6.30 NEWS & TOP HALF. 09/05/1985

News, sport and weather.
Main stories:
NZ farmers warned rising costs will adversely affect them.
Farmers from South Canterbury welcome Government move to remove interest rates while the drought continues.
Woman drenched by a toxic chemical in Te Horo as a drum falls off a truck.
Dr. Gerald Wall to become the new Speaker of Parliament.
The combining of the FOL and the Combined State Unions is by no means a foregone conclusion according to the FOL.
Three Roman Catholic groups vow to take violence out of the Anti-South African rugby tour protests by staging celebrations of hope for the oppressed.
Curfew in place in New Caledonia after great violence between settlers and Kanaks.
V.E. Day celebrated in Europe.