The Country 27/11/25: Greg Menzies talks to Jamie Mackay

The marketing manager of Emerson’s, and all-around good bugger, wraps the show from the Woodhead Ranch.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right, the man who deserves most of the credit for
the Southern storm shout joins us. Now Emerson's marketing manager
all round, good bugger, Greg mensies. Greg, You and I
were sitting together in the tiny pub at the christ
Church Show. It was raining and we were pondering what
to do with ourselves, and you said, let's shout some
farmers down south who have been smacked by the wind.

(00:22):
Well done you.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah, well, we've done it before with Cyclone Gabriel up
in the North Island, so I thought these guys got
hat just as far down here with the wind, so
why not bring the pubs and we wear our mates
from Spates along as well, since we're in Spates heartland country.
So we're here waiting.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah. Well, Hayden Finch, well known rugby player down this
end of the country from a great rugby playing family.
He's the Spats guy down in Otago here, and he
was really keen to bring the Spates bar along as well.
And he's put up, due to our health and safety plan,
a handrail so people don't fall over. I'm pleased to
hear that.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Well. We pulled out probably about half an hour before funch.
We were set up within five minutes. French, she took
about an hour to set a pub up. But it's
good to go now. He's a little bit hot and
weather but he's good.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Good now. Talking about the wind, that's the reason we've
got the Southern storm shout. You had to get the
Emerson's Tiny Pub from Dunedin down to Nigel and Leanne
Woodheads farm down on South Otago. It was a bit
windy this morning because that thing, you know, it's just
a big shed on the on wheels. It blows around
a bit in the wind. Did you have any issues?

Speaker 2 (01:35):
No, not with the wind. But we forgot about a
low bridge on the way down, so we got kind
of three quarters of the way here and realized there
was a bridge that we couldn't fit under. So we
had to back the tiny pub up about eight hundred
meters to take a long cut around around the rail track.
So that was a bit of it avature.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Well I was going to say, backing that thing for
eight hundred meters, I hope who's driving it was? You
know what? Yeah? I met? What was I met? Was
I know him? Well? You met him at christ Church?
So well done you. So the sports bars set up
you guys are set up as the barbie there yet
silver f and farms, boys and girls there yet.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
We're just waiting for them. THO should be here, not
too far away, so we could to get some food
down here. But at the moment there's about five of
us here, sir.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Well it doesn't officially start till three pm, so you
well did you did you not get that memos memo
three pm? Should have told you that. But if you
wander along earlier. You guys are there now. Listen, yeah, hey,
greg On, behalf of us here at the country and

(02:44):
everyone who's gotten behind this. No one's asked for anything.
Everyone has just given. Some bloke with a travel company
in the North Island. I've got to give him a
plug or get his name. He just chucked one thousand
dollars cash and for some of the incidentals. So it's
really good. This is the best side of rural New Zealand,
helping people out to have had a bit of a
tough time. Thank you so much for your time, and

(03:05):
I'll catch you this afternoon and we'll have a makaisome
all right.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
That's good.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
You're a great man. He is one of life's great Men,
Greg Men'si's there, marketing manager for Emerson's, A wonderful Richard,
the Godfather, is going to be there. We'll tell you
about that tomorrow.