1. The wreck of the MV Kaitawa is lying on her port side on the seabed off Cape Reinga with two ruptures in the hull. -- 2. Labour Party MP for Waitakere Martyn Finlay predicts that the American way to victory in Vietnam will result in "pestilence, starvation, hatred and searing bitterness". -- 3. British flier Sheila Scott has landed at Pago Pago, American Samoa in her round the world solo flight attempt. -- 4. Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin of Russia has requested a British bus factory be built in his country. British Leyland is considering this. -- 5. Everything is ready for work to start on building the Channel Tunnel between Britain and France. -- 6. A Hong Kong decision to send a chess team to Cuba is being criticised. -- 7. USA President Johnson's daughter Lucy will marry on August 6, also the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. -- 8. Factory workers in New South Wales cannot have Beatles' haircuts, for safety reasons. A ban was imposed by the State Government as a safety measure.
News from the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC).