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0609 NZ NEWSPAPERS
0611 NEWS STORY WEST COAST ECONOMIC PACKAGE - first response by locals likely to come at protest rally organised by Coast Action Network in Greymouth tomorrow. Comment from John Clayton, chair of West Coast Regional Council, Pat McManus, board chair of Tourism West Coast, and Barry Nicholls, Coast Action Network. (Veronika Meduna) TEENAGE DRUG ABUSE - call for shcools to employ specialist drug and alcohol counsellors to help combat abuse, follows major search for drugs at Palmerston North Boys' School. 6 students already suspended for possessing cannabis and yesterday's search uncovered small amount of drug. (Melanie Logan)
0620 RURAL NEWS FACIAL ECZEMA - North Island farmers warned to be on guard after rapid increase in spore counts in some areas over past 2 days. Comment from Clive Dalton, agricultural tutor at Waikato Polytech. (Kevin Ikin) SWEDE CONTAMINATION - Fed Farmers seeking compensation agreement with Wrightson Seeds for farmers who've suffered losses from crop contamination. Grain Council chair Kevin Geddes says organising compensation is next step. (Kevin Ikin) BIOSECURITY - MAF says level of surveillance and protection against imported pests and diseases is increasing, hief exec Bruce Ross tells parliamentary select committee that ability to intercept imported pests is greater than it was before. Head of Biosecurity Authority, Barry O'Neill, says it's unrealistic to expect all pests and diseases can be kept out of country but those that do reach here can be effectively dealt with. (Kevin Ikin) WOOL PRICES for most tyes fall again at Napier sale, under pressure from restricted and selective bidding. (Kevin Ikin) FRUIT PRODUCER BOARDS - pipfruit and kiwifruit boards become stand alone companies from tomorrow. ENZA and Zespri will operate as grower-owned companies. ENZA chair John McCliskie standing down in October. (Kevin Ikin)
0625 SPORTS STORY RUGBY - Super 12 competition - live i/v with commentator John McBeth.
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0635 NEWS STORY CANADA - SEALS - agovt says it won't call off controversial annual hunt even though thousands of seals may have already died in what conservationists say is natural disaster. Freak weather conditions have broken up ice pack in Gulf of St Lawrence, trapping and crushing many pups and separating them from parents. Govt under increasing pressure to cancel or scale down commercial seal hunt in which at least quarter of million animals likely to be killed. (Dominic Waghorn, Feature Story) INTERNATIONAL PAPERS MANA NEWS LAW COMMISSION about to come under government scrutiny. CRICKET - Tama Canning, new face in NZ cricket.
0650 BUSINESS NEWS AIR NEW ZEALAND - QANTAS says interest in buying Brierley Investments stake is real and will continue. Chief exec James Strong i/ved. (Catherine Walbridge) BUSINESS CONFIDENCE - National Bank's latest survey show rebound in confidence after couple of stagnant months, but with clouds hanging over construction sector and inflation. I/v with Bank's chief economist Brendan O'Donovan. FINANCE/MARKETS TAKEOVER LAW - Commerce minister Paul Swain says govt wants to have law governing takeovers in place by middle of year, says Takeovers Panel will be reviewing 1995 code in consultation with private sector ro make any necessary technical amendments. (Catherine Walbridge) NEW TAX YEAR sees first tax increase in 18 years, with top personal rate rising to 39 cents in dollar. Fringe Benefit Tax will now be set at 3 different levels with top rate rising to 64%. Tax returns for most wage and salary earners also being abolished. And IRD has new temporary acting Commissioner. I/v with tax commentator John Shewan, Pricewaterhouse Coopers. NATURAL GAS CORPN - INFRATIL moves to require Corpn to buy back Infratil's 6.7% shareholding. Infratil says it voted against Corpn buying 3-quarters stake in TransAlta but deal has been approved and Infratil now invoking part of Companies Act protectiong smallholders, allowing them to quit stake at fair and reasonable price. (Gyles Beckford) BUSINESS AWARD - Supreme Award in ASB Bank's Women Business Leaders Awards won by Kate Frykberg, who also won self-employed woman category. Ms Frykberg set up own company The Web in 1995, specialising in internet development, web pages, electronic commerce. Company recently sold to KPMG. Ms Frykberg i/ved live.
