Checkpoint FOR FRIDAY 1 JUNE 2012
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1700 to 1707 NEWS
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A Rimutaka Prison guard and an inmate are in hospital with serious injuries tonight after a beating by a group of prisoners. The Corrections Department says the guard was trying to help the prisoner, who'd been set upon by the group at the Upper Hutt jail this morning. The police are investigating, and the Department's chief executive Ray Smith is with us now. LIVE
A New Zealand citizen is under arrest in South Korea on charges of spying for North Korea. He is believed to be a 56-year-old man, identified only as Kim, who's thought to have moved to New Zealand about 12 years ago. He is understood to also have South Korean citizenship and started doing business with North Korea in 2003. A second South Korean, a 74-year-old called Lee has also been arrested and a third man is under investigation. Steve Herman a journalist with Voice of America in Seoul says the men have been arrested for attempting to give North Korea technology to jam South Korea's GPS PREREC
A coroner is imploring the Government to criminalise cyber bullying, following the death of a Rotorua teenager who received text messages described as vicious and extraordinarily abusive. Hayley-Ann Fenton, who was 15, had been having an affair with an older man when his wife began intervening by text message. The teenager died from the toxic effects of the drugs she took in July 2009, after receiving the texts. The coroner, Wallace Bain, has not ruled the death as a suicide but he is calling for a legal crackdown on cyber bullying. We'll hear from Hayley-Ann's mother shortly But first, our reporter, Tim Graham, has been reading Dr Bain's report and is with us now. LIVE
Hayley-Ann's mother Lesley Fenton joins us now from Rotorua. LIVE
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1720 TRAILS AND BUSINESS WITH Patrick O'Meara
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Traffic in central Auckland has been disrupted by students protesting against last week's Budget. At one stage Police moved in and took more than 20 people away. Our reporter Mani Dunlop is on Queen Street LIVE
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17.30 HEADLINES
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Fonterra is promising it won't allow itself to be radically reorganised on the basis of a simple 50 percent plus majority in the ballot on farmer trading. Farmers are voting on freeing up trading among themselves of the cooperative's shares and allowing outside investment. Fonterra says it needs the extra capital but opponents fear farmers will lose control of New Zealand's biggest corporation. The trading among farmers or TAF scheme can be approved with a straight majority - but the Fonterra chair Sir Henry van der Heyden says he wants a clearer mandate than that. I asked him just how much of a majority he wants. PREREC
The purchasing power of the country's exports earnings has had its biggest quarterly fall in nearly three years. The terms of trade are now 4 per cent below the 37-year high they reached in the middle of last year, with more falls expected. Our economics correspondent, Nigel Stirling, reports PKG
The jury in the corruption trial of the former US presidential candidate, John Edwards, has found him not guilty on one of six fraud charges that he used donations to his campaign to cover up an affair. The jury was deadlocked on the other counts, leading the judge to declare a mistrial. After the hearing, accompanied by his daughter Cate, Mr Edwards spoke to waiting journalists. The BBC's Jonathan Blake reports now from the US. PKG
A coroner is questioning how post-mortems are carried out in Fiji, after a Blenheim woman who died on her honeymoon, was returned to New Zealand without her vital organs. 26 year old Rebecca Stockwell, was snorkelling off the island of Matamanoa with her new husband when she was struck by a speeding boat in 2007. Our reporter Bridget Mills has been looking at the Coroner's report. PREREC
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17.45 MANU KORIHI
Tēnā koutou katoa, good evening,
The south Waikato iwi, Ngāti Raukawa has resolved disputes with neighbouring tribes on overlapping land claims - clearing the way to sign a Deed of Settlement.
Raukawa and the Crown are due to sign the deed tomorrow at Aotearoa Marae in Te Awamutu.
To reach this stage, the Raukawa Settlement Trust's been working directly with neighbouring tribes, such as Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa and Ngāti Maniapoto.
The lead treaty negotiator for Raukawa, Vanessa Eparaima, says the Waitangi Tribunal was used.
She says neighbours' concerns covered a diverse range of issues, but she's happy they've been resolved.
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Vanessa Eparaima.
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The Gisborne Mayor Meng Foon, says the Council has taken on board concerns by Māori landowners, about rates increasing by 50 per cent in the Ruatōria area, to help pay for a flood protection scheme.
Ngāti Porou Chairman Apirana Mahuika told the Council this week, the rūnanga is for the scheme, but it's unfair to make those who benefit most, pay 90 percent of the cost.
He says the Council failed to honour its Treaty obligation with the iwi, as it didn't consult adequately over rate hikes.
Mr Foon admits staff didn't meet with the rūnanga, but they consulted extensively with locals, including having three meetings in Ruatōria.
He says the Council has decided the cost of the scheme will now be shared more equitably.
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The Minister for Treaty Negotiations, Chris Finlayson, says public access to Maungatautari reserve in Waikato will continue in a future settlement with local iwi - Ngāti Korokī Kahukura.
He and local MP, Louise Upston, met with local landowners today to discuss the reserve's role in historical Treaty settlements.
The Crown owns the reserve which is also the site of a native wildlife conservation project known as the Maungatautari Ecological Island.
Chris Finlayson says the treaty settlement will not affect the status of the reserve which will continue to be administered by the Waipā District Council.
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An advisor at the Human Rights Commission predicts Samoan Language week will one day lead to the government funding education centres similar to Kura Kaupapa.
The annual awareness campaigns being celebrated in schools, homes and workplaces - leading up to the 50th anniversary of Samoa's independence today.
The promotional week was partly inspired by Māori language week.
At present, the Ministry of Education provides funding to Samoan early childhood language centres, however, if primary schools want to run bilingual classes they would have to find their own funding.
The Human Rights Commission's principal race relations advisor, Sam Sefuiva, says if the Samoan language receives government funds there'll be one obstacle to overcome.
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The Māori Party says renaming the national Māori Rugby team - the Māori All Blacks will add value to New Zealand's rugby reputation.
It's been announced New Zealand Māori and the national Men's Sevens Rugby squads will both have the same label.
The co-leader of the Māori Party, Doctor Pita Sharples, says the Māori team will add value partly because of its players' distinctive culture.
That's Te Manu Korihi news.
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Worried business groups say a union's proposal to have guarantees of earthquake building safety written into collective employment contracts is a step too far. The country's biggest union is looking at whether to demand employers prove buildings meet the earthquake code and strengthen them if they don't. Our reporter Georgina Ball with this report. PKG
The Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has attended her first major international engagement, after more than two decades in isolation. Addressing world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Bangkok, she has called for Myanmar, also known as Burma, to take its place in a more prosperous and peaceful world. But she said there were many problems to overcome. CUT
CUT Ceremony, colour and music have marked the first day of celebrations in Samoa to celebrate fifty years of independence from New Zealand. Thousands of people were up at dawn to be at parliament grounds for the historic occasion. Philippa Tolley is at parliament grounds in Apia. PREREC