Early 1989: News Review of local and world events

1989 •

News Review segment focusing on New Zealand and world news including the collapse of a New Zealand company ‘Equiticorp’, an accident at a nuclear reactor in USA, Prime Minister David Lange discussing record high unemployment figures, as well as an earthquake in Russia, among other updates.

News Review segment focusing on New Zealand and world news including:

EQUITICORP – Collapse of the company.
USA – Nuclear reactor accident and company response
MICHAEL ETON – Troubled investor returns to NZ
UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES – Reaches 160,000, PM Lange responds.
ILLEGAL DRUG CAPTURES – latest figures
RUSSIA – Major earthquake hits Tadzhikistan region
DUNEDIN – International sailing regatta

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Ava Buzzard

Taonga source:

Rodney Roberts

Produced by:

News Review, Television New Zealand

Original format:

VHS-C

Reference number:

SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, RR09-03-TV89

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This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

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