Morning Report for Tuesday 29 November 2016

6:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:00 AM.Dunedin school investigated over use of seclusion room, SH1 south from Kaikoura could be cleared of slips in fortnight, Brother of drowned man might have been on Francie, Marine Association decries… Read more Audio

6:15 AM.The Government is being told to keep a close eye on quake-affected small Wellington businesses to ensure they are getting the help they need to stay afloat. The business quake relief package has now… Read more Audio

6:20 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

6:38 AM.Walter Marsters says he often went fishing with his brother Fred but didn't get the call asking him to join the weekend's ill-fated Kaipara trip. Fred Marsters was among the eight who drowned when the… Read more Audio

6:41 AM.Taupo fire station manager John Gradwell says crews had no chance of saving a timber processing plant which went up in flames last night. Audio

6:49 AM.Non-tariff measures and sneaky trade barriers are costing New Zealand as much as six billion dollars a year in lost revenue and extra costs, according to a think tank. Audio

6:52 AM.Shares in the listed medical software developer, Orion Health, were hammered 18 percent to a lifetime low yesterday despite it reporting a reduced first half loss and forecasting a maiden profit in… Read more Audio

6:54 AM.Pharmacy and healthcare operator Green Cross has reported a 26 percent rise in its first half profit on growth in all parts of its business. Audio

6:54 AM.Legal and banking experts are looking to devise a framework to regulate the game-changing technology behind Bitcoin and some 300 other cryptocurrencies. Audio

6:58 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

7:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

7:23 AM.The maritime industry body says it warned in the 1990s that changes to safety laws allowing a wider range of ships to cross harbour bars would lead to a disaster. Audio

7:38 AM.Andrew Little says the Government is happy with the booming property market because it gives people a false belief they're getting rich. He says Labour will not let foreigners buy existing homes and… Read more Audio

7:47 AM.Kaikoura farmer Mary Shanahan says residents desperately need more people to come to the town to help with the earthquake cleanup. She says locals are running out of energy. Audio

7:50 AM.Donald Trump says he would have got more votes overall than presidential rival Hillary Clinton were it not for electoral fraud. Our correspondent in Washington, Simon Marks, says the claim is very… Read more Audio

7:57 AM.Thirty McLaren supercars are boarding a Cook Strait ferry as drivers from around the world make a tour of the homeland of company founder, Bruce McLaren. Audio

8:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

8:11 AM.We take the pulse of what Mt Roskill voters are considering before they vote in the by-election this weekend. Audio

8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

8:38 AM.An alliance between the Maori and Mana Parties could mean the end for Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox if she doesn't win her seat. Audio

8:43 AM.Kaikoura's mayor Winston Gray says he's treating contractor predictions that State Highway 1 south of the town could reopen within a fortnight with caution. And he says anyone wanting to help with the… Read more Audio

8:47 AM.The ever growing number of boaties competing for space along the coast of the Abel Tasman National Park might have to be limited by the Tasman District Council. It is now reviewing its moorings plan… Read more Audio

8:51 AM.A Horowhenua woman planning to attend a protest next week in Levin has complained to the police watchdog about what she says was an intimidating phone call from a police officer. Audio

8:55 AM.Matt Fisher from Southern Cryonics lays out their plans to to begin freezing and storing dead bodies in a new facility in New South Wales. In the expectation that, in the future, science will have… Read more Audio