<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:23 good evening another serious levels crossing smash has left a father and two of his children in palmerston north hospital tonight the man was driving his children in a light van when it hit the engine of the napier bound bay express the rail crossing had no barrier arms or warning signals <&>0:39 <&>one minute twenty two seconds not transcribed <&>2:01 two air accident inspectors are due in south westland tomorrow to inspect the scene of yesterday's helicopter crash the seven people aboard received only minor injuries just three weeks ago six german tourists and three new zealanders died when a nomad sight seeing plane smashed into franz joseph glacier <&>2:18 <&>one minute twenty six seconds not transcribed <&>3:44 an official investigation is under way into an accident on the taranaki oil platform pacific ariki two men fell to their death while practising rescue operations from a helicopter the men were being winched off the platform at <&>4:00 the time a new zealand woman is being held in a north london police station tonight for questioning about the murder of a british businessman <.>teranga rangimarie <&>pronounced rangimaria ngarimu from the west coast town of otira gave herself up to police who are investigating the execution style killing <,> of graham woodhatch a roofing contractor shot dead last may woodhatch was gunned down as he made a phone call from the royal free hospital a second new zealander implicated in the private hospital killing is due to appear in london's old bailey tomorrow on conspiracy charges <,> pop star michael jackson has cancelled his world tour announcing he's addicted to pain killing prescription drugs and is seeking treatment tonight he's in hiding and thought to be somewhere in europe <&>4:41 <&>two minutes eleven seconds not transcribed <&>6:52 in the news ahead no more charity rates from capital power and a multi million dollar armoured car haul back in the hands of the good guys <&>7:00 <&>two minutes forty seconds not transcribed advertisements <&>9:40 police in the u s investigating one of that's country's biggest ever robberies have arrested four men they say are closely connected with the i r a among them a catholic priest and an ex policeman alleged to have taken seven point four million dollars from an armoured car <&>9:55 <&>one minute five seconds not transcribed <&>11:00 u s president bill clinton is welcoming p l o leader yasser arafat's condemnation of violence against israelis in the occupied territories mister clinton says arafat's statement augurs well for the mideast peace process <&>11:12 <&>one minute one second not transcribed <&>12:13 sports clubs and welfare groups in wellington want to give the stiff arm to power price hikes capital power is scrapping its charity rates meaning a forty percent increase in cost for those organisations some of which may not survive <&>12:26 <&>one minute twenty three seconds not transcribed <&>13:49 after the break a solid workout for the all blacks in glasgow the whitbread fleet's all at sea again and a century for andrew jones at the wacca <&>13:57 <&>three minutes one seconds not transcribed advertisements <&>16:58 mixed fortunes today for new zealand on the third day of the first cricket test against australia at the wacca chasing australia's first innings of three hundred and ninety eight jones and crowe grafted out the runs taking the score to one ninety nine for two then in the half hour before lunch crowe went for forty two but jones survived to notch up a century <&>17:17 <&>one minute seventeen seconds not transcribed <&>18:34 so new zealand have weathered the morning session reasonably well but still one hundred and eighty nine runs behind on the first innings jones and rutherford will resume batting after lunch england's enigmatic former test captain david gower has packed his cricket gear away for good the thirty six year old hampshire batsman's decision to retire ends a glittering but controversial career that began nearly twenty years ago <&>18:57 <&>one minute six seconds not transcribed <&>20:03 a week out from the one off test against scotland the all blacks were given a hard time in their match against scotland a in glasgow today new zealand won the match by twenty points to nine but only matthew cooper's accurate boot made the victory look easier than it was <&>20:16 <&>one minute twenty one seconds not transcribed <&>21:37 the fourteen boats in the whitbread round the world race are back at sea tonight embarking on the second leg from punta del este in uruguay to fremantle in western australia <&>starting gun of race for two seconds? the fleet is looking to pull back overall race leader new zealand endeavour which holds an eight hour twenty minute lead after the first transatlantic leg some yachting <&>22:00 pundits are picking the smaller whitbread sixty footers such as the yamaha kiwi entry to give the bigger boats like new zealand endeavour a run for their money on this leg leading the pack of sixty foot challengers is kiwi chris dickson aboard tokio who says he'll be travelling cautiously across the treacherous southern ocean leg comparing it to driving a fast car on an icy road <,> the u s still leads golf's world cup tournament in florida but new zealand has thrown out a strong challenge going into the final round the kiwi pairing of frank nobilo and greg turner along with scotland and australia are four shots off the pace new zealand moved to third equal when turner fired an eight under par sixty four the tournament's lowest score <,> some of our most talented young swimmers have been putting in some hard work this weekend learning the basic techniques of their chosen sport they've been under the watchful eye of one of our most successful swimming coaches who's looking for talent to swim for this country BEYOND the year two thousand <&>22:54 <&>one minute thirty nine seconds not transcribed <&>24:33 just ahead three national weather and it was a perfect day for that annual santa parade <&>24:37 <&>two minutes fifty six seconds not transcribed advertisements and weather <&>27:33 and the fine weather in auckland suited hundreds of thousands of people today who turned out to see this year's santa parade through the centre of the city with twenty eight floats twenty two marching teams and scores of other characters the parade took nearly an hour to pass any given point on the route <&>27:48 <&>forty three seconds not transcribed <&>28:31 that's three national news for this sunday clint brown will be back in just a moment with three sport's coverage of the cricket stay with us i'm neil waka good night <&>28:38 <&>end of sample