Simmonds PennyPENNY SIMMONDS (National—Invercargill): Thank you Madam Speaker. I am pleased to rise and speak on this Hawke's Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society Empowering Bill in the second reading and I acknowledge the Hon Meka Whaitiri who has brought this bill forward. I also want to acknowledge my colleague Mr Ian McKelvie who so ably led it through the select committee process with the Governance and Administration Committee.There's been quite a lot of reminiscing about people's memories of A & P Shows and I think possibly Mr McKelvie and perhaps yourself Madam Speaker and I are the only ones that can remember that actually it was a day off school back in the day. This is when we all went to school every day because that's what we had to do our parents made us. And a day off school was something very very major for us. My other memory of A & P Shows is not nearly as glamorous as the member on the opposite side Anna Lorck as show queen. My abiding memories are about eating far too much candyfloss then going for tea at my grandmother's. For some inexplicable reason she always gave us lettuce salad and pressed tongue and I can assure you that candyfloss pressed tongue and chair plane rides are not a good combination.So I'm certainly very pleased to be working in collaboration in the House this evening to support this bill which will enable the Hawke's Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society to sell transfer the ownership of their 40 hectares to Hastings District Council. And why I'm particularly pleased to be speaking about this is that it's identical to the bill that was brought forward when the Southland Showgrounds were sold. So the Southland Agricultural and Pastoral Association Empowering Act 2006 which was brought forward by my very good friend and neighbour the former National MP Mr Eric Roy. Of course Mr Eric Roy was in this House for 15 years and he brought the Act forward in 2006 which enabled the Southland A & P Association to sell land and get a number of opportunities from that. So it's perhaps good to recount those opportunities and what it's done for the Southland A & P Association—the land was sold and a wonderful industrial development took place there which has absolutely reinvigorated that area. The A & P Show has shifted to a city council park: Donovan Park. In fact two weekends ago on 4 March both my colleague Dr Liz Craig and I had stands at the Southland A & P Show at Donovan Park—it was the 103rd Southland A & P Show.Like others I want to acknowledge the wonderful volunteers that make our A & P Shows happen. So in Southland the president Paula Bell and vice president David Sinclair along with their committee and all their volunteers made an absolutely wonderful job of putting on their 103rd show. And I really want to acknowledge that many of those executive members have been working for years and years. Paula Bell started stewarding at the Southland A & P Show more than 30 years ago. So I want to acknowledge the volunteers that make this wonderful celebration of all things agricultural and pastoral our A & P Shows such a success. And I want to assure those that will reap the benefits of this bill that Southland has gone before them and in fact reaped many benefits. We do wish those same opportunities on the Hawke's Bay A & P Society and so we support the bill.