Top Stories for Thursday 3 November 2022

It's Rapare, Thursday November the 3rd Anei nga kaupapa mo tenei haora.. Top stories this morning... A wildfire burning north of Christchurch has forced the evacuation 130 people from a Woodend campground PRESENTER ONE: * 50 firefighters are at the scene of the blaze which is moving south from Pegasus Beach, burning through tussock grasses and wilding pines In other news, we'll speak to the Reserve Bank Governor who's urging banks to support those facing financial strain as interest rates rise We'll have the latest on the heavy rain on the South Island's West Coast. And we speak to a Dunedin man who's turning his 1983 Toyota Hilux into an EV.