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The Muster Full Show: 21/10/26 · 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 is brought to you by Peters Genetics.
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Speaker 1: And I'm looking out and seeing sunshine everywhere with 19
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Speaker 1: degrees currently our temperature over the main street of Gore.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, by the way. Busy old hour
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Speaker 1: to get through, so we'll crank straight into it. But firstly,
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Speaker 1: a bit of sport on the horizon tonight as we
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Speaker 1: have the second game of the Constellation Cup. The Silver
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Speaker 1: Ferns against Australia is underway. It's a four-game series at two,
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Speaker 1: so regardless of what's happening with the domestic netball scene,
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Speaker 1: the Silver Ferns are carrying on where they left off
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Speaker 1: from the Commonwealth Games. So something to look at on
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Speaker 1: the tube tonight if you're interested. The music today, this
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Speaker 1: group was actually known as Runston Parva, then Parva. You
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Speaker 1: may know of them now as the Kaiser Chiefs. Formed
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Speaker 1: all those years ago back in 2009.
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Speaker 2: Wednesday afternoon sees sunshine with breezy nor'westerlies and a high
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Speaker 2: of 20. Thursday, light rain developing in the afternoon with
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Speaker 2: westerlies 8 and 18. Friday, partly cloudy.
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Speaker 1: With breezy nor'westerlies, 10 and 23. Saturday, sunshine with breezy nor'westerlies,
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Speaker 1: 12 and 21, and Sunday, rinse and repeat, partly cloudy
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Speaker 1: with breezy nor'westerlies, 15 and 21. So if you're burning
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Speaker 1: worms or getting diesel out of the stack at the moment,
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Speaker 1: I think the odds are in your favour. A correction happening,
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Speaker 1: I think, possibly Monday onwards next week, but for the
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Speaker 1: next four or five days anyway, looking really, really good
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Speaker 1: down here. Unless you're after reindeer aside, although I think
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Speaker 1: everyone's got to be pretty darn content at the moment.
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Speaker 1: So it's averages Clinton 12.3, Herriot 11.1, Northern Southland 12.8,
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Speaker 1: Riverton 12.9, Te Anau 11.7, Titiroa 12, Winton 12.1 and
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Speaker 1: Woodlands 11.1. Rob Scott, Southland District Mayor, joins us to
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Speaker 1: start the hour, of course, as part of our Southland
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Speaker 1: Rural Support Trust interviews. We have teamed up with the
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Speaker 1: Rural Support Trust and just talking to various people in
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Speaker 1: various parts of the southern region, depending on whether it's
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Speaker 1: likes of Rob Scott or farmers or leaders of the industries,
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Speaker 1: and talking about getting through the events of last September
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Speaker 1: and as we head through October. And yeah, just so
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Speaker 1: we catch up with Rob to see what he thinks.
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Speaker 1: Not far off the anniversary of the Winds as well,
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Speaker 1: we touch on that. Don Morrison farming at Willowbank. Howie
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Speaker 1: wants the tax reset. He's looking at the election thinking
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Speaker 1: we need to change things around. He's not happy. He
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Speaker 1: tells us why. David Frame of Craig's Investment Partners. Great
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Speaker 1: news for the GDT overnight. We look at that as
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Speaker 1: well as other things. Jared Stockman of Dairy NZ has
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Speaker 1: a yarn. And Senior Sergeant Gary Eddington of the Gore
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Speaker 1: Police comes in for yarn as well. Mark Calder of
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Speaker 1: PGG writes in and gives an update from the Balclutha
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Speaker 1: Stock Sale Report, which was held this morning. Then we'll
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Speaker 1: crank into the hour next with Rob Scott. You're listening
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Speaker 1: to The Muster until 2 o'clock, 7 after 1. Rob
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Speaker 1: Scott is Southland District Mayor and joins us this afternoon
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Speaker 1: on the muster in conjunction with the Southland Rural Support
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Speaker 1: Trust as we're looking at the spring that we've had
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Speaker 1: and speaking to various speakers from different parts of the
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Speaker 1: southern region. Coincidentally, 12 months since those wicked winds of
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Speaker 1: last year, Rob. Good afternoon. When you think back 363 days,
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Speaker 1: what's your first reaction?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, good afternoon, Andy. Yeah, it's... It shows how fast
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Speaker 3: the year's gone. It's hard to actually think back to,
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Speaker 3: I mean, particularly for me personally, it was that first
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Speaker 3: week in the, well, back in the role of mayor
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Speaker 3: after being re-elected. And yeah, boy, did that after that
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Speaker 3: week certainly shape up to be the start of something
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Speaker 3: quite long. It's been a, yeah, it's been a big year.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, certainly that weather event certainly started it off
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Speaker 3: with a bang.
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Speaker 1: Is it fair to say that seven days of the
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Speaker 1: wind was probably the busiest of your life as far
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Speaker 1: as the workings component?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was pretty intense. And I think, I mean,
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Speaker 3: for me, it was nothing compared to what a lot
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Speaker 3: of our rural farmers and the like went through. So,
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Speaker 3: I mean, I had it pretty easy, but she was
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Speaker 3: a big time for Southland and a lot of our
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Speaker 3: important people.
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Speaker 1: A lot of farmers are still going through and sorting
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Speaker 1: out fence lines, firewood for Africa in certain areas. And
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Speaker 1: to coincide with the spring that we've had recently, third
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Speaker 1: spring in a row that's been cack, let's be pretty
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Speaker 1: blunt about the situation. I suppose it's a chance just
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Speaker 1: to reflect on where we've been and where we can
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Speaker 1: go next.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, mate. I mean, you still see the trees down
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Speaker 3: around Southland, around in those sort of conditions. those rural areas,
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Speaker 3: and I'd quite like to have a word with Mother
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Speaker 3: Nature and find out what we did to annoy her.
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Speaker 3: It seems to be one after the other, and yeah,
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Speaker 3: like you said, before the sunshine that we've got now
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Speaker 3: is certainly welcome, and I saw as soon as we
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Speaker 3: had those two or three days in a row, it
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Speaker 3: certainly lifted up everyone's spirits, and it helps a lot,
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Speaker 3: but that doesn't change the fact that there's still, not
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Speaker 3: only from that very, very, very wet spring, but also
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Speaker 3: we've still got the residual damage from a year ago
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Speaker 3: as well, so quite a lot to deal with. But
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Speaker 3: as Southlanders are, we've just got it rolling up the
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Speaker 3: sleeves and getting on with it as well.
