April 15, 2025 • 34 mins
On the Early Edition with Ryan Bridge Full Show Podcast Wednesday 16th of April 2025, The Government's patting itself on the back for hitting its violent crime reduction target four years early, Dairy and Business Owners Group Chairperson Manish Thakkar shares his thoughts on the numbers.
Food prices have increased 3.5% on last year, Chair of Vegetables NZ, John Murphy shares his thoughts.
New submarines have been launched to intercept class-a drugs before they get into the country, Sherelle Kennelly from Customs Brokers and Freight Fowarders Federation of NZ tells Ryan Bridge how the operation will work.
Plus, Gavin Grey from the UK has the latest on British Steel's blast furnaces set to continue running after the UK government secured delivery of key raw materials.
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
He'd be good morning. It is six alfter five news talks.
It'd be Wednesday, the sixteenth of April. Great to have
your company coming up on the program. We'll look at
those crime stats. Just how reliable are they? The cost
of feeding your family has gone up again, The drones
of the ocean catching the cartels out, will take a
look at those. Plus we're in the UK. Are they
about to sign a free trade deal with Donald Trump?
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All ahead.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It is Wednesday, the sixteenth of April. Trump's called for
Harvard University to lose a valuable tax break, just hours
after his administration announced it's freezing more than two billion
in federal funds for the university. The White House demanded
Harvard mate changes to hiring, admissions, and teaching practices, which
it says will fight antisemit on campus, but the demands
(01:02):
were rejected. Harvard's now accusing the administration of trying to
control it.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
All of the institutions that are facing this extortion by
the Trump administration individually may not be powerful enough to resist,
but I think collectively they do have a tremendous amount
of resources.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Staying in the US. Vice President J d Vance says
there's a good chance they'll do a trade deal with
the UK. He says it's because it's much easier to
do one with them than it is European countries because
of the reciprocal relationship. The UK's cautious a.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Good trade deal with the US could bring huge benefits.
But of course we're slightly alarmed by what they've been
saying recently. Trump has not proved to be a reliable partner.
But let's see what it is on the table.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Finally, the Vatican has put Spanish architect Anthony Gaudi on
the path to sainthood and recognition of his heroic virtues.
Godie's most well known for a installation in Barcelona, has
been recognized as God's Architect for many years.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
There's absolutely no doubt he was devout and that he
spent pretty well all his adult life working for the church,
working in different ways, but particularly for that extraordinary project,
the Guirlda Familiar, which is he was working on it
until literally the day he died.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
And that is your agenda eight after five.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
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Talk said, be.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
We'll talk to the veggi growers in just a few
seconds about the price of food. Actually, Vegi is one
of the few that is coming down. Your fruit and
vege one of the few that's coming down in the
last results we had out yesterday, So we'll talk to them.
The doctors are striking. Senior doctors are striking. Surprise, surprise.
We've been hearing grumblings from them for a while and
now haven't we over the past few weeks. Hospitals and
(02:59):
Nelson and Gisbon and other places. It's the usual staff,
not enough resources, not enough pay, not enough staff. Two
things about this one. The government obviously deciding they're going
to play hardball here. We had Simi and browncome out yesterday.
He's saying, we'll have to cancel more than four thousand procedures,
you know, thousands of MRIs and CT scans. Plus these
(03:22):
guys earn an average total pay of almost three hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. Wow. So in the battle for
public sympathy, he's obviously hoping that doctors lose on the
basis that kiwis don't like people being paid lots of
money and then complaining about it. Right, Sure, three hundred
and fifty thousand dollars sounds like a lot of money.
Sure it is more than most people earn its X
(03:44):
y z times the average wage. But none of that
really matters. The only number that really matters is what
they be paid elsewhere. This is not your back office staff,
This is not your orderlies. This is the guy or
the girl, the woman or the man who operates on you. Now.
I don't know about you, but if somebody's going to
(04:07):
cut me open and operate on me, I'd like them
to be well paid. And being well paid doesn't mean
a pay that most people would be comfortable with the
New Zealand. It means a pay that's competitive with Australia
at the very least, where specialists can turn up to
five hundred thousand dollars a year that's Australian. So hm,
(04:27):
I don't know who I'm with on that one, other
than to say, if I'm going to be cut open
by some by a surgeon, I'd like them to have
a lot of money in their back pocket. Ten alf
to five News talks, there'd b We've got the global
dairy trade numbers overnight. Interesting. We were wondering whether Trump's
Paris would have an impact on them, whether we'd see
a fall in demand. We haven't. I'll have those numbers
(04:47):
for you next on.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
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Speaker 2 (04:58):
You talk said, be good morning. It is five thirteen
So we had our first global dairy trade option overnight.
This is the first since Trump's tariff swin introduced, and
people were worried about weaker demand. Obviously, the tariff's heading
Asia quite hard. Asia a big market for us. In fact,
it is China is the biggest market for our whole
milk powder, which is about fourteen percent of our export
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goods ten billion dollars, so a hefty number. And the
news is good this morning. It's up one point six percent.
Whole milk powder is actually up two point eight percent,
Skim milk powder is down two point three percent, mozzarella
up five point four, cheddar up one point eight and
butter up one point five. So hardly the massive fall
(05:40):
in demand that some people were expecting. So that's some
good news overnight from your Global Dairy Trade fourteen minutes
after five Ray and Bridge. Overall food prices have gone
up three and a half percent in the last year.
This is the year to March. We had the stats
and Z numbers out yesterday. Inflation on non alcoholic beverages
and grocery items are the key drivers barta and as
(06:01):
we've just seen, and chocolate being the worst offenders share
of vegetables and Z. John Murphy with me this morning. John,
Good morning all Ran. Good to have you on the show.
So interestingly, veggies actually were among the group coming down.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Yeah, I think we've certainly done our part and keeping
that inflation low, which is good for consumers. And yeah,
I would say that it actually shows that it's a
pretty tough time out there for vegetable growers at the moment,
so we do have to keep an eye on that
for sure.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
What's tough at the moment.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Look, I think the key thing there is consenting, a
lack of consistent consenting around various regions in New Zealand,
and that's really the thing that could have an effect
the other way in these figures as we look to
the future. So we're working pretty hard to make sure
that fresh, healthy food is prioritized in the IRIMA reforms
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that are going on at the moment. We think that's
really essential so that we don't see a spike the
other way in the future.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Okay, let's put that to a side for one second.
But will do you think we'll see these numbers keep
falling or will they stabilize? Here?
Speaker 6 (07:11):
What happens for vegetables, They can't fall any further, To
be honest, I think we're at a point where we've
got really abundant supplies of fresh vegetables, and I would
say there's some really good buying it there at the moment.
