New Zealand's military has received a dubious new honour - Britain's Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox suspects they have set a new world record for Microsoft Power Point presentations before lunch.



Fox, who is accompanying British Foreign Secretary William Hague to New Zealand, told reporters this afternoon that he was impressed with the effort the New Zealand military had made to highlight their work.



"I am sure we might be breaking a world record for Power Points before lunch," he said.



He also let slip that while it was marvellous to be in Auckland, he was not telling his wife everything about the trip.



He'd phoned her to discover that she was in bed with a cold and that a hard frost had hit his neighbourhood.



"I did not have the heart to tell her how glorious it is here."



Both Hague and Fox hailed New Zealand's work in the region and in Afghanistan and said their visit was to overcome 30 years of "benign neglect" in a close and long established relationship.



Hague was asked if that meant Prime Minister John Key could count on getting an invitation to this year's Royal Wedding.



"The royal family will issue the invitations," he said.



"It would not go very well if I started issuing them as I went around the world."