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Podcast: The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Episode: Mike's Minute: The issue we have in rural New Zealand
Description: Is Origin Air and Westport part of a wider regional issue in rural New Zealand? Origin's Westport to Wellington flight is in jeopardy. It's not the first small airline in the first small town to face this trouble. In fact, as a result of this trouble, the Government set up the Regional Infrastructure Fund for essential air services. I suppose the key is the word "essential" – is Westport to Wellington essential? The fund, it is suggested, is going to turn the airline down. Why? I don’t know. So we seem t...