<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>8:25 kiwicard after the budget will be officially titled the community services card and over a million will be distributed in december to beneficiaries the elderly and those on low incomes simon lindsay of the unemployed and beneficiaries movement says the card is an insult to all those forced to use it and its introduction will see a wave of resistance he says the political backlash seen over g r i shows just what people power can do and the government should brace itself for problems simon lindsay says new zealanders don't want to live in a big brother society and the government should scrap its card plans before <&>9:00 it's too late <,> a maori trustee loan criticised by former maori affairs minister winston peters has allowed an otaki plastic recycling plant to keep up with the demand for playground safety tiles mister peters says the trustee neville baker acted improperly in loaning five hundred and seventy thousand dollars to companies owned by rockie cribb a key figure in the nineteen eighty six hawaiian loans affair but mister cribb says the loan saved forty two jobs and gave the businesses a bigger share of the local and export market the plant is running twenty four hours a day to keep up with the demand for safety tiles mister cribb said the investment was made after independent financial advice and mister peters' revelations are a breach of trustee confidentiality <,> the french foreign minister roland dumas says the middle east peace conference is likely to begin by the end of this month and will probably take place in europe he says invitations signed by the united states and the soviet union which are <.>co sponsoring the conference will be sent out by <&>10:00 midoctober the european community will be represented at the conference by luxembourg the netherlands and portugal the past current and next holders of the e c presidency mister dumas says the venue will be a european city but not geneva the netherlands czechoslovakia and switzerland have all offered to host the talks <,> united nations inspectors who have just been in baghdad have confirmed widespread reports that iraq was engaged in work to build a nuclear weapon the u n special team which conducted an investigation says iraq's nuclear programme was a broad based effort to design and develop nuclear weapons during their mission members of the u n team were held for several days by the iraqi authorities in a baghdad carpark after seizing documents and videos in a separate statement today the senior u n envoy ralph eckius says the team appear to have clear proof but the findings will take a long time to analyse mister eckius was speaking in baghdad where he's having talks with iraqi authorities on the elimination of weapons of mass destruction <,> britain's former <&>11:00 director of public prosecution who's at the centre of a prostitution scandal won't be charged with kerb crawling sir allen green resigned this week after he was stopped by police as he talked with prostitutes in london's kings cross the incident has shocked the british legal profession and brought new calls for brothels to be legalised labour m p tony banks says prostitutes need greater protection from kerb crawlers <&>11:26 <&>ineligible male speaker not transcribed <&>11:38 tony banks says the incident involving sir allen green is tragic but he says kerb crawlers are a menace and have to be dealt with <,> farmers on the waimakarere ashley plains in canterbury are without water for their stock after part of a vital water race was wiped out during a thunderstorm sixty metres of the ten kilometre race at browns rock near oxford have <&>12:00 been affected by a slip the water race was built about a hundred years ago and supplies all properties on the plains the waimakarere district council says staff inspected the damage in the dark last night it looks like it could take two or three days to repair in the meantime farmers will have to make other arrangements for watering their stock <,> an air safety award is to be set up in memory of the pilot and crew of the air new zealand d c ten which crashed in the antarctic the collins family award is being established with the help of the family of the erebus pilot captain jim collins and will recognise outstanding contributions to aviation safety it's to be administered by the airline pilots association and will be presented next month on the twelfth anniversary of the erebus disaster the trophy is engraved with a map of antarctica marked with both the actual and <,> planned flight routes of the illfated airliner that's radio new zealand news to about twenty five to nine at the weather office <&>12:58