A primary school student's long-shot attempt at getting Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's attention has paid off.
Posting to Facebook, Ardern revealed she received a letter from a young student who was part of a "How connected is New Zealand" experiment.
"Going through a few letters and I love how many of these there are!" Ardern wrote.
"They're part of a project in schools to see whether a message from a student can reach any person they pick. The trick is it can only reach that person by being passed on to no more than five other people who all have to know each other."
Ardern politely failed to note her name was slightly misspelt as "Jacinta".