1. AIR SHARES - Qantas has emerged as the favoured bidder for a 25 percent stake in Air New Zealand..COOPER/PEREIRA/MENADUE/..00:07:31.
2. INFLATION - prediction that the next inflation figure will be down to five point two per cent. VERSCHAFFELT..00:02:03.
3. HEADS & WEATHER
4. POWER - Electricorp is predicting bulk power prices could fall in the next few years..NEWSAM VOICER..00:02:04.
5. DIRECTORS - Inst has attacked company executives who are now trying to back out of deals which gave them shares on a deferred payment basis..GRIFFIN/BECKFORD..00:02:41.
6. PRISONS - head of the Committee of Inquiry into the prison system says he hopes it'll be able to produce a report which offers positive solutions to many of the problems with the penal system..ROPER/NOWLAND. 00:02:14.
7. FORUM TUESDAY - Fiji and the Sth Pacific Forum's response to developments there, is proving to be the issue looming over what would otherwise be a low-key and almost featureless Forum meeting..PALMER/FISHR..00:02:50.
8. MINGINUI - villagers in the Eastern Bay of Plenty pitch in to same their one and only supply store..LAMONT..00:01:46.
9. NEWS & SPORT
10. GUZZZLE/GRIZZLE - some of the Olympic athletes might be complaining about the quality of good and service in their restaurant but the Minister of Sport has reported glowingly about the meal he ate there..TAPSELL/PETER BRITTENDEN..00:01:22.
11. TRADE ATTITUDES - NZ trade commissioners based in Europe say there's a negative image of NZ business in the media both in this country and internationally..PEARSON..00:01:00.
12. KIWIFRUIT - prediction that disaster will strike the troubled kiwifruit industry if it doesn't sort out its system, of exporting..DONALDSON/PEARSON. 00:01:56.
13. HEADS & PAPERS
14. DOCTORS GRANT - NZ doctors are reacting on a number of fronts to increasing public demands for them to be more responsive and more accountable..GRANT/RODENBURG..00:02:54. SURGEONS - the Australasian Royal College of Surgeons is also responding to increasing concern about quality..STEWART/RODENBURG..00:02:31.
15. TASMAN CABLE - a survey of the Tasman sea floor is to begin today in preparation for the laying of a one hundred million dollar fibre-optic communications cable..PICKRILL/KOPP..00:01:44.
16. ISRAELI SATELLITE - Israel has successfully launched its first space satellite..BUTT..00:01:03.
17. HOTELS - Assn of NZ wants its members given greater powers to deal with troublemakers drinking in bars..MALCOLM WRAP..00:02:06.