Kapiti Coast District

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Is all boys head students okay or is all girls okay? This is a co-ed school in the Kapiti Coast.

Kapiti College announced that three boys who are all in the First 15 rugby team are to head as heads at its prize giving last week.

The announcement was made alongside a wider student leadership team that was mixed between boys and girls.

you know, whoever it is.

We've seen it in Kapiti where Sophie Hanford's running against Tim Costley.

Even in Hutt South, you know, you can imagine a scenario where Ginny Anderson is 100 votes off of Chris Bishop, but the Green candidate gets 400 or 500 votes.

You know, that could have made the difference.

19th to the 22nd of December yeah

wow there that's and Palmy on the 19th Carterston on the 20th Lower Hutt on the 21st and Kapiti on the 22nd oh

that's Pentaloons boom

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Well, it wasn't death-defying.

As a child, we had a beach house on the Kapiti Coast, and it was right across the road from the sea, so we could walk over there any time.

We had sand dunes and putakawa trees and a nice dry beach, which is all gone by the erosion, so we just walked straight onto the beach.

But we did walk in the sea quite a lot, and the little crabs would nibble our toes, and we were frightened of it.

We've got a new look political panel for you this week.

We're joined by Labour's Kapiti candidate, Sophie Hanford, and National MP and Napier candidate, Katie Nimon.

Kia ora, good morning to both of you.

Good morning, Ingrid.

That is a happy coincidence.

And Sophie, I see you've got the bus in town as well.

Chris Hipkins heading to Kapiti.

Yes, that's the one.

And Sophie, I see you've got the bus in town as well.

Chris Hipkins heading to Kapiti.

Yes, that's the one.

There's real energy behind our campaign here.

You know, these portfolios, we can't guarantee necessarily those positions around the Cabinet table without more party votes for National.

So it's just a matter of reminding Kiwis the work that's done in the last three years and the difference that we've made have been due to a strong National-led government.

OK. Sophie, Kapiti is a new seat, right, new boundaries there, so untested to a degree, but Nationals' Tim Costley did have a pretty comfortable majority last time round.

How confident are you feeling?

Born in Paikakariki and now live in Waikanae.

So you are a Kapiti person.

You're very, very young.

I've got to tell our listeners, you are very young.

And at just about every door knock, we've got 20 people who come along.

What do you think the majority of people are saying to you when you knock on those doors?

We're hearing that cost of living, I think that's echoed right across the country, but is a really big issue for people in Kapiti.

And yeah, some real local examples of that just being that we hear from teachers at schools in Whitby and even up north in Ōtaki at the northernmost point of the electorate that It's getting harder and harder for parents to pay school fees, harder and harder for parents to send kids on school trips.

Rimutaka, 5.8%.

Otaki, now Kapiti, 7.4%.

Wairarapa, 10.5%.

ACT's total party vote around New Zealand is 8.4%.