<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>25:37 radio new zealand news with hewitt humphrey <,> the body of india's former prime minister rajiv gandhi is lying in state at the home <&>tape is distorted then peter fry reads for five seconds flown from the southern city of madras eighty kilometres from the town where he was killed by a bomb while campaigning in the general <&>26:00 election <,> the body was accompanied on the flight by mister gandhi's italian born wife sonia and their twenty year old daughter priyanka <,> the two women had flown to madras after hearing of the assassination at least seventeen other people were killed and fifty wounded by the bomb which was hidden in a garland of flowers presented to mister gandhi the police have so far been unable to determine if the assassin is among the dead no one has claimed responsibility for the killing though there's been speculation it may have been the work of tamil tiger guerillas from sri lanka <,> arson looting and fighting among rival political and communal groups has erupted in many parts of india including cities as far apart as calcutta bombay and madras a number of people have been killed the next stages of polling in the election have been put off till next month <,> rajiv gandhi wanted to be known as the man who took india into the modern world a few months ago while he was preparing his <&>27:00 election campaign the b b c asked the forty six year old former prime minister how he'd like to be remembered as having brought india into the twenty first century with <,> er the more advanced countries in the world out of the branding <.>of as a developing country to a developed country the voice of rajiv gandhi tut the governor general dame catherine tizard says the assassination of rajiv gandhi is a loss not just for india but the commonwealth <,> in a message of sympathy to the indian president dame catherine says mister gandhi was an impressive man of vision messages of sympathy and admiration have also been sent by new zealanders who knew rajiv gandhi well including sir edmund hillary and david lange <,> the indian community in this country is in mourning for a man described by one member as a great leader lost to india and the world commemorative services are expected to be held by many indian groups tonight <,> the country's biggest home <&>28:00 lender trust bank is cutting its mortgage rates and the group's new rate will be twelve point three percent down nought point six percent and will apply to existing mortgages at the end of june <,> managing director frank dickson says the recent fall in wholesale money market rates is being passed on to customers <,> trustbank is also reducing its rates for farm and commercial loans by the same amount the national bank had earlier dropped its home loans by half a percent to twelve point five percent for similar reasons the lowest rate at present is eleven point nine percent from a small finance company owned by tower corporation <,> employers have been told that it's up to them to make the best use of their new powers under the employment contracts act the director general of the employers federation steve marshall told a wellington seminar on the new law that employers can now get on with doing what the old system prevented them doing with industrial relations it's something to which equal emphasis in terms <&>29:00 of planning must now be given on the same basis as our other disciplines our marketing our sales our operations and our finances steve marshall says the government has made the changes and it's now up to business to make the decisions <,> wholesale interest rates continue to fall on the new zealand money market the ninety day bill rate is now down to nine point six four percent a drop of twelve points today while the benchmark five year bond rate is down a similar amount to nine point three four percent <,> the main interest on the foreign exchange market has been a weakening of the australian dollar after the reserve bank governor in canberra said he could see room for a five percent devaluation <,> the kiwi dollar was dragged down slightly to fifty eight point seven three u s cents but is up to seventy five point nine five australian <,> the barclays index of the sharemarket is up three points to one thousand five hundred and fifty five after an equal number of rises and falls <,> one man was <&>30:00 knocked to the ground and another held in a headlock as protesters clashed briefly with police outside the employers seminar in wellington <,> four people face charges of obstruction assault and inciting disorder after a group of about thirty protesters chanted and yelled at delegates leaving for lunch <,> the first to be taken away by police was the protest leader who with the help of a chainsaw left no doubt as to what he believes employers are all about they'll just cut and cut and cut to keep their profit rates up <,> they'll cut you off at the knees conference delegates refused to acknowledge the protest <,> a quarter of american express employees in new zealand will lose their jobs in the next three months as the company moves to consolidate its support services in the region the company says its sydney office already provides many support functions and the seventy two job losses are unavoidable if american express is to eliminate duplication of <&>31:00 services <,> its general manager bob wesley says the company is working to secure its position in the region and ensure the future of the new zealand operation he says there'll be virtually no change to customer service and sales most of the job losses will be in auckland <,> the former gold corp director ray smith has been found not guilty of five fraud charges smith had been on trial in the high court in auckland for the past month charged with making false statements to investors with intent to defraud them the statements and promotional booklets said investors bullion was stored and insured by the <&>31:36 company whereas in <.>fact <&>end of sample