Dean Barker, with daughter Mia, became a father for the second time yesterday. File Photo / Olivia Hemus
It seems dads are cheaper to please than mums.
A survey carried out by the Newmarket Business Association in Auckland shows less money is spent on dads for Father's Day, than on mums for Mother's Day.
General manager Cameron Brewer says the findings back up Statistics New
Zealand's findings. He says 52 per cent of respondents said they spent more on Mothers' Day, 46 per cent said they spent about the same, with just two per cent saying they spent more on Father's Day.
Brewer says the findings are ironic as dads today are probably more involved in their children's lives than their grandfathers were.
Meanwhile the country's Father of the Year has been named. He is retired farmer Bob Moore from Mt Maunganui, who has been chosen in a competition run by the website kiwifamilies.co.nz. The 75-year-old was nominated by one of his daughters, who remembered how he managed their home after his first wife died.
Bob says he is overwhelmed by the things she said about him. He says his children are proof that you get out of something what you put into it.
And it is a happy Father's Day for Team New Zealand skipper Dean Barker. His wife Mandy gave birth to the couple's second child yesterday, a daughter they have named Olivia.
- NEWSTALK ZB
