Afternoon Edition: 24 December 2025

The Afternoon Edition of News Fix for 24 December 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 Heavy Newsroom.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is newsfacs.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
In this update. Police officers in Wellington were pelted with
bottles and fireworks last night after a crackdown on a
two hundred strong boy racer convoy. The group, with vehicles
coming from areas such Ashanganui, Levin and Palmerston North, attempted
to set up a meet at Motakaraka Point around ten pm,
but were met with an alcohol checkpoint. Troy Mattitch reports

(00:29):
they moved on to.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Grenada North but were again apprehended by police. Hut Valley
Area Commander Inspector Way Jennings says fortunately no officers were injured,
but cause the behavior completely reckless and unacceptable. Four people
were arrested and twenty two fined.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Drivers are being urged to make sensible choices this summer.
Last year, two hundred and ninety two people lost their
lives on the road. Superintendent Steve Greeley says impaed driving
causes great risk.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
It's a really big one in this country when they
think about drugs, alcohol and fatigue.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
The holiday road toll count began at four pm and
runs through to six am on January fifth. Per Strings
appear to be tight this Christmas Eve as last minute
shoppers hit the stores. Today's once again taken the title
as the year's busiest shopping day, but peak hour transactions
are still lagging behind previous years. Kate Rickhart has more.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
More than five hundred and sixty three thousand transactions went
through between midday and one pm, compared to more than
six hundred seven thousand last year and six hundred twenty
seven than twenty twenty three. This follows earlier World Line
figures showing spending last week was also down annually for
core products like clothes and electronics.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Visitors to able Tasman National Park are being advised to
give a leopard seal in the area plenty of space.
The marine predators been regularly seen in the holiday hot
spot for several weeks. Dark Senior Marine technical advisor Jody
Ware says it's unusual to see leopard seals in the
region as they're normally found much further so. She says
it seems happy and healthy, but people should stay at

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least twenty meters away on both land and water and
that's news. The Sport and Auckland FC boss Nick Beck
is frustrated with the lack of communication from Sydney FC
after the postponement of Saturday's A League clash. The Black
Knights were due to fly across the Tasman tomorrow, but
like ourt OVAL's pitch was deemed not up to scratch.

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Becka says the Sydney club would have known about its
field problem for weeks.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Playing to them, Sidney said, I'm pretty shocking weather lately,
but you know the fact that they didn't a flag
it is a concern weeks ago and be try and
find an alternative venue is pretty disappointing.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
A group of fifteen yachts will scatter rose pedals off
the coast of Bondai Beach during this year's Sydney to
Hobart Race in memory of the fifteen lives lost during
the Bondai terror attack. Meanwhile, the one hundred and twenty
nine starters have been told winds will be much lighter
than the boat breaking conditions that resulted in two deaths
last year, and that sport m scarlets wereanovic. For more news,

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