So of course we're hoping people get out and for
their trolleys. But no, I don't see them coming down
any further for vegetables, that's for sure, and not going up. Look,
(07:35):
I think they could well go up, and particularly as
you see the likes of a cyclone that's approaching, where
we see big spikes, and when we saw Gabriel. It
seems like it's a distant past now, but we saw
fresh cut greens production go down by that fifteen percent
(07:56):
with that horrendous event. Now, fifteen percent doesn't sound a
lot us as we went up three hundred percent because
the market tipped. So we don't want to see that in.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
The future, certainly don't know neither of us want to
see that now. The consenting issues the government made. If
you've announced a few changes to land use a couple
of weeks back and that affects you know, it will
affect your growers. What do they think about them? Are
Are they thinking they're a good idea or are they
thinking they're bad for business.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Look, there's no doubt that there needs to be a reset,
so it's good that we're looking at it. But when
it comes to highly productive land, having good soils, great water,
great people, great, but we need consent to actually use
the land for what we're doing and that part of
the equation hasn't been solved yet. So particularly in areas
like Dafena and Pukakoe, those areas are in a major
(08:44):
threat if they disappear from the national food febric that
we've got. If we don't have that supply, then that
will affect the number of vegetable growers who are in business,
and that would not be good for these figures going forward.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Good point, John, Thank you for that. John Murthy fat
share of vegetables and zed with us this morning talking
about the price of well what you put in your mouth.
Seventeen minutes after five, News Talks hedb these two unmanned
boats that will be floating out there in the ocean
trying to stop the cartels from sending cocaine and other
drugs to this country. We'll look at those next.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
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Speaker 2 (09:25):
News Talks v nineteen after five. John checks in the
program Ryan simeon Brown's doctor's salary figures are deliberately inflated
to negatively sway public opinion. The actual band is one
hundred and eighty five thousand to two hundred and sixty
eight thousand. Not sure where he gets three hundred and
fifty k from John. He says total remuneration, so I'm
assuming he is also referring there to overtime and all
(09:47):
sorts of different things. Just gone five twenty here on
News Talk sead B, two brand new unmanned surface vessels
were launched in Devenport yesterday. They called Tahi and Ruher,
and they're going to be used to intercept Class A
drugs before they get into the country. For an idea
of how big of a problem this is getting, the
Ministerial Working Group report showed customs seized fifty five kilograms
(10:08):
worth of methan fetterming ten years ago. Now ninety kilograms
get stopped every week. Charrell Kenney is with the customs
brokers in Fratesford's Federation. She's with me this morning. Charrell,
good morning. I am good to have you on the program.
So what do you know about these vessels?
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Oh, aren't they fabulous? Book drones of the ocean? I
think they've been called. But there are you know, an
investment in sustainable safe technology to try and help combat
these illicit drugs that keep coming across the border.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Because there's a lot of it coming in, right and
they've already managed to find some on the bottom on
the house of some ships.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Absolutely, So these new vessels will be able to monitor
them safely offshore, you know, sort of be at the
forefront before it she gets to the border. So it's
a welcomed announcement yesterday.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Are they hard to drive?
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Well, they're remote controlled, I believe, so you know they're
safe to operate for personnel going into potentially dangerous situations
and they can be sustainable, if sure, for days on ends.
So it's a really welcomed addition to the fleet for
Customs and the Defense Force.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Do you know what happens to them once they I mean,
because obviously somebody is going to be on land controlling them.
Does that mean that they would just be out there
potentially twenty four seven? Would there be someone on land
keeping on them the whole time?
Speaker 7 (11:41):
I definitely think it's twenty four to seven surveillance. Yeah,
and with the two vessels they can sort of, you know,
monitor different parts of the coast, whereas potentially the Defense
Force the New Zealand Customs can't get to those places
all the time. So it's a real asset protecting New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Call technology surely. Thank you at Cherrelle Sorry, thank you
so much for your time. Cherrell Kennedy, Chief executive at
Customs Brokers and Frank Ford's Federation in New Zealand. Twenty
two minutes after five, You're on NEWSTALKSB.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
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Speaker 2 (12:14):
NEWSTALKSB News Talks HEB. It is twenty four minutes after five.
So we have senior doctors going on strike. We're in
the midst of a global trade war, not that Winston
will let us call it that anymore. We have inflation
potentially picking up again. We have a lot going on
in this country, not to mention around the world. Right
(12:34):
But there. I was sitting down to watch the news
last night and the second lead story was about whether
women or people could get pregnant. Fact is, nobody in
the story said it was solely women who get pregnant.
Casey Costello herself says non binary and trans people can
get pregnant too, which is true. They may have been
(12:55):
born female, but they identify as something else. Now, the
question is where mass communications issued by Health New Zealand
should speak of pregnant women. To make things clear, here's
the thing about it. The story I watched included exactly
zero of these people who are apparently so offended by
(13:16):
the term pregnant women. The Midwives Union preferred women, the
government preferred women. Even Chris Hipkins, when asked yesterday, said
basically women was fine for mass communications. So where's the
problem here. If somebody identifies as a different gender, then
you personalize the message. You tailor the message to their needs.
The reason these things rile people up so much is
(13:39):
because it reinforces this idea that we've got a bunch
of social scientists and bureaucrats with the genders running around
Wellington wasting time and tax payer money coming up with
this stuff. People, including I'm sure non binary people, would
prefer a hospital system that has enough beds and surgery
slots to cater for them. Surely that has to be
(14:03):
the priority number one when it comes to health. Dwenty
six minutes after five News Talk said, big God Boeing
just cannot catch a break, can they? So we know
that hell of a time lately. They've had the workers striking,
they've had that huge pay bump, they had to settle
with the union, they've had the engine issues. Now overnight
(14:23):
China is going after them American company, obviously Boeing. So
with the trade war, China telling its airlines don't order
any new aircraft from the Americans, so their shares have
taken a bit of a dip. Trump has also said
that they're not only are they not buying new aircraft,
they are also going to walk away from an existing
(14:44):
deal and won't take possession of fully committed aircraft that
they'd sign a contract for. But like us with the fairies,
so bad news for Boeing. Overnight there's share price down
about one percent last time I checked twenty seven minutes
after five. This weather system, and I know you get
you probably roll your eyes every time you see these
headlines now because there's such that they're beaten to within
(15:06):
an inch of their lives. But I do have to
tell you that there is a tropical cyclone heading towards
New Zealand. It's been upgraded to a tropical cyclone overnight.
This is the FIGI met Service. It's done it. The
center was expected to remain west of Cape Danger, so
won't actually come over the top of New Zealand, but
I'll get close enough to see some winds one hundred
(15:28):
kilometers in our heavy rainfall. That kind of stuff coming today,
but Thursday looking worse. So tie your trampoline down and
that's the message, and get your supplies ready. Auckland, Northland
Corimandal Bay of plenty Rota Do or Kaima Range. Why
kata Wa, toml Buller, You're expected to be hit. It
should be downgraded. This is the thing. It should be
downgraded from a tropical cyclone by the time it actually
(15:51):
gets close to us. So I mean it still matters,
but it won't quite be a tropical cyclone by the
time it gets here. Now, inflation, we are looking ahead today.
The inflation number will be out Thursday morning. And it's
very difficult Genie to get back in the bottle, isn't
it very stubborn little thing? The number four quarter one
out Thursday, expected to increase for the first time in
(16:13):
three years. Food price is expected to be aut one
point seven percent. This is according to the economists, of course,
so the number because you think, oh, inflation going up,
that sounds scary. The number could be two point three
percent instead of two point two. Is that the end
of the world?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Is it still within the Reserve banks band? Yes? Would
it influence a decision by them to bring the ocr down?
Speaker 5 (16:36):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
So not worth getting your nick. It's quite twisted. Yet
we'll have to wait and see what happens on Thursday
twenty eight minutes after five. Now you're on News Talk s'b.
