EYEWITNESS NEWS. 13/04/1988

Tom Bradley presents the news. [Foreign news] Police say gang numbers are growing, and they fear this will lead to an increase in crime, and the young especially are being attracted to Black Power and the Mongrel Mob. Australian authorities are concerned about the increasing numbers of New Zealanders retiring to Queensland and other states. They fear the migrant flow will burden their Social Security system. Amnesty International has condemned Fiji’s Brigadier Rabuka for abuses of human rights. Sharemarket news.

Rob Neale presents issues of the day. The Government is considering sweeping changes to its media regulation laws which could pave the way for foreign ownership of radio and television stations. The changes are part of a much wider review of communications policy. Another deal put together by former Auckland businessman Jonathan Jim Rich is falling apart. Today a tourist complex in the Far North at Taipa went under the hammer as shareholders in the venture tried to recover some of the money they had invested. The police are using some highly sophisticated methods to trap drug dealers these days, including undercover agents, hidden cameras and listening devices. Drug dogs have helped bust a cannabis drug ring and the DSIR have proved that the drugs have been imported as the cannabis contains foreign insects to ascertain where the plant come from.

Karen Sims presents World Watch.

Tom Bradley presents the headlines and weather.