Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 23 October 2024
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- 0:01Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside. Ryan Bridge new
- 0:08Speaker 1: for twenty twenty four on the early edition with Smith City,
- 0:12Speaker 1: New Zealand's furniture vans and a play a store News Dogs.
- 0:15Speaker 2: That'd be good Morning New Zealand. It is six after five.
- 0:18Speaker 2: Great to have you on a Wednesday morning. Coming up
- 0:20Speaker 2: on this show, the seven hundred million dollar question why
- 0:24Speaker 2: is Wellington using rates not debt to fund its water?
- 0:27Speaker 2: The eight hundred million dollar question why did we not
- 0:30Speaker 2: get cheapest school lunches sooner? Gavin Gray is in the
- 0:33Speaker 2: UK and new retail numbers out this morning. Good news
- 0:37Speaker 2: coming your way shortly.
- 0:40Speaker 1: The agenda.
- 0:41Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, the twenty third of October. A new
- 0:44Speaker 2: Reuters poll has Karmela Harris just three percent ahead of
- 0:47Speaker 2: Donald Trump with two weeks until polling day. It's forty
- 0:50Speaker 2: six forty three, within the margin of era.
- 0:52Speaker 3: One of the things that really stood out to us
- 0:55Speaker 3: was that the electorate's mood is quite dour. We asked
- 0:59Speaker 3: do you think the the nations on the right track
- 1:01Speaker 3: or the wrong track? And across a slew of issues,
- 1:04Speaker 3: Americans said the nations on the wrong.
- 1:06Speaker 2: Track, and that is always the biggest indicator of who's
- 1:09Speaker 2: going to win an election? This week's Biggest Waste of
- 1:12Speaker 2: Time Award, Parliament's Select Committee into Banking Competition aka Banking
- 1:17Speaker 2: Profits gets underway today. It'll be all sizzle, no sausage.
- 1:21Speaker 2: A and Z bosses are going to front up today.
- 1:23Speaker 2: Chloe Swarbrick and Deborah Russell will froth at the mouth.
- 1:26Speaker 2: But nothing will change for a small country with little influence,
- 1:30Speaker 2: and the last thing we want is politicians defining excess profits.
- 1:34Speaker 2: Speaking of sauces, the twenty twenty four Sausage Awards were
- 1:38Speaker 2: held last night and the winner is Westmere Butchery. The
- 1:45Speaker 2: pork and leak beat eight hundred other bangers and just
- 1:48Speaker 2: the thought of tasting eight hundred sausages quite a disgusting one.
- 1:52Speaker 2: Judges acknowledged the classic combination of flavors. Perfectly cooked the
- 1:56Speaker 2: leak gave the sausage an exceptional texture, declaring it a
- 1:59Speaker 2: truly delicious sausage. A woman has been rescued after being
- 2:04Speaker 2: stuck upside down between two rocks for seven hours in
- 2:06Speaker 2: Australia's Hunter Valley. She had been out taking photos when
- 2:09Speaker 2: she dropped her phone tried to retrieve it, prompting a
- 2:12Speaker 2: mass rescue.
- 2:13Speaker 4: We're all like, how did you get down there? And
- 2:15Speaker 4: how are we going to get her out? I've never
- 2:17Speaker 4: been to one in ten years like that. The VRA
- 2:19Speaker 4: haven't seen one like that. Please rescue, haven't seen one
- 2:21Speaker 4: like that. It was out of the box.
- 2:23Speaker 2: Rescue for us. Seven boulders had to be removed to
- 2:26Speaker 2: get the woman out, some weighing up to five hundred kilos.
- 2:30Speaker 1: On your radio and online on iHeartRadio early edition with
- 2:35Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's Furniture Beds and
- 2:38Speaker 1: a playing store News talk.
- 2:39Speaker 2: Zaid be what a contrast in political paintings yesterday. On
- 2:43Speaker 2: the one hand, you had Chloe's Swarbrick flanked by the
- 2:47Speaker 2: only two MPs left in her caucus whose names we
- 2:50Speaker 2: actually know anymore and have lasted longer than five minutes
- 2:53Speaker 2: holding her one hundred and fifty fifth Darlene Tana stand up.
- 2:57Speaker 2: Of course, according to Chloe Swawbrick, it's all over now,
- 3:00Speaker 2: nothing to see here, move on.
- 3:02Speaker 3: It's be in a.
- 3:02Speaker 5: Position now we can draw a line under this issue,
- 3:05Speaker 5: and that focus can squarely be on the facts that
- 3:07Speaker 5: our people are hungry and the planet's on fire.
- 3:09Speaker 2: Yes, people are hungry, and over at the banquet hall.
- 3:13Speaker 2: David Seymour, the evil right wing, cold hearted tyrant, is
- 3:20Speaker 2: feeding starving children.
- 3:22Speaker 6: I'd give us a solid nine and a half only
- 3:24Speaker 6: because if you always want to improve, But.
- 3:26Speaker 2: This is seriously good for oh the contrast, one party
- 3:29Speaker 2: leader mopping up the mess of an incompetent caucus appointed
- 3:31Speaker 2: by a clearly incompetent party process, the other dishing out
- 3:35Speaker 2: hidden veggie buttered chicken to needy kids. Here's the ironic
- 3:39Speaker 2: thing about yesterday. Neither will gain or lose votes either
- 3:43Speaker 2: way the Greens and the ACT Party over these two issues.
- 3:47Speaker 2: Green supporters are loyal, very loyal, loyal to a fault. Actually,
- 3:51Speaker 2: they're like, you know, church goers. They're like Christians going
- 3:55Speaker 2: to church, rain, hail or shine. They'll turn up. The
- 3:57Speaker 2: co leaders could basically shoot someone in the middle of
- 4:01Speaker 2: what did Trump say? Shoot someone in the middle of
- 4:03Speaker 2: Times Square, and they'd still vote for me. On the
- 4:05Speaker 2: other hand, is Seymour's Libertarian Party going to pick up
- 4:08Speaker 2: votes from taxpayer funded free lunches. Probably not, but I
- 4:13Speaker 2: suppose if we're going to have them, they might as
- 4:15Speaker 2: well cost us three bucks instead of eight ten after five.
