Lost his toupee (1 August 2025)

Marcus watches the Warriors lose in the final minute, and talks the 'Nor'wester From Hell' that swept through Canterbury 50 years ago.

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

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

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Greetings, welcome, how are you. Here's on midnight? Not looking
good for the Warriors. Here be farm with his scored
for the Dolphins within five minutes, unblaming Eron Clark who
got ping free head high although it looked marginal, so
they had a bit of momentum. But I think to
be fair, the Warriors started kind of unconvincingly. I'll keep

(00:33):
your dad throughout that the course of the night. It
might be a long evening for people at ericson because
the Dolphins look great. I think they go. The Warriors
are being pinged again by the looks of things, Eron
Clark again actually, so yeah, it's going to be a
tough night. Maybe discipline's gone. Half price halftime in the
NPC half price Manu were two seventeen. North Harbor is five,

(00:56):
so it's a situation there. Second half just started there
as well too, So I'll keep you updated with that.
Oh Friday free for all, don't you love it? A
lot of time to talk and no real agenda. I'm
kind of furious about Trump now, I'm furious about the government.
Actually they allowed that to happen. I mean, Australia's got
a ten percent deal, We've got fifteen percent on tariffs.

(01:17):
We've got the FBI here jeep as creepers. Surely if
there's one guy that's easy to flatter and to chief
lower tariffs, it's Trump. We should have had everything going
on that. We've missed an opportunity there. I'd like to
see all the memos to work out what's gone on
and how come we haven't got that going. It's not
good at all. Slow down the whole economy, be inflationary.

(01:42):
It's just not good. Whether that's going to be per
or whether it's going to change, I don't know, but yeah,
caught me by surprise and not happy with it anyway.
So that's happened today as well.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
I don't think anyone's expecting it. We're ten percent that
we didn't really want. Now it's gone to fifteen. Just
seems so wrong. And by the same by the things,
we've offended the Chinese as well by opening up the
FBI office, whereas I think probably they should be the
export market we're concentrating on. Anyway, it doesn't really feel

(02:16):
like a Friday night discussion, but I am upset about
that marginally, So there's that there's anything else you want
to talk about today. This is a particular weather event
I want to talk about tonight later on. I'm going
to tell you a bit more about that as time progresses.
But if there's anything that you want to stuck into
the agenda to night, feel free to come through. Eight
hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two

(02:36):
de text. I realize that most of you'll be watching sport,
a lot of you. Marcus, when is Haley's comment due
to come around again? Well, I think it's every seventy
two years, and I think the last time was eighty five,
so eighty five plus seventy s a while away two
forty seven or two o four seven or something like that. Anyway,

(03:00):
it won't be in our lifetime, So there we go. Well,
funny way you think about Oh, by the way, i'll
tell you what was a disappointment that meteorite shower on Tuesday.
I don't know anyone that saw it. I'm glad I
didn't mention it on air because I thought that could be
something we want to talk about. But every time there's
a meteorite shower. No, that's predicted. No one sees it.

(03:25):
In fact, I think when it comes to matters of
the sky is the only thing's worth going out for
a blood moons because they've always been good. Anyway, keep
your texts and your emails coming through if you want
to be a part of it. Here till midnight tonight.
So yeah, a lot to get through tonight, but we'll
just take it gently. We'll see what happens, We'll see
what the people throw at us, and we'll see where

(03:47):
we go by midnight tonight. Jim Standen's back. That's exciting.
He'll be on from twelve. He's had a holiday. Go
go go, Go, Go, Go go go do Allan scored
what Teni's a les next scored on the court and
that's exciting. So they needed to so they're back on track.
There's also the first test against Simbabwe, which is already on.

(04:11):
If you want to watch that, that's on three Now,
which is a website, not a TV channel. Got I
feel remodern saying that I've just been We've had a billet,
a billet, a home stay and exchange student from Japan
and they're only here for twelve days or something. But
we've been to the school hall to watch their performance.

(04:36):
But a karate, but a calligraphy, but a k pop.
I snuck away. It looks like it's going to be
a long night. Actually there's snacks at the end, but
you had to get it through a few performances for that.
I don't know what the other ones. I should have
got the program out there somewhere, but anyway seemed to
be exciting. It's like a performance at a school camp.

(05:01):
I don't know if they've got the kickover for this one.
I'll keep you posted on that. It's four to six
of the stage. You're not quite your the kicks the camera.
I've missed it. Tanner boy, don't know how good easy
on the kicks. I think he missed a couple of
easy ones against Newcastle. Don't know how he did against
the match last week's. I wasn't watching it anyway, get
in touch if you want to talk here till midnight tonight.

(05:22):
He's still yet to take it. It's from far out.
It's right on the tram tracks by the way. I'm
off to see South and Stags to play tomorrow. The
reckond I'll get ten thousand there Stagg Day or something
they call it. So I'm looking forward to that. That's
the local derby. They must have a local derby every year.

(05:42):
It must be that Otago comes down every year. Boy Tanner,
boyd on the money, he got that one over. There's
a mount smart joker. Anyway, do get in touch at six.
All good evening, Dave. This is Marcus. Welcome beck us.

Speaker 5 (05:56):
How are you mate? Good Dave, I'm in fielding. One question.
I've been wondering for a while now about the tramper
that's gone missing down the Alps. For all the all
the experience that he's got, that he's done in the
past and helped everybody, he may not have carried a

(06:16):
speak on I don't understand why.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
Okay, can I just say, firstly, Dave, I think calling
it the Alps was a bit generous. It's just the
foothills out of gray out of Greymouth, I think. Okay,
So so yeah, I think it's I don't think it's
mountainous stuff. I think it's hills, but hills close to
the sea. That was my understanding. So it's almost where

(06:41):
that Pike River track is that tramping trick track. Someone
might know the area better, but it's not like steep
alpine stuff. There was a weird there was a weird
detail I didn't really understand, right, yep about they found
his They found his cell phone had pinged clearly in

(07:01):
the Did you did you read all those details?

Speaker 5 (07:03):
Oh no, sorry, didn't know.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
Okay, Well, there's cell phone pinged in a clear area
and they can't quite work out why it'd gone so
far from there. I didn't understand the significance of it.

Speaker 5 (07:18):
But in the New Zealand, where where anybody's going to
be going tramping and that and may have the chance
of getting lost, they should it should be law. Who
knows said that. They've got to legislate another law. But
maybe anybody wants to go tramping got to get a
beacon because there's a lifesaver.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Although there's another point of view, Dave, which I adhered to, right,
do you want to hear it?

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (07:44):
Please?

Speaker 3 (07:46):
If you give people beacons, yeah, they are much more
adventurous and risky with where they go because they think
someone will choppering to save them. So so people would
normally think I'm not going to climb that peak. The
weather's closing, and I think well, I've got my beacon,
I might just give it a go. So that's another
thing to get. And I don't know what the stats

(08:07):
are with that, but there'd be another thing to consider that.
Maybe people are doing that too often. But yeah, I mean,
he seems like a wiry old guy. He seems like
on his bike with him with his Trepp and Nelson
on the back of it. You know, he seems like
a He seems like a guy that just loves it
in the bush and good honor.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
He shouldn't get lost, no, no.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
And maybe he's not. But I don't know, you know,
I don't know. He could be someone that had a
he could be someone had a hard attack. He could
had a stroke. He could have been on mids and
he didn't take him, and there'd be all sorts of scenarios.
But yeah, maybe we might speak to someone tonight that
knows him. One knows the I think it was Suell peaked.
Did they say what do they say the mountain was
where he's going?

Speaker 5 (08:46):
Yeah, I'm not sure on that.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Okay, I'll check out on that day. But look, thanks
for starting the convot and I'm loving it. Oh wait
e one hundred and eighty Teddy and nine two nine
to de text you want to come through, here'll twelve
If anyone can understand that about the cell phone, I
didn't really understand it, and I tried to read the
article two three times to work it out. Anyway, get

(09:12):
in touch, hit till midnight, Graham, Good evening.

Speaker 6 (09:17):
Yeah, Hi, greetings from southern in.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Yeah, greetings from central and the cargo south of d
ed and come in welcome.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (09:24):
I got a rescue from that misinformation you've got about
how his comment or comic Hellie. He comes around every
seventy six years, and the last time was nineteen eighty six,
So seventy six plus nineteen eighty two to under my calculator,
just because I'm at sleepy and it comes out at
two o six two, see you, and I probably won't

(09:45):
be around it yea next time, you know.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
So what i'd be doing with it, I'd be taking
twenty four was it nineteen eighty five.

Speaker 6 (09:53):
Something like that where it was yeah, yeah, yeah, a few.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Decades twenty sixty one would be right, Will that be right?

Speaker 6 (10:01):
Twenty sixty two? Okay, now.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
I reckon how his his comics are dud.

Speaker 6 (10:12):
Well, we're going to be able to DoD next time
because the astronomers and who do his calculations of orbits
and stuff reckon it won't be any better next time
than it was last time, and they keep referring people
back to nineteen ten on it was the previous time,

(10:35):
which was an incredibly close encounter with this.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
And I think about that time last time we talked
to it when Halley's comet last came about that time too,
there was another comment that came that you could see
in the daytime, which just was a total knockout.

Speaker 6 (10:50):
Oh, there's been one in the South near comments every year.
If you read all the junk or start ciculating on
the internet, which I prefer not to follow.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Mind you, you see some of this AI stuff, the
sort of monkeys driving ferraris and stuff. You wonder that
if a comic compete with what people have got on
their computer screens these days.

Speaker 6 (11:10):
Where you see AI footage of great Whites jumping up
about one hundred feet in the air and chomping limits
sized aircraft carriers and half you know, it's all just garbage. Yeah,
I got about eighty.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
Watch that I'd watch it.

Speaker 6 (11:27):
Oh yeah, well, you know it's yeah, so you know crazy.
I got about seventy to eighty of those alerts. In fact,
I lost the last two nights sleep. I couldn't get you.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Are you? Are you?

Speaker 3 (11:42):
Are you a messive? Are you a what would we
call someone like you? You are a multiple alert receiver?
Is that right?

Speaker 6 (11:51):
I know what I am. How many have you got?

Speaker 7 (11:53):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (11:53):
I just got the one one cellphone?

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Know how many alerts have you got?

Speaker 6 (12:00):
I got over seventy two days going off every minute,
talk talk about like French water torch.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
It was the record. You probably got to the test.
That's the record.

Speaker 6 (12:13):
Oh there was no there's no following wind and I
send up to a drug test on the Olympic Committee.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
They tell me something because I tried to remember it, right, Graham,
could you replicate how the noise went? Because I was
trying to recall it.

Speaker 6 (12:27):
It was. It was an absolute high pitched How do.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
How does it go? What's the tone?

Speaker 6 (12:35):
And the lights flashed on and on?

Speaker 3 (12:43):
And I wonder I would like to know what it's
it was. It sounds quite quite similar to what you said.

Speaker 6 (12:53):
It's so like danger Will Robinson, danger wil Robinson, be afraid,
be afraid, be terribly afraise a thing. I thought, look,
one thing, I would suggest that they have a red
alert and then when it said to do so, downgrade
it to an orange. Let you know, we're all going
to die and all this sort of stuff.

Speaker 8 (13:12):
Oh gosh, you know.

Speaker 6 (13:15):
It's not like bunder Archie, but there is there is
a time.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Where's your phone? Have you hid on your phone?

Speaker 9 (13:23):
I'm done?

Speaker 3 (13:25):
Have you hit them?

Speaker 6 (13:27):
No, I'm actually holding it speaking to you.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
It has not.

Speaker 6 (13:31):
Gone off today.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
That's good for two days.

Speaker 6 (13:34):
Yeah, I was glad to hear the end of it.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
Do you think you might be Do you think you
might do you think you might live between two towers?

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (13:43):
I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
I'm watching the leg I'm watching the league. Looks with it.
But like the Farans with injured himself, he might be off.
He's done a hemmy or something. That's good anyway. You know,
I think if you've got so many texts, you must
be on the cusp of two different beacons.

Speaker 6 (14:00):
Oh, I've read about someone who got about fifty or forty,
but you're the ring more than that.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
Yeah, you're more than I.

Speaker 6 (14:07):
Every time I turned it off, YEP, I thought, well,
I know I turned it off, and it would turn
itself back on, and we're going too airplane mark. Then
i'd you know, I couldn't. I couldn't ring out there,
just like I was stuck for two days.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
It's funny, you should have called me last night. That's
when we're in the.

Speaker 6 (14:26):
I couldn't get out to give the outside world. I thought, Oh, well,
you haven't got a Ham radio.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
I have like you.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
Probably actually is it something we need?

Speaker 6 (14:40):
Oh well, I'm part of the Ham Radio Alert emergency
alert system and no no emergency channels went.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Off at all.

Speaker 8 (14:50):
We just.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
I'm thinking if the Internet goes down, that's what all
our stations depended on. I think we probably need Ham
Radio on here, don't we.

Speaker 6 (14:59):
Well it would be an alternative way of reaching the
outside world. And I'm all ready to go, and I.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
Might talk to the Big Biscuit about that to see
if we get Ham Radio here as well, that I
can talk to people when things are tough.

