PRIMARY: Primary School teachers say strike action is now inevitable following the Governments rejection of a pay deal. Peter Fowler
ALF KIRK PRE RECORD: The man on the government's side of the negotiating tape is Alf Kirk of the State Services Commission.
THOMAS DEPS. It's been the second day today of preliminary hearing into the Thomas double murder...48 year old Wellingtonian John Barlow is charged with murdering the father and son business partners in their central city office in February. Merle Nowland
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BOSNIA: The Bosnian peace plan led by former US President Jimmy Carter appears to be in tatters following descrepancies over the interpretation of an agreement to end hostilities in the region. Debra Harrington
WADDLE LIVER: The New Zealand cricket team earlier today completed one of its most disastrous one-day competitions, with a five-wicket loss to Pakistan. Bryan Waddle
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FISCAL: Record quantities of tax have been flooding into Government coffers...swelling the current year's surplus by over a billion dollars. Bronwen Evans
FISCAL LIVE: The fiscal update has been greeted with a yawn by the [illegible]...they expected the surplus to be about this level.
BIG TRUCKS: As we've heard in the news today there's a push to get bigger and heavier trucks onto our roads. Mary Wilson
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WINEBOX II: Brierley Investments and European Pacific told the Appeal Court today that the Commission of Inquiry into Cook Islands tax matters is putting the principle of taxpayer confidentiality at risk for no good reason. Martin Gibson
POLICE EXAM: The police administration and the police union have been meeting this afternoon to discuss the fact that very few sergeants pass a promotion exam which tests their legal knowledge. Karlum Lattimore
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