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0700 NEWS CROWN HEALTH ENTERPRISES - another chief exec resigns, Health South Canterbury's Robbie Gilchrist, 13th of 23 heads to resign since health reforms implemented in 1993. Mr Gilchrist believed to have resigned after battle over funding with Southern RHA that left CHE more than $1 million in debt. John Peebles, head of recruitment firm which headhunted some of the original CHE chief execs, says large amount of resignations highly unusual; live i/v with CHE minister Bill English. BAD WEATHER - 7 people missing in bad weather: elderly couple on West Coast, 2 US tourists at Lake Waikaremoana; 3 women working in Kaingaroa Forest; Desert Road closed, Rimutaka Hill Road open but doubtful. Gay Cavill reports live; live i/v with Met Service chief forecaster Augie Auer. WINTER FLU still plaguing country, but Health ministry hopes we've seen the worst of it. South Island especially hard hit, with CH Hospital cancelling all non-urgent surgery to cope with extra admissions. (Michelle McGuinness) KOREAN DIPLOMAT - first major hearing against Choi Seung-Jin begins in Seoul today. Former diplomat removed from NZ in May after request for refugee status illegible. Alleged that pressure brought to bear when Foreign Affairs ministry provided details of alleged earlier offences by Mr Choi. Comment from Foreign Affairs minister Don McKinnon on that and on allegations that Mr Choi badly treated in Korean jail; live i/v with lawyer Roger Chambers.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS AMERICAS CUP - AK Regional Services Trust agrees to pay $25 million of more than $50 million needed to get race facilities ready by 2000. Hope now focussed on central govt and private sector to make regatta match last one in san Diego. Comment from Trust chair Craig Little and Team New Zealand spokesperson Alan Sefton. (Eileen Cameron); live i/v with Sport and Leisure minister John Banks. SCHOOL SUSPENSIONS - School Trustees Assn and Children's Commissioner join forces in call for forum on drugs and suspensions in schools. Comment from chair of the Otago Youth Wellness Trust Pat Harrison, convenor of the 1994 Taskforce into Truancy, Suspension and Expulsions, Denise Evans, School Trustees' Assn president Mark Farnsworth, and PPTA president Martin Cooney. (Marguerite Fahy); live i/v with Education minister Wyatt Creech. ACT NEW ZEALAND meeting in WN suburb of Karori, attended by leader Richard Rebble, disrupted by protesting students. Comment from Mr Prebble and Donna Awatere-Huata. (Stephen Parker) FINANCE - money markets latest with Davbid Jones.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER BAD WEATHER/MISSING PERSONS - elderly couple missing between CH and West Coast found but searches have begun for 5 other people. Gay Cavill reports live. CROWN HEALTH ENTERPRISE - i/v with Robbie Gilchrist, resigned chief exec of Health South Canterbury, about reasons for resignation. (Mng Rpt) RUSSIAN ELECTION begins - one crucial question is level of turnout, producing allegations of bias. Another is pro-Communist advert not run on television station. I/v with correspondent Michael Brissenden. (Mng Rpt) PAPERS/ASPAC HEADLINES TOBACCO/ALCOHOL ABUSE -govt releases plans for tackling it over next 5 years, but policy document contains no significant new initiatives, spells out estimated impact, saying tobacco/alcohol abuse account for 19% of all deaths in NZ. Comment from Health minister Jenny Shipley(q), Labour's spokesperson Lianne Dalziel, and Michael Thompson of Tobacco Inst. (Janice Rodenburg) COOK ISLANDS TAX INQUIRY - Privy Council hearing submissions into whether 3 former execs of European Pacific can be forced to testify. Live i/v with correspondent Wayne Brittenden. CORONER - first Māori coroner appointed, in Hamilton. Gordon Matenga takes up position with blessing of Tainui people, aims to allay fears and frustrations many Māori have when dealing with coroners. He's i/ved live.
0830 NEWS/SPORTS illegible SCREENING - health advocate Sandra Coney has expressed fears about future of programme, worried it will end up in hands of RHAs and be destroyed. Live i/v with Associate Health minister Katherine O'Regan in response. DALAI LAMA - Foreign Affairs minister Don McKinnon says he's ignoring pressure from Chinese govt not to allow Dalai Lama entry to NZ in September. (Clare Sziranyi) MEETING HOUSE - after 120 years, Ngati Awa of Whakatane to get back its great meeting house of Mataatua. Mataatua was lent to Crown for exhibition in Sydney in 1977, went from there to Melbourne, London, and has been in otago Museum for past 70 years. Live i/v with Prof Hirini Mead, chair of Ngati Awa Trust Board and chief tribunal negotiator. LETTERS sent on NZ Post's stamp-free day could be worth several hundred dollars. Live i/v with New Plymouth philatelist Charlie Lilley. COMMENT EUROSOCCER - Germany still celebrating win. Victorious team returns home to rapturous reception in Frankfurt. Live i/v with correspondent John Walker.