Checkpoint for Wednesday 24 August 2022
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Night 'n Day pledges to pass on wholesale savings to shoppers
6:08 PM.Convenience store chain Night 'n Day is pledging to pass on to customers any savings it makes through wholesale grocery deals with the two big supermarket chains. The government has announced that… Read more Video, Audio
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Children's remains: Community shock at link to South Korea
5:53 PM.The local Korean community is shocked there is a likely link between the homicide of two children and a migrant from their home country.
The Associated Press is reporting a relative of two children… Read more Audio
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Student with debilitating Long Covid losing months off school
5:48 PM.Children and teenagers battling Long Covid are having to take months off school with debilitating symptoms.
More than 1.7 million New Zealanders have contracted the virus since the pandemic began… Read more Video, Audio
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Nearly half of Māori rangatahi in state care have gone to prison
5:43 PM.A third of children who were placed in state care have ended up serving a prison sentence.
For Māori, it's nearly half. The data comes from research tabled before the Royal Commission into Abuse in… Read more Audio
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Consumer Affairs Minister on wholesale access for small stores
5:35 PM.Consumer Affairs Minister David Clark has announced a new rule in the grocery sector that will see the supermarket duopoly forced to sell groceries to their competitors at set prices and terms if they… Read more Video, Audio
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Evening business for 24 August 2022
5:32 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6311323787112 Video, Audio
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Weather: Disruptions across Marlborough as roads closed
5:29 PM.Major disruptions across the top of Te Waipounamu, as the state highways connecting Blenheim and Nelson remain firmly shut.
The commute is now taking eight hours - with a diversion through… Read more Video, Audio
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Sharma hijacks Speaker's welcome but Rurawhe sits him down
5:26 PM.Independent MP Gaurav Sharma hijacked the election of Parliament's new Speaker to level fresh allegations against Trevor Mallard.
Allegations the outgoing Speaker rejects. Here's our political… Read more Video, Audio
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David Seymour discusses departing Speaker Trevor Mallard
5:22 PM.Adrian Rurawhe has stepped up as Parliament's new Speaker, as former Speaker Trevor Mallard officially ended his tenure on Wednesday afternoon.
Mallard, a Speaker with a controversial reputation… Read more Video, Audio
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Ruapehu skifields hit by warm, wet winter, 130 staff lose jobs
5:16 PM.One of the warmest wettest winters on record has put the skids on Mt Ruapehu's ski season, and cost 130 workers their jobs.
That's a third of the staff working on the mountain's two main ski fields… Read more Video, Audio
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Govt may force supermarkets to give competitors better wholesale deal
5:12 PM.Supermarkets could be forced by the government to sell products to competitors at fixed prices, if they don't do it themselves.
The government has told the major players to open up their wholesale… Read more Audio
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Only five Auckland stores get govt-funded security upgrades
5:07 PM.Just five stores across Tāmaki Makaurau have received security upgrades as part of a $6 million support fund announced by the government.
The prevention programme was announced by then-Police… Read more Video, Audio
