ONE 6PM NEWS & HOLMES. 30/05/1994

One Network News top stories:

The Cook Islands tax scandal: The (NZ) Government is adamant there’ll be no enquiry, but confirms that law changes are in the wind.

The Waitoa, Waikato, bathroom showers that poured with caustic soda this morning. Victims are told it was human error at the localdairy factory.

Interiisland ferry staff are given four weeks to accept new conditions or be locked out.

And Eric Honecker who built the notorious Berlin wall dies in exile in Chile.

Holmes:

Small town New Zealand is reeling under the threat of hospital closures. Rural New Zealanders, says Minister of Health Jenny Shipley, will be only too happy to travel for good healthcare. She and the Mayor of Hawera, a town which may lose its hospital, debate the issue.

Dame Edna Everage (Barry Humphries) is interviewed in the studio.