Wairoa

We've been down south, we've been up north, we're doing it again.

We're going to Wairoa, I believe.

You and Cow Pregnancy Scan is based in Wairoa.

We've got James Jarden with us.

G'day James, how are you? I'm here good, yourself? Yeah, not bad, mate, not bad.

And it just gets, especially in Hawke's Bay, and it gets pretty, you know, there's some pretty heavy.

shit around that lifestyle down there yeah that's where the real gangs live down there yeah it gets real dark man because Wairoa is a pretty intense town yeah super intense

yeah we were on tour once with the band and my job was to like score weed in each of the towns because we were on like a 48 tour of New Zealand so we played like everywhere but I was like the guys because we were like that was half of the van which was 11 nine dudes were like pretty into it so I was a guy had to score around I remember trying to scoring in Wairoa and like Fuck, it was the best nugs we ever got.

It was, like, the most intense dudes we ever got it off as well.

Yeah, yeah.

Y- you may not get another chance to take that opportunity, and if they get a run at home, I can assure you they will make, um ...

I still call it Okara Park, Wairoa.

They'll make that an absolute fortress, and there's no fear for this team to go on the road, which is enlightening for a Northland team.

Uh, ha- ha- have they galvanized the community? Uh, is there a, uh, is there-

All the best for the remainder of the season.

Looking forward to it.

Cheers, Wairoa.

Mu- much appreciated.

For Gisborne to Wairarapa, it's periods of rain about Wairarapa.

Spreading elsewhere tomorrow morning, thunderstorms will be possible about the ranges of Gisborne and the Wairoa District tomorrow afternoon.

Whanganui to Wellington, the rain heavy about Wellington and Kapiti through the night, easing to isolated showers tomorrow morning.

For Marlborough and Nelson, rain with isolated showers in Nelson, clearing to fine everywhere overnight.

A young pygmy right whale has been found dead on a beach in Marlborough.

The whale was found by a member of the public near the Wairoa diversion on Monday morning.

Pygmy right whales are the smallest and rarest species of baleen whale.

They can grow to about six metres long and weigh up to three and a half thousand kilograms.

Now, which are the areas, though, Andrew, where housing affordability is better than average right now?

So the most improved player goes to Wairoa, which is a small town north of Hawke's Bay.

Now, uh, for anyone that knows Rocket Lab, that's where it launches all its rockets from.

That's probably what's made it the most famous.

You don't think it is?

No, no, I don't think it's in- incomes at all, because while Rocket Lab launches its rockets from the Mahia Peninsula, my understanding is that a lot of their staff aren't all based down there, right? Rocket Lab headquarters, my understanding, is in Auckland, because my friend used to work for them, as opposed to down in the Mahia Peninsula.

But I think it's because house prices have come down, and remember, Wairoa has seen some of the largest house price decreases in the whole of the country.

Yes, Lower Hutt and Wellington City have done it really tough in terms of house prices coming down, but Wairoa and Hawke's Bay have also done it particularly poor.