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Speaker 1: For the first time in twenty twenty six. Let's catch up with our national impa for and the Cargo Pensimons.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Yes, good morning, Chitty, and good morning to all your listeners. And I hope they had a really good Christmas and got some relaxation and some time with friends and family. I think we were pretty lucky down here over the Christmas period. It wasn't the extremes that the North Island had, it wasn't their best summer and it got pretty dry. But we've had some rain now, so yeah, I think we've been pretty lucky.
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Speaker 1: Really. Yeah. Absolutely, I'm getting pretty used to the seasons not falling exactly where they should at this point. But how's things on the workfront for you? Are you ready to go full swing again?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Look, getting back into it. I've had a few papers to read over the summer, which has been good, some really interesting papers that i'd say the side and pet One that is of probably of interest to our rural people, and that is the use of topsoil. A lot of topsoil, of course, gets disturbed when there's infrastructure and building. You don't see so much down here because people reuse it and put funds around their houses and their industrial sites and things. But it's a real issue in particularly in the bigger centers, and so looking at possible better use of that topsoil that at the moment is going to landfill, which is a real waste. The construction and building industry is about seventy percent of what we put to landfill, and of that about eighty percent is topsoil, and we need to do better than that, really, because topsoil is so valuable and we need to stop taking it to landfill. So I'm reading up on that and seeing what it might be able to do in terms of regulatory and policy changes that might make some changes the particulary for those big urban developments. So sorry, it isn't terribly exciting for most people, but for me, I actually do find it quite interesting.
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Speaker 1: No, we need people like Upny, We need people like you that can break that down and do the hard yet ga for us and then put it into what I like to call chitty terms so we can understand. But I know something else that would have been on your radar in the last a few days of no doubt, with away bit of a heavy heart, we've lost an absolute icon in the South, said Tim shed Bult.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, yes, Sir Tim. I've known Sir Tim for about twenty five years preps a bit longer, and there's no doubt that he did a lot of good for him the Kargil. He did a lot of good for sit and you know, we were very very lucky to have him all those years as our mere I know things were really tough for him for the last few years, so some ways, I guess it's a blessing. But he was a real icon for us in the South, and so I'm privileged to be speaking at his funeral on it was coming Friday, and just reliving some of the memories. And of course there's a lot of very very funny memories, but also there's a lot of quite compassionate memories where he did things for people that never came out into the public arena. So it'll be a privilege to be able to share those things.
00:03:32
Speaker 1: Oh certainly well, And I dare say he will not be forgotten because there has so many memories. As you said, everybody knows terms share, Bob, That's.
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Speaker 2: Right, it didn't matter went I remember going through Singapore Airport with him one time when we were traveling recruiting international students, and Singapore Airport's a big airport with millions of people that go through it annually, and of course someone yells out to him, Hi meared him whereas you can't readmixer, and he had to rush over and talk to them. And I was getting a bit frantic because we were trying to get from one terminal to another in time. So it didn't matter where you were in the world. People knew of him, which was which was really great. But just talking about sort of worldwide events, things are certainly getting more interesting in terms of geopolitical issues in terms of the Middle East and Venezuela, and so it's something that we really have to keep a very close eye on in terms of the impact that it might have on New Zealand, the impact on air fuel supply, cost of fuel, and of course our sale of our export goods. So it's something that I know we are all needing to keep a really close iron and watch as things get just a little bit more tense.
00:04:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, it certainly does seem like there's plenty dot com to keep us all busy, and especially you around that table involved in So thank you for your time. This morning, Penny, and we'll catch up again soon.
00:05:08
Speaker 2: Nice to talk, thank you, Bye.
Speaker 1: For the first time in twenty twenty six. Let's catch up with our national impa for and the Cargo Pensimons.
00:00:06
Speaker 2: Good morning, Yes, good morning, Chitty, and good morning to all your listeners. And I hope they had a really good Christmas and got some relaxation and some time with friends and family. I think we were pretty lucky down here over the Christmas period. It wasn't the extremes that the North Island had, it wasn't their best summer and it got pretty dry. But we've had some rain now, so yeah, I think we've been pretty lucky.
00:00:32
Speaker 1: Really. Yeah. Absolutely, I'm getting pretty used to the seasons not falling exactly where they should at this point. But how's things on the workfront for you? Are you ready to go full swing again?
00:00:45
Speaker 2: Yeah? Look, getting back into it. I've had a few papers to read over the summer, which has been good, some really interesting papers that i'd say the side and pet One that is of probably of interest to our rural people, and that is the use of topsoil. A lot of topsoil, of course, gets disturbed when there's infrastructure and building. You don't see so much down here because people reuse it and put funds around their houses and their industrial sites and things. But it's a real issue in particularly in the bigger centers, and so looking at possible better use of that topsoil that at the moment is going to landfill, which is a real waste. The construction and building industry is about seventy percent of what we put to landfill, and of that about eighty percent is topsoil, and we need to do better than that, really, because topsoil is so valuable and we need to stop taking it to landfill. So I'm reading up on that and seeing what it might be able to do in terms of regulatory and policy changes that might make some changes the particulary for those big urban developments. So sorry, it isn't terribly exciting for most people, but for me, I actually do find it quite interesting.
00:02:11
Speaker 1: No, we need people like Upny, We need people like you that can break that down and do the hard yet ga for us and then put it into what I like to call chitty terms so we can understand. But I know something else that would have been on your radar in the last a few days of no doubt, with away bit of a heavy heart, we've lost an absolute icon in the South, said Tim shed Bult.
00:02:34
Speaker 2: Absolutely, yes, Sir Tim. I've known Sir Tim for about twenty five years preps a bit longer, and there's no doubt that he did a lot of good for him the Kargil. He did a lot of good for sit and you know, we were very very lucky to have him all those years as our mere I know things were really tough for him for the last few years, so some ways, I guess it's a blessing. But he was a real icon for us in the South, and so I'm privileged to be speaking at his funeral on it was coming Friday, and just reliving some of the memories. And of course there's a lot of very very funny memories, but also there's a lot of quite compassionate memories where he did things for people that never came out into the public arena. So it'll be a privilege to be able to share those things.
00:03:32
Speaker 1: Oh certainly well, And I dare say he will not be forgotten because there has so many memories. As you said, everybody knows terms share, Bob, That's.
00:03:42
Speaker 2: Right, it didn't matter went I remember going through Singapore Airport with him one time when we were traveling recruiting international students, and Singapore Airport's a big airport with millions of people that go through it annually, and of course someone yells out to him, Hi meared him whereas you can't readmixer, and he had to rush over and talk to them. And I was getting a bit frantic because we were trying to get from one terminal to another in time. So it didn't matter where you were in the world. People knew of him, which was which was really great. But just talking about sort of worldwide events, things are certainly getting more interesting in terms of geopolitical issues in terms of the Middle East and Venezuela, and so it's something that we really have to keep a very close eye on in terms of the impact that it might have on New Zealand, the impact on air fuel supply, cost of fuel, and of course our sale of our export goods. So it's something that I know we are all needing to keep a really close iron and watch as things get just a little bit more tense.
00:04:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, it certainly does seem like there's plenty dot com to keep us all busy, and especially you around that table involved in So thank you for your time. This morning, Penny, and we'll catch up again soon.
00:05:08
Speaker 2: Nice to talk, thank you, Bye.
