Midday Edition: 24 October 2024

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 24 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):
Good afternoon. I'm Malcolm Jordan and this is your midday
NEWSFACS for Thursday, the twenty fourth of October. Police have
revealed more details about yesterday's fatal stabbing on a bus
in Auckland's on a hunger. A woman died after being
stabbed yesterday about two thirty pm. A man hunt is
underway for a suspect identified as Kal Leona, last seen

(00:26):
wearing a dark jumper, white shoes, a green T shirt
on his head and carrying a backpack. Police say it
appears the victim and suspect did not know each other
and Leona should not be approached. Anyone seeing him should
call one one one. Acting Detective Inspector Elise Robertson says
teams have been working through the night. We're following positive

(00:47):
lines of inquiry that have identified a person of interest.
Another ten thousand preschoolers are expected to be fed each
day with new government funding. Associate Education Minister David Seymour
has an downce date four million dollar funding boost for
kids can each year. Political reporter Demelza Jackson has more.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
The money will go towards the charity's early childhood Education
food program, which feeds more than six thousand early learners
in poverty. Seymour says from February the number will increase
to sixteen thousand thanks to money saved from the government
Healthy School Lunch program Kids Can Chief executive Julie Chapman
says this funding means more children will get the nutrition

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they desperately need to set them up for life.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Ting Zoun Chao is back in the High Court in
christ Church today to participate in his murder trial over
the death of Yan Feibau. Emily Yansell reports.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
The fifty three year old is accused of stabbing the
real estate agent to death during a private property viewing
last July. Her body found buried more than a year later.
The jury was sent home yesterday when Cha waived his
right to attend, though he is present today. Translation issues
have also caused delays just days into the six week trial.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Three civilian witnesses are expected on the stand today. Legislation
restoring New Zealand citizenship citizenship to a group of salmoens
is set to unanimously pass its second reading this morning.
It restores a Privy Council ruling that Western Sarmoans born
between nineteen twenty four and nineteen forty eight are New

(02:20):
Zealand citizens, which the Muldoon government threw out national didn't
support the legislation's first reading, but has fallen in step
after an amendment not to include descendants of the Cohort
Green MP in charge of the bill, Tiano Tuionul says
this honors the Treaty of Friendship between Samoa and New Zealand.

(02:42):
Outgoing Central Otago Mayor Tim Kadogan has slammed the Taris
airport idea as he quits his post. Christiach Airport is
proposing to build the airport east of Warnica. Kadogan, who's
moving on to a new job in Wellington, has stayed
impartial until now. He's called the idea bloody stupid. Do

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we need one in Wonka or in Taris. No, we don't,
We absolutely don't, and to me it is a complete
failure of ourselves as a nation if that goes ahead.
To Sport, English teams Liverpool, Aston Villa and Manchester City
top the ladder after three rounds of Football's Champions League.
Taine Toapeke has extended his Warriors contract by a year

(03:26):
through until the end of the twenty twenty six NRL season.
The ball belted by the Los Angeles Dodgers Shohei Otani
for his fiftieth home run of the Major League Baseball
season has sold for a record seven point three million
dollars at auction. I'm Malcolm Jordan. That's your latest news fix.
We'll be back with the next update at five pm

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from the News Talk zb newsroom.