LANGE PREDICTS N.Z. INFLATION TO FALL TO 8-10 PCT
New Zealand's inflation rate could
fall to eight pct in the coming year, Prime Minister David
Lange said.
    He said forecasts to be released soon by research groups
would predict a rate of around eight or nine pct in the 12
months to the end of March 1988, against 18.2 pct in calendar
1986.
    "I predict it will be something between eight and 10 per
cent," he told a news conference.
    Lange would not name the forecasting groups.
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