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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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  <&>5:38</&>
  

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      nine oclock radio new zealand news i'm robert taylor

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      good evening

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      islamic jihad in beirut says it has released a british hostage

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      the iran based group says the man is john mccarthy and the
      release follows extensive contacts between iran the united
      nations and the united states and britain over the past few
      weeks

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      a story <&>6:00</&> just to hand says mccarthy is now believed
      to be on his way to damascus where he'll be handed over to
      british authorities <,,><&>3</&>

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      a clash of cultures as new zealand says goodbye to billy t james

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      his wife lyn says his body was taken against her will and as a
      result she won't attend a <indig=Maori>tangi</indig=Maori> at
      the waihi <indig=Maori>marae</indig=Maori> in waikato

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      the body of billy t james was taken to the <indig=Maori>marae</indig=Maori>
      this afternoon after his tribe overruled his wishes for a
      funeral service in auckland

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      sir howard morrison told television new zealand that billy
      reaffirmed his wish just an hour before he died but it doesn't
      work that way

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      he's had his time in the pakeha world <,,>

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      <indig=Maori>hoki mai ki te wakainga</indig=Maori> <,> come home
      to your people come home to your tribe <,> and we'll bury you
      the way that <.>we</.> respectfully that we should acknowledge
      you <,>

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      billy doesn't have a say in that <,,>

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      they're taking him home

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      lyn james says she'll be organising a memorial service in
      auckland next week <&>6:59</&> <&>item on weather not
      transcribed</&> <&>7:40</&>

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      a small group of protesters are on wellington's waterfront
      tonight demonstrating against the visit of the chilean naval
      ship the esmeralda

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      the capital's latin american committee says life in chile has
      improved since the days of the pinochet dictatorship but the
      military still holds enormous power and hasn't been called to
      account for human rights abuses <&>8:00</&>

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      protest spokesman don clark says there's evidence from amnesty
      international that political prisoners are still being tortured
      and journalists have been arrested on charges of offending the
      armed forces <,,>

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      an embassy function is being held on board the ship tonight and
      don clark is urging visitors to talk to the crew about the
      esmeralda's role as a torture centre in nineteen seventy three
      <,,><&>3</&>

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      there have been moves on interest rates today that could result
      in relief for home owners

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      banks are blaming high deposit rates as the reason they can't
      drop their mortgage rates but treasury has now dropped interest
      rates on kiwi bonds by as much as half a percent

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      the united bank is so pleased chief executive paul young says
      it's decided to cut its own deposit rates

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      so i think that's er a good move <.>and</.> and one that we
      called for as well in our statement

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      and i think that um <O>voc</O> that gives further positive
      encouragement er to banks to reduce their retail deposit rates
      <&>9:00</&>

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      mister young warns if the other banks don't match the drop in
      deposit rates united may have to move them up again

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      australia's opposition coalition has announced it wants an
      effective common market between australia and new zealand within
      a year of it taking office but says the plan also depends on the
      goodwill of japan

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      if implemented the common market plan would remove virtually ALL
      restrictions on trade in services and investment

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      the federal government has always said the common market plan
      would stop the free flow of new zealand investment because it
      would mean japan would have to be given the same right under a
      nineteen seventy six treaty

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      the coalition says the investment proposal couldn't go ahead
      unless japan's prepared to amend the treaty so australia and new
      zealand could be regarded as a single country for investment
      purposes <,,><&>3</&>

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      another albanian exodus is under way with a thousand refugees
      reaching italy by boat today

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      up to seven thousand more are now crossing the adriatic sea in a
      <&>10:00</&> collection of commandeered boats and ships in a
      desperate bid to reach the west

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      however the italians are sending the refugees back as soon as
      they arrive

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      the current exodus from albania by people dissatisfied with the
      country's politics is the third this year

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      italian authorities have turned back the tens of thousands who
      attempted to cross in february and june <,,><&>3</&>

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      forget egypt mesopotamia or china

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      australian archaeologists now say the cradle of civilisation
      might be right here in the pacific

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      the discovery of thirty thousand year old tools in papua new
      guinea with crop residues suggests that pacific islanders were
      among the first humans to cultivate crops <,>

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      thomas <?>loy</?> of the australian national university says the
      latest discovery backs up recent evidence that pacific islanders
      were regularly harvesting major crops between twenty and thirty
      thousand years ago

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      the evidence challenges the traditional view that agriculture
      was developed in the middle <&>11:00</&> east about TEN thousand
      years ago

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      rather than just growing crops pacific people were long ago
      harvesting pulping and shredding roots and then roasting them to
      make them edible regarded as sophisticated behaviour for humans
      of the time <&>11:13</&>
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