These are the self starters (30 July 2024)

Under another day of Olympic coverage, Marcus gets into why teenagers don't seem to have the wide variety of part time jobs we used to have when we were younger.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Marcus Lush Nights podcast from News Talks.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be a seven seven past day. Welcome New Zealand'
got to be. My name is Marcus. They'll be rowing
in three minutes too. That's a promise. Tom McIntosh there
he'll be going to the quarter final. I'll bring you
that to you and that comes up on the screen,
will go live to that. And there are some events,
many events tonight, so just so you know, because it
can be confusing. The traathlon's been postponed for a day

(00:33):
because of the river. The sin has got high counts
of stuff that's not supposed to be this that won't
be till tomorrow. The trap shooting has started and they
go through, and they go through and they go through.
It's kind of stop and starting kind of a type situation.
But that'll be The finals will be on at one twenty.

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We've got rowing them all across that various swimming heats
from eight fifty five. The finals will be in the morning.
Women's hockey two fifty am New Zealand versus Argentina, Men's
football news inversus France. Four ten am Women's rugby seven

(01:17):
semi final News intervits to the USA five five sorry,
one thirty am, one thirty am News interviss is the
USA one thirty am. Now, I don't like to be
complacent and I don't like to be arrogant. If we
make the final, now I'm not saying that we are

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or we won't. Should we make the final, it will
be at five point forty five should we gotta be
careful with that because in the past we've counted our
medals our chickens before they hatched a lot of pressure
on them. I went home last night I watched the

(02:03):
men's mountain biking. It was excellent. Guy that won. That
was a Tom Pitcock who's been the Tour de Front.
He's a BMX rider, mountain bike rider, cross country rider
and a jet was exciting right and around they went.
You see, the French guy took off the three of them,
The French guy, this guy from the UK and the
South African ran and around this course. And then I'll

(02:24):
tell you what. This guy, Tom Pitcock, he punctured so
ran into the pits on a flat tie road and
on a flat tie and I'll tell you what. The
pit crew weren't that quick at fixing the front wheel.
He looked very relaxed. He just stood there and drunk
from his bottle, didn't yell and say anything. They just
quietly came in there and fixed his front wheel. Well

(02:46):
by that stage about forty five seconds behind, but just
got back on his bike and slowly picked the French
guy off again throughout the next five or six laps
and then come of the last corner, cut in and
cut him off. Very very exciting. One of the best bike,
most exciting bike races I'd seen so anyway, that was that.

(03:08):
That was last night. So that was good. The BRIT's
got that and the French got the second. And the
South Africa game the key we guided, well he got
guessed those Sam gaze. Yeah, they all come out and
say how say what a tough time they've had, How
it's been tough mentally? Well, sport is tough mentally, it seems. Yeah,
I don't know what to say about that. A lot

(03:28):
of people now going to say how tough mentally it is.
There was no doubt about that. Anyway, Welcome people. My
name is Marcus hid On Midnight, so we will bring
you sport when that happens. But the only other stuff
tonight bit of swimming and a bit of the rifle shooting,
so some of that they'll be shooting various from seven
twenty five of this KEI is at the swimm I'll

(03:50):
let you know about that also too. The rest of
the stuff tomorrow morning women's hockey, men's football and rugby
sevens one thirty in the morning for rugby sevens that
to us against USA. I should be watching that twenty
past date. In the meantime we'll do talk back. Yeah, Marcus,
when is the Canadian goose shooting and a feature at
the Olympics. Very good question, asking for a friend with

(04:13):
a Canada goose problem. They used to shoot pigeons. Those
very verinteresting France nineteen hundred pigeon shooting was the event.
I think now they're trying to stay clear of the
animals apart from the equestrians. Where men and women compete
on the same level playing field, that's interesting, isn't it.

(04:34):
The other thing I watched a bit of today, I
just not a lot of it, but watched a bit
of it was what we used to call windsurfing. It's
now called something different, like wave boarding or something like that.
But what was interesting is the matches. Races are extremely short,

(04:54):
like two minutes, and the coverage wasn't great. There was
no I was looking for diagrams and the dial up
before the start. There was none of that. Very good
though exciting, real quick like it's over in no time
at all. I was going to settle down and think, gee,
this is good right up, literally over in about two

(05:14):
minutes anyway. So that's what was That was good, that
was worth singing. That was something new for me. Twenty
one past eight. My name is Marcus. Welcome head on
midnight tonight, get in touch. There's a lot to talk
about tonight. Won't be all about the sport.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
What I wanted to.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Talk about a bit tonight. The kids still have part
time jobs. You don't see them so much doing those
sorts of things. Is that still a thing? Kids in
part time jobs? I want to know you were experienced
with part time jobs. The ones you thought that were good,
the ones you thought were bad, and the ones that

(05:47):
you thought you had no right doing that particular job
at that age are with than reason. So I'm just
curious to know about part time jobs because people aren't
see me hell bent on making the money now when
we worlded supermarket shelf stacking and.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
New and.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
All manner of stuff. I haven't did maths coaching, of
all things. But anyway, I'll be curious to know what
your kids grandkids are doing as part time jobs, or
what the part time jobs you did, and whether they
set you on your lifetime career or whether they were
an opportunity that put you off at forever. I don't

(06:31):
know what they are. I don't know what the modern
form of because you've got no you can't deliver that
junk mail, because that's kind of a thing in the past.
I suppose what I see a lot of young people
doing at the supermarkets is filling up orders for online shopping.
I've never done McDonald's, by the way, I see McDonald's,
and sales are dropping free his time ever downward spiral

(06:55):
That and soft drinks. People aren't buying soft drinks like
they used to do. They're all drinking water. Thanks for
the update, Hamish snowing and fairly roads still open, Sean Marcus, welcome,
would thing.

Speaker 5 (07:07):
Well evening, Mark tell you, I just thought i'd let
you know about a part time job I had as
a kids For the thing I was an eleven year old,
and I used to work for the local pharmacists of chemists,
and I used to deliver prescription medication around Chatta too
on my bike Mates for the thing. So wow, I
don't think there's a roll where would exist anymore.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Well you we talk? Are you in fifty? Are you
fifty five?

Speaker 6 (07:31):
Why?

Speaker 5 (07:32):
This was ninety the mid eighties, Marcus, when I was
doing it.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
It's later than I thought, because I don't remember seeing
people doing that. But yeah, okay, kind of good way.

Speaker 5 (07:43):
It wasn't very common, I don't think mates for the thing.
And then the first thing you'd have me do every
day when I showed up would be to burn all
the rubbish out the back of the shops for the
thing in the big generator and yeah, but there you go.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Well was it with people so sick? Were people so
sick that the phone and are not? I can't work
it out, because these days you can never get prescriptions delivered, really,
can you?

Speaker 5 (08:09):
Yeah? I don't know. I don't know. They tended to
be older people mates for the thing, and they would
I think they drop off their prescription after going to
the doctor during the day. And then basically it was
a service to chemist offered on sharp and recycling around
gilty with a backpack full of drugs at eleven years old.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
What sort of bike should like? A like A like
a healing ten speed or a monarch or.

Speaker 5 (08:33):
It was exactly that, mate, it was. It was a
metallic blue ten sceed mate. For the thing it was it?
It was the key ones that must have been a
healing right sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Do you do it for long?

Speaker 7 (08:45):
Ah?

Speaker 5 (08:46):
About a year? I think I did it for markets
for the thing, and then I then we went to
Australia and I got a job at the VFL park
selling pie.

Speaker 8 (08:54):
As a kid the what park.

Speaker 5 (08:58):
An Australian Melbourne. There was a park called VFL Park
back in the day, which is just a big Ousi
rule stadium. Used to walk around with the back of
the pies selling them to people.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
You remember what you're getting paid by the paid by
the pharmacist.

Speaker 5 (09:15):
It was about twelve dollars a week, I think from memory.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
You know, I was gonna without a word of a lie,
I was going to say twelve bucks a week. I
was going to say that I'd actually guessed it.

Speaker 5 (09:24):
Wow, yeah, yeah, So there we go. He'd a be.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Exciting men living you. I'll be able to burn the
rubbish sow. You burn all sorts of stuff in those days.
Plastics whatever are you?

Speaker 5 (09:34):
Yeah, there were exactly maybe there's a lot of a
lot of wasted medicine markets. And that was all plastic,
right I do, without exaggerating, recall plumes of black smoke
as you were, just chuck plastic and all sorts of
expired drug bo cossuming just in the fire.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
That's where they got you eleven. Because you're probably fifteen sixteen,
you'd be a bit wiser, wouldn't you.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
Like the kids down the mines, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Yeah? Nice memory, Sean, Thank you you're part time John.
You've got are a bad thing for kids to do?
And what was yours? And the things you did? The
things they made you do. I don't mean like things
they made you know that sounds a bit sketchy, but
the things they made you look anything? What was that about?
I mean some of your older callers, you might have
been down the mines as a twelve year old, and

(10:20):
that's always good to hear those. So oh yeah I
was down the mines, Mum set me down the mines.
Wasn't doing much at school. She said, Sonny, down the
mines for you. I'd love to hear about that. Oh
eight hundred eighty eight Teddy and nine two nine to
the text one of his Marcus, down the mines with you, Sonny.
Here we go. Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty and
nineteen nine to the text, hurdle twelve watching table tennis.

(10:43):
That's good. I don't like the tables. Here we go.
I like the tables with four legs. These days they've
got kind of two legs that branch out. That's just me.
But this woman's making good account of herself. Well they
both are, really how past on? I got to go
right to the time. Don't you got your sports caboost
with your tidy, hold your horse. I'll be with you
soon getting touched. Call or tech if you want to

(11:06):
take nine Well, oh wait, one hundred eighty ten eighty
John Marcus, welcome, good evening.

Speaker 9 (11:14):
Now I am good, John Good.

Speaker 10 (11:19):
Coupful of great jobs in the eighties. First one, I
had three lawnmowing jobs that I had just in the
local area. Used to ride my bike in there, go
on there ten bucks on each lawnmar and I'd go
around smash out those lawns and get down on my
hands and knees check for the last blade of grass.
Good money. Didn't have to buy fuel, didn't have to

(11:41):
buy the mar just turned up and got ten boats
for each lawn.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Wow.

Speaker 10 (11:45):
That was the first job. That was great. The second
shot was a little bit sad. But we had a lady,
local lady, elderly lady who had security doors inside her
house because she was real scared of thetack. And so
each night I would have gone and spend the night
in the house. She was a National Party supporter from
way back and just went off every night for about

(12:07):
an hour or so, just yapping about parties. She used
to have National Party all the rest of it at
her own home, and I'd just be wanting to go
to bed, so I just slept in the house. And
then one night there was a storm. And this is
the last time I had this job. It was a great,
big storm, and I woke up and I found her
sitting on the bed where I was sleeping, and she
was scared. I did nothing, turned went back to sleep.

(12:29):
That was the last time I had that job. How
old were you, oh, a teenager?

