<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>4:05 okay <{><[>look <[>how long is this gonna take oh a couple of minutes all right tut swallows the thing that i wanted there's two things first of all er i believe it's satin what you have on the back of a waistcoat yeah um i'm trying to get that in black and brown but er yeah the couple of material shops i've been to <.>s don't have it or at least <{><[>not in the right colours <[>no no well you might find quite some difficulty in getting that er you've tried a fabric shop obviously yeah i've been to the place down the road i don't remember what it's called yeah <{><[>it's used in it's used in the tailoring trade <[>they said come up here mm and they buy it in obviously for um for their own purposes for making waistcoats for suits and stuff like that and there there'd not there wouldn't i think be a place that you could buy it on a retail basis you'd probably buy it by the you know the er the roll thirty forty <{><[>metres twenty metres something like that <[>right yeah i <.>th that's kind of awkward cos you know i wanted to make <{><[>my own and er <[>yeah yeah <{1><[1>well er no i mean we we we're not in the fabric game we sell <.>sh er you know ribbons and stuff like <{2><[2>that but <&>5:00 not that sort of stuff um tut where have <.>you you've only tried barker and pollock's have you <[1>i don't need <.>that quite that much <[2>yeah yeah voc yeah well i went in there <.>for for the material there's another thing that they <{><[><.>rec recommended you to me for <[>yeah well the other place you might be able to try in the willis street village is thompson silks okay <{><[>oh yes that sounds good <[>who carry silks and brocades and stuff like that right that might be worth a <{><[>try then <[>um one other place i could suggest would be um tut um arthur toye's fabric shop in willis street ah right okay now they're the only two and the very last one you'd probably ring them on the phone'd be the best way would be um tut evans's drapery in newtown okay <{><[>oh that's that's great <[>cos they tend to carry a lot of bulk like <{1><[1>stuff like that type of thing but that's about the only place i could suggest for you <{2><[2>really <[1>yeah mm <[2>okay well thanks a lot that's a great amount of help the other thing that i wanted um do you sell buttons er no we don't sell buttons <{><[>laughs i can't help you there <[>okay right have you got any idea where i might <{><[>be able to go to get some <[>yes yeah well you were in the fabric shop before tut yeah that's that's <{><[>where i went and er <[>barker and pollock's they have they carry <&>6:00 buttons er kirkcaldie and stains on lambton quay <{><[>they probably have the best range in town <[>oh okay i might try that i went to barker and pollock's and and er they had lots and lots of buttons but exactly not the ones that i <{><[>wanted <[>mm mm well er if you're trying to match something that becomes almost <{><[>impossible sometimes you know cos each individual a lot of the stuff's made overseas today and er they buy their buttons in the country where they make the product <[>yeah that's word yeah and you know they might make whatever shirt you've got on there you got fifty thousand of that bone coloured type of thing yeah you know and if they're not for retail you know mm so er kirk's would be the well the best one in town actually for a range of buttons okay okay right thank you very much can't help you really eh no that's good okay <&>6:40 <&>end of sample