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Good afternoon. I'm railing Ramsey. This is your afternoon news
fixed for Thursday, the eighteenth of July. The Associate Health
Minister says cutting tax for tobacco vaporizing devices is just
a trial. Customs quietly announced on its website this month
excise rates for heated tobacco products has dropped fifty percent.
(00:26):
Casey Costello is also the Customs Minister. She says it's
a less harmful solution for addicted smokers and the trials
results will be analyzed. Ah looking at a range of
options because we're now dealing with about two hundred and
eighty thousand who are hardcore addicted smokers and vaping doesn't
work for everyone. Official Health Ministry advice to Costello warns
(00:46):
liberalizing the products may compound youth uptake and nicotine addiction.
The Associate Finance Minister's calling on the Reserve Bank to
cut interest rates amid falling levels of inflation. The consumer
price index fall into three three point three percent. The
Reserve Bank wants to get inflation between one to three
percent before it cuts the official cash rate. Ministers aren't
(01:08):
allowed to be seen to influence the staunchly independent Reserve
Bank but that didn't stop Shane Jones, who says it's
time the ocr started to fall.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I think the circumstances facing a lot of regional New
Zealand enterprises are worse now than they were back in
the global financial crisis, and sadly, for not seeing a
monetary impulse coming from the Reserve Bank, were seeing the opposite.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
An Auckland charterboat captain's been ordered to pay four thousand
dollars reparation to the partner of a woman who died
during a sailing. Danielle Tamarua lost her footing at a
staff party in twenty twenty one and fell overboard into
the propeller. Jamie Cunningham has more.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
The twenty five year old was on the bar as
it returned to the viaduct harbor and worsening, whether a
contravention of the vessel's operation plan. However, no staff asked
her or anyone else to move inside. Skipper Christopher Sherborne
earlier pleaded guilty to two breaches of the Maritime Transport Act.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Zafero Charters Limited goes to trial next month with penalties
of up to one point five million dollars if found guilty.
Corimand Or Mussel Farm Paddy Bull Limited has been fined
one hundred and eighty thousand dollars over an employee being
seriously injured last year when their arm was caught in machinery.
Maritime Menzied say workers removed debris from muscles by hand
(02:29):
and the tumbler should be turned off during cleaning. It's
been modified. A man accused of murdering twenty two year
old Rebels gang member in Mount Wellington on Saturday has
appeared in the Auckland District Court. The twenty three year
old head hunter handed himself in this morning and was
charged with murdering Texas jack doctor and unlawful possession of
(02:50):
a pistol. Trump running mate J. D. Vance says officially
consolidated his space on the Republican ticket. The thirty nine
year old oh High senator and venture capitalist has made
his first address to the party's national convention. He opened
by praising Donald Trump vances the party will be united
over the next four years. He says he's humbled and
(03:12):
overwhelmed to accept the vice president nomination.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Ever in my wildest imagination, could I have believed that
I'd be standing here tonight.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
In sport. There's just a solitary test cap of experience
between the two halfbacks for the all black San Diego
show down against Fiji this Saturday, with Cortez at Ultima
starting and uncapped Noah Hotham backing him up. Tennis New
Zealand is confident the pairing of Aaron raut Lift and
Lulu Soon will serve up success at the Paris Olympics
(03:43):
later this month, and Central polse netball coach Anna Andrews
Tassola is predicting a spicy ANZ Premiership encounter against the
Tactics in Wellington next Monday, with hosting rights for the
Grand Final on the line. I'm Raylen Ramsay. That is
your latest news fix. We'll be back with the next
up date to morrow morning from the news Talk's d
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