0600 Headlines/News/Sports Bulletin/short weather forecast
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0614 Headlines/Paper Report
0618 Rural News
0630 News Update
0640 Report from our Mana News team
0645 Pacific Regional News : Ex RNZ International
0650 Business and financial news. David Jones
0700 NEWS POLICE ATTACK - Brent Garner's wife Sam left with debts of almost $100,000, says AMI Insurance has suggested it will pay out part of house contents insurance to her but National Insurance, which covered the house Brent Garner burned, see things differently. Live i/v with David Sargeant, Insurance Council. AMERICAS CUP - appeal by Ngai Tai Ki Tamaki Tribal Trust could delay devt of Viaduct Basin in AK although AK Regional Services Trust has been granted resource consents needed to build bases for Cup defence. Comment from Emily Karaka of the tribal trust, Ngati Whatua elder Joe Hawke, and Alan Sefton, chief exec of Team NZ. (Kent Caddick); live i/v with Craig Little, AK Regional Services Trust chair. SERBIA - tension still mounting as protestors continue to express opposition to "autocratic rule" of President Slobodan Milosevic after annulment of poll results which saw opposition parties take control of several cities and towns including capital Belgrade. I/v with correspondent Paul Wood. (Mng Rpt) METROPOLITAN COLLEGE in AK gets another damning report from Education Review Office. ERO recommended closure in February but school reprieved for 6 months by Education minister. Director John Voght critical of ERO. Comment also from ERO head Dr Judith Aitken and Ron Scott, Education ministry. (Tania Oolders) CRICKET - mixed day for NZ in 2nd test against Pakistan. I/v with commentator Brian Waddle.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS RETAILERS' ASSN dismiss International Buy Nothing Day as a load of nonsense. NZers joining rest of world for 1st time in observing 24 hour holiday from consumer spending to raise awareness of implications associated with purchasing power. Comment from campaign organiser Fiona Jack, WN mayor Mark Blumsky, and Doug McLaren of Retailers' Assn. (Hannah Belcher) PARLIAMENTARY CONFERENCE - Alliance MP Jeanette Fitzsimons pulls out of conference in Cromwell next week in protest at priority given to leisure activities and lack of attention to topics up for debate. Conference organiser, former National MP Alec Neill, says Ms Fitzsimons doesn't understand parliamentary process. They're both i/ved live. BAR CLOSURES - Hospitality Assn says, restaurant and bar trade thriving despite sudden financial collapse of 4 WN bars owned by Valesco United and Valesco Property, with debts of more than $4.5 million. (Paula des Tombes); live i/v with WN restaurateur Dar Lee, who's just opened refurbished bar in city. FA'A FAFINE CONFERENCE, Ist ever national conference, being held in AK this weekend. Conference will focus on HIV and AIDS awareness but will also address concerns over identity of fa'a fafine and role in Samoan and wider NZ community. (illegible Tino Pereira) FINANCE - money markets latest with David Jones.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER POLICE ATTACK - Brent Garner's wife Sam has mortgage on house he torched but no insurance payout. She says she's been told National Insurance see her and her husband as one person and she is held to be responsible for his actions. Live i/v with National Insurance general manager Colin Taylor. AMERICAS CUP - secretary of Ngai Tai Ki Tamakai Tribal Trust, Emily Karaka, says granting of resource consents for Americas Cup base in AK's Viaduct Basin undermines Trust's status as kaitiaki or trustees of area. Trust to appeal on grounds including concerns over discharge of contaminated materials, and possible breach of Resource Management Act. She's i/ved live; Under 1991 Act, Ngati Whatua invested with tangata whenua status over area. Live i/v with elder Joe Hawke. PAPERS/ASPAC HEADLINES POWER SUPPLIES in top half of North Island disrupted after electrical storm hits key feeder plant next to Huntly power station, leaving half Hamilton without power and causing brief cuts in AK. Live i/v with Transpower deputy operations manager Bob Simpson and weather forecaster Augie Auer. TREES - Palmerston North supporters of plane trees lining Fitzherbert Ave gear up for battle to stop city council felling them to make way for 4 lane road. Live i/v with co-ordinator of Save the Avenue, Mark Bell-Booth. City manager Michael Willsi declined to be i/ved.
0830 NEWS/SPORTS ENGLISH RUGBY power struggle appears to be over, with administrators hammering out agreement. Live i/v with BBC's rugby commentator Alistair Hignell. HEART SURGERY UNIT - NZ First promises Canty it will have publicly-run, 24 hour heart unit whatever Southern RHA says. Health spokesman Neil Kirton inflames row by announcing supposedly secret decision of RHA to back a private service for CH. He's i/ved live. CELL PHONE TRANSMITTER - Telecom plans to install site in West AK concerns teachers at nearby Green Bay primary school, fears for their and children's health and safety. (Andrew Fleming) illegible - Health ministry trying to track down half tonne of potentially contaminated patties. Meat was destined for Russia but thawed out on AK wharves and later sold to pet food company which then sold it on to butchers in AK area. Live i/v with deputy director of Public Health Gillian Durham. OZ SPOT - live i/v with correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes. (South Australian "coup")