- 4:19Speaker 1: Bryan Bridge.
- 4:24Speaker 2: Guess he's getting out of his beach chair this morning
- 4:26Speaker 2: and actually getting out on the campaign. It's Joe Biden.
- 4:30Speaker 2: Apparently he's going to turn up to New Hampshire perhaps
- 4:33Speaker 2: in the next hour or two. They'll wake them up
- 4:36Speaker 2: and push them out and drag them up or whatever
- 4:39Speaker 2: they have to do. Donald Trump, he is heading to
- 4:43Speaker 2: a round table with Latino leaders in Florida, and Eminem
- 4:48Speaker 2: is making an appearance at the Democrats event tonight introducing
- 4:52Speaker 2: former President Barack Obama. We've got the Pole results. More
- 4:55Speaker 2: detail on them coming your way shortly eleven after five,
- 4:58Speaker 2: You're on news Talk, said be on we Snesday morning.
- 5:02Speaker 2: We're gone, We're two games.
- 5:09Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge new for twenty twenty four on early edition
- 5:13Speaker 1: with Smith City, New Zealand's furniture beds and a playing store.
- 5:17Speaker 2: News Talks it b thirteen after five. Quarter three earnings
- 5:20Speaker 2: reports are coming out of the United States this morning,
- 5:22Speaker 2: Thick and Fast and General Motors. Despite the softening prices.
- 5:26Speaker 2: We've spoken about this over the last couple of months,
- 5:29Speaker 2: the ev challenge in China. General Motors is apparently within
- 5:32Speaker 2: striking distance of posting its record operating income. This is
- 5:36Speaker 2: for twenty twenty four they expect fourteen to fifteen billion dollars.
- 5:41Speaker 2: That compares with the record fourteen and a half billion
- 5:44Speaker 2: booked in twenty twenty two. How did they do it?
- 5:45Speaker 2: Apparently cost cutting and sticking to their knitting, which is
- 5:49Speaker 2: basically petrol and diesel trucks and suv So there you go.
- 5:53Speaker 2: Good news for General Motors. This morning, fourteen after five
- 5:56Speaker 2: in Bridge brig the government's teaming up with private companies
- 5:59Speaker 2: to deliver the new school lunches at just three bucks
- 6:01Speaker 2: a pop. They reckon seventeen Kiwi supplies and manufacturers are involved.
- 6:05Speaker 2: Savings for the taxpayer one hundred and thirty million dollars
- 6:09Speaker 2: a year. Will it works? Samantha Mortimer is the Graymouth
- 6:12Speaker 2: High School principal and she's with me this morning. Samantha,
- 6:15Speaker 2: good morning.
- 6:16Speaker 7: Well Donna, good morning.
- 6:17Speaker 2: Thanks having with me. Does this sounds like a win
- 6:21Speaker 2: win to me? What do you reckon?
- 6:23Speaker 7: Well, we're obviously happy that we still have something to
- 6:26Speaker 7: provide for our students, but you know, we have a
- 6:29Speaker 7: lot of concerns as well around what the food's going
- 6:33Speaker 7: to look like. Originally we're told it's only going to
- 6:35Speaker 7: be cold, but now it's going to be hot as well.
- 6:38Speaker 7: We have we're going to our local supplier who's been
- 6:41Speaker 7: providing our meals of not obviously been contracted, and so
- 6:46Speaker 7: the money that they've already put into our external providers
- 6:52Speaker 7: has you know, all that money, I don't know where
- 6:54Speaker 7: that's going to go. We're going to the people are
- 6:56Speaker 7: going to lose about seven jobs as well. So it's
- 6:59Speaker 7: not just the base of the food, it's actually everything
- 7:02Speaker 7: else that goes behind it as well.
- 7:04Speaker 2: What does it cost you at the moment per meal?
- 7:07Speaker 7: I think it's it depends on the age of the student,
- 7:11Speaker 7: but it's definitely more than three dollars double plus a
- 7:14Speaker 7: little bit. But that includes everything, and it's not just
- 7:17Speaker 7: about the food as well. It's actually the production, it's
- 7:20Speaker 7: the wages, it's the transport. So yeah, I'll be really
- 7:24Speaker 7: interested to see how they're going to do everything for
- 7:26Speaker 7: three dollars. Well that can be true.
- 7:28Speaker 2: It does sound ambitious. It does sound ambitious, But if
- 7:31Speaker 2: they can do it, it's got to be a good thing,
- 7:32Speaker 2: right because that money, the savings that they're making, they're
- 7:36Speaker 2: going to use to feed kids who are two to five,
- 7:39Speaker 2: you're years old, who are low income as well. I mean,
- 7:42Speaker 2: you know, if you can do it for cheaper and
- 7:44Speaker 2: you can do more with less, then that's a good thing. Surely.
- 7:47Speaker 7: Yeah, I have to agree that is a good thing
- 7:49Speaker 7: if you can, but I just do question what is
- 7:53Speaker 7: actually included in that three dollars and also the benefits
- 7:57Speaker 7: to you know that currently about have another people at
- 8:00Speaker 7: least they are employed in the local community who now
- 8:03Speaker 7: won't have a job, So that is also something to say.
- 8:07Speaker 2: It is sad. It is a shame you mentioned the
- 8:10Speaker 2: hot cold thing to kids care. I mean, if you're hungry,
- 8:13Speaker 2: like the idea is feeding hungry kids. If you're hungry,
- 8:15Speaker 2: you'll like cold one, won't you.
