Morning Edition: 24 September 2024

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 24 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 morning, I never ready Manu and this is your
morning news books for Tuesday, twenty fourth of September. In
the South Date belief public servants swapping out their home
offices for the workplace could bring confidence bank to Wellington's
hospitality sector. The government's ordering public service bosses to tighten
up on employees working from home. It says such arrangements

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can negatively impact local hospitality businesses. Hospitality New Zealand chief
executive Steve Armitach says the midweek customer base has fallen
away significantly, particularly on Monday and Friday, and especially in
the Capitol. Evenings are okay, so it's certainly sort of
the breakfast morning see lunchtime crowd that have dropped off
from where they were pre COVID. A criminal defense lawyer

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says the Polkinghorn verdict is not a surprise. I surgeon
Philip Polkinghorn was found not guilty of the murder or
manslaughter of his wife, Pauline Hannah, at their Remuerra home
in April twenty twenty one. The verdict at the High
Court in Auckland yesterday followed ten hours of deliberations over
two days. Criminal defense lawyer Roderick Mulgan told Ryan Bridge.

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If there's doubt, there has to be an acquittal. Even
though many people were suspicious, did he really do it?
It's just not enough. It is a high bar. It
is difficult to convict people on circumstantial evidence. A person
was found buried under a meter of snow in Wonaker's
Treble Cone ski area following a serious avalanche. The New

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Zealand Avalanche Advisories there's a party of five were ski
touring in the area's backcountry yesterday when they triggered an
avalanche and steep terrain. One skier was fully buried but
managed to create an air pocket around his face as
the avalanche slowed. Rescuers were able to reach and clear
the victim's airway within seven minutes, and no injuries were reported.

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The avalanche risk for Wonica remains very high, with travel
and the terrain not recommend it. Drug seizures at the
border are getting bigger and more frequent as overseas smugglers
set their eyes on New Zealand. Three people are due
back in Todunger District Court next week, linked with the
largest cocaine shipment to ever reach local shorts. A boat

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from Ecuador carried seven hundred and twenty five kilograms of
coke into the port of Todunga in early twenty twenty two.
Customs Acting Manager of Investigation Nigel Barnes says records are
continuing to be broken. In fact that it was so
successful at seizing drugs and yet they still keep setting
them just demonstrates how profitable or transnational galized crime groups

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see New Zealand as being a large, last ditch effort
to save rope Who's iconic Chateau tonged Edo hotel. Doc
has decided not to open expressions of interest for third
party investors to take over the now closed hotels commercial
operation and it means the historic building could be decommissioned.
With more than twelve thousand people signing a petition to

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save it, rope Whu mayor Western Coon says it's a
valuable asset to the community and people don't want it
pulled down. He's writing to the Minister urging the government
to reconsider. And In sport, ten football, Ferns expressed concerns
to the national body over allegations of inappropriate behavior towards
a player by outgoing coach Yitka Klimkova at last year's

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World Cup. All Blacks fallback Will Jordan is eager to
work with coaching guru Wayne Smith as he spends time
with the side in Wellington, headed their final home test
of the year against Australia. Max vershed up and has
threatened to quit Formula One because of how the sport
has been cloistered. That follows an order for the world
champion to do community service after swearing at a press

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