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Speaker 1: It's finally here. Our new mini golf course is ready

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Speaker 1: to go at the EA Network Center. The eighteen whole

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Speaker 1: course has been built in what feels like record time

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Speaker 1: thanks to the help of Grant Smith and Creole Playgrounds.

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Speaker 1: They've called it, wait for it, Mini mid Canterbury and

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Speaker 1: it's easy to see why, with a whole bunch of

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Speaker 1: fun familiar landmarks the lengths of the clock tower, cows,

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Speaker 1: pivot irrigators, the Stavely ice rink and even the chairlift

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Speaker 1: at Mount Hunt featuring I caught up with Sarah Moseley

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Speaker 1: from Ashburston District Council to find out the local link

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Speaker 1: wasn't always a given.

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Speaker 2: We were wracking our brains at the start, going mermaids, dolphins, dinosaurs, really, well,

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Speaker 2: what else would you do? Like, you know, if you

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Speaker 2: have it, you've to have a theme. And we're like,

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Speaker 2: it doesn't work, it doesn't work, it doesn't work, and

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Speaker 2: then we're like, what about us, Like we're pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: And what I also love is it's kind of today,

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Speaker 2: but it also references back to the past, like there's

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Speaker 2: a number of them with the Aviation Museum, so we've

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Speaker 2: got three planes historic planes as part of that whole.

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Speaker 2: We've got do at Wokanui Beach, the concrete pad and

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Speaker 2: all this sort of detail, like the finder detail of

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Speaker 2: where that.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I can't wait to spot all that when I

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Speaker 1: get up close.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we've got QR codes that are going in

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Speaker 2: on the whole. So if you even get to a

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Speaker 2: hole and go where's this, what's this? Why are they

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Speaker 2: referencing this?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a.

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Speaker 2: Bit of a QR code, snap and you'll get directed

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Speaker 2: to some more information about the whole or the location

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Speaker 2: or the ability to enjoy the activity within the district.

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Speaker 1: I love that. So on the scanning of QR codes,

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Speaker 1: we're not going to have paper scorecards, but you will

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Speaker 1: be able to bring it up on your phone. Yes.

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Speaker 2: Yes, So we've just got a website so it doesn't

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Speaker 2: need an app, It doesn't need anything like that. You

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Speaker 2: just need to scan the QR code at the start.

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Speaker 2: To then get the web page up, you punch in

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Speaker 2: the names, type in the names of who's playing with you,

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Speaker 2: and then whole way hole you just into the school.

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Speaker 2: So pretty simple.

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Speaker 1: Is that the sort of thing we can if we

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Speaker 1: have a blistering round, we could take it to Richard

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Speaker 1: and the team networks seem to show them, prove and

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Speaker 1: get our name up on a leader board that we've

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Speaker 1: got the course record.

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Speaker 2: I think we want to do something like that. It

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Speaker 2: hasn't Yeah, we don't know what the scores will be

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Speaker 2: or anything like that, but ideally something on our website

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Speaker 2: or something promotional inside the facility would be really cool.

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Speaker 1: Competitive start.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, well no, we start, We'll take the details.

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Speaker 2: And there's been also a number of hole on ones

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Speaker 2: that have been achieved.

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Speaker 1: Well really hasn't even opened.

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Speaker 2: I know we had to do a bit of trialing

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Speaker 2: and to see if it was playable. So if yeah, so,

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Speaker 2: I'm kind of thinking that might also be quite a

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Speaker 2: cool way of You might not get the lowest or

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Speaker 2: the higher school, but you might get a hole in

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Speaker 2: one in a particular hole. So look, all those things

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Speaker 2: are yeah, still to come and yet open to heaven. Clearly,

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Speaker 2: the course can cater for so many people, but waiting

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Speaker 2: in a long queue with young kids is never fun.

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Speaker 1: Never in each other's language.

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Speaker 2: So if we do, and it's the bookings every fifteen minutes,

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Speaker 2: so it's not a long way. Let's say you're rocked

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Speaker 2: up and you wanted to play, but the slot you

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Speaker 2: wanted was full. Clearly you can book it in advance

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Speaker 2: at home, but you could go and have a coffee,

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Speaker 2: book the next slot and you're done. Like so it's

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Speaker 2: the area fifteen minutes. And also it's a way of

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Speaker 2: giving us great statistics of how many people are using

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Speaker 2: it and from a council perspective, that's invaluable in terms

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Speaker 2: of future projects, future activities that community can use because

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Speaker 2: clearly there's money involved in terms of building sort of

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Speaker 2: these activities. But if you know that the usage is

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Speaker 2: really high and it's been a hat, it's great to

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Speaker 2: have a stat that's as opposed to just a comment

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Speaker 2: of it's been really high, you know. So those those

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Speaker 2: are multiple reasons why we want bookings, and again we'll

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Speaker 2: review things as it goes, like you know, this is

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Speaker 2: all new for us. We haven't had one of these before,

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Speaker 2: and we're trying to operate at the best we can

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Speaker 2: based on what we think will happen.

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Speaker 1: So you can book through the network seemed to website,

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Speaker 1: but I met at the front desk as well. The

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Speaker 1: course itself is that going to be manned, No, not.

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Speaker 2: Meant there is also if you just walk straight, if

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Speaker 2: you had your own clubs and you walk straight to

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Speaker 2: the mini golf course. There's a code for bookings then

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Speaker 2: and there, so it doesn't have to be in the facility,

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Speaker 2: but it has to be what should be before you play.

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Speaker 1: So in that sense, because it's not manned, does it

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Speaker 1: have opening hours as such?

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Speaker 2: We have opening hours for the rental component of it.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, seven fifteen to nine o'clock at night. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's based around slightly shorter if the operating hours or

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Speaker 2: less on any day at the facility. But yeah, we're

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Speaker 2: just trying to maximize the use and the availability to

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Speaker 2: people to use and clearly outside those hours if you

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Speaker 2: want to do it.

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Speaker 1: So from there at two am practicing my putting game going.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're not encouraging people there after ours and

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Speaker 2: clearly we've got security around the site and things like that.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, during daylight hours, anyone's welcome.

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Speaker 1: And that high is it? Five dollars for the club

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Speaker 1: and the ball.

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Speaker 2: Yep, five dollars. Groups of five are twenty dollars, so.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, man, how good is that? Yeah, you must be

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Speaker 1: stoked open just in time for the long summer days ahead,

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Speaker 1: Mini mid Canterbury. It's our new mini golf course and eat.

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Speaker 1: A network center looking forward to Heaven. A hack and

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Speaker 1: chairs for coming by Sarah. Mostly no problems