The Muster Full Show: Friday 31 October

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The muster proudly brought to you by Peter's Genetics. Every
drop means quite a lot when it's from Peter's Genetics.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
As we do every Friday afternoon, we straight across the
regional Ford with Nathan Evan Nathan.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
How to get nine there? Good Chris.

Speaker 4 (00:14):
Another Friday rolled around end of the month. So yeah,
I always reckon it starts speeding up the closer we
get to Christmas, and it's certainly doing that. Pretty ordinary
day out there. I think the weekend is potentially looking okay.
So but as always, there's plenty of room around here.
The showroom's nice and warm, and there's plenty to see.
Lots of new vehicles still going out at the moment,
and of course that brings in plenty of trade. There's

(00:35):
a van that's just come in the last three while here, Chris.
It's a twenty eighteen to out of high eight. Of course,
there's a lot of these vans around here. Of us
are trades people. This is silver which has been neutral
sort of colors for a lot of the guys around here.
It's traveled forty eight thousand k's and for thirty one
nine ninety including GST you know. That makes it somewhere
sort of around twenty six and twenty seven plus gst.

(00:56):
It's a great van, honestly, it's like new with forty
eight thousand k's. That's got to be a good van
for somebody. Plenty of Ford Everest through here.

Speaker 5 (01:03):
At the moment.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
We've just had a mister bissy Bergerio Sport come in
as well, sitting out the front of the yard, and
in plenty of Ford Rangers. So some great deals happening
on everything. Come in and see us here this afternoon.
Ever said, we do have plenty of Everest, and it
is a time of the year that we do sell
a lot of those vehicles for families and such like.
So I think we must have probably about twelve of them,

(01:24):
so plenty that I can choose from. Just come in
here and talk to us and we'll show you around
the range of them. Otherwise, we're going to be here
until after five o'clock today and starting off a new
months in the morning at half past nine.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Very good, Nathan, thanks for.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
That, and everybody get along New months tomorrow, get along
and spend that hard own cash.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
Absolutely right, thank you, Chris.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Thanks Nathan.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
To cover off some things from the last week. We've
had a media update come through. It's it is from yesterday,
but I think it'll be diligent to go over today.
Just thinking South and for the resilience and supporters we
get through this weather event together. State of emergency remains
in place until at least Friday morning, so we haven't
heard any.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
More of an update on that as of yet.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Please check with far and no friends and neighbors, especially
those who may need extra support. If you're concerned about somebody,
contact the Welfare team are eight hundred and eight nine
oh one two seven or email Welfare at Cdsouthend dot zed.
Mental health support is available twenty four to seven free
text one seven three seven will visit one seven three seven.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Dot org dot ZED.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Power and Safety Power NEET reports is of yesterday afternoon.
Twenty nine hundred Southend and sixteen fifty ITAGA customers remain
without power. Restoration is ongoing but complex due to the
extensive damage. Community hubs are open across the region offering
power into thet and some showers do not touch clear
or fall and power lines.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
It is dangerous.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Report issues to power INET or eight hundred and eight
oh eight five eight seven or misses them on Facebook.
The Mirror Relief Fund. Following the ministers announcement on Monday,
the Government's contributed seventy five thousand to the support the
South and Region through the Mirror Relief Fund.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
In addition, MPI.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Is contributing fifty thousand dollars to be split between South
and Cluther. Applications will open soerin. Details on eligibility and
how to apply will follow. Parks reserve, most packs and
of the cargo remain closed. Just see the Inficagon City
Council Facebook page for more info. South and districts and
parks and reserves and playgrounds are closed. They remain closed

(03:47):
until they've been declared safe. Don't go out and search
and fallen trees and debris. Please, there's a lot of
damage across the region. Like traveling in Seach. We could
put you and others in severe danger and put a
strain on the line. Will secure emergency services and we
all know they've had a big enough time of it lately.
The cleanup continues in the Gore District parks and reserves.

(04:08):
Visit facebook page for latest info and please don't collect
firewood from.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Falling trees and branches. There are no flooding concerns. Road
conditions are being monitored. Check for road closures. A couple
of community barbecues.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
There's been a few successful barbecues taking place already Woodlands
and in Rivedon, and I think there was Takanho takingho
in Dypton yesterday today eleven til one. It's how our
sports complex six pm tonight moss be community centers so
that no ARISVP, just turn up. More events are coming.

(04:48):
Please just fire the Rural Support page on Facebook. I'm
going to need a drink after that one. Good afternoon, listeners.
Welcome to the Master today, brought to you by Peterson Rics.
Today's thirty five October, obviously the last day of the
working week for the businesses in town, in the last
day of the month, and we're rolling into a new
month for the weekend, so hopefully bringing on. I'm Chris

(05:11):
Wilson standing in for Andy Muir today. The music I've
selected as great Kibi music for the nineties. There could
be a bit of a remaker there or two, but
this is my selection, so I'm not too worried about
what other people think. Today on the show we will
have environments South with Tracy McLean, Philip Duncan from weather Watch,

(05:33):
Don Moore McNabb dairy farmer, Ellen McCleary from the Shaerwell
Business with his monthly chat, and Michelle Watt for the
Country Crossover.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
Five day four casts brought to you by twin Farm,
teff Rom and suff Text. The proof is in the
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Speaker 3 (05:54):
All Right.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Today, Friday, the thirty first of October. As I said,
the last day of the month, Shaw was possibly about
the coast easing in the morning, then clearing in the afternoon.
Westley's strong and exposed places until evening a high of
eleven and a low of three. Saturday, the first of
November Westerly's fine, with Westerlys turning northerly at night, high
of sixteen and a last five. Sunday the second of

