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.
  

