1A planned march to protest against the violence of street gangs has been called off as the organiser has met with some of street kids at an Arohanui Home.

2Police have arrested two youths in Tirau and charged them with arson after a spate of fires in the town.

3A Polynesian woman was stabbed to death in Auckland today and a man has been charged with murder.

4There is a reunion this weekend for about 70 crewmen who sailed on the sailing barque Pamir, the only ship seized as a war prize in New Zealand waters in the second World war. It was seized as a prize of war by the New Zealand Government in 1941 and made ten voyages from Wellington over the next seven years before being returned to Finland in 1948.

5Police are searching in Rotorua for a 53 year old man, Robert Morton, missing from his home since last Sunday.

6A group of Hamilton retailers want to ban loiterers from the main street, as they are bad for business.

7The unofficial "official" tin shed at the Tauranga Post Office was officially opened yesterday in a brief ceremony.

8Police Five This is a weekly segment of Top Half which reports on matters under police investigation, such as burglaries, stolen property and arson, in the Auckland region.