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Speaker 1: The Rural Report on Heather do for see Allan Drive,

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Speaker 1: Jamie mckaye, host of the Countries with Us, Hello, Jbi

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Speaker 1: Good evening Heather. How good was the Golden Shares? Oh?

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Speaker 1: It was brilliant apart from the forty minute delay when

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Speaker 1: someone mixed the sheep up out the back. But as

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Speaker 1: they say, shit happened sometimes, but never mind. They got

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Speaker 1: through that and it was fantastic. It was a great

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Speaker 1: result for New Zealand. We won five out of six

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Speaker 1: world titles when it came to the big ones, the

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Speaker 1: sharing ones. Roland Smith in his swan song last time

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Speaker 1: You'll competitively share on a hand piece winning the world championship,

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Speaker 1: such a popular winner. And Tyler Henderson, the gun from

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Speaker 1: North Auckland or Northland as it's called these days, repeating

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Speaker 1: his victory last year in the open final of the

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Speaker 1: Golden Shares. Those two incidentally were in the New Zealand

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Speaker 1: team which won the team's title. Joel Hannahra was untouchable

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Speaker 1: in the wall handling. The only thing that we didn't

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Speaker 1: win during the entire weekend was the blade sharing. A

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Speaker 1: couple of East South African guys who are brilliant and

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Speaker 1: believe you me blade sharing's hard work. They took out

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Speaker 1: the team's title and the individual title. But they've been

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Speaker 1: going at this heather for more than sixty years and mastered,

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Speaker 1: And I say to everyone, you haven't lived until you've

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Speaker 1: been to the War Memorial Stadium and downtown mastered and

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Speaker 1: on an open final night at Golden Shear's brilliant Sporting Theater. Now,

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Speaker 1: what are the Xander Awards? Well, these are the Xander

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Speaker 1: McDonald Awards. That's where I am at the moment, and

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Speaker 1: that's why I apologize to producer Kevin. I forgot completely

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Speaker 1: about this, so I'm having to wing it. Are they're

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Speaker 1: on tonight. I'm seeing the awards tonight. So this is

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Speaker 1: recognizing young entrepreneurial ag leaders in Australia and New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: We get a winner from either side of the tasman

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Speaker 1: aged thirty five years and younger, and some of the

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Speaker 1: people who have won this in the past have gone

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Speaker 1: on to great things in agriculture. They're named after a

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Speaker 1: guy by the name of Xander MacDonald. He was a

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Speaker 1: real entrepreneur land outback farmer. His farm was so big,

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Speaker 1: heather and so far away from Brisbane where he went

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Speaker 1: to boarding school. Believe it or not, he used to

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Speaker 1: fly his own plane from the farm to boarding school

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Speaker 1: when he was fifteen years of age. An absolute legend

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Speaker 1: of a bloke. I had the privilege of meeting him.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately he died in a farm accident. He was fixing

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Speaker 1: a windmill out the back of the farm, fell off,

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Speaker 1: came to grief, never recovered. So they've named these awards

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Speaker 1: in memory of him. He's a great bloke, his dad

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Speaker 1: gone and these guys are the largest private owners of

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Speaker 1: farmland in Australia. Who was speaking today at the conference

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Speaker 1: absolutely fantastic. So tonight we will crown the winners. We've

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Speaker 1: got three new Zealanders, all dynamic young agribusiness leaders, and

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Speaker 1: three Aussies. Will name a Kiwi and an Aussie tonight

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Speaker 1: at about eight o'clock. Looking forward to him, and are

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Speaker 1: you going to go to Wanaka this weekend? Yes? I am.

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Speaker 1: I spend life on the road for me. No, no

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Speaker 1: it's not. I want to stay at home and play golf.

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Speaker 1: But you know, needs must, needs must. So look it's

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Speaker 1: just my storm week. You know how they have in

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Speaker 1: rugby or rugby league. This is when I've got to

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Speaker 1: play three games in a week So yeah, mastered and

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Speaker 1: over the weekend. Loved my time in the WIRA wrapper

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Speaker 1: christ Church. Today, Fly home tomorrow, head to Wonka Thursday.

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Speaker 1: As soon as I get off here, we're doing a

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Speaker 1: Lincoln College or Lincoln University fundraising dinner. I've got Andy Dalton,

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Speaker 1: former All Black captain, Gary Stead, former Black Caps player

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Speaker 1: and coach their guest speakers, along with Rachel Stead, who's

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Speaker 1: big on netball at Lincoln University. We're raising money for sport.

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Speaker 1: That is what night is that Thursday night and then

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Speaker 1: Friday it's broadcasting from the Wanaka Show, second biggest a

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Speaker 1: in p show in the country behind christ Church, famous

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Speaker 1: for the Jack Russell Race. And then another gig speaker

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Speaker 1: to the members and the sponsors of the Wanaker Show.

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Speaker 1: And then I finally get the pot of gold at

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Speaker 1: the end of the Rainbow Heather because on Saturday, on

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Speaker 1: my way home, I get to play Melbrook. How good

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Speaker 1: will that? Oh? How good? Don't complain ever again about

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Speaker 1: not being now, don't complain about anything, Jamie, thank you,

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Speaker 1: look after yourself. Jamie McKay Hosts of the Country. He's

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Speaker 1: traveling with his golf clubs. He's not sad at all.

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