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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</&>
  <&>0:37</&>
  

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      good evening

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      the government admits tonight it has considered proposals for a
      national identity card but claims it WON'T proceed with the
      scheme

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      the prime minister's also launched an official inquiry to
      identify the person who told three national news about stage two
      of the kiwi card

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      but there's more evidence tonight <&>1:00</&> that the
      foundations for a national identity information system are
      already in place

  <WSC#MSN202:0025:JP>
      and there seems to be a direct link between what's happening
      here and the philosophies of the massive international monetary
      fund <&>1:11</&> <&>four minutes forty five seconds not
      transcribed</&> <&>5:56</&>

  <WSC#MSN202:0030:JP>
      the appeal court has given the go ahead for two <&>6:00</&>
      asbestos victims to sue the government for four million dollars

  <WSC#MSN202:0035:JP>
      two men claim their lung diseases were caused by exposure to
      asbestos while working for the government more than twenty years
      ago <&>6:11</&> <&>one minute twenty seven seconds not
      transcribed</&> <&>7:38</&>

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      auckland's six hundred resident doctors are meeting right now to
      consider joining colleagues around the country in a nation wide
      strike

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      the junior doctors are angry at health board plans to replace
      their national award with regional employment contracts

  <WSC#MSN202:0050:JP>
      two prison escapers may be charged with kidnapping tonight
      <&>8:00</&> after being recaptured near dunedin airport

  <WSC#MSN202:0055:JP>
      lenin bennett and vincent morrell surrendered to the dunedin
      armed offenders squad after being on the run for three weeks
      <&>8:09</&> <&>fifty nine seconds not transcribed</&>
      <&>9:08</&>

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      an auckland english <&>pronounced as enguish</&> language school
      has gone bankrupt owing overseas students hundreds of thousands
      of dollars

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      while current students may be moved to another school others
      who've prepaid their fees overseas may lose their money
      <&>9:22</&> <&>one minute fifty one seconds not transcribed</&>
      <&>11:13</&>

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      the exchange of hostages held in the middle east has begun

  <WSC#MSN202:0075:JP>
      israel started the process today by releasing fifty one lebanese
      prisoners and also sent home the bodies of nine others
      <&>11:25</&> <&>one minute twelve seconds not transcribed</&>
      <&>12:37</&>

  <WSC#MSN202:0080:JP>
      there's more to come on three national news

  <WSC#MSN202:0085:JP>
      iron mike tyson puts up a fight against a rape charge

  <WSC#MSN202:0090:JP>
      <music><,> and la toyah jackson's tell all book <title>the
      demons in michael jackson's closets</title></music> <&>12:50</&>
      <&>two minutes fifty nine seconds not transcribed advertisements</&>
      <&>15:49</&>

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      queenstown's rafting operators have lost their fight to stop
      mining in parts of the shotover river

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      the planning tribunal there is <&>16:00</&> recommending l and m
      mining be allowed to dredge a section of the river for gold
      <&>16:03</&> <&>one minute twenty four seconds not transcribed</&>
      <&>17:27</&>

  <WSC#MSN202:0105:JP>
      the soviet government is to strip communist cuba of most of its
      military and economic support

  <WSC#MSN202:0110:JP>
      president gorbachev has announced he'll bring home the soviet
      troops based there

  <WSC#MSN202:0115:JP>
      gorbachev made the concession when he met u s secretary of state
      james baker

  <WSC#MSN202:0120:JP>
      he said eleven thousand troops would be pulled out of cuba even
      though western experts thought there were only seven thousand
      there

  <WSC#MSN202:0125:JP>
      baker replied with a promise of direct aid to the soviet union

  <WSC#MSN202:0130:JP>
      more talks are about to begin in an effort to end <&>18:00</&>
      the fighting in yugoslavia

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      but the ethnic violence is worsening amid reports several
      hundred croat fighters have died in the last two days
      <&>18:09</&> <&>one minute twenty seconds not transcribed</&>
      <&>19:29</&>

  <WSC#MSN202:0140:JP>
      two sporting heavyweights were back in court today

  <WSC#MSN202:0145:JP>
      one winding up a love affair and the other appearing on rape
      charges

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      former heavy weight boxing champ mike tyson has formally denied
      raping an eighteen year old beauty contestant <&>19:44</&> <&>one
      minute forty nine seconds not transcribed</&> <&>21:33</&>

  <WSC#MSN202:0155:JP>
      the rugby union won't punish two new zealanders for <.>taking</.>
      for playing in the same barbarians team as five south africans

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      to tell us why and what else is big in sport here's eric young
      <&>21:45</&> <&>one minute thirty seven seconds not transcribed</&>
      <&>23:22</&>

  <WSC#MSN202:0165:JP>
      next leighton smith talks to the opposition social welfare
      spokesman about the kiwi card <&>23:27</&> <&>three minutes
      thirteen seconds not transcribed advertisements</&> <&>26:40</&>