0700 INTRO/NEWS MORNING REPORT'S 25 YEARS WEST COAST ECONOMIC PACKAGE - initial reaction of Coasters to govt's $1 million package is that it won't compensate for loss of native logging. Live i/v with Barry Nicol, Coast Action Network, Phil Groom of Greymouth District Bus8iness and Promotion Assn, and local MP Damien O'Connor. WAIPAREIRA TRUST ROW - PM Helen Clark announces all govt depts having dealings with Trust will be contacted by her official, extending to 5 the number of inquiries into Trust's activities. Police, Serious Fraud Office, Auditor General, Māori Affairs select committee all inquiring. Live i/v with Helen Clark. TAX INCREASE - AVOIDANCE - most high income earners, those over $60,000 a year, start paying more tax from tomorrow, many looking for ways around it. Comment from Finance minister Michael Cullen, financial adviser Aaron Hing, a Nelson GP and Hamilton property developer, Joe Wright. (Stephen Harris) MORNING REPORT'S 25 YEARS - Lindsay Perigo; Mike Hosking;old news bulletin with Hewitt Humphrey.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS NZ PAPERS FINANCE UPDATE MORNING REPORT'S 25 YEARS - PM Helen Clark; Opposition leader Jenny Shipley; former editors reminisce. (Dan Simmons) CRICKET - NZ has last chance today to beat Australian when they meet for 3rd and final test in Hamilton. Live i/v with commentator Martin Crowe. SOLOMON ISLANDS - UNREST - NZ's Foreign Affairs minister Phil Goff warns situation is highly volatile and could quickly escalate into civil war. Violence erupted 18 months ago when group calling itself Guadalcanal Revolutionary Army formed to drive settlers from Malaita off Guadalcanal. Police Commissioner, NZer Rererangi Rangihika, comments; live i/v with Phil Goff. MORNING REPORT'S 25 YEARS - Sharon Crosbie.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER MORNING REPORT'S 25 YEARS - Maggie Barry; Jonathan Hunt;Doug Kidd. AMMUNITION ACCIDENT - ARMY begins formal inquiry into training accident which injured 3 soldiers yesterdayu. Soldiers using live ammunition in exercise, one suffered moderate injuries while other 2 escaped with minor injuries. Live i/v with spokesman Capt Kendall Langston. SOUTH AFRICA - NEO-NAZI LEADER Eugene Terre Blanche sent to mainly black prison for assaulting black petrol attendant 4 years ago. I/v with correspondent Tony Weaver. (Mng Rpt) UGANDA - CULT MASSACRE - death toll still rising. Police now believe cult leaders may have slaughtered more than 900 people. President Museveni says reports on activities of The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments were suppressed by members of his own administration; Jim Fish reports from latest mass grave site. (BBC) SAMOA - TRIAL - closing addresses being heard in trial of 2 politicians accused of muredering cabinet minister last July. Live i/v with Police reporter Karlum Lattimore, who's following trial. MORNING REPORT'S 25R YEARS - Des Fahy;Linda Rose. CYBER TECHNOLOGY already being used in Europe and Britain to do away with problems egotistical pop stars bring with them. Mark Coles looks at the rise of the cyber celebrity. (BBC?) illegible NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS MORNING REPORT'S 25 YEARS - Kim Hill; Richard Prebble. PLANETS DISCOVERED - British astronomers say they've found 13 free-floating planets drifting through vast cloud of gas and dust in outer space. Discovery made during most sensitive survey ever undertaken of region in Orion Nebula where new stars are being born, also discovers more than 100 so-called brown dwarfs which don't have sufficient mass to shine like a star and glow with brownish-red light. I/v with Dr Philip Lucas, Univ of Hertfordshire. (Mng Rpt) INTERNATIONAL PAPERS WEEKEND WEATHER MORNING REPORT'S 25 YEARS - Phil Kafcaloudes.