Never thought about the pressure (12 July 2024)

With red tape and high costs, are we seeing the end of the quintessential school field trip?

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus lush Night's podcast from News Talks.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Thursday. Will welcome Marcus till twelve. I hope you are good,
and if you're not good, I hope that we I
meet them. They or the other people out there calling
can bring you some comfort throughout the next three hours
fifty one minutes. Yeah, I suppose it's those that choose
to listen. Those go for anything else to do but
to listen. But anyway where here I am here until
twelve o'clock. If there's breaking news, I will bring that

(00:33):
too through to you. Always try and predict breaking news,
and I can't do it for Will Biden might tap out.
I'm not quite sure if that's going to happen, but
I think it international happens. I will bring that to
your attention. Yeah, I am the things you learn. You
know what I've learned today. The thing I've learned today

(00:55):
is never. The thing I've learned today is, as far
as the workplace goes, the one thing you should never
do the work at the workplace is have a shave.
I was I thought cheapest could have been away from
it and shaved for a while. I kind of thought, oh,
I think I needed shave. So I brought some raises

(01:15):
and some shaving foam and came to work. But tell
you what, I'm not normally a raiser and foam shaver
for obvious reasons, because boy, oh boy, did I not
plan that. Within seconds there was foam everywhere. It was
on my hand, I touched door hand as just a disaster,

(01:37):
just an absolute disaster. It was like a bad episode
of some others do evam And I don't even know
what I was thinking. Actually, I still feel I still
feel kind of quite shocked with how far the foam went. Anyway,
it was my classic case of planning to do something
without any kind of planning or a plan that was

(02:00):
executed to or well executed to get it done. So anyway,
and two about two minutes just to fiesco, Foam all
over my clothes, foam all over the radio station. Anyway,
So I've been cleaning that up frantically, trying to get
myself on my spot before I start the show. So
there we go. I'm not saying that's a talkback topic,
but cheap as creepers. Wow, that was a bad idea. Gosh,

(02:24):
I need a shave. Anyway, So that was that there
was a disaster. But apart from that, it's nice to
be here a couple of topics to talk about tonight
and feel free of the other stuff you want to
talk about. I hope you enjoyed Canada geese Wednesday. I
saw plenty of them today as well. They are a
spectacular looking bird, that's the thing about them. They look

(02:47):
a lot better than their reputation. Were those gorgeous markings anyway,
So a number of them today, But oh well, onwards
and upwards. I get in touch if you want to talk.
My name is Marcus Hitt twelve. The number is eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine to nine text years.
I hope your evening started better than mine, because mine
was a disaster. Anyway, some of the things we can

(03:09):
talk about tonight. I hope the school holidays are going well.
I hope that you are doing the things you want
to do. Funny time for the school holidays. Of course,
we never used to have them in the middle of winter,
with good reason because the weather wasn't much good, although
I guess the weather is probably more settled. Once upon
a time, the old days, there was the holidays in
the May and in August. And I wouldn't be surprised

(03:32):
they go from a four year they went from a
three year term to a four year tim. I wouldn't
be surprised they go from a four year term to
a five year term. I get the feeling they're probably
thinking of that anyway. By the way, today in history
nineteen eighty three, Big Story eighty three, nineteen eighty three,
on this day, Yeah, there you go, Lorraine Downs was

(03:57):
crowned Miss Universe in Saint Louis, Missouri. I don't remember
the d Tails that well, but I think there was
a situation. Yeah, well, anyway, long time ago, now forty

(04:17):
one years ago. So that's the situation, nineteen eighty three,
Lorraine Down's crowned Miss Universe.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Also to bring your highlights from the basketball tonight in
the school. That's the Rams versus the Bulls. We've got
the NRL, the Dolphins versus the Bronx. Anyway, talk back
to well I wanted to talk about tonight is the
story through that's doing the rounds. It says that legal
risk and more paperwork, and it's saying that health and
safety is threatening the Great Kiwi school trip. And I'm

(04:48):
sure the teachers will be fully aware of that, because,
goodness gracious me, the effort to get parents to get
people to do things. School trips probably don't happen much
now for all sorts of reasons. And there's probably most
of the reasons, I think, or some of the reasons
would be very very good and timely. But the question
I was asking you, what was the most, looking back

(05:15):
in hindsight, the craziest school trip you went on? What
did your teachers make you do? It might be an
overnight when I're a day trip you're look at me thinking,
oh my god, I can't believe we did that. Might
be tractor rides, might be absating. It could be all
sorts of things and the things you did on a
school trip that were really sketches all get out. I'll
be desperate to know, because as times to with country schools,

(05:37):
you do all sorts of weird things. So school trip's
gone bad, or school trip's gone weird, or school trip's
gone dangerous. The things you're doing you look bad. That gee,
I can't believe we did that. Although I have to
actually preface that by saying that actually from my school education.
We did very few school trips. Don't quite know what
that was about. Didn't seem to do much at all,

(05:58):
never kind of left the premises. Oh, we went to
see This is New Zealand, a movie on three screens.
That would be the one thing I remember from primary
school and at secondary school we all got busted down
to the town hall in Auckland to see a live
stage musical that was dreadful about road safety and it

(06:26):
was like a rock opera with the refrain of one
and six because apparently there's the one and six chants
of getting seriously injured by a road accent. It was shocking.
So anyway, so that was my They were the two.
But yeah, I mean there's no health and safety with those.
They were just an appallingly bad taste. But yeah, school
trip's gone bad is what we are talking about tonight.
And Joel, I'll start with you, Joel Ats Marcus good evening.

(06:48):
You're there, Joel Copy.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
Yeah, So what we used to do for on my
school trip was we used to the teachers would take
us out in vand with a flashlight and they used
to find possums and would all jump out with six
and bash them really.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yeah, you're not joking.

Speaker 5 (07:11):
I'm straight up. We used to go possum bashing. That's
what we used to do.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Is it a country school.

Speaker 5 (07:18):
No, it was a I won't name I won't name
the school for obvious reasons, but it was it was.
It was a metropolitan school, I would say. And we
used to go somewhere rural. And that's what we used
to do. When you used to it was like the
high light of the trip. Used to talk about it
every year ago. We're going possum bashing tonight.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
And you mean you mean you go on a three
or four day school trip. Of one of the activities
was possum beshing.

Speaker 5 (07:44):
One of the last nights.

Speaker 6 (07:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
Is this at secondary school?

Speaker 7 (07:49):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Is there one particular teacher that was leading it or
was it just like a school tradition.

Speaker 5 (07:56):
I'm not too sure what the story was with it,
what it really was with it, but it was very
it was you know, I don't know, it's just back
in the day, that's what you could do, right, I
mean we're talking like a.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
Says it's about one hundred and twenty five. Ye, and
it's true story, Joel.

Speaker 5 (08:13):
On being straight up with you.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Yeah, and you were given you were given sticks and stuff.

Speaker 5 (08:18):
No, well, yeah, it's kind of like and we'd all
jump out of the van and like we would find one.
He goes one and we'd all like barrel out of
the van and white chase it.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
Love.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
There we go. It's a strong start, Nicki, it's Marcus.

Speaker 8 (08:30):
Welcome, good evening, Yeshi, Marcus, it's Nicki.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
How are you every good thinking? Nikki?

Speaker 5 (08:36):
Good?

Speaker 9 (08:37):
Well?

Speaker 8 (08:37):
My school trip and Standard four back in the day,
it was we all went from Victoria and New Primary
School to Gisbon and were billeted out by families and
one of the trips was we went to the freezing
works and we saw all the cows being killed and
the sheep and then put on the hooks and a

(09:00):
couple of the girls were sick and one of them
is a vegetarian to this day because of that school trip.

Speaker 10 (09:05):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
So where did you say you were from, Nicky? Victoria?

Speaker 11 (09:10):
I went?

Speaker 8 (09:10):
That was at Victoria Avenue Primary School and Standard for Wow.

Speaker 12 (09:18):
Yes, wow, it was very gruesome.

Speaker 8 (09:22):
We were all extremely shocked walking through floors, concrete floors
covered and blood. You know that that was that was
askable trip, cheap and sticky.

Speaker 13 (09:33):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Goodness to fine line with this country between organization and carnage,
isn't It? Often hit people in the Vicago talking about
school trips to the freezing works, which they say they did. Yeah,
I won't share the full details because they're a bit graphic,

(09:58):
but yeah, I never know where will go with that,
but there were some pretty harrowing stories about what they
got to do there. Steve Marcus, welcome you're there, Steve.

Speaker 13 (10:12):
Good evening Marcus.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
What's happening well?

Speaker 13 (10:17):
Standard for Form one Form two basically always used to
go on three camps across the years. They used to
rotate between Motor Tapu Island, hue A camp out in
West Auckland and Waya Tapoo down in Rhoda, UA. Nineteen
eighty seven Alfriston School, they decided that we were going
to go to White Tapoo and they decided that we

(10:39):
were going to climb Mount Tarawera. There's a whole bunch
of ten eleven twelve year olds go across on the boat.
And my father happened to be one of the parent
help and he came from that particular region in England,
and he was talking to the guy who was driving
the boat and the guy has driving the boats advised
one of the teachers. He said, look, the mountain's covering

(10:59):
in the mountains definitely got cloud out top. It's not
going to be good to go up there. You shouldn't
do it. And they insisted, no, no, no, we're on the boat.
We've paid the money, we're going to do it. So
they drove you across the lake on the boat. They
dropped you off, and that's where you were left. You
had one choice. You go up the mountain, you go
down the mountain, because on the other side that's where
the buses were going to meet you. So you've got

(11:19):
a whole bunch of kids climbing this mountain, and the.

Speaker 14 (11:22):
Wind got up.

Speaker 13 (11:23):
I don't know if anyone knows Mount Tara aware, but
it's scree one step forward, three steps back. You're walking
across the ledge that's less than a meter wide. You've
got one hundred meter scree drop on either side of you.
You've got kids that are wailing, kids that are screaming. Personally,
I apparently the story goes I stood fast and I
went I am not going any further, and my father

(11:45):
grabbed hold of me and shook me the shit out
and shook me to death and basically told me you
are having to move forward because if you go back,
there is no boats to collect you.

Speaker 15 (11:54):
We basically got to the got to the end.

Speaker 13 (11:56):
All all were safe, thank goodness, all linking arms and
going across. And when this teacher was asked about it,
he just turned around and said, yeah, character.

Speaker 15 (12:04):
Building, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (12:06):
Was it the right thing to do?

Speaker 16 (12:09):
Well?

Speaker 13 (12:09):
I think if your boat operator who's a local, turns
around and recommends not to go, that's pretty much your
indication that you shouldn't and.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
You know, check your privilege. It also sounds like townis
you know there, we are all, well, we can do it.
We're from The big spoke of Alfrest is that we
said you were from Alfristren Alfreston School.

Speaker 13 (12:26):
Total school roll of about one hundred and ninety from
Primmer one right up to standard to right up to
Form two. So you know, pretty tiny school, certainly not
that now. It still exists now, but it's not that. Yeah,
there were six classrooms and it was you know, the
biggest highlight on on the calendar was agricultural Day. It
was certainly a very country country school back then in
nineteen eighty seven, but what I can say in delight

(12:49):
of what you were saying before. EOTC is what they
call it now, education outside of the classroom. Everything's got
an acronym and it is very, very difficult for schools
to navigate. But I won't name names. I don't want
to name drop. But my own children go to a
school where EOTC is considered extremely important, and they managed

(13:09):
to pull together a school camp every second year for
the students, and they do a ski camp, and they
do other camps around the region and around the area.
Matta Matta is a specifically good camp catering for kids
down there, and they think that it's part of learning,
part of growing up. And they still do it in
a number of schools I know still do they Turbulent

(13:30):
waters and.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Nice to talk. Steve just gut there at the end summon,
says Marcus. I remember that town hall and car crash event,
A bit traumatic. It was terrible. Keep your texts coming through.
There's some extraordinary text actually, poor Hartu Marcus.

