I was born in Gisborne September 1976 - my maternal grandfather is in this video 8:17 sec I am his eldest moko and named after him. My grandfather, Moana Munro Horsfall died in 1973 husband of the late Anne Joyce Horsfall died in 2013.
I remember being in Gisborne in the 60's and the local gang drove to the town clock an wheelspun their bikes . The leader was well known and had a live possum that sat on his shoulder . I an sure i was not the only one who was intimidated .
Far out, I once worked in a supermarket after school a long time ago and I served the actor John Bach who was off movies like Good Bye Pork Pie etc... The nicest guy you could meet even when he accidentally broke a botle of cream all over the floor, he offered to clean it all up.
Yeah, the old Vauxhall Velox and fords, I remember as kids packing into those old beasts. Like you I was hoping to see any of the inlaws from Patutahi lol..
My mum worked at the Watties, I think sometime in the 80s. It closed up the late 90s I think ─ now it's a lot for apartment blocks and The Warehouse. The problem is that a lot of the labour in Gisborne is unskilled and it's just not profitable to employ it at the current minimum wage -- that's why Gisborne's unemployment rate is persistently higher than most other centers. Since the minimum wage is a national one-size-fits-all law, it dis-proportionally affects cities whose labour is not as well developed. The solution would be to apply a lower minimum wage to the region but that's never gonna get political support.
Bit of a trip down memory lane. It's not about the presenter, arsehole or not, it's about the trip back. Haven't been back for a decade or more. Still part of me there.
Broooo imagine what it would of been like back then like no wifi no gaming stuff no smartphones an that i wonder what it would of been like this is my home town
You should have turned around after that and said "But on the other hand, youre cooking sux shit" That would have got his attention. I got talking to Mike King once and he's a nice guy, I also asked him what he thought of that Canadian comedian straussman, King said that he was a real Ass Hole and can be quite a nasty bastard too. So I guess it's what their like off the camera that we all don't see.
