July 30, 2025 • 37 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:31):
Oh oh, what a way to start a Thursday at
the Country Harvess McKay and for Jamie McKay, Michelle straightaway,
I'm going to be talking to you and telling your
little story here. The first time I ever heard that
song High Wynd in Jamaica by Graham Brazier, was in
a station called two Excess Afirmore. It was the old
to Excess and Parmerston North early days private station, and
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I was given a tour first birthday nineteen eighty two,
sixteen years of age, and it was played for me
by a guy called John Haynes on their really flash
eight track sound system, and it just resonated so much
with me. I had to be a radio jock of
some description. I did one or two mid dawn shifts
and that was it in terms of the music career.
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But here I am all these years later, great great
key we legend song. Hey thirty first day of the
seventh month of twenty twenty five. I'm not really sure
how that has happened, but well, I suppose for the
Stallions of this world at the various hallse studs around
the country. You've only got a month to wait, boys
before you get back into action for two or three months,
So just hanging there for another month and a lambing
(01:35):
I guest started to kick in pretty much around the country.
And of course today I just on Stallions. Michelle. Remind
me later to tell you my Sir Tristram story. I
have a great Sir Tristram story. So the late great
Sir Tristram story. We want your feedback today five double
zero nine texted in five zero zero nine. Coming up
on the show today we're going to talk to Golden
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Shears Champion Tour Henderson just back from Europe, Ray Smith
to General of MPI, what's going on with them. But
first of all we're going to head off shore. This
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is the country Hartnis McKay and for Jamie McKay on
your Thursday Hap you're having a great date review are
whatever you might be doing? Great to have your company.
We're going across the Aussie across the Tasman now to
Australia correspondent Chris Russell, who's after a certain Italian last
weekend he's banned the Prosecco imports its champagne only for
the Aussies from here on in, Chris, welcome onto the show.
(02:40):
The thing I want to say to you is if
you had a knighthood over there, it would have been
a rise to Josement. Oh no, sorry, sit right back
down on your knee. Not quite there. Just about though, yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Just about.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
He's done a fantastic job. But you know, I mean, look,
I think the better side won the series. There's no
doubt the Lions was a great side and it was
a fantastic game, but we should have definitely been awarded
that game. You know, even myself, as a rugby enthusiast
and not a high technician, can read the words that
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says that any strike of the neck or the head
must be penalized with a penalty and it's real nine twenty.
I mean, there's no if but maybe or anything else.
And the idea that they arrived at the same time.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
We'll just look at the video footage. I mean, it
was just ridiculous and.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Joe Schmidt said exactly the same thing.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
So I think the.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Italian if it occurred in the first minute of the game,
it definitely would have been a penalty, but that Italian
ref too gutless to do it in the seventy ninth
minute of the game to change the score, and so therefore,
you know.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
We lost the game.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
So that's the way of rugby, and I accept that.
But it's a great pity when people just don't know
the rules well enough or don't want to know the
rules well enough.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
To give credit where it was due.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
And we should have won that game.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, should have. And I think you're right in the
line or a very fine side. But for Joe and
his players to plot out a plan to almost knock
them over then be undone by that is bloody ruthless,
to be perfectly honest. Right onto the US beef situation.
It's coming into oz.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Yeah, it is coming in and we talked about it briefly.
So the situation is now that we banned their beef
only when they couldn't prove that it was born and
bred in the US. They've been allowed to bring beef
into Australia since twenty nineteen, but they had to prove
that it didn't come from Mexico or Canada because the
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controls up there for mad countasease just are up to scratch. Well,
apparently the Scientific Committee has said they've improved those controls
now and therefore they can bring their beef into Australia.
It's a massive coincidence that had happened just at the
time when we're hanging out to negotiate about our tariffs.
But that's just the way the cookies fell, I think Camish,
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I must say, I think probably it is pretty safe.
Other point about this is that there's only been two
hundred pounds that's one hundred kilos of beef brought into
Australia in the last twenty years from America because it
just ain't competitive. And the only reason that came in
is because I think it was hungry Jacks were wanting
to proclaim that they used us beef, so they bought
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some out just to say so they weren't lying. But
you know that there's very little chance we're going to
be buying us corn fed beef in Australia.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
I think you Hamish Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Heaviest rain in many years hitting for parts of South
Australia and Western Australia and any South Wales western New
South Wales.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Yeah, well we have had a fantastic rain over the
last week. I mean to see that expression of I
said last week general rain on the weather forecast, My goodness,
what a great site that was. And there's been fantastic
rain right across South Australia. Weirdly enough, it's just absolutely
co incided with eighty nine massive road trains. That's a
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road train. Ha's got three trailers in a road in
a row, one behind the other, bringing over six thousand
big bales of haigh across from the West to try
and help the south of these farmers. But they still
need it because that grave is not going to the
instant and the other thing that's been coming across hameishues
bees because all the bees with the dry conditions just
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haven't been breeding, haven't been fed, are in trouble, and
the almond growers were saying, well, we aren't going to
get in the almonds unless we pollinate them. So they've
just sent over truckloads of I think about six hundred
bee hives from Western Australia. So the old Mulliball plane
has been covered in trucks over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, Old Mother Nature sometimes needs a bit of a
help along the array. Well thought to that. Yet, Okay,
what we've got this new South Wales parliamentarian this is
we're now convicted of sexual or so convicted, expecting up
the fourteen years on the inside where the sun doesn't
shine apparently, but are still drawing a salary.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Yeah, this is a weird sort of situation I think,
where we've got a parliamentarian who can be convicted of
major sex crimes and in this case two sectional assaults
and he's liable for up to fourteen years of jail.
The judge has now ordered that he'd be taken off
bail and actually put into clink as of last night,
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so he's in jail, but because he's going to appeal,
the law constitution doesn't allow him to have be stripped
of his position as a member of Parliament until the
appeal process has run out, and that could take a
year or two. So he could be the richest jailbird
round here Hamish because of the fact that he's getting
a full salary which is about two hundred thousand dollars
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a year while he's sitting languishing in silver.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Water Jail working.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Through his appeals process. So I think that's weird and
there's been a lot of comment about it, and in
fact there is a move to expel him from the Parliament,
which I think comes to a head next Tuesday, so
it'll be interesting to see how they handle that from
a constitutional point of view.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, biggest belief, doesn't That's a wonderful Australian corresponded Excitus
by Day, but of course joins us here on the
country there, Chris Russell from across the townsman. Thank you
very much, no worries.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
How much great to talk to here.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yes, this is the country brought to you by a brand.
Great to chat to, Chris there. You always wanted to
keep calling me Hugh for some reason, Michelle, Do I
look like a Hugh? I mean there must be some
sort of chisel jewge looking Hughes out there somewhere, But
you know, I'll stick with Hamish, I think. In the meantime, Hey,
coming up, we're going to talk to the Golden Shears
Open champion who's had a great experience five or so
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weeks over there in Europe with the New Zealand Shearing
Team tour. Henderson coming up on the show. Of course,
he was over there with Jack Fagan, and we'll talk
catch up with Toy later on. I'm going to talk
to Ray Smith, of course, Director General of MPI. Then
later later on this hour David Gary, playwright, actor, writer,
and he's Hilander these days, Donald Side or domicil in Canada,
(08:57):
Vancouver actually, but of course keeps very strong in his
hilland ties and has been touring the countries. I'm looking
to see what he thinks of ruled his Zealand in
twenty twenty five. David Gary. That's all coming up here
on the country.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I'm in the other it looks like I'm still with.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Well. One of my favorite things is, of course the
old woolshed. I wasn't much good at it, to be
perfectly honest. Eventually learned what the old man meant when
he said bottom tooth down and followed up. But anyway,
we're going to talk to our current Golden Shears Open
champion and a man who's just been the best part
of five or so weeks in Europe representing New Zealand
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on the shearing boards over there. Toy Henderson joins us
now from up north, toyl welcome back. How you feel,
but chit legs still are you.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
Yeah, but no, feeling quite good actually to be home.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, good to be home. I good to see the
family after a bit of time away.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
Yeah, getting to catch up with the kids and the
wife for a couple of days. That's been the main thing.