Speaker 2 (12:38):
But teams God, and you'd sleep there every night, it's
like the weekend as well.

Speaker 10 (12:45):
Well no, no, not every night. No, there's a roster
of people who went in. But yeah, I think I
got fired after that one because it didn't really help
her out that night.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Goodness great. I mean she must have been terrified.

Speaker 10 (12:55):
Yeah, yeah, just terrified of the dark and being in
the house on her own and then the storm. Yeah,
that was the worst for her. So, yeah, that's said.
But kind of a fun job, you know, get paid
for sleeping.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
Right, job. I mean, that's the ultimate job, to get
paid during your sleep. What was the rate for that one?

Speaker 10 (13:12):
I thank I think it was twenty bucks a night,
which was aw some money when you're a teenager exactly.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
But you have to listen to her for an hour beforehand,
would you?

Speaker 6 (13:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (13:21):
Yeah, yeah, he'd just be in this escape mode all
of the time, trying to get off of you know,
get out of the conversation and gotta go to bed,
gotta go to bed, to go.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
It sounds like the background for a key Wei short story,
like a Sergan this is good, okay, there you go?

Speaker 5 (13:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Wow? What that was an Auckland was it? John?

Speaker 11 (13:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah, okay? And the third.

Speaker 10 (13:42):
Oh no, that wasn't a third. There was just three
three lawn mowing jobs, three three long mining rounds, and
then one morn mining round, three lawns. It's a better
way to look at a day.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
I think I was getting two dollars fifty for my
lawnmowing round. But that was nineteen seventy eight, so that
was a bit earlier.

Speaker 10 (13:57):
Yeah, this would have been mad eighties. So it sounds like.

Speaker 12 (14:00):
You get yeah, they'd be right.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
No, I mean the key was cabbagry leaves. You go
on and get those up first. Nothing that would actually
get caught in the thing that's the most important thing,
wasn't it.

Speaker 10 (14:11):
Well that doesn't change.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
There has it changed? As long as not flooded. I'd
always say twenty five away from nine mo. Name is
Marcus Japart time jobs. Fancy sleeping with it, sleeping in
the house with the elderly woman, that's weird it. Then
fancy turning up during the storm. It's gonna take me

(14:34):
a while to process that one. Jeeps, Robert ats Marcus,
good evening and welcome.

Speaker 13 (14:44):
Thank you Marcus.

Speaker 5 (14:45):
Hey.

Speaker 13 (14:46):
I grew up on a farm, a sheep and cattle
farm up in the Hinds gorge and our holiday jobs
are involved plucking dead sheep. So it was I had
two older sisters and a brother, and it was a
race to go and find a dead sheep somewhere and
pluck the wall and stuff it in a bag, take

(15:06):
it into town and sell it. Although we did have
to dry it, as I recall, we had to dry
it out in the woolshed floor, so each of us
had a quadrant of the woolshed floor to dry out
all our dead wool. And of course the the fresher
the sheep, the harder it was to pluck. But if
it had been dead for quite a long time until
wall came off quite easy. But we made a lot

(15:29):
of money as kids in the holidays, and we all
had flash bikes, and we had cassette decks you know,
early on in our in our teen years and stuff.
I remember I bought my first watch with dead wall.
It was fantastic.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Not a sheep diet.

Speaker 12 (15:49):
Ah.

Speaker 13 (15:49):
Well, Actually there was one year we had a colossal
snowstorm we lost a lot of sheep, wow, and they
were all piled up by the affle pit there and
we were just plucking them flat out and tossing them in.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
So when you pluck a sheep does when you pluck
a sheep? Is it just the wall that cut off?
What does the anchor come off as well?

Speaker 5 (16:09):
No, just just the wall comes off.

Speaker 13 (16:11):
Sometimes a very thin layer of skin can come with it,
but they didn't seem to mind that in the wall store.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
And you can't share that. It's easy to pluck it off.
It's not possible to share a dead sheep. Is that right?

Speaker 13 (16:23):
You could share it. Some people did, but then it's
not sold as the same class. It's a different doesn't
the end not a not a spiky end, so it's
sold as a different article.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Okay, are you up? This is up the Hinds River?

Speaker 6 (16:38):
Is it.

Speaker 14 (16:40):
Yep?

Speaker 5 (16:40):
Right up in the hills?

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Goodness? And would you go on bike to get the sheep?
Would you? Would you go on four wheel bike to
get the sheep? Or how would you get them?

Speaker 13 (16:51):
They didn't have four wheeled motorbikes back then, but we'd
certainly go on.

Speaker 10 (16:55):
We used to have two wheeled.

Speaker 13 (16:57):
Motorbikes for sidecars.

Speaker 5 (17:01):
There, a little old.

Speaker 13 (17:02):
Yamaha eighty two strokes. I think we must have been
about the first farm to have motibise actually on the property.
We're going back to nineteen secrety.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Oh it's a while ago. Okay, you're still working the land, Robert,
as you get out.

Speaker 13 (17:19):
We're not not on the farm anymore, but I still
run a few cattle.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Nice to talk, Robert. That's a good story. Never thought of.
You went sort of plucking sheep, Tom Marcus welcome.

Speaker 9 (17:32):
Oh Marcus.

Speaker 15 (17:33):
Yeah, hey, look, I used to have a job mowing
the next door neighbors lawns with a push moer, and
then he had one of these little real mowers. So
this is going back fifty to fifty years ago. And
I used to get fifty cents. He had a huge
area at MO after school. And then I advanced to

(17:55):
a paper run and the paper run paid two dollars
fifty and I used to deliver around Wickers Street and
twy and I had two runs on that particular each night,
five days a week, or six days a week. Actually
I did the sad Day run.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
It was the is this a Wicker Street.

Speaker 9 (18:16):
In christ Church?

Speaker 8 (18:17):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Okay, copy that you b yep yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 15 (18:20):
Waker twoy round boys high.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, I understand.

Speaker 15 (18:24):
And yeah, once I finished that job, which I believe
it or not. I managed to buy a Rally twenty
and the Rally twenty was my pride and joy, and
I had another push bike and I ended up getting
a job at Mary's the chemist on the corner of
Clumbo and Cashle Street.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Wow.

Speaker 15 (18:44):
And I worked married as the chemist for about two years.
And he used to get me to ride my bike
over to Sydenham and I'd pick up a big jar
of methadone, pop it on the back of my bike
there in a cardboard box, and I'd cycle all the
way back to the chemist shop after I'd picked it up,
and they used to supply it to the myth of

(19:06):
the own people that they used to crunch it all
up and make it into a liquid form. And I
would cycle from Murray's and then then once I once
I'd finished that job, I got a job on a
tomato farm and used to work that and fur days
and after that's what you did in those days. You know,

(19:28):
it was a good way of learning how to save
budget and how to work. And unfortunate kids today they
don't seem to understand that.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
I think when you got the super bacs, lot of
kids working there aren't there and McDonald's.

Speaker 15 (19:44):
That's true, that's true.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
I just like the way it's it's called. I like
the way it's called Murray's the Chemist, which is a
lovely name for a chemist, isn't it.

Speaker 15 (19:54):
Well it used to be run by Arch Murray and
Lea's Murray, the two of them. They had a shop
and Bell's okay where they used to do waxing, women's wax,
other legs and a bit of makeup. And they had
the store on the corner of cash in Colombo. And
it was one of the busiest pharmacies in christ Church.

(20:17):
It was me in those days. You go into the city,
you know, and.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
It was it was you know, it was called Murray's
the Chemist.

Speaker 15 (20:26):
Murray's the Chemists. Yep, there was Murray's. Oh they close,
they closed.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
No, No, I'm to the ready twenty.

Speaker 15 (20:36):
They're ready twenty. Well that's another story.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Every one was another story. Seventeen to nine part time jobs. Wow,
plucking sheep and sleeping with the elderly woman. What do
you say she had?

Speaker 12 (20:51):
Dan?

Speaker 2 (20:52):
What'sort of doors? Where would the security doors be? You
got a pie Awards embargo used it to there. I
think people aren't copy that. Robert it'll be the Bernie
Boeronnie yep, or someone will be clean up there. So

(21:15):
at the part time jobs, don't give you updates when
that happens. Glennett's Marcus, Welcome and good evening, Hi Glenn.

Speaker 7 (21:22):
Hi Marcus. I don't know if this quite qualifies as
a part time job. But my sister and I when
we were I would have been about seven and she
would have been about ten. We were quite entrepreneurial, I think,
and we decided to make our pocket money our own way.
So we busied ourselves picking all our neighbors grape hire

(21:44):
since which were very plentiful, along the front of her house,
and we'd tie them into bunches and then we sold
them at the gate of our house for thrones a bunch.
I don't think my mother was aware of this. And
then we also, yes, you may remember the little Golden Box.

Speaker 16 (22:03):
Do you remember this?

Speaker 2 (22:04):
Absolutely?

Speaker 7 (22:05):
Yeah, we had a whole library full of those, which
our parents had loving megalin us over the years. So
we marked them all at various prices and sold them
to our friends. So we sort of accrued quite a
bit of pocket money, and our parents found out eventually,
but they weren't aware at the time, but we didn't

(22:27):
do as well as that in later life.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
Unfortunately.

Speaker 7 (22:29):
That was sort of the beginning at the end of
our entrepreneurship.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
What we're saving four to be so the hell bent
on money? With your great Hyacinth and your golden books.
What were you wanting?

Speaker 17 (22:39):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (22:39):
Look, probably pineapple chunks of the dairy and things like that,
things that you know your parents wouldn't be happy about.
I can't think of anything very extreme, really.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
Very good answer. I think what you said, Pintaple lups
will understood that. Nice. Thank you, Matthew Marcus. Welcome Marcus.

Speaker 11 (23:00):
When I was seventeen money in eighty six and the
seventh form, my high school girlfriend worked at an Italian
restaurant in Autland City and I used to go in
on Friday and Saturday night to pick her up and
go out after work. But they were so busy that
there were two cousins that owned it, and they said,

(23:21):
can you give us a hand here in the in
the PiZZ area. They made restaurant pizzas for the restaurant
and sold them takeaways, and so next one I was
learning to make pizzas and that was my job. I
did that for a number of years was really good and.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Which was which is the shop? Mission? Were we talking?

Speaker 5 (23:41):
No?

Speaker 11 (23:42):
They were so busy because they were right next to
the Liedo Cinema and Manico.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
Yes yes yes, yes, yes yes yes.

Speaker 11 (23:48):
Everyone had pile out of Aledo and we'd sell one hundred,
just over one hundred pizzas Friday and Saturday night. And
so I did that for a number of years. One night,
the owner he said, right after a couple of years,
he said, all right, i'll see later, I'm off home.
And so he said you're in charge. So next minute

(24:10):
I was a restaurant manager. And then he started doing
that regularly. And he was a mechanic, so he had
a couple of Ferraris. He was into his cars mechanic previously,
and he was into the Frari owners club. So he
would take off for a weekend around the country with
them on their club trips and leave me in charge
of the restaurant for weekends after he trusted me after

(24:33):
a while.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
How old were you at the time, Oh, well.