Speaker 6 (15:14):
Well, that's what we're were We here to serve they said,
we're here to serve humanity. When we recalled.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
Okay, nice to talk to you, to Graham, I've enjoyed you.
They'll be texts there'll be calls, there'll be emails. Do
come through? Do you want to be a part of it?
Eight hundred and eighty ten Eightyan nineteen nine two to
text wo she's all on. Yeah. The weird thing about
that alertic came through so quickly no one can remember
what it sounds like. I think Graham got it quite

(15:44):
wrong because it seemed to go for a long time. Anyway,
a bit of sport on Zimbabwe thirty four for three
in this second innings. They trail by one two four,
so it might even Uzia might not need to bet again,
although that sounds arrogant. Mina. We're two seventeen North Harbor fifteen,

(16:07):
second half well underway in that match and Warriors six
Dolphins six. It's coming right. Even a captain's call went
their way also, Marcus, Yeah, he's a fifteen percent tariff
to thank you for the FBI office. It's been fun.
Marmite sandwiches were great. I'm livid, Marcus. I think we

(16:29):
banged fifty percent GST on American imports. Ozzie only bang
on ten percent GST. Hence the difference. Why are we
at fifteen percent when we just accepted the FBI here.
We are smaller than aussy by so much, and we
got screwed on fifteen percent. And we've got to paradise
and where if the world goes to rubbish, everyone wants
to come here as we are the furthest away people
are hot on this stock and look good for luxin.

(16:50):
The master negotiator on Winston was over there with a smirk,
looking like you could talk to people cheapest. And what
have we got. We've got dumped on and old albow
alban easy goodness. You wouldn't think he'd be trying, mate.
They're on ten percent correct for beacons. Majority of rescues

(17:13):
now are non injury events. We've already moved past you
towards private rescue companies who then pay their rescuers. Maybe
the Great Walk should have a sign and sign out policy.
Well I'm pretty sure they do have that. This is
not a great walk. This is a guy wandering around
the foothills up the beck of Wistport. Are they the

(17:35):
Pappa rowers? This is not a great walk. This is
a guy in those hills out there. If you're on
a boat, you must have a life jacket. On a
hike trekking, maybe it should be quite a basic radio
as well as your phone. Cheers, Josh Oh, anyway do

(17:58):
you get in touch by name's Marcus, welcome hddled twelve.
Lot to talk about tonight, A lot to say, a
long time to say it. If there's something you want
to talk about, a pine about tonight. Good get in touch.
The more the Meriah eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
nine two nine to text if you want to come
through anything goes HITDLE twelve, Marcus, you only need a

(18:31):
cell phone these days. Starlink lets you use any phone
and using the scene text messages. You just need a
clear line of the sky at use a satellite. Calling
will start from twenty twenty six and data from twenty
twenty eight. It's already saved lives overseas in regards to
a few boating mishaps Tariff Happy weekend, Marcus. We had

(18:54):
fifteen percent to American goods in the form of GST,
so trumps there are too the favor as they don't
have GST over there. It seems fair fifteen percent for
fifteen percent. Our headlamps are good now rechargeable on Mini
USB car or PowerPoint. Fleshing red Greener's full charge. You
must have thanks for that. By the way too. The

(19:18):
other thing I haven't told you yet tonight. That was
on the backup of last night's discussion about these damn
Smeg plates and the Smeg braziers. What has transpired today
in the conversation. Apparently I have thrown out the family's
collection of the New World stickers that was going to

(19:42):
be enough for a Smeg brazier. So if anyone's got
any stickers they don't need. By the way, I don't
believe I've thrown the stickers out, but if anyone's got
any stickers they don't need, feel free to get in touch.
I feel slightly embarrassed to do that, and I'm not

(20:07):
quite sure why I am doing it, but yeah, I
need I need those, So I imagine some of those
people have got what you need and got some spare ones.
We'll get in touch. By the way, the dolphins have
just gone over again. It's sixteen to sixten minutes left
in the first half, so yeah, that's not good at all.

(20:30):
It's gonna be a long night. Nellslie. There's the drone shot.
It sat a little bit on the drone shot. My
mild wide gaps in defense Marcus Evening Marcus ree fifteen
percent tariff. I'm not alone and thinking when us even
paying a price for the New Zealand perception. We have

(20:52):
not been a sort of ally since the Longe government decision.
By contrast, Australia's managed to two time without the same
tariff consequences. Cheers Bruce twenty two from nine Evening Roy.
This is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 8 (21:07):
I'm a Marcus say good things.

Speaker 10 (21:11):
Hey, Marcus, is a quick question. I've been like I
walked into the farm the other.

Speaker 9 (21:15):
Day that I had to disappear.

Speaker 11 (21:17):
So my question is a serious charges.

Speaker 12 (21:20):
When are they kicking the gear?

Speaker 2 (21:21):
No one knows anything about it. But I didn't watch
it on the Parliament channel the other day.

Speaker 8 (21:25):
Next June, next June.

Speaker 11 (21:29):
Awesome, awesome or they're saying awesome.

Speaker 9 (21:31):
No, anyone's look enough one. I hope they mind their.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
Trumper next may or next June. On what where did
you walk into?

Speaker 6 (21:44):
Uh the tramp.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
At the start of your call, you said you walked
into somewhere.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Now, I was working, I walked into the parliament.

Speaker 12 (21:56):
No welcome to the farm for lunch, okay, but I
haven't been back.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
Around at two.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
Okay, copy that your line's breaking out there right first,
someone's given me a twenty four stickers from my brazier,
although apparently they are running out. But we'll see how
we go. And and I don't I'm not happy we've been
involved with us. I think it's a terrible promotion, but
there we are. I'm talking about the stickers, and I

(22:25):
don't know whether we'll get a brazier in the cargo.
I think there's two new worlds, so hopefully we'll go
between them. Maybe i'll find out this week, and as
if it's worth getting the stickers by report back on that.
So that's the situation about the braziers. If you want
to talk about that too. Oh wait, one hundred and
eighty ten eighty nine to nine to text. It's eighteen

(22:47):
away from nine. I'll keep you update with scores. Anything
happening around the world tonight. By the way, since it's
a Friday, everyone's watching the sport. It's always a bit
chilled out on Friday. If there's something else you want
to talk about it hasn't been discussed this week, feel
free to get in touch, am up for anything. I

(23:10):
don't know if we're going to get major breaking news tonight.
It's been a big week for breaking news, what with
the Potato Top Pie winning the awards. It was a
big deal, wasn't it? And then the earthquake, the eight
point eight whatever it was, nine point two wasn't There'll
be in the quizzes, get in touched. My name is Marcus.

(23:31):
Welcome as I say, Oh eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty nine two nine two detects seventeen away from nine
looking forty input tonight, particular, if anyone's from the West coast,
it knows the situation with the geography about that guy
that's gone missing. He might be hiding, who knows. But yeah,

(23:54):
I don't think everyone needs a beacon. I think it's
good that we still go looking for people that are
lost without judgment. It's like the law of the sea,
isn't it. You just do what you want to do anyway.
Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty nine two knowne to
detect looking forward to what you've got to say? If

(24:16):
you want to come through seventeen away from Oh she
dropped off to g did she go? Okay? Marcus, what
do you think would happen? If Putin didn't submit to
the cease far agreement, it's worrying to think that the
world will be in chaos and the wealthy people of
the world will have New Zealand. This site Steve.

Speaker 12 (24:38):
Why.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
It's perilous times we live and there's no doubt about that.
I think we're going to go through a stage of
nuclear proliferation proliferation again, and that's not good either. Marcus
have subservient Luxon hadn't let the FBI see that shop here,
the tariff could have been twenty five percent. Well, he's
the art of the deal. Here's the boss of the

(25:02):
art of the deal, but also probably the art of
the back down Taco, which stands for what they refer
to him as Taco cops out talks. I can't remember
what they the ecronym for that is now anyway, now
as I say, get in touch, you want to be

(25:23):
part of the show. My name is Marcus Head, telve
o'clock to night. Anyone got the stickers. I'll have your
stickers if you want to send them to me, Box
forty three. Bluff. Trump always chickens out. That's what it is,
too Trump. But maybe with maybe with the old terriffs.
The time is at the time he isn't doing that.

(25:46):
Just looking at the other news around the world. Jeremy
Clarkson has revealed this is breaking news. Jeremy Clarkson says
his farm will be shut for two months after tb
outbreak as he reveals one of the dogs puppies has died.
He faced culling his beloved Herbert cows at the farm
and Oxfordshire, Justin Timberlake's got limes disease, so as Justin

(26:12):
Bieber and Kelly Osborne that's from ticks. It seems terrifying ticks.
Anyone had limes disease. We always had a lot of
ticks on the farmer's children, but the horrible things they
sort of swell up inside you. But now it seems

(26:35):
in the in Europe and America, they seem like they
carry all sorts of things, things that are pretty icky
as well. Good evening, Lesta, this is Marcus. Welcome a
Hi Marcus.

Speaker 13 (26:48):
I'm just thinking around these tsunami warnings in particular, but
in general, there's the risk industry that we have now.
It seems to me that there's a lot of people
that get paid for assessing risk but they don't really
truly assess risk because they are sought precautionary around their

(27:11):
own reputation, that they just choose the highest risk rather
than making an assessment because they are worried that they
will get pinged for not for not warning people. If

(27:31):
you know what I mean?

Speaker 8 (27:33):
Good?

Speaker 13 (27:34):
Do you get what I'm coming where I'm coming from.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
I think there was a situation where the Anniversary Day floods,
remember those in Auckland, and there were no warnings and
civil offense in the council got severely criticized, rightly so
for not giving warnings, and subsequently they've become warning happy.

(27:57):
This is yes, this word risk industry. Where did you
pick that up?

Speaker 13 (28:02):
It's just my own made up.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
Okay, So sounds that one of those catch cry you
hear Okay.

Speaker 13 (28:08):
I just feel it as a real industry. I work
in the health industry and I see a lot of
it at the hospital. I work at Auckland City Hospital
in green Lane, and there's a lot of that where
people don't seem to be making their own assessments that
it should be able to make given their qualifications.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
You know how you got scaffolding when people do roofs
now right they do what?

Speaker 2 (28:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (28:34):
How there's scaffolding when you put a roof up.

Speaker 13 (28:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
I look at those people doing rooms with a scaffolding.
I think I can't believe we used to do it
without scaffolding. I think some of the stuff that people
say is risk adverse, I think some of it is
incredibly sensible.

Speaker 13 (28:52):
Oh I agree with that too. Yes, yes, I have
seen that where I think, well, if they fell, they
would have something to grip onto and they would not
fall the whole way, which is great.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
And I've done shows. On this show, people talk about
falling off roofs, and there have been hundreds of people,
thousands of people whose lives have been ruined by falling
off roofs.

Speaker 13 (29:12):
So yeah, yeah, that would be life changing. Yeah, I've
seen brain injury.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
Yeah, close up.

Speaker 13 (29:18):
I nursed a patient that came off a motorbike. I
don't know whether he's wearing a helmet or not. Really tragic.
He was in his twenties and he couldn't do anything
for himself, and his family was in such grief. It
was awful.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
So half the time we look back at what we
say has just been too risk adverse. But you know,
but look, I do take your point, Lisa, and thank you.
David's Marcus, Hello, very Marcus.

Speaker 9 (29:41):
Yes, the FBI.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Let me say this just quickly. The FBI is domestic,
not foreign. It never has been foreign. Now I'm watching
the Dolphins play the Warriors. Goodness me, I've never seen
so many drop balls or loss of ball control?

Speaker 14 (29:56):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Well, there was one question I was about to pose
or excuse it.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
I'm not there. I don't know. Hang hang on, Dave,
Dan's and Alkham dns a win. No rain today.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Well, it doesn't look like it's wet markets, it doesn't
look like a track. But why there's just a ball
control and catching part of the scoreboy years.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
What's the school were you are, Dave? Because you're watching it.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Delayed sixteen eight, I think let me we're on adverts
at the moment. Maybe I think it was sixteen eight.
I get through.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
I think they've got I think it's half time. They've
gone to this yids at sixteen ten, right, sixteen sixteen twelve?

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah, one other question, Andy, I've got I'm an old
front rower and I was never expected to kick. But
I remember seeing my father's football boots had a square
toe and do you remember how Don Kirk used to
kick the football in other words, for play six, to
kick a goal, to convert a penalty, was always straight
down the middle. And I always wondered, why why is

(30:59):
it that we now or they now kick with the
inside step of the foot rather than at front on,
because surely you can get better direction with punting the
ball with a square football boot, because this is where
how they used to be made. Marcus with a steel.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
I played in the square ones yees square to I
don't know the answer to that, but I guess probably
if it was better straight on with don clap stop
doing it, wouldn't they?

Speaker 2 (31:25):
But Marcus, in my thinking, now don't I am no expert,
and I put my hand up. But in my way
of thinking, you put the football and back then they
didn't even kick with t's You just kick on put
a turf and you play. You pump the ball straight
on in other words, not inside step. Because I've just
seen this place kicker for the Dolphins. I think he's

(31:46):
just done.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
Oh no, I think it was fans with done the hemmy.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
I think the guy Marcus, it's just happened. He's come
pretty crumb of crop with his last place kick that
he's missed.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
He's from Stopping one. He's from your nick of the woods,
Jamaina Saco? Is that who it is?

Speaker 2 (32:06):
It's for the Dolphins? He may well.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
Be he Shurley Boys High. Is that where you were?

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Yes, sir, yeah, yes, that's right boys.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
He's Shurley Boys. Do you know that?

Speaker 2 (32:18):
I did not know that. I've just learned something.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
Yeah now, but I hang on, hang on, hang on, Yeah,
born in christ Church, Shurley Boys High. Yep, that's three
play yep. He's one of you.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
What's his name?

