Morning Edition: 04 August 2024

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the Newstalks headby newsroom. This is newsfax and this update.
A search continues for a missing person in Riverton, northwest
of Invercargo, after a boat capsized on the Podaquino river
mouth read Etherton has more.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Emergency services were alerted to the capsize off the recreational
craft yesterday afternoon with five people on board. Coastguard volunteers
recovered two people alive from the water and brought them
to shore before sending them to hospital. A third person
was found unresponsive and was unable to be revived, with
a fourth person found dead in the water.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
A former National Prime minister says the first three where
coalitions working better than people may have expected. The party's
annual conference is underway this weekend in Auckland, the first
since National took the reins of a three party government.
Sir John Key says the coalition appears stay Bill.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
By definition, you end up actually having to do some
things that you maybe don't want to spend so much
time or don't want to do that. It's just life
the way I look at it's a bit like a marriage.
You know, you can have the happiest marriage in the world,
doesn't mean you don't have the odd disagreement.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
A patch of ocean around one hundred kilometers south of
the Chatham Islands is warming at around five times the
global rate knee Were Research shows it's due to ocean
currents bringing warmer and saltier waters all the way to
the seafloor. Scientists believe it could have an impact on
fish niewa oceanograph it fills subt and says it's related

(01:35):
to climate change.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
This change is likely to strengthen and will persist.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Farmers are jumping at the chance for quad bike safety
equipment in the wake of the deadliest year for fatal
ATV accidents. Safer Rides is a program offering discounts of
up to seventy five percent on crush protection equipment. From
twenty nineteen to twenty three, there were twenty two quad
bike related fatalities in New Zealand. Over one hundred farms

(02:04):
across the country have signed up and that's news. I'm
Donna Marie lever to sport and first to Olympic track
action in Paris. Saowy hops got a good start in
line three, the action's over in lane seven and night
Sarry Hobbs keeping up with the pace, but she's been
overtaken now Sarwy Hobbs.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
That won't be enough.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
The Kiwi sprinter has finished sixth in the third women's
one hundred meter semi final, clocking eleven point one to
three seconds. It means she's missed a spot in the final.
With the top two in all three semis and the
next two fastest advancing, Big News precluded the semifinals with
Jamaican star Shelley Anne Fraser Price a late scratching from

(02:47):
her race. Meanwhile, devastation for Tom Walsh at the Paris Olympics.
The Keywi thrower has suffered an injury during his second
attempt in the men's shot put final. Walsh did have
a cracker at a third attempt, but was invisible pain,
eventually finishing with three no throws. Sam Tannant has missed

(03:08):
out on a place in the men's fifteen hundred meters
semi finals, finishing well down the field in his rapper
charge And That's Sport. For more news, listen to News
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