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The Muster Full Show: 03/11/26 · The Muster on Hokonui

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon and welcome to the muster on Hokonui. Andy
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Speaker 1: Muir here. The show's brought to you by Petersonetics. On
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Speaker 1: an overcast afternoon here in Gore, we're sitting on around
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Speaker 1: of people. Anyway, thanks for your company. Straight into it
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Speaker 1: this afternoon, Roxette. Tunes from the early 90s.
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Speaker 2: This afternoon, showers for breezy south easterlies and a high
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Speaker 2: of 16. Wednesday, light rain with light easterlies 10 and 19.
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Speaker 1: All the lights there. Thursday, partly cloudy with breezy north
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Speaker 1: easterlies 12 and 23. Friday, scattered thunderstorms with light north
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Speaker 1: easterlies 10 and 22. Saturday, sunshine and light. Westerlies, 8
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Speaker 1: and 19, so temperatures to hand. Clinton, 11.2. Harriot, 10.9.
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Speaker 1: Northern Southland, 12.8. Riverton, 12.9. TNL, 12. Titaroa, 12.4. Winton, 12.1.
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Speaker 1: And Woodlands, 11.1. Grant, Disaster McMaster gets us underway, as
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Speaker 1: he normally does on a Tuesday. He's away on a roadie.
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Speaker 1: in the next week or so with his grandson. We've
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Speaker 1: talked about this previously with Grant on his trip to
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Speaker 1: the Chatham Islands. It sounds like it's happening. Tory Tremaine
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Speaker 1: of Bannerman Crookshank Pride the Lawyers talks gifting. Don Morrison,
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Speaker 1: Willowbank farmer. He's a bit frustrated with the Gord District
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Speaker 1: Council and the potential of rates rises with this being
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Speaker 1: mooted for rural areas within the Gord District. So how
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Speaker 1: he just has his say around that. Now, from the gopher,
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Speaker 1: Janelle Davison and Rocky Cormack. Of course, the gopher sponsors
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Speaker 1: are the best of the muster, 5am Saturday mornings. And
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Speaker 1: Connor Miller of Balfour Young Farmers has a chat ahead
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Speaker 1: of the schmozzle, which is happening in about 10 days' time.
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Speaker 1: Sam Riley of PDG Wrightson gives us a rundown from
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Speaker 1: the Launville sale yards. Sounds like those lamb prices continue
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Speaker 1: to inspire. And then we'll start the hour with disaster.
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Speaker 1: This is the muster on Hakanui. Grant McMaster farms on
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Speaker 1: the edge of Lake Wakatipu at Closeburn Station and joins
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Speaker 1: us once again thanks to the team at Arby Rural.
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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Grant.
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Speaker 3: Yes, good afternoon, Andy. Good afternoon, everybody.
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Speaker 1: Life in the basin, how is it?
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Speaker 3: Well, it's 35 mils of rain since we spoke last week.
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Speaker 3: We've got a 20 and a 15, but some quite
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Speaker 3: cold days in between. Hasn't been overly hot. And now
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Speaker 3: this morning it's about 12 degrees and it's just started
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Speaker 3: to rain again. So, yeah, it's just the spring weather.
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Speaker 3: But what we've had is some very strong winds over
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Speaker 3: about three different days. And it's probably blown as hard
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Speaker 3: as I can remember.
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Speaker 1: Friday was pretty cold here in Gore. The weekend corrected
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Speaker 1: itself gradually. But it's just a continuation of this weather system.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is, and as I say, the wind is really,
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Speaker 3: it's hit with force, and my neighbour out at Ben Lomond,
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Speaker 3: his wool shed sort of faces sort of to the
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Speaker 3: west of it, and it's right beside Moat Lake, and
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Speaker 3: it blew the wind, blew the windows out of his
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Speaker 3: wool shed and blasted it all through the wall room,
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Speaker 3: and it's a pretty big wool shed and pretty big windows, but,
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Speaker 3: you know, that's a first.
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Speaker 1: So these are stronger winds, you reckon, than what you've
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Speaker 1: seen there? Are they that bad?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, and we're a little bit sheltered in here
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Speaker 3: with this part of the lake, but it does whistle
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Speaker 3: down through, and we didn't lose so many trees here,
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Speaker 3: but further around the traps they have, and a couple
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Speaker 3: of big bluegum trees just ride over and... And further
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Speaker 3: up to Konoki, there's a bit of carnage up there
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Speaker 3: on the roads, on the side of the road with
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Speaker 3: trees coming down and towards the greenstone. But, yeah, we
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Speaker 3: missed out on this really strong wind last year, but
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Speaker 3: we haven't this year. So three days of this week
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Speaker 3: or the previous seven days have been really, really rocketing.
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Speaker 1: That's kind of flowing under the radar. I've heard nothing
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Speaker 1: about those winds.
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Speaker 3: No, well, it's been.
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Speaker 3: It's been, as I say, they've been pretty good. Well,
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Speaker 3: you know, they've been strong. So, yeah, just the spring weather,
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Speaker 3: I guess.
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Speaker 1: The girls doing the lambing at the moment, though, they'll
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Speaker 1: be undercover, they'll be sheltered?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they'll be sheltered. Well, sheltered from the wind, otherwise
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Speaker 3: the lambs will probably end up across the Walter Peak. But, no,
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Speaker 3: that second cycle's into it now, and the lambs are
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Speaker 3: getting a wee bit of size about them, skipping about,
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Speaker 3: so it looks, you know, I've seen the odd... dry
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Speaker 3: you poking about as you do they just love running
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Speaker 3: through things and and just showing you exactly where they
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Speaker 3: are to annoy you even more but they um yeah
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Speaker 3: that looks a pretty good drop i think and pretty
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Speaker 3: lucky with the you know with with the weather the
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Speaker 3: way that way it's worked out you know a couple
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Speaker 3: of poor days but um you get that any time
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Speaker 3: don't you and or nothing to complain about compared to
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Speaker 3: the rest of the the south so uh no pretty
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Speaker 3: good there and the feed the feed is is good
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Speaker 3: it's um it's not really blowing in the wind, but it's, uh,
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Speaker 3: you know, there's enough there that shifted a few cows
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Speaker 3: into a couple of blocks that, you know, needed a
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Speaker 3: few more cattle in them, which is always a good
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Speaker 3: sign or bad sign. I had it wrong for a start,
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Speaker 3: but no, it's, uh, it's looking, it's looking pretty good
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Speaker 3: at this stage, Andy.
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Speaker 1: When does the infamous close burn station tailing get underway?
