Afternoon Edition: 16 April 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 16 April 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 Raining Ramsey. This is your afternoon news
fix for Wednesday, the sixteenth of April. Act's leader is
applauding the Reserve Bank losing a wake of its requested funding.
Finance Minister Nicola Winner says to climb the Central Bank's
application for more than a billion dollars over five years.
She says its staff numbers have grown hugely in recent years.

(00:27):
It's now signed up to work with seven hundred and
fifty million operating expenses. David Seymour sees he's thrilled by
the cut.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
We need to seriously reduce expenditure right across government.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Tropical sight Loane tam, which has brought wind and rain
across the Upper North Island, has now been classified a
subtropical low. The widespread system's prompted warnings of heavy rain
and strong winds in periods progressively from Northland to Auckland,
corimandl Bay of Plenty, Gisbon and Tasman until midnight. Front

(01:00):
travelers are warned to take care with danger from trees
and power lines, and coastguards urging people to stay off
the water. Met Service meteorologist Matapelo Makabutane says Northland could
get wind reaching one hundred and forty kilometers an hour.
That is very very strong winds, especially from that wind direction.

(01:22):
Health New Zealand hope standardizing facilities country wide will save money.
The Health Minister's laid out a pipeline for a newal
and expansion over the next decade. It's worth twenty billion dollars.
Simeon Brown says current buildings are on average about forty
seven years old. Agency infrastructures Aaron Matthews expect substantial efficiency gain.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
We're taken a natural approach the way we do design statilization.
It gives us the opportunity to look at how we
can do more standilized balls and modular balls and apply
the lessons learned to all the new ones that is
coming forward.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
A drivers in a critical condition after a crash involving
a tree truck. It's still water this afternoon, i should say.
On Auckland's north shore. The serious crash unit was called
to the intersection of Jackson Way and East Coast Road
just after two thirty. Chris Hopkins says Andrew Little as
the right person to lead Wellington. Little lead Labor for

(02:18):
a time and served as a minister under Hipkins. He's
confirmed this morning he's running for the mayoralty, saying the
capital's in a fragile place. Hopkins has praised Little's ability
to bring people together.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Wellington City needs a bit of that at the moment,
so I think he's the right person to do that.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
In New Zealand, expects to make twenty million dollars from
travel credits customers aren't likely to redeem. The National Carrier
has updated the nz X on its expected performance for
the second half of the twenty twenty five financial year.
It estimates it'll learned between one hundred and fifty and
one ninety million dollars before tax. That's including the twenty

(02:57):
million from credit breakage to sport headlines and disappointment but
acceptance from Blues coach Vern Cootter over Mark Tela's appending departure.
The All Blacks wing will take up a three season
contract in Japan after this season. Ryan Fox says visiting
at confirmation of an addition to the golf program at

(03:19):
the next Olympics. N LA A mixed team's format's been
approved for the twenty twenty eight games. Read bull Advisor
helmet Marco's expressing concern over Max Verstappen's future at the
Formula One syndicate as their car struggles to keep pace.
That's your latest news fix, and there'll be another update
tomorrow morning from the news Talk zb newsroom