Dollar Plunge – Murder-Suicide – Telecommunications Authority – Assaulted Teenager
- DOLLAR PLUNGE: Financial markets went into a spin yesterday with the dollar falling below US40 cents for the first
time ever and the share market diving to its lowest level in almost two years.
- MURDER-SUICIDE: No one could have foreseen that Rosemary Perkin would kill her three daughters and take her own life,
the lawyer acting for the girls’ father said last night.
- TELECOMMUNICATIONS INQUIRY: Kiwis could save $328 million a year in telecommunications costs if the Government adopted
a regulatory regime proposed by the ministerial inquiry into communications.
- DAMAGED VEHICLES TO NZ: Flood damaged vehicles, many contaminated with raw sewage, were on their way to New Zealand
from Japan, the Independent Motor Vehicle Dealers Association said yesterday.
- ASSAULTED TEENAGER: A Levin teenager assaulted at the weekend underwent emergency surgery in Wellington Hospital
yesterday.
Inside Political Headlines:
- PM tells of Mob payments fax;
- ‘Benefits’ in four-year fixed term;
- NZ may train Timor force;
- Tougher conditions now for serious criminals;
- Airways bid not suitable – Peters;
- Caught in the old poverty trap (Jane Clifton About The House);
- SPUC ready for abortion law fight;
- Treaty clause ‘divisive’.
Editorial: A winning formula.