A 24-hour recording of Radio New Zealand National. The following rundown is sourced from the broadcaster’s website. Note some overseas/copyright restricted items may not appear in the supplied rundown:
18 May 2015
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 At the Movies with Simon Morris (RNZ); 1:05 Te Ahi Kaa (RNZ); 2:30 NZ Music Feature (RNZ); 3:05 Wildfire, by Karen Curtis and Alannah O'Sullivan (1 of 10, Word Pictures); 3:30 Science (RNZ); 5:10 War Report (RNZ)
===6:00 AM. | Morning Report===
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Radio New Zealand's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour, including: 6:18 Pacific News 6:22 Rural News 6:27 and 8:45 Te Manu Korihi News 6:44 and 7:41 NZ Newspapers 6:47 Business News 7:42 and 8:34 Sports News 6:46 and 7:34 Traffic
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06:00
Top Stories for Monday 18 May 2015
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New tax on capital gains for properties bought and sold within two years; John Key does u-turn on property tax; Health authorities: Restrict corner dairy numbers; US operations say eastern Syria raid on IS a 'significant blow'; Property tax on speculators questioned by investors, experts; Concern unwitting homeowners will fall into tougher tax law net.
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Duration: 35'41"
06:06
Sports News for 18 May 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'16"
06:17
Pacific News for 18 May 2015
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The latest from the Pacific region.
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Duration: 2'30"
06:22
Morning Rural News for 18 May 2015
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News from the rural and farming sector.
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Duration: 3'58"
06:27
Te Manu Korihi News for 18 May 2015
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A Bay of Plenty iwi says the Supreme Court stepping in over whether to stop the sale of farmland the tribe's contesting - shows there are bigger public law matters that need addressing; The leader of a Far North delegation opposing a Norwegian oil company's exploration plans in his rohe, hopes the country's indigenous leaders can put pressure on the company to abandon its operations; An eastern Bay of Plenty iwi that's planning for the first time to commemorate 150 years since the siege on one of its pa, believes people will have to confront their crippling past; Whangarei's Maori artists are urging people to vote for an art centre with a dedicated Maori space.
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Duration: 3'26"
06:35
Labour says Govt panicked into making tax changes
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The Labour Party says the Government has panicked into taking action over Auckland house prices by tightening up tax rules.
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Duration: 2'40"
06:38
Public health officials want to limit the number of dairies
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Public health officials want to limit the number of dairies in Auckland -- and restrict what they can sell to children.
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Duration: 2'35"
06:46
Expert says tougher rules could tighten Auck housing market
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A tax practitioner, Geof Nightingale, says the Government's tougher property tax rules could put further pressure on Auckland's overheated market.
Topics: money, politics
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Tags: tax
Duration: 3'19"
06:48
Budget Preview
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The secretary of the Council of Trade Unions, Sam Huggard, says steps to reduce child poverty would be welcome, as well as more research and development relief for firms.
Topics: politics, economy
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Tags: budget 2015
Duration: 3'53"
06:52
Trustpower to build more renewable generation plant in Aust
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Trustpower is readying itself to build more renewable generation plants in Australia.
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Duration: 2'08"
06:55
Jim Parker in Australia
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Across the Tasman, and the Abbott Government - in its second budget - has backed the small business sector to take over the baton from the mining industry in driving the economy.
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Duration: 1'49"
06:58
Morning markets
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Market update.
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Duration: 53"
07:06
Sports News for 18 May 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'13"
07:11
New tax on capital gains for properties
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Property investors say the Government's move to tighten up property tax rules will not solve the Auckland housing market crisis and opposition politicians say the government's running scared of public opinion but has not done enough.
Topics: politics, money, economy
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: tax, property
Duration: 2'30"
07:13
John Key does u-turn on property tax
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The Prime Minister has in the past made it very clear he opposes CGT.
Topics: politics, money, economy
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Duration: 8'30"
07:22
Economics correspondent explains tax policy
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Patrick O'Meara explains tax policy.
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Duration: 4'38"
07:27
Health authorities: Restrict corner dairy numbers
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Public health officials want to limit the number of dairies in Auckland -- and restrict what they can sell to children.
Topics: health, food
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Tags: dairies, sugar
Duration: 3'37"
07:37
US operations say eastern Syria raid on IS a 'significant blow'
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In Syria US special operations are still celebrating the killing of a key IS commander.
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Duration: 3'54"
07:47
Government to break promise on surplus
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After four years of promising a surplus this financial year, Thursday's Budget is going to confirm the Government has broken that promise.
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Tags: surplus, budget 2015
Duration: 3'02"
07:50
UN expresses concern of New Zealand's human rights
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The United Nations' Committee against Torture has criticised New Zealand for the over-representation of Maori in prisons.
Topics: crime, law
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Duration: 3'16"
07:54
Cleanup continues following last week's flooding in Kapiti
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The rain has stopped, but the clean-up work in the wake of last week's flooding in Kapiti continues.
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Duration: 3'48"
07:57
Study to tackle obesity through rugby role-models
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We've already reported on shutting down dairies as one way to fight child obesity.
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Duration: 2'22"
08:06
Sports News for 18 May 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'14"
08:11
Property tax on speculators questioned by investors, experts
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The Prime Minister is adament his new tax on capital gains is not a capital gains tax rather it is tightening up of the property tax rules by creating what is called a bright line.
Topics: politics, economy, money
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Tags: tax, property
Duration: 3'16"
08:14
Concern unwitting homeowners will fall into tougher tax law net
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An adjunct Professor at Victoria University and former PricewaterhouseCoopers chairman John Shewan.
Topics: money, economy, politics
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Tags: tax, property
Duration: 5'40"
08:20
Health officials think it's time to cut the fat from dairies
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Public health officials want to limit the number of dairies and convenience stores in Auckland -- and restrict what they can sell to children.
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Duration: 6'08"
08:27
Suicide attack at Kabul Airport kills four
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Four people, including a British citizen have now been killed near the entrance to Kabul Airport.
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Duration: 3'49"
08:30
Markets Update for 18 May 2015
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
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Duration: 1'06"
08:35
Education groups want more generosity from the Budget
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Education groups are hoping for a little largesse from this week's government Budget.
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Tags: budget 2015
Duration: 3'08"
08:38
US Republicans keen to fast track negotiations of trade deals
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Just days after the Democrats in the US blocked debate on the contentious Trans Pacfic Partnership, the Republicans want to fast-track negotiations.
Topics: politics
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Tags: TPP, trade
Duration: 3'41"
08:45
Te Manu Korihi News for 18 May 2015
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A Bay of Plenty iwi says the Supreme Court stepping in over whether to stop the sale of farmland the tribe's contesting - shows there are bigger public law matters that need addressing; The leader of a Far North delegation opposing a Norwegian oil company's exploration plans in his rohe, hopes the country's indigenous leaders can put pressure on the company to abandon its operations; An eastern Bay of Plenty iwi that's planning for the first time to commemorate one-hundred-and-50 years since the siege on one of its pa, believes people will have to confront their crippling past; Whangarei's Maori artists are urging people to vote for an art centre with a dedicated Maori space.
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Duration: 3'03"
08:48
Islamic State pushed back from world heritage ruins
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Islamic State militants have been pushed back from the ancient Syrian site of Palmyra.
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Duration: 4'23"
08:52
UK inquiry in child abuse could take a full eight years
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New Zealand High Court judge Lowell Goddard will be chairing the inquiry which will look at whether public bodies, including governments, charities, the Church and BBC, failed to protect children.
