1Air New Zealand planes remain grounded tonight due to a strike by cabin crew. This evening both sides of the dispute were summoned to Parliament to meet with Prime Minister David Lange and Minister of Labour Stan Rodger.

2The Wellington High Court has accepted a document signed in Sydney more than five years ago as the last will of drugs baron Alexander Sinclair, aka Mr Asia.

3Ronald Jorgenson, one of two men convicted of the 1964 Bassett Road machine gun murders in Auckland, has gone missing. His car has been found down the side of a Kaikoura cliff.

4A fourteen year old Hastings boy is missing, presumed drowned, after a fishing trip near Napier went tragically wrong last night. An eight year old boy was drowned at Sunset Beach at Port Waikato last night.

5The Government has changed its stance on gold mining in the Coromandel. Prime Minister David Lange says the prospecting licenses awarded to a South African company two weeks ago will not be issued until a review is completed.

6Sweeping plans to protect New Zealand's geothermal fields have been unveiled today.Geothermal Energy is to be protected by the powerful Water and Soil Conservation Act.

7The death toll in New Caledonia's independence dispute has now risen to fifteen. Two people have died from burns received when a stall was set on fire in Noumea. Another is in a critical condition and three more have serious burns.

8The United Kingdom and China today signed the historic agreement which will see Hong Kong handed back to China in 1997, after more than 150 years of British rule.

9New Zealand has apparently been forced to sell butter to the Soviet Union under a new trade deal.

10United Nations (UN) Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar will visit New Zealand in January 1985.

11The Korean trawler Tae Chang 83, seized by the Fisheries Department after breaches of the fisheries regulations, is to be auctioned off by the Government.

12The anti-racist group CARE has called for the abolition of School Certificate as it says the exam is unsuitable for New Zealand's multicultural society.

13Anti-abortion protests around New Zealand are putting New Zealand's abortion system under pressure.

14The three person Commission of Inquiry into the Queen Street Riots has reached some conclusions into the causes of the riots. The final submissions were heard today. The Commission must now sift through all of the evidence presented, and report their findings to Prime Minister David Lange on Monday.