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Moko Tepania: Far North District Mayor encourages tourism to boost Northland businesses · Best of Business

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from News Talks.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be follow this and our wide range of podcasts
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  Speaker 2: now on iHeartRadio. We're off to Northland, the forested subtropical paradise,
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  Speaker 2: the winterless North that some may call it. But it's
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  Speaker 2: been a big year for the region's businesses with the
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  Speaker 2: Transpower pylon, remember that causing major disruption and there are
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  Speaker 2: problems still ongoing. As some might want to pay some
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  Speaker 2: love to the region this summer. So much to do
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  Speaker 2: the Caprianga Lighthouse, ninety Mile Beach, the Giant sand Dunes
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  Speaker 2: or of course the Big Treehuta. So the Far North
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  Speaker 2: District mayor is Moko Tapania and Macho joins you. Now,
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  Speaker 2: good Mordi Moku, Hey, how are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm bredy, brilliant mate, I am on summer subtropical paradise.
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  Speaker 2: Can't beat it exactly that pylon? Have business? Have businesses recovered?
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  Speaker 2: And how's the class action going?
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  Speaker 1: Haven't recovered that fly? We need you all to come
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  Speaker 1: up here and spend your with me because little bloody
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  Speaker 1: me it class action going ahead against trans Power and
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  Speaker 1: I just have a lot of that hope work listens
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  Speaker 1: to it really pushed right whether it was COVID or
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  Speaker 1: cyclone Gabrielle cyclone ten. We had a year and a
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  Speaker 1: half worth of bloody weather bombs. It's going great right now,
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  Speaker 1: so come on up. I've spend your money to help
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  Speaker 1: them out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you had to run a bad luck. And of
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  Speaker 2: course the new government's talking about extending the motorway all
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  Speaker 2: the way from Auckland all the way to fuck Array
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  Speaker 2: and getting over that whole Britain do and issue as well.
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  Speaker 2: But some people are outside of your region to sit
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  Speaker 2: there and go this is going to be a really,
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  Speaker 2: really really expensive road. Is it worth it?
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  Speaker 1: You know, ask any one of the two hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: Northumbers all this place. This road is needed and it's needed.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't a want or a nice say. This is
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  Speaker 1: something that our region absolutely requires. And to the three
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand visitors that come to our district every summer,
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  Speaker 1: this is going to unlock the huge, significant potential that
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  Speaker 1: Northern hares exective ing and poor cousin ready to be
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  Speaker 1: the rich cousin. And that is one of the key
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  Speaker 1: pieces of the digital puzzle that's currently missing. That is
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  Speaker 1: going to unlock the ultimate potential available head for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the country.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so we know which side you're on. Do
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  Speaker 2: you think it's going to happen?
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  Speaker 1: This is not a not an earth. This is a win.
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  Speaker 1: And we've seen both blue and Red covernment supported of
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  Speaker 1: different sections of the Northern Expressway over the years. The
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  Speaker 1: faster we can do it, the cheaper will be and
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  Speaker 1: the sooner we get it, the better will gather with
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  Speaker 1: our boost our economy up here in our empowered the country.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, so we'll wait to see what happens. Look,
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  Speaker 2: the road up there is not that bag. Let's come on.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if the Britdwins is closed, it's a lovely
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  Speaker 2: trip through through lands and then and through through Waitpu.
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  Speaker 2: So you're wanting people to come up there and spend
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  Speaker 2: the money. What's happening.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly? And we do beautiful alternative route. They're just not resilient.
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  Speaker 1: They being ruins themselves. That gorge only has a teeny
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  Speaker 1: lifespan less to it, and it was after we pumped
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  Speaker 1: them money and to do some staatemilizing experience. So the
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  Speaker 1: express Away and the alternate to the Benduins is absolutely required.
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  Speaker 1: But we've got to go through all of the processes
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  Speaker 1: so that we can get it up and get it com.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but sell the region. What's happening up there this summer?
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  Speaker 1: Oh the summer mate, What isn't happening up here? You know?
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  Speaker 1: I'll talk about the Finnels itself. My districtive hundred school
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  Speaker 1: kilometers made up of two hundred and fifteen settlements the
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  Speaker 1: East Coast, the East Coast, in the west, go the world.
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  Speaker 1: Were supposed to there so much to see just over
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  Speaker 1: summer itself. Though. We've got white any day at South
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  Speaker 1: and Debree. Actually there's white any week in rations up here.
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  Speaker 1: It's always the great thing for people to come up
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  Speaker 1: and explore one hundred and forty four islands in the
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  Speaker 1: day of islands alone that you can come up and explore.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a tall shit together in Russell celebrating its
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  Speaker 1: fiftieth anniversary in January. We've got an exprevaganzas here in
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  Speaker 1: white thing over the Lake Henry as well Bay of
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  Speaker 1: Islands Sailing Week Norton and Auckland Anniversary is going to
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  Speaker 1: be by the great come up here and you are
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  Speaker 1: going to find an event to see your taste across
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  Speaker 1: our different settlements. A great timeier in Aubourne.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Mircael, I've always said, who needs Greece when you've
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  Speaker 2: got Northland?
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  Speaker 1: Who needs Greece when you've got Marsine. Who needs Dubai
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  Speaker 1: where you've got the PUCKI Sndrems. Who needs the Pacific
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  Speaker 1: Islands when you've got the Bay of Islands, township, twin
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  Speaker 1: beaches with thin twin.
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  Speaker 2: He's good, ladies and gentlemen, he's good. His name is
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  Speaker 2: Makot Tapania. He is the Far North District Mayor.
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  Speaker 1: Mochlu.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining us on the Summer
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  Speaker 2: Breakfast today.
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