We're going to get to Gavin Gray after News find
out how close the Brits are to a trade deal
with Trump.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
That's well with the ordendary. Oh yeah, on the oude
of your name, staying drunk on your bye.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Names is up in the clouds.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Oh ChIL.
Speaker 9 (17:15):
Let's know when we found.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
You're going to be given.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
My dad.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
You know we.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Ryan Bridge on early edition with one ruth make your
property search simple used Talk zibby. Good morning.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
It is twenty four minutes away from six year on
news Talk ZIBB. Coming up, we will look at the
violent crime stats before six o'clock. We'll get to Gavin
Bray and the UN as well. Some fears that Australia,
well Australia was fearing that Indonesia was going to give
up some of its airspace to the Russian So the
Indonesian Defense Minister is now rubbishing these reports that Russia
(18:14):
was seeking to base military aircraft in the country, says
it simply not true. This came from a defense and
security news website Janes. They said Moscow was filing an
official request with jacardiffor permission including several long range aircraft
to be based at one of their facilities. The Indonesians
come out and said that's nonsense. In France overnight, a
(18:38):
couple of prisons have been attacked, one with a military
grade weapon fired at the entrance of a prison in
the south of France because the defense, sorry, the Justice
minister over there having a bit of a crackdown on
the cartels, having a bit of a crackdown on drugs.
They don't like it. So what do they do? Go
on fire machine guns at the entrance to the prisons
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three minutes away from six Bray and Bridge. It's going
to out reporters around the country. Calum Proctor and Dunedin first, Colum,
good morning, morning right, a bit of a crappy problem
for a Southland walking track.
Speaker 10 (19:10):
Colum, Yeah, the Department of Conservation says dog feces on
the Fauvo Walkway have reached obscene levels and so doc's
warning that dogs may have to be excluded altogether from
this walkway if things don't improve.
Speaker 11 (19:26):
This is a track that's part of the Adora Trail
and it's a huge draw card for locals and also tourists.
At this stage dogs are allowed on the track, but
as long as they're on a lead. But Doc says
the feces problem is out of control and getting worse.
So new signs will go up to remind dog walkers
of their obligation and they say the monitor although the
(19:47):
situation will be monitored further hope.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
So now how's your where they come?
Speaker 11 (19:52):
Mostly cloudy here today, easterlies and fifteen.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Nice one, thank you. And we've got Courtney winter and
christ Church this morning Courtney, good morning.
Speaker 12 (19:59):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Now now tell us what's happening with the funding and Canterbury Museum.
Speaker 12 (20:03):
Yeah so, christ Church City councilors are expected to reject
the museum's requests for twenty one million dollars to help
plug a redevelopment shortfall. The project is underway but has
ballooned from two hundred and five to two hundred and
forty seven million dollars. Director Anthony Wright made a formal
(20:24):
request for more money earlier this month. He's appealing for
fifty million dollars, evenly split between central and local government.
A report recommends counselors decline the extra funding and invites
the museum to submit a request ahead of the next
annual plan.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
All right, how's your weather, Courtney, Yeah.
Speaker 12 (20:43):
Mostly cloudy here too, is some possible judzyl northeasterlies are
high or fourteen brilliant.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Thank you very much. Max Toles and Wellington Max get
a good morning. Good morning. Now you've got a surprise
surprise of spatic council. What's this sober?
Speaker 13 (20:55):
Yeah, dejaveau, isn't it? Meryll kandidd. Ray Chung is defending
skip having a council meeting to dine with donors and
his campaign launch effectively next door. Ray Chung left during
a Regulatory Processes committee meeting last week to go to
the Wellington Club. That's the oldest private club in the country.
The mayor joined this year, by the way, but this
(21:15):
was for the launch of a Ray's campaign group Independent
together and effectively his mayoral tilt as well. Chung says
he typically has good attendance at council and notified the
committee he had another appointment. Tory Farno says a vital
council work should trump fancy lunches. She sent us quite
a critical statement. We called Chung yesterday afternoon and he
(21:37):
said the mayor was full of s word. You can
imagine she offered misses meetings herself, he points out, and
he was only across the road. Can we please get
October out of the way now?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Yeah. Well that's interesting because she I mean, how many
times does she had COVID too? That's the other thing.
Speaker 13 (21:53):
I think we're about about half a dozen.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah, yeah, Next, how's the winner?
Speaker 13 (21:57):
Mostly cloudy today, so easterly seventeenth central.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Think you have a good one. Neighbor's an Auckland good morning,
Good morning. Now speed enforcement called for. This is around
Auckland University.
Speaker 14 (22:07):
Yes it is. Now a petition's being launched. You'll remember
that five people that were injured in a crash last month.
This was on Simon Street, so we know that a
twenty year old is facing various drug and driving charges
due in court tomorrow. But also Lewis Creed, he's the
managing editor of Auckland University Crack and magazine, and he says, look,
that road there on Simon Street is thirty K zone,
(22:30):
but a lot of people don't realize it.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
You know.
Speaker 14 (22:32):
He said that he's heard people say is it forty
k or is it fifty k? So you know he's
saying it is thirty k. So they are just really
enforcing that speed limit of thirty k to slow down
around that area.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Okay, thirty ks is so slow that way you might
as well get out and walk.
Speaker 14 (22:50):
Well, sometimes I drive down there, you know, and I'm
looking around. I said, oh, that's right, I've got to
slow down, you know, you do do.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
And the problem is, because there's so much traffic in
the city. As soon as you can go a little
bit faster, you immediately want to because you've you know,
you've just been stuck moving nowhere for half an hour.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
So I sort the traffic out and people might follow
your rolls. House of Weather, never.
Speaker 14 (23:11):
Betting down the headges. It is because as you'd well
and truly know all that wet wood stuff's coming through.
We've got the rain and the strong easterlies rising to
gale tonight twenty one is the high.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Tie down your tramps exactly.
Speaker 9 (23:25):
Have you got a trampoline?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
No, I haven't got a trampoline. Good kids to have
a trampoline, don't you. Dangerous things trampolines not just when
they hit you if they're flying in a tornado, but
dangerous to jump on. Yeah, it's just terrible injuries.
Speaker 14 (23:38):
Even as a child, I never like the trampoline.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
No, not to crack the egg. Did you play Crack
the Egg?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
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Fourteen to six on your talks there'd big Gavin gray
Are UK correspondent, Gavin good Morning either right now, there
is optimism, a little glimmer of hope that there might
be some sort of deal done, trade deal done between
yourselves and the America.
Speaker 9 (25:01):
Yeah, let's just stress that word little glimmer of hope.
And that is because it came as part of a
wide ranging interview on a website called Unheard with JD Vance,
the US Vice President, and he said that a wide
ranging interview there was a good chance, for the words
he used, a trade deal could be reached with the UK.
(25:21):
Of course, this all comes as the dust continues to
settle and some fallout from America's global trade war or
trade tariff shake up anyway, and it looks like the
sort of ten percent baseline tariff which has now been
imposed on virtually everyone except China. And of course that
was where the UK was before the reassessment. So the
(25:44):
UK now hoping, wondering is this trade deal that's been
taking so long to actually negotiate since breakfast? Are we
finally there?
