The Panel with Jo McCarroll and Richard Langston (Part 2)

The US manufacturers of electronic cigarettes are under the microscope for their products being snapped up by the young. The vaping trend is also being taken-to by New Zealand youth who are even sneaking around school when they want a hit. What the Panelists Jo McCarroll and Richard Langston want to talk about. A University of Otago student who organised a protest against the campus proctor Dave Scott after he confiscated students' bongs is no longer calling for him to resign. The OUSA's re-creation officer Josh Smythe is finding other student union officials aren't onboard with his stance against the proctor. The government expects to raise around $80m from a vistor levy to be introduced mid-2019. Two-point-three million annual international visitors with fork out $35 in the one-off tax if they're here for less than 12 months. This should be good news for places like Tekapo that have been creaking under the weight of a lack of infrastructure for their level of tourists. The Mackenzie District Council has applied for an $800k grant from the Provincial Growth Fund. Mayor Graham Smith explains what they'd use it for. The construction industry has the highest rate of male suicide in New Zealand. A Building Research Association (BRANZ) survey identifies a macho culture as part of the problem and there's also uncertainty around regular employment. Meanwhile, there's a call to chnage the terminology around suicide with some not liking using the word "committed" thinking it indicates a crime. A Rangiora man has lost $320k in a bitcoin scam after buying the crypto currency through a website. The Panelists contemplate the old-fashioned, boring ways of slowly but surely laying your nest egg.