1Arsonists have destroyed two marae churches in Ruatoria overnight.

2Auckland police made a record 239 arrests at last night's ZZ Top rock concert at Western Springs. Following the concert, fiftefourteen Mongrel Mob members were allegedly involved in an indecent attack on a fifteen year old girl who was hitchhiking home from the concert with her brother.

3Labour Party candidates for this year's general election have been given a pep talk about the Government's controversial economic policy, known as Rogernomics.

4United States President Ronald Reagan has publicly defended the role of Secretary of Defence George Shultz and Secretary of State Caspar Weinberger in the Iran Arms scandal, saying the advised him strongly not to sell arms to Iran.

5A pro-Iranian extremist group in Lebanon, calling itself the Revolutionary Justice Organisation, says it has put a French hostage on trial and that it will sentence him to death within twelve hours.

6Relatives of the victims of the Channel ferry disaster today held a memorial service in Dover for their loved ones.

7Thirty-seven Soviet citizens, including a woman and a child, have been rescued from a sinking freighter off the east coast of the United States.

8New Zealand health professionals, working with alcoholics, have urged the Government to delay changes to the liquor laws, which have been suggested by the Laking Report.