Afternoon Edition: 05 September 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 05 September 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 afternoon. I'm Wendy Petrie and this is your Afternoon News.
Sixth the Thursday, the fifth of September. A memorable send
off for King E Too Haitia, who's been laid to
rest at the top of Mangitopiti. Thousands of mourners flocked
to Waikato early this morning for the Mali king's funeral procession.
Has twenty seven year old daughter now why juno Etepau
has been anointed the King e Tongua's new leader. Herald

(00:27):
Focus reporter Shari Kaneer says many people felt it was
important to be there to honor the king and witness history.
She says, plenty of tears have been shed, but it's
also been a celebration. It was really quite beautiful and
there was just this massive sense of it being a
really special day. Labor leader Chris Hopkins says he hopes
the idea King e Tonga embraced of Kotahitanga or unity

(00:51):
can continue. Hepkin says New Zealand has much to learn
from his message. For New Zealand, so the.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
King of unity and togetherness. He placed a real mookia
on bringing people together, on dealing divisions, during his time.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Support for more changes to the Credit Contracts and Consumer
Finance Act. Lenders will be given more leeway over poor disclosure,
and directors and senior managers will no longer be personally
liable for breaches. Lenders will need to be licensed with
the Financial Markets Authority, which will oversee the sector. Banking
Association Chief Executive Roger Beaumont says managers have been potentially

(01:26):
subject to a two hundred thousand dollars fine.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
To give you an example of how draconian this has been.
Either the bank or the manager themselves personally was prevented
from taking out insurance to protect them from that fine.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Hopes of a big business uptake for a new recycling
scheme for caps and lids to stop the mending up
in landfill. It's fully funded by involved members. Collection boxes
are now in selected supermarkets in Auckland, christ Church and
Tho Raunger, with more being set up in coming weeks.
Packaging Forum CEO Rob Langford says organizations are still joining

(02:03):
the scheme.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
It's not for a lack of interest.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
It's just as we've tried to get this up, everybody
has to go through.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Their internal systems to get on board, and there are
many others behind that are working through that.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
US food manufacturer Hines has ruffled feathers in Italy by
launching a tin to spaghetti carbonara in the UK. It's
the first tinned pasta released in the country for more
than a decade. Italy correspondent Joe McKenna says there's no
word yet on when it'll be in supermarkets.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
They're catching this at young consumers, probably those people in
London who are going pub crawling on a Friday night
and looking for something when they get home. But chefs
and restaurants across Italy are up in arms about this,
as you can imagine.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
A Roman Michellan chef has compared the idea to cat
food to sport and a topsy turvy match has concluded
the quarter final stage at the US Tennis Open. Jarnickson
has beaten a fifth seed Denel Medvedev and four sets,
and we'll meet rising British player Jack Draper in the
last four The Robotos have submitted the advice of three

(03:08):
doctors to see if tomorrow night's NRL game with the
Roosters can count as the one game ban for full
BackStar Latrelle Mitchell and American veteran Tommy Carpentcy is the
new opponent for undefeated New Zealand cruiserweight boxer David Leeka
for the card he's headlining in Auckland next Saturday. I'm

(03:29):
Wendy Petree. That's your latest news fix. We'll be back
with the next update tomorrow morning from the News Talk
Sedby Newsroom.