11984 Economic Summit Prime Minister David Lange has officially closed the Government's Economic Summit, declaring that the various sectors of New Zealand's society have forged a new awareness of each other. The final communique stresses the need for economic growth and recognises that poverty exists within New Zealand society.

2Representatives of Maori tribes and groups from all over New Zealand are gathering at Ngaruawahia to try to find a common ground on the Treaty of Waitangi.

3The senior Labour Party member at the centre of a row over a leaked New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (SIS) letter, has passed the document on to Police for forensic testing.

4A study that has revealed a link between bowel cancer in sheep and the herbicides such as Trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4,5-T) has elicited no comment from the Minster of Health, Dr Michael Bassett.

5Opposition parties blamed the Government today for a rise in food prices.

6The price of bread and other flour-based products is likely to rise after bulk flour goes up in price from Monday.

7The Catholic newspaper Zealandia and an inter-church group known as the Ecumenical Secretariat on Development have been told they have breached the Race Relations Act in an article in a Christian Development Week supplement to Zealandia in June brought Pakeha into disrepute. The article concerned was called "Aotearoa: A brief history as seen by Maori people."

8New Zealand's newest and biggest power station at Huntly needs urgent engineering work done if it is to continue operating at full generating capacity. The problem has been caused by a drop in the level of the Waikato River bed.

9The State Services Commission does not intend to take any action against Maori Affairs Department staff who broke public service rules by promoting Maori International Holdings Limited.

10An Auckland accountant is selling advice on how to get a cheap housing mortgage from Switzerland, but leading financiers are warning New Zealanders against purchasing it.