6.30 NEWS AND TOP HALF 23/09/1985

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1985
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Rights Information
Year
1985
Reference
F87257
Media type
Moving image
Item unavailable online
Series
6:30 NEWS
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Television
Duration
0:51:13
Production company
Television New Zealand

News, sport and weather.
Main stories:

ANZUS dispute: interview with Prime Minister Lange. (first part of story truncated)

Live sheep exports. Freezing Workers Union puts its case against it to the Government. The National Director of the SPCA, Neils Wells says he suspects New Zealand has been asked to supply live sheep to the Middle East because the practice is likely to be phased out in Australia. He cites an Australian Senate committee report opposes the trade on animal welfare grounds.

Farm leaders say their industry is being pushed to the wall. Farmers in the United states share many of the problems faced by NZ farmers including high interest rates and falling incomes. To help them out more than $11 million dollars has been raised by a “Farm Aid” concert organised by country singer Willie Nelson.

Wage talks still in progress: Electrical Contractors asking for a 24% increase.
NZ’s 17 ports were closed today because of a 48 hour waterside workers strike. The wharfies are protesting about what they perceive are concerted attacks on them by employers who want to make changes for efficiency. Compounding the problem of shipping queue in Auckland is a dispute by tug masters and mates with the Harbour Board over a new roster.

A warning has been issued about the safety of 10 models of GOLDAIR heaters.

Soaring interest rates causing house owners to trade down. Interest rates have gone from 11 to 22 % in the last few months.

The Prime Minister is to move from Vogel House to a flat in Hill Street. Vogel House will be kept for official entertaining and overseas guests.

The Police Association has called for more enquiries into the Dunedin sex ring scandal.
Finance Ministers from the five major industrial countries have agreed they may have to force down the value of the US dollar.

Top Half
Puzzled, embarrassed or ashamed. The reaction of French people in New Zealand to their Government’s Rainbow Warrior affair interview with French people living here and also the French Trade Commissioner in Auckland Michel Content.Meanwhile an alleged French overstayer jailed in Mt Crawford Prison has gone on a hunger strike.

Crash fireman at Auckland angry that they have been advised they could wade out to crashed aircraft in a dispute over a scrapped rescue hovercraft.