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0609 NZ NEWSPAPERS
0611 MāORI NEWS
0616 NEWS STORY: MāORI COUNCIL SEATS - Bay of Plenty Regional Council considering setting aside seats specifically for Māori councillors. About 28% of region's ratepayers are Māori but present council has no Māori representatives. Comment from MPs Tony Ryall and Tuariki Delamere, Local Govt NZ chief exec Carol Stigley, Maureen Waaka and Rosemary Michie. (Stephanie Baird)
0620 RURAL NEWS CLONING - NZ scientists say sheep and cattle cloning could be relatively commonplace in as little as 5 years. AgResearch scientists expect soon to replicate Japanese experiment which led to birth of first calf cloned from adult cow. Comment from Dr Robin Tervit, Ruakura Research Centre. (Catherine Harris) KIWIFRUIT BOARD boosts research spending to help it keep ahead of overseas competitors, sets up separate research and development subsidiary to provide better means of managing plant variety rights. (Kevin Ikin) KIWIFRUIT - HortReserch says new yellow-fleshed variety is result of years of effort. Scientist Russell Lowe says origin goes back to arrival of first seeds from China in 1976. (Catherine Harris) BIG BIRD farming - code launched for good husbandry practices for ostrich and emu farming, NZ's newest and fastest trowing livestock industries which are now processing and marketing meat and leather. Ostrich Assn president Ann Munro comments. (Catherine Harris)
0625 SPORTS STORY SOCCER WORLD CUP package
0630 NEWS/WEATHER
0636 NEWS STORY: HOMOSEXUALITY - PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH fails to reach definitive agreement on whether openly gay or lesbian people should be ordained or licensed in the church. (Tania Oolders)
0639 INTERNATIONAL PAPERS
0642 MANA NEWS URBAN MāORI CLAIM - WN groups celebrate Waipareira's successful Waitangi Tribunal claim. TOURISM - Ngati Wai man heads overseas to try to sell Māori-style holidays to Canadians and Norwegians.
0651 BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL NEWS: PETROL PRICES - why is it falling again in NZ? BP cuts 2 cents off wholesale price, prompting Caltex, Mobil and Shell to follow suit. Move in contraxt to last week in Ch when BP, Mobil, and Caltex were forced to drop price increase of 2 cents a litre when Shell refused to budge. Comment from BP's Beppie Holm. (Clare Sziranyi) STOCK EXCHANGE ALLIANCE - London Stock Exchange and biggest European rival, Deutsche Boerse, form alliance, and lay foundation for single European sharemarket. (BBC) FINANCE/MARKETS MARKET REVIEW ACC REFORMS could prove lawyers' bonanza, according to Chapman Tripp's David Goddard. He predicts more legal disputes as worker compensation insurance is opened up fully to private sector. (Bronwen Evans) BORDER CONTROL FEES - Travel Industry Coalition warns govt that making tourists pay full costs of border controls at ports and airports will put visitors off coming to NZ and cost money in the end. (Janice Aplin) FINANCIAL SERVICES - new marketing network launched today. Quantum Financial solutions majority owned by National Mutual but will also sell products for a number of other financial and insurance companies. Main marketing feature is computerised database of financial products designed to come up with investment solutions to meet requirement of individual customers. (Janice Aplin) AUSTRALIA - DOLLAR - Westpac economists warn besieged Australian dollar is likely to rash through record post-float low of 57.10 US cents to all-time low of 55 US cents through September quarter. (AAP) U.S. - EXECUTIVE TOYS - "Playthings Marketwatch" Chris Byrne says having toys at work is mild act of subversion against corporate order. (AAP)
