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State servants to get 8% advance on pay increases negotiated during the wage round.
Share prices fall due to worries about the state of the economy.
Labour Party conference: The Government got support for most of its policies.
Deputy PM invites Americans to send a warship to NZ.
Opposition Leader denies National Party asked Americans to fund election campaign.
Two men fall seven metres from Queenstown gondola. The two men were fooling around when the accident happened.
The PM has accused France of harbouring fugitives wanted for the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.
Navy denies suggestions that the frigate Canterbury is going to join protest fleet to Mururoa .
South Canterbury valley to be declared a drought area.
South Africa has frozen foreign debt repayments for four months. The Finance Minister says his country’s financial crisis is due to foreign banks refusal to renew a large volume of existing loans, normally and automatic procedure.
Meanwhile three Common Market ministers returning from a fact finding visit to South Africa recommending there should be no sanctions against that country if the government opens discussions with Black leaders.
Black mourners in the South African city of East London stabbed and burned to death two white people.
Police in Los Angeles say they have taken into custody the killer known as the “night stalker” wanted for 16 murders and 20 rapes and other crimes.
Quarter of a million flee Florida coast in wake of hurricane.
Two American astronauts complete spacewalk from the shuttle “Discovery”. The astronauts have completed repairs to a faulty military communications satellite. They as launched another satellite.
Auckland commuters cope well with ARA bus stoppage.
Traffic officers say the increased open road limit has increased the average driving speed only one km an hour since its introduction a month ago.
Writs alleging libel amounting to $400,000 have been filed against Hauraki MP Graham Lee by the publisher of gay magazine OUT.
Free vaccination of hepatitis B now available to new born babies whose mothers are carriers of the disease.
The country’s first ever health board got under away today in Whangarei.
The wreck of the Titanic may have been found.
104 year old woman returns from visit from London.
A couple in Soviet Union celebrate 100 year anniversary.