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September 4, 2024 3 mins
The Morning Edition of News Fix for 05 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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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good morning, I never ready Manu and this is your morning.
Newswix for Thursday, fifth September. In this update, a scathing
report has found decades of failure by successive governments contributed
to London's Grenfelle Tower fire, which killed seventy two. Seven
years after the horrific event, a sixteen hundred page report
from the public Inquiry has been published. It also blamed

(00:27):
systematic dishonesty of planting companies and a chronic lack of
leadership in the fire service. Inquiry chairs of Martin Moore
Bicks says the deaths were all avoidable.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Those who lived in the tower were badly failed over
a number of years and in a number of different
ways by those who were responsible for ensuring the safety
of the building and its occupants.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Tourism to this country by international travelers is continuing to grow.
The latest International Visitors Survey shows overseas visitors added two
point six billion dollars to the economy in the June quarter,
an annual increase of seventeen percent. Supply issues of plaguing
pharmacists with the sector in disarray. The Pharmaceutical Society surveyed

(01:08):
more than four hundred members revealing more than ninety percent
of community and hospital pharmacies have experienced staff shortages in
the last year. Sixty five percent of hospital pharmacy respondents
say patient health is being put at risk due to
delays caused by medicine supply issues. President Michael Hammond says
as a number of issues across.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
The board, messines happening to be sourced from alternate suppliers,
or that they have to lays with the prescriber to
find an alternative medicine to be prescribed, so that takes
up a lot of the time that the pharmacist could
be spanned during other activities.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
The public appears to be behind Eden Park hosting more concerts.
The Auckland Stadium's application has been met with ninety four
percent support from submitters. The application calls for an increase
from six concerts a year to twelve. CEO IC Saughtoner
says it would make New Zealand a more attractive option.
New Zealand businesses are key to see our corporate tax
rate go down. Our twenty eight percent figure the eighth

(02:00):
highest in the OECD. The Business New Zealand Sentiment Survey
has found three quarters of businesses want the government to
consider lowering it to twenty five percent over the next
three years. Thousands are gathering at Nadua Wahia to pay
tribute to KINGI Twohitia and Usher and his successor, Claudia
O'Neill reports.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
Today's proceedings will commence with the coronation of the new
monarch at Tutongawaiwoi Madai at ten. The funeral service will
follow before the King's caska is taken to the shores
of the Waikato River for his final sendoff. A fleet
of for waka will carry him along the river on
a two hour journey to his final resting place at Topadimonga.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
During the ceremony, there will be no fly zone over
the mountain and the river will be closed between Pukett
and Huntly boat ramps. And In sport, Daniel Hison has
earned a silver in the T thirty six one hundred
meters and Holly Robinson has claimed to bronze in their
forty six shot put at the Paris Paralympics, bringing New
Zealand's medal tally to seven. The chances of springbox captain

(03:02):
Sea Kalisi playing the second rugby Championship test against the
All Blacks are increasing despite his facial injury in the
opener at Johannesburg. Carolina Mukiva has beaten Beatrice Beatrice hadasched
Meyer in straight sets to advance to the semifinals at
the US Tennis Open. I've never ready man who and
that your latest news fix. We'll be back with the

(03:24):
next update at midday from the newstalk ZB newsroup.
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