Hamilton
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Sep 11, 2026
Sue MartinGUEST
And there's been a real focus on local delivery.
Sue MartinGUEST
So these are not services that are perhaps Hamilton-based that can provide services in Te Awamutu.
Sue MartinGUEST
They are Te Awamutu-based services.
Sue MartinGUEST
And we felt that was very important.
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God bless.
Oliver GreyHOST
Thanks for listening to A Sonic Youth.
Oliver GreyHOST
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Oliver GreyHOST
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Oliver GreyHOST
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and find out what he has been working on lately.
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Luckily, Kiri lives in Kirikiriroa, so we met up for lunch and had a kōrero.
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It's been nine years since you created the word Takiwatanga.
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Has your understanding of the word changed over time? Yes, I think it has to, because nothing is static, everything is dynamic.
Mark LeishmanHOST
A charity says the high cost of living is forcing some older people to go hungry.
Mark LeishmanHOST
St Vincent de Paul in Kirikiriroa, Hamilton, says it's made pensioners the focus of its service after noticing the elderly have been falling through the cracks.
Mark LeishmanHOST
The general manager, Mike Rolton, says eighty percent of its food parcels will now go to pensioners.
Mike RoltonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They get their pension.
Paul BarlowHOST
As you know, our rangatahi are the least enrolled and least likely to vote.
Paul BarlowHOST
And there's a whole bunch of billboards that they've got going up around Tamaki, Kirikiriroa, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, and imagining a few other places from this week, from yesterday.
Paul BarlowHOST
And I'd like to know how many people can snap a picture with one and spread the word via social media.
Paul BarlowHOST
So I mean I haven't been able to get out today because there's literally been roadworks blocking my street.
Paul TrenwithHOST
That opening track was one called Reunion.
Paul TrenwithHOST
That was a Hamilton County bluegrass band in 2005.
Paul TrenwithHOST
Uh, we were just about to embark on a, a tour of New Zealand with a whole bunch of other artists called The Highway of Legends, and, uh, they called us a legend.
Paul TrenwithHOST
And, uh, we recorded some music for a CD that, uh, had tracks from all the artists on it.
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Paul TrenwithHOST
I've got lots of shelves filled with CDs and LPs and, uh, dating back to the mid-'60s and, uh, a big collection, and I'm delighted to be able to share it with you, and I hope you're enjoying it.
Paul TrenwithHOST
And along the way, I've had, um, many excellent bluegrass experiences, and I hope that, uh, you get to enjoy some of those with me as well.
Paul TrenwithHOST
This show comes to you from Free FM 89.0, independent community media, and we're in Hamilton, New Zealand.
Paul TrenwithHOST
And New Zealand is where I've been based all my life, apart from a few years in Sydney, Australia, playing music, uh, with The Slim Dusty Show mostly and Hamilton County Bluegrass Band and, uh, traveling round Australia.
BarryHOST
I know you can't remember it, but I had to go to work.
Ross LongleyCORRESPONDENT
Traffic jam in Hamilton? I don't believe it-
BarryHOST
Yeah
Ross LongleyCORRESPONDENT
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Ross LongleyCORRESPONDENT
That's an excuse, not a reason.
BarryHOST
Oh, come on, come on.
BarryHOST
Yeah, look, it's all go in Hamilton.
BarryHOST
I read something that it was the fourth best place to live in in New Zealand at the moment.
Christina ParaskosHOST
A New Zealand charity says the high cost of living is forcing some older people to go hungry.
Christina ParaskosHOST
St Vincent de Paul in Kirikiriroa, Hamilton, says it has made pensioners the focus of its service after noticing that elderly have been falling through the cracks.
Christina ParaskosHOST
The general manager, Mike Rolton, says 80% of its food parcels will now go to pensioners.
Mike RoltonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They get their pension.
Sheridyn RodgersHOST
And I felt that as I prayed into it and I thought about it that I felt that I needed to give a father's charge today, being Father's Day.
Sheridyn RodgersHOST
And, you know, I've learned a lot in my journey in the last 20 years in Hamilton, or 18, but I've learned a lot more in my last nearer to six decades than five.
Sheridyn RodgersHOST
And I thought, well, Lord, what do I need to say? And how do I encapsulate kind of nearly six decades in one message.
Sheridyn RodgersHOST
It's gonna be pretty difficult.
Sheridyn RodgersHOST
So, you know, sometimes he says, no, that's not for you in this season.
Sheridyn RodgersHOST
And yes, this is, or yes, this isn't.
Sheridyn RodgersHOST
I remember when I came to Hamilton, I mean, I like business stuff.
Sheridyn RodgersHOST
I've always loved business stuff.
Harvey BrookesGUEST
So they occupy a significant and important role and responsibility.
Harvey BrookesGUEST
And if you look at the trend of rates in the Waikato, I don't have all that information, but I've just recently been doing some work on Hamilton City, and I'm not picking on Hamilton
Holly SnapeHOST
City.
Harvey BrookesGUEST
But what's interesting is that their total rates bill since 2000 has increased sevenfold
Holly SnapeHOST
I mean, because we're still living in a time then where we're seeing these extreme increases in rates and we are going to ask those hard questions and those questions are fair.
Harvey BrookesGUEST
Yeah, they are.
Harvey BrookesGUEST
And so if you look, just to use the example of Hamilton City, so on average over the last 25 years, 7% compounding per year, with an indication that those rates are getting higher and higher in the last five or so years.
Harvey BrookesGUEST
So over 10% for the last three or four years.
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