Riki Kinnaird: Duke of Marlborough hotel co-owner on Northland calling for a new Great Walk as part of Government deal

Northland is bidding to have a new Great Walk in its bid for an ambitious regional deal with the Government. 

The application explains prioritising industries, including tourism, could boost regional GDP by $1 billion dollars.

It'd like the Cape Brett hike to join the country's existing 11 Great Walks. 

Duke of Marlborough hotel, co-owner, Riki Kinnaird, says it's about time. 

"We need a bit of support there to get it on the list, but after the last 40 years of building relationships...the time is now to bring it all together." 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bryan Bridge speaking of beautiful destinations Northland. It doesn't get
much better than that. And they want a regional deal
off the government and they want this because they say
it will boost their economy by a billion dollars. One
of the things they're asking for and I don't know
whether this is something you ask for or whether it's
something that's bestowed upon you, but anyway, they're asking for
their very own great walk, joining the existing eleven around

(00:22):
the country. The co owner of the Duke of Marlborough
Hotel is Ricky Kinnerd. He's with me tonight. It's the
duel in the Crown of Northland. Ricky.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Good evening, Good evening, Ryan's good to hear from me again.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Yeah, good to have you on the show. So where
would this great walk be is? What's the location?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
So it's a loop track. Now there's been a lot
of work to get pieces of land joined up at
from Elliott's Beach to Cape Brett where the light has
is overlooking the whales and the hole in the rock
and back again. So the tentative design is about two
twenty six twenty seven pas.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Right, and do you is this something that you request
as part of a regional deal or is this something
that doc would have to make a determination on how
does that work?

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, there's there's a couple of layers here. So the
pressure for Dock is why wouldn't you have one up
in the north and actually complementary to the existing suite
obviously what's South Islander. But it's goodness sake, it's about
time to bring it up north with different options and
history and heritage. So we need a bit of support
there to get it on the list. But after the

(01:33):
last forty years of building relationships and it's tapou led,
so it's very very important land being banked and put
into the pot. So at the time is now to
bring it all together and provide an offering the suits
and complimentary to that suite of walks. So it's good
net a bit of pressure from the top.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
You also need four lanes to flung at.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
A Yeah, you make life a lot. Well, I'll tell
you what the you know, we're not the poor customs,
but I've seen some third wheels are worse. But you
sort of go, we need all these building box to
unlock the potential and for the great walk apart from
being awesome and imagine standing under the stars in the

(02:14):
corner of the Polynesian Triangle work who pays it targeted
and started as navigate a shin Duny. You being part
of that history and hereage is immense, but it's a
piece in the puzzle. And once you unlock that in
a sympathetic way, which flits our destination plan not overpopulated
those lands that raughity can turn back and have options

(02:35):
to turn back into market gardens that feed our people.
And we're talking about the next one hundred years. So
the four Lanes is an important part of us. But
there's all of these productivity areas where you go. If
we can get that done, there'll be three, four or
five hundred real jobs that you can catnate over the
next hundred years, an infrastructure ecosystem.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
And it all start now, and it all starts with
the regional deal. Ricky, thank you very much for that.
Ricky kenned with us. He's the co owner of the
Duke of Marlborough Hotel. Got married at the Duke of Marlboro.
If you haven't been, it's a like political, cultural little
gem of New Zealand, Russell, go and visit. It's twenty
two and that is the jewel in the crown. For
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