July 13, 2026 • 13 mins
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Tuesday's Mike Hosking Breakfast)Seriously, You Clowns/Who Doesn't Love Another Long Flight/ALDI Ain't All That/Hands Off My Shaft
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from news Talk, said b
follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
The Rewrap. Okay there, welcome to the Rewrap for Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
All the best, but it's from the Mic Hosking Breakfast
on Newstalk, said be in a sillier package, I am
Glen Hart today. How long does it take the fight
to India? And why does it take that long?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
The supermarket competition it's happening, is it?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
And get your hands off my view shaft labor.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
But before any of that, India, Yes, India. We're loving India.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
India's loving us. Well, some people aren't loving it. What's
wrong with those people? Why are they loving it?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
But yeah, maybe India said it better than we did
at the end of the day. But to be clear,
here's what India said. The five thousand Kiwi verses as
part of our FTA are about mobility, not migration. Immigration
and mobility of skilled manpower are two different issues altogether.
Now Chief Stirr Winston Peters claims the Indians were not
(01:22):
aware of the limits placed on the temporary visas it
would appear he's wrong. Time will prove the usher other
issue wrong as well. This petty little scrap we've had
over the twenty billion investment for a country who was
famous for free trade. What a sad and sorry old
tale that's been. To watch the latest version unfold. Quite
possibly is a reflection I was thinking to himself yesterday.
Quite possibly a reflection of the times in which we live.
(01:42):
You know, a stand has to be taken, and the
stand has to be These days, black are white, up
or down, right or wrong. Nuance no longer a currency.
Even Chris Hipkins, who should be proud of his history
of his own party's role in free trade, couldn't help
himself with his eyes wide open comments the day after
the deal was signed. The deal he was dragged, kicking
and screaming into supporting, despite the fact that anyone with
(02:02):
their head screwed on really couldn't object. Free trade lest
we forget, and some clearly have, is about goodwill. It's
not a con. It's not a scam. You're not looking
to get one over the other person you've just done
a deal with. You're on the same team, having negotiated
around your differences. In this case Dairy. You want the
best for each other. You want to grow and prosper together.
(02:25):
You are looking to the other side to help you out.
And yet in the India fta like none I've seen before,
a que quickly formed full of people looking to pick holes,
make stories up, confuse and misdirect, or just be straight
up and down racist. In a world where Trump in
particular is trying to destabilize the order of business, you
would have hoped this one sailed through and that it
would have got a bit more patriotism behind it than
(02:46):
it did. This as a nation is what we do.
Free trade is our calling card. What a weird old
thing we have among us, so many who would rather
watch us and quite possibly revel in our failure.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You can't have it both ways.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Either we're part of the world or we're not part
of the world.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Which do you want? I think we should just be.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Shouldn't everybody just be part of the world? The world
rewrap anyway, If we are all just part of the
same world, should we make it a little bit easier
to get to all the different bits of it?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
And a bunch of aviation stuff one of the things
I went to in New Zealand. Very good piece written
in the Herald yesterday by Carrie Hudahanganui, and she was saying, hey,
with this FTA thing with India, why don't we actually
have this idea whereby you can fly from New Zealand
direct to India. And of course I thought, not a
bad point. Last time I talked to mentioned it on
(03:35):
the program yesterday the chair of Air New Zealand said
they were looking at it. Are they still looking at it?
So we went to New Zealand. In New Zealand and
yesterday it's something we're going to deal with shortly. The
Western Sydney International Airport, it opens to US early next year.
But yesterday two pm quantus a three to one touchdown,
first plane to touchdown at Western Sydney Airport. You don't
(03:56):
get slowed down, you don't get sequenced. We didn't experience
a holding pattern. It was a cargo plane. Domestic cargo
flights formally begin July twenty seven, passengers due three months later.
But that's domestic passengers. Internationals which is US ANDY in
New Zealand. They've got a slot out in Western Sydney,
so you'll be landing there as of twenty twenty seven.
