Morning Edition: 15 January 2025

The Morning Edition of News Fix for 15 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):
Good morning. I'm Wendy Petrie and this is your morning
newsfix for Wednesday, the fifteenth of January. And this update,
the nervous Weight will end for one hundred and sixty
thousand students taking nca today and zaid QA will be
posting the results online, with students able to check if
they've passed and if they've received course endorsements, a certificate

(00:24):
of endorsement or university entrance. Secondary Principles Association President Vaughan
Coolio says there's plenty of reasons why students may have
fallen short on the day. He says NCAA isn't entirely
dependent on those exams, so it's not.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
An all or nothing thing, and so the work that
you have got good results is still there and still exists,
and it's just.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
About getting yourself out over that last hurdle. Please say
they're looking for a person of interest after the death
of a man in Thames on Monday afternoon. They believe
the pair were known to each other and there's no
risk to the way to public. Under eighteens will soon
be banned from buying lotto ticket. It's Internal Affairs Minister
Brook van Walden's introducing legislative changes that would restrict the

(01:05):
sale of all Lotto products to people aged over eighteen. Currently,
only instant Kiwi products like scratcheets have an age limit.
Thomas Rice has more.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Lotto Head of Corporate Communications, Will Hinde says they welcome
the changes, which would bring the law into line with
the instant Kiwi regulations. He says it'll remove a gray
area for retailers and customers, and while they don't have
data on how many youths actually purchase tickets, they believe
the numbers are very low.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Belisa working to formally identify a body found at Alkland's
Phr Beach last night, believed to be a missing fisherman.
Surf Life Savings says lifeguards recovered a body at North
pr about five pm. Hog booners appear not to be
interested in long term commitments. The latest Core Logic reports
shows just ten percent of new loans were fixed for

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longer than twelve months. That's way down from the same
time last year, when fifty one percent were for longer terms.
Call Logic chief property economist Calvin Davidson says there's also
a jump and floating rates. He says it makes sense
as people expect interest rates to continue to fall. Firefighters
are continuing in they're now week long battle against the

(02:15):
wildfires in Los Angeles. At least twenty four people have
died in the infernos, a figure that's expected to grow.
The two largest blazers are still burning. The Palisades Fire
at fourteen percent contained, while the Eaten Fire is at
thirty three percent. The National Weather Service is forecasting winds
of up to one hundred and twelve kilometers per hour today.

(02:35):
Senior meteorologist Todd Hall told CNN the area is very dry,
which makes firefighting efforts all that much harder.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
We've had less than a quarter into rain since May,
so we're working on close to eight months with just
a quarter.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Inter Frame two sport Now and women's tennis World number
forty four Lulu Sun has exited from the first round
of the Australian Open, beaten and straight sets by Darnia
Koventach and Otago have their lead extended at the top
of the Super Smash Men's T twenty cricket table with
a fifteen run win over bottom place Wellington at the

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Basin Reserve. I'm Wendy Petrick. That's your latest news fix.
We'll be back with the next update at midday. From
the news Talk Sedby Newsroom.