‘Logging Campaign’ - “Secrets & Lies” new book by activist Author, Nicky Hager, alleging a dirty tricks PR campaign by the government over West Coast Native tree logging; A state owned enterprise Timberlands used tax payers money to try to manipulate public opinion (through PR company Shandwick (NZ) ltd.);
Timberlands Response - Dave Hilliard , Timberlands CEO;
‘Legal Action’ - government is to sue IBM for damages over the failed Police Computer ‘INCIS’ system. PM has called for an inquiry into the government & police handling of the affair;
‘Netball’s Loss’ - Netball community mourns the shock death of a young silver Fern, Leilani Read;
Bad weather due to hit the country, sleet and snow showers are forecasted;
David Bowie won't be singing in New Zealand in the new Millennium;
Scott Watson Sounds Murder Trial: Day 43, DNA testing;
murder depositions hearing in Auckland’s North Shore: DNA evidence taken from the victims (Mrs McCarthy) fingernails links a suspect with the crime;
Samoa: one of the men accused in the plot to kill a cabinet minister is having trouble finding a solicitor; Don McKinnon, Foreign Affairs Minister is in Apia;
Powerful earthquake in Western Turkey was felt early this afternoon;
2000 students return to Columbine High School after the massacre in April this year;
Government calls for child immunisation rates database, to keep track of child health;
Public Health warning on Vitac; Young & old working with cattle are most at risk;
Telecom Profit for the June quarter of $202 million up 6.3 % on same period last year;
Hawkes Bay apple growers are fearing a glut in supply of our export variety of ‘Braeburn’ ;
Lyttleton harbour board Timeball, Curator Alastair Carr, making a millennium drop;