But that opened officially yesterday. Then Kerrie Hudahunganui, who is
(04:19):
the head of Auckland Airport, wrote a very solid piece
in the paper yesterday in the Herald yesterday, India is
New Zealand's next great trade story. It is by any
measure New Zealand Inc. At its most ambitious. And I
thought that was a nice way of putting it. It is,
by any measure New Zealand Inc. At its most ambitious.
(04:40):
There is, though, she writes a gap in the story,
and it seems incongruous to me that and maybe the
stuff going on behind the scenes that I don't know,
but it seems incongruous to me that we've signed one
of our biggest ever trade deals and you still literally
cannot get on a plane in New Zealand fly directly
to India or vice versa. And not just about the FTA.
(05:00):
Have a look at who the students are, the international
students in this country, and they come largely from a
couple of countries. One's called China, one's called India. Can
you fly direct to China? My words, you can and
by choosing a number of different airlines. So look at
the stark contrast between the aviational transportation links between New
Zealand and China and New Zealand and India. India, she writes,
is now New Zealand's fifth largest international market by passenger volume. Well,
(05:22):
how's that possible? The answer is because you've got to
come through Singapore generally, not always, but generally. How mad's
that overtake the Indian's overtaken the United Kingdom? For goodness sake,
Indian New Zealand travel corridor has grown ninety one percent
in ten years. So something that's growing ninety one percent,
why has no one at any point gone tell you
(05:44):
what I reckon? It'd be quite good if we could
fly their direct knowing full well that one of the
great aviation tricks is the point A to point B thing.
If you can put somebody on a plane at point
A and they get to their destination at point B
instead of having to go through a point one, you're
going to increase traffic by about thirty three percent. And
yet we've not done it. Now, Air India and indig
(06:06):
need to wait for delivery or the right type of aircraft.
They need the bigger A three fifties. They don't have them.
New Zealand is going to need to work hard to
stay on the radar re air line, so read the
whole thing. She makes a lot of sense. So why
haven't we done anything directed to be a fifteen to
sixteen hour trip, but they do it to New York,
(06:27):
so it's not undoable anyway. In New Zealand say officially,
we haven't submitted an application for joint venture authorization. They
signed an MoU were there India in March of twenty
five and since then, seemingly I haven't done a lot.
They've implemented a code share agreement to provide customers with
more travel options. India's an exciting market for New Zealand.
(06:49):
Was not that exciting obviously, is it? Because if it's
so exciting, you'd do something about it now. Exploring the
longer term possibility of direct flights, I just it makes
no sense to me. You've got one point four million people,
you've got one point four billion people, and you know
the opportunities there.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I always think too, if you've got a direct flight,
there's less chance of your bags going missing as well,
which is I don't know how much that factors into things,
but it should.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
The rewrap right.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
The ongoing supermarket competition, lack of competition. Is there enough competition?
How do we get more competition? Conversation is continuing.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
David Seymour, in his role as acting Prime Minister, yesterday
gave a dissertation on the business of having more supermarkets
in the country. We all like a free market and
we all like more competition. Now. The problem is, as
Luckwood habit, he was sprooking the rules we've changed in
this country. In other words, we're rolling out the red carpet.
I don't think yesterday actually had any new news about it.
It was just a reiteration of the rules we've changed
(07:49):
in this country. In other words, have we pulled a
lot of leavers to try and get some more competition
in the supermarket business? Yes, we have. Now the problem is,
and I've argued this all along, is just because you
make it easier to come doesn't mean they will. And
our biggest problem is not the red carpet or the
red tape. It is the fact there's only five million
of us.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Luck would have it.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
I haven't read an article last week about Aldi.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Now.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Aldi was one of those companies who are allegedly going
to come and set up shop. In fact, nickel Will
apparently ranged them personally and invited them. He just happened
to be that. I read about Oldie in the other
day and their expansion into America. Now they've been in
America for a very long time, but there are currently
in the middle of a nine billion dollar US expansion
that they're adding eight hundred stores over five years, specifically
(08:34):
targeting dense urban hubs like and here's the key Manhattan.
So in other words, what I've suspected all along is
New Zealand is simply too small and five million people
and he's five million people in Manhattan for good and say,
you know, in about three blocks. They're not going to
do the whole of New Zealand. Are they massive scale up?
