1Two senior officials of the Southland branch of the Meat Workers' Union have been barred from holding any future form of office within the union. The action follows a union investigation into what happened to some of the money from a $250,000 strike fund set up at the Ocean Beach Freezing Works in Bluff earlier this year.

2The retiring President of the New Zealand Education Boards' Association has said there is an urgent need for better sex education in schools.

3Fletcher Challenge Corporation has reported a huge jump in profits.

4A group of New Zealand women are departing for a ten day peace protest at Greenham Common Airbase in the United Kingdom and as they prepare to leave the country, another group of women have set up a camp in support of them near Auckland Airport.

5The Social Credit Party has won its battle to get its own Bill banning nuclear powered or armed vessels from New Zealand introduced into Parliament.

6Donations to the Council of Organisations for Relief Service Overseas (CORSO) will be made tax deductible once again, however it is unclear when this will take effect.

7After two years of negotiations, Britain and China have reached agreement about the future of Hong Kong. China will retain sovereignty over the domain in 1997 when Britain's lease expires and has pledged to retain Hong Kong's democracy until 2047.

8South African President Pieter (PW) Botha says his country's new Constitution does not fully meet the demands of all South Africans and that democratic and political participation must be extended to the Black community. However, he has insisted this must be done within the existing apartheid system.

9Britain's dockers have voted to end the second national port strike in the last two months. The New Zealand Seamen's Union says a container load of lamb it's members sent to the families of the striking miners has now been distributed in Yorkshire, Kent, south Wales and Scotland.

10Soviet journalist Oleg Bitov has claimed that he was abducted from Venice and taken to the United Kingdom by British secret agents. However, the British Government says the entire story is absurd and offensive.

11It has been revealed that about twenty New Zealand men are chemically castrated every year. This revelation follows the news that an Auckland man convicted of committing indecent acts on children has volunteered to undergo the procedure.

12The meat industry is expecting a record lambing season, forcing the Meat Board to begin clearing old stock out of cool stores around the country.

13More than thirteen thousand people have visited the Te Maori exhibition in its first six days at the Metropolitan Museum of New York.

14Judges of the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award 1984 have selected 'Maori: A Photographic and Social History' by historian Michael King as this year's winner. The decision is controversial as Keri Hulme's 'The Bone People' was expected to win, but did not even feature in the top three.

15The men who yesterday attempted to drive a car from Wellington to Auckland without oil, have experienced more success today on their second attempt.