Summary: A review of the week's news, including... reaction to a fall in beneficiary numbers, three New Zealanders are dead after a minibus crash in Kenya, the Salvation Army says new Auckland house price figures are further evidence of a growing housing crisis in the city, disbelief at figures showing how many people worked on the Hobbit movies, internet tycoon Kim Dotcom promotes his new website, an outgoing chief executive's comments ignites debate about the so-called tall poppy syndrome, broadcaster Paul Holmes is officially knighted at his home in Hawke's Bay, the British Foreign Secretary William Hague visits New Zealand for the second time in two years and a hill near Helensville in Auckland is soon to play host to a very slippery kind of fundraiser.
