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 hoped that this new Act would resolve this complex question, and strike an appropriate balance of maintaining the individual’s human rights to privacy while ensuring that New Zealand’s national security be protected. Although the legislation has been justified as a measure to prevent New Zealand from terrorist attacks, this needs to be weighed carefully given the actual and perceived threat that the country may be under at any given time, versus the infringement on individuals’ rights of privacy, and freedom of expression and opinion. In dissenting judgments in "Brooker v Police", two judges of the Supreme Court of New Zealand