1Labour Party Finance Spokesman Roger Douglas has admitted that he made an error in circulating an economic paper which seems to support devaluation of the New Zealand Dollar. Labour has since been forced to announce that they will not devalue the dollar if they become Government.

2An all-sides conference on prices and incomes to achieve a social accord will be called by Labour if it wins the next election.

3The Social Credit Party released its agriculture policy today, saying it would replace the current Supplementary Minimum Price Scheme (SMP) with payments to farmers from a levy on foreign exchange, thereby paying farmers for output rather than subsidising inputs,

4The Post Office says that election enrollment figures so far indicate there will likely be more eligible voters in this year's election, than in 1981.

5The New Zealand consulate in Sydney has been inundated with inquiries from expatriate New Zealanders wanting to vote in next month's general election.

6Aorangi Forest Industries will receive $1.5 million in assistance from the Government.

7The Navy, the Army and the Airforce received conservation awards today for their part in saving sixty beached whales on Great Barrier Island in March this year.

8President of the British National Union of Mineworkers Arthur Scargill has been injured in one of the most violent clashes between Police and coal miners since the national miners' strike began four months ago.

9United States Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger has described a new claim that the Korean airliner shot down by the Soviet Union in September 1983 was on a spying mission as "a total set of lies".

10One of Israel's most controversial court cases took a new turn today, with the release of the names of the 22 people on trial accused of forming an anti-Arab underground network which carried out bombings and killings.

11Two human embryos being kept frozen at a medical centre in Melbourne have raised unheard of legal and ethical questions. The embryos belonged to an American couple who have since died in a plane crash, and now there are questions over what should be done with them. Are they the legal heirs to the couple's fortune?