Parnell

Well, they can get hold of me at my office.

First off, we are in Parnell.

We're at 130 St George's Bay Road in Parnell.

Alternatively, they can look at our website, which is www.nzfts.co.nz.

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Yes, October 24th, 7.30 p.m., Holy Trinity Cathedral in Parnell.

I can't wait to see you there.

That's my guest today, John Mietus, conducting Armageddon Live of Orchestra Auckland, a concert of music from video games, science fiction, fantasy and comic books.

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in Parnell when it was still open, and there was a presentation, um, of, you know, "Would you like to become a s- a, an exchange student?" And of course, I was like, "Hell yes, I wanna do that." Um, so yeah, I, I had some part-time jobs and just, yeah, saved my purse [laughs] here and went over to America and did, did, yeah, six months of, of high school over there, um, before coming back and doing uni.

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Yes, yes, I did.

Um, Tash I know was a really amazing community person in Manurewa and, um, so many people speak so highly of her, and she, she actually supported me, um, as well as Oriini, when I stood for the Mayor of Auckland last year.

So Tash came to my launch, uh, that I held in Parnell, and she came and, um, gave a speech actually to tautoko me running for the Mayor of Auckland and, um, you know, I'll always respect and be grateful to her for that, and I think as Wahine Maori, the more that we continue to support one another regardless of what party we stand with, um, the better it is to show our people that it's not just about the parties, it's about actually uplifting one another to go into those spaces, to go into the hard roles that we never think that we can go into.

Um, so yeah, I've got huge aroha for her, um, and I know that she was doing a lot when she, when she was the MP.

But I actually think number seven on our list is maybe the sneakiest of the lot, which is body corporates that have no money to fix problems.

There are townhouses in Parnell right now, Parnell's a nice suburb in Auckland, by the way, but these people are selling their townhouses for around $150,000 each.

And the reason they're doing that is that the buildings are leaky.

The repair bill has blown out to $29 million.

Firstly, we've got the Creative Business Info Night called Let's Talk About It.

That will be happening at 12 Heather Street, Parnell.

Uh, that includes a bunch of experts who are talking about how they've worked in their creative businesses, how they got started, what they'd do differently if they could start again, and what they wish someone had told them at the beginning.

It's a very interesting info session, uh, with, with leaders from, uh, shops like Celestial Corner and with, uh, leaders from Villainy and Compton Business School.

Thank you.

Tuesday the 13th, we have Creative Business, uh, info night, Let's Talk About It, uh, at 12, 12 Heather, St. Parnell.

You can get your tickets from Humanitix for that, and that's with David Porte, Anita Tana, Swap Gomez, and more.

Once more, this mysterious more fella-

And, um, some of the sectors are, are runaway successes.

Our biggest company now started, uh, a- as a startup, Rocket Lab, and, uh, in, in, um, in Parnell, in Outset Ventures.

Um, one of the, the staff, uh, one of the guys from the Outset Ventures was in there with me in that little rush of things.

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