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Episode Transcript
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
news fix for Monday, the twenty first of October. Former
Green MP Gallery's Gutaman's second bid to avoid a conviction
for last year's nearly nine thousand dollars shoplifting spree has failed. Gotaman,
a lawyer who formerly served as the Greens Justice spokeswoman,
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was convicted in June. She was fined sixteen thousand dollars
rather than serving a custodial or its supervision sentence. Shannon
Johnstone has more.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Judge June Jealous denied her request for a discharge without
conviction in the Auckland District Court. It was the basis
for an appeal heard last week in the High Court
at Auckland and a judgment released this morning. High Court
Justice Jeffrey Venning has found no error in the District
Court decision.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
The Crown will today outline its case against the man
accused of murdering christ Church real estate agent Yanfei Bao
ting Zun Chao is accused of killing forty four year
old real estate agent and mother of one. She was
missing for just over a year before her body was
discovered in a yellow grave on Canterbury Farmland three months ago.
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A jury is being impaneled today. The trial is set
down for up to six weeks. High profile support for
bringing the America's Cup back to New Zealand. Team New
Zealand boss Grant Dalton has told Newstalks EDB bringing the
event back to New Zealand remains possible after the syndicates
third straight win yesterday. It is not off the table.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
It has never been off the table.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
So if an amazing team can be kept together and
we believe that we can win, and we can puy
a viable event at home, we're coming home. And here's
Peter Montgomery famously calling New Zealand's first victory in nineteen
ninety five, America's Cup is not New Zealand's Cup today,
he says. Bringing it back here again will create jobs.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
In the whole industry more than just a tourism industry
and fans.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Coming has been a byproduct come out of no other
sport brings.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
An Auckland father of four who's died after a boat
capsize on the Monaco Bar was a keen fisherman who
devoted himself to charity. Thomas Rice, reports.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Bimil Palmersami died when a boat sank at Little Hulia
yesterday morning. Six others were pulled from the water and
received medical treatment. Sami's being remembered as a calm and
helpful man.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Job ad volumes continue to stay flat in New Zealand.
SEEKS September employment report shows a zero point five percent
month on month reduction. Overall job advertisements are down nearly
thirty percent in the last twelve months for the first
time in a year. Applications per job ad also fell.
SEEK country manager Rob Clark says September saw are solid
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spike and ads for professional services industries.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
On the flip side of that, we saw some reasonably
sizeable declines in healthcare engineering minus eleven percent and constructions.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Wellington's iconic Greek revival Embassy Theater building turns one hundred
this week. To sport, Liam Lawson has delivered a ninth
placed finish for racing balls at the United States Grand
Prix in Texas on his return to Formula one, banking
two points for his team. Ferraris Charles Leclair won the race.
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Hayden Wilde has won the season ending men's triathlon finale
in Spain, but rival alex Ye was crowned World champion
Across the season. Liverpool remains at the top of football's
Premier League after a two to one home win over Chelsea,
and the New Zealand women have claimed victory at the
Canoe Polo World Championships in China. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's
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your latest news fix. We'll be back with the next
update at five pm from the newstalk ZB newsroom.
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