- 8:18Speaker 7: Well, you know, if you're hungry, you eat anything. But
- 8:20Speaker 7: every kid deserves to have, you know, high quality food,
- 8:24Speaker 7: and every kid deserves to have a high quality education.
- 8:27Speaker 7: Just because you're poor doesn't mean that you should just
- 8:28Speaker 7: be given, you know whatever.
- 8:31Speaker 2: Samantha, thank you very much for your time. Great to
- 8:32Speaker 2: have you on the show. Samantha mortem at Graymouth High
- 8:35Speaker 2: School principal A little skeptical. I think it's fair to
- 8:38Speaker 2: say of the three dollars school lunch program seventeen after five,
- 8:42Speaker 2: I'd love to hear your views on this. This morning.
- 8:43Speaker 2: Do you think it can be done for three bucks
- 8:45Speaker 2: a pop? What is the cheapest meal you can get
- 8:50Speaker 2: to put in front of your child? Nine two ninety
- 8:52Speaker 2: two is the number to text. And I mean when
- 8:54Speaker 2: I grew up, never had a hot meal at lunch
- 8:59Speaker 2: unless I made two minute noodles.
- 9:01Speaker 7: You know.
- 9:02Speaker 2: Mum used to say, BYO or GYO, get your own
- 9:05Speaker 2: on a Friday night and you you know, you did
- 9:07Speaker 2: noodles or something like that. But I mean I never
- 9:10Speaker 2: had a hot lunch. I'm still standing. Nineteen the number
- 9:15Speaker 2: of text. Seventeen after five The news you need.
- 9:18Speaker 1: This morning and the in depth analysis early edition with
- 9:21Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture Beds and
- 9:25Speaker 1: a playing store.
- 9:26Speaker 2: News talk said be yesterday nineteen after five. Yesterday I
- 9:29Speaker 2: mentioned that North Korean troops fighting with Russia is upsetting Soul,
- 9:33Speaker 2: upsetting South Korea. Why do we care? Well? Interestingly, now
- 9:38Speaker 2: South Korea is considering directly supplying weapons to Ukraine, so
- 9:43Speaker 2: it's kind of dragging South Korea into this. They're saying
- 9:47Speaker 2: they'll consider providing defensive and lethal weapons to Ukraine depending
- 9:50Speaker 2: on developments. Twenty after five, Ryan Bridge retailers this is
- 9:55Speaker 2: good news this morning. Retailers are saying they're seeing some
- 9:57Speaker 2: light at the end of the tunnel as the economic
- 9:59Speaker 2: time begin to change. The latest quarterly survey from retail
- 10:03Speaker 2: ends Ed shows sixty five percent of retailers are confident
- 10:06Speaker 2: or very confident that their business will survive the next
- 10:09Speaker 2: twelve months. Still doesn't sound great, but it's better than
- 10:12Speaker 2: the fifty eight percent last quarter. Meanwhile, fifty seven percent
- 10:16Speaker 2: think they will meet or exceed their targets in quarter four.
- 10:20Speaker 2: That is up from just thirty two percent in the
- 10:23Speaker 2: last survey, so a big jump there. Liz Whedon is
- 10:25Speaker 2: a general manager of Normanby Fine Wines, a new retail
- 10:28Speaker 2: business that's starting up in February next year. Liz, welcome
- 10:32Speaker 2: to the show. Thank you, good morning, good morning. Brave
- 10:36Speaker 2: time to be starting a business.
- 10:39Speaker 8: Yeah, it is.
- 10:41Speaker 9: I think you know, as either said, of those numbers,
- 10:46Speaker 9: there's some positive scientis in the market. I don't you know.
- 10:53Speaker 9: This year has been tough for retail, but started to
- 10:58Speaker 9: see some positive fines and we see it is a
- 11:01Speaker 9: good good time to look at starting a new business.
- 11:05Speaker 2: Have you done this before, been in business before, been
- 11:08Speaker 2: in the fine wine business before? Is this a completely
- 11:11Speaker 2: new venture.
- 11:11Speaker 9: For you, so career career retailer, and I've worked in
- 11:19Speaker 9: the wine industry for the last thirty years, in fact
- 11:24Speaker 9: slightly longer, but last thirty years, so very familiar with
- 11:28Speaker 9: the industry. And you know, it's I don't I think
- 11:32Speaker 9: whilst you know, those steps are shown that there's signs
- 11:36Speaker 9: of the market looking better, it's still not great right now.
- 11:40Speaker 9: I think, you know, this period into Christmas is where
- 11:46Speaker 9: all retailers really need a strong trading period, and I
- 11:50Speaker 9: think that's starting starting to come right. But certainly we
- 11:55Speaker 9: see by you know CEP Jury next year, which is
- 11:59Speaker 9: when we're all the date was put down to open.
- 12:03Speaker 9: Norman be Fine wines that we should be seeing a
- 12:07Speaker 9: different trading pattern to what retailers have endured so far.
- 12:11Speaker 2: Yeah, you might actually fingers crossed, you might actually have
- 12:14Speaker 2: time to just right.
- 12:17Speaker 9: We might we might have timed it just right. Maybe
- 12:19Speaker 9: a little bit of experience there, but yeah, I mean
- 12:22Speaker 9: it's also it's a hard market to read in all
- 12:25Speaker 9: the conditions that have put it to where it is now.
- 12:29Speaker 9: Certainly a hard market to read. But yeah, very very encouraging. Yeah,
- 12:35Speaker 9: it definitely feels I think right now there feels like
- 12:38Speaker 9: there's an optimism there, so hopefully we're reading that right
- 12:42Speaker 9: and it's a good time to open a new business.
- 12:45Speaker 2: Best of luck to you, Liz, and as I say this,
- 12:47Speaker 2: the quarterly survey results from retailing ate out this morning
- 12:51Speaker 2: should be a sign of some optimism for you. That's
- 12:55Speaker 2: Liz Weed and the general manager of Norman be Fine Wines.
