0600 NEWS/SPORTS/WEATHER
0609 NZ NEWSPAPERS
0611 NEWS STORY: BANK FEES - Westpactrust imposes new $2 fee for customers who use other banks automatice teller machines to get cash from credit cards, says it's just keeping up with what other banks charge. David Tripe, Massey Univ Banking Management Centre, says it won't be long before even normal cash withdrawals from another bank's ATM will cost the customer. (Clare Sziranyi)
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0620 NEWS STORY: BABY MONITORS - cot death campaigners echo concerns about monitors raised by Nelson coroner following sudden infant death case which occurred shortly after monitor alerted parents the infant had stopped breathing. Comment from coroner Ian Smith and Pat Tuohy, Plunket Society. (Eileen Cameron)
0623 SPORTS STORY: BRITAIN - SOCCER clubs engaging in buying and selling of players in preparatior for new season beginning next month. Live i/v with London's Talk Radio footbal: correspondent, Tony Lockwood.
0630 NEWS/WEATHER
0636 NEWS STORY: BRITAIN - ARMS EXPORTS - Foreign Secretary Robin Cook announces new limits on sale of weapons which could be used by repressive govts against their own citizens. Controversial sale of Hawk trainer jets to Indonesia not affected. (Keith Chalkley)
0640 OVERSEAS NEWSPAPERS
0642 NEWS STORY: REFUGEES - UN Security Council holds public debate on protecting civilians caught in fighting, chance for some straight talking. (Judy Lessing)
0642 MANA NEWS
0651 BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL NEWS: SKELLERUP GROUP rescue plan launched. Company to be split into 2 divisions, accompanied by $40 million cash injection from principal shareholder, Maine Investments. (Gyles Beckford) ECONOMIC CONDITIONS - Finance minister Bill Birch tells Reuters Financial Television in Melbourne that recent slide in dollar and rise in interest rates should help long term growth. (Gyles Backford) FINANCE/MARKETS SAVINGS - Westpac/FRG Research survey shows NZ's savings rate has improved and is close to OECD average. Westpac Investment managing director David Beattie says study relevant to issues of superannuation affordability. (Gyles Beckford SUPERANNUATION - poll conducted by investment fund manager Armstrong Jones shows just under half of those surveyad oppose compulsory scheme and intend to vote against it, while other polls have shown as many as 2-thirds of voters opposed. (Gyles Beckford) MINING/EXPLORATION group of Stock Exchange expands over past year with appearance of several Australian oil and gas stocks. (Gyles Beckford) GOLD PRICE DOWNTURN and halt on McCrae's Flat expansion in Otago leads to job losses. DIRECTORS - Commerce ministry bans another 3 people from being company directors. (Gyles Beckford)
0700 INTRO/NEWS MATIU RATA - hundreds of mourners including PM and Deputy PM expected at funeral today. Mr Rata's body lying in state at Te Reo Mihi marae at Te Hapia where he was born. Lois Williams reports live. ISRAEL - HOUSING - controversial plan to build new Jewish enclave in Arab East Jerusalem suspended. Interior ministry rules construction on slopes of Mount of Olives can't proceed until appeal against plan has been heard. Live i/v with correspondent David Horovitz. FIRE FIGHTERS - Fire Service Commission rejects claims by Firefighters' Union of more deaths and property losses if number of frontline firefighters reduced further. Discussion document considered by Fire Service suggests doing away 131 positions nationally. Comment from Union secretary Derek Best, Fire Service Commission chair Ken Comber and former. Internal Affairs minister Peter Dunne. (Helen Matterson) CRAYFISH - reports of live crayfish being served in NZ restaurants horrifies diners and animal rights groups. Live i/v with Neil Wells, Animal Welfare Advisory Committee. FIRE SERVICE - live i/v with Internal Affairs minister Jack Elder re possible cuts to number of firefighters.
0703 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS FINANCE UPDATE NZ DOLLAR eases overnight after slipping sharply following comment by Finance minister Bill Birch indicating he expected currency to weaken further. Live i/v with Business editor Gyles Beckford. BANK FEES - WestpacTrust's new $2 fee for customers using other banks' ATMs the latest in long line of increased bank charges. Comment from David Trips, Masse Univ Banking Management Centre, and Consumers Inst chief exec David Russell. (Clare Sziranyi); live i/v with WestpacTrust spokesman John Anderson. SUPERANNUATION - information booklet delivered to homes on behalf of Independent Referendum panel criticised for being misleading and not truly impartial. Comment from Labour's Finance spokesman Michael Cullen and panel member Leith Comer. (Kathryn Street) BABY MONITORS - Nelson coroner Ian Smith raises concerns that monitors lulling parents into false sense of security. Live i/v with Plunket Society's national paediatrician Pat Tuohy. GERMANY - FLOODS - thousands of soldiers and aid workers racing against tide to plug holes in leaking dykes and build up 2nd line of defence against flooded Oder River. Live i/v with correspondent Mark James. Frankfurt an der Oder.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER MATIU RATA - hundreds of mourners gathering at Te Haupua. Lois Williams report live. ARANUI PLAYERS - Aranui High School's talented rugyb players will be able to play in rugby league final after all, even though they get paid allowance by Income Support as part of school's Sports Academy. (Mark Henderson) INTERNATIONAL PAPERS BANK FEES - Consumers Inst says something has to be done about fees banks charge customes, wants Commerce minister to look into matter. Live i/v with INst chief exec David Russell. PRISON OVERCROWDING - Labour Party says situation has reached crisis point, with Justice spokesman Phil Goff saying this month alone prisoners spent total of 454 nights in police and court cells because prisons couldn't accommodate them. What to do about the ever expanding prison population? Live i/v with VUW criminology expert John Pratt.
0830 NEWS/SPORTS RUSSIA - SPIES - trial begins of 28 year old son of diplomat, Platon Obukhov, charged with passing information to British MI agents. Attorney has petitions judge to declare Obukhov mentally unfit to stand trial. Live i/v with correspondent Anorew Harding. RUAPEHU - INCREASED VOLCANIC ACTIVITY - DoC to reassess safety restrictions around crater this morning. Series of volcanic tremors recorded, only days after restrictions lifted following year of inactivity. Live i/v with Bteve Sherban, Inst of Geological and Nuclear Sciences. "MAD" MAGAZINE 45 years old this year. How are things going in one of the more bizarre publications in the Time-Warner media empire. (Judy Lessing) AUSTRALIAN MATHS COMPETITION - NZ secondary school students taking part in event involving overt 30 countries from Pacific region. I/v with Daniel Mattingly CH's Burnside School, one of the competitors. (Mng Rpt) MEXICO - EXPLOSION - Nine people were killed and dozens injured when an explosion tore through a building in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey. Live i/v with correspondent James Blears. PAPUA NEW GUINEA - CRISIS - rabel elements of military place defence chief under armed arrest, later release him after govt promises to review charges against soldiers involved in Sandline mercenaries mutiny. Live i/v with correspondent Sean Dorney.