Top Of The Morning News Digest

Thursday, 2 July 2015, 12:21 pm
Press Release: NewsRoom_Plus

Top Of The Morning News Digest

* NewsRoom_Digest from 1 July 2015 available at Eveningreport.nz - see http://info.scoop.co.nz/EveningReport.nz

* RNZ 7am - Top 5 items for 2 July 2015

1. A person has been stabbed to death and another four have been injured in the Wellington suburb of Johnsonville at an incident yesterday evening.

2. Prices in the overnight GlobalDairyTrade auction dropped again, this time by 6% overall, for the eighth consecutive time. The rate of the fall came as a surprise to analysts.

3. The Nelson 19-year-old who received medicinal marijuana as a one-off treatment at Wellington Hospital while locked in an induced coma has died. He was in an acute, prolonged epileptic seizure.

4. New research from Lincoln University shows farmers have been making huge profits by selling land they bought through the tenure review process. Tenure review was introduced 23 years ago to allow farmers to buy high country land they had leased from the Crown and to allow some of it to become conservation land. The research shows that in the past 20 years land sold by the Crown for $11 million has been on-sold for $300 million, with subdivided properties near the Southern lakes fetching the highest prices.

5. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says Sunday’s referendum will go ahead and he’s calling on voters to reject the constraints demanded by the country’s creditors. He says a ‘No’ vote will send a clear message that austerity has to stop.

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