Side one.
0700
00:00:40 NEWS with Peter Fry
00:05:37 WEATHER
0706 NEWS with Geoff Robinson and Fred Cockram
00:05:54 AMNESTY – about 400 members of Auckland Tongan community attended a meeting last night in an attempt to clear up the confusion surrounding the overstayers amnesty. Claire Watson reporting from Auckland.
0708
00:07:31 STRIKE – a 3-week strike by maintenance electricians in the Auckland region is starting to pitch. Employers now have laid off more than a thousand workers for whom there is no work as factory equipment stands idle. Henry Grant reporting from Auckland.
0711
00:10:43 SEARCH – within the past few days, New Zealand mountains have again exacted a toll in lives and this time overseas visitors have been the victims as they have many times in the past. A young Australian boy has died on Mount Taranaki and the search for 2 Americans and a Britain missing since Sunday on Mount Cook has been abandoned. Alan Wilson, Conservation Officer (Mount Cook), is interviewed.
0715
00:15:18 WEATHER
0718
00:17:21 POLIO – it has been revealed that Rotarians in New Zealand have raised more than a million dollars in the last 6 months to help eradicate polio worldwide. Peter Kingston interviews Chuck Keller, President of Rotary International.
0721
00:20:49 PUREORA FOREST - antagonism between Conservationists and Developers has risen to new heights with the antimining lobby gaining new victories and the protectors of Pureora Forest in the central North Island vowing to continue a hunger strike. Peter Verschaffelt reporting.
0726
00:25:13 TRADE – the Opposition’s Spokesman on Trade and Industry, Philip Burden, has accused the Minister of Overseas Trade and Marketing, Mike Moore, of creating a false air of optimism about New Zealand butter access to Britain and Europe. Alison Bartley reporting.
0728
00:28:03 VIETNAM WAR – the United States and Vietnam are to begin talks in Hanoi in another attempt to tackle the issue of 18 hundred Americans still unaccounted for following the Vietnam war. Neil Kelly reporting from Vietnam.
0730
00:29:16 NEWS with Peter Fry
00:34:31 WEATHER
00:34:52 SPORT
0740
00:39:40 ELECTRICORP – will be setting its new rates for wholesale power supplies later this month but corporation says it will not be announcing the new charges publicly. Rory Newsam interviews Drew Stein, Electricorp Marketing General Manager.
0744
00:43:27 ISRAEL – Israeli authorities have eased the curfew in a number of refugee camps in the Gaza strip after a general drop in the level of violence there in recent days. Gerald Butt reporting from Jerusalem.
0745
00:44:42 NEWS with Geoff Robinson and Fred Cockram
00:44:10 NEWSPAPERS
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Side two.
00:00:00 NEWSPAPERS - continued
0749
00:02:51 FIJI – the deposed Fiji Coalition of Timoci Bavadra has expressed dismay of the presentation of a 400,018-thousand-dollar cheque for forestry development to the Fiji government by New Zealand’s High Commissioner, Rod Gates. Former Cabinet Minister of the Bavadra Coalition Government, Aramid Bhamji, is interviewed.
0752
00:05:11 SEARCH AND RESCUE – search and rescue officials are annoyed on what they describe an unnecessary search for a yacht thought to have been overdue on a trip to Napier to the Marlborough Sounds. Brent Procter interviews Peter Northcote, Pilot Officer (Search and Rescue).
0754
00:07:09 GAS – the go-ahead for a second billion-dollar Maui platform has moved a step closer with the announcement of the latest estimate of the size of the Maui gas field will be ready next month. Rory Newsam reporting.
0756
00:09:02 UFO – a Christchurch author who has studied unidentified flying objects (UFO) in Australia have been following the sightings in South Australia during the past week. The Parkes family of Christchurch are among a number of people who say they have had a recent close encounter with a UFO. Philip Jennings reporting.
00:12:08 JETSET CAT – Felix, the jetset cat, who has travelled nearly 290 thousand kilometres took a jumbo home to America today as a first-class passenger.
00:12:51 WEATHER
0800
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1200
00:13:53 NEWS with Peter Fry
1205
00:18:47 NEWS with Hewitt Humphrey
1218
00:30:41 SPORT
0722
00:35:36 NEWS with Hewitt Humphrey
00:40:46 STOCK MARKET
1230
00:43:07 NEWS with Peter Fry