Speaker 15 (32:32):
Markers?

Speaker 2 (32:33):
So write that down.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
Jermaine Osako oko a k o?

Speaker 2 (32:40):
All right now.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
Hang on, hang on, hang on. Aaronuis Eagles? Is that
your team?

Speaker 14 (32:46):
No?

Speaker 2 (32:46):
I was Shirley is we? We played when Shirley Boys?
We played the Aaron played Aaron in one grand final
in the final that was for their first and I
also played for Shirley Club. Now today we had a
fire draw at Que two. We're all standing outside in
wick togs and a damp towel and it's eight degrees

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in Trisby.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
How could a pool boon down? Dave? That's beyond belief,
isn't it.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
My question exactly. And it was a fire drill.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
And the history of swimming is a pool ever boomed down?
You wouldn't think so.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Well, no, but here we will wear And one of
my good someone I've known for a very long time,
ninety two year old old Bernie, was standing out there
and went togs in a damp towel.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
That's crazy, two year old. He could get consumption or
something like that in the cold.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
I'd refuse to go.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Well, yeah, you know what Their answer to that is
your trespass, See you later, goodbye.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
There are a lot of rules at pools. The rules at
pools put me off. There's all this and that you're
going to be so close to your kid, you're gonna
have a risk. But the rules, rules, rules at the.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Pool, Marcus. That's how the council handles people these days.
They just don't care. See you later for two years.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
Who'd want to go and counsel lay Dave?

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Well, mate, I enjoy swimming and I enjoy loss and
I do it for myself. I do it for self betterment,
not for others. I do it for myself.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
You should have your own YouTube channel. You should have
your own YouTube Channel, Dave, because you're quite you're quite inspirational,
hot Ball.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
The hot pools that New Brighton are awesome, are excellent,
and it's a celebration for us people in the East.
You need Okay, the.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
Thing about those pools at New Brighton, right, everyone's so happy.
I've never met so many Cantabrians, you know, two hours
in the pools here, I've talked to everyone, very friendly,
not judgmental, just genuine good people. Can't believe they like
to have to have good pools a New Brighton.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
It's fantastic and at seventy dollars a month, seventy two
dollars a month, I think it's affordable. And that's so
very clean, very clean and very well run and organized.
And take my head off to them. It's a celebration
of victory for us in the East.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
I didn't have the carriage. I didn't have the carriage
for the cold pool. Though I've kicked myself for not
having the carriage, but it wasn't for me.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
It takes a bit again, tell you what she's after
fifteen twenty minutes in the sauna. Boy, yeah, she's not
for the faint of heart. But then again, I walk
out of there feeling clean.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
Good on your Dave. It's been a pleasure and absolute pleasure.
He did's Marcus, good evening.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Gooday Marcus.

Speaker 10 (35:22):
Regarding you go hunting or tramping or whatever, Yeah, I
reckon you should have personal beacon on. Yeah, because I've
gone hunting. I've done it for a few years and
now you always had a personal beacon even if you're
fishing or whatever. Thinking the amount of money that you
save the search and rescue, there's people that go out
there looking for you for your benefit as well. Could

(35:43):
save your life if you need christ a situation that
you've got broken ankle, whatever your freezing nights are like today,
you know it could save your life. I'm looking at
this here there's you can hire them out with an
expensive a fifteen dollars a day, or you can get
them for your longer periods. The cheaper they are there
is run here for forty dollars or seven days for

(36:06):
twenty one days ninety nine dollars. Well, you can buy
them for three hundred and ninety nine dollars brand you
need the batteries last of five years. What's isn't it
worth your life or putting other people at risk. If
you think of you should be thinking of other people
that make the gure out there and try to pete.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
There's a school of thought that gives it makes people
over confident. They go beyond this safe limit because I think, oh, well,
if I fall down, I can just set off my
beaker and up beacon and they'll come and pick me up.
That's that's my only concern about that.

Speaker 10 (36:39):
Yeah, yeah, right there to agree what you're saying on that.
But surely it's like anything if you haven't got the
ability or to be in that situation, really you're a
full to yourself really that you put yourself in that position.
And it's the old saying is give me mention the
limitations and you don't think you're that ability?

Speaker 9 (37:02):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (37:03):
Is it actually a saying?

Speaker 10 (37:05):
Yes, it's an old clinic Clint Eastwood. The whole thing
you must remember that every man should know's imitating. That's
the true fact. To these people that go to be
on their ability and the expect people you will to
go look up well even say the search and rest,

(37:27):
you have to go and get them. If they have
the beacon, they should be told you're an idiot what
you did just tell them, so I hope they don't
do it again. But I reckon for everybody's well being,
you should have one. And I reckon if you don't
have one on you to be about to do something
rock cli whatever you're gonna do, hunting or whatever you're
gonna do. The government will the saying it's like an insurance.
You travel, you have insurances, don't you do you travel

(37:47):
overseas you haven't got an insurance or anybody idiot because
you'll might have a house that you might have to
sell it because you've had to go to the hospital
in the States or whatever. So it's no difference. You
should be prepared and they have some back up if
you need it.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
What did you hunt?

Speaker 10 (38:03):
Are you used to? Well, used to some deer. They
went out with the two or three times with him,
but it's quite why you're around there, and it's quite
treacherous terrain. But we always had a beacon on us,
so at least I hope you didn't need it, but
it was there. It was just a way of as
I said before we picked myself here. It just saves

(38:24):
a lot of please someone looking for you as you've
got a GPS, so I'll primput you right where you
are for a few meters and it saves a lot
of taxpayers money. As far as I'm concerning, you're inconsiderate
if you don't go out there and have some sort
of device on. You can't rely on your cell phone
because your cell phone could go back. That just could
go back to you. You need a personal beacon on you.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
I think the cell phones will get a lot better
when they won the satellite. You could probably go anywhere
in the reach for help. But yeah, you're right, you
need a charge.

Speaker 10 (38:52):
You wouldn't you, Well, yeah, that's so that's peersonfual personal
because they water pricked up bullet breath pretty much. I
find that bullet proof. You can trip over and break
them or lose them or whatever. But you've got those
personal beacons. I think the must they're gonna gument you
do something. I think if you haven't got a personal
beacon right on you, I mean I have to go
out and huneful you and find you. He is going
to be yet to pay something in the woods towards

(39:13):
the suit and reiscue as well.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
Sound very reasonable, Pete, thank you, Marcus. Can you please
tell me what is up? We've been asked to donate
to charities at the checkout and farmers. It's so awkward.
What's your thoughts on this phenomena? Same Countdown? They always
ask if you're round up. You know, if Countdown wants
to give money to charity, they can give some of
their messive profits. It's just virtue signaling and it's weird.

(39:36):
That's what they should be doing, giving some of their
vast profits rather than actually putting onto the customers. Anyway. Oh,
that's why I want to talk about. By the way,
I'm still angling for anyone's sticking anyone anyone got any
smeg stickers? What I am angling about to I forgot
to mention this topic. It's a good topic, by the way,

(39:58):
sixteen twelve for the Warriors, they're losing, but not by much.
It's fifty years is today since the Northwest from Hell
August one huge northwest has swept through Canterbury nineteen to
seventy five. Record wind speeds recorded the day that have

(40:23):
never been matched. They call it the northwester from Hell.
Record winds that have not been surpassed in christ Church
and cau coulda left a trail of structure across the
region with insurance Assessus estimating six million dollars cheap in
today's money. I've got to read the rest of the

(40:45):
article to put my past. We're into stuff. It's I'm
not allowed on it. Continue. Oh, I don't want to
create a new account to what I need to do.
I'm enjoying reading this. Subscribe now view more offers or
already subscribed log and email address. I think it should

(41:08):
should all be automatically filled, shouldn't it? I don't know what?
Say there, hold your horses, guys, we are going to
talk about this great Northwester from fifty years ago.

Speaker 8 (41:17):
Day.

Speaker 3 (41:17):
If you remember this, this is Canterbury, between Canterbury and Calcutta.
Is it through? Are you doing it here?

Speaker 7 (41:25):
Great?

Speaker 3 (41:28):
I'll bring you some more information about this because this
will be of interest to people.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
D D.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
Yeah, you'll be onto it. John, I'm good to go. Ah,
now how far way that?

Speaker 2 (41:43):
Now?

Speaker 3 (41:44):
It is a stupid article. Scroll down, dd D, I'll
read you. Oh, here we go. So fifty years ago
record wins between Crostis and Calcutta with seventy eighty five
millions today's money. Cantabrians know how strong all Westers can be.

(42:08):
So yeah, morning of first of August nineteen seventy five
where the northwester from how winds reached hurricane force to
many parts of the region and across christ Church. The
maximum wind gust was one seventy two k's at Krostich
Airport and one nine to five kilometer brow gust at Kaikoda.

(42:29):
Phenomenal photos. So roofs were lost in all manner of
trouble or Littleton got hit hard, I've never heard of it.
All schools were closed, there were no roofs on the

(42:49):
lecture theaters. Phone lines were down because those were those
of phone lines. There was massive glasshouses that were damaged.
And saw where's Arms Road? You might remember this eight
hundred and eighty Today forests laid flat. It was like
an extraordinary thing. Fifteen pass nine. Good evening, John, This
is Marcus.

Speaker 15 (43:08):
Welcome, Hello Marcus. I remember the first of August the
big wind. I was farming at Oxford at the time,
and out my kitchen window I had a hay shed
that was built out of railway iron and corrugated iron

(43:29):
for a roof, and I looked out in the morning
after a hell of a night and the roof had
gone off the hay shed and the railway iron uprights
were twisted as if they had been tied in knots.

Speaker 3 (43:48):
Goodness, yep.

Speaker 15 (43:50):
It blew the roof off part of the house, over
the children's bedroom. Almost every mature tree on my farm
was blown over. And I lived not far from the
air Or forest, and anybody in Canbury will know what
I'm talking about. But the ear Or forest was almost

(44:13):
totally flattened. It was a disaster.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
But uh, I presume in those days not much warning.

Speaker 15 (44:26):
Oh, no warning.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
That's that's why I would say, no warning. What's the
we're out of the blue?

Speaker 15 (44:30):
Yeah, okay, yeah. Earlier in the night, I've been with
some mates. We've been to a meeting further down the
road at cust and I can remember the car coming
home with five of us in the car. It was
a bit of a struggle to keep the car on
the road.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
Amateur dramatics. What sort of meeting Amateur dramatics.

Speaker 15 (44:52):
No, it wasn't on this occasion. I think it might
have been a JC meeting.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
This would be okay, that was in much stock lost?
I presume you.

Speaker 15 (45:01):
Are no, No, it didn't seem to affect the stock,
not that I can recall, No.

Speaker 16 (45:11):
It was.

Speaker 15 (45:11):
It was damaged to buildings and.

Speaker 16 (45:17):
Shelter belts.

Speaker 15 (45:18):
Almost every shelter belt was blown over.

Speaker 3 (45:22):
It took a long time to recover.

Speaker 15 (45:25):
Oh yes, okay, a couple of years later I still
had trees lying there that I hadn't got round to
sowing up and turning into forward. But no, it was
a disaster. I hope we never get another one.

Speaker 3 (45:43):
Was it what did they call it? Did they call it?
That's it been called the Northwester from hell? Is that
what your people call it?

Speaker 15 (45:49):
I can't recall. That was just the big wind, the
big wind of nineteen seventy five or.

Speaker 3 (45:56):
Four seventy five. It's fifty years ago today. Yep, you'd
be eighty five.

Speaker 15 (46:04):
Now, yeah, eighty three this month, so you.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
Would have been you're doing thirty three and your pride
when it hit.

Speaker 15 (46:13):
Yeah, I had We had two kids at that stage,
and I remember the roof came off their bedroom and
a piece of four or two from the roof was
dangling down within about eighteen inches of one of the
boys beds. They they slept through it. But my mother

(46:37):
and father were staying with us at the time, and
my father he got off his bed and he came
into my bedroom or our bedroom, and he said, you
better get up and get your boots on.

Speaker 3 (46:52):
I think it's probably are good thing for a good thing.
Your kids didn't have a trampoline in those days.

Speaker 15 (46:57):
No, but we all we all moved through to the
sitting room and we huddled in there. I don't know.
It seemed to be the safest room in the house
for some reason. But it was unforgettable.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
Nice to hear from you, John. They were on the
Great Northwester fifty years ago today, nine two megats Marcus.
Good evening and welcome.

Speaker 12 (47:19):
Hello.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
How are you good?

Speaker 5 (47:21):
That's good.

Speaker 7 (47:22):
I remember that storm. I'd forgotten all about it until
you mentioned.

Speaker 3 (47:25):
It, right right. I'm glad I mentioned it then.

Speaker 7 (47:29):
Yeah, that all the power was out in christ Church,
and I can remember I had three little kids and
my husband took me over to mum's and we spent
the day there. We couldn't do anything, of course, there
was no power. Couldn't do washing or you know, any
of those sort of tasks. Yes, and we had we

(47:50):
did have a few trees down at our place.

Speaker 17 (47:53):
So was.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
Your house damaged?

Speaker 7 (47:58):
No? No, okay, no, no, I only remember really about
the power being cut and just power at all.

Speaker 18 (48:07):
And the wind.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
The wind must have been terrifyingly fast if we're talking
about what speeds of one seventy k's it's unbelievable.

