Morning Report

Students at an Auckland secondary school are rediscovering the joy of card games, lunch time sport and the simple art of conversation thanks to a total ban on phones during the school day.

Glendowie College is one of the latest schools to restrict student use of phones because of concern young people are spending too much time on their devices instead of interacting with one another.

What do the school students think of this?

John Gerritsen went along to the school to find out.

A new report has found if Wellington doesn't improve the region's infrastructure, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake could cost New Zealand more than $16 billion in lost economic activity and cause years of disruption.

The city needs a $5 billion infrastructure upgrade to order to protect New Zealand's economy in the event of "the big one".

Former mayor Dame Fran Wilde is the chairwoman of the Wellington Lifelines Group which carried out the research.

Tens of thousands of gun owners' private information was briefly made available to 66 gun dealers.

Police Deputy Commissioner Mike Clement speaks to Philippa Tolley.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she backs her minister Stuart Nash, despite opposition MPs calling for him to resign over a data breach involving the gun buyback.

Ms Ardern told Morning Report the data breach was the fault of a private company, not the government.

"There is absolutely no reason why the Police Minister needs to take any responsibility for this."

Samoa's government will shut down on Thursday and Friday this week so almost all public sector workers can help with the country's mass measles vaccination campaign.

All government branches will close except the water and electricity authorities.

Yesterday the government expanded the ages of those eligible for vaccinations for people aged six months to 60 years old.

The prime minister now want to make compulsory measles vaccinations permanent, with punishments for those who don't comply.

Logan Church reports from Samoa.

Police have admitted up to 66 gun dealers had access to the names, phone numbers, addresses and bank details of over 30,000 firearms owners due to an error in the way the gun buyback registry was administered by an external software company.

But they say only one of those 66 dealers went onto the registry and saw the private information - and notified police as soon as they were aware of the mistake.

Police Minister Stuart Nash said the breach was NOT a hack and he had a warning for anyone else who accessed the information.

The Council of Licenced Firearm Owners - or COLFO - say that some of their members saw the data error too.

COLFO's secretary Nicole McKee speaks to Philippa Tolley.

Defective concrete surrounding the country's deepest basement is delaying construction of the tallest tower-block in Auckland.

It appears no independent investigation has been done into the severity of the voids and contamination in the massive concrete walls.

Phil Pennington is looking into this.

The England cricket captain Joe Root believes the tourists still have a chance of a good result in the second Test against New Zealand in Hamilton.

News from the business sector, including a market report.

Integrated schools are accusing the government of breaking promises over funding.

The schools have been excluded from a $400 million property maintenance scheme.

The 330 mostly church-owned schools will miss out on payments ranging from $50,000 to $400,000. They argue this is in breach of their agreements with the government.

Paul Ferris is chief executive of the Association of Proprietors of Integrated Schools.