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Speaker 3: Oh, well, the, uh, the 20th, it's a week earlier
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Speaker 3: this year, the 20th of, um, of November. So, uh, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: they've all submitted their job descriptions, and to be fair,
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Speaker 3: it hasn't changed much from last year because they don't
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Speaker 3: want to do much work. So they just put that
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Speaker 3: on now, and they arrive up. So Cubby and Hunty
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Speaker 3: will be up there. They'll all argue all the way
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Speaker 3: from Waikato and get up there, and it's just like
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Speaker 3: the old same old, same old. But then we've got
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Speaker 3: to get up the next morning and tail lambs for
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Speaker 3: a couple of days. But it's always fun, and you
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Speaker 3: get that team around and sort of see what the
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Speaker 3: lambs are doing and how well the ewes are and
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Speaker 3: Even if they are looking all right, they never tell
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Speaker 3: you that, so you best don't ask. Drop your lip
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Speaker 3: is one thing you cannot do in that tailing gang
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Speaker 3: is drop your lip.
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Speaker 1: Well, there's one thing you don't do. Another thing you
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Speaker 1: do is just say, oh, these lambs are looking good.
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Speaker 3: No, you can't say that because then you get crucified
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Speaker 3: as well. She's not a win-win for the farm manager,
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Speaker 3: but it is a lot of fun.
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Speaker 1: Hey, we've talked a bit about the Chatham Islands. Sounds
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Speaker 1: like you're away over there next week.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, you and I tried to organise a
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Speaker 3: trip for us to get over there and taking the
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Speaker 3: muster team over and it didn't work. But my eight-year-old grandson,
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Speaker 3: Bo Acourt, he's got me a trip to the Chatham Islands.
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Speaker 3: And a few weeks ago, Bo was on Seven Sharp
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Speaker 3: on the television and he was talking about wool and
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Speaker 3: the virtues of wool. And he was talking about quite
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Speaker 3: a few things, actually. But he mentioned on that programme
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Speaker 3: that he would He'd like to go to the Chatham
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Speaker 3: Islands and perhaps farm over there. And so to cut
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Speaker 3: a long story short, Seven Sharp have organised to take
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Speaker 3: him to the Chatham Islands and he needs someone responsible
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Speaker 3: to go with him. They couldn't get anyone, so I'm going.
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Speaker 3: So him and I are going. We leave on Tuesday
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Speaker 3: and we fly up to Christchurch, get the plane over
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Speaker 3: to the islands a couple of days and they'll have
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Speaker 3: the film crew filming him and what he's up to. And, um,
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Speaker 3: a couple of days in, we've come back home. So, uh,
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Speaker 3: we might be able to report from there next, next
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Speaker 3: Wednesday from, uh, live from the Chatham.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well done, Bo. This is a story that is, it's
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Speaker 1: gaining a lot of traction.
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Speaker 3: It is. So he, um, you know, he, he talked
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Speaker 3: about wall and, and what have you. And he's, he's
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Speaker 3: a guy that, um, we guy that's, uh, he, uh,
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Speaker 3: you know, he gets on a crusade and he, he,
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Speaker 3: he's like a dog with a bone. He keeps going and, um, Anyway,
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Speaker 3: he mentioned his love of wool on that program, and
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Speaker 3: there's a bit of a back story to that. But
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Speaker 3: he got sent quite a few socks from a company
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Speaker 3: in the North Island, a wool company. So he's at
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Speaker 3: the age of eight. He's had a couple of.
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Speaker 3: Lucky breaks, really. One's an overseas trip with his grandfather.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And the other's socks and I'd say probably a few
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Speaker 3: job offers.
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Speaker 1: I'd say you'll have a few sponsorship opportunities as well.
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Speaker 1: I'd better get a couple of muster caps up to
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Speaker 1: you boys before you go over there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just thinking that, you know, as I edge
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Speaker 3: towards retirement, he's going to need a good manager.
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Speaker 1: How would that go? What would you demand, though? I mean,
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Speaker 1: a 90-10 split? Would you take 10?
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Speaker 3: It'd be too sharp for me.
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Speaker 1: In all seriousness, Grant, this is really, really cool. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the Chatham Islands is unknown to a lot of people.
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Speaker 1: I went to school in Oberoo. We had a few
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Speaker 1: people there from the Pitt Islands, not far off the Chathams,
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Speaker 1: Gregory Hunts. And it was a really interesting tale they
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Speaker 1: told about where they were. I think they only went
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Speaker 1: home maybe once a year.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. And, you know, you've heard me speak
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Speaker 3: about my interest. And I think it came from... when
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Speaker 3: I was a wee tacker at school and a wee guy,
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Speaker 3: a mate of mine was Jeffrey Schofield and they were fishermen,
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Speaker 3: and I'm pretty sure that they had fished at the
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Speaker 3: Chatham Islands, and I think that's when I first got
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Speaker 3: my fascination with it, probably about Bo's age now, eight.
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Speaker 3: But anyway, you know, I've always sort of followed that,
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Speaker 3: and I think, you know, I've seen the Country Calendar programme.
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Speaker 3: So they're trying to get a bit of a farming.
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Speaker 3: I think we're going to try and organise to have
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Speaker 3: a look at a farm. So I've got a couple
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Speaker 3: of contacts I'm waiting to hear from, and the Seven
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Speaker 3: Sharp would like to sort of take them around and
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Speaker 3: have a look at a farm. And the Black Robins,
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Speaker 3: because he spoke about that on the programme, so they're
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Speaker 3: organising that. Yeah, so it'll be a great experience for him,
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Speaker 3: and I feel pretty privileged to be able to go
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Speaker 3: along with him.
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Speaker 1: Well, you're just doing some renaissance work for this muster,
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Speaker 1: possibly country tour too. I think Jamie's trying to call
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Speaker 1: dibs on this, but you need to go and do
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Speaker 1: some renaissance work for us.
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Speaker 3: Oh, well, that's good. I think I might have to
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Speaker 3: give RB Rural Ring a smithy and just see what
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Speaker 3: is going on. He's always been really good with the
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Speaker 3: sponsorship he's given me going overseas. And I think, you know,
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Speaker 3: he'd be quite keen to go there because he's a
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Speaker 3: great traveller. He was always good on a rugby trip.
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Speaker 3: Better than he was on the field, but... I think
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Speaker 3: we could be on to something, and we are the
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Speaker 3: main show, aren't we, Andy?
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Speaker 1: It's called the food chain. I stick to my knitting, Grant. Look,
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Speaker 1: we'd better leave it there. We'll catch up with you
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Speaker 1: hopefully next Wednesday from the Chatham Islands. It's going to
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Speaker 1: be interesting.
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Speaker 3: And if we do get a trip over there, we
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Speaker 3: can invite Jamie McKay. He could put the bags on
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Speaker 3: the bus for us.
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Speaker 1: Good on you, Grant. Talk next Wednesday. All going to plan.
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Speaker 3: Hope so.
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Speaker 1: Grant McMaster thanks to Abbey Rural. A way over to
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Speaker 1: the Chatham Islands next week with his grandson Bo. So
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Speaker 1: all going to planned disasters on the Chatham Islands Wednesday
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Speaker 1: next week. Tori Tremaine's up next from Benham and Crookshank Pride.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the muster. Tori Tremaine of Bannerman Crookshank
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Speaker 1: Pride the Lawyers joins us on this mild afternoon down
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Speaker 1: in the Deep South. Good afternoon, Tori.
