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0640 Report from our Mana News team
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0650 Business and financial news. David Jones
0700 NEWS EDUCATION - report by the Ministerial Reference Group recommends putting $140 million into schools over next 3 years to make class sizes smaller, creating 850 new teaching posts of which more than 700 will be in primary schools. (Adam Hollingworth)
EDUCATION - PPTA against report. President Roger Tobin says it's just another plan to introduce bulk funding of teachers salaries which will mean schools lose flexibility in hiring staff and students education will suffer. (Leigh-Anne Wiig)
EDUCATION - NZEI spokesperson Bruce Adin says union swallowed opposition to bulk funding to endorse proposed new staffing formula. (Adam Hollingworth)
EDUCATION - School Trustees Assn welcomes proposals. President Mark Farnsworth says PPTA concerns about bulk funding are misplaced. (Adam Hollingworth)
EDUCATION - live i/v with Education minister Lockwood Smith.
WANGANUI - Māori MPs want urgent hearing of Waitangi Tribunal to resolve Moutoa gardens stand-off. MP Tau Henare's efforts to mediate supported by Māori colleagues, says Labour's Koro Wetere. Comment also from Treaty Negotiations minister Doug Graham. (Marie Hosking) MONETARY POLICY STATEMENT by Reserve Bank due out today, has power to influence interest rates and comes at time of intense debate over subject. (Bronwen Evans)
MANUFACTURERS say profits are falling and next result will be staff lay-offs. Live i/v with Dalton Kelly, president of WN Manufacturers' Assn.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS PARLIAMENT - Speaker Peter Tapsell gives stern rebuke to MPs over debating illegible in weekly general debate. Labour used this week's to launch personal attacks on PM Jim Bolger. Actuality of Michael Cullen, Clive Matthewson, Trevor Mallard, and Don McKinnon in reply. (Janice Rodenburg)
WAIRAU HOSPITAL - Alliance alleges conflict of interest at hospital, says public money used to devlop private facilities. Live i/v with Health spokesperson Phillida Bunkle.
U.S.-BRITAIN - diplomatic efforts being made to try to heal growing rift between PM John Major and President Clinton over visit to White House by Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams. (Keith Chalkley) ASPAC/PAPERS
0800 NEWS/WEATHER WAITANGI CLAIMS - how real are chances of govt withdrawing fiscal envelope offer on $1 billion as full and final settlement? Comment from Treaty Negotiations minister Doug Graham. Live i/v with Political editor Karen Fisher.
VIETNAM WAR - allegations by NZ veteran Rod Eder that NZ soldiers routinely murdered enemy prisoners leads to calls for inquiry into matter. Comment from Neville Wallace, Vietnam Service Association. But Defence Force spokesperson John Seward says there'll be no inquiry. (Stephen Hewson)
CANNABIS - marijuana law reform group Norml alarmed by police trial in which cannabis plants are sprayed with weedkiller from helicopter. Norml's Mike Finlayson says cannabis will take a while to die and growers will still sell poisoned leaf or oil to unsuspecting consumers. (Corinne Ambler)
EAST TIMOR - MPS Phil Goff and Chris Carter call for ban on military exercises with Indonesia, plan to draft private member's Bill to make joint military exercises with Indonesia illegal. I/v with Phil Goff. (Mng Rpt) REGIONAL NEWS KIM HILL PREVIEW
0830 NEWS/SPORTS WATERFRONT WORKERS' union tells Waitemata Stevedoring Co union members will strike from Monday unless progress made in employment contract talks. Union branch president Denis Carlyle says company has presented new set of claims including increased use of casual labour. He's i/ved live.
PATRICK RENSHAW goes to ground after being released from prison, says he intends to return to Upper Hutt to live. Former partner Mike Basil-Jones still traumatised by collapse of Renshaw Edwards law firm. (Stephen Hewson)
AIDS - rate of infection in Africa continuing to grow. Bishop Alpha Mohamed of Tanzania in WN seeking money to fund HIV and AIDS education programmes. He's i/ved live.
TUNA - MAF scientist says huge southern bluefin tuna caught off Mahia peninsula recently as catch of a lifetime. Talbout Murray, leader of pelagic fish research group in WN, says 327 kg tuna is biggest he's heard of. He's i/ved live.
BRITAIN - preparations under way for celebrations marking 50th anniversary of VE Day. Live i/v with correspondent Keith Chalkley. COMMENT FRUIT AND VEG report with Jack Forsythe.