0700 INTRO/NEWS TURANGI CLAIM - Waitangi Tribunal expected today to release first binding ruling to force govt to hand back land to Māori. Tribunal recommended return of land claimed by Ngati Turangitukua hapu 3 years ago but Crown has yet to act. Live i/v with Māori Issues correspondent Chris Wikaira. MāORI COUNCIL SEATS - political fight brewing over Bay of Plenty Regional Council plan to give Māori own seats on council. Live i/v with Te Tairawhiti MP Tuariki Delamere and ACT MP Ken Shirley. MISSING GIRLS - large team of police and volunteers resume search for 2 girls missing in WN suburb of Brooklyn. 11 year old Tessa devereux and 12 year old Angela McGlashan went missing when out walking dogs. Live i/v with Sgt Andy Warnes. HOMOSEXUALITY - PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH - hours of debate by church assembly fail to resolve issue of whether to allow openly gay and lesbian people to be ordained or licensed in church. Live i/v with Chris Nicol, who's campaigned on behalf of homosexuals in the church, and Stuart Lange who believes gays should not be part of ministry.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS NZ PAPERS FINANCE UPDATE NIGERIA - DEATH of detained opposition leader Moshood Abiola leads to panic in streets of Lagos. Govt says Chief Abiola fell ill during meeting with visiting US officials and he's reported to have died of heart attack. I/v with Janet Fleisham, Human Rights Watch organisation in New York. ABORTION INCREASE - more than 15,200 women have abortions in 1997, increase of almost 3% on previous year. Statistics NZ figures show European women had lowest, and Asian women the highest, ratio. Live i/v with Dr Christine Forster, chair of Abortion Supervisory Committee. FIREFIGHTERS SACKED - firefighters today lodge interim injunction with Employment Court to prevent sacking of 2 DN firefighters. Live i/v with lawyer representing the 2 men, Peter Churchman. WORLD CUP SOCCER - half time in semi-final between Netherlands and Brazil. Live i/v with commentator John Bell. WORKING WEEK - 4 day week considered by some businesses hit hard by economic downturn. WN Employers' Assn says move may have some positive spin-offs. Comment from Assn's chief exec Adrianne d'Ath, businessman Jacob de Feijter, CTY president Ken Douglas and John ?swan, WN Chamber of Commerce. (Blair McLaren)
0800 NEWS/WEATHER TURANGI CLAIM - Waitangi Tribunal rules this morning on return of land in Turangi to Māori claimants. Live i/v with lawyer Joe Williams. MāORI COUNCIL SEATS - heated debate sparked by Bay of Plenty Regional Council plan to give Māori own seats on council. Live i/v with Joy Drayton, chair of council's resource management committee. NORTHERN IRELAND - DRUMCREE MARCH - Britain sends in almost 1,000 more troops. Decision to stop the march has triggered violence across the province. PM Tony Blair agrees to meet Orange Order representatives. Do people think peace process is now on the rocks? I/v with correspondent David McKittrick. PETROL PRICES - retail petrol industry again reduces prices at pump, giving NZers some of cheapest petrol prices in western world. Is this healthy competition or destructive price war? Live i/v with energy analyst Alan Jenkins. INTERNATIONAL PAPERS ASIAN ECONOMIC CRISIS - report released by Asia 2000 Fndn predicts downturn likely to get worse, says recent social and political upheaval in Indonesia is most dramatic example of crisis and in other parts of region unemployment rising rapidly. Live i/v with report author Philip Porter.
0830 NEWS/SPORTS MISSING GIRLS - search under way in WN suburb of Brooklyn for 11 year old Tessa Devereux and 12 yearl old Angela McGlashan. Live report from Diana Leufkens. WHANGAREI DISTRICT PLAN - landowners and real estate agents on tenterhooks as council debates new rules for subdivisions. If proposal goes through. minimum lot size over most of countryside will reduce to 1ha from 4 ha. (Lois Williams) HONG KONG - AIRPORT - new airport virtually crippled for 2 days it's been open with computer problems, long delays for passengers and cargo being trucked back to old airport for handling. (Gyles Beckford) GIRL GUIDES biscuit about to go chocolate, but food experts and biscuit lovers illegible they don't want to lose their original, favourite shortbread. (Kiri Coughlan) SOUTH AFRICA - BRIDGE COLLAPSE - govt announces inquiry into collapse of bridge under construction, which killed 14 people. Correspondent Anthony Johnson says it's one of many bridges of similar design in country - i/ved. (Mng Rpt)