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Speaker 4: Hi there, Andy.
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Speaker 6: How are you?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, going very well. Look, today's topic's an interesting one
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Speaker 1: for a lot of people, child gifting. Now, we're not
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Speaker 1: talking about giving the kids away as much as you
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Speaker 1: want to every now and then, but there's actually a
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Speaker 1: lot more of a serious side to this.
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Speaker 4: Yes, that's right.
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Speaker 7: We come across this situation quite frequently with, especially probably
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Speaker 7: in the case of parents wanting to help their children.
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Speaker 4: With their first home or.
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Speaker 7: Business ventures, family succession can come into it from a
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Speaker 7: lot of aspects. So I thought it would be a
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Speaker 7: good topic to cover today for people to understand, I guess,
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Speaker 7: the ins and outs of that and how you're best
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Speaker 7: to approach it.
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Speaker 1: What's a couple of the biggest misconceptions about gifting to children?
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Speaker 7: I guess one of the main need-to-knows about gifting to
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Speaker 7: children is that there can be some, I guess, relationship
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Speaker 7: property implications for gifts being made. So if, for example,
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Speaker 7: someone wants to buy their first home and you want
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Speaker 7: to help them out with that for their deposit or
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Speaker 7: just to make sure they don't have to borrow as
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Speaker 7: much from the bank. If they end up buying that
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Speaker 7: property and then a partner moves in with them and
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Speaker 7: they've been together for three years or more, regardless of
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Speaker 7: whether that other partner has contributed anything financially or non-financially
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Speaker 7: to that property, they would actually become entitled to a
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Speaker 7: share of the value of that property, which would obviously
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Speaker 7: include a share of some of that gift in a
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Speaker 7: roundabout way. And that can catch a lot of people out.
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Speaker 7: And we very commonly have people coming to see us
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Speaker 7: when the worst case scenario has happened for them in
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Speaker 7: terms of a relationship separation. And there's always a discussion
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Speaker 7: had about, well, my parents have gifted this to me.
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Speaker 7: it's mine, I want it back out, but it's sort
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Speaker 7: of too late to unwind at that point in time,
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Speaker 7: especially if the relationship has ended on relatively bad terms,
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Speaker 7: which more often.
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Speaker 4: Than not they do, unfortunately.
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Speaker 7: So that's a really common misconception that's tied.
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Speaker 4: Up with relationship property. And I guess the other side of.
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Speaker 7: Gifting probably comes into that family succession piece where we've
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Speaker 7: got the fair versus equal sort of scenario and whether
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Speaker 7: we're treating things as an early inheritance or not and
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Speaker 7: how we're communicating that to the rest of the family
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Speaker 7: and what the expectations are around.
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Speaker 4: A gift versus a loan and just being.
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Speaker 7: Really clear about what the differences are and what the
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Speaker 7: expectations are. So that can be a whole other kettle
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Speaker 7: of fish.
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Speaker 1: Regarding the de facto situation there and a partner being
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Speaker 1: entitled to half, is there any way this can be
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Speaker 1: avoided when gifting?
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Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely.
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Speaker 7: So our recommendation to 99% of our clients is that
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Speaker 7: you would be best placed to have what's called a
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Speaker 7: contracting out agreement, which is based on the Property Relationships Act.
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Speaker 7: And that can be a really simple agreement that says
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Speaker 7: this money that this person has received by way of
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Speaker 7: gift from their parents or whoever is providing them with
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Speaker 7: the gift is theirs. And if we are to separate...
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Speaker 7: from one another, that person will keep that gift. So
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Speaker 7: they'll take that back out before anything else is divided equally.
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Speaker 4: So there's a bit of.
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Speaker 7: A process around doing these contracting art agreements, but it
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Speaker 7: can be really simple and it doesn't have to be complicated.
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Speaker 7: And then on the flip side, some people's situations are
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Speaker 7: a bit more, I guess, complicated and not as straightforward.
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Speaker 7: So there's a bit more, I guess, discussion that needs
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Speaker 7: to be had if we're including people different aspects and
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Speaker 7: elements of property ownership and different entities but they can
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Speaker 7: be simple but a lot of people hear the word
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Speaker 7: contract yield agreement or prenup agreement and they you know
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Speaker 7: it instantly brings to mind.
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Speaker 4: Yeah like what you see on the movies in terms
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Speaker 4: of a.
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Speaker 7: Stressful process and what have you but it actually can
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Speaker 7: save you a lot of stress in the long run
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Speaker 7: when things don't pan out the way everyone hopes they will.
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Speaker 1: So when you say 99% of the time this is
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Speaker 1: what people are recommended to do, is that like the 1%
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Speaker 1: where it isn't, like special circumstances?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, that would be really out of the ordinary situation
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Speaker 7: where there was adequate protection in other ways, but it's
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Speaker 7: becoming less and less likely that there is another way
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Speaker 7: that you can protect, I guess, property that you want
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Speaker 7: to be separate, like a gift, for example.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: So, yeah, that would come down to your specific circumstances
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Speaker 7: as to whether you fell into that 1%. But, yeah,
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Speaker 7: the majority of people would be, you know, a contract
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Speaker 7: yield agreement is the most protective way that you can
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Speaker 7: manage that.
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Speaker 1: What about tax implications around gifting?
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Speaker 7: There isn't any, I guess, off-the-bat tax issues in relation
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Speaker 7: to providing gifts What you can.
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Speaker 4: Run into, though, in terms of issues are.
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Speaker 7: If you are looking at going into a rest home
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Speaker 7: and you have done some gifting prior to going into
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Speaker 7: that rest home within certain time periods, but even if
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Speaker 7: it's a really large gift, sometimes it doesn't matter how
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Speaker 7: long ago that gift was, the Ministry of Social Development
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Speaker 7: provides can what we call in legal terms claw that
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Speaker 7: back and say, well, you've given your money away, so
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Speaker 7: you should be paying for your own residential care because
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Speaker 7: if you hadn't given that away, you'd be in a
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Speaker 7: position to be able to make that. So while there's
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Speaker 7: no tax implications, it can have some other legal consequences
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Speaker 7: quite a long way.
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Speaker 4: In the future.
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Speaker 7: Those rules for residential care subsidies are, I guess, a
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Speaker 7: moving feast to an extent because there's always new ways
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Speaker 7: that people are trying to structure their property affairs, I guess,
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Speaker 7: to maximise what they can from what's available. But, yeah,
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Speaker 7: the Ministry of Social Development is catching up on those things.
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Speaker 7: So it's, yeah, that's something to bear in mind, that
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Speaker 7: that can have some implications.
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Speaker 1: Interesting. Regarding the residential care, Tori, you don't really think
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Speaker 1: about these things?
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Speaker 7: No, but that is definitely a consideration that we.
