Midday Report for Thursday 1 March 2012

12:35 PM.News from the rural and farming sectors. Audio

12:26 PM.The All Blacks winger Zac Guildford is set to play his first match since being banned after a drinking binge in November. Audio

12:17 PM.New Zealand's terms of trade fall further, despite record export volumes. The European Central Bank provides a further 530 billion euros of low interest loans to banks and the sharemarket is flat. Audio

12:00 PM.Workers from the country's largest rest-home chain take industrial action and assessing damaged council buildings in Christchurch could take two years, and cost up to 7 million dollars. Audio