Money well spent

I see columnist Dave Armstrong is noted as ‘‘humourst/satirist’’ but I must have missed any of that in Dear Granny, a letter from Harry’s Kiwi OE (Nov 6). If the point he was trying to make was that we (NZ Inc) forked out $1 million for Harry and Meghan I would say that was money well spent. It costs more than $5 million for a 30-second ad on Super Bowl Day. Relative to that we were advertised internationally ‘‘on the cheap’’. I have no idea how many magazine and related media followed them but you can bet we were all round the world for a week or so. Probably still are. Graeme Stevens, Paeka¯ ka¯ riki