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Speaker 7: Definitely crosses their mind whenever we're giving people advice about
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Speaker 7: how they're structuring things and how that might make.
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Speaker 4: A difference in the future because.
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Speaker 7: Historically people have set up trusts and other property structures
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Speaker 7: because there has.
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Speaker 4: Been I.
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Speaker 7: Guess those alternative ways to own property rather than in
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Speaker 7: personal names but the way that the legislation has moved
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Speaker 7: in relation to that has meant that there's probably less
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Speaker 7: advantages for having certain property ownership structures than what there
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Speaker 7: once was.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, definitely an important consideration. Yeah.
19:47
Speaker 7: It's really about when you are sitting down with, whether
19:51
Speaker 7: it's me or Hilary or your listeners' own lawyers, it's
19:56
Speaker 7: a matter of making sure that there is a really
19:59
Speaker 7: good full conversation about everything because, you know, as we've
20:02
Speaker 7: just talked about, there can be some, I guess, more
20:07
Speaker 7: future issues consequences of certain decisions that you make now, which,
20:12
Speaker 7: you know, you might not cross your mind. It might
20:14
Speaker 7: be as simple as, well, I want to give my
20:16
Speaker 7: son or daughter $ 100, 000 to buy a house, but you
20:19
Speaker 7: don't necessarily realise what consequence that's going to have going forward.
20:22
Speaker 7: So it's sort of, yeah, I guess about having that
20:26
Speaker 7: full and open discussion with your lawyers or other advisors
20:29
Speaker 7: about what your long-term intentions are, even if it really
20:32
Speaker 7: seems like this is just a really simple thing we
20:34
Speaker 7: want to do. often it's not actually as simple once
20:38
Speaker 7: you scratch the surface.
20:39
Speaker 1: Interesting, Tori. Now, the team at Bannerman Crookshank Pride, the lawyers,
20:42
Speaker 1: how do people get in touch?
20:44
Speaker 7: Sure, so they can give us a call on 032090183,
20:48
Speaker 7: or we've got a website with all of our contact
20:51
Speaker 7: details as well, which is www.cplaw.co.nz.
20:56
Speaker 1: Good on you, Tori. Always good to catch up.
20:58
Speaker 4: Thanks, Andy.
21:01
Speaker 1: Tory Tremaine of Bannerman Crookshank Pride the Lawyers based here
21:05
Speaker 1: in Gore. Gifting to the children. Not always as easy
21:09
Speaker 1: as it seems. Don Morrison's up next based at Willowbank.
21:24
Speaker 1: Dom Morrison Farms at Willowbank and joins us once again
21:28
Speaker 1: this afternoon on the muster for our regular chinwag. G'day Howie.
21:32
Speaker 2: Oh good Andy, another Swedish Supergroup lead in there, that's
21:35
Speaker 2: pretty good to hear.
21:37
Speaker 1: You're tailing today?
21:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've just started the hoggarts, so first day tailing
21:42
Speaker 2: the hoggarts and the lamb's looking really good and some
21:45
Speaker 2: really good paddock percentages, so of course the hoggarts lamb
21:49
Speaker 2: through the better spell in October, so yeah, they're looking
21:53
Speaker 2: pretty good Andy.
21:54
Speaker 1: Overall, though, how's the tailing looking?
21:58
Speaker 2: Look, we finished the tailing, the ewes, last week, and
22:01
Speaker 2: my main statistician, Lockie, went away to a stag zoo
22:04
Speaker 2: for the weekend, so we haven't actually quite done all
22:06
Speaker 2: the percentages yet, but we'll get him to do those tonight. No,
22:10
Speaker 2: the tailing from the ewes actually looked really good. Andy,
22:13
Speaker 2: I think the lowest twin paddock was about 170% and
22:15
Speaker 2: up to 185%.
22:15
Speaker 4: So if....
22:20
Speaker 2: Seven to eight and a half out of every 10
22:21
Speaker 2: ewes that had multiples was raising those twins, and I
22:25
Speaker 2: was pretty happy with that.
22:27
Speaker 1: I thought Statistician Lockie would have had those results on
22:29
Speaker 1: demand for you, Howie.
22:31
Speaker 2: He was organising the stags, so he had a fair
22:33
Speaker 2: bit of responsibility, so we let him away with that.
22:36
Speaker 1: Well, that's not too bad. Ground conditions, how are you
22:38
Speaker 1: looking out there? Have you found your happy medium place yet?
22:42
Speaker 2: The ground conditions are good. We're turning over. We've got
22:45
Speaker 2: a lot of ground turned over well ahead of the
22:47
Speaker 2: track to work. As I say, cereals in, some of
22:51
Speaker 2: the turnips in, and getting the last bit turned over,
22:55
Speaker 2: ready to go on, and then get some fighter beet planted,
22:59
Speaker 2: and a couple of paddocks we'll be spraying off in
23:01
Speaker 2: the next couple of days. Potterbeet and then Swede. So no,
23:05
Speaker 2: really good ground conditions. Still some paddocks looking a bit bare.
23:09
Speaker 2: So the big thing's been just equating that feed and
23:13
Speaker 2: getting the right number of sheep in each block to
23:15
Speaker 2: equate it, what it needs to be.
23:19
Speaker 1: Hal, you want to pass a bit of comment today
23:21
Speaker 1: around possible rates rises for Gore District farmers?
23:25
Speaker 2: Oh, well, look, I've examined the proposal and I appreciate
23:28
Speaker 2: it as a proposal. I've spoken to every single councillor,
23:33
Speaker 2: bar one, who I will talk to, just expressing my,
23:36
Speaker 2: I guess, a little bit of absolute frustration that I
23:39
Speaker 2: believe they're negligent in presenting such a proposal. I mean,
23:44
Speaker 2: it has huge implications for the commercial farming sector, for
23:49
Speaker 2: sheep and beef and for dairy. And I think they've
23:52
Speaker 2: absolutely been negligent in their role as councillors, even putting
23:57
Speaker 2: such a proposal forward. I mean, I spoke to everyone.
24:00
Speaker 2: I appreciate the chance to talk to all of them.
24:03
Speaker 2: I think there's a clear misunderstanding from a lot of
24:07
Speaker 2: them in their role. And they're there for governance, not representation.
24:12
Speaker 2: And they need to clearly understand that they have to
24:14
Speaker 2: deliver a fair and equitable policy. outcome to all their ratepayers,
24:19
Speaker 2: and which this proposal clearly isn't. Look, I'll commend them
24:22
Speaker 2: that I was able to talk to them. I'll commend
24:24
Speaker 2: them with the rate calculator that they've got online where
24:27
Speaker 2: we can do the calculations. The council has a far
24:31
Speaker 2: greater time and ability to look at the results, but
24:35
Speaker 2: I've been averaging out some random results across the different sectors.
