills jutting out of the harbour, all of the bush surrounding it.  It is stunning and the weather was good, so that helped.  It was absolutely beautiful flying in, and then you land and there's the road cones, and there's the Uber driver not happy, and the mayor's in meltdown, and the government's taking over, and the council is all over the place.  Shambles, schmozzle, all that stuff.  But then this event last night featured and honoured a couple of Wellington business people.  Among them was Brian McGuinness, whose family have either built or refurbished basically half of Wellington – including Government House, which I found fascinating.  Doug Hauraki was a name you will know, he was on there as well. Great Wellingtonian.  Many we