(06:16):
November the Old Man's Birthday, fine but becoming cloudy in
the morning. Northwesterlys high of eighteen and a lave eight. Monday,
the third of November back to the working week, fine
but becoming mostly cloudy with isolated showers. Northwesterlies twenty degrees
for the high and a low of ten. Tuesday the
fourth November, occasional rain clearing westerly is easing, a high

(06:38):
of nineteen and alave eight. The fifth of November rain
southerly's a high of nineteen and a lave eight.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Alrighty, well, I guess we get on with the show.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
But just a huge thanks to Class Harve's Center for
allowing me the time to get to.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
The station and do this job.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
It's been quite surreal with some of the events in
the last week. Been amazing being involved through the radio
and discussing things with people and trying to do.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
A bit and helping out with anything you need. But anyway,
let's get on with the show. Still happen now and then.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
The muster proudly brought to you by Peter's Genetics. Every
drip means quite a bit when it's from Peter's Genetics.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
Where they are up with us.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Next on the show, we've got Swim and Stokes from
Environments South and just to cover off things that have
happened over the last week, get a Simon here getting on.

Speaker 6 (07:45):
Oh, not too bad and probably a lot better than
a lot of people who have been devastated by this windstorms.
What is the week week now? Today?

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yes, week today, week yesterday.

Speaker 6 (07:55):
I think, yeah, No, there's a lot of people still
in veryficult circumstances. So yeah, our thoughts go out to them.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Oh absolutely, Yeah, So I guess if we cut the chase,
there's plenty happening on farm with everything else going on
too with farming as concluded, But what are the main
challenges on farms just following this with the event.

Speaker 6 (08:18):
Well, the main challenge is that we've been picking up
through the Rural Resource Group and talking to farmers as
pretty they're pretty they line up really well. There's the
water supply for stock, there's stock wealthare full stop. It's
a really critical time for dairy cows in particular. You've
got the feed issues that a couple come into play
as well, and also you've got just looking after yourself

(08:42):
and looking after staff and neighbors and stuff, all of
that and when you add that all up, that's a
lot of things to be thinking about. And the environment
south and is conscious of that, and we're here to
help any way, shape or form with regards to those things.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, And to be fair, I'd work in a sales
role selling machinery, touching base with it as many fans
I heard earlier on the weekend on Friday. It's amazing
people just getting in and helping each other out. Just
no questions are so we've got a great spirit down here.

Speaker 6 (09:14):
Yeah, no, no, we have, and it's being relatively new
to the area, it's been great to see so. And
you know, look, we really want farmers to understand press
that we're also a part of their farming business. We
provide a whole range of advisory support. I've got staff
in here chomping at the bit to be able to

(09:34):
get out and provide that professional knowledge to them. And
I think that's a key message from us really is
too like the you can't ignore some of the responsibilities
around the environment, but at the same time we're here
to provide advice and help with that and so that
farmers don't get bogged down and those sorts of things,

(09:55):
as well as everything else they're trying to do. So
you know, give us a call and any any however
we can help, we will provide that help.

Speaker 5 (10:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Well, that's because it brings me to the next port.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
With the weather's been wet, there's been snow also not
quite some made for south, but the efflip points getting full.
This paddicks a reasonly waterlogged in places like this, there's
a bit we've got a workground on that, isn't there.

Speaker 6 (10:21):
Yeah, No, Look, it's not easy, and our role in this,
I suppose trying to make it easier is that, as
we've been messaging, if you've got milk that you can't
send anywhere, put it in your affluent pond. Keep a
record of that. It's really important. If you have to
apply affluent out into the farming landscape, then you know,

(10:43):
just be practical about it and put it where you
know it's not going to run off anywhere. That's the
most important thing, and again just record it. The thing
is is that I think a future proofs the farmers
moving forward, and it keeps it gives us the ability
to have an open, open, open line of conversation with everyone,

(11:04):
and that I think will take just take the heat
out of some of those decisions making on farm just
knowing that we're here to help. But also don't don't
don't ignore us on the sense that we can be
valuable to help with whatever decisions you're making that they're troublesome.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yeah, well, it's about the solution, isn't it not? The problem.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
We're trying to come up with the right answer, which
isn't always right first time that.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
You get there, I get there. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
You know what support can you guys offer in the
wave farmers under the pump with with some of this
issue around four pints or anything.

Speaker 6 (11:43):
Well, I suppose we've paused inspections which people will be
pleased with for a little while. I'm not sure as
to when they will start again, but that's one aspect
that will probably ease people's minds. But it goes back
to what I was saying before, Chris, the staff are
here really to help with any I would call it
more of a planning going forward, Beau the range of

(12:05):
farm activities at the moment. Along was the problem with
disposing of milk and irrogating, etc. But there's also hooking
into planning for putting your crops in and all those
sorts of things. So at this time I would suggest
the farmer's look, take five, sit down and have a
think about how you're planning the next while, because this

(12:25):
recovery phase is going to keep going.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
From ongoing yep.

Speaker 6 (12:29):
Yeah, but look out for the next twelve months and
lock you seriously have land advisors might land advisory staff here,
lean sustainability staff willing and able and comfortable to come
out and just provide that little bit of advice that
might just take the pressure off.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yes, it's basically immediate approach, isn't it, Just no need
at the action.

Speaker 6 (12:51):
No, exactly. And if you want to get a hold
of us, we're trying to start for attending a range
of barbecues that all the wonderful people have putting on
and we're out and about as well. So yeah, just
don't be hesitant. The more the more you're in touch
with us, the more we can help.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
That's brilliant, That really is. There's just someone to talk
to as well, isn't it. Or yeah, I feel somebody
out to weave it on the thoughts I'm thinking about
doing this, and they'll be yeah, yeah, yeah, do it
or maybe hold back.