24:41
Speaker 2: And it appears to me that your average rural sheep
24:44
Speaker 2: and beef farmer will face a 27% to 41% increase
24:49
Speaker 2: in their rates. While the dairies will be probably 24%
24:54
Speaker 2: to 36%, rural lifestyle will remain largely unchanged but a
24:58
Speaker 2: little bit negative. Urban residential reduction between 5% and 8%
25:03
Speaker 2: based on the different options you're looking at. And commercial
25:06
Speaker 2: and gore, a 26% to 28% reduction. So there's a
25:10
Speaker 2: clear bias against the rural sector based on the percentage value. But,
25:15
Speaker 2: of course, it's the materiality that's the really big thing. So,
25:19
Speaker 2: you know, for a sheep and beef or dairy farmer,
25:21
Speaker 2: they're going to be looking at possibly a.
25:24
Speaker 4: $ 10, 000.
25:24
Speaker 2: Increase in their rates, where a commercial operation, commercial property
25:29
Speaker 2: in town might be looking for a $ 2, 400 reduction based
25:31
Speaker 2: on the average figures I've looked at. So the effect
25:38
Speaker 2: on the rural ratepayers is percentage-wise biased and clearly very material.
25:45
Speaker 2: So there's no way that they can propose that as
25:48
Speaker 2: being fair and equitable to all ratepayers. So I would
25:52
Speaker 2: urge all rural ratepayers, probably all ratepayers, to jump on
25:56
Speaker 2: that calculator and try and understand what the implications of
26:00
Speaker 2: their proposal are. Howie, you say governance over representation, but
26:04
Speaker 2: aren't those two things intertwined? No, not at all. If
26:09
Speaker 2: you're in a governance role, if you're in the role
26:11
Speaker 2: of the councillor, your responsibility is to all ratepayers. While
26:15
Speaker 2: you may represent the ratepayers that... that you canvass or
26:20
Speaker 2: platform for, your role is entirely governance. And I think
26:25
Speaker 2: from my discussion with those councillors, clearly a number of
26:28
Speaker 2: those councillors do not understand their fiduciary responsibility in terms
26:34
Speaker 2: of what they're legally required to do in terms of
26:36
Speaker 2: delivering that fair and equitable result to all sectors.
26:40
Speaker 1: So who represents the constituents?
26:43
Speaker 2: Well, your governance, when you're a councillor, when you're a
26:47
Speaker 2: director on a company, Andy, your role as governance, yours
26:50
Speaker 2: is a responsibility to your entire company or to your
26:55
Speaker 2: entire community when it's in terms of a councillor. You're
26:59
Speaker 2: not there to represent only your particular ward.
27:04
Speaker 1: Well, all these proposals are on the basis of water
27:08
Speaker 1: not being included with water rates doesn't come under new modelling.
27:12
Speaker 2: Of course, you know, if you're a rural ratepayer, Andy,
27:15
Speaker 2: you don't get any water delivered in terms of your
27:17
Speaker 2: rates anyway. And I guess this is the frustration for
27:20
Speaker 2: a lot of rural ratepayers where the rates are based
27:23
Speaker 2: on a capital value. You bear a hugely disproportionate amount
27:28
Speaker 2: of that responsibility in terms of total rates. and you
27:32
Speaker 2: receive far less services. So, you know, I'm prepared to
27:35
Speaker 2: pay for, you know, my use of the sports facilities, libraries.
27:39
Speaker 2: I love the awards, the events that the District Council supports. But,
27:44
Speaker 2: you know, I don't get any lighting. I don't get
27:46
Speaker 2: any rubbish.
27:47
Speaker 3: I don't get any storage.
27:48
Speaker 2: I certainly don't get any water, historically, from the Gord
27:51
Speaker 2: District Council. And you might argue all I get is
27:54
Speaker 2: some pretty crappily....
27:57
Speaker 3: Carefully looked after rural roads.
27:59
Speaker 2: So once again, I'm saying, you know, you've got to
28:02
Speaker 2: understand your responsibilities and what you have to deliver.
28:05
Speaker 1: AB's over in Scotland. Does this get you excited as
28:08
Speaker 1: we're getting the countdown to World Cup here next year?
28:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we've got four pretty good weeks of
28:12
Speaker 2: rugby coming up, Andy. So we're just talking about it
28:15
Speaker 2: at Smoto, what those games are going to be. So, yeah,
28:17
Speaker 2: I'm excited for a chance to develop a bit more talent.
28:21
Speaker 1: Rugby League World Cup, are you watching it at all?
28:23
Speaker 1: Yes or no? I'd say no.
28:25
Speaker 2: No, no, I've been definitely watching those games and enjoying
28:29
Speaker 2: the calibre. Best Kiwi team I think we've ever had.
28:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, not far away from that one in the mid-80s. Anyway, Howie,
28:35
Speaker 1: it sounds like chaos there. Lockie with the numbers wants
28:38
Speaker 1: you to go and do your job, so we'll let
28:40
Speaker 1: you carry on.
28:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, cheers, Andy. Look forward to next chance.
28:45
Speaker 1: Don Morrison of Willowbank. You're listening to The Muster. Up next,
28:50
Speaker 1: we have the team from The Gopher in studio. Welcome
29:02
Speaker 1: back to The Muster on Hokunui. Janelle Davison and Rocky Cormack,
29:05
Speaker 1: they formed The Gopher, of course. They're the sponsors of
29:08
Speaker 1: the best of The Muster 5am Saturday mornings, and they
29:11
Speaker 1: joined me in studio for the first time this afternoon.
29:14
Speaker 1: Good afternoon, team. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Right, Janelle, firstly
29:19
Speaker 1: with you, the gopher, what's the backstory? The backstory. Everything
29:25
Speaker 1: starts with a good story, right?
29:27
Speaker 8: Yeah, I suppose it does, yeah. So the gopher started
29:32
Speaker 8: back in 2021, so it was June. Well, I was
29:37
Speaker 8: working in a bank and it had closed, so I
29:40
Speaker 8: was trying to work from home. Rocky was in a
29:45
Speaker 8: role in an office for a transport company and decided
29:49
Speaker 8: he wanted a change, so he decided to start.
29:51
Speaker 1: Up the gopher. So more or less around the COVID time?
29:55
Speaker 8: Pretty much, yeah.
29:57
Speaker 1: So Rocky, going in taking your own business out on
30:00
Speaker 1: the road and it's just growing legs.
30:03
Speaker 9: Yeah, it has really. It's, yeah, a bit surprised, but
30:07
Speaker 9: we thought we'd give it a go.
30:09
Speaker 1: So when did you guys, so 2021 is when you
30:12
Speaker 1: guys started up, is that right?
30:13
Speaker 9: That's right, yeah.
30:14
Speaker 1: Right, so the nuts and bolts of the gopher then,
30:17
Speaker 1: what are you about?
30:19
Speaker 8: So we are relief staff for farming businesses. So it
30:23
Speaker 8: means that we can go onto farms and look after
30:26
Speaker 8: people your whole farm or you go away on holiday,
30:30
Speaker 8: or we can just go and work in with your
30:32
Speaker 8: staff and, like, milk your cows or help with weaning
30:35
Speaker 8: drafts over weaning.
