NIGHTLINE. 18/06/1991

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Year
1991
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F105162
Media type
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Rights Information
Year
1991
Reference
F105162
Media type
Moving image
Item unavailable online
Series
NIGHTLINE
Categories
Television
Duration
0:35:00
Production company
TV3
Credits
Presenter: Joanna Paul
Presenter: Belinda Todd
Reporter: Bill Ralston
Reporter: Melanie Reid
Reporter: Janet McIntyre
Reporter: Neil McKay
Reporter: Bob McNeil
Reporter: Peter Cronshaw

Social Welfare papers leaked to 3 National News show that the government is considering income testing all pensioners from next year and progressively raising the qualifying age to 65 by the turn of the century.
Speaker: George Drain, (NZ Superannuitants Federation President).

Budget cuts have forced the RNZAF to cut its next intake of recruits, putting the careers of 24 people on hold.
Speaker: Shaun Naylor, (Former Recruit).

A farmhouse full of weapons has been found by police at the end of an armed offenders alert on the Hauraki Plains. The siege began after a drugs raid. Seven hours later a man gave himself up peacefully.
Speakers: John Moore, (Police Dog Handler); Lex Denby, (Detective Inspector).

Telecom has bowed to pressure over mistakes in the new phone books and has agreed to print a new supplement for Christchurch, one of the areas worst affected.

A UN moratorium on wall of death fishing in the Pacific takes affect next month. The US has been keeping a close watch on Japanese drift net fleets and has reported some disturbing results.

Patients have been moved from a surgical ward at Wellington Hospital following a bacterium outbreak. The infection known as MRSA is loose in several wards and is hard to detect because it travels through the air.

In Masterton novice parachuter Bruce Davis, ended up in hospital with crushed and broken vertebrae, after suffering a malfunction on his first jump.
Speaker: Mac McCarthy, (Jump Instructor).

Today the South African Parliament voted to end the Population and Registration Act, the final nail in the coffin of Apartheid.

A kiwifruit that acts like a banana may help revitalise the local industry.
Speaker: Dr Alan Seal, (DSIR).

New Zealand opera singer Donald McIntyre has returned to perform to what he calls his favourite audience.
Speaker: Donald McIntyre, (Opera Singer).