First entered US in nineteen seventy six, have grown their
(08:55):
footprints now twenty eight hundred stores. So in other words,
they're a scalable business. They're big time. They're not into
dabbling with countries like New Zealand picked up huge sways
of market by offering cheaper prices of high quality goods
and have eaten into the marketplaces and places like Britain
as well. Two point nine percent currently of the US
grocery pie. If you want to read all about this.
The answer is there. The problem is the BBC did
(09:17):
the article on Eldie. But the problem is this, We've
just got to accept, and I've said this all along,
that rightly or wrongly, that we are over represented in
lots of different things. And the form etioned air lines
a classic example. Would we like four airlines flying up
and down New Zealand domestically? Of course we would. Can
we do it? No, we can't. We we're big enough
for about an airline and a half. We're big for
(09:38):
a bit. We're big enough for about two three supermarkets
and a few bits and pieces on the side. And
as much as Nikola Willis wants people to come here
and open up their mass stores and bring a whole
lot of you know, walmarts and all that sort of stuff,
we just there's no money in it for them. What
they're interested in. Read the article. Read where they are.
They're in Manhattan. Go to Manhattan, have a look at Manhattan.
(09:59):
See what's happening in Manhattan. It's not New Zealand. And
that's the problem, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Bastly I don't know how much difference Aldi would make.
The only Aldi I've been to as far as I
can recall, is an Australia. It was we was ANOSA
and it didn't have anything. It had well, I mean
it had certain things, but not.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
All the things. It was one of those sorts of supermarkets.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Where they've obviously managed to save money by buying a
lot of just not very many different product lines.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
It's it's sort of that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
So yeah, it's a bit disapoint I'm not quite sure
if it's going to really really shake things up, but
maybe the rewrap now it's the labor party coming from
my view, I've got a lovely view of a chow paddock.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
That's what I look at.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
It did not be if you'll know, I asked Chris
Bishop the other day about view shafts.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Now.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
I did that for a reason. He has a report coming.
It's been coming for a while too long. In fact,
I suspeak because it's either being overseen by imbeciles or
it contains a few explosive thoughts. View shafts are an
Auckland thing right rules designed to protect well views of
iconic stuff. Ring a Toto is a fame one. Your
house has direct line of sight to the Great Volcano.
You can't have a person build a high rise in
(11:13):
front of it. Now, the problem is Chris Biship, minister
in charge of all of this stuff, is from the
Hut and he's the bloke who came up with the
two million homes for Auckland plan that got so spectacularly spanked.
So my guess is his viewshaft idea is along the
lines of lost productivity. In other words, why can't you
build more high rises over there? Who cares of the
views blocked? About what harbor? Who wants to see a
(11:33):
lot of water? I hope I'm wrong, of course, But
as much as I hate overarching rules, and believe me,
the view shaft rules are overarching, they're a minefield, but
at the heart of them, they're well intentioned. And here's
the key. It deals with people's homes and the homes
of their castles. You buy in certain places because of
the outlook, because of the view, because you don't have
fifteen stories next to you. That's what neighborhoods are and
(11:56):
that's what reports like Chris's have the ability to upend.
His two million plan is already in tatters and has
already been readjusted. My great hope is the reason we
haven't seen this report is because when it first got
mooted many months ago, he was still stinging from the
rebuke he had received. And further, the National Party, who
were quite keen on doing well this election in Auckland,
(12:16):
got to him and said, mate, I do hope you're
not going to view shafters out of electoral victory. Get
the right house you see with the right view. It
adds millions, literally millions of dollars to the value. On paper,
a cris of the Hut might well be able to
argue that all these shafts hinder productivity, and on paper
he may well be right, but paper doesn't vote. People
(12:37):
with nice houses in nice areas with excellent views. Do
mess with that at your peril. Can't wait to see
what the report says.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
It's one of the main reasons I hate buying and
selling houses and moving. There's all the reports. There's too
many reports. I mean, yes, you want to know that
your shaft's not going anywhere, but can't we just have
one report that covers off everything and.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Go from there. Anyway? I am I'm not moving.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I'm staying here for the foreseeable I'll probably be back tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And if you are, we'll do this again the Reratrap.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
The Rewrap. Okay there, welcome to the Rewrap for Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
All the best, but it's from the Mic Hosking Breakfast
on Newstalk, said be in a sillier package, I am
Glen Hart today. How long does it take the fight
to India? And why does it take that long?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
The supermarket competition it's happening, is it?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
And get your hands off my view shaft labor.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
But before any of that, India, Yes, India. We're loving India.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
India's loving us. Well, some people aren't loving it. What's
wrong with those people? Why are they loving it?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
But yeah, maybe India said it better than we did
at the end of the day. But to be clear,
here's what India said. The five thousand Kiwi verses as
part of our FTA are about mobility, not migration. Immigration
and mobility of skilled manpower are two different issues altogether.
