Morning Edition: 22 June 2024

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the news talks Heaby newsroom. This is NEWSFACS In
this update. Nearly fifty people, mostly crew, have spent the
night on board and inter Island a ferry that's run
aground near picton the aditeddy ferry was undergoing a freight
only voyage when it suffered a steering failure, causing it
to run aground shortly after leaving port at nine forty

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five last night. Intero Islander General Manager Duncan Roy says
there are no injuries and the vessel's watertight. Nelson MP
Rachel Boyak says she's had contact with the crew on
board during the night and everyone's fine. The ship will
be refloated as tidal conditions allow. The next high tident
picked in is at nine this morning. The Electricity Watchdog

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hopes to complete the first stage of its toppled electricity
tower investigation next month. Northland experienced widespread outages on Thursday
afternoon after a transmission tower fell down at Gloret, northwest
of Auckland. Whilmost had power back that night, Transpower expects
power to be fully restored over the weekend this afternoon

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at the earliest. It says its workers were carrying out
maintenance at the time and has started an investigation. WorkSafe
is also investigating, as is the Electricity Authority CEO Sarah
Gilly says they want to move quickly, so they're splitting
it up into phases. The first phase would be looking
consuming the scope and the tender of reference. Subject to
that scope being confirmed, we'd be looking to have something

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by the end of July. A request for changes to
local government elections following criticism of Invercargulls mayor's behavior. Nobby
Clarke survived calls to resign yesterday in response to comments
he made at a United Fire Brigades Association prize giving,
which he blamed on surgery brain fate. However, his councils
asked him to step back from public appearances after councilors

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confirmed head breached the code of conduct. Taxpayers Union Local
Government campaigns manager Sam Warren says in these situations people
should have the power to remove inappropriate representatives via the
poles and that's news to sport and to super finished
to the latest Super eight clash at Cricket's T twenty
World Cup, go back at the Lantha swinging a mess

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from Jofra Archer and South Africa continue their unbeaten run
in this tournament. The Proteers have held on for a
seven run win over England on sky Sport. There the
English posted one hundred and fifty six for six in
replied to the Proteas one hundred and sixty three for six.
Austria have a win on the board at football's European Championships,

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wrapping up the three to one victory over Poland. Ukraine's
hopes of reaching the last sixteen have been boosted by
a two to one win over Slovakia and a desperate
final defensive stand has helped the Storm clincher thirty to
twenty four victory over the Dolphins and Leagues NRL Melbourne
remain at the top of the table. And that's Sport.
I'm Scarlet Swatanovich. For more news, listen to News Talk

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