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  <&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One</&>
  <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies</&>
  <&>Victoria University of Wellington</&>

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  <&>26:53</&>
  

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      question eight doctor bruce gregory <,>

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      doctor gregory question eight <&>27:00</&> <,,><&>11</&>

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      well if <,>

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      my question is to the minister of police and asks

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      order

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      how did the total number of reported offences in northland
      during nineteen eighty nine compare <,> with the total in
      nineteen eighty eight

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      the honourable richard prebble <,,><&>3</&>

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      good work i've forgotten too mister speaker

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      i was so carried away by his er mister speaker

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      order <,,>

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      mister <&>drawl</&> speaker <,> the total number of reported
      offences in the northland police district for the year ended
      thirty first of december nineteen eighty nine was thirteen
      thousand four hundred and ninety seven compared to a total of
      fourteen thousand six hundred and <&>28:00</&> ninety seven
      reported offences for the year ended thirty first of december
      nineteen eighty eight <,>

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      this represents a DEcrease of eight point one six percent for
      the honourable member who can't add up <latch>

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      order <,>

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      no i think we'll just go on to number nine

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      murray mccully

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      mister speaker <,,>

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      no no no number nine <latch>

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      mister speaker my question is to the minister of immigration and
      asks <reads>how many organisations were invited to tender to
      clear the backlog of immigration applications in the hong kong
      office</reads>

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      the honourable annette king

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      mister speaker the backlog is of business asSESsments for
      applications made under the business immigration policy not
      immigration applications as such

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      twenty one organisations were invited to tender

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      speaker supplementary question

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      murray mccully

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      mister speaker in view of the <,> fact that a single firm is i
      understand to be appointed as result of the tenders and that the
      scheme is described in the tender document as a pilot
      <&>29:00</&> scheme <,> can the minister advise as to whether
      general accreditation which i understand is the government's
      policy of of consultants will follow the same model namely
      tendering resulting in a single appointment being made of a
      preferred consultant

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      the honourable annette <{><[>king</[>

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      <[><.>n</.></[></{> no mister speaker i cannot confirm that that
      will be the way we accredit consultants

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      in fact i haven't looked at it in that way at all

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      question ten doctor peter simpson

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      mister speaker my question is to the minister of police and asks
      <reads>how did the total number of reported offences on the west
      coast during the <.>ninet</.> nineteen eighty nine compare with
      the total in nineteen eighty eight</reads>

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      the honourable richard <{><[>prebble</[>

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      <[>mister</[></{> speaker

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      the total number of reported offences on the west coast police
      district for the year ended thirty first of december nineteen
      eight nine was four thousand nine hundred and twenty one
      compared to a total of five thousand two hundred and forty nine
      reported offences for the year ended the thirty first of
      december nineteen eighty <&>30:00</&> eight

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      now this represents a DEcrease of six point two five percent

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      <.>qu</.> question eleven ian mclain <,,><&>6</&>

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      er roger mcclay

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      mister speaker on behalf of my colleague the er member for
      tarawera i ask the minister of internal affairs

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      <reads>is steven mills employed on contract in the office of the
      deputy prime minister

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      if so in what capacity</reads>

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      the right honourable jonathan hunt

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      on behalf of the minister of internal affairs i reply <reads>mister
      steven mills IS employed on contract in the office of the deputy
      prime minister as an executive assistant</reads> <,,><&>3</&>

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      er winston peters

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      er could the er <,> leader of the house tell the er tell his
      colleagues in the public as to exactly what are the special
      duties of this er mister steven mills

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      no mister speaker not the same as michael laws <&>31:00</&>

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      mister steven mills is an incredibly <{1><[1>able</[1> <,> is an
      incredibly able <.>pr</.> private secretary and executive
      assistant who's served well this government unlike michael laws
      who seems all he's done is to take that as a stepping stone for
      the hawkes <{2><[2>bay <unclear>word</unclear></[2>

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      <[1>order</[1></{1>

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      <[2>a point of order speaker</[2></{2>

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      point of order <{><[>sir</[> mister speaker

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      <[>order</[></{>

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      i just want er some order first

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      a point of order winston peters

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      speaker really sir <.>the</.> the departure from the ministerial
      requirements to something er verging on political propaganda is
      not <?>admitted</?> by standing orders <{><[><,></[> and the
      difference fundamentally is sir that this person helping <&>pronounced
      as happening</&> <.>he</.> helping in the er case of the deputy
      prime minister has seen her go from three points down to zero on
      the <.>prop</.> on the popularity rating whereas mister michael
      laws work is the reverse

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      <[>order</[></{>

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      order <,>

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      well i think i'm going to have to allow the member to speak to
      the point of order having er <O>coughs</O> having er had that
      <{><[>spurious point of order</[>

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      <[>all i want to say is that mister</[></{> michael <&>32:00</&>
      laws seems to have used his time in the opposition research unit
      as an as a stepping stone to standing for parliament

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      a lot of other members of opposition <.>re</.> <.>r</.> research
      unit haven't've been <latch>

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      order <&>six seconds of untranscribable dialogue with two
      unidentifiable speakers</&>

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      order

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      order

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      members er members just resume their seats for a moment i'll <.>i</.>
      <.>i</.>

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      order

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      i'm happy to advise them that the time for questions has expired
      <,,>

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      <.>tha</.> <.>tha</.> yes

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      that was question ten er

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      but we now come to the time that members have been anticipating
      the <&>drawl</&> general debate under standing order ninety two

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      would some honourable member care to move that the house take
      note of miscellaneous business <&>32:43</&>
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