National Radio news and current affairs programme 'Morning Report'. Broadcast nationwide every weekday morning included the weather forecast and coverage of major national and international stories, as well as business, sport, Pacific and Māori news.
This episode from 19 February 1990 is hosted by Kim Hill and Geoff Robinson. News with Robert Taylor, sport with Peter Williams, weather with Paul Wolfe.
0700 NEWS
0706 ECONOMY: Kim Hill talks with business editor Peter Verschaffelt.
0712 ECONOMY: Western Samoan Government to introduce controversial economic reforms. Finance Minister, Tuilaepa Sailele. Report by Tino Pereira.
0717 WAKA: Geoff Robinson interviews Jim Elkington about double crossing of Cook Strait by the waka ‘Te Awatea Hou’.
0722 AUSTRALIAN ELECTION scheduled for March 24. Report from Kate Wall, Canberra.
JAPAN ELECTION: Liberal Democratic Party swept back into power. Report from David Powers, BBC, Tokyo.
0727 WEATHER
0730 NEWS & SPORT
0744 ROYAL New Zealand NAVY: Kim Hill interviews Commander Peter Mcafee, shore to ship (HMNZS Endeavour) about help for South Pacific island nations devastated by cyclones.
0748 METROPOLITAN PAPERS
0751 HEALTH Board in Auckland given another 6.7 million dollars to improve services. Helen Clark, Health Minister.
HEALTH: Kim Hill interviews Karen Poutasi, Wellington Area Health Board.
0757 UNDERSEA valley being mapped by DSIR. Phillip Barnes, DSIR Marine Geologist. Report by Michael Kopp.
0800 NEWS
0805 MUSIC
0810 FIJI: Geoff Robinson interviews Brigadier Ian Thorpe on training army officers in Fiji.
0815 LITERACY: Kim Hill interviews Professor Warwick Elley, Canterbury University on international study of reading literacy in school students.
0822 ESPIONAGE: Geoff Robinson interviews Sam Daskam, Keynote speaker at Auckland seminar on debugging, eavesdropping, sabotage.
0827 FIRE at Fowler's Bathroomwear factory in South Otago town of Benhar. [Benny Muir] District Fire Chief. Report by Kate Winstanley.
0830 NEWS
0835 AOTEAROA: Geoff Robinson interviews Professor Wyston Curnow of Auckland University’s English Faculty on the debate of the name of Aotearoa/ New Zealand.
0842 SECURITIES Commission head defends futures trading inquiry behind closed doors. Peter Verschaffelt interviews Peter McKenzie, Securities Commission Chairman.
0845 SCIENTISTS try to unravel greenhouse effect. Michael Kopp interviews Dr Neil Curtis, of the New Zealand Royal Society.
0850 LASER software programme which does the work of a surgeon. Karlum Lattimore interviews Bernie Mentink, Electronic Design Technician.
0853 POLYTECHNIC fee hike in Southland scaring people off. Sarah Lockie interviews Dave Kerr, Southland Polytechnic.
0857 CHANNEL TUNNEL project in danger of collapse. Report from Keith Chalkley, London.
Birdcall: Kākāpō.