Rangiora District News Today

Is the longtime National MP the man to turn around a toxic culture at Nelson City Council?

MP Nick Smith said a chance meeting with Joe Biden in 1983 helped kick-start his own political career while on a school-exchange in 1983. A chance encounter with a future president helped inspire one of New Zealand’s longest-serving Members of Parliament to pursue a career in politics. In 1983 while on an exchange programme at Wilmington Friends School in Delaware, 17-year-old Rangiora High School student Nick Smith met then-Senator for Delaware Joe Biden – who is set to be inaugurated as ...