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Speaker 1: Wellington apparently has a millipede problem. I mean, does anybody

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Speaker 1: in the country have a millipede problem? No, but Wellington

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Speaker 1: has a milliped problem, and specifically or Federal Bay and Wellington.

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Speaker 1: Apparently hundreds of these Portuguese millipedes are scuttling into houses

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Speaker 1: at night. But the problem is they're not considered a

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Speaker 1: peace in the country, so no authorities are doing anything

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Speaker 1: about it. Now. Neurad and abdur Rahmen is one of

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Speaker 1: the local ward counselors and he's with us home mate.

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Speaker 1: How bad is it.

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Speaker 2: It's pretty bad from what I'm hearing from local residents.

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Speaker 2: And one of the resident explainings she can't work out

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Speaker 2: her house without stepping on minipeds and sometimes coming inside

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Speaker 2: the house.

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Speaker 1: Oh so what are they coming inside the house? And

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Speaker 1: then they're dying in overnight and then people find all

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Speaker 1: these little dead bodies in the morning.

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Speaker 2: That is what seems to be happening.

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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, now I mean at this, I mean, you

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Speaker 1: could tell me if I'm wrong, but it just sounds

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Speaker 1: to me like it's a nuisance problem. It's not actually

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Speaker 1: hurting anyone. It's just a bit of a kerfuffle having

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Speaker 1: to vacuum them up in the morning.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think I think we need an eptomologist

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Speaker 2: to tell us if that is the case, and currently

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Speaker 2: we don't have any eptomologists from Greater Warrington Regional Council

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Speaker 2: or Wellington City Council. From what I'm hearing, it's there

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Speaker 2: spreading not only in a Frobay beyond a Heiro Bay,

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Speaker 2: and there are some residents in sALS Gate, Melros and

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Speaker 2: even an Island Bay. So this is getting a bit

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Speaker 2: of a big issue. Ah.

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Speaker 1: And so these things have come over from Australia, but

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Speaker 1: we haven't yet considered them a piece. Should they be

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Speaker 1: a piece?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely? I think we need to contend it. It's I

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Speaker 2: think it's if it's impossible to eradicate them, they need

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Speaker 2: to be contained. The reason is imagine if people coming

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Speaker 2: to the Red Rocks taken to either ecologically impactful areas

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Speaker 2: like Zeelandia or even impacting some of our imports. And MPI,

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Speaker 2: Department of Conservation, Greater Wellington Regional Council and Wellington City

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Speaker 2: Council needs to work together and addressing this issue and

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Speaker 2: before a get out hunt.

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Speaker 1: Yeah too right, you never know what these things can do. Hey,

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Speaker 1: thanks very much mate, really appreciate it. Neurrod and Abdurahman,

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