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Speaker 1: Our local MP is James Meaghan.

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Speaker 2: Morning morning, Hockin and good morning Maverick. Ah.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you enjoyed your night at the Business Awards.

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Speaker 2: Yeah it was wonderful, wasn't It was a good way

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Speaker 2: to celebrate local success. Is really cool.

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Speaker 1: It was lucky enough to host the thing acutely aware

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Speaker 1: of the setting and yourself being the Minister for Aviations.

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Speaker 1: So how many of my my puns actually landed?

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Speaker 2: All of them landed. Some of them probably had to

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Speaker 2: go around twice before they made it out, but all

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Speaker 2: of them landed.

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Speaker 1: Hey well, speaking speaking of circling around, I heard this

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Speaker 1: morning that Ohakia Air Force Base near Palmerston North is

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Speaker 1: now going to be the country's official back up airstrip.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. So if you were a long haul

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Speaker 2: aircraft or a wide body, you know those big ones

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Speaker 2: that have for the seats in the middle of the plane,

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Speaker 2: you've got to or either you owned users, but you've

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Speaker 2: got to nominate an alternative airport if you're flying to Auckland,

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Speaker 2: Christchurch are anywhere, and at the moment you can only

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Speaker 2: land those big planes at Auckland and christ Church. Wellington

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Speaker 2: you can too, but the now don't make it work.

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Speaker 2: The alternative has generally been one or the other. If

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Speaker 2: we can make our hakier available, it means those planes

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Speaker 2: can carry they didn't need to carry this fuel, which

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Speaker 2: means they can carry more people, they more freight, which

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Speaker 2: means for us more money. So that's one of the

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Speaker 2: reason to hide it. That's help our economic growth and

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Speaker 2: give those airlines an alternative. It's closer to Ortan crosses.

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Speaker 1: Give all those tourists a photo of a military welcome

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Speaker 1: to the country. How good is that right?

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Speaker 2: And maybe a little hotel staydball or something like.

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Speaker 1: That, welcome to nz Hey among your squadron of portfolios.

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Speaker 1: You're also the Associate Minister for Transport and back on

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Speaker 1: the ground. I was watching the news last night. There's

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Speaker 1: a plan to firm up foot pass rules, one of

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Speaker 1: which allowing kids to ride their bikes on the foot paths,

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Speaker 1: and I, like many were sitting there thinking that's not

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Speaker 1: already a thing.

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Speaker 2: So this is being led by Chris Bishop. It's part

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Speaker 2: of our suite of changes to make common sense changes

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Speaker 2: to the rules. And you're right, it's one of those

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Speaker 2: rules where I think much people thought, isn't that kids

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Speaker 2: already go on the footpath yeah, you're doing it sort

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Speaker 2: of in a well behaved way. So the actual rule

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Speaker 2: at the moment is to do with how big the

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Speaker 2: tires are on the bike that they ride, something like

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Speaker 2: if it's the size of a ruler, it's fine. That punishing.

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Speaker 2: So we're looking at commonsidents change, right, So if you're

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Speaker 2: under twelve, you can go on the footpath and look.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that there are going to be parking

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Speaker 2: offices or police officers out there id in twelve year

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Speaker 2: olds or thirteen year olds to come onto the road.

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Speaker 2: But this gives people a bit of reassurance that, you know,

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Speaker 2: if you're not comfortable cycling on the road with your kids,

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Speaker 2: now put them on the footpath. I think most people

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Speaker 2: think it's an okay thing to do.

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Speaker 1: It's what I'm already doing. I wouldn't send Elis out

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Speaker 1: onto those roads. Far too many big, fast cars. You'd

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Speaker 1: have to be having a pretty rough day as a

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Speaker 1: cop to charge a kid riding on the footpath. I

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Speaker 1: would have thought, Hey, a couple more things. What do

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Speaker 1: you make of the Reserve Bank potentially forcing banks to

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Speaker 1: stick in more ATMs.

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Speaker 2: It's an interesting call obviously for us with the Reserve bank.

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Speaker 2: They make their decisions independently. I can see some of

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Speaker 2: the justifications around places where they may be cut off

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Speaker 2: as a community and they may need access to cash,

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Speaker 2: so it might be a good thing to put more

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Speaker 2: ATMs in. But one of them might be the response

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Speaker 2: to you know, there are fewer physical branches around, so

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Speaker 2: having a place to deposit or withdraw cash again probably

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Speaker 2: a good thing. At the same time, a lot of

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Speaker 2: us don't use cash anymore. I'm actually sitting looking at

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Speaker 2: a twenty dollar bill at the moment that I found

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Speaker 2: in my pocket, and it's always greatly floating around your pocket.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 2: But I think for those of us who do use cash,

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Speaker 2: the idea of through straight ends is not an unreasonable one.

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Speaker 1: You know, what they should do in mid Cannibury invest

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Speaker 1: in like a portable ATM that could be dragged around

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Speaker 1: to some of the big events. So I'm thinking the

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Speaker 1: Mayfield Amp shows back in a couple of weeks time.

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Speaker 1: Imagine if you had that thing packed up next to

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Speaker 1: the pig racers, you're doing a raging turner.

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Speaker 2: That I thought. A portable ATM is just what your

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Speaker 2: kids call you so and we can throw a view

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Speaker 2: around Machel