National Leader Christopher Luxon has admitted he was in Hawaii last week during Parliament's winter recess - while posts on his Facebook page made it look as though he was visiting regional New Zealand.
The posts, on his official social media accounts, suggested Luxon was spending the recess connecting with parts of heartland New Zealand like Te Puke.
On July 21, a post on Luxon's Facebook page showed him saying "provincial towns like Te Puke" were "the backbone of New Zealand" and discussing issues like skill shortages that were taking the region and the country backwards.
"I love getting out into the regions to explore places like Te Puke," the Facebook post read.
While the text of the post did not say Luxon was in Te Puke on that particular day, the video attached to the text said that Luxon was.