Afternoon Edition: 11 December 2024

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 11 December 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 says your afternoon news
fix for Wednesday, the eleventh of December. Finance Minister Nikola
Willis is promising success for railways with a new minister
in charge. That was part of her announcement today, saying
the government will set up a company to procure two
new cook Straight Fairies to start sailing in twenty twenty nine.

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They'll be rail capable but not fully rail enabled, thus
smaller vessels than replacement ferries earlier contracted for which were
asked nearly a year ago for cost reasons. Willis won't
say yet what they will cost, but she's confident the
new plans for cook Straight will go well. So long
as Minister Winston Peters as the Minister for Rail, the

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trains are in good hands and Infrastructure New Zealand Chief
Executive Nick Leggett says the government doesn't want to write
checks the country can't cash. He says people want fairies,
so safeguarded charms they will have is the same challenge
that New Zealand, of a small country has with much
of its infrastructure and what it needs to get built.
Can they get a competitive price. In the Green Party

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as Julian Agentis says the government's now costing taxpayers more.
She says she's heard breaking the earlier fairy contract with
the South Korean shipyard will cost well over three hundred
million dollars. It is incredibly embarrassing. Nikola Willis will bear
the responsibility of this catastrophic decision for the rest of
her political career. A person's been found dead inside a

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house in christ Church's Hornby which went up in flames
early this afternoon. Cordon's her up on Dixon Crescent with
crews still extinguishing flames. Meanwhile, police say a person has
died in hospital after falling into a coal range at
a home in Rhnwick yesterday. In Marlborough and in Canterbury,
Fire and Emergency say vegetation fire has reignited west of

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christ Church at Kerwee Crusay. The uncontained blaze is currently
two hundred by one hundred meters in size. Helicopters and
tankers are on their way and more firefighters are also
returning to a fire ground at Lake Pearson with reports
of flare ups in two different areas. Extra appliances and
helicopters are assisting crews already dealing with hot spots. The

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blaze began last week. It's already burned through almost one
thousand hectares of scrub. More details as police hunt a
homicide suspect after a man died with gunshot wounds in
Wellington's Lower Hut yesterday. He was found critically injured on
nine nine seven Street about three pm. Police are looking

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for a man of about thirty years of age, large
build and with full facial tattoos. They believe he had
help and fled in a black two thousand and eight
Mercedes Saloon. Detective Inspector John van der Hervel has a
message for the South speed, make yourself known, come and
see us sooner the better, and help us understand what's

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coup to sport and former Wallaby James O'Connor is adjusting
to the patient style of the Kiwi game. In the
early throes of Super Rugby preseason at the Crusaders, a
lengthy stint on the sidelines looms for Breakers center Dane Pinot.
Scans have confirmed a serious knee injury. Kiwi Attie Winyard

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was signed by the club last week as injury cover
in the Milwaukee Bucks have advanced to the Eastern Conference
Semifinals of the NBA Cup, edging the Orlando Magic one
fourteen to one oh nine in the quarter of finals
in Wisconsin. I'm railing Ramsay. That is your latest news fix.
We'll be back with the next update tomorrow morning from
the news Talk zed B newsroom