Speaker 14 (13:48):
Greetings, welcome Hollo Marcus. How are you you good? Thank you, hey, Marcus.
Just two brief stories on the shores of Lake Topol
at a village core Tiwoi. We were in a primary
school there, or relatives all brought up together, and we
went for a road on a what do they call

(14:11):
them a euclid on the inside of a uclid. You
know how they how they open up, pick up dirt
and then close them where they pull us kids down
off the Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
Yeah, what what what did they pull? You tell me
what they did?

Speaker 17 (14:31):
Again?

Speaker 14 (14:31):
They did, weren't they Well, you know the euclids how
they open up and then skim up dirt and then yeah,
they put us all in one of those shut it
while we were in it. It took us for a ride.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
It's pretty good in it.

Speaker 14 (14:45):
Oh, that's the first part. In the second part, we
used to ride the school to our school called Tea
on the shores of the with some bays, and then
one day they brought a whole lot of horses, like
one hundred horses down to the school. We used to
ride backwards and forwards, but us kids were pig hunters
and we used to leave our guns along or waste away.
So we go along on this ride with everybody, and
while they were having a ride, we were following tracks

(15:05):
through the book. And then we didn't come back and
if we didn't come back and we didn't choose someone,
you've got to kick up the bum, you know. So
those were truly the oldies.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
Nice to hearing you Apple hard to oh eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty MICUs said, we did the same,
except if possums. We were catching kill rabbits. We're at
a school in Auckland. Who would go to Lake Calorpedal.
It was kind of an unspoken thing, but everyone knew
what was going on and was often led by the
farming boys. It was about nineteen ninety five. It's pretty staggering,
isn't it that people are doing that? Anyway, Keep your

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calls coming through eight hundred eighty ten eighty and nine
to nine to Detect Marcus till midnight tonight. Our lines
will be becoming available. If you got something else to say,
give us a call, as I say, oh, eight hundred
eighty to tenty and nine two nine to Detect. You
can email also if you want to, Darrel, It's Marcus.

Speaker 18 (15:52):
Welcome, good evening, Hi MARKA, thank you for taking my call.
I just wanted to let you know about a wonderful
experience I had and Form two where the school tip
was my primary school. We went on Wellington on the
honey Bower overnight and spent the day in christ Church.

(16:14):
We were picked up by a bus at Littleton Harbor
and then we had the day in Christchurch, including going
and visiting the Sign of the Taker Heat and then
we had a lovely dinner at night at a hotel,
and then we were taken by bus back to the
ferry and went back to Wellingtons.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
What school was that?

Speaker 18 (16:36):
Brooklyn School in Wellington.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
Must have been a fairly big fundraiser to pay for
that sounds like a fairy, pricey kind of a situation.

Speaker 18 (16:45):
I don't know, Marcus, but I think it might have
cost my mum and dad, you know, a little bit.
I wasn't told about that or knew how much it was.
But we had the most wonderful time. And it's something
I'm nearly seventy five now and I still vividly remember it.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
So it'd be like sixty sixty eight years ago, as
so would it.

Speaker 18 (17:07):
Oh yes, don't say that. It sounds like a.

Speaker 19 (17:09):
Lot of sleep.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Okay, okay, nice to hear from me. We are talking
school trips because because they're on the kibosh, because health
and safety, And I'm just wondering which was the things
you look back. I can't believe the teachers let us
do that. It's kind of a thick pick, a thick
rich tapestry, a kind of a fairly it's a fairly

(17:31):
rich bounty of stories with us one. So you've got
thing to say, get us through phone it through eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty Lyolott's Marcus, Greetings and good evening.

Speaker 9 (17:41):
Oh hi there, Marcus. I'm sixty years old now, but
once upon a time I was fourteen, and I was
a spotty, dan, druffy, pasty, sthmetic, four eyed pencil neck
emotional disaster.

Speaker 4 (17:59):
And anyway, so what.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
Even is a pencil neck?

Speaker 4 (18:04):
I guess sort of any you know, you know, you
know it's an effing you know, you don't have any
you know, not like those big American job types, even
rugby types here, we're not, you know that they're very
mustly net with the muscles everywhere else.

Speaker 9 (18:19):
But anyway, so I was I've went to a Catholic
boys school. I'm not going to name that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
But anyway, so we were at the Boil River outdoor
Pursuits inter or something. I wouldn't know Boil River if
I tripped over it. So I don't really even know
where it is, but.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
Rings a bell to me, someone let us, No I can't.
It sounds very familiar.

Speaker 15 (18:44):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 9 (18:44):
Anyway, so one of the activities I can't really much
about it, but one of the activities was fording a river.
And the guy who took us, and I was a
non swiner, I could well like a dog pedal where
there was about it, and so uh, he reckon. This
was the way Maori forded rivers. So all right, so
they got these logs and well, you know, for the

(19:07):
posts really and they got us, I don't know, four
to a post or something, and we had to afford
the river. I assume it was the Boiler River. And
the river was quite high and all that'll be okay,
Oh no, I that'll be jake.

Speaker 20 (19:20):
No.

Speaker 9 (19:20):
I was sorry we go into it and then at
some point I'm literally out of my death an every
sense of the term. And anyway, we got across it,
you know, no life jackets, no nothing, just you know,
it wouldn't be allowed now. But we said, well, yea,
and the river was pretty high, and I remember thinking,

(19:45):
you know, trying to make my peace with God or something.
I don't know, but anyway, as a cross, do you
think that.

Speaker 3 (19:50):
Was the point? You think that was the point of it,
to show you faith in God? Is that what it
was about?

Speaker 15 (19:54):
No?

Speaker 9 (19:55):
No, not really, but to me anyway. So the point
is that we got across there. But I was just
thinking nowadays that that that just would be allowed. There
had to be a safety plan or whatever. Although the
point I think was that, you know, you know, in
medieval times Marcus the witch finder, I had to find
a witch to justify its existence, so so they always

(20:19):
found a witch. Well, I think health and safety now
I've taken it a bit too far, because they've always
got to find a health and safety issue where there
aren't there. I think that's sort of over the pudding
a bit. And I think that came from Britain via
the United States because of the fact that they could
be sued, so that they take it very very seriously.
But the thing is acc here you can't be soothed.

(20:42):
So I'm not quite sure. It's just it's just all
the whole English speaking world. But I always remember that because.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
I guess I need to put a cavit on this topic.
It's fun that we can talk about health and safety
gone mad, and people and and overreach, a bureauc of overreach.
You know, I'm remindful of the the tragedy that menepurpl
the Kenyoning tragedy, and also the one at the sugar
Loaf in New Plymouth, Platutu when the people were abstating there.
You know, we have had we have at times it

(21:11):
has gone bad.

Speaker 9 (21:12):
Yeah, yeah, I know. But also, Marcus, it taught me
to appre that I from then I'm vowed to appreciate
the great outdoors from even greater indoors. So essentially I've
adopted that stratagem.

Speaker 21 (21:26):
Ever since.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
Well, the herring thing is if you're on a camp
in the and the only bad thing that happens to
you is a dodgy river crossing. I mean, when you
look at the carrent news, you're probably doing quite well.

Speaker 9 (21:36):
Oh yeah, I know, I know. But that was sort
of like a sort of my inexistential fear at the time,
if you like, as a sort of a you know,
but basically and I saw but you know, it worked,
it worked out all right in the end. But yeah, yeah,
but I just thought that that that's always that's always
stuck with me. But anyway, thanks very much for Arkas.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
Nice to talk to you, Lale. Thank you so much
for that twenty five away from nine min him as
Marcus at school camps. I will get to the texts.
It disturbing amount of people sort of going as children
out to hunting kill animals. What's that about? Some teachers
would encourage that. Anyway, I'm not gonna start centering the
talk back and it's Marcus, welcome, good evening. They yeah,

(22:20):
good things.

Speaker 15 (22:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (22:22):
So this wasn't a sculptures a KEPN. I think I
was about sixteen or so. There was like ten leaders
or something, and we tot these kids from I think
we like trained up to Arthur's past. Our boil Rover
was on the back of Hamna Springs somewhere, but anyway,
so I think we trained up to Arthur's past. We

(22:44):
taught these kids back from Arthur's pass back to Christish
on cycles and we're only about sixteen or so, seven
eight and these kids who would have been eleven to.

Speaker 15 (22:54):
Thirteen or fourteen or something.

Speaker 22 (22:55):
There was five day trips, but I don't remember see
any pilot vehicles or we had lead like older leaders
and stuff, but there was no pilots involed. I don't
even think we had helmets.

Speaker 15 (23:07):
Start going back.

Speaker 22 (23:09):
I was on I was on some duty to look
after the bicycles and and I fell asleep, and all
these kids come along and decided they'd all that seats
to come back to me because I was meant to
look after the pipes of mystic offices. And then I
was come out worse. But yeah, yeah, I don't yeah,
I don't know where any body going on.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
Sorry, we're just we're just thanksan oh wait, talent eighty today, Tony,
it's Marcus. Good evening. Hm you're there, Tony, Yeah, I
have you good, thank you. School trip story.

Speaker 20 (23:47):
Yeah, a A eighty six eighty seven. I was going
to Saint Paul's College and Onsenby's the big third form,
and we had a smoldy teacher. There was a bit
of a bit of a weird looking chat and he

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used to come up with some machine of stuff and
he took us, took us in a van about most
of the classroom. The other the rest of them had
to stay behind or something by themselves in the past.
But we ended up at the bottom underneath the harbor bridge,
somewhere on these rocks, on the edge of the edge
of the water there and there was this boat. It

(24:37):
was miles out. I mean, must have been at least
five swimming pools at least away. And we couldn't swim
for I mean, I couldn't swim for crap. And he
told us I saw some out there and back. You know,
there was a it was the activity for the for
the day and the well. We were standing on the

(24:58):
edge of the water freaking out, me and one other guy.
Some of them probably could some but we couldn't. And
the water was pretty rough. I mean we remember seeing them.
We were splashing up onto the rocks and you were
in b a feat shorts, you know, no shirt. We
jumped in the water and got a little bit of
the way, and I mean the ways were just I
remember them just brocking us from side to side. We

(25:21):
see stuff us, so we said, no, we're not doing it.
We got back to the class and we got the cane.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
Wow, it sounds like you're genuinely terrified.

Speaker 20 (25:31):
We were men. We're like, we didn't want to do it.
I mean, you know, you can see half of us
didn't want to do it, but he was a bit
of an eccentric coalerrator. Year Saint Waters College was a
very nice school back in those days.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
What was the point of what was it trying to achieve?
Was it some particular Oh well.

Speaker 20 (25:49):
Well, it's a funny story because a few years down
the track, I mean someone listening might not this but.

Speaker 15 (25:57):
Quite wild.

Speaker 20 (25:57):
And I can't remember now, but I think it might
have been in the late nineties, early two thousands, and
maybe even before that. He was had up for something
and he went to jail. So he was a bit
of a widow and a cedric guy. And you know,
thinking back now, going to that school and having him
as a teacher was you know, probably probably one of

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the creepiest times of my life.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
Well, you wonder where the supervision was. You wonder where
you're saying to the principal you're going to take these
kids down to do that. I mean, you think there'd
be a chance would say.

Speaker 20 (26:28):
No, there was no supervision. I mean I remember the
van just being a you know, one of those old
fricking you know, old vans. You know, it wasn't having
flesh and yeah, it was wasn't very good. It was
I mean, if one of us had, you know, he
started drowning out in that that ocean, there was no
one there to save us.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
Well, there wasn't much of fun element to it either,
was there.

Speaker 20 (26:50):
I know, No, I know, you know when I look
back and think of it now, it's like, you know,
this was this guy. This guy was this guy really?

Speaker 7 (26:58):
You know?

Speaker 20 (26:59):
Did he have was marbles at the tires? You know
what I mean? Okay, to show what kind of what
kind of people could be teaching the back of pase,
I guess.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
Nice to hear from you, Tony. Thank you. Oh eight
hundred and eighty Tenny and nineteen nine to the text
twenty away from nine keep your calls go. A lot
of texts. I will get to those that to promise.
Apparently Boil River is in the Lewis Pass as I say, Oh,
eight hundred and eighty to eighty. Yes, Steve school Trips,
Steve Marcus, Welcome, good evening.

