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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</&>
  <&>18:54</&>
  

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      radio new zealand news for concert f m at twelve o clock read by
      grant walker <O>tut</O>

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      the <&>19:00</&> australian labour party caucus is to make a
      second attempt starting about now to resolve the leadership
      issue

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      the caucus met in canberra at ten this morning but broke up
      after a few minutes in what its secretary described as a
      confused mood

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      prime minister bob hawke says he gave the labour m ps and
      senators a chance to vote on the leadership but no challenge was
      forthcoming from his long time rival treasurer paul keating <O>tut</O>

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      labour politicians began to go home but an urgent call went out
      to stop some of them at canberra airport after it was decided to
      call the caucus back into session

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      it's being said officially that mister hawke offered mister
      keating a second chance to resolve the issue

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      earlier reports said mister keating had won over a number of
      supporters but still lacked the numbers to topple mister hawke
      from the prime ministership

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      however mister hawke is thought to need to win by a wide margin
      if he's to settle the long running issue which has been
      destabilising his government <,>

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      our government says any employer paying only a <&>20:00</&>
      dollar an hour to an employee aged twenty or over will face
      court action <O>tut</O>

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      the employment minister maurice mctigue says any one abusing the
      statutory minimums provided under the code of employment
      conditions will be prosecuted <O>tut</O>

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      he's ordered officials to enquire into reports of a christchurch
      employer paying staff a dollar an hour and telling them to get a
      top up from inland revenue under the guaranteed minimum family
      income scheme

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      mister mctigue says the minimum wage act is quite clear in
      setting a minimum wage of two hundred and forty six dollars for
      a forty hour week or just over six dollars an hour for an eight
      hour day

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      he's said that if people are being paid below the statutory
      minimum arrears are recoverable and the government will ensure
      that they are paid <O>tut</O>

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      the christchurch employer a printing firm admits that it's
      paying some of its staff only a dollar an hour but says it's
      acting on legal advice and we've just heard that the firm has in
      fact agreed to pay the <&>21:00</&> statutory minimum wage <O>tut</O>

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      a former power board official says electricorp is prostituting
      our electricity system to the wrong set of values

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      dave boswell who was general manager of the wanganui rangitikei
      power board says the state owned company must review its
      priorities in the wake of two major blackouts this week <O>tut</O>

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      technical problems cut power to the top of the south island and
      the bottom of the north island leaving south islanders in the
      dark and wellington people stranded when trains refused to run

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      mister boswell who also served on the local government
      commission and is now a trustee of the wanganui board blames
      electricorp for the cuts

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      he says it's putting profit before service and letting essential
      maintenance fall behind <,>

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      police sat on a serious complaint from the railways corporation
      for more than four months

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      the complaint was lodged in february after the corporation
      terminated the contract of its property manager jock lee for
      activities surrounding the sale of scrap metal but radio new
      zealand news <&>22:00</&> understands that very little action
      was taken by the police till a matter relating to a completely
      separate investigation by the serious fraud office became public
      this week

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      in another development jock lee's successor at railways john
      feast has had a high court writ served on the railways
      corporation for his own suspension early this week over lease
      transactions

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      mister feast says he wants an urgent investigation into the
      conduct of the sale of railways land worth millions of dollars
      <,> <O>tut</O>

  <WSC#MSN093:0120:GW>
      t v three is laying assault charges against two north canterbury
      men

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      this follows a confrontation yesterday between two news crews
      and acquaintances of an american russell madliner who's been
      deported back to the united states

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      t v three's christchurch bureau chief mark jennings says the
      crews had gone to the american's farm at waiau on legitimate
      business but he says that on arrival they were punched pushed
      and had mud thrown on them

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      mark jennings says t v three takes exception to that sort of
      <&>23:00</&> behaviour against its staff and after legal advice
      is asking police to take action <,>

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      the united states nuclear regulatory commission has declared a
      low level state of emergency at a nuclear fuel processing plant
      in north carolina <O>tut</O>

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      it says one hundred and fifty kilos of uranium was accidentally
      poured into a waste tank and is now dissolved in the liquid
      already in the tank

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      the n r c says there is no great danger while the uranium stays
      in solution but it admits that if it settled into a certain
      pattern there could be a critical reaction which would release
      radioactivity <O>tut</O>

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      the commission says the danger will remain till the amount of
      uranium in the tank is reduced to about fifty kilos

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      residents near the plant at wilmington are said to be sceptical
      of the reassurances because officials always tend to play down
      the danger from nuclear accidents <,>

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      coloured members of the south african parliament have joined the
      ruling national party for the first time

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      the coloureds are members of the house of representatives a
      <&>24:00</&> junior house of the er trisemeral parliament which
      represents people of mixed race

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      thirty two of the thirty five coloured m ps have defected to the
      national party over the past three weeks and today they joined
      in its caucus for the first time

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      the move comes less than eight months after the party opened its
      doors to all races

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      it's also thirty five years since the south african government
      stacked the then upper house of parliament so coloured voters
      could be removed from the rolls after having been allowed the
      vote since british colonial times and that's radio new zealand
      news on concert f m <&>24:35</&>
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