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Speaker 1: Good news for woolkaing Or has made a u turn

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Speaker 1: on the carpets. If you remember, last year, Housing New

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Speaker 1: Zealand asked for tenders from synthetic carpet suppliers for more

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Speaker 1: than five thousand of its homes, which caused an uproar

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Speaker 1: from the wall sector. Now it will reopen tenders, allowing

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Speaker 1: bids from suppliers of wool carpets. So the Campaign for

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Speaker 1: Wall general manager Kara Biggs joins me. Now in Kara,

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Speaker 1: you must be extatic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for having us Andrew. We are really ecstatic.

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Speaker 2: It's very good news. And you know, hats off to

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Speaker 2: Kying Order because they listened. You know, there was a

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Speaker 2: huge collective cry across New Zealand of you know, come

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Speaker 2: on guys, this isn't right. You know what we need

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Speaker 2: some answers. They knew it wasn't going away, and they

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Speaker 2: reopen the tender. So it's very good news.

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Speaker 1: They're allowing bids from wool suppliers, but they can still

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Speaker 1: decide to go with synthetic. Does that disappoint.

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Speaker 2: You No, No, Look all that we were asking for

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Speaker 2: from Kying Order was a chance to be able to

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Speaker 2: show them not just the price of wool and how

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Speaker 2: we can compete on price, but how we can compete

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Speaker 2: on value and significantly outperform synthetic carpets as well. And

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Speaker 2: you know, I have full confidence in our wall carpet

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Speaker 2: companies that they can show coying or order that there's

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Speaker 2: a huge amount of value that maybe needs to be

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Speaker 2: accounted for by coying order and have a slightly higher weighting.

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Speaker 2: You know, the value of wool is you know, it's natural,

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Speaker 2: it's flame resistant, it's warmer, it's more absorbent, all these

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Speaker 2: things that actually mean that it's a better and healthier

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Speaker 2: alternative for the people that they're putting into their community housing.

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Speaker 1: That's I did talk bick about this when the issue

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Speaker 1: first came up, and everyone said, you just said, will

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Speaker 1: it's more absorbent and the problem with people in kying

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Speaker 1: or houses, they're constantly spilling stuff on carpets one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know, wool carpets are more durable as well.

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Speaker 2: They actually, if they're looked after, they can actually be

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Speaker 2: a lot more durable, last a lot longer. So there's

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Speaker 2: a wee bit of an education that needs to happen

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Speaker 2: around there as well. But this is all stuff that

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Speaker 2: we can we can do. You know that this can happen.

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Speaker 1: So is it an even playing field? But between synthetic

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Speaker 1: and wall.

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Speaker 2: Now, I think being able to be a being able

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Speaker 2: to put a proposal in makes it an even playing

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Speaker 2: field in this instance. And saying that, I do think

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Speaker 2: that the waiting around environmental care and you know the

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Speaker 2: value of wall versus just having a cost conversation is

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Speaker 2: going to be really important going forward and that's where

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Speaker 2: we need our government agencies to be thinking not just

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Speaker 2: about cost but about value for the New Zealand people.

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Speaker 1: All Right, Kara, I think I congratulate you and I

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Speaker 1: thank you for your time today. That's Kara Biggs, the

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Speaker 1: campaign for woll General Manager. I've always been a fan

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Speaker 1: of Will. I've always been a fan of Wall carpets.

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Speaker 1: I do not understand why Will has been a dying trade.

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Speaker 1: More the better as far as I concern for more

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