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First Up for Wednesday 21 August 2019

  • Previous Episode: Tuesday, 20 August 2019
  • Next Episode: Thursday, 22 August 2019
  • AA recommends premium price be advertised on petrol boards

    transport economy
    Fuel pump.

    7:15 AM.Fuel retailers are being pushed to advertise premium fuel on the big advertising boards to broaden price competition. The Commerce Commission has found the retail fuel sector is not as competitive as… Read more Audio

  • Regulating Fuel Prices would be 'a step too far' - Gull GM

    transport economy
    Ātiamuri Gull Station on State Highway 1.

    5:54 AM.Gull's General Manager Dave Bodger said Regulating Fuel Prices would be 'a step too far'. Audio

  • New Zealand on brink of losing its measle-free status

    health
    An illustratioj of the highly contagious measles virus.

    5:46 AM.A vaccine expert says the government needs to act now to stop New Zealand losing its measles-free status. According to the World Health Organisation New Zealand eliminated measles in 2017. That status… Read more Audio

  • A 500 year-old tradition gets a new lease of life in Nelson

    business arts
    Renee Hadlow Nelson printing press

    5:40 AM.The old printing presses from the former Nelson Evening Mail, and others even older, have whirred back into life. The Armarie Room, which operates from Nelson's heritage park, Founders, is using the… Read more Audio

  • Business Byte:Fuel Prices-Commission may have to look elsewhere

    business
    Fuel pump.

    5:36 AM.Let's go to business now where every morning we answer one of your questions. The Commerce Commission's investigation into the fuel sector has found it isn't as competitive as it could be ... so does… Read more Audio

  • Council launches fund to help with controlling stray cats

    Stray cat

    5:14 AM.The days of stray cats roaming free and causing havoc in Hamilton are numbered with the launch of a 100-thousand dollar fund to desex and rehome them. Organisations that can show proof of a cat… Read more Audio

  • Ngawha prisoners treated "like animals that belong in a zoo"

    inequality
    Prison jail cells bars incarceration generic

    5:10 AM.A justice reformer is horrified to find prisoners at Northland's Ngawha prison are being treated like zoo animals. The Chief Ombudsman, Peter Boshier, says in a surprise inspection of the prison in… Read more Audio

  • Previous Episode: Tuesday, 20 August 2019
  • Next Episode: Thursday, 22 August 2019
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