1 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 1: We say good morning to Ashburton's latest good sort, as 2 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 1: spotted on the box last night, Donald Shearer, Mate, here 3 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 1: are you very good? How did you get nominated for this? 4 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:16,440 Speaker 2: That's a good point. I believe. 5 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:23,959 Speaker 3: Hayden rang up the rural support, Wendy Hewitt at the 6 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:26,279 Speaker 3: rural support. 7 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 2: And she put me on. She got me to nominated me. 8 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:35,240 Speaker 1: So it was Wendy that threw you under the training. 9 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:38,159 Speaker 2: I believe. I'm very grateful to. 10 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 1: Oh you came across well, mate, it was awesome. So 11 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 1: neat story, retired farmer, Where were you. 12 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 3: Farming halfway to meth fun We're just behind Blend's corner, 13 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:54,520 Speaker 3: the big sweeping corner and against the river, and their 14 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 3: daughter and son and little run the place near. 15 00:00:57,840 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 2: They milk a few cares. 16 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: Okay, so you're helping out everyonew and then oh yeah, 17 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:04,039 Speaker 1: but of course you move into town. You think, chief, 18 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 1: there's a lot of hours in the day. What do 19 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: I do with myself? 20 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:10,679 Speaker 3: Yeah? I still go up there well once a week 21 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 3: and annoy them, I think, and do a bit of that. 22 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:17,039 Speaker 1: I'm sure they appreciate it. And then you also volunteer 23 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: with this Mid Canterbury Ribel Licensing scheme. How did you 24 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 1: get right into that? 25 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 2: I'm not too sure it. 26 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 3: I think Margaret Verel might have meanted to see it 27 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:32,479 Speaker 3: at the time, was involved with the. 28 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 2: Kim and maybe of the scheme, and. 29 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:41,679 Speaker 3: I needed something to do, and so yeah, they I 30 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 3: started that, and I've six or seven years now. 31 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: Six or seven years. Have you always considered yourself a 32 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: good driver? 33 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 3: No? 34 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: Well, there's this typical farmer play, isn't it. I think 35 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: of a couple I know that all they can do 36 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: is eighty eighty on the highway, eighty through. 37 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 2: Town, you put your arm everything. 38 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you've got to take the time to do 39 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: some some window fun. 40 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 2: You're sent and you're there the road. 41 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 3: Yeah. 42 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 1: So obviously this has helped to hone both your skills. 43 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 1: And I got the impression from the story last night 44 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: that's the aim of it is to help those who 45 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: are living rurally, namely immigrants to the districts, to get 46 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:20,520 Speaker 1: on the road. 47 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 3: Yes, and it's a lot of them have never driven 48 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:27,519 Speaker 3: a car before. 49 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 1: I was going to. 50 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 3: You're out of ealing and you're going five miles an 51 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 3: hour along the white line in the middle of the road, 52 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 3: and the big tank is coming to words. 53 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 1: You say you're brave. 54 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 3: So we half on the grass and now half on 55 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 3: the road. 56 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:47,800 Speaker 2: There was purre me, my fierst girl. It was Fanny. 57 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: Oh we'll s the one that featured last night. Can 58 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 1: you catch up every Christmas? 59 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 2: That's yeah. 60 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 3: They come here at Christmas and Christmas even their friends. 61 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it must be pretty damn real warding and 62 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:04,679 Speaker 1: it must be super special when you know it's such 63 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: a process, not just learning how to drop the car, 64 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,080 Speaker 1: but all they have funky rob rules and whatnot. You know, 65 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: when you see them successfully pass the license. 66 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:17,519 Speaker 3: It's wonderful. You ask any of them. Most of them 67 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 3: as soon as they pass, they find a job. They've 68 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 3: got independence. They open out at Mayfield and all of 69 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 3: a sudden they can they can, you know, start working 70 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 3: at Coldstream, Coldstream, Telly's CMP. 71 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 1: They've most of them can be pretty isolated life living 72 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: rurally in mid Canterbury if you don't have the ability 73 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 1: to get around. What sort of processes it usually? 74 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 3: Like? 75 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 1: How long does it take from go to getting getting 76 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 1: the license? 77 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 3: Generally with me, it's about ten ten goes, but it's 78 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 3: it's it's maybe, you know, an hour and a. 79 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 2: Half for time. 80 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 1: So what do you love about it. 81 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 3: Oh, the people you find different cultures and that I 82 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 3: haven't come across anybody that I haven't liked. They've all 83 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 3: been lovely, lovely people you know, like to tell you 84 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 3: about where they come from, what they've been doing, and we're. 85 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 2: It's the travelers. 86 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 3: We've been to a lot of their countries and understand 87 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 3: where they've come from. 88 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 2: It it's great. 89 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: It's a real reminder of the melting pots that mc 90 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:34,479 Speaker 1: caimberry continues to become. Is the language BURI a bit 91 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 1: of an issue sometimes. 92 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 2: I think it's my length. I don't think it's the. 93 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: Well you're keeping it radio friendly this morning, which we appreciate. 94 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:45,279 Speaker 2: Yeah, it has been. 95 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 3: I've had a husband sitting in the back translating and 96 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 3: yes from Bangladesh. Yeah, she hear English doesn't too bad. 97 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 3: But most of them, you know, everyone understands. 98 00:04:58,240 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 2: Stop. 99 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:01,000 Speaker 3: Yeah nice. 100 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:05,039 Speaker 1: Are you much of a backseat driver yourself? Me from 101 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: this experience? 102 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 2: Now you asked this. 103 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: Ellison and Studio with us being very complimentary for now. 104 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 1: Did you have a watch party to catch it last night? 105 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 2: No? 106 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 3: No, we were at the Winchmore District Christmas party. 107 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 1: Hey, so you didn't have you it up on the 108 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 1: big screen everybody to say, did you even tell anybody 109 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 1: it was on somewhere? Trying to keep it low key? 110 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 3: Okay, she says, oh, we'll keep it secret, and then 111 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:43,280 Speaker 3: the next minute's blah blah blah, yeah on neat. 112 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: Well, we'll have to get the link to good Sorts 113 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 1: up on a put on Facebook page so we can 114 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 1: spread the word even further. But it was pretty cool 115 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:52,919 Speaker 1: to see you there. Thank you so much for you know, 116 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:56,719 Speaker 1: everything that you give to the scheme and enabling those 117 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 1: to get on the road. Here's too many more road 118 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 1: trips around mckinbury. Cheers were coming by Donald. 119 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:07,159 Speaker 3: Yep, thank you very much. Am I allowed to say 120 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 3: that they might need more mentors? 121 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: We can join you. Yeah, get in touch with Wendy. 122 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:15,640 Speaker 1: It's safer mckenbury. 123 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,040 Speaker 2: That's that right on. Thank you very much.