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Speaker 1: From a council perspective, what have you had to change
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Speaker 1: in relation to these weather events? What's been different for you?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, the one challenge for us was, and it's
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Speaker 4: quite unique that it took out, well, I mean, I
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Speaker 4: guess you could say it's unique and maybe say it's
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Speaker 4: not in case of a big earthquake or something, but
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Speaker 4: it took out the whole the whole area.
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Speaker 3: In one hit. So we didn't just lose one waterfront
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Speaker 3: and one waste waterfront, we lost the whole lot. So
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Speaker 3: you've got a bit of backup with your generators and everything,
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Speaker 3: but you haven't got enough to cover the whole lot
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Speaker 3: all at once. So we've had to have a look at,
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Speaker 3: I guess, the redundancy and all of those sorts of
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Speaker 3: things and how we cope with that if that happens again.
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Speaker 3: But in saying that, the team actually did a fantastic
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Speaker 3: job in keeping everything going.
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Speaker 4: I mean, they were shifting.
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Speaker 3: generators between plants and going backwards and forwards and managed
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Speaker 3: to do quite a good job so it was a
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Speaker 3: good test of how everything works and yeah we had
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Speaker 3: a lot of people working around the clock to keep
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Speaker 3: things moving so yeah in terms of that that side
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Speaker 3: there's probably not too much to change but the emergency
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Speaker 3: management side and the communications when you lose your your
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Speaker 3: communications and that's one thing that I think we all
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Speaker 3: take for granted the phone in our pocket that always
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Speaker 3: seems to work until it doesn't. And, yeah, we have
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Speaker 3: to go back to some old-school approaches in some of
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Speaker 3: those areas, and I think we need to make sure
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Speaker 3: that we've got good redundancy there as well.
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Speaker 1: An interesting point you bring up there. I was going
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Speaker 1: to raise it, Rob. 3G is null and void. That
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Speaker 1: was the system that got south and through last October.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's an interesting one, and I'm still asking questions
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Speaker 3: around our south end towers, and, I mean, some of
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Speaker 3: those didn't last very long at all. I know our
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Speaker 3: one whatever, one serves lumps and that went down relatively
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Speaker 3: quickly and some of them didn't last long as well. So,
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Speaker 3: I mean, I know myself, I've switched over to One
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Speaker 3: New Zealand to get that satellite connection, at least having
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Speaker 3: in our communities an area that people know that they
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Speaker 3: can actually come in and get some form of connection
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Speaker 3: to connect with their people and touch base with the world.
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Speaker 1: When you're speaking to other mayors around the country, do
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Speaker 1: they share these concerns around connectivity?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they do, and it's a little bit frustrating that
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Speaker 3: we don't, I guess, learn from each other enough. When
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Speaker 3: you look at Gabriel and what happened there, we've had
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Speaker 3: enough of these events up and down the country, and
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Speaker 3: I think as a country we need to take lessons
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Speaker 3: from no matter how far away it is from where
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Speaker 3: you are and actually put in place some proactive steps
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Speaker 3: from what's happened elsewhere so that we can be more
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Speaker 3: resilient as a country.
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Speaker 1: Do you think, I won't say learnings, we'll say lessons.
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Speaker 1: I like the way you phrased that. In your view,
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Speaker 1: do you think Southland is taking on these lessons in
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Speaker 1: regard to being prepared for the next event?
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Speaker 3: I hope we are. In my mind, probably not quite
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Speaker 3: as fast enough as we should be because you don't
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Speaker 3: know when the next event's going to come and I'd
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Speaker 3: like to be as prepared as I can be, but
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Speaker 3: we are conducting, we're going through a review from emergency
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Speaker 3: management at the moment and it's going to come through
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Speaker 3: at our next meeting. So, yeah, I think this is
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Speaker 3: the most important part to look back and reflect and
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Speaker 3: learn and put in place any necessary steps that we
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Speaker 3: need to because you just never know when your next
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Speaker 3: event's going to come.
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Speaker 1: We catch you up on Wellington today. You're at an
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Speaker 1: airports conference. You're speaking to us from Te Papa. Tell me,
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Speaker 1: does Te Papa still have that barcode sheet that you share?
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Speaker 5: Any intel?
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Speaker 1: I haven't seen it.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to have a look and see. I haven't
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Speaker 3: seen it, Andy, the whole time. I'll make that my
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Speaker 3: mission when I finish talking to you to go find it.
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Speaker 1: That's the one thing I've done. I remember from Te Papa,
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Speaker 1: I went there many years ago. Airports conferences, just quickly,
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Speaker 1: what's the vibe there? How's it going?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting. Look, I think regional New Zealand is
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Speaker 3: constantly facing the challenges and we're competing with the big
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Speaker 3: cities where all the politicians seem to make all the
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Speaker 3: decisions on. And I think, yeah, showing the value of
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Speaker 3: our regional New Zealand, what it does for our economies
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Speaker 3: and from an airport point of view, that connection piece.
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Speaker 3: I'm up here for our fantastic Te Ana Manapōuri Airport,
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Speaker 3: and we're doing a lot of work around that, but
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Speaker 3: I think it just highlights the importance of regional New
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Speaker 3: Zealand and what we actually do for the economy and
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Speaker 3: I think we need to keep reminding the government that
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Speaker 3: they need us.
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Speaker 1: Thanks very much for your time Rob, go and find
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Speaker 1: that barcoded sheep. Thanks Andy. Rob Scott, Southland District Mayor,
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Speaker 1: reflecting on the springs that we've endured as well as
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Speaker 1: just on a year ago since the wind events down
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Speaker 1: here in the south. Remembering Southland Rural Support Trust 0800
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Speaker 1: 787 254 for a free confidential chat. We'll carry on,
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Speaker 1: have a few more speakers as well over the next
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Thanks to Southland Rural Support Trust. Don
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Speaker 1: Morrison's up next based at Willowbank. You're listening to The Muster.
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Speaker 1: Don Morrison farms at Willow Bank. He's a former Alliance
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Speaker 1: Board Director and we catch up once again on the muster.
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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Howie Blue Sky. It's a thing of beauty.
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Speaker 6: Kia ora, Andy. Yeah, no, it's great summer this weather
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Speaker 6: and you can rock and roll and really get some
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Speaker 6: good work done when you get a week like this,
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Speaker 6: that's for sure.
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Speaker 1: How are ground conditions out there?
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Speaker 6: Oh, no, superb, Andy, you know, and nice, fresh green covering.