- 12:57Speaker 2: If you haven't heard of them, it's because they haven't
- 12:58Speaker 2: even started yet. They can picking off business in February
- 13:01Speaker 2: next year. Twenty three minutes after five. I should say
- 13:04Speaker 2: that the survey is good, but it does still mean
- 13:07Speaker 2: that the remaining forty three percent don't think they will
- 13:11Speaker 2: meet their targets for quarter four. These are the new
- 13:15Speaker 2: quarterly sets up from Retailings. Edit's twenty three minutes after five.
- 13:18Speaker 2: Coming up next your views on the reaction to the
- 13:22Speaker 2: school lunch program and also mine the early.
- 13:26Speaker 1: Edition full the show podcast on iHeartRadio Power by Newstalks.
- 13:30Speaker 2: IV twenty five after five News Talks ZB. Nothing is
- 13:34Speaker 2: ever good enough for some people?
- 13:36Speaker 7: Is it?
- 13:37Speaker 2: Nothing? You've got to center right government just committing hundreds
- 13:41Speaker 2: of millions of dollars in taxpayer money to feed kids
- 13:44Speaker 2: in schools and they've managed to free up one hundred
- 13:47Speaker 2: and thirty million dollars in savings in the process, and
- 13:50Speaker 2: still it's not good enough for some The Health Coalition altered.
- 13:54Speaker 2: Oh that group, they're not happy. Some dietitians. They say
- 13:57Speaker 2: it's not nutritious enough.
- 13:59Speaker 9: Simply cutting the.
- 14:00Speaker 5: Amount of food that they're having and supplying a more processed,
- 14:04Speaker 5: less varied diet as a complete lost opportunity for our
- 14:09Speaker 5: health system.
- 14:11Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, It's more nutritious than nothing at all,
- 14:14Speaker 2: an empty stomach. Some said the food was too processed,
- 14:18Speaker 2: it was one size fits all. It wouldn't appeal to
- 14:20Speaker 2: the kids. It's not meant to appeal to kids so
- 14:23Speaker 2: much as feed them when they're hungry. I thought, at
- 14:26Speaker 2: least I thought that was the point. And if they
- 14:28Speaker 2: don't eat it, they're not hungry. It's simple.
- 14:32Speaker 1: Now.
- 14:32Speaker 2: There is some bold claims being made by David Seymour
- 14:35Speaker 2: which I am a little skeptical of, Like the fact
- 14:37Speaker 2: that we can do this with three dollars a meal
- 14:39Speaker 2: sounds unheard of. But he gets the benefit of the
- 14:41Speaker 2: doubt and my good luck for his cost saving crusade.
- 14:45Speaker 2: Guess where some of the savings are going feeding ten
- 14:48Speaker 2: thousand poor two to five year olds. David Seymour is
- 14:52Speaker 2: the new Robin Hood. In all the flurry of releases
- 14:56Speaker 2: yesterday about this, there was one staggering number that stood
- 15:01Speaker 2: out to me. Seymour reckons if Labor had adopted his
- 15:04Speaker 2: model from the get go when they launched this program
- 15:07Speaker 2: five years ago, we would have saved eight hundred million
- 15:11Speaker 2: dollars eight hundred million. They could have had that bike
- 15:16Speaker 2: bridge over the White to Matar Harbor, or they could
- 15:18Speaker 2: have had more rat tests, or whatever the hell they wanted.
- 15:21Speaker 2: It's true there was no such thing as a free lunch,
- 15:24Speaker 2: but thank the Lord is at least now a cheaper menu.
- 15:28Speaker 2: Bryan Bridge twenty seven after five news talks, he'd be
- 15:31Speaker 2: coming up Gavin Gray out of the UK. Can you
- 15:33Speaker 2: believe the UK government is releasing more prisoners early eleven
- 15:37Speaker 2: hundred of them and went so well last time? We'll
- 15:40Speaker 2: ask Gavin Gray about that. Also. Tony Randall, I know
- 15:44Speaker 2: I go on about him like I've got a crush
- 15:46Speaker 2: on Tony Randall. He's the Wellington City councilor who found
- 15:50Speaker 2: the hole in Wellington's budget when it came well. I
- 15:54Speaker 2: should say the officials accounting. When it came to dropping
- 15:57Speaker 2: the speed limits. They said, if you dropped this bread
- 16:00Speaker 2: limits in the city, you'll save two hundred million dollars
- 16:02Speaker 2: or whatever. Tony Randall was a smart guy and he
- 16:05Speaker 2: was the only one in the room, in fact, the
- 16:08Speaker 2: only one in the whole council building, including all of
- 16:11Speaker 2: the employees, who pointed out you've got an accounting era there,
- 16:14Speaker 2: which means it'll have the opposite effect. So anyway, he's
- 16:18Speaker 2: a smart guy. We're going to ask him about the
- 16:21Speaker 2: appointment of an observer to Wellington City Council. Nine two
- 16:24Speaker 2: nine terer us. The numbers of text loads of your
- 16:27Speaker 2: texts coming in amazing. How people still complain when they
- 16:30Speaker 2: are getting something for free when it should be supplied
- 16:32Speaker 2: by their caregivers. Ryan, peanut butters, sandwiches and as zapp
- 16:37Speaker 2: got me through primary school? Is that was that one
- 16:39Speaker 2: of those milk like chocolate milks. I think that's what
- 16:42Speaker 2: you're talking about, Ryan, We one step up from a
- 16:45Speaker 2: third world country. Unfortunately, beggars cannot be choosers. Any meal
- 16:49Speaker 2: that is made available to a needy child needs to
- 16:51Speaker 2: be celebrated. I was, Oh, there's this person was involved
- 16:56Speaker 2: with providing some lunches. Hi, Ryan, we own a rural
- 16:59Speaker 2: cafe and approached by a local school to provide school
- 17:02Speaker 2: lunches for two hundred kids. Couldn't be pies or chips
- 17:06Speaker 2: and had to be hot and delivered, all for five
- 17:08Speaker 2: dollars ahead. The school's five k's away never going to happen.
