Checkpoint. 1989-05-18.

LANGE/DOUGLAS: No firm date has yet been set for the second meeting between the Prime Minister and his estranged former Finance Minister Roger Doublas [i.e. Douglas], they had been expected to meet today but it now seems likely it'll be sometime next week.
Report by Patricia Herbert
David Lange, (Press Conf)
Trevor de Cleene, MP
Jim Anderton, MP
CLOTHING INDUSTRY: There's a rapidly increasing chance that the clothes you buy in New Zealand shops will have been made in Fiji. In the first three months of this year, we bought some 600,000 items of clothing from Fiji ... that's up from just 30,000 items at the same time last year.
Report by Jonathan Schwass
Frank Thorne, Secretary, Clothing Workers Union
David Butcher, Minister of Commerce
Murray Ray, Vice-President, Textile & Garment Manf Fedn
Berenando Vunibombo, Fijian Min of Trade & Industry
EDUCATION/ROYAL SOCIETY: The new arrangements for the control of education have led to the development of new techniques to influence the course of education.
Report by Colin Feslier
Sue Usher, Royal Society, NZ's National Academy of Science