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Speaker 1: So we tick the trotting cup box, didn't we? And

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Speaker 1: the cup is held in Show Week and Show Week

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Speaker 1: in Christus is one of the country's great get togethers.

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Speaker 1: Of course, while it has been until lately. The one

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty second edition of the Canterbury Amp Show

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Speaker 1: opens today slim down format. The Amp Association chairman of course,

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Speaker 1: David Carters back with us. David Morning, Good morning, Mike.

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Speaker 1: Has it got a fizz about it? Do you think

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Speaker 1: you've got something here or not?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think we've resurrected the show. We've only been

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Speaker 2: in the job for ninety eight days, so we've managed

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Speaker 2: to get a show up and operating for this year.

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Speaker 2: The focus is on sustainability of this event into the future.

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Speaker 2: So while we've got a show for people to enjoy

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Speaker 2: this year, my focus is still on making sure that

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Speaker 2: it runs twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven and onwards

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Speaker 2: for the next hundred and sixty two years.

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Speaker 1: So if you bill it, will they come? Do you

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Speaker 1: think they'll come?

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Speaker 2: Yes? I think they will. I think the interest has

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Speaker 2: been great. Certainly we've said to the members of the Association,

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Speaker 2: We've said to the exhibitors and the trade sites if

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Speaker 2: you want the show to last, you've got to be

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Speaker 2: part of the solution. And we've had tremendous response. You know,

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Speaker 2: six hundred sheep entry, we've got beef cattle, we've got cat,

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Speaker 2: the dairy cattle, we've got the horses there in large numbers.

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Speaker 2: So people are key to support it. They were aghast

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Speaker 2: to think we might have had show week without a show.

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Speaker 2: We've managed to turn it around.

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Speaker 1: How different will it look.

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Speaker 2: It'll be slightly reduced on what we've had in other years,

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Speaker 2: but only slightly to be fair. Some of the big

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Speaker 2: sponsors that you know, the meat company's alliance silver Fern, said, well,

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Speaker 2: you told us it was off. It's too late now

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Speaker 2: for us to come back. And I understand that, except

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Speaker 2: that they have all agreed that we will have them

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Speaker 2: back next year. So this year will be slightly small.

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Speaker 2: I don't think the public will greatly notice it.

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Speaker 1: So basically what you're telling us for people around the

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Speaker 1: country you haven't followed this was it the way it

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Speaker 1: was run to the problem. The show's not the problem.

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Speaker 1: People's interest isn't the problem. It was the way it

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Speaker 1: was run.

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Speaker 2: Yes it was. It got to the stage when there

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Speaker 2: were arguments between the then board the General Committee, which

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Speaker 2: are the people who really make the show work, personality clashes.

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Speaker 2: We've moved past that. We don't want to continue to

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Speaker 2: look backwards. We've now got complete cooperation from people all

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Speaker 2: wanting to make sure the show survives, and we've got

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Speaker 2: ourselves into a financially strong position.

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Speaker 1: Good you still got your kettle.

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Speaker 2: I don't show kettle myself personally. I'm going in there

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Speaker 2: shortly to or assist, but no, once I entered Parliament

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Speaker 2: it was pretty hard to be a pedigree stud breeder

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 1: Good. Nice to talk, Go well with it, Sir David Cantum,

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Speaker 1: Can it be AMP Association Chairman. For more from the

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