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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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  <&>26:25</&>
  

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      now join me for <indig=Maori>nga korero o te wa</indig=Maori> a
      round up of maori news events <,>

  <WSC#MSN031:0010:HT>
      former cabinet minister winston peters is encouraging
      superannuitants in their <.>pr</.> er protests against the
      government

  <WSC#MSN031:0015:HT>
      mister peters spoke to the superannuitants association in
      auckland during the week

  <WSC#MSN031:0020:HT>
      and told them they have a right to object to what is happening
      to them and to their country <,>

  <WSC#MSN031:0025:HT>
      he criticised the government's handling of the issue saying the
      broken promises on superannuation were a betrayal of the
      electorate

  <WSC#MSN031:0030:HT>
      mister peters says today's superannuitants were led to believe
      they would be taken care of in their old age <&>27:00</&> and
      that must not be changed <,>

  <WSC#MSN031:0035:HT>
      a big jump in the number of people registered on maori electoral
      rolls means there'll be far more voters per seat in maori
      electorates than in general seats at the next election <,>

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      the number of voters for general electorates is set at just over
      thirty three thousand

  <WSC#MSN031:0045:HT>
      but because the number of maori seats is limited to four higher
      roles will give those seats forty four thousand voters each <,>

  <WSC#MSN031:0050:HT>
      political scientist alan <?>mcrobie</?> says a change to the
      electoral act should be needed to increase the number of maori
      seats or cut general seats to solve the problem

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      but he doubts either option is politically acceptable <,>

  <WSC#MSN031:0060:HT>
      a maori group in auckland is setting up what is

  <WSC#MSN031:0065:HT>
      what it calls an immigration service for nonmaori people

  <WSC#MSN031:0070:HT>
      the aotearoa new zealand action committee wants nonmaori new
      zealanders and recent migrants to seek immigration clearance
      from an auckland office opening next week

  <WSC#MSN031:0075:HT>
      spokesperson for the <&>28:00</&> group eru potaka dewes says
      people will be questioned by <indig=Maori>kaumatua</indig=Maori>
      on their understanding of the treaty of waitangi

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      maori culture

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      and their feelings towards the environment

  <WSC#MSN031:0090:HT>
      he says the government's immigration points system is all about
      money

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      while the maori service is about quality of life

  <WSC#MSN031:0100:HT>
      eru potaka dewes says people who won't face the test should
      think seriously about finding a more suitable country <,>

  <WSC#MSN031:0105:HT>
      the maori trustee could lose control of its office under plans
      revealed in a report released by maori affairs minister doug
      kidd

  <WSC#MSN031:0110:HT>
      that's the warning from former trustee neville baker <,>

  <WSC#MSN031:0115:HT>
      mister baker says a report commissioned by former minister
      winston peters contains evidence of mister peters' super
      ministry plan

  <WSC#MSN031:0120:HT>
      he says the new structure proposed in the report would
      ultimately give control to the minister and the chief executive
      of the ministry for maori development

  <WSC#MSN031:0125:HT>
      mister baker says what's needed is <&>29:00</&> for the
      trustees' beneficiaries to have more say about what happens to
      their assets

  <WSC#MSN031:0130:HT>
      and further to the interview with doctor anne salmond

  <WSC#MSN031:0135:HT>
      there's a new bid to get to the bottom of a mysterious possible
      spanish discovery of new zealand long before abel tasman and
      james cook <,>

  <WSC#MSN031:0140:HT>
      victoria university historian phyllis herder leaves for spain
      tomorrow to try to shed further light on maori accounts of a
      canoe meeting a boat load of pale skinned people well before
      sixteen forty two <,>

  <WSC#MSN031:0145:HT>
      for years there's been speculation that the portuguese or
      spanish and NOT the dutch were the first europeans to voyage to
      new zealand

  <WSC#MSN031:0150:HT>
      phyllis herder will be looking for documents on the spanish
      navigator juan fernandez to try to establish if HE was the first
      european to come here <&>insert not transcribed</&> <&>30:00</&>

  <WSC#MSN031:0155:HT>
      but it's er considered extremely unlikely that fernandez could
      have sailed from chile to new zealand in a month going against
      the wind and the currents <,>

  <WSC#MSN031:0160:HT>
      <indig=Maori>mana motuhake</indig=Maori> leader matiu rata says
      maori affairs minister doug kidd would be foolish to go ahead
      with next week's series of <indig=Maori>hui</indig=Maori> on the
      future of a maori trust office <,>

  <WSC#MSN031:0165:HT>
      mister rata who held the maori affairs portfolio in the third
      labour government says the trust office review is a political
      document stamped with the mark of mister kidd's er predecessor
      winston peters <,>

  <WSC#MSN031:0170:HT>
      he says mister kidd should set his own agenda and there are more
      important things for him to talk about with maori people

  <WSC#MSN031:0175:HT>
      mister rata says the maori trust office is the place where past
      administrators have dumped problems which are too hard or too
      uneconomic to be dealt with elsewhere

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      he says it's of little importance in the lives of most maori
      people

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      and that's our programme for this week

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      technical help's been from barry hartley

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      and i'm henare te ua <indig=Maori>te reo o aotearoa</indig=Maori>
      <&>31:00</&>
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