April 16, 2025 • 3 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good morning. I'm never ready Manu and this is your
morning news Vixer, Thursday, seventeenth of April. In this update,
the worst of the weather is yet to come for
Aucklanders as a subtropical low moves down the upper North Island.
Lines crews are working to restore power to tens of
thousands of Northland and Auckland homes. Fired emergencies responded to
(00:24):
dozens of weather related callouts overnight, the majority for fallen trees,
with some taking out power lines. Met Service meteorologist Brian
Mercer says Northland has seen gusts up to one hundred
and fifty kilometers an hour in exposed places, and the
winds are picking up in Auckland till strongest winds are
probably in up to about nine ten am and then
through grattually easing after us. Almost all New Zealand state
(00:49):
schools are operating at or above their campus capacity. News
doorg z BE can reveal seventeen percent of schools that
enrolled more students than their official classroom capacity in twenty
twenty four. Jamie Cunningham is more.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It's three percent less than in twenty twenty. However, the
number of schools operating at capacity rose from sixty eight
to seventy one percent in that period. The Ministry of
Education assesses whether a school is above capacity using the
total build area against the student role.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
The emergence of a global trade war and resulting uncertainty
could delay our road to economic recovery. Inframetrics has revised
its GDP forecast for next year from two point six
to one point zero percent per annum, with an expectation
of weaker exports. Chief forecast At Gareth Keenan says US
President Donald Trump's tariff policy and its on and off
(01:40):
nature does not instill much confidence in making financial decisions.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Were expecting to.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
See just a bit more softness in the labor marketers.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Businesses are more.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Reluctant to hire and also expecting to see a bit
more weakness in the house and marketers.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
People are just cautious about taking on more debt.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
The Reserve Bank's latest inflation figures will be released later today.
Elect tricity generator Loadstone Energy is becoming an energy retailer
as well. It will initially focus on commercial and industrial sectors,
but will consider expanding further if market conditions allow. Campaigners
in the UK as celebrating the Supreme Court's decision to
(02:16):
define the term woman based on biological sex. It comes
after the Scottish government argued the twenty ten equality and
sex based protections should apply to trans women. Supreme Court
Judge Lord Hodge announced the unanimous decision, but we come
sol against reading this judgment as a triumph of one
or more groups in our society at the expense of another.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
It is not.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Convicted double murderer Mark Lundy will have another chance at
freedom this afternoon when he appears before the Parole Board.
Previous bids in twenty twenty two and twenty three failed. Lundy,
who in two thousand fatally blungeoned his wife and daughter
at their home in Palmster, North, has always maintained his innocence.
The hearing is this afternoon and in sport Rico Yowanette
(03:01):
will take up a sabbatical option in his New Zealand
rugby contract next year with Irish club Leinster. Are the
Commonwealth Games on the cusp of resuscitation for king and
former empire beyond twenty twenty six. The governing body claims
seven countries are now jostling to host the twenty thirty
and twenty thirty four editions Netborn News Zealergy of Executive
(03:23):
Jenny Wiley claims the board will review their ruling over
Grace Wekes silver Fern's ineligibility while she plays in Australia
and I'm Neveraretti Manu. That your latest newsweeks. We'll be
back with the next update at midday from Newstalk ZBE Newsroom.
Good morning. I'm never ready Manu and this is your
morning news Vixer, Thursday, seventeenth of April. In this update,
the worst of the weather is yet to come for
Aucklanders as a subtropical low moves down the upper North Island.
Lines crews are working to restore power to tens of
thousands of Northland and Auckland homes. Fired emergencies responded to
(00:24):
dozens of weather related callouts overnight, the majority for fallen trees,
with some taking out power lines. Met Service meteorologist Brian
Mercer says Northland has seen gusts up to one hundred
and fifty kilometers an hour in exposed places, and the
winds are picking up in Auckland till strongest winds are
probably in up to about nine ten am and then
through grattually easing after us. Almost all New Zealand state
(00:49):
schools are operating at or above their campus capacity. News
doorg z BE can reveal seventeen percent of schools that
enrolled more students than their official classroom capacity in twenty
twenty four. Jamie Cunningham is more.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
It's three percent less than in twenty twenty. However, the
number of schools operating at capacity rose from sixty eight
to seventy one percent in that period. The Ministry of
Education assesses whether a school is above capacity using the
total build area against the student role.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
The emergence of a global trade war and resulting uncertainty
could delay our road to economic recovery. Inframetrics has revised
its GDP forecast for next year from two point six
to one point zero percent per annum, with an expectation
of weaker exports. Chief forecast At Gareth Keenan says US
President Donald Trump's tariff policy and its on and off
(01:40):
nature does not instill much confidence in making financial decisions.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Were expecting to.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
See just a bit more softness in the labor marketers.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Businesses are more.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Reluctant to hire and also expecting to see a bit
more weakness in the house and marketers.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
People are just cautious about taking on more debt.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
The Reserve Bank's latest inflation figures will be released later today.
Elect tricity generator Loadstone Energy is becoming an energy retailer
as well. It will initially focus on commercial and industrial sectors,
but will consider expanding further if market conditions allow. Campaigners
in the UK as celebrating the Supreme Court's decision to
(02:16):
define the term woman based on biological sex. It comes
after the Scottish government argued the twenty ten equality and
sex based protections should apply to trans women. Supreme Court
Judge Lord Hodge announced the unanimous decision, but we come
sol against reading this judgment as a triumph of one
or more groups in our society at the expense of another.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
It is not.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Convicted double murderer Mark Lundy will have another chance at
freedom this afternoon when he appears before the Parole Board.
Previous bids in twenty twenty two and twenty three failed. Lundy,
who in two thousand fatally blungeoned his wife and daughter
at their home in Palmster, North, has always maintained his innocence.
The hearing is this afternoon and in sport Rico Yowanette
(03:01):
will take up a sabbatical option in his New Zealand
rugby contract next year with Irish club Leinster. Are the
Commonwealth Games on the cusp of resuscitation for king and
former empire beyond twenty twenty six. The governing body claims
seven countries are now jostling to host the twenty thirty
and twenty thirty four editions Netborn News Zealergy of Executive
(03:23):
Jenny Wiley claims the board will review their ruling over
Grace Wekes silver Fern's ineligibility while she plays in Australia
and I'm Neveraretti Manu. That your latest newsweeks. We'll be
back with the next update at midday from Newstalk ZBE Newsroom.
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