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0700 NEWS REFUGEES - Police and Race Relations Office join forces to act over racist attacks. Live i/v with Race Relations Conciliator Dr Rajen Prasad. LIBERIA - US helicopters evacuate 200 Americans and other foreigners from Monrovia as fighting flares again. I/v with Cdr Robert Anderson, who's organising evacuation from Sierra Leone. (Mng Rpt) 5 illegible ESCAPE from Hamilton court building, one later recaptured. Neither police nor court personnel taking responsibility. Comment from Courts Dept spokesman Geordie Cassin. (Eileen Cameron); police considering extending search beyond Hamilton area. Live i/v with Sgt Lloyd Hannah. TRANZRAIL urged to back down on plans to charge rentals to utility services crossing railway tracks amid claims of greediness and exploitation. Comment from Consumers Inst head David Russell, Barry Leay of Electricity Supply Assn, and Tony Fenwick of Commerce ministry. (Allanah Kalafatelis) CYCLONE OLIVIA - residents of Western Australia's North Coast have close call when cyclone causes widespread by moderate damage. Live i/v with Rod Patterson, West Australian State Emergency Centre in Perth.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS EMPLOYMENT - kiwifruit growers in Bay of Plenty strike deal with Employment and Immigration Services to employ tourists because they say there aren't enough locals around to pick the fruit. Live i/v with Labour Dept's John Dale. LABOUR MARKET statistics for 1994/95 year show increase in number of women and part-time workers and suggest people working longer and harder. NZIER economist illegible Cook says it's a result of more flexibility for workersbut CTU secretary Angela Foulkes says it's sign of people struggling to survive. (Corinne Ambler) TELECOM'S caller identification service given thumbs up by 250 people who illegible it. AK Council for Civil Liberties has concerns about ability of identifying software to store information which could be used without caller's knowledge. Live i/v with chair Margaret Lewis and Telecom spokesperson Clive illegible. FINANCE - money markets latest with David Jones.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER MATTHEW INNES - court action over death of psychiatric patient Matthew Innes in police custody in 1994 can now proceed. AK court has overturned bid by health officials and police to block lawsuit brought by family. Comment from Matthew's father Paul Innes. TRANZRAIL - Consumers' Inst chief exec David Russell says there will be illegible if Tranzrail proceeds with plan to charge for electric wires passing over or under its land, says Inst will ask govt to legislate to prevent charges. He's i/ved live. PAPERS/ASPAC HEADLINES LIBERIA - UN sending James Jonah, former high-ranking official who's just overseen Sierra Leone elections, to Liberia in attempt to find solution. (Judy Lessing); background to the conflict in Liberia - i/v with Andrew Manly, "The Economist" intelligence unit. FISHING Industries Assn annual conference, expected that quota system will be at centre of discussions. Live i/vs with fisheries consultant Bruce Shallard and Commercial Fishermen's Fedn president Peter Jones re system's pros and cons.
0830 NEWS/SPORTS BLUFF OYSTER fishers welcome announcement that first season in 3 years will begin in June, but oyster lovers may not get as many as they would like. Bluff oyster companies allowed to gather 15 million, half number applied for. Live i/v with Warren Conway, chair of Bluff Oyster Enhancement Company. MENTAL HEALTH - call for change to legislation after Coroner's Court hearing into CH murder-suicide of Graham Beattie who killed his father and then himself. Sister Jane Beattie says she lost father and brother because of gap in legislation. (Claire Silvester) SPACE - international team of astronomers, Virgo Consortium, use Europe's most powerful computer to may beginning of univese, find strangely Biblical connection...order from chaos. Live i/v with Prof Carlos Frenk, Virgo Consortium head. COMMENT MONTSERRAT - locals evacuated from area surrounding newly-active La Soufriere volcano. Live i/v with correspondent Neil Wiese. illegible AND VEG REPORT with Jack Forsythe.