Midday Edition: 24 August 2025

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 24 August 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 newsfacs.
In this update, a man in his twenties was flown
to hospital in a critical condition after a sand dune
collapse in Auckland. Emergency services were called to Monrowai Beach
to around five pm yesterday. Emily Ansel reports.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Auckland Westpac Rescue Helicopters says the patient was digging a
hole in the sand dune when it collapsed on him
and buried him head first. In twenty twenty three, a
twelve year old boy was killed when digging on Great
Barrier Island and a sand dune collapsed.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Firefighters are battling a factory fire in Matticana, north of Auckland.
Fire and Emergency received reports of the partially involved fire
on a commercial premise at ten am. A spokesperson says
seven trucks are in attendance and the fire is now contained,
but LISA investigating after a member of the public found
a body near the Wairau River mouth east of Lenham.

(00:57):
They say someone made the discovery in the water off
one bar road before four pm yesterday. Police is still
going through the formal processes of investigation and identification. Marlb
Retistrict Council says locally, we have met this morning to
lay a rahui at Wirral Bar for a five a
day period. It covers the wire artiva, particularly the mouth

(01:18):
of the wire bar, prohibiting food collection and swimming in
the area. One of our largest companies is reconsidering its
use of gas. Major gas users have been in crisis
talks with the government in recent weeks. Several companies are
looking at scaling back production and fertilizer manufacture, balance aggre nutrients,

(01:39):
warning it may even have to temporarily close its Taranaki plant.
Fletcher Boss Andrew Reading says it's now seeking alternative methodologies
to using gas.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
The major use of gas that is the Winter Warboard
site down in christ Church and ta Rico as well.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Reading says they're also hedging more power in response to
rising power prices. A number of rallies are taking place
across Australia today demanding an end to the war. In Gaza,
pro Palestine demonstrators had planned to march across Brisbane's Story Bridge,
but those plans were abandoned after a court ruled it
posed a threat to safety. That's news. I'm Sandy Hodge.

(02:18):
In sport, the All Blacks have suffered an historic loss
in Buenos Aires, been defeated by the Pumas for the
very first time in Argentina.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Twenty nine to twenty three. And what a sign is
is bouncing Argentina. They did it in Paramatta, they did
it in christ Church, they did it in Wellington. But
now they do it's in their capital. And for the
All Blacks, hardly the performance that says spring on the box.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
They all discipline sarred the AB's performance, conceding three yellow
cards in the twenty nine twenty three Rugby Championship loss,
but the All Blacks stay top of the table thanks
to their bonus point for finishing within seven points. A
hamstring injury has forced halfback Maya Joseph out of the
Black Fans match Day twenty three to tackle Spain in
the opening test of their Rugby World Cup campaign in

(03:08):
the UK. Auckland FC has beaten Sydney FC on penalties
to make the semifinals of the Australia Cup. That's Sports
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