Morning Edition: 09 August 2024

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 09 August 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 morning. I'm never ready Manu, and this is your
morning news fix for Friday, ninth of August. In this update,
it's been a golden morning for New Zealand in the
Paris Olympics. On the water, the women's K four crew
of Dame Lisa Carrington, Alisha Hoskin, Tara Vaughan and Olivia
Brett have won gold, New Zealand's first K four medal

(00:25):
in forty years.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
I can see the finish line. It is gold for
New Zealand.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Then in the velodrome, Elise Andrews has run away with
gold in the women's Karen I tend to take a
whifle and thing so can so right now, it's just sudden.
It's just a real back to the water. Sailors Erica
Dawson and Micah Wilkinson have also won bronze in the
mixed multi hull class. Councils look to be given an
opportunity to tackle water infrastructure deficits. Council controlled water organizations

(00:58):
will now be allowed to double the borrowing from the
local government funding agency to finance infrastructure. Water enzchief executive
Jillian Blythe says, allowing increase borrowing through CEOs will help
council's increase investment. Ultimately, it means that they can spread
the cost of long life assets over multiple generations, so

(01:19):
that will help with the affordability question. Police are looking
into two allegations of squatters at an abandoned Auckland golf
club threatening locals with a machete. Auckland Councils received multiple
complaints about the freedom campers at Golf Harbor country Club
ever since it shut suddenly last year. Jordan done his.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
More funer Putold residents are warning others to be cautious
after two claims people were scared away by a squatter
with a machete in the past month. Albany councilor John
Watson says the space has been treated like a public
park since it was abandoned, but locals are now afraid
to enter. He claims the owners are unreachable and the
council's powerless to intervene on private property.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
And Auckland Council seeking to put the owners of country
club into liquidation over twenty six thousand dollars in unpaid rates.
The hearing scheduled for next week in the High Court
at Auckland between the Council and Long River Investments. The
Maritime Union's questioning the Littleton Port companies approach to mandatory
fitness tests for employees. The assessments have been brought in

(02:20):
following the death of Stevedore Don Grant. In April twenty
twenty two. The port pleaded guilty to a charge under
the Health and Safety at Work Act and was ordered
to pay half a million dollars in fines and costs.
Last months. Union Secretary Carl Finlay says there's concerned that
making tests mandatory could be used for selection purposes and
force people out of the industry down and have real

(02:43):
dialogue with them to really understand what they're trying to
do here. Another problem for other teddy the Into Island
affairies expected to be out of action for a few
days after crashing into the dock in Wellington and as
you heard earlier in News A Golden Night New Zealand.
At the Paris Olympics, kayakers Dame Lisa Carrington, Alisha Hoskin,

(03:05):
Olivia Brett and Tara Vaughan. They won the K four
five hundred and cyclists Elise Andrews triumphed and the Kierum
at the velodrome sailors Erica Dawson, Micah Wilkinson even bronze
and the mixed multi hull class off the coast of Marseilles.
And still with Olympic news, golfer Lydia Coe sits third
after shooting a five hundred past sixty seven second round.

(03:26):
She's three shots off the lead. I'm never ready man
who eventual latest newsweaks. We'll be back with the next
update at midday from the Newsdalk ZB news Group