- 17:12Speaker 2: Tell them they're dreaming and you know we'll give David
- 17:16Speaker 2: Seymore the benefit of the doubt on this one. Twenty
- 17:18Speaker 2: nine after five news Talks, it be.
- 17:27Speaker 8: Stuck to.
- 17:36Speaker 1: The first word on the News of the Day early
- 17:39Speaker 1: edition with Ryan Bridge and Smith City, New Zealand's furniture
- 17:42Speaker 1: beds and a play at store News Talk SIPP.
- 17:55Speaker 2: Good morning, it is twenty four minutes away from six
- 17:58Speaker 2: year on news Talk to you big Welcome to your
- 18:00Speaker 2: Wednesday morning. If you're just joining us, great to have you.
- 18:02Speaker 2: We're live to reporters around the country. Shortly we are
- 18:05Speaker 2: going to Wellington. Tony Randall the Counselor on the appointment
- 18:09Speaker 2: of an observer There also Gavin Gray out of the
- 18:11Speaker 2: UK the Government releasing eleven hundred more prisoners early because
- 18:16Speaker 2: it went so well for them last time yesterday in
- 18:19Speaker 2: Parliament Labours adding the Williams question Andrew Bailey on the
- 18:22Speaker 2: whole loser fiesco have a listen?
- 18:24Speaker 4: And he had any alcohol at the beer garden or
- 18:28Speaker 4: the winery he visited that day?
- 18:30Speaker 7: No?
- 18:31Speaker 2: Is he saying that he did.
- 18:33Speaker 10: Not tell the worker to f off?
- 18:35Speaker 2: I do not believe I said that.
- 18:37Speaker 10: Did he call the worker a loser?
- 18:40Speaker 1: Yes?
- 18:41Speaker 10: Did he hold up the shape of an L on
- 18:44Speaker 10: his forehead?
- 18:45Speaker 2: Again?
- 18:46Speaker 7: Yes?
- 18:46Speaker 9: I did.
- 18:47Speaker 2: It sounds like one of those games of guess who
- 18:50Speaker 2: you know? Are you wearing glasses?
- 18:52Speaker 7: Yes?
- 18:52Speaker 2: Do you have ginger here? Yes? I wonder if you're
- 18:57Speaker 2: not drunk and you can't remember if you swore, then
- 18:59Speaker 2: you swear all the times. We're like a sailor, right,
- 19:02Speaker 2: So that squares that part off of it. The other
- 19:05Speaker 2: part of it is were you drinking? And he says no,
- 19:09Speaker 2: he was at a brewery. He was at a winery.
- 19:12Speaker 2: You wouldn't be stupid enough to lie about that, would you.
- 19:16Speaker 2: You know, just in the modern age with cell phones
- 19:18Speaker 2: and people taking photos and you're a minister visiting a workplace,
- 19:23Speaker 2: you wouldn't lie about that, would you. Probably, Well, unless
- 19:26Speaker 2: you were really stupid, you wouldn't lie about something like that.
- 19:29Speaker 2: So if that is the case, and no other evidence emerges,
- 19:33Speaker 2: then surely this is case closed. Twenty two away from
- 19:36Speaker 2: six ryen Bridge our reporters around the country, starting with Calm,
- 19:40Speaker 2: Proctor and Toned and Collen. Good morning morning, Ryan. Do
- 19:43Speaker 2: your dog control laws? The by law looks set to
- 19:47Speaker 2: get the green light.
- 19:49Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 19:49Speaker 11: A number of changes to these bylaws, Ryan that council
- 19:52Speaker 11: staff have recommended it, including allowing dogs back into the city.
- 19:56Speaker 11: They'll be allowed on leashes in the central Seabetdy area,
- 20:00Speaker 11: among other alterations. So that's area is like our Octagon
- 20:03Speaker 11: and Main Street where they are currently know dog zones.
- 20:07Speaker 11: This follows public consultation and hearings over the last month.
- 20:10Speaker 11: Staff have also proposed enabling exemptions to the proposed limit
- 20:14Speaker 11: of six dogs per person in public places. This is
- 20:17Speaker 11: after strong public feedback on that matter and concerned that
- 20:20Speaker 11: the rule could hurt dog walking businesses. The hearings committee
- 20:23Speaker 11: will consider these recommendations next Tuesday.
- 20:26Speaker 2: All right, how's your weather today, Coleen?
- 20:28Speaker 11: A cloud increasing occasion arraund this afternoon. Northerly wins today.
- 20:32Speaker 11: The heighs today twenty five for Dunedin.
- 20:34Speaker 2: Thank you, Claire. She would is in christ Church with
- 20:36Speaker 2: us this morning. Clear, good morning to do the murder
- 20:39Speaker 2: trial of Tinjun Chow continuing today. Yes, Ryan, that's right.
- 20:44Speaker 12: A lot of interest in this one down here. Tinjun
- 20:46Speaker 12: Chow is accused of killing Jan Feibao, who disappeared in
- 20:49Speaker 12: July of last year. She was a real estate agent
- 20:52Speaker 12: who was showing someone through a property when she was
- 20:55Speaker 12: never seen again. Her body was found buried in a
- 20:57Speaker 12: shallow grave more than a year later. Trial good underway
- 21:01Speaker 12: on Monday. The prosecutors say this man Chow attacked Boo
- 21:05Speaker 12: as she showed him through that property. Her partner, Paul Gooch,
- 21:09Speaker 12: hasn't spoken a lot. He took the stand yesterday saying
- 21:12Speaker 12: he last saw her sleeping as he left for work
- 21:15Speaker 12: that morning. He called her disappearance completely out of character.
