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Wednesday, 18 May 2011
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Big seizure of rare drug startles Customs
18 May 2011Customs has seized a huge amount of a rare drug they say is a dangerous, Class A hallucinogen. They found 18 kilograms of the drug DMT or dimethyltryptamine at a house in Blenheim. Audio
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Checkpoint Top Stories for Wednesday 18 May 2011
18 May 2011Big seizure of rare drug startles Customs, Telstra Clear says changes may not stop anti-competitiveness, Lure of All Black jersey too strong for Carter, Southern farmers unite to target poachers… Read more Audio
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
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Fight for a Bay of Plenty school goes to Parliament
17 May 2011Three hundred people gathered at Parliament today, to fight for the future of an eastern Bay of Plenty school. Audio
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Alarming increase in effluent breaches in Southland
17 May 2011Almost half of the Southland dairy farms inspected by the regional council during the past two weeks are in serious breach of managing their polluting effluent. Audio
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A new push to sell Soho Square in Auckland
17 May 2011A new push has begun to try to finally sell one of the biggest and most vexatious holes in the ground in Auckland. Audio
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First full look at how quake has hit waterways
17 May 2011Sewage and trade waste continue pouring into Christchurch's rivers and estuary, and the actual scale of the pollution could soon be known. Audio
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Payback may force industry trainers to close
17 May 2011Training agencies for on the job workers are having to pay back millions of dollars, and that may force some of them to shut down. Audio
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Evening Business for 17 May 2011
17 May 2011The utilities investor Infratil has lifted its profit by a quarter. The company made a profit of 120 million dollars in the year to the end of March, an increase of 26 percent on the previous year. Audio
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Latest moves to extradite Fiji's top ranking military fugative
17 May 2011Our correspondent Philippa Tolley is with us from Suva. Audio
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NZ will continue its hands-off approach towards Fiji and Tonga
17 May 2011The New Zealand Government is staying out of the dispute between Fiji and Tonga, a position which has broad political support. Audio
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Checkpoint is RNZ's drive-time news and current affairs programme, tackling the national and international stories of the day.
The show airs weekdays fro4-6pm and is hosted by Lisa Owen.
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