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Speaker 6: Things are coming away. We've been doing the start of
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Speaker 6: the tailing, and, you know, animals are better than I
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Speaker 6: thought they might be. You know, condition of the ewes,
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Speaker 6: lambs are looking pretty good, and we've got some pretty
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Speaker 6: good paddock percentages. So, you know, that tough weather was tough,
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Speaker 6: but it was a bit depressing. But fortunately, I think
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Speaker 6: we've got away pretty lightly. You've had all that rain,
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Speaker 6: but when you get some good weeks, we're still going
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Speaker 6: to need some rain, and I see that's what we're
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Speaker 6: getting next week. We're busy, got a lot of ground
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Speaker 6: turned over, so the last of the barley went in yesterday,
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Speaker 6: and we've got another, this week we'll have all the
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Speaker 6: leafy turnip, the summer turnip sown, and we've already got
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Speaker 6: a lot of the fodder area turned over and ready,
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Speaker 6: so we've had a big week, tailings, tractor wheels turnings,
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Speaker 6: and still landing some hoggets, probably about 200 or 300
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Speaker 6: hoggets left to land, but the end's in sight on
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Speaker 6: them as well.
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Speaker 1: So even with the correction in the weather, you've managed
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Speaker 1: to get things up to speed?
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Speaker 6: Oh, I just dried up nice and quickly, Andy, which,
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Speaker 6: you know, let us turn over paddocks, and that was
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Speaker 6: the big thing we thought might have held us off. So, yeah, no,
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Speaker 6: we're pretty up to date. And then, of course, the
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Speaker 6: other thing, we've got some loggers in at the moment.
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Speaker 6: We're working on some of the damage from last year's storm, so...
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Speaker 6: So it actually feels very much like it did last
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Speaker 6: year when we were actually on top of things and
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Speaker 6: then in came that storm and made a heck of
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Speaker 6: a mess.
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Speaker 1: The anniversary is the 23rd of October, which is Friday.
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Speaker 1: It's 12 months on now. A lot of people are
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Speaker 1: still feeling the after effects. Yourself there, what are you
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Speaker 1: having to do as a result of 12 months ago?
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Speaker 6: We've still got a lot of fencing to do, Andy.
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Speaker 6: What we had to fix was the fencing on one
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Speaker 6: side of the shelter belt so that paddocks were stop-proof.
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Speaker 6: But now we've had to drop a lot of those trees.
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Speaker 6: We're milling what we can, firewooding some others. And then
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Speaker 6: we've got to re-fence on the south side that all
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Speaker 6: the trees toppled over. So that's going to be a
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Speaker 6: bit of an expense and some work. Although, you know,
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Speaker 6: we've got probably about a third of it done and
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Speaker 6: now we'll get into it these next six weeks.
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Speaker 1: Apparently, Invercargill or Southland was the windiest place on earth
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Speaker 1: that day.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it was a kind of a freezing temper to
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Speaker 6: go through. So, yeah, I can certainly remember it well, Andy.
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Speaker 1: Right, so the hoggets. It's been a topic for a
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Speaker 1: lot of people at the moment. Like I said, Harriet
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Speaker 1: Bremner yesterday, they don't lamb their hoggets. A lot of
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Speaker 1: people do put the ram out there, though, and you've
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Speaker 1: been happy with how it's been going, Howie, compared to, say,
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Speaker 1: the main flock?
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Speaker 6: Oh, ewes are easy to lamb compared with hoggets. And
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Speaker 6: the hoggets, you've still got to do a bit of work.
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Speaker 6: There's some to lamb every morning. There's a few deaths.
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Speaker 6: But what I like to look at it, Andy, is,
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Speaker 6: you know, people often... quote, the stock units they're running.
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Speaker 6: I actually prefer to look at it as quoting your
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Speaker 6: productive units. So if you're running a hogget for the
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Speaker 6: whole year and you're not producing a lamb, it's not
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Speaker 6: exactly a productive unit. So, look, I understand why a
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Speaker 6: lot of people don't. There's a cost with it, there's
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Speaker 6: extra work. But as far as we go, it's a
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Speaker 6: big part of our operation. We are, you know, about
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Speaker 6: 900 hoggets in lamb at 130%. You know, that's... That's
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Speaker 6: something where we used to be doing probably 20, 30
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Speaker 6: years ago with our ewes. So there's certainly a good
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Speaker 6: potential there.
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Speaker 1: Do you cull your dry hoggarts?
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Speaker 6: The dry hoggarts, the ones that don't know, we've made
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Speaker 6: our selection on what the replacements are going to be.
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Speaker 6: So no, they are retained. We still need those numbers.
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Speaker 6: And we accept that they're not all going to raise
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Speaker 6: a lamb. So what does, does, and that's... a big
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Speaker 6: part of our system.
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Speaker 1: Howie, a big issue at the moment with funding for
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Speaker 1: the health system. The election isn't too far away. You've
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Speaker 1: been pretty open and transparent about the way your vote's
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Speaker 1: going to be swayed. What are you seeing in the
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Speaker 1: political landscape at the moment?
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Speaker 6: Look, I hear the rhetoric that goes back between the
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Speaker 6: main parties and a lot of the minor parties is
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Speaker 6: just not positive what they're going to do. It's blame
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Speaker 6: game to the other party. We absolutely need a reset
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Speaker 6: in New Zealand because we are totally under-resourced in health
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Speaker 6: and we are totally under-resourced in education. And they're two
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Speaker 6: really crucial areas that are going to hold the country back. Look,
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Speaker 6: I was visiting a great mate in Southend Hospice over
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Speaker 6: the weekend. And, you know, they're reliant on donations and
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Speaker 6: the hospice shop and sausage sizzles for 55% of their funding.
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Speaker 6: You see the kids at Starship that aren't getting treated. So,
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Speaker 6: you know, we absolutely need a reset, and I'm firmly
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Speaker 6: in the camp of we need a tax reset, and
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Speaker 6: that's those that should be paying their fair share of
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Speaker 6: the tax need to be doing it. If you're a
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Speaker 6: wage earner, you are taxed on everything you earn, and
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Speaker 6: yet there's a lot of people in business with capital
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Speaker 6: gains that go untaxed. So my response is if you
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Speaker 6: disagree with that, hey, get over yourself because we all
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Speaker 6: need to be paying our fair share, myself included.
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Speaker 1: Because I remember we spoke to you last time and
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Speaker 1: you weren't a fan of the right as such. Opportunity,
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Speaker 1: is that the kind of party you'll go for, bearing
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Speaker 1: in mind there's a good chance they could actually go
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Speaker 1: in a right-wing coalition?
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Speaker 6: Oh, absolutely, Andy. I make no apologies for that. Look,
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Speaker 6: I've been frustrated with many things that this present coalition
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Speaker 6: government has done. Um, and a lot of that is
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Speaker 6: particularly on the treaty, you know, that's our founding document
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Speaker 6: and to be ignoring the principles of that has really
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Speaker 6: set race relations back in New Zealand, probably 20 years. Um, so,
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Speaker 6: so I was really annoyed with a lot of that,
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Speaker 6: the anti, the smoking, um, they've done some good things.