Speaker 6 (13:19):
So yeah, because it's just taking that pressure off press
because most farms will have a professional team wrapped around them,
and I'd like to see us as being part of
that professional team because it's not just about how we
deal with the discharges, et cetera. There's a whole lot
of other skill sets and knowledge that the team bring
and it could be anything related to, well, what should

(13:40):
I plant to replace my shoulder belts?

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yep, yep, something simple like that. Well it seems simple
on the outside, but it could be something that mitigates
risks down the line too with damage, couldn't it?

Speaker 5 (13:51):
So?

Speaker 6 (13:52):
Oh, exactly exactly I was. I was had a look
through the upper EMA yesterday and yeah, there's some really
really set sites to see. But there's also some examples
of how particularly shelder belts and trees coked with the wind.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Absolutely, and I know my region not sort of northern
south and east and south, and we've got off relatively
lightly by comparison, so we're just counting.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
Their blessings more than anything.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
And electricity was the issue, but everybody worked together. There
were generators gone, you know, some generators.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
I saw one of the local sparks. He was doing
eleven hundred k's in a day just running generators around.
That's impreciable.

Speaker 6 (14:29):
Chy, Yeah, because that's a good point too. Actually, it's
not just you know, our rural farmers I suppose, who
are working flat out at the moment. There's also the
pork crew coming from electricians to rural support trust.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
And yeah, bi service. It was like a movie with
the sirens going off.

Speaker 6 (14:49):
Yeah, and I think, I think, I think, yeah, just
just just listening to what you're saying it and having
been involved in a couple of cyclones in the Bay
of Plenty. Actually the hardest time really was the following
two to three months after the event, because you kind
of the event happens and you run on adrenaline for
quite a while, and then the adrenaline runs out, and

(15:10):
actually there's still quite a bit to.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
Do, yep, and the battery is a bit flat.

Speaker 6 (15:14):
Yeah, that's where you need a human generator, don't you.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
It's called sunlight and no win.

Speaker 6 (15:22):
Well that's what they told me when I was moving
down here.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
Yet to that believe it, we get the best weather
in the country.

Speaker 6 (15:29):
Well, you've got some of the best farm land in
the country, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
It's some great farm land out there.

Speaker 6 (15:34):
So yeah, so basically that that's in the nutshell, really,
I suppose. Yeah, farmers out there, please notify us, get
in touch with us, keep those lines of communication open.
And you know, we're actually working hard. In the actual
emergency management service itself. There's been plenty of staff and
there on shift work helping to organize the current state

(15:57):
of emergency. So we're heavily involved and until we're out
of this emergency and into recovery, and we'll keep working
hard to support our support all of our community.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Brilliant.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
Hey Simon, we've just done a time limit. I'm sorry,
but thank you very much for coming on the show.
There's lots of good advice here wise words, so thank
you all all very much for your support and the
work you guys have been doing and all the beast
for the future.

Speaker 6 (16:23):
No, thank you, Chris, and you a great job that
the radios are doing as well, so cheers.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
Good on you.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
The Muster proudly brought to you by Peter's Genetics. Every
drop means quite a lot when it's from Peter's Genetics.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Better quality, heedless chickens there and George to bring us
in for our next guest, Philip Duncan from Were the Watch.

Speaker 5 (16:57):
Here you go, mate, I'm very good, Thank you buddy.
How about yourself?

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Oh, I'm a little bit of a nut for certain
songs of the nineties and that one there just brings
back the memories and I don't know if it does
get much better.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
From a Kiwi perspective. So I'm really good by the way.

Speaker 5 (17:10):
Yeah, excellent. Good to hear.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
How's things going in the Big Smoke?

Speaker 5 (17:15):
Oh, not too bad, not too bad. The weathers are
very pleasant at the moment and makes up for all
the windy weather we've been getting, just like you guys,
although you get it worse than we, that's for sure.
But we've had a lot of windy weather over the
last few weeks, just like you. And nice to see
those winds looking like they're going to come to an end. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
They just look at the forecast for next week.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
They're certainly dropping back in velocity and less frequent rain
showers and a little bit of warmth starting to come
into it.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
So we'll take that.

Speaker 7 (17:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (17:41):
But basically, what we're seeing is the weather that drives
the Southern Ocean storms and lows. We call it SAM,
the Southern Annular mode right and at the moment that's
in a negative phase. And what that means is the
storms that are down around Antarctica moved closer to Australia
and New Zealand, and therefore the windy westerlies come in

(18:02):
and over us. What's happening over the next two weeks
is that is switching back to neutral, and that means
that that windy stuff moves back south of New Zealand again,
so not so much over us now south and being
closest to the southern Ocean means that you may still
get brushed by it. But really it's looking far less intense,
and really for the next week ahead, there may be
absolutely no severe weather warnings around New Zealand, which is

(18:24):
such a change from the last two to three months.
They've been almost every single week, if not multiple times
across the week.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
And look, it might be too soon to say too,
but you kind of feel that last week, and we
felt this way in the wet last year as well.
I feel with the end of each end of September
then the end of October, you're kind of like, well,
it's always darkest nearest to dawn, and you kind.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
Of think that the new month is a new dawn.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
So hopefully that caps in and we can put some
of the stuff behind us.

