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Checkpoint. 1987-08-27.

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1987
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Year
1987
Reference
140157
Media type
Audio

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Series
Checkpoint, 1984-03-01, 1985-05-31, 1986-01-13--1998-10-30, 2000-05-08--2014
Categories
Nonfiction radio programs
Radio news programs
Radio programs
Sound recordings
Duration
00:22:00
Broadcast Date
27 Aug 1987
Credits
RNZ Collection
Kim Hill, 1955-, Presenter
Jenny Davies, Producer
National Radio (N.Z.) 1986-2007, Broadcaster
Nigel S. Roberts, Interviewee
Michael COX, Interviewee
R. D. (Robert David) Muldoon, 1921-1992, Interviewee
Bronwen Evans, Reporter
Kelvin Dick, Reporter
Tony Wynn Jones, active 1987, Interviewee
Max Barclay, Interviewee
Tony WALSH, Interviewee
David Butcher, Interviewee
David Webster, Interviewee

Episode of news and current affairs programme 'Checkpoint' from 27 August 1987. Theme music and introduction from Kim Hill.

1. Labour wrenched another seat off National today. The former National stronghold of Manawatu. After the counting of special votes, Labour's Dave Robinson holds Manawatu with a 126 vote majority. Ana Tapiata relays the results. Discussions follow about politics and the knock-on effects of this change.
Nigel Roberts, Political Scientist.
Michael Cox, Temporary MP of Manawatu and Associate Finance Spokesman for the National Party.
Sir Robert Muldoon, MP.
Report by Bronwen Evans/ Kim Hill.
2. They're preparing for hard times at the petrol pumps. The industry has the jitters over deregulation.
Report by Kelvin Dick.
Tony Wynn Jones, Service Station Operator.
Max Barclay, Executive Director, MTA.
Tony Walsh, Shell.
David Butcher, Minister of Energy.
3. In South Africa, the National Union of Mineworkers has voted to continued the biggest strike in the country's history.
Report by Jenny Davies.
Social Anthropologist, David Webster, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg.

Kim Hill concludes the programme with a recap of the headline story. Theme music plays.