This Week On Luxie’s Repair Shop

Recently Mr and Mrs Voter brought along something very special for Chris and his team to work on. Now it’s time to find out what they’ve done with it.

LUXIE: Welcome back to Luxie’s Repair Shop, Mr and Mrs Voter. So you entrusted us with this here, your very treasured New Zealand.

MRS VOTER: Or Aotearoa. Sometimes we call it that.

LUXIE: Nah, I think you’ll find it’s basically your classic straightforward New Zealand. So just remind us why you brought it here to Luxie’s Repair Shop.

MR VOTER: Well, it had been through a tough few years, it was looking a bit tired.

LUXIE: That’s an understatement! It was looking like an arsonist got hold of it!

MRS VOTER: We thought we’d give you a chance to see what you could do with it.

LUXIE: Just in time! And we’ve been laser-focused on that deliverable! Now what I can tell you before I show you what we’ve done, is that we really took this New Zealand apart bolt by bolt. The thing right in the middle –

MR VOTER: The Treaty of Waitangi?

LUXIE: That’s it. Now David here, he’s the expert. He removed it, took it apart, simplified the workings and put it back in. And now it’s better than new.

MRS VOTER: But we didn’t ask you to do that.

LUXIE: I didn’t do it. David did.

MRS VOTER: He didn’t have to.

LUXIE: He insisted. Now there will be a bit of noise to start with, caused by friction, but it just needs running in. And while David was fixing that, Winston got in and installed a new wind-up mechanism. He’s the master of wind-up, Winston. And also some buttons to push, and a little itch-scratcher.

MRS VOTER: What? Why?

LUXIE: Now tell me, did this New Zealand originally smoke?

MR VOTER: It used to, but not so much now. I think something had blocked off any more smoke coming through.

LUXIE: All fixed! Casey Costello worked her magic on it. It’ll be smoking away for generations to come.

MRS VOTER: But you didn’t tell us you’d do that.

LUXIE: Don’t worry, we won’t charge you extra. Hah! Actually there is a charge we hadn’t anticipated, and that comes under ‘Cancelling Cook Strait Ferries’.

MR VOTER: Wait, it’s still got the Cook Strait ferries, hasn’t it?