December 15, 2025 • 8 mins
Disaster looks at issues that the Wakatipu Basin is facing regarding traffic congestion.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We come. Johnde Brand Father round got into U grab McMaster,
(00:20):
a closer in station joins us for the final time
in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Of course thanks to Abbie Rural. Good afternoon disaster.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah, Andy graft and and everybody. I know, we're not
I'm not actually on the I'm closer. At the moment
where Kiar and I tripping over to Tawanaka and just
got into the Crown Range and actually we turned off
and going up the road, there was about eighty cars
trying to get back down onto the Queenstown Road. But
I wonder what's going on there. But I had missed
reading the sign that said road group for forty minutes,
(00:52):
delays forty minutes. So I just sat up up in
the Crown Range trying to get a text out to
you to say that I may not be available. But
as usual RB Rural have got us throat.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, get on your batman and the team at RB
Rural there. You always delve to tell me, how's that
you round about the BP going for you?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Oh, well, it's it's not going at all. Really, it's
just well the roundabout is still there. I think that's
It's been a great thing. But the actual work itself
with the with the roads and what have you. Still
another two years to go before that's opened.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Apparently a quarter of a billion dollars. It's costing god god.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, well it's you know, and apparently I hear to
the Grape mind that one of the major changes is
to accommodate the bus.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
May what do you do for public transport in the
area like the wakatypic basin though grant as buses.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
The answer, well, it's certainly becoming that way because you
can't get a park anywhere in town and if you
do it, it cost you an arm and a lead.
So I think for the people that can get buses,
and there's a good bus service from our town and
to the end of the five mile and right up
to the fur and unfortunately it doesn't go to Coostburn
(02:04):
because you got handy going to the public of Friday
night get in the bus back.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Oh it's all about you, Granda. You're gonna have to
use your ways out there, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Yeah, my eleven Stone won't do very much. But no,
I think it's you know, the buses are there as
the saying the good services and they're just trying to
get more and more people on them. But you know,
in the heart of Queenstown itself, Queenstown, there is you
and I know and most of the people from the
targets south. But it's just it's just a terrace, nechA.
So everything else is out of the out of the
(02:36):
five mile and and there is good parking out there
for you know, for the various you know when when
you get out there. But as far as Queenstown goes,
I think I don't know if I told you, but
I may have, because I do repeat myself a bit.
But coming back from one of our farm discussions, it's
like drop tech Colocks and another guy from out michelas Off.
I just stopped outside the steamer wharf. They got straight
(02:58):
out and I carried on and I got an eighty
a parking pint and and so you know, you've been
officers to stop in the middle of the road and
let people out if you've got to do that. So
it's yeah, no, it's it's great when you go to
Gore and the Carda and you get and you can
get you know, places apart. But the only difficulty I
had there was working out how to use the old meters.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah they are. That's a really valid point there. I
got caught out the well the first time I didn't
use them. I thought, bugger, this is that confusing. I'm
just going to say ignorous. Not that they would have
said anything if I got to take it, but the
old coin and the meat has certainly got a lot
to going for it.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Like Gore, Oh absolutely. And so when I parked and
Gore the other day on my way to Batman's to
get the three hair he gave me thanks to Opini,
we I just I couldn't work it, but I put
some money in and it looked like something, so I
felt all right, whether it worked or not. I much more.
But as you know, I haven't got a ticket.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
So what's to focus on the farm at the moment.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Well, the focus on the farm at the moment is
trying to get some bailags made or the grant cut
and our ground that's going into the kale. It's been sprayed.
But we had another thirty eight mills of rain yesterday afternoon,
so and that was in about about four as and
the space of four as. So while it's not boggie,
(04:16):
it's just the contractors are just behind schedule and trying
to get things done. So you know, it's typical, as
we say every year that Christen is a great time
when during the northern Hemisphere and that the days are
short and the night's along but middle of a bit
of a well really the start of air. Our farming
calendars will get all these things done. So it'll be
(04:37):
nice to get that done, and especially for over the
hills there while we've got Trina Tucker to get that
bailer's off so we get a bit of fresh stuff
coming away.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
So are you contemplating rice paddies at all? Has it
got to that statement?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
We thought about it. And with that, you know, thirty
eight meals of rain yesterday. It's the old Shotover dirty game.
But over Hope and Gully Road we had these massive,
big ponds that we've never seen before, just surface water.
They've actually just they've just dissipated now, so we've gone
off the rice and we just prefer to get the
crop and the and the and the baylor's made. But
(05:15):
we'll see what happens. We've got probably start marking the
calves next week and the ball will go out. So
that's good that that job done. The calves are looking
more right, still a lot of good a lot of
good cow feed about over at Closeburn, not just only
on the hill, but on a few fat areas. We've
gotten that that'll that will accommodate them while the ball
(05:35):
goes out. So you know, the things are looking pretty
good there. But one thing I was going to talk
about was when you've got we've got a bullet, the
moment that needs to go to the works. He's lane.
But the rules and regulations now it's just about them.