Speaker 7 (48:14):
Yes, it just blew that horrible dust everywhere and all
through the house, you know. It seemed to get in
every little crack and what have you. Yeah, so that's funny.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
Do you remember it as like the worst, whether you'd
beat it it got? Is it like that now you
think back about.

Speaker 7 (48:32):
It, Well, it was, it was pretty horrific, But then
we've also had a lot of storms in christ Church
over the years, you know, like the Wahini storm and
all that kind of thing. So I had really forgotten
about it until you mentioned it.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
Yeah, I'd never I always thought I had a good
grasp on history. I've never heard of it, the Northwester
from Hell. I've never heard it.

Speaker 7 (48:58):
I hadn't heard it called that, No, And.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
I don't know if it's now they're looking for a
name for it. But I know that, you know, christ
Churchers had big snow dumps and stuff and things unseasoned
on snow when power lines of but Norwest. The Northwest
is your that's normally a summer windes. It was that
all year round. You get that, No, it's.

Speaker 7 (49:15):
Mostly summer, but in those days we had it more
often than what we get it now. Okay, we have
the northwest, is right, we're used to.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
You're not complaining about that, though, are you. No, although
it's been on the breezes, it's been in the breezing
from the sea, because that's strong as well in christ Ridge,
isn't it.

Speaker 7 (49:33):
Yeah, that ghastly easterly is nice.

Speaker 18 (49:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:36):
What what wind do you like?

Speaker 4 (49:42):
Well?

Speaker 7 (49:42):
I don't mind the warm one, the northwester is that
was that. We had lovely spring mornings in those days,
and we don't seem to have it anymore.

Speaker 3 (49:53):
I don't know what christ I don't know what christ
Church is like, but down south it's feeling very spring
like today. Is that what it's like in christ Church?

Speaker 7 (50:03):
No, it was a bit cool here today. It had
been raining earlier, and I think it's supposed to go
down to three or something tonight.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
It meant it will be good weather tomorrow, though, doesn't
it If it's gone down to three tonight? Yeah, yeah,
he's hoping. Nice to talk Meg. I've got some washing
I need to put out thank you twenty five past night.
My name is Marcus. Welcome Hurdle twelve. What do you
got people? The northwester from Hell and personal locator beacons.
That's just two of the topics. I'm begging for some

(50:33):
smeg stickers, having lost all of mine, go liquor your
little edge, and not a double movement. Lequa Halasima has
just scored. They might call for a double movement. I
don't think so. Man, he's a beast. It was a
hard thing to actually catch the ball and then sort
of bunny hop over the I'll just don't reply because
it was fourteen. It was twelve sixteen, and they have

(50:55):
looked a bit rope at times, but gee, this was
somethinglecque of the wrecker. I'll tell you extually. What's happened
with the replay? Oh now I've got just as you mentioned,
I've got the tea. He's gone with that stupid sunstrike.
I missed the entire replay because of that. A Tanner
boy kicks a cross field. I don't know if it's

(51:15):
on the fifth. Lequer catches at great catch, out beats
two of the others and bunny hops over unbelievable anyway,
that's great news, Puddin. Yeah. Yeah, it's a double movement though,
but I don't know the full details of that, but
certainly it's given a try. The scores up sixteen to sixteen.
So it's a great cat from Tanner Boyd and Leka

(51:36):
gets it beautifully, brilliant out jumped that little nuggety guy
that used to be with the Warriors. What's his name
is at Nikorey. They got him too. That's great. Get
in touch without talking about the Northwester from Hell. We've
got ten tries already for his career ten this season. Marcus,

(52:00):
I was living in Owamadu fifty years ago. Remember Chicken
Sheares with his chickens insides been blown out to sea. Wow.
Living in Auckland now, Marcus about SAAR Search and rescue
beacons are only good if you can use them hard

(52:22):
for solo people. If they're beacons in their bag and
they lose it in a fall spot, X can transmit
a signal every fifteen minutes, giving location. There are also
limitations with soundite connectivity with access to the sky, especially
if blocked from the east. Things are improving that the
users need to know the limitations of their devices and
the services they have subscribed to. You are full if

(52:43):
you don't have an e perb there response times a
fantastic We far more about the missing people, not the
hundreds of rescued people each year. The time and resource
spent looking from missing people's as huge. These volunteers have
lives and families that pay for their family members being
tied up with searchers. By the way, someone said they
thought that guy in missing on the coast could have

(53:05):
gone down a mine shaft. They always say that, though,
don't they. Marcus. Have you seen the Disney covered box
on the wad of Woolworth's front wanted discs? Does New
World have one front wanted tickets? I could just go
hang out at New World for a day, but don't
really want to do it, Marcus. Speaking of charity folk,

(53:28):
I have had two people come to my house in
christ Jurch in the past two days looking to sign
me up for membership. Really annoys me just as bad
as soup markets. Like you said, anyway, Marcus, cell phones
have a location beacon already in the phone, just got
to turn it on. No double movement not held. It's

(53:51):
not rugby fair enough, good call. I just get paranoid
when the Warriors score that they're going to just allo
out for some reason. That's my paranoia. Thanks for that.
Good well. I think there was some double movement they're
looking about on the Footy Show the other day. Get
in touch if you're a talk Marcus. Till twelve eighty
text the Warriors are hit by two. If I was

(54:14):
at home, I turned off. Now I'll be too nervous
to watch. Yeah. By the way, you can buy the
smig braziers on trade Me for six for eighty five dollars,
although that could be a scam. George, this is Marcus.

(54:36):
Good evening, top of the evening.

Speaker 19 (54:38):
How are you there.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
Yeah, good, Thank you George. Nice to hear from you.

Speaker 19 (54:43):
We that storm, actually we were from at most days
in Ash for that storm was right through that Canterbury
region and around the I don't know whether you remember,
but in those dass on the if you're going from
christ Hits to Timaru on the left hand side outside
the town, so there was very huge pines on the farms,

(55:07):
you know, and they only on the left hand side
traveling south because on the right hand side the railway
line had the main highway most of the way, you know,
So and that was a blessing because almost all those
pines north of Ashburn, up around the Rakai area through there,
plus on the other side right through to o'ari, they

(55:29):
were all just dropped, you know, with the only the
odd one saved, you know. And so that was a
huge job. And of course that it was the other
way because it was northwest. It blew them towards the
sea and not across the road. Otherwise they would have
been all across the road, you know, and a lot
of places.

Speaker 3 (55:47):
So so you remember that day. You remember the day
on the winds quite well, do you, George.

Speaker 19 (55:52):
Oh, it was horrific, it was, and it wasn't by memory.
It just wasn't that day. There was a build up
to beforehand, and just a quirky thing on the esh
Furten part of it, the and an uncle and Tinwald
and Anne Street, and he had a special breeze of chalks,

(56:12):
you know, and it just lifted the whole chukhouse up
and all the wooden and so forth was disintegrated. But
the quirky thing was this Marcus, one of his chucks
ended up on his mates farms, several colombits is down
towards the sea, and it was a talking point because

(56:35):
these these characters were part of a They used to
drink at a table at the Timble tavern, you know.
And yeah, but he knew that he was breeding these chalks.
So that's that's the type of thing. And you can
imagine the old chuck up in the air and thinking
way for a holiday, you know.

Speaker 15 (56:55):
Yeah, so that had had.

Speaker 19 (56:57):
A lot of sadness to it, and that's farmer that
was talking on there. You know, like were those trees
he said it was you know, they were down for
two years before he could do anything about me. And
that that what you saw those down the people of
farmers and people was the properties. They just never had
the machinery or finance to do a lot about it

(57:19):
at the time.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
You know, were you a farmer in those days at what.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
You were doing?

Speaker 19 (57:24):
No, no, no, I was a wonderful, energetic rolling and.

Speaker 3 (57:30):
Oh cheapers, what we're doing. What we're doing for the railways.

Speaker 19 (57:35):
Well, it's very interesting because our family was a family
of eight, and six out of eight of our family
all joined the railways. My parents were joined the railways
and dad was station master of Ashburton and four out
of the six kids come in and we all come

(57:56):
into the clerical section of the railways and then some
of them concentrated into train control and household removal. And
actually the train control guy he ended up down further
down your way down the Dunedin for many years and
train control.

Speaker 3 (58:13):
Yeah wow, oh by the way, I mean, do you
know the do you know the do you know Southern
railways at all?

Speaker 6 (58:23):
No?

Speaker 19 (58:23):
I can't say I do.

Speaker 3 (58:25):
Because the only reason I tell you because here's a
railway that goes from inver Cargol right to Ohai. It's
about seventy seven klometer long run and it's a branch line,
but it's been well maintained because we're all the coal
comes out of Ohi and Tinkertown to feed Fonterra. They've
just announced today they're going to mothball that. So that's
a seventy six k railway line. That would be fantastic

(58:47):
for some sort of you know, for some sort of
railway group or something. I mean, you don't often get
to a beautiful country, you don't often get railway lines
like that that have come up. So yeah, neat to
talk about that because it'd be nice to get the
Kingston Flyer on a bit more track or something. I
thought it'd be great. It'd be all sorts of potential
for that.

Speaker 19 (59:06):
Look absolutely so in a lot of history and in
that rail down that way.

Speaker 3 (59:10):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's a beautiful well George r.
Rum But we'll talk more about that later on. That's
a good top. I've had that on my list to
talk about, so I've just forgotten that. So yeah, the
Ohi branch line's beautiful. Up goes through your Toto and
up through Wydo and then Nightcaps in Ohai. It's one
of the great branch lines, but it's one of the
few branch lines left just because there was so much

(59:31):
coal up there. But now, of course, forget the name
of the company, Bethurst Minerals. I think they've said that
for them, most of it's, oh there was one bridge
was broken out, so most of it's going by trucks.
But they're going to close the coal mine anyway. So
we've got a massive railway line that could be really
good for some use. I just don't know what it
is yet, but no doubt people are thinking about that
as we speak. Twenty away from ten warriors ahead by

(59:54):
two ten minutes left to go. It'll be nervous ten Tony,
Marcus welcome, Yes.

Speaker 20 (59:59):
Good evening, Marcus, good old extra river and boy here.

Speaker 3 (01:00:02):
Oh nice to hear from you, Tony.

Speaker 20 (01:00:05):
The screaming Northwestern we had here and christ Church. Back
in those days, I used to work for a higher
company that used to hire out markeys.

Speaker 3 (01:00:18):
Oh wow, yeah, yep.

Speaker 20 (01:00:21):
Of course, with the toils and reefing iron coming off
the houses, we had to go out and fling these
huge tarpe holands in the air and get the Northwestern
to carry them up over the roof and peg them down.

Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
Oh wow, of course, Oh I know.

Speaker 20 (01:00:39):
It was the wind that was just screaming. Yeah. And
another thing near Marcus, if I may, We used to
put up all the marquees and tents for the crosst
A and p show. And I used to hammer in
two thousand, three hundred one meter long pigs with a

(01:01:02):
sledgehammer for all the markeys and tents.

Speaker 7 (01:01:06):
How long they were a meter long and had how long?

Speaker 3 (01:01:10):
How long would that take you?

Speaker 20 (01:01:12):
Two and a half days solid hammering. I had muscles
where I didn't know if humans should have muscles. Yeah,
and yeah, The largest marquee was one hundred and seven
foot long by forty nine foot wide with three center poles.

Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
And that was for animal displays and things at the
AMP show, was it?

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
Yes?

Speaker 20 (01:01:34):
Yeah, And I was registered with the police to carry
a nine twenty four to seven. As the scream in
Norwister came up, we had to go out race there
and cattable guy ropes just the letter drop.

Speaker 3 (01:01:47):
You'd be lucky you didn't get You'd be lucky in
those NORWISTI and get lifted off the ground.

Speaker 5 (01:01:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:01:53):
It was the flailing ropes off the tap pole. And
when we threw them up in the air, the flailing
ropes were like whiplashes, you know, when they hit you.
It was what a trial. Never mind, we got through it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
Good story, Tony, thanks so much for that. Nineteen away
from ten Marcus till twelve. Dolphins have just scored there
in the lead there. I'm not happy about that because
the Warriors have played. It's been a scrambling kind of
a match. But anyway, by the way, the Dolphins try
was just allowed. The guy knocked it on so recording.
I think the guy's name is. I'm pretty happy about that.
Eighteen sixteen. Still to the warriors. Hey Shan Marcus, welcome,

(01:02:30):
good evening.

Speaker 9 (01:02:31):
Yeah, you're good at mate. I think the Prime Minister
has overstepped his mark in terms of how he said
he's going to smash the gangs.

Speaker 3 (01:02:42):
This is, this is this is comments he made tonight.
I didn't catch up with him, but tell me the background.

Speaker 9 (01:02:49):
It was just like he was in the fouryer of
the Beehive and I just saw it on the news,
so I don't know who the background to it, but
he was. I saw the sound bite and on the
news he said I was going to smash the gangs.
And I thought, well, so, you know, like if he

(01:03:10):
said to the media he's going to smash talk talk
back hosts, how would that go down? He's going to
smash you?

Speaker 3 (01:03:19):
And I mean, you know what his problem is. He's
trying to look the good. He's trying to look tough
on law and order. That's what a thing is, tough
on crime. Yeah, and gang numbers have gone right up
under national so it's.

Speaker 9 (01:03:33):
Yeah, I don't think it's under national, it's just under
it's not it's not party political numbers. Is that he
and narcotics coming in from South America. It's all about
economic it's about you know, like money and opportunity through

(01:03:57):
the narcotics through around the world. So that's what's happening
because we're easy, well not easy, but we pay a
lot of money for drugs compared to just over the
border in America. But I think I think the Prime
Minister dropped as.

Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
Dropped.

Speaker 9 (01:04:14):
Yeah, he lost it when he said we're going to
smash the smash the games, because would he say we're
going to smash the Jews. Would he say We're going
to smash the Marys. I think he lost it because
he was trying to play on a sentiment about that
all gangs are all criminals and blah blah blah. Yeah,

(01:04:37):
like when a gang, when anyone in the society does wrong,
if they get caught, they go before the law and
they get judged before a jury or a judge on
his trial. So I think he's I think he and
he doubled down when he was asked about it, So
I think he thinks that maybe, you know, I'll do

(01:05:00):
a bit of a Trumpian tight style, you know, display
in New Zealand. But I don't think they it's going
to work in New Zealand is you know, you know,
I think we are more about what's right and what's wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:05:15):
Yeah, yeah, look I am. I wouldn't I wouldn't doubt
how much I would imagine this probably him going to
be saying a lot like that the next year before
the election. Tough on crime, tough on the gangs. It's
kind of where he goes to.

Speaker 9 (01:05:34):
Yeah, you don't say as a prime minister, we're going
to smash the gangs. We're going to smash them. That
language is very important.

Speaker 3 (01:05:45):
I don't disagree.

Speaker 9 (01:05:47):
Yeah, So yeah, that's all I'm saying is like I
think we should be a bastion of Yeah, like we shouldn't.
We shouldn't go down the rabbit hole of where Trump's
gone and maybe where a lot of other potentially with
some democracies we all go down the whole. I think

(01:06:08):
we should stand strong and be true to principles of justice.

Speaker 3 (01:06:14):
Nice to hear from me, Sean, Thanks so much about
thirteen to ten, Marcus, I was meaning to message in
when we had the tsunami warning. I was driving down
the Southern Motorway when the arm went off and the
whole motorway slowed to a crawl. I looked to my
right and left. Everyone was doing at their phone. Probably
more of a concern for civil defense than an earthquake
in Russia. I think the point is the worry for

(01:06:36):
the roading with that also, you might want to talk
about that anyway, get in touch on it all, Owen.
Thanks for hanging on there. It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 12 (01:06:44):
Hello.

Speaker 6 (01:06:45):
How are you good?

Speaker 3 (01:06:46):
Owen?

Speaker 12 (01:06:46):
Thank you, well, I was just curious about the Prime
Minister's comments about smashing the gangs.

Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
Did you see the comments?

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 12 (01:06:58):
I think it's a bit blown out of the proportion.
I mean, he wants to assure the New Zealand public
that we're not going to have gangs terrorizing New Zealand society,
which is what they're doing. I mean, personally, he doesn't
have the power to do anything with the gangs. If

(01:07:19):
he did, we wouldn't have them, or.

Speaker 3 (01:07:20):
They had the power. They had the they had the
power to take off their pictures, didn't they. I mean
they've been banned now.

Speaker 12 (01:07:27):
Yeah, if he really wanted to pull his finger out,
he could get defenders, police army. He could basically shut
them down.

Speaker 3 (01:07:38):
But I don't think. I don't think you can really
shut them down. I mean, it's illegal to you can't
display your pictures and it's a legal you know, and
you're not allowed to partake an illegal activity, but you
can belong to class.

Speaker 12 (01:07:51):
So I think they have every right to be in
their clubs as long as they don't And no, we
are the public.

Speaker 3 (01:07:59):
But I think what we're seeing with Winston Peters comments, well,
actually Winston's comments for the last three two years and
also Luckeon's comments, now it's all about electioneering. They're all
get he once looked tough on crime and and Winston's
whistling up his base like this note tomorrow. That's exactly
what's happening.

Speaker 12 (01:08:17):
Oh, it's basically they're trying to get votes.

Speaker 3 (01:08:19):
Yeah, it's electioneering. It's happening. We have a year long
election campaign by this but by the looks of things,
which no one but anyway, it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:27):
Was a.

Speaker 12 (01:08:29):
Tough but Luxton's not very tough. No, as a prime minister,
he's not a very tough man by any means.

Speaker 3 (01:08:38):
Oh and his actual name's Luxen Luxon. Oh okay, yeah,
because I know when people call him Luxon, I think, well,
I wonder how much even how close are they've been
paying attention.

Speaker 12 (01:08:48):
Yeah, and talking about this north West that that happened
in christ Church fifty years ago. Well, I wonder what
the weather would have been like in Graymouth if it
was really windy, and Christchurch probably would have been pitting
down with rain worked.

Speaker 3 (01:09:05):
I don't even know whether you tell I don't even
know where it originates.

Speaker 12 (01:09:08):
Well, you know how when the rain goes over the ranges,
it dries up and becomes a wind. Yeah, okay, if
it's at Northwest and christ Church it'd be pissing down
on in the coast. And now that it's August, we're
getting close to spring, and Northwesters tend to be very

(01:09:29):
common around this time of the year as we due
to the seasonal change, and you know, August September we'll
probably get quite a few of them. It's more of
a seasonal change sort of a wind saying that brings
Southerlys and all sorts of cold weather. It's a bit

(01:09:53):
of a mismatch where the pattern.

Speaker 3 (01:09:56):
Yeah, okay, fair enough, and thank you. The dolphins had
just scored too, so that's not good. Hopefully there's a
forward pass or something and they go back and look
at it. Anyway, welcome here till twelve. If you want
to talk, we are talking about the Northwester from fifty
years ago. Anything else you do want to come through with,
get in touch. It looks like there's about a minute
left to go on the Warriors match and looks like
they are behind. So that's a real worry. They need

(01:10:19):
a miracle to come out of this one. I don't
think they've seen anything to find. The try was and
they've scored with twelve men two so they're down a
man also, so that is not good, not good at all. Anyway,
my name is Marcus. Welcome here or midnight. If you
want a text or email, I'll be good to hear
from you. Oh way eight one hundred and eighty ten
eighty or nine two nine two text looking forward to

(01:10:41):
what you've got to say tonight. It feels like a
long night. It's only ten o'clock. Goodness me, we're going
to talk about the next two hours anyway. There's only
about twenty five seconds left for this match, so they'll
need something extraordinary to want it. The score is eighteen twenty,
so it's a heartbreaking loss for the Warriors. By the way,

(01:11:04):
like MINEU were two one which was not expected over
North Harbor. I think I didn't win one last season,
maybe the only one match, and they've won their first one,
so well done to them. This is the kick to
come out. It's full time, so that game is over.
He's taking a long time with his kick, so that's heartbreak.
We'll speak to some of the people as they head

(01:11:24):
home from ericson tonight. No doubt Marcus Luxon is trying
to copy Trump, using violent language and strutting around like
he's just showing off. Next thing he'll be swearing. I
think he said frickin, didn't he? Someone said awesome to
see the Warriors lose made my weekend already. Wow, Auckland
Warriors lose. What a great night there we go. So

(01:11:46):
already we're split on that. Some supermarkets in the warehouse
both provide bins for people to recycle soft plastics. As
staff member at Auklan we House told me, they empty
the bins at least four times a day and even
more at the weekends. Do you know what can go
in and can't? Where do they empty it into the
jumbo bin? Order they actually empty it was sponsibly. I

(01:12:06):
don't even know there's any market for soft plastics is there.
You might want to talk about that too, but yes,
feel free to get yourself engaged for the next hour.
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine two
nine to detext someone said Mount Smart Stadium isn't called
Eric's anymore. I believe it's called Go Medium. I'm not
into calling stadiums by their sponsors. It just doesn't It

(01:12:28):
just sort of doesn't ring true for me. Just I
wouldn't mind a bit of mopping up from the Warriors
match that we well you would have watched eyes at work.
It seems to me that the Warriors were two points ahead,
that a penalty they could have gone forehead. If anyone
has to discuss that, what was the likelyhoord? What was
the options that they have? I wasn't watching that closer
as they have penalty kicks out the front, so I

(01:12:48):
know they were down to twelve men. Maybe when he
got sent off they should have that kick then if
you want to comment that. Also, if you're driving home
from the Warriors, let us know what the atmosphere was like.
You might be there in the devastation. It was a heartbreaking,
match was messy though a lot of fumbling must have
been really dewey ground or something. So you got some

(01:13:08):
comments about that. Wouldn't mind just you could look like
a game that they were smarter because a kick also
worlt have taken up a bit of time. So do
come through if you want to talk. Oh, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty and nine to nine to the
text mark is still twelve if you want to be
a part of that. So yeah, some says, why would

(01:13:29):
you not take the penalty kick to go four points
clear five minutes out? For a good point, wasn't mount
smart stadium sponsored by Erics and mobile phones? You forget
what's I think it's been Eric's. I forget what was
after Erics, and maybe it was. I can't remember the
names for it, and I don't think people should be
expected to remember all the names every time a stadium
changes its sponsor. It was slightly undignified by the way

(01:13:54):
the Americans are making a big deal about meat raffles.
They're just finding out about those, and the point was made,
what amens If you go to the pub and you
want to meet raffle, then you're going on a big
night around the town. Then what do you do with
your meat raff, will you take it with you? Your
peck and meat? What's it called? The meat? The meat pack,
not your peck and meat, the meat pack. I'm sure

(01:14:17):
plenty of people in the night, a big night of
the town have lost their their meat pack over the night. Anyway,
do get in touch you want to talk about that
as well. I feel I'm calling it by the wrong
name anyway, No dramas, but yes, if you want to
talk on here. Meat tray, I suppose is the best

(01:14:39):
way for it. Eight desiree. I'm fuming they should have
taken those too easy points. Would have been a draw
and then maybe Golden Point Warriors held their own. But
no cigar desiree. Yeah, okayt work out why they wouldn't
take That's crazy, would have we be called that from
up top? But mind you, maybe this is the loss

(01:15:01):
they need. I know I keep saying that. But maybe
they'll come back from injuries and then we can get
to the point at end and finish fourth third and
have a home quarter final or whatever. I haven't lost hope,
but it's yeah, it's too hard to watch. Last week
was hard. This week's hard. It's killing people watching this team.

(01:15:22):
The nerves of it all. Hey, Marcus, this is from Brent.
Awesome match, but devastating hard decision they had with a penalty.
If they had have scored, it would have been all over. Personally,
don't see a lot of point going from a two
point lead to a four point lead. Best case scenario
we go to golden point if they score, or worst
case scenario we lose if they convert. Yeah, I guess

(01:15:46):
some of that's about the two points is in hindsight,
isn't it.

Speaker 9 (01:15:51):
So.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
I guess the coach would have had advice for them
on that. But yeah, but if you are heading home
for the match now, I'd love to hear your match
report from it, or if you're watch it on the TV.
Marcus read the nineteen seventy five storm was ten years

(01:16:13):
old at the time in a boarding school in South Canterbury.
I remember the hockey goals rolling along the sports field
like tumbleweed outside the dorms and the windows in the
dorm flexing like cardboard. Apparently, wind gusts reached one hundred
and eighty k's per hour. Pine forests were flattened like
Matchtick's curragate arm was flying in all directions and the

(01:16:36):
power was out for days. Things got very creative in
the school kitchen. Marcus. I can remember, Marcus, I can
remember those winds. I was eight years old going from
christ to as Burton. All the forest on the right
hand side going to Ashburton were down the whole lot,

(01:16:56):
all the forests that are now dairy farms, and the
farm I worked for across the road lost his shed. Marcus.
Do you think the man missing in west and has
found the missing Phillip's family? I don't think so. Is
there a long way from home be a part of

(01:17:16):
you want to talk Marcus till twelve, eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty and nine two nine, to detect with
it till twelve. Whatever you got, I'm there for you.
Talk back wise, mainly there's something else you want to mention. Good,
I'm all up for it. Oh, good evening, Philip. It's Marcus. Welcome,

(01:17:42):
Marcus high Hi, Philip.

Speaker 8 (01:17:44):
I'm just shocked because they just aired Graham Norton show. Okay,
there you know there are a few years.

Speaker 3 (01:17:55):
Back home what channel channel three?

Speaker 8 (01:17:58):
Is it three?

Speaker 3 (01:17:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:18:00):
And they had Sean Coons on.

Speaker 3 (01:18:04):
Oh no, p did he.

Speaker 20 (01:18:07):
That is?

Speaker 3 (01:18:08):
That is That is surprising. That's that's it is surprising.
That's an error.

Speaker 8 (01:18:12):
Why would they let that go to the guys from jail?
Is a monster.

Speaker 3 (01:18:16):
That's a total error of judgment.

Speaker 8 (01:18:19):
It is.

Speaker 2 (01:18:21):
I wonder if that's because they've changed owners and that's
just slipped through.

Speaker 3 (01:18:26):
But there's no way in the world you would do that,
you'd show that.

Speaker 8 (01:18:29):
No, he's certainly there smiling away with his sunglasses or
it's a total creep, you know. And I couldn't believe it.
I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 3 (01:18:40):
It's unbelievable.

Speaker 8 (01:18:42):
It is. It's a it's a disgrace that the guy
was a sex thing.

Speaker 3 (01:18:50):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean he wasn't found guilty of trafficking.
I think he was found well, he was, there was
one of the more serious charges. He wasn't found guilty
of it. Certainly. Still, he's not someone your ear on TV,
not at all.

Speaker 8 (01:19:04):
No, no, no, And I I was just sickened.

