Afternoon Edition: 21 June 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 21 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 railing Ramsey. This is your afternoon news
fixed for Friday, the twenty first of June. In a gym,
Minister Simeon Brown says installing a temporary electricity tower must
be transpile's number one concern. Thousands of Northland residents experienced
power outages yesterday after a transmission tower toppled northwest of Auckland.

(00:26):
Transparler says workers we're carrying out maintenance at the time
and an investigation's been launched. Simeon Brown says work safe
and the electricity authority will also investigate. He says a
temporary structure should be completed by tomorrow night. They'll then
be able to get full power restoration in Northland.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Clearly work happening on the site. Something's happened, thankfully, the
workers are safe.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Transpiles Mark ryle It says the peak times that will
get tight tonight.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
We do ask if people can just you know, between
that five and nine o'clock conserve able of electricity then
the load drops away over the weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Janespowers as powers back for the majority of residential customers
in the Cargo. Mayor Noobby Clark has been found to
have breached the Code of conduct following comments at a
United Fire Brigades Association prize giving. The association wrote to
the Council alleging Clark described volunteer fire fighters as second
class citizens and personally attacked the MC. Clark says this

(01:24):
was due to a brain fade. At an extraordinary council
meeting today, the Mayor made it clear he would not
be resigning. The Green Parties paying tribute to former MP
Keith Locke, describing him as a dear friend and leading
figure in New Zealand's activist history. Locke died in hospital
yesterday after a long illness. His senior political reporter Sophie Trigger.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Locke served as a Green Party MP from nineteen ninety
nine to twenty eleven, with co leaders Madama Davidson and
Chloe Swarbrick, saying he never waivered in his task of
holding government to account. Cribelock as a fearless defender of
civil liberties who also advocated for New Zealand's independence in international.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Affairs, promising signs for patients desperately waiting for life saving drugs.
The government's due to make a FARMAC funding announcement that
it could bump up its medicines budget forty percent. Arlene
Rainer from the Breast Cancer Foundation says if confirmed, it
will bring hope to breast cancer patients whose drugs were
left out of the thirteen cancer drugs initially promised. She

(02:30):
says those on the waitless no their drugs have been approved,
but it can sometimes take between six and eight years
for them to become available.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Pump patients may actually die in the process of waiting
for those drugs to reach them, or suffer life changing consequences.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Disappointment Following confirmation christ Church City Council will be the
latest to leave local government New Zealand councilors have voted
nine votes to eight to withdraw from the organization, with
Mayor Phil Major being the one to break this vote.
Major says membership fee increases have driven the move. Local
Government President Sam Broughton says christ Church will lose out

(03:08):
from the decision economically. The council joins five others who
have left in the past year and to Sport Blues
captain Patrick Tuyplutu can't quite believe he's suiting up to
play in the Super Rugby Pacific Final against the Chiefs
after the All Blackslock made a stunning recovery from a
knee injury. Former All Blacks prop Alex Hodgman has been

(03:31):
named in the Wallaby squad after his first season with
the Queensland Reds. He's eligible through his father to switch
sides after serving a three year stand down and Gold
for Lydia Coe has a fight on her hands if
she's to make the cut at the Women's PGA Championship
in Washington. It's the third major of the year. I'm

(03:51):
Raylen Ramsay. That is your latest news fix. We'll be
back with the next update tomorrow morning from the News
Talk z B newsroom.