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Speaker 6: They've gotten a free trade agreement with India is probably
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Speaker 6: one of the best things as farmers that, that the
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Speaker 6: coalition's achieved. And yet you've got Winston, um, going on
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Speaker 6: about it being such a bad deal. And, and, uh,
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Speaker 6: and dishing out the whole racist rhetoric. So I'm not
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Speaker 6: a fan of this coalition government. I'm certainly not necessarily
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Speaker 6: a fan of extreme left policy either, so I'm very centrist.
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Speaker 6: And I see the Opportunity Party as being a circuit breaker,
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Speaker 6: and I think if we've got a left-wing government or
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Speaker 6: a right-wing government, gee, we need that Opportunity Party there
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Speaker 6: to give it some correction. So that's my view on it.
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Speaker 1: The fact that they've dropped some of their bottom lines, though,
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Speaker 1: are you concerned they flip-flopped?
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Speaker 6: No, because the bottom line that everyone talks about is
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Speaker 6: their citizens' income and their land value tax. And what
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Speaker 6: they've actually said is it's a discussion point because we
17:54
Speaker 6: need a tax reset in the country. And so, you know,
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Speaker 6: that wasn't a bottom line, but it's a starting point
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Speaker 6: for them. So, you know, and I support that we
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Speaker 6: need a tax reset.
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Speaker 1: Bowdoin Barrett was pretty good at the weekend.
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Speaker 6: Bowdoin Barrett was a very good ending. So, yes, humble pie.
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Speaker 6: Humble pie. Well, it's really being... eaten by me. No, no,
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Speaker 6: it was a, hey, I guess what they say is,
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Speaker 6: you know, class is timeless and form can be variable.
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Speaker 6: So he certainly showed his class. And great to see
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Speaker 6: him still got that pace when that try line opened
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Speaker 6: at the other end of the paddock.
18:31
Speaker 1: But how bad were Australia? Honestly, the game was over
18:36
Speaker 1: within 30 minutes and a few people switched off thinking, well,
18:40
Speaker 1: there's no contest now. And that's the thing, the Bledisloe
18:42
Speaker 1: used to be a contest. In the late 90s, early
18:45
Speaker 1: to mid 2000s, it could ebb and flow either way.
18:49
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was, and, you know, we need strong opposition.
18:52
Speaker 6: We need strong opposition for our, you know, domestic, the
18:55
Speaker 6: Super Rugby competition, and we need it in our internationals. So, yeah,
19:00
Speaker 6: it would be nice to see Australia a bit stronger.
19:03
Speaker 6: They'll go away from those two beatings hurting a fair bit,
19:06
Speaker 6: and I believe they will come back stronger. I think
19:08
Speaker 6: Les Kiss has actually unearthed some pretty good individual talent,
19:12
Speaker 6: but it's a matter of getting them to gel as
19:14
Speaker 6: a team.
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Speaker 1: Good on you, Hal. We'll let you get back to
19:16
Speaker 1: the tailing pen. Always good to catch up.
19:19
Speaker 6: Yeah, all good. Cheers, Andy.
19:23
Speaker 1: Don Morrison based at Willow Bank. You're listening to The
19:26
Speaker 1: Muster on Hockanui. David Frame is up next of Craig's
19:30
Speaker 1: Investment Partners.
19:35
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19:39
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19:43
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19:48
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19:52
Speaker 1: David Frame of Craig's Investment Partners joins us this afternoon.
19:55
Speaker 1: Good afternoon, David. Good afternoon, Andy. GDT result last night,
19:59
Speaker 1: back on track. Great result. Yeah, really good result.
20:03
Speaker 7: Yeah, we've got skim milk powder up 3.4%, whole milk
20:05
Speaker 7: powder up 4.4%. It's looking good.
20:10
Speaker 1: What's the rationale behind the rise last night? Just supply
20:14
Speaker 1: and demand?
20:14
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'd say it's supply and demand, proteins in demand,
20:17
Speaker 7: which is great. Great for New Zealand.
20:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's a good news story. The Kiwi dollar,
20:21
Speaker 1: what's happening there? It's getting weaker.
20:23
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's been down for a while, which does actually
20:27
Speaker 7: help the exporters. So it does help with those milk
20:30
Speaker 7: dollars coming back into the country. It helps with the
20:32
Speaker 7: sale of lambs. Unfortunately, if we go overseas, and I
20:37
Speaker 7: just went to Australia recently to visit my daughter, We
20:39
Speaker 7: don't buy much when we go overseas, or if we
20:42
Speaker 7: buy imported goods like fuel, it makes an impact.
20:46
Speaker 1: It all costs more.
20:47
Speaker 7: At the moment, the markets are reasonably nervous about the election.
20:50
Speaker 1: So not saying that.
20:53
Speaker 7: One party over the other will be better for the country,
20:55
Speaker 7: but there's some apprehension around what all these new policies
20:59
Speaker 7: might mean for our economy and whether we're a good
21:02
Speaker 7: bet to invest in.
21:03
Speaker 1: So there's a good chance our dollar could keep going lower?
21:07
Speaker 7: I think so. Even once the election rolls through and
21:10
Speaker 7: there's a coalition formed, and let's face it, that could
21:13
Speaker 7: take weeks or months in our government, then there'll still
21:17
Speaker 7: be some uncertainty as to any change in policies and
21:20
Speaker 7: how those actually affect our economy.
21:22
Speaker 1: You look at the dollar, it's not that long ago
21:24
Speaker 1: they talked about an ANZAC, like Australian New Zealand currency,
21:28
Speaker 1: being mooted. That seems like the giddy heights of only
21:31
Speaker 1: 18 months ago. Yeah, it wasn't that long ago at all.
21:34
Speaker 7: Yeah, and in reality that would never happen because if
21:39
Speaker 7: Australia's exporting minerals hand over fist and doing well, then
21:43
Speaker 7: our dollar rises and it would make it tougher for
21:45
Speaker 7: our economy to sell our lambs and milk.
21:48
Speaker 1: Oh, we were close to 90, 95 cents at one
21:50
Speaker 1: stage to an Aussie dollar. That was the giddy heights.
21:53
Speaker 7: Yeah, it wasn't that long ago and I paid 81
21:55
Speaker 7: the other day when I went to Australia.
21:57
Speaker 1: It didn't buy me a lot. A bit of Judy Free,
22:00
Speaker 1: that's about it. Judy Free doesn't really matter these days, though.