So yeah, it's been good to be honest.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, So first time sort of up in that respect
to Europe. With the competition, I mean you're finished on
a high, but some pretty tough competition up there.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
Yeah, it is. There's i must say, those shares in
other countries they know to get around their sheepy it's
all different types of sheep. So yeah, it was actually
a good experience going over there.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, fantastic. So which ones did you find the most
difficult of the different sheep breeds?
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Well, a lot of them really like even because the
lambs are not like our lambs, which are you know,
they all got their own breeds, So it was just
a lot was trying to get my gear going, to
be honest, that was one of my biggest biggest troubles.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I'd say, yeah, but you overcame that because you started
to really hit your straps towards the end of the
time there.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
Yeah. Yeah, well I didn't. Yeah, I slowly got onto
the swings of things, and oh to get a couple
of wins on my first trip away was quite good. Yeah,
especially being there with Jack. You know, he's he's well
experienced over there. He's done a lot of seasons over there,
so yeah, it was good.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Has it your appetite had more time up in Europe?
Speaker 7 (11:17):
Yeah? I would love to go back, especially up to Scotland.
There they lockinghead shares where they share the Blackies, that's
those cheap are something different. They've got big horns and
they're fast sharing. So I love I would love to
get back to that show if I put again.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, so I guess that's about getting in there and
winning the Golden Shares again, isn't it, and locking in
the next trip.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
Yeah, well that'll be good, ags, but we'll just have
to take it step by step. Now it's on back
home and we're still toosing our team to represent the
country next year the Golden Sea, So that's that's sort
of the main thing on my mind at the moment.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Well, we got what we've got Wilds Worlds coming up,
haven't we? Was that right? I'm just just trying to think.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
Yeah, when I was over there. English picked their team
and then the Wals got their team. The French has
got their team. So we're just waiting on who's going
to be representing our team.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I suppose how long before that's announced? When will you know?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
February?
Speaker 7 (12:14):
So we're still We've done three shows in our circuits
so far and we've got another five lefts. So yeah,
it's got a big high. Can we start back in
October or with that one again?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Okay? So and what about what about just your daily
bread and butter the shed sharing? Where where will you
be sort of over main share to use the old parlance,
where will you be when no been?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
October will be definitely up home. Yeah, that's when we're
busy up up here.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
And then usually from January onwards on in the car
chase and the shows again, so I'll usually see all
all over the place, like a couple of weeks down
south and and a bit of Danny Vig for the
Mullins steering crew. So yep, yeah, I saw of get
around January January really and then and then yeah back
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to home and April.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, yep, I'm an apperty boy born and raised. Did
you did you share the Eppity show.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
But toy Yeah, yep, yep, I've won that quite a
few times now, the good.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Good good. I was waiting to hear you say that.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah it was actually was actually my first
big open win with all the with all the with
all the top shares there. That was back in two thousand.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
I think it was so wow. Yeah, yeah, I had
my first big win.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Was up to Yeah. Now the Henderson family, are you
as you're sort of clan from up north because there's
a lot of them around the matter were too too,
you're related to them?
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Yeah, My dad's originally from from Fielding so well from
Combulton so.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Or there you go.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Yeah, his granddad you stone in the far exit the
Arpaty Show, So we're originally from down there. It's just
dad spent spent well you met my mom up here
and it's sort.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Of where we Oh, I'm joining a few dots here
then already are So that was Bryce was it was
next door to the I'm trying to think next door
to the Appity Show, the show.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Yeah, I think that that's my dad's brothers.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Right, gotcha? There you go, Well like you you're all connected.
I'm very pleased to see that, because I sort of
the Henderson's are a big and a mighty clan of
people too, down in the manner with two so that's wonderful.
I'm pleased to hear that. Well, okay to look great
to chat and can you just quickly tell me what
what were the shows like there? Because there's nothing better
than a sharing show day here in NZ. But what
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you talked about one of the Scottish shows, what are they?
Are they a bit different or they're just the same
sort of colaraderie?
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Yep, the well show there when we were doing anthems
and then I was looking out to the crowd, there
would have been a few thousand people just yelling out
the Welsh anthem.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Was there was something different for shows over there.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
They all over and.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Gets them and they just it seems like they all
just love sharing over there.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, yeah, fantastic. Now it's one of the.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Great, let's hope it happens again. All the best with
the selection for an ez Yeland team, and of course
we'll follow you through the season and keep in touch.
Door Henderson ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for
joining us.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Cheers mate, thanks for.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
This is the.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Country Hamish mckaye. And for Jamie McKai, I heard rumor
that he was on a golf course in the Bay
of Plenty yesterday. I can't reveal much more than that,
although I will say that he's probably never going to
invite me to play around of golf with him because
the last time I hit two good balls in a
row was when I stood on a rake in the bunker. Anyway,
you'll get that in about a week or two. We're
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now going to talk all things MPI and Director General
Ray Smith is in the capital. Get a Ray good, Amish,
Yeah good, thank you, good good. Right now, let's kick in. Looks,
let's up with the top of the South with the
heavy where the events have been and it's still pretty
wet their feet on the ground from MBI, what's happening.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
Yeah, Look, you get to really feel for people, you
know whose lives have been sort of up ended, particularly
those that got hit hit a couple of times by
the bad flooding. It looks like we've got through this
week without too much more damage being done, which is which.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Is a blessing.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
But look, we've had a lot of our animal welfare
teams and on farm support teams emergency staff out of
MPI on the ground are still there and they're ready
to pitch in and help people.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Where they need it.
Speaker 8 (16:31):
Importantly, we've got good about six hundred thousand dollars in
available financial support across a few key funds.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
There's five hundred.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
Thousand odd in the Mirror Relief Fund, there's one hundred
thousand joint with Threated Farmers and another one hundred thousand
joint toward colturew Zealand, just to get things moving because
we want all that sort of debris, silk, riverstones and
things out of the way so people can kind of
see their ways to making progress on their farms and orchards.
Task for screen is as well that they're in there
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and we've got the student Volunteer, your army. Of course
there's been a bit of money go their way as
well to help help them get up and going.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
So I just say to people if if you need
a hand.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
Get hold of the Rural Support Trust or ring MPI
and or you look you might you might know someone
that's that's not doing that well, or it's kind of
getting all the help that they need. Sing out to
mp I or sing out the real support trust, and
we'll make sure.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
That we're going to kind of get in behind these people.
There's a bit of money there and we can make
a difference.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
A lot of extra beds, a lot of extra mouths
to feed too, just to get this work done. But
good that they are there on the ground.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
It looks absolutely only on people are.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
Really committed to making a difference here. Everyone wants to
see people kind of return to as normal.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
As fast as possible.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
It'll take it'll take some time for some of these
places that were really heavily hit. And and look where
we can get some help out of the out of
the people from the Hooks Bay who went through it
on their orchards and their farms. We're happy to link
people up as well and just let them know what
kind of work space.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
And I think you make good to point too about
being able to see you way clear and that ability
to go. You know, somebody has been through it has
probably a good list of what to prioritize in terms
of getting back on your feet.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
One hundred percent.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
And I mean I think you know when the floods
you know, were really big in Hawk's Bay. I mean
a lot of people sort of got up and looked
at their properties and thought, I don't know where to
start and what's the most next most.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Important thing to do.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
So there'd be some good advice that can come out
about silk removal and looking after the looking after the
bines and the fruit trees so that they kind of
get the oxygen that they need and we don't lose
more than we have to. So look, if we can
link anybody up with some help, that makes a difference.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Heapy to do it.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah, right, our buy a security what's happening in the space.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Well, I think the big story last week was about
rehoming a couple of beagles.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
They want to be biosecurity dogs. He didn't quite make.
