Morning Edition: 19 October 2024

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 19 October 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):
From the news talks had been newsroom, this is NEWSFACS
and this update. Fire and Emergency A battling a suspicious
blaze at an abandoned Canterbury hospital for fire trucks and
a tank. It responded to the fire on the grounds
of Queen Mary Hospital in Hammer Springs just before forore
this morning. Fenn say the building was well ablaze on arrival,

(00:26):
but it's now under control, with remaining crew tackling hotspots.
A fire investigator will attend the scene later today. The
Small Business Affairs Minister says he was only jesting when
he reportedly called a member of the public a loser
multiple times. Andrew Bailey was forced to apologize after a

(00:47):
complain intelleged the minister told him to quote go home,
take some wine and f off as they remained working
when everyone else had gone home. He says, over the
last decade he's done hundreds of visits to companies and
there's been no incidents. Obviously, this is one where what
was meant to be quite a lighthearted a conversation for

(01:08):
a few minutes turned into something that's much more difficult
than that. A bitter blow for South Cantabrians, with six
hundred people out of a job by Christmas. Alliance Group
has confirmed Timidhu Smithfield Meat Works will shut by the
year's end. Council of Trade Union's president Richard Wagstaff says
the move follows a concerning trend devastating the New Zealand's

(01:30):
manufacturing based an economic base that's really been treated at
the moment and there isn't any right at the end
of the tunnel. The King and Queen's tour of Australia
has now begun. While there, Childs and Camilla are attending
a welcoming at Parliament House in Canberra, a community barbecue
in Western Sydney, and will visit War Memorial's Monarchy. New
Zealand chair doctor Sean Palmer says the King's also meeting

(01:54):
with cancer researchers.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
There's something really extraordinary about him to acknowledge those researchers
on the great work that they're doing, and it's all
the more meaningful in that he has personal experience.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
That's news. I'm donno Marie lever to sport. The White
Ferns are through to the final of the T twenty
World Cup in the UAE after beating the West Indies
by eight runs in Shahjah. After tallying one hundred and
twenty eight for nine, New Zealand restricted the Windy's to
one hundred and twenty for eight. A stunning century by

(02:30):
Russian Revender has put New Zealand in a commanding position
in the First Test against India and Bengalubu India's two
hundred and thirty one for three at stumps on day
three still trailing by one hundred and twenty five runs
and tea. New Zealand's moved to match point in the
America's Cup, leading Britannia six ' to two in the

(02:52):
first to seven series after two dominant wins off Barcelona.
Starboard helmsman Pete Berling says they embrace the challenge of
overcoming patchy breeze and bumpy seas.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
To be honest, I think we feel super comfortable in
it just because weselt so much at home and real shifty,
dynamic conditions and it was great to see the team
of the falling well.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
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