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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 one</&>
  <&>0:16</&>
  

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      radio new zealand news read by dinah vincent

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      new plymouth residents are beginning to assess the damage caused
      by the tornado that ripped through the city in the early hours
      of this morning

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      many houses have been damaged some very badly

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      roofs are off

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      fences are down

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      cars blown about

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      outbuildings scattered to the wind

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      but by what locals say is a miracle all the damage appears to be
      to property

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      no injuries are reported

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      and at the top of the south island there's been major damage
      mainly in rural areas from hurricane winds

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      but again miraculously no reported injuries

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      in the taranaki tornado a two kilometre path of damage was cut
      from the sea through the suburbs of moturoa and westown to
      <&>1:00</&> the taranaki base hospital

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      the radio new zealand news reporter on the scene brian lawler
      says now that it's daylight people are starting to discover the
      damage

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      people are just coming to terms with damage at the moment

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      <?>unfortune</?> it's a miserable morning

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      it's still blowing strongly and raining heavily and emergency
      services are out trying to help people rebuild their shattered
      homes basically

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      people are are evacuating young children into cars getting them
      out of the area as they set about basically putting their lives
      back together

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      brian lawler

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      police have no accurate number of <O>voc</O> no accurate numbers
      on damage to the area but it appears dozens of homes have
      suffered major structural damage <,>

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      at the taranaki base hospital there were also INCREDIBLE escapes
      from injuries as the rooves were lifted off overnight units for
      relatives of patients and windows were blown out of the
      maternity ward

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      we've had

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      the hospital flats have had their roofs um blown off and
      maternity's had about fifteen or sixteen windows blown in um

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      and <&>2:00</&> there was actually a woman in labour who who was
      actually giving birth and had her window blown in

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      and the nurse speaking there says some of the roof was blown off
      the ward she's in

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      and the ceiling has caved in under the pressure of the water

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      one householder tony walsh says there was no warning

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      strong winds all night and er there was a warning

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      a a a pane of glass smashed

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      which i think woke us

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      and then that was it

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      loud bang and got out of bed and went upstairs and the roof had
      gone

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      tony walsh says some of their possessions have blown as far as
      four hundred metres away

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      and at the top of the south island locals are also scratching
      their heads in pleased surprise that no injuries have been
      caused by what's described as a mini hurricane that swept
      through the motueka area near nelson this morning

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      ripping up trees and knocking out phones and power <O>tut</O>

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      reports of damage are still coming IN from the tasman motueka
      area

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      the wind uprooted huge trees

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      damaging power and telephone lines and closing the coastal road
      <&>3:00</&> between nelson and motueka until a short time ago

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      a tasman power spokesman says a massive storm hit the region
      early this morning causing a huge power blackout

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      and although some areas have it restored most people in tasman
      won't have power until later today

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      dozens of other houses around the district are also without
      electricity although most people appear to have their phones
      working

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      residents have told radio new zealand news of houses made
      unoccupiable

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      packing sheds damage and severe damage to orchards and other
      crops in the area

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      one resident says several houses have lost windows and suffered
      other damage

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      a car has been stood up on its end

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      the local church has lost half its roof

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      and packing sheds have been damaged

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      he says the saddest thing is damage done to trees in local
      orchards throughout the area

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      but through all this still no reports of injury <,>

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      the search has been called off for a new zealander john lyons
      and three british divers tapped trapped in a diving chamber in
      the south china sea after the sinking of an oil barge

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      the experts say the four cannot have survived the <&>4:00</&>
      running out of their air supply

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      a royal navy operations officer lieutenant commander steve
      bridges said he has had to give up hope of recovering the men
      <&>4:07</&> <&>ineligible male speaker</&> <&>4:29</&>

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      the royal navy's steve bridges <,>

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      the mother of one of the new zealanders who survived the barge
      sinking says his family and rugby were on his mind as he floated
      and waited for rescue

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      timothy clark's mother adele of auckland says her son was
      plucked from the water and flown to hong kong

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      she says timothy never thought he was going to die but was angry
      that if he did he'd miss next weekend's rugby clash between the
      all blacks and the wallabies <,> <O>tut</O>

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      the government has been making a bid to convince new zealanders
      that the economic situation demands <&>5:00</&> the sort of
      measures taken in the budget with a series of speeches around
      the country

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      prime minister jim bolger has been in wanganui saying new
      zealand can't forever spend what it doesn't have and it's time
      for everyone to face facts

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      and in an apparent reference to two backbench resignations
      mister bolger told his audience there are those who can't face
      the facts and prefer to walk away from the problems

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      in wanaka health minister simon upton has declared that the
      recent budget challenges the national party and middle new
      zealand to prove that it has what it takes to bring the country
      back from the brink of economic collapse

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      he too said it's time to bring the bad news home to middle new
      zealand that we have to stop spending and start saving
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