Speaker 8 (18:48):
It through the program, so we had oh yes, look
we had one hundred adoption inquiries.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Yeah, my two young boys are very keen that we that.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
We took one of these.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
So look, those beagles, they'll go to a great home.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
And it's a great story and people can get in
behind it because we've got forty one detected dog teams
across our airports and ports. And look, those dogs are
absolutely amazing. You know, they pick up things that sometimes
kind of even get picked up in the X ray.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
So look, they've also.
Speaker 8 (19:20):
Allowed us to speed up the operations of the airport
and walk on the airports just opened.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
We just opened a new arrivals area there with the
airport company.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
So the whole experience of getting out of the airport's
kind of getting better, and we've worked really hard to
speed it up. Those dogs a sort of allowed to
head through those express lanes. They'll have a quick sniff
of your luggage and they'll find anything that's in there. So, look,
anyone that's still wants to kind of register interested in
one of those one of those dogs that we just know, I'll.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Tell you what. They are the cutest things until they
start sniffing your bag and you start breaking. You unto
a sweat and figure, what God, what have I done?
Did I pick my bags? Anyway, right now, scholarship, this
is about getting the next generation of on farm advisors underway.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
Tell us about that, right, Well, we've got six on
farm support scholarships available, the worth five thousand dollars each.
And look as if you're an agriculture hood culture a
better culture student and you've done your first year of study,
then you can qualify for one of these scholarships got
until the fifteenth of September to apply, so I just
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encourage people or.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Family members to kind of get in behind that.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
It applies across a whole range of universities now about
seventeen I think, but particularly picking up Lincolnassy and our
critical ones that do a lot of agricultural training. So look,
it's just something that MPI can do to get in
behind young people that want to have a career as
an advisor in the primary sector.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Great stuff, great great initiative, and great support for those
youngsters coming through, and we need them back by into
the country, right Smith Director generally, MBI, I thank you
very much for joining us. Much appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Thanks amous.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
There you go. Thank you very much. Ray Beagles, I
want one of those beagles. I like the sound of that.
I like the sound of it that they didn't pass
their tests and they're just happy to sit at the
Emperor's feet and watch a bit of tally and go
for walks and you know, and maybe I could put
them onto the twenty one year old's bedroom just to
see if there's anything other than smelly shoes in there.
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You know, you code you can come.
Speaker 9 (21:25):
To good use or if they failed as detective dogs,
I don't know how useful that would be.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
It that true, true, true, that's very good.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
They might bring back things we don't.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Thank you for bringing sense and sensibility to this discussion.
Variety coming up next to News, Rural News and Sport
Country brought to you by Brandt Okay coming up Ruins shortly.
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But I just wanted to say something Michelle about the
rural rural discussion that we started yesterday. There's a bit
of feedback over this. I found this in one of
my notebooks from egg Proud and it was there is
no one way, but we are one. Ah. That's a
great say, that's a great no one way, but we
are won any any feedback today.
Speaker 9 (22:15):
By the way, I've just had someone text Dinnection. I'm
sure lots of people wanting to notice how they can
donate money to help with the Tasman relief. Now you
can't coll Federative Farmers which is eight hundred farming and
they will be able to help you with that. Or
I just contact your local Rural Support Trust and I'm
sure they're able to point you in the right direction
with that one as well.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Fabulous time now for rural news and a bit of sport.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
The country's world news with Could cadets New Zealand's leading
right on lawn bow of bread. Visit steel for dot
co dot Nz for your local stockgist and in rural news.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
Hamish industry government venture agri zero is hinting that New
Zealand beef may be the first agricultural sector to gain
access to tools like the new methane reducing pill for livestock,
and it could be soon. Rumin At Biotech was developing
a slow release bowlus or pill to be fed to livestock.
Recent trials on New Zealand farms resulted in a reduction
of methane emissions. It was one of Agra Zero's ten
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investments towards reducing agricultural admissions emissions not admissions emissions sorry.
Chief executive Wayne McNee sees the company was planning a
limited release for beef cattle once it was approved by
the regulator and Ruminant biotex Bolus won the Prototype category
at the Innovation Award of Field Days near Hamilton in June,
so that could be an interesting discussion. I'm sure Jamie
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will be listening to that one and have some opinions
on it for everybody tomorrow and what you got in
sports news to let me play this little sting for us.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Well, go go go Yes sport with a FCO visit
them online at FCO dot co dot.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Nz A sport with AFCO nepple having to dip into
its own cash reserves so that free to air television
will work. But it is a good discussion topic, isn't it,
because we know that free to air simply has bigger
audiences and maybe this will be good for the growth
of netword, despite the fact that it will mean that
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they're going to have to dig into the old coffers.
Now this is sad news, of course. The double gold
medalist in the Biathlan Laura Delmeyer out of Germany, has
died in a rock fall accident at five seven hundred
meters in the cut A Corum range in Pakistan. If
there is a silver lining here, Michelle, it's a beautiful story,
(24:25):
and that she had made it very clear that she
is not to be rescued, her body is not to
be bought out from any incident, and she recognized and
had this well documented and all her climbing experiences, etc.
That she was not to be removed from the mountain.
Nobody else should be put in danger. Lay me to
rest where I finish up. And I just think that that's,
(24:48):
you know, incredibly sad, but it also, you know, just
says something about that a double gold medal winning biathlete
from Germany, Laura del Meyer and finally a sported a
coll tonight. She's pretty good time of the you know,
pretty easy to watch, isn't it. The old cricket at
the moment news eve and will resume at ninety two
(25:08):
without loss, and that's in reply to Zimbabwe's one hundred
and forty nine Matt Henry taking those six wickets. So
the cricket back on tonight. There you go, that's our sport.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
And of course NBC cucks off tonight too, doesn't it Hamish,
Oh it does too.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
What we've got Whitehadow and action tonight. Yeah, the Whiteadow game. Yeah?
Speaker 9 (25:26):
Whykatto in Auckland, are you listening to all the NPC
action on Gold Sports attuned to that tonight? And I
think my favorite game is going to be a Targo
Southland on Saturday. I'm a true Blue and Gold to
Targo fan.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
So you know who's going to be do you know
who's going to be commentating that?
Speaker 9 (25:40):
Oh who's it?
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Me?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Oh? Really radio on a gold sport or iHeart radio
on to listen to me calling that that I've got
a Hawks Bay game which will please my tremain connections
on the Sunday as well. So yeah, looking forward to that.
Coming up, We're going to talk to fabulous kiw who
these days domicild in Canada, Good Northern Manawa. Two boy
(26:04):
from Rangawak here David Geary, actor, playwright, writer, all around
good guy coming up here on the country. Brought to
you by Brand Great to have your company here on
the country, right across the country. Brought to you by
(26:26):
Brand Hamers McKay in for Jamie McKay. Last week I
had the privilege on Boldy TV of a commentating the
puls and Banner game, the oldest schoolboy game in New Zealand,
the oldest competition for a particular trophy between Napyer Boys
High School and Parmerston North Boys High School, my old firm.
And of course, besides taking a bit of money off
(26:46):
a good mate Chris Tremaine, I bumped into one or
two wonderful old boys of my old school and people
I've grown up. That's one of the real treats of
getting to go back to those sorts of games. One
of them, as of course, is a renowned New Zealand playwright, writer, actor,
you name it. I don't know how far he got
(27:07):
in the sharing stakes. Actually, very good footy player, very
good footy player. Wore the white jersey of Palmerston North
Boys High School. Comes from Raungawah here in the Northern
Mandle with two David Gary, Welcome, David. How are you?
Speaker 6 (27:20):
I'm very good in terms of my sharing. I never
cracked two hundred. I did one hundred and eighty, and
so I'm still on the learners stand technically.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Still on the learner set. Well, you know what this
is remarkable now. Earlier in the show we were talking
to the great Tour Henderson, the Golden Shares Open Champion,
and I never admitted to him that my top tally
was on one hundred and seventy nine with the horns
on out at Rick Pettigrew's out the back of you towhit.
