Afternoon Edition: 10 September 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 10 September 2024, 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 Raylen Ramsey. This is your afternoon news
fix for Tuesday, the tenth of September. No viable options
for keeping two North Island mills in business.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Ethan Minera reports Winstone's International has to day told it's
more than two hundred staff they'll be losing their jobs
as the pulp and saw mills close indefinitely. It says
it was a difficult decision, but there's no way the
mills can continue to operate financially. Blaming high electricity prices,
Ruape Whu Mia Western Curtain says it's a massive blow

(00:36):
to the community. He says the Council's already working with
Work and Income to coordinate support for workers.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Meanwhile, stat Sanz says in the June quarter, electricity, gas,
waste and Water Services recorded a twenty two percent rise
in seasonally adjusted sales. That's an eight year record. Gas
shortages and low hydro generation pushed up wholesale prices while
demand was high and a particularly cold May. Meridian Energy

(01:03):
says strong wind in recent reign at Monipodi, to ar
No and Poulkhaki are helping lower wholesale prices. The Council
of Civil Liberties WARN's extending gang patch bands to Holmes
could disrupt the lives of innocent people. A clause was
added to the bill in August, letting courts also for

(01:24):
big patches and the homes of people repeatedly defying the
public ban. It was after the select committee process ended,
even though police brief the Minister on options in March.
Council Chair Thomas Beegel says the rights of every day
people are at risk.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
If you have a game member visit your house. They've
got the reprobot uncle visit your house. That get she
gives the police the power of social house only. Shouldn't
that worry you? I think it should.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
The Health Minister says it's tricky not being able to
advertise the empox vaccine because it doesn't yet have the
required official approval. A person has been confirmed to have
the virus with links to Queenstown's Winter Pride. Jabs can
be given in New Zealand, but they can't be promoted
because of their legal status. Shane Letti says works being

(02:09):
done to register it and he's considering fixing the issue
for others stalled still unapproved meds.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
This is not just this as a number of other
medicines that were sort of looking at other vaccines as
well that would benefit from this or more specifically the
ministerial exemption that they have.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
In Australia, for example, two custody officers who used excessive
force on a detainee no longer work with police. A
struggle ensued two years ago at County's Monuco custody unit
when the detainee became aggressive. The Independent Police Conduct Authority
says after the man was under control, the officers used

(02:45):
repeated unjustified force. Police acknowledge the findings and say one
officer was charged with common assault to Sport and Bulldogs
winger josh Ado Carr has removed himself from selection for
Sunday's NRL elimination game against the Sea Eagles in Sydney.
It comes after he returned a positive result for cocaine

(03:07):
during a random roadside drug test. No big changes in
the White Fern squad name for the looming T twenty
World Cup in the UAE. The group for the tournament
includes fourteen of the players used during their five NELL
series loss to England in July. Springbox captain c Colesi
has decided to leave French top fourteen club Rau Singh

(03:31):
Metro two years before the end of his contract. I'm
railing Ramsey. That is your latest news fix. We'll be
back with the next update tomorrow morning from the news
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