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0609 NZ NEWSPAPERS
0611 NEWS STORY MILLENNIUM CONCERT - Gisborne mayor John Clarke says govt had no choice but to step in with alternative plans to salvage dawn concert. Organsiers of financially threatened concert expected to announce today event will not go ahead as planned. Comment also from Bruce Bell of Year 2000 Festival Company, MP for Mahia, Janet Mackey, and Raymond van Rijk, one of organisers of Peak 2000 event which will see 1,000 people seeing in the New Year on Te Mata Peak in Hawkes Bay. (Blair McLaren) INDIA/PAKISTAN - PLANE DOWNED - India shoots down Pakistani aircrat, all 16 people aboard believed killed. Pakistan says it was on training flight and wreckage is in Pakistani territory but India says plane shot down when it violated airspace and wreckage is on its side of border. (BBC)
0620 RURAL NEWS PRODUCER BOARD DEREGUATION - parliamentary select committee considering producer board reform urged to push for full deregulation of Kiwifruit and Apple and Pear Boards. Independent grower representatives and some exporters want Zespri and ENZA's single-seller status removed and for shares in companies to be fully tradeable. Comment from Nelson apple grower Danny Freilich and organic growers' representative John Vostock. (Kevin Ikin) MODIFIED MAIZE - Pioneer NZ says US study showing butterflies could be adversely affected by modified maize says it doesn't show full picture. Treacey Rood, spokesperson for parent company, comments; but Seagar Mason of Biogrow organic certification body, says there's sound basis for fears that insects and plants could grow resistant to modified crops. (Catherine Harris)
0625 SPORTS STORY AUSTRALIAN SPORTS - live i/v with correspondent Tim Gavel. (prison sentence for cricket umpire)
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0635 NEWS STORY RURAL GPs - South Island medical director of rural health, Dr Pat Farry, predicts shortage of rural GPs about to get worse, with new Australian advertising campaign encouraging NZ doctors to work in Victoria - i/ved. (Mng Rpt) INTERNATIONAL PAPERS MANA MāORI LAND ACCESS - Māori landowners denied access to land since last century may soon have legal remedy. TRAFFIC REPORT
0648 BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL NEWS TELECOM - DISCLOSURE - Communications minister Maurice Williamson says Telecom now required to disclose financial information about its local loop services, will also be required to publish net cost of complying with kiwi share.(q). TUANZ chief exec Ernie Newman says separate financial statements and information on key share will help competitors. (Helen Matterson) TELECOM - INQUIRY - LABOUR Party serves notice that if it becomes govt it will order independent inquiry into telecomms sector and in particular whether it's functioning fairly. MP Paul Swain explains. (Gyles Beckford); Telecom hits back - live i/v with spokesman Clive Litt. FINANCE/MARKETS MARKET REVIEW COMMODITY PRICES - modest increase seen as doing little for current account deficit which continues to go deeper into red. ANZ chief economist Bernard Hodgetts says little in short term to lift exporter spirits. (Helen Matterson) COLONIAL financial services copany sees profit surge to $A212 million on back of strong sales growth and continuing cost savings. Chief financial officer Tim Wade comments. (Gyles Beckford) BUSINESS BRIEFS
0700 INTRO/NEWS MILLENNIUM CONCERT - govt criticised for considering stepping into controversy over Gisborne's millennium celebrations before decision officially made to cancel concert. Live i/v with Bruce Bell, chair of Year 2000 Festival, which is cancelling concert due to poor ticket sales; live i/v with Murray McCully, minister responsible for millennium events. MENTAL HEALTH GOALS - Mental Health Commission calls for at least additional $300 million over next 5 yeaers to achieve goals set out in national strategy. Chair Barbara Disley says although good progress made, too many people with mental illnes still lack access to appropriate services - i/ved. (Mng Rpt); live i/v with Health minister Wyatt Creech. U.S. - LOS ANGELES SHOOTING - man opens fire at Jewish community centre in Granada Hills. Live report from correspondent Richard Arnold. INDIA/PAKISTAN - PLANE DOWNED - India shoots down Pakistani aircraft, claiming airspace violation. I/v with Pakistan correspondent Zaffar Abbass.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER NZ PAPERS TRAFFIC REPORT FINANCE UPDATE INDIA/PAKISTAN - PLANE DOWNED - Delhi correspondent Jonathan Harley says India adamant it had good reason to shoot down plane. He's i/ved. (Mng Rpt) CORONERS - REVIEW of role by Law Commission says govt agencies too often ignore coroners' recommendations on ways to prevent avoidable deaths. Review looks at making agencies consider recommendations and also recommends setting up new position of chief coroner and outlines ways coroners could address Māori claims of cultural insensitivity. Live i/v with Law Commissioner Denese Henare; live i/v wit head of Coroners' Council, Warwick Holmes. BRITAIN - ECLIPSE - people gather in Cornwall for solar eclipse but there's confusion over who much interest eclipse has generated and weather forecasters say there may be only 15% chance of clear skies. (Keith Chalkley)
0800 NEWS/WEATHER MILLENNIUM CONCERT - minister responsible for millennium events, Murray McCully, says govt hasn't yet decided whether to become involved in setting up alternative to Gisborne's Year 2000 Festival; live i/v with Gisborne mayor John Clarke amd Derek Allen, Year 2000 project manager for First Light Tourism, umbrella orgn for Gisborne's millennium events. MENTAL HEALTH GOALS - Mental Health Commission calls for more funding to meet official goal of making specialist services available to people with serious mental illness. Health ministry's deputy director of mental health, Anthoby Duncan, says ministry won't commit any more money until it finds out exactly where it's needed - i/ved; live i/ with Health correspondent Rae Lamb. RURAL GPs - South Island medical director of rural health, Dr Pat Farry, says new Australian advertising campaign encouraging NZ doctors to work in Victorai could prove huge drain on NZ doctors - i/ved. (Mng Rpt); live i/v with Medical Council's chief exec Sue Ineson.
0830 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS ECLIPSE fever takes hold in much of Europe and Middle East as people gather to see last full eclipse of millennium. Correspondent Paul Chapman i/ved live from Cornwall in Britain where there's supposed to best view of eclipse in Britain. SPORTS ABUSE - British researchers says sports may be "one of last refuges of child abuse" because of lack of widespread vetting and monitoring procedures. Live i/v with researcher Prof Cecilia Brackenridge, head of leisure and sports research unit at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education. INTERNATIONAL PAPERS EAST TIMOR - with only 3 weeks to go before referendum, Indonesian military reported to have mounted terror campaign against East Timorese. I/v with NZ Cardinal Tom Williams, who's in East Timor on visit to Biship Carlos Belo. (Mng Rpt) OBITUARY - JENNIFER PATERSON, one of the "Two Fat Ladies" television cooks, dies of cancer aged 71. Live i/v with NZ chef Peter Gordon, of London's Sugar Club restaurant.