<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side two <&>0:35 radio new zealand news with hewitt humphrey tut there have been emotional and violent scenes in new delhi after the body of rajiv gandhi was returned from the scene of his assassination in southern india <,> weeping crowds smashed through steel fences and poured into the former prime minister's home soldiers pounded them with rifle butts and canes but at least two hundred got into the house and wrecked a reception room <,> elsewhere in the <&>1:00 city police fired tear gas to prevent congress party supporters climbing over a gate into the building where mister gandhi's body is lying in state it was the home of his grandfather jawahalal nehru and is now a museum honouring his life <,> violence has been reported from many parts of india since mister gandhi was blown to pieces by a bomb hidden in flowers in a town near madras where he was campaigning for the election there have been killings arson attacks looting and bombings in areas as far apart as the north eastern state of tripura and the city of bombay <,> an investigation into the assassination continues at high level but there's still no word on whether the killer was among the seventeen other people who died in the bombing a week of national mourning has been declared throughout india and there'll be no further polling in the election till next month <,> the first secretary of the new zealand <&>2:00 high commission in new delhi michael grace says mister gandhi's funeral may take place as early as tomorrow he says the indian capital is in a state of shock everything is closed the government departments are all closed the <.>transport the buses are all off the roads er most businesses are closed michael grace says there are large security forces around rajiv gandhi's home <,> the former gold corp director ray smith says the truth is finally out after a four week trial in the high court in auckland he's been found not guilty of five charges of misleading investors <,> mister justice wiley said false statements WERE made in the promotional booklets drafted by smith but there was no evidence that he consciously was aware they were false <,> outside the court ray smith said he blames the media for giving him a bad name and said that when the truth finally came out in the trial the media were conspicuous by their absence he says he's <&>3:00 unsure of his plans for the future <,> the crown has <.>no now closed its case in the trial of a thirteen year old youth accused of the stabbing murder of a wellington nurse rachael bennett the last crown witness was a d s i r forensic scientist who had matched patterns of bloodstains on the kitchen floor of miss bennett's flat with patterns on the soles of the youth's shoes the scientist said the patterns matched down to a damage mark but added there could be other similar shoes the jury were sent home at half past four and the court was closed to the public to allow some legal matters to be discussed in chambers before the defence case opens tomorrow <,> a wanganui man has pleaded guilty to two of the four charges he's facing over a hit and run which killed two teenagers near hawera in south taranaki last month twenty six year old tautu tekeiti gates pleaded guilty in wanganui district court to failing to stop and assist at the accident and failing to see if anyone had been injured gates pleaded not guilty to two <&>4:00 other charges of careless driving causing death while under the influence of alcohol the judge noted the two guilty pleas and remanded him for a pretrial conference next month a row has broken out between the s p c a and another animal protection organisation the r n z s p c a over the importing of fighting dogs the r n z s p c a says <,> a british ban on importing fighting dogs is not needed here and wouldn't stop locals wanting to hold dog fights <,> but the wellington and auckland s p c a's are outraged by the comment wellington director ross mcglaughlin says its only a matter of time before someone is killed by a pit bull terrier here he says three pet dogs and a goat have been killed by pit bulls in the past two months in wellington alone ross mcglaughlin adds that the s p c a's already putting down forty thousand dogs a year and he says pit bull crosses will just add to that when they stop <&>5:00 being flavour of the month <,> the ombudsman is criticising the use of the language of the market in health legislation the criticism came in a submission to a parliamentary committee which is looking at a bill setting up a health commissioner the bill talks of the rights of health consumers the ombudsman says the right word is patients the submission says a consumer is someone who consumes and people don't consume health he says the term health consumers is illogical and confusing <&>5:24