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Duration: 3'13"
08:57
Phil Kafcaloudes with news from Australia
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Melbourne correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes.
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Duration: 2'18"
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===9:06 AM. | Nine To Noon===
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Current affairs and topics of interest, including: 10:45 The Reading: The Global Gardener, by Michael Scott (6 of 10, RNZ)
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09:10
Victoria University accuses WCC of ignoring it in city's plan
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Victoria University accuses the Wellington City Council of ignoring its contribution and potential. The University, which has more than 20 thousand students and employs two and a half thousand staff, estimates it contributes in excess of one billion dollars per year to the regional economy.
Topics: education, economy
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Victoria University
Duration: 24'19"
09:35
Cuba-US relations
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The icy relationship between the United States and Cuba is officially thawing, with a recent meeting of the countries' leaders.. the first time that's happened in over 50 years. Ties between the US and Cuba were severed in 1961 when the US tried to overthrow Fidel Castro's government...triggering the Cuban Missile crisis and a decades long stand-off over trade and diplomacy. So what is driving this rapprochment and what might the economic and political benefits be for both countries? Journalist and author Anne Louise Bardach, has written numerous books about Cuba, including 2009's "Without Fidel - a Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington. She's interviewed Fidel Castro, his brother Raul as well as ordinary Cubans, dissidents and politicos.
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Duration: 19'21"
09:35
European correspondent Seamus Kearney
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EU migrant quota plan runs into trouble, as ministers decide on a military campaign against smugglers. The first gay wedding for serving EU leader, as Ireland gets ready for world's first referendum on issue.
Topics: politics, life and society
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Tags: migrant, wedding, referendum, gay
Duration: 7'53"
10:08
Mindfulness and meditation in corporate life
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David Gelles is a business reporter for the New York Times and its business blog, DealBook, where he writes about mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and corporate governance. He is also a longtime meditator and spent six months in India studying with Zen masters, Tibetan rinpoches and Burmese monks. His book Mindful Work is about how mindfulness is boosting leadership, reducing stress and improving health in the workplace, from Apple to Goldman Sachs. It tells of a quiet revolution reshaping some corporates as some of the world's most dynamic entrepreneurs and businesspeople are starting to change how a successful business is run. A new breed of mindful managers are using meditation, yoga and other Zen techniques to focus on feeling good while making money - and using the money to do good too.
Topics: books
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Tags: mindfulness, meditation, corporate, New York Times, Mindful Work
Duration: 26'22"
10:37
Book review - 'God in Ruins '
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Today's book for review is 'God in Ruins' by Kate Atkinson.
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Duration: 6'03"
11:06
Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams
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Politics with Matthew Hooton from the right and Mike Williams from the left.
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Politics with Matthew Hooton from the right and Mike Williams from the left.
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Duration: 24'20"
11:35
Game meats - mountain bred and naturally wild
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Allan Spencer set up Premium Game in Blenheim in 1996. The company hunts mountain bred and naturally wild animals and processes the meat. The game product is sold in supermarkets around the country and features on many restaurant menus. The specialty meats on offer include venison, hare, rabbit, goat, tahr and wallaby. The company also cures meats and makes small goods including salami.
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Tags: Allan Spencer, game meat, venison, tahr, goat, Blenheim, Premium Game
Duration: 14'59"
11:47
Off the Beaten Track with Kennedy Warne
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Splitting up and getting lost. Lessons for the outdoors.
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For Off the Beaten Track outdoors man Kennedy Warne discusses how to maximise your chances of survival in the bush.
There have been a couple of instances in the last few weeks of people becoming lost or separated in the outdoors. One, involving a trail runner in the Rimutaka Ranges near Wellington, had a happy ending. She was found 24 hours after becoming disoriented and spending a night in the forest. The other, involving a young American woman in a party of three crossing an alpine pass in Mt Aspiring National Park, did not. Her body was recovered from the Young River several days after her companions raised the alarm after tramping out.
I will not discuss or speculate on the specifics of either case, but want to talk in general about becoming separated and/or lost in the outdoors. How to avoid it, and what to do in the event that it happens.
Intentional separation
Groups split up. There are innumerable reasons, from “I’ll sprint ahead and put the kettle on at the hut” to “You go ahead, I want to take photographs.” Sometimes it happens that one member of a group is just a slower walker than others. Or maybe has a new pair of tramping boots and has blisters. Or has suffered a mild sprain. Or maybe is feeling under the weather.
Should groups split up? I asked Robin McNeill, president of Federated Mountain Clubs, a national organisation of outdoors groups, and author of “Safety in the Mountains”, published by FMC. His comment:
“Stick together, no matter what—it saves time in the long run and prevents bad decisions.”
McNeill, who has 40 years of backcountry mileage under the soles of his boots, said that when he’s tramping in a group “we always stick together and the only time things come unstuck is when some of the party push on ahead to find the best route, whereupon we muck around for half an hour regrouping and losing whatever advantage we may have gained.”
His blunt summary: “If you find yourself with others who push on without regard to the rest of the party, find yourself some new friends to go tramping with.” Another friend, who has written a book on survival in the New Zealand backcountry, commented: “You travel at the speed of the slowest member—that is the ethos of tramping. You don’t burn the weak... the next day it might be you.”
Fair enough, but it happens, and it takes quite a degree of discipline not to go down that path. One problem, I think, is that a lot of people revert to “rugged individual” mode in the outdoors. Part of the attraction of the outdoors is that it fosters a sense of connection with nature. And some people want that. And sometimes other people get in the way. So a natural loner can opt to fall behind and “catch up later.” (McNeill’s comment: “I don’t hold much truck with loners in a tramping party.”)
Or it can be the other way round, where a stronger, more athletic or experienced tramper/mountaineer wants to travel at the pace that suits them, disregarding other members of the group who travel at a slower pace. I’ve been in situations like this, where I’m the slowpoke who arrives at a river crossing where my mates have been waiting, and just as I throw down my pack to take a breather, they, rested and refreshed, say, “Righto, off we go, then.”
One of the difficulties with group dynamics is that for a lot of people a trip may be with a group that has come together for just that trip, perhaps at the last minute, with individuals not known to all participants, so individual quirks, preferences, behaviours, etc won’t be known in advance. In this case, ground rules need to be established as soon as separation issues arise.
Unintentional separation
This can occur in dense forest (especially on poorly marked trails) or in bad weather (eg low cloud, rain, fog on alpine passes). Maybe even the result of a toilet break or a photo stop—though, if the party was following McNeill’s advice, as soon as it became apparent that one member was no longer in visual or voice contact, the frontrunners would stop or turn back to look.
Things to do in case of accidental separation:
a) Carry whistles. The first thing that happened when I set out on my trip into the Olivine Wilderness Area earlier this year was that the leader of the trip handed out $2 plastic whistles which we wore around our necks. The fact is that the human voice carries poorly in the outdoors. If there’s even a faint sound of a river, you won’t be heard, no matter how loudly you holler, even if you’re only 50 metres away. But the sound of a high-pitched whistle carries a long way. I considered those whistles one of the best pieces of equipment we carried.
b) Retreat. In many cases your best option if you’re disoriented or don’t know where you are is backtracking to a previous known position—for example, the last place you knew you were on the trail, or the last cairn, pole or marker you passed on a mountain crossing. Surprisingly, the annals of survival literature show that many people don’t take this seemingly obvious option. There’s an impulse to keep moving forward—that this increases your chances of locating your companions or re-finding the path. It is almost always the wrong decision. Your chances of getting lost, or further lost, increase dramatically.
