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Legal action's being planned by a group of former patients of Lake Alice psychiatric hospital who say they were abused as children while in the facility. A Wellington lawyer is representing three former patients who were in the hospital in the 1970's and claim they were punished by the inappropriate use of medical proceedures like electric shock treatment. EX COUGHLAN
The Associate Minister of Health Neil Kirton is signalling that a proposal to allow a private company owned by doctors to buy a stake in the Wanganui CHe is unlikely to get his approval. EX HOSKING & LIVER WITH MED. ASSN. DR ANTON WILES
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[illegible] Government scheme to make prison inmates work is being criticised in a [illegible]-released report. Last year, the Minister of Corrections Paul East [illegible] that the government was turning every prison into a factory and every [illegible] into a worker. LIVER WITH TRADE UNION FED. PRES. SHANE TE POU [illegible] begun over the future of the country's biggest public transport [illegible], Auckland's Yellow Bus Company. EX NIALL
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[illegible] officials are warning it's just a matter of time before a virulent new [illegible] of bacteria appears in New Zealand. American health officials are [illegible] at a new strain of staphylococcus aureus, the superbug MRSA, which [illegible] emerged in Japan and which appears to resist all antibiotics. EX GREGORY-HUNT
To the High Court now, where the defence and prosecution in the Stephanie Skidmore murder trial have been summing up. LIVE Q&A WTIH EILEEN CAMERON Pilot Linda Finch has made aviation history by completing the round the world flight aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart planned 60 years ago, but died trying [illegible] finish. EX ARNOLD
An [illegible] activist has atrtacked Australian Prime Minister John Howard [illegible] his response to the Reconciliation Convention. PRE REC OF NOEL PEARSON ABORIGINAL LAWYER
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A most unusual reunion's been taking place in Britain. A group of 50 British born women, sent to Australia by the British government 50 years ago as orphans, have returned to be reunited with their original families. EX CHALKLEY
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The Minister for Industry, Max Bradford, is off to Australia, unrepentent [illegible] Nz's policies for industry and disputing claims that they're forcing manufacturers to relocate across the Tasman. EX STEPHEN HARRIS