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Well?
Speaker 9 (25:54):
Government sources are saying making good progress it's understood this
deal would focus on more than just lowering the tower,
but also cover elements of trade in both goods and services.
And of course very interesting to note that the trade
imbalance between imports and exports from the UK going in
to the US very very similar. So in other words,
(26:14):
that is a good starting point and one minister's hope
we'll play into their hands.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
And there are some good news on the front of
the British steel They are worried about the blast furnaces.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
Yeah, I think this is going to be a huge
side of relief for ministers today because a consignment of
coking coal and iron ore have arrived from the US
the docks and are now being transported to British Steels
site in the East of England. The reason this is
so crucial is it means the blast furnaces can continue
to operate. It means that the UK can continue to
(26:48):
produce its own as it were, virgin steel steel made
from the raw ingredients rather than recycled metal steel, so
a much higher grade. And many have been saying we
have to continue to produce in this in the UK
run because we need it for our infrastructure and if
the pandemic orders. One thing, it's you need to be
(27:08):
able to make things yourself rather rely on others. And
of course the tariff as tariff introductions have continued to
stress that. Rather interestingly, now a separate shipment containing more
coking coal and iron ore is over or coming over
from Australia. It had been the subject of a legal
dispute between British Steel and its owners as Xingyi, the
(27:31):
Chinese owners. That has now been resolved, the British government
stepping in and effectively but all but in name, nationalizing
British Steel.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
All right, Gevin, appreciate your time this morning. Devin Gray
are UK correspondent A living away from six right right
and Bridge Rich right. The government's very happy patting itself
on the back, although they did hasten to add that
these numbers are volatile. We won't get official numbers through
until June. But in terms of victims of crime, this
is the crime and victim of survey. They reckon. There
have been one hundred and fifty seven thousand victims of
(28:03):
crime in the year to February. The target was one
hundred and sixty five by twenty twenty nine. So on
these numbers targets twenty five thousand fewer by twenty twenty nine,
they're already at twenty eight thousand fewer. Does this stack up?
Dairy and Business Owners Group chairperson Manische Tucker is with
us this morning, Manish, good morning.
Speaker 15 (28:23):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Good to have you on the I'm good, thank you.
Does this sound right to you? Minish?
Speaker 15 (28:29):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (28:30):
What are you saying?
Speaker 8 (28:34):
Yes?
Speaker 15 (28:35):
So, first of all, on behalf of the dairy and
honors across the country. I want to sincerely congregulate the
coalition governments for taking miniful staff to tackle the violence times.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
So you think these numbers make sense? You're seeing less
violent crime in your in your.
Speaker 15 (28:57):
Shops, yeah, number of financiers declient yeah. So according to
police data for the year ending thirty first January twenty
twenty five, retail assaults declined by two percent and the
first state seems a little bit modest number, but still
(29:19):
it is sixty eight Pewer crimes excellent.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
What do you think is making the difference? Manish?
Speaker 15 (29:26):
Yeah, it is making a lot different miss Yeah. Governments
still need to do more. We are still behind. Were
forty eight percent compared to nineteen twenty nineteen and twenty.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Well, it's a good thing. It's going in the right direction. Manisha,
appreciate your time this morning. Manishadaka, who is with the
dairy and business owners group, the Chapists, and they've just
gone nine minutes away.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
From six Ryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Should you say this report yesterday on the chance of
a volcanic eruption in Auckland. There's been a couple of
these stories in the last few weeks and you just think,
what what do I do with this information? So yesterday's
story a ten percent chance of Auckland suffering a volcanic
eruption in the next fifty years could cost as much
as sixty five billion dollars in building damage. Ten percent
(30:13):
chance in the next fifty years. This is from a
discussion document. The Minister Mark Mitchells asked for a document
because he's making some changes. We had one last week
was it last week or the week before, and it
said there was a thirty to fifty percent chance of
Mount Tartanaki exploding inside the next fifty years. What do
you do with this information? Do you stay inside and
(30:35):
close the windows? I don't know. I suppose they need
to do these things for the you know, if they're
going to change the legislation around emergency management. Maybe they
need to, but honestly, you'd have more chances of being
struck by lightning. I would have thought eight to six
News talk, said, b will get to Mike next, the news.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
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Speaker 2 (31:01):
It'd be news talks. He'd be good morning to you.
It's just gone six away from six, so there's some
heavy rain warnings. There's a storm coming. It's a tropical cyclone,
but it will apparently downgrade from a tropical cyclone by
the time it even gets close to us, and even
then it's not going to go over US, just close
to Cape danger winds and rain expected. Mike's here this morning.
Speaker 16 (31:18):
Mike, I don't think you're taking that seriously enough. I
am saying everything to me, including the New Zealand Herald
and stuff in Radio New Zealand, have been building up
to this for three days now and now it started
on Monday, it built up yesterday and it's there. They
are in a frenzy as we speak.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Do you know why because it makes money, doesn't it?
I mean, do you think.
Speaker 16 (31:38):
I'm assuming they've got metrics behind it that says every
time something's coming and somebody clicks.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Well, everyone is affected by the weather, so everybody clicks
on the story, and the more dramatic you make it sound,
the more clicks you get.
Speaker 16 (31:48):
There's some I've done some analytics on it this morning.
There's a variance in reportage between wind speed of one hundred,
which is if you live in Wellington of course, nothing
more than a breezy day, if you're on the hill
in Kelbourne, up to one hundred and forty. We haven't
seen those, according to the met Service. We haven't seen
those sort of winds coming in from least for quite
a while.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Now. I did notice that. But are they talking wind
or are they talking gusts? These are very good questions
because wind is very different to gusts. You can have
gusts up to one hundred and forty we couldn't agree more,
which would be different to winds up to one hundred
and forty. But what about the fact.
Speaker 16 (32:18):
That the wind hadn't come in from that angle for
a while. Well, that's what they were saying yesterday. I seriously,
I hadn't come in from this angle for a while.
So that meant that somehow a tree was going to
for I couldn't work it out. But it's the angle
of the wind along with the gusts slash sustained speed
either way.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Tie your trampolines down, well, that's well as.
Speaker 16 (32:38):
Neva or you asked Neva, who's got a trampoline? How
many trampolines are there out there?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
There's lots of trampolines around their leafy.
Speaker 16 (32:44):
We had a beautiful, big trampoline in the country. And
what we got is we got a blow ground. And
you find these people in the country and you can
go around and say things like how are we going
to tie this down? And he would say something late,
leave it to me, mate, And so he brought around
these bees heavy metal hooks and with a massive mallet
and he smashed them into the ground. And we had
(33:06):
any number of these these weather alerts and events and
not didn't move once.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Well, absolutely fantastic. Needs hire a hobby, that's right.
Speaker 16 (33:14):
And so when they say secure your trampoline, it can
be done and reasonably easily and for a very affordable price.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Well, we're doing too, because you don't want of those
flying into the neighbors do a grim moth.
Speaker 16 (33:24):
And now as I speak to you about this, I
just I regret we have nothing on the program about
it this morning. It's not wall to wall coverage.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
So it's say missed opportunity.
Speaker 16 (33:32):
There's a missed opportunity. We're going to deal with crime, brilliant,
have a great show. Thank you, see tomorrow.
