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Speaker 1: Sale GP is returning to Auckland. It's been confirmed that

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Speaker 1: the city will host the second event of the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five season in January. This comes after the christ

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Speaker 1: Church debacle and the withdrawal this year, but sale GP

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Speaker 1: is remaining in New Zealand and that's the good news.

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Speaker 1: But the big question is obviously how will Auckland cope.

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Speaker 1: So the CEO of Auckland Unlimited, Nick Hill, joins me

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Speaker 1: coome on it to your Nick morning, Andrews went really well, congratulations.

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Speaker 2: I look, I'm really excited. I think it's the right

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Speaker 2: event for Auckland, and this time round I think there's

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Speaker 2: been a chance to get a lot of things signed out,

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Speaker 2: so it'll be fantastic.

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Speaker 1: I just noticed in all the all the releases that

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Speaker 1: I have that there's no mention of the actual specific

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Speaker 1: venue where we be doing the racing. So where's the

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Speaker 1: racing going to happen.

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Speaker 2: It'll happen off when you're point just under the bridge

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Speaker 2: where sale GP always wanted it to happen. It's a

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Speaker 2: fantastic concept with a grandstand right next to the water

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Speaker 2: and with spectators really close like an F one, So

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Speaker 2: I think that's what they want to do, but it's

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Speaker 2: really over to them to explain the details of how

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Speaker 2: they work.

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Speaker 1: Okay, But of course the problem was that used to

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Speaker 1: be tank farm land, that used to be oil land,

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Speaker 1: that used to be poisoned land, and last year it

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Speaker 1: wasn't remediated, so they went to Littleton. So is the

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Speaker 1: land safe?

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Speaker 2: The land safe? Yeah, there are illegal issues as well

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Speaker 2: as dealing with the remediation. All of that has been sorted,

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Speaker 2: so we're quite happy and confident that the event can proceed.

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Speaker 1: Did it get sorted because you know you thought about

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Speaker 1: it more or is it just a process of time

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Speaker 1: because of the remediation, et cetera, et cetera.

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Speaker 2: And look at the process of time. Remember these things

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Speaker 2: were there for decades and you were looking to put

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Speaker 2: saltyp in the middle of the process of shifting them

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Speaker 2: away and all of the legal commercial environmental issues associated

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Speaker 2: with that and you can't just stop those processes for

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Speaker 2: for sales GP. But that's all been worked through and

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Speaker 2: where are we are, So we're very excited.

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Speaker 1: Of course you right now. Of course, Russell Crowe, he's tricky.

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Speaker 1: It's fair to say he's a tricky negotiator. He's a

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Speaker 1: tough negotiator. What we I want to know is have

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Speaker 1: you managed to get a long term contract out of

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Speaker 1: the man or are you there on apro?

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Speaker 2: No, we wouldn't be here if we hadn't signed an

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Speaker 2: agreement with him.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I know you've got an agreement, but is it

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Speaker 1: for more than one tournament?

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Speaker 2: Is it for tenty for one for one? One? One

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Speaker 2: of at this point?

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Speaker 1: So aren't you therefore there on apro? And if you

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Speaker 1: screw this one up, you might they might not come back.

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Speaker 1: What's the chances of a long term contract? Was the question?

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Speaker 2: Well, the same for them. I mean it could costs

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Speaker 2: both ways. And the incenter for both parties is to

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Speaker 2: make this really successful.

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Speaker 1: How could how could sale GP? How could you say

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Speaker 1: go away sal GP? What could they do wrong to

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Speaker 1: make them go?

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Speaker 2: Await?

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Speaker 1: They're boats and there's no mammals.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's true. Would if it all works, then that's fantastic.

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Speaker 2: We would have them back. And I've no doubt that

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Speaker 2: they would look at the benefits of bringing the event

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Speaker 2: to Auckland and how successful is it? They want to

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Speaker 2: come to Auckland.

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Speaker 1: Good, yeah, and Auckland wants them. We all want them.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be a great view. It's going to

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Speaker 1: be a great event. What are you going to do

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Speaker 1: around the event to really maximize the tourist revenue for

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Speaker 1: the city and for all the retailers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I'm grad you said that. I mean it's

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Speaker 2: worth probably more than five million and GDP and ten

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Speaker 2: thousand visitor nights. But what we have been developing it

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Speaker 2: started this year last year, so i'd say, is our

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Speaker 2: Mawana Festival, which is all focused on the harbor. It's

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Speaker 2: bringing together a lot of water based, harbor based events,

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Speaker 2: from business events, to boat events, to industry boat shows

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Speaker 2: and so on, so that this will be the start

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Speaker 2: of Miwana Festival. It follows on from the tennis, So

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Speaker 2: the tennis will have been the first couple of weeks

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Speaker 2: of the new year and then we'll go into this.

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Speaker 2: I think someone is going to be fantastic this year.

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Speaker 2: Very good.

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Speaker 1: Are you talking to cruise companies as well, just to

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Speaker 1: maximize a number of people who might come on a

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Speaker 1: boat to see your boat.

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Speaker 2: Well, we always talk to the cruise companies, but their

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Speaker 2: schedules are set years and years in advance, so you

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Speaker 2: can't really sort of just tweak things in the short

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Speaker 2: run for that, but certainly we'll be keen to have

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Speaker 2: as many people out and about enjoying the event and

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Speaker 2: enjoying the waterfront and Auckland and having a great time

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Speaker 2: and spending lots of money in those shops, good those restaurants.

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Speaker 1: Nick really looking forward to It's good. Don you. Congratulations Nick,

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Speaker 1: he'll CEO of orkandun Limited.

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