Newspaper questions integrity of politician's statistics

Adam Feeley, chief executive of Queenstown Lakes District Council in New Zealand has been overseeing a review of the council’s operations.

However, there’s a confusing blunder between the draft and final report into the council’s restructure – which he signed off.



A table in the draft and final reports simply summarising job decreases in the slimmed-down council swings wildly – and wrongly. The draft says 80 actual employees will get cut, while the final report says it’ll be just 39.

The Queenstown News have questioned this variance.