Tuiono TeanauTEANAU TUIONO (Green): Thank you Madam Speaker. Al salam alaikum. I join with colleagues from around the House in remembering our Muslim whānau down at Christchurch at this time and the heaviness that they must still feel in terms of the loved ones that they have lost as well. Rātou ki a rātou tātou ki a tātou moe mai rā. [They congregate as we do here rest in peace.]The Greens rise to support the second reading of this bill the Hawke's Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society Empowering Bill. A lot of the reasons why we are supporting this bill have been canvassed around the House. I also want to acknowledge the community resilience—the resilience of community the resilience of the people across the Te Matau-a-Māui the Hawke's Bay in terms of the way that they've been moving through Cyclone Gabrielle and just to let the folks at home know that we continue to support them and we continue to think of them.I had a bit of a nosey on the old Google machine because I suspected that the A & P grounds would have been used in the cyclone effort so I want to acknowledge the remarks by Anna Lorck the local MP there who confirmed that this was indeed the case that this was a place where people gathered and got together and looked after each other and had that connection. I reflect also on the objectives of the society which is there to promote agricultural pastoral horticulture viticulture and forestry resources but also community as well and to see a very very recent example of that.Everyone's taken a bit of a trip down memory lane in terms of the A & P Show and it actually sparked up a memory for myself actually. I was thinking back to the first A & P Shows for myself. I had as a child come back from the islands and landed in the raging metropolis of Levin where they had an A & P Show and this was the raging 1980s. One of those shows they rounded up a whole lot of the local kids and we helped kind of shepherd the sheep down the pens. I'm hoping we were useful. I felt useful—12-year-old me felt useful—as we shepherded these sheep down and they had the sheep shearing competition. Probably my enduring memory of those times was going home high on candyfloss and stinking to high heaven.The Hawke's Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society Empowering Bill is about helping the society to fulfil its own objectives. It wants to be able to sell this property and any other land it acquires without the current restriction that requires it to invest the money received from the sale to purchase other land suitable for the purposes of the society as required by the Agricultural and Pastoral Societies Act 1908—1908 so long ago. Even longer ago than when I was in Levin back in the eighties.This move of theirs still fits within the objectives of their society by moving it still into public hands under the ownership and the stewardship of the Hastings District Council that still will be able to fulfil their objectives—still holding those amazing events over that 10 days all the different shows which bring people together. It is about promoting horticulture. It is about promoting agriculture. It is about promoting all those things and also community but it's also about building memories as well.And so this bill it's a small bill but it's a big thing for this community and for this organisation. I also want to acknowledge the consultation work that has been done here by I guess the local MPs and people involved as well reaching out to the marae and making sure that those connections are there as well and solid. So the Greens commend this bill to the House. Thank you.