Speaker 12 (27:25):
Good evening, market we are nineteen nineteen ninety I believe
it was seventh form history. We were set to go
to the museum. What year again, nineteen nineteen nineteen ninety one.
I believe set to go to the museum in Wellington
to study history. Field trip out for today and the

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history teacher walks in that morning and says, boys, we
can either go to the museum or we can go
to the Basin Reserve and see history being made today, legend.
And so the option is yours. You can turn left
at the bottom of the road, all right, And we

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all went left, and sure enough everyone was at the
cricket for the day and that's where our money went.
And about three weeks later the truth was revealed and
no one quite knows who the rat was. Luckily the
teacher covered for us all to be fair, and I
imagine that he was disciplined. Maybe he took the strap.

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But yes, it's six with me today.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
What was the history?

Speaker 16 (28:33):
That?

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Was it an important match?

Speaker 12 (28:35):
It wasn't so much an important match. It was that
was a match against twining Sri Lanka. It was Martin
Crowe scored two nine nine.

Speaker 5 (28:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (28:43):
I think we scored about seven hundred on day five
to save the Test match. So it was Martin Crowe
was chasing three hundred and that was the history that
we were going down to see. I think the day
before he finished stumps that. I think it was about
one hundred and eighty or odd and that was what
he was chasing that day. So hissue was made, as
he pointed out to the headmaster, and the boys saw

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history and I'm here to teach them history.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
Job done, because I happened to be there myself with
a strange set of circumstances.

Speaker 10 (29:14):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
I've been in Wellington, right, and I got myself involved
with a pursuit of Yeah, it was a strange thing.

Speaker 23 (29:26):
There was a yeah, I got myself involved with a
pursuit of a perpetrator of a crime on foot.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
I fired a policeman and they had me come back
down for the court trial and flew me down from
Auckland and I had to do like the version of
a identity parade, but my recollection was no good. I
didn't know the right person. And then spent the rest
of that the cricket, which was quite fortunate because it

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was that very match. That was just the way it
coincided with the time I was there. I was there
for that match nineteen ninety one. Did you say it was.

Speaker 12 (30:07):
Nineteen ninety or nineteen ninety one, Yeah, it was, and
it was spectacular and it's still to this day. My
parents probably believed that I spent the day at the museum.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
I think I think he made the right call.

Speaker 12 (30:22):
Yeah, absolutely, And it.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
Was who was at the other end, Andrew Andrew Jones.
Is it who the other bets Jones?

Speaker 12 (30:29):
Andrew Jones. So what he's scored, he's scored. He scored
one hundred odd. But yes, he was there to survive
for Martin, who obviously got out on two nine. You
didn't get the elosis three hundred.

Speaker 3 (30:40):
Yeah, okay, nice to talk to you. Thank you for that.
Appreciate that. Steve, there we go. Andrew Jones, Yeah, yeah,
I was there for that, which was weird. But why
helped the policeman pursue the guy on foot into like
a a big block of flats. Anyway, they flew me

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down for the trial. Wait on hundred and eighty ten
eighty nine, two nine two to text Marcus. I lived
on a remote fe j nine and my eight year
old daughter, who on her only new life and of
returisteral village, got taken on a school trip to Japan
for two weeks, stayed with the Japanese family, where the
dad of the family ate raw eggs for breakfast. She
came home with the front of a grass strip and

(31:25):
a fence. I asked to what it was. She said,
it's a bullet train. But it went so fast. Be
as she pressed the button on it was gone. Marcus.
My old school, Waverley District High School made us all
walk through the hill. There was a tunnel through the
hill with a small stream running in it and another
small stream dropping in from above about halfway through. Needs

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to say the floor was not smooth and there were
also cave were doers and cave spiders in the tunnel.
I did the walk through in the late sixties and enjoyed.
Others did not. Peter from Levin, i'd't justly know what
that tunnel was Marcus. In nineteen seventy three, a fifth
form geography trip from Cambridge High School to the South

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Island down on the Silver fun to Wellington Ferry to
christ Church, over to the West Coast and flew back
chrost Church, Hamilton five days, seventy bucks. We stayed in
people's places Marcus. In nineteen eighty four the whole school
was taken to the movie. The day after that one
about nuclear destruction. Lisa Marcus. We went to the freezing

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Works and standard for from Netherbee Primary, ash Burton. They
must have used a ton of sordust after half the
class was sick. I wonder if it was part of
the curriculum In the sixties. I was not allowed to
be vegetarian this day, I am picky about meat. Marcus.
More of an impromptu excursion in Wellington. One of the

(32:57):
older nuns at the local convent passed away. Our principal,
who lived in the same convent, took us a small
group of an age to visit the nun lying in
a room at the convent. We weren't there to say prayers,
instead to ask questions about the preparation of the body.
I was too shocked to say anything. I'm not sure

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why we were selected. We weren't given the opportunity to
opt out or ask for our parents' permission. There you go, Susan,
it's Marcus. Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 24 (33:31):
Yes, hello, there Marcus at Susan Corning. I grew up
in Crookston, Oh.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
Now tell us where all way? That is for those
that don't know.

Speaker 24 (33:40):
Further to your thoughts about the sixties, been going to
the freezing works. I can remember and Standard four, which
was nineteen sixty. I think it was standard for or
form one. We all were piled and abus the whole
sort of forty of us and many of them have
never been to Gore before, which was only three quarters
of an hour away, and it was such an adventure.

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We went to three places. We went to the promoter factory,
we went to the paper mill, and we went to
the matower of freezing works.

Speaker 25 (34:10):
Wow.

Speaker 24 (34:12):
And it was a massive day for some of them.
And going to the freezing works for lots. See, I
still rolled my ears and I live in a libin.

Speaker 4 (34:20):
The tower.

Speaker 24 (34:21):
Freezing works was such a big thing to go to,
but it wasn't.

Speaker 14 (34:24):
We didn't. We saw the.

Speaker 24 (34:26):
Stock lining up to go through the area of where
they were killed, and then we saw them with having
the skins taken off, well, with gleass taken off.

Speaker 12 (34:37):
Well, it wasn't really freeces.

Speaker 24 (34:38):
It was cattlebees after that, and we just saw them
cutting them into pieces, you know, breaking it down for
the butcher, cutting it in harb and whatever. But some
of them were not. Some of the kids really did
not enjoy it at all. But I'm not surprised who, Well,
they wouldn't didn't grow up on a farm or hadn't
not that on a farm.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
It seem as though at the freezing weeks at Matoda
that they were used to having school trips. That seemed
like it was quite a common thing, was it.

Speaker 24 (35:05):
Yes, Yes, was a very common thing. I could tell
that because the greeted us, and you know, we were
given little pamphlets and what we were and when we
went to the Kromota factory were given samples, and then
we went to the paper mill. We were reminded that
all these industries were put there because because of the

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Mattawa River. Yes, water, it must have been the water
to clean things, the water for electricity, the water you're
not I mean did that?

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Did the Kromota mill originally have a water wheel?

Speaker 2 (35:40):
Did it?

Speaker 3 (35:40):
I don't know about.

Speaker 12 (35:41):
That because right by the water there.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
Yeah, okay, But it was interesting.

Speaker 24 (35:46):
Because up in nineteen sixty two, with Roxbury being not
far away from West Otago, do you and I'm not
going to elaborate on this one because it may be
quite sensitive. There was a tragedy, the school trip tragedy
at Mount Aspiring, where two formed two students passed away
on the trail up.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
They got hypothermia and they were students from your area.

Speaker 24 (36:13):
Neart Roxburgh school those because one was the Chimney local
Chimney Sweet's daughter. I know that wow, And he used
to come down to West o Tago and do our chimneys.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
It's heartbreaking, isn't it.

Speaker 26 (36:27):
Yes.

Speaker 24 (36:27):
And the other thing I do recall was my ex
husband and I lived in Roxburgh and I was on
the school committee for many years. And where he had
to have there was a new law that came out
from the Otago Education Board or wherever it may have been,
must have been higher, because I think it's all over
New Zealand that they had to have one adult for

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every five students when they went on any adventure trip.
And of course all these schools in central would head
to the head to the boats and the lakes and
the skifields, whereas if you were from a little place
like Tappanoi or y Cooey Cooey or wherever you're probably
going to Gore was the best adventure you could get.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
Still kind of interest about the Kromota effect what they
used the water from the river for, But it's not right.
It's not right on the river, but there'd be some
reason they would have used that for there'd be something
they needed the water for.

Speaker 24 (37:23):
Yes, remember having that that that said to me, But
oh my goodness, it was an excitement to go. And
then another time we went on a trip to the
pump over at Clydebaale.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
Oh, yes, I've been on the punt. It's a good
go running the punt these days it's quite fun.

Speaker 24 (37:37):
Well, you see, we all grew up thinking because the
Palmahaka River used to flood, and we all grew up
being a little afraid of water. So going on the
pump and the Kluther River, the Cluther River was always
a bit of a You know, you don't go near
the Cluther because of its fast at speed.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
And it's well and they always say they've got those
willows that'll push you under and keep you there. That's
the fear of swimming in a river like that, isn't
It is a.

Speaker 24 (38:03):
Wonder that with rocks from being so close to the
river that were that there were not more tragedies than
there were, And I can remember three in the years
that I lived there, and only lived there about ten years.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
Is one is your is your school still going Susan.

Speaker 24 (38:21):
Prairious school is still going?

Speaker 3 (38:23):
There? Yes, the Croxton one.

Speaker 24 (38:25):
Oh, No, Croxton School finished away back I started school.
His brothers went to Croxton and by the time my
father went to school about he was born twenty three.
By the time he went to school at six, that
would be twenty nine, there was no Croxton School. But
the same person was driving a school bus when I

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started school is when his.

Speaker 12 (38:46):
Brothers went to school.

Speaker 24 (38:48):
Who was that, mister Teddy Arnold.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
It'll mean something to someone. Thank you for that, Susan.
Nice to talk to your school trips and the ones
you went on. You wouldn't get surprised how many people
went to the freezing works. I've never been to freezing works.
I've never really wanted to, but soon didn't go to
one as a school trip. So I just imagine that.
I can just imagine the I can just imagine the

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full onness of it, I guess is the best way
I can think of. The smell, the noise, all of it.
I manage to be quite something, and not necessarily in
a good way. George, it's Marcus. Good evening, Hey, Marcus.

Speaker 27 (39:29):
In nineteen sixty nine, I went to Niri School that's
in Taranaki, and we went on the school trip for
five days to rote Ua. I was only nine years
old and we had I can still remember it very
very well. It was the theme of the It was
how man uses natural resources and we went to mirror Para.

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We stayed in rote looking at the geothermal power stations
and stuff like that, and it was just an amazing trip.
The funniest thing was we were going to have two
dollars for the whole week spending money. I thought it
was amazing.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
I love a sculptrip with a theme.

Speaker 27 (40:15):
Yeah, And I mean we did lots and lots of things.
We went, you know, not just that week, went to
the Maori crafts that they had there in the fairy
springs and everything like that. But everything was so much
more simpler in those days, and I just thought it

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was the most best trip I'd ever been on.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
Sure, and Mudapata was about forestry, was it?

Speaker 27 (40:44):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (40:44):
It was.

Speaker 27 (40:45):
We saw the I can remember my poor mother came
with us because we had about six or seven parents
and about thirty five kids and were all and started
four for one and Form two and we went to
Murapara one day and we watched them load the log

(41:05):
chains and I can remember I've never used the camera before.
My mother had one of these old fold out cameras
and it was the first photo I had ever ever
taken and came out, but it was a bit blurry,
but I've still got the photo. I've still got the
big fold of that our teacher made. It was all

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done on an old typewriter, but he did an amazing job.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
We Dinand hooked on the idea that everything was better
in the old days, because George that that's the road
to ruin.

Speaker 21 (41:42):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 27 (41:43):
Yeah, but you know, we had to save a lot
of money to go. We used to get teacupons and
paton wall to.

Speaker 14 (41:50):
School and we got one hundred.

Speaker 27 (41:55):
Two hundred dollars in those days, a lot of money.
But the whole triponi cost I think about nine dollars
per person, so it was pretty cheap.

Speaker 3 (42:04):
I'd like to hear from you, George, thank you numbers
and it's Marcus. Good evening, Hello Marcus.

Speaker 17 (42:11):
In nineteen fifty seven Standard five and six from Norfolk School,
we went to christ Church for the day.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
Goodness.

