6.30 NEWS. 17/11/1984

News, Sport, Current Affairs, Weather.

Main Stories:
Baby dies after her body rejects a transplanted baboon’s heart.
Health Department will set up an AIDS hotline to combat the spread of the disease. Two scientist will go to Australia to learn more about the disease. Article includes Australian Government response to the epidemic.
Mike Moore, Minister of Overseas Trade, has organised a summit on how ‘New Zealand will survive as a trading nation in the 21st Century’.
Article on Tapanui Flu (ME). Interview with Professor Campbell Murdoch of the Otago Medical school, he argues for a more parent centred approach to diagnosis.

Contains episode of Money Report at the end of the news. Interviews with Hugh Fletcher, Managing Director of Fletcher Challenge and John Reid, Chairman of Citicorp.