Now Chief Stirr Winston Peters claims the Indians were not
(01:22):
aware of the limits placed on the temporary visas it
would appear he's wrong. Time will prove the usher other
issue wrong as well. This petty little scrap we've had
over the twenty billion investment for a country who was
famous for free trade. What a sad and sorry old
tale that's been. To watch the latest version unfold. Quite
possibly is a reflection I was thinking to himself yesterday.
Quite possibly a reflection of the times in which we live.
(01:42):
You know, a stand has to be taken, and the
stand has to be These days, black are white, up
or down, right or wrong. Nuance no longer a currency.
Even Chris Hipkins, who should be proud of his history
of his own party's role in free trade, couldn't help
himself with his eyes wide open comments the day after
the deal was signed. The deal he was dragged, kicking
and screaming into supporting, despite the fact that anyone with
(02:02):
their head screwed on really couldn't object. Free trade lest
we forget, and some clearly have, is about goodwill. It's
not a con. It's not a scam. You're not looking
to get one over the other person you've just done
a deal with. You're on the same team, having negotiated
around your differences. In this case Dairy. You want the
best for each other. You want to grow and prosper together.
(02:25):
You are looking to the other side to help you out.
And yet in the India fta like none I've seen before,
a que quickly formed full of people looking to pick holes,
make stories up, confuse and misdirect, or just be straight
up and down racist. In a world where Trump in
particular is trying to destabilize the order of business, you
would have hoped this one sailed through and that it
would have got a bit more patriotism behind it than
(02:46):
it did. This as a nation is what we do.
Free trade is our calling card. What a weird old
thing we have among us, so many who would rather
watch us and quite possibly revel in our failure.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You can't have it both ways.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Either we're part of the world or we're not part
of the world.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Which do you want? I think we should just be.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Shouldn't everybody just be part of the world? The world
rewrap anyway, If we are all just part of the
same world, should we make it a little bit easier
to get to all the different bits of it?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
And a bunch of aviation stuff one of the things
I went to in New Zealand. Very good piece written
in the Herald yesterday by Carrie Hudahanganui, and she was saying, hey,
with this FTA thing with India, why don't we actually
have this idea whereby you can fly from New Zealand
direct to India. And of course I thought, not a
bad point. Last time I talked to mentioned it on
(03:35):
the program yesterday the chair of Air New Zealand said
they were looking at it. Are they still looking at it?
So we went to New Zealand. In New Zealand and
yesterday it's something we're going to deal with shortly. The
Western Sydney International Airport, it opens to US early next year.
But yesterday two pm quantus a three to one touchdown,
first plane to touchdown at Western Sydney Airport. You don't
(03:56):
get slowed down, you don't get sequenced. We didn't experience
a holding pattern. It was a cargo plane. Domestic cargo
flights formally begin July twenty seven, passengers due three months later.
But that's domestic passengers. Internationals which is US ANDY in
New Zealand. They've got a slot out in Western Sydney,
so you'll be landing there as of twenty twenty seven.
But that opened officially yesterday. Then Kerrie Hudahunganui, who is
(04:19):
the head of Auckland Airport, wrote a very solid piece
in the paper yesterday in the Herald yesterday, India is
New Zealand's next great trade story. It is by any
measure New Zealand Inc. At its most ambitious. And I
thought that was a nice way of putting it. It is,
by any measure New Zealand Inc. At its most ambitious.
