1A pilot has died in a freak skydiving accident near Hokitika.

2The Government says it wants to end the 48 year monopoly the Wheat Board has enjoyed in New Zealand's wheat industry. In a plan announced today, free competition will be introduced within two years.

3There is the prospect of a large increase in Government investment in education if the Government decides to implement its education policy all at once. The policy would cost $225 million a year more than the Education Department's existing budget.

4Britain has announced a huge airlift of food for the starving people of Ethiopia which will begin on Tuesday and be jointly run by the Royal Air Force and British Airways.

5President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in Britain, Arthur Scagill has confirmed that he and another union leader secretly met with a Libyan Government official.

6A fourteen day old baby who has been given the heart of a baboon has opened her eyes for the first time since the operation.

7Seismologists in Sweden have recorded a major underground nuclear explosion in Soviet central Asia.

8The United States has launched the giant, nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Theodore Roosevelt.

9Thousands of Southlanders poured into Mataura today to join a party at the local meat works.

10The small Northland farming community of Ararua have chosen not to switch over to daylight savings time.