In NZ, it pays to be brown…….

‘A trust that owns two charter schools has bought its students a $100,000 waka to help with their learning.
He Puna Marama, which received $6 million of government funding for its two Whangarei schools over two years, but also gets revenue from elsewhere, says it bought the 22-person, 14m carved kauri waka with money specially “put aside” for the purpose…’
(For non-NZ readers, a “waka” is a primitive dugout canoe with some fancy carving. They often need to be rescued by people in real boats)