Possible to get any animal away that that's lame and
some sort of and some aspects now I sort of
(05:56):
understand it for sheep, you know, and see you've got
sheep with the crooked leg, whether you're just knocked over
the dog tucker anyway or but you know, we've got
a ball there that he got. He got feedn up
by the other balls and a bit of a and
a bit of a donny brook. So he can walk,
but he can't put a lot of pressure on his leg.
So left him for a while. Got to send a
(06:18):
video to the bet. So I don't think that ball
will be I don't think he'd be accepted. So last
week we ran some night the ball would Actually he
was in the paddic with some cow and hadn't been
doing much, but he's able to walk around and trot around.
So I videoed that and hated him out of the paddock.
Event's coming tomorrow and said we get the orkare to
(06:40):
send them. So just my point here is that this,
you know, it's a ball. At this time of the year,
it's bit hard to kill and put them the doll
cucking freezer because you know, about a thousand kgs. So
there must be a lot of other people around that
you have stopped that that are injured and really need
to be put out of their misery. And because of
(07:00):
these stupid regulations you can't, you know, and this ball
can walk on full legs and like it's not as
a different story that leg's broken or something like that.
I understand that, but you know that that ball there
mightn't even go and he's just in the paddocks.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Are are you hopeful that regulations will change one day
or he just pass upon in their return?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I don't think things that will ever change it because
it's the thing of common sense, at least common of
all the senses. And you know for all the all
these good and people that don't want bodies tring crates
for takes, but don't realize that if you don't have
them there for a week or two weeks anyway, that
thinks an he get squashed. And and the same with
you know cattle or or animals that you know, you
(07:43):
that can walk up the ramp, but they say, I
know it might be able to support its own weight
and what have you. It makes it very It's pretty difficult, really,
and I don't think it's it's not the right way
to look a look at takes.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, absolutely, grant, hey will leave it there, mate, you're
in transit, you care and the family. Have a fantastic
hold day. We'll do it all again next year.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Day and thanks to Arby we're all hat Man and
the team. Don't forget you're needed, especially for Ham go
and see Punnyhead. But yeah, Merry Christmas to all our
fifteen listeners. We've got now, so I hope you will
have a safe and happy holiday and kick your family
close and enjoy Christmas.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Grant disaster McMaster thanks to Batman on the team with
Abu r Or Richard'll be around for that. Ham later
on this afternoon. Up next, we're speaking of fluid Lucas
mills from Ida down, of course, giving us the chance
today to an adjustable woolen pillow made of one hundred
percent New Zealand wall. Text in Ida Down with your
name to five double O nine
We come. Johnde Brand Father round got into U grab McMaster,
(00:20):
a closer in station joins us for the final time
in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Of course thanks to Abbie Rural. Good afternoon disaster.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah, Andy graft and and everybody. I know, we're not
I'm not actually on the I'm closer. At the moment
where Kiar and I tripping over to Tawanaka and just
got into the Crown Range and actually we turned off
and going up the road, there was about eighty cars
trying to get back down onto the Queenstown Road. But
I wonder what's going on there. But I had missed
reading the sign that said road group for forty minutes,
(00:52):
delays forty minutes. So I just sat up up in
the Crown Range trying to get a text out to
you to say that I may not be available. But
as usual RB Rural have got us throat.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, get on your batman and the team at RB
Rural there. You always delve to tell me, how's that
you round about the BP going for you?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Oh, well, it's it's not going at all. Really, it's
just well the roundabout is still there. I think that's
It's been a great thing. But the actual work itself
with the with the roads and what have you. Still
another two years to go before that's opened.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Apparently a quarter of a billion dollars. It's costing god god.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, well it's you know, and apparently I hear to
the Grape mind that one of the major changes is
to accommodate the bus.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
May what do you do for public transport in the
area like the wakatypic basin though grant as buses.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
The answer, well, it's certainly becoming that way because you
can't get a park anywhere in town and if you
do it, it cost you an arm and a lead.
So I think for the people that can get buses,
and there's a good bus service from our town and
to the end of the five mile and right up
to the fur and unfortunately it doesn't go to Coostburn
(02:04):
because you got handy going to the public of Friday
night get in the bus back.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Oh it's all about you, Granda. You're gonna have to
use your ways out there, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Yeah, my eleven Stone won't do very much. But no,
I think it's you know, the buses are there as
the saying the good services and they're just trying to
get more and more people on them. But you know,
in the heart of Queenstown itself, Queenstown, there is you
and I know and most of the people from the
targets south. But it's just it's just a terrace, nechA.
So everything else is out of the out of the
(02:36):
five mile and and there is good parking out there
for you know, for the various you know when when
you get out there. But as far as Queenstown goes,
I think I don't know if I told you, but
I may have, because I do repeat myself a bit.
But coming back from one of our farm discussions, it's
like drop tech Colocks and another guy from out michelas Off.
