<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:16 yes it's all the part from er beyond westhaven you know <{><[>westhaven now <[>yeah of course he does right across of course he does <{1><[1>you were born in auckland <{2><[2><.>right or brought up <.>there DEAR right across the er queen street and then right on to where the flying boats used to land <{3><[3>when i was young er near the <.>t parnell baths <[1>word laughs <[2>laughs <[3>mechanics bay you know where <{><[>the word is yes <[>yes yeah <.>th <.>that's that's three kilometres that's INCREDIBLE yes well that's what's being sold and also pollen island which is out by the northwestern motorway <{1><[1>but yes <{2><[2>word <[1><.>but <[2>word <[2>but now they're NOT going to sell that <{><[>the big <.>c <[>i understood that that was the <.>in <{><[>included in the bargain <[><.>but <.>but <.>but but i thought that the a r c was saying no way because it's <&>1:00 wanted as er for a refuge for birds and <{><[>things <[>yes but <.>they <.>th i understood from what i read in the paper that er er pollen island was at risk over this sale why would anybody want to buy it because they have been talking <{><[>all my life about building another port up there <.>and <[>for years <{><[>extending <.>it <[>oh right extending it <{><[>yes <[>that's right they <.>u they talked about putting um <,,> um <.>a an oil port or something like <{><[>that didn't they that's right <[>yes and putting all the oil storage up there but then i don't think any <.>ships but the rest of the port is under used now <{1><[1>and of course another BIG trouble in auckland at the moment is that er er <&>telephone rings with so many environmental groups who are COMPLAINING about them DREDGING and dumping the dredgings into channels and so forth they want to take the dredge all round the princess wharf and dump <.>the the dredgings <&>2:00 right over by er <{2><[2>word island somewhere and <{3><[3>of course there were protests about that because you're going to spoil the fishing <{4><[4>and word <[1>yes <[2>way out <[3>mm <[4>the best snapper ground there is in the <{><[>hauraki gulf <[>yes well it will too is where they want to dump <{><[>all this silt <[>and because they're having all these problems with the silting up harbour and nowhere to put the SILT because all of the environmental er groups are jumping up and down about that anyway the silt ought to go back on the land <{><[>it shouldn't go in the sea <[>that's where it came from in the first place yes it's just more expensive mm than word yes the last um cruise boat that was in couldn't berth at the princess wharf <{1><[1>it would have been stuck on the sand <{2><[2>there <[1>yes <[2><.>it well what amazes me is the absolute cheek that they have to try and sell something that isn't <,> really theirs it belongs to the PEOPLE of the city but the government told them to do it yeah <{><[>laughs <[>now the government's backing down and <{1><[1>saying they didn't tell them to do it in such <{2><[2>a short time <[1>and <.>say <[2>ten percent say they don't HAVE <&>3:00 to any more but er it's been the same story about um the <{><[>uncertainty that um that mister storey has put into the ownership of <.>the voc of the parks and things i don't think any council in new zealand really knows where they are over the parks <[>coughs yeah well <.>that there's the stupidity of things like um councils not being allowed to own public transport any longer it's <{><[>ridiculous <[>it's um <.>that tut i mean public transport is always regarded as something which was expected to make a LOSS because it was the responsibility of the local authority to provide transport <{><[>for its citizens and now all of a sudden they're not allowed to do that <[>yes no they <.>have they have to unload these things so we've got the nonsense of the wellington <,> um city council having set up this independent company who OWN all of its buses <{><[>that they have to BUY the BUSES off <.>their their parent <&>4:00 body <.>i in order to provide <.>a a service and then of course the local regional council has to provide subsidies to keep them going so we've gone full circle again back to where we started we're robbing peter to pay paul <[>word yes and nobody's won anything no the auckland transport system is TERRIBLE but i <.>think i think er that ANOTHER er wrong to me is this blessed post office where it's been sold off has it been sold off or is it s <.>a i'm sure nowadays <{1><[1>what it is but at ONE TIME you could have TRUST in a government to know that at least you <.>live your LETTERS were being LOOKED <{2><[2>AFTER and it was something that you could depend on but no longer <[1>s o e dear they're talking about selling it <[2>yes it's intriguing though to go into a post office now to find that they're selling everything under the SUN that's right is that happening in the post <{1><[1>offices up in <{2><[2>auckland <[1>oh yes yes <[2>yes it's one of <.>these well i suspect <&>5:00 american in origin one <{1><[1>of these international movements cos when i was in australia last year i discovered the situation there was exactly the same and in brisbane i went into the post office <.>there GREY post office to buy something or other and i was just amazed at all the stuff you could buy and how you couldn't buy a single stamp you <{2><[2>had to buy over five and pay EXTRA for the piece of <{3><[3>stuff that <.>they <{4><[4>they stuck <.>on STAMP on i had hysterics over it <[1>yes word <[2>laughs <[3>laughs <[4>that they stamp on oh no <.>while while we were away on holiday at christmas um we were <.>at up in hastings we went to the main post office in hastings and they had TALKING CALCULATORS on sale in there <{><[>they're absolutely wonderful <.