1Former High Court judge Peter Mahon is to head the Committee investigating the Queen Street riot. The Government has introduced legislation aimed at preventing a repetition of the riot.

2Cannibis plants with a potential value of $1.5 million have been discovered by police in dense bush near HUnterville.

3The Government is expected to announce moves to restructure the motor vehicle industry tomorrow. A reduction in sales tax is being predicted.

4The Federation of Labour (FOL) has called for financial backing for the thousands of workers on strike at Marsden Point.

5Those who were on board the hijacked Kuwaiti airliner that was held at Tehran Airport for almost a week, have now spoken of their ordeal.

6The Union Carbide Company has disclosed that a safety survey carried out at its Bhopal plant in 1982 revealed major concerns about the storage and handling of highly toxic chemicals. A huge compensation battle is now developing in India over the deaths caused by the gas leak in Bhopal.

7The Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo was interrupted by a bomb scare today.

8At least 30,000 people have protested in the Japanese city of Yokosuka over the first visit by the American nuclear powered aircraft carrier the Carl Vinson.

9Rugby Union Chairman Ces Blazey has agreed to present a letter to his Council outlining an anti-apartheid group's opposition to a proposed All Black tour to South Africa. Today Blazey met a member of the African National Congress (ANC). Senior Police from around the country met in Wellington today to plan how they will handle demonstrations against the proposed All Black rugby tour to South Africa next year.

10Waitemata Mayor Tim Shadbolt is at the centre of another controversy involving Council staff. He believes a public poll on a $23 million rubbish scheme may have been rigged.

11A fourth person has been charged in connection with the Labour Day armed robbery of a security van outside a Birkenhead supermarket.

12Chatham islands peat will be examined over the next few years as a possible future source of petrol and diesel.

13The news that fares and freight rates for the Stewart Island ferry will be doubled from Friday has shocked and angered Islanders.