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The debut of DJ Dargavillain is almost here!

It’s official: Lana (aka DJ Dargavillian) is the opening act for British boy band legends Five on their upcoming New Zealand tour! But before she takes the stage to drop some 90s bangers, the Breakfast Club has a few questions about her "rider." What exactly does a DJ from Dargaville demand in her backstage dressing room? From specific snacks to luxury requests, Si and Bondy help Lana curate the ultimate list of backstage demands. Will she stay humble, or is she going full diva before the boy band arrives? Listen to find out what made the final cut!

The mystery of energy pricing and supply if a constant and Roger helped clear the air

The Cancer Society says widening access to cancer infusion treatment is a win for rural communities. The Health Minister announced $210 million from Budget 2024 will go into 14 new sites and expanding 14 existing ones. Small towns including Dargaville and Te Kuiti will get new facilities by 2028. Cancer Society Chief Executive Nicola Coom told Ryan Bridge that with the price of fuel at the moment, anything that reduces travel time is a win. She says it puts treatment closer to rural communities, which then frees up critical capacity in major tertiary hospitals. “A win for families, a win for our communities, and definitely a win for the system overall.” LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Local Government Minister says people should have zero-tolerance for poor dog behaviour. 62-year-old, Mihiata Te Rore, was killed by three dogs on Tuesday, as she visited a home in Kaihu, north of Dargaville. Local MP Shane Jones says jail terms should be considered for owners of what he labels 'homicidal dogs'. Minister Simon Watts says there are issues with local and central Government enforcing the 30-year-old Dog Control Act. He says he is getting advice next week on changing the act - and wants it done promptly. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Questions around why action wasn't taken sooner following a fatal dog attack in Northland. 62-year-old Mihiata Te Rore was killed by three dogs on Tuesday as she visited a home in Kaihu, north of Dargaville. Local MP Shane Jones says jail terms should be considered for owners of what he labels 'homicidal dogs'. Animal behaviour expert Mark Vette told Ryan Bridge animal management were aware of the dogs, so it's a shame they didn't step in earlier. He says this clearly shows something was wrong, and that they were aware of the high-risk situation. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On the Matt Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons Full Show Podcast for the 8th of October 2025, Prime Minister Luxon says to get off the dole and go get a job digging kumara in Dargaville. Liam Dann unpacked the OCR. And to finish - maybe a new lob for the show - toilet talk after a UK start-up creates a dunny on 13 degree angle to reduce workplace toilet time. Get the Matt Heath and Tyler Adams Afternoons Podcast every weekday afternoon on iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We love a cold call here on Afternoons, it keeps us, and you, well and truly on our toes. For those keeping track, we've been through all the iSites of New Zealand, a sample of iwi radio stations and today we're going to call a Citizen's Advice Bureau. There are still so many citizen advice bureaus throughout the country - staffed by good people who are keen to help others hopefully they're also keen to help me and chat - let's try Dargaville.

Patients admitted to Dargaville Hospital overnight are asked to sign a disclaimer confirming they understand there is no doctor on site because of staff shortages. Ruth Hill reports.

Kaipara motorists are demanding compensation after their car tyres were ripped up by razor sharp road metal. They said the metal was wrongly laid and has left them with big bills. Since fresh metal was laid on Arapaoa, Hamlin and Neems Road south of Dargaville last month a number of residents have had punctures, some suffering multiple flat tyres and wheel damage. Local resident Rachael Gedye spoke to Lisa Owen.

Matakohe is a village in the Kaipara district, about 45 kilometres south of Dargaville. It's famous for the Kauri Museum so we decided to give the museum a cold call to find out what visitors can expect to find.

So far in 2025 Northland's been battered by record-breaking rain, a cyclone and even a tornado. But the region has also had to contend with a long-running drought, and nowhere was that more keenly felt than in Dargaville. Peter de Graaf reports from the nation's kumara capital.

A commissioner will be appointed to run Northland's Dargaville High School after a damning assessment by the Education Review Office found fewer than half of its students are regularly attending school, with the same number failing NCEA level one. RNZ's Troy Matich has more.

Dargaville residents are being asked to conserve water after maintenance teams have worked for hours to patch major breaks in the system. At one point the towns reservoir was down to 10 percent full. Water trucks from Whangarei, Maungaturoto and Ruawai have been pumping water back into the town supply, but have been struggling to keep pace. Kaipara District Council CEO Jason Marris spoke to Lisa Owen. 

There's concerns over extreme staff shortages in rural hospitals - as the Government announces funding to help urgent and after-hours care. Patient Voice Aotearoa has revealed more than 20 rural hospitals across the country are looking for one or more locum doctors. The Far North's Dargaville, Bay of Islands, and Kaitaia hospitals are doctor-less - and relying on telehealth. Chair Malcolm Mulholland says it's unclear how we can staff extra services - and we have to do more to keep doctors here. "This is the problem that we've got - whether we're looking at GPs or specialists who operate within our hospitals, we simply don't have enough." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Act List MP is a dairy farmer from Ruawai (just down the road from Dargaville) and has lived and farmed in the Northland region for 30 years. Today he's on the ground on day two (of three) of the Northland Field Days.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Documents released under the Official Information Act show just how close health officials came to shutting down Dargaville Hospital. Northland reporter Peter de Graaf has been looking at the documents and he spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

The Dargaville Little Theatre has been selected to represent New Zealand in the World Amateur Theatre Festival in Monaco this year. Troy Matich reports.