Speaker 10 (33:37):
One Nay, maybe we dares get up a fufty she said,
this life forever, so here to get there, then let's
be OK.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
We can dance. We can dance on.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
He'd be good morning. It is six alfter five news talks.
It'd be Wednesday, the sixteenth of April. Great to have
your company coming up on the program. We'll look at
those crime stats. Just how reliable are they? The cost
of feeding your family has gone up again, The drones
of the ocean catching the cartels out, will take a
look at those. Plus we're in the UK. Are they
about to sign a free trade deal with Donald Trump?
(00:34):
All ahead.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
The agenda.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It is Wednesday, the sixteenth of April. Trump's called for
Harvard University to lose a valuable tax break, just hours
after his administration announced it's freezing more than two billion
in federal funds for the university. The White House demanded
Harvard mate changes to hiring, admissions, and teaching practices, which
it says will fight antisemit on campus, but the demands
(01:02):
were rejected. Harvard's now accusing the administration of trying to
control it.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
All of the institutions that are facing this extortion by
the Trump administration individually may not be powerful enough to resist,
but I think collectively they do have a tremendous amount
of resources.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Staying in the US. Vice President J d Vance says
there's a good chance they'll do a trade deal with
the UK. He says it's because it's much easier to
do one with them than it is European countries because
of the reciprocal relationship. The UK's cautious a.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Good trade deal with the US could bring huge benefits.
But of course we're slightly alarmed by what they've been
saying recently. Trump has not proved to be a reliable partner.
But let's see what it is on the table.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Finally, the Vatican has put Spanish architect Anthony Gaudi on
the path to sainthood and recognition of his heroic virtues.
Godie's most well known for a installation in Barcelona, has
been recognized as God's Architect for many years.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
There's absolutely no doubt he was devout and that he
spent pretty well all his adult life working for the church,
working in different ways, but particularly for that extraordinary project,
the Guirlda Familiar, which is he was working on it
until literally the day he died.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
And that is your agenda eight after five.
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Talk said, be.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
We'll talk to the veggi growers in just a few
seconds about the price of food. Actually, Vegi is one
of the few that is coming down. Your fruit and
vege one of the few that's coming down in the
last results we had out yesterday, So we'll talk to them.
The doctors are striking. Senior doctors are striking. Surprise, surprise.
We've been hearing grumblings from them for a while and
now haven't we over the past few weeks. Hospitals and
(02:59):
Nelson and Gisbon and other places. It's the usual staff,
not enough resources, not enough pay, not enough staff. Two
things about this one. The government obviously deciding they're going
to play hardball here. We had Simi and browncome out yesterday.
He's saying, we'll have to cancel more than four thousand procedures,
you know, thousands of MRIs and CT scans. Plus these
(03:22):
guys earn an average total pay of almost three hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. Wow. So in the battle for
public sympathy, he's obviously hoping that doctors lose on the
basis that kiwis don't like people being paid lots of
money and then complaining about it. Right, Sure, three hundred
and fifty thousand dollars sounds like a lot of money.
Sure it is more than most people earn its X
(03:44):
y z times the average wage. But none of that
really matters. The only number that really matters is what
they be paid elsewhere. This is not your back office staff,
This is not your orderlies. This is the guy or
the girl, the woman or the man who operates on you. Now.
I don't know about you, but if somebody's going to
(04:07):
cut me open and operate on me, I'd like them
to be well paid. And being well paid doesn't mean
a pay that most people would be comfortable with the
New Zealand. It means a pay that's competitive with Australia
at the very least, where specialists can turn up to
five hundred thousand dollars a year that's Australian. So hm,
(04:27):
I don't know who I'm with on that one, other
than to say, if I'm going to be cut open
by some by a surgeon, I'd like them to have
a lot of money in their back pocket. Ten alf
to five News talks, there'd b We've got the global
dairy trade numbers overnight. Interesting. We were wondering whether Trump's
Paris would have an impact on them, whether we'd see
a fall in demand. We haven't. I'll have those numbers
(04:47):
for you next on.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
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Speaker 2 (04:58):
You talk said, be good morning. It is five thirteen
So we had our first global dairy trade option overnight.
This is the first since Trump's tariff swin introduced, and
people were worried about weaker demand. Obviously, the tariff's heading
Asia quite hard. Asia a big market for us. In fact,
it is China is the biggest market for our whole
milk powder, which is about fourteen percent of our export
(05:19):
goods ten billion dollars, so a hefty number. And the
news is good this morning. It's up one point six percent.
Whole milk powder is actually up two point eight percent,
Skim milk powder is down two point three percent, mozzarella
up five point four, cheddar up one point eight and
butter up one point five. So hardly the massive fall
(05:40):
in demand that some people were expecting. So that's some
good news overnight from your Global Dairy Trade fourteen minutes
after five Ray and Bridge. Overall food prices have gone
up three and a half percent in the last year.
This is the year to March. We had the stats
and Z numbers out yesterday. Inflation on non alcoholic beverages
and grocery items are the key drivers barta and as
(06:01):
we've just seen, and chocolate being the worst offenders share
of vegetables and Z. John Murphy with me this morning. John,
Good morning all Ran. Good to have you on the show.
So interestingly, veggies actually were among the group coming down.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Yeah, I think we've certainly done our part and keeping
that inflation low, which is good for consumers. And yeah,
I would say that it actually shows that it's a
pretty tough time out there for vegetable growers at the moment,
so we do have to keep an eye on that
for sure.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
What's tough at the moment.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Look, I think the key thing there is consenting, a
lack of consistent consenting around various regions in New Zealand,
and that's really the thing that could have an effect
the other way in these figures as we look to
the future. So we're working pretty hard to make sure
that fresh, healthy food is prioritized in the IRIMA reforms
(06:57):
that are going on at the moment. We think that's
really essential so that we don't see a spike the
other way in the future.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Okay, let's put that to a side for one second.
But will do you think we'll see these numbers keep
falling or will they stabilize? Here?
Speaker 6 (07:11):
What happens for vegetables, They can't fall any further, To
be honest, I think we're at a point where we've
got really abundant supplies of fresh vegetables, and I would
say there's some really good buying it there at the moment.
So of course we're hoping people get out and for
their trolleys. But no, I don't see them coming down
any further for vegetables, that's for sure, and not going up. Look,
(07:35):
I think they could well go up, and particularly as
you see the likes of a cyclone that's approaching, where
we see big spikes, and when we saw Gabriel. It
seems like it's a distant past now, but we saw
fresh cut greens production go down by that fifteen percent
(07:56):
with that horrendous event. Now, fifteen percent doesn't sound a
lot us as we went up three hundred percent because
the market tipped. So we don't want to see that in.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
The future, certainly don't know neither of us want to
see that now. The consenting issues the government made. If
you've announced a few changes to land use a couple
of weeks back and that affects you know, it will
affect your growers. What do they think about them? Are
Are they thinking they're a good idea or are they
thinking they're bad for business.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Look, there's no doubt that there needs to be a reset,
so it's good that we're looking at it. But when
it comes to highly productive land, having good soils, great water,
great people, great, but we need consent to actually use
the land for what we're doing and that part of
the equation hasn't been solved yet. So particularly in areas
like Dafena and Pukakoe, those areas are in a major
(08:44):
threat if they disappear from the national food febric that
we've got. If we don't have that supply, then that
will affect the number of vegetable growers who are in business,
and that would not be good for these figures going forward.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Good point, John, Thank you for that. John Murthy fat
share of vegetables and zed with us this morning talking
about the price of well what you put in your mouth.