What were those things that we used to the old
with the horning things anyway, Yeah, I think there were
(27:50):
the horns yet there you go. I should remember that
you could.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Lose your family benefit with those children before you started
sharing them.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yeah, yeah, they did have a Yeah, they did have
a twenty things, didn't they? David these days of course
you of course. Well let's let's put a few names
out there. I mean, obviously related to sharing. You had that.
You're among your plays the Learners Stand. You had Lovelock
Stream run A Pack of Girls? Do you do the
Rabbit's Daughters? What was that?
Speaker 4 (28:18):
What?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Another one?
Speaker 9 (28:18):
I think?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Does that come to mind?
Speaker 6 (28:20):
That was The Rabbit has Daughter I wrote with my
friend mcrose. But yeah, A Pack of Girls is thirty
five years old. And that was when women's rugby there
was no World Cup and actually it's going to be
redone and pol.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
A little theater.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
This was so Yeah, it's amazing to see how women's
rugby like these days. You say Ruby Twey, pusha woman
Sarah her Andy. People know their household names. But there
was Fara Parma that was kind of she was captain.
And I went to the World series The Woman's Rugby
at Lincoln's Paramount of Plymouton, and I was also flatting
(28:52):
with the Iron Maidens, a woman who was in the
Matthew University Irons Maidens. They had a jersey that had
a woman's fan heading on top of a man and
it said throw us another one, this one's gone soft.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
So yeah, they were forced to.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Be reckoned with.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Oh, and of course I would lucky enough actually to
be dragged in, dragged and kicking and screaming to kick,
not not at all, to coach the Iron Maidens in
the mid nineties, and then they used to get it.
Then there was that documentary that portrayed them in a
very poor light, David, where they were carpet sucking beer
at the rugby club. I mean terrible things, but nah,
(29:28):
great stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Well where did they.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Learn that from?
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Hamous?
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Where all that?
Speaker 6 (29:33):
And they took all the rugby men's rugby songs turned
them into women's rugby songs.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
I loved them.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
They were like an Amazon tribe to hang out with.
But you did not laugh like I made the mistake
of laughing, which said I played women's rugby and I went,
oh yeah, And then she said, oh yeah, well I'll
tell you what. We played against the Matthew teams of boys,
and they were doing all sorts of stupid things, touching
us where they shouldn't. So we just decided to kick
some heads in and then.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
We got some respect.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Yeah, and as we see in all women's rugby today.
You know, I kind of like it because it's a
little bit old school, because there's a little bit more
room and a little bit more space to do things
with the ball. But anyway, look, I just say, you
grew up in Ranguahir, up there, up among the cool,
clean air beneath the ruh Any Rangers. I mean, do
(30:20):
you look back on that? How much did that influence
everything you've done, David, that kind of idyllic, beautiful part
of the world, and growing up there, Oh it.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
It influences me to this day. As I think I
told you, I was actually up up at the golf
course finishing this year's having its ninetieth birthday Dennis for
Kenzie's beautiful golf course. I grew up My father was
a sharer and a senser, so we would go all around,
ringing and epiity. And I guess the big thing is
just how much change I've noticed. Like our school, the
(30:52):
Ranguahir School had sixty kids, three classrooms. It no longer exists, right,
So and a lot of those farms got amalgamated, so
what was one farmer is now three farms and people.
You know, there was always erosion, but now people have
gone back to forestry to run off for daria cows. Like,
there's just not the same kind of community, I guess.
(31:14):
But I say that and look where I live. I
live in Vancouver in Canada, so I didn't stick around
to be a farmer either, right, So you're not a farmer,
So you know, we all had more opportunities, I think,
to go overseas and do other things.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I guess. Do you just tell us briefly what you
do in Canada these days? What is your role up there?
Speaker 6 (31:34):
I teach at Capilana University and Vancouver, teaching the Indigenous
film program, but also documentary theater, some communications. They have
a big reconciliation program over there, so I teach them
that and I'm actually shout out to everybody out there.
I'm actually organizing a field school of Indigenous students to
(31:54):
come to Oroor, New Zealands and trying to join up
the different groups, show them around. We Actually I just
was lucky to have be help with the hosting of
why Aim out of High school raised three hundred thousand
dollars and they got to a pow wow. They took
their Kappa Hucker group with this amazing woman, Nicole Hawkins,
(32:18):
and they came over with their group. It was amazing.
So I suddenly, oh, yeah, I remember how important those
field schools are. The young people like we went on
and that was kind of but not everyone wants to
do sport trips, so those cultural exchange trips. That's what
I'm That's part of what I'm doing here right all.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
David, absolutely fantastic to talk to you, and great that
you've been back in the country. You're still that heart
a farm boy, you know. Wonderful family. The Geary's from
Rangawahia always great to chat to to. David Geary based
up in Vancouver these days, and of course a fabulous playwright.
I'm just so pleased to hear A Pack of Girls
is still continuing on. David mentioned sixty kids at Rungewahia
(33:01):
Primary School back in the seventies. It was one hundred
and forty I think at one hundred and twenty at
Combolton and one hundred and twenty of us at Appity
Primary School under Ivan George so that's about three hundred
and a very small kind of area if you like.
Farming wise, so different days. A great to chat there
to David Gary, New Zealand play right. He's been back
(33:24):
in the country visiting his mum. Great to see him.
This is the country back shortly star but the old
Graham Brazier high Wind in Jamaica. To end of the show,
(33:46):
this as we started the country today. More to you
buy a brand Hamish McCafe for four days this week back.
Jamie's back tomorrow but no doubt it'll be popping in again.
It's various times. Been great to be here. Just remember
and that was awesome talking to David Gary. By the way,
New Zealand play right these days and what he does
is up in Vancouver. And but as I said, it's
(34:07):
still a wring of hair boy hat Heart and the
rabbit his daughter. The learners stand a pack of girls. Fantastic. Hey,
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must be just you know, coming towards the end of
the show here, but I think Michelle, we should have
(35:33):
a little bit of a debrief of of our four
days together. Are you going to miss me? You ask
me to welcome back the Mackay would be funny spelling
with open arms.
Speaker 9 (35:43):
I'll welcome back Jamie, but but I wish miss you.
I've had a great time this last four days with
you and I just want to say we had some
great feedback here. I've got congratulations Hamish, really enjoying your shows.
David Geary must be brother.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Of Ross years. Ross is a farmer and a hell
of a nice guy to your lovely family. The Gary's
dad Bill, one of the toughest men. My dad used
to shake when you tell me stories about Bill, Gary
farmer and of course Shearer and fencer. Yeah you go,
oh that's great, that's nice to get there. Well, I
think you know, like I thoroughly enjoyed chatting to Tour
(36:17):
Henderson today, thirty five years alad he wins the Gold
and Shares Open title. He's really honest about his experiences
and the difficulties and getting used to sharing up in Europe.
And you know, I truly do hope he makes the
New Zealand team for the World Championship next year. But
you know, Rebecca agrees. Of course. We talked to Becks
from Polario Farmer during the week. It was good to
(36:38):
chat to her, and of course she's basking in the
glory of those those lambs that went off farm from
her and Richard's place there at polar at two hundred
dollars and four cents. I love it. I love it.
And of course they've got that the Top team happening
down there where. They seem to have a lot of
fun as well amongst the guests as we've had this week,
(37:00):
really really enjoyable week. Yeah. Gee, and Chris Russell earlier today. Gee,
he's alive. Why isn't he? Okay? This has been The
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Speaker 2 (00:31):
Oh oh, what a way to start a Thursday at
the Country Harvess McKay and for Jamie McKay, Michelle straightaway,
I'm going to be talking to you and telling your
little story here. The first time I ever heard that
song High Wynd in Jamaica by Graham Brazier, was in
a station called two Excess Afirmore. It was the old
to Excess and Parmerston North early days private station, and
(00:53):
I was given a tour first birthday nineteen eighty two,
sixteen years of age, and it was played for me
by a guy called John Haynes on their really flash
eight track sound system, and it just resonated so much
with me. I had to be a radio jock of
some description. I did one or two mid dawn shifts
and that was it in terms of the music career.