Of course, in bad weather retreat may not be possible. You may have become disoriented and have no idea where you have come from. It also becomes impractical if retreating means climbing a steep scree slope you’ve just slid down, or if you’ve run out of energy, or if you’re in an exposed situation of bad weather and at risk of hypothermia. Navigation—often difficult for many people at the best of times—becomes exponentially more challenging if you’re under pressure and feeling panicky. It is especially easy for inexperienced trampers to become spooked by weather, or even the place (eg steep terrain, a rising river). In which case, staying put is usually the recommended option.
But, as one of the Search-and-Rescue (SAR) volunteers who was involved in the search for a missing tramper in Mt Aspiring recently, commented: “Staying put only works if you’ve got somewhere secure and safe to sit. On Gillespie Pass with the weather hounds of hell howling at you you’re not going anywhere but towards a hut.”
c) Carry a cellphone that has GPS and a map app. Most cellphones have GPS, and you don’t need a connection for it to work, and there are several apps that provide topographical maps of NZ, and will show your location. Even if you’re not an ace at navigation, you can at least see where you are, and figure out if you’ve been walking in the right direction.
All of this becomes a marginal proposition if the weather is deteriorating. And to a considerable degree the outcome depends on the party’s experience and ability to handle adverse conditions. My SAR colleague commented: “A lot of the trouble is inexperience, also a lack of awareness of how violent the NZ mountains are and how fast the rivers rise. The Mountain Safety Council could do a lot more education aimed at keeping tourists safe in the mountains.”
Compared with awareness campaigns to do with safety around water—which really have driven home the message home about wearing lifejackets and watching little ones around swimming pools—there is little in the way of publicity about safety in the terrestrial outdoors.
Other options for improving your chances.
1. Communication technologies exist. Use them. People are starting to become aware of personal locator beacons, which is a good thing. If you activate one of these, your position is beamed to rescue organisations, which can then find you speedily. PLBs can be hired for around $40 a week from DOC visitor centres, outdoor gear shops, sporting goods stores, even some petrol stations in remote locations. Other communication options include mountain radio (gives you two-way communication—and, importantly, weather updates) which can be hired for about $50 a week; plus various satellite phones and messaging devices (more expensive) that will work where there is no cellphone coverage—which is most places in the outdoors.
2. Consider carrying a tent. As wonderful as our hut system is, there can be a problem if, as in the case of the tramper on Gillespie Pass, reaching the hut becomes dangerous due to a flooding river. Robin McNeill comments: “Huts kill people as well as save them. If you rely on staying in huts and you can’t make it, you are in the cactus. If you carry a tent, you always have ready shelter on hand.” Hiking tents are so lightweight today, it’s almost something you should consider carrying as part of your standard tramping kit.
3. Something the Mountain Safety Council stresses on its website is tell someone your plans — and the MSC website provides a step-by-step guide on how to do this so that the people you tell will know what to do in the event that you don’t return when you say you will. Another service that has been operating over the last few years is called Adventure Buddy. Before heading out on a trip, trampers complete an online form with details of their trip including where they are going, who is going with them, what equipment they are carrying and a time and date when they due back. The service is partly designed for overseas visitors who may not have trusted contacts in New Zealand to whom they can give their intentions plan. But also, it’s a professional service operated by people who know exactly the protocols to follow if the person fails to return when they say they will.
A final comment: One of the contributing factors to mishaps in the outdoors is that people don’t allow for weather contingencies. Tramping trips are often fitted in to time windows in busy personal schedules. So instead of looking out the hut door at falling rain and saying “Better make today a hut day—who’s got the playing cards?” people feel compelled to push on regardless.
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Tags: tramping, outdoors, Kennedy Warne, survival
Duration: 11'48"
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09:05 Victoria University accuses WCC of ignoring it in city's plan
The Chancellor, former venture capitalist and business leader, Sir Neville Jordan, says it is disapointing and perplexing that the Wellington City Council's long term plan doesn't recognise this. He says Wellington's regional economic growth is the lowest in the country and the council does not understand the role education provider can have in boosting growth. Sir Neville Jordan and Justin Lester, Wellington's Deputy Mayor.
09:20 Cuba-US relations
The icy relationship between the United States and Cuba is officially thawing, with a recent meeting of the countries' leaders.. the first time that's happened in over 50 years. Ties between the US and Cuba were severed in 1961 when the US tried to overthrow Fidel Castro's government...triggering the Cuban Missile crisis and a decades long stand-off over trade and diplomacy. So what is driving this rapprochment and what might the economic and political benefits be for both countries? Journalist and author Anne Louise Bardach, has written numerous books about Cuba, including 2009's "Without Fidel - a Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington. She's interviewed Fidel Castro, his brother Raul as well as ordinary Cubans, dissidents and politicos.
09:45 European correspondent Seamus Kearney
Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney reports on the EU migrant quota plan running into trouble, as ministers decide on a military campaign against smugglers; the first gay wedding for serving EU leader, as Ireland gets ready for world's first referendum on the issue.
10:05 Mindfulness and meditation in corporate life
David Gelles is a business reporter for the New York Times and its business blog, DealBook, where he writes about mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and corporate governance. He is also a longtime meditator and spent six months in India studying with Zen masters, Tibetan rinpoches and Burmese monks. His book Mindful Work is about how mindfulness is boosting leadership, reducing stress and improving health in the workplace, from Apple to Goldman Sachs. It tells of a quiet revolution reshaping some corporates as some of the world's most dynamic entrepreneurs and businesspeople are starting to change how a successful business is run. A new breed of mindful managers are using meditation, yoga and other Zen techniques to focus on feeling good while making money - and using the money to do good too.
Book: Mindful Work, How meditation is changing business from the inside out, by David Gelles, published by Profile Books, RRP $35.00
10:35 Book review: 'God in Ruins' by Kate Atkinson
Published by Penguin Random House (NZ), RRP$37.99. Reviewed by Phil Vine.
10:45 The Reading: 'The Global Gardener' by Michael Scott
A Gardening Travelogue that moves from vegetables in Scotland, to grass in California, and a trans-Tasman garden in Wellington, meeting quirky characters along the way. Told by a botanist who describes himself as having 'a dynamic and romantic relationship with flora and fauna'. Michael Scott was born in New Zealand and lives in Gloucestershire, England where he strives to formulate practical action plans to preserve and revere the natural world. (6 of 10, RNZ)
11:05 Political commentators Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams
Political commentators Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams discuss Capital Gains Tax, the budget, the Green party co-leader context.
11:30 Game meats - mountain bred and naturally wild
Allan Spencer set up Premium Game in Blenheim in 1996. The company hunts mountain bred and naturally wild animals and processes the meat. The game product is sold in supermarkets around the country and features on many restaurant menus. The speciality meats on offer include venison, hare, rabbit, goat, tahr and wallaby.
The company also cures meats and makes smallgoods including salami.
Recipes:
Wild Venison Pate
Wild Venison Hunters Hot Pot
Wild Goat Curry
Easy Wild Goat Marinade
11:45 Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Kennedy Warne discusses splitting up and getting lost - lessons for the outdoors.
===Noon | Midday Report===
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Radio New Zealand news, followed by updates and reports until 1.00pm, including: 12:16 Business News 12:26 Sport 12:34 Rural News 12:43 Worldwatch
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12:00
Midday News for 18 May 2015
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Analysts doubt the Government's tax move will cool Auckland house prices and the Iraqi city of Ramadi falls to Islamic state.