Seventeen minutes after five, News Talks hedb these two unmanned
boats that will be floating out there in the ocean
trying to stop the cartels from sending cocaine and other
drugs to this country. We'll look at those next.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Because news and Views you trust to start your day
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Speaker 2 (09:25):
News Talks v nineteen after five. John checks in the
program Ryan simeon Brown's doctor's salary figures are deliberately inflated
to negatively sway public opinion. The actual band is one
hundred and eighty five thousand to two hundred and sixty
eight thousand. Not sure where he gets three hundred and
fifty k from John. He says total remuneration, so I'm
assuming he is also referring there to overtime and all
(09:47):
sorts of different things. Just gone five twenty here on
News Talk sead B, two brand new unmanned surface vessels
were launched in Devenport yesterday. They called Tahi and Ruher,
and they're going to be used to intercept Class A
drugs before they get into the country. For an idea
of how big of a problem this is getting, the
Ministerial Working Group report showed customs seized fifty five kilograms
(10:08):
worth of methan fetterming ten years ago. Now ninety kilograms
get stopped every week. Charrell Kenney is with the customs
brokers in Fratesford's Federation. She's with me this morning. Charrell,
good morning. I am good to have you on the program.
So what do you know about these vessels?
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Oh, aren't they fabulous? Book drones of the ocean? I
think they've been called. But there are you know, an
investment in sustainable safe technology to try and help combat
these illicit drugs that keep coming across the border.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Because there's a lot of it coming in, right and
they've already managed to find some on the bottom on
the house of some ships.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Absolutely, So these new vessels will be able to monitor
them safely offshore, you know, sort of be at the
forefront before it she gets to the border. So it's
a welcomed announcement yesterday.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Are they hard to drive?
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Well, they're remote controlled, I believe, so you know they're
safe to operate for personnel going into potentially dangerous situations
and they can be sustainable, if sure, for days on ends.
So it's a really welcomed addition to the fleet for
Customs and the Defense Force.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Do you know what happens to them once they I mean,
because obviously somebody is going to be on land controlling them.
Does that mean that they would just be out there
potentially twenty four seven? Would there be someone on land
keeping on them the whole time?
Speaker 7 (11:41):
I definitely think it's twenty four to seven surveillance. Yeah,
and with the two vessels they can sort of, you know,
monitor different parts of the coast, whereas potentially the Defense
Force the New Zealand Customs can't get to those places
all the time. So it's a real asset protecting New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Call technology surely. Thank you at Cherrelle Sorry, thank you
so much for your time. Cherrell Kennedy, Chief executive at
Customs Brokers and Frank Ford's Federation in New Zealand. Twenty
two minutes after five, You're on NEWSTALKSB.
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NEWSTALKSB News Talks HEB. It is twenty four minutes after five.
So we have senior doctors going on strike. We're in
the midst of a global trade war, not that Winston
will let us call it that anymore. We have inflation
potentially picking up again. We have a lot going on
in this country, not to mention around the world. Right
(12:34):
But there. I was sitting down to watch the news
last night and the second lead story was about whether
women or people could get pregnant. Fact is, nobody in
the story said it was solely women who get pregnant.
Casey Costello herself says non binary and trans people can
get pregnant too, which is true. They may have been
(12:55):
born female, but they identify as something else. Now, the
question is where mass communications issued by Health New Zealand
should speak of pregnant women. To make things clear, here's
the thing about it. The story I watched included exactly
zero of these people who are apparently so offended by
(13:16):
the term pregnant women. The Midwives Union preferred women, the
government preferred women. Even Chris Hipkins, when asked yesterday, said
basically women was fine for mass communications. So where's the
problem here. If somebody identifies as a different gender, then
you personalize the message. You tailor the message to their needs.
The reason these things rile people up so much is
(13:39):
because it reinforces this idea that we've got a bunch
of social scientists and bureaucrats with the genders running around
Wellington wasting time and tax payer money coming up with
this stuff. People, including I'm sure non binary people, would
prefer a hospital system that has enough beds and surgery
slots to cater for them. Surely that has to be
(14:03):
the priority number one when it comes to health. Dwenty
six minutes after five News Talk said, big God Boeing
just cannot catch a break, can they? So we know
that hell of a time lately. They've had the workers striking,
they've had that huge pay bump, they had to settle
with the union, they've had the engine issues. Now overnight
(14:23):
China is going after them American company, obviously Boeing. So
with the trade war, China telling its airlines don't order
any new aircraft from the Americans, so their shares have
taken a bit of a dip. Trump has also said
that they're not only are they not buying new aircraft,
they are also going to walk away from an existing
(14:44):
deal and won't take possession of fully committed aircraft that
they'd sign a contract for. But like us with the fairies,
so bad news for Boeing. Overnight there's share price down
about one percent last time I checked twenty seven minutes
after five. This weather system, and I know you get
you probably roll your eyes every time you see these
headlines now because there's such that they're beaten to within
(15:06):
an inch of their lives. But I do have to
tell you that there is a tropical cyclone heading towards
New Zealand. It's been upgraded to a tropical cyclone overnight.
This is the FIGI met Service. It's done it. The
center was expected to remain west of Cape Danger, so
won't actually come over the top of New Zealand, but
I'll get close enough to see some winds one hundred
(15:28):
kilometers in our heavy rainfall. That kind of stuff coming today,
but Thursday looking worse. So tie your trampoline down and
that's the message, and get your supplies ready. Auckland, Northland
Corimandal Bay of plenty Rota Do or Kaima Range. Why
kata Wa, toml Buller, You're expected to be hit. It
should be downgraded. This is the thing. It should be
downgraded from a tropical cyclone by the time it actually
(15:51):
gets close to us. So I mean it still matters,
but it won't quite be a tropical cyclone by the
time it gets here. Now, inflation, we are looking ahead today.
The inflation number will be out Thursday morning. And it's
very difficult Genie to get back in the bottle, isn't
it very stubborn little thing? The number four quarter one
out Thursday, expected to increase for the first time in
(16:13):
three years. Food price is expected to be aut one
point seven percent. This is according to the economists, of course,
so the number because you think, oh, inflation going up,
that sounds scary. The number could be two point three
percent instead of two point two. Is that the end
of the world?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Is it still within the Reserve banks band? Yes? Would
it influence a decision by them to bring the ocr down?
Speaker 5 (16:36):
No?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
So not worth getting your nick. It's quite twisted. Yet
we'll have to wait and see what happens on Thursday
twenty eight minutes after five. Now you're on News Talk s'b.
We're going to get to Gavin Gray after News find
out how close the Brits are to a trade deal
with Trump.
Speaker 8 (17:00):
That's well with the ordendary. Oh yeah, on the oude
of your name, staying drunk on your bye.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Names is up in the clouds.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Oh ChIL.
