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Gary Petley: South Waikato mayor on Carter Holt Harvey looking to close Tokoroa manufacturing plant · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: The bad news just keeps coming for talk at all.
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  Speaker 2: Carthold Harvey today announced it's closing its plywood manufacturing plant. Instead,
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  Speaker 2: what it's going to do is import cheaper plywood from Australia.
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  Speaker 2: Now that means about one hundred, maybe one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: twenty jobs are going to be lost. That's already on
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  Speaker 2: top of seventy people who'd already been made redundant at
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  Speaker 2: Christmas last year. Gary Petley is the South White Cuttle
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  Speaker 2: mayn with us.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Hey, Gary hither, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm very well? Thank you all man? You sound bummed out?
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  Speaker 2: Are you?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? I just can't get a trick at the moment, mate, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It feels like that. Eh, Now what's going on? Is
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  Speaker 2: it just that much cheaper to import the plywood?
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  Speaker 1: Is it?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, Well apparently we can only go on with
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  Speaker 3: the well what they're saying and what the figures are,
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  Speaker 3: and I haven't had a lot of detail apart from
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  Speaker 3: the fact that they are losing jobs. So I guess
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  Speaker 3: when you add that on to the what happened in
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  Speaker 3: the paper mall and then potential closing of Toyr Hall,
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  Speaker 3: my Services and tok It or it doesn't ring that
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  Speaker 3: well for the council. But we've we've got some positive
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  Speaker 3: things too and everything that you know, when it's a negative,
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  Speaker 3: we try and find the positive. So we have an
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  Speaker 3: industrial development there that's been on on the go for
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  Speaker 3: about a year now, developing that for new business. Vander
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  Speaker 3: Hayden Families. They're looking at doing an industrial park on
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  Speaker 3: the southern boundary of the Psarado township, which will all
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  Speaker 3: which will bring jobs. So it's not all not all
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  Speaker 3: doom and gloom.
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  Speaker 2: What happens at this industrial park.
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  Speaker 3: There's going to be new new businesses that are coming near.
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  Speaker 3: They haven't no announcements have been made yet because they're
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  Speaker 3: leaving that for when they start building.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, going to take how long Gary before they actually
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  Speaker 2: get the thing up and running.
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  Speaker 3: Everything is everything is, everything is ready to go, should
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  Speaker 3: be finished by Infrastructure will A should be completed by
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  Speaker 3: the end of this year to the beginning of next
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  Speaker 3: year and then they will come in and start building
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  Speaker 3: what they need to build and put all their plants
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  Speaker 3: in place. The one in Pattada who is the turning
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  Speaker 3: of the side towards the end of end of September now,
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  Speaker 3: and the timing hasn't been great, but these things have
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  Speaker 3: been in train for a little while now and discussing
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  Speaker 3: that we had over over probably two years. So we're
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  Speaker 3: chasing ourselves a little bit around in the circle to
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  Speaker 3: try and make things happen. But we'll continue to do that.
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  Speaker 2: How many jobs have you guys lost? Just run me
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  Speaker 2: through it because I can't quite remember. Did og Fiber
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  Speaker 2: also close the paper mill?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they closed the Painte Meal down. There was the
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  Speaker 3: last paper machine, number six Painpte machine and that was
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  Speaker 3: down with about one hundred and one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 3: something jobs in the end, and then and then with
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  Speaker 3: with Plowod Moll probably another another hundred that will cope.
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  Speaker 3: That will keep about twenty a small small work force
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  Speaker 3: on to rework rework the ply that comes in from
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  Speaker 3: from Australia and then get it up to New Zeland
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  Speaker 3: speak and then then on sell it.
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  Speaker 2: And then you also have toy or Hormi toyom Is.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to we've got a work in party working
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  Speaker 3: towards with toyohma I too to basically work out what
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  Speaker 3: what courses we actually need and talk it aw and then,
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  Speaker 3: and Minister Upston has said that there's funding available to
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  Speaker 3: do that. They just want to hear from the community
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  Speaker 3: as to what's relevant.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, listen best of like Gary, because that
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  Speaker 2: is a tough time for a town like yours, Gary Petley,
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  Speaker 2: Southway Cattle.
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