22:03
Speaker 7: No, no, it's all alcohol and cosmetics. So the first
22:09
Speaker 7: one interests me, the second not at all.
22:11
Speaker 1: Chocolate's good there. You've got the good chocolate in there,
22:13
Speaker 1: but that's a story for another day. You talked about
22:16
Speaker 1: the election and the impact it's going to have on markets.
22:18
Speaker 1: Just elaborate on that a bit more. What are we thinking?
22:21
Speaker 1: What's going to happen, especially from a southern lens? So
22:24
Speaker 1: there are two sides to it.
22:25
Speaker 7: One is, will the economy be better off if we
22:28
Speaker 7: change government or if we stick with the current government?
22:32
Speaker 7: So there's a bit of apprehension whether all these promises
22:36
Speaker 7: in the lolly jar will actually turn out to be
22:38
Speaker 7: good for the economy. And then the second one is
22:41
Speaker 7: that there are individual industries that could be impacted by
22:45
Speaker 7: the election. So, for example, Labour has said that if
22:49
Speaker 7: they get in the care workers and rest home workers,
22:52
Speaker 7: and the like, they'll get an instant $ 4 an hour increase,
22:56
Speaker 7: which is great for those workers.
22:59
Speaker 1: For that sector. What about the other ones?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, well, for that sector, it also means, will I
23:05
Speaker 7: end up paying more for my rest home bed? Because
23:08
Speaker 7: the operator still has to be able to fund all
23:10
Speaker 7: of these things. Does the government chip in? It becomes
23:13
Speaker 7: more expensive. Now, I think the health care workers are underpaid,
23:16
Speaker 7: and they're saints for what they do. But there is
23:20
Speaker 7: a flow on implication. And so if you look at
23:23
Speaker 7: the share price of the aged care facility providers, they've
23:26
Speaker 7: all taken a tumble. They're all well down.
23:29
Speaker 1: Can we afford Winston's checkbook these days?
23:33
Speaker 7: Well, to be fair, you could probably afford all of
23:36
Speaker 7: the checkbooks. It's just how they get rolled out and
23:40
Speaker 7: how the actual economy rolls with the changes.
23:44
Speaker 1: So no one's got any.
23:45
Speaker 7: Oh, I shouldn't say no one.
23:47
Speaker 1: Some have daft ideas.
23:49
Speaker 7: But in general, the main parties have good ideas if
23:52
Speaker 7: everything falls in line to meet their budgets.
23:57
Speaker 1: But when you get 65, superannuation, I think that's the
24:00
Speaker 1: more or less referring to is, can we afford that?
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Speaker 7: No, going forward, we can't. Ten years ago, the Retirement
24:06
Speaker 7: Commission said that they should push the retirement age out
24:09
Speaker 7: to 67 for anyone.
24:10
Speaker 1: Born in 1972 or later.
24:14
Speaker 7: And I was born in 72. 74 here, you're starting
24:17
Speaker 7: to get envy.
24:18
Speaker 1: It's like when the drinking age went up to 20
24:21
Speaker 1: and my niece just missed out.
24:24
Speaker 7: And so they still need to do something. That was
24:27
Speaker 7: never implemented. But the country will have a shortfall at
24:30
Speaker 7: some stage because we'll have so many retired people. So
24:34
Speaker 7: there are some hard decisions to be made there. I
24:37
Speaker 7: think some parties are for it, some are against it. Yeah,
24:42
Speaker 7: I don't think anything's going to change quickly because it's
24:44
Speaker 7: quite a hard sell for the government.
24:46
Speaker 1: Well, it is. Means testing's got to come into the equation, surely.
24:49
Speaker 7: Well, down the track it does. Compulsory KiwiSaver, later retirement
24:54
Speaker 7: age for your government superannuation, means testing. There are a
24:58
Speaker 7: number of tools they can do. They just need to
25:00
Speaker 7: give us a lot of warnings. Because I don't want
25:03
Speaker 7: to get to 64 and then find that someone pushes
25:05
Speaker 7: it out two or three years.
25:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you've paid your dues all your life. You
25:09
Speaker 1: feel like you're owed something.
25:10
Speaker 7: Yeah, and otherwise my retirement budget just goes out the window.
25:13
Speaker 7: So they need to give a lot of notice, whichever
25:15
Speaker 7: way they do it.
25:16
Speaker 1: Okay, we're over six months now from Donald Trump invading Iran.
25:20
Speaker 1: We've still got the ongoing situation with Russia and Ukraine.
25:25
Speaker 1: How's New Zealand sitting internationally at the moment? We're doing okay.
25:30
Speaker 7: Our exports are great, and I'd like to thank the
25:33
Speaker 7: Southland farmers for that because we are driving the economy.
25:35
Speaker 1: Absolutely, yeah.
25:37
Speaker 7: The flow on, though, is that fuel prices are still massive,
25:40
Speaker 7: aren't they? So we're still paying for that. That'll trickle
25:43
Speaker 7: through to your supermarket pricing. Inflation is creeping in. Interest
25:48
Speaker 7: rates are going up, but probably not to a major level.
25:52
Speaker 7: So we'll probably see one-year home loan rates sort of
25:55
Speaker 7: in the low 5s, mid 5s. So these are expected
25:59
Speaker 7: to ease off mid to late next year, but I'll
26:02
Speaker 7: add that forecasts are always wrong. So if fuel prices
26:06
Speaker 7: stay high, we could see a little bit more of
26:09
Speaker 7: this and it could put more pressure on our economy.
26:11
Speaker 1: So if you're doing interest rates at the moment, it's
26:13
Speaker 1: a case of bad timing?
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Speaker 7: Well, you're hedging your bets.
26:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, you are.
26:18
Speaker 7: We could have this discussion in a year and say, oh,
26:21
Speaker 7: it would have been best to fix a rate then. Yeah,
26:24
Speaker 7: it's a lottery to be fair.
26:26
Speaker 1: Absolutely right. Craig's investment partners, David, how do we get
26:29
Speaker 1: in touch?
26:30
Speaker 7: Just walk in the front door at 1 Erk Street.
26:32
Speaker 7: We're opposite the New World in Gore.
26:34
Speaker 1: Get your groceries and go and see you guys about
26:36
Speaker 1: a bit of investment. Makes sense, eh? Yeah, sounds great.
26:39
Speaker 1: Good on you, mate. Enjoy the day. Thank you. I
26:43
Speaker 1: put it to rest. Welcome back to the muster. It
26:57
Speaker 1: sounds like the pokies win feature, but rest assured it
26:59
Speaker 1: is the Kaiser Chiefs. I predict a riot, anything but
27:02
Speaker 1: a riot, as we catch up with Jarrod Stockman of
27:05
Speaker 1: Dairy NZ.
