<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>15:45 here at er at <&>school D it's different they're banded in classes that way <{1><[1>you know you just take your chance you see cos there's thirty put in every class and you <.>ha and you do six subjects whether or not er <{2><[2>you've passed them or not from school <{3><[3>cert <[1>what horizontal <[2>yeah <[3>yeah and how did she find that <&>16:00 and well she you know it's still er it's still dependent on <{1><[1>your sixth form <.>mar er your <{2><[2>your <[1>mm <[2>how old is she materoa nearly eighteen next nearly <{><[>eighteen <[>yeah april april next <{><[>year <[>i said to her i said <.>to hey <,> get dad get <.>you lighten those weights up and start pumping some iron so you can be one of our top hoe people she just laughed she said yep yep cos you you haven't got all that many weights eh well she <.>c i mean there's no reason why they can't <{><[>lighten it up <[>well word yeah they're there yeah they're you know i says you can take a horse to the water lester <{><[>and <,> you've seen me and you know you fellas have watched me over the last <[>laughs i just put i just put the idea in her <{><[>head <[>head yes you know <{1><[1>she's keen all right but the motivation eh <{2><[2>at the moment she hai taho ngoi kura tehea ne kua <{3><[3>kua hoha ke ia <.>y yes but you know she's had it like to head her head's been going like this and she's ready to explode eh <[1>mm <[2>yeah yes <[3>she's in there she's tired and ability yeah yeah she's had enough yeah of of of academics yeah <{><[>laughs <[>she's had enough right and and i don't blame her <&>17:00 er i had enough you know the long time it took me <{><[>to get my degree <[>all right she's gonna take her time off for the holidays and have a good break and <{><[>um <[>she's gonna work oh yes yeah <{><[>and er <[>look for a job she's got she's got two jobs lined up at at the moment and er er she's waiting for an interview for one whereabouts er with an employment agency in in tawa and here yeah young rick's about the same mood <{><[>on it he's er <[>mm yeah just about to finish his b a but er i think it's gonna be a <{><[>bloody big push <[>yeah voc but he's a bit like <.>her her he's he's been he's he said to me the other day dad i've been in wellington for eighteen years <,> he says i'm sick of everything i <.>want i said oh well yeah <{><[>i know how he feels <[>what do you want to do what do you want to do i said well i want to go to australia well how're you gonna get there how you <.>go you gonna fly there? yeah oh well okay then i said to sharon oh well rick better do some work for us so he can go over and and go and have a look for a job over in australia and she says we'll pay him we'll <.>g we'll give him the ticket and he can pay us back later <{1><[1>so er but i think since he had <&>18:00 another girlfriend he's got another girlfriend er that he's been going with and <{2><[2>er they're sort of you don't hear australia now he wants to stay here but to get him occupied <{3><[3>and and and get himself <.>s <{4><[4>working <[1>yeah <[2>not you know mm <[3>mm <[4>well he <.>w does he want to get into these manuscripts i mean there's the offer that i made made voc to him through you <{><[>it still stands you know <[>yeah right er we could we can put something together say if he transcribes the volume mohere tapu vol two <,> you know that's er how long will it take him to do that five hundred bucks? i don't know what's the what's the what's the length you reckon it'll take him well it's taken me er six weeks to do vol one vol one? yeah i would expect that it will take him <.>the <.>the <.>the the major part of voc er of november december to finish it eight <{><[>weeks <[>oh word shit that's a long time eh yeah because he'll get hoha with it you <{1><[1>see he'll do do about five pages <&>19:00 i would expect him to do only about four five pages a day that's <{2><[2>enough because you get mad you go mad <[1>yeah <[2>yeah yeah you know i've done five volumes by myself i've got rapata wahawaha to do i've got tutunihunga to do he can hook into that inhales that one because it's urgent that one has to be <{><[>translated i'll <[>yeah yeah i'll translate it from january to i want it in in in in matt ginsberg's hands by june so so it'll be published in nineteen ninety six march april <,,> you know <.>there there's a there's an opening there and you and i can confirm that and say to you matt you know five hundred bucks for if it's if it <.>m if it's more if it takes him longer then on a contractual basis that's better than a kick in the arse eh <{><[>the money is there <[>yeah yeah he's an undergraduate yeah you know voc voc start proving he's undergraduate status mm mm <,> oh well word <{><[>word <[>you know he can he can use er he can use the er computer ne <&>20:00 mm edit straight into the computer well i'll let him i'll get him to give you a <{><[>ring eh <[>mm yeah each story yeah that you you know you you'll have to ring matt too and and confirm that eh i want we want the er and and see how he hums and haws <&>pronounced as ha er you see i brought <&>pronounced as bought awhina in here to put weitama whaikai but it was already transcribed right but i wanted it on on <{1><[1>on on disk cos it makes it easier to edit and translate <{2><[2>on disk ne <[1>disk <[2>yeah if he can do that <&>loud click you know for see these things here have to be put on <.