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Checkpoint FOR FRIDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2012
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1700 to 1707 NEWS
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An Australian mining expert has told the Pike River Royal Commission that regulators in his country would have shut the mine until the ventilation problems were fixed and a second emergency exit put in place. There's also been evidence today from a former manager at the mine that too much of his time was taken up with crisis management. Pieter van Rooyen worked at Pike River for nearly two years as the technical services manager. He was worried about the risk of an explosion and quit working there just two weeks before the disaster. Today his lawyer, Paul Maby, read this statement from his client about the constant changes to the mine's design and how this compromised the quality of the ventilation systems and methane drainage. CUT Also today the lawyer representing the victims' families,Richard Raymond, talked about the need for a bore hole to be dug down to the area where some of the men were thought to be working at the time. Mr Raymond said this would not only establish where the men are but would also prove the main finding of the investigation, that the explosion occurred when part of the roof of the mine collapsed and released a large quantity of methane. A spokesperson for the Pike River families, Bernie Monk, has been at the Royal Commission hearing this week, and he joins us now. LIVE
Two hundred home owners must abandon their properties after being newly red zoned in Christchurch today. Another 42 have been zoned green and can start to rebuild. But just a few days shy of the first anniversary of February's quake more than 2-thousand-700 homeowners remain in limbo. The Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee says everyone should know their fate by June. Katy Gosset reports PKG
The Government is paving the way for a big increase in oil and gas exploration. It wants to add 40 thousand square kilometres of land and seabed to the existing area approved for exploration. Eric Frykberg reports. PKG
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1720 TRAILS AND BUSINESS WITH Jonathan Mitchell
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The board chairman of the school where a young boy was killed by a falling log says it was a staff member who'd stacked the logs into a large pile. Glen Temiha-Barlow, who was five, was playing with other young children at the Motueka High School rugby field late yesterday afternoon. The police say some of the children were jumping up and down on top of the pile and dislodged the log that rolled off and hit Glen who was on the ground. He was killed instantly. The board chairman Ian Palmer says five poplar trees had been chopped down on Wednesday and were ready to be removed. PREREC
A leading Wellington businessman Lloyd Morrison has died, following a long battle with leukaemia. Mr Morrison founded the infrastructure investor Infratil, but his death at the age of 54, is also being mourned in the arts world and on the football pitch. Tim Graham reports. PKG
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17.30 HEADLINES
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Engineers are checking scores of buildings in three cities for the sorts of weaknesses found in the collapsed CTV building. 115 people died when it fell down in last year's Christchurch earthquake. The main fault was columns that lacked reinforcing steel. These were permitted in some cases in buildings put up between 1982 and 1995, and hundreds of multi-storey buildings have them. The Department of Building and Housing Chief Executive Katrina Bach (bay-ch) joins us now. LIVE
Greece has moved closer to avoiding a chaotic debt default, by striking a deal with European financial leaders and paving the way for more aid. The deal now needs the green light from the Greek parliament before the Eurozone ministers meet again next Thursday. But Greek unions have already called a 48-hour strike, fraying the nerves of some European leaders who question whether the government has the muscle to implement the latest round of austerity measures. The ABC's David Taylor has been following developments : PKG
The Government has felt the wrath of Ngapuhi for the second time this week - at a hui on plans to sell shares in State-owned energy companies. Four days after the protests at Waitangi, the Government held its fourth consultation hui in Whangarei on the partial privatisation . Lois Williams was there. PKG
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17.45 MANU KORIHI
Tēnā koutou katoa, good evening,
The Taranaki Māori Trust Board says the Trust Board Act isn't working and it's time to look at new ways of serving its beneficiaries more effectively.
The Trust Board Chairman, Mike Niho says the Trust Board Act is out of date and is stifling iwi development, and there's too much bureaucracy.
He says unlike other Trust Boards that serve individual iwi - the Taranaki Māori Trust Board has to service eight.
The Act allows the Trust Board to administer assets on behalf of its beneficiaries, promotes health, social and economic well-being, and provides scholarships.
Mr Niho says this year the Trust Board is looking at establishing another entity to work with all Taranaki iwi.
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Mike Niho says all Taranaki iwi beneficiaries are encouraged to attend the two meetings at Aotearoa and Ōwae marae tomorrow.
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Ngāti Kahungunu iwi hopes a visit to Hawke's Bay this week by a group of Chinese business people, could lead to a long term investment in mussel farming in the region.
The Chairman, Ngāhiwi Tomoana, says the group from the port city of Dalian north of Beijing, are involved in aquaculture and fish products.
He says they were reciprocating a visit to Dalian by a group from Ngāti Kahungunu.
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Ngāhiwi Tomoana says he's not expecting any sudden burst of activity, but slow incremental development as trust is built between the iwi and the Chinese.
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Waikato-Tainui has joined with Otago University and Ngāi Tahu in a study to assess the oral health of its tribal members.
The International Collaboration of Indigenous Oral Health Research will also include Aboriginal people in Australia and Canada to get a wider perspective of the state of oral health among those native populations.
The Waikato-Tainui Chair, Tūkoroirangi Morgan, says it's the first project of its kind which is being primarily funded by the New Zealand Health Research Council - with 2-point-4 million dollars set aside for the scheme.
Mr Morgan says the tribal health provider Raukura Hauora already has a good relationship with Otago University, and it makes sense to partner with them and Ngāi Tahu to widen the field of research.
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Tūkoroirangi Morgan.
That's Te Manu Korihi news, I'll have a final bulletin in an hour.
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To Whanganui now and tempers flared as District Health Board members argued over a controversial proposal to restructure the city's maternity care.Doctors and management at the Whanganui and Midcentral District Health Boards want all specialist care such as epidurals, caesareans and inductions to be concentrated at Palmerston North Hospital. That would mean up to 400 women a year travelling an hour to Palmerston North to have their babies. A Whanganui DHB member, Michael Laws opposes the change. CUT The Wanganui Hospital Chief Executive, Julie Patterson, says the proposal is not about money, it's about the safety of mothers and babies. CUT Jessica Horne was at that meeting and she joins us now. LIVE
Five of the biggest banks in the United States have agreed to a landmark settlement worth 25-billion U.S. dollars to help homeowners unfairly hit during the financial crisis. Under the deal a million people will have their mortgage payments cut, while others whose homes were repossessed will get a one-off payment. The ABC's Jill Colgan reports from Washington : PKG