Speaker 11 (24:38):
I was seventeen when I started, but it was about
nineteen when he just took off and left me in charge.
But they were good. He was a character and one
year he bought a Rolls Royce, quite a nice one,
and it was just my drinking money. It was six
dollars an hour, and I used to go down to
Schinos after work and all from you might remember that

(25:00):
at bar. But one night he piled a couple of
the waitresses and and myself into the Rolls Royce. He
put on a chauffeur's cap, hopped in the front and
took us down down to the bar and parked out
the front, got out of the car, made a bit
of a thing about it, and everyone these.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
The shin of Albert and Victoria's is that we're just
taking my mind back of it there? Yeah, okay, copy that.

Speaker 11 (25:31):
Yeah, started off in Simon Street, but yeah, all my
wages went on.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Jack Daniels, Yeah, what do you make of the pizzas?
What do you make of the pizzas these days? Math?
Were they any good those old time pizzas, because they
tasted good, But pizzas have changed a lot, haven't they.

Speaker 11 (25:46):
These were fresh ingredients and good bass, which he made
in a commercial mixer, the owner. So I didn't see
that side of it, but there's a range, you know,
some of these flat based ones are good that it
depends on your taste. I'm not so keen on the
fast food ones are quite.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
A lot of topics. The pizzas in the eighties weren't
there that they were quite ambitious. The pizzas these days
seem a lot more stripped back, don't they.

Speaker 11 (26:14):
Yeah, yep, they can be. Some of the restaurant ones
are good. But we had the Laugherrari special, which is
everything on Marion arras.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
That's right, Well I remember that been good, the laugh
for the laugher Rari. I haven't embarked on that. That
was a good pizza.

Speaker 11 (26:27):
That was the eighties.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yeah, well, yeah, certainly was the eighties. Meith, that's a
good call. Thank you for that. By the way, Zoo's
died at Willington's a Keyw's died at Willington Zoo after
why I found in his stomach? Goodness? Why we didn't
the zoos look after animals? Anyway? Keep your calls coming through,

(26:48):
Neil Marcus, welcome today.

Speaker 18 (26:50):
So I learned at a piece of the ins replication
voluntary and parton jobs right from a week ago. Because
when I was ten, I made some boys very jam
in and took them to the market and I sold
off some stints, so I bought which were quite valuable.

(27:11):
I got them cheap andess made quite a profit and
that money got me a rally twenty. So then I
had a paper run and then I used to bike
out to the local golf golf courses of that long
array and caddy golf for various people, and that was
pretty lucratic.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Hang on, Neil, could you explain golf caddying to me?
Do you just front up and charge yourself? Are you
like self employed? Is it how that happens?

Speaker 18 (27:38):
It's under an arrangement with the club at the time,
and you just had to you know, if you could pick,
if you're really good, you could pack the club they
were going to ask for, which made it quite Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
Yeah, but I just want to know how the money worked.
Would you just hang around the golf club until people
employed you?

Speaker 18 (27:58):
Yeah, you actually have a certain time and then quite
often people would used to caddy that in those states anyway, And.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Was there a flat rate for it?

Speaker 18 (28:09):
Yeah, yeah, it's about I think it was in Darlar
nineteen hour. But you know, people say all the were
le nineteen hour. I had plenty of jobs, so than that.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
Oh yeah, I got So you're just waiting around the
golf club and then someone say, oh do you want
to would you stand in one particular place or where
would you be? I don't, I want to visualize it more.

Speaker 18 (28:28):
Well, you stand by the clubhouse. And when usually like
old dispenses and people like that would hire a keddy
because it saw it was, you know, a trendy thing
and you had to turn out presentable. Marcus had to
be really well well attired, you know. But I've been
buying my own clothes already by that time. And then

(28:51):
I had other lot of part time jobs. I type
sit the noses page for them middle an advocate, and
then I punched computer cars that just started up having computers,
and you punched all these holes out of the cards
for wages for a car company that was only sixteen
hours a week. And then I had voluntary with wallpaper

(29:13):
hanging and painting houses, particularly pitchens, and putting fresh liner down,
that sort of thing. And then.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Yeah, where was it were? Where were the markets you
sold your jam? Well just the.

Speaker 18 (29:31):
Local market in wong Array. You had to go down
town with it.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
And yeah, got a lot of jobs the golf.

Speaker 18 (29:40):
I can answer a lot of.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Right through them. They might be something that springs.

Speaker 18 (29:45):
Up right, so situ rescue with the police helping sution
rescue in the mountains. So I had tramping experience from
the age of thirteen. And then oh, security at an
outdoor pop concert?

Speaker 2 (30:01):
What pop consent?

Speaker 18 (30:03):
Oh, just like one of the local bands up off
that would do an outdoor concert the park, just at
an ordinary rugby ground park and you just had to
stay rough security because there was no seats or anything.
So it was pretty disorganized, you know, and get to
keep a watch or eye and make sure people doesn't

(30:24):
get away from the ground, you know, violent or anything
like that, or throwing beer at the bend. You had
to be reasonably staunch of at yourself to cope with it.
And then also tutoring bilge and chemistry one year behind
me in high school.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
And then okay, we'll get the drift, Neil, but thank
you for that, by the way, should it owen? Robinson
has just had another perfect round. Yes it's a perfect round.
Twenty five or twenty five is out to round four,
so he's in fourteenth. That is unlikely to make the
top six qualifying mark even if he shoots another perfect round.
So once again a slow starter on the shooting. He

(31:04):
should have shut well easy to do. Yeah, I'm not dear.
I don't know how hard it was. But he's got
the hang of it.

Speaker 19 (31:10):
Now.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
You want to come out firing, don't you? Yeh, Bob
Marcus welcome?

Speaker 4 (31:17):
How are you?

Speaker 20 (31:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Bob good? Thank you?

Speaker 21 (31:18):
Bub Yeah. I worked for a cocky when I was
at school. I would go on the hay season and
make hay for them between Mosgill and out from this
base called clad Stone there, and anyway, Old Barney was
as tight as they come. And he said to me, look,
he said, I can't afford to pay you wages or anything,
but you can have all mushrooms grow on my property.

(31:40):
You can pick them and sell them. So anyway, come
time to mushroom season, there was each of mushrooms and
anyway was going down to Peddick to pick them, and
Barnie the cocky was with me. And I seen all
these people in the peeddock with all these buckets picking mushrooms,
and I said to Barney, we need to do something
about it. He said, just relax, Sonny, just take your time,
he said, just relax and I thought, well, they're taking

(32:02):
all my mushrooms. So Barney was a huge boy, and anyway,
he waited to leave people come back and gave them
a hand to put the mushrooms over the fence and
thank them very much for picking the mushrooms for the
lad and I got to sell them on the side
of the road. Got mum scales and aren't old school desks.
And I was kidding about it. I don't know it
was a pound in those days, probably a dollar a

(32:24):
pound or something.

Speaker 9 (32:24):
I made.

Speaker 21 (32:25):
I made jolly good money, more than what Barney would have.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Paid me for the Hey, it's a good story.

Speaker 21 (32:31):
Yeah, so that's my story. And of course I was
panicking because these people were picking the blood mushrooms. I think, God,
they're taking my mushrooms.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
So so who were they? Were they people working for
them or were they picking them thinking they could have them?

Speaker 21 (32:43):
Yeah, they're flogging them.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Okay, that's what I thought. That's what I thought.

Speaker 21 (32:46):
The key to that one was, yeah, because Barney was
about six for six and they weren't going to argue
with him, and he put them over the thing. Today
they thought he was helping them, but oh no, as
soon as he got them over there. He give them
to me.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
That's a good story. It's a really good story.

Speaker 21 (33:00):
Are you Marcus?

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Nice to hear from you. Thank you there, barbye way
one hundred and eighty turty min AMers, Marcus were all
about the PtD, PTG, the part time job clear Bert
Lewis went went the two hundred butterfly no good?

Speaker 20 (33:13):
Did it all right?

Speaker 2 (33:14):
He's eight to the heat. You'll be careful because talk
back will go sour tomorrow. They don't get the middle
and the sevens, Well, what's wrong with us? They'll be saying,
I'll blame everyone.

Speaker 21 (33:28):
We're not good.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
When we're not winning, people start blaming the education system
or tomorrow's schools or the I'll just be grasping stuff
out of thin air. So let's help we get something overnight.
Hop ast wonder when you get home if you're working
my shifts, get home, you're being the TV on you
be able to watch that. Kendall Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 22 (33:52):
Hello Marcus. I'd like to ring tell you about the
part time job I had and ring euro and milking
cows before and after school. That for four years and
I earned three pound ten a week, and I purchased

(34:14):
a Humber bike from George Carpenter and rang Urine and
had everything on it, gears, mudflaps, saddle bag, the lot.
And for an extra income, I used to do that.

Speaker 8 (34:30):
Well.

Speaker 22 (34:30):
The farmer used to give me Bobby cabs I'd and
I'd read about six of them a year and they
grow up and then i'd keep them for about twelve
to fifteen months and then send them to Addington and

(34:50):
Sailyards and when they were about twelve twelve months old,
fifteen months old, and that was a nice little income.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
What time were you getting up for the milking?

Speaker 22 (35:06):
Around about half past five and I'd bike him from
I lived in Rangura and used to buy out down
out of town a weave it and then go back
to school and then after school i'd repeat the repeat

(35:29):
the job again. So and I did that for about
probably four years and left and started work.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
Full time at the farm.

Speaker 22 (35:48):
No no, I worked for a Stockham station firm and
rang Ura.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Oh yeah, okay.

Speaker 22 (35:55):
Is just as a matter of interest, that young man
that worked for Les Murray. I knew Les Murray the
DNA at a chemist. Oh really yes here and I
met his son in law when I moved to Wellington

(36:17):
later on in my life. Goodness there is and a
long time ago though.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
Oh nice to hear from you, Ken, I appreciate it.
There's some good sport. I enjoyed watching the Mountain Biking
last night very much, the third by zero point one
one seconds from the ends in tier the following state.
I was a closed overnight ross to fox trees and

(36:46):
wind twice or to fairly snow porters, past snow Pookekey
to Mount cook Snow. Marcus hype for the Croatia men's
water polo against Italy tonight on Paris two channel ten pm.
Should be a cracker. I hope you all good cheer.

(37:09):
We are talking part time jobs, the ones you did,
the ones in hindsight you think, wow, I really was
too young to go down the mines or something like that,
or the ones you took many things see that was
dangerous or weird. I'd like to hear about this. Fine,
it's very interesting. Get in touch. My name's Marcus. Welcome
Pedal twelve. All about the old part time and what

(37:32):
were you saving for and if you did something that
was beyond the ordinary interesting thing people delivered things. I
don't know why chemists were so unt delivering prescriptions. It's
not a service you get these days, is it. I

(37:52):
quite know what that was about. There must have been
something different. They must have taken a prescription, it must
take them a long time to make up the prescription
or something. I don't know. Around to come on a bike.
It was that about before careers, obviously. John Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 17 (38:14):
Evening, Margus.