Speaker 3 (01:19:09):
I can't believe. Yeah, I'm sharing what you're saying. Sean
Combs on what's the show called Graham Norton. I just
to see how long ago it is. Not that's important,
but it sounds like it sounds that it must be
a real show because it's been incarcerated for a while,
hasn't he.

Speaker 8 (01:19:24):
Yeah, I know it's not who.

Speaker 3 (01:19:26):
Else was on it twenty twenty three.

Speaker 8 (01:19:31):
No, I don't know who the other ones were, but
you know, just just we're speaking that that stupid ad
from one name's Ed's Come on, I hate that.

Speaker 3 (01:19:40):
D tell me about Oh No, I can't understand it.
I don't like it either.

Speaker 8 (01:19:44):
No, it's just appalling, you know, on all sorts of levels.

Speaker 3 (01:19:51):
What what did I did not have the woman eating
in a spar pool.

Speaker 14 (01:19:57):
It's just that.

Speaker 8 (01:19:59):
He seeks her out and she's disappointed that he found her.

Speaker 3 (01:20:03):
Yeah, I haven't seen enough to follow it closely. I
don't like the one where he's got the tattoos, just
a short one that's showing the warriors and the guy
sort of kisses his tattoo and stuff. It just feels
weird to me.

Speaker 8 (01:20:16):
But then, you know, the current one is she's tried
to find the father, but she didn't try to find
the son. You know, I never tried to find him.
And then there's all this cat landish rubbish. You know,
she's somewhat famous. It's all this language that you know

(01:20:38):
that just where where's this all coming from.

Speaker 3 (01:20:42):
It seems to be going on forever and not resolving itself.
It's tiresome.

Speaker 8 (01:20:46):
No, it is, and he's he seems to both all
the people in this ad seem to be thick.

Speaker 3 (01:20:56):
Yeah, I agree, there's no there's no, Philip, You've had
a tough night. What were the ad? And then and
then Graham thought, but look, there must be no one
in charge at TV three in the takeover for sky TV,
because no one in their right mind would replay that.
You think, hang about this guy's a rapist. He's going, Yeah,

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that's crazy, and the Warrior is lost. Yeah, that's.

Speaker 8 (01:21:25):
I'm going to go to bed.

Speaker 3 (01:21:26):
Yeah, off you go. Yeah, good on you, Fillip. I
appreciate your calling. Thank you. It's a good call. Eighteen
past ten Marcus till twelve fidgets for the Wow. I
don't like the ads at all. I haven't really given
them the time of day though, couldn't be bothered. The
last thing I want to do is get engaged in

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a episodic commercial campaign. Marcus. The Warriors just let them
gain too many meters at the end, allowing them to score. Yeah,
it looked a bit shambolic. In defense Mackett's Marcus along
good evening.

Speaker 11 (01:22:00):
Yeah, Hi, I was supposted to burn him during those wents,
and it was extremely eventful. They blew down all the
trees of old pine forests, and we as a household
had to put the frozen foods in our freezers into

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chili buns and put our names on them. And the
army sent trucks around and took them down to the
cool stores and where they would be kept chilled. Yeah,
even though there was they had their own generator to
keep the fire going down there.

Speaker 3 (01:22:38):
How long was the pelcons.

Speaker 11 (01:22:41):
It was up for about three days four days, But
we had army houses, the older models that each had
a chip heater that fed also the hot water in
the kitchen and had an open fireplace in the lounge,
so we didn't get hot cold or run out of
hot water. That was That was pretty good. But I

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had to pull the blinds down on the window's face.
I was right at the end of the camp and
then about hundred one hundred and fifty meters away with
the beginnings of the plantation, and the contents were coming
after trees like bullets, and I pulled the blinds down

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in the lound and in the bedroom that faced that way,
and tacked them along the bottom of the winter sill
just in case the window got broken and would help
stop the glass coming in on the carpets and.

Speaker 3 (01:23:42):
Does it without prompting. Would that become Would that be
the strongest weather event you've ever experienced?

Speaker 11 (01:23:51):
Yeah, looking back, yeah, pretty much.

Speaker 3 (01:23:53):
So sitting the strongest Wednesday.

Speaker 11 (01:23:56):
Yeah. Well, they I was working at the hospital at
the time, and they got a big front end or
out and they cleared the back road and go inside
so the ambulance could get to town because we had
a couple of bricknant wadies just sheltering with us there,
and then that was the way that we got them.

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I think they went all the way to Rolliston, just
making sure the road was clear all the way into town.

Speaker 3 (01:24:27):
But it was much it was much stuff blowing around.

Speaker 11 (01:24:32):
We'll hang yes, yeah, oh yeah, it was a pity
they even they came back. We weren't allowed to light
our lounge fires because they were bricked to me and
they had to come and check them before you were
allowed to light them. And they put a sticker on
your door to say that that house had been cleared.

Speaker 3 (01:24:52):
Wow. Well, that's for interesting, Mack. Thank you for that.
Twenty three past ten, Vivian, it's Marcus. Good evening.

Speaker 17 (01:25:00):
Yeah, Hi. I also was living near Bennam. I was
in the two chain raid was about two hundred k's
running at two hundred meters, running parallel to the main
south road. And we were building a house and living
in a little shed which was nine by six and
the wind came up. My husband was at work. He

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was he was a policeman, and he was at work
till two in the morning, and I was on my
own out there and I was absolutely paid, and all
the trees were falling over terrifying.

Speaker 3 (01:25:31):
Was it nine by six feet pattern nine by six
feet or nine by six meters?

Speaker 17 (01:25:39):
No, I'm sorry, I didn't hear that your shed, Vivian.

Speaker 3 (01:25:42):
Was it nine foot by six foot? It's tiny.

Speaker 17 (01:25:48):
And we had a bathroom tacked on the deck, which
was an old truck deck that were made out to
a bathroom, and we had a long drop out behind
the hat behind the shed. The long drop went flying.
There's a huge pine tree that came down and missed
hitting the shed. Because it's laid at land. It on
the rotary light washing line. It saved me from getting damaged.

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And the shed. And when my husband came home at
about two thirty in the morning, he got up on
the roof to the we had a large a large
shed that was sort of half open and that had
the tin was all lifting off that. So he was
up and the shed nailing it down in the wind.
And I was petrified because of course there's so much
junk flying through the air. Was going to get to

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capitate it or something.

Speaker 3 (01:26:35):
It was pretty leary, was the shed? Did the shed
have foundations?

Speaker 17 (01:26:41):
Yeah? It was a proper It was good shed, but
it was an interesting place to live for a while.
We built our house and when the wind was blowing
the sliding doors that we had, I was watching them
and they were flexing by at least six inches, you know.
It was just amazing how.

Speaker 6 (01:26:58):
Much they flexed.

Speaker 17 (01:26:59):
And I was I thought, well, that's going to go.
But it didn't. And the next morning I had to
go to work and all down two Chain Road, all
the trees were down, the forests were down, the all
power lines were across the road, and I was absolutely
petrified about trying to get through, whether some of the
lines were alive or not. I didn't know that. Yeah,

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it was a hell of an experience, I can tell you.

Speaker 3 (01:27:23):
Were the flexing windows on the house you were building
or on the shed.

Speaker 17 (01:27:29):
They were on the they were on the building that
we were building, the house, the new house that we
weren living at that stage. Here it was. It was
an interesting time.

Speaker 3 (01:27:41):
You remember it well though, I did you know it
was fifty years today until I said it.

Speaker 17 (01:27:45):
Yeah, yeah, I remember it like it was yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:27:49):
I'm just looking at two Chain Road now because I've
got no idea where that is.

Speaker 17 (01:27:54):
So there's a it runs parallels to the main south
road and it's burn them at one end or yeah,
one end, and then the prison the prison for the
other side. So I was on my own with the
prison winning than the Burnham camp the other end, thinking good,
I don't know where i'd go to to get help
if I needed it.

Speaker 3 (01:28:14):
It's just across It's just across the road from the
mess of Rolliston.

Speaker 17 (01:28:19):
Yeah, basically, yeah, yes, it was it.

Speaker 3 (01:28:24):
Much damage to your new house.

Speaker 17 (01:28:26):
Nope, we had no damage to the new house and
no damage to the sheds. Just the long drop that
just weep flying.

Speaker 3 (01:28:32):
Good story of very lucky now, isn't it? Thank you, Marcus.
On the night of the big Stunted City five storm
in Timid, Mum worked my sister and I and shifted
us to the bathroom on the south side of the
house to stay safe. Well, Dad and my brother spent
the night holding in the lounge double doors, scared they'd
blow and lift the roof. Lots of damage in town
and we got the next day of school. That's from

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Kate Marcus Watson beween having Diddy on TV when Tarco
was on TV all the time and he was found
guilty on thirty seven charges. If you're driving home from
the Warriors, ut so how it was for you? Always
interested in that also tonight anything else you want to mention?
He until twelve mon name as Marcus welcome, just joined us.

(01:29:16):
The Warriors have lost. What's the cricket score, Dan, it's
lunch one one four for six second innings. That's Zimbabwe.
New Zealand trail by forty four runs. Sorry they trail
New Zealand by forty four runs. It's important to get

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that clear. Craig Good evening. It's Marcus welcome.

Speaker 18 (01:29:42):
Hi, Mark Good South Kennbury.

Speaker 3 (01:29:45):
Hi, Craig Hi.

Speaker 18 (01:29:47):
That Senny five wins that you're six years old at
the time, and I think some photos through to you
tonight of our my mum and dad's house got blown
off at about four thirty am in the morning and
we all got shifted into we have a big house,
and we got shifted right into the middle of the
house because the windows were just about ready to come

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flying in from the northwest from the Woodbury durading. And yeah,
I'll never forget that. And I was still every time
now at nighttime, I'm still injuring and every time it
blows real strong, I never go to sleep because it's
just the noise of the howl in norwester at the
time that there's a lot of teature, you know, awake

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all night. And we had lots of damage where our
half roofs gone off and then there which he's all
got pushed down as well, and many damages and even
the fast we was enjoying at the time, and seventy
Club were very very busy. So yeah, I thought I
give a ring to say.

Speaker 3 (01:30:44):
Craig, did Craig, where did you see in the pictures too?

Speaker 18 (01:30:48):
On your mark on your Facebook page?

Speaker 3 (01:30:52):
Did you post them? Did you post them I'm looking
at it now. I can't see it yet.

Speaker 18 (01:30:56):
Tonight yet tonight would have.

Speaker 3 (01:30:58):
Been did you post them or did you message them
a message? I'm sorry, you can't see it, can you? Then?

Speaker 18 (01:31:06):
I thought after when your first one was you had
like the black and white photograph of someone some trees
across the top.

Speaker 17 (01:31:12):
The night.

Speaker 3 (01:31:14):
You might have you might have you might have posted
it to the Oh yes, I can see it now.
This is my great parents house after the big ones.

Speaker 4 (01:31:26):
That's correct.

Speaker 18 (01:31:27):
Wow, Okay, that's that's me in the photograph on the bottom.
My grandmother took that one. That's me when I was
six years old.

Speaker 3 (01:31:35):
Yep, so it's got no roof, no, only half.

Speaker 18 (01:31:40):
Only half a roof and the other half of blown
authors of canopy of the old carp poles he school
back in the day.

Speaker 3 (01:31:46):
Yep, you'd be a terrifying age at six.

Speaker 18 (01:31:51):
Oh well, I can. I can still feel it right
as I'm talking to you now. I can feel it right.
We'll sit yeah, real bad, but we survived. And the
six of us in our family itself, we all had
to hobble into the middle of mom and Dad's room,
right in the middle of the house, and the noise
was just horrific itself, and every time it blows and
now enjuring in my little house itself. I got I

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think I'd never go to sleep it or just hear
that real wind and go all with it. I don't
mind in the daytime wind in daytime, but nighttime, no,
it's very very The noise was horrific. But yeah, I
thought to give it a ring.

Speaker 3 (01:32:25):
To say, how did how did the roof stay off?

Speaker 18 (01:32:29):
We had the roof was back, The reef was off
about a week. My uncle was actually the builder enduring
the time, and he brought the tarp. Polands lived up
the road, and he brought the car poles next morning
to it actually rained up the wind as parp ast
all in the morning blew our roof off. About six
thirty in the morning of the daylight come it started
to rain. We had buckets in our hallway. I remember

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the buckets threw down that hallway all full of water itself,
and it rained, and lucky he got here about eight
o'clock that in the morning to put the car poles on.
Probably about a week after and half that reef was
actually still there. Seventy nine seventy five through to about
ninety ninety eight when Dad replaced the roofs back in
ninety ninety eight with the rest of the house and during.
So yeah, so yep, did.

Speaker 3 (01:33:14):
You remember it was today? Did you remember the date?

Speaker 18 (01:33:17):
It was?

Speaker 2 (01:33:17):
All?

Speaker 5 (01:33:18):
Yet?

Speaker 18 (01:33:18):
I always remember. I've got my mom, My mom, she
made a scrap My mom made a scrapbook up from
nineteen sixties right through all the history of during and
she put that in the ouse thing itself. And my
grandmother's photographs I've got as well, so I kep always remember,
first of all, with nineteen twenty five every year. I
always remember it every year.

