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Speaker 1: Big day for christ Church. As I mentioned before, the

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Speaker 1: new stadium officially unveiled this morning, six hundred and eighty

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Speaker 1: three million, thirty thousand plus seats. It's on time, it's

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Speaker 1: on budget. Caroline Harvey. Tear's venues are to TAHI Chief

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Speaker 1: Executive and as well as.

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Speaker 2: Carolyn morning, Good morning, How are you very well?

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Speaker 1: Indeed, so, I think I'm correct in saying it's the

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Speaker 1: only thing christ Church has done that's on time, on budget.

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Speaker 1: Is there something about it that's different?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Look, I think it's just been a really brilliantly

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Speaker 2: managed project and we had a wonderful contractor and yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's just perfectly done and we're here today and we

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Speaker 2: couldn't be happier about it.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember we were around when the angst was

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Speaker 1: you know, we all had a big debate about the

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Speaker 1: seating and the council got involved and what should we

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Speaker 1: do to remember all of that? I mean, doesn't that

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Speaker 1: seem like such reavision mirror stuff.

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Speaker 2: Now, ah, doesn't it? Yeah? Yeah, yeah it was. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it was a fairly tumultuous time. Actually, it's sort of

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Speaker 2: when your life letters before your eyes that it may

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Speaker 2: not come to tuition, but you know, it was a big,

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Speaker 2: bold decision at the time by the Council and really

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Speaker 2: the public sentiment you couldn't argue with. So we're very

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Speaker 2: very happy that that decision was made and we're certainly

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Speaker 2: happy to be here today.

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Speaker 1: How are you going to make it work as a business?

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Speaker 2: Well, look, you know, the key thing for us is

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Speaker 2: to get good content in, to get long term partnerships

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Speaker 2: and to secure those partnerships. So we're really lucky to

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Speaker 2: have a partnership with the likes of the one New

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Speaker 2: Zealand Warriors, long term partnership with the Crusaders, and we're

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Speaker 2: seeing the demand for the venue. So we just keep

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Speaker 2: delivering good content. We keep our long term partnerships, including

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Speaker 2: the Light Supremium hospitality, and this venue will be a success.

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Speaker 1: Their premium hospitality thing I found fascinating. That's sold out

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Speaker 1: real quick. There's a genuine demand for that, isn't there?

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Speaker 2: There's a genuine demand. Look, obviously in christ Chuch here

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Speaker 2: we've got a perfect storm. You know, we've had fifteen

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Speaker 2: years of a really compromised stadium. You know, no disrescept

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Speaker 2: to Apollo Projects stadium. It's done us an absolute solid

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Speaker 2: but you know that there has been a compromised experience there.

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Speaker 2: So we've got demand for a venue, we've got a

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Speaker 2: wonderful venue, and we've got a city that has been

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Speaker 2: pecking its bags for too long to go to things

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Speaker 2: and now we've got the right platform here to not

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Speaker 2: have to do that.

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Speaker 1: How does that work in terms of events outside a

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Speaker 1: sporting match? Are you part of New Zealand Inc. And

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Speaker 1: therefore you sort of cooperate or are you christ Church

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Speaker 1: Ink and you're all for yourself?

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Speaker 2: Look, it is competitive, It is a competitive landscape and

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Speaker 2: look and the best interest of New Zealand Inc. Getting

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Speaker 2: wonderful content here is important and is critical, but it

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Speaker 2: is competitive. So we are auto tahi christ Church Ink

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Speaker 2: and at this point in time we are certainly focused

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Speaker 2: on doing the best for our city.

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Speaker 1: What's the weather like this morning?

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Speaker 2: It's horrendous. It is very very windy, it is cold

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Speaker 2: and it's raining and so we're inside obviously, So we

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Speaker 2: have our wonderful roots. But I've got to say it

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Speaker 2: couldn't be a better showcase for having that, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. Will you enjoy the day? Appreciate it very much.

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Speaker 1: Caroline Harvey Tya with the Stadium today. The reason I

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Speaker 1: ask about the weather as I'm heading to christ yesterday

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Speaker 1: and we were just having bets off air as to

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Speaker 1: whether it was actually going to happen, because we're on

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Speaker 1: a short window in and out, and you know what

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Speaker 1: it's like flying in this country when there's a bit

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Speaker 1: of weather. I mean, there's weather warnings out and they're

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Speaker 1: all sorts of different colors of the weather warnings, and

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Speaker 1: so it'll be.

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Speaker 2: Not just have your own private yet.

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Speaker 1: Well that's what I said, and they said, we're not

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Speaker 1: doing that, don't you know. There's a fuel crisis or

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Speaker 1: words to that effect. So that was the end of that.

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