Nine To Noon for Monday 22 November 2021

 

09:05 The pressures of small-town policing on sole-charge officers

An independent Police Conduct Authority has found major issues with the resourcing of small community police stations.  A joint survey between Federated Farmers and police found more than half of farmers who responded to the survey had been the victim of a crime over the past two years. Kathryn discusses with Colin Hurst, Federated Farmers' rural security spokesperson, also Southern District Commander Superindendent Paul Basham and Billy Eivers, a sole-charge officer in Benneydale, Waitomo District.

09:05 Funneling wind speeds into golf course ratings

NIWA meteorologist Dr Richard Turner has charted the average wind speed of our golf courses.  Going off data from  studies of wind patterns for research done for building codes Dr Turner helped Golf NZ  figure out the difficulties of each course on a windy day, to funnel into course ratings and handicap rankings. Dr Turner also talks to Kathryn about where in the country the maddening spring winds are worse and where you can escape them.

09:45 Africa correspondent Debora Patta

Debora talks to Kathryn about the deteriorating security situation in Ethiopia. In South Africa, a new hub in Cape Town is starting a revolution, developing it's own vaccines for Africa fed up with waiting for Big Pharma to share its Covid vaccine formulas. And Oscar Pistorius is eligible for parole, but first he has to meet the parents of the woman he killed and ask for forgiveness.

10:05 Reinventing the wheel: the history of NZ made bicycles

From the velocipede to the penny farthing, the Raleigh 20, Loline, Chopper and the BMX.....millions of bicycles have been manufactured in New Zealand over the past 150 years. Cycling historian, author and all-round bike enthusiast, Jonathan Kennett, has written a history of locally made bikes, and industry that once thrived in every New Zealand city. The Bikes We Built highlights 60 bikes still in existence today, and the people and stories behind them. Jonathan Kennett says it's a celebration of kiwi ingenuity and passion which continues to this day.

10:35 Book review: The Family by Naomi Krupitsky  

Laura Caygill  reviews The Family by Naomi Krupitsky, published by Penguin Random House, a female centred story of family versus The Family in 1940s Brooklyn

10:45 The Reading - Flamingos by John Ewen

One of the winning stories from the 2021 Nine to Noon Short Story Competition.

Flamingos is a cautionary tale about the perils of impulse shopping.

Written by John Ewen told by Duncan Smith

Recording by Adam Macaulay with post-production by Phil Benge

11:05 Political commentators Mills & Morten

Stephen, Brigitte and Kathryn discuss the big decisions weighing on Cabinet over the loosening of Covid restrictions, the discontent in the rural sector evident in yesterday's countrywide protests and last night's Newshub-Reid Research Poll with its big rise for Act.

Stephen Mills is an executive director at Talbot Mills research limited which is the polling firm used by Labour. He is former political adviser to two Labour governments.

Brigitte Morten is a director with public and commercial law firm Franks & Ogilvie and a former senior ministerial advisor for the previous National-led government. 

 

11:30 Food: eat the change we want to see

Veronica Shale has spent much of her life tackling food waste and food insecurity.  During Veronica's not insignificant time on the board and leading Fair Food New Zealand she helped prevent 143 tonnes of perfectly good food going to waste in landfill every month, instead getting it to families in need. Today Veronica is creator of the Zero Food Waste Challenge, which is going into schools next year to deliver the message that we need to "eat the change we want to see".

11:45 Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne - Chelsea Estate Heritage Park
 

Kennedy talks to Kathryn about the historic reserve connected to the Chelsea Sugar Refinery, on Auckland's North Shore and park's ongoing nature legacy. He also mentions a new book, Treasures of the Rising Generation" -- "Hei Taonga ma nga uri whakatipu that celebrates four ethnological expeditions conducted by the then Dominion Museum (now Te Papa) in the early 1920s. The purpose was to record Maori life before it disappeared.