Speaker 17 (42:21):
I can't remember whether we caught a train or a railcar,
and I don't remember any parents being there, just the
teacher and we went to Wellington on the rail car
or the train. We caught the Maori aerry and went
to Littleton. We caught the boat train into christ Church.

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We went to the airport and we saw the Globe
Master plane the Americans. Yeah, woll We went to the
Sign of a taker Hey for lunch and I don't
remember anything else, and then we went back to the ferry,
back to Wellington, back on the train the next day.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
It seems to be a thing. It seems a lot
of people from North Island catching the boats a little
and going to sign attaka Hey and doing christ Church
in a similar way that you'd done it.

Speaker 17 (43:13):
I haven't been listening long enough to hear other people.

Speaker 3 (43:17):
Well, there's other people did something very similar but from
different school schools and went into the things.

Speaker 17 (43:21):
Oh this was this.

Speaker 3 (43:23):
Was a really big trip, because you know it was
from norsood christ was seemed gigantic.

Speaker 17 (43:29):
Yes, and a lot of children hadn't really been anywhere.
I've been in the cargo several times since when my
grandmother came from so So. We'd actually done it before,
but a lot of the children hadn't.

Speaker 3 (43:43):
Must have been a fairy massive trip to in Vicago.

Speaker 17 (43:47):
Yes, it used to take. We used to go with
my grandmother and it was twelve hours from christ Church
to in Chicago. As I remember on the steam train.

Speaker 3 (43:58):
Oh heck. It would be absolutely.

Speaker 17 (44:01):
From nine in the morning till nine at night, and there.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
Would be in a good day, I'd think, and the
things not going wrong.

Speaker 17 (44:09):
It was well. I was only a child, so I
don't remember.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
Nice to talk and thank you so much, Hi Marcus.
In nineteen seventy five, I was twelve and went on
the Girl Guide song Safari. Guides from all over the
country traveled a different locations, ending up in christ Church
for a big singing of eat at Addington Park. From
blen And we went on the ferry to Willington. We
were billeted by Bastafang and Nui. Then across the Hastings
and nap. You're doing different singing activities. Back to Willington

(44:35):
and flew to christ Church. We staid at Hilmorton High
We were sliding on the corrals. Our socks becus. The
floors had been pologized and over backwards. Hit my head
really hard. Think I must have been con cast to
go through up all night. The leader made me sleep
near her so she keep an eye on me, but
wasn't worried. Cheers, Gilly Goodness to have a helmet next time.

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Fancy being headed a singing competition? Marcus nineteen sixty nine,
Form one todd On Intermediate. We went to Portato outdoor school.
Clam did ab sathing, was terrified but did anyway. No
safety helmets. We all survived. Maria. By the way, the
child star from ALF has died. Benji Gregory, former ALF

(45:23):
child star, died in car alongside his service dog an
Arizona Bank parking lot juda suspected heat stroke. Gosh, there's
a lot to unpick from that headline. Wow, you remember
if you see an image of him, he's a lovely looking,

(45:44):
sort of freckly kid.

Speaker 25 (45:47):
That was.

Speaker 3 (45:48):
Yeah, he was Brian Tanner and Alf, but clearly one
of those people, those children's stars that struggled as an adult.
What a sad story. You will remember him if you
watch that was It wasn't a bad show, Alf. Surprise
that hasn't come back as a movie. To me, there
would be ora interesting than Garfield. I know that ELF's

(46:08):
not a cat, but you know where I'm going with us?
Where am I going with like a puppet kind of
amazed about this. The Girl Guide song Safari fairly big
carbon footprint Marcus from Memory alf eight Cats. You think
he might be right, Marcus. Late seventies. The school trip

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from Dairy Flat School to Wellington to visit Parliament and
the new beehive was epic. That's from En Marcus. I
took my class of eight year olds to a school
camp after dinner. When the childre had gone to bed,
one of the mothers said she was tired, so off

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she went and came downstairs half an hour later in
a sea through Neglige, which greatly impressed the father's. I
was about the same age as the parents. I could
cope with the children, but not the parents. It's from Mary. Oh, well,
there you go. School camps eight hundred and eighty today

(47:13):
Marcus till twelve. And not just the camps but day trips.
Things you wear, the jeepers, creepers. That's not going to
happen again, Cheryl. It's Marcus. Welcome and good evening, oh
Cheryl today, Marcus, how are you good? Cheryl? Thank you good.

Speaker 28 (47:28):
Good school trip nineteen seventy five. Four classes from Myral
Intermediate and Hamilton went down to Wellington. We went on
the Silver Spoon and we stayed at the People's Palace
hotel pretty short, was run by the Salvation Army, and yeah,

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we went for a week, remember going to Parliament and
seeing them in action. Well, when I say in action,
someone was asleep, someone was reading a newspaper, so I'm
sure things haven't changed since then. But yeah, it was,
you know, back in nineteen seventy five, really really good times.
And then we came back on this rickety old train,

(48:15):
hard wooden seats and I remember it broke down antika
witty for about an hour. So yeah, just yeah, good
memory day, Yeah, good time.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
What else do you do in Wellington besides Parliament?

Speaker 28 (48:28):
Can you remember, oh, a few years ago, I think
we just walked around Wellington to the seafront. Probably, I'm
pretty sure we went to a couple of museums. Yeah,
no it, Yeah, it was good.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
Wouldn't how many parents it would have been with those classes?

Speaker 15 (48:46):
Oh, I don't.

Speaker 28 (48:48):
Think there was many parents, to be honest, I remember
saying old photos not that long ago, and there was
a couple of teachers and probably only a handful of parents,
to be honest. So four classes, Yeah, it was a
lot of kids, a lot of kids, and what you
say it was nineteen even.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
Five nicely five yeah.

Speaker 28 (49:08):
Okay, seventy five.

Speaker 15 (49:10):
Yeah, that was great.

Speaker 3 (49:11):
Nice to hear from you. Thanks very much for that.
Bye bye oh eight hundred and eighty Telly school trips
kept those texts coming through too, nine two nine two
Marcus and Hawks Bay kids were taken to the freezing
works after seeing Farmer Bulls Farm at Clive. What was
farmer Bulls Farm at Clive, by the way, was at
some sort of show farm. Our kids watch the whole process.

(49:32):
The lamb's going up the belt facing Mecca, been stunned,
then the knife hands killing the lamb. We didn't think
twice about this, but in later years the reality of
it's set in. Well, the story is there's going to
be much less likelihood of school trips going ahead because
of health and safety. There are no surprises there, I think.

(49:54):
I think listening to some of the response to some
of the school trips were once we're on probably in hindsight,
we're probably unwise. So we are talking about tonight eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty nine two to text, So
people talk about the great school tripp is threat. But
I think probably that a lot less school trips are

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gone on these days than they once were gone on.
You've got the teachers, you've got the parents, you've got
the legal liability, you've got to get the people kind
of checked. They've got to go and company people. Goodness,
it's called etc. Education outside the classroom, mind you, there's

(50:36):
always no I won't go into that just yet. That's
for another hour anyway. Oh, eight hundred and eighty taty
and nine two nine two texts when it come through,
there's lines, they're free, but the freezing works. Wow, fancy
going there. Lead's primary school kids. All I can think
of before the internet is the extraordinar amount of the organization.

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When we would even go and buy the tickets for
one hundred kids to go to Wellington to be down
at the railway office. Wouldn't you and the fairy very
hard work? If you lost kids, you couldn't text the
other teacher. I don't know how it would happen, but
I am up for the discussion. Eight hundred eighty tendy
and nine two nine two to text school trips.

Speaker 14 (51:25):
Here.

Speaker 3 (51:25):
The only one I went to, as I said, was
this is new Zealand, that movie on three screens and
the one and six Road excellent musical. I can remember
what that was called. It was pretty sketchy. That's kind
of surprised. We all got taken to it. When you're

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often you went outside school on a bus, you thought
it was gonna be something quite exciting. Not so much.
So Yeah, there we go. That's what we are. And
about tonight, oh eight hundred eighty tendy and nine two
nine two to text some of the other stuff I
can tell you about that's happening around the world and
tonight and there is plenty.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
It is.

Speaker 3 (52:13):
The footy first anniversary of Lorraine Downs winning Miss Universe.
Once upon a time in beauty pageants there was a
Miss Universe in a Miss World. I don't know which
one was them. I don't look. I don't know how
they compared, but certainly it was a big deal when

(52:34):
Lorraine Downs won Miss Universe Saint Louis, Missouri. Huge story
this day in nineteen eighty three, So there you go.
Second test for the All Blacks against England is Eden
Park on Saturday live commentary on iHeart and ZB and Origin.

(52:58):
The decider is Wednesday, fifteen days to the Olympics. So
this day, tomorrow and two weeks time will be the
opening and you're set compete in twenty two sports. It's
about everything you need to know. I think for now
and if you want to get in touch eight hundred
and eighty nine to nine two to text. Yeah, there

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you go. School trips and the ones you look back,
I think, Jeep is what were they thinking? It'd be
nice to hear from you, Sarah. It's Marcus. Good evening,
I'm hi. How are you good? Sarah? Thank you?

Speaker 25 (53:42):
So you were talking about that, like pause, our school
trips through the meat works? Is that right?

Speaker 3 (53:48):
Yes?

Speaker 25 (53:49):
Oh yeah, So it wasn't a school trip. It was
like children of the people who roops at the meat
works trip. And I was only about seven or eight.
This is years ago, and it was the most disturbing
experience of my life. Wow, Like the first thing we've
seen was not sheep, little too baby lambs coming in
all alive and then on to talk convey about getting stunned,

(54:12):
flipped upside down on the machine, then their throats slipped,
their heads cut off. That was the first part of it.
And then I don't.

Speaker 3 (54:21):
Remember, Sarah, which works, was it this was it was Whittle,
Crown and Cambridge Okay, And was was this like a
perk for the fair? It wasn't part of the Christmas
party or anything.

Speaker 25 (54:31):
No, I know they used to do things like that
for you know. I was like, yeah for the workers,
Like days like that they go to Rainbow's End and
just do things.

Speaker 3 (54:38):
Yeah, it's like it's like a treat for the families
to go and see where their mum and dad worked.
Does that kind of what what?

Speaker 16 (54:44):
What?

Speaker 3 (54:45):
Wow?

Speaker 25 (54:46):
Yeah, Like it was like the most awfult thing I've
ever experienced. Like I was so young. I've heard about
seven or eight.

Speaker 9 (54:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 25 (54:54):
That and the smell of the case things room. I
just remember thinking I need to get out of here.
That ear was thick and it's sunk and I just
felt like I was going to be sick.

Speaker 9 (55:01):
That was horrible.

Speaker 25 (55:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (55:04):
Yeah, I've never experienced. I've had enough mates work at
the works, but I've never experienced. And I kind of
imagine what the smell is.

Speaker 25 (55:12):
Like, Yeah, it's it's not nice. My mother worked in
there and my father was like a woman. I can't remember.
I'm the boning floor I think, but it was it
was like you're not raised on a farm or not
used to that kind of thing. To see something like
that was bos time when you're that young and so like,
because most children relate like lambs and things like that,

(55:35):
like and then it goes straight into killing them. And
my partner is like a slam a footy. I can't
go under either.

Speaker 3 (55:48):
Sea's part. I presume we didn't go back, Sarah pres
was a once or.

Speaker 25 (55:54):
A oh yeah, No, no, I didn't go back. I
actually no, I might have been on stick and tool.
I don't know the child and my parents just used
to send me like like off on.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
These things had to start with the lambs, that seems
the surprising.

Speaker 25 (56:05):
Thing that was no yeah, because I think that must
have been one of the first law of floors. But
I think I can't remember. Some went into the beefer
room because they had to, like they do the whole trier,
like it was all done properly. When they saw the beefer.
I'm not sure if we actually went in there. I
can't remember. I was so young, but I I'll never
forget that part of it though.

Speaker 3 (56:25):
Nice to hear from you, Sarah, Thank you for that.
Johnny AND's Marcus. Good evening, Marcus.

Speaker 2 (56:32):
I quite relished the school trups, so my first ones
were White Hope White Primary and in Macago, I think
we went to a bread making place like quite a
big commercial breed operator.

