Raw news audio cuts, filed via telephone regarding flooding in Tairāwhiti East Cape, during Cyclone Bola on 07-08 March 1988. Reporter and interviewer is Bruce Burn. (He refers to technical problems filing the audio via a 'mutter box' which was a device that connected reporter's tape recorders to analogue telephone lines.)
1. Bob Cookson reports from Takipu Marae and speaks in te reo Māori about flooding and damage at Te Karaka.
2. A voice report by Bruce Burn filed via telephone in English for translation into te reo Maori by Te Reo o Aotearoa.
3. Report in te reo Māori from Lewis Moeau about flooding in Gisborne.
The reports were incorporated into news bulletins produced by Te Reo o Aotearoa.