Midday Report Essentials for 21 May 2024

On today's episode, a New Zealand government plane will head to New Caledonia to evacuate the first 50 people from the territory, National MP David MacLeod has been stood down because he didn't declare 19 candidate donations to the Electoral Commission, which he says was an inadvertent error, The Bay of Plenty Regional Council has activated its Flood Room in response to rising levels of the Ngongotaha River near Rotorua, TradeMe's latest rental price index shows the Bay of Plenty has overtaken Auckland again as the most expensive region to rent, and Environment Southland are stoked to have found no mice on Stewart Island Rakiura but in their search it's captured almost 30 rats.