Morning Edition: 03 December 2024

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good morning. I never read de imanu and this is
your Morning US mix for Tuesday, third of December. In
this update, culling starts today of forty thousand chickens at
an Otago commercial egg farm infected with bird flu. The
Mainland Poultry managed property will lose twenty percent of its
chooks following confirmation of the disease within one of its sheds.

(00:26):
It is not the avian influenza circulating among wildlife globally
and probably came from local Waterfowl and wild Birds. Ministry
for Primary Industries direct to General Ray Smith says the
culling of chickens will take around three days. You're probably
looking at a sort of four to six week period
between depopulating, cleaning, testing as best you can in the
environment that the virus not present, and then repopulating again.

(00:50):
The Ministry for Primary Industries has stopped live or raw
poultry exports until it's known how widespread the diseases. Wet
conditions have been hampering the search for three minus Uin
climbers on Oldaki Mount cook. A search was launched about
lunchtime yesterday after the three men didn't meet the pre
arranged transport yesterday morning. Med Services forecasting more heavy rain

(01:11):
and snow to thirty two hundred meters today easing this evening.
The Department of Conservation this morning will see how many
stranded whales in Golden Bay have refloated overnight. Thirty seven
pilot whales washed up at Farewells Spit yesterday afternoon. However,
two died and one was euthanized. Protection Organization Project JONAH
says that the species are typically left to refloat themselves

(01:33):
during the next high tide. General manager Darren Grover says
that the species can be difficult to save. There a
type social group. The key is to refloat that type
social group together. They won't refloat if you only send
one or two of them back into the ocean. About
thirty six thousand nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants working for
Health New Zealand will strike from eleven am to seven

(01:55):
pm today. The nurses organization says it's due to plans
to pause part of the safe staffing program. A landmark
judgment on a more than twenty year court saga surrounding
Mardi customary rights to the foreshore and seabed the Supreme
Courts allowing an attorney General Appeal against a Court of
Appealed judgment made in October last year. It's rejected the

(02:17):
judgment as a narrow interpretation of criteria for customary marine
titles and reaffirmed the role of te kung Amaldi and
guiding decisions. Former Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson told Ryan
Bridge it's a significant decision that could nullifight the need
for the Government's Amendment Bill. It may have been better
to have waited until the Supreme Court delivered its decision

(02:38):
before deciding whether the preced was legislation. At least fifty
six people are being killed in a crush at a
football match in Guinea's second largest city, in zero Corp.
The BBC reports events unraveled following a decision by the referee,
who sent off two players for a visiting team and
awarded a controversial penalty kick. He Sport Former Black Cap

(02:59):
Reese Young is backing Tom Blundell to remain New Zealand's
Test wicket keeper moving forward. Despite a tough run of
batting form, World Netball admits there are a list of
obstacles they'll need to overcome in their quest to revolutionize
the test calendar confirmation Australian Jack Dewan will make his
Formula one day boo for LP at Monday season ending

(03:19):
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. A party like atmosphere is in
prospect for golf's national and provincial championships, starting this morning
in christ Church. And I'm never ready, Manu. That's your
latest news fix. We'll be back with the next update
of midday from the Newsdorg's ZB newser