Speaker 3 (01:33:36):
So yep, Oh that's great with those photos, Greg, and
thanks for posting those. That's kind of you, thank you.
Twenty five away from eleven, someone has texted me and said,
it's halftime during the Lions match and I've just gone
to the lines match on Channel fifty but it's from twenty thirteen.
Don't fall into that trap. Well, it looks like a
good match, but yes, it's tomorrow the Lions play and

(01:33:56):
South and Otago play tomorrow. They call that. I think
they call that stag day. We're going twenty bucks for
two adults or an adult and two kids. I thought
that was reasonable. That's why they get so many people.
I don't know whether the Stags are going to be
good this year, but yes, Stag Day. It's called one

(01:34:23):
of the most anticipated clashes of the season. Local rivalry.
We hate them, they hate us, so it's a great occasion.
Rivalry dating back one hundred and thirty eight years. Get
the Stags. Chusey on an email here about the nineteen

(01:34:48):
seventy five storm Marcus, My great uncle Bert, who lived
at Ashburton, lost his two pay and high winds that night.
It had his name written on the inside. Three days
later a lady from Tamuka phoned him to return it.
It's a good story. It's a really good story. I've
read it three times. Would you write your two pay?

(01:35:09):
Would you write your name inside of two pay? It's
a bit I don't understand, but maybe you would if
you take it off swimming. I've never had a two pay.
Then I had to pronounce two pay, but yeah, wow,
what would you do? Would you write your name in it?
It's a good story, Fay, Welcome.

Speaker 21 (01:35:29):
Good evening now. My most vivid memory was that it
was a moonlight night, a very very bright moonlight night,
my husband and I lay in bed, pulled the curtains back,
and we watched thirty to forty year old pine trees
in a big, big line just fall down like mattsticks.

Speaker 2 (01:35:52):
Wow.

Speaker 21 (01:35:53):
When we got up in the morning and we walked
through the trees down to the old house on the farm,
here was my mother and father in law's car sitting
where the garage had been. The garage had been completely
lifted up and taken away. There was not a scratch

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on the car.

Speaker 3 (01:36:15):
I knew you were going to say that, how would
that happen where it must have lived?

Speaker 21 (01:36:19):
Well, it just it was an old wooden garage and
obviously the wind. It was sort of situated that the
wind could lift it straight up and it sat it
beside the car. And as I say, not a scratch
scratch on the car. But yes, all of our good
pine trees, our good norse shelter in the teeper Eta
area were flat on the ground and we really relied

(01:36:43):
on that. What a hell of a cleanup we had.

Speaker 11 (01:36:46):
I have to say a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:36:48):
Of firewood for next season. Whereabouts you where where were you?
I just want to be like.

Speaker 21 (01:36:53):
We we were. We lived between Rakaia and Horror Rata
on the on this on the north side of the
Ricara River. We looked out onto the river, air farmed
it and that's where we were. So, yes, it was.
It was quite an experience living through that. There was
no doubt about it.

Speaker 3 (01:37:11):
So where did you say were you? I've got I've
got Horror Rata on the map between.

Speaker 4 (01:37:14):
Horror and Rakai.

Speaker 21 (01:37:17):
You come back down the Rakaia River on the north
side to the state highway and.

Speaker 3 (01:37:22):
You did you did it? It is that where you
said you were.

Speaker 21 (01:37:27):
Yes, where we were just below t me t be read.
It was our area. Yes, that's where we all were,
and we all talked about it and so forth. But yes,
neighbors were great. Those who were in trouble, you know,
went to help somebody else and so forth. But yes, wow,
okay to be what were.

Speaker 5 (01:37:47):
You ever remembered?

Speaker 14 (01:37:48):
What were you've never forgotten?

Speaker 3 (01:37:50):
What were you farming?

Speaker 5 (01:37:51):
We farmed sheep.

Speaker 20 (01:37:53):
You could look.

Speaker 3 (01:37:54):
It looks different, It looks three different. Now it looks
for intensive dairying.

Speaker 7 (01:37:57):
Now something else.

Speaker 21 (01:38:00):
I'll just tell you. We had lost to hay shed
at the very top of the farm, which would be
closest to horror when I think about it like that.
We had lost a hay shed to a fire, and
we had our new corrugated iron sitting waiting to be
building to build a new hay shed. Well, the bands

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in the around the pieces, you know that the new
corrugated irony, they broke and we could see the corrugated
iron being thrown across the farm, glinting in the moonlight,
and it was just it was just ruined.

Speaker 17 (01:38:43):
It was just wrecked.

Speaker 21 (01:38:45):
It was just absolutely and it was a way down
at some of our neighbors places the corrugated iron was. Yes,
so yes, there were a proostrange things that happened, but
our animals were intact, yes, and nobody was hurt in
our area. So that was the main thing.

Speaker 3 (01:39:02):
And what did you do? Did you replace the trees?

Speaker 4 (01:39:05):
Oh?

Speaker 15 (01:39:06):
Was it really?

Speaker 21 (01:39:08):
As the years went by we replaced some of them. Yes,
we did, Yes, we had to. That was you know
northwest you used to be the bane aver beane a
bear district because it was always a very strong wind
and a very drying wind and it was lighter land
that we farmed on. But anyway, that's life.

Speaker 3 (01:39:30):
Sorry, what's what sort of land? Did you say? You
found on like that.

Speaker 21 (01:39:33):
It was it was lighter land. It wasn't It wasn't
a heavy, heavy soil. It was a lighter land.

Speaker 3 (01:39:38):
Yes, yes, where are in our fae?

Speaker 21 (01:39:44):
Well we're retired and we're in Rolliston, for dear.

Speaker 3 (01:39:50):
You might attend that's on its way, isn't it?

Speaker 21 (01:39:52):
Well, I believe it's going to be quite something, isn't it?

Speaker 17 (01:39:56):
I was.

Speaker 3 (01:39:56):
I was desperately curious about Roliston, so I went and
had a good look around there. And it's quite special,
isn't it.

Speaker 5 (01:40:03):
It is?

Speaker 17 (01:40:04):
It is?

Speaker 21 (01:40:04):
Indeed, it's it's well, we came here twenty years ago,
and so now, yes, it was just a little village
when we came really, and now it is a large town.

Speaker 3 (01:40:18):
Yes, it must be thirty forty thousand. The way it's grown,
it's unbelievable.

Speaker 21 (01:40:23):
Yes, thereabouts. Indeed, one day I think it could even
join up with Lincoln.

Speaker 3 (01:40:27):
Yes, well, one day they'll probably be naming streets after you,
because you're like one of the original residents by the
looks of twenty years ago.

Speaker 21 (01:40:35):
Oh well, I don't know about that, but no, it's
it's it's a nice place to live, yes, and yes,
it's you know, life moves on, doesn't it doesn't stay still?

Speaker 3 (01:40:47):
Yeah, stay still. Fantastic talking, do you. I've loved it.
Thank you so much. Hollo Marcus. I remember the storm
in Little Tonight. I just arrived on the train from
work and the tunnel was using emergency lighting. I had
to straggle in the wind to walk home. The power
was out where transitioncent tortures. The noise of the weather
was deafening the walls of a house jock. A sheet

(01:41:08):
of roofing iron from another house hit and lodge corner
wise into our lounge window. My father had to hammer
it flat inside and nailed a thick carpet over the
window and the roofing iron. It was frightening. We had
a great view over the harbor and could see the
ship's leaving port. We muddled in the middle room of
our house. Next morning, we discovered our brick chimney was
cut off by or knocked off by a flying roof

(01:41:31):
from another house. And the wind was so loud we
never heard it hit or the bricks falling on the roof.
It was frightening. I learned for the first time that
there were forces out there stronger than me, that I
had no control over The following morning, all over Littleton
we heard hammers on roofs, dating back roofs. It's from rear.
Please excuse the mistakes using the tablet. Somehow the text

(01:41:53):
has gone so tiny you could hardly see it. Ps. Sorry,
the warrior has lost a big fan. Lovely to hear
from your rear. Short for glory, I believe at thirteen
away from eleven, Denise, it's Marcus Aloe.

Speaker 14 (01:42:06):
Hello, this is Denise. I used to live at four
one one Sawyer's Arms Road, and we had a glasshouse property,
and you were talking about it this evening and it
brought all those terrible memories back. I was home alone,
my husband was away working, and I employed two ladies

(01:42:28):
to help in the glasshouses, and they arrived that morning
and we're working in the glasshouses, and sort of recently,
early in the morning it started to get windy and
we had vents that you push up in the roof
to let the heat out. So we went round putting
the vents down and working in them. And there's the

(01:42:51):
morning that we got on. It got stronger and stronger,
and I think about mid morning I got very concerned
about the flapping windows and the glass that we got
out of the glasshouses, and I think the two ladies
that I employed went home, and I went back up
to the house, and I was more worried about the house,

(01:43:13):
and we had big walnut trees there, and it was very,
very windy. As the wind got stronger and stronger, I
went sort of down to look at the glasshouses, and
I just can't remember what time, but slowly the wind
got stronger and stronger, and then one or two panes
or the flaps of the where you opened the vents

(01:43:34):
on the top of the glasshouses to let the hot
air out, they started to rattle in that and I
don't know what time. It was just absolute chaos. I
just retreated to the house. The two ladies I employed
gone home. Might have been about ten thirty eleven o'clock
and it just got worse and worse, and yes, we

(01:43:55):
lost most of the glasshouses. I can't remember. There was
about five or six, I think, and the glass The
worst part was was the aftermak but it was showed
it on the radio. And we started to get a
few rubber neckers in the afternoon, mainly men who came
walking in and then walked all over the broken panes

(01:44:17):
of glass because some of the glasshouses collapse, not all
of them. And yeah, it was a horrendous day. My
husband was away weed spraying on a highway somewhere. He
didn't get back till quite late.

Speaker 3 (01:44:30):
Denise.

Speaker 14 (01:44:32):
Yes, what were you growing tomatoes? We had mostly tomatoes.
We had two glass smaller glasshousers. We grew carnations. I
did it all with the help of other ladies. But
there was mostly tomatoes and they were just perfect. They'd
grown up, which strung them all up. The tomatoes were

(01:44:52):
all formed, but they were still green. There might have
been one or two just ready to turn red. And yes,
we lost a lot. It was horrendous. I retreated to
the house.

Speaker 3 (01:45:04):
So the photo and the pressed day has the damaged
houses at four h three Sawyer's Arms Road. Are they yours?

Speaker 19 (01:45:12):
Yes, yes, we're wow.

Speaker 14 (01:45:14):
But the guy at the next door used to own them,
and we brought four one one and we had a
weed spraying business. But the old guy that had them,
he decided he didn't want to have them anymore. So
he came and talked to us and we did what
we call a boundary change. Yep, we just changed the
boundary that. So we took on the glasshouses behind his

(01:45:37):
house and added them to ours. So we had the glasshouse.

Speaker 3 (01:45:41):
So they looked, they looked. It looks like there's about one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven eight destroyed, yes, seven or destroyers.

Speaker 14 (01:45:47):
Yes, it was horreneously.

Speaker 3 (01:45:49):
And they weren't destroyed by objects hitting them. They destroyed.
The wind just blew them out. Is that right?

Speaker 14 (01:45:54):
Yes? Yes, yes, I mid up an afternoon. A plane
flew over. That must have been when that photo was taken.

Speaker 3 (01:46:02):
Yeah, it is a flat is an aerial shot?

Speaker 11 (01:46:04):
You're right, yep, yes.

Speaker 14 (01:46:06):
And of course once that photo was published, we had
a lot of people coming. A lot of men came,
and I had people walking around wonder why.

Speaker 3 (01:46:15):
Were they coming just to se curious about the force
of nature?

Speaker 14 (01:46:18):
Yes, yes, there be horrendous. I was more worried about
our house. I retreated to the house and when my husband,
he was a weed spray and he was away spraying weeds,
he came back and there was nothing we could do.
And we had a hen house just by those glasshouses,
and I managed to corroll all the hens. We had

(01:46:39):
about eighteen hens, get them into the hen house and
they all survived. But Oh, it was a horrendous day.

Speaker 16 (01:46:46):
Were you ensured?

Speaker 3 (01:46:47):
Were you insured for your tomatoes and your glasshouse and
your carnations?

Speaker 14 (01:46:51):
We were insured, but not enough.

Speaker 3 (01:46:54):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:46:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:46:55):
And we spent months. I used to all my friends,
all our friends, well every und We spent weeks picking
up glass and then separating the glass from the wood
of up around the dark houses. It was horrendous.

Speaker 3 (01:47:10):
You're still there? Are You're still there?

Speaker 14 (01:47:11):
On? No longer we told it about okay, nine moved on.

Speaker 3 (01:47:18):
Love you to talk to youth. I've got to run
for commercials. That's a tremendous call. What a photo. Thank
you so much for that good evening. Alex Marcus.

Speaker 16 (01:47:24):
Hello, yea a Marcus. I have just come in and
I hear you talking about the big blow.

Speaker 1 (01:47:30):
Yes.

Speaker 16 (01:47:31):
I was working for the post office and I was
the guy on the toll exchange that night on my own.

Speaker 3 (01:47:37):
Oh yep, and ask Burton yep.

Speaker 16 (01:47:40):
And it started a quarters to one in the morning.
The wind and picked up and picked up, and in
the end I had over the shift of the night.
I would have had just under sixty one.

Speaker 3 (01:47:52):
One month call, oh wow, okay.

Speaker 16 (01:47:54):
And then we had elderly folk mainly ladies beat up
and crying. Our lines went down, but they were having
windows shedded at the time, and he could hear the
glass breaking. It was quite devastating.

Speaker 3 (01:48:08):
Well were most of the emergency calls for fire because.

