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0700 NEWS PRISON INDUSTRIES - Wanganui Prison setting up as shoe manufacturer. with inmates to work on machines bought from collapsed manufacturer. Scheme part of wider initiative by Corrections minister Paul East to make every prison a factory and every prisoner a worker. Union movement concerned about effect on industry's workers. Comment from Wanganui Prison manager Harry Hawthorn and Robert Reid, Footwear Union. (Kiri Coughlan); Corrections minister Paul East adamant prisoners will not be paid going rate for work. (Kiri Coughlan); live i/v with ManFed president Colin Martin re manufacturers' view of plan. HOUSE PRICES - Reserve Bank Governor Don Brash predicts general drop in interest rates based on indications that AK housing prices dropping. Real Estate Inst president Colin Brown agrees prices have stopped rising but says they haven't yet begun to drop. He's i/ved live. HERBAL REMEDIES cause concern following recall of product K4 used to treat prostate problems. Health ministry says it' suspected of causing death of 1 illegible and severe liver damage in 3 others. Comment from Dr Wayne Temple, National Toxicology Centre, and K4 distributor Rama Krishna. (Clare Sziranyi); live i/v with Dr Stuart Jessamine, Health ministry. HOSPITAL BILLS - 80 year old Harry Findlay of Kaitaia determined to fight legal moves by Northland Health to make him pay $30,000 hospital bill for wife's care. Mrs Findlay hospitalised with Alzheimer's Disease while Mr Findlay has been in hospital himself with lung condition. Live i/v with his doctor Tom Young, about Mr Findlay's reasons for refusing to pay.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS TUAPEKA DAM - speculation that Contact Energy will announce it's deferring controversial South Otago dam project. People of Beaumont and nearby communities have been fighting plans to build hydro reservoir since 1960s. (Graham McKerracher); ECNZ consultant Diane Buchan hopes announcement is decisive one way or other, says people have been on tenterhooks for too long. (Mng Rpt) REPUBLICAN CONVENTION - over last 2 days, Bob Dole credited with whipping new life into dispirited party and reviving hopes of beating President Clinton in November election. Live i/v with "Guardian" correspondent Martin Walker. CEDENCO takes major step in severing tomato growing ties with Gisborne district when more than $3 million of agricultural and office equipment goes up for auction. (Heugh Chappell); Gisborne mayor John Clarke comments on Cedenco's relocation. He's i/ved live. RUGBY - TVNZ and Sky renegotiate deal over broadcast rights which will see Springbok-All Black tests replayed on TVNZ earlier. Comment from TVNZ's Alistair Carthew, Tay Wilson, IOC, Richie Guy, NZRFU, and Westport hotel patrons. (Mark Crysell) FINANCE - money markets latest with David Jones.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER PRISON INDUSTRIES - is the govt's new "inmate employment initiative" gainful employment or thin end of wedge? Live i/v with David Hagar, Howard League for Penal Reform. HOUSE PRICES - has Reserve Bank Governor Don Brash got it right? Are AK prices falling and will that lead to drop in interest rates? I/v with Massey Univ lecturer in Property Studies, Graham Crews. (Mng Rpt) NZ FIRST launches employment policy under which job seekers would receive wage equivalent to dole in return for being available for part-time community work or training. Other main parties say policy is flawed and unworkable. Comment from NZ First's Peter Mccardle, Employment minister Wyatt Creech, Labour spokesman Steve Maharey. (Marie Hosking) PAPERS/ASPAC HEADLINES illegible ABUSE - more than 200 victims of abuse by members of Christian Brothers in Australia forced to accept as little as $2,000 each in out-of-court settlement and forfeit any future rights to litigation. Victims' lawyer says they only accepted offer because Christian Brothers fought them "tooth and nail" for last 3 years. Live i/v with correspondent Zandra Sharpe. CONSULTANTS - issue of how much govt spends on consultants arises again with Labour Party criticising Social Welfare Dept for spending up to $2,000 a day on outside contractors. Audit Office says it'll take closer look at way depts justify use of consultants. Comment from former Housing chief exec Rob Laking. (Helen Matterson)
0830 NEWS/SPORTS FOREST CORPN SALE - govt says final decision on cutting rights less than week away. Finance minister Bill Birch says negotiations have been at delicate stage and didn't want to put proposal to cabinet before all details finalised. (Stephen Parker); Fletcher Challenge, understood to be preferred bidder, already trying to organise deals, has approached Te Ama, Māori tribal grouping with claims over forest land. Comment from Te Ama spokesperson Leith Comer, Sir Graham Latimer, and Timber fedn exec director Wayne Coffey. (Bronwen Evans) AMERICAS CUP - govt to donate $10 million to AK Regional Services trust, which is building Cup facilities in AK's Viaduct Basin. Battle still looming for resource consent from AK Regional Council. Live i/v with chair of AK Regional Services Trust Craig Little. STUDENTS - competition between universities for student numbers focusses on AK with opening of new Otago Univ Centre in city. Centre joins AK Univ., Massey Univ campus and several polytechnics in increasingly crowded tertiary sector. Comment from Otago vice chancellor Graeme Fogelberg, and AK Univ vice chancellor Kit Carson. (Eileen Cameron) WAR CRIMES - NATO acknowledges it delayed inspecting military complex outside Sarajevo to avoid face to face confrontation with Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, wanted war criminal. I/v with Bosnian specialist Chris Cviic. (Mng Rpt) WHITEBAIT SEASON starts today for most of country. I/v with whitebaiter Ted Sherman who fishes stream off Kawhia Harbour. (Mng Rpt) FRUIT AND VEG REPORT with Jack Forsythe.