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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</&>
  <&>0:36</&>
  

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      good evening

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      police are scouring the auckland suburb of mangere tonight in a
      hunt for a dangerous prisoner who made a daring escape from
      auckland prison's maximum security block at paremoremo <,>

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      he's forty two year old DEAN wycliffe who took a hostage during
      his escape but later released him in mangere <,>

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      wycliffe made headlines when he become the first and only person
      to escape from the country's toughest prison fifteen YEARS ago

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      his escape <&>1:00</&> today has renewed earlier fears of
      inadequate security at the prison

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      simon mercep reports <&>1:05</&> <&>one minute fifty four
      seconds not transcribed</&> <&>2:59</&>

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      a thirty year old man has been charged with attempted murder
      after an armed offenders call out yesterday in the auckland
      suburb of manurewa

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      he's been remanded in custody until monday <&>break in tape</&>

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      off a large area including an intermediate school after a man
      with a bullet wound in his chest stumbled into a manurewa house

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      the armed offenders alert ended after several hours when police
      DETAINED a man in a house and recovered a pistol

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      the injured man is now in a stable condition after surgery <,>

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      a government m p says some elderly people are crying themselves
      to sleep at night

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      afraid that cuts will be made to their guaranteed <.>reci</.>
      retirement incomes

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      and some m ps are finding that worries over g r i are bringing
      an increasing number of elderly people into their electoral
      offices

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      kim webby reports <&>3:46</&> <&>one minute eighteen seconds not
      transcribed</&> <&>5:04</&>

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      several homes were evacuated in the south auckland township of
      otaua last night during a fire which destroyed an aerosol
      packaging factory

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      the blaze set off a chain reaction of explosions caused by
      thousands of small aerosol cans <,>

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      homes were evacuated because of the explosions and chemical
      fumes

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      the factory was destroyed and fire safety officers are
      investigating the cause of the blaze <,>

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      in northland officials have disposed of ten drums of hazardous
      waste discovered at an ILLEGAL dump

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      northland regional <.>council</.> er environmental officers
      raided the property at kaiwaka south of whangarei

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      they dug up ten drums containing agricultural chemicals paint
      thinners printers ink and solvents

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      the officers believe the chemicals could have leached into a
      nearby estuary

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      the council may lay charges under the water and soil
      conservation act <,>

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      sir howard morrison is in a comfortable condition in gisborne
      hospital after an operation today <&>6:00</&> to remove gall
      stones

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      he was taken to hospital on wednesday after attending a charity
      fundraiser as part of his life education trust RIDE through the
      east coast

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      three months ago sir howard underwent triple bypass heart
      surgery <,>

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      an auckland teenager's battle against a rare bone marrow disease
      came to a sad end today

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      anna kegan died after her body rejected a second marrow
      transplant

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      the eighteen year old went to paris last year for treatment
      after an appeal raised more than three hundred thousand dollars

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      a family friend says she died peacefully

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      her funeral will be held on tuesday <,>

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      a coroner has ruled a teenage boy died by misadventure after his
      remains were found in dense bush last april

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      arjin krishnin was sixteen when he went missing from his
      palmerston north home in nineteen eighty five

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      the medical causes of his death are unknown <,,>

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      hundreds of south island freezing workers are anxiously waiting
      to hear whether or not they'll keep their jobs

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      they're expecting the southland based alliance company to
      announce <&>7:00</&> restructuring plans

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      and it's widely tipped that those plans will include the closing
      of TWO major works

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      john mcdermot reports <&>7:05</&> <&>one minute eighteen seconds
      not transcribed</&> <&>8:23</&>

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      coming up new plans for an old symbol of south africa's
      apartheid regime

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      there's also sport with jeremy <&>8:27</&> <&>four minute eight
      seconds of advertisements not transcribed</&> <&>12:15</&>

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      amnesty international has strongly criticised the british record
      on human rights especially in northern ireland

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      the report's come out on the day of the funerals of two i r a
      men killed in an s a s ambush earlier this week

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      and it was also the same day that the i r a killed one of its
      own men claiming he was a police informer <&>12:33</&> <&>one
      minute twenty five seconds not transcribed</&> <&>13:58</&>

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      in geneva american secretary of state james baker and soviet
      foreign minister <?>besnyetnik</?> tried to overcome differences
      and agree on a treaty to cut long range nuclear missiles

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      such an agreement could pave the way for a bush gorbachev summit

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      but the talks ended with mister baker saying there's still a
      fair amount of work to be done <,>

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      robin island the infamous but now empty prison off capetown

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      it's where nelson mandela spent eighteen years behind bars

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      the last political prisoners left two weeks ago

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      now there are plans to turn one of the grimmest symbols of
      apartheid in south africa into a tourist attraction <&>14:34</&>
      <&>one minute ten seconds not transcribed</&> <&>15:43</&>

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      south africa could return to international cricket in time for
      next year's world cup

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      that's the prediction of australia's foreign minister gareth
      evans who's visiting there

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      a new unified administrative <&>pronounced as ambidistrative</&>
      body is expected to apply for recognition when the international
      cricket <&>16:00</&> council meets in july

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      if accepted senator evans says they could play in the world cup

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      but he says south africa's return to international rugby may
      take longer <,>

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      now today's sport

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      a real fright for auckland this afternoon jeremy <&>16:11</&>
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