1Insurance companies are unhappy with Government suggestions that tax exemptions on life insurance policies might be scrapped.

2Inflation during the last year of the National Government was down to 4.7%, making it the ninth lowest of the twenty-four Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nations.

3Sydenham MP Jim Anderton has denied deliberately breaking Labour Party rules by travelling to Australia without the permission of Prime Minister David Lange.

4Police in Australia are keeping close guard around Mafia informer Gianfranco Tizzoni, who has admitted his role in conspiracies to murder at least three people between five and seven years ago.

5Despite lengthy nationwide strikes, economic woes and worsening weather, nothing is dampening the public interest and excitement at the birth of Prince Henry (Prince Harry), third in line to the throne.

6Weekly newspaper New Zealand Truth claims that basic freedoms of speech and the press are threatened by a decision by the Race Relations Conciliator, who found the newspaper in breach of the Race Relations Act after publishing an article last February on violence and sexual attacks in Auckland.

7The long-running Picton shunters' rosters dispute has ended, with an interim agreement between the Railways Corporation and the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR).

8Minister of Works, Fraser Colman has announced an investigation into the industrial relations at the Clyde Dam site.

9Two Rape Law Reform Bills are now before Parliament.

10New Zealand's Ambassador to the United States, Sir Lancelot Adams-Scheider has confirmed he will retire in early November.

11The Egg Industry's Development Commission believes that price controls on eggs do not benefit consumers.

12Thousands of soldiers have been arriving in Belgium to participate in a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) exercise known as Operation Lionheart. How do their forces compare with their opposite numbers from the Warsaw Pact countries?

13An emergency meeting of the Helensville Borough Council is tonight expected to order the controversial felling of a stand of trees by the town cemetery.

14A group trying to prove that a vehicle drained of all its oil, but with its engine protected with the product Slick 50.could drive all the way from Wellington to Auckland, suffered an embarrassing setback today.