Afternoon Edition: 04 January 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 04 January 2025, 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):
From the news Talk's Edby Newsroom. This is newsfex. In
this update, State Highway to across the Rimatuka Hill north
of Wellington has reopened after a serious crash. The road
closed about eleven thirty this morning after two people were injured,
one seriously, in a two vehicle crash which followed an
oil spill. The sound of Wayata is filling Huanganui where

(00:25):
Dame Tariana Tullia's tongue Hunger's taking place prior to her
burial on Tuesday. Dame Tariana died in the early hours
of Friday morning after an earlier stroke. She was eighty
years old and leaves behind a lasting political legacy. Dame
Tariana arrived in Parliament as a Labour List MP, then

(00:45):
represented her local Mari electorate for the party. She left
Labour over the Foreshore and Seabed legislation which saw the
birth of Tipati Maari Horticulture. New Zealand says any fruit
fly outbreak would significantly impact the sector and New Zealand's economy.
A single oriental fruit fly was found in a surveillance
trap in a backyard in Auckland's Papatoy Toy yesterday Biosecurity

(01:09):
New Zealands ramping up trapping and testing within two hundred
meters of the original find, and people are urged not
to move any fruit or vegetables out of the suburb.
HORTENDZ Chief executive Kate Scott says it's a concern and
people should follow biosecurities directions. Preventable drowning incidents reduced in
the last year. Provisional data from Water Safety New Zealand

(01:31):
show seventy one preventable drownings, down from ninety the previous year.
Seventy one is also below the ten year average of
eighty three and the lowest since twenty sixteen.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Shannon Johnstone reports fatalities involving powered craft have risen sharply
and make up twenty one percent of all drownings last year.
That's arise on the ten year average of twelve percent.
There's also been a spike in fatalities in tidal waters
and during bar crossings, which have risen from ten to percent.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
That's news. In sport, fifth seed Clara Tarson is into
the women's ASB Tennis Classic final after beating American Robin
Montgomery six four to sixty three in the semis. Four
time Major winner Naomi Osaka is relishing, reaching her first
semi final since Miami in twenty twenty two. The Japanese
seventh seed will play American Alicia Parks for a spot

(02:23):
in the final. Osaka says she struggled last year with
not producing results.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Just to come out with a bang in the very
beginning of the year in the first tournament, it for
me proves that I don't want to say last year
wasn't for nothing, but it's like a continuation of the growth.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Black cab rush In Ravendra is relishing the prospect of
returning to the top of the order in the three
match One Day International series with Sri Lanka starting tomorrow
in Wellington. The twenty five year old bats at number
four for the Test side, but opened with Devon Conway
during last year's One Day World Cup. That's sport. I'm
Joe Gilfillan. For more news to news talks, it be

(03:01):
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