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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</&>

  <&>side two</&>
  <&>1:10</&>
  

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      radio new zealand news leading the news

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      the search for a missing tramper resumes at first light

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      wellington faces the spectre of major health cuts

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      and j r bows out with a bullet

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      i'm shelley venning

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      it's twelve midnight

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      the search resumes at first light tomorrow for a tramper missing
      in mid canterbury bush country for the last six days

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      twenty one year old colin james <?>bolitho</?> of wellington
      hasn't been seen since last sunday when he visited the watch dog
      hut on the clyde river

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      it's been snowing in the area and senior sergeant brian goodwin
      says police fear for his safety

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      we have reasonable concern er from the last report we had of him
      he <,> was um probably ill clad for the er the conditions that
      he was operating in and er appeared to have little <&>2:00</&>
      food at the time

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      an urgent appeal's gone out to trampers and shooters who've been
      in the upper rangitata area to contact police if they can shed
      any light on the missing man's whereabouts

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      armed gun men tonight escaped with eight thousand dollars after
      robbing an auckland video store

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      police say two men wielding a double barrelled shot gun and
      wearing scarves and dark glasses held up the avondale video
      parlour in great north road

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      there were a number of witnesses who are helping police with
      their investigations but they've no strong leads at this stage

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      no one was hurt in the robbery

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      more health cost cutting plans for wellington with the local
      area health board considering a plan that would slash wellington
      hospital bed numbers and reduce the rest of the region's
      hospitals to community health clinics

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      board chairman bob henare is angry the plan's been leaked to the
      media and insists it's just one of the options under
      consideration and not even the most radical one

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      it is certainly not a er an option that the board <.>is</.> is
      necessarily going to adopt um

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      it <&>3:00</&> just happens to be one <.>of</.> of this nine er
      that we've been looking at

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      the plan would see wellington hospital bed numbers reduced from
      more than two thousand to seven hundred and eighty over twenty
      years while the rest of the region's hospitals would become
      lower level community health facilities

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      the duck shooting season's opened with a bang and a warning from
      rangers

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      wellington fish and game council ranger steve smith says
      unlicensed hunters and those who exceed the quota ruin the sport
      by stealing from others

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      he says duck conservation depends on license fees and controlled
      quotas

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      what hunters do is they contribute um <O>tut</O> i think a
      million and a half dollars

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      er a large proportion of that goes directly towards creating
      habitat which breeds more ducks

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      steve smith says this season will be a boomer with good spring
      rainfall creating excellent conditions for breeding and rearing
      of ducklings

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      j r ewing the soap star americans love to hate has tipped his
      black hat in final <&>4:00</&> farewell

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      dallas has ended its thirteen year run with a cliff hanger to
      end all cliff hangers

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      did j r take his own life

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      the last minute of the two hour show ends with a shocked bobby
      ewing running into his brother's room after hearing a shot

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      but the public doesn't see what bobby sees and is left wondering
      whether or not j r has taken his life an ending which seems to
      promise more to come

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      or maybe it was all a dream

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      radio new zealand news leading the news <&>4:26</&>
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