Mike,

Is The Wizard still in business?

I believe he is! And yes he did use to claim he would row 200 miles offshore to avoid the census. Those were the days when his enemies in the McGillicuddy Serious Party stood for parliament proposing a great leap backwards into medieval serfdom to save NZ from the evils of the world- see http://www.answers.com/topic/mcgillicuddy-serious-party . They proposed replacing money with chocolate fish, promised to limit the speed of light to 100km/h and managed to enter a goat into a local body election before being narrowly preventing from achieving the same with a hedgehog.

But the whole world is becoming a much more important and serious place, so that sort of fun is now regarded as inappropriate and horribly un-PC. Such is life.