Morning Edition: 14 August 2024

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 14 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 Wednesday, fourteenth of August. In this update,
a potentially fatal dosage of myth may have been given
out in Auckland City Mission food parcels for several weeks.
The Render branded pineapple lollies were donated to the mission,
which gave them out and an unknown number of food parcels.

(00:24):
A recipient told them the lollies had a funny taste,
so they had them tested, which showed potentially lethal levels
of meth amphetamine. Drug Foundation Executive director Sarah Helms says
results showed their one hundred percent myth.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
The weight of the lolly itself is three grams, which
could in the represent up to three hundred doses, which
would be fatal if somebody who was screeneding all of that.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Police are investigating and say they may have been distributed
over the last several weeks. The government is making urgent
payments to survivors of Lake Alla Psychiatric Hospital with terminal illnesses.
Poured from the abuse and care inquiry released last month,
zaid the treatment of patients at the hospital and Child
and Adolescent Unit amounted to torture. Cabinets agreed to make rapid

(01:10):
payments of twenty thousand dollars to survivors with the terminal
diagnosis and prognosis of six months or less. Minister for
coordinating the Crown Response, Erica Stanford, says it's just the
first step in addressing the historical abuse which took place.
An important call today for the Reserve Bank whether to
drop the official cash rate. Bank economists are divided. Westpac

(01:31):
A and Z and Kiwibank anticipate the Reserve Bank to
hold the OCR at five point five percent. B and
Z is expecting it to go down, as is ASB
who predicts it will fall by twenty five basis points
to five point two five percent. It would be the
first drop since twenty twenty. Herald Business Editor at Large
Liam Dan says the RBNZ will deliver a full policy

(01:53):
statement today, so if they hold rates, we'll get some
medication for future cunts. That should provide pretty clear pathway
for those looking for rate cuts, whether we're headed for
October or November. The figures out at two pm. New
gene technology regulation could give some foods different looks, tastes
and health benefits. The government's planning legislation to reverse the

(02:15):
ban on using the tech outside laboratories to allow development
of commercial products. Plant and Food Research Chief scientist Richard
Newcomb says making crops more climate resilient is a key focus,
but he says doing so may mean changing the size
of the plants to better suit the conditions.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Some of our crops like hops and camarillos grow on
very wind sensitive structures and so you know, these sort
of high winds that climate change brings impacts those industries.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Students at Wellington Girls College and learning from home for
a second day due to a major building being quake prone.
The school seas the Ministry of Education did not tell
them that building on its campus only meets fifteen percent
of the standard, despite knowing since twenty twenty. Some students
are going to Parliament to protest today with weeks of
disruption on the cards. And in Sport, Will Jordan has

(03:05):
been training at Fallback as he prepares for what could
be his first All Blacks Test start of the year
against the Pumas on Saturday in Auckland. Saint George Lawara
five eighths. Kyle Flanagan has been hit with a four
game NRL League band after he was found guilty of
biting Canterbury captain Stephen Crichton's knows by the judiciary. And
former New Zealand Olympic Committee President Mike Stanley believes the

(03:27):
Commonwealth Games can survive in the outposts of Empire, as
Glasgow look poised to rescue the twenty twenty six edition
I'm Never Ready Man who ancual. Latest news figs will
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