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0640 Report from our Mana News team
0645 Pacific Regional News : Ex RNZ International
0650 Business and financial news. David Jones
0700 NEWS BUSINESS CONFIDENCE - National Bank's latest survey shows confidence at 5 year low. Comment from bank economist Adrian Orr. (Bronwen Evans); Bancorp financial illegible say more than half inflation in economy at present relates to govt policy changes, and public has allowed central and local govt to get away with price rises that would not occur in private sector. live i/v with spokesperson Roger Kerr; live i/v with Associate Finance minister Lockwood Smith. COOK ISLANDS TAX INQUIRY - Privy Council hears submissions re whether 3 former executives of European Pacific can be forced to testify before the Inquiry. NZ First leader Winston Peters attending the hearings - comments. (Wayne Brittenden); live i/v with correspondent Wayne Brittenden. COLD WEATHER - temperatures drop well below zero in many areas over night. Live i/v with Met Service chief forecaster Augie Auer; Invercargill seems to be worst affected. Live i/v with Shanette Shepherd, who owns the cafe at the airport. RUSSIAN ELECTION - second round tomorrow. President Yeltsin appears on television after 4 day public absence which sparked rumours about his health. I/v with correspondent Tracy Sutherland. (Mng Rpt) SHORTLAND STREET - Health minister Jenny Shipley and Labour leader Helen Clark appear in cameo roles in television soap opera. Comment from producer Judith Tyer, former cabinet minister and ACT leader Richard Prebble, and critic Timothy O'Brien. (Peter Fowler) illegible NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS FIREFIGHTERS' union says it can't rule out sabotage and disruption over community fire safety teams. Although it doesn't endorse illegal activity, feelings running high over introduction of non-union staff on lower rates of pay and inferior conditions. Live i/v with union secretary Derek Best and Fire Service human resources advisor Geoff Summers. SCHOOL SUSPENSIONS - growing number of suspended pupils enrolled with Correspondence School. Comment from director Errol Jaquiery and Principal Youth Court Judge David Carruthers, both supporting calls for review of school suspensions. (Marguerite Fahy) BOSNIA - Western officials pondering next move over getting rid of Radovan Karadzic as Bosnian Serb leader. Peace negotiator Carl Bildt announced Karadzic, indcited war criminal, had bowed to demands for his resignation but this was contradicted by the Bosnian Serb who allegedly replaced him. I/v with correspondent Paul Wood. (Mng Rpt) FINANCE - money markets latest with David Jones.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER BUSINESS CONFIDENCE - National Bank survey concludes monetary and fiscal policies on collision course. Live i/v with chair of combined Chambers of Commerce and Industry Michael Barnett. PAPERS/ASPAC HEADLINES SECONDARY TEACHERS and State Services Commission resume talks today, 9 months after negotiatons first began. Comment from PPTA president Martin Cooney and SSC's Julie Craig, also PSA's Kate Clark. (item also looks at other state sector indutrial dispute) (Clare Sziranyi) N Z POST has frantic night after its first free post day, with mail centres handling record volumes. Live i/v with chief exec Elmar Toime. FIREFIGHTERS - union believes community safety teams introduced to break collective contract and will endanger public safety because newly trained recruits may not be working alongside senior staff. Live i/v with new firefighter caught in middle of the controversy, Terry Ruscoe, community fire safety officer for West WN district.
0830 NEWS/SPORTS WIMBLEDON - rain affects starts of second week. First week was dramatic, saw top seeds Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Michael Chang, and Boris Becker all fall by wayside. I/v with official Johnny Perkins. (Mng Rpt) CERVICAL SCREENING - women's health advocate Sandra Coney rejects govt assurances that programme has secure future, is concerned national co-ordination will end in hands of RHAs which would fragment and destroy it. Comment also from Health ministry's public health head Gillian Durham. (Helen Matterson) illegible - after 4 years as non-union vessel, managers of "Straitsman" sign collective contract with 13 of 15 crew working on ship. Seafarers' Union admits it secretly pushed union supporters to get jobs on ship until numbers allowed crew to push for collective agreement. Live i/v with union secretary Mike Williams. STUDENTS block main entrance to Parliament in protest agaisnt govt education policies. About 80 occupy front steps, preventing staff from using it to get to work. Live report from Kathryn Street. FROZEN CHICKENS - WN tavern "Fat Ladies Arms" runs promotion called "Naked chicks, we've plucked 'em, you bowl' em" which uses frozen chicken as bowling balls. Some local agencies upaet. Comment from City Missioner Fr Des Britten and Ro williams of SPCA. (Andi Brotherston); live i/v with tavern owner Shayne Armstrong. COMMENT SAN FRANCISCO holds annual Gay Pride parade, major event on civic claendar. Live i/v with local radio reporter Kristen Vederholt.