0600 NEWS/SPORTS/WEATHER
0609 NZ NEWSPAPERS
0611 MāORI NEWS
0616 NEWS STORY: POSTAL SERVICES - govt announces postal services to be opened up to competition. Claims that NZ Post being lined up for privatisation. Comment from Labour leader Helen Clark, Treasurer Winston Peters, Alliance MP Laila Harre, and NZ First MP Jenny Bloxham. (Marie Hosking)
0621 RURAL NEWS
0626 SPORTS STORY: ANZAC DAY rugby league test attracting growing interet in Australia. I/v with correspondent Tim Gable. (Mng Rpt)
0630 NEWS/WEATHER
0636 NEWS STORY: TECHERS' PAY - PPTA and NZEI holding top level discussions to reach agreement over unified pay system. Move will test govt's tested commitment to having one pay system in place by Feb 1998. Comment from NZEI's Joanna Beresford, PPTA's Martin Cooney and Rob MoIntosh, Education ministry. (Al Morrison)
0640 OVERSEAS NEWSPAPERS
0642 NEWS STORY: BUBURMA - reports suggest US will impose partial sanctions because of human rights violations. (BBC)
0644 MANA NEWS:
0651 BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL NEWS: ECONOMY - Deutsche Morgan Grenfell says NZ's rate of growth is still slowing. Comment from economist Ulf Schuhfisch. (Bronwen Evans) POSTAL SERVICES - world's largest franchiser of business communications and postal services, Mail Boxes Etc, exoited by news postal sector is to be deregulated. Comment from NZ managing director Simon Thompson. (ex CKPT) FINANCE/MARKETS SHAREMARKET - AMP optimistic, says NZ sharemarket is good value for money, has invested about quarter of funds against nominal benchmark of around 20% Comment from head of investments strategy, Paul Dyer. (F Tino Pereira) TEXTILE INDUSTRY concerned about impact of low tariffs and cheap Asian imports. Holeproof's sock-making factory at Oenhunga is to close with loss of 30 jobs, because company says it can't compete against labour costs in China. Comment from Textiles and Apparel Fedn chief exec Marcia Dunnet. (F Tino Pereira) FORCE CORPN, AK-based cinema firm joins up with Australian group Cinema Plus to set up giant screen cinema in AK, will be part of $70 million retail and entertainment complex known as Civic Entertainment Centre. INTEREST RATES - another round of mortgage rates drops today, with ERGO and AMP both dropping 1 year fixed rates to 8.95%. (Bronwen Evans)
0700 INTRO/NEWS POSTAL SERVICES - govt says move to deregulation will benefit consumers but Consumers Inst, rural people, and postal workers disagree. Comment from Consumers' Inst chief exec David Russell, Engineers' Union head Rex Jones, AK Chambers of Commerce head Michael Barnett, and rural resident Rosalie Sampson. (Leigh-Anne Wiig); Opposition says move is first step towards privatisation of NZ Post. Live i/v with Communications minister Maurice Williamson. YOUTH CRIME - senior Sth AK police officer Alan Shearer says there's been alarming increase in number of burglaries committed by juveniles carrying firearms. Youth Court lawyer Geoff Wells says money for new Parliamentary building should be spent on services for troubled young people. Comment also from Pat Harrison, Otago Youth Trust, and Social Welfare minister Roger Sowry. (Mark Henderson); live i/v with Det Snr Sgt Alan Shearer. ZAIRE - CHINESE - rumours that Chinese soldiers have arrived in Kinshasa to support President Mobutu. I/v with corresodent Roger Hearing.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS FINANCE update with Gyles Beckford. MEASLES - AK doctors and public health officials warn of likely epidemic. 23 cases recorded in region since beginning of month. Comment from Public Health director Gillian Durham and Paul Stephenson, AK manager of health protection. (illegible Gracie) MIR SPACE STATION may have to be abandoned if 2 Russians and 1 American aboard cannot solve series of technical problems. Live i/v with NASA chief of operations John Lawrence. SUPERANNUATION - WOMEN - arguments around compulsory scheme intensifying as referendum comes step closer. 2 National women MPs. Katherine O'Regan and Joy McLaughlin joining forces with Labour's Helen Clark and Judith Tizard to warn women of the disadvantages. Comment from Treasurer Winston Peters, Helen Clark, Katherine O'Regan, and Laila Harre. (Kathryn Street) BRITAIN - ELECTION - with 8 days to go Labour losing ground in issue of who can manage economy better. Live i/v with correspondent Des Fahy. U.S. - NORTH DAKOTA FLOODS - city of Grand Forks still in turmoil, coping with both floods and fire. Live i/v with Matthew Vonpinnon.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER POSTAL SERVICES - NZ Post chief exec Elmar Toime says company has been preparing for competition since it became SOE 10 years ago and is ready for'it -i/ved live; courier companies preparing to enter into competition with NZ Post. Live i/v with exec chair of Napier-based Fastways Couriers, Bill McGowan. YOUTH CRIME - concern over growing number of Sth AK teenage burglare arming themselves with guns. Live i/v with Poe Tuiasau, youth worker with Mangere Family Services Centre. INTERNATIONAL PAPERS LIQUOR LAWS - Australian road safety researcher Alan Drummond warns reducing age limit for buying alcohol will result in more car accidents, and more injury and death on roads. Comment also from drug and alcohol researcher Colin Bramfitt. (Eric Frykberg) ZAIRE - REFUGEES - aid workers efforts hampered by unrest. Zairean villagers armed with machetes have attacked Rwandan Hutu refugees they blame for murders of at least 6 Zaireans. I/v with Paul Stromberg, UNHCR spokesman in Kisingani. (Mng Rpt)
0830 NEWS/SPORTS CHINA/RUSSIA - Chinese president Jiang Zemin in Moscow for visit that could result in number of agreements. Moscow increasingly looking eastward for economic and military reasons. (Nancy Marshall) COOK ISLANDS - HOTEL - govt attempting to get 3 conflicting parties together to work on ill-fated Rarotonga Sheraton Hotel which has been standing uncompleted for several years. Live i/v with correspondent Barbara Dreaver. AUSTRALIA - MP PAULINE HANSON stirs up controversy by lending her name and support to book claiming aborigines were once cannibals. Historians and others say there's no basis in fact for this claim. (Zandra Sharpe) PERU - HOSTAGES - Peruvian security forces storm Japanese ambassador's residence where hostages have been held for months. Building now on fire and unclear how many people remain inside. Live report from CNN's Lucia Newman. RAPE - South African lawyer acting for NZ rugby player Roger Randle, Ernst Crots, receives details of prosecution case, also receives report from surgeon who examined Randle and complainant. Mr Crots i/ved. (Mng Rpt) PERU - HOSTAGES - update on situation. CNN's Sharon Stevenson.