New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand) back issues from February 2007:
Heard it through the grapevine.(TIME OUT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: SCOTT KARA BIC Runga has a lovely smile -- not that we get to see it much. Her album covers are beautiful but solemn. And her concerts are a mix of passion and timidity with the occasional shy sparkle. Today, though, sitting on a picnic rug among the vines of ...
MAKE A BUCK HOUSE.(TIME OUT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: REBECCA BARRY DANIELLE CORMACK looks upset. The tips of her French manicure are threatening to burst the stress-ball that is ballooning in and out in her hand. ''Do I make myself clear, Derek?'' she hisses down the phone. ''Do. I. Make. My. Self ....
War canoe takes fight to Valencia.(FRONT PAGE)
Feb 01, 2007 ... The taua waka (war canoe) Te Ika a Maui will ply the waters once sailed by the Spanish Armada when it arrives in Valencia to take part in anumber of events for the America's Cup. The waka, the work of master carver and sailor Hekenukumai (Hector) Busby, is skipping this year's ...
Schoolchildren on waiting list could miss out.(FRONT PAGE)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Wayne Thompson and Claire Trevett Hundreds of pupils on waiting lists to get into popular Auckland schools could miss out as late enrolments come in, despite an anticipated drop in the number of students entering school. A week before school starts, several ...
At last, Bottleneck Taupo may get bypass.(FRONT PAGE)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Wayne Thompson A bold engineering project that will slice 30 minutes off the Auckland-Wellington road trip has finally reached the stage where resource consents can be sought -- and it could be completed by 2010. Since the late 1960s, the East Taupo Arterial ...
Step closer for Taupo bypass.(NEWS)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Wayne Thompson A bold engineering project that will slice 30 minutes off the Auckland-Wellington road trip has finally reached the stage where resource consents can be sought. Since the late 1960s, the East Taupo Arterial Highway has been promoted as a must ...
US flag flies for Kiwis.(NEWS)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: -- James Ihaka Veteran broadcaster Paul Holmes is confused by the amount of anti-American sentiment from some Kiwis, saying they give the United States a bad rap. Holmes and Peter S.Watson were awarded Woodrow Wilson Awards in Auckland last night, the first ...
Pupils on waiting lists likely to miss out.(NEWS)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Wayne Thompson and Claire Trevett Hundreds of pupils on waiting lists to get into popular Auckland schools could miss out as late enrolments roll in, despite an anticipated drop in the number of students entering school. A week before school starts, several ...
To stop violence, start with a better diet for prisoners, says scientist.(NEWS)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Simon Collins social issues reporter A British expert is calling on New Zealand to take the lead in reducing violent reoffending by improving prison diets. Bernard Gesch, of Oxford University's physiology department, gave 231 prisoners at Britain's Aylesbury ...
PM snubs Key's invitation to visit the 'underclass'.(NEWS)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ruth Berry deputy political editor National leader John Key has invited Helen Clark to join him on a visit to McGehan Close, suggesting it might convince her to reconsider her belief the ''underclass'' is diminishing. But the Prime Minister has declined the ...
Turning 'dead-end' road to garden oasis.(NEWS)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Simon Collins social issues reporter Parents and neighbours of teenage ''gangsters'' in the Auckland suburb of Owairaka have turned to gardening in a bid to lure their youngsters away from drink and crime. Indian, Maori, Pakeha, Somali, Samoan and Tongan ...
Action plan to settle migrants targets young refugees.(NEWS)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Simon Collins A youth worker to work with young refugees is being placed into Auckland's most multicultural suburbs as part of a regional ''settlement strategy'' launched last night. The new position, Government-funded but likely to be contracted out to a ...
Fighting talk from Maori on flag.(NEWS)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Jon Stokes and NZPA Maori broadcaster and Ngapuhi kaumatua Kingi Taurua insisted last night that the Maori independence flag would fly from the Harbour Bridge on Waitangi Day. ''They have made a big mistake,'' Mr Taurua said of Transit's decision to deny ...
Skelton lawyer vows battle to block kidnap proceedings.(NEWS)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: David Eames The lawyer for Kay Skelton says he will fight to make sure she never stands trial for the alleged kidnapping of her son. Barry Hart yesterday told Justice Paul Heath in the High Court at Hamilton that Family Court documents released last week, and ...
Dumped woman murdered.(NEWS)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Elizabeth Binning police reporter The body of a woman found naked and decomposing on the side of a Waikato highway may have been there for 10 days. Police yesterday launched a homicide inquiry after an autopsy indicated she had been murdered. Her ...
Maori Party, PM make a meal of it.(NEWS)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Audrey Young and Ruth Berry The Maori Party yesterday extended an olive branch to Labour with talk of a dinner with the Prime Minister -- and Helen Clark accepted it. After a two-day strategy caucus, coleader Tariana Turia said yesterday at a press conference ...
Prison guard 'feared for her life'.(NEWS)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Maggie McNaughton A female prison guard who was allegedly held hostage at knifepoint in a jail storeroom before being rescued by the armed offenders squad has told a court how she feared for her life. Jeremy William Mataira, 46, is accused of holding the woman ...
