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Speaker 1: It is such an Auckland issue, isn't it. Helicopters. I

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Speaker 1: love helicopters by the way I've flown, and a lot

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Speaker 1: of helicopters now places on a flight path north. People

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Speaker 1: who go to the Bay of Islands and to the

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Speaker 1: flash golf courses north of Auckland. They fly over our

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Speaker 1: place on a sunny Saturday. They start maybe four or

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Speaker 1: six thirtysh in summer on a still day. You can

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Speaker 1: hear them coming maybe thirty seconds before you might see them.

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Speaker 1: And because I like them, I've never understood why, you know,

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Speaker 1: for example, the way Hecki monas who can't stand and

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Speaker 1: want them banned on the island. A helicopter to me

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Speaker 1: is full of people going places, you know, tourists and golfers.

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Speaker 1: These are people we like and people we want. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: if you haven't followed the story, Eli Williams once in

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Speaker 1: All Black, and Anna Mobray, part of the Zuru clan,

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Speaker 1: are a couple and they got a house in Westmere,

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Speaker 1: which is an inner city suburb if you're listening outside

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Speaker 1: of Auckland. They applied to land their helicopter at their place.

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Speaker 1: Que the horror. Far too much money and time has

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Speaker 1: been spent on this whole issue fourteen hundred submissions. That's right,

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Speaker 1: one thousand, four hundred submissions. What was mad about it

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Speaker 1: was one A number of submissions submitted said that they

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Speaker 1: had no view. You can't make the stuff up. The

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Speaker 1: number of people who are clearly bored out of their

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Speaker 1: brains is unbelievable. Too many A submission against their use

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Speaker 1: of a chopper in suburbia came from people who don't

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Speaker 1: even live in Auckland, not only not close to the

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Speaker 1: landing pad, but not even in the same city. I e.

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Speaker 1: It's got nothing to do with you. So Lawyer's council staff, submissions, hearings,

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Speaker 1: Lord knows how many hoursand dollars and as you will

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Speaker 1: have heard Williams and Mowbray one they can land at

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Speaker 1: their place two times a day, no more than ten

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Speaker 1: times a month. There is nothing said the commissioners untoward,

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Speaker 1: unacceptable or significantly out of character with helicopter noise, which

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Speaker 1: I think is fair enough. But two questions. One, how

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Speaker 1: many god exercised do you reckon out of petty jealousy? Oh,

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Speaker 1: they're rich, so we don't like rich people doing rich

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Speaker 1: people's stuff, So we'll complain about it, and two how

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Speaker 1: unpopular do you reckon it makes them locally? And I

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Speaker 1: suppose question number three do they care? There is, of course,

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Speaker 1: the precedent that's been set now Suburbia and choppers are

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Speaker 1: now apparently no big deal, Very Auckland. For more from

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