1The Auckland Regional Authority (ARA) says Auckland faces severe water shortages and the bill to resolve this will be around $60 million by the year 2000, unless consumption is curbed or new supplies are found.

2There are plans to re-open the Martha Hill Mine in Waihi as the Waihi Gold Company has applied for water rights for the operation. Environmentalists are opposed to the plan because of concern about the quality of waste water.

3Travel writer W P Reeves says Rotorua could be a ghost town in the future due to pollution levels in the lake and apathy towards maintaining the geothermal fields and other attractions.

4Tennis star Brett Steven has just won a major junior tournament in the United States.

5Aotea Square held a celebration over the weekend to say thank you to the public for their contributions to building the Aotea Centre, which is being built to schedule and will host its first event in early 1988.

6Historian Ron Cook has been producing a local history magazine called Roll Back the Years for the last seven years. It is focused on the King Country. However it is about to fold as locals are not buying it, which leaves no place to deposit the rich resource of stories and photographs he has built up, like a gallery or mini-Turnbull Library.