Checkpoint. 1994-11-17

AUDIT: Almost 157-thousand dollars of personal debt was run up by the former Auditor General Jeff Chapman in his two-year tenure in the job. Kathryn Street
POST: The Government has announced that it's going ahead with deregulation of the postal system as of next July. Bronwen Evans
WINEBOX: The Serious Fraud Office has begun giving its evidence before the Commission of Enquiry into Cook Islands tax matters. Martin Gibson
HEADS:
TODAY IN AUSTRALIA:
ANGOLA: A New Zealand Aid worker in Angola has been evacuated from what everybody hopes will be the last major conflict of the country's 19 year old civil war. Jonathan Schwass i/v Angela Kearney
ACC: Our ACC laws have come in for more damning criticism today with a member of an independent team which reviewed the controversial 1992 changes, saying she doesn't believe the government will improve the scheme. Mary Wilson
SPORTS:
NEWS:
HOUSING: 10-thousand state house tenants will no longer be able to afford to stay in their existing homes, when the Government moves to charge them market rents from July next year. Peter Fowler
MCCULLY LIVER:
[illegible]/SWAIN: On the line now is the Labour opposition spokesman on Housing, Paul Swain
BRIERLEY'S: One of the country largest public companies has been holding its annual general meeting this afternoon...in glare unusually intense media interest. David Hargreaves
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ILO: A Victoria University law expert says the International Labour organisation has yet to declare a winner in the battle over the employment contracts act. Mark Torley
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