(01:13):
But here I am all these years later, great great
key we legend song. Hey thirty first day of the
seventh month of twenty twenty five. I'm not really sure
how that has happened, but well, I suppose for the
Stallions of this world at the various hallse studs around
the country. You've only got a month to wait, boys
before you get back into action for two or three months,
So just hanging there for another month and a lambing
(01:35):
I guest started to kick in pretty much around the country.
And of course today I just on Stallions. Michelle. Remind
me later to tell you my Sir Tristram story. I
have a great Sir Tristram story. So the late great
Sir Tristram story. We want your feedback today five double
zero nine texted in five zero zero nine. Coming up
on the show today we're going to talk to Golden
(01:56):
Shears Champion Tour Henderson just back from Europe, Ray Smith
to General of MPI, what's going on with them. But
first of all we're going to head off shore. This
(02:16):
is the country Hartnis McKay and for Jamie McKay on
your Thursday Hap you're having a great date review are
whatever you might be doing? Great to have your company.
We're going across the Aussie across the Tasman now to
Australia correspondent Chris Russell, who's after a certain Italian last
weekend he's banned the Prosecco imports its champagne only for
the Aussies from here on in, Chris, welcome onto the show.
(02:40):
The thing I want to say to you is if
you had a knighthood over there, it would have been
a rise to Josement. Oh no, sorry, sit right back
down on your knee. Not quite there. Just about though, yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Just about.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
He's done a fantastic job. But you know, I mean, look,
I think the better side won the series. There's no
doubt the Lions was a great side and it was
a fantastic game, but we should have definitely been awarded
that game. You know, even myself, as a rugby enthusiast
and not a high technician, can read the words that
(03:11):
says that any strike of the neck or the head
must be penalized with a penalty and it's real nine twenty.
I mean, there's no if but maybe or anything else.
And the idea that they arrived at the same time.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
We'll just look at the video footage. I mean, it
was just ridiculous and.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Joe Schmidt said exactly the same thing.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
So I think the.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Italian if it occurred in the first minute of the game,
it definitely would have been a penalty, but that Italian
ref too gutless to do it in the seventy ninth
minute of the game to change the score, and so therefore,
you know.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
We lost the game.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
So that's the way of rugby, and I accept that.
But it's a great pity when people just don't know
the rules well enough or don't want to know the
rules well enough.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
To give credit where it was due.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
And we should have won that game.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, should have. And I think you're right in the
line or a very fine side. But for Joe and
his players to plot out a plan to almost knock
them over then be undone by that is bloody ruthless,
to be perfectly honest. Right onto the US beef situation.
It's coming into oz.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Yeah, it is coming in and we talked about it briefly.
So the situation is now that we banned their beef
only when they couldn't prove that it was born and
bred in the US. They've been allowed to bring beef
into Australia since twenty nineteen, but they had to prove
that it didn't come from Mexico or Canada because the
(04:35):
controls up there for mad countasease just are up to scratch. Well,
apparently the Scientific Committee has said they've improved those controls
now and therefore they can bring their beef into Australia.
It's a massive coincidence that had happened just at the
time when we're hanging out to negotiate about our tariffs.
But that's just the way the cookies fell, I think Camish,
(04:56):
I must say, I think probably it is pretty safe.
Other point about this is that there's only been two
hundred pounds that's one hundred kilos of beef brought into
Australia in the last twenty years from America because it
just ain't competitive. And the only reason that came in
is because I think it was hungry Jacks were wanting
to proclaim that they used us beef, so they bought
(05:17):
some out just to say so they weren't lying. But
you know that there's very little chance we're going to
be buying us corn fed beef in Australia.
Speaker 6 (05:25):
I think you Hamish Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Heaviest rain in many years hitting for parts of South
Australia and Western Australia and any South Wales western New
South Wales.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Yeah, well we have had a fantastic rain over the
last week. I mean to see that expression of I
said last week general rain on the weather forecast, My goodness,
what a great site that was. And there's been fantastic
rain right across South Australia. Weirdly enough, it's just absolutely
co incided with eighty nine massive road trains. That's a
(05:58):
road train. Ha's got three trailers in a road in
a row, one behind the other, bringing over six thousand
big bales of haigh across from the West to try
and help the south of these farmers. But they still
need it because that grave is not going to the
instant and the other thing that's been coming across hameishues
bees because all the bees with the dry conditions just
(06:18):
haven't been breeding, haven't been fed, are in trouble, and
the almond growers were saying, well, we aren't going to
get in the almonds unless we pollinate them. So they've
just sent over truckloads of I think about six hundred
bee hives from Western Australia. So the old Mulliball plane
has been covered in trucks over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, Old Mother Nature sometimes needs a bit of a
help along the array. Well thought to that. Yet, Okay,
what we've got this new South Wales parliamentarian this is
we're now convicted of sexual or so convicted, expecting up
the fourteen years on the inside where the sun doesn't
shine apparently, but are still drawing a salary.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Yeah, this is a weird sort of situation I think,
where we've got a parliamentarian who can be convicted of
major sex crimes and in this case two sectional assaults
and he's liable for up to fourteen years of jail.
The judge has now ordered that he'd be taken off
bail and actually put into clink as of last night,
(07:18):
so he's in jail, but because he's going to appeal,
the law constitution doesn't allow him to have be stripped
of his position as a member of Parliament until the
appeal process has run out, and that could take a
year or two. So he could be the richest jailbird
round here Hamish because of the fact that he's getting
a full salary which is about two hundred thousand dollars
(07:39):
a year while he's sitting languishing in silver.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Water Jail working.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Through his appeals process. So I think that's weird and
there's been a lot of comment about it, and in
fact there is a move to expel him from the Parliament,
which I think comes to a head next Tuesday, so
it'll be interesting to see how they handle that from
a constitutional point of view.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, biggest belief, doesn't That's a wonderful Australian corresponded Excitus
by Day, but of course joins us here on the
country there, Chris Russell from across the townsman. Thank you
very much, no worries.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
How much great to talk to here.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yes, this is the country brought to you by a brand.
Great to chat to, Chris there. You always wanted to
keep calling me Hugh for some reason, Michelle, Do I
look like a Hugh? I mean there must be some
sort of chisel jewge looking Hughes out there somewhere, But
you know, I'll stick with Hamish, I think. In the meantime, Hey,
coming up, we're going to talk to the Golden Shears
Open champion who's had a great experience five or so
(08:33):
weeks over there in Europe with the New Zealand Shearing
Team tour. Henderson coming up on the show. Of course,
he was over there with Jack Fagan, and we'll talk
catch up with Toy later on. I'm going to talk
to Ray Smith, of course, Director General of MPI. Then
later later on this hour David Gary, playwright, actor, writer,
and he's Hilander these days, Donald Side or domicil in Canada,
(08:57):
Vancouver actually, but of course keeps very strong in his
hilland ties and has been touring the countries. I'm looking
to see what he thinks of ruled his Zealand in
twenty twenty five. David Gary. That's all coming up here
on the country.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I'm in the other it looks like I'm still with.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Well. One of my favorite things is, of course the
old woolshed. I wasn't much good at it, to be
perfectly honest. Eventually learned what the old man meant when
he said bottom tooth down and followed up. But anyway,
we're going to talk to our current Golden Shears Open
champion and a man who's just been the best part
of five or so weeks in Europe representing New Zealand
(09:43):
on the shearing boards over there. Toy Henderson joins us
now from up north, toyl welcome back. How you feel,
but chit legs still are you.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
Yeah, but no, feeling quite good actually to be home.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, good to be home. I good to see the
family after a bit of time away.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
Yeah, getting to catch up with the kids and the
wife for a couple of days. That's been the main thing.
