EYEWITNESS NEWS. 07/06/1988

Tom Bradley presents the news. The slump in the tourist industry is getting worse. The THC announced a big drop in its profits. Opposition leader Jim Bolger claimed today there is an epidemic of white collar crime which the Justice Department can’t cope with. In Fiji more than 20 people appeared in court today in connection with a gun running ring. [Foreign news] One of New Zealand’s most notorious criminals former Mr Asia associate Patrick Norton-Bennett and wife Jennifer has been convicted of murder in the High Court in Hamilton along with his wife. They have been convicted of murdering Robert [Gowath].

National’s Wyatt Creech stepped up his battle to win his seat he lost by just one vote in the Electoral Court. The country’s fifth heart transplant patient is progressing well at Greenlane Hospital. Financial and sharemarket news.

Lindsay Perigo presents the issues of the day in depth. [American elections] Concern at lack of safeguards for staff superannuation funds at a time of widespread company collapses has surfaced again. When the company Heating Services was taken over by Energycorp, staff super funds were not passed over to the trustees. David Bullock, Assn Superannuation Funds is interviewed in the studio.

[World Watch - Fiji arms importing]

Tom Bradley presents the headlines and the weather.