Speaker 5 (18:52):
Yeah, well, to be honest with you, it is a
little bit like someone's just flicking the switch on the
first of November. So like a cold night tonight day
is not a very warm day to you guys, and
then tonight it's a cold night, could be tonight as
you wake up tomorrow morning. Then as we go through
the days ahead, there's a lot more warm weather coming
into the meetre. We've got a lot of Nordalies and northwesters.

(19:13):
Temperatures by Monday getting into the early twenties, and that
could happen two or three days of next week, but
the overnight temperatures still aren't overly flashed, so you might
get some warmer weather again around Monday next week or
the middle of the next week, but still getting some
cold nights in there, particularly tonight tomorrow night, maybe even
again next weekend, So we're not fully done with that.

(19:34):
But as far as rainfall and wind, both of those
are basically just disappearing out of the forecast, and apart
from a couple of showers that are loosely possible, we're
not really seeing much in the way of rain or
wind over the next week ahead.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
And the nights of the nights.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Seriously, like you, if the days are nice, we can
probably cope with a little bit of.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
Not so warm at night, but we know it's coming too.

Speaker 5 (20:00):
That's right, Yeah, yeah, I mean, and this is fairly
traditional spring weather in the sense of once November arrives,
usually the westerly winds take a bit of a seat.
They're still blowing true at times, but they're nowhere there
as a tense as they were before. In fact, for
a lot of eastern parts of New Zealand, November can
be a very dry month because you don't really have
these big storms coming in that we've had over September

(20:21):
and October, so you don't get the rain out of them,
and you've got this kind of westerly that doesn't really
go away and that can really dry out east. Yeah,
you can dry out from that climb of setup. So
that's something I'd be looking for as we go through
the next week while. But hopefully you guys are in
a fairly good position to deal with some of those
conditions coming true.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
Oh well, he is hoping. Definitely got to be.

Speaker 5 (20:43):
And most of the levels in Southend the wet of
an average number of areas or or they're normal. They're
normal to weat of the normal. It's sort of the
scene around South End at the moment. So yeah, it's
you're in a good position to deal with some dry,
windy days if they do pop back up again.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah, and it's amazing farms. They're a tough, hearty breed.
They're all still reasonably happy. It just makes you think gay,
like man, well everything's been thrown at them. They've got
a bit of a smile on the face, and you
know there's a few jokes about things still been thrown around.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
So that's good.

Speaker 5 (21:14):
You know. I feel for you guys. I mean that
storm last week was really significant, and you know, I've
seen all the news updates on it and the damage
that was caused. And I think I said a week ago,
the only positive thing is that have moved through so
quickly that it could have fat there. Sometimes loads sit
there for half a day. That would have been a
very different story. So one sense we're lucky, another sense

(21:35):
we're not. I feel for the people that have been
without electricity. My goodness. Hell, what do you do with
your brain when you can't I can hear my dad saying,
read a book, but losing all your internet, losing Netflix,
you know, losing YouTube, different sort of things to It's
been a tough week.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
In different world.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
People got busy though, you know, that's right, Yeah, and
that speeds time up to for them, so all of
a sudden. We're a week posts so yeah, the guys,
everyone's done so well.

Speaker 5 (22:05):
So yeah, only.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
The latest update from the Klouth of District Council which
some of it is good to cover south and also
but if we can just get through this. The power
restoration is ongoing, many remaining areas without power due to
the extensive damage that may and it may take some time.
Is at four pm yesterday, Powernett reported around fourteen seventy

(22:33):
Otago customers and twenty two hundred South and customers remain
without power. There's been a power trip ago in bower
Clouth and it's affected properties around Charlotte Street, Centennial Ave
and Lower Raise Bank areas in bower Clouth.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
Overnight. Poweronette are looking into this.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
The reporting huge games were made around Wadepeka eas today
also Hillford Road and down to the Catlands.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
How we parper who we parp on saying.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
That to be fair, there will be four cruise heading
to Pappawi and tar Coper Valley tomorrow, so working in
these areas today. Stoney Creek, Fallow Burron, Hillford Road at
the Clinton End, Main South Road, Old Coach ROADHNA, Stoney Creek,
Old Coach Road to wak A, Clyde Vale, whiter Hoona, Tihoka.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
Work will begin in Toko Mouth.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
However, damage is extensive and it's a multi day repair
and these teams will be working over the weekend but
at lower hours. You can report individual outages to PowerNet
via the online form on their website, and if your
neighbors don't have it and you do, feel free to
ring through or get on the internet for them. Please

(23:40):
stay away from down power lines. We know people want
to clean up, but it's still extremely dangerous. We're continuing
to update the list of closed and limited roads that's
on the Cleith District Council website. Please check ahead if
you're looking to travel and teams liaising with Powering It
to get the last of the roads reopened.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
Many a complex due to form power lines.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
We've confirmed that residents on these roads do have alternative
access out. Urban Water is a seven thirty am lawrence
is sitting at sixty percent. Tapanuis low at thirty five percent.
Contractors a block found a blocked restrictor in Wayhola and
an earlock in Clive Vale. Boil water notice remains in

(24:27):
place with the entire district except Kluth and Milton Wayhola,
Kitana and Wane Lower. If your water is discolored, do
not drink it. It could be caused by sediment.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
Wow Fair.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
The hubs continue to operate throughout the district, offering power,
Wi Fi, water showers and refreshments.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
Check website.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
For your local community group pages parks of safety. They
haven't even had a chance to measure the extent of
the damage, so please just steer clear, treat everything's closed.
Kai Rugby Grounds have been accessed assisted a safe and
they'll be open for the Kai Car Show this weekend,
so there is some light at the end of the tunnel.