30:38
Speaker 1: When you hit the first week of November, Rocky, everything
30:41
Speaker 1: hits a proverbial. It starts getting busy, I suppose. So
30:44
Speaker 1: for you guys at the moment, well, I suppose arguably
30:47
Speaker 1: all year's busy.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, well, it is really. Yeah, we're quite fortunate we've
30:51
Speaker 9: got an office lady that runs everything. So, yeah. You
30:55
Speaker 9: catch up with her once a week and, yeah, she's
30:57
Speaker 9: just mind-boggling, really.
30:59
Speaker 1: So how many staff do you employ now?
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Speaker 9: I think we've got about 18 at the moment.
31:03
Speaker 1: 18?
31:04
Speaker 9: Yeah, 18 going.
31:06
Speaker 1: Gee, that's good going for a company five years in
31:08
Speaker 1: the making, starting off by yourselves and just obviously the
31:12
Speaker 1: word spread and it got bigger.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, it has really. Yeah, it's just, I don't know.
31:17
Speaker 8: It's a huge demand, isn't it?
31:18
Speaker 5: Yeah, there is.
31:18
Speaker 9: It's just, you know, the phone didn't stop ringing.
31:21
Speaker 3: It's, yeah.
31:22
Speaker 9: And people ring up for little things, big things. It's
31:26
Speaker 9: quite good, yeah.
31:27
Speaker 1: Do you just specialise in anything and everything rurally? Would
31:29
Speaker 1: that be fair enough in the ag sector? Yeah, absolutely, yeah.
31:33
Speaker 8: There's a machinery division as well.
31:35
Speaker 1: Oh, really?
31:36
Speaker 3: Yeah.
31:36
Speaker 9: So you've got a.
31:37
Speaker 8: Two-and-a-half-tonne digger and a wee skid steer and fence winder
31:41
Speaker 8: and mulcher?
31:43
Speaker 9: Mulcher and grab and, yeah, everything, so.
31:46
Speaker 1: Your sales, are you still physically out and about doing things? Absolutely.
31:51
Speaker 9: Yep, that's right.
31:52
Speaker 1: What do you most enjoy about the role, Janelle?
31:54
Speaker 8: Oh, I love the farm winding. Yeah, just going onto
31:58
Speaker 8: someone's farm and, yeah, just getting in there and doing it, well,
32:02
Speaker 8: their way, but, you know, in your own way as well.
32:07
Speaker 7: That's quite cool.
32:08
Speaker 1: What about you, Rocky? What really appeals to you in
32:10
Speaker 1: the line of work?
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Speaker 9: Oh, it's just meeting all different people. You know, not
32:17
Speaker 9: every day is the same. Yeah, like you could be
32:21
Speaker 9: doing one thing one day and then flat out the
32:24
Speaker 9: next day doing something else. So it's, yeah.
32:26
Speaker 1: So all your staff then, like everything's specialised now, is
32:29
Speaker 1: that right? You've got people to cover different sectors. That's
32:31
Speaker 1: their special, they specialise in that, staff-wise. Would that be correct?
32:35
Speaker 8: Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, we've got experienced relief milkers. We've
32:41
Speaker 8: got experienced tractor drivers. And then we've got a couple
32:47
Speaker 8: of the office girls that one of them does the
32:49
Speaker 8: marketing and she goes out and does house cleaning and
32:53
Speaker 8: stuff with our admin lady.
32:56
Speaker 1: You do house cleaning as well?
32:58
Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Far out.
33:00
Speaker 1: Do you clean cars? No. Well, that'll be on the
33:04
Speaker 1: horizon sooner than later. Don't worry about that.
33:07
Speaker 9: Oh, we've been asked to clean tractors and stuff like that,
33:10
Speaker 9: haven't we?
33:11
Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
33:13
Speaker 1: And another big thing as well here, liability insurance and that.
33:17
Speaker 1: Where do you guys stand there, Rocky? What's the go?
33:20
Speaker 9: I think Janelle would be the best one to talk
33:22
Speaker 9: to about that.
33:24
Speaker 1: Janelle, as far as that?
33:25
Speaker 8: Yeah, so we're fully insured. We've got public liability as
33:30
Speaker 8: well as statutory. That's all done with our friends at Rothbury.
33:35
Speaker 1: What do you most enjoy about this time of year
33:37
Speaker 1: when you're out and about? I mean... You know, it's
33:40
Speaker 1: busy time. You're coming into mating and the dairy side
33:44
Speaker 1: of life like you talked about, the weans coming out,
33:46
Speaker 1: the drenching. Is there a real buzz when you're out
33:49
Speaker 1: and about at the moment, Rocky, when you're out in
33:52
Speaker 1: the rural sector?
33:53
Speaker 9: Yeah, no, it's good. You buzz around and catch up
33:57
Speaker 9: with a few of the staff and see them working
33:59
Speaker 9: and you think, shit, that's actually our business going there.
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Speaker 3: So, yeah.
34:03
Speaker 1: And you're based out of Winton, is that right?
34:05
Speaker 9: That's right, yep.
34:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen you with a DLS hat on before
34:08
Speaker 1: as well. Oh, should you? Yeah, you've got to be
34:10
Speaker 1: proud of your roots, absolutely.
34:12
Speaker 9: Yeah, 100%.
34:13
Speaker 1: Right, the important details. How do people get in touch
34:16
Speaker 1: with the Gopher?
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Speaker 8: Well, you can ring our office number on 03 263
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Speaker 8: 4044 or you can look up our website, which is www.thegopher.co.nz.
34:33
Speaker 1: And you've got a Facebook page as well.
34:34
Speaker 8: We've got Facebook. We've got Instagram.
34:37
Speaker 3: TikTok.
34:38
Speaker 8: There's even a wee ticky-tocky, isn't there?
34:39
Speaker 3: Oh, there really is.
34:41
Speaker 2: Yeah.
34:43
Speaker 1: Did you guys start the TikTok account, dare I ask?
34:46
Speaker 2: No.
34:46
Speaker 1: It's not my demograph.
34:47
Speaker 3: No, no, no.
34:49
Speaker 8: All right, we've got a lady that does that for us.
34:52
Speaker 8: Hannah's pretty awesome at that.
34:54
Speaker 1: Hey, good on you guys. Thanks for coming in. Janelle
34:56
Speaker 1: Davison and Rocky Cormack, you are the gopher and you
34:59
Speaker 1: sponsor the Best of the Muster on Saturday mornings. You
35:02
Speaker 1: enjoy the afternoon, guys. Good to catch up.
35:04
Speaker 8: Thanks for having us.
35:05
Speaker 9: Thanks very much.
35:05
Speaker 3: Thank you.
