Afternoon Edition: 27 September 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 27 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 railing Ramsey. This is your afternoon news
fix for Friday, the twenty seventh of September. Canceling Kiwi
Rail's Cook Straight Ferries project has cost the state owned
transport operator nearly half a billion dollars so far. Business
Desk reports financial accounts released today so the cost of
calling off the project has reached four hundred and sixty

(00:27):
eight point eight million dollars. Dennikan McLean has more.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Kiri Rail's financial accounts state negotiations to wind down, building
two new mega ferries and upgrading portside infrastructure are still
in progress. Kiirail is reporting a thirty three percent drop
and operating surplus. Its inter islander revenue is up five
percent and revenue for Great Journeys up forty one percent.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Homicide investigation's been launched at Auckland's Mounted in Corrections facility.
A prisoner was found dead with numerous injuries and its
double bunks sell about ten this morning, Thomas Rice reports.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Men's Prisons Deputy Commissioner David Patterson says a second inmate
who was residing in the cell has been secured in
a single cell during investigations. Police say the deaths being
treated as suspicious and they are speaking with a man
they will work alongside corrections.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
The Regional Development Minister says a proposal to close a
Temado meatworks is a wake up call. Workers were told
hundreds of jobs are on the line at Alliance Group
Smithfield Freezing Works. Today, head Villie Vesa says sheep processing
numbers are down. With change. Land Use Minister Shane Jones says,
there's a lot of pressure on the sector.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
We've got to identify what we as a government can
do to help manage those changes. Do we remain aloof
from them, but we need to also ensure that the
communities aren't abandoned in this period of transition.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
To the US where people have died and parts of
Florida are underwater. This category four hurricane Helene makes landfall
with winds topping two hundred and twenty kilometers an hour.
The extreme storm has knocked up power to nearly a
million homes. The National Hurricane Center is predicting many deaths.
Florida Governor Ron Desanta says at least one person has

(02:17):
already died. A car driving on I four nearer Ebor
City in Tampa was hit when a sign fell onto
the highway. Two people have reportedly died in neighboring Georgia
where a tornado struck a mobile home. Consumer confidence is
at its highest since January twenty twenty two. The latest

(02:40):
day in ZAT survey shows it rows three points in
September to ninety five point one, the third month of improvement.
Chief economists Sharon Zoleness as it's driven by future expectations
rather than views of the here and now. She says
a net twenty five percent of people expect to be
better off this time next year is actually at one

(03:01):
hundred and five, whereas current conditions are at less than eighty,
so there's a very very clear split. In sport, can
We driver Liam Lawson is pumping the brakes on his
chances first up on his full time return to Formula
one after he was promoted by his Racing Bulls team
in place of Ossie Daniel Ricardo. All Black skipper Scott

(03:23):
Barrett's promising a strong finish in the second ledders Low
Cup Test against the Wallabies and Wellington, with a focus
on the last quarter in particular. And illness has disrupted
the New Zealand Breakers basketball camp out of Game two
of the NBL season on Sunday at home to the
Southeast Melbourne Phoenix. I'm Raylen Ramsey. That's your latest news fix.

(03:46):
We'll be back with the next update tomorrow morning from
the News Talks EDB newsroom.