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Speaker 1: Gala evening of the A and Z Business of the

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Speaker 1: Year Awards. How can I be very proud to support this.

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Speaker 1: We catch up with one of the event organizers, Vicky Pluck,

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Speaker 1: to note that tickets are almost gone. What are we

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Speaker 1: ninety six percent sold?

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Speaker 2: We are? And the ticket sales closing on the fourtey.

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Speaker 1: It's tomorrow, that's said day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's come around for your fast chee.

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Speaker 1: And that's considering too. We've got increased capacity. There's about

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Speaker 1: twenty five percent more seats, well there is, and we've.

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Speaker 2: Got a very flash new aviation museum hangar to bring

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Speaker 2: us through.

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Speaker 1: And it's an opportunity. I mentioned this last time with Gary.

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Speaker 1: There's not so many of them these days. To get

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Speaker 1: out the glad rags. It is black tie.

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Speaker 2: We are accepting years Champagne on a Bible and a

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Speaker 2: three quarter to now.

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Speaker 1: Hold on so we get fed too.

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Speaker 2: So we've got startup players on the tables. On arrival,

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Speaker 2: we've got a dinner serve and a dessert buffet.

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Speaker 1: Ooh yum oh. And because we've gone to the effort

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Speaker 1: of dolling ourselves up, do you have the photographer back.

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Speaker 2: To Absolutely, we've got a nicely photo all the year brilliant.

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Speaker 1: And then of course the focal point is celebrating fifty

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Speaker 1: local businesses finalists from a record one hundred and sixteen

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Speaker 1: entries or something, ain't Yes.

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Speaker 2: Yep, it's pretty impressive that we've got one hundred and

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Speaker 2: sixteen entrants just across fifteen categories.

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Speaker 1: Do we get to hear, you know, stories about what

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Speaker 1: these businesses have been up to and stuff?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely, yeah. Each finalist will be invited to have

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Speaker 2: a speech and let us know how the year's gone.

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Speaker 1: That's the really inspiring stuff because we are quite humble

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Speaker 1: by nature here in mid Canterbury and it's not until

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Speaker 1: you go to an event like this and you're sitting

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Speaker 1: there listening to you know, this company kicking goals on

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Speaker 1: the international stage and selling to Iran or you know,

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Speaker 1: solving this crisis over in Africa, and you think, really.

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Speaker 2: All done in little MD Canterbury.

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Speaker 1: Exactly right, So that's neat. And then once we find

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Speaker 1: the supreme winner of the night culminating on a high,

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Speaker 1: we get to party into the evening with DJ Ryder.

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Speaker 2: That's right, fantastic opportunity to chill out and have a.

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Speaker 1: Boggy what sort of music does DJ Ryder Server.

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Speaker 2: He's known to be frequent at the Blue Pubs, so

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Speaker 2: I'm sure it will be a mixture of all music generations.

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Speaker 1: Already a crowd favorite. What times it all kick off

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Speaker 1: six o'clock, Business Off Theyear dot NZ and that's where

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Speaker 1: you can go to see all the finalists and maybe

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Speaker 1: recognize a few names that you'll be able to catch

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Speaker 1: up with on the night as well, Business of the Awards.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to A and Z and all of the partners

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Speaker 1: that bring this one together. Can't wait to spot you

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Speaker 1: there in a week's time, VICKI, sounds good to see then,

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Speaker 1: Luke