Mike Hosking

then you can be moderately entertained by another Ben Stiller movie.

That is us.

Back tomorrow morning from six as always for Thursday morning.

So how about Hillmorton High, eh?

Christchurch, they're doing the remote learning at the moment after the rats chewed through the core fibre cable, taking out the internet and the phones and the CCTV.

Steve McCracken is the Secondary Principal's Council Chair and is with us.

Steve, morning to you.

Good morning, Mike.

Have you experienced this before?

Well, I was going to say, so this is not a case of every school in the country has got far too many rodents and rats and we need to do something about it.

This might just be a one-off.

Well, I was going to ask you about that.

Do schools get maintained or are we in that difficult area of, you know, I've got more money to buy chalk and blackboards and stuff and I don't have time for the rats anymore?

I have no technical expertise at all, but does a school, in having a core fiber cable, a singular thing a rat can eat, and knocking you out, strike you as something that's not quite as comprehensive as it should be, technically speaking?

No, quite right.

Good to talk to you, Steve.

Appreciate it.

Steve McCracken, Secondary Principal's Chair.

Having said that, I know what the bill is at our place for road and control in the country, and Scott's a genius.

But it ain't cheap.