- 21:18Speaker 12: He described her as beautiful, and then things got a
- 21:21Speaker 12: bit tense in the court room when he corrected the
- 21:24Speaker 12: defense lawyer who referred to Bao as missing. He said,
- 21:27Speaker 12: she's not missing, she's dead. Real estate agents and friends
- 21:31Speaker 12: of Bao are expected on the stand this morning when
- 21:34Speaker 12: court resumes at ten.
- 21:35Speaker 2: All right, how's the weather today, clear?
- 21:37Speaker 12: Nicer woman chrished at today too, Some low cloud will
- 21:40Speaker 12: clear to find northeasterly's turning northwest at a high of
- 21:42Speaker 12: twenty six.
- 21:43Speaker 2: Brilliant, have a good one. Max is in Malling and Haymax.
- 21:46Speaker 2: The Council's responded, We've got Tony Randall on actually just
- 21:49Speaker 2: before six on this. But the Council's responding to the
- 21:51Speaker 2: government's intervention.
- 21:53Speaker 13: Yeah, it'll be interesting to see what Tony says. An
- 21:55Speaker 13: important announcement obviously that will have ripple effects for some
- 21:58Speaker 13: time made. Torifano believes this appointment of a Crown Observer
- 22:02Speaker 13: is not a reflection of her leadership. She won't resign,
- 22:05Speaker 13: but she does admit that the Council has not always
- 22:08Speaker 13: covered itself in glory and needs to do better. She
- 22:11Speaker 13: is a little unhappy with the language used by senior
- 22:14Speaker 13: government figures over the past few weeks shambles, I imagine
- 22:17Speaker 13: the main term of dissatisfaction. Councilor Diane Calvert says she's
- 22:22Speaker 13: long wanted intervention now feels validated. Similarly, Ray Chung Nicolie
- 22:27Speaker 13: Young has often agreed with the government's criticism. Independent Tim
- 22:30Speaker 13: Brown says this is unnecessary in not going to automatically
- 22:34Speaker 13: mean better decisions have made it. Counsel better or decisions
- 22:38Speaker 13: preferable to the government. Lefty Rebecca Matthews points out bad
- 22:42Speaker 13: behavior from others around the council has led to this,
- 22:45Speaker 13: not from her and her allies, quite a few left
- 22:49Speaker 13: leaning counselors trying to see the positives of this labour.
- 22:52Speaker 13: Taking the position that Simeon Brown should release the advice
- 22:55Speaker 13: that led to this decision.
- 22:57Speaker 2: Yeah, I reckon he should too, just in the interest
- 22:59Speaker 2: of trans And see a lot of people saying this
- 23:01Speaker 2: will end in a commissioner, do you I don't think
- 23:03Speaker 2: that's the case. I think they've kind of reverse engineered
- 23:06Speaker 2: this just to do something. What's your take, Max.
- 23:09Speaker 13: Well, it's it's difficult to put an observer in and
- 23:12Speaker 13: the observer come back and say all is well, and
- 23:14Speaker 13: then you don't put a commissioner in. I could see
- 23:16Speaker 13: a commissioner happening to be honest, I reckon.
- 23:19Speaker 2: Well, I mean, we've got a year to the election.
- 23:21Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 23:22Speaker 13: It's not not long, is it.
- 23:23Speaker 1: No?
- 23:24Speaker 13: Anyway, it's a long way back from here.
- 23:26Speaker 2: Yeah it is. How's your weather, Max?
- 23:28Speaker 13: The odd shower this morning, clearing this afternoon, strong northerlyies
- 23:32Speaker 13: later eighteen the high.
- 23:33Speaker 2: Brilliant Thank you Neva's and Aukland this morning. Good morning, Neva,
- 23:36Speaker 2: Good morning.
- 23:36Speaker 10: I'm sitting in a different seat here they come, you know,
- 23:40Speaker 10: afternoon team those new boys met in Tyler.
- 23:43Speaker 2: Someone mentioned there was a new computer which I can't see.
- 23:46Speaker 13: Is this one here?
- 23:47Speaker 2: Everything is?
- 23:49Speaker 10: Yeah, it's different. I don't know whether I like that.
- 23:51Speaker 10: I'm a creature of hebit when it comes to coming
- 23:54Speaker 10: here in the morning.
- 23:55Speaker 2: I mean, these boys shuffle along, the shuffle along.
- 23:57Speaker 10: I've only been here what four minutes?
- 24:00Speaker 2: They have been here for minutes, But they're doing good job.
- 24:02Speaker 2: They are doing a very okay.
- 24:03Speaker 10: Yeah, be nice about them.
- 24:07Speaker 2: Come well. I mean, you know they can't decide where
- 24:09Speaker 2: they said, can they? Surely not unless they're divas.
- 24:12Speaker 7: I don't know.
- 24:13Speaker 2: Hey, the teacher at the North Auckland Primary school who's
- 24:16Speaker 2: been accused of some pretty nasty stuff.
- 24:19Speaker 10: Yes, accused of grooming and sexually assaulting a young child
- 24:21Speaker 10: now facing criminal charges before the court. So the teacher,
- 24:25Speaker 10: who held a senior position, was charged by police last month.
- 24:29Speaker 10: Now police told The Herald the woman in her thirties
- 24:31Speaker 10: has been charged with the decent assault of a boy
- 24:33Speaker 10: under twelve and grooming for sexual conduct with a young person.
- 24:37Speaker 10: The investigation was launched and this is after the matter
- 24:40Speaker 10: was reported to police last month. What we do know
- 24:42Speaker 10: is that the woman has been reminded on bail due
- 24:44Speaker 10: to reappear. This is in the north Shore District Court
- 24:47Speaker 10: on November fifteen. So the names of the teacher obviously
- 24:50Speaker 10: and the school is suppressed.