  <WSC#MSN202:0170:JP>
      recapping our top stories tonight on three national news

  <WSC#MSN202:0175:JP>
      the appeal court has given the go ahead for two asbestos victims
      to sue the government for four million dollars

  <WSC#MSN202:0180:JP>
      israel has released fifty one lebanese prisoners in a move that
      may trigger the release of more western <&>27:00</&> hostages
      held in lebanon

  <WSC#MSN202:0185:JP>
      social welfare minister jenny shipley denies claims new
      zealanders could be required to carry i d cards

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      with more on the kiwi card here's leighton smith <&>27:11</&>
      <&>rest of side one not transcribed continues on side two</&>
      <&>side two</&> <&>3:10</&>

  <WSC#MSN202:0195:JP>
      thanks leighton

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      how a p r company spent the government's money to sell the
      budget

  <WSC#MSN202:0205:JP>
      that story when we come back <&>3:18</&> <&>one minute eleven
      seconds not transcribed advertisements</&> <&>4:29</&>

  <WSC#MSN202:0210:JP>
      there's no result yet from the court case between air new
      zealand and catering unions

  <WSC#MSN202:0215:JP>
      one hundred and fifty six sacked workers have asked the auckland
      employment court to order the airline to reinstate them

  <WSC#MSN202:0220:JP>
      they argue air new zealand didn't give them enough notice and
      the sackings were wrong

  <WSC#MSN202:0225:JP>
      returning to our top stories this news hour

  <WSC#MSN202:0230:JP>
      <music>asbestos victim robin mckenzie has won the right to sue
      the government for two million dollars

  <WSC#MSN202:0235:JP>
      the landmark appeal court ruling opens the door for other
      <&>5:00</&> former government employees to sue

  <WSC#MSN202:0240:JP>
      another english language school has shut down in auckland

  <WSC#MSN202:0245:JP>
      hundreds of overseas students had paid thousands of dollars to
      learn english and may have lost their money

  <WSC#MSN202:0250:JP>
      queenstown rafting operators are worried a new gold mining
      operation will damage the shotover river

  <WSC#MSN202:0255:JP>
      approval's been given for l and m mining to extract gold</music>
      from a new stretch of the river

  <WSC#MSN202:0260:JP>
      in tonight's money matters a document out today shows the extent
      of the government's big public relations campaign to sell its
      budget

  <WSC#MSN202:0265:JP>
      it shows just how much influence a wellington p r company has
      had over cabinet ministers <&>5:36</&> <&>one minute eleven
      seconds not transcribed</&> <&>6:47</&>

  <WSC#MSN202:0270:JP>
      elsewhere in business

  <WSC#MSN202:0275:JP>
      food prices went up by just a third of a percent last month

  <WSC#MSN202:0280:JP>
      the annual increase is just under half a percent

  <WSC#MSN202:0285:JP>
      the lowest increase in twenty five years the last <&>7:00</&> of
      the major retail lenders national australian bank has lowered
      its mortgage interest rates

  <WSC#MSN202:0290:JP>
      cell phones boost business and improve sex lives by reducing
      stress according to a british survey

  <WSC#MSN202:0295:JP>
      more controversial tee shirts from the christchurch business
      with the double barrel design team

  <WSC#MSN202:0300:JP>
      this time the company has come up with new tee shirts for bank
      tellers and the police

  <WSC#MSN202:0305:JP>
      the original shirt sparked cries of bad taste for its withdrawal
      analogy to bank robberies

  <WSC#MSN202:0310:JP>
      but others including cartoonists saw it as good ammunition

  <WSC#MSN202:0315:JP>
      now the shirt printer's designed the deposit tee shirt for
      police and he also wonders if bank tellers will be game enough
      to wear this item after business hours <,>

  <WSC#MSN202:0320:JP>
      looking at the money markets the dollar's up against the u s and
      the australian

  <WSC#MSN202:0325:JP>
      the sharemarket has continued to slip

  <WSC#MSN202:0330:JP>
      the barclays closing down eight points to close at thirteen
      hundred and seventy six

  <WSC#MSN202:0335:JP>
      the leaders were down but lion nathan went against the trend

  <WSC#MSN202:0340:JP>
      up ten cents <,>

  <WSC#MSN202:0345:JP>
      now eric's back with three national sport <&>8:00</&> <&>eleven
      minutes thirty two seconds not transcribed sports news and
      advertisements</&> <&>19:32</&>

  <WSC#MSN202:0350:JP>
      thanks eric

  <WSC#MSN202:0355:JP>
      after the break neil waka with three national weather
      <&>19:34</&> <&>seven minutes seventeen seconds not transcribed
      advertisements and weather</&> <&>26:51</&>

  <WSC#MSN202:0360:JP>
      and that's the way it was thursday september the twelfth

  <WSC#MSN202:0365:JP>
      join us for nightline at half past ten

  <WSC#MSN202:0370:JP>
      until then good evening <&>26:57</&> <&>end of sample</&>
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