Midday Edition: 29 December 2024

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
No the news talks headby newsroom.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is newsfacs. In this update a why Ada McDonald's
worker is in hospital after their arm got stuck in
a rubbish compactor. Emergency services were called to the Matamata
branch on Firth Street around one thirty this morning. The
staff member was taken to wake at a hospital in
a moderate condition. WorkSafe has been notified. McDonald's head office

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has been approached for comment. The country's largest New Year's festival,
Rhythm and Vines, remains as popular as ever in its
twenty second year. American rapper Ice Spice, UK house producer
Sammy Vergie and Italian supergroup Baduza are heading their three
day festival in Gisbon beginning today. Local acts include said

(00:49):
Dave Dobbin and Sarci. Festival director Hamish Pinkham says they're
expecting around twenty six thousand punters on New Year's Eve,
so it'll be.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Our biggest crowd in over ten years. So just shows
you that the festivals are in a great place and
the young caries are getting out and about to celebrate
the summer with their friends and confidence.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Northern bases prepared for extreme weathers this New Year's Eve.
The three day festival near Mangaphi was hit by two
hundred millimeters of rain last year, leaving campers in ankle
deep mud and cards stuck in swamped paddocks. Festival director
Gareth Pophams says there were a lot of lessons learn
and massive improvements have been made for this year. A

(01:29):
body has been found near a hobby beach, thought to
be the man who fled from police on Christmas night.
The forty eight year old Fakatane man ran away from
officers and jumped into the harbor after they were called
to a family harm incident. Blake Benny reports.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
A search began on Christmas night and has been ongoing since,
with a body discovered overnight near the mouth of the
harbor Eastern Bay of Plenty. Area Commander Inspector Nicky Cooney
says a formal identification process is still ongoing. The death
will be referred to the coroner.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Police have identified the man whose body was found Friday
in the rock pools at Breaker Bay on Wellington's South coast.
Inquiries are continuing to establish what happened. That's news in Sport.
Another big names through to the last sixteen at the
World Dance Championships. Dutch star Michael van Gerwin completed a

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four sets to two third round win over Northern Ireland's
Brendan Dolan in London. Teen sensation Luked Littler as rounding
our Day eleven action, the seventeen year old currently on
the hockey against the fifty four year old veteran Ian
White at Alexandra Palace and Alexandra the Township in Central
Otago is the host for the latest doubleheader and Crickets

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T twenty Super Smash this afternoon. Both the Otago and
women's teams chase their first win at the competition from
twelve forty. The men's match is set for a four
twenty five start. The Vaults looking to back up a
first up victory. Phoenix forward cost Barbarusis admits there was
no better way to score his ninety ninth goal in

(03:04):
Football's A League than the way he did in their
two one home victory over Newcastle That Sport. I'm Sandy Hodge.
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