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Speaker 6: G'day, Jarrod.
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Speaker 5: G'day, Andy.
27:09
Speaker 1: You're out at a pass at a profit field day today,
27:12
Speaker 1: and it sounds like half a district's there.
27:14
Speaker 5: Yeah, we've got 200 farmers out. We're out at Kenny
27:19
Speaker 5: and Gaya Amtink's farm at... Rimi Siwa Downs and, like,
27:24
Speaker 5: awesome turnout, 200-plus farmers, a whole lot of farm staff.
27:29
Speaker 5: And we're out to see, you know, one of the
27:33
Speaker 5: best operators around just in terms of how Henny runs
27:37
Speaker 5: his farms. And, geez, he's turned on a great day
27:41
Speaker 5: for us.
27:43
Speaker 1: So what's he doing differently out there to negate the
27:45
Speaker 1: current situation?
27:46
Speaker 6: Hmm.
27:49
Speaker 5: Look, this will surprise you. So he's making bailiffs today.
27:52
Speaker 5: But look, Henny is very, he's got a very good herd.
27:58
Speaker 5: He's got kiwi crossbreeds doing 600 plus a cow. 83%
28:02
Speaker 5: of their diet is pasture. He's harvesting about 15.3 tonnes
28:09
Speaker 5: on his petticoat deer. His milk productions over 2000 a
28:18
Speaker 5: hectare and more importantly his operating profit is over 8800
28:23
Speaker 5: per hectare which puts him in probably the top 5%
28:29
Speaker 5: in Southland when we look at our dairy based numbers
28:32
Speaker 5: so yeah incredibly strong operator hugely focused on pasture management
28:41
Speaker 5: so targets post-grazing with the jaws of 1600 and uses
28:47
Speaker 5: the mower to make sure that that happens. But yeah,
28:51
Speaker 5: just a great operator, great family, and geez, they run
28:56
Speaker 5: a great operation. He's invested in infrastructure and drainage on
28:59
Speaker 5: the farm. He's had this farm since 2001, so what
29:02
Speaker 5: are we, kind of 25 years. He's got about 50
29:06
Speaker 5: kilometres of drainage in there. He's got a 650 car
29:09
Speaker 5: concrete feed pad. that he uses throughout the season. You know,
29:15
Speaker 5: he's just got just a really, really good setup here
29:20
Speaker 5: and really focused on, you know, pasture management and harvesting
29:25
Speaker 5: as much pasture as he can. But, look, he's not
29:28
Speaker 5: immune to the challenges that Southland, you know, currently got.
29:31
Speaker 5: So he's got, you know, some of his paddocks are
29:34
Speaker 5: pretty well pugged like everyone else but just that focus
29:38
Speaker 5: on residuals and making sure that he's not forcing cows
29:45
Speaker 5: back into clean up paddocks, that's what he's using the
29:48
Speaker 5: mower for and it's a tried and true method that
29:53
Speaker 5: he's developed over the years and it really pays dividend
29:57
Speaker 5: from a from a production as well as a proper
30:00
Speaker 5: point of view.
30:01
Speaker 1: Gerard, are people starting to contemplate wintering and composting barns
30:05
Speaker 1: as a result of these springs?
30:07
Speaker 5: Yeah, a huge uptake actually. Talking to some of the
30:09
Speaker 5: farmers this afternoon, there's a number that have been thinking
30:12
Speaker 5: about it that have really pulled the trigger on it,
30:16
Speaker 5: starting with design and things like that. We've seen that
30:19
Speaker 5: in recent field days with a number of farmers saying
30:22
Speaker 5: turning up. And look, you know, I kind of think that,
30:27
Speaker 5: you know, if you want to run a top resilient business,
30:31
Speaker 5: you know, Southland's a tough place in the spring. And,
30:35
Speaker 5: you know, a lot of farmers are really sort of saying, right,
30:38
Speaker 5: you know, we need to do something. We need to
30:40
Speaker 5: be able to, you know, make sure we can feed
30:44
Speaker 5: and carve these cows, you know, with the appropriate infrastructure
30:49
Speaker 5: and so yeah large numbers looking at uh investing in
30:52
Speaker 5: that which i think is really positive.
30:55
Speaker 1: Speaking to the pandas out there how they survived the
30:57
Speaker 1: spring yeah.
30:59
Speaker 5: Pretty good like you know just um chatting to some
31:03
Speaker 5: of the farmers this afternoon um yep there's been uh
31:07
Speaker 5: most of them have kind of moved into that yep
31:10
Speaker 5: there's been some challenges and now we just need to
31:12
Speaker 5: get on and get things done um There's, I guess,
31:16
Speaker 5: you know, farmer fatigue is something that we talk about
31:18
Speaker 5: a lot. And look, they haven't had a lot of breaks. But, yeah,
31:24
Speaker 5: I think in the most part, farmers have done very well.
31:28
Speaker 5: I think if you ask most of them, it's about, well,
31:31
Speaker 5: what can we do better next time? So, you know,
31:34
Speaker 5: farmers are really good at adapting and learning and stuff.
31:37
Speaker 5: And that's where I think, you know, off paddock infrastructure
31:40
Speaker 5: is going to play a play a key role in
31:42
Speaker 5: their farming businesses going forward.
31:44
Speaker 1: The other key thing this week is the anniversary of
31:47
Speaker 1: the winds occurs on Friday. When you think back all
31:51
Speaker 1: those weeks ago already, what's your immediate thoughts? Dare I
31:57
Speaker 1: say it?
31:59
Speaker 5: Yeah, look, I guess you can look back and laugh,
32:02
Speaker 5: but I think I think the learnings that farmers took
32:06
Speaker 5: out of that event were really positive, and a lot
32:10
Speaker 5: of farmers started to think, well, hey, if we've got
32:15
Speaker 5: an issue, we can't always rely on other people's soil
32:17
Speaker 5: for us, so a number of farmers, or most farmers,
32:21
Speaker 5: have got themselves sorted with alternative power arrangements through generators,
32:26
Speaker 5: and I think the The spring is just a tough
32:32
Speaker 5: time in Southland and South Otago and stuff. So again,
32:37
Speaker 5: people are thinking about, well, how do we mitigate some
32:39
Speaker 5: of the risks that we're facing? And look, it just
32:43
Speaker 5: makes sense. Balance sheets have never been stronger, so banks
32:47
Speaker 5: have never been more favourable in terms of access to capital.