>you you press this little switch <[>oh yes tut tut <{><[>voc <[>and you put in um five times thirty six <{><[>equals and the machine went five times thirty six <[>yes oh <&>6:00 equals and it would come out with the ANSWER <{1><[1>electronically and why would anybody would want to have <{2><[2>one of these i don't know for the life of me i can't work out why you want a calculator <{3><[3>that talks to you but <{4><[4>they were selling like hot cakes in the post office all i want is a calculator <.>that that comes up with the NUMBERS in front of me <[1>yes <[2>laughs <[3><.>like <[4>laughs <[4>laughs yes yeah <{><[>laughs <[>the latest in thing yes tut <{><[>oh <[>oh but <.>buying somebody might want to know that five times thirty six make a hundred and fifty or does it <{><[>laughs <[>i don't know <.>cos a hundred and eighty a hundred and eighty <{1><[1>your arithmetic's not much <{2><[2>good <[1>yeah thank you <[2>i need the calculator don't i <{1><[1><{2><[2>laughs laughs <[1>yeah to work it out yes <[2>laughs laughs <.>but <.>now now of course all of these <,> government departments they've got to make <,> a <{1><[1>profit <{2><[2>and it's not just an overall profit every <{3><[3>single little division of it has to make a profit <{4><[4>now a friend of ours up the road has just taken a job <,> um he's employed by the post office but he actually he works for an insurance company i think it's norwich union he's working for um i <&>7:00 think it's norwich union <.>at in wellington now because <.>the the insurance company has so much mail coming in and out there's all of the accounts that come in <{5><[5>and all the cheques <{6><[6>coming in mail going out and all of the agents' transactions they er <.>are are CONTRACTING for <.>the for new zealand post to provide them with a postal service within their own building <,> and so this friend of ours is <{7><[7>EMPLOYED by new zealand post but HIRED hired would you <{8><[8>believe by the insurance company <[1>profit <[2>yes <[3>clears throat <[4>yes <[4>yes <[5>mm <[6>yes <[7>laughs <[8>yes yes to work <{1><[1>within <.>the within the building so he's accountable to two employers <.>to to norwich union and to new zealand post so <.>he <.>he's and he gets his pay from new zealand post but norwich union <{2><[2>PAYS new zealand post first <.>an and the reason being that um they can't have new zealand post DELIVERING all the letters any longer to the different divisions within the company because it makes a loss so the <&>8:00 insurance company has to pay for that and they contract it back out it's just absurd <[1>clears throat <[2>laughs yes laughs this is getting more gobbledy gook than <{1><[1>it's ever been <{2><[2>word this just isn't BELIEVABLE <[1>it is it's crazy isn't it <[2>laughs yes <.>we're we're living in a sort of never never land aren't we we're not in the real world any more <{><[>all these things going on <[><.>i i <.>find <.>a even <.>in in my own <,> um circus <.>they they try and call it a business now but schools are hardly a business are they um <{><[><,> the word <[>laughs when you start selling tee shirts you're in <{><[>business <[>coughs <[>oh <.>you're <{1><[1>actually we're selling tee shirts so maybe we ARE in business <{2><[2>yes laughs <[1>coughs <[2>yes laughs we sell all sorts of things nowadays we have to yeah um <,> but voc the things like um telephones yes now HOW you can possibly <&>pronounced as prossibly call the running of a school a business ABSOLUTELY <,> boggles my mind yeah but we have to pay full business rates on our <&>9:00 calls so <.>our our phone accounts coughs um have gone from the region of well it would have been in the past something like um probably about nine hundred dollars a year mm we're now paying in the region of three and a half thousand dollars a year for our telephone services oh so <{><[>LONG <[><.>and and of course a big chunk of that is <.>the the four cents per minute per call <{><[>rate that we're paying and every single call we're making out of this has all of those things <[>yes yeah um and we have such things for example as the special needs unit with intellectually handicapped and wheel chair children <.>and and that requires <.>en enormous amount of telephoning <{1><[1>out there's calls for er occupational therapy calls to <.>ar arrange taxis for them calls to PARENTS because the children <,> have gone through their latest set of nappies and they <{2><[2>need another order and it's all a business <[1>mm <[2>mm yeah we get no INCOME except for a government grant <&>10:00 <,> but we pay full business rates <,> telecom's happy because they're charging so <.>that's <{><[>full business rates <[>yes then they're spending so much with enormous advertising they send in your phone bill you <.>get you get about <{><[>four the stuff it seems to me <[>pages of guff one page of guff yes yes but er we've also got the first in new zealand a north shore telephone directory now really yes little north <{><[>shore telephone directory <[>yes <,> yes <{><[>yes <[>and that's put out by telecom? yes yes <.>but but separate <{><[>different from our main one <[>we've got <.>our our ordinary book and then our two enormous now <{><[>yellow pages ones <[>yellow pages plus a <{><[>local <[>plus SPECIAL local telephone <,> <{><[>directory <[>what makes you people so elite laughs <{><[>laughs <[>well we live on the north shore that's why didn't you know that's <{><[>the most elite part of glenview laughs <[>word you'd better come <.>back better come back your mother will have one no <.>i i think the north shore <.>can can out regional council the auckland regional council <&>11:00 card with its big um council buildings i think the council's <{><[>bonkers <[>yes <[>yes yes i can <.>tell voc <.>that's i belong to the north shore women's CLUB which has in that building has its club mm put there by fletcher's when <.>they it was part of the agreement when they took over the community land on which there were various buildings used by various <{><[>spending operations <[>this <.>i this is the the building right on horse corner isn't it <&>11:27