What is it about the Hawkes Bay?

Is it because it is sitting out there on the edge, off the 'main trunk line,' such that it requires a 'detour' to get there?

Is it because people outside of the area see 'the fruit bowl' in a metaphorical rather than literal sense? Shades of Deliverance?

Is it because it has the worst child health figures of any region in New Zealand?

Or because that 'new found, old rejected' organic pip fruit movement addles the brain a tad, gives a sharper sense of direction without awareness of consequences?

One could of course go on ... but I believe over the years the H.B. Hospital Board has received more than it's fair share of negative publicity ... as of course has the Hawkes Bay ... but then, perhaps a sign of the times?

But time-lines can actually say quite a lot without really saying much at all.