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August 17, 2024 2 mins
The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 17 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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Speaker 1 (00:04):
From the news Talk's edby Newsroom. This is newsfecs. In
this update, met Service has issued a heavy snow watch
for parts of Cadbury north of Waipara, as well as
Marlborough from tomorrow. A heavy snow watch covers most of
Southland from early Monday morning. Sprode snowfall warnings are in
place for most passes. Meteorologist Lewis Ferris says there'll be

(00:24):
snowfall down to four hundred meters. May just see some
snow getting down to those low levels of southern maybe
even a few flakes making it down to the beaches.
The Prime Minister's being urged to ditch the Treaty Principal's Bill.
A White Tonguey Tribunal report says it's not fair and
is discriminatory and recommends it be dropped. ACT Party leader
David Seymour says there needs to be a conversation about

(00:46):
our founding document and whether there are two classes of
New Zealanders with different rights. Green Party Marian Crown Relations
spokesperson Steve Abel also says the Prime Minister needs to
abandon the bill and letting it drag on causes more
division and harm. A new bill may give hunters a
bigger role in our conservation. Landscape Act Conservation spokesperson Cameron

(01:07):
Luxton has introduced a member's bill to the ballot that
would include hunters in the New Zealand Conservation Authority. The
thirteen spots are currently for EWE, the Royal Society Forest
and Bird and Federated Mountain Clubs President Callum Sheridan says
it would give a greater voice to hunters on the
ground doing conservation work and to understand what's going on.

(01:27):
The people that are on the ground doing they also
have access to a huge network of people that are
doing the same thing. An Auckland bar says Tonight's All
Blacks game will differ starkly from last weeks. Only twenty
five thousand people went to the game at sky City
Stadium in Wellington last Saturday, but Citizens Park is expecting
to be packed with supporters tonight, being so close to

(01:48):
Auckland's Eden Park. Venue manager Daniel Walsh says the phone's
been ringing all week with people chasing bookings. That's nazing
that the atmosphere from four o'clock onwards everyone is singing
have at the time and afterwards the pie is carried
ontil all night. That's news in sport. The All Blacks
coach expects more of the same from Argentina tonight as

(02:09):
Las Poomers hunt back to back rugby wins. Scott Robertson
says Felipe Contepomi has found the right recipe. Flippe is
a smart coach. I'm shut a finger roll out what
they did last week. O ws to be here on nextuff,
so we've considered it as well. Tasman has beaten Canterbury
twenty two to twenty seven and Nelson in the NPC.
It's Tasman's second win of the new season. Northland beat

(02:30):
Monowa two thirty five eighteen in fang Ra. Olympic gold
medalist Stacey Waker is proving to be good luck for
her new Broncos NRL W side, scoring a double in
their twenty eight twenty two win over the Raiders in Brisbane.
It's the broncos second straight victory since the Black Firm.
Seven veteran joined the squad after the Paris Games. That's sport.

(02:52):
I'm Joe Gilfillan. For more news, listen to news Talks.
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