>i i've done thirty twenty five pages of it of uncle uncle noke's manuscript <{1><[1>already by myself <{2><[2>and it's not easy <[1>yeah <[2>yeah yeah and then now they hit that next process word tiritaua she that's er that has to be done in in te reo maori ne yeah to er annotate them if he can annotate them at the same time voc fine mm <,,> well i'll follow that one up um so how's <{><[>jen <[>voc <,> <{><[>jen's fine <&>21:00 <[><.>wha what form is she in she's er er form two mm <{><[>at <[>at <&>name of school at <&>name of school intermediate mm and peter's in? he's in standard four he's form one <&>name of school intermediate next year oh right into cricket at the moment his first game is on saturday right yeah so we'll be late down to the waka on saturday yeah um aroha was er well she's fine you know she she looks after number one awhina mm kei konei tonu e mahi ana she's she's into it now in a big way in voc next door oh yes next door <{><[>she she got a good job <[>yeah oh <{><[>she thinks so yeah <[>she enjoys it eh <{><[>word how's she getting on <[>as long she knows good yeah? yeah well what's her job there she's the er <{><[>er <.>ad <.>ad administrator <[><&>name of company oh right the junior administrator and er yeah they don't call them er clerks any more no she's an administrator and er she's the er data processor <{><[>computer see i had her <.>h in here for nine weeks <,> i had her in here but she was still getting her unemployment benefit but she's allowed to <.>ear earn over and above her her dole fifty fifty dollars <[>tut <&>22:00 oh yeah i might do that with hine at that home hineahi peterson at home she's er from home yeah <{><[>who's her parents <[>mm oh robertsons robertsons er <,> um it could've been amokura hoehoe walkers and people like that oh <{><[>yeah yeah <[>yeah yeah but er her father's pakeha i think oh yeah what are you gonna do over christmas then oh we're not going home we can't afford to we'll stay here all the heat's going to be down here all the action's going to be here <{><[>anyway <[>yeah i'd be on the waterfront yeah yeah hell yeah you know <{><[>and the waka <[>yeah justin's coming and then we're going back and then coming back again but er we won't be staying home too long so he'll be down about a week and a half before christmas ne get some hoe in get some swimming yeah yeah and er the good life there and <{><[>er <[>and you fellas going back for a week or what i don't what <.>it <.>w how long we're going <&>23:00 back for but um sharon's mother might come down that's rahera oh okay then but oh <{><[>it's dry you know it's dry up home there during the christmas and he's got he's got his uncle wilbur looking after the stock <[>yeah yeah it's amazing young fellas that word eh oh well you know <{><[>yeah <[>being on the land does it you see <{><[>being on the land that <[>yeah i mean yeah rangatira you see yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah <{1><[1>you look after the land it looks after you <{2><[2>man <[1>voc <[2>course all the time so he's gonna build his uncle i told you before a mobile HOUSE on the on the block there word takahanga our the duffy block there and he's going to er he <{><[>uncle wilbur's going to look after the stock for him <[>word you said you had some plans and stuff they already put up yes yeah yeah yeah he's got some <{><[>plans they've already gone he's he's <.>r actually bought a sawmill <[>yeah <.>to to <{><[>mill the timber <[>yeah yeah yeah why not yeah oh <{1><[1>he's a bloody <{2><[2>entrepreneur <[1>you know <[2>yeah absolutely he could build three houses with all that timber <{><[>that's there <[>more christ what you know and that was <.>p said you know it was put there for that reason yeah <&>24:00 you know for future generations yeah you know we could bloody well voc mill mill a word and put a bloody couple of holiday houses up there with <{><[>um <[>oh hell yeah you know <{1><[1>an a <.>fr you know you <.>cou one tree would make an a frame the frame <{2><[2>of a a <[1>mhm <[2>on a ship voc well you know frank did at <&>place eh mm i told you mm frank <,> sold his shares out of <&>place mm right he sold his shares out you know that er i was pissed off with damon when they bought the they bought the they used the cyclone bola money that i negotiated with you <{1><[1>know with maf <{2><[2>to buy frank duffy out <[1>mm <[2>mm oh that's not <{><[>on <[>now the <.>vi <.>ish you know i mean <{1><[1>he <.>sold we bought him out so <{2><[2>at the last meeting last week we had at home there <[1>mm <[2>yeah yeah <{><[>yeah <[>you know we had this bloody er famous duffy meeting again about our lands and that and then er frank was there frank wanted to incorporate the blocks incorporate our lands mm but now he's he rang up he rang me up he well he didn't ring me up he rang up i wasn't home mm he said for me to <&>25:00 please ring him because he wants to incorporate <&>place now after he sold out mm he's trying to get back in you see he wants two bites of the cherry so i'm telling him <{><[>to go <[>word get pissed off yeah yeah just tell him to piss off yeah so er this bloody land <{><[>thing <[>tell him just to grow older gracefully brother yeah you know he he's well i haven't rung him back and that's mm that's er another wait i'm just waiting for him <{><[>to ring me again and i'll tell him <.>what he's really got no interest in it because he's already sold his shares out <[>yeah yeah you know who the hell is he to come back and tell us try and tell us what to do exactly <&>25:35