• Nelson's continued comeback from a soft patch remains remarkable, earning it top spot for the June quarter.
• Northland has been very resilient, notwithstanding the floods experienced earlier this year.

As always some care is required in interpretation of the regional statistics, many of them being subject to a sizeable measurement error. Hence the preference here to look at a number of regional statistics together.

Please see the attached pdf file for elaboration.

• ScoreboardAug07.pdf

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