Canterbury Region

So yeah, I'm just going to read from their kaupapa now.

Mana Tipua is a kaupapa Māori organisation led by Takatāpui and is the only rangatahi Takatāpui-focused organisation in Waitaha.

Our purpose is to tautoku support the hauora, health and wellbeing and mana of rangatahi Takatāpui and their whānau, including all Māori with diverse genders, sexualities and sex characteristics, to enable them to flourish in the fullness of their identity.

We seek to improve mental health and wellbeing outcomes by providing opportunities for rangatahi to engage in matauranga and tikanga Māori and taonga tuku iho practices.

I just enjoy this part of the world, this part of the coast, all of Canterbury.

I'm North Canterbury, South Canterbury is all part of the same big family.

I like this part of the world.

I'll be honest, I was keeping an eye on the theatre project for a long time because it went through a couple of iterations before we got involved.

What is it, year nine, third form in our day, you know, having a decent gym to play basketball and all the other sports now that are available, you know, for indoor participation.

And so it's good to see that investment.

When it comes to participation, we have a lot of cyclists around South Canterbury.

It's the terrain, isn't it, that attracts people to it,

That reduction was mostly happening in the North Island where we saw cow numbers fall by 6% over that period compared with only 1% in the South Island.

Even within that 1% decline over those past five years, however, you were seeing a bit of a strengthening of numbers in South Canterbury and Southland.

So they were actually rocking the boat, if you like, in coming up.

So that's the total cow...

So if you're kind of looking for that particular detail, you're seeing, I think, a bud of growth, but it's not really booming into anything just yet.

We were talking about it before compared to the 24-25 season just the last year.

In South Canterbury, you're seeing a 1.5% increase in growth in the herd.

In North Canterbury, sorry.

Nelson also bulla to Fiordland, periods of rain and they'll be heavy about the ranges.

Marlborough and Canterbury mainly fine, occasional rain about northwest Marlborough, spreading elsewhere early tomorrow morning.

Some low clouds south of Christchurch for a time through the night and tomorrow morning.

Otago and Southland get scattered rain through the night tomorrow morning as well and showers developing tomorrow afternoon.

There's a lot of demand out there.

The supply, if you look in that dairy space, there's not too many dairy farms coming to the market, obviously, particularly down in Canterbury.

Yeah, that's probably one of the main driving factors.

Banks wanting to lend to the agri sector has put a lot of money out in the economy and, yeah, you end up A lot of demand.

It still has its challenges, but there's probably a lot less variables to consider when doing a residential valuation.

If you look at somewhere like Rolleston that's got a lot of houses, a lot of new houses, there's generally something very comparable.

Whereas dairy farms, you might have six sales all across Canterbury region that you have to adjust for accordingly.

Yeah, they all look the same in Rolleston.

Arn is an amazing designer and I'll say it right now, he still works for us as a contractor, as our designer.

He still lives in Canterbury.

in New Zealand and we love having him on the team.

But yes, he started many, many years ago where he was working as a designer of outdoor gear products for many different brands throughout the world.

And then my parents moved to Christchurch.

And I went to primary school and secondary school in Christchurch and then did my undergraduate degree, BA and MA at Canterbury.

But I went to Christchurch Boys High, which is a great rugby school.

Were you

So he had a lot of education.

My mother had almost none.

So she decided when I was in my last year of high school that she would do a couple of units at University of Canterbury.

She didn't really seriously think she would sit exams, but she thought she would do the units.

So I said to him, you know, I said, look, I don't want to be an idiot here, so please, I know that you have a lot of... people here that spend tens of thousands of dollars on a bottle of wine, and that's all good, you know, that's great, I said, but I was wondering if, you know, this Chardonnay that we've got here, this entry-level, I said, that's kind of what we drink every day.

You know, I'm from North Canterbury, and it's a beautiful wine, but, you know, I wondered what else.

I said, you know, do you have a really beautiful rosé not on the list?

Oh, wow.