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0650 Business and financial news. David Jones illegible NEWS SUPERANNUATION SURTAX - govt declares it wants to reduce impact of surtax on elderly but partners in multi-party accord refuse to give plan backing. (say plan turns super into a benefit when it's been paid for) Comment from Finance minister Bill Birch and United leader Clive Matthewson. (Janice Rodenburg); live i/vs with Alliance leader Jim Anderton, Senior Citizens minister Peter Gresham, and Labour's Social Security spokeswoman Annette King, about future of the accord. FLETCHER HOMES rejects claims made in Parliament by Labour's Housing spokesman Paul Swain that hundreds of NZers victims of valuation "scam". Mr Swain says irearly 90s Fletcher Homes and Residential Mortgages Ltd, a Fletcher subsidiary, offered deal under which homes were later found to be over-valued when bought. Comment also from Renton Sutherland, spokesman for Group Action Ltd. which has set up a freephone for homebuyers who want to make a claim or want more information. (Peter Fowler); live i/v with David Lucas, Fletcher Homes corporate affairs manager. ISRAELI ELECTION - polls close, with signs that PM Shimon Peres may have beater right wing challenger Benjamin Netanyahu by slim margin. Election fought mainly on security. Live i/v with correspondent Robert Berger. illegible NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS GANGS - Parliamentary select committee to hear evidence today from ministers o'Police and Justice and Police Commissioner about gang violence, police powers to cope and how they should be changed. Meeting follows clash between MP Max Bradford and Highway 61 gang over allegations of links with organised crime. Comment from Highway 61's Grey Norman, Max Bradford, Invercargill mayor David Harrington. (Sarah Holden) GANGS - MP Mike Moore disputes figures from Employment minister Wyatt Creech showing only small amounts of money being spent on gang work schemes, says he believes gangs getting millions of dollars of taxpayers' money. He's i/ved live; live i/v with Mr Creech. POLICE- criticism of plan to boost numbers in upper North Island at expense of most other regions. Comment from acting Mayor of Hastings Harvey Boyden, Invercargill Mayor David Harrington, acting District Cdr of the South Island region Graham Clewer, Fedn of Wellington Progressive Assns president Peter Graham, and Dame Ann Ballin, Victim New Zealand Trust. (Kiri Coughlan) POLICE COMMISSIONER - Peter Doone, career policeman with 27 years' experience, law degree and Harvard Univ degree in public adminsitration becomes new Commissioner. He's i/ved live. FINANCE - money markets latest with David Jones.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER ISRAELI ELECTION - large turnout at polls which have now closed. TV companies issuing predictions. Live i/v with correspondent Robert Berger. SUPERANNUATION SURTAX - live i/v with Grey Power president Jim McKenzie, who's critical of govt's proposals. PRIVACY - MP Mike Moore accuses Health minister of breaking law by reading people's personal medical files, re information read in Parliament by Jenny Shipley in answer to question (from Mr Moore) about 2 men with psychiatric histories recently sentenced to jail terms. Mrs Shipley responds. (Kathryn Street) PAPERS/ASPAC HEADLINES WEYMOUTH CENTRE school - threat of closure following mass resignation by board of trustees. Board had been given 28 days last week to come up with reason why school should remain open following scathing report from Education Review Office. Comment from acting prinicipal Frank Rex and Education minister Wyatt Creech; live i/v with Margie Michawl, chair of board of board of trustees.
0830 NEWS/SPORTS ASSET TESTING - Social Welfare minister Peter Gresham admits in Parliament he has family trust capable of protecting his property from testing. Labour's Social Security spokeswoman Annette King claims PM and 9 other cabinet ministers have similar trusts. Where do people with family trusts stand when it comes to asset testing? Live i/v with trusts expert Martin Hawes. SPORTING MEMORABILIA - tussle over ownership of Jonah Lomu's torn rugby shorts points to big interest in memorabilia. Comment from collector and former All Black Graham Thorne, Jack Ryder-who has one of New Zealand's largest sporting memorabilia collections, and Jon Bodeley of Sotherbys. (Stephen Hewson) COMMENT COLOMBIA - President Ernesto Samper's future in hands of legislators as they decide whether to pursue charges that he partly funded election campaign with drugs money. Live i/v with correspondent Neil Wiese. FRUIT AND VEG REPORT with Jack Forsythe.