Borrows Chester: Statutes Amendment Bill (No 3) — Second Reading In Committee 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Borrows Chester: Statutes Amendment Bill (No 3) — Second Reading In Committee 
[Sitting date: 05 December 2012. Volume:686;Page:7223. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Hon CHESTER BORROWS (Associate Minister of Justice) 
: 
 I move  
That the Statutes Amendment Bill (No 3) be now read a second time 
. The Statutes Amendment Bill (No 3) is an omnibus bill designed to provide a legislative vehicle for minor technical and non-controversial amendments existing—well you all know this stuff. The current bill contains amendments to 16 Acts of Parliament administered by five different Government agencies. It consists of 87 clauses in total. The bill is a good example of parliamentary parties working together and I thank members from across the House who have engaged in the process and will be supporting it forthwith. 
I would like to touch on a couple of key things the bill does. Part 8 of the bill amends the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006 to establish two Deputy Legal Complaints Review Officers in schedule 3 of the Act instead of one deputy. The increase in the number of deputies from one to two will assist the current officers in managing the caseload. 
An amendment to the Heavy Engineering Research Levy Act 1978 will keep members on the edge of their seats. It will increase the maximum prescribed rates of research levy set out in schedules 2 and 3 of the Act. These increases will ensure that the levy rates are sufficient to cover the cost of the research and technology transfer services the levies are intended to fund. This amendment is particularly important as the levies contribute towards essential research into the effect of the Christchurch earthquake on steel-framed buildings. 
An amendment to section 100(2)(b) of the Real Estate Agents Act 2008 will increase the number of members additional to the chairperson who may be appointed to the Real Estate Agents Disciplinary Tribunal from four to five. An increase in the number of members who may be appointed to the tribunal will allow more hearings to be held and improve timeliness. 
The bill was reported back by the Government Administration Committee on 19 June and I thank the committee for its careful deliberations. The committee has recommended improvements to Parts 2 13 and 15 of the bill and I endorse those changes. An example of those changes are changes to the amendments to the Children Young Persons and Their Families Act 1989. These changes make clarifications around the timing of custody orders to resolve conflicts between changes made to section 108 of the Children Young Persons and Their Families Act. 
Since the bill was referred to the committee for its consideration in February this year I have received requests for and approved the inclusion of four additional amendments in the bill. It has also come to my attention that two of the amendments originally proposed for inclusion in the bill are now no longer needed—the first because it relates to a point in time that has passed and the second because the amendment has progressed through another bill. I intend to move to include these amendments and remove the latter two amendments by way of Supplementary Order Paper 165 at the Committee of the whole House stage. These amendments include minor corrections to the NgatiPorou Claims Settlement Act and the Te Roroa Claims Settlement Act 2008. 
The Supplementary Order Paper also proposes amendments to the New Zealand Geographic Board (NgaPouTaunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008 which I am sure we will hear more about from the Hon Maurice Williamson shortly. It clarifies that the New Zealand Geographic Board can assign two or more names for the same geographic feature or Crown-protected area which can be used either separately or together in official documents. 
I would like to speak on that for a moment as it affects the naming of the city of Whanganui the principal location of a population in my electorate. Some people would prefer to say “Fanganui” and to those people who prefer to say “Fanganui” rather than “Wanganui” we say: “Get the ‘f’ out of Whanganui.” The dialect locally in Whanganui and in Taranaki of course puts the “h” before the “w” in the way that they pronounce it. The argument then which was pretty hot around the city of Whanganui and greater regions funnily enough seems to be one of the most frequently asked questions of the member for Whanganui which is: “So is it ‘Fanganui’ or is it ‘Wanganui’?”. And if you really want to annoy people from Whanganui Mr Deputy Speaker as you found the other night at Bellamy’s just start pronouncing it with an “f” instead of putting the “h” before the “w”. 
The argument seems to suggest though that we should have different spellings around the country depending on accent and dialect. Taking that to its logical or illogical conclusion we would end up by having a different spelling in the South Island where NgaiTahu pronounce their “ng” as a “k”. Tuhoe sometimes pronounce the “r” as an “n” and Tai Tokerau drop the “w” so Whanganui would be “Hanganui”. Then Te Arawa Tainui and Tai Rawhiti prefer a hard “f” sound for the “wh” as noted above. We should not find— 
Hon Maurice Williamson 
: How does Hansard write all this down? 
Hon CHESTER BORROWS 
: They are good—they are good. I will tell you what they are better than you or I ever said they were. We should find this a major affront. If we do not insist that the “ ’ammer ’and from ’Ampsted ’Eath” spell it accordingly then we should take cognisance of the fact that dialects do not necessarily have to be reflected to pay due diligence to their users. 
I speak as somebody whose name is Borrows which in the common English meaning of the word means to scrounge or more politely to take on loan. It is pronounced as it is spelt. But it does not seem to stop the vast majority of constituents politicians and correspondents spelling it and pronouncing it “Burrows” like the rabbit. So most of my mail is addressed to “Burrows” as are newspaper attributions and references of the radio and television announcers. Telecom has me in the book under both spellings because it cannot get it right. Leaders of various political parties and even the Prime Minister have a bit of trouble sometimes pronouncing the name correctly. They are all intelligent and articulate people and we do not hold it against them that they happen to pronounce one name a particular way let alone how they would pronounce Whanganui. 
The bill proposes a number of useful changes to the statute book that are minor technical and non-controversial. I thank the committee for its hard work. I commend the bill to the House.