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Duration: 14'58"
12:17
Kiwi Property issuing new shares to raise $150 million
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Kiwi Property Group is issuing new shares as part of a 150 million dollar capital raising.
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Duration: 1'20"
12:18
Kiwi Property Group's full year net profit up 13.7%:
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Kiwi Property's full year net profit rose almost 14 percent, partly reflecting more than 8 million dollars of cost savings resulting from the company's transition from a trust.
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Duration: 47"
12:19
Services sector shows strong growth despite small dip in April
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Activity in New Zealand's services sector continues to expand, offsetting slower growth.
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Duration: 1'10"
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Wynyard forecasts FY15 revenue of up to $45m
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The crime fighting software provider, Wynyard Group, is expecting revenue of between 40 and 45 million dollars in the current financial year.
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Duration: 37"
12:24
Midday Markets for 18 May 2015
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Andrew Cathie at Craigs Investment Partners.
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Duration: 2'27"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 18 May 2015
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The New Zealand Indy Car driver Scott Dixon has taken pole position for next Monday's 99th running of the Indy 500 in the United States.
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Duration: 2'48"
12:34
Midday Rural News for 18 May 2015
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
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Duration: 8'49"
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===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
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Information and debate, people and places around NZ
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12:00
John Webster
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John Webster was a timber baron in Northland the late 19th century. He has fascinated author and historian Jennifer Ashton since she was a teenager, and now she's told his story in her book, At the Margin of Empire: John Webster and Hokianga, 1841-1900 (Auckland University Press).
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You won’t see the likeness of John Webster in statues around New Zealand. There are no major streets named after him either. But author and historian Jennifer Ashton says his story reveals so much about New Zealand history, race relations and the shift in colonial power in the late 19th century. Webster became a timber baron in Northland. Ashton tells Afternoons with Simon Mercep that John Webster has fascinated her since she was a teenager, on holiday with one of his descendants in Opononi in the Hokianga. “One winter’s day we went for a walk along the waterfront to a shop next to the fish and chip shop to get a paper” Aston recalls. Her friend took her down a gully and asked her to look through the overgrown trees.“ You could see this quite ornate, slightly dilapidated house that he (John Webster) had lived in the late 19th century. It captured my imagination and stayed with me for years. Who was the person who built and had lived in this house?” She tells his story in her book, At the Margin of Empire: John Webster and Hokianga, 1841-1900 (Auckland University Press).
The story of John Webster begins in the small Scottish town of Montrose on the East Coast of Scotland where he was born. “It’s a pretty conservative traditional town but it’s also a port” says Ashton. He went to work for his Uncle in Glasgow. “Glasgow at the time was huge imperial city and it just captured his imagination. He wanted to get out there and see what was out there with all these ships arriving from all over the world”. So in the late 1830s, Webster goes to Australia taking a sense of adventure shared by so many of his generation, and his colonial views of European racial superiority. Ashton says he wrote about the Aboriginals. “They were almost doomed. They were down the racial ladder. You can see in his writings this idea of racial rankings”.
Webster’s older brother William, who had already settled in the Hokianga, wrote a letter asking John to come to New Zealand. There were only about 100 Pakeha in the area at the time, and several thousand Maori by 1847. When he arrives he compares Maori and Aboriginals. “Some of their behavior he sees as savage but they are further up the racial ladder” says Ashton.
Webster traded gum and timber in the region. “He would go up the various tributaries of the Hokianga river gathering timber on behalf of the timber merchants” Ashton explains. He also ran a small trading enterprise, trading potatoes Maori would grow for tobacco and then selling the potatoes to visiting ships.
Webster and a few other settlers got involved in one of two conflicts during The Northern War, 1845-46, considered the first serious challenge to the Crown following the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. Nga Pui leader Hone Heke famously chopped down the British flag on Maiki hill above Kororāreka. Webster sided with a different Nga Pui leader, Tamati Waka Nene, fighting against Hone Heke. “They saw it as the most effective way to bring Hone Heke into line. I don’t think they were fighting with Nene for Maori goals. They were fighting because this guys a rebel and he needs to be taught a lesson”. Ashton explains.
Still seeking adventure, Webster left the Hokianga in 1950 for the great California Gold Rush. He doesn’t find his fortune, but he does connect with Scottish-born Australian entrepreneur Benjamin Boyd who is one of the largest landholders in New South Wales. Webster hitches a ride home on his yacht, the Wanderer. Boyd goes ashore in Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. “Boyd disappears and the Wanderer is attacked. They get out their small cannon and fire the cannon and quite a few died in the process” Ashton describes. Webster survives and returns to the Hokianga.
By the mid 1850s, more Pakeha are coming to New Zealand and the population mix starts to equalize. Not in the Hokianga. “Websters’ got these expectations of what’s going to happen. We are now the people in charge. But for the next 20 years that expectation is frustrated”. Outwardly, he moderates his racial views. Inside, Ashton says, he had to learn how to behave. “He has to learn how to hongi and he doesn’t like it... at one point he receives a hongi and says that’s a favour I could have done without. He knows he has to do well economically”.
John Webster lived well into his 90’s and finishes his days in Devonport. “I’ve spent 10 years with is guy rumbling around my head. I admire him for his courage. I think someone coming from Scotland to New Zealand, and particularly this part of New Zealand in the 19th century is the equivalent to people who want to go to Mars these days”. Ashton says “New Zealand history is absolutely fascinating. I think if you talk to many New Zealand historians they go to parties and tell people what they do, ‘I write New Zealand history’ and they say, ‘oh that must take all of 5 minutes’. You say actually no. It’s fascinating. The whole history of this country, all of its component parts is really interesting and the story of John Webster confirms just how interesting it can be”.
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Your Song - Superstar
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Kaye Waring from Whangarei has chosen 'Superstar', from the soundtrack of Jesus Christ Superstar.
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Duration: 12'29"
13:21
New Zealand Retro: Punk Culture
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With Auckland guests Simon Grigg and Gary Steel.
Topics: music, history
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Duration: 38'57"
14:08
Cyber Security - Martin Cocker and Paul Matthews
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Managing internet security for individuals and businesses can be a tricky. The Identity Conference 2015 is being held today. It's a conversation about managing digital identity and its wider implications for people in New Zealand and beyond.
Topics: internet, technology
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Duration: 12'02"
14:20
Tree Photography - Catherine Kirby
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Catherine has just spent a month in the forest taking photos of one tree: 120,000 images and 1200 video clips.
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Catherine has just spent a month in the forest taking photos of one tree: 120,000 images and 1200 video clips.
Gallery: NZ Tree Project
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Duration: 10'49"
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Feature album - So
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The feature album today is "So" the best selling solo record by british singer song writer Peter Gabriel. It came out in 1986, and went 5 times platinum in America.
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Duration: 13'37"
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Feature interview - Jennifer Ashton
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The pioneering story of 1840's Hokianga settler and timber trader, John Webster. He rubbed shoulders with the likes of George Grey and Richard Seddon, and became a catalyst in the evolving relationships between Pakeha and Maori.
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You won’t see the likeness of John Webster in statues around New Zealand. There are no major streets named after him either. But author and historian Jennifer Ashton says his story reveals so much about New Zealand history, race relations and the shift in colonial power in the late 19th century. Webster became a timber baron in Northland, and Ashton tells Afternoons with Simon Mercep that he had fascinated her since she was a teenager on holiday with one of his descendants in Opononi in the Hokianga. “One winter’s day we went for a walk along the waterfront to a shop next to the fish and chip shop to get a paper” Aston recalls. Her friend took her down a gully and asked her to look through the overgrown trees. “You could see this quite ornate, slightly dilapidated house that he (John Webster) had lived in the late 19th century. It captured my imagination and stayed with me for years. Who was the person who built and had lived in this house?” She tells his story in her book, At the Margin of Empire: John Webster and Hokianga, 1841-1900 (Auckland University Press).