(25:10):
Livingstonia Park has been inspected. It has also been deemed
safe to travel open to the at the Tire Beach
closetal Caster Classic, so that will go ahead. Many people
are wanting to bear an unwanted debris, say with fire safety, Well,
there isn't a.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
Fire band in place.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Reservoirs are low, which means any available water really is
is limited, so we don't want fires getting out of hand.
If you need financial support, get and check it out
on the website and the Mayor Relief Fund Cluther's mayor.

(25:49):
A leief fund has been opened following a government contribution
of fifty thousand on Monday in an application compritribution of
one hundred thousand from the Kluther District Council emergency funds yesterday.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
The applications are now open. Details found on the website.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
So, yeah, tough times all around, but certainly in the
Kluther District they're doing all they can so and as
I believe, we're still under a state of emergency as
it goes on, so I do not know when that
will be reassessed, but please keep listening to the radio.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
The Muster proudly brought to you by Peter's Genetics. Every
drip means quite a bit when it's from Peter's Genetics.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Well it's now we've got Don more on the other
end of the line.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
Don here you get one?

Speaker 8 (26:44):
Yeah, good afternoon. Yeah, good thanks Chris.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
How's the time of year treating you?

Speaker 8 (26:51):
Yeah, well, busy time of the year, and it's been
just a bit of a blur the last week. But yeah, no,
it's we're sort of just recent now trying to get
their routine back into play and and and get sort
of started for mating. Tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
Busy time made busier, isn't it really?

Speaker 8 (27:10):
Yeah, it has been just a busier time. Busy time
made busier. It's with all the essential stuff done, it's
sort of added a bit more to the workload. Really. It's,
you know, we've still got groundwork to do and a
few places we've got to go and pick up trees
in the paddics that I've got to work out so
I can get those ones done first before we get

(27:30):
onto others.

Speaker 5 (27:32):
I think.

Speaker 8 (27:34):
All in all, though we got off ourselves, we got
off pretty well, you know, obviously other than the power
and a couple of trees down over lanes. But we've
got quite a few trees down, but most of them
are just down into paddocks or over fences where it's
sort of not a major that we can deal with
it later.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
Yeah, And it's there's cleaning that can still be done
at least, isn't there so around it? So you're getting
ready for mating and the cows if they missed the track,
really like they'll be cycling quite nicely all the same,
are they.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
Yeah they are?

Speaker 8 (28:06):
Yeah, And like we had that flush of grass a
couple of weeks ago, really really helped out. It was
good timing. Yeah, and yeah, it's you know, growth is
back a bit this week, but it's sort of I think,
sort of from tomorrow onwards where the outlook is starting
to improve and certainly looks at Yeah, that that sort
of high attempt. They worse the forecast for this weekend.

(28:29):
They've been pushed back a bit, but it's you know,
it is looking pretty positive this next week.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
A bit more warmth, but less wind and a bit
less moisture, so hopefully people can get back into business
as usual for what that looks like.

Speaker 8 (28:42):
Yeah, whatever that looks like, yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
Yeah, and plus a bit extra yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
And the Fonterra vote yesterday.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (28:53):
Yeah, So we had the digestment vote yesterday. I'd say
that you could probably call that a pretty strong name
late it nearly what was it, nearly eighty eight point
five per voted a voting shihelders well voting shares voted yes,
so and I think it was just over eighty percent
of voting shares that could vote that voted, So pretty

(29:14):
strong turnout and a pretty strong endate from from shoeholders
to proceed.

Speaker 4 (29:20):
So that's good.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Not that I need to know or people need to
know exactly how you voted. But are you comfortable with it?

Speaker 5 (29:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (29:27):
Absolutely, Personally, I think it's the right direction. You know,
if you were to if you were to say, if
we didn't have a consumer business, is the way I
look at it, If you didn't have a consumer business
to start one, would you start you know, to start with,
would you start one? And the answer would probably be no. So,
you know, and we try to do that within our
own business, So why would we not do it?

Speaker 7 (29:49):
You know?

Speaker 8 (29:49):
Why would Fontier not do that?

Speaker 5 (29:51):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Yeah, And it's for all the babs that people can
see for what it's worth. That doesn't mean that they're
ever going to be coming out. That's just little bits
and pieces that people pick through, isn't it.

Speaker 8 (30:04):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, And look I get the emotional attachment.
I think I watch the space in terms of how
we go forward around our community involvement and things without
those brands. Obviously, those brands will want to do things
for their own sort of community and in marketing, and

(30:25):
so they'll still be doing things. But how does how to?

Speaker 3 (30:28):
How to?

Speaker 8 (30:29):
How to we as farmers and and shareholders of Fonterra,
how do we feel like we're going to you know,
how are we going to be able to contribute to
our community? And that's a question that I've still got
and and and I'll you know, as a counselor, I
will still be asking that question.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah, completely, And it's well it's been a number of
years that so I was a part sharholder.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
And anything to do with it too.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
So I just think everyone else it's really not theirs
to make a decision on just it is what it is.

Speaker 8 (30:59):
Yeah, absolutely, I mean it's ultimately it's been it's the
farmer's money that's already been invested, and if they wanted
to sell, if anyone else wanted to sell part of
their business off and use their money to do other
things and put it into higher returning their sets, then
you're free to do so. So absolutely no different.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Oh perfect, And I guess so you just over the weekend,
you'll be just back to it with the mating and
looking forward to I guess four to five to six
weeks of that, and then it's going to be Christmas,
isn't it.

Speaker 3 (31:29):
So you've got a bit to do before Christmas time. Yep, yep.

