Morning Edition: 20 August 2024

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good morning. I'm Wendy Pentrie and this is your morning
news Fix four Tuesday, the twentieth of August, and this update.
One man has died and six people are missing after
the sinking of a luxury yacht off the coast of Sicily.
A New Zealand citizen is conferned be one of twenty
two people on board and has understood to be one
of those rescued. The fifty six meter sail boat was

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identified as a British registered Basian and sank shortly before
sunrise after hitting an unexpectedly violent storm. Local fisherman Fabio
told the BBC he was at the nearby dock when
the storm struck and saw the ship's flare in the sea.
Once the water spouts had passed, we went out to inspect.
All we saw were cushions and the rest of the
boat which had sunk. We didn't find any man in

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the sea. A glimmer of hope for the market as
job advertisement numbers increased for the first time in almost
a year. Seekh says ads were up three percent in
July compared to June, the first sign of growth since
last August. However, country manager Rob Clark says the market
is still down twenty nine percent year on year thanks
to consecutive declines, but he says some regions like the

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Bay of Plenty and sectors like retail and hospitality are
bouncing back slightly more. Auckland Council is looking to bolster
at Central City Safety plan with a four million dollar
booster funding. It comes as a number of thefts and
burglaries have halved in the city since January last year.
This council Regulatory and Safety Committee has approved the new plan,

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which would enhance the City Watch program and improve central
city lighting and security cameras. Committee chair Josephine Bartley says
the public has noticed the difference already. They see, you know,
all these hises out there and it gives them a
sense of safety. So that's the main thing is we
want people to feel safe. But another Auckland councilor says
Pakorunga is not the place it used to be. A

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man died soon after being found inside a vehicle with
a gunshot wound on the area's Marvin Down's Avenue yesterday morning.
Police have launched a homicide investigation, are yet to track
down any suspects. How a Counselor Morris Williamson says there
are growing examples that Puckurunger has changed. New Zealand's fertility
rate continues to fall. Stad Sanset data shows as fallen

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from one point six births per woman last year to
one point five to three this year. In for Metrics,
principal economist Nick Brunston says, at the same time our
population under five is falling, our rate of seventy five
to seventy nine year olds is increasing. He says part
of the falling birth rate is due to more women working.
They have to work because their houses have become that

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much more unaffordable since the eighties, and so the conditions
for having fun kid or two or three are quite
different to what they were. The Philip Pokinghorn murder trial
resumed today. Testimony was paused yesterday while Polkinghorn's lawyer attended
an unrelated case in the Supreme Court. Two sport and
former triathlete recoils As applauding the growing rivalry between alex

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Ye and Hayden w After years latest come from behind
when at the tri event in Boston, identical to his
win at the Olympics. Warrior's utility Chanell To Harris Tavita
will be free to play in Friday's NRL game against
the Bulldogs at Mount Smart submitting an early guilty plea
at a try at at Grade one crusher tackle. New
Zealand's Corbyn Strong has finished sixth in the large bunched

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sprint finish on stage three of Cycling Vata Aspana, and
Terry Henrie has stepped down as France's under twenty one
football coach after winning an Olympic silver medal in Paris.
I'm Wendy Petrie. That's your latest news fix. We'll be
back with the next update at midday from the News
Talk se'd B newsroom.