Speaker 6 (38:17):
Drop.

Speaker 4 (38:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (38:18):
I used to deliver medicines to climate homes and a
little ladies. Mainly used to pick up start, Gifton and
crosser for the chemist and they would happened whatever had
to be made up. And I told my kids that
I was a phone runner. Was my best job.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
We're on a bike. Yeah, Why did they deliver prescriptions?
What was the point?

Speaker 17 (38:48):
I think a lot of them was peat stuff. Okay,
the shops are spent up for the restaurants and that.
Then the holidays. We used to spend Long Day and
the holidays Washington will evening jazz and bottles and all that.
There was no plastic.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
Nice to hear from you, John, Thank you for Aaron
Marcus welcome.

Speaker 23 (39:13):
Hey, Gay Marcus, most talk to you. I'm just going
to pull over and talk to you about part time jobs.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Thank you.

Speaker 19 (39:19):
There we go.

Speaker 23 (39:21):
Yeah, I love my corporate career now, but I think
best stories I've got probably from the part time jobs
they had while I've been studying. I've had a big
range of jobs, and yeah, love to talk about the
different memories I got from those. I think one of
the most memorable ones was being a bouncy castle delivery
man for quite a little nice stretch there.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
So what would that entail.

Speaker 23 (39:43):
So we would head around to a warehouse, pick up
maybe ten bouncy castles, there are a few of us,
and jew put them in the back of your truck
and then head around Auckland delivering the bouncy castles to kids'
birthday parties and the lake, blow them up, set them
up and then kind of go back around and reverse
and pick them up in the afternoon and then deliver
them back to the ware house at the end of
the day.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
Wow, and you'd be quite you'd be quite careful to
anchor them down.

Speaker 23 (40:08):
Yes, of course it was. Yeah, lots of some of
them were indoors, but yeah, you definitely had to make
sure they're all secure. And yeah, great job, very physical,
nice to drive around different suburbs of Auckland. And uh yeah,
obviously see happy kids at the end of the day.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
I always be a bit of excited, but excitement when
the bouncy castle guy arrives. It's exciting, isn't it.

Speaker 20 (40:30):
It was, it was I did.

Speaker 23 (40:32):
One of my worst stories of that job was probably
on the very first shift. Actually so lucky I was
called back for a second and third one. I thought
it was quite fun putting all these bouncy castles up,
so I thought I'd take a little run through it myself,
had a bit of a dance around, finished my fun,
packed it up, jumped into the truck and then couldn't
find the car.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Keys and wow, that's a good story. You did deflate it.

Speaker 23 (40:57):
Yeah, I had to put it all the way back
up again. Unfortunately found it in the middle of the
unty castle and my boss wasn't too happy. A couple
of hours later.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
What were the other jobs? And I liked that One.

Speaker 23 (41:09):
Similar job to that, well sorry, a very different job,
but the same agency sent me up to work on
a promo job was Jaguar when they released their new
X type or F type I think was called. It
was a nice little convertible and I had two jobs
of this one was picking up people at the old
Langham and taking him for a little test drive so

(41:29):
that they could see the car ahead at the launch event,
and that was obviously fun. And then the other one
was actually following a race car driver who drove the
faster car in front of us along Chemicky Drive, and
he had a helicopter following him, and I was just
kind of following a normal speeds at the back as
we drove along Semikie Drive to the official launch event

(41:51):
of the car. So I couldn't believe I was getting
paid to do this As a twenty one year old
or whatever I.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
Was at the time, what were you studying?

Speaker 23 (41:58):
Eron marketing and international business? Good far ParvE from the
part time job I.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
Could even imagine that delivering I always thought the Bouncy
Castle was just the owner operator.

Speaker 23 (42:11):
That was definitely the case. But this guy we worked
for had managed to grow his business quite well, but
he needed to hire a few extra people. So it's
funny how some of the less interesting or exotic jobs
can actually turn into what had to be for him
a pretty good money making opportunity.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
Well, these days, with China and direct communication, the whole
Bouncy castle the world. You've got those whole giant things, now,
haven't you that take up whole fields with all different
kind of events on them. That's kind of the bouncy
castles have kind of exploded in size, now, haven't they.

Speaker 23 (42:42):
That's right? Yeah, I wonder how he's doing now. Hopefully
he's been able to keep himself on the ground.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
Good to hear from you erin thank you text. If
you can part time jobs. The weird, the wonderful, and
the darn right exploited Marcus Ollivant. For me, there was
a chemistal will deliver your medical needs for charge of
five dollars. Even if you just want cough mixture, you
have to pay for it, but five dollars is charged Marcus. Chemist.

(43:08):
Boys got twenty cents per hour nineteen seventy one, eighty
five cents at the bowling as a pin boy. Walked
all through school and Uni, saved up for car ware
of school and went to university, saved up for home
and travel, got my first home eting months out of Uni. Kitha,
I never fought a home. I did discuss the Olympics.

(43:30):
The kids said, how many athletes? Nine thou how many
sports thirty six but a lot of different categories of
each sport. How many countries two hundred and two out
of hundred and four got the other questions were evening
Lyolt's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 16 (43:52):
In the summer of nineteen eighty eighty one, when I
was aged sixteen, I was what they called a pot
wallaper for the army, which was a person who a
teenage boy hired to wash the dishes for them on exercises.
And there were two big exercises in the South Island

(44:14):
where I was. The biggest was in Tekopol, where that
you had regular force, uh you know what were then
called territorials are usually some you know, some foreign troops
as well, uh and some armor a little bit we
had and they needed people to wash the dishes for

(44:37):
them in the great outdoors.

Speaker 14 (44:38):
So I did that.

Speaker 16 (44:39):
And there was another exercise for the medical cores in Waitati,
which is just near Aramwana, not far away from Duneeda.

Speaker 14 (44:47):
So I did that too, and we used to do that.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
They would I thought they would have done their own
dishes in the field. Wheld they find you.

Speaker 14 (44:56):
Because my dad was in the army.

Speaker 20 (44:58):
Wow.

Speaker 14 (45:00):
So and I can't remember the exact details, but the
washing vessels were.

Speaker 16 (45:08):
Picture of forty four gallon drum that split leaked ways
down the middle I can put right, and then they
were put on a stand on stands, so you know,
they were solid and you and then you. I can't
remember how we got the water in I think it
was but yeah, it was hot water in that. And

(45:29):
there was massive amounts of dishes. There were, for instance, something.

Speaker 14 (45:35):
I used to like.

Speaker 16 (45:36):
There were big, big, catering sized, big containers of like
bread pudding, which they did a lot.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
I love that.

Speaker 16 (45:44):
I was about sixteen. I could go through about half
of it. One of those missus actually, and and you.
But the downside was you had to scrape and scrape
and scrape and scrape and scrape. And there was me
I can't remember how many were and takebo, there were
lots of us, and why tatty there were only there
was me and another boy and we just you know,

(46:05):
we had to scrape them up and then then then
washed them properly. And there were a couple of you know,
the two halves of the forty four gallon drugs were
used and I thought it was quite good, although you
were washing them and you know, it's like the US
Postal Service. Neither rain nor hail, nor sleep nor snow
or whatever. Would you know, Yeah, you still had to

(46:26):
do it.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
Did you ever just did you ever teend to sleep
in Lyle?

Speaker 16 (46:31):
Yes?

Speaker 21 (46:31):
Yes, And and there was.

Speaker 14 (46:37):
I quite like some of the perks, like I got
to y catty, I got to fire.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
You got presumab firearms?

Speaker 16 (46:46):
Yeah, yeah, I got to fire the ancestor, you know
the bloke who tried to assess Nate Donald Trump, he
was firing a an AAR fifteen.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
I got the fire.

Speaker 16 (46:57):
It's the direct ancestor the sixteen, which which was you know,
I always it looked like a toy. It was like
plastick and you know whatever. But and this is why
when the when Trump was, you know, the US Secret
Service has only cleared like one hundred one hundred and
thirty two one hundred thirty yards and there non mature

(47:22):
and it was one hundred that's one hundred meters in
our then I remember being told that an IN sixteen
could fire individually, it could be lethal at four hundred
four hundred.

Speaker 14 (47:34):
I can't remember whether we were calling it yards or
meters in those days, and the.

Speaker 16 (47:38):
Or six of the group. So I was thinking right
after back there. Well, then they made a major era there.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
I think we are. I think the woman's admitted that
she's resigned. Lyle, thank you very much for that, Dave Marcus, welcome. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (47:51):
I see Japan's leading the middle table, in France, in China,
in Australia, Korea, USA, Great Britain, Edile's got two two
silver three.

Speaker 16 (48:08):
I my part done job.

Speaker 4 (48:10):
When I was a schoolboy, I grew up digging house
foundations by hand, wow and scraping all the green stuff
off so the builder could put his the ringing foundations.
They were that the boss, the owner of the company,
gave me or a couple of dozen felled logs of

(48:31):
macrocarpa and Lombardy poplar that I cut and split my
hand and sold was cords of firewood cash of course, Charlie, yes,
of course, which was all right.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
But yeah, yeah, maver Knight, Charlie, yesh, write that one down.
Dave's a special guy. What do you get paid in logs?
Pretty old school lick dig us foundation to get paid
in logs? He is split for firewood. Did some people

(49:04):
wake the stuff up? If you just joined the show,
it's been pretty uneventful tonight at the Olympics. The rowers
have done well. The swimmer is not so well. Remember
there was fuss for years about the Australian swimming coach.
We hadn't remember that went on and on for years,
didn't it. You don't want to get involved in the

(49:24):
upper reachelon to sport management always seems to go sour,
doesn't it. Don't want to look back in fifty years
time and think of all of it. But anyway, there'd
be a mixing is about to start. I forgot that
was a thing. And they won't be swimming in the
river a little tomorrow because of the heavy rain. Yep,

(49:50):
there you go. I thought the windsurfing was pretty interesting,
all up on the foils, but the races last about
two minutes. By myself, a cup of gover, I'll sit
down and watch this. They missed the start with the coverage,
which was crazy. There were no graphics. The average was shocking.
It was fun to watch, but yeah, over in a heartbeat,

(50:14):
like a minute and a half, and you pump up
and down on your board because you're up on a
ski like planing. When I was thirteen, I did a
tract to work in the summer for the neighbors. Did
this for two years. The ended nurse aiding for three
years while at school. By the way, I'm a girl.

(50:35):
I'll tell you what a lot of people on New
used to do. A lot of people you used to do.
Used to develop film at night. Yeah, film developing processing.
But get in touch. We are discussing part time jobs.

(50:55):
If there's anything else, I'll bring that to your attention.
To any breaking Olympic news, do get in touch with that.
But I'll do my danders to keep the update with
what's going on. If we went a meddle, I promise
you we'll go breaking news because there's a medal drought

(51:18):
on and people aren't happy. They're happy today, they won't
be happy tomorrow. I can see people getting tense, like
websites having poles and things. dB Marcus, Welcome.

