Midday Report Essentials for Tuesday 4 March 2025

In today's episode, the new lunch in schools programme has been riddled with problems, with delayed and poor quality meals, wastage - and most recently MPI investigations into halal meals and melted plastic packaging, a Wellington city councillor is calling for legal action against Wellington Water after a damming investigation into the company, and a father and son have made the discovery of a lifetime - an ancient ocean-voyaging waka on Rekohu/Chatham Islands.