Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 August 1994Vol. 64 No. 8

Auckland radio drops

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New Zealand

Auckland radio drops vernacular news

AUCKLAND’S National Radio has dropped its news in Pacific island languages. This is despite Pacific island leaders approaching the radio station. Sharon Crosbie, the station’s general manager, feels there is no more need for the service as a number of other radio stations in Auckland now broadcast news in the Polynesian languages.

National Radio say they will instead increase its coverage of Pacific island news in English and plan to recruit three more Pacific Island Affairs reporters.

Trust holds calendar

contest for schools

THE Pacific Island Business Development Trust recently ran a competition for a calendar design for New Zealand schools and technical institutes. Nineteen-year-old Rebecca Winstone of Auckland beat 240 entrants to win the contest for a calendar design with a Pacific island flavour. The calendar will be available soon.

Winstone won NZ$1000 plus $250 worth of Pacific island books. A graphic design student at the Auckland Institute of Technology, Winstone also won NZ$1250 worth of books to help with her studies.

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