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Speaker 1: So those are on a job seeker benefit of being

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Speaker 1: sent to Tasman and Marlboro districts to deal with the

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Speaker 1: cleanup after the floods will be paid to do things

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Speaker 1: like clear debris and repair buildings and waterways. And Richard

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Speaker 1: Kempthorne is the chairperson at the Rural Support Trust for

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Speaker 1: the Top of the South Island. He's also the former

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Speaker 1: mayor of the Tasman District and he's up this morning.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to hear Richard.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good morning.

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Speaker 1: You love this, eh, I.

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Speaker 2: Don't know about love it, but yeah, it's the enhanced

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Speaker 2: tustle screen does a great job.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So this enhancement, this scheme has been

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Speaker 1: in place before. Does it work. Do people come?

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Speaker 2: Yes, they do. It works really well. It has to

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Speaker 2: they select suitable people because this is pretty tough work,

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Speaker 2: really clearing debris and slush from fences in particular, and

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Speaker 2: you've got to have people that are physically capable and

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Speaker 2: it is quite hard work. But they do a great job.

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Speaker 2: We have had them before and they've been active in

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Speaker 2: other districts and they do a really good job and

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Speaker 2: they're very much appreciated.

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Speaker 1: So they're selected. Are they then compelled or do they

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Speaker 1: have to volunteer.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure about compelling, but certainly if you've got

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Speaker 2: people that are physically and mentally capable to do the

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Speaker 2: work and don't do it, I'm not sure what happens there.

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Speaker 2: But I don't you know, we're talking about eighteen to

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Speaker 2: twenty people out of Motorweka Richmond Nelson, So I don't

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Speaker 2: think it's going to be difficult finding people who are

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Speaker 2: prepared to and want to do the work.

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Speaker 1: So they're coming from the district. They're not being trucked

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Speaker 1: in from Canterbury or elsewhere.

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Speaker 2: No, they're from the district.

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Speaker 1: And many of these guys would be like job workers

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Speaker 1: who have already lost their jobs because of the floods.

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Speaker 1: They would have probably already been working to clean up anyway,

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Speaker 1: but here they are getting a little bit of compensation

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm not sure that they've lost jobs. I don't

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Speaker 2: know there's been a lot of job losses because of

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Speaker 2: the flood. In fact, probably the people that have jobs

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Speaker 2: have been pretty busy. But these would be people that

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Speaker 2: aren't normally working, but they've been brought into work. So

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Speaker 2: one of the outcomes of this is once they've finished

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Speaker 2: doing this, they often find jobs in other areas or

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Speaker 2: sometimes they end up working on farms, so it's quite

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Speaker 2: a good outcome.

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Speaker 1: Great, So what do you need to do? I mean,

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Speaker 1: where are we at with the cleanup?

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Speaker 2: The cleanup is starting, so we've had a lot of

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Speaker 2: volunteers within the district so far that they've done a

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Speaker 2: lot of helping on properties, but there's still a lot

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Speaker 2: to do. We've also got a group called tasks Kiwi.

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Speaker 2: These are often retired or semi retired people from the

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Speaker 2: services or emergency services and there at the moment and

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Speaker 2: they've just started work yesterday, so there's a twenty of

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Speaker 2: them having a look around the place. They're using our

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Speaker 2: surveys that we've done. We've done about one hundred and

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Speaker 2: twenty so far of properties that need long term help

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Speaker 2: cleaning up, so they're already there. But this group of

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Speaker 2: enthanced Task Force screen they'll be starting in three to

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Speaker 2: four weeks time.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic And is the Student Volunteer Army still there.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure they have been there, but I don't

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Speaker 2: know if they're still there.

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Speaker 1: Great stuff. It's lovely to see the community getting together

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Speaker 1: to fix the place up and I thank you for

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Speaker 1: your time today, Richard, all the very very best of.

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