Speaker 15 (51:30):
Good evening.

Speaker 9 (51:32):
There's nothing worse than going through a museum and seeing
something you did as a child is now a museum piece.
I used to deliver in Auckland, thankfully. I used to
deliver with those bikes that had the big basket in front.
They are creepy, they were tricky. Strive you do it

(51:55):
very quickly. That if you put the front brake on
and you had a heavy load, you could be looking
a bit of gravel rash.

Speaker 24 (52:02):
They look like.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
They look like they waged about three tons.

Speaker 19 (52:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (52:10):
And then the place that I was delivering force at
the top of Franklin Road, so all our customers thankfully
were sort of downhill from the shop, but there was
still a heavy bike to pedal up hill.

Speaker 16 (52:21):
No hears.

Speaker 9 (52:24):
They had the foot break for the rear, but they
had this dinky little front break that you like. I said,
you'll be careful with that if he had a decent
load on, because I'm only what well he may be
so not weighing.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
Of a lot where we Yeah? Okay, are you delivering
cabras stuff?

Speaker 11 (52:44):
Right?

Speaker 9 (52:45):
No groceries?

Speaker 8 (52:47):
Oh yeah?

Speaker 2 (52:49):
Not the original?

Speaker 15 (52:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (52:52):
I think it was either a four square or O
g A. It's turn from the past.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
Outside the I g A true love works in a
funny way. Yep, there we go.

Speaker 9 (53:05):
But of course most of the school holidays I was
bottled off to the farm to be turned into a
sheep dog or something.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
Where was the farm? dB It's paint the picture of
the words of their head.

Speaker 9 (53:18):
A little town or little hamlet called Dark Kuru, which
is about sixteen miles twenty five k's south of Rotorua.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
Sounds pretty hy valley, sounds pretty, very.

Speaker 9 (53:31):
Very pretty.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
Steaming mud was there was there guys's and geothermalness.

Speaker 9 (53:39):
It was close by the y Kitty thermal pools were
in the area and I didn't find out about them
until I was an adult, which really annoyed me because
I could have been there as a child and enjoyed myself.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
You don't tell the farm work for about the hot
pools when you got them running up in? Was it
was a sheep farm? Was it that what you said?

Speaker 9 (53:56):
No, it was mid farm, so we had sheep cattle
and initially a piggery when we were still separating milk.
When we went a whole the pigs were done away with.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
Looks like he looks like helly god forsaken land.

Speaker 3 (54:14):
That was.

Speaker 9 (54:16):
Get cold in the morning was especially he had to
turn availab off inside a trough that was frozen over.
It certainly gave your arm a wake up.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
It sounds like a Dickens novel your life. Well, are
you actually running the farm when it's your school holidays?

Speaker 9 (54:30):
I was running and I was I was just sitting
there as as a as a sheep dog.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
Is it was it your and uncle or something?

Speaker 25 (54:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (54:38):
He was a.

Speaker 9 (54:40):
Lifetime bachelor.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
Oh yeah, I don't even know. I don't even know
what that meant. What that's a euphemism for these days,
a lifetime bachelor. But I'll take it.

Speaker 13 (54:52):
Was it a.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
Was it given? Was he giving it after the war?

Speaker 19 (54:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (54:57):
It was.

Speaker 9 (54:57):
And the other brother or my other uncle had the
block next door. Okay, it's sixty five acres. They were
two small to be really commercial. We made a garret
it for for well while I was a child. Anyway,

(55:17):
I gave up the ghost and moved into cities and
things like that. But yeah, it's not a.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
Place I've ever heard, not a place I've ever heard
of Nakuru. So it's nice to hear about that, just
trying to look where it is on the map, not
just sort of dead south and are really like twenty
k's dead south but in the WP say yeah, but
in the WPS.

Speaker 9 (55:39):
But I only came to fame with the farm. Apart
from learning how to be a farm, I could have
been one of the dikes had gone the other way
is I got to drive the little Ferguson tractor at
the tender age of seven.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
Okay, did you get the rail car and then get
picked up or did you fly? Or did you bus
or get dropped off?

Speaker 9 (55:59):
Only once with the rail car I only barely remember it.
Most of the time I went down by road serves
quite often. The stunts I got to about the age
of ten, I gave by myself awkward to running round.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
Well, what could happen?

Speaker 9 (56:16):
You couldn't look back on it. Anything could have happened.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
Well, I think if those days, if you weren't in
state care, was probably an advantage. But yeah, okay, I was.

Speaker 9 (56:26):
A very self contained child, so it couldn't bother me
to travel by myself. I never worried me.

Speaker 2 (56:33):
Had your comics?

Speaker 9 (56:35):
Well no, I just had what was between my ears
and the scenery going by.

Speaker 2 (56:39):
Goodness, okay, there we go one of those. Eh.

Speaker 9 (56:43):
Well, And I've loved the road ever since. And the
fact up until you know, as I've told you before
quite recently, that as a tour bus driver and that
was yeah, you couldn't get much better than that. Been
tomped to drive around New Zealand's best scenery and being
paid for it.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
Most of us would have most of us would have
inherent streets, but having to reverse outside out of a
tricky area at a at a a bus I mentioned.

Speaker 9 (57:09):
I've been caught in the mess and suburban streets with
the full sized two of us having to do a
seventeen point ten to get out of them.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
I can imagine, and having to get outside to see
how much further you've got to reverse, all with their
cameras that don't.

Speaker 9 (57:23):
No cameras get out. See if I hid anything, No,
I haven't had anything yet. Traffic starting to build up,
and the you know, I did it once with a
load of school kauds and yeah, they're all yahoo in
the back, and you got this TV caut a hand
down of the.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
Way you go any any other part timers.

Speaker 9 (57:44):
Kinds of I went something death that lasted four weeks
before they'd had enough of me. Okay, I've had enough
of them as well. So that was old Alders in
company on the corner of Richmond Road, and once we rode,
oh yeah, it was quite a famous little garaget OF's years.

(58:07):
Oh but no note of what else? Yeah, we need
this job done. You do that, okay? And it really
badly in my in my actual career because I'd say
we need to volunteer, step forward. I was never listening.

(58:30):
Everybody else would step backward. It just left me going,
what if I volunteered for? How can I do it?

Speaker 2 (58:37):
The comment has a run out of things to say.
By the sound of things, Yeah, I can hear that's
coming through. But I got my teeth a volume up den.
Now where else was I going to say? Our people
are upset about coke being as sponsored with the Olympics
because in the eighties the Olympics were sponsored by tobacco companies. Yeah,

(58:59):
go figure. And the analogy that I'm making is, in hindsight,
we'll look at there's been in decent that soft drink
companies were sponsoring it? Is it Clinger? Young people with
the high sugar drinks allegedly Chris Marcus, welcome.

Speaker 26 (59:16):
Hi Marcus. So just talking part time jobs? Yes, and
I had a host of them, you know, most most
key We started off with paper rounds back in the day. Yes,
and I think at age nine or ten, I had
a payer round. I think about fifty odd houses, so
every house got a paper in those days, and Saturday

(59:36):
morning you'd go around with a canvas bag and collect
the money for the papers for the week.

Speaker 2 (59:42):
Wow.

Speaker 26 (59:43):
And so you just go door to door because it
was generally pretty local, and you just knock on the
door and they'll come out and they pay you for
the They pay you for the newspaper. So you know,
in today's terms at you know, two dollars of paper
times you know, twelve dollars a house times fifty houses.
There's a nine year old walking around with you know
in today's terms, forty fifty fifty bucks and over there

(01:00:07):
in a canvas bag. Goodness, So that wouldn't happen anymore.
And I had one one customer on Saturday morning. He'd
pay and then he'd asked me to go down to
the dairy, which is where I got the papers from,
and I'd buy a smokes from take a spokes back
to your house.

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
Great thing to do. Good on him for living life
to the fold. I'll get the kid to get out
of the theory.

Speaker 26 (01:00:28):
Yeah, well that's what happened in the day. And the bonus,
of course, was a Saturday morning intendly got you generally
got feed quite well because you go to the house
and they'd give you bikies and cakes and all sorts
of stuff. And I moved on from that when I
got my license to delivering groceries in an often mini
for a little Which which area were we in, Chris,

(01:00:49):
We're in North Wellington.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
Okay, good, okay?

Speaker 22 (01:00:52):
Liking that, yep, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 26 (01:00:53):
And it was quite good. You'd said you go, you'd
just Thursday Friday after school, you'd go to the space
and they'd load up the mini and you'd deliver these groceries.
And that was the same because you'd it was quite
an efcellent sort of en so you tended to get
lots of little bonuses there as well, you know, food
and sometimes clothing and hand me downs and that sort

(01:01:14):
of stuff. And I picked that one gardening job from
one of the customers that I delivered groceries to and
got a lot of clothes that she had a son
who was slightly larger than me and older, so I
got a lot of hand me downs as well as
getting paid well. And I remember once she she gave
me a pumpkin and from a garden and I had

(01:01:35):
I had a little scooter and I remember putting the
pumpkin on the floor between the.

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
Feet as you would make sense.

Speaker 26 (01:01:45):
Riding home and then the pumpkins slipping under the brake pedal,
which was a bit of a bit of a disaster
at the time. Nothing happened, fortunately, But the pay for
the grocery job was three dollars a week, so for two.

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
Afternoons doesn't seem much, does it now.

Speaker 26 (01:02:02):
Well, petrol was forty eight forty eight cents a gallon, okay,
so we're talking ten and a half cents a later,
and the motor scooter would take a gallon and that
would give me about sixty miles, which is about one
hundred k So that actually went quite a long way.

Speaker 2 (01:02:23):
Yeah, I guess it does. Then what was next after that?

Speaker 8 (01:02:27):
What came after that?

Speaker 26 (01:02:30):
I delivered rubbish, you know that the rag collection bags used?

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
That was huge, was it? A lot of people in
my generation will be on that rag thing. There's always
some sort of kind of sketchy figure involved with that. Yeah, okay, yep,
Well though, that was quite good.

Speaker 26 (01:02:46):
I got five hundred bags to do four days a
week over the summer, so I worked four days and
I was lucky. I had transport and I was quite fit.
So I think I've got a feeling I was getting
something like five dollars a day for that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
So you get paid for the bags you dropped off
on the promise that the people would fill them up.
Is it how it worked?

Speaker 26 (01:03:07):
Well, I just got paid for delivering the bags. I
didn't collect them afterwards.

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
No, But the idea you deliver bags to people that
were supposed to fill them up with clothes, is that right?

Speaker 26 (01:03:17):
I think they put them out on the footpath and
then the rag collection truck would just come along and
pick up there. And what the rag guided with them
after that, I don't know, but I got that was
quite good paid because the faster you went, I mean
you were paid by bag, you went paid by the hour.
So I had quite a good range over the years.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
And your hard nine years old, your hard work at Chris.