Speaker 3 (56:43):
I think kids have been to that. That's interesting.

Speaker 15 (56:45):
Yep, yeah that was cool.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
I still remember the smell, you know, and the yeast
and the next one would have been the milk processing.

Speaker 14 (56:55):
Plant and yeah, that was that was a sorry park.

Speaker 15 (56:59):
I think we were.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
We were non trip in a big old Bedford bus.
I remember the driver missing the gears in the road
range of gearbox and the teacher looking at him thought
he was from another planet. But then when we moved
up to Total, the first place we went to was
a pack house, the Kiwi Fruit pack House on a

(57:22):
school trip.

Speaker 3 (57:23):
Oh it's a bed press. To see all the sorting
and how they put them all in the conveyor belts
and stuff.

Speaker 2 (57:27):
That would be good, yeah, sort of good preperation for
when you're a teenager and you go and work in
those places and the grading table and in the sorting
room and yeah, it was a lot more sort of
laid back then, not as health and safety conscious and
so on, but all the kids that all come in
and we'd all get to eat some ripe kiwi fruit

(57:49):
from the from the bin dump out the back. Another
another really good one. It was not Ahole Lodge, which
was when I was at College o one A College
and this is where we went up into the bush.

Speaker 14 (58:04):
Sorry there's not a brawl on.

Speaker 10 (58:05):
The turn it down of it.

Speaker 12 (58:08):
And not how lodge.

Speaker 2 (58:10):
We had to based in the third form. We had
to stay in the sort of tense and we had
the big spider episode in the tent, but also having
to follow a rope for the blindfold through the bush,
upper hill and through water and ditches.

Speaker 15 (58:25):
In the night.

Speaker 3 (58:26):
Oh that sounds quite good. That sounds excellent.

Speaker 2 (58:29):
Yeah for thirteen year olds, you know, that's that's quite
an experience. Yeah, quite the daunting thing. And yeah, you
get a few scratches and you get wet, and it's
similar so when you've if you've ever been diving, and
you get that inertia feeling and you're not too sure
what quitees up or down. I had a bit of that,

(58:51):
and I've been in the bush, but never really been
in the North Island bush, which is quite different than
the peach forests.

Speaker 15 (58:58):
Of where I'm from.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
So yeah, interestingly, that the rugged Kiwa Rangers. Definitely a
great place to go camping. And then we went to
White Beach and we walked all the way from what
he beached to bow In Town.

Speaker 3 (59:13):
Is it far?

Speaker 2 (59:15):
Oh it's about ten k's.

Speaker 6 (59:18):
Yeah, it was quite an all day walk and.

Speaker 27 (59:22):
Yeah, our Carwa Bay.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
I think we did a little bit of that and
then yeah, back out again onto all the.

Speaker 21 (59:28):
Way into bowl Intown.

Speaker 15 (59:29):
Marcus.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
So yeah, definitely a great place, and there's a really
good camping ground out there on the way to bowl
Intown at White Beach.

Speaker 3 (59:39):
Very nice to hear from you. Thank you that Johnny
Craig ats Marcus. Good evening, Hi Craig.

Speaker 29 (59:47):
Oh I I don't want to hear my name. Sorry, Yeah,
good show anyway.

Speaker 3 (59:52):
Thank you.

Speaker 29 (59:54):
I had a couple of ones when I was in
third format score. Our teacher had as private pilot's license
and he took us out to the local airport at
Hamilton and showed us, hey, you do all the pre
flight check and he took us up in the plane
and I was on the back with one other guy
and he's in the front with another one of the
other students, and then he goes on you might want
to set up front, and the guy next to me
and goes yep. So they changed one person from the

(01:00:14):
back to the front. While he's up in there and
there going crap. And then he flew over his house
and opens the door and yells at his wife, I'll
be home shortly.

Speaker 21 (01:00:24):
I'm going crap.

Speaker 15 (01:00:27):
That was interesting.

Speaker 29 (01:00:28):
And then the other one we had a school trip
was to coming in and used to get having from
Cooled Greens Industries used to make tap wear and sort
of stuff, and we've gotten.

Speaker 15 (01:00:35):
Them to take you and watch them.

Speaker 29 (01:00:36):
One of the guys loading flat that's a sheet steel
into my press, and this press would come down and
bang out the wheelbarrow shape.

Speaker 3 (01:00:44):
Well that's pretty interesting.

Speaker 15 (01:00:46):
That was interesting.

Speaker 29 (01:00:46):
Then you go to the the CNC machines. We have
a big block of brass and we sit there a
million away. Next minute pops out of tap and I
just found that really interesting. I think it's probably what
got me into my engineering sort of as I grew
up the later on a life.

Speaker 3 (01:00:59):
Well that's because I was going to ask you what's
the points of what's the point of school trips? But
if they inspire someone, they show them there's something that's
some sort of opportunity out there are some sort of
job or career or whatever. That's the thing.

Speaker 29 (01:01:17):
Yeah, yeah, I mean health and safety you've been here
is a little bit crazy sometimes. Like I remember our
family owner has a farm down over tier Away, and
I remember it's a twelve year old driving the tractor
down the farm with a boiler on the back going
do hay barling. There's a twelve year old And you
think back now nowadays, that wouldn't even be acceptable to
be all the health and safety rules you'd been breaking.

Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
With good reason, with good reason probably, yeah.

Speaker 29 (01:01:39):
Yeah, But back in those days you were taught by
your granddad and your uncles how to drive it to
it all safety features and all that, and learn to
respect the machinery. Is everything is always dangerous. And yeah,
I think there's just a different lifestyle. Like we used
to drive trucks around the farm and the paddocks while
the rest of the family's on the back of the
truck loading the haybears on from after haymaking, and you
get it into the paddock and the boss and the

(01:02:00):
uncle were just hopping the truck and turn it around
for your face the other way to hop out and
just say, stir it till we get to the fence.

Speaker 3 (01:02:06):
I think you've got also that you've got to acknowledge
the number of deaths on quad bikes, on farms and stuff.
I mean, it's not all rosy on the health and
safety front. I think there are reasons that they are
consumed about it.

Speaker 29 (01:02:17):
Oh yeah, well you gets likely we're doing stupid things
and quad bikes anyway, overloading them going up it was
a weird angle sort of stuff. So yeah, I mean
all machinery, you've got a reprieve a single machinery out there.
But I think a lot of some excellens you give,
unfortunately feel but not respecting the dangers of the the
sort of the shell bet right out and something got
wrong and it's not right.

Speaker 3 (01:02:37):
So I wonder why I didn't take the whole class
up on the plane.

Speaker 15 (01:02:43):
It probably have to get like I'm boeing.

Speaker 7 (01:02:45):
How do you.

Speaker 3 (01:02:46):
Select just three people?

Speaker 29 (01:02:47):
I wonder, Well, we were basically and we used to
help out when the rest of the class will go
away on school holidays with actually go in in our
school holidays and help the cleaning out, because how our
classroom is like a science lab as well, So we
go around and clean speakers and sort of help out
and stuff like that. So I think it's mainly more
of a reward for us than anything else.

Speaker 15 (01:03:08):
Yeah, but it was really tightful.

Speaker 29 (01:03:10):
And then one of the guys, one of my classmates,
is now pilot for in New Zealand, so you sort
of think, well, maybe that's steered them in that position.
It's quite an interesting really, when you take a step
back and think about it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
Nice to hear from you, Craig, Thank you for that, Marcus.
Growing up in Topour, our school trips in the seventies
and eighties included hydro power station trips, a geotherrmal orchid
growing house operation, deer and dairy farming, and a bus
trip out to toharda forest to watch the cable logging
in full swing. Don't think they'll let kids pass the

(01:03:42):
bush gate these days. Chainsaws, loaders and trucks and operation
on the landing site. Very exciting at the time. Hey,
just is anyone I'm only mentioning this because two texts
have come through unprompted saying the same thing. Is anyone
having things happening with their pets in christ Church? That's weird.

(01:04:05):
I've got Texas before the use two to ten saying
there is something weird going on with my two cats
and christ Church. Tonight at the slightest noise or I
moved my cats, I spooked out and never seemed like
it before. It's scary. That's from Pollyanna and christ Church.
Something weird going on with by two cats. And there
was a text earlier tonight at nine point thirty four

(01:04:28):
that said, Marcus, we have a cat and a dog
who rule our house, deep on our beds. Dog will
exercise good good so loved. The dog has put his
tail between his legs, scratched toge outside and the cat's
hidden under the beds. Bizarre live in christ Jurch? Anyone
else having issues? So I never get texts like that,
So doyone know what that's about? Is anyone having pets

(01:04:49):
and christ Church doing strange things. I don't want to
scare people or alarm people, but it's weird that it'll
be two texts about the same I've never seen a
text like that. No one's ever texted about pets doing
weird things. So if you're in christ Church, are you
pets doing weird things? Marcus? My pet has been going
weird tonight in christ Jute. So there's three independent people

(01:05:16):
that have all seen there's something weird happening to their cats.
I don't think it's a quake, by the way. I
think if that happened, it's always just right before it. Marcus,
my cat was scattery way more than normal tonight, running
around the house crazy until ten minutes ago. She's usually
in bed by seven. That's JK, who's an OK. Someone

(01:05:39):
said the air pressure is the highest it's been in
decades one thousand and forty six. Hector pescals. It's affecting animals.
Do you even know about Hector pescals high pressure? I
mean that would be the thing that I would think of.
You might have something to say about that. I weight

(01:06:01):
one hundred and eighty ten eighty. I don't know why
high pressure would affect animals. But Marcus, my dog has
just growled and got out of his crate. He was
concerned about something outside. He is still out there, but weirdly,
he has not barked. Our two boy cats have been
heaving strangely tonight. Something is definitely up, but we liven
Fielding Marcus. People with cats usually crazy anyway. Marcus about

(01:06:28):
nineteen ninety, when I was forty nine, I joined my
brother in law and sister, who were teachers, taking thirty
secondary school pupils on a canoe trip down the Funganui
River from Tomui to Peppinniki, a three day trip. When
we arrived at the river was in flood and rising.
I had done a bit of canoeing before my brother
in law was experienced. However, many of the students had
never been in the canoe before craziness, but the go

(01:06:50):
ahead was given. In the first three minutes after launching,
three or four students flipped their canoes or in the water.
They concern was there were willows on the banks and
the fair was to get caught up on the beaches. Miraculously,
no one drowned. We all parked up on a bank
area and boiled the billion cooked a fire to give
us the clue as to how quickly the river was rising.

(01:07:12):
After half an hour stop on the bank, the fire
was swept away by the river. Goodness Marcus at Ruining
a primary school in the late eighties. We went to
school camp and the back of a horse float.

Speaker 25 (01:07:31):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:07:32):
Hello, Steve, it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 19 (01:07:35):
They are just watching on the Old Disease program. They
showed a deep dy cyclone coming across the Tasman we
were in for bed with the next week. The animals
do pick it up.

Speaker 30 (01:07:46):
Really yep.

Speaker 19 (01:07:49):
We could have rain like we've never seen before.

Speaker 3 (01:07:54):
I think the amazing thing at the moment is the weather.
It's the high pressure, isn't it that there's just a
giant This.

Speaker 19 (01:07:59):
Is quite a deep, deep ady cyclone and the animals
are very sensitive to ear pressure. Yeah, that's that's probably
what it is.

Speaker 27 (01:08:10):
We're in for.

Speaker 19 (01:08:11):
Some pretty nasty weaar. They're coming up after the second
week of the school already.

Speaker 3 (01:08:16):
You sure mmmm. Would Al Jazeera have a weather station
down here.

Speaker 19 (01:08:23):
Well, I don't know where they. I don't know where
they work it from, but they hit the world map
and they do the whole world two or three times
a day and year. It's just it's just off the
coast of Australia, now, big red.

Speaker 3 (01:08:38):
It's not it doesn't move m it doesn't move.

Speaker 19 (01:08:46):
Well, that's the only thing I can think I'm looking at.

Speaker 3 (01:08:48):
I'm looking at high that builds off Australia, like it
builds there on Saturday and then it stays there without
moving till Tuesday, just back between off Sydney. So it's
a weird situation.

