Rodney Dow: Ōtorohanga mayor addresses 'Harrodsville' backlash

Local controversy over a tongue-in-cheek promotion in Ōtorohanga.  In 1986, the town renamed itself Harrodsville for a week - after the owner of Britain's famed Harrods, Mohamed Al Fayed, sued Palmerston North's Henry Harrod - to prevent him calling his business ‘Harrods’. But some have…