32:50
Speaker 5: So it's a really good time to And, you know,
32:54
Speaker 5: just have a think about what are the risks in
32:56
Speaker 5: your farming operation and within your business and then start
33:00
Speaker 5: to close some of those gaps and just make it
33:03
Speaker 5: easy on yourself because it's, you know, farming's tough enough
33:06
Speaker 5: as it is without having to deal with, you know,
33:09
Speaker 5: adverse events and stuff like that. But, yeah, I think, geez,
33:13
Speaker 5: there's still a few trees that are down and haven't
33:15
Speaker 5: been chipped or dealt to.
33:17
Speaker 8: Absolutely.
33:18
Speaker 6: Yeah.
33:19
Speaker 5: That's, yeah, that's my thoughts. A bit of déjà vu.
33:22
Speaker 5: A bit of déjà vu, I think. A bit of PTSD.
33:26
Speaker 1: But a bit of good news to wrap up as well.
33:28
Speaker 1: The GDT rose overnight solid at that as well.
33:31
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah. I mean, it's really positive for this time
33:36
Speaker 5: of the year to get those wee bumps and rises
33:38
Speaker 5: and stuff. And, you know, I'm reasonably confident that, I guess,
33:43
Speaker 5: pay it wise, it's going to be a pretty solid year. And, again,
33:46
Speaker 5: I think that will be.
33:49
Speaker 5: You know, that'll be helpful for a lot of farmers
33:51
Speaker 5: as well because there's been some big feed bills in
33:55
Speaker 5: the last six or eight weeks. So, yeah, very positive.
33:58
Speaker 1: Good on you, Jared. Thanks for your time as always.
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Speaker 5: Appreciate it. Thanks, Andy.
34:06
Speaker 1: Jared Stockman of Dairy NZ. You're listening to The Muster.
34:10
Speaker 1: Beautiful afternoon here down here in the Deep South. In studio, actually,
34:14
Speaker 1: Senior Sergeant Gary Eddington of the Gore Police.
34:18
Speaker 7: This is The Muster on Hokanui.
34:20
Speaker 1: Bad Boys by Inner Circle requested by our next guest.
34:32
Speaker 1: Senior Sergeant Gary Eddington of the Gore Police. How's things?
34:35
Speaker 9: Yeah, hi Andy. It's very good and obviously the music's
34:38
Speaker 9: very appropriate.
34:40
Speaker 1: Were you a fan of that show Cops back in
34:42
Speaker 1: the day? I mean, it was before you were in
34:43
Speaker 1: the force and it was a hell of a show
34:46
Speaker 1: back in the late 80s when it first came to fruition.
34:48
Speaker 9: Yeah, it certainly changed a lot, but the reality of
34:50
Speaker 9: it is it's still ongoing and I do like watching
34:52
Speaker 9: the films and stuff, so it's good to keep in touch.
34:55
Speaker 1: Just times have changed as have hairstyles and vehicle number plates.
34:58
Speaker 1: But anyway, look, we'll carry on. From the, look, long
35:01
Speaker 1: weekend coming up, road safety. You look out here, a
35:03
Speaker 1: lot of things, you talk the obvious, you talk people
35:05
Speaker 1: being on cell phones, people just at roundabouts not using indicators.
35:09
Speaker 1: These little things just continue.
35:13
Speaker 9: Yeah, they can have little things but devastating effects, life changing,
35:16
Speaker 9: both for families and injuries. What we're just saying to
35:19
Speaker 9: people at the moment, if you've got the holiday coming
35:20
Speaker 9: up at any time for that matter, is just to
35:22
Speaker 9: drive safely, be patient. If you're tired and fatigued, pull over.
35:26
Speaker 5: Yeah.
35:27
Speaker 9: Get to your destinations and come back to your destinations.
35:31
Speaker 9: You know, the police are out on the roads. There'll
35:32
Speaker 9: be checkpoints and just making sure your car's illegal and roadworthy.
35:37
Speaker 1: How would you describe the driving habits of Gorth people
35:40
Speaker 1: in general, I suppose? Generally, that's pretty good.
35:42
Speaker 9: I mean, we do have the odd exceptions and people
35:45
Speaker 9: like to drive fast and not worry about the consequences.
35:48
Speaker 9: But what we do is, like Crime Stoppers, if you
35:50
Speaker 9: know anyone who's driving... bad driving video, keeping safe, and
35:55
Speaker 9: we'll certainly deal with them and put them before the courts.
35:58
Speaker 1: Do you notice that? Like social media, for example, people
36:01
Speaker 1: put stuff online. Does that come to the equation for
36:04
Speaker 1: you guys?
36:05
Speaker 9: I think with social media and Facebook pages, it's fine
36:09
Speaker 9: if people are talking to each other. I think it's
36:11
Speaker 9: great to have a community page. But if you don't
36:13
Speaker 9: report it to police officially, then how can we investigate
36:16
Speaker 9: what we don't know sort of thing? We can't just
36:18
Speaker 9: investigate with a comment on social media. We need to
36:20
Speaker 9: come into the police station or report it.
36:22
Speaker 1: There must be a real frustration, like trial by keyboard effectively.
36:27
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, there is the keyboard warriors out there,
36:29
Speaker 9: but I just like to, you know, I generally want
36:32
Speaker 9: to know what's going on in my community and see
36:34
Speaker 9: what we can do to impact on it. But it's
36:36
Speaker 9: not just the police, it's working together with the community.
36:38
Speaker 1: Domestic violence. But unfortunately, these events occur. You don't need
36:44
Speaker 1: me to tell you what it's all about. You'll know
36:46
Speaker 1: about the situation as good as anything. Is there any
36:48
Speaker 1: cut through, like, of your messaging? Is it getting out
36:51
Speaker 1: there into people who need to know it?
36:52
Speaker 9: I think it's been around, but what we're trying to
36:54
Speaker 9: say to people is, obviously, Christmas coming up, hot weather,
36:58
Speaker 9: people are out drinking, socialising. It happens all year round.
37:01
Speaker 9: But what we're saying to people is just have some
37:03
Speaker 9: good choices. Like, if you feel like you're going to
37:05
Speaker 9: get angry, walk away. It may sound easier said than done,
37:08
Speaker 9: but your children, if you've got children, they watch it.
37:10
Speaker 9: They hear it and they see it and it sponges.
37:13
Speaker 9: What we're trying to do is it's okay to not
37:15
Speaker 9: be okay. So if you've got bereavement, finances, speak to
37:18
Speaker 9: a family member, speak to your doctor or GP or
37:21
Speaker 9: speak to the– there's a lot of good services in Gore,
37:23
Speaker 9: very large.
