Three-pronged Aid Effort

As well as donating $10 million to the tsunami stricken Indian Ocean countries, the NZ government provided Thailand with a state-of-the-art victim identification software package, developed by NZ’s Environmental Science and Research Ltd (ESR). An additional million in donations was raised by a NZ versus the World one-day cricket series. The government offered $20 per run, $1,000 for each four and $5,000 for each six hit in the series.