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• 1.新西兰英语 292 Official Cash Rate Rise
• The governor of the Reserve Bank, Alan Bollard, increased the official cash rate (OCR) from 2.5% to 2.75%. This is the first rise in three years. Duri...
• 2.新西兰英语 291 Queen’s Birthday Honours
• Today, we learnt that one woman is now a Dame and six men are Sir. Many other people will receive medals for community work. The award is not given fo...
• 3.新西兰英语 290 A new New Zealand bank
• Three finance companies are planning to merge to become a bank. At the moment, there is no name for this bank. The three finance companies are the Can...
• 4.新西兰英语 289 Samoan Language Week
• Talofa This week is Samoan Language Week. We need to remember that Samoan is the third most common language in New Zealand, after English and Maori. A...
• 5.新西兰英语 288 50 YEARS OF TELEVISION
• 50 years ago this week, television was introduced to New Zealand. Then there was only one channel available, in black and white, and New Zealanders wi...
• 6.新西兰英语 287 Dairy Farmers feel hopeful
• Fonterra said today that the 11,000 dairy farmers in their co-operative will receive an opening price of $6.60 a kg of milk solids for the 2010 / 2011...
• 7.新西兰英语 286 Duck Shooting
• From the first weekend in May until July, hunters in New Zealand are allowed to shoot ducks for sport. This is called the duck shooting season. Hunter...
• 8.新西兰英语 285 The drug P
• A customs officer found the drug P (methamphetamine) in a tourists luggage last week at Auckland airport. Other members of the tour party were searche...
• 9.新西兰英语 284 The Budget
• Listen first to yesterdays podcast, What is the Budget? There were only a few surprises in todays Budget. One was about tax cuts. All workers, the ric...
• 10.新西兰英语 283 What is the Budget?
• Tomorrow afternoon, the Minister of Finance, Bill English, will read the Budget in Parliament. The Budget tells us how much money the government expec...