1Opposition leader Jim Bolger has unveiled details of the National Party's election year economic policy. A future National Government will continue to float the New Zealand dollar, deregulate the economy and place no restrictions on foreign investment.

2The New Zealand Dairy Workers' Union has had four officials served with million dollar writs by the Dairy Industry Association. They are now the third unon to face damage claims from employers.

3Fire fighters in the lower half of the North Island ignored two emergency calls during their hour-long strike this morning.

4Maori leaders have begun a last ditch legal battle to stop the Government transferring thousands of hectares of disputed Crown land to the newly established State corporations. They fear that if the lands are handed over, they will lose any chance of ever having it returned to them.

5The first of the nine new State corporations was formally created today at the Beehive. The Government Property Corporation is worth will nearly $1 billion and will manage 250 buildings around New Zealand.

6Former Greytown commune leader Andy Narain has been remanded on bail again by the Masterton District Court today.

7An Auckland High Court judge has sentenced a Mongrel Mob gang member to five and a half years in prison for his part in the rape of a Mangere woman during the gang's convention late last year.

8West Coast MP Kerry Burke loses two of his three Cabinet portfolios when he resumes his MInisterial responsibility later this week. He remains as Immigration MInister, but his former portfolios of Employment and Regional Development will be permanently assigned to other Ministers, who will be announced next Monday. Burke has been on extended leave to care for his wife, who has cancer.

9Following a complaint from Actors' Equity, Prime Minister David Lange wants to know if Television New Zealand (TVNZ) is breaking Commonwealth sanctions by selling programmes to South Africa.

10The Government opposes plans by the Broadcasting Corporation (BCNZ) to free up rules around liquor advertising on television and radio, and is prepared to legislate to prevent such advertising if necessary.

11Prime Minister David Lange has responded to recent criticism of the Government's anti nuclear policy from United States Assistant Secretary of Defence Richard Armitage, by saying New Zealand has withdrawn from nuclear weapons and not the Western Alliance.

12British Prime MInister Margaret Thatcher will begin talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow in a few hours. She has used her first full day in Moscow to gain extensive media coverage by the British press prior to the upcoming British election.

13African National Congress (ANC) leader Oliver Tambo is surprised at the level of protest about his visit to Australia. The protesters are opposed to the ANC's use of violence to overthrow the apartheid system in South Africa.

14Three F-5 jets, on their way to celebrations marking the Royal Thai Air Force's 72nd anniversary, crashed into a mountain, killing four people. Later, at the air show itself, a collision between A-47 fighter jets, resulted in the death of a pilot.

15Businessman Bruce Judge has pumped $2 million into a scheme to educate the young people of Christchurch against alcohol and drug abuse.

16Thirteen students, who were refusing to wear school uniform, were today suspended from the only secondary school on Waiheke Island.

17Nurses at Dunedin Children's' Hospital have changed out of their traditional white uniform in favour of coloured outfits. The hospital will decide whether the change should become permanent, but sof ar both the nurses and the patients approve of the new uniform.