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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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      radio new zealand news

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      i'm robert taylor

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      good morning

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      sky television says it will use its cash injection from four
      american multinational companies to speed up the introduction of
      more pay channels in new zealand

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      an american consortium has paid around a hundred million dollars
      for control of the auckland based pay television company

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      two of the companies ameritech and bell atlantic are the major
      share holders in telecom new zealand

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      the other two time warner and telecommunications incorporated
      are respectively the biggest media and cable t v companies in
      the world

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      sky's entertainment <&>1:00</&> director terry jarvis says sky
      will use the cash to expand into wellington and christchurch by
      september

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      to take advantage of the rugby world cup

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      we're showing every one of those games the thirty three games
      will be shown live on sky

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      um and we want to be there before <.>that</.> that

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      and then we're going to be rolling into hawkes bay and
      palmerston and the rest of new zealand early in nineteen ninety
      two

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      the sale is the first following the change in law this week to
      allow foreign companies free reign in controlling any
      broadcasting company in the country

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      the wellington area health board is considering a previously
      secret plan to slash bed numbers and reduce all but one of the
      region's hospitals to community health clinics

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      the board's chairman bob henare has confirmed details leaked to
      the media

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      but stresses this is just one of up to nine options considered
      at different stages

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      mister henare is angry this option has been released

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      it's very clear that somebody has chosen to <&>2:00</&> release
      only that sheaf of documents but it seems to me to be um er
      unnecessary

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      and um at this time

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      and er only serves to um panic people into um reacting

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      when at this stage there is absolutely no need to do so

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      bob henare says the papers concerned were available only to
      board members and a small number of staff

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      a big new zealand insurer urges home owners to install smoke
      detectors to save lives not premiums

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      national insurance's underwriting assistant general manager
      roger warburton quoting american statistics says smoke detectors
      have cut the number of domestic fire deaths in half

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      mister warburton says national insurance doesn't provide a
      rebate or any financial incentive to get people to install
      detectors

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      we don't give any discounts on er smoke detectors <.>or</.> or
      house insurance

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      er they're mainly there to protect lives more than um than
      <&>3:00</&> <.>to</.> to save the property

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      <.>the</.> <.>the</.> <.>f</.> the property will still burn
      unfortunately but er <.>they</.> they're very important to get
      people out of the house in event of <.>a</.> er in event of a
      fire

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      roger warburton also urges consumers to get electric blankets
      and heaters checked before winter and exercise caution with open
      fires

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      officials from soviet azerbaijan are blaming outlawed armed
      groups from neighbouring armenia for recent blood shed that has
      claimed at least thirty seven lives

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      the officials say that the armenian armed groups banned by
      president mikhail gorbachev and outlawed by the republic's
      parliament last year continue to attack azeri villages

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      the azeri officials say ethnic clashes with grenades missile
      launchers and rifles continued yesterday in the village of tauz
      near the border of the two republics

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      one person was killed

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      the armenian mission in moscow said earlier this week azeri
      forces and soviet troops killed thirty five people and
      <&>4:00</&> wounded more than a hundred when they seized the
      village of getashen near the disputed territory of nagornyy
      karabakh

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      this area has been the scene of the worst ethnic fighting since
      mister gorbachev came to power in nineteen eighty five <,>

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      a french international medical charity says that a hundred kurds
      at the turkish refugee camp of kucukkoy have been treated for
      cholera in the past week

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      <foreign=French>medecin sans frontieres</foreign=French> doctor
      phillipe bibason says samples analysed in paris have confirmed
      the presence of cholera

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      and doctors in the mountain camp are also treating several
      patients for suspected typhoid

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      he said conditions in the camp

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      home to an estimated seventy thousand refugees

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      have deteriorated over the past two days as heavy rain swept mud
      and excrement across the slopes

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      he said that armenian marines have been digging latrines and
      trying to improve sanitation at kucukkoy

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      but he added it's no use the only solution is to move
      <&>5:00</&> the refugees

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      the british foreign secretary douglas herd who's been visiting
      kuwait says he raised the issue of human rights and the need for
      greater democracy during his talks with kuwaiti leaders

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      speaking in a b b c interview before leaving for saudi arabia
      mister herd noted that elections are to be held next year in
      kuwait

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      and he said he thought the human rights situation was better
      than it had been immediately after the country's liberation from
      iraqi occupation

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      i don't say it's perfect he said but i think it IS better

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      auckland all black alan whetton is considering an appeal against
      his three week suspension from rugby

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      whetton isn't commenting on the ruling by a rugby union
      committee over the alleged stomping incident at eden park a week
      ago

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      but his lawyer says they hope to decide by the end of the
      weekend whether to challenge the finding that whetton played
      dangerously

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      the union committee accepted that the incident which injured
      western samoa's steven bachop wasn't deliberate but that it WAS
      dangerous play <&>5:59</&>
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