Morning report. 1996-12-06

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1996
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0600 Headlines/News/Sports Bulletin/short weather forecast
0608 News in Māori
0614 Headlines/Paper Report
0618 Rural News
0630 News Update
0640 Report from our Mana News team illegible Pacific Regional News : Ex RNZ International
0650 Business and financial news. Gyles Beckford
0700 NEWS U.S. ADMINISTRATION - President Clinton appoints UN ambassador Madeleine Albright as first woman Secretary of State. I/v with correspondent Martin Walker. COALITION - announcement of date for Parliament to meet - NZ First MPs to make decision on coalition partner within few days. Live i/v with Political editor Karen Fisher. EXPORTERS leader discuss looming troubles re over-valued dollar and high real interest rates which they say will cause farms and businesses to close. Some division within the group. Live i/v with Federated Farmers president Malcolm Bailey and Richard Riddiford, chair of NZ Game Industry Board and director of NZ Wine Exporters. KINLEITH - Carter Holt Harvey plans modernise mill to improve competitiveness but there will be job losses; live i/v with forestry industry analyst David Stanley.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS illegible COLLISION - Maritime Safety Authority investigating collision between Portuguese freighter and barge early yesterday morning off Northland. Live i/v with Authority deputy director Tony Martin. RATES - West Aucklanders facing increases of up to 75%, confront Waitakere City councillors at hostile public meeting. Comment from mayor Bob Harvey, MP Brian Neeson et al. (Kent Caddick); live i/v with Mayor Harvey. PORTS OF AUCKLAND predicts disaster if strike action by tug and pilot boat crews goes ahead. (Tania Oolders) DIRECT MARKETING Association setting up register of householders who object to telephone sales in order to stop them getting the calls. Comment from Association's Keith Norris, Bob Hillier of Consumers' Inst. Chris Preston of NZ Post, and John Journee, Warehouse. (Clare Sziranyi) FINANCE - money markets latest.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER EXPORTERS meeting calls for urgent action on high exchange and interest rates. Live i/v with Infometrics economist Andrew Gawith. SHIP COLLISION - Seafarers' Union president Dave Morgan says collision between Portuguese freighter and Whangarei barge comes as no surprise, says there are many vessels with untrained crews operating in unsafe conditions off NZ coast - i/ved live. PAPERS/ASPAC HEADLINES BELGRADE - some 30,000 students march through streets in protest against rule of President Milosevic. Serbia's electoral commission announces it's suing a Belgrade court for confirming annulment of local election results which sparked the first protests against govt. I/v with correspondent Paul Wood. U.S. ADMINISTRATION - Madeleine Albright i/ved on appt as Secretary of State. (CNN) CYPS - Gore staff shaken when pair of tree loppers thrown through front window, shattering glass. Incident only one of many such episodes of violence against DSW in deep South. (Marguerite Fahy)
0830 NEWS/SPORTS GOLF - NZ Open at Paraparaumu led by Austraian Mark Allen, one ahead of NZ's Michael Long. Live i/v with commentator Gary Ahern. JEWELLERY THEFT in Ak. Police believe thieves got away with over $100,000 of jewellery from Pascoes in Glenfield. I/v with Acting Snr Sgt Malcolm Wallace, Takapuna police. (Mng Rpt) CHILDBIRTH DEATH - Waitemata Health CHE holding investigation into death of woman after having labour induced for delivery of stillborn baby. Head of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Tony Baird, says such deaths very care with modern obstetrics - i/ved live. illegible - FARMERS angry at economic restructuring virtually bring country to halt with series of road blocks and strikes. Dock workers also on strike. I/v with correspondent Louis Economopoulos. OZ SPOT - live i/v with correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes. (paedophile judge)