Afternoon Edition: 11 July 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 11 July 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 Jody Gill and this is your afternoon
news fixed for Thursday, the eleventh of July. Sinlay Milk's
shareholders have voted to take out a one hundred and
thirty million dollar loan. Blake Benny reports the lifeline comes
from its largest shareholder, Bright Dairy, which, under enzied its
rules wasn't allowed to join in on today's vote on

(00:25):
the proposal, I mean Sinlay can meet its debt payment
to bands due on Monday. Chair George Adams says proxy
votes cast before A two Milk confirmed its support with
fifty seven percent in favor. David Tamaheri says he'll keep
fighting to prove his innocence. After failing in a bid
to quash his murder convictions. The Court of Appeal has

(00:45):
ruled there was a miscarriage of justice during his trial
because a witness his false testimony may have affected the
jury's verdict. Danica McLean has more the.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Court of Appeal still satisfied beyond reasonable doubt. Tamaheri murdered
Swedish tourists Urban Hoglin and Haidi Parkinen in nineteen eighty nine.
Tamaheri says this result isn't a surprise and he's open
to taking the case to the Supreme Court. Police meanwhile
reiterating their plea for him to tell them where Parkinan's
body is to give closure to her family.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Positive signs with falling interest rates and easing inflation. Westpax
made a move on interest rates after the Reserve Bank
yesterday said it expects inflation to return within the target
range this year. Westpax cutting at six, twelve and eighteen
month advertised home loan rates twenty five basis points. Meanwhile,
stats end Z says food prices drop zero point three

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percent in the year to June, the first annual decrease
in six years. Overall annual inflation figures will be out
next Wednesday. The Justice Minister says Dairy Owners Advocates Sunny
Causil is a good fit to chair a ministerial advisory
group for retail crime victims. Paul Goldsmith says the Dairy
and Business Owners Group chair. We'll lead a team of

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five or sex. He'll bring proposals to the government. Goldsmith
says he wants a particular focus on retail crime and
a strong spokesperson. He'll push hard.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
We're quite ready to accept that Sonny and his group
will make us quite uncomfortable as a government because they'll
be pushing us very hard, and we're up for that
because we know that change has to happen.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
People are being begged to stop feeding Kia after five
are being killed by vehicles at viewpoints on Fjordland's Milford
Road in the past three months. All topsys have confirmed
blunt force trauma and the birds were all and otherwise
good health and condition. The Department of Conservation says feeding
the birds draws them to the road, putting them at
risk of being run over, as asking drivers who've see

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the charismatic parrots to slow down and take care and
not feed them. In sport, pick and stick seems to
be the All Blacks selection motto for Saturday second Test
against England, with halfback Finlay Christie replacing TJ Paranara the
one injury and changed to the fifteen for Eden Park.
Ben Old has thrilled his new French football club's son

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at the end has immediately cleared him for Olympic duty,
and the value of the NBA has skyrocketed, with its
new media deal jumping to a record one hundred and
twenty four billion New Zealand dollars over eleven years from
the twenty twenty five twenty six season. I'm Jody gildasulator's Newsfaks.

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We'll be back with the next update tomorrow morning from
the News Talk ZEDB newsroom