1The political debate over whether or nit the Labour Party is advocating devaluation of the New Zealand dollar developed further tonight.

2Social Credit leader Bruce Beetham has unveiled his party's law and order policy, calling for more Police officers on the beat and a crackdown on violent crime.

3The New Zealand Party says it would be willing to form a coalition with Labour if it holds the balance of power after the election. However, leader Bob Jones says it would be impossible for the New Zealand to work with National because of Prime Minister Sir Rob Muldoon's economic policies.

4Eleven New Zealanders spending the winter months at Antarctica's Scott Base, are unlikely to be able to vote in the upcoming general election because the returning officer will struggle to get the completed ballot papers back to New Zealand in time for them to be counted.

5The first seventy people from a group of two thousand who asked to spend their weekend on a Marae were today given the opportunity to attend the Whatapaka Marae in South Auckland. The scheme is part of a drive by the Race Relations Office to give people all over New Zealand the opportunity to learn more about the Maori culture.

6London Law Lords have ruled that a New Zealand man who kidnapped his daughter twice should have been convicted and have unanimously overruled a Court of Appeal decision to quash Ian Daley's kidnap conviction last year.

7United States President Ronald Reagan has rejected the theory espoused by United States Marine General Bernard Trainor that war with the Soviet Union is inevitable.

8French President François Mitterrand has been holding talks in Moscow with his Soviet counterpart, President Konstantin Chernenko.

9The Red Cross has successfully negotiated the release of twenty Czechoslovakians held prisoner for fifteen months by guerrillas in Southern Angola.

10The International Whaling Commission has decided to severely cut commercial whaling quotas, an action hailed as a tremendous victory for conservationists and seen as a blow by the Japanese and Soviet whaling fleets.