So yeah, it's been good to be honest.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, So first time sort of up in that respect
to Europe. With the competition, I mean you're finished on
a high, but some pretty tough competition up there.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
Yeah, it is. There's i must say, those shares in
other countries they know to get around their sheepy it's
all different types of sheep. So yeah, it was actually
a good experience going over there.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, fantastic. So which ones did you find the most
difficult of the different sheep breeds?
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Well, a lot of them really like even because the
lambs are not like our lambs, which are you know,
they all got their own breeds, So it was just
a lot was trying to get my gear going, to
be honest, that was one of my biggest biggest troubles.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I'd say, yeah, but you overcame that because you started
to really hit your straps towards the end of the
time there.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
Yeah. Yeah, well I didn't. Yeah, I slowly got onto
the swings of things, and oh to get a couple
of wins on my first trip away was quite good. Yeah,
especially being there with Jack. You know, he's he's well
experienced over there. He's done a lot of seasons over there,
so yeah, it was good.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Has it your appetite had more time up in Europe?
Speaker 7 (11:17):
Yeah? I would love to go back, especially up to Scotland.
There they lockinghead shares where they share the Blackies, that's
those cheap are something different. They've got big horns and
they're fast sharing. So I love I would love to
get back to that show if I put again.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, so I guess that's about getting in there and
winning the Golden Shares again, isn't it, and locking in
the next trip.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
Yeah, well that'll be good, ags, but we'll just have
to take it step by step. Now it's on back
home and we're still toosing our team to represent the
country next year the Golden Sea, So that's that's sort
of the main thing on my mind at the moment.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Well, we got what we've got Wilds Worlds coming up,
haven't we? Was that right? I'm just just trying to think.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
Yeah, when I was over there. English picked their team
and then the Wals got their team. The French has
got their team. So we're just waiting on who's going
to be representing our team.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I suppose how long before that's announced? When will you know?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
February?
Speaker 7 (12:14):
So we're still We've done three shows in our circuits
so far and we've got another five lefts. So yeah,
it's got a big high. Can we start back in
October or with that one again?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Okay? So and what about what about just your daily
bread and butter the shed sharing? Where where will you
be sort of over main share to use the old parlance,
where will you be when no been?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
October will be definitely up home. Yeah, that's when we're
busy up up here.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
And then usually from January onwards on in the car
chase and the shows again, so I'll usually see all
all over the place, like a couple of weeks down
south and and a bit of Danny Vig for the
Mullins steering crew. So yep, yeah, I saw of get
around January January really and then and then yeah back
(13:04):
to home and April.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, yep, I'm an apperty boy born and raised. Did
you did you share the Eppity show.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
But toy Yeah, yep, yep, I've won that quite a
few times now, the good.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Good good. I was waiting to hear you say that.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah it was actually was actually my first
big open win with all the with all the with
all the top shares there. That was back in two thousand.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
I think it was so wow. Yeah, yeah, I had
my first big win.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Was up to Yeah. Now the Henderson family, are you
as you're sort of clan from up north because there's
a lot of them around the matter were too too,
you're related to them?
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Yeah, My dad's originally from from Fielding so well from
Combulton so.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Or there you go.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Yeah, his granddad you stone in the far exit the
Arpaty Show, So we're originally from down there. It's just
dad spent spent well you met my mom up here
and it's sort.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Of where we Oh, I'm joining a few dots here
then already are So that was Bryce was it was
next door to the I'm trying to think next door
to the Appity Show, the show.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Yeah, I think that that's my dad's brothers.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Right, gotcha? There you go, Well like you you're all connected.
I'm very pleased to see that, because I sort of
the Henderson's are a big and a mighty clan of
people too, down in the manner with two so that's wonderful.
I'm pleased to hear that. Well, okay to look great
to chat and can you just quickly tell me what
what were the shows like there? Because there's nothing better
than a sharing show day here in NZ. But what
(14:40):
you talked about one of the Scottish shows, what are they?
Are they a bit different or they're just the same
sort of colaraderie?
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Yep, the well show there when we were doing anthems
and then I was looking out to the crowd, there
would have been a few thousand people just yelling out
the Welsh anthem.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Was there was something different for shows over there.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
They all over and.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Gets them and they just it seems like they all
just love sharing over there.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, yeah, fantastic. Now it's one of the.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Great, let's hope it happens again. All the best with
the selection for an ez Yeland team, and of course
we'll follow you through the season and keep in touch.
Door Henderson ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for
joining us.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Cheers mate, thanks for.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
This is the.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Country Hamish mckaye. And for Jamie McKai, I heard rumor
that he was on a golf course in the Bay
of Plenty yesterday. I can't reveal much more than that,
although I will say that he's probably never going to
invite me to play around of golf with him because
the last time I hit two good balls in a
row was when I stood on a rake in the bunker. Anyway,
you'll get that in about a week or two. We're
(15:50):
now going to talk all things MPI and Director General
Ray Smith is in the capital. Get a Ray good, Amish,
Yeah good, thank you, good good. Right now, let's kick in. Looks,
let's up with the top of the South with the
heavy where the events have been and it's still pretty
wet their feet on the ground from MBI, what's happening.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
Yeah, Look, you get to really feel for people, you
know whose lives have been sort of up ended, particularly
those that got hit hit a couple of times by
the bad flooding. It looks like we've got through this
week without too much more damage being done, which is which.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Is a blessing.
Speaker 8 (16:21):
But look, we've had a lot of our animal welfare
teams and on farm support teams emergency staff out of
MPI on the ground are still there and they're ready
to pitch in and help people.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Where they need it.
Speaker 8 (16:31):
Importantly, we've got good about six hundred thousand dollars in
available financial support across a few key funds.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
There's five hundred.
Speaker 8 (16:39):
Thousand odd in the Mirror Relief Fund, there's one hundred
thousand joint with Threated Farmers and another one hundred thousand
joint toward colturew Zealand, just to get things moving because
we want all that sort of debris, silk, riverstones and
things out of the way so people can kind of
see their ways to making progress on their farms and orchards.
Task for screen is as well that they're in there
(17:02):
and we've got the student Volunteer, your army. Of course
there's been a bit of money go their way as
well to help help them get up and going.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
So I just say to people if if you need
a hand.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
Get hold of the Rural Support Trust or ring MPI
and or you look you might you might know someone
that's that's not doing that well, or it's kind of
getting all the help that they need. Sing out to
mp I or sing out the real support trust, and
we'll make sure.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
That we're going to kind of get in behind these people.
There's a bit of money there and we can make
a difference.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
A lot of extra beds, a lot of extra mouths
to feed too, just to get this work done. But
good that they are there on the ground.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
It looks absolutely only on people are.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
Really committed to making a difference here. Everyone wants to
see people kind of return to as normal.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
As fast as possible.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
It'll take it'll take some time for some of these
places that were really heavily hit. And and look where
we can get some help out of the out of
the people from the Hooks Bay who went through it
on their orchards and their farms. We're happy to link
people up as well and just let them know what
kind of work space.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
And I think you make good to point too about
being able to see you way clear and that ability
to go. You know, somebody has been through it has
probably a good list of what to prioritize in terms
of getting back on your feet.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
One hundred percent.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
And I mean I think you know when the floods
you know, were really big in Hawk's Bay. I mean
a lot of people sort of got up and looked
at their properties and thought, I don't know where to
start and what's the most next most.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Important thing to do.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
So there'd be some good advice that can come out
about silk removal and looking after the looking after the
bines and the fruit trees so that they kind of
get the oxygen that they need and we don't lose
more than we have to. So look, if we can
link anybody up with some help, that makes a difference.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Heapy to do it.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah, right, our buy a security what's happening in the space.
Speaker 8 (18:40):
Well, I think the big story last week was about
rehoming a couple of beagles.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
They want to be biosecurity dogs. He didn't quite make.
