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Speaker 1: Now a poodakawa tree on Auckland's north shore has proven controversial.

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Speaker 1: The thing has fallen over into an apartment complex's property.

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Speaker 1: It's been lying there for three years now and while

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Speaker 1: the residents of the complex want to get rid of it,

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Speaker 1: they're not allowed now. As it happens, one of our

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Speaker 1: own broadcasters lives at the apartments. Murray Deeka, Hello and

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Speaker 1: welcome back to drive.

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Speaker 2: Thank you lovely to be on the program. Much nicer

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Speaker 2: than that fella used to be on it.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to tell him you said that. Now tell

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Speaker 1: me why can't you get rid of this tree?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's very difficult to know hither because half of

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Speaker 2: it fell over some years ago, about ten years ago,

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Speaker 2: fell through into the land which is part of the

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Speaker 2: boardwalk that the council is responsible for. There was some

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Speaker 2: kids smoking pot on the boardwalk at the time. My

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Speaker 2: master thought it was great pot. The council panicked and

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Speaker 2: came in with a whole group of people and was

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Speaker 2: cut up and taken away in two days. This one

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Speaker 2: fell on This is the other half of the tree

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Speaker 2: fell on our side of it, and although we were

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Speaker 2: told Nish that we could take it away, ten hours

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Speaker 2: later that was changed and they said, if you touch

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Speaker 2: that tree, it will cost you three hundred thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: It is a notable tree even though it is on

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Speaker 2: your property. So even is it dead, Yeah, it's dead,

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Speaker 2: but you see there's still some roots there. And they

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Speaker 2: keep on bringing in arborists and they look at it

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Speaker 2: and they say, oh, I think there's something happening. It's

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Speaker 2: lying flat on the ground. It's as dead as a dodo.

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Speaker 2: So it looks terrible.

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Speaker 1: Somebody must be somebody must be telling the council that

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Speaker 1: they love it and they want to keep it.

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Speaker 2: Who is it. There's fifty eight people who have put

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Speaker 2: in submission saying they want it out, all right, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: there are two only who have said no, we want it.

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Speaker 2: One is the WE and the other one is some

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Speaker 2: green outfit. But these none of these, the e WE

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Speaker 2: nor the Green Effort realize what a safety has itd

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Speaker 2: it is, what a fire risk it is, and that

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Speaker 2: it's an area which is ruined and our the livelihood

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Speaker 2: of a lot of kids that come and visit their

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Speaker 2: grandparents and roll down the hill. There's no way they

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Speaker 2: can do that now. It's just not safe.

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Speaker 1: Right, So what are you going to do.

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Speaker 2: Well. There's a hearing on the sixth of August, and

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Speaker 2: I think that's probably why you've got interested in this,

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Speaker 2: and people can go along and put their submissions in

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Speaker 2: and I think that that'll be an interesting one that's

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Speaker 2: being heard by two independent people. And it depends on

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Speaker 2: how independent they are. If the middle bureaucrats or lower

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Speaker 2: bureaucrats are pointed by the council, I wouldn't hold my

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Speaker 2: hopes up because it seems to me that in our

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Speaker 2: society today, and I'm not speaking on behalf of any council,

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Speaker 2: but it seems to me that in our society today,

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Speaker 2: where EWE is involved, EWE gets what EWE wants.

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Speaker 1: Deeks thank you for your time, Murray Deeker, apartment resident,

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Speaker 1: frustrated by the Bahuda KAW.

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