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0611 MāORI NEWS
0616 NEWS STORY: FISHING RIGHTS - new regulations for Māori customary fishing rights in South Island become law today. Ngai Tahu says policing rules will be huge task. Rules include permit system allowing customary harvesting of seafood for special events and establishment and management of mataitai, or reserves, which are to be set up within traditional fishing grounds. Comment from Ngai Tahu's Miranda Cassidy, SeaFic's Tony Craig, and Recreational Fishers Association president, Bob Burstall. (Tama Muru)
0620 RURAL NEWS DAIRY BOARD - European Court of Auditors supports British Customs case against NZ, says Dairy Board underpaid duties on butter imports by $875 million over 6 years. Agriculture minister Lockwood Smith disagrees. (Catherine Harris) EUROPEAN UNION - FARM SUBSIDIES - NZ Agriculture minister Lockwood Smith takes officials to task over latest subsidy reform plan, which he says still doesn't go far enough. (Kevin Ikin) illegible DRIFT - coalition of groups opposed to drift critical of proposed illegible which they say will make minimum level of drift enshrined in law. Chemical Trespass Coalition spokesperson Meriel Watts and Dick Burgess, Environment ministry, comment. (Catherine Harris) WOOL SALE - crossbred prices continue to improve at South Island sale in CH while lambs wool recovers some ground lost at last week's Napier sale. main demand coming from China and Western Europe. (Kevin Ikin)
0625 SPORTS STORY SUPER 12 RUGBY - live i/v with Gary Ahern about weekend's matches.
0630 NEWS/WEATHER
0636 NEWS STORY: WORK FOR DOLE - Treasurer Winston Peters says scheme intended to be extended to include people on Domestic Purposes Widows and Sickness benefits. Comment also from Labour's Michael Cullen and Alliance leader Jim Anderton. (Kathryn Street)
0639 INTERNATIONAL PAPERS
0642 MANA NEWS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES - concern over destruction of historical pa sites in Tauranga. STARSHIP HOSPITAL - Māori manager looking at way of reducing number of Māori illegible.
0651 BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL NEWS: ECONOMY - OECD says NZ falling behind international peers and new round of reforms neede. (RTR) DOLLAR - has it stopped falling after more than year of decline? Stefan Dunatov, HSBC Markets, says it's turn of interest rates to drop as monetary policy eases, rather than dollar. (Rodney Joyce) INTEREST RATES - manyu commentators expect wholesale rates to keep dropping through year, raising prospect of mortgages below 9% by Christmas or early 1999. WestpacTrust chief economist Bevan Graham says there are still risks ahead, including possibly worse than expected current account deficit figure in June. (Bronwen Evans) FINANCE/MARKETS INVESTMENT FUNDS SURVEY firm William Mercer says March quarter has improved on December for most managed funds. (Rodney Joyce) HELLABY'S - outgoing manager Tur Borren takes on new role as investigator of new investment opportunities, says opportunities exist despite economic slowdown. (Gyles Beackford) BUSINESS BRIEFS
0700 INTRO/NEWS HOSPITAL PLAN - Labour Party leaks Health ministry document which confirms govt plan could remove surgery from smaller centres, leaving only 3 major hospitals. Leader Helen Clark says document shows just 3 hospitals will offer brain, heart, and lung surgery and advanced surgery on children under 5. (q); live i/v with Health correspondent Rae Lamb; live i/v with Helen Clark; live i/v with Health minister Bill English. AUSTRALIA - WATERFRONT TROUBLES - Federal Court upholds order to reinstate sacked Patricks workers but High Court grants stay, ahead of more submissions by Patrick Stevedores. Live i/v with correspondent Zandra Sharpe. BELGIUM - PAEDOPHILE - notorious criminal, convicted child rapist Marc Dutroux, stages dramatic escape from custody, on run for 3 hours before recaptured. Escape triggers another political crisis, with more ministerial resignations and speculation it could bring down govt. I/v with correspondent Jonathan Beales. (Mng Rpt)
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS NZ PAPERS FINANCE UPDATE DIESEL - changes in fuel produced by Marsden point refinery blamed for increase illegible problems suffered by older cars and vans running on diesel. BP expected to compensate customers who've had to replace engine seals. Live i/v with AA's Dick Smithies. COMPENSATION - law Commission want system set up to compensate people who are wrongly convicted of offence or sent to prison. Those eligible for compensation could include David Dougherty, wrongfully imprisoned for rape, and Greg Mather, who had manslaughter charges against him dropped. Comment from Greg Mather, Law Commission head David Baragwanath, David Dougherty's lawyer Murray Gibson. (Corinne Ambler); live i/v with David Baragwanath. BYELECTION - Political editor Al Morrison takes "bird's eye view" of electorate to see how campaign shaping up; live discussion with panel of uncommitted voters: farmer Colleen copplestone, brewer helen O'Neill, timber company managing director Graham Wiltshire, and local newspaper proprietor Ian Turpie.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER HOSPITAL PLAN - Labour leader Helen Clark says DN Hospital one of those likely to lose all neurosurgery and cardiothoracic surgery which will also affect DN School of Medicine (q); Health minister Bill English says DN has new rescue helicopter and pledges cardiac surgery will remain at hospital; live i/v with Prof John Campbell, dean of DN Medical School. illegible - Yugoslav Fedn troops kill 22 Albanian guerrillas attempting to cross into Kosovo. Violence comes as Serbs vote in referndum over govt's rejection of international mediation. I/v with correspondent Humphrey Hawkesley. (Mng Rpt) COMPENSATION - Law Commission says creating system that compensates victims of wrongful conviction or prosecution is matter of high importance. David Dougherty's lawyer Murray Gibson comments on impact on Mr Dougherty of denial of compensation; Live i/v with Justice minister Doug Graham. INTEREST RATES - number of major banks cut fixed mortgage rates in respones to fall in wholesale rates but no move in floating rates. Live i/v with Economics correspondent Bronwen Evens. INTERNATIONAL PAPERS DAIRY BOARD - govt rejects report by European Court of Auditors suggesting Dairy Board underpaid duties on butter imports to Europe by close to $900 million. I/v with Agriculture minister Lockwood Smith who's in Brussels hoping to address issue. (Mng Rpt)
0830 NEWS/SPORTS DIESEL - BP will compensate customers who've had to replace engine seals after using new mixture form Marsden Point refinery but says new diesel is excellent product for most cars and there are no plans to change it. Live i/v with spokesperson Beppie Holm. LINDA McCARTNEY - questions remain over circumstances of death as Californian authorities continue investigation. Family denies death might have been "assisted" following Santa Barbara County Sheriff's office saying it was looking into why no death certificate had been filed. I/v with correspondent Richard Arnold. (Mng Rpt) WEKKEND WEATHER FISHING RIGHTS - Fisheries minister John Luxton releases regulations governing Māori customary fishing rights in South Island. Rules for North Island look like being trickier proposition. Live i/v with Māori Issues correspondent Chris Wikaira. RETURNED SERVICES Assn in DN forced to sell clubrooms because of falling membership, but veterans facing challenges with spirit. (Peter Wells) FRIDAY FEEDBACK OZ SPOT - live i/v with correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes. (waterfront; Sydney 2000 Olympics; cricket)