1A Titirangi, Auckland, couple, now known as John and Lee Martin, have admitted that they deserted their five children, Susan, Steven, Martin, Jane and Lee-Ann Sabine, 15 years ago in 1969. After appearing on Eyewitness news last night the couple confirm they are the Sabines. On Eyewitness tonight there is the story of an attempted re-union with two of the daughters.

2After two years of negotiations, Britain and China have reached agreement about the future of Hong Kong. China will retain sovereignty over the domain in 1997 when Britain's lease expires and has pledged to retain Hong Kong's democracy until 2047.

3Two senior officials of the Southland branch of the Meat Workers' Union have been barred from holding any future form of office within the union. The action follows a union investigation into what happened to some of the money from a $250,000 strike fund set up at the Ocean Beach Freezing Works in Bluff earlier this year.

4Fletcher Challenge has been asked to explain how the company came to treble its profits in an economic climate which it had earlier said was adverse to profitability.

5Industrial problems are worsening at the Clyde High Dam project this evening with workers employed by the Zublin-Williamson joint venture have voted to continue their week-long strike in protest at the sacking of two men involved in a pub brawl. Meetings tomorrow are expected to bring State-employed workers into the dispute as well.

6The Social Credit Party has won its battle to get its own Bill banning nuclear powered or armed vessels from New Zealand introduced into Parliament.

7A group of New Zealand women are departing for a ten day peace protest at Greenham Common Airbase in the United Kingdom and as they prepare to leave the country, another group of women have set up a camp in support of them near Auckland Airport.

8South African President Pieter (PW) Botha says his country's new Constitution does not fully meet the demands of all South Africans and that democratic and political participation must be extended to the Black community. However, he has insisted this must be done within the existing apartheid system.

9Britain's dockers have voted to end the second national port strike in the last two months.

10Soviet journalist Oleg Bitov has claimed that he was abducted from Venice and taken to the United Kingdom by British secret agents. However, the British Government says the entire story is absurd and offensive.

11The 101st anniversary of women's suffrage in New Zealand is being marked today, and it holds special significance for Women's Advocate Sonja Davies, who has launched her book 'Bread and Roses' today. A profile of feminist and unionist, Sonja Davies.