(04:40):
There is, though, she writes a gap in the story,
and it seems incongruous to me that and maybe the
stuff going on behind the scenes that I don't know,
but it seems incongruous to me that we've signed one
of our biggest ever trade deals and you still literally
cannot get on a plane in New Zealand fly directly
to India or vice versa. And not just about the FTA.
(05:00):
Have a look at who the students are, the international
students in this country, and they come largely from a
couple of countries. One's called China, one's called India. Can
you fly direct to China? My words, you can and
by choosing a number of different airlines. So look at
the stark contrast between the aviational transportation links between New
Zealand and China and New Zealand and India. India, she writes,
is now New Zealand's fifth largest international market by passenger volume. Well,
(05:22):
how's that possible? The answer is because you've got to
come through Singapore generally, not always, but generally. How mad's
that overtake the Indian's overtaken the United Kingdom? For goodness sake,
Indian New Zealand travel corridor has grown ninety one percent
in ten years. So something that's growing ninety one percent,
why has no one at any point gone tell you
(05:44):
what I reckon? It'd be quite good if we could
fly their direct knowing full well that one of the
great aviation tricks is the point A to point B thing.
If you can put somebody on a plane at point
A and they get to their destination at point B
instead of having to go through a point one, you're
going to increase traffic by about thirty three percent. And
yet we've not done it. Now, Air India and indig
(06:06):
need to wait for delivery or the right type of aircraft.
They need the bigger A three fifties. They don't have them.
New Zealand is going to need to work hard to
stay on the radar re air line, so read the
whole thing. She makes a lot of sense. So why
haven't we done anything directed to be a fifteen to
sixteen hour trip, but they do it to New York,
(06:27):
so it's not undoable anyway. In New Zealand say officially,
we haven't submitted an application for joint venture authorization. They
signed an MoU were there India in March of twenty
five and since then, seemingly I haven't done a lot.
They've implemented a code share agreement to provide customers with
more travel options. India's an exciting market for New Zealand.
(06:49):
Was not that exciting obviously, is it? Because if it's
so exciting, you'd do something about it now. Exploring the
longer term possibility of direct flights, I just it makes
no sense to me. You've got one point four million people,
you've got one point four billion people, and you know
the opportunities there.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I always think too, if you've got a direct flight,
there's less chance of your bags going missing as well,
which is I don't know how much that factors into things,
but it should.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
The rewrap right.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
The ongoing supermarket competition, lack of competition. Is there enough competition?
How do we get more competition? Conversation is continuing.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
David Seymour, in his role as acting Prime Minister, yesterday
gave a dissertation on the business of having more supermarkets
in the country. We all like a free market and
we all like more competition. Now. The problem is, as
Luckwood habit, he was sprooking the rules we've changed in
this country. In other words, we're rolling out the red carpet.
I don't think yesterday actually had any new news about it.
It was just a reiteration of the rules we've changed
(07:49):
in this country. In other words, have we pulled a
lot of leavers to try and get some more competition
in the supermarket business? Yes, we have. Now the problem is,
and I've argued this all along, is just because you
make it easier to come doesn't mean they will. And
our biggest problem is not the red carpet or the
red tape. It is the fact there's only five million
of us.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Luck would have it.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
I haven't read an article last week about Aldi.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Now.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Aldi was one of those companies who are allegedly going
to come and set up shop. In fact, nickel Will
apparently ranged them personally and invited them. He just happened
to be that. I read about Oldie in the other
day and their expansion into America. Now they've been in
America for a very long time, but there are currently
in the middle of a nine billion dollar US expansion
that they're adding eight hundred stores over five years, specifically
(08:34):
targeting dense urban hubs like and here's the key Manhattan.
So in other words, what I've suspected all along is
New Zealand is simply too small and five million people
and he's five million people in Manhattan for good and say,
you know, in about three blocks. They're not going to
do the whole of New Zealand. Are they massive scale up?