Speaker 26 (01:03:41):
Yeah, well from nine years on I was doing some
of that and all of that, and it was it
was all quite good. I mean, the student cost me
one hundred and fifty bucks. Yeah, petrol's a Lambretta, it
was that cost me one hundred and fifty bucks. And
then sort of the hourly rate was something like a
dollar fifty you know. So I managed to get myself
mobile and at forty eight cents a gallon, So you

(01:04:03):
know ten and a half cents a liter transport wasn't
much alicious and.

Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
You bought the car as well. The for the groceries.

Speaker 26 (01:04:12):
Oh no, no, that was that they belong to.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
They belonged to that they belong to the shop. That
was the I gas. Okay, that's clear. Thank you, Chris,
very good. Keep you going your stories your part time jobs.
I find it very interest that was a very big
deal with the rags. Yeah, like it always seemed to
people do that always seemed to be too good to
be true. What about fruit picking? What about security guards?
What about working in like caravans, selling food at the

(01:04:36):
stock cars? Some good texts coming through? What about fish
and chip shops? Anyway? Get in touched Marcus till twelve
stupid things commentate to say that might be a side
topic for tonight because I say some stupid stuff. Paula
Marcus welcome, Hi, paul Oh, I tell you.

Speaker 19 (01:05:00):
I'll tell you about my younger sons when they were younger.
They're part time jobs, Like I watched, good money. They
used to wash out livestock tracks at the end of
the day. Chiefs love a pressure hoisers, track and trailer units.
When that finished for the day and wash all the

(01:05:22):
crap out of them so they're to start again the
next morning.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
Someone's I suppose someone's got to do any you.

Speaker 19 (01:05:31):
Will tracks plan because you don't put stock into do.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
So there's always people. The drivers themselves sometimes do it.

Speaker 19 (01:05:44):
Yeah, yeah, but they used to mainly do it on
like a Friday night, especially where we lived in Central
Hawks by the building sale and you know these tracks
head up in. One night I went down to find
my oldest son Hustid and said, oh, he'll be all right,
said it's midnight. He's down there on a vine. Was

(01:06:07):
not going in the back. But they love the only
tracks they didn't like rushing out with deer tracks. They
deer have all of their iron they do.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
How long would it take to do a truck?

Speaker 19 (01:06:21):
Oh to do it properly? Got cut hour and a half,
a couple of hours. The drivers just leave them lined
up for them.

Speaker 2 (01:06:31):
Yeah how much patron Yeah, I.

Speaker 19 (01:06:35):
Think from memory they got that twenty backs a track,
so a dozen tracks at night, and they may they't.
I'm happy with the money.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
It seems like a great job.

Speaker 4 (01:06:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:06:48):
Well, youngest son and his mate I got them a job,
and the people were.

Speaker 8 (01:06:54):
News they're.

Speaker 19 (01:06:58):
Ah, whin I eat there, trying grapes whatever? And then
and boy did they mind from this of it? I said,
they would never recognized that while you're taking job, you're
going to find resistance. But the tracks were good. They
could do them at night. It was just not being

(01:07:21):
on holiday or any What were they.

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
Doing at the what were they doing at the winery pool?
You went a bit unclear. What were they doing there?

Speaker 27 (01:07:28):
Sorry?

Speaker 19 (01:07:29):
Is it trying grade shafter? Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
Yeah, yeah, that's boring, sorry, boring anything. And I've worked
in vineyards, boring, picking, boring, pruning, pulling it all out.
You've got to go right after it'sween, prune, pull out
all the bits. Terrible work, God forsaken. Marcus the ninety
fifty one had a holy job delivering telegrams on my
bike in Dunedin City. The boss told me just slow

(01:07:53):
down because I was delivering twice as when as the
regulars that were showing them up. Marcus I picked raspberries
and boys and proteached summer holidays from major living in Blenham,
then graduated picking cherries at sixteen. Tasty not made money
in the eighties at Teger. You're prepared to work a
notdict too much. Is shame that all the orchards have
been replaced by vineyards now, yes, there's a shame. I

(01:08:16):
think there's a big wine glut now people aren't drinking
as much. There's too much wine. Marcus. I used to
work part time as a security guard in Winnington to
open and lifts at seven am in the morning and
lock them after five pm every day. It was great
little learner in it for a few years until the
swipe cards were introduced. I used to just stick on

(01:08:37):
my security jacket of whatever clothes I've got for my
normal work. Tony Mark's had a part time job driving
a taxi Night's early eighties in New Year's Eve, had
two guys who refused to get out. I took their
flag instead and placed them in the ind of the road.
Talk about move fast lull chairs, Nicky, what was the

(01:09:01):
flag flaggings? Thank you good correction. Put their flagons Dale, Marcus, evening,
Hi Dale, Oh.

Speaker 24 (01:09:14):
Hi, Micaus. I wanted to tell you about what my
son did when he desperately wanted a BMX by back
in about nineteen eighty I suppose it was, and it
was only about ten he already had a paper run,
but it wasn't quite giving him enough money. And he
also had a pet rabbit, as it had just become

(01:09:35):
legal to have pet rabbits at that time. Wow, And
he had the brilliant idea of reading rabbits, which sounds easy,
but it actually wasn't as easy as it sounds. He
had to borrow other rabbits and learn how to look
after them, which he did. And as he got these
little baby rabbits, he put them in the old pram

(01:09:55):
that the family had and wheeled it around the neighborhood
selling them to people. He could get up to about
ten dollars a rabbit. Actually, if it was anything like
a was sort of a chinchilla or something like that,
pretty looking ones. If anyone said they were going to
make rabbit pie, they weren't allowed one. But that's what
he did, and he got himself enough money to buy

(01:10:18):
his BMX bike.

Speaker 16 (01:10:19):
Which was great store.

Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
It's a great story because I forgot that rabbits were
illegal and they became legal for pets and stuff like that.
That was quite a big deal, wasn't it.

Speaker 24 (01:10:27):
It was, Yes, they were really quite salt after people
wanted to buy them.

Speaker 9 (01:10:31):
Yeah, how old.

Speaker 2 (01:10:33):
Do you do that for?

Speaker 5 (01:10:34):
How?

Speaker 19 (01:10:34):
Lol?

Speaker 2 (01:10:34):
Did you do that for? Dale?

Speaker 24 (01:10:36):
Well, he probably did it for a year or two even,
And actually what happened was we were then got sent
to Canada. His dad got sent to Canada, so we
all went and he was really lucky because the BMX
bikes were much cheaper in Canada, so we didn't even
got out of the hotel before we had a BMX
bike in the hotel with us, the blue and blue

(01:10:58):
and silver one quite beautiful, which came back to New
Zealand with us.

Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
Yeah, nice story, Dale, thank you very much. That's seventeen
to eleven part time jobs breeding like rabbits. Marcus. I
used to work after school the local dairy by the
hospital wy He and we were making up the lollies
the fifty cents bags, Wayne Marcus what high school? In
the seventies, I delivered medicine of my bicycle to elderly

(01:11:23):
folk from arch Hell Pharmacy Auckland Mode three lords and
delivered one two radio leaflets in the Kingsland and morning
Side running with a backpat. I bought a brand new
motorbike when I turned fifteen, still at score regards Owen.
These are the self starters. Marcus. My first day of

(01:11:46):
job at fourteen, I would collecting great eggs at a
big battery egg farm, terribly swelly.

Speaker 19 (01:11:52):
Job.

Speaker 2 (01:11:53):
Brought my own tense bit and clothes. Got to take
eggs home. Lots of fun with same age kids working
in the school hos of weekends. No one had phones
then Marc's. In the seventies, I always had babysitting bookings
on Friday and Saturday night. The TV would finish around midnight.
I'd sit in silence for an hour or two, listening
to every creak and noise at the house. Then the

(01:12:14):
coup would come home. The husband would drive me home.
Often he was three sheets to the wind, always got
home in one piece. Luckily twenty cents an hour, two
dollars if we stayed overnight. Goodness, the things we did,
the places we went. Just The pie Awards have been announced.
The winning pie for the first time ever is a

(01:12:35):
South Island pie. Second time, the supreme baker is a woman.
The supreme winner. Let me just get this up. The
supreme winner is it's called artisan by ringing, you'r a bakery.
That's if I am right on that one. So that's
a situation strange day. I rang, you're a bakery. They
just call it and it's the Supreme Pie, the Supreme

(01:12:57):
Award and the Supreme Award for that one, I presume
what's the pie? It's so slow cocked Samatra style beef.
So they'll sell out tomorrow. So she got two gold
She got one in the Gourmet ment category. She also

(01:13:18):
got one with the mince and cheese. That both will
be good. That you're winning pies, that's the situation too.
So the first time the South Island pie has won,
do you go that you need to know with that one?
Thirteen to eleven, Louise, it's Marcus good evening?

Speaker 6 (01:13:36):
Ah, Hi, Mark saw that's good.

Speaker 24 (01:13:37):
The first time in South Islands won.

Speaker 20 (01:13:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:13:41):
I don't know that they've I don't know that they've
entered a lot in the past because it's always been
quite Auckland based and focused. They shouldn't move it around it,
but I think it seems always seemed to be a
bit of an Auckland shin dig that one.

Speaker 6 (01:13:53):
Yes, yes, unfortunately. Yeah. When I was a kid, you know,
thirteen fourteen, I desperately won the car. I wanted to
learn to drive. The dad wouldn't let me drive the car,
so I couldn't learn. So I had to buy my
own car. So I did lots of babysitting and nursading

(01:14:13):
and everything. And there was two jobs that I had
that were quite memorable. And one of them was when
I was seventeen, over the holidays, I was looking after
these three little girls and because their mother was working,

(01:14:35):
except she wasn't working, she was having an affair.

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
Wow, wow, I know, I know, and wow ten year old.

Speaker 6 (01:14:46):
I know. She told the ten year old, I mean what,
it's terrible to tell a ten year old. And anyway,
she didn't pay me because she couldn't afford to because
she didn't have any money because she wasn't working.

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
And she sounds like a character. Wow yeah, okay, yes
she was.

Speaker 6 (01:15:04):
And so my mother got involved and went out there
and told her, how dare you you basically stealing off
a child, you know, blah blah, and so she forced
to pay me. Oh, I guess her husband found out eventually.
And another job I had a couple of years after
that was we used to be a chain of burger

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bars called Uncles. This is pre McDonald's. And anyway, I
was working in the one in Christ Chichi and Billias
and the franchise he was going broke. So here I
am in the burger bar. People come up and say,
I have a scoop of chips please. Oh sorry, we've

(01:15:49):
run out of trips. Wow, ok, I have a burger.
Oh sorry, we've got no burger.

Speaker 25 (01:15:57):
The guy, I don't know how I cope with.

Speaker 6 (01:16:00):
These angry people in the middle of night, you know,
wanting food that I couldn't.