The story of John Webster begins in the small Scottish town of Montrose on the East Coast of Scotland where he was born. “It’s a pretty conservative traditional town, but it’s also a port” says Ashton. He went to work for his Uncle in Glasgow. “Glasgow at the time was huge imperial city and it just captured his imagination. He wanted to get out there and see what was out there with all these ships arriving from all over the world." So in the late 1830s, Webster goes to Australia taking a sense of adventure shared by so many of his generation, and his colonial views of European racial superiority. Ashton says he wrote about the Aboriginals. “They were almost doomed. They were down the racial ladder. You can see in his writings this idea of racial rankings."
Webster’s older brother William, who had already settled in the Hokianga, wrote a letter asking John to come to New Zealand. There were only about 100 Pakeha in the area at the time, and several thousand Maori by 1847. When he arrives he compares Maori and Aboriginals. “Some of their behavior he sees as savage but they are further up the racial ladder” says Ashton.
Webster traded gum and timber in the region. “He would go up the various tributaries of the Hokianga river gathering timber on behalf of the timber merchants” Ashton explains. He also ran a small trading enterprise, trading potatoes Maori would grow for tobacco and then selling the potatoes to visiting ships.
Webster and a few other settlers got involved in one of two conflicts during The Northern War, 1845-46, considered the first serious challenge to the Crown following the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. Nga Pui leader Hone Heke famously chopped down the British flag on Maiki hill above Kororāreka. Webster sided with a different Nga Pui leader, Tamati Waka Nene, fighting against Hone Heke. “They saw it as the most effective way to bring Hone Heke into line. I don’t think they were fighting with Nene for Maori goals. They were fighting because this guy's a rebel and he needs to be taught a lesson” Ashton explains.
Still seeking adventure, Webster left the Hokianga in 1950 for the great California Gold Rush. He doesn’t find his fortune, but he does connect with Scottish-born Australian entrepreneur Benjamin Boyd who is one of the largest landholders in New South Wales. Webster hitches a ride home on his yacht, the Wanderer. Boyd goes ashore in Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. “Boyd disappears and the Wanderer is attacked. They get out their small cannon and fire the cannon and quite a few died in the process” Ashton describes. Webster survives and returns to the Hokianga.
By the mid 1850s, more Pakeha are coming to New Zealand and the population mix starts to equalize. Not in the Hokianga. “Websters’ got these expectations of what’s going to happen. We are now the people in charge. But for the next 20 years that expectation is frustrated." Outwardly, he moderates his racial views. Inside, Ashton says, he had to learn how to behave. “He has to learn how to hongi and he doesn’t like it... at one point he receives a hongi and says that’s a favour I could have done without. He knows he has to do well economically."
John Webster lived well into his 90’s and finishes his days in Devonport. “I’ve spent 10 years with this guy rumbling around my head. I admire him for his courage. I think someone coming from Scotland to New Zealand, and particularly this part of New Zealand in the 19th century is the equivalent to people who want to go to Mars these days” Ashton says, “New Zealand history is absolutely fascinating. I think if you talk to many New Zealand historians they go to parties and tell people what they do, ‘I write New Zealand history’ and they say, ‘oh that must take all of 5 minutes’. You say 'actually no'. It’s fascinating. The whole history of this country, all of its component parts is really interesting and the story of John Webster confirms just how interesting it can be."
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Duration: 21'41"
15:30
Total Immersion - A tiny rural school goes global
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Preparing 1200 Chinese dumplings and traditional soup for guests, Te Kura Kaupapa Motuhake O Tawhiuau - a tiny rural school in Murupara south of Rotorua - is hosting its cultural day. They might be small but they dream big. Their decile one designation has made them even more determined to have great aspirations for their students, in this case it's to become global citizens. Lynda Chanwai-Earle attends their special cultural day celebrations as they host visitors from across the world.
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We have big dreams and huge aspirations for our children. Our children will always rise, in spite of their circumstances. Why can't we become the new navigators and leaders of the world?
– Principal Pembroke (Peraniko) Bird, Te Kura Motuhake o Tawhiuau, Murupara.
Drive down the main street of Murupara and you know you're in rural Aotearoa. As horses graze on the front lawns of the houses down the street to the school, it feels like I've gone back in time. A nostalgic time when neighbours rallied together for the common good of the community and a time when children probably had to ride those horses to school.
Murupara township is around 45 minutes drive (55 km) east of Rotorua, situated in an isolated part of the Bay of Plenty region between the Kaingaroa Forest and Te Urewera National Park. It's described as "the beautiful gateway to the Te Urewera Rainforest."
The 100% Pure New Zealand website describes Murupara like this:
Before it was a timber town, Murupara was a staging post on the road between Rotorua and Napier. In the early 1900s, planting of the huge Kaingaroa Forest began. At 2,900 square kilometres, Kaingaroa is the largest plantation forest in the southern hemisphere. Murupara has a predominately Maori population. With four marae in the area, it’s a good place to learn about the Maori way of life.
About a dozen of us are gathered outside the entrance to Te Kura Motuhake o Tawhiuau waiting to be welcomed by powhiri into this tiny rural school with a roll call of 150 students. I'm being introduced to the group of Mandarin Language Assistants hailing from regions across China by Xiaoqing Yang, Deputy Director, Confucius Institute, Victoria University.
Among our group of visitors is Akiko Harada, Japanese National Adviser from the International Languages Exchanges and Pathways (ILEP).
Whaea Hine Anderson is in charge of leading our visiting group. The karanga is performed and reciprocated and before we know it we're inside the school hall, facing all the students as they perform a rousing haka. The students range in age from tiny five year old new entrants to tall senior Year 13 teenagers. Embraced by their whanau and community, it's their special day, their time to shine.
Principal Pembroke Peraniko Bird cuts an impressive figure in his suit and fedora as he orates the whaikorero relating to Ngāti Manawa, the local iwi (tribe), kin to Ngāti Whare and Ngāi Tū.
Our visiting group respond with the classic Chinese folk song Mo Li Hua (the Jasmin Flower) and then the school perform kapa haka, followed by more waiata and then popular Mandarin and Japanese action songs, taught to the students by resident teachers of Asian languages, Midori Tanaka (Japanese teacher) and Kweiyi Dannenbring (Chinese teacher).
The students have been practicing hard and perform beautifully in their mother tongue as well as in Mandarin and Japanese.
We're a small school with big dreams.
Te Kura Kaupapa Motuhake O Tawhiuau is hosting its official Cultural Day. Murupara's socio-economic area designation might be decile one but that's made the school even more determined to have great aspirations for their students, in this case it’s to become multilingual global citizens and leaders.
What sets this tiny school apart from others across our country is the fact that te reo Maori, Mandarin, Japanese as well as English are mandatory within their school curriculum. The four languages are being taught throughout, from new entrant right up to seniors, in preparation for the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) - Level 3 and they're pioneering this approach to being multilingual. Principal Pem Bird explains:
It might have been categorised as decile one area in terms of socio-economic realities but we're decile 10 with our aspirations.
"The decile rating means nothing to us. We're about breaking cycles here. There's no reason to be caught up in that other cycle of low aspirations and [cultural] insularity. We're about taking our whanau with us."
