The Rangiatea church vestry commitee is meeting at the moment to discuss plans [illegible] rebuild the church after fire destroyed it in the early hours of Saturday morning. Montage of memorial service.
The Rangiatea Church had the highest possible Historic Places trust classification - one used to mark exceptionally important cultural and historic places....And yet, it had no sprinkler system, nothing to stop it burning on the ground. Carol Quirk LIVER
The naval ship Tui, which has stood off Mururoa Atoll during the last two nuclear blasts, is leaving tomorrow to return to New Zealand. John Campbell LIVER
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5.00 TODAY IN AUSTRALIA: main item; indications jobs are slowing
[illegible] 1.3 million people, a fifth of the world's population, China is seen by [illegible] in the West as the greatest potential market in the world.
[illegible] doing business with China is not always straight forward....x Diana burns
Auckland Police say the eldery woman murdered in Auckland Domain was killed [illegible] from one or more severe blows to the head.x sacha Hardy
[illegible] Christchurch today, the court in the so-called Poisoned Professor trial has [illegible] from a defence witness who rejects prosecution claims that David Lloyd [illegible] suffering from acrylamide poisoning. Anita Lee LIVER
1737 3.00 SPORTS:Malcolm Jordon
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[illegible] closes at midday on Saturday for this year's local body elections. We [illegible] in Wellington, where, as Janice Aplin reports, voters have a dizzying [illegible] consider on the ballot paper for Mayor of the capital city. [illegible] Janice Aplin
[illegible] acquittal on murder charges of OJ Simpson has raised so much controversey [illegible] post trial issues still dominate the American media. In particular, what [illegible] reaction to the verdict says about the US
[illegible] the capital Washington, itself divided between white and black [illegible] Ben Bradshaw has been asking whether America's blacks and [illegible] can ever really live as one. X BBC
[illegible] the Winebox Inquiry in Auckland, Inland Revenue's come under a stinging [illegible] - from one of its own lawyers. Michael Scott says the transactions [illegible] New Zealand companies in the Cook Island tax haven amounted to tax evasion [illegible] not tax avoidence Adam Hollingworth
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[illegible] United Nations peacekeepers, operating in 17 different parts of the world, [illegible] often called the Blue Berets ... unless they're on the front lines, when they trade berets for blue helmets, as they do in Bosnia.
And every blue beret on every United Nations peacekeeper's head is made ... in Porirua.x Judy Lessing
Fierce fighting is continuing in Bosnia, just two days before a United States-brokered ceasefire is due to take effect, x BBC
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