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		<title><![CDATA[Dead man's next of kin sought (Newstalk ZB)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police are wanting the public's help to identify James Michael McCarthy's next of kin.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[PM denies inconsistency over GST (Newstalk ZB)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Prime Minister has stood firm as he faced a barrage of questions over telling the media in 2008 that National would not raise GST.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Billboard asks for help to track down cabbie's killer (NZPA)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A six-metre colour billboard seeking help to track down a killer is going up in a busy downtown Auckland street in what police say is a first in city crime-fighting history.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Man awarded $15,000 after redundancy (NZPA)]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:30:21 +1100</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Police ask for help to find dead man's relatives (NZPA)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The body of a man who died from natural causes last week is lying unclaimed in a hospital morgue because authorities have been unable to track down any relatives.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[PM defends 2008 GST comments (NZPA)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister John Key is defending his 2008 comment that he would not raise GST.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Harawira sheepish over gaffe on second day back (NZPA)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maverick Maori Party MP Hone Harawira has managed to make a gaffe on his second day back in Parliament since November, when he took enforced leave over a racially offensive email.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:19:22 +1100</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Government to act on taxi safety (NZPA)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The head of the company which slain taxi driver Hiren Mohini worked for says the time has come for compulsory safety features in cabs.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:10:12 +1100</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Crayfish games closed down in Auckland (NZPA)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Auckland SPCA has closed down an arcade game involving live crayfish at three pubs across the city.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:09:22 +1100</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Store justified in dismissing worker who bought stolen bass (NZPA)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Christchurch secondhand store worker fired for purchasing a stolen bass guitar was not unjustifiably dismissed, the Employment Relations Authority has found.]]></description>
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