- 24:51Speaker 2: Okay, how's the weather today.
- 24:53Speaker 10: Cloudy, fine spells developing?
- 24:54Speaker 2: Nineteen is the high brilliant You get to do something
- 24:58Speaker 2: or what to their chair or nice well to break
- 25:01Speaker 2: the chair, break the chair and leave it for them
- 25:03Speaker 2: to clean up. Seventeen away from six news Talk said
- 25:06Speaker 2: Bee coming up next, we're live to the UK with
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- 26:02Speaker 1: In Z International correspondence with insign Eye Insurance Peace of
- 26:07Speaker 1: mind for New Zealand Business.
- 26:09Speaker 2: It's a really interesting update on Andrew Bailey, which we'll
- 26:11Speaker 2: get to in. Just to sicken from one of our
- 26:13Speaker 2: listeners this morning, Devin Gray's in the UK, Gavin. The
- 26:16Speaker 2: UK government releasing eleven hundred more prisoners early because they
- 26:20Speaker 2: went so well last time.
- 26:24Speaker 8: The first ranch was in September. This is the second
- 26:28Speaker 8: one and by it is following also a major review
- 26:33Speaker 8: of sentencing. Why are we doing this well? Because these
- 26:36Speaker 8: one hundred prisoners are just the tip of the iceberg.
- 26:39Speaker 8: We are fast running out of spaces in our prisons,
- 26:42Speaker 8: and this government has said that we have to release
- 26:45Speaker 8: people early or else quite simply, the justice system will
- 26:48Speaker 8: come to a complete hold with nowhere to place prisoners.
- 26:51Speaker 8: So instead of the usual considered for release after fifty
- 26:56Speaker 8: percent of serving our sentence and good behavior, they've reduced
- 26:59Speaker 8: the forty percent. But to be clear, those convicted of
- 27:03Speaker 8: serious violent sex crimes and terrorism are not allowed. However,
- 27:07Speaker 8: you will remember back in September that Ryan somebody was
- 27:11Speaker 8: released and committed a sexual assault allegedly within hours of
- 27:15Speaker 8: having been released, and was put back behind bars within minutes.
- 27:18Speaker 8: And then they realized there weren't enough tags to go around,
- 27:21Speaker 8: electronic tags, and some of those who had been released
- 27:25Speaker 8: shouldn't have been eligible for that early release. So hopefully
- 27:28Speaker 8: they've got things a little more organized this time around.
- 27:31Speaker 8: But yeah, I'm afraid that that capacity or near capacity
- 27:35Speaker 8: of our prisons is a major headache.
- 27:37Speaker 2: The initial toxicology report for Liam Payne foundly head drugs
- 27:41Speaker 2: in his body. I don't think there'll be any great
- 27:42Speaker 2: surprise to hear that, Gevin, but these calls to increase
- 27:46Speaker 2: the protection for musicians. How's that going down?
- 27:52Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean at the moment it's every one's sort
- 27:54Speaker 8: of handbringing. I think there are going to have to
- 27:56Speaker 8: be more definitive things for those who reach fame very
- 28:00Speaker 8: early in life, as he did at the age of sixteen.
- 28:03Speaker 8: But we're going to have to see, you know, exactly
- 28:05Speaker 8: what they were able to implement on this the record companies,
- 28:08Speaker 8: the talent shows themselves. But I'm afraid the initial autopsy,
- 28:13Speaker 8: the initial postmartem examination, has revealed that his body concluded
- 28:19Speaker 8: traces of cocaine, pink cocaine and benzodiazepine. Now pink cocaine,
- 28:25Speaker 8: if you're wondering, is a mix of methamphetamine, ketamine and
- 28:28Speaker 8: MDMA and also pink food coloring. Plenty of people rather suspected,
- 28:34Speaker 8: as you suggested there, that Liam Payne had had some
- 28:39Speaker 8: substance abuse early in the day, and I'm afraid that
- 28:43Speaker 8: does appear to be ringing true in this particular autopsy report.
- 28:48Speaker 2: All right, Devin, thank you very much for that up.
- 28:50Speaker 2: So that great to have you as always. Kevin Gray
- 28:52Speaker 2: at UK Europe correspondent in his team to six Bryan Bridge.
- 28:56Speaker 2: So they're getting an observer This is Wellington City Council.
- 28:59Speaker 2: Following the council's decision to make big changes to its
- 29:02Speaker 2: long term plan and a fail vote to sell a
- 29:04Speaker 2: stake in its airport shares, the Local Government Minister Simon
- 29:07Speaker 2: Brown will appoint a Crown observer to the local Council
- 29:10Speaker 2: following advice from the Department of Internal Affairs. The council
- 29:13Speaker 2: has ten working days to respond. Tony Randall's and Wellington
- 29:16Speaker 2: City Council. He's with us this morning, Tony.
- 29:18Speaker 14: Good morning, good morning, how are you.
- 29:20Speaker 2: I'm very well. Thank you. Any rumors on who this observer.
- 29:23Speaker 14: Might be, well, I own look, just random rumors and
- 29:28Speaker 14: Tolly was the name that was thrown at me, just randomly.
- 29:31Speaker 14: But I've got no reason to think that it was
- 29:34Speaker 14: that it would be her, and I think in fact
- 29:37Speaker 14: it may there may not be anyone at the moment,
- 29:40Speaker 14: because an observer can't be appointed until after we've responded
- 29:44Speaker 14: back to the minister.
- 29:45Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're obviously going to respond favorably.
- 29:50Speaker 14: Yes, oh, yes, that's right. I think I think the
- 29:52Speaker 14: Council accepts the Minister's decision and while we might give
- 29:58Speaker 14: some feedback on attemps of reference, the whole principle of
- 30:01Speaker 14: having a Crown observer is accepted I think by the
- 30:04Speaker 14: majority of the councilors, and we're going to go from here.
