In brief
Caygill on economy The economy is not overheating, in spite of forecasts of a jump in the inflation rate, the Minister of Finance, Mr Caygill, said. “The economy as a whole is just beginning to grow after a prolonged period of recession. We are not going to swing overnight from bust to boom,” he said.—PA. Accident victim dies The Taupo woman seriously injured in a car accident in Christchurch on Tuesday evening, died in Christchurch Hospital yesterday. She was: Kathleen Tawaka. No further details were available. The dead woman was a front-seat passenger in a taxi mini-bus which was involved in a collision with a car at the corner of Manchester Street and St Asaph Street. She was thrown through the windscreen, suffering serious head injuries. Sex education The Family Planning Association has backed calls by the Minister of Women’s Affairs, Mrs Shields, for changes to the law restricting sex education to those under 16. The association’s president, Ms Christine Taylor, said New Zealand was in a state of confusion about what “safe sex” education should be available to young people. At the same time as one of the “most helpful, entertaining and informative” programmes on sexually transmitted diseases was screened on television, Customs officers seized copies of a book, "Safe Sex — a Modern Girl’s Guide,” written by an Australian, Kaz Cooke. The Indecent Publications Tribunal had banned its sale to those under 16.—PA. Testing for hepatitis The Minister of Health, Ms Clark, is considering making the hepatitis B blood testing programme available to all children of school age. Ms Clark told Parliament she might extend the scheme because hepatitis B was a serious problem. Questioned by the Opposition’s associate education spokesman, Mr Roger McClay, she confirmed that the Owhata Primary School had a privately-run testing programme that was free for Maori children only. “I have indicated publicly that I do not think it is wise for groups to be singling out people for screening or inoculation on the basis of their ethnic origin,” she said.—PA. S73M redundancies? The total cost of Education Board and Education Department redundancies will be S73M, according to the Opposition’s associate education spokeswoman, Ms Jenny Shipley. The figure was clarified at an Education and Science Select Committee estimates hearing yesterday she said. “Currently this money has not been appropriated for current budget, which raises further alarm as to where the money to fund Tomorrow’s Schools has gone,” she said. Schools were underfunded by SI33M at present and the Minister of Education, Mr Goff, had said there was no more money available. The underfunding and cost of redundancy would clearly have to be dealt with in supplementary estimates—PA. Park warning The police are urging women to use commonsense and not walk or cycle through Hagley Park late in the evening. A cyclist was indecently assaulted by a man who stopped her in the park at 10.50 p.m. on Tuesday. He grabbed her in the groin area, then exposed himself, before running off towards Fendalton Road. “It’s not the wisest thing to be going through there at night,” said Detective Senior-Sergeant Colin Dalzell yesterday. “We suggest people stick to well-lit areas or be accompanied by someone else.” The offender is described as European, aged in his late 20s or early 30s, 167 cm (sft 6in) tall, slim, athletic build, curly collar length hair, wearing a green long-sleeved shirt, red shorts with a white stripe and light coloured running shoes. ‘No escape’ for N.Z. New Zealand cannot expect to escape worldwide pressures over greenhouse effect gases, says the Minister of Research, Science and Technology, Mr Tizard. He told the Coal Research Association it was appropriate for the association to focus on the links between the coal industry and the environment. The coal industry faced growing pressures to come to grips with the harmful emissions into the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. “We in New Zealand cannot expect to escape from these pressures even if the coal industry here is on a smaller scale than in the highly industrialised countries of the northern hemisphere,” Mr Tizard said. It was clear that in the next few years the world had to fact up to action to control harmful emissions.
In brief
Press, 12 October 1989, Page 2
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