Speaker 19 (01:09:00):
Yeah, that could be something that the animals are picking up.

Speaker 3 (01:09:07):
You don't know about that.

Speaker 19 (01:09:09):
Oh, I don't really know. I haven't gotten animal at
the moment.

Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
But are you looking for what?

Speaker 19 (01:09:14):
I think we might be in for.

Speaker 3 (01:09:16):
Some stilly weather? Thanks Steve Marcus. My cat's made anyway. Yes,
my dog was acting very stranger to know about eight pm,
growling at the front door. I thought at the time
it was really weird. Then she wouldn't go to bed,
so she's tucked up with me. Cheers. Diane Marcus is
love West of christ which I know. It's my hen
starting a mad dash this afternoon. Happened three times in
ten minutes. I keep thinking there was a cat, but

(01:09:38):
couldn't see any I was digging compost at the time.
They weren't interested in worm's very strange behavior. Good football
one for England. I didn't get up to watch that
this morning, but I was excited by the reaction. Seems
to be a very calm coach, seems to have the
substitutions right. Dutch didn't seem to be happy. Huge Dutch

(01:10:03):
crowd in Germany for it, huge crowd, orange wave. So
I think I'll get up for that final. That seems
like it might be exciting. Spain England for the euro.

Speaker 10 (01:10:19):
Go.

Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
I tell you what. The English players weren't the English
public weren't impressed with their team at all. But they've
done just enough, Marcus. I have two cats and they
have been perfectly normal, no issues at all. I live
in Christchitch, thanks Paula. So that's the that's to countenance
all those other people what they are saying. They reckon

(01:10:40):
that people stay up late are smarter with better cognitive
function than early rises. It's good news. They found that
those who stay up late and those classes intermediate had
superior cognitive function, while morning larks had the lowest scores.
Going to be late is strong associated with creative types

(01:11:04):
like to loosel Trek and Lady Gigar. Yep. Between seven
and nine hours of sleep the best for cognitive function.
You don't want to get too obsessed about sleep. There
could be the road to Everyone talks about sleep the
whole time. Now, don't they sleep? They'll sleep that anyway. Yeah,

(01:11:24):
bullet's Marcus. Good evening and welcome, Hi Bell Marcus.

Speaker 7 (01:11:28):
I just wanted to let you know that in nineteen
forty I belonged to the Wanganui Technical College. It's the
school I went to. And we were taken as a
school party down to the exit New Zealand Exhibition building
which is now where wrong at Hi Airport is.

Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
There was okay, yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 7 (01:11:48):
Yes, and we were but I can't tell you very
much about it because I'm ninety eight years of age
and now it can re memory is pretty bad. But
we went down by train train from from where we
went by train from.

Speaker 3 (01:12:02):
Wanganui, Okay, what year was.

Speaker 7 (01:12:04):
It to Wellington, Okay? In nineteen forty wow? Wow, And
there was a New Zealand exhibition there. There was all
the buildings were where the airport is now. When we
went down there, we went by train, but we stayed
at a college nearby in Mirrorma somewhere. I think it

(01:12:26):
was called Scott's College. Yes, But I can't tell anything
much about the exhibition we went to at all. All
I remember was enormous buildings there.

Speaker 3 (01:12:36):
I was trying to remember what they were there, like
rides or roller coasters or anything like that, or displays
or what do you remember at all.

Speaker 7 (01:12:44):
Well, that's about the only thing I remember is that
is the area where kids played, you know that had
a mobile train there, and I remember that some of
the buildings were terrific. They were all sorts of exhibitions
of buildings were at least things were manufacturer in Morgan

(01:13:07):
in New Zealand those days. But otherwise I can't remember
it better, but it just brought it back to my memory.
It was what I was about fourteen then. I guess
you would have.

Speaker 3 (01:13:19):
Been because Bill, it's look, I never knew the Great
the Great News exhibitions because obviously haven't been around for
about fifty years.

Speaker 7 (01:13:25):
Now, you wouldn't have been around there.

Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
But it's my understanding they sort of showcased all New
Zealand's modern industries and products. Is that kind of what
it was about.

Speaker 7 (01:13:35):
Yes, that's what it was all about. I suppose as
I could have. Wasn't that mad keen on some of
those sort of things. I remember there was a lot
of buildings there because the Air Force took them over
during the war actually, and then they were pulled down
and they're wrong. Entire airport was built there.

Speaker 3 (01:13:54):
Because it's my it's my idea awareness had a big
New Zealand exhibition in Dunedin and one in Wellington and
one in Auckland. It seems because you quite often see
memorabilitia for sale from trade me from the different ones
they had.

Speaker 7 (01:14:09):
Yes, I've seen recently. I saw some todas of the
buildings they had there, but I can't really remember anything.
It was there very much. All I know was one
hundred year Exhibition, because New Zealand was one hundred years
old at that stage in nineteen forty.

Speaker 3 (01:14:28):
I would have been the centennial too, I guess from the.

Speaker 7 (01:14:32):
Yes, And I'm sorry I can't tell you anything about it,
but I was thought i'll let you know that at
least I went to that one anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:14:40):
It says on the Internet the New Zealand Centenny Exhibition
ran from the eighth of October nineteen thirty nine to
the fourth of May nineteen forty, so just before the war.
During this time, two million, six hundred and forty one
thousand and forty three people went through the main gates.

Speaker 7 (01:14:58):
Well, I must be in one of those, yeah, more
than the people.

Speaker 3 (01:15:01):
Of the country. It says the exhibition covered fifty five
hectares of land just to the west of Wellington Airport.

Speaker 7 (01:15:09):
Yes, that's right. Yes, all I remember was a fantastic place,
but I can't remember any individual. I remember the train,
you know, the things that kids wanted to do, it says.

Speaker 3 (01:15:25):
On either side of the central tarret the fair were
enormous sculptures of a pioneer man and a pioneer woman.

Speaker 7 (01:15:31):
Yes, probably, I've got a photo of the opening of
it at some sage, but it was not. It was
pushed ahead because the war was coming nine thirty nine,
but they carried on with the thing because they had
spent so much money on the place.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
There was a recreation of the White Tomo.

Speaker 15 (01:15:53):
Caves, was there?

Speaker 7 (01:15:55):
I don't remember that?

Speaker 3 (01:15:57):
And there was a crazy house and a roller coaster
and playland.

Speaker 7 (01:16:01):
Yes I went on a roller coaster.

Speaker 3 (01:16:03):
Please remember something, okay? And the crazy house that'd be
like a ghost train, I suppose with barrels that would
spin round or something.

Speaker 7 (01:16:10):
Yes, No, I'm sorry, I can't.

Speaker 3 (01:16:13):
I know you told me a lot about anyway that
was near the airport, and you got the year right.
I think I'm quite excited about that.

Speaker 7 (01:16:18):
Yes here, Yeah, I stayed there during the war. The
Air Force took the buildings over during the war, and
I was in the Air Force there.

Speaker 3 (01:16:30):
What after the war? Because you only be fourteen when
the war broke out, were you Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:16:33):
But I was seventeen. I went into the Air Force.

Speaker 3 (01:16:36):
Are you're crazy really at seventeen?

Speaker 7 (01:16:38):
Yeah, seventeen and a half and you and you saw supers.
I was still in the Air Force at the end
of the war, ninety eight years of age, now ninety
eight and a half or something.

Speaker 3 (01:16:50):
Did you go Did you go overseas during World War Two?

Speaker 7 (01:16:53):
Yes? I was up and well an l for a
while and Van Boginville and the Manus Islands. That was
I was an instrument repairer and the force actually, and.

Speaker 3 (01:17:07):
They had the instrument repairers. I suppose you'd have them
in the field as well, I guess.

Speaker 7 (01:17:12):
Yeah, wow, oh yeah, we did all that up there.

Speaker 3 (01:17:15):
You must have trained you must have. They must have
trained you up quickly.

Speaker 7 (01:17:19):
Yeah, well earlier before I left school when I was fourteen.
So I was a wood turner for a wee while.
But then after the war, because I had been trained
as an instrument mechanic, I spent the rest of my
life as a watchmaker.

Speaker 3 (01:17:33):
Wow. Yeah, So how long did that how long did that?
How long did you go as a watchmaker.

Speaker 7 (01:17:39):
For till about year two or two, nearly two years
ago my eyesight gave up on me.

Speaker 3 (01:17:47):
So I kind of watched quite a lot of videos
on YouTube of watch repairers and sometimes when you've got
to manufacture some of the bits. I mean, it's pretty
delicate work, isn't it.

Speaker 7 (01:17:58):
Yes, well, after the all, we were doing that sort
of thing, even on watches, because all the battery watchers
that weren't around those days when I started, so and
I kept I think I did my last grandfather clock
about two years ago, and then I've done the odd
watch since then, but they're all too small. Now.

Speaker 3 (01:18:18):
Have you got a house full of clocks?

Speaker 7 (01:18:21):
Yes? Yeah, have you? Yeah? Well, watched parts and that
sort of think. I've got plenty of that.

Speaker 3 (01:18:27):
You got a good watch yourself, not a specially.

Speaker 7 (01:18:31):
I've got a battery watch. Was nothing special.

Speaker 3 (01:18:34):
You got a bet your watch break with a battery watch.
That doesn't sound right?

Speaker 7 (01:18:38):
Yeah, Well, you see when we started, there was no
battery watches around. No. No, it's changed a lot, and
I l asked what it was not in forty five
I started forty six Actually when I left here force
and I've been doing them ever since. Then.

Speaker 3 (01:18:57):
How many watches you would have repaired?

Speaker 7 (01:19:00):
I'd love to know. Yeah, I'd get a shock of
my life. I think. Yeah, I had seven apprentices apprentices
working for me at various times.

Speaker 3 (01:19:13):
Is this still a watch repairer where you live?

Speaker 7 (01:19:16):
Yeah? I live in ros Ruin. Now there is a
watchmaker here.

Speaker 3 (01:19:19):
He is because there were there wouldn't be many?

Speaker 7 (01:19:22):
Would there not a many? When I started in Wanganui
in about ninety forty five, there were seventeen watchmakers in
the town.

Speaker 2 (01:19:30):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (01:19:31):
But now I says only wonder who was an apprentice
of miners there? And I think it's only about one
other one? Is this changed?

Speaker 3 (01:19:42):
What did you you must have had? You must have
had stacks and stacks of tiny drawers with bits and
me you must have a lot of bits, have you?
What did you do with all of those?

Speaker 7 (01:19:51):
I've done all sorts of things.

Speaker 25 (01:19:54):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:19:55):
Oh, look, it's very very nice to talk to you, Bell,
so thank you for calling. I've enjoyed that immensely. Marcus,
Oh my god, Bill's ninety eight more ticket than bide it.
I hope I can just as capables of at that
age Wow, can you imagine what to be like repairing watches?
I watch these watch repairers. The work is so fine.

(01:20:17):
I think you'd be doing well if you just didn't
lose any of the bits. You can remember all the
bits went anyway, Marcus. The industry's fear was the big
thing that would be in Chrostis each year. As kids,
we used to sit in our yard and ave and
hid and watch the big searchlight circle. The city's skyline
would be treated to a trip around the side shows
and tractors. Now the A and P Society A strugged

(01:20:38):
to survive, serves them right the price of scared people away, Marcus.
The Wellington Exhibition had two giant searchlights sweeping the sky,
and they were still in use in them at fifties.
My sister and I could see them sweeping across the
sky from the second street bedroom in Lower Hut. My
dad told us what they were mag Our huge school

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trip was to hunt you look at the coal mines
in nineteen fifty. We thought it was fantastic as it
was in those days. It's all I thought was how
lucky I was not to live there. Anyone else been
on a trip to the mine in a school trip, Marcus.
We had school trips to the freezing works in Balcluther regularly,
but the oddest one to modern sensibilities was to the

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Rothman's factory in Napier. No free samples, despite our earnest requests.
David's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 21 (01:21:30):
Yeah, I just turned in. You're talking about school trips.

Speaker 1 (01:21:35):
Yes, you know.

