<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side two <&>1:10 radio new zealand news leading the news the search for a missing tramper resumes at first light wellington faces the spectre of major health cuts and j r bows out with a bullet i'm shelley venning it's twelve midnight the search resumes at first light tomorrow for a tramper missing in mid canterbury bush country for the last six days twenty one year old colin james bolitho of wellington hasn't been seen since last sunday when he visited the watch dog hut on the clyde river it's been snowing in the area and senior sergeant brian goodwin says police fear for his safety we have reasonable concern er from the last report we had of him he <,> was um probably ill clad for the er the conditions that he was operating in and er appeared to have little <&>2:00 food at the time an urgent appeal's gone out to trampers and shooters who've been in the upper rangitata area to contact police if they can shed any light on the missing man's whereabouts armed gun men tonight escaped with eight thousand dollars after robbing an auckland video store police say two men wielding a double barrelled shot gun and wearing scarves and dark glasses held up the avondale video parlour in great north road there were a number of witnesses who are helping police with their investigations but they've no strong leads at this stage no one was hurt in the robbery more health cost cutting plans for wellington with the local area health board considering a plan that would slash wellington hospital bed numbers and reduce the rest of the region's hospitals to community health clinics board chairman bob henare is angry the plan's been leaked to the media and insists it's just one of the options under consideration and not even the most radical one it is certainly not a er an option that the board <.>is is necessarily going to adopt um it <&>3:00 just happens to be one <.>of of this nine er that we've been looking at the plan would see wellington hospital bed numbers reduced from more than two thousand to seven hundred and eighty over twenty years while the rest of the region's hospitals would become lower level community health facilities the duck shooting season's opened with a bang and a warning from rangers wellington fish and game council ranger steve smith says unlicensed hunters and those who exceed the quota ruin the sport by stealing from others he says duck conservation depends on license fees and controlled quotas what hunters do is they contribute um tut i think a million and a half dollars er a large proportion of that goes directly towards creating habitat which breeds more ducks steve smith says this season will be a boomer with good spring rainfall creating excellent conditions for breeding and rearing of ducklings j r ewing the soap star americans love to hate has tipped his black hat in final <&>4:00 farewell dallas has ended its thirteen year run with a cliff hanger to end all cliff hangers did j r take his own life the last minute of the two hour show ends with a shocked bobby ewing running into his brother's room after hearing a shot but the public doesn't see what bobby sees and is left wondering whether or not j r has taken his life an ending which seems to promise more to come or maybe it was all a dream radio new zealand news leading the news <&>4:26