Muriwai

He's eighty-six years old now, and he's called Jorgos Sabolskis.

He was originally from Lithuania, but he, he now lives in Muriwai.

And he fled, his family fled Lithuania when the Russians were about to take over the country, and this was after a brutal Nazi occupation.

And here's some of his story.

Yeah.

Um, do you remember the story that's just popped up in The Herald where, um, who's that famous, uh, racer, McLaren, and they have trademarked the name Muriwai-

In Remuera

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It certainly is.

As you know, and the other thing I think people don't realise too, it's West Coast, the Auckland-West Coast boundary, down that side, and hearing from the people over in Raglan and Muriwai and stuff like that, they're having the very same issues.

People are arriving en masse, big family groups, as I say, generally migrant groups, and they are just strip mining it.

And then you've got all of the Auckland boundary right around the Coromandel Peninsula and then right down to Waihii.

Or do we sack Jason Ryan and bring somebody else in who maybe can get the best out of him? I saw, I saw him, a, a true story.

I, I saw him, I agree with you, I saw him last week at the golf course at Muriwai.

True story, last Wednesday, they were out playing golf-

So was you

[laughs]

I got a call.

I got, I got, I g- I got a call from an M. Watson sitting at the Muriwai Cafe having a coffee, watching the boys come off the bus.

That is so good.

My neighbor, Catherine, used to work for Specialized, and she's been out today.

She's cycling from St. Heliers out to Muriwai.

After I told her I went to Swanson, she said, yeah, I'm going out to Muriwai on the weekend.

I was like, oh, you're going to make me feel a bit average.

But anyway, she was involved with an initiative with the cyclists, with whoever the group is representing cyclists or the club or whatever.

McLaren, seven.

Muriwai and Remuera, what are they up to? Confidence, seven.

Along with spending, the numbers are up.

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