China's Naval Readiness

Couple of things I didn't uh mention earlier on. Gull and NPD have got the go-ahead. I I figured they would this from the Commerce Commission that's going to be a merger. Some's in the north, some in the south, so um never the Twain Chimita. I don't think it was ever going to be a problem. I don't know whether material it makes a difference to the market. One of the things the Comcom would have looked at is does it reduce competition? They clearly concluded no. Uh Zespring, I'm reading over the weekend as well, the season underway, of course. So the Sun Gold and Green is underway at the moment. The the season, the sales programs have extended to include Australia, Vietnam, and Canada for the first time, so that's encouraging. Ruby Red has now been completed five million trays this season. Ruby Redd, as far as I can work out, is going gangbusters. Mike, well done. Cops moving to Australia is just the latest TBNZ attempted hit job story. I'm not sure that's true. But we did somewhere along the line get fixated with the cops. I mean, lots of people sadly have gone to Australia in the last half dozen years. It's called a brain drain. The brain drain's now over, largely when you look at the latest immigration stats. It's now over, thank goodness. But 144 people out of a staff of 10,000 going to Australia, I wouldn't have thought is that interesting, far less a story. Mike just sold my house 30% under G V. Council and valuation increases the rates. Your house is worth what someone's willing to pay for it. I'm happy I'm moving on to the next stage of our lives. That was the Tony Alexander. Uh the Tony Alexander advice earlier on, and people just make up and they march to their own beat, basically. Mike, did the whole family come in with Freddie? Very good question. Mum brought Freddie in. And I think uh Freddie, out of ten, give us a quick score, Freddie out of ten. Ten, it's the greatest experience of your life. One. Oh, it is ten. I was gonna say one, you would have rather have been at home clipping your nails. So ten out of ten it was. You got to meet the Prime Minister. We've had some photos. We'll stick them up on the socials, I think, won't we? We'll stick them up on the socials. And uh if you get a cold, Freddie, the Prime Minister's got a bit of a cold at the moment, so he was busy wandering around. He's brought the bugs in. So if you end up getting a cold, I'm sorry, it's the Prime Minister's fault. So um Freddie's had a 10 out of 10 morning mumbled him, and so we seem to have had a good time, so that's worked out extremely well, hasn't it? Sport commentary box, Andrew Savile, Jason Pine. Uh plenty to cover off, including the rugby and the football in the next half hour of the program. News is next here at News Talks.