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Episode Transcript
Good afternoon. I'm railing Ramsey. This is your afternoon news
fix for Thursday, the sixteenth of April. Two people have
died after becoming stuck under a bank in Cowdle's Tuttweeder River.
Today police found the pair dead after emergency services were
called about eleven thirty am. The deaths will be referred
to the coroner. A local at the scene says a
(00:24):
rescue helicopter has left and a hearse has arrived. They
say it's understood the young people were playing near the bank,
which gave way. The government's taking a knife to the
warrant of fitness regime is political reporter Ethan Griffiths.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
From November, cars registered before the year two thousand will
move to annual wafts, not six monthly. New vehicles will
benefit two not having to renew wafts until four years
after registration rather than three. The biggest change comes in
next year, letting cars registered after twenty thirteen go for
wafts every two years instead of one.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Transport Minister Chris Bishop says this will save Kiwis as
much as four billion dollars over thirty years. Hopes our
housing markets stay steady during the fuel crisis. The Real
Estate Institute's House price index dropped zero point three percent
last month to almost fifteen percent below late twenty twenty one.
(01:21):
Prices fell one point eight percent annually in Wellington, one
point two in Auckland, but rose three point seven in Canterbury.
CEO Lizzie Riley says there's precedent for staying static during
international crises, back.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
To the Ukraine War, back to the Golf War, and
the housing market actually didn't seem to be affected in
New Zealand, particularly.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Labour leader Crisip Concesse. He's spoken to his revenue spokesperson
who's described a lobby group's release on taxes as having
really good suggestions. The report from Tax Justice Altiro called
for comprehensive taxes on capital gains and wealth. Debora Russell
praised it, but wouldn't say whether the Labour's own capital
(02:04):
gains tax policy goes far enough. Hopkins says the party's
position is clear.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I think her wording could have been clearer, but I
also think they're being desperately misrepresented by the National Party,
who are frantically trying to talk about anything other than
their own woeful track record.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
An Auckland man's been sentenced to community detention for receiving
twenty eight thousand dollars in COVID support he wasn't entitled to.
Shelvin kavesh Swami applied for a small business loan in
twenty twenty for a registered company not doing any work.
In the next two years he applied for payments for
another business. Most of the money has been repaid. Marlborough's
(02:44):
mayor is pleased the Cookstraight Faerry replacement project is coming together.
The council's consulting on whether to borrow to support Port
Marlborough's multimillion dollar co investment in upgrading Picton's port for
new fairies arriving in twenty twenty nine. The loan would
be repaid with interest and the council get an annual
dividend from mulb report. Nadine Taylor says it's a relief
(03:08):
to get here to sport or White's captain Chris Wood
accepts the effects of his recent knee injury may be
life long and will need to be managed now, and
post career coach Whitney Hansen is rolling out the same
twenty three for the Black Fern's second Pacific four contest.
This weekend, saying the World Cup semi final rematch against
(03:30):
Canada is no place to experiment. Despite naming Mitch Barnett
on the extended reserves bench for Saturdays NRL clash against
the Titans, Warriors coach Andrew Webster says his co captain's
thumb injury may still keep him from the field. That
is your latest news fix. We'll be back with the
next update tomorrow morning from the Newstalk's EDB Newsroom.
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