Kiwifruit industry in New Zealand and Growers, who were calling the berries "melonettes", because the local name for the fruit, "Chinese gooseberry", had political connotations due to the Cold War, and to further distinguish it from real gooseberries, which are prone to a fungus called anthracnose. An American importer, Norman Sondag of San Francisco, complained that "melonettes" was as bad as "Chinese gooseberry" because melons and berries were both subject to high import tariffs, and instead asked for a short Maori name that quickly connoted New Zealand. In June 1959, during a meeting of Turners and Growers management in Auckland, Jack Turner suggested the name
Right to privacy in New Zealand provided by the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service Act 1969. There were stipulations as to what ‘spy-activities’ were permitted, and as a pre-requisite, any proposed surveillance had to be relevant to “security” and its associated threats, such as instances of ‘espionage, sabotage, subversion or terrorist attacks’. In September 2012 Paul Neazor, the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security advised John Key, the then New Zealand Prime Minister, of a situation which would later be called an "unlawful interception" of an individual known as Kim Dotcom by the GCSB. Following a formal request from the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation that