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Speaker 1: I commend Joe Taylor good morning. Usually you're here to

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Speaker 1: talk kai for kids busy times as always there you

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Speaker 1: get to never be school ready to head off on

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Speaker 1: school camp.

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Speaker 2: Yes we are. The lucky year five and six is

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Speaker 2: are heading off to Mount Hut today, so we'll actually

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Speaker 2: get to pack them a lunch and pack them dinner

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Speaker 2: as well for the next couple of nights.

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Speaker 1: So what really, Yes, I remember school camps out to

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Speaker 1: the likes of Peel forriuest you wouldn't need unless you

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Speaker 1: made your own. Yes for you.

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Speaker 2: Oh, they'll make their own lunches on Thursday and Friday,

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Speaker 2: and I think there's some parent helpers going as well.

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Speaker 1: So they couldn't have picked better weather for it. It's

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Speaker 1: been a real getting ball lately, so yeah, have an

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Speaker 1: absolute ball kids. No, this morning you were in as

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Speaker 1: a member of Zonter Ashburton, so maybe that's a good

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Speaker 1: place to start. What is Zoontera? Reminds us of this.

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Speaker 2: So Zonta is an organization that is trying to make

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Speaker 2: the world a better place for women and girls, and

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Speaker 2: so we're an international organization and we've got a club

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Speaker 2: that is thirty two years old here in Ashburton. And

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Speaker 2: we have twenty seven active members who work hard to

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Speaker 2: make the lives of not only local women but nationally.

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Speaker 2: We partner with a charity called Foster Hope who looks

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Speaker 2: after children that are taken into foster care. So they're

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Speaker 2: our project for the last couple of years. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's just a really good organization to be part of.

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Speaker 2: We have a bit of fun, but it's service, it's

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Speaker 2: fun with a purpose.

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Speaker 1: Well, I can understand how you're pretty active. Ahead of

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Speaker 1: International Women's Day, which is on Sunday. We've got the

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Speaker 1: Art Awards which are back and I'll share some details

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Speaker 1: on that before seven thirty. But the big one is

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Speaker 1: the return of the breakfast at Hotel Ashburton on set

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Speaker 1: today and marked with a big milestone look exactly.

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Speaker 2: This will be the thirtieth anniversary of Zonta Ashburton hosting

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Speaker 2: a Women's Day breakfast in the Canterbury which is pretty exciting.

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Speaker 2: I mean the fore sight of our fan founding members

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Speaker 2: way back in the early nineteen nineties. Yeah, it is

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Speaker 2: amazing that the event is still going.

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Speaker 1: You usually get huge numbers.

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Speaker 2: Incredibly well, so yes, we'll have over three hundred, well

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Speaker 2: over three hundred at the hotel for breakfast on Saturday morning.

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Speaker 1: So yummy food and entertainment from TV star Jude Dobson.

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Speaker 1: There's a blast in the past, look.

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Speaker 2: There is, and there's so much more to joke than

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Speaker 2: being a Sale of the Century hostess. Back in her

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Speaker 2: early days, you know, she was a nurse. Before that

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Speaker 2: she went on to TV, she did some modeling, but

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Speaker 2: since then she's become a documentary filmmaker. She's filmed the

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Speaker 2: documentary around the All Blacks in the War. She's worked

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Speaker 2: on a museum in France celebrating World War Two with

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Speaker 2: a lot of New Zealanders. And she has written a

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Speaker 2: book called The Last Secret Agent, which is a number

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Speaker 2: one best seller in New Zealand. And that's really what

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Speaker 2: she's going to focus on as the story of meeting

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Speaker 2: Pipper and Pipper's Peppers Store, which was untold for so

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Speaker 2: many years. Pippa did not even tell her family that

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Speaker 2: she was a secret agent in World War Two, that

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Speaker 2: she had been parachuted into France at the age of

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Speaker 2: twenty three in nineteen forty four. She was the last

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Speaker 2: of the thirty nine women who were sent in as

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Speaker 2: secret agents to go into France, and she sent in

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Speaker 2: that time, one hundred and thirty five messages back to

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Speaker 2: London detailing where German troops were in preparation for the

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Speaker 2: D Day landing. So she was pivotal in helping the

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Speaker 2: success of the end of the war.

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Speaker 1: Essentially, it's this fictional nonfiction.

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Speaker 2: Look, it's hard to believe, but she kept her story.

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Speaker 2: She believed that she was always under the Official Secrets

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Speaker 2: Act and she couldn't tell anybody what she had done.

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Speaker 2: So her children didn't even know until her son happened

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Speaker 2: to come across something on the Internet about a Phyllis

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Speaker 2: lettour and he sort of went to his mum and said, Mom,

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Speaker 2: is this you?

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Speaker 1: And that was striking resemblance. Yes, And so.

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Speaker 2: Her story has finally come out, and it's an incredible

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Speaker 2: story of perseverance, of courage. You know, at any time

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Speaker 2: she was sort of minutes away. Any of the agents

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Speaker 2: sent into the war in that stage were given six

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Speaker 2: to eight weeks to live, you know, That's what they

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Speaker 2: were told before they left, that the coming back is

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Speaker 2: very minimal.

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Speaker 1: So I mean all of this particularly striking given the

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Speaker 1: state of the world at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Oh, look, indeed, we don't want to go back there.

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Speaker 2: And I think when you hear Pepper's story and how

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Speaker 2: traumatic it was, but how courageous she had to be

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Speaker 2: to survive. Yea, it is incredible and it's one that

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Speaker 2: every New Zealander should hear. So if there are people

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Speaker 2: out there that don't have a ticket, we have a

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Speaker 2: few tickets left and we'd love to see you at

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Speaker 2: the breakfast.

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Speaker 1: It's forty five dollars forty five bucks.

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Speaker 2: Yep for breakfast and an amazing experience.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is run as a service to the women

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Speaker 2: in our community. It's not a fundraiser, so.

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Speaker 1: It's how do we snap those up?

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Speaker 2: So there's a few tickets at Preene in East Street,

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Speaker 2: So just just hop into the shop there and you

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Speaker 2: can pick up a ticket there, or you can contact

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Speaker 2: me via Facebook messenger Joe Taylor and I can get

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Speaker 2: a ticket to you