1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,440 Speaker 1: The bad news just keeps coming for Tako or Cardhold, 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:07,400 Speaker 1: Harvey today announced it's closing its plywood manufacturing plant. Instead, 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 1: what it's going to do is import cheap, ap plywood 4 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:11,480 Speaker 1: from Australia. Now, that means about one hundred, maybe one 5 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:13,039 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty jobs are going to be lost. That's 6 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 1: already on top of seventy people who'd already been made 7 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,479 Speaker 1: redundant at Christmas last year. Gary Petley is the South 8 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: White cattle man with us. 9 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:22,079 Speaker 2: Now, Hey, Gary, hither hell are you? 10 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 1: I'm very well? Thank you all man? You sound bummed out, 11 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:24,799 Speaker 1: are you? 12 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 2: Oh? I just can't get a trick at the moment, mate, Yeah. 13 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 1: It feels like that. Eh, Now what's going on? Is 14 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: it just that much cheaper to import the plywood? 15 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:38,280 Speaker 2: Is it? Oh? Yeah, Well, apparently we can only go 16 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 2: on with the what they're saying and what their figures are, 17 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 2: and I haven't had a lot of detail apart from 18 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 2: the fact that they are losing jobs. So I guess 19 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 2: when you add that on to the what happened in 20 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 2: the paper mall and then potential closing of Toyo Hall 21 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 2: My Services and Toko Or, it doesn't ring that well 22 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 2: for the council. But we've we've got some positive things 23 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 2: to and everything that's you know, when it's a negative, 24 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 2: we try and find the positive. So we have an 25 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 2: industrial development there that's been on on the go for 26 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 2: about a year now, developing that for new business. The 27 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 2: vander Heyden families. They're looking at doing an industrial park 28 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 2: on the southern boundary of the Psarad township, which will 29 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 2: all which will bring jobs. So it's not all not 30 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 2: all doom and gloom. 31 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: What happens at this industrial park. 32 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 2: There's going to be new new businesses that are coming here. 33 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 2: They haven't no announcements have been made yet because they're 34 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 2: leaving that for when they start building. 35 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 1: So I'm going to take how long Gary before they 36 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: actually get the thing up and running. 37 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 2: Everything is, everything is, everything is ready to go. Should 38 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 2: be finished by the infrastructure, which should be completed by 39 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 2: the end of this year to the beginning of next year, 40 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 2: and then they will come in and start building what 41 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 2: they need to build, put all their plants in place. 42 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 2: The one in Patata, who is the turning of the 43 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 2: side towards the end of end of September now, and 44 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 2: the timing hasn't been great, but these these things have 45 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 2: been in train for a little while now and discuss 46 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 2: something we had over over probably two years. So we're 47 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 2: chasing ourselves a little bit around in the circle to 48 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 2: try and make things happen. But we'll continue to do that. 49 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 1: How many jobs have you guys lost? Just run me 50 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 1: through it because I can't quite remember. Did og Fiber 51 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: also close the paper mill? 52 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, they closed the paint meal down. There was the 53 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 2: last patent machine, number six paint machine and that was 54 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 2: down with about one hundred and one hundred and fifty 55 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:51,919 Speaker 2: something jobs in the end, and then and then with 56 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 2: the ploid mill, probably another another hundred that will cop 57 00:02:55,760 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 2: that will keep about twenty a small small work for 58 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 2: some on to rework rework the pl that comes in 59 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:10,080 Speaker 2: from from Australia and then get it up to New 60 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 2: Zealand Speck and then then on sell it. 61 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:16,079 Speaker 1: And then you also have toy or Hoomi Toyo. 62 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 2: We've got to we've got to work in party, working 63 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 2: towards with Toyo m I too to basically work out 64 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:27,799 Speaker 2: what what courses we actually need and talk it all 65 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 2: and then and Minister Upston has said that there's funding 66 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 2: available to do that they just want to hear from 67 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 2: the community as to what's relevant. 68 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 1: All right, Well, listen best of like Gary, because that 69 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 1: is a tough time for a town like yours. 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