Speaker 8 (18:48):
It through the program, so we had oh yes, look
we had one hundred adoption inquiries.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Yeah, my two young boys are very keen that we that.
Speaker 8 (19:00):
We took one of these.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
So look, those beagles, they'll go to a great home.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
And it's a great story and people can get in
behind it because we've got forty one detected dog teams
across our airports and ports. And look, those dogs are
absolutely amazing. You know, they pick up things that sometimes
kind of even get picked up in the X ray.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
So look, they've also.
Speaker 8 (19:20):
Allowed us to speed up the operations of the airport
and walk on the airports just opened.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
We just opened a new arrivals area there with the
airport company.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
So the whole experience of getting out of the airport's
kind of getting better, and we've worked really hard to
speed it up. Those dogs a sort of allowed to
head through those express lanes. They'll have a quick sniff
of your luggage and they'll find anything that's in there. So, look,
anyone that's still wants to kind of register interested in
one of those one of those dogs that we just know, I'll.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Tell you what. They are the cutest things until they
start sniffing your bag and you start breaking. You unto
a sweat and figure, what God, what have I done?
Did I pick my bags? Anyway, right now, scholarship, this
is about getting the next generation of on farm advisors underway.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
Tell us about that, right, Well, we've got six on
farm support scholarships available, the worth five thousand dollars each.
And look as if you're an agriculture hood culture a
better culture student and you've done your first year of study,
then you can qualify for one of these scholarships got
until the fifteenth of September to apply, so I just
(20:26):
encourage people or.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Family members to kind of get in behind that.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
It applies across a whole range of universities now about
seventeen I think, but particularly picking up Lincolnassy and our
critical ones that do a lot of agricultural training. So look,
it's just something that MPI can do to get in
behind young people that want to have a career as
an advisor in the primary sector.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Great stuff, great great initiative, and great support for those
youngsters coming through, and we need them back by into
the country, right Smith Director generally, MBI, I thank you
very much for joining us. Much appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Thanks amous.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
There you go. Thank you very much. Ray Beagles, I
want one of those beagles. I like the sound of that.
I like the sound of it that they didn't pass
their tests and they're just happy to sit at the
Emperor's feet and watch a bit of tally and go
for walks and you know, and maybe I could put
them onto the twenty one year old's bedroom just to
see if there's anything other than smelly shoes in there.
(21:23):
You know, you code you can come.
Speaker 9 (21:25):
To good use or if they failed as detective dogs,
I don't know how useful that would be.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
It that true, true, true, that's very good.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
They might bring back things we don't.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Thank you for bringing sense and sensibility to this discussion.
Variety coming up next to News, Rural News and Sport
Country brought to you by Brandt Okay coming up Ruins shortly.
(21:56):
But I just wanted to say something Michelle about the
rural rural discussion that we started yesterday. There's a bit
of feedback over this. I found this in one of
my notebooks from egg Proud and it was there is
no one way, but we are one. Ah. That's a
great say, that's a great no one way, but we
are won any any feedback today.
Speaker 9 (22:15):
By the way, I've just had someone text Dinnection. I'm
sure lots of people wanting to notice how they can
donate money to help with the Tasman relief. Now you
can't coll Federative Farmers which is eight hundred farming and
they will be able to help you with that. Or
I just contact your local Rural Support Trust and I'm
sure they're able to point you in the right direction
with that one as well.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Fabulous time now for rural news and a bit of sport.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
The country's world news with Could cadets New Zealand's leading
right on lawn bow of bread. Visit steel for dot
co dot Nz for your local stockgist and in rural news.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
Hamish industry government venture agri zero is hinting that New
Zealand beef may be the first agricultural sector to gain
access to tools like the new methane reducing pill for livestock,
and it could be soon. Rumin At Biotech was developing
a slow release bowlus or pill to be fed to livestock.
Recent trials on New Zealand farms resulted in a reduction
of methane emissions. It was one of Agra Zero's ten
(23:08):
investments towards reducing agricultural admissions emissions not admissions emissions sorry.
Chief executive Wayne McNee sees the company was planning a
limited release for beef cattle once it was approved by
the regulator and Ruminant biotex Bolus won the Prototype category
at the Innovation Award of Field Days near Hamilton in June,
so that could be an interesting discussion. I'm sure Jamie
(23:29):
will be listening to that one and have some opinions
on it for everybody tomorrow and what you got in
sports news to let me play this little sting for us.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Well, go go go Yes sport with a FCO visit
them online at FCO dot co dot.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Nz A sport with AFCO nepple having to dip into
its own cash reserves so that free to air television
will work. But it is a good discussion topic, isn't it,
because we know that free to air simply has bigger
audiences and maybe this will be good for the growth
of netword, despite the fact that it will mean that
(24:04):
they're going to have to dig into the old coffers.
Now this is sad news, of course. The double gold
medalist in the Biathlan Laura Delmeyer out of Germany, has
died in a rock fall accident at five seven hundred
meters in the cut A Corum range in Pakistan. If
there is a silver lining here, Michelle, it's a beautiful story,
(24:25):
and that she had made it very clear that she
is not to be rescued, her body is not to
be bought out from any incident, and she recognized and
had this well documented and all her climbing experiences, etc.
That she was not to be removed from the mountain.
Nobody else should be put in danger. Lay me to
rest where I finish up. And I just think that that's,
(24:48):
you know, incredibly sad, but it also, you know, just
says something about that a double gold medal winning biathlete
from Germany, Laura del Meyer and finally a sported a
coll tonight. She's pretty good time of the you know,
pretty easy to watch, isn't it. The old cricket at
the moment news eve and will resume at ninety two
(25:08):
without loss, and that's in reply to Zimbabwe's one hundred
and forty nine Matt Henry taking those six wickets. So
the cricket back on tonight. There you go, that's our sport.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
And of course NBC cucks off tonight too, doesn't it Hamish,
Oh it does too.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
What we've got Whitehadow and action tonight. Yeah, the Whiteadow game. Yeah?
Speaker 9 (25:26):
Whykatto in Auckland, are you listening to all the NPC
action on Gold Sports attuned to that tonight? And I
think my favorite game is going to be a Targo
Southland on Saturday. I'm a true Blue and Gold to
Targo fan.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
So you know who's going to be do you know
who's going to be commentating that?
Speaker 9 (25:40):
Oh who's it?
Speaker 7 (25:42):
Me?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Oh? Really radio on a gold sport or iHeart radio
on to listen to me calling that that I've got
a Hawks Bay game which will please my tremain connections
on the Sunday as well. So yeah, looking forward to that.
Coming up, We're going to talk to fabulous kiw who
these days domicild in Canada, Good Northern Manawa. Two boy
(26:04):
from Rangawak here David Geary, actor, playwright, writer, all around
good guy coming up here on the country. Brought to
you by Brand Great to have your company here on
the country, right across the country. Brought to you by
(26:26):
Brand Hamers McKay in for Jamie McKay. Last week I
had the privilege on Boldy TV of a commentating the
puls and Banner game, the oldest schoolboy game in New Zealand,
the oldest competition for a particular trophy between Napyer Boys
High School and Parmerston North Boys High School, my old firm.
And of course, besides taking a bit of money off
(26:46):
a good mate Chris Tremaine, I bumped into one or
two wonderful old boys of my old school and people
I've grown up. That's one of the real treats of
getting to go back to those sorts of games. One
of them, as of course, is a renowned New Zealand playwright, writer, actor,
you name it. I don't know how far he got
(27:07):
in the sharing stakes. Actually, very good footy player, very
good footy player. Wore the white jersey of Palmerston North
Boys High School. Comes from Raungawah here in the Northern
Mandle with two David Gary, Welcome, David. How are you?
Speaker 6 (27:20):
I'm very good in terms of my sharing. I never
cracked two hundred. I did one hundred and eighty, and
so I'm still on the learners stand technically.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Still on the learner set. Well, you know what this
is remarkable now. Earlier in the show we were talking
to the great Tour Henderson, the Golden Shares Open Champion,
and I never admitted to him that my top tally
was on one hundred and seventy nine with the horns
on out at Rick Pettigrew's out the back of you towhit.