You could describe Principal Pem Bird as visionary. He holds great hopes for his students, all of them. "Our tamariki are precious to us, they are our future. So long as we strive towards a solution "for us."The thing about this school is that we're all connected by whakapapa, by geneology, right."
So you're equiping your children with tools for life?
"If you have high expectations, the children will follow."
Principal Bird says the challenges the school faces is to make sure the parents hopes and dreams for their children are not dashed. "The town of Murupara has a catchment of around 1700 people," he tells me, "It's an area that has low economic income, mainly from farming and seasonal work connected with forestry and agriculture."
We talk about the fact that around five years ago Murupara faced two teenage fatalities, tragedies of gang warfare. Like any place in the country that has had issues with gangs, the community are impacted. But Murupara's tight-knit community of around 1700 felt the impact deeply.
That's why the community leaders and parents have worked together, to foster self-confidence and self-belief in their youth, to re-establish pride in their community and pride in being Maori.
And it takes some visionary efforts to lead the way for their youth. Principal Bird tells me that achieving through education is the key. He believes in starting this multilingual and mutlicultural education with their youngest, the next generation.
"Children from disadvantaged communities can achieve as well as the best schools around New Zealand. It gives lie to that statement "If you're poor and you're Maori you can't achieve" - the status quo will never doing anything for my people. Why can't we create new models [in education] that best reflect our culture and people?"
Principal Bird tells me that the whole point in making Mandarin and Japanese part of their curriculum - starting with mandatory lessons from new entrant to senior levels - is to provide their children with the ability to confidently seek opportunities in all fields of employment and in the tourism industry within countries around Asia.
By 2016 our children will be achieving NCEA level 3 as well as the best standards of children from affluent communities.
Is Murupara community undervalued and underestimated?
"Perhaps people don't realise the value that children bring as Maori. This is what our curriculum is, encouraging our children to be global citizens, you support that and you're fine."
The school staff have carefully prepared their cultural day programme. Traditional Chinese and Japanese games and activities happen in groups around the school grounds; Ikebana flower arranging, Jianzi - a game that looks like Chinese hacky-sack and much more.
Inside the classrooms Mandarin and Japanese lessons are taking place, show-casing the students abilities.
"These children are like sponges." the resident Chinese teacher Kweiyi Dannenbring tells me, "They pick up Mandarin so fast and along with it, Chinese culture." Kweiyi has taught at for almost two years. She feels her tuition is valued and supported by the Principal and all the school staff in really meaningful ways.
Midori Tanaka (the Japanese teacher) has taught at this school for five years. She has seen this school grow exponentially in cultural terms.
Both Midori and Kweiyi love teaching at this school because of it's intimate size; the teacher to student ratio is one to 15 and it means quality time, compared to their experience teaching classrooms of 40 or more students back in Japan or China.
For serial?! We've nearly made 1200 dumplings?
One of the senior students helping prepare in the school kitchen is amazed with how prolific the dumpling making sessions have been. The tattooed school caretaker greets me warmly with a huge gap-toothed grin. He and a dozen locals have turned up to help prepare 1200 Chinese dumplings, 1200 sushi and several huge pots of traditional Chinese chicken and black fungus soup for the guests and the students. I'm very impressed - the soup is just the way my Cantonese mother makes it (I'm sure she'd be impressed too).
We are interrupted by the karakia for lunch, everyone including the children voice this in unison and then we're all lining up for a smorgasbord of delicious homemade kai.
Principal Bird and I get in line behind pint-sized children as the teaching staff and parents help serve. We're given fresh trout sashimi, caught by the school caretaker from the local streams. It's delicious and all the kids are tucking into this homemade, homegrown and organic fare with relish.
It's hard not to feel moved at the end of the day when the poroporoake takes place. The children clamber over each other to be photographed and then it's time for their final waiata. Principal Bird gives his farewell speech and reminds us we are welcome to come again:
Thank you for making us feel like rangatira, thank you for making us feel like chiefs.
Watch this space, never underestimate the power of community spirit. Murupara's youth may be high achievers leading delegations to China and Japan next.
Topics: education, life and society, arts, food, music
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: languages, te reo Maori, Mandarin, Japanese, spiritual practice, cultural practice, China, Murupara, Rotorua
Duration: 10'13"
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The Panel pre-show for 18 May 2015
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1:10 Your Song
Superstar, from the soundtrack of Jesus Christ Superstar. Chosen by Kaye Waring.
1:20 New Zealand Retro: Punk Culture
With Auckland guests Simon Grigg and Gary Steel.
Archival audio supplied by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.
2:10 Cyber Security - Martin Cocker and Paul Matthews
Managing internet security for individuals and businesses can be a tricky. The Identity Conference 2015 is being held today. It's a conversation about managing digital identity and its wider implications for people in New Zealand and beyond.
2:20 Tree Photography - Catherine Kirby
Catherine has just spent a month in the forest taking photos of a tree: 120,000 images and 1200 video clips.
Gallery: NZ Tree Project
2:30 NZ Reading - The Conductor
Elias helps Nina Bronnikova, badly injured in an air raid. She won't be able to dance again. Nikolai is also upset and missing his daughter Sonya. He attends Shostakovich's 35th birthday and hears some of the new symphony. Elias is jealous but stands up to the drunken oboist Alexander, dismissing him and earning the orchestra's applause.
2:45 Feature album
So. Peter Gabriel.
3:10 Feature interview - Jennifer Ashton
The pioneering story of 1840's Hokianga settler and timber trader, John Webster. He rubbed shoulders with the likes of George Grey and Richard Seddon, and became a catalyst in the evolving relationships between Pakeha and Maori.
3:30 Voices - Lynda Chanwai-Earle
Preparing 1200 Chinese dumplings and traditional soup for guests, a tiny rural school south of Rotorua is hosting its cultural day. They might be small but they dream big - as they prepare their students to become global citizens. Lynda Chanwai-Earle travels to Murupara to learn more.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about. With Jim Mora, Noelle McCarthy, Beck Eleven and Raybon Kan.
MUSIC DETAILS
Monday MAY 18
YOUR SONG:
ARTIST: Carl Anderson, Angels & Chorus
TITLE: Superstar
COMP: Andrew Lloyd-Webber/Tim Rice
ALBUM: Jesus Christ Superstar: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
LABEL: MCA 250430
RETRO - PUNK:
ARTIST: The Ramones
TITLE: Blitzkreig Bop
COMP: Ramones
ALBUM: Ramones: Mania
LABEL: SIRE 925709
ARTIST: Sex Pistols
TITLE: Anarchy In The UK
COMP: Johnny Rotten
ALBUM: The Great Rock N Roll Swindle
LABEL: VIRGIN 787876
ARTIST: The Clash
TITLE: London Calling
COMP: Jones, Strumme
ALBUM: London Calling
LABEL: COLUMBIA
ARTIST: The Stranglers
TITLE: Peaches
COMP: Black, Burnel, Cornwell
ALBUM: The Stranglers: Greatest Hits 1977-1990 (Compilation)
LABEL: EPIC
ARTIST: Suburban Reptiles
TITLE: Megaton
COMP: Suburban Reptiles
ALBUM: AK79
LABEL: FLYINGNUN
ARTIST: Shoes This High
TITLE: The Nose One
COMP: Shoes This High
ALBUM: STH
LABEL: PRIVATE
ARTIST: Mint Chicks
TITLE: Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!
COMP: Nielson
ALBUM: Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!
