1Transport Minister Richard Prebble has been ordered to appear before Parliament's Privileges Committee over radio allegations made in Parliament that he was seen reading a newspaper while behind the wheel of his car in Wellington. Prebble has made a special Ministerial statement to the House denying Radio Windy's allegations.

2It has just been announced that the long-running strike at the Tasman Pulp and Paper mill in Kawerau has been settled.

3The Department of Health is trying to work out how a number of hypodermic syringes and prescription poisons were dumped near a Dunedin primary school, where they were discovered by children.

4It has just been announced that the long-running strike at the Tasman Pulp and Paper mill in Kawerau has been settled.

5New Zealand's farmers have today launched an all-out drive to get higher prices for the stock they send to the freezing works. They accept that in doing so, they may force some freezing works to close, leading tp job losses in the meat industry.

6Opposition leader Jim Bolger has dismissed criticism of the way his parliamentary team is performing by the National Party President Neville Young.

7The Federation of Labour (FOL) has called a special meeting of key unions as the start of the wage round is wracked by confusion, division and fluctuating claims.

8Iran's Minister of Agriculture, Dr Abbas-Ali Zali has been looking at farming techniques in the South Island High Country.

9A controversial American doctor currently visiting Auckland says New Zealanders would be much healthier if they relied less on the medical profession.

10The mother of the world's youngest heart-lung transplant patient has spoken about the mixed emotion she felt when she learned that a donor had been found for her baby. The ten-week old baby is now said to be doing well at Harefield Hospital in London.

11Doctors in Middlesbrough say the unborn baby of a woman who is clinically dead is on good shape and they are hopeful it can be born by cesarean section in a few weeks time.

12A slump in the Cook Island tourist industry has been stopped by a price war between Air New Zealand and a new airline Cook Island International.

13The first crop of Jersey Benne potatoes of the season have become available in Otago, with connoisseurs happy to pay $20.00 a kilogram for them.