6.30 NEWS + TOP HALF. 26/08/1985

News, sport and weather.
Main stories:
PM David Lange is worried about the safety of NZers visiting New Caledonia as anti NZ sentiment is high amongst some extremists.
Lange concerned that Bernard Tricot, author of a report on French involvement in the Rainbow Warrior affair, did not travel to NZ to look at police evidence.
Bomb blast kills a woman in Rotorua.
NZ and US seem willing to work out their differences on the nuclear ship visits to NZ.
Government announces a 17% increase to the minimum wage.
The Government has refused to bring forward its offer of a 8% wage increase for public servants.
Junior doctors accuse Government of not keeping its word on better overtime payments.
A DC-10 has been charted by an Indonesian man in desperate need of heart surgery in NZ.
Cracks have been found in the wings of four RNZAF Strikemasters.
South African antiapartheid group UDF under attack from South African police, with many of them now in prison.