Speaker 8 (31:33):
Get some grass seed in the ground, get some cows, aied,
get some trees picked up, probably do a bit of shipping.
Meet the builder this morning to repair a few sheds
that we lost, a couple of rooms in the wall
out of the back of the shed and things. So
we just take away all those things and then, you know,
so that we can just enjoy that Christmas break and

(31:55):
we'll just keep going.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
And don't get to have a sleep on the way
through in a bit of enjoyment.

Speaker 8 (32:00):
Yeah, well, that's the farmer spirit. I think we often
thrive on these things. We like being busy people.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yeah, there's nothing like something to get your teeth and
do to make it feel like you're getting something done
and making a difference.

Speaker 8 (32:11):
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
Yeah, yeah, no, very good man.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Hey, look, I I think we'll just about wrap that
up there. Thank you so much for coming on. I
hope your mating goes well. I hope that you know
you can get up to speed with all your work,
and I hope you do get a well owned break
somewhere along the way as well as at Christmas time.

Speaker 5 (32:29):
Mate.

Speaker 8 (32:30):
Yep, I appreciate it. Thanks for the chat, right, thanks
don chairs yea.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
The Muster proudly brought to you by Peter's genetics. Every
drop means quite a lost when it's from Peter's Genetics.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
Up next, we've got Ellen McCleary from Sheerwell, New Zealand
and how you get on criss Yourself Surviving?

Speaker 3 (33:03):
Yeah, comfortable to be for you.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
Yeah, a bit of a shocker last week.

Speaker 7 (33:11):
Yeah, yeah, that was that sort of came out as well.
We had a wee bit of warnament that sort of
came out of nowhere in the end of it. We
didn't think it was going to be that bad.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
It never has been prior.

Speaker 7 (33:21):
Has no no and in the countryside.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
Yeah, it is a mess, but they could be fixed.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
I mean you were just saying, oh, yeah, you had
a bit of a picking a poke to get home
on the Thursday.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
How have you feared at your own place?

Speaker 7 (33:35):
Yeah, well I was up. I was actually up around
Middle Split calling on the farmers up there, and it
was a stiff breeze, but it wasn't anything like like
what they got. I got as far as Lawrence and
the road was closed, so I detoured over the hill
to do a fear but a ticket touring between. They
really copped it up there.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
And the beauty of that though, I'm sorry to jump in.
But the beauty of coming through there is if you
had to travel on a good day, you still got
no SAUF coverage, so you were nowhere.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
It's off.

Speaker 9 (34:05):
Luckily not.

Speaker 7 (34:05):
But the view wasn't so good at allet of trees.
I just seen tree roots. Yeah, but yeah no, look
I got home and yeah, we're not looking that flesh.
We've got a lot of shy. I love trees, and
we've got a lot lying down on the shoulder belts
and water systems shut down. But it was there's there's
microcarvers at home that are, you know, over one hundred

(34:26):
and fifty years old, and they've been blown over or
just shattered.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
But they exploded, yeah, like lightnings at them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah,
it's amazing. Isn't that the power?

Speaker 7 (34:37):
But never might we look at it. There's no rush
to clean a lot of them up. We just have
to sit back and take a take a breath or two.
And and they're not going away in a hurry.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
No people get to them. I wouldn't be panicking too much.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
As long as your premier defences are safe and your
water troughs are okay, and that sort of thing.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
You're generally you're you're not far away, are you?

Speaker 5 (34:58):
No?

Speaker 7 (34:58):
And we've been with that power for over week, but
they got it back. They've done tremendous job, those guys.
So they got pair back on last night. So you know,
we've got wet back and we've got our own water
system and that.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
So we were pretty What about mat and the freezer?
Is it okay? A lot of it? Or yeah?

Speaker 7 (35:14):
Yeah, I had a generator as well. Yes, and I
know we look we're as.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
Good as gold, but brilliant.

Speaker 7 (35:21):
You've always got to just show I used to be
a Scout leader, so it was my wife, so you've
got to be prepared, to be prepared.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Yes, well you've done that. So and now we could
talk that all day and everybody's probably sick of hearing
it too. But what's happening in the sharewell world with
tags and et cetera.

Speaker 7 (35:39):
Well, once again, I'm going to tell you, I say
it every time i'm talking, as we've had a fantastic month.
It's probably the biggest month again.

Speaker 6 (35:47):
It just keeps growing.

Speaker 7 (35:49):
The sheep tags have been going out all October. Cattle
tags will start up this next month. People will start
to to start marking cars and that's so they'll start
going out. And we had the heat Wave special there
for a couple of months and that went really well.
We got very well supported. It was a lot went
out the door for that, So I hope I've got

(36:10):
a lot of a lot of happy lambs and calves
out there and farmers wives that don't have to go
out and feed during the yep. But other than that,
we've been it's just just bausiness.

Speaker 5 (36:21):
It's normal. Really.

Speaker 7 (36:22):
I haven't been round too much this week. Farmer doesn't
really want to see me coming up the driveway on this.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
I've probably got a chain saw perfect, that's right, though
he might go un help the old one here.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
It might be been winning for you.

Speaker 7 (36:35):
Yeah, well, I was going to put an ad on
the on the radio. I suppose I could do it now,
Like if anybody wants some cheap firewood, I could probably
sell them some cheap.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
I think there'll be quite a few people competing with
you in that market. But it's look, it's it's quite
good to have a little bit of levity around it.
Because it's as bad as it's been. People are fine,
Like we can smile, we can laugh, so that spirit
still there.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
Isn't that fighting spirit?

