Midday Edition: 08 June 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 08 June 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 said the newsroom this is newsfacs
in this update. This weekend's cold snap has seen Wonica
as the coldest town overnight on minus four degrees, with
toma Anui following closely at minus three degrees. N Zta
close State Highway eight between Twice andand Fairly and State
Highway eighty between Lake Foukaki and Araqi Mount Cook due

(00:27):
to snow. Met Service meteorologists Surprise Mashongo said Canterbury is
expected to see some more snow today. Places Slay what
Hells and the Peninsula. We still have some snowfall in
those places that are about three to four hundred meters.
Thousands of school lunches are going uneaten every week in Northland.

(00:47):
Figures from the Ministry of Education released to our newsroom
showed in March and April this year, two hundred and
thirty six thousand lunches were delivered to Northern schools and
more than seventeen thousand of those were uneaten if Our
Area school principal Lesa White said quality was the main
reason students weren't eating lunches, saying some meals can be
too dry with not enough source. The Ministry of Education

(01:10):
says a number of leftover lunches is closely related to attendance.
Belief in overhaul of the construction industry's education and training
could help reduce mental distress. Suicide rates at twenty five
percent higher than in other sectors, with Mari Pacific and
migrant workers among the highest risk. The professional builders Marty

(01:31):
Amos says recent low levels of sector growth could exacerbate
mental distress. He says tradespeople are trained well for site,
but tend to be underprepared for the stressed all business
side of the job because you're the only big numbers.
So typically this is the biggest investment of anyone's life,
as massive consequences if it goes wrong. The government's making
a pitch for offshore investment in our oil and gas sector.

(01:55):
Resources Minister Shane Jones is heading to Singapore today will
speak to more than four hundred executives at this week's
Asia Pacific Energy Capital Assembly. He says Budget twenty twenty
five's two hundred million dollar contingency for co investment in
new gas fields sends a clear message New Zealand is
serious about exploration. That's news. In Sport Warriors Captain James

(02:27):
Fisher Harris is refusing to draw comparisons between his NROL
club and his former Penrith Panthers side. It comes as
the teams at second on the table after a thirty
point win over the Sharks in Sydney. Fisher Harris, he
won four premierships with the Panthers, says the Warriors are
carving their own path. It's hard to say like I'm
not comparing or anything like that. We just build our

(02:48):
own thing like weeks a week. Most has done it,
just focus on its group here. How are we going
to get the share? Hurricans coach Clark Laidlaw is taking
an optimistic turn to the future after his Super Rugby
side missed out on the semifinals. The Hurricanes were eliminated
by the Brumbies in Canberra, the third time in four
years their seasons ended in the Australian capitol. Laidlaw says

(03:10):
the flurry of injuries facing the squad this season has
created strong depth for campaigns moving forward. For more news,
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