Speaker 2 (01:16:08):
It must have been quite a She must have felt
quite a connection with the guy she's having the affair with.
If it was a guy, if she actually the school
holidays had put that much of a you could not
see him during this. I mean, the force must have
been quite strong between those two.

Speaker 6 (01:16:24):
Must have been. I don't know what happened.

Speaker 2 (01:16:26):
Did you meet him?

Speaker 3 (01:16:28):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:16:29):
No, I saw them. They were they were in a pub,
the pub one day when I had the girls somewhere playing. Yeah,
I know that was.

Speaker 2 (01:16:44):
Is this Christ? Is this Christ?

Speaker 5 (01:16:45):
Jur?

Speaker 8 (01:16:46):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (01:16:50):
From New Brighton.

Speaker 2 (01:16:54):
Well it sounds like your classic suburban story, isn't it.
Oh yeah, yeah, So she has a stay at home
mum normally.

Speaker 6 (01:17:02):
Yeah, but she supposed that they had a part time job.
But she doesn't so I don't know you know how
she was. I think the boyfriend was giving her money,
so well, my part time jobs, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
Yeah, but she chose not to pay you with that
money and your babysit the kids to enable that to
go on.

Speaker 6 (01:17:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 26 (01:17:29):
A good story, of.

Speaker 2 (01:17:30):
Course she did. And and your mum was quite fearsome,
was she? She sawed out quite quickly.

Speaker 6 (01:17:35):
Oh yeah, yes, she scared people, that woman.

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
Yep, she scares me, Luise. It's a good story, thank you.
See that's the christch story.

Speaker 19 (01:17:45):
Is it? Wow?

Speaker 2 (01:17:48):
Those poor kids telling the ten year old. Yeah, babysitting.
I'm sure some of the babysitting jobs stories are pretty sketchy,
but you might want to talk about those also, Marcus.
Back in the Cities, at high school, I got my
first job cleaning the school. I took the job over
from my sister. The education board paid boys more so

(01:18:09):
we were all registered as boys, so I was employed
under my sister's false name James. Then came the tax packs.
I was still getting tax packs six years later, much
to discuss, annoying to my father. Then came my nephew.
He was named James, and so I preduced in him
with a tax pack on his first birthday. Managed to

(01:18:30):
stop them betsy girls getting paid less. Lorraine, it's Marcus.

Speaker 14 (01:18:36):
Welcome, Hi Marcus.

Speaker 28 (01:18:39):
When I was about fourteen or fifteen, my cousin and
I we both got jobs at a pharmaceutical company in
Dunedan called Kempson and Prossers. My oldest sister worked there
and she checked us up to be in the packaging department,
and we were given this job of filling this cylindrical shape,

(01:19:00):
square box things that had hundreds of little holes in it,
and we had to pour the sliquid into it and
then set in the fridge. And then we had to
retrieve all these little palette shaped things and put them
into plastic containers. And the ladies that worked there or said, oh, yes,
it's lip balm, you know, blah blah blah, and we
sort of fell for this, and at lunch time the

(01:19:21):
snigger away there laughing at us. And when I went
home and I described my job to my mother, she said,
didn't you know what they were? And I said, no, slip,
it's like desoline, mum, and she said they were suppositories there.

Speaker 2 (01:19:35):
Wow, wow, wow, goods make them.

Speaker 28 (01:19:43):
We were pouring the liquid. It was heated up in
a big you know, pans copper pan, and all this
mixture was put into it, and then it was poured
in a jug, and then we had to fill up
all these little lipstick shaped cylinders and then they were
put into plastic. And then we're on that for about

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a week. And then they put a some to putting
sacron into little bottles. So I don't know what was
worse actually this because the sequin dust got all over
your fingers and all over your lips and you go
and have a cup of tea and I've never liked
sex and ever since.

Speaker 2 (01:20:19):
Now we'reabouts in Dunedin. Were they there, Lorraine? They were
in kaker Valley, Okay, wondered if they were.

Speaker 28 (01:20:25):
Okay, yep, the building's still there, but I think it's
some sort of for what it is now steel steal
outfits behind old Rich Aluminium.

Speaker 2 (01:20:38):
Pretty of old manufactured. Did the walk down that road
down there, kaker Rie down from the source down there,
and there's a lot happening on that road. But yeah, okay, Lorraine,
thank you for that. It's a good Tom Marcus welcome.

Speaker 20 (01:20:50):
Yeah, Hi, Mat, how are you good, Tom. I had
many jobs when I was a young boy living in Poncible,
from doing the Stars, delving the Stars the Herald, making
chips at the ponder Rosa, takeaways Yoopers, delivering, working for
the chemist, painting the sale signs at Cooper's Wholesalers. But

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one of the jobs I used to do, I used
to ride those grocery bikes with a big basket on
the front like Graanbull and open all ours.

Speaker 4 (01:21:22):
Wow.

Speaker 20 (01:21:23):
And so every Thursday I had two deliveries which I
had to do, and for some reason I used to
put a cardboard division down the middle of the box
with the two grocery parcels in it. So the first
stop was down Shelley Beach Road at the Nunnery Nunnere's
house take the groceries. At it, I'd get a glass

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of milk and sometimes some scones with cream and jam,
or some biscuits that that had baked. So I'd be
sitting there eating the eating the scones and drinking the
glass of milk. And then my second stop was at
ring Terrace in.

Speaker 6 (01:22:03):
A place.

Speaker 20 (01:22:05):
You know it's Laura McKenzie's, yes, So I'd be walking
in the back door with the groceries and there'd be
a little envelope for we were some money in it,
and and all these lovely ladies, you know, welcoming me
in the back door and taking the groceries off the Yeah,
that was that was That was.

Speaker 2 (01:22:22):
The pill Gammick from the nunner, from the nunnery to
the brothel, wasn't it? I mean that was that was everything,
wasn't it? Goodness?

Speaker 20 (01:22:28):
That was everything? So the milk and the milk and
the scones and the biscuits down to Flora's too, for
an envelope with some money in it every Thursday. That
was me Thursday Thursday's trips with the big grocery bike.

Speaker 2 (01:22:43):
It's a good story. Just you had me lost on
ponder Rosa. Where was that?

Speaker 20 (01:22:47):
That used to be just a line from where the
podsby police station was. It's closed down now. There was
there was a takeaway bar there, so.

Speaker 19 (01:22:57):
It was on.

Speaker 9 (01:22:57):
It was on, it was on.

Speaker 20 (01:23:00):
Yeah, and the cross the ride where that little quick
building it's still there a lot. We used to used
to pick up our stars there. That was where the
stars used to be dropped off. But before I used
to live in the Star, the stars. I used to
do make the chips down below the Ponderosa there in
the chip machine.

Speaker 2 (01:23:19):
There's a pen of takeaways called the Ponderous. It's a
great name for a takeaway. The Ponderosa. Who was the
who who are living? The groceries from.

Speaker 20 (01:23:29):
It was used to be along where Glyn Garry's is
now on the corner. I wondered us to be a
grocery shop there, so that was where the grocery shop was,
and then I worked well Cooper's Wholesale as that was
where that was on the corner of Pompalia and Ponts
by Row. That was a big supermarket, one of the
first supermarkets with the checkouts. And I used to because

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I was good at art, so I used to paint
all the you know, the sale signs.

Speaker 22 (01:23:55):
Upstairs.

Speaker 20 (01:23:56):
Used to be Landborne's initially a big, a big like
like a farmer's shop, you know, and all sorts there,
and so I used to be upstairs there painting their
signs for the for the all all the sales in
the shop now and now it's got I think they
get all they get the more printed now, but back

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in those days we had they used to be painted
so that was one of the other jobs.

Speaker 2 (01:24:21):
Are you still in Auckland?

Speaker 20 (01:24:24):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, still a herd day O good on you.

Speaker 26 (01:24:28):
Upon me.

Speaker 2 (01:24:28):
Boy, you got some good stories from there.

Speaker 20 (01:24:34):
Thursday was great, that was one of his special days.

Speaker 2 (01:24:37):
Yeah. Was any other part time jobs?

Speaker 20 (01:24:42):
Well, I used to deliver I worked for a chemist
and Crying Ampy.

Speaker 2 (01:24:46):
Road, yeah, and.

Speaker 20 (01:24:49):
That was yeah. Well I liked it, but I didn't
like it because some of the there used to be
the doctors and Crying up your Road and so they'd
go to the chemists. And some of my trips was
from Crying up your Road to Point Chev or Mount Eden,
you know. So they were quite long trips on some
with some of the deliveries with for the prescriptions too far.

(01:25:10):
One thing had got me fit. But yeah, but I
used to Yeah, I started to hate their job, and
especially if I had to do two or three trips
to Point Chev after school. So yeah, yeah, we all
had jobs in those days. All the kids had jobs.

Speaker 2 (01:25:25):
I don't know if they probably still. I don't know
if they still have jobs or not. I mean there's
a lot of places for young people to work, like,
you know, so I don't know if they I will
find out more about that, Tom, but nice to hear
from you. Thirteen past eleven, Marcus, I had a wonderful
later school job. Throughout my high school years played the
piano for Pallet Glasses.

Speaker 9 (01:25:44):
Hi Paula, Hi Martha, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (01:25:47):
Paula? Thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:25:50):
So?

Speaker 23 (01:25:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:25:51):
Fifteen of age, my father took my sister and I
after the wallsheed. We lived on a bus station Lo
Converse station and on the Naphtare Bottle Highway and we
did rousing. We would want to rousing in the ball
shed was the big main chair. It lasted about three
three to four weeks. We're the dependent seven days a week,

(01:26:15):
and we started at five and we finished at five.
And yeah, that was a job we did every summer
and I went into my nursing training and then it
was setting out for the year with all my costs.
And yes, it was basically what I did for the

(01:26:37):
holidays anyway, and the recent holidays I didn't have to work.
And that got me through nursing nurse in college many
years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:26:46):
Sounds fantastic. Tell me exactly, Pull, I've never asked a god.
That's exactly. What does a rousey do? Well?

Speaker 12 (01:26:53):
You just support the shares and was sweeping up the
wall as the wall was shown off for sheeping and
sort of divided into different things, you know, you were
the bags.

Speaker 8 (01:27:04):
And the.

Speaker 12 (01:27:07):
Top and different things. Pick up the whole throw on
the table and then it gets sold for the checks
and the skirtain's taken off at c and.

Speaker 2 (01:27:16):
Yeah, so you're not actually swing it or putting it
in the in the fagies orrever. You're not doing that,
are you? Just that's a different there. Someone's got that
job as well, haven't they.

Speaker 12 (01:27:29):
Yeah, yeah, so you're sort of we roast tasted a
little bit, but we didn't have to do the pressing
or anything like that. That was done by other people
from the shed. But yeah, it was a bit of
a shot and we both turned up you know, will
it jumpers and all the rest of it, and by
you know, we are so pretty quickly learned how hot

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hot work at the shorts and T shirt the next day.

