<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>26:25 now join me for nga korero o te wa a round up of maori news events <,> former cabinet minister winston peters is encouraging superannuitants in their <.>pr er protests against the government mister peters spoke to the superannuitants association in auckland during the week and told them they have a right to object to what is happening to them and to their country <,> he criticised the government's handling of the issue saying the broken promises on superannuation were a betrayal of the electorate mister peters says today's superannuitants were led to believe they would be taken care of in their old age <&>27:00 and that must not be changed <,> a big jump in the number of people registered on maori electoral rolls means there'll be far more voters per seat in maori electorates than in general seats at the next election <,> the number of voters for general electorates is set at just over thirty three thousand but because the number of maori seats is limited to four higher roles will give those seats forty four thousand voters each <,> political scientist alan mcrobie says a change to the electoral act should be needed to increase the number of maori seats or cut general seats to solve the problem but he doubts either option is politically acceptable <,> a maori group in auckland is setting up what is what it calls an immigration service for nonmaori people the aotearoa new zealand action committee wants nonmaori new zealanders and recent migrants to seek immigration clearance from an auckland office opening next week spokesperson for the <&>28:00 group eru potaka dewes says people will be questioned by kaumatua on their understanding of the treaty of waitangi maori culture and their feelings towards the environment he says the government's immigration points system is all about money while the maori service is about quality of life eru potaka dewes says people who won't face the test should think seriously about finding a more suitable country <,> the maori trustee could lose control of its office under plans revealed in a report released by maori affairs minister doug kidd that's the warning from former trustee neville baker <,> mister baker says a report commissioned by former minister winston peters contains evidence of mister peters' super ministry plan he says the new structure proposed in the report would ultimately give control to the minister and the chief executive of the ministry for maori development mister baker says what's needed is <&>29:00 for the trustees' beneficiaries to have more say about what happens to their assets and further to the interview with doctor anne salmond there's a new bid to get to the bottom of a mysterious possible spanish discovery of new zealand long before abel tasman and james cook <,> victoria university historian phyllis herder leaves for spain tomorrow to try to shed further light on maori accounts of a canoe meeting a boat load of pale skinned people well before sixteen forty two <,> for years there's been speculation that the portuguese or spanish and NOT the dutch were the first europeans to voyage to new zealand phyllis herder will be looking for documents on the spanish navigator juan fernandez to try to establish if HE was the first european to come here <&>insert not transcribed <&>30:00 but it's er considered extremely unlikely that fernandez could have sailed from chile to new zealand in a month going against the wind and the currents <,> mana motuhake leader matiu rata says maori affairs minister doug kidd would be foolish to go ahead with next week's series of hui on the future of a maori trust office <,> mister rata who held the maori affairs portfolio in the third labour government says the trust office review is a political document stamped with the mark of mister kidd's er predecessor winston peters <,> he says mister kidd should set his own agenda and there are more important things for him to talk about with maori people mister rata says the maori trust office is the place where past administrators have dumped problems which are too hard or too uneconomic to be dealt with elsewhere he says it's of little importance in the lives of most maori people and that's our programme for this week technical help's been from barry hartley and i'm henare te ua te reo o aotearoa <&>31:00