Doone Decision – Timberland’s Action Maori Pledge – Doone Decision – Japan Trade – America’s Cup – United Threat –
Chechnya – Time-Warner Merger – Immigration Investigation – Rural Action – Bank Heist - Landslip – Oil Spill
DOONE DECISION: The government has reached an agreement with Police Commissioner Ptere Doone over his future with a
decision to be announced early this afternoon.
-TIMBERLANDS ACTION: Legal Action over government plan to end logging on the West Coast has begun with companies
contracted into relations with SOE Timberlands annoucing they will sue.
-MAORI PLEDGE: Education Groups are welcoming Prime Minister Helen Clark’s announcement that she will head a new
committee to address the social and economic gaps between Maori and Pakeha.
-JAPAN TRADE: The Exporters Institute says New Zealand’s opposition to scientific whaling will not affect NZ’s $2.8
billion annual trade with Japan.
-AMERICAS CUP: The first race in the finals of the Louis Vuitton Cup been postphoned because of poor weather conditions.
-UNITED THREAT: The Papakura District Water Supplier United Water has threatened users with disconnection unless
consumers pay their waste-water charges.
-CHECHNYA: There are growing doubts are on the accuracy of official Russian casualty numbers in Chechnya which an
independent television station says could be ten times higher than reported.
-TIME-WARNER MERGER - There is disagreement over whether US Time Warner’s Music Division’s merger with British Company
EMI could spell the end of CDs to internet based music technology.
-IMMIGRATION INVESTIGATION: Ministry of Immigration is investigating a firm Manukau Legal Services who may have been
giving illegal advice to people seeking citizenship.
-RURAL ACTION: Rural Action New Zealand says it will protest against a power company moving from the West Coast.
-BANK HEIST: Auckland Police says more than $100,000 has been taken in a spate of bank robberies which may have been
committed by the same gang.
-LANDSLIP: A family evacuated from their holiday home on the West Coast after a landslip made the premises unsafe are
awaiting their return. 70mm of rain fell in two hours yesterday.
-OIL SPILL: Brazil has imported thousands of bouys to contain a leak of over 1.2 million litres of oil in Rio’s harbour.