Speaker 9 (17:15):
Let's know when we found.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
You're going to be given.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
My dad.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
You know we.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Ryan Bridge on early edition with one ruth make your
property search simple used Talk zibby. Good morning.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
It is twenty four minutes away from six year on
news Talk ZIBB. Coming up, we will look at the
violent crime stats before six o'clock. We'll get to Gavin
Bray and the UN as well. Some fears that Australia,
well Australia was fearing that Indonesia was going to give
up some of its airspace to the Russian So the
Indonesian Defense Minister is now rubbishing these reports that Russia
(18:14):
was seeking to base military aircraft in the country, says
it simply not true. This came from a defense and
security news website Janes. They said Moscow was filing an
official request with jacardiffor permission including several long range aircraft
to be based at one of their facilities. The Indonesians
come out and said that's nonsense. In France overnight, a
(18:38):
couple of prisons have been attacked, one with a military
grade weapon fired at the entrance of a prison in
the south of France because the defense, sorry, the Justice
minister over there having a bit of a crackdown on
the cartels, having a bit of a crackdown on drugs.
They don't like it. So what do they do? Go
on fire machine guns at the entrance to the prisons
(19:00):
three minutes away from six Bray and Bridge. It's going
to out reporters around the country. Calum Proctor and Dunedin first, Colum,
good morning, morning right, a bit of a crappy problem
for a Southland walking track.
Speaker 10 (19:10):
Colum, Yeah, the Department of Conservation says dog feces on
the Fauvo Walkway have reached obscene levels and so doc's
warning that dogs may have to be excluded altogether from
this walkway if things don't improve.
Speaker 11 (19:26):
This is a track that's part of the Adora Trail
and it's a huge draw card for locals and also tourists.
At this stage dogs are allowed on the track, but
as long as they're on a lead. But Doc says
the feces problem is out of control and getting worse.
So new signs will go up to remind dog walkers
of their obligation and they say the monitor although the
(19:47):
situation will be monitored further hope.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
So now how's your where they come?
Speaker 11 (19:52):
Mostly cloudy here today, easterlies and fifteen.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Nice one, thank you. And we've got Courtney winter and
christ Church this morning Courtney, good morning.
Speaker 12 (19:59):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Now now tell us what's happening with the funding and Canterbury Museum.
Speaker 12 (20:03):
Yeah so, christ Church City councilors are expected to reject
the museum's requests for twenty one million dollars to help
plug a redevelopment shortfall. The project is underway but has
ballooned from two hundred and five to two hundred and
forty seven million dollars. Director Anthony Wright made a formal
(20:24):
request for more money earlier this month. He's appealing for
fifty million dollars, evenly split between central and local government.
A report recommends counselors decline the extra funding and invites
the museum to submit a request ahead of the next
annual plan.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
All right, how's your weather, Courtney, Yeah.
Speaker 12 (20:43):
Mostly cloudy here too, is some possible judzyl northeasterlies are
high or fourteen brilliant.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Thank you very much. Max Toles and Wellington Max get
a good morning. Good morning. Now you've got a surprise
surprise of spatic council. What's this sober?
Speaker 13 (20:55):
Yeah, dejaveau, isn't it? Meryll kandidd. Ray Chung is defending
skip having a council meeting to dine with donors and
his campaign launch effectively next door. Ray Chung left during
a Regulatory Processes committee meeting last week to go to
the Wellington Club. That's the oldest private club in the country.
The mayor joined this year, by the way, but this
(21:15):
was for the launch of a Ray's campaign group Independent
together and effectively his mayoral tilt as well. Chung says
he typically has good attendance at council and notified the
committee he had another appointment. Tory Farno says a vital
council work should trump fancy lunches. She sent us quite
a critical statement. We called Chung yesterday afternoon and he
(21:37):
said the mayor was full of s word. You can
imagine she offered misses meetings herself, he points out, and
he was only across the road. Can we please get
October out of the way now?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Yeah. Well that's interesting because she I mean, how many
times does she had COVID too? That's the other thing.
Speaker 13 (21:53):
I think we're about about half a dozen.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah, yeah, Next, how's the winner?
Speaker 13 (21:57):
Mostly cloudy today, so easterly seventeenth central.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Think you have a good one. Neighbor's an Auckland good morning,
Good morning. Now speed enforcement called for. This is around
Auckland University.
Speaker 14 (22:07):
Yes it is. Now a petition's being launched. You'll remember
that five people that were injured in a crash last month.
This was on Simon Street, so we know that a
twenty year old is facing various drug and driving charges
due in court tomorrow. But also Lewis Creed, he's the
managing editor of Auckland University Crack and magazine, and he says, look,
that road there on Simon Street is thirty K zone,
(22:30):
but a lot of people don't realize it.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
You know.
Speaker 14 (22:32):
He said that he's heard people say is it forty
k or is it fifty k? So you know he's
saying it is thirty k. So they are just really
enforcing that speed limit of thirty k to slow down
around that area.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Okay, thirty ks is so slow that way you might
as well get out and walk.
Speaker 14 (22:50):
Well, sometimes I drive down there, you know, and I'm
looking around. I said, oh, that's right, I've got to
slow down, you know, you do do.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
And the problem is, because there's so much traffic in
the city. As soon as you can go a little
bit faster, you immediately want to because you've you know,
you've just been stuck moving nowhere for half an hour.
Speaker 8 (23:06):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
So I sort the traffic out and people might follow
your rolls. House of Weather, never.
Speaker 14 (23:11):
Betting down the headges. It is because as you'd well
and truly know all that wet wood stuff's coming through.
We've got the rain and the strong easterlies rising to
gale tonight twenty one is the high.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Tie down your tramps exactly.
Speaker 9 (23:25):
Have you got a trampoline?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
No, I haven't got a trampoline. Good kids to have
a trampoline, don't you. Dangerous things trampolines not just when
they hit you if they're flying in a tornado, but
dangerous to jump on. Yeah, it's just terrible injuries.
Speaker 14 (23:38):
Even as a child, I never like the trampoline.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
No, not to crack the egg. Did you play Crack
the Egg?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Fun? Thank you? Neva it is eighteen away from six year.
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Speaker 2 (24:47):
Fourteen to six on your talks there'd big Gavin gray
Are UK correspondent, Gavin good Morning either right now, there
is optimism, a little glimmer of hope that there might
be some sort of deal done, trade deal done between
yourselves and the America.
Speaker 9 (25:01):
Yeah, let's just stress that word little glimmer of hope.
And that is because it came as part of a
wide ranging interview on a website called Unheard with JD Vance,
the US Vice President, and he said that a wide
ranging interview there was a good chance, for the words
he used, a trade deal could be reached with the UK.
(25:21):
Of course, this all comes as the dust continues to
settle and some fallout from America's global trade war or
trade tariff shake up anyway, and it looks like the
sort of ten percent baseline tariff which has now been
imposed on virtually everyone except China. And of course that
was where the UK was before the reassessment. So the
(25:44):
UK now hoping, wondering is this trade deal that's been
taking so long to actually negotiate since breakfast? Are we
finally there?
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Well?
Speaker 9 (25:54):
Government sources are saying making good progress it's understood this
deal would focus on more than just lowering the tower,
but also cover elements of trade in both goods and services.
