<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:09 kia ora good evening i'm joanna paul and THIS is nightline tonight a fullscale emergency at christchurch international airport as a big bird lands on one engine also tonight the civil war in yugoslavia increases in ferocity and with the on set of winter the soviet union faces chronic food shortages <&>0:32 <&>other speakers in intro not transcribed <&>1:12 thanks for joining us the government's giving away shares in new zealand's power companies everyone who PAYS a power bill will be on the RECEIVING end it's part of a plan to set up new electricity SUPPLY companies but along with the free shares will come INCREASES in the price we pay <&>1:30 <&>inserted report not transcribed <&>2:56 inhales a FULL scale emergency call out at <&>3:00 christchurch international airport tonight a qantas boeing seven six seven landed with ONE engine shut down the twin engined boeing was on its way to sydney when a warning light indicated a problem in one of its engines the aircraft was half way across the tasman with a hundred and ninety passengers on board immediately headed back to christchurch fire appliances from the city stood by for the landing and ambulances were called in from outlying areas the seven six seven made a perfect touchdown an inspection revealed a faulty warning light tut the aircraft has left again for sydney there are some spots on the image of new zealand gymnastics tonight more than a thousand of the top gymnasts in the world have been immunised for MEASLES after three of the new zealand team went down with the illness at the world championships <&>3:50 <&>inserted report not transcribed <&>4:43 inhales two banks dropped interest rates on home mortgages today the b n z to eleven point seven FIVE percent and the national bank to just under twelve percent in other national news finance minister ruth richardson flies out <&>5:00 of auckland tonight to recruit international investors to new zealand but some of her pretrip publicity has drawn FIRE from the prime minister <&>5:07 <&>inserted report not transcribed <&>6:36 inhales a strong earthquake gave wanganui residents a frightening wake up call this morning the quake six point FIVE on the richter scale was felt as far north as auckland and as far SOUTH as christchurch <&>6:49 <&>inserted report not transcribed <&>8:04 yugoslavia remains in turmoil tonight macedonian residents back a referendum for independence and croats continue to defend against military attack <&>8:15 <&>inserted report not transcribed <&>9:44 inhales stay with us on nightline coming up the soviet union faces a bleak and hungry winter black township violence erupts again in south africa and a WALT DISNEY classic becomes available on vid <&>10:57 <&>commercial break not transcribed <&>12:40 inhales a new crisis is LOOMING in the soviet union serious food shortages are predicted in the coming winter moscow city authorities are preparing by forming an emergency committee its chairman describes the situation as catastrophic <&>12:54 <&>inserted report not transcribed <&>13:48 inhales meanwhile as the breakup of the soviet union continues red army troups are leaving the newly independent baltic republics <&>13:57 <&>inserted report not transcribed <&>14:51 inhales the family of david tamihere who's serving life for the murder of two swedish tourists is to appeal the conviction tamihere's <&>15:00 brother lawyer john tamihere says the appeal will be mounted on the grounds of fresh evidence and that the jury decision went against the WEIGHT of evidence he says it'll take six months and cost two hundred thousand dollars to launch the appeal inhales now nightliners get on your ears mickey mouse is in town here's a classic you might remember the walt disney MASTERPIECE moving with the times it's now out on video <&>15:28