I just stopped outside the steamer wharf. They got straight
(02:58):
out and I carried on and I got an eighty
a parking pint and and so you know, you've been
officers to stop in the middle of the road and
let people out if you've got to do that. So
it's yeah, no, it's it's great when you go to
Gore and the Carda and you get and you can
get you know, places apart. But the only difficulty I
had there was working out how to use the old meters.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah they are. That's a really valid point there. I
got caught out the well the first time I didn't
use them. I thought, bugger, this is that confusing. I'm
just going to say ignorous. Not that they would have
said anything if I got to take it, but the
old coin and the meat has certainly got a lot
to going for it.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Like Gore, Oh absolutely. And so when I parked and
Gore the other day on my way to Batman's to
get the three hair he gave me thanks to Opini,
we I just I couldn't work it, but I put
some money in and it looked like something, so I
felt all right, whether it worked or not. I much more.
But as you know, I haven't got a ticket.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
So what's to focus on the farm at the moment.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Well, the focus on the farm at the moment is
trying to get some bailags made or the grant cut
and our ground that's going into the kale. It's been sprayed.
But we had another thirty eight mills of rain yesterday afternoon,
so and that was in about about four as and
the space of four as. So while it's not boggie,
(04:16):
it's just the contractors are just behind schedule and trying
to get things done. So you know, it's typical, as
we say every year that Christen is a great time
when during the northern Hemisphere and that the days are
short and the night's along but middle of a bit
of a well really the start of air. Our farming
calendars will get all these things done. So it'll be
(04:37):
nice to get that done, and especially for over the
hills there while we've got Trina Tucker to get that
bailer's off so we get a bit of fresh stuff
coming away.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
So are you contemplating rice paddies at all? Has it
got to that statement?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
We thought about it. And with that, you know, thirty
eight meals of rain yesterday. It's the old Shotover dirty game.
But over Hope and Gully Road we had these massive,
big ponds that we've never seen before, just surface water.
They've actually just they've just dissipated now, so we've gone
off the rice and we just prefer to get the
crop and the and the and the baylor's made. But
(05:15):
we'll see what happens. We've got probably start marking the
calves next week and the ball will go out. So
that's good that that job done. The calves are looking
more right, still a lot of good a lot of
good cow feed about over at Closeburn, not just only
on the hill, but on a few fat areas. We've
gotten that that'll that will accommodate them while the ball
(05:35):
goes out. So you know, the things are looking pretty
good there. But one thing I was going to talk
about was when you've got we've got a bullet, the
moment that needs to go to the works. He's lane.
But the rules and regulations now it's just about them.
Possible to get any animal away that that's lame and
some sort of and some aspects now I sort of
(05:56):
understand it for sheep, you know, and see you've got
sheep with the crooked leg, whether you're just knocked over
the dog tucker anyway or but you know, we've got
a ball there that he got. He got feedn up
by the other balls and a bit of a and
a bit of a donny brook. So he can walk,
but he can't put a lot of pressure on his leg.
So left him for a while. Got to send a
(06:18):
video to the bet. So I don't think that ball
will be I don't think he'd be accepted. So last
week we ran some night the ball would Actually he
was in the paddic with some cow and hadn't been
doing much, but he's able to walk around and trot around.
So I videoed that and hated him out of the paddock.
Event's coming tomorrow and said we get the orkare to
(06:40):
send them. So just my point here is that this,
you know, it's a ball. At this time of the year,
it's bit hard to kill and put them the doll
cucking freezer because you know, about a thousand kgs. So
there must be a lot of other people around that
you have stopped that that are injured and really need
to be put out of their misery. And because of
(07:00):
these stupid regulations you can't, you know, and this ball
can walk on full legs and like it's not as
a different story that leg's broken or something like that.
I understand that, but you know that that ball there
mightn't even go and he's just in the paddocks.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Are are you hopeful that regulations will change one day
or he just pass upon in their return?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
I don't think things that will ever change it because
it's the thing of common sense, at least common of
all the senses. And you know for all the all
these good and people that don't want bodies tring crates
for takes, but don't realize that if you don't have
them there for a week or two weeks anyway, that
thinks an he get squashed. And and the same with
you know cattle or or animals that you know, you
(07:43):
that can walk up the ramp, but they say, I
know it might be able to support its own weight
and what have you. It makes it very It's pretty difficult, really,
and I don't think it's it's not the right way
to look a look at takes.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, absolutely, grant, hey will leave it there, mate, you're
in transit, you care and the family. Have a fantastic
hold day. We'll do it all again next year.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Day and thanks to Arby we're all hat Man and
the team. Don't forget you're needed, especially for Ham go
and see Punnyhead. But yeah, Merry Christmas to all our
fifteen listeners. We've got now, so I hope you will
have a safe and happy holiday and kick your family
close and enjoy Christmas.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Grant disaster McMaster thanks to Batman on the team with
Abu r Or Richard'll be around for that. Ham later
on this afternoon. Up next, we're speaking of fluid Lucas
mills from Ida down, of course, giving us the chance
today to an adjustable woolen pillow made of one hundred
percent New Zealand wall. Text in Ida Down with your
name to five double O nine
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