35:08
Speaker 1: Janelle Davison and Rocky Cormac, they are the gopher. Like
35:12
Speaker 1: I said before, they sponsor the best of the muster
35:14
Speaker 1: here on Saturday mornings. Up next, Connor Miller from Balfour
35:17
Speaker 1: Young Farmers. You're listening to The Muster.
35:19
Speaker 8: What in the world?
35:30
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the muster. Connor Miller of Balfour Young
35:33
Speaker 1: Farmers joins us on this Tuesday afternoon. G'day, Connor. We
35:37
Speaker 1: caught up with Max last week. Must be some good
35:40
Speaker 1: stuff happening at Balfour two weeks.
35:41
Speaker 2: In a row.
35:43
Speaker 5: You know, Balfour, we like to pride ourselves as a
35:46
Speaker 5: top club, so why not talk to top members and
35:50
Speaker 5: get to know what's going on in the northern south?
35:52
Speaker 1: I may have to put a fee on this slot
35:54
Speaker 1: very shortly with that attitude, young man. But anyway, you
35:57
Speaker 1: guys had a meeting last night, by the sounds of it?
36:00
Speaker 5: Yep, we had a meeting at the Bowls Club. Earl
36:02
Speaker 5: looked after us lovely like he always does. He seems
36:05
Speaker 5: to think he's a young farmer at heart, I think,
36:07
Speaker 5: as well. To be fair, he wants all the merch
36:09
Speaker 5: and everything we're talking about, so that's all good. Yep,
36:12
Speaker 5: we had a great turnout and there's some good things
36:15
Speaker 5: happening in the club at the moment.
36:18
Speaker 1: Just quickly, how long has Earl Dillon been mentor of
36:21
Speaker 1: the Bowls Club Bar?
36:25
Speaker 5: Oh, I would not know. He's happy to have us anyway,
36:28
Speaker 5: and we're happy to go and support the bowls club.
36:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always a good thing. So what's been happening?
36:33
Speaker 1: What's going on?
36:35
Speaker 5: So we're, like Max said last week, we're flat out
36:38
Speaker 5: into organising our bar cup and schmuzzles. There's a bit
36:43
Speaker 5: of movement on that, so the committee's doing pretty good
36:45
Speaker 5: on that. It sounded like it was going to be
36:48
Speaker 5: quite a wee event, to be fair. I'm quite looking
36:50
Speaker 5: forward to seeing people run around an obstacle course dragging
36:53
Speaker 5: their dogs with their dogs dragging them either way. It's
36:55
Speaker 5: going to be a bit of entertainment I think and
36:57
Speaker 5: a bit of a laugh.
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Speaker 1: Sorry mate, they always did that thing on Coronet Peak
37:03
Speaker 1: where your dog had to follow you from the top
37:05
Speaker 1: of the chairlift down to the base building. Any correlation
37:08
Speaker 1: with the schmozzle?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a similar kind of thing. You've got to
37:11
Speaker 5: do a bit of an obstacle course and run around
37:13
Speaker 5: and it's not going to be easy. It's going to favour,
37:17
Speaker 5: there's going to be some obstacles that are going to
37:18
Speaker 5: favour your dog and not favour you and vice versa.
37:21
Speaker 5: So it's going to be a bit of entertainment just
37:24
Speaker 5: to start the evening kind of off and that mid-afternoon.
37:27
Speaker 5: So it'll be a bit of a laugh. Hopefully the
37:29
Speaker 5: weather plays ball and it'll be a nice good day.
37:32
Speaker 1: And following the schmozzle, inverted commas, you've got the Bark Up,
37:35
Speaker 1: which is quite a big thing for young farmers to
37:38
Speaker 1: do from now onwards.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we're into the Bark Up season kind of thing.
37:43
Speaker 5: It's kind of like the trial dog season, I guess,
37:47
Speaker 5: for young farmers. They have a We started with Tiana
37:50
Speaker 5: and we work our way kind of up from us
37:52
Speaker 5: and then down all the way up to Otago and
37:54
Speaker 5: then back down to Clinton. So within probably a month,
37:57
Speaker 5: there's about four or five of them going on. So
37:58
Speaker 5: it's a bit of a, we should run it on points.
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Speaker 5: It'd be quite interesting, I reckon, in the future. But
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Speaker 5: it's a great opportunity just to get out. Everyone's got
38:07
Speaker 5: a dog that can go and have a bark. So
38:09
Speaker 5: it'll be all good.
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Speaker 1: You reckon this should be similar to the dog trialling
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Speaker 1: scene and it's all based on points and like aggregate?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I reckon something like that. We could have an
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Speaker 5: overall winner. That'd be great. Some people go to all
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Speaker 5: of them, so why not? Let's see who collects the
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Speaker 5: most points and has a trophy at the end. That
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Speaker 5: could be a bit of a laugh, a bit of
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Speaker 5: bragging rights.
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Speaker 1: That's probably one of the most intelligent things you've ever
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Speaker 1: come up with in this slot, Connor.
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Speaker 5: Oh, full of ideas as I'm getting older, Andy.
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Speaker 1: The money that's raised from the bar cut, though, there's
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Speaker 1: a serious note behind this.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so we're supporting a local organisation that helps kids
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Speaker 5: that are in need or have kind of special disabilities
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Speaker 5: that wanted to get into the area farming so it's
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Speaker 5: a great organisation and it's one that at a club
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Speaker 5: we didn't know was even in our community so we're
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Speaker 5: more than happy to get in behind them, support them
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Speaker 5: and get some money towards them to help young people
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Speaker 5: get into agriculture.
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Speaker 1: So how did you come across it? What's the organisation called?
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Speaker 1: Can you remember off the top of your head?
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Speaker 5: Oh, I can't remember off the top of my head, no.
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Speaker 5: So it was pretty poor for me. But it was just,
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Speaker 5: we've supported so many organisations or local kind of things
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Speaker 5: over the last few years. We've decided to put it
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Speaker 5: out to the community and get them to kind of
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Speaker 5: give us ideas. Because it's one thing us coming up
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Speaker 5: with ideas. but we always kind of seem to come
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Speaker 5: up with the same thing and we don't want to
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Speaker 5: support just the same organisation every year so we want
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Speaker 5: to try and spread the load a little bit even
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Speaker 5: if it's a few grand here and there it's still
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Speaker 5: a few grand going to a good cause so yeah
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Speaker 5: someone brought it up on the suggestions that was entered
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Speaker 5: into the club and Yeah, it was pretty unanimous when
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Speaker 5: we voted on it a few meetings ago, so that's
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Speaker 5: really cool.
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Speaker 1: Fonakey House.
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Speaker 5: That's the one.
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Speaker 1: There you go, doing the hard yards for you. As
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Speaker 1: far as... OK, what else is happening with you guys?
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Speaker 1: A bit of fundraising's been happening with tailing. You guys partaking?
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Speaker 7: Oh, tailing, yeah.
