Afternoon Edition: 11 June 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 11 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 bringing Ramsey. This is your afternoon news
fixed for Tuesday, the eleventh of June. The Agriculture Minister
says the government's committed to National's campaign pledge to price
farming emissions by twenty thirty. The Coalition will be amending
legislation to stop agriculture being added to the emission's trading

(00:24):
scheme from twenty twenty five. If public private partnership group
Hiwaka Echinoah couldn't find a different way to price farming,
the bank stop had been entering the ets to offset emissions.
Hiwaka Echinoa is now being disestablished and Minister Todd McLay
says its replacement will work hard on a solution to

(00:44):
a difficult problem.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
But in my discussions with a wide effector, they agree
that's in everybody's best interest that we find ways to
get emissions down without closing down farms.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
DNA evidence is a focal point in Scott Watson's second
Court of Appeal hearing he was found guilty of murdering
Ben Smart and Olivia Hope in the Marlborough Sounds in
nineteen ninety nine. Whether strands of Olivia's hair found on
a blanket on Watson's boat as reliable evidence is being
discussed today. Initially no hair was found, but two were

(01:16):
discovered after a second search. Open Justice reporter Katherine Hutton
says the mood in the quart is somber quiet.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
You could hear a pin drop. I think everybody is
trying to get their head around the DNA evidence.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Police say a lack of new leads is behind them
offering an eighty thousand dollars reward for information on missing
Muddle Corper man Tom Phillips. Police want to safely find
his three children, not seen since late twenty twenty one
and believed to be in West Waikatu around Muddle Corper.
Acting Detective Inspector Andrew Saunders says the investigation hasn't been fruitful.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
We haven't had any credible sightings.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
We continue to receive information, but that has diminished over
the past six months.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
He's why we're moving to this next days.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Singapore Airlines has offered thousands of dollars to passengers injured
on a flight that hit severe turbulence last month. It's
fully refunding everyone on the London to Singapore flight, in
which one died and dozens were injured passengers with minor
injuries have been offered more than sixteen thousand dollars. Those
with serious injuries an initial forty thousand. Up to twenty

(02:24):
passengers are still in hospital in Bangkok. Canterbury's Ashburton College
is taking bold measures as it grapples with teacher sickness,
its rostering year groups off campus, with not enough staff
to run all classes some days. Principal Simon Coleman says
they're reviewing rosters every day.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
We have done in preparation for that is all our staff,
probably through COVID as well, have extually set up online classrooms,
so even though they may be at home, they're still
going to be able to access their learning.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
A seven kelo box of cocaine has been found magnetically
attached to the stern of a commercial vessel heading into
New Zealand waters and worth three point one five million dollars.
In Sport, Warriors coach Andrew Webster has revealed how he
plans to deal with a selection headache ahead of Saturday's
game against the Storm. Half Back Shawn Johnson will return

(03:17):
from injury, but given to Mighty Martin's form, their workload
will be spread evenly, former Black Caps cricket coach Mike
Hessen is outlying the magnitude of New Zealand's plight at
the T twenty World Cup. They play host the West
Indies on Thursday afternoon and it is must win territory
and the Highlanders have confirmed six departures from their squad

(03:40):
at the end of the Super Rugby season. I'm railing Ramsey.
That is your latest news fix. We'll be back with
the next update tomorrow morning from the news Talks dB newsroom.