Jamie Mackay: The Country host on the NZ Zanda McDonald Award winners

Karn Dhaliwal was the New Zealand recipient of the Zanda McDonald Award, and it's a big honour in the rural world.

Dhaliwal built a diverse horticultural and cropping business and is recognised for his entrepreneurial approach to growing, leadership within the vegetable industry.

The Country's Jamie Mackay explained further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Together do for ce Ellen Jamie mckaye Hosts of the
Countries with us Helo Jamie. Good day, Heather. You just
arrived in Wanica, have you yes? Surrounded by the road
past week. I'm surrounded by well three hundred vintage things,
three hundred and one if you count the south. I've
never been here before. This is a guy called Alan

(00:21):
Dippy who's responsible for the development along with his brother Martin,
of half of Wonaica. Very successful business people own MI
Attends and Nichols Garden Centers. And he's got this huge,
big shed, flash shed with three hundred vehicles in here
and surrounding. It's absolutely magnificent and it is the venue

(00:44):
tonight for a fundraising dinner we're doing for Lincoln University
for sport, raising money for sport at Lincoln University. And
Andy Dalton, the former All Black Captain old boy of
Lincoln College as it was back in the day, as
one of the guest speakers. Gary steed Stead should I say,
former Black Cap and former Black Caps coach only recently

(01:08):
retired or stepped down from that role, and his wife Rachel,
who's a good Balfer girl. That it's just up the
road from my hometown of Riversdale, and she runs all
the sport including the netball at Lincoln, so it's going
to be great. I think they've got like one hundred
and fifty people here and there should be plenty of
money in the room hopefully, so we can raise plenty
of money for Lincoln at University as it is these days.

(01:30):
And so are you playing golf tomorrow morning or did
you do it earlier today? None? I haven't played golf.
I'm missed out on golf and the Wira Rapper. I've
got the clubs and no, no Saturday morning. It's workday tomorrow.
I'm doing the show from here and then involved in
another kind of fundraising thing for the president of the
Jana Kare and p Association, So they're working me hard

(01:52):
while i'm here. On Saturday morning, I'm going to Millbrook,
so that'll be good. I'll just take ten golf balls
with me because the rough is particularly long there. At
the moment I get through ten in the first two holes,
I reckon, Hey, did you have you told us yet?
Who won the Zander McDonald a Woods. Yeah, a guy
by the name of Kahn. I've forgotten his second name.

(02:16):
Great wallywell halliwell, anyhow, I've just honestly I haven't got
it sitting in front of me. He is a really
impressive young man. He's I think third generation Indians, Indian
migrants who came here as father. I know. He is
a dairy farmer and why Katto and he took over
the farm. It wasn't big enough to be sustainable for

(02:39):
him and his wife to go dairing, so he thought,
how can I get an intensive use out of this farm?
So he went market gardening and he grows. He grows
a huge proportion of the country's watermelons, amongst other things.
But he's a really interesting character. He's got a background
in rural banking and as a fertilizer repic badly badly

(03:01):
hit in cyclone Gabrielle. But he's just one of those
clever entrepreneurial guys. And he was most impressive beat out
a couple of other really good New Zealanders for the
title on Tuesday evening in christ Church. So the other
two Chloe Butcher Harries from the North Island and a

(03:21):
girl by the name of Lana Marshall from down in
South and they both had great cvs. As well. So
this is a great thing to win, Heather. You get
to you get ten grand and you get to fly
around Australia and New Zealand and a private jet and
most importantly you get the network networking with the biggest
farmers in Australasia, Australia and New Zealand. Yeah. Cool, that

(03:43):
sounds awesome. Jamie. Listen, you enjoy yourself, enjoy all the
hard work and then enjoy the golf at Millbrook. That's
Jamie McKay, host of the Country. For more from Heather
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