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Speaker 5: We've moved into a bit of a moving company, to
40:13
Speaker 5: be fair. We've done a bit of helping people move
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Speaker 5: houses and things like that, but there's some tailing, hopefully...
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Speaker 5: On the cards, we were just talking last night about
40:22
Speaker 5: getting people ready for the clutching season for our clutching
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Speaker 5: gang that goes around from that December probably to March
40:29
Speaker 5: kind of period. So if anyone has any clutching that
40:32
Speaker 5: they want Young Farmers to do, generally on weekends because
40:35
Speaker 5: obviously everyone's working during the week, get in touch with
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Speaker 5: the Balfour Young Farmers Facebook page or myself or James
40:43
Speaker 5: Adams and we'll sort something out in that regard. But
40:46
Speaker 5: In terms of everything else, people are gearing up for
40:49
Speaker 5: Young Farmer of the Year contest, so the district is
40:52
Speaker 5: obviously only a few weeks away now. We've got two
40:54
Speaker 5: spots remaining, and it's going to be a pretty flat-out
40:57
Speaker 5: weekend in Riverdome.
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Speaker 1: And, of course, Belfast, or Young Farmers next year, celebrating
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Speaker 1: a milestone as well. You guys, what's the centenary jersey,
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Speaker 1: or the jersey you've got organised?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so we're organising 100 years of Young Farmers this
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Speaker 5: coming year. So they're having a big... They kicked that
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Speaker 5: off nationally in Wellington, and they're doing a 100-year club
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Speaker 5: in New Portsmouth. They're celebrating, having a big celebration there,
41:26
Speaker 5: so anyone's invited to that. There's Young Farms members, but
41:29
Speaker 5: there's money for that club, and then they're going to
41:31
Speaker 5: have a big celebration at the Young Farmer of the
41:33
Speaker 5: Year contest grand final in Christchurch at the... It's not
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Speaker 5: Horncastle Arena, but in the big arena there. They've asked
41:42
Speaker 5: clubs around the region to... do something to celebrate 100
41:47
Speaker 5: years of Young Farmers. So at the club, we've made
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Speaker 5: a couple of rugby jerseys to recognise 100 years of
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Speaker 5: Young Farmers, but then also it's 90 years of Otago
41:58
Speaker 5: Southland as a region as well, which is pretty cool.
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Speaker 5: So when it comes to the reunion weekend, we're going
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Speaker 5: to be represented hopefully quite well with all of our
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Speaker 5: members and a few alumni rocking around and stuff. and
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Speaker 5: some retro kind of rugby jersey attire for the colder
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Speaker 5: months in April. So, yeah, it's quite cool, and it's
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Speaker 5: limited edition, limited release, so if you want, not get
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Speaker 5: in contact with the club before we get the orders
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Speaker 5: sent away.
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Speaker 1: What do people need to know about Districts?
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Speaker 5: Districts, 21st November in Riverdon, run by Thornbury. At the moment,
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Speaker 5: like I said, we've only got two spots remaining from
42:37
Speaker 5: what I heard this morning, so that's pretty cool. We've
42:39
Speaker 5: nearly filled all 30 slots. Nice. So there's a lot of,
42:44
Speaker 5: looking at the names on the list, there's a lot
42:46
Speaker 5: of names that are fresh, which is pretty cool, but
42:47
Speaker 5: there's some serious contenders coming through. That's going to be
42:52
Speaker 5: quite a tight battle, I think. I couldn't pick a
42:56
Speaker 5: winner at the moment, so that makes the contest even
42:58
Speaker 5: a little bit more serious, which is great, coming into
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Speaker 5: getting that top eight ready for regional finals.
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Speaker 1: Good on you, Connor. We'll let you carry on. You're
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Speaker 1: waiting for a truck by the sounds of it, so
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Speaker 1: best we'll let you carry on with your day. Good
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Speaker 1: to catch up again.
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Speaker 5: All good, Andy. Thank you very much.
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Speaker 4: As a.
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Speaker 1: Bloke got handed his 50th birthday card, he looked at
43:18
Speaker 1: his son with tears in his eyes and said, you know,
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Speaker 1: one would have been enough. That's us over and done
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Speaker 1: with for the afternoon. The podcast will be up shortly
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Speaker 1: on iHeartRadio. I'm Andy Muir. The muster is brought to
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Speaker 1: you by Peters Genetics. Enjoy the afternoon. See you tomorrow,
43:47
Speaker 1: 1 o'clock. Stock selling action occurred at the Louisville sale
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Speaker 1: yards thanks to PGG Rights and Sam Riley gives us
43:57
Speaker 1: a rundown on prices once again. Good afternoon, Slammer. How
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Speaker 1: do we fare?
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Speaker 3: G'day, mate. How you going on?
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Speaker 6: Reasonably busy yarding in today. Store cattle, good types are
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Speaker 6: still selling quite well. The off types are a bit
44:11
Speaker 6: harder to move today. First of the spring lambs are
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Speaker 6: in today as well, which is good to see, but
44:17
Speaker 6: we'll kick it off with the prime sheep. Those lambs,
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Speaker 6: those good heavy lambs, 365 to 465. Mediums, 285 to 345.
44:20
Speaker 6: And the lighter end primes at 200 to 260. Two-deuce,
44:23
Speaker 6: the good quality two-deuce. Tops of those, 200 to 240.
44:26
Speaker 6: And mediums, 180. The ewes, good heavy ewes, $ 2. 95 to $ 3.
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Speaker 4: 45.
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Speaker 6: Mediums, $ 2. 40 to $ 2. 90. And the lighter end ewes are
44:43
Speaker 6: $ 200 to $ 230. Handful of rams in today. The best
44:46
Speaker 6: of those were $ 120 to $ 160, with the lighter end
44:49
Speaker 6: stuff at $ 70. And ewes and lambs, all counted, a
44:53
Speaker 6: few pounds of those, they range from $ 150 to $ 180.
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Speaker 6: Moving on into the prime cattle. Just a medium yarding
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Speaker 6: of prime selling on the strong markets. 745 kilo steers
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Speaker 6: at $ 5.
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Speaker 4: 32.
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Speaker 6: Heifers at 680 kgs, $ 5.
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Speaker 2: 20.
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Speaker 6: The cows at 490 kilos, $ 3.
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Speaker 2: 80.
45:09
Speaker 6: And dairy heifers at 318 kgs, they were $ 3.
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Speaker 3: 48.
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Speaker 6: Into the store market, R2 Chevrolet Cross Steers at.
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Speaker 5: 389 kgs, $ 1, 990.
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Speaker 6: Some Yelling Murray Grey Steers at 340 kgs, $ 1, 690. Yelling
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Speaker 6: Hereford Cross Gears at 296 kilos, $ 1, 400. Yelling Hereford Cross.
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Speaker 5: Gears at 358 Ks, $ 1, 790.
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Speaker 6: And Yelling Hereford Cross Heifers at 284 kilos, they were $ 1, 480.
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Speaker 6: So that's up Wampum for another week, mate.