Afternoon Edition: 02 March 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 02 March 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 talks had been newsroom this is newsfecs.
In this update, police say they've been made aware of
several possible sightings of a man missing for more than
six weeks. Travis Langford left Wellington on January seventeenth, traveling
to Waikuto. His car was found burnt out at a
farm on Tolly Road in Waiicuto's na Roma the next day.
Police say a man matching his description wearing a poncho

(00:27):
was spotted at several different locations in the region today.
He appeared to be hitchhiking. They believe the man was
heading north and may have been picked up by a
passing motorist. Police want to hear from people traveling on
State Highway thirty between nine thirty this morning and midday
with dash cam footage, or who may have picked up
a hitchhiker. It's Children's Day and Barnardo's Children Charity is

(00:48):
reminding people not everyone will feel the joy. Stats end
z data show one in eight children here live in poverty.
Bernardo's Chief executive Matt Reid says New Zealand's are paradise
that not all all kids get to enjoy. Calls for
the government to step up the fight against exotic color
per brachypus. The Nati Manihiri Settlement Trust says it welcomes

(01:09):
the new technological projects to control the seaweed, but it
wants the government to fund the community response. The trust
says it's been fighting calerpa on Kawo Island since July
twenty twenty three. Chief Executive Nicola McDonald says waiting on
government processes is frustrating.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Completely understand due diligence.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
That what we have is a fast growing invasive invader
that waits for nobody. The Police Minister says new Firearms
Protection Order rules will continue to put pressure on gangs.
Changes from today mean any gang members or associates with
a significant criminal conviction can be given an order. It'll
also expand search powers. Mark Mitchell says there are strict

(01:50):
checks and balances around the searchers. The constable wanting to
use an execute the want the search power we are practical,
has to check with the China Command. Inline in Coosyge,
that's news. In sport, black caps all round. The Glenn
Phillips is shrugging off suggestions the champions trophy is playing
into the hands of India ahead of the final group

(02:11):
match between our two nations in Dubai tonight. India is
using Dubai as their base for the tournament after refusing
to travel to host nation Pakistan because of security fears
and political tension. But Phillips is taking no notice of
any perceived disadvantage for New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Obviously, a tournament draw is what it is, and you
know we have no excuses mindset to be able to
come out to a tournament. You're delta hand that you
are deult and you know the facts of the matter
is India has been delt that hand and we've been
deldel hand and you know we're never going to complain
about what we get and we'll just do the best
with what we've got.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
First ball is coming up at ten o'clock tonight. The
Warriors hope what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas after
a heavy thirty to eight lost to the Raiders in
their NRL season opener in Las Vegas. That's Sport. I'm
Joe Gilfillan. For more news, listen to New Talk Said
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