1Opposition Deputy Leader Jim McLay has called for a closer working relationship between National's organisation and its parliamentary wing.

2A brawl involving nearly fifty New Zealand and American soldiers at Burnham Military Camp is being investigated by the civilian Police.

3A Melbourne man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder New Zealand drug couriers Doug and Isabel Wilson five years ago. Their bodies were found in a shallow grave near Melbourne in May 1979.

4Sydenham MP Jim Anderton has been rebuked by Prime Minister David Lange for going overseas without permission.

5The Government is to introduce tougher levies affecting all off-shore trawlers which will be used to financially assist the in-shore fishing industry.

6The consortium building the Marsden Point Refinery expansion is threatening to take legal steps to stop industrial action planned for next week.

7Bay of Islands sheep farmer Jan Harm-Muller flew to Auckland today to help save the life of a sick woman in Sweden. He is only one of two people in the world believed to have the same rare Vel CEJKB Negative blood type.

8Prince Charles and Princess Diana have left St Mary's Hospital with the new Prince Henry Charles Albert David, to be known as Harry. Prince Harry is now third in line to the throne.

9Israel's new Coalition Government has announced a 9% devaluation of the Shekel. Food subsidies and Government spending will also be cut.

10There are fears that 'air piracy' involving plane hijackings has become the latest weapon in the four-year long Persian Gulf War.

11A twenty year old man has been arrested and charged in connection with a threat to poison the water supply to the Australian city of Geelong.

12Sharlene Wells, a conservative Mormon has been crowned Miss America 1985.

13The latest Eyewitness News Heylen poll - the second since Labour became Government - shows little change in the standing of political parties, but unemployment has given way to the state of the economy as the most pressing concern bothering New Zealanders.

14Opposition leader Sir Robert Muldoon has stepped into the debate over the future of Waitangi Day, saying New Zealand's national day does not belong to Maori alone, and that it is time to acknowledge that the British brought more to New Zealand than the Maori. Muldoon's comments follow a weekend hui at Ngaruawahia involving hundreds of people which debated the Treaty of Waitangi and celebrations marking it. A report on the hui followed by an interview with Maori Affairs Minister Koro Wetere.

15Prominent Catholic layman Bob Consedine, has accused New Zealand's Christian Churches of being more concerned with maintaining the capitalist system than they are with their proper function. He has called on them to abandon their investments in property and shares and focus on working for social justice. He expands on there views in his new book, "New Zealand (1984) Ltd".