Welcome to Midday Report essentials In today's episode: Monster waves hit Wellington's south coast - 350 homes evacuated, flights and ferries cancelled, and a plane has blown over at Welly airport. Field Correspondent Charlotte Cook joined us. The government is barrelling ahead with plans to build an LNG terminal but has gassed moves to get consumers to pay for it with a levy - Labour is crying foul. so what are they propsoing we do in a dry year? We spoke to Megan Woods. Finally, a last call for telephone booths? A stand off with the Auckland Council threatens Spark's moves to modernise the trusty telephone booth. The telco joined me to put forward its case.