Business briefs

The telecommunications network operator, Chorus, is offering shareholders with fewer than 100 shares, an opportunity to sell without paying brokerage fees;Air New Zealand says passenger numbers were 9 percent higher last month than a year ago;Software company Diligent is to put a takeover offer from American interests to its shareholders at a meeting on April the 13th in Auckland;And later this afternoon, the Reserve Bank will release the results of stress tests the five biggest lenders to the dairy sector have done.