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Five O'clock Report for Wednesday 3 January 2018

  • Large fire at base of Mount Roy, Wanaka

    5:07 PM.Firefighters are working to contain a large fire at the base of Mount Roy in Wanaka. Crews were called to Wanaka-Mount Aspiring Road just before 3 o'clock. Audio

  • Scrub fire at Rolleston

    5:11 PM.A train is being blamed as the cause of a scrub fire in Canterbury this afternoon. Emergency services were called to a lifestyle block on Tresillian Drive, near Rolleston, about one o'clock this… Read more Audio

  • US and Iran in a war of words

    5:14 PM.Iran's Supreme Leader, the Aya-tollah Ali Khamenei is blaming the country's "enemies" including the United States for growing street protests and clashes with police that have claimed more than 20… Read more Audio

  • Police on brawl outside South Auckland pool

    5:18 PM.Footage has emerged of a brutal brawl outside Massey Park Aquatic Centre in the south Auckland suburb of Papakura. The video, taken yesterday, shows two men walking away from the pool's entrance… Read more Audio

  • Hundreds of kina poached near Gisborne

    5:21 PM.The Ministry for Primary Industries has caught 16 people poaching sea food from a marine reserve north of Gisborne. The poachers took 55 crayfish and 621 kina from the Te Tapuwae o Rongokako Marine… Read more Audio

  • Dairy prices on the rise

    5:24 PM.The dairy sector is breathing a sigh of relief after global dairy prices rose for the first auction of the year. The average price rose by over two percent to three-thousand-124 US dollars a tonne… Read more Audio

  • Leopard seal chills in Auckland

    5:28 PM.An Antarctic leopard seal has taken to basking in the sun at an Auckland boat club. The female seal, known as Owha, was first spotted in New Zealand six years ago near Dunedin. In the past year she… Read more Audio