Speaker 7 (37:03):
Oh you look, yeah, you could easily get down, but
you've only got two options. Either just get on with
it or you get get upset and I don't. Yeah,
it's like there's a lot of work out there to
be done, but it doesn't have to be done today
or tomorrow, is it.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
No, it'll get done, he always does. So Hey, look
we might just tie it up there and leave that
the Ellen. If that's okay. Thank you very much for
your time. Hopefully things get on the improof for you
and you get back to normal business as usual with
the pair of being back on now.

Speaker 7 (37:38):
I just wish everybody else, you know, keep safe and
keep smiling too.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
Right, you've spot on you, You've knowed it down perfectly.
I mean, thank you very much, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
I've just said this come in from from me or
Rob Scott, just the on the what the situation is
on the ground. They've just extended the declaration last night
on their Emergency Management Southland due to ongoing recovery needs.
It's the same as before, friends, Infarno, neighbors, please keep

(38:14):
an eye on everybody in the response overview. In one
week they've visited thirty six plus communities and spoken with
two hundred and eighty plus residents and local leaders. Received
three hundred and forty five WALTHEA contacts, logged one hundred
and eighty generator requests and forty one welfare checks. They've

(38:35):
received offers of help from seventy community members, opened thirty
two plus community hubs offering power and limited showers. Most
parks of playgrounds and in Vericago at Bluff and South
remained closed until they are declared safe. Some Invocago sports
fields have reopened. Please check the Infcago City Council Facebook

(38:57):
page for updates. Please again, stay clear of damaged areas
and debris. Again, forget your fire and it'll be there later.
Don't go putting life and limit risk. The power neet
twenty two hundred customers in South and in fourteen seventy.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
And Otago has said earlier.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Please to report outages are eight hundred eight eight five
eight seven for power Net or their online form one
Facebook say clear of form power wise. The meal relief
funds similar seventy five thousand from the government and fifty
thousand from MPI. Whether in rays is no current flooding
or raiding concerns. Please just just check out for any issues.

(39:40):
Eleven til one. It's out of our sports complex and
that's done and dusted now and six pm tonight Community
Center in Mossburn. Just turn up, go for a catch
up of barbecue and check on your neighbor see if
your one is all right.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
The Muster proudly brought to you by Peter's Genetics. Every
drip means quite a bit when it's from Peter's Genetics.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
As we do every Friday, we do the Country Crossover
with the Muster, and today we've got Michelle Wait.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
Michelley eating one good.

Speaker 9 (40:23):
How are you, Chris Lovely to talk to you again?

Speaker 2 (40:25):
Yeah, you too, it's been I suppose's been a month
or so, hopefully. I don't think you'll mind the choice
of music. I think it's quite appropriate. Good Kiwi Chuning
on a good Friday afternoon.

Speaker 9 (40:35):
Oh absolutely, you got to. You gotta love a little
bit of nineties, don't you. I mean ninetiesh wasn't the
best era.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
That's not even the question. Anyone knows it is. I'm
sure there's some.

Speaker 9 (40:46):
People that will disagree with us out there, but I
think yeah, late eighties, early nineties, but maybe that's just
show made.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Yeah, and if they do disagree, get your own microphone,
because we've got.

Speaker 3 (40:54):
It for now.

Speaker 9 (40:55):
So exactly we've got control.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
We're in charge. Yep.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Thet A quick we'd go over maybe about the state
of emergency that's been declared for the Lower South over
the last week or I haven't heard any updates to
whether it's been lifted or not yet, but I think
whether it's there or not, people just still need to
be keeping an eye out for each other and being aware.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
Of the hazards, aren't they.

Speaker 5 (41:20):
Oh?

Speaker 9 (41:20):
Absolutely. I mean this cleanup is going to take a
very long time, and I think especially with fallen trees
and stuff like that, a lot of people will be
aware that having loose branches inside trees, being around trees,
especially those ones that were really hammered by the wind,
those loose branches could still be up there. Those trees
might be quite unstable. So it's staying away from those
types of things for a bit until they can be controlled.

(41:42):
I know that it'll be flat out around the region.
There'll be an over excessive firewood i'd imagine next year
for winter with all the trees that have gone down.
But it's just insane. I was in Lawrence, coming through
Lawrence back in the weekend, and there's some areas that
look like they were absolutely flattened in other areas where
you would never even know that there was a storm.
It was just insane.

Speaker 3 (42:04):
It's amazing.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
And I didn't think there was any arrogator's got hit here.
I see one just out of Gore, but getting into
Northern South and luckily with the way the hills shaped
the hockeys, yeah, most people got off pretty lightly.

Speaker 9 (42:17):
Excuse me, I think yes. And the cargo was definitely
very much hit hard. And I was watching that live
where the storm comes through and between Stuart Island and
v Cargo at the time on live was a wind
match and I could see that it was going to
be hundred k whens and all you were thinking was
this is going hit in the cargo. This affternoon sometime
and I think in the cargo. Lower South Island definitely

(42:38):
got hit extremely hard. The Closer district as well. Canterbury
though also suffered. I mean a lot of those pivot
irrogators were completely upturned, and I hear that a lot
of them aren't actually being able to be covered by insurance.
Because they've been tipped over so many times, and I
don't know how you would actually stop one of those
from being tipped over. The massive pieces of equipment. I mean,
you can't like sort of nail them.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
Down, can you know, And to line them up in
the right for the right direction of wind. When that
wind gets there, it's too late. It takes the hours
to move them.

Speaker 9 (43:07):
Yeah, exactly. So it's that forward planning. And there was
that storm hits so quickly, so hard, I don't think
anyone had time to respond.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
No, and you are talking months for labor and parts
for arrogators like, but it's the same with you can't
get diggers u till you can get them either, So
their heart is worth everybody and thinking of them.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
But no loss of life touch.

