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Checkpoint for Tuesday 19 February 2019
- Checkpoint for Tuesday, February 19 2019
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Second species of fruit fly found in Auckland
5:09 PM.A second species of fruit fly has been found in a surveillance trap in the Auckland suburb of Otara. Checkpoint reporter Alex Perrottet is inside the red zone and joins us live on camera. Video, Audio
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Malcolm Rewa: Susan Burdett was my friend
5:13 PM.Serial rapist Malcolm Rewa took the stand for the first time in his third murder trial today, telling the jury Susan Burdett was his friend and he had nothing to do with her death. Video, Audio
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Otago uni students to be able to test illegal drugs
5:18 PM.Otago University students will be able to get their illegal drugs tested during Orientation week in a bid to reduce overdoses and harm from rogue concoctions. Lisa Owen asked the students'… Read more Video, Audio
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Christchurch rest home residents under threat of eviction
5:25 PM.Merivale Retirement Village residents have been told there aren't enough beds for all of them in a new home that's being built, and some are going to have to move out. The reason? It seems not as many… Read more Video, Audio
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Horse dies after being stabbed 41 times
5:29 PM.A miniature horse has died after being stabbed more than 40 times in what SPCA describes as a frenzy attack. SPCA chief executive Andrea Midgen says it's one of the worst cases of animal cruelty she… Read more Audio
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Evening business for 19 February 2019
5:35 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
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Cremation costs swell: Paying more for weighing more
5:38 PM.It may soon cost an extra $200 to cremate an oversize person in Hawke's Bay, if the council approves the move. But charging more to cremate "oversized" caskets is inevitable throughout the country, a… Read more Audio
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Nelson-Tasman struggling with driest weather in decades
5:41 PM.Nelson-Tasman is struggling with its driest weather in decades, with Golden Bay now in a one-in-20-year drought. The district's already ailing farmers and growers are in some areas operating on about… Read more Audio
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Eels found dead, dumped on Hawke’s Bay river bank
5:46 PM.Authorities are investigating the death of possibly hundreds of native eels, dumped on a river bank in Hawke's Bay. During the Hawke's Bay Regional Council's routine flood control work, diggers… Read more Video, Audio
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Sallies takes on mobile traders with the Good Shop
5:54 PM.The Salvation Army is launching its own ethical truck shop in a bid to stamp out some of the harm that's being done by mobile traders in some of the country's most deprived neighbourhoods. Video, Audio
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Capital Gains Tax would drive NZers to Aus – National
6:08 PM.The Opposition has already started to launch pre-emptive attacks about a potential capital gains tax, two days before the Tax Working Group reveals its final recommendations. Audio
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Tasman homeowners wonder who will pay for fire-damage
6:13 PM.Tasman mayor Richard Kempthorne says landowners returning to their fire-damaged properties want to know who is going to pay to repair them, but the $320,000 in the mayoral relief fund won't be enough.
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Wellington Town Hall repair bill swells to $112m
6:20 PM.The cost of earthquake strengthening the Wellington Town Hall has ballooned by more than $20 million. Next week councillors will be asked to approve more funding for the project. Audio
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Kunekune pigs in the market for a new home
6:23 PM.Two Kunekune pigs are in the market for a new home after they were found wandering along a New Plymouth street a month ago. Video, Audio