The family of slain Dargaville dairy farmer and mother of eight Jo Sione-Lauaki believe their mum was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Daughters Jashana and Sharnie spoke to Mata Reports presenter Mihingarangi Forbes.

Eighteen new police in Northland won't provide any immediate relief to a crime wave in the town of Dargaville, locals say. 

The founder of Lean on a Gate, Talk to a Mate and the Whatever with Wiggy Charitable Trust salutes his new patron Barbara Kuriger, who along with Slade McFarland was supporting farmers and locals at the King Country Rams rugby home game at Te Kuiti last weekend. The Lean on a Gate, Talk to a Mate campaign will be hitting Kaitaia, Whangārei, Dargaville and Kerikeri on the 21st to 24th October.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The health of a Northland river is in the spotlight following the discovery of so-called zombie fish and high levels of an unexpected pollutant. Peter de Graaf went to Dargaville to hear from worried locals.

We end the week with a bit of good health news.  We have been weighed down this week with the scrap over 14 layers of management, no doctors in Dargaville at certain times of the day, four new CEOs in four regional operations that will allegedly sort the mess out, former board members snapping back at criticism from the Prime Minister, and a myopic media trying their best to out Shane Reti on what may or may not be some sort of semi-scandal around his interpretation of the need to sack boards.  But there is good news. It's the removal, or the cancellation, of the ethnic diversity equity adjustor.  You'll remember it. It was a massive scrap under the last Government, who tried desperately to explain that using race was a good way to work out who to put at the front of the non-urgent surgery line.  Five indicators were used, things like age and location. But race was the one that got most of us upset, given we thought we lived in a fair and open country where race was not an issue when it comes to publicly funded services.  It was predicated on the idea that Māori are not well served by health, and in some respects that is true. But poor, old Chris Hipkins got himself woefully tied up in knots over an example of a person who lived rurally, many of them Māori, and how because you were rural you didn't have the same access to doctors as you would in a city, which is true.  But then neither do you if you live rurally but aren't Māori. That particular piece of logic seemed to elude him.  When faced with the example of the two people with the same conditions and the same need fronting, except one was Māori and one wasn't, why was it fair that race then made the difference? They couldn't quite offer an explanation that made sense.  Ironically, some in the health service who reviewed it defended it. But people also seem to be able to defend Māori seats, Māori wards, Māori funding and services and entitlements that are purely race-based.  No wonder they are so angsty about David Seymour's Treaty bill. When the scales are tipped that far your way an injection of balance and fairness and open democracy must be a bit worrying.  So in health the race equity adjustor is going. A reason, if not to celebrate, at least to be relieved about. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The chronic doctor shortage is being felt across the country, but it is those in the regions and rural areas that are feeling the most pain. In Dargaville - on-site emergency doctors at the local hospital have been replaced by an overnight telehealth service, while Emergency Departemnt doctors in Rotorua have been told they need to cover the Taupo region because of shortages there. The Prime Minister said he is "reassured" the Dargaville hospital is a safe operating practice. Christopher Luxon has fronted his weekly post-Cabinet media conference, where he was asked - several times - if he was comfortable with the Dargaville Hospital remaining open overnight with no doctor present.

Desperately worried doctors in the Far North fear people are dying as a direct result of critical workforce shortages in hospitals. Ruth Hill reports.

The region's three rural hospitals are short of 10 full-time staff, meaning they're having to cut back services, and close the Dargaville emergency department overnight. Minister of health Dr Shane Reti spoke to Corin Dann.

Dargaville's dental clinic will finally see it's first patient after a long, arduous, and international hunt for a resident dentist. Clinic owner Rodney Cotton talks to Lisa Owen.

It's the last day of the kumara harvest at Dunsmore Gardens, a farm on the outskirts of Dargaville. It's also time to celebrate after the grower lost 99 percent of his crop last season.

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Brandt's Northland sales manager on the ground on day two of the Northland Fieldays at Dargaville. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We find Rabobank's senior animal protein analyst on day one of the Northland Field Days at Dargaville, where we discuss the bank's latest Q1 Beef Quarterly Report and outlook for New Zealand beef. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How did you feel waking up this morning?  For most of us after the Silly Season, our bodies feel a little bit run down and full of a few too many serves of potato bake

A farming couple outside of Dargaville are so fed up with the lack of health services in the area they have purchased a building with plans to set up a health clinic. Dargaville has no dentist, optometrist and the local medical centre is so stretched for staff, locals need to drive an hour to Whangarei if they need medical attention on a Sunday. Pouto farmers Julie and Rodney Cotton say for many in their community there are huge barriers to making the two hour round trip for basic health care. Kaipara District Mayor Craig Jepson and Julie Cotton join Kathryn to discuss the issue and what can be done about it.