Speaker 9 (43:30):
Wood, so no, which was absolutely incredible considering how many
things were flying around. I think I read that, I think,
is it Saint Paul's cathedral down? And I think it
isn't If the cargo had copper tiles on it and
some of them got whited offs. The fact that no
one was hit by anything is just absolutely mind blowing.
I think the warnings came soon enough that potentially people

(43:52):
most people were in sight hopefully, So yeah, I think
no loss of life, which is amazing, but I do
I have heard some absolutely horrible stories from farms, people
losing calves, with sheds getting blushed down, people having to
go down to once a day milking's, you know, when
they're not quite ready to do that yet. It's a
very stressful time. So I think, yeah, people are going

(44:13):
to have to get out and just look after each
other for the next few months.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
And it's an important time. Mating's here now.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
Basically peat milk was there, so it's quite influential on
the animal with the animal house.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
If they're not right, they will struggle to conceive.

Speaker 9 (44:26):
Absolutely, it's a double whammy. Really, those staff are going
to be working flat out most farms because you've got
mating also milking, and some of them are still feeding
calves as well. So it's a lot to take on,
it is.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
Indeed, now before we get too far gone, we better
touch on the Fonterra proposal.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
Pretty overwhelming response from the shareholders.

Speaker 9 (44:49):
Yes, big news this week, of course, the result of
that vote. I don't think, by the sound of it
talking to people in the know that it was unexpected.
I think most people thought that it was going to
be years. I think, I mean, I guess you never
really know. And of course there's been mixed reactions from politicians,
especially with Ston Peter's on this. On this issue, he's

(45:09):
not a fan of selling off the brands things like that.
Of course, politicians should probably stay out of farming. I
think so for lux and voice that rather well, the
shareholders should get to make that decision, and they did.

Speaker 3 (45:20):
I think it's a valid.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
Point he makes, but I don't think he should be
making it. You know, if that was a farmer making it,
that was a no vote, that's great, but just it's
another reason for people that don't understand and don't know
about farming to criticize farmers.

Speaker 9 (45:38):
Absolutely, and I think I'm not off of a dairy
farm either. I'm not a shareholder, so I can't even
really comment on people making that decision. But Fonterra are
doing incredibly well on the world stage, so I guess
you've just got to putch the trust in them.

Speaker 3 (45:52):
Absolutely, I completely agree.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
Now we're are getting tired and now for time, but
let's talk about the important well sorry I shouldn't say that,
but the important sports events over the weekend. Anyway, we've
got the Black Cats playing England in the third one
day in Wellington, tomorrow in the All Blacks test Sunday
morning in Chicago.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
So we'll start with the cricket. What do you think
so far?

Speaker 9 (46:15):
Sofa, I've really enjoyed this, to be honest, I love
the T twenty. Of course, England kind of wipe the
floor with us. They've got Harry Brook who is just
an incredible player, but to rely on that one player
versus the Black Cats and the ODI. Although you and
I were discussing off air as well, you said, oh,
you know, anything could happen in this third one, And
it's true, isn't it. I mean it could be very

(46:37):
unpredictable and you can come back and absolutely white the
floor with us.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
Oh. Completely.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
They've got the players, they just need to be on
their game, and they've got the Ashes coming up. They're
not going to want to go away with three, even
though it's a different game with tests, but they won't
want to go in with three reasonably solid losses to
New Zealand when they're going to.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
Take on the great Foe.

Speaker 9 (46:56):
So no, absolutely not, and I think it will be interesting.
That's my afternoon used up. Really, I think watching the
cricket tomorrow. I'm an Englishman in the house, so we'll
be battling over.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
Who I'm probably going to miss most. We've got my
bull's debut for beaufor tomorrow, so we'll see how that
one goes.

Speaker 9 (47:14):
Oh, good old balls Dale love those balls days. Have
to come down to one of those. I've been to
one of those country balls days and many many years.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
I think they have plenty of them, and some of
them actually venture undo the week too after bulls practice,
so it's not about the bulls.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
Just let's remember that quickly.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
The All Blacks in Chicago, I haven't been watching it
that close. You don't know the AB's team was announced.
Probably not a lot of surprises. It's going to be tough.
The Iris show are going to be able to get
us after the World Cup, so we've got to work
cut out.

Speaker 9 (47:45):
Absolutely, there's been minimal changes made to the team. I
don't think that was a surprise by the sound of
it to many people. And of course great time for
that game. It's nine pass nine in the morning on Sunday.
Hearing you don't have to be up at some crazy time.

Speaker 3 (47:59):
Yeah, Well, I might get up and watch it.

Speaker 9 (48:00):
Then we'll go to AB's anyway, and the.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
Windy City too, right, go to the AB's, go to
the black Caps, and yeah, go the farmers for this
weekend and hopefully they can get a well earned break
for a couple of days at some stays soon.

Speaker 9 (48:14):
Absolutely, bring on the sunshine.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
Thanks very much for that, Michelle. Well, we'll keep in touch, laugh.

Speaker 7 (48:27):
Out loud with ag proud because life on the land
can be a laughing matter. Brought to us by sheer
well data working to help the livestock farmer.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
What's the difference between a snowman and a snow woman? Snowballs?

Speaker 2 (48:43):
Alright to everyone, that's me for Friday, the last day
of October, new month tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
I'll be in on Monday for Andy.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
Also, another thanks goes out to the Class harves Center
for allier me to come along and do this. Well, yeah,
without the m I can't be here. So you feeding
my needs anything, give us a call or getting along
to one of the branches and Lawnville or Core. All Right,
have a great weeken