And of course very interesting to note that the trade
imbalance between imports and exports from the UK going in
to the US very very similar. So in other words,
(26:14):
that is a good starting point and one minister's hope
we'll play into their hands.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
And there are some good news on the front of
the British steel They are worried about the blast furnaces.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
Yeah, I think this is going to be a huge
side of relief for ministers today because a consignment of
coking coal and iron ore have arrived from the US
the docks and are now being transported to British Steels
site in the East of England. The reason this is
so crucial is it means the blast furnaces can continue
to operate. It means that the UK can continue to
(26:48):
produce its own as it were, virgin steel steel made
from the raw ingredients rather than recycled metal steel, so
a much higher grade. And many have been saying we
have to continue to produce in this in the UK
run because we need it for our infrastructure and if
the pandemic orders. One thing, it's you need to be
(27:08):
able to make things yourself rather rely on others. And
of course the tariff as tariff introductions have continued to
stress that. Rather interestingly, now a separate shipment containing more
coking coal and iron ore is over or coming over
from Australia. It had been the subject of a legal
dispute between British Steel and its owners as Xingyi, the
(27:31):
Chinese owners. That has now been resolved, the British government
stepping in and effectively but all but in name, nationalizing
British Steel.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
All right, Gevin, appreciate your time this morning. Devin Gray
are UK correspondent A living away from six right right
and Bridge Rich right. The government's very happy patting itself
on the back, although they did hasten to add that
these numbers are volatile. We won't get official numbers through
until June. But in terms of victims of crime, this
is the crime and victim of survey. They reckon. There
have been one hundred and fifty seven thousand victims of
(28:03):
crime in the year to February. The target was one
hundred and sixty five by twenty twenty nine. So on
these numbers targets twenty five thousand fewer by twenty twenty nine,
they're already at twenty eight thousand fewer. Does this stack up?
Dairy and Business Owners Group chairperson Manische Tucker is with
us this morning, Manish, good morning.
Speaker 15 (28:23):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Good to have you on the I'm good, thank you.
Does this sound right to you? Minish?
Speaker 15 (28:29):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (28:30):
What are you saying?
Speaker 8 (28:34):
Yes?
Speaker 15 (28:35):
So, first of all, on behalf of the dairy and
honors across the country. I want to sincerely congregulate the
coalition governments for taking miniful staff to tackle the violence times.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
So you think these numbers make sense? You're seeing less
violent crime in your in your.
Speaker 15 (28:57):
Shops, yeah, number of financiers declient yeah. So according to
police data for the year ending thirty first January twenty
twenty five, retail assaults declined by two percent and the
first state seems a little bit modest number, but still
(29:19):
it is sixty eight Pewer crimes excellent.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
What do you think is making the difference? Manish?
Speaker 15 (29:26):
Yeah, it is making a lot different miss Yeah. Governments
still need to do more. We are still behind. Were
forty eight percent compared to nineteen twenty nineteen and twenty.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Well, it's a good thing. It's going in the right direction. Manisha,
appreciate your time this morning. Manishadaka, who is with the
dairy and business owners group, the Chapists, and they've just
gone nine minutes away.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
From six Ryan Bridge.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Should you say this report yesterday on the chance of
a volcanic eruption in Auckland. There's been a couple of
these stories in the last few weeks and you just think,
what what do I do with this information? So yesterday's
story a ten percent chance of Auckland suffering a volcanic
eruption in the next fifty years could cost as much
as sixty five billion dollars in building damage. Ten percent
(30:13):
chance in the next fifty years. This is from a
discussion document. The Minister Mark Mitchells asked for a document
because he's making some changes. We had one last week
was it last week or the week before, and it
said there was a thirty to fifty percent chance of
Mount Tartanaki exploding inside the next fifty years. What do
you do with this information? Do you stay inside and
(30:35):
close the windows? I don't know. I suppose they need
to do these things for the you know, if they're
going to change the legislation around emergency management. Maybe they
need to, but honestly, you'd have more chances of being
struck by lightning. I would have thought eight to six
News talk, said, b will get to Mike next, the news.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
You need this morning, and the in depth analysis early
edition with Ryan Bridge and one Room, make your Property search,
news talks.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
It'd be news talks. He'd be good morning to you.
It's just gone six away from six, so there's some
heavy rain warnings. There's a storm coming. It's a tropical cyclone,
but it will apparently downgrade from a tropical cyclone by
the time it even gets close to us, and even
then it's not going to go over US, just close
to Cape danger winds and rain expected. Mike's here this morning.
Speaker 16 (31:18):
Mike, I don't think you're taking that seriously enough. I
am saying everything to me, including the New Zealand Herald
and stuff in Radio New Zealand, have been building up
to this for three days now and now it started
on Monday, it built up yesterday and it's there. They
are in a frenzy as we speak.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Do you know why because it makes money, doesn't it?
I mean, do you think.
Speaker 16 (31:38):
I'm assuming they've got metrics behind it that says every
time something's coming and somebody clicks.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Well, everyone is affected by the weather, so everybody clicks
on the story, and the more dramatic you make it sound,
the more clicks you get.
Speaker 16 (31:48):
There's some I've done some analytics on it this morning.
There's a variance in reportage between wind speed of one hundred,
which is if you live in Wellington of course, nothing
more than a breezy day, if you're on the hill
in Kelbourne, up to one hundred and forty. We haven't
seen those, according to the met Service. We haven't seen
those sort of winds coming in from least for quite
a while.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Now. I did notice that. But are they talking wind
or are they talking gusts? These are very good questions
because wind is very different to gusts. You can have
gusts up to one hundred and forty we couldn't agree more,
which would be different to winds up to one hundred
and forty. But what about the fact.
Speaker 16 (32:18):
That the wind hadn't come in from that angle for
a while. Well, that's what they were saying yesterday. I seriously,
I hadn't come in from this angle for a while.
So that meant that somehow a tree was going to
for I couldn't work it out. But it's the angle
of the wind along with the gusts slash sustained speed
either way.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Tie your trampolines down, well, that's well as.
Speaker 16 (32:38):
Neva or you asked Neva, who's got a trampoline? How
many trampolines are there out there?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
There's lots of trampolines around their leafy.
Speaker 16 (32:44):
We had a beautiful, big trampoline in the country. And
what we got is we got a blow ground. And
you find these people in the country and you can
go around and say things like how are we going
to tie this down? And he would say something late,
leave it to me, mate, And so he brought around
these bees heavy metal hooks and with a massive mallet
and he smashed them into the ground. And we had
(33:06):
any number of these these weather alerts and events and
not didn't move once.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
Well, absolutely fantastic. Needs hire a hobby, that's right.
Speaker 16 (33:14):
And so when they say secure your trampoline, it can
be done and reasonably easily and for a very affordable price.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Well, we're doing too, because you don't want of those
flying into the neighbors do a grim moth.
Speaker 16 (33:24):
And now as I speak to you about this, I
just I regret we have nothing on the program about
it this morning. It's not wall to wall coverage.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
So it's say missed opportunity.
Speaker 16 (33:32):
There's a missed opportunity. We're going to deal with crime, brilliant,
have a great show. Thank you, see tomorrow.
Speaker 10 (33:37):
One Nay, maybe we dares get up a fufty she said,
this life forever, so here to get there, then let's
be OK.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
We can dance. We can dance on.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
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