Afternoon Edition: 02 May 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 02 May 2025, straight from the Newstalk ZB newsroom - bringing you everything you need to know in news, politics, business, entertainment and sport.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good afternoon, I'm railing Ramsey. This is your afternoon news
fix for Friday, the second of May. Prominent businessman, author
and former politician, Sir Robert Edward Jones, better known as
Sir Bob Jones, has died. The eighty five year old
died peacefully that is Wellington home, surrounded by family after
a brief illness. In nineteen sixty one, Sabob formed his

(00:27):
commercial property company, Robert Jones Holding Limited, which is now
New Zealand's largest private CBD office building owner. Two decades later,
he launched the New Zealand Party, which was set up
to protest Robert Muldoon's National Party government, winning twelve point
five percent of the vote in nineteen eighty four. In
the next year, Sir Bob announced the party was taking

(00:49):
an eighteen month recess. TVNZ reporter the late Rod Vaughan
was seeking a comment about the hiatus and found Jones
fishing near Tudangi. When approached him, Sir Bob punched him
in the face, breaking his nose as well as my injury.
The cameraman, Peter Mayo, was not to the ground and bruised.
Sir Bob was fined one thousand dollars for assault. He

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received a knighthood in nineteen eighty nine for services to
business management and the community, and the Prime Minister is
paying tribute to Sir Bob Jones, saying his death is
a huge loss. Chris Larkson says he admired Sir Bob hugely.
Is when he was growing up, he was at the
forefront of New Zealand business.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
He had just in a servant wit and just a
very very quick and clever and highly intelligent man. So
he's a huge loss from his ella and I really
just wish him and his family nothing but the very
very best from all of us.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Parts of Canterbury will remain in a state of emergency
as the region works through the aftermath of record breaking rain.
Emergency recovery if it's a continuing in christ Church, Selwyn
and Banks Peninsula following widespread floods, slips and road closures.
Seven residents days in a Selwyn welfare center overnight, while
slips caused four evacuations in Banks Peninsula. Christ Church Mayor

(02:07):
Phil Major says he's pleased the rain's east.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
The retention basins were well full, so now that Heathget
River is dropping that enables us to start louring these
retention basins, and.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Wild weather in Wellington has spared the city's south coastal roads,
which have now reopened. A group of meat processing companies,
directors and managers have been fined more than one point
six million dollars for illegally altering tallow for profit. The
rendered animal fat is used in a range of products.
In this case it was exported for use in biofuels.

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Lochlan ready has more.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Food safety investigation found ten companies in individuals that work
together to illegally mix tullow with vegetable oils to command
a higher price for the exports. Deputy Directed General Vincent
Arbuckle says their investigation followed up from a whistleblower's tip
and found they worked togegether to export more than eight
thousand tons of non compliant tallow.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
To Sport and New Zealand seven's coaching great Sir Gordon
Kitchens has slammed the New World Series format as a
major step backwards. Wellington Saints boss Nick mills As has
darts the Indian Panthers will ever return to the NBL
after they were suspended indefinitely over allegations around player payments
and treatment. No Queensland players will be charged, despite claims

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by New South Wales representative that she was eye gouged
in their thirty two to twelve win in the women's
State of Origin opener. That's your latest news fix. We
will have for the next update tomorrow morning from the
News Talk ZEDB newsroom