LABEL: FLYINGNUN
FEATURE ALBUM:
ARTIST: Peter Gabriel
TITLE: Sledgehammer
COMP: Gabriel
ALBUM: So
LABEL: Virgin
ARTIST: Peter Gabriel
TITLE: In Your Eyes
COMP: Gabriel
ALBUM: So
LABEL: Virgin
ARTIST: Peter Gabriel
TITLE: Don't Give Up
COMP: Gabriel
ALBUM: So
LABEL: Virgin
THE PANEL:
ARTIST: Michael Jackson
TITLE: Ben
COMP: Black, Scharf
ALBUM: Ben
LABEL: MOTOWN
===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
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An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
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The Panel pre-show for 18 May 2015
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Duration: 14'13"
16:06
The Panel with Beck Eleven and Raybon Kan (Part 1)
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What the Panelists Raybon Kan and Beck Eleven have been up to. The government's announced it's to implement the Capital Gains tax you have when you're not having a Capital Gains tax. Mark Keating of the University of Auckland joins the Panel to discuss the pro's and con's of the new property tax. A study of WINZ offices has found people are scared of staff and are denied access to toilets.
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Duration: 22'51"
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Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Raybon Kan and Beck Eleven have been up to.
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Duration: 6'52"
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New property tax
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The government's announced it's to implement the Capital Gains tax you have when you're not having a Capital Gains tax. Mark Keating of the University of Auckland joins the Panel to discuss the pro's and con's of the new property tax.
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Duration: 11'48"
16:26
Toilets at WINZ offices
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A study of WINZ offices has found people are scared of staff and are denied access to toilets.
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Regions: Canterbury
Tags: WINZ study
Duration: 3'48"
16:32
The Panel with Beck Eleven and Raybon Kan (Part 2)
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Rats and elephants are among the species which help each other. Prince Harry credits being in the army for keeping him out of trouble and calls for compulsory military training to be brought back. Military historian Peter Cooke joins the Panel to talk about whether national service would work today. Headline from the Boston Globe - "What a brouhaha in Texas over military training tells us about the brain." The university of Auckland website was hacked today and a security researcher says he managed to hack into an aircraft's controls. Christchurch's Papanui High School has handed out sex education literature from an Amercan based Baptist group. In it women who live with their partners are called prostitutes.
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Duration: 26'53"
16:33
Compassionate animals
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Rats and elephants are among the species which help each other.
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Duration: 4'39"
16:37
Panel says
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What the Panelists Raybon Kan and Beck Eleven have been thinking about.
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Duration: 5'23"
16:43
Prince Harry recommends military service
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Prince Harry credits being in the army for keeping him out of trouble and calls for compulsory military training to be brought back. Military historian Peter Cooke joins the Panel to talk about whether national service would work today.
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Duration: 7'33"
16:51
Have you noticed paranoia increasing?
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There's a big military training exercise planned for some of the southern states of America called "Jade Helm 15". Various people of paranoid bent have accused the Government of being about to invade those states, imposing martial law, confiscating firearms, and imprisoning dissidents.
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Duration: 3'46"
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Hacker gets into planes controls
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"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you" so Nirvana's Kurt Cobain said. The university of Auckland website was hacked today and a security researcher says he managed to hack into an aircraft's controls.
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Duration: 1'13"
16:56
Religious pamphlet in sex ed
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Christchurch's Papanui High School has handed out sex education literature from an Amercan based Baptist group. In it women who live with their partners are called prostitutes.
Topics: education
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Duration: 2'38"
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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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Radio New Zealand's two-hour news and current affairs programme
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Checkpoint Top Stories for Monday 18 May 2015
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Cooling down Auckland's runaway housing market. A Polish gardener caught smuggling plants in his underpants and distressed families visit descecrated graves in Auckland.
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Duration: 21'55"
17:08
Tax tightening should cool off housing - investors
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Professional property investors say a tightening up of property taxes should cool down Auckland's rampant housing market.
Topics: politics, housing
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Tags: property taxes
Duration: 3'56"
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A professional investor has more
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Shane Allen who you've just heard in that report, has 700-thousand dollars invested in two Auckland apartments.
Topics: housing, politics
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Duration: 4'18"
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Distressed families visit descecrated graves
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Distressed families have been returning to their dead children's graves, after the desecration of a cemetery in South Auckland.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: children's graves
Duration: 2'55"
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Missing boy and step-father probably in the car
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The police say all evidence points to eleven year old Mike Zhao-Beckenridge and his stepfather being in the car when it went over a cliff in the Catlins, despite no human remains being found.
Topics: crime
Regions: Otago
Tags: Mike Zhao-Beckenridge, John Beckenridge
Duration: 3'55"
17:24
Polish gardener found with plants in his pants at the border
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A Polish gardener is facing prosecution after trying to smuggle plants in his underpants into the country.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: smuggling plants
Duration: 2'42"
17:26
Franz Josef businesses and homes about to get squeezed
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Franz Josef businesses and homes set up along the main alpine fault are about to get squeezed, under a planning change that bans their expansion.
Topics: housing
Regions: West Coast
Tags: Franz Josef, Alpine Fault
Duration: 3'48"
17:34
Today's market update
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The New Zealand dollar lost some ground earlier today, after the government announced plans to tighten up its property investment tax rules, in an effort to cool housing demand in Auckland.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 2'12"
17:36
Lawyer argues murder accused had a string of family tragedies
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A lawyer for the court says the man accused of raping and murdering Blessie Gotingco had a string of family tragedies and was hooked on methamphetamine at the time she went missing.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Blessie Gotingco
Duration: 2'51"
17:39
Former IRD official warns about so-called bright line tax test
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A former top official at Inland Revenue is warning the new so-called bright line tax test for property investors might seem clear cut but will become enormously complicated.
Topics: housing, politics
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Tags: property taxes
Duration: 3'57"
17:46
At least nine dead after biker gang shootout in Texas
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Nine people have been killed in a three way biker gang shootout in the Texas city of Waco.
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Tags: USA, Texas, shoot out
Duration: 2'51"
17:50
Woman dies in hospital after treatment delays
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An inquiry's found a woman died in Wellington Hospital after waiting too long for treatment.
Topics: health
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: patient death
Duration: 3'04"
17:52
Police have footage of man tampering with headstones
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In news just to hand, the police say they have CCTV footage of a man tampering with graves at the Papakura Cemetery on Saturday night.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Graves, tampering
Duration: 26"
17:53
Government is avoiding racial issues in New Zealand
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A Māori prison reform advocate says the Government is avoiding racial issues in New Zealand and needs to take responsibility for the problem.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Tags: prison reform
Duration: 26"
17:56
Retail groups say dairies at risk
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Shop owners say dairies could go bust if new public health proposals are adopted, to restrict sales of junk food to schoolchildren.
Topics: politics
Regions:
Tags: dairies, public health
Duration: 3'11"
18:09
Sports News for 18 May 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 3'21"
18:12
Capital gains tax may delay Chinese investment
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Real-estate professionals say Chinese investors may now delay buying houses even though tighter tax rules probably won't impinge directly on most of them.
Topics: housing, politics
Regions:
Tags: property taxes
Duration: 2'29"
18:18
Auckland Council responds
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Auckland Council is trying to contact those families with children's graves at the site.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Graves, tampering
Duration: 3'51"
18:22
Girl cries as dentist removes her teeth without consent
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A dentist has been ordered to apologise in writing to an eleven year old girl for removing three baby teeth without consent.