Speaker 21 (01:21:37):
I went on a school trip in nineteen seventy nine
when I was at secondary school. It was the week
before the Arabus disaster. Yeah, and we went to it
was the school trip. It was called Field Center and

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we are the entire It was in the fourth form,
and the entire fourth form went to National Park and
we were divided up into groups and we climbed all
the mountains and pitched tents a bit like the Scouts,
you know, and lived on skrogan and you know, sachet

(01:22:27):
soups and things like that. And I remember one night
we were camping in the teachers in our group we're
talking about this plane that hadn't come back, which was

(01:22:48):
their New Zealanders US and I didn't really know what
was going on. And then when we got back, I
I went to get the newspaper and there was the
New Zealand DC ten had come down. That's right, and
I still got the newspaper. Yeah. Yeah, we went out

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on the silver Fern. Okay, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:23:12):
Are you sentimental with things like that? Collecting papers in
the lake?

Speaker 15 (01:23:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 21 (01:23:16):
Well I was sentimental at time, and I think always
remained sentimental. And so I still have that newspaper.

Speaker 3 (01:23:26):
Have you got it framed or just filed away somewhere?

Speaker 21 (01:23:29):
No, it's just in one of my drawers. It's just
sitting there.

Speaker 3 (01:23:35):
Kind of like all those people that collect the old
newspapers from important events. But then I wonder what you're
gonna end up doing with them.

Speaker 21 (01:23:42):
Yeah, well I've wandered the same question what I'm going
to do with it? Who knows? It might end up
being a handkerchief.

Speaker 3 (01:23:53):
Yeah, well that's a good thing. I don't think it'd
be a very good one though.

Speaker 21 (01:23:55):
Day.

Speaker 3 (01:23:56):
But nice to talk to you. Thank you. A few
things Bill was bringing to listen to, great memories and
sounds like he's sharp for ninety eight. Went to my
school's first aviation camp, as they called it in two
thousand and eight. Two of the six of us, myself,
when one went straight out of school and got commercial
pilot's license. High pressure of ten forty six you mentioned early,
is outrageously high an aviation. I consider anything over ten

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twenty five high ten thirteen is considered standard. Pressure could
be messing with the cats and dogs ears, as it
does when a person when climbing and ascending in an aircraft.
When one is why the pets are behaving strangely Marcus.
On the late nineteen fifties, I went to a timber
processing factory. I was bored, stiff, and very envious of

(01:24:42):
the lucky class at the Wrigley's chewing gum factory in Elsie.
They got gum, only got a hunkle wood. By the way,
the standard trip and orcan was always the jip jop
factory tip top. They'd give you a jelly tip or something.
It wasn't bad, I mean it was pretty well. It
was good. You saw them being made. They knew that. Yeah,

(01:25:05):
I mean they took it seriously. Had they put on
a show for you? I mean what I mean that
the factory was built in such a way that it
was good for trips, places to park the bus, that
sort of stuff. It was enjoyed. It was a good act.
Well done them for that I did appreciate that anyway.
Hither it's Marcus good Evening.

Speaker 26 (01:25:26):
Yes, Marcus Heather. Yeah, nineteen fifty two my phone. On
year at Evandale College, we went on a geography trip
to bening our coal mine down by Tiquity, Wow, and
went down through their coal mine. I'll never forget. It
was fantastic.

Speaker 3 (01:25:46):
It take it down coal mine. So did you go
in a cage vertically or down a ramp?

Speaker 26 (01:25:52):
No, you went vertically down. You were lowered down like
on a rope, thing in a cage and pitch black
to slamps and it was something you never forget.

Speaker 12 (01:26:04):
Beauty.

Speaker 26 (01:26:05):
Yeah, and then you walked along on the rail line
things here behind the minus goodness.

Speaker 3 (01:26:10):
I don't even think I knew there were coal mines
in Bennie Dale.

Speaker 26 (01:26:13):
No, I didn't till you know. But yeah, we did
great trips.

Speaker 3 (01:26:19):
But that is amazing. Say that you walk along to
the front where they were chipping at the coal.

Speaker 2 (01:26:22):
Is that right?

Speaker 26 (01:26:23):
Yeah? Went along to the coal face.

Speaker 3 (01:26:25):
Yeah, goodness, with a torch on your head.

Speaker 26 (01:26:30):
Yeah. I don't think we all had torches, but we
were lead Yeah, I can't remember exactly. I don't think
we all had torches now, but that's all that was
used down there.

Speaker 3 (01:26:42):
Wow that the mine closed in nineteen sixty two after
a fire.

Speaker 26 (01:26:48):
Oh did it? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:26:49):
Yeah, it was a small to I don't even know
that about Bennie Dale, so I need to go there
and have a bit more of a look about that.
Did you end up? Did you end up a cup?
Did you go?

Speaker 26 (01:26:58):
We slept on the floor and the classroom at Tuddy
Primary schools?

Speaker 3 (01:27:03):
That's the spirit, isn't it?

Speaker 29 (01:27:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 26 (01:27:05):
Never flash? Yeah, yeah, we got one on me hither.

Speaker 3 (01:27:09):
That's I've never been out of coal mine to thank
you for that. We are talking about the places you
went on school trips coal mine. You wouldn't do it now,
Hamish Marcus, welcome, Ms Roger.

Speaker 10 (01:27:22):
How's it going? Yeah, I'm talking about the cats, talking
about cats?

Speaker 5 (01:27:27):
I heard.

Speaker 10 (01:27:28):
I've only just only just caught it, but I think
you were talking about cats.

Speaker 3 (01:27:30):
That're right, yeah, cats. A lot of people are prompted
have ticked it through and see the animals are behaving
very strangely're mainly in christ Church. But that's what they're saying.

Speaker 10 (01:27:40):
Okay, yeah, mind a little bit of a different story.
But I saw maybe walking at cats, thought a little
bit strange. Yeah, but my maid who went over to
and they put their cat in tear.

Speaker 3 (01:27:54):
I'm not sure what you pull it a cattery.

Speaker 10 (01:27:58):
Yeah, so went away for two weeks, came home and
picked up the cat. A cat, but weird, he said.
A year went by and they got a phone call
from the catteries saying, apologies, we actually gave me the
wrong cat.

Speaker 5 (01:28:16):
Wow.

Speaker 10 (01:28:17):
A lady had taken their cat and she took it
to the vet and got it scanned and it came
back as not her cat.

Speaker 15 (01:28:25):
And then yeah, they got in.

Speaker 10 (01:28:28):
Touch with cattery and said, hey, we's cat, and yeah,
they got hold of my mate and they did the
swap and got the cat back a year later.

Speaker 3 (01:28:34):
Because a poor cat must have been so freaked out
of a completely new kind of place and the owners
must have word how come he doesn't know what's going on,
like where the food is and stuff exactly.

Speaker 10 (01:28:43):
Yeah, so yeah, but yeah, the kids sort of got
to catch the new cat. So there's a few tears
and everything. But yeah, I thought that was a little
bit of an interesting cat story. Probably not cat that
can weird. I don't think that the cat was probably
a catn weird.

Speaker 3 (01:28:57):
It now, And I presume they were identical.

Speaker 10 (01:29:00):
Identical looking cats. Yeah, I guess. One thing was when
I as cat was a whe old cat, he caught
it to the kitten and it was always very timid
of other people coming in. But this new cat that
he had, I guess I came over and it wasn't
like your cats. I want bring and he's like, yeah
it is now, Oh well okay, But yeah, it wasn't
a cat. That's probably I was a bit friendier.

Speaker 3 (01:29:21):
Was a taby or a black cat.

Speaker 10 (01:29:23):
It was a tabby, you know that wild kind of
you know, hear tabby, multi colored kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (01:29:28):
So it must have been identical because you think you're
cuddling your cat, you'd noticed if it looked slightly different,
oh for sure.

Speaker 10 (01:29:35):
And yeah, I think they just thought, Okay, the cat's
just a little bit weird. The cat was always a
little bit weird, I guess, been or you know, a
wild kitten course, so yeah. But also I guess and
it was they had a pale cat, this one of
the femhole kid that he got from the other lady.
So they didn't pick up on that. But I don't
think he didn't really an Adam from cats very easily, and.

Speaker 3 (01:29:57):
The other woman was quite happy to swap them back
gin and fall in love with a new cat.

Speaker 10 (01:30:00):
Yeah, they were all happy.

Speaker 19 (01:30:02):
I know.

Speaker 10 (01:30:03):
The kids through a little upset, sort of remember the
spot the cat fact better. They gone over it pretty quick.

Speaker 3 (01:30:09):
Nice story, Thank you for that. Liked it a lot.
Twelve past eleven, Marcus two school trips I remember well.
They both had awful smells. One was the marnga the
sewage ponds. The other was the freezing works and hastings.
We received an eye to take home in a plastic
bag as a souvenir. Wow, Marcus. Interesting re animals acting

(01:30:31):
up just in case I got up and filled my flask.
If animals are weed, must be the alpine fault, bringing on.
I was born for this stuff. That's Murray, Marcus. Interesting
re animals acting up just in case I got up
and filled my flask. If animals are weed, must be
the alpine fault, bringing on. I was born for this stuff.

(01:30:52):
That's Murray. Animals acting weed. Animals acting weed, it's probably
the high pressure. Who else has been on a class
trip to a coal mine? Marcus In the nineteen eighty
so worked in a children's home. We took the kids
on a bushwalk and got lost. We end up finding
another way back, but had to cross a stream that
was in flood and very swift. We formed a human

(01:31:13):
chain across. It was very lucky that everyone got over safely.
Marcus dan Corbett did say the air pressure was the
highest recorded for many years. Tuesday nights pressure. Where do
you find the air pressure? Where's the website for the
air pressure? I'd like to get I'm surprised Dan Corbett's
still around a barometric pressure. I'm looking at it now.

(01:31:37):
Caprianger ten thirty three, kai Korhi not accessible, Puridua ten
thirty three, fang are A ten thirty three, Augan Airport
ten thirty three. Is it nine pm everye It seems
to be ten thirty three at the moment ten thirty

(01:31:58):
four for Wakator ten thirty four for fifty younger. Seems
to get up as you come down the country. How
ward are ten thirty six. I've already been someone that
thinks about the pressure. Nah We ten thirty eight, Lower

(01:32:23):
Hut ten thirty eight. Now I'm into the South Island
kai Kolda ten thirty nine, Pass ten thirty eight, hockey
Ticker ten thirty seven, Westport ten thirty seven, esh Burton
ten forty one, Timo ten forty one, christ d it's

(01:32:46):
ten forty so it is high. The pressure Awamadu ten
forty one. I've never thought about the pressure Warnka ten
forty where's bluff? The bluff not even there? That's upsetting.
So yeah, the pressure is high. Is it affecting the animals?
I don't know. Ooh, get in touch. My name's Marcus

(01:33:09):
Hittle twelve. What do you got school trips? Who's been
to a coal mine? Who's been to the freezing works?
The interesting places that you have been? Marcus fifth form
science trip to Teeway aluminium smell to watch the work
and balance a welding rod on his finger due to
the magnetic forces from the high electricity use. Yeah, it's

(01:33:32):
pretty amazing the elminium spread, how much power it uses.
When I went there, they held a chain, a metal
chain that had about two inch links and it went
horizontal by the wise explained to the kids the other
day that we probably if you look at the teaway
aliminium smelled it, we would be the house that's closest

(01:33:53):
to it as the crow flies, which is surprising. I
think you know, one lives closer, although you'd have to
drive round the harbor to get there, not that it's
a great thing to look at. Marcus. I went on
a primary school trip to the glen after and poking

(01:34:15):
Medo open cast coal mines would have been about sixty
four sixty five. Marcus catecting, weird, maybe they're plotting a takeover, Shannon,
it's Marcus, could even again.

Speaker 11 (01:34:31):
Welcome Maybe Marcus, can you hear me all right now
and clear?

Speaker 3 (01:34:35):
Shannon receiving, Oh no, that's good.

Speaker 11 (01:34:38):
Just chicken there because you a few problems with a
few other callers that you're not being able to hear people.

Speaker 3 (01:34:42):
Oh yeah, that's right. They go the here, don't know
what happened, don't know what went on next. You can
hear the produce. That's weird.

