6.30 NEWS. 22/05/1986

News, sport and weather.
Main stories:

Rescue workers in the Solomon Island’s find 43 bodies buried in mud all in one area after it was hit by a hurricane.
The retiring Secretary of Justice believes the French agents jailed for their part in the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior should be released from NZ jails by xmas.
Police are warning the public to watch out for forgeries of well made $20 notes after some were passed at two TABs.
NZ farmers have been trying improve the relationship their counterparts in Europe who are behind many of the problems we have selling produce there.
Acting PM Geoffrey Palmer has called the comments about a South Pacific nuclear free zone made by the Cook Islands leader Sir Tom Davis as “inconsitant and inaccurate”.
The death toll at Chernobyl has risen to 15. UN reaction to the disaster.