Topics: health
Regions:
Tags: dentist, apology
Duration: 2'15"
18:28
Indonesia says it can't fund migrants who continue to arrive
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Indonesian authorities are warning they will soon run out of money and food for the hundreds of migrants who were rescued by fishermen last week.
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Regions:
Tags: Indonesia, migrants
Duration: 3'10"
18:36
Businesses say plan shields liability, doesn't save lives
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Businesses Franz Josef say new earthquake building restrictions are just a council move to shield it from liability, not to save lives.
Topics: politics
Regions: West Coast
Tags: building restrictions, earthquakes
Duration: 2'54"
18:39
All the signs of a housing bubble, warns Australian watchdog
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To Australia and the overheated housing market in its big cities, a sobering warning's just been delivered by the head of the country's corporate regulator.
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Tags: Australia, housing market
Duration: 6'46"
18:46
Farmers caught by interest rate swaps
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A woman who lost her three farms in Taranaki when the interest rate swaps turned sour is calling on farmers to join in joint legal action against the big banks.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags: interest rate swaps
Duration: 4'00"
18:49
Te Manu Korihi News for 18 May 2015
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A Maori prison reform advocate says the Government is avoiding racial issues in New Zealand and needs to take responsibility for the problem; An Auckland University academic says looking stereotypically "more Maori" means you are less likely to own your own home; A Lower Hutt marae is calling for more support from the local council after it was flooded during the storm last week that caused chaos throughout the Wellington rohe.
Topics: crime, te ao Maori
Regions:
Tags: prison reform
Duration: 3'28"
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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
=DESCRIPTION=
Entertainment and information, including: 7:33 Best of Upbeat (RNZ) 8:13 Windows on the World: International public radio features and documentaries 9:30 Insight: An award-winning documentary programme providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs (RNZ)
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19:12
A Slice of the Seventies
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'What We Saw - Photos from a Decade', photographer Sally Griffin captured now well-known New Zealanders, but when they were younger and perhaps somewhat more carefree.
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'What We Saw - Photos from a Decade', photographer Sally Griffin captured now well-known New Zealanders, but when they were younger and perhaps somewhat more carefree.
Gallery: A Slice of the Seventies
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Duration: 15'08"
20:42
World Weather
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MetService severe weather forecaster Erick Brenstrum on how a day doesn't go by without some weather... floods in New South Wales and northern Chile (where it almost never rains), Tropical Cyclone Pam had a devastating effect on Vanuatu, and Antarctica had its hottest temperature on record, then broke that record the next day.
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Duration: 15'38"
20:59
Conundrum Clue 1
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Listen on Friday for the answer.
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Duration: 24"
21:12
Orange Wine
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The growing popularity of 'orange wines' and taking part in the European wine fair season with Salmanazar founder Gabrielle Simmers.
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Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 15'59"
21:59
Conundrum Clue 2
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Listen on Friday for the answer.
Topics:
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 27"
23:06
BB King - A Tribute
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A tribute to the late BB King from Mississippi Public Broadcasting's Highway 61 Programme. Mississippi musician BB King, known as "King of the Blues" passed away on Friday 15 May 2015, aged 89. King is remembered as a person who endured great hardships early in life and influenced countless musicians. This programmes follows his career, his ups and downs and celebrates the greatness of the most influential bluesman of the modern era.
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Photo: Mississippi Public Broadcasting.
A tribute to the late BB King from Mississippi Public Broadcasting's Highway 61 Programme.
Mississippi musician BB King, known as "King of the Blues" passed away on Friday 15 May 2015, aged 89.
King is remembered as a person who endured great hardships early in life and influenced countless musicians.
This programmes follows his career, his ups and downs and celebrates the greatness of the most influential bluesman of the modern era.
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Music Details:
Artist: BB King
Song: Miss Martha King
Composer: R King
Album: Mr. B.B. King
Label: Bullet
Artist: BB King
Song: BB Boogie
Composer: R King
Album: The Blues Anthology
Label: Modern
Artist: BB King
Song: Three O'Clock Blues
Composer: L Fulson
Album: King of Blues
Label: Modern
Artist: BB King
Song: You Upset Me Baby
Composer: R King, E Josea, J Taub
Album: King of Blues
Label: Modern
Artist: BB King
Song: Please Accept My Love
Composer: E King
Album: Boss of the Blues
Label: Atlantic
Artist: BB King
Song: Fishin' After Me (Catfish Blues)
Composer: R Krasnow, I Turner, E Hooker
Album: My Kind of Blues
Label: EMI
Artist: BB King
Song: Sweet Little Angel [Live at the Regal]
Composer: R King, J Bihari
Album: Live at the Regal
Label: Regal
Artist: BB King
Song: Please Love Me [Live at the Regal]
Composer: R King, J Taub
Album: Live at the Regal
Label: Regal
Artist: BB King
Song: Baby Get Lost (Blues is King)
Composer: E Feather
Album: Great Moments with B.B. King
Label: ABC
Artist: BB King
Song: Buzz Me (Blues Is King)
Composer: L Brown, R Henderson
Album: Great Moments with B.B. King
Label: ABC
Artist: BB King
Song: The Thrill is Gone
Composer: R Darnell, R Hawkins
Album: Mr. B.B. King
Label: Bullet
Artist: BB King
Song: Hummingbird
Composer: S Kenton
Album: Indianola Mississippi Seed.
Label: MCA
Artist: BB King
Song: There Must Be A Better World Somewhere
Composer: M Rebennack
Album: There Must Be A Better World Somewhere
Label: MCA
Artist: BB King
Song: Sitting On Top of the World
Composer: W Vinson, L Chapmon
Album: One Kind Favour
Label: Geffen
Artist: BB King
Song: Boogie Rock (House Rocker)
Composer: R King
Album: The Soul of B.B. King
Label: Modern
Topics: music
Regions:
Tags: BB King, guitar, history, R'n'B, African, American, Grammy
Duration: 58'45"
=SHOW NOTES=
7:15 A Slice of the Seventies
What We Saw - Photos from a Decade, photographer Sally Griffin captured now well-known New Zealanders, but when they were younger and perhaps somewhat more carefree.
Gallery: [gallery:1152] A Slice of the Seventies
8:10 Windows on the World
International public radio documentaries - visit the Windows on the World web page to find links to these documentaries.
8:40 World Weather
MetService severe weather forecaster Erick Brenstrum on how a day doesn't go by without some weather... floods in New South Wales and northern Chile (where it almost never rains), Tropical Cyclone Pam had a devastating effect on Vanuatu, and Antarctica had its hottest temperature on record, then broke that record the next day.
9:10 Orange Wine
The growing popularity of 'orange wines', and taking part in the European wine fair season with Salmanazar founder Gabrielle Simmers.
9:30 Insight
10:00 Late Edition
A review of the news from Morning Report, Nine to Noon, Afternoons and Checkpoint. Also hear the latest news from around the Pacific on Radio New Zealand International's Dateline Pacific.
11:06 B.B. King: A Tribute
B.B. King, who died on Friday aged 89, was the most influential bluesman of the modern era, won 15 Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. This programme follows his career and celebrates the greatness of the ambassador of the blues who was still performing until recently. (From Mississippi Public Broadcasting through PRX)
===10:00 PM. | Late Edition===
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Radio New Zealand news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from Radio New Zealand National
===11:06 PM. | None (National)===
=DESCRIPTION=
B.B. King, who died on Friday aged 89, was the most influential bluesman of the modern era, won 15 Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. This programme follows his career and celebrates the greatness of the ambassador of the blues who was still performing until recently.
(From Mississippi Public Broadcasting through PRX)