<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side two <&>25:14 news read by lloyd scott the developers of the first major commercial development to get underway in wellington for three years says the business community must take the necessary action to ensure economic recovery takes place sooner rather than later the midland park complex will cost one hundred million dollars and will provide five hundred jobs at the peak of construction the midland park complex is a joint project between norseman pacific and the wellington city council and it will be built on the site of the capital's old central police station the first stage of the project is a four hundred space underground carpark and the second will be a thirty storey tower the developers say it is a positive sign that the long awaited economic recovery has begun <,> the country's merchants are opposed to announced changes which will require all goods to be <&>26:00 labelled with their country of origin within a year the executive director of the merchants association doug mclaren says the measure which will apply from july next year will place additional costs on traders and consumers and he says retailers do not want to end up carrying the can for incorrectly labelled merchandise mister mclaren says an independent consultant's report found that it could cost up to four million dollars to police such measures he says the report also found that the economic benefits were minimal and that problems and costs would exceed any consumer benefits <,> south of auckland detectives and fire safety officers are at the scene of a suspicious fire in otaua which has destroyed an aerosol packaging factory eye witnesses say it sounded like someone going berserk with a rifle local resident janice price says it was frightening with all the aerosol cans exploding and fear that a large l p g tank inside the factory might go up several homes were evacuated because of the danger of explosions and <&>27:00 chemical fumes and several firefighters needed decontamination after coming in contact with a variety of chemicals inside water to fight the flames had to be pumped from a creek almost one kilometre away <,> the anzus alliance may still be up in the air but that will not stop the new zealand flag being flown later today in a huge washington ticker tape parade to mark the victory of the coalition forces in the gulf war the new zealand flag will be carried by an r n z a f officer flight lieutenant andy greathead of lower hutt <,> flight lieutenant greathead who is stationed at our embassy in washington will also lead a small new zealand or small new zealand contingents to participate in similar ticker tape parades later this month in new york seattle and dallas <,> wing commander des ashton of napier is also taking part in today's parade and he says he's expecting to be ankle deep in ticker tape by the end of the day <,> new zealand is taking part in the parades because of our participation in the gulf war one <&>28:00 hundred new zealand service people served in the gulf <,> the former governor general sir paul reeves has been nominated for a key role in british talks aimed at ending the political violence in northern ireland the talks are planned to begin in ten days and sir paul is one of fourteen people suggested by the ulster unionist party to chair them <,> the catholic democratic unionists have put forward nine names speaking from his united nations post in new york sir paul says the job would take common sense the ability to listen and sensitivity but he's not commenting on his chances of getting the job i'm just one of a number of people and who they would select it seems to me is something which er we just have to wait and see sir paul says the chairman's position will be a heavy responsibility <,> fiji's military strongman major general sitiveni rabuka has given an interview in which he has called on the fiji government to stand down and hinted <&>29:00 that he could take over again general rabuka says in an interview in the fiji times that the interim government which he installed after leading two military coups in nineteen eighty seven is becoming increasingly unpopular the forty two year old major general says a military takeover by him is not really necessary voc but he adds that if he did take back the government it could not be called a military coup but would merely be repossession of power HE had vested in the president ratu sir peni ganilau in december nineteen eighty seven he accuses the administration of being a reactionary government made up of over paid people sitting on their laurels and waiting for something to happen before they react correspondents believe his dissatisfaction with the government stems from ratu sir kamisese mara's refusal last week to allow the general to succeed him as prime minister for a year until the first post coup elections scheduled for next july tut a heat wave gripping pakistan's southern province of sind has killed <&>30:00 eighteen more people raising the death toll to at least fifty in five days the latest deaths took place yesterday in the interior of sind where temperatures have hovered around fifty degrees all week doctors say hundreds of people have collapsed from heat stroke karachi's meterological department says the hottest place yesterday was the eastern sind town of chor where the temperature reached fifty two degrees celsius the highest temperature ever officially recorded in pakistan was fifty three degrees in jacobabad in june nineteen nineteen <&>30:30