What were those things that we used to the old
with the horning things anyway, Yeah, I think there were
(27:50):
the horns yet there you go. I should remember that
you could.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Lose your family benefit with those children before you started
sharing them.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Yeah, yeah, they did have a Yeah, they did have
a twenty things, didn't they? David these days of course
you of course. Well let's let's put a few names
out there. I mean, obviously related to sharing. You had that.
You're among your plays the Learners Stand. You had Lovelock
Stream run A Pack of Girls? Do you do the
Rabbit's Daughters? What was that?
Speaker 4 (28:18):
What?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Another one?
Speaker 9 (28:18):
I think?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Does that come to mind?
Speaker 6 (28:20):
That was The Rabbit has Daughter I wrote with my
friend mcrose. But yeah, A Pack of Girls is thirty
five years old. And that was when women's rugby there
was no World Cup and actually it's going to be
redone and pol.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
A little theater.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
This was so Yeah, it's amazing to see how women's
rugby like these days. You say Ruby Twey, pusha woman
Sarah her Andy. People know their household names. But there
was Fara Parma that was kind of she was captain.
And I went to the World series The Woman's Rugby
at Lincoln's Paramount of Plymouton, and I was also flatting
(28:52):
with the Iron Maidens, a woman who was in the
Matthew University Irons Maidens. They had a jersey that had
a woman's fan heading on top of a man and
it said throw us another one, this one's gone soft.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
So yeah, they were forced to.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Be reckoned with.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Oh, and of course I would lucky enough actually to
be dragged in, dragged and kicking and screaming to kick,
not not at all, to coach the Iron Maidens in
the mid nineties, and then they used to get it.
Then there was that documentary that portrayed them in a
very poor light, David, where they were carpet sucking beer
at the rugby club. I mean terrible things, but nah,
(29:28):
great stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Well where did they.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Learn that from?
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Hamous?
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Where all that?
Speaker 6 (29:33):
And they took all the rugby men's rugby songs turned
them into women's rugby songs.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
I loved them.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
They were like an Amazon tribe to hang out with.
But you did not laugh like I made the mistake
of laughing, which said I played women's rugby and I went,
oh yeah, And then she said, oh yeah, well I'll
tell you what. We played against the Matthew teams of boys,
and they were doing all sorts of stupid things, touching
us where they shouldn't. So we just decided to kick
some heads in and then.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
We got some respect.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Yeah, and as we see in all women's rugby today.
You know, I kind of like it because it's a
little bit old school, because there's a little bit more
room and a little bit more space to do things
with the ball. But anyway, look, I just say, you
grew up in Ranguahir, up there, up among the cool,
clean air beneath the ruh Any Rangers. I mean, do
(30:20):
you look back on that? How much did that influence
everything you've done, David, that kind of idyllic, beautiful part
of the world, and growing up there, Oh it.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
It influences me to this day. As I think I
told you, I was actually up up at the golf
course finishing this year's having its ninetieth birthday Dennis for
Kenzie's beautiful golf course. I grew up My father was
a sharer and a senser, so we would go all around,
ringing and epiity. And I guess the big thing is
just how much change I've noticed. Like our school, the
(30:52):
Ranguahir School had sixty kids, three classrooms. It no longer exists, right,
So and a lot of those farms got amalgamated, so
what was one farmer is now three farms and people.
You know, there was always erosion, but now people have
gone back to forestry to run off for daria cows. Like,
there's just not the same kind of community, I guess.
(31:14):
But I say that and look where I live. I
live in Vancouver in Canada, so I didn't stick around
to be a farmer either, right, So you're not a farmer,
So you know, we all had more opportunities, I think,
to go overseas and do other things.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I guess. Do you just tell us briefly what you
do in Canada these days? What is your role up there?
Speaker 6 (31:34):
I teach at Capilana University and Vancouver, teaching the Indigenous
film program, but also documentary theater, some communications. They have
a big reconciliation program over there, so I teach them
that and I'm actually shout out to everybody out there.
I'm actually organizing a field school of Indigenous students to
(31:54):
come to Oroor, New Zealands and trying to join up
the different groups, show them around. We Actually I just
was lucky to have be help with the hosting of
why Aim out of High school raised three hundred thousand
dollars and they got to a pow wow. They took
their Kappa Hucker group with this amazing woman, Nicole Hawkins,
(32:18):
and they came over with their group. It was amazing.
So I suddenly, oh, yeah, I remember how important those
field schools are. The young people like we went on
and that was kind of but not everyone wants to
do sport trips, so those cultural exchange trips. That's what
I'm That's part of what I'm doing here right all.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
David, absolutely fantastic to talk to you, and great that
you've been back in the country. You're still that heart
a farm boy, you know. Wonderful family. The Geary's from
Rangawahia always great to chat to to. David Geary based
up in Vancouver these days, and of course a fabulous playwright.
I'm just so pleased to hear A Pack of Girls
is still continuing on. David mentioned sixty kids at Rungewahia
(33:01):
Primary School back in the seventies. It was one hundred
and forty I think at one hundred and twenty at
Combolton and one hundred and twenty of us at Appity
Primary School under Ivan George so that's about three hundred
and a very small kind of area if you like.
Farming wise, so different days. A great to chat there
to David Gary, New Zealand play right. He's been back
(33:24):
in the country visiting his mum. Great to see him.
This is the country back shortly star but the old
Graham Brazier high Wind in Jamaica. To end of the show,
(33:46):
this as we started the country today. More to you
buy a brand Hamish McCafe for four days this week back.
Jamie's back tomorrow but no doubt it'll be popping in again.
It's various times. Been great to be here. Just remember
and that was awesome talking to David Gary. By the way,
New Zealand play right these days and what he does
is up in Vancouver. And but as I said, it's
(34:07):
still a wring of hair boy hat Heart and the
rabbit his daughter. The learners stand a pack of girls. Fantastic. Hey,
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there's just mighty prolegict as a registered pursuant to the
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must be just you know, coming towards the end of
the show here, but I think Michelle, we should have
(35:33):
a little bit of a debrief of of our four
days together. Are you going to miss me? You ask
me to welcome back the Mackay would be funny spelling
with open arms.
Speaker 9 (35:43):
I'll welcome back Jamie, but but I wish miss you.
I've had a great time this last four days with
you and I just want to say we had some
great feedback here. I've got congratulations Hamish, really enjoying your shows.
David Geary must be brother.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Of Ross years. Ross is a farmer and a hell
of a nice guy to your lovely family. The Gary's
dad Bill, one of the toughest men. My dad used
to shake when you tell me stories about Bill, Gary
farmer and of course Shearer and fencer. Yeah you go,
oh that's great, that's nice to get there. Well, I
think you know, like I thoroughly enjoyed chatting to Tour
(36:17):
Henderson today, thirty five years alad he wins the Gold
and Shares Open title. He's really honest about his experiences
and the difficulties and getting used to sharing up in Europe.
And you know, I truly do hope he makes the
New Zealand team for the World Championship next year. But
you know, Rebecca agrees. Of course. We talked to Becks
from Polario Farmer during the week. It was good to
(36:38):
chat to her, and of course she's basking in the
glory of those those lambs that went off farm from
her and Richard's place there at polar at two hundred
dollars and four cents. I love it. I love it.
And of course they've got that the Top team happening
down there where. They seem to have a lot of
fun as well amongst the guests as we've had this week,
(37:00):
really really enjoyable week. Yeah. Gee, and Chris Russell earlier today. Gee,
he's alive. Why isn't he? Okay? This has been The
Country brought to you by Brent. I'm Hamus mckayte. Catch
you next time, catch all the latest from the land.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
It's The Country Podcast with Jamie McKay Thanks to Brent.
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.