First entered US in nineteen seventy six, have grown their
(08:55):
footprints now twenty eight hundred stores. So in other words,
they're a scalable business. They're big time. They're not into
dabbling with countries like New Zealand picked up huge sways
of market by offering cheaper prices of high quality goods
and have eaten into the marketplaces and places like Britain
as well. Two point nine percent currently of the US
grocery pie. If you want to read all about this.
The answer is there. The problem is the BBC did
(09:17):
the article on Eldie. But the problem is this, We've
just got to accept, and I've said this all along,
that rightly or wrongly, that we are over represented in
lots of different things. And the form etioned air lines
a classic example. Would we like four airlines flying up
and down New Zealand domestically? Of course we would. Can
we do it? No, we can't. We we're big enough
for about an airline and a half. We're big for
(09:38):
a bit. We're big enough for about two three supermarkets
and a few bits and pieces on the side. And
as much as Nikola Willis wants people to come here
and open up their mass stores and bring a whole
lot of you know, walmarts and all that sort of stuff,
we just there's no money in it for them. What
they're interested in. Read the article. Read where they are.
They're in Manhattan. Go to Manhattan, have a look at Manhattan.
(09:59):
See what's happening in Manhattan. It's not New Zealand. And
that's the problem, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Bastly I don't know how much difference Aldi would make.
The only Aldi I've been to as far as I
can recall, is an Australia. It was we was ANOSA
and it didn't have anything. It had well, I mean
it had certain things, but not.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
All the things. It was one of those sorts of supermarkets.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Where they've obviously managed to save money by buying a
lot of just not very many different product lines.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
It's it's sort of that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
So yeah, it's a bit disapoint I'm not quite sure
if it's going to really really shake things up, but
maybe the rewrap now it's the labor party coming from
my view, I've got a lovely view of a chow paddock.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
That's what I look at.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
It did not be if you'll know, I asked Chris
Bishop the other day about view shafts.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Now.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
I did that for a reason. He has a report coming.
It's been coming for a while too long. In fact,
I suspeak because it's either being overseen by imbeciles or
it contains a few explosive thoughts. View shafts are an
Auckland thing right rules designed to protect well views of
iconic stuff. Ring a Toto is a fame one. Your
house has direct line of sight to the Great Volcano.
You can't have a person build a high rise in
(11:13):
front of it. Now, the problem is Chris Biship, minister
in charge of all of this stuff, is from the
Hut and he's the bloke who came up with the
two million homes for Auckland plan that got so spectacularly spanked.
So my guess is his viewshaft idea is along the
lines of lost productivity. In other words, why can't you
build more high rises over there? Who cares of the
views blocked? About what harbor? Who wants to see a
(11:33):
lot of water? I hope I'm wrong, of course, But
as much as I hate overarching rules, and believe me,
the view shaft rules are overarching, they're a minefield, but
at the heart of them, they're well intentioned. And here's
the key. It deals with people's homes and the homes
of their castles. You buy in certain places because of
the outlook, because of the view, because you don't have
fifteen stories next to you. That's what neighborhoods are and
(11:56):
that's what reports like Chris's have the ability to upend.
His two million plan is already in tatters and has
already been readjusted. My great hope is the reason we
haven't seen this report is because when it first got
mooted many months ago, he was still stinging from the
rebuke he had received. And further, the National Party, who
were quite keen on doing well this election in Auckland,
(12:16):
got to him and said, mate, I do hope you're
not going to view shafters out of electoral victory. Get
the right house you see with the right view. It
adds millions, literally millions of dollars to the value. On paper,
a cris of the Hut might well be able to
argue that all these shafts hinder productivity, and on paper
he may well be right, but paper doesn't vote. People
(12:37):
with nice houses in nice areas with excellent views. Do
mess with that at your peril. Can't wait to see
what the report says.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
It's one of the main reasons I hate buying and
selling houses and moving. There's all the reports. There's too
many reports. I mean, yes, you want to know that
your shaft's not going anywhere, but can't we just have
one report that covers off everything and.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Go from there. Anyway? I am I'm not moving.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I'm staying here for the foreseeable I'll probably be back tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And if you are, we'll do this again the Reratrap.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
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