Speaker 2 (01:27:53):
But yeah, it was you know, and Paula, were you
doing twelve hour days? Yes, yes, there is and there
be a crew that there be a crew they're cooking
for you as well.

Speaker 25 (01:28:06):
Yep.

Speaker 12 (01:28:07):
That was all that was all supplied and the cruise
dayed in the sharing's quarters and we we got picked
up by one of the shepherds on the station in
the morning and taken to work. And and yeah, we
obviously stayed at home because we didn't have booths and
the sharing sharing quarters and all that, but all the

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meals and everything were supplied while we were there, and
we got paid at the end.

Speaker 2 (01:28:32):
Great col thank you so much, Paul. I found it
very interesting. Lambertis it's Marcus.

Speaker 8 (01:28:36):
Good evening, evening, Marcus. How are you tonight? Good?

Speaker 2 (01:28:39):
Thank you, lambertas Hey, look a couple of jobs.

Speaker 8 (01:28:43):
I think from ten to eleven I used to bike
into ten straight after primary school and by the Bridge
of Remembrance there and sell papers from an honesty box.
Oh wow, from about quarter four till almost six you
earn all of two dollars eighty.

Speaker 2 (01:29:01):
So would you warn per one you sold?

Speaker 6 (01:29:04):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:29:04):
Is that the way it worked?

Speaker 8 (01:29:06):
No, know, you're just just there to keep an eye
on the box of people with stealing the papers.

Speaker 2 (01:29:10):
Really, I've forgot about that, of course, the honesty box.
Now these days I'll be happy for people. When are
the honesty boxes disappear? I can't think about that. I don't.
I've never seen any for sound on trade and exchange
or on trade me. That's right, because they always there's
either people selling them or there would be honesty boxes,
weren't there Some.

Speaker 8 (01:29:30):
Are timber, some metal, yea, yeah, so interesting. But then
what was the what?

Speaker 2 (01:29:37):
What was the evening paper underneath? And christ Church that
was a.

Speaker 8 (01:29:41):
Sorry the crush itch star. Yeah, and originally there was
a road through Keshl Street. It's now the more, but
I do it does consume me, that of the possibility
that setting it those setting right where the lights are
being immersed, and all those lead fumes, lead fuel fumes,
petrol fumes were whether they affected by developments or not.

Speaker 2 (01:30:04):
Yeah, and there's your development. Okay, I guess, So I
guess you never know what. I guess, you never know
what you what you could have been, I guess, But yeah,
that's kind of it's a pretty smoggy said he took
christ jdch in the eighties, isn't it?

Speaker 9 (01:30:18):
Well?

Speaker 27 (01:30:18):
It was with those still days not not the best,
not the best, but I can I mention I did
get another job that my brother was supposed to do
in a farm for three weeks and still holidays when
I was fifteen.

Speaker 8 (01:30:30):
Not knowing then a nash Burson on the coast. It's
probably a smaller, smaller farm there because it was being
eaten away by the sea quite quickly. Anyway, week there
for three weeks twelve hour days, got sort of worked
half a day on Sunday. Earned all of seventy dollars
a week for three weeks week, you know, twelve hour days.

Speaker 2 (01:30:52):
What what what doing?

Speaker 8 (01:30:55):
Just helping on the farm and doing maintenance and dealing
with weak control and trying to look after the sheep
that the farm was just leaving to lie out on
the fields that looked like they were a lot, So
we need to do something sid Oh, he'd just the
in check them with that.

Speaker 9 (01:31:11):
It might help them.

Speaker 8 (01:31:12):
So nowadays it wouldn't get away with that.

Speaker 2 (01:31:14):
Anyway, Well it might depends on well I shouldn't say that,
but anyway.

Speaker 8 (01:31:19):
Yeah, yeah, but no pay. It's like youth at rates
for young people were too brilliant. I think the kids
have got it pretty good now.

Speaker 2 (01:31:27):
I think that's right. I think the children get paid
more freely. Yes, because some of those jobs I did.
There was one pruning grapes like grapes, seedlings just sticks
that are put in the ground. You got to cut
them down, and I forget why they're printed, but you
just started. You just go down the one road for
a whole day, and it was just so boring and

(01:31:50):
the time went so slowly.

Speaker 6 (01:31:53):
I bet.

Speaker 8 (01:31:54):
And you wouldn't have You wouldn't have had music. At
least I took a radio with me to the paper job,
so you no, you.

Speaker 2 (01:31:59):
Wouldn't have when the walk would only just come out.
I wouldn't thought of having you wouldn't have a walkman,
So just this long day, so boring.

Speaker 8 (01:32:08):
No, we just said a transistor because I could sit there.
But year no, I did something similar in the holidays,
spending I think BlackBerry bushes or something like that. At
all these different farms. It was boring as well, didn't they.

Speaker 2 (01:32:22):
And I don't know if I had my life again
where I would have done those jobs, because I don't
even know what what we're working for. It just seemed
to be, oh, well, it's a good idea, get a job,
but I don't have them. Yeah, I don't know. I
don't know. You don't think about these things. Just I
guess it's good. The enthusias thing. Oh well, i'll give
that a go that could be fun. Normally it wasn't,
yeah exactly.

Speaker 8 (01:32:41):
And you know, some of some kids didn't need to work,
but other kids did, so that might have been one
of the reasons as well.

Speaker 2 (01:32:46):
You know, well there never seem to be there never
seemed to be an option not to work. I don't know.
I guess we need money for clothes. I guess we
needed money for clothes and stuff. I mean, I guess
that's what we did.

Speaker 8 (01:32:59):
Something wanted.

Speaker 2 (01:33:00):
Yeah, well, otherwise wouldn't have got them. But anyway, Yeah, okay,
you about your lead poisoning lam buddhas, don't you think
about that too much?

Speaker 8 (01:33:09):
A while, I did end up buying it a healing
hen Speed, which was a rubbish bike for two hundred
and two dollars in ninety eighty because that was the
paper job was to pay for that that top for ever.

Speaker 2 (01:33:25):
And they were such terrible. There were such terrible bikes
in the end, healing bikes. I mean, the wheels always buckled,
they were They're just terrible.

Speaker 9 (01:33:34):
They were not refined like the monarch rallies or anything
like that.

Speaker 2 (01:33:38):
Well, none of them were much good junk imports, lamp boots,
thank you, cheaper is at least then now we've got
better quality being important. Elaine. Yes, oh it's Marcus. Nice
to hear from you, Elaine.

Speaker 3 (01:33:50):
Welcome, Thank you, Marcus. I am I telling you about
My first job was picking raspberries for Miss Wahi in
nineteen forty eight goodness. And we had to ride ride
our old bikes from Havelock North to Manga Territory where

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the paddocks were by his beautiful old house, and the
roads seemed like miles long, and we were picking into
those I think they call them a four so like
a seven pound tin. And you had to fill this
tin up and it seemed like a bucket, you know,

(01:34:32):
because raspberries are very tiny and as they the weight
of them, they start to sort of get squishy.

Speaker 2 (01:34:40):
Yes, I could image, and it did.

Speaker 3 (01:34:43):
Fill your tin and pokeaden under the bushes, you know,
and carry on with your next tin, and then collect
them and carry them to the end of the row.
And we had Havelock North School and Manga Territory School,
which were both sort of country schools, and you know,

(01:35:06):
sometime times the kids would crawled through the rows and
get your tin emptied out, or fill the tins with
dirt and then top pop them up with raspberry's. You know,
there's always rat bags and every job.

Speaker 2 (01:35:24):
And I imagine it was it was hot. It was
now whereabouts compared with halflock North as this place you're saying,
where is it quite close to.

Speaker 3 (01:35:33):
Going towards Napier Okay, understand on a road called Napier Road.

Speaker 2 (01:35:38):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 3 (01:35:39):
And there were you know, there were seem to be
hundreds of children all picking and I don't remember how
much were you and it couldn't have wouldn't have been much,
but it was. It was daunting when you first started.

Speaker 2 (01:35:54):
I found where it is now near the Cademy Golf
Club now would have been hot in the middle of that.
That was in the middle of summer as well well.

Speaker 3 (01:36:00):
At the end of the school year. There was a
sort of about a week or ten days before when
school finished and then Christmas holidays and that was when
that's the time of the year when the raspberry is
already and white. He's only made like tins of jam
and in the raspberries were a huge craft and they

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were very well you know, organized, very well organized that
I managed to find in later years as I've got older,
I was only about ten or eleven then and I
managed to find private, better Raspberry, smaller Raspberry places to work.

Speaker 2 (01:36:42):
Were you saving for anything, Elane, No, no, not at all.

Speaker 3 (01:36:48):
I don't even remember how much we were paid. But
it's just all the variety you've had on tonight, it's
been really interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:36:56):
Yeah, I'm pleased with that. And I guess too that
sometimes in school, at the end of the summer school holiday,
well it's good to get another, you know, do something
of a different. Holidays get a bit boring. Nice to hear, Elane.
Think you'll take Paul before the in Paul, it's markets
good evening and welcome.

Speaker 25 (01:37:09):
You could even me Mark, it's nice to speak to
the game. My first job was very interesting. I had
a recycling bicycle that I got from the tip because
our family didn't have any money. And I used to
bicycle around the neighborhood looking for rusty letterboxes and then
I tap tap tap on the door because it wasn't
a shy sort of a collar, and just ask them

(01:37:31):
if I could repaint their letterbox.

Speaker 2 (01:37:35):
Oh, that's a good idea.

Speaker 21 (01:37:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 25 (01:37:37):
And I used to be back before this forty years
ago now, and they didn't have buttings. We could pick
up a letter box for twenty bucks or whatever, and
you know, I judge twenty or thirty bucks to send
the letterbox down, and I'd get the paint from the
dump as well. You know, if people throw out quarter
of a pail of paint that the dump, I'll take

(01:37:58):
that and they use that paint. And it was a
bloody good job. And often that's oh would you mind
cut now lawn? You know, the old bloke would say.

Speaker 2 (01:38:06):
And where was this call?

Speaker 14 (01:38:07):
Where?

Speaker 2 (01:38:08):
Which was the geography of this where we're.

Speaker 25 (01:38:10):
Talking New Lynn and the dump? Yeah, I was, and
it paid well, as I used to charge between twenty
and forty bucks, being on how bad the letterbox was.
That I'd just knock on every door where there was
a bad looking letter box.

Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
Never thought of someone getting the letter box letter box painted. Paul.
Nice to hear from me, Thank you for that. By
the way. Josh Amma drops to sixth after finishing thirteenth
in race four. Yeah, tell you what it's Oh, it's
a slog A lot of there's a lot of windsurfing,
a lot. There's sixteen races or sixteen left to go.

(01:38:52):
They go day and not when I go day and night.
That's they go. They go ald day and not at night.
I shall return tomorrow. People, no medals. If you've just
tuned in, well, it's not about the meddles, is it.
But didn't we only didn't we say we're going to
cut down any people going to see people are going

(01:39:13):
to get meddles. Remember that? Oh well.

Speaker 1 (01:39:18):
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