Thursday, April 30, 2015

PRESS DIGEST-New Zealand newspapers - May 1

<span id="midArticle_start"/> May 1 (Reuters) - Following are some of the leadstories from New Zealand metropolitan newspapers on Friday.

<span id="midArticle_0"/>Stories may be taken from either the paper or Interneteditions of the papers.

<span id="midArticle_1"/>Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouchfor their accuracy.

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<span id="midArticle_3"/>DOMINION POST(www.stuff.co.nz)

<span id="midArticle_4"/>New law protecting migrant workers passes in Parliament: Anew law designed to crack down on exploitation of migrantworkers has narrowly passed in Parliament, as the Governmenttakes fire over the handling of a case of Chinese rail engineersin Lower Hutt.

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<span id="midArticle_6"/>Summerset Retirement looking for Wellington CBD site:Retirement village and aged-care operator Summerset wants to build in Wellington CBD.

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<span id="midArticle_8"/>SkyCity Auckland convention centre design delay: The finaldesign of an international convention centre to be built incentral Auckland has been delayed by a month. On Thursday,casino operator SkyCity and Economic DevelopmentMinister Steven Joyce confirmed that the deadline agreed by thetwo sides had been pushed back.

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<span id="midArticle_11"/>NEW ZEALAND HERALD (www.nzherald.co.nz)

<span id="midArticle_12"/>Flag poll message clear: Leave it alone: Support forchanging the flag has dropped with only a quarter of thosepolled in the latest Herald-Digipoll survey wanting a change,compared to 40 per cent a year ago.

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<span id="midArticle_14"/>Mayor's casting vote seals compromise on port company'sextension plans for Bledisloe: Auckland Mayor Len Brown says hehad to use his casting vote for a compromise over the portcompany's wharf extension dispute, in the absence of fivecouncillors.

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<span id="midArticle_0"/>Fonterra move blow to farmers: Fonterra has fallen into linewith market expectations after oversupply and extreme volatilityon world dairy markets prompted the co-operative to once againlower its farmgate milk price forecast for 2014/15.

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<span id="midArticle_2"/>OceanaGold to buy Waihi mine: OceanaGold Corp,which operates the Macraes gold mine in Otago, reported a 58 percent drop in first-quarter profit with sales down from a yearearlier, and announced plans to buy the Waihi Gold Mine forUS$101 million.

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