- 30:07Speaker 2: Is Wellington going to elect Tory Faro again?
- 30:10Speaker 14: No, that's a big decision. I'm not a fan, but
- 30:17Speaker 14: you know, election times, who knows. I think she's I
- 30:22Speaker 14: think she's had some challenging times and it's you know,
- 30:25Speaker 14: her record isn't necessarily the best record, but also depends
- 30:29Speaker 14: who else stands against her. Of course, the.
- 30:33Speaker 2: Argument that we will go from observer to commissioner I
- 30:36Speaker 2: don't think holds much weight. What's your feeling. I mean,
- 30:39Speaker 2: we've got a year till the election.
- 30:41Speaker 14: I agree, I absolutely agree. I think the threshold for
- 30:44Speaker 14: a commissioner is that we literally have breached the Local
- 30:48Speaker 14: Government Act. We haven't done that yet. And the minister's
- 30:52Speaker 14: outline though that we're obviously having trouble getting our finances
- 30:56Speaker 14: in order, and so he's kindly come along and said
- 31:00Speaker 14: he's going to help us out.
- 31:02Speaker 2: Why are you funding water infrastructure through rates not debt?
- 31:07Speaker 14: Well, that's an interesting claim and I don't I can't
- 31:09Speaker 14: get my head around exactly what he's saying. I do
- 31:13Speaker 14: know though, that we need to cut some of our
- 31:15Speaker 14: projects and that we aren't forty funding all the money
- 31:18Speaker 14: that Wellings and Warter would wind us to fund. Water
- 31:22Speaker 14: is not the top priority and it should be and
- 31:23Speaker 14: we're going to get there. I think through this long
- 31:25Speaker 14: term and amendment.
- 31:27Speaker 2: Tony, thank you very much for being on the show
- 31:28Speaker 2: this morning. Great to have you. Tony Randall. Wee I
- 31:31Speaker 2: told you he was good Wellington City councilor they do exist,
- 31:35Speaker 2: good Wellington City Councilors. Eight minutes away from Sex News talks, ab.
- 31:40Speaker 1: Get ahead of the headlines, Ryan Bridge, you for twenty
- 31:44Speaker 1: twenty four on early edition with Smith City, New Zealand's
- 31:48Speaker 1: furniture bids and a playing store News Talks.
- 31:50Speaker 2: Zi'd be five away from six on news Talks. It'd
- 31:52Speaker 2: be one of our listeners, lovely listeners this morning. Has
- 31:55Speaker 2: said just before ten pm last night, I would have
- 31:57Speaker 2: been fast asleep. Mike's here, Mike, good morning. You would
- 31:59Speaker 2: have been far to sleep in Parliament. Apparently Bailey stood
- 32:03Speaker 2: up to amend his answer to Question Time yesterday. He
- 32:08Speaker 2: thought he was asked a question about being drunk. He says,
- 32:11Speaker 2: actually he did have a drink before he left the
- 32:14Speaker 2: Now this is just from a texture. I haven't confirmed.
- 32:17Speaker 6: We can confirm that because I watched question Time yesterday
- 32:20Speaker 6: and they the Labor Party clearly had something because Hipkins
- 32:24Speaker 6: led off with the questions and you played Arena Williams.
- 32:26Speaker 6: But they clearly have something by way of a beer
- 32:29Speaker 6: garden slash. And then when he stood up yesterday and
- 32:32Speaker 6: said I didn't drink at all, I thought that's fair enough.
- 32:35Speaker 2: That settles out, because you wouldn't mislead the house. And
- 32:39Speaker 2: surely in this day and age, if you're at a
- 32:41Speaker 2: brewery or you're at a winery and you're having a
- 32:43Speaker 2: beer or a wine and you're a minister, you'd expect
- 32:46Speaker 2: someone would get you on a photo or a you know.
- 32:50Speaker 2: So that to me put it to rest.
- 32:52Speaker 6: If he amended that, then you're opening the door again
- 32:54Speaker 6: and they've handled it badly. It shouldn't even be a story.
- 32:57Speaker 6: What he did was stupid and we'll probably never know
- 33:00Speaker 6: what actually unfolded, and it's a shame that we sort
- 33:03Speaker 6: of obsess about these kind of incidents. But at the
- 33:05Speaker 6: moment you start going down the track and was leaving
- 33:07Speaker 6: the house or having to correct what you said, Now.
- 33:08Speaker 2: That's scrubby, grubby, sackable offense.
- 33:11Speaker 6: This morning, David Seymour will celebrate the three dollar lunch
- 33:14Speaker 6: that actually look good. Yeah, I'd been more than happy
- 33:16Speaker 6: to have that for lunch.
- 33:17Speaker 2: And what did you have for lunch growing up? I
- 33:19Speaker 2: mean weird sandwiches. Yes it was cold. And this idea
- 33:23Speaker 2: that can need a hot lunch.
- 33:25Speaker 6: These nutritionists who've come out of nowhere and going, it's
- 33:28Speaker 6: not filling me on anymore. And what are we going
- 33:30Speaker 6: to do?
- 33:30Speaker 2: I mean, wake up board children.
- 33:33Speaker 6: All we ever had at best was a cold sausage
- 33:36Speaker 6: from the late from the left overs, but a breast.
- 33:38Speaker 6: It was lunch and sausage sandwich.
- 33:40Speaker 2: Wasn't it? Lunch and sausage with a bit of tomato sauce.
- 33:42Speaker 6: There we go and were and look at us.
- 33:46Speaker 2: If that's the advertisement they want. It is three away
- 33:49Speaker 2: from six mics next. I'll see you tomorrow. Have a
- 33:51Speaker 2: great day.
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