Midday Edition: 24 June 2024

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 24 June 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 Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news fix for Monday, the twenty fourth of June. A
man's been arrested for carrying out what police are labeling
a reckless and disturbing publicity stunt on Auckland's southern motorway.
Inspector Danny Mead says the fifty seven year old seem
to be injured at the East Tommicky Overbridge about seven

(00:24):
forty five this morning. Claudia O'Neill reports.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Inspector Mead says the man's behavior was significant and unnecessary
and commuters were likely affected by the disturbing site. He
says it required police resources to be tied up and
lane closures, causing inconvenience to the public. The man's in
custody and currently being spoken to.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Meanwhile, the Police Commissioner says recruitments turning in a positive direction.
The government's committed to delivering an additional five hundred officers
and has announced its rolling out community beat teams over
the next two years. From next week, an addition twenty
one officers will be redeployed in Auckland City, bringing the
total to fifty one by the end of next month.

(01:07):
Andrew Costa told Mike Costing more expressions of interest have
come through as the job market has tightened. Takes a
while for those to work their way through the system,
but then a sort of cut of environment wherein we
would expect to be successful in our equipment. A truck
driver says it felt like an earthquake as the Araitiri
became grounded. The ferry came to a halt near Picton

(01:28):
on Friday night and refloated on Saturday night. Maritime New
Zealand and the Transport Accident Investigation Commission are investigating. Heath
Harper was on the ship. He says a group of
them were finishing dinner when it happened. You're just rocking
a bit and then it just went thud and it
just stopped. We went outside, had a look and realized
that here we had collected land. With power restored to Northland.

(01:51):
It Transpowers now turning its attention to investigating how the
pylon toppled. Over thousands of properties were left without power
after a transmission fell down on Thursday. A temporary fix
was installed yesterday, but there's still risk of short power
cuts until additional temporary structures are installed, likely to be
done by Friday. Fung I a mehor. Vince Cockarulo says

(02:15):
officials have made it clear to him that this can't
happen again when.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
The investigation goes on course, going to talks or discussions about.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Where things have been let down and where they could
do better. Fog has continued to disrupt travelers' plans at
Auckland Airport this morning, with about forty one domestic regional
flights canceled and thirty delayed. It's now affecting some main
routes or main flight routes from christ Church and in
and out of Wellington. Flights to Dunedin and Queenstown and

(02:44):
international flights are running as scheduled. More financial support for
drought stricken farmers and growers in thirty eight districts across
the country. Farmers in Northland Taranaki at the top of
the South are among those that can now apply for
the assistance through the Ministry of Social Development. It's available
until November when incomes are expected to lift to sport,

(03:08):
golfer Scotty Scheffler has won his sixth PGA Tour event
this season, the most since Tiger Woods secured the same
number in two thousand and nine. Germany and Switzerland are
through from Group A at Football's zero twenty four after
a one all drawer in Frankfurt. Hungary have a chance
to advance as a best third placed finisher after beating

(03:30):
Scotland one nill in Stuttgart. Tokyo bronze medallist Hayden Wilde,
debutant Dylan McCulloch, Nicole Van DeKay and Ainsley Thorpe will
represent New Zealand in triathlon at the Paras Olympics. I'm
Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix. We'll be back
with the next update at five p m from the
newstalk ZB newsroom.