0600 News/Sport
0615 Good Morning "Rural" NZ : See Rural Report Rundown
0630 News/Weather/Māori News
0640 Report from our Mana News team
0645 Pacific Regional News : Ex RNZ International
0650 Business and financial news. David Jones.
0700 NEWS BRITAIN - govt. rattled by Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams' visit to US, former Northern Ireland minister sent to put British govt's case. Keith Chalkley reports on bid to win propaganda war. IRELAND - Irish Taioseach (PM) Albert Reynolds visits NZ, tells Irish Society in AK that peace has arrived in Ireland. (Adam Gifford) BRITAIN - leader of Northern Ireland's largest loyalist party, Ulster Unionist Party, James Molyneux, visiting NZ to attend World Council of Orange Lodges in AK. He's i/ved live. NATIONAL PARTY - live i/v with Political editor Karen Fisher about possibility of further fragmentation this week of National Party - Graham Lee toying formation of new conservative party, Michael Laws to reveal plans, and Ross Meurant looking for a leader for his new party. WOMAN'S BODY DISCOVERED in sleeping bag in shallow grave near Mangonui in Northland. Live i/v with Whangarei reporter Lois Williams. RUGBY LEAGUE - Winfield Cup grand final in Sydney, pitting the Canberra Raiders against Canterbury. Raiders won 36-12. Live i/v with Sydney Radio 2UE reporter Anthony Pearl. illegible SOLO YACHTSWOMAN Mary McCollum reconsidering her trip around the Pacifi, following weekend ordeal which landed her in hospital. 63 year old American questioning whether to continue given that she's put others' lives at risk. (Lois Williams)
0729 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORT MāORI JURORS - AK criminal lawyer Kevin Ryan not surprised by results of Justice Dept survey showing Crown discriminates against Māori jurors in challenging process. He's i/ved live. PNEUMONIC PLAGUE - airborne version of bubonic plague - spreading through western Indian state of Gujarat, centred on diamond and silk weaving centre of Surat. Correspondent Ranjan Gupta says outbreak caught authorities by surprise and thousands had fled area before travel was controlled. PNEUMONIC PLAGUE - public health specialist at Communicable Disease Centre in WN, Michael Baker, says disease is one of the 3 internationally quarantinable diseases in world, others being cholera and yellow fever. (Karlum Lattimore) ASPAC/PAPERS
0800 NEWS/WEATHER RABAUL - number of people forced into emergency camps by volcanic eruptions say they're not getting enough to eat. Big relief effort underway but editor of "The Times" in Papua New Guinea, Anna Solomon, who's just visited area, says there are still shortages. (Karlum Lattimore) CAMPAIGN FOR RELEASE of Gay Rosemary Oakes who was convicted of poisoning and suffocating her husband and burying his body in the garden. Spokesperson for group campaigning for release, Doris Church, say there should be change in law regarding battered women (Oakes' defence) and parole board should release Oakes on compassionate grounds. Doris Church i/ved live. SWITZERLAND - voters approve govt plan to introduce law against racism in national referendum. Live i/v with Berne journalist Imogen Foulkes of Radio Suisse International. STARVATION - Christian Social Services Council "disturbed" by PM Bolger's comment to CH school audience that nobody in NZ is starving. Comment from Cl's Campbell Roberts (Salvation Army). (Lualemana Tino Pereira) RAILWAYS - hundreds of former tenants will miss out on thousands of dollars in compensation re sell-off of staff housing if they don't join court action withing next 3 weeks. (Adam Gifford) SPEED CAMERAS - police planning trial to see it it's viable to have cameras operated by civilian staff. Police Assn concerned for number of reasons, as industrial officer Bruce Wall explains. (Corinne Ambler)
0825 REGIONAL WRAP KIM HILL PREVIEW
0830 NEWS/SPORT RESCUED SOLO YACHTSWOMAN - longer i/v with Mary McCollum. (see earlier item). (Lois Williams) FOSTERCARE Fedn looking for more peope willing to become foster paents. Live i/v with MaryMoody, foster parent for 46 yars. SKIN CANCER - ned prediction of increase n cases. Dr Richard McKenze, National Inst of Water ad Atmospheric Research, sas ozone depletion in next 5 illegible in Otago and Southnd to increase by more than COMMENT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTreconvenes this week, withce process in Northern Ireand at illegible