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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</&>
  <&>25:14</&>
  

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      news read by lloyd scott

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      the developers of the first major commercial development to get
      underway in wellington for three years

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      says the business community must take the necessary action to
      ensure economic recovery takes place sooner rather than later

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      the midland park complex will cost one hundred million dollars
      and will provide five hundred jobs at the peak of construction

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      the midland park complex is a joint project between norseman
      pacific and the wellington city council

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      and it will be built on the site of the capital's old central
      police station

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      the first stage of the project is a four hundred space
      underground carpark

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      and the second will be a thirty storey tower

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      the developers say it is a positive sign that the long awaited
      economic recovery has begun <,>

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      the country's merchants are opposed to announced changes which
      will require all goods to be <&>26:00</&> labelled with their
      country of origin within a year

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      the executive director of the merchants association doug mclaren
      says the measure

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      which will apply from july next year

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      will place additional costs on traders and consumers

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      and he says retailers do not want to end up carrying the can for
      incorrectly labelled merchandise

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      mister mclaren says an independent consultant's report found
      that it could cost up to four million dollars to police such
      measures

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      he says the report also found that the economic benefits were
      minimal and that problems and costs would exceed any consumer
      benefits <,>

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      south of auckland detectives and fire safety officers are at the
      scene of a suspicious fire in otaua which has destroyed an
      aerosol packaging factory

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      eye witnesses say it sounded like someone going berserk with a
      rifle

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      local resident janice price says it was frightening with all the
      aerosol cans exploding and fear that a large l p g tank inside
      the factory might go up

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      several homes were evacuated because of the danger of explosions
      and <&>27:00</&> chemical fumes

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      and several firefighters needed decontamination after coming in
      contact with a variety of chemicals inside

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      water to fight the flames had to be pumped from a creek almost
      one kilometre away <,>

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      the anzus alliance may still be up in the air but that will not
      stop the new zealand flag being flown later today in a huge
      washington ticker tape parade to mark the victory of the
      coalition forces in the gulf war

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      the new zealand flag will be carried by an r n z a f officer
      flight lieutenant andy greathead of lower hutt <,>

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      flight lieutenant greathead who is stationed at our embassy in
      washington will also lead a small new zealand or small new
      zealand contingents to participate in similar ticker tape
      parades later this month in new york seattle and dallas <,>

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      wing commander des ashton of napier is also taking part in
      today's parade

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      and he says he's expecting to be ankle deep in ticker tape by
      the end of the day <,>

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      new zealand is taking part in the parades because of our
      participation in the gulf war

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      one <&>28:00</&> hundred new zealand service people served in
      the gulf <,>

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      the former governor general sir paul reeves has been nominated
      for a key role in british talks aimed at ending the political
      violence in northern ireland

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      the talks are planned to begin in ten days and sir paul is one
      of fourteen people suggested by the ulster unionist party to
      chair them <,>

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      the catholic democratic unionists have put forward nine names

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      speaking from his united nations post in new york sir paul says
      the job would take common sense the ability to listen and
      sensitivity

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      but he's not commenting on his chances of getting the job

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      i'm just one of a number of people

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      and who they would select it seems to me is something which er
      we just have to wait and see

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      sir paul says the chairman's position will be a heavy
      responsibility <,>

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      fiji's military strongman major general sitiveni rabuka has
      given an interview in which he has called on the fiji government
      to stand down and hinted <&>29:00</&> that he could take over
      again

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      general rabuka says in an interview in the fiji times that the
      interim government which he installed after leading two military
      coups in nineteen eighty seven is becoming increasingly
      unpopular

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      the forty two year old major general says a military takeover by
      him is not really necessary

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      <O>voc</O> but he adds that if he did take back the government
      it could not be called a military coup

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      but would merely be repossession of power HE had vested in the
      president ratu sir peni ganilau in december nineteen eighty
      seven

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      he accuses the administration of being a reactionary government
      made up of over paid people sitting on their laurels and waiting
      for something to happen before they react

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      correspondents believe his dissatisfaction with the government
      stems from ratu sir kamisese mara's refusal last week to allow
      the general to succeed him as prime minister for a year until
      the first post coup elections scheduled for next july <O>tut</O>

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      a heat wave gripping pakistan's southern province of sind has
      killed <&>30:00</&> eighteen more people raising the death toll
      to at least fifty in five days

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      the latest deaths took place yesterday in the interior of sind
      where temperatures have hovered around fifty degrees all week

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      doctors say hundreds of people have collapsed from heat stroke

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      karachi's meterological department says the hottest place
      yesterday was the eastern sind town of chor where the
      temperature reached fifty two degrees celsius

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      the highest temperature ever officially recorded in pakistan was
      fifty three degrees in jacobabad in june nineteen nineteen
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