37:25
Speaker 1: We're working with the Southland Rural Support Trust at the moment.
37:27
Speaker 1: Mayor Rob Scott was on earlier in the hour, Gary,
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Speaker 1: and just the messaging as well, especially for rural Southland
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Speaker 1: regarding the weather of head through spring. It's been anishorribilis
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Speaker 1: for the third time in a row, and it's just
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Speaker 1: an avenue for people to realise, like it is for
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Speaker 1: everybody in town and with the police too, that if
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Speaker 1: you need help, you actually need to get out there
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Speaker 1: and talk to people.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, and also a problem shared is a problem halved.
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Speaker 9: I know it sounds a bit cliche, but even the
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Speaker 9: rural communities are suffering. The farmers have been in some
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Speaker 9: hard yards, work, the weather's been crap. And, you know,
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Speaker 9: they still continue. And we realise there's a lot of
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Speaker 9: pressure across the board in all walks of life. So
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Speaker 9: we're just saying to people, think about your choices, think
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Speaker 9: about your decisions, and try and sort it out. You know,
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Speaker 9: just be mindful of generational sort of children and reaching out.
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Speaker 1: Burglaries, has there been an issue with your thefts with
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Speaker 1: the way the pricing's been? Have you seen a bit
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Speaker 1: of a spike?
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Speaker 9: I mean, there's always going to be people out there
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Speaker 9: that are stealing.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: We are actively looking for them, catching them. We're asking
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Speaker 9: the community if you're here with anyone or know of
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Speaker 9: anyone who's doing it. Crime Stoppers or 105, report it.
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Speaker 9: If it's urgent and happened at the time, 111. But yeah,
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Speaker 9: we want to know.
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Speaker 1: You've had some really good successes too around successful operations.
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Speaker 9: Yep, just recently we've had a couple of operations involving
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Speaker 9: drug seizures. And what we're trying to do is that's
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Speaker 9: around the community, around a lot of staff beyond the
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Speaker 9: scenes doing a lot of work.
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Speaker 1: We continue to do that.
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Speaker 9: We're looking forward now. So what we're saying to people,
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Speaker 9: if you know of someone whose drugs ruins and harms
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Speaker 9: our communities, there's support out there. Let's put a stop
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Speaker 9: to it and let them look over their shoulder and
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Speaker 9: not know what's coming for them. And if there's anything
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Speaker 9: like Crimestoppers information, just report it.
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Speaker 1: It's an avenue for people to get out there and
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Speaker 1: reach out and connect. I mean, and that's the messaging
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Speaker 1: we share whenever we catch up is it might sound
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Speaker 1: like the same old stuff, and I'll say this time
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Speaker 1: and again, Gary, it's about getting the message out there
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Speaker 1: so people can understand. there is help. Yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 9: And also, it's not just the police on their own.
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Speaker 9: It's a united approach, the community support services. We do
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Speaker 9: hear a lot, it's the police, they're not doing this,
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Speaker 9: they're not doing that. But again, if we don't know
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Speaker 9: what we don't know, and if you don't report it,
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Speaker 9: We want to know. Well, I certainly do, being responsible
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Speaker 9: for the area, and we'll investigate things.
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Speaker 1: What about people wanting to come into the police force? Like,
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Speaker 1: you recruit. You're always after people, are you?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, we are actively recruited at the moment. So there's
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Speaker 9: people out there that are interested in the police. Come
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Speaker 9: along to the station. Keep an eye out for recruitment campaigns.
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Speaker 9: We just had one recently. And a lot of people
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Speaker 9: might doubt themselves. You may have had a criminal record
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Speaker 9: when you were youth, a little bit older now. It's
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Speaker 9: a case by case. But we're saying to people, if
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Speaker 9: you look at it, it's a great job. It's a
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Speaker 9: long-term career. Come and talk to us or go on
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Speaker 9: New Cops.
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Speaker 1: Just on that, was Police Academy one of the greatest
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Speaker 1: movie franchises of all time? Yeah, but quite a little
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Speaker 1: bit different. I just thought I'd throw that on there
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Speaker 1: because I can. I'm going to throw this at you
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Speaker 1: as well. You like your football. People little know in
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Speaker 1: fact that you were an English Academy player back in
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Speaker 1: the day as well, weren't you?
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Speaker 9: When I was up to, I think, about 16, I
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Speaker 9: had trials for England in the 16s. And then I
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Speaker 9: played sort of semi-professional football for a little while. That
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Speaker 9: was my go up until 24. And then joined the
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Speaker 9: police and had to make a choice.
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Speaker 1: Manchester City, how guilty are they? Come on, you're a policeman.
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Speaker 1: You can give a bit of thought on this.
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Speaker 9: I can't say no comment, but I'm a Liverpool fan.
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Speaker 5: Righto, mate.
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Speaker 1: Good on you, Gary.
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Speaker 6: Thanks, mate.
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Speaker 7: Here we go there, and what are they going to
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Speaker 7: give for?
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Speaker 1: Stock selling action comes courtesy of PGG Rights, and Mark
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Speaker 1: Calder was on the ground once again at the Balclutha
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Speaker 1: sale yards, and he's online to give us a rundown
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Speaker 1: on prices. G'day, Mark. How do we go?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, g'day, Andy. Good things here. It was a beautiful
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Speaker 8: morning down here in Balclutha, sun on the backs, and
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Speaker 8: it was much needed for you going about, and the
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Speaker 8: stock included. Getting into the prime lambs, your big heavy
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Speaker 8: prime lambs today went really well from $ 300 to $ 350 today.
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Speaker 8: Your good mediums still selling really well at $ 250 to $ 280.
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Speaker 8: And your lighter end prime lambs still going very well
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Speaker 8: at $ 190 to $ 230. Store lambs, just a very small
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Speaker 8: fickle line in there today. A couple of lots, should
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Speaker 8: I say. They're $ 130 to $ 180 in the store department.
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Speaker 8: Into the prime ewes and big heavy prime ewes coming
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Speaker 8: through still here in Balclutha. They're going very well at
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Speaker 8: $ 290 to $ 320 for your big heavy girls. Your good
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Speaker 8: mediums going from $ 230 to $ 260. And your lottery news
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Speaker 8: has done it a bit tough there in here from
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Speaker 8: $ 70 to $ 130. And just a handful of rams in
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Speaker 8: there today from $ 100 to $ 120. That's us for a
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Speaker 8: bit of Clutha on the sheep department. Next cattle sale
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Speaker 8: here at our Clutha is going to be on the
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Speaker 8: 4th of November. So get in touch with your local
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Speaker 8: agent and it'll be great.
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Speaker 5: Cheers.