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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</&>
  <&>0:23</&>
  

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      good evening

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      another serious levels crossing smash has left a father and two
      of his children in palmerston north hospital tonight

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      the man was driving his children in a light van when it hit the
      engine of the napier bound bay express

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      the rail crossing had no barrier arms or warning signals
      <&>0:39</&> <&>one minute twenty two seconds not transcribed</&>
      <&>2:01</&>

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      two air accident inspectors are due in south westland tomorrow
      to inspect the scene of yesterday's helicopter crash

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      the seven people aboard received only minor injuries

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      just three weeks ago six german tourists and three new
      zealanders died when a nomad sight seeing plane smashed into
      franz joseph glacier <&>2:18</&> <&>one minute twenty six
      seconds not transcribed</&> <&>3:44</&>

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      an official investigation is under way into an accident on the
      taranaki oil platform pacific ariki

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      two men fell to their death while practising rescue operations
      from a helicopter

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      the men were being winched off the platform at <&>4:00</&> the
      time

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      a new zealand woman is being held in a north london police
      station tonight for questioning about the murder of a british
      businessman

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      <.>teranga</.> rangimarie <&>pronounced rangimaria</&> ngarimu
      from the west coast town of otira gave herself up to police who
      are investigating the execution style killing <,> of graham
      woodhatch a roofing contractor shot dead last may

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      woodhatch was gunned down as he made a phone call from the royal
      free hospital

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      a second new zealander implicated in the private hospital
      killing is due to appear in london's old bailey tomorrow on
      conspiracy charges <,>

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      pop star michael jackson has cancelled his world tour announcing
      he's addicted to pain killing prescription drugs and is seeking
      treatment

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      tonight he's in hiding and thought to be somewhere in europe
      <&>4:41</&> <&>two minutes eleven seconds not transcribed</&>
      <&>6:52</&>

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      in the news ahead no more charity rates from capital power

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      and a multi million dollar armoured car haul back in the hands
      of the good guys <&>7:00</&> <&>two minutes forty seconds not
      transcribed advertisements</&> <&>9:40</&>

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      police in the u s investigating one of that's country's biggest
      ever robberies have arrested four men they say are closely
      connected with the i r a

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      among them a catholic priest and an ex policeman alleged to have
      taken seven point four million dollars from an armoured car
      <&>9:55</&> <&>one minute five seconds not transcribed</&>
      <&>11:00</&>

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      u s president bill clinton is welcoming p l o leader yasser
      arafat's condemnation of violence against israelis in the
      occupied territories

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      mister clinton says arafat's statement augurs well for the
      mideast peace process <&>11:12</&> <&>one minute one second not
      transcribed</&> <&>12:13</&>

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      sports clubs and welfare groups in wellington want to give the
      stiff arm to power price hikes

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      capital power is scrapping its charity rates meaning a forty
      percent increase in cost for those organisations

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      some of which may not survive <&>12:26</&> <&>one minute twenty
      three seconds not transcribed</&> <&>13:49</&>

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      after the break a solid workout for the all blacks in glasgow

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      the whitbread fleet's all at sea again

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      and a century for andrew jones at the <?>wacca</?> <&>13:57</&>
      <&>three minutes one seconds not transcribed advertisements</&>
      <&>16:58</&>

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      mixed fortunes today for new zealand on the third day of the
      first cricket test against australia at the wacca

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      chasing australia's first innings of three hundred and ninety
      eight jones and crowe grafted out the runs taking the score to
      one ninety nine for two

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      then in the half hour before lunch crowe went for forty two but
      jones survived to notch up a century <&>17:17</&> <&>one minute
      seventeen seconds not transcribed</&> <&>18:34</&>

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      so new zealand have weathered the morning session reasonably
      well but still one hundred and eighty nine runs behind on the
      first innings

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      jones and rutherford will resume batting after lunch

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      england's enigmatic former test captain david gower has packed
      his cricket gear away for good

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      the thirty six year old hampshire batsman's decision to retire
      ends a glittering but controversial career that began nearly
      twenty years ago <&>18:57</&> <&>one minute six seconds not
      transcribed</&> <&>20:03</&>

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      a <?>week out</?> from the one off test against scotland the all
      blacks were given a hard time in their match against scotland a
      in glasgow today

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      new zealand won the match by twenty points to nine but only
      matthew cooper's accurate boot made the victory look easier than
      it was <&>20:16</&> <&>one minute twenty one seconds not
      transcribed</&> <&>21:37</&>

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      the fourteen boats in the whitbread round the world race are
      back at sea tonight embarking on the second leg from punta del
      este in uruguay to fremantle in western australia <&>starting
      gun of race for two seconds?</&>

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      the fleet is looking to pull back overall race leader new
      zealand endeavour which holds an eight hour twenty minute lead
      after the first transatlantic leg

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      some yachting <&>22:00</&> pundits are picking the smaller
      whitbread sixty footers such as the yamaha kiwi entry to give
      the bigger boats like new zealand endeavour a run for their
      money on this leg

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      leading the pack of sixty foot challengers is kiwi chris dickson
      aboard tokio who says he'll be travelling cautiously across the
      treacherous southern ocean leg

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      comparing it to driving a fast car on an icy road <,>

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      the u s still leads golf's world cup tournament in florida but
      new zealand has thrown out a strong challenge going into the
      final round

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      the kiwi pairing of frank nobilo and greg turner along with
      scotland and australia are four shots off the pace

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      new zealand moved to third equal when turner fired an eight
      under par sixty four

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      the tournament's lowest score <,>

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      some of our most talented young swimmers have been putting in
      some hard work this weekend learning the basic techniques of
      their chosen sport

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      they've been under the watchful eye of one of our most
      successful swimming coaches who's looking for talent to swim for
      this country BEYOND the year two thousand <&>22:54</&> <&>one
      minute thirty nine seconds not transcribed</&> <&>24:33</&>

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      just ahead three national weather

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      and it was a perfect day for that annual santa parade
      <&>24:37</&> <&>two minutes fifty six seconds not transcribed
      advertisements and weather</&> <&>27:33</&>

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      and the fine weather in auckland suited hundreds of thousands of
      people today who turned out to see this year's santa parade
      through the centre of the city

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      with twenty eight floats twenty two marching teams and scores of
      other characters the parade took nearly an hour to pass any
      given point on the route <&>27:48</&> <&>forty three seconds not
      transcribed</&> <&>28:31</&>

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      that's three national news for this sunday

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      clint brown will be back in just a moment with three sport's
      coverage of the cricket stay with us

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      i'm neil waka good night <&>28:38</&> <&>end of sample</&>
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