Speaker 16 (01:48:12):
They wanted We lost all our appliances, and they spirit
we couldn't get them out. The reason, excuse me, the
reason being was that all of the power lines were
down and they were still alive, of course, and they couldn't.
I couldn't get any help either.

Speaker 3 (01:48:27):
So the fire engines couldn't get out of the station.

Speaker 14 (01:48:30):
No.

Speaker 16 (01:48:31):
No, most of them are already out in the country
and they had no more lift in town. Okay, well,
because they had a lot of hedges on. The farms
were burning and it was caused by power lines breaking,
sparking and seeding fires.

Speaker 3 (01:48:46):
Did they call and reabsor wants to help you out
because you must have been fed out.

Speaker 16 (01:48:49):
No, they couldn't because it was all perfectly dark and
they able to keep I couldn't catch and can't get
anybody to come and get me or help me. And
I had a wife on the line at one stage
who I rened to perceive she was all right. She
had five children at him three sons and twin orders
o J.

Speaker 3 (01:49:07):
How old were the girls?

Speaker 16 (01:49:10):
About?

Speaker 5 (01:49:10):
Four?

Speaker 2 (01:49:11):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:49:11):
Wow?

Speaker 16 (01:49:14):
So yeah, I had a full night, but we had
it was devastating. Do you know we aspert in at all? Yes, okay,
there's a mobile Well there was a mobile garage in
Literary extore to the building that we worked in. Yes,
it had a big mobile. Slam Brothers Neon signed yes
and when it blue and the blue and broke broke
and I went shattering down the windows of the toll

(01:49:35):
exchange on the top of that where we were at
the exchange. That was frightening. But the worst part of
it was the next morning, this Saturday, I was back
on mid not to six again, I.

Speaker 3 (01:49:47):
Got I've got to go hang on, we'll take care
for the news. Well, talking about the big blow nineteen
twenty five to fifty years ago today, the worst thing
was the next morning, Alex, you were saying.

Speaker 16 (01:49:56):
Yeah, I just know what's what's also been covered. But
by the time things that calmed down and daylight arrived,
my manager arrived and she right at seven o'clock helped me.
But the damage that was done was silos. The silos
that were taken off farms enrolled all the way from
one farm to another iron. And I know for a

(01:50:17):
fact that the sheets of iron had gone through the
wall of homes on the farms, and one mister young
child went straight through and stayed there, just embedded in
the wall.

Speaker 3 (01:50:28):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 16 (01:50:30):
The next morning I was going to tell you about
the next morning, I was able to open my windows
because everything had calmed down. But every time the trees
rustled outside, and I had that because I had to
go ahead and look at the weather. Here on the
back of my neck stood up. Okay, Later on, when

(01:50:51):
the railway started to move, all the dogs out had
been cut up and taken to Littleton. They used to
come through in the middle of the night, and we
know for a fact that the diesel trains pulling the
wagons were not allowed to have more than one hundred
wagons on. They were full of logs. See this particular night,

(01:51:11):
one of them came through and he had one hundred
and teen on. He hadn't cleared the bridget Ashburton, but
he was up in the yards past the place office.
Excuse me, in the he blew the engine on the
diesel engine it packed a said, so he had to
split the train up because I was the train was
ciliing over the roads in the world, the crossings, you

(01:51:36):
wouldn't believe it was. It was frightening. Now, I'm going
to say one more thing. I was part time with
the Defense Force at the time, and I used to
be in the Territorial Force. If I wasn't for training,
I wouldn't ever have coped on my own.

Speaker 3 (01:51:52):
Well, I gave you the resilience. Did it gave you
the technique?

Speaker 16 (01:51:56):
Well, I had to do the job, but I had
to record everything as it happened. But in the end
I just couldn't record everything as it happened. Yeah, it
was quite frightening.

Speaker 3 (01:52:09):
Did the silos just roll across the pedix?

Speaker 16 (01:52:11):
The role the silos were picked up in just bowled? Yep?

Speaker 3 (01:52:17):
Empty? I suppose.

Speaker 16 (01:52:19):
Well, some could have been some some were part of
our fall.

Speaker 3 (01:52:23):
Okay, he's still in Expo now, Alex.

Speaker 16 (01:52:25):
No, no, no no. I moved out of Eshburton seventy
nine and I've ended up in the White Catto. I'm
eighty five, oh hictor Okay, now I'm y retired. I
had twenty two years in the post. I was telegon.

Speaker 3 (01:52:37):
Then where'd you go?

Speaker 16 (01:52:40):
Well I made me down to After that, I got
the first Christmas Day off, the full first Christmas day
after I was ir was put off. I was always
with my family on a Christmas Day, but not a
full Christmas Day anything. Going to the diary company for
ten years and they shut down. I ended up working

(01:53:01):
for the ID but also had seventeen or sixteen years
in the army.

Speaker 3 (01:53:05):
Oh great, wow in the South Island. We are down there.
We're in the Army before before and the.

Speaker 16 (01:53:12):
Well when I was in Omoru Ashburnen and when I
came through to the Micado.

Speaker 3 (01:53:19):
Thank you so much for calling and thanks for hanging
on x I really appreciate it. The Zimbabwe one two,
five for seven, the second innings trailers, any of my
thirty three runs, it's not gonna be. It's gonna be.
Could almost be an outright match that so that's a
worry for another. Shout to the Kadrona Kdrona grooming crew.
They're up there on the mountain this time of the night.
They're always listening. So there's that. Get in touch if
you want to talk. The Friday free for all quite light.

(01:53:41):
Has it been lighthearted. I'm happy with how it's gone
big weekend plan though, boy oh boy, got kids rugby,
then we've got special function. I've got adults rugby, feed
the sheep. It's all on the sheep. That won't have
any damn lambs. Now, if you want to talk, my

(01:54:04):
name is Marcus. Welcome. Oh eight hundred and eighty tendy
and nine ninety. The text that come through for enjoy
tonight talk about the big wind, well, not the big
wind whatever we call it, the Northwest, the big blow,
so that they had to work better on a good
name for it, because I've never heard it talked about hot.

(01:54:24):
A shoe for twenty twenty five has five individual toes
on it. They've always becaut being big those shoes, haven't
they But they're all wearing. Haven't gone there myself with
those shoes, but that's what they are saying, fingered shoes.
Good evening, Dave, This is Marcus. Welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:54:46):
Hello, then mel Marcus, second time caller, but every night
listener from you. I well remember September ninety seventy five. Sorry,
I'll start again in nineteen seventy five, July the thirty first. Yeah,

(01:55:07):
we sat up all night. I'm undernedin here and we
sat up all night wondering whether we still had a roof.
At six o'clock the next morning, my mother in law
wrung me to say she had bad news, and I thought, oh, yes,
my father in law had been crooked. But my brother

(01:55:27):
in law had a massive heart attack and passed away
at the age of seventy five. They had bought a
house out at Wakawhitey and the weekend beforehand we had
replaced the roof. Tom was running short. Each sheet was
held on by four leadheads. We're up on the roof

(01:55:51):
and he said right. He said that strawberry tree has
got to go, because he said that's where mum's rotary
clotheslines going. And he said the old shed at the back,
he said, it's going to go, and I'm replacing that
the new garden shed. Fine, So of course one started,

(01:56:12):
and funnily enough, it was a Friday that I had
to get them on a plane thirty first of July,
first of August, it was snowing. The only plane that
left Mamonay Airport was at five o'clock at night. I'm

(01:56:32):
left with three young kiddies, my brother on the left
and Duneeding here with two. We're out at my Moonay
Airport watching these planes taking off and they're just swinging,
you know, sort of sideways as they're going down the runway.

(01:56:54):
My father rung me the next morning, being Saturday morning,
and he said, the news is not good in the newspaper.
He said, the Beech Street railway stage. They haven't found
that yet. Wow, the place center had gone from one
side of the road to the other. And he said,

(01:57:16):
how about we go out and have a look at
Jim's house. And I said, look, I said, after hearing
so many stories, I said, I don't know whether it's
still there. However, Dad picked me and the kids up
and out we went, and there was a new house
being built right behind my father in laws. The roof

(01:57:37):
had completely disappeared. There was a macrocarbon tree. The five
glass bats were all up in the tree. Looked like
a huge Christmas decoration. But however, my father in law's place,
the roof was intact. The strawberry tree that he wanted
taken out that had broken off about nine inches below

(01:58:02):
the grass, and the garden shed that was coming down
was folded neatly in all four sides on top of
each other, and the roof on top. Not long after
that we had to go through the christ Church and
the devastation up the Canterbury planes was absolutely unbelievable. There

(01:58:25):
was hardly a tree leaf.

Speaker 3 (01:58:27):
Standing so Otargo was quite badly affected. Where was this
train station that had been blown away?

Speaker 4 (01:58:37):
Downbeat street WORKAWAITI?

Speaker 3 (01:58:39):
Okay, well so that was a fact, because I haven't
heard it so much in Otago of Moneyhood in Canterbury.

Speaker 8 (01:58:43):
So well, oh.

Speaker 4 (01:58:44):
Really, I know there was. There was a lot of
damage in a Targo. Took quite a few roofs blowing off.
I was a technician for Telecom at the time. And
at the Enderson's Bay in let there there were a
couple of houses up on the top of the cliff, yes,

(01:59:06):
that had rus come adrift but were tied down by
the fire service during the night. There was quite a
bit of wind damage in Dneda and to Targo.

Speaker 3 (01:59:23):
And was the death what did you say? It was
your father in law that died.

Speaker 4 (01:59:26):
No, my brother in law that died at the age
of He had just turned thirty five the week beforehand.

Speaker 3 (01:59:34):
Thirty five, yep, thirty five.

Speaker 4 (01:59:37):
He was playing table tennis. He was a real fit sportsman.
Into every sport, and he was actually playing table tennis
on the night of the thirty first when the wind
was starting, and he just went out like a light.
There was no reviving them.

Speaker 3 (01:59:55):
Heart attack.

Speaker 9 (01:59:57):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:59:59):
They have two young kiddies, so it.

Speaker 3 (02:00:02):
Wasn't weather related. It was just of the time.

Speaker 4 (02:00:04):
No, it just had to be.

Speaker 2 (02:00:06):
But she.

Speaker 4 (02:00:12):
Found out at midnight. She didn't want to ring us
and upset us, and I said, I said, well, little Digonova,
and I said, we sat up in bed all night
wondering whether we were still going to have a roof,
because I have never experienced wouldn't like it. I'm up
above the will Carry hospital, yes, and the wind blows

(02:00:33):
straight over from the top of the motorway to us.
You know, we cop it. But yep, I'm still in
the same house and I'm still surviving.

Speaker 3 (02:00:47):
And I guess there's never been win as strong again,
has there?

Speaker 4 (02:00:51):
No? Never? We we did have quite a bad wind
probably about six weeks ago here, and I thought, oh,
here we go again, thirty first of July. But no,
there wasn't much.

Speaker 3 (02:01:07):
So you clearly remember it very well.

Speaker 4 (02:01:09):
Oh, very very well. Yeah, like it was yesterday. And
funnily enough, we had a really great neighbor, you know.
And I had three young girls stretching from the youngest
one too and the oldest one would have been six.
And I had a marvelous neighbor that came over every

(02:01:32):
morning and did their hair. Oh you you know. I
managed to bathe them, clothe them and everything like that,
but the hair was a bit of a worry.

Speaker 3 (02:01:42):
And oh were you were you solo parenting?

Speaker 4 (02:01:46):
Well, it was because my wife had taken off.

Speaker 16 (02:01:48):
To Wellingtons creepers.

Speaker 4 (02:01:50):
Yeah, my mother in law died in Wellington and I
spent all day on the Friday trying.

Speaker 3 (02:01:59):
To get them as she'd take it. Should I see,
she'd taken off for the funeral, and you were so yeah, okay,
so it was just it was just for a short
time the neighbor was coming across and doing the hair.
I thought you'd shot through for good. Okay, that's a
good story.

Speaker 4 (02:02:13):
Yeah, okay, extend has extended a week. Yeah, that they're away,
it's good to see you come back again.

Speaker 3 (02:02:23):
The girls here need to get These girls here need
to get done every day.

Speaker 4 (02:02:27):
Oh yes, yeah, and they're still the same. They still
love the hair, not like their bald father.

Speaker 3 (02:02:37):
Okay, wow, yep.

Speaker 4 (02:02:40):
But no, I will never ever forget that night.

Speaker 3 (02:02:46):
You're they're good memories. And the old the roof that
you put on with the lead nails that stayed on,
well did it was just four perce sheet it stayed on.

Speaker 4 (02:02:52):
Well it was a brand new corrugated iron roof.

Speaker 3 (02:02:57):
And you know, four nails and sheets not enough, is it?

Speaker 2 (02:03:02):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (02:03:02):
Hell no, I don't think so.

Speaker 4 (02:03:04):
No. I was going back out the next weekend Findiship.
But as I say, time was getting short. It was
a Sunday and we thought, right, four lead heads on
each sheet will hold it, and and it did. Yeah, okay,
you know, hang of a lot of damage was done

(02:03:25):
around the Otagu area, but I don't remember much damage
on the houses in Canterbury, but I certainly remember driving
up there on hardly a tree standing. Britsually from well
Timaru right through to christ Church, everything was just Fedden.

Speaker 3 (02:03:48):
Really good. Cool Dave, Thanks so much. I found that
very interesting. I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (02:03:52):
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