The blockbuster film Barbie has racked up more than a billion dollars US at the global box office, with the craze even reaching small town New Zealand. Less than a month after release, director Greta Gerwig's film has made $1.03 billion according to Warner Bros. estimates, making her the first solo female director with a billion-dollar movie. Vernon Woods, the manager at ANZAC Theatre in the small Northland town of Dargaville, says despite picking the film up about a week later than the bigger cinema chains, he's sold out every screening. He says it's been so busy even he can't get a ticket. Woods spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

The police are investigating three separate crashes which killed six people overnight. One person died in a single car crash in Dargaville. Two are dead following a crash on the Waikato Expressway after a head on crash at Rangiriri at about four o'clock this morning. Police say it appears a car was travelling the wrong way. And on State Highway 79, just out of Geraldine, three died when a campervan rolled, struck a barrier and caught fire. The Timaru District Council mayor Nigel Bowen spoke to Corin Dann.

Six people have lost their lives on the roads overnight. Two cars crashed on the Waikato Expressway killing both drivers near Rangiriri. While three people died after a campervan crashed and burst into flames near Geraldine, Canterbury, and a driver died after hitting a tree in Dargaville, Northland. Our reporter Jemima Huston spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

One of the biggest news stories emerging in Northland over the past week has been a series of extremely divisive talks held opposing co-governance. At one of the meetings in Dargaville, police had to ask people to leave when arguments broke out. And there are more talks to come. Also Sam talks to Kathryn about the sudden liquidation of the company running a big-cat sanctuary and the risk of the animals being put down. And investigations are wrapping up one year on since the Enchanter fishing charter sank off North Cape.

Police had to break up arguments and ask people to leave when protesters turned up at a Dargaville meeting organised by opponents of co-governance. Organiser Julian Batchelor tried to give a one-hour talk - also opposing Māori MPs, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and iwi organisations. But he was mostly drowned out by those who turned up to say he was wrong. Sam Olley was there.  

Kumara growers are facing a double whammy, covering the cost of harvesting already rotten crops and the risk any salvaged vegetables could go the same way. The exact losses across the industry aren't known yet, but some estimate 90 percent plus of kumara could be ruined after being soaked for days in lakes of rain water. The harvest season is just getting underway, but some growers can already see and smell what's going on underneath the soil. Then there's the problem of fixing the soil too - with it flushed of nutrients. Warwick Simpson grows Kumara in Ruawai South of Dargaville. He's lost at least 30 percent of his crop, probably more and that's going to mean a talk with the bank.

Assessors are getting through a long list of building checks in Te Tai Tokerau - where red stickers have been issued across all three districts. Sam Olley spoke to some of those cleaning up.

Hundreds of Northlanders are still having to get by without electricity more than week after Cyclone Gabrielle hit. In the Kaipara district alone - there were 300 properties still cut off yesterday- some first lost power nine days ago. Sam Olley reports from Dargaville.  

Michelle Hill lives on a farm in Waiotira, just 45 minutes from Dargaville. Her family has been completely alone since Monday, with the radio being their only connection to the world. Her cellphone reception was restored last night. She spoke to Kim Hill.  

Late yesterday the Kaipara District Council warned residents who live along River Road, and Victoria and Logan Streets, as well as side streets and Finlayson Park Avenue to leave there homes, as high tide loomed. Some arrived at one of Dargaville's evacuation centres - the Holy Trinity Anglican Church. Reverend Frank Nelson says people are welcome in, even if they just need some company.

Returning north to Dargaville now, to the swamped town of Kaipara, where some residents spent a third night in evacuation centres. The call was made yesterday evening for people who live near the Wairoa River, in the centre of town, to evacuate again last night. The head of Runanga o Ngati Whatua, Antony Thompson, says a large swathe of town was flooded yet again, though it wasn't as bad as previous nights.

Some Dargaville residents are being urged to evacuate their homes. The Kaipara District Council says people who live along River Road, and Victoria and Logan Streets, as well as side streets and Finlayson Park Avenue are strongly advised to leave. Shelter is available at the Anglican Church in Hokianga Street. It's been one of the worst hit towns, and despite the fresh evacuations - some in other areas of town have been allowed to return home. Felix Walton reports.

Heading North to Ruawai, near Dargaville now. Yesterday Nine to Noon talked to the devastated owner of Kaipara Kumara, Anthony Blundell whose total crop could be ruined. The District's former mayor and Ruawai farmer Jason Smith  has been driving across the Ruawai plains this morning .

Kaipara Kumara Anthony Blundell runs his business at Ruawai near Dargaville, where the power is out and the land is rain-soaked. He says it's been a tough 24 hours.

Kaipara District Mayor Craig Jepson said the town of Dargaville had been cut off by floods as a high tide met heavy rain on Tuesday morning.

A roaring crowd has rallied outside the Kaipara Council building today - calling on the mayor to quit. Craig Jepson has courted controversy after stopping a councillor from opening a meeting with a karakia. While a compromise has been reached, hundreds are calling for him to go. Sam Olley reports from Dargaville. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6317198048112

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