1The Cook Islands intends to use some of the Arab-sourced loan money which the Department of Maori Affairs was forced to abandon.

2A hui in Rotorua has called for tribal and regional authorities to be set up to meet the economic needs of the Maori.

3Farmers in manawatu and Rangitikei are applying for drought relief as they enter their third month of dry weather.

4An extreme fire risk has forces the Forest Service to impose restrictions on the public in the central North Island, Bay of Plenty and Rotorua regions, including the Kaingaroa Forest..

5New Zealand yacht KZ7's two losses against American syndicate Stars and Stripes in the America's Cup Challenger final appear to be hurting the New Zealand stock market.

6A search is under way for an eleven year old boy, thought to have fallen off a ferry in the Waitemata Harbour.

7Eight Christchurch residents have been found fit and well after spending 24 hours trapped in the Babylon Cave on the West Coast of the South Island.

8Near Arctic conditions continue to grip Europe and many countries have called in the military to assist emergency soldiers. One thousand vehicles are currently stranded in a blizzard on the M62 motorway Between Liverpool and Hull in England.

9School Certificate results are due out in a few days, and employees of the Department of Education are busy mailing 75,000 certificates, that are the first in a new year of grading.

10Internal Affairs Minister Peter Tapsell says the numbers game Lotto will be in operation by the middle of 1987 after the establishment of a statutory body known as the New Zealand Lotteries Commission.

11A New Zealand mining company, backed by Australian interests, believe its has found big supplies of platinum at several sites in western Southland.