Speaker 11 (01:34:46):
But anyway, Yeah, I was just going to let you
know that the ninety one I had a good look
through their aluminion smelter. One of my mate Stead's work there,
and we've got a tour through the ninety one and
seen all the pots and all the bars being made,
and it was very interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:35:01):
It was oh Yeah, it's certainly like no other place
you've seen on Earth.

Speaker 11 (01:35:05):
Yeah, that would before or Osh and stuff, you know,
and all the PC. But we had to be just
like sticking at a little little weird group mere the mats.
We've got to tour through and just safety first. But
the amazing, amazing place that smelted.

Speaker 3 (01:35:18):
Yeah, unbelievable.

Speaker 11 (01:35:20):
Yep. And I worked at Coke too. I was in
two thy eleven when the big earthquake hit crost it chair.
They've got a plant and he's get there where they
make the one point five So I was working with
Fred Edwards Engineering putting in a new big racking system
because currently a black wave went through the place. And
then yeah, I've got to see them making coke and jesuits.

(01:35:40):
That's coming off the production line pretty quickly, all one
point five one point five cokes.

Speaker 3 (01:35:44):
All right, what's black wave?

Speaker 11 (01:35:47):
The black waves with all the rackings fell down and
all the coke fell down out of the racking systems
with the head of you think all stored?

Speaker 3 (01:35:55):
Is the black wave an earthquake term.

Speaker 11 (01:35:58):
It's basically the Coca Cola factory of all the all
the products all falling down on the ground and they
lost a lot of stock because all the racking and
all the storage systems all fell over.

Speaker 3 (01:36:09):
The Black Wave.

Speaker 11 (01:36:10):
Yeah, black Wave went through the Coke Coke plant in
the two thousand and eleven the February twenty second cake
I got in. I was temping with the engineering company
and putting in a new big robotic racking system was
at the half the side of the football field and
it was all basically like Joint Giant mccanoe.

Speaker 3 (01:36:28):
They still make coke there now.

Speaker 11 (01:36:31):
Yeah, yeah, they run coke most of the time. They
usually run coke here about four to five days a
week just to keep up with the demand for it.
But yeah, they'll run the other things like fana and
sprite that doesn't get run so much, but yeah, they've
got to. They pretty much got to run coke quite
a lot to keep up demand because coke sells seven cans.
I'll sell seven cans of coke and Vey will only

(01:36:51):
sell one can. So Coke cola is very dominant on
the market.

Speaker 3 (01:36:56):
Bring on the sugar text, Thank you, Marcus. In nineteen
ninety six, where I was a sixth former, I went
out with the police for the day for work experience.
One call was a name, and no one had seen
for days. When we arrived at the house of small
when I was open, they asked me to climb through
as I was smaller than them. I discovered the old
man had passed away his sleep. I had such a
great day. Unfortunately I became a teacher Marcus and nined

(01:37:20):
to be not a group for our class. We're to
the Broadcasting House in Wellington as young girls were thrilled
that Mark McLeod, the DJ for Tuesday, to even invite
us into the studio and chatted with us. Mark McCleod, Eh,
Stuart Marcus, welcome, Hi, Mike.

Speaker 15 (01:37:37):
Bears, how are you good?

Speaker 3 (01:37:38):
Thank you?

Speaker 15 (01:37:40):
I just sided ringon just to tell her that I
went down a coal mine in North Wales when I
was in the third form of a secondary school. I
think it must have been around the sixties at some stage,
and it's quite well.

Speaker 21 (01:37:58):
I suppose it's.

Speaker 15 (01:37:58):
Sad to say that it's quite famous. There was a
terrible disaster there in nineteen thirty four. We're over two
hundred minus perished. Why why I suppose it just seems
to be quite people know about it now? Is that.

Speaker 7 (01:38:22):
Is that.

Speaker 15 (01:38:24):
There's some gentleman that's taken over the running of the
local rection football club. And the issue was involved is
that there's a lot of minus changed their shift, people
to work on the Friday before that obviously the football
day on the Saturday, and that was quite ironic. And

(01:38:48):
the people that lost their life because they changed their
shift are going to work so they could watch the
football on the Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:38:57):
So so what was that? That was the mine called Ricksham?

Speaker 15 (01:39:01):
No, so the minus called Grastford Colliery.

Speaker 3 (01:39:05):
How's it spent?

Speaker 15 (01:39:07):
Uh? Dress for G E R S O L R
D Gresford? Okay, gressive Collierie. I remember going onto the
onto the belt in at the bottom of the pit,
to the to the pit face, and I do do

(01:39:29):
you remember these big timber doors that that that were
situated in the in the towards the colliery face. I
had I'm sure I had something to do with the
circulation something.

Speaker 3 (01:39:44):
Like that, so that the disaster had not affect the
coal mine still continued to run obviously.

Speaker 15 (01:39:53):
Well, but yeah, I think you had different what do
they call them, different h different heights for they had
different CaAl call available. There were different there is a
name for the cult different shafts.

Speaker 3 (01:40:14):
Yeah, okay, and it was a school trip. They weren't.
It wasn't a work trip. They were just showing you
the workings of it. Is that right?

Speaker 15 (01:40:20):
You had the school trip. Yeah, our class went. It
was quite in those days. We had the big heavy
battery I remember strapped our waist and the lamb. It
was quite scary.

Speaker 3 (01:40:35):
Yet that it makes me really scary. Were you from
a coal mining family?

Speaker 15 (01:40:39):
No, No, it's just a local school okay, And it
was in nineteen thirty four, mark because you might bring
it up and it is.

Speaker 3 (01:40:47):
Yeah, two two hundred over far in the mine, two
hundred and sixty six being perished.

Speaker 15 (01:40:53):
Yes, it was terrible, yes, yes, just terrible.

Speaker 21 (01:40:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:40:57):
Yeah, but yeah, they had different shafts that they used,
obviously for the call. I think that that one may
had been a deeper one. Apparently they have to they
have to seal it off apparently. Yeah. Yeah, so that
was a school tip. I'll never forget.

Speaker 3 (01:41:19):
Did they Did they give you a bit of call?

Speaker 15 (01:41:23):
I think I might have a matter of how you
called us in my teeth.

Speaker 3 (01:41:27):
That's a pretty amazing thing, because I mean, you know,
I don't know what the teachers hope to achieve, but god,
you want to do it because it just seems so fascinating.

Speaker 15 (01:41:35):
Well, the thing is obviously that have been possible to
happen these days, but I just often wonder the situation
was with the safety factor and and things like that.
But yeah, we all, we all worked down the pit.

Speaker 3 (01:41:54):
Especially especially a pit that had been that had killed
so many people, I mean, turn sixty six people cheapest.

Speaker 15 (01:42:02):
Yes, yes, yes, it was a it was a terrible
disaster of the worst history, I believe. Uh And but
it was it's it was apparently, I believe, a very
rich mind in regards to the quality of coal that
they extracted. So yeah, yeah, it went on for many,

(01:42:23):
many many years producing call after that. But they've got
quite a few monuments. This this is the big wheels
that they use at the top of the top of
the mind, the pets, the big wheels that they're actually
used as monuments, and they are quite a number of places,

(01:42:45):
especially in Gresford. The names of all the people, all
the miners are perished here.

Speaker 3 (01:42:50):
Yes, now tell me something. Are you still a supporter
of Rixham? Has it been a good thing for you?
Their their rise and.

Speaker 15 (01:42:58):
That Yeah, I loved I lived in Wrexham, so I
lived in Gresford cottage in Gstwood. It's in Gresford, which
was well within a short walking distance of the mine itself.

Speaker 16 (01:43:12):
Yes, yeah, yeah, As I mentioned that, these these new
people that have taken Wrexham Football Club, it's been quite
a publicized.

Speaker 15 (01:43:23):
Which is a good thing. I feel that the people
have perished.

Speaker 3 (01:43:27):
Has it been a good show to watch that? Have
you watched it?

Speaker 15 (01:43:31):
Watch? Watch?

Speaker 3 (01:43:32):
What the season? The TV season? Welcome to Rixam. Have
you been watching it?

Speaker 18 (01:43:36):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (01:43:36):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes it's mentioned, it's
mentioned quite a lot. Actually they've got a memorial in
Wrexham itself, uh, which has got quite a lot of
memorabilia inside the building, you know. And yeah, yeah it's good.

Speaker 21 (01:43:54):
It's good.

Speaker 3 (01:43:55):
So the and and the and the and the football
team is doing a lot better, aren't they.

Speaker 15 (01:43:59):
They Yes, they actually moved up two divisions.

Speaker 3 (01:44:02):
It's quite exciting for you. It's quite exciting for you.

Speaker 15 (01:44:05):
Well, they're makingly quite success actually at the at the moment,
I think one of the guys that's is the guy
that's the dead tool guy. Yeah, Rob mcalene or. Yeah,
they're making a big, big success. So that's all good
and I think it actually you know it bears in

(01:44:29):
people's minds about the culturally disasters, so we should never
forget those people you know love you.

Speaker 3 (01:44:36):
To hear from it. Stewart, thank you very much for that.
Markets Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 6 (01:44:40):
There is no chance I'm going to talk about being
a schoolboy at at the age of fifty three, when
I've just heard the stories of.

Speaker 30 (01:44:50):
A ninety three year old school girl.

Speaker 15 (01:44:53):
I'm not talking about anything.

Speaker 6 (01:44:54):
I want to talk about leaves and counsels.

Speaker 30 (01:44:57):
Now I've switched up here.

Speaker 3 (01:44:58):
Where was it? Where was your great school trip to there? Mark?

Speaker 6 (01:45:02):
Okay, we had a couple.

Speaker 22 (01:45:05):
I went over primary and Pepacara wonderful school.

Speaker 15 (01:45:10):
And we walked to the movies.

Speaker 6 (01:45:12):
As a school, the whole school.

Speaker 11 (01:45:15):
Walked out to Peperka Pitcher Theater and three hundred of us.

Speaker 6 (01:45:19):
I think there was.

Speaker 15 (01:45:20):
As many of the other as there were.

Speaker 3 (01:45:22):
What to see?

Speaker 6 (01:45:24):
First in nineteen seventy seven we saw Stormboy.

Speaker 3 (01:45:27):
What a great movie, one of the great films. I
don't know if I don't know if it tailed up,
but it was pretty it was pretty powerful at the time.

Speaker 15 (01:45:34):
Oh little kids.

Speaker 6 (01:45:35):
Don't remember the blunderbus and the and the.

Speaker 15 (01:45:39):
Pelican and stuff. As all little things.

Speaker 30 (01:45:43):
Then we went and saw.

Speaker 6 (01:45:44):
In nine eighty one, just my final year at primary,
went saw Windwalkers, which was the first according to something
or rather, it was all in China, a Cheyenne dialect,
and it had subtitles underneath it. Now, I don't remember
too much movie apart from the fact that sit there

(01:46:06):
and watch the subdodle movie and was able to go, oh, yeah.

Speaker 21 (01:46:10):
It's okay.

Speaker 30 (01:46:11):
I've never had a problem with subtitles.

Speaker 11 (01:46:13):
I don't know what people do.

Speaker 3 (01:46:15):
I don't think anyone does today. I think that's I
think people are crying out of that, haven't they.

Speaker 6 (01:46:19):
I don't have I haven't there.

Speaker 30 (01:46:21):
But the miss school trip over head was we went
som in Peppercora and they take us out to Imana
Regional Park, which is one hundred interesting medias in the
rocks from my grandparents badge that I went three weeks.

Speaker 3 (01:46:37):
Wow, okay, there's an irony there isn't there.

Speaker 30 (01:46:41):
That was quite delightful walking around the teachers and describing
showing us all these things in the rock pools and
I'm like, yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:46:49):
Where is that? Where is the mana? By the way,
just tell of interest.

Speaker 15 (01:46:52):
Okay, So if you come and tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:46:55):
I don't know how you one of those beaches, yep
around that.

Speaker 6 (01:46:59):
So it's just on the it's just so back towards Auckland.

Speaker 3 (01:47:03):
Copy that I'm gonna run back. I'm going to run.
I'm out of Mike, but look lovely to talk to
you all. I shall return tomorrow for the Friday Free
for all. Enjoyed that greatly, muchly as I should.

Speaker 4 (01:47:14):
Good night.

Speaker 1 (01:47:15):
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