Lamed Peters limps in Brash's footsteps.(POLITICS)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: -- Audrey Young Foreign Minister Winston Peters is suffering the effects of a knee reconstruction operation in mid January and is laid up at home in Auckland recuperating. He required the aid of a crutch to get to and from the Orewa Rugby Club rooms on ...
Piha Boys' Brigade camp for sale.(NEWS)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Wayne Thompson A chunk of coastal land near Piha -- Camp Stedfast, which is owned by the Boys' Brigade -- is for sale because camping has fallen out of favour. The 8.1ha site in Glen Esk Rd -- about 10 minutes walk from the beach -- was bought as a centennial ...
Sometimes, democracy can stink.(PERSPECTIVES)
Feb 01, 2007 ... QUEENSLAND, like much of Australia, has been in the grip of a worsening water shortage this summer. Until a few days ago the state government of Queensland planned to ask its voters by referendum whether they were prepared to drink recycled water. Last Sunday the state premier announced ...
Waste timber fire threatens houses.(PERSPECTIVES)
Feb 01, 2007 ... The area of low land, which for many years was the dumping ground for sawdust, slabs, and other waste timber from the Aratapu sawmills, has become the scene of considerable excitement, and the cause of much alarm. During a course of years this piece of land, several acres in extent, became ...
Economy in need of Key's attention.(PERSPECTIVES)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: GARTH GEORGE I HAVE been watching John Key carefully since I so fulsomely welcomed his election as leader of the National Party.So it waswith more than the usual interest that I read the full text of his ''state of the nation'' address in Christchurch on Tuesday. ...
Team effort for homeless.(PERSPECTIVES)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Cathy Casey IT IS easy to accuse the city council of not doing enough for the homeless after seeing a homeless person asleep in a doorway in the central business district. The fact is it not the city council's role to provide services for homeless people. But ...
Celebrations dogged by controversy.(THE BACK PAGE)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Waitangi Day is a commemoration of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, which is New Zealand's founding document. The Treaty came about after conflict between Maori and early European settlers and the exploitation of land by some colonists in the early 1800s. The ...
The Numbers.(THE BACK PAGE)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: -- Compiled by Phoebe Falconer 100,000 Letters addressed to Santa received by NZ Post each Christmas. 619sq km Area of Lake Taupo, the largest lake in New Zealand. 1020m Depth of a drill hole at the Ross Ice Shelf in ...
Side Swipe.(THE BACK PAGE)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Early on Saturday morning at the Westhaven boat ramp Matthew McLeod noticed a kayak sitting awkwardly on the pier next to the ramp. ''Once we got closer we realised that the kayak was still strapped to the roof rack of a car. Apparently the owner had stepped out of his car at the ramp and ...
World's oil addiction likely to turn ugly.(WORLD)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Billy Adams Herald correspondent, in Sydney Like a heroin user denied his next fix, governments in Europe got very uptight when oil stopped flowing through one of the continent's most vital arteries last month. Who could blame them. Sudden shortages of oil -- ...
Telecom in $445m bid for PowerTel.(BUSINESS HERALD)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Jenny Keown telecommunications reporter Telecom has made a last-ditch attempt to save its struggling Australian subsidiary AAPT with a takeover bid for network company PowerTel. The A$397 million ($445 million) bid, which could spark a takeover battle with ...
Neuren in pole position for $1 billion heart drug race.(BUSINESS HERALD)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Owen Hembry Auckland-based Neuren Pharmaceuticals has become the first Australasian biotechnology firm to win US approval for phase 3 trials of a human drug -- placing it first in the race for a global market worth more than $1 billion a year. The US Food and ...
Faith in housing sector at boom level.(BUSINESS HERALD)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Brian Fallow Confidence in the housing market has gathered strength, with the number of people expecting house prices to rise reaching levels last seen at the height of the housing boom in 2003. The figures, in ASB Bank's quarterly survey, will be the last ...
COMBINED STRENGTH WILL APPEAL TO MARKET.(BUSINESS HERALD)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: -- Jenny Keown Telecom isconfident that a takeover of Australian networkcompany PowerTel will make AAPT more attractive to the corporate and wholesale market. Telecom chief financial officer Marko Bogoievskisaid that under the proposal, AAPT would still ...
Rearranging the deckchairs.(BUSINESS HERALD)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Brian Fallow Economics Editor TOMORROW night the world gets an updated consensus view from the climate scientists on the pace of global warming and how much of it is our fault. The news isunlikely to be reassuring. The United Nations set up a ...
Another advertising agency gobbled up.(BUSINESS HERALD)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: John Drinnan marketing reporter Advertising agency DDB is buying one of New Zealand's few remaining independent ad firms, in the latest episode of the industry's continuing consolidation. DDB New Zealand group managing director Sharon Henderson has announced ...
Resistance emerges to O'Reilly's APN offer.(BUSINESS HERALD)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Liam Dann The bid by Sir Anthony O'Reilly's Independent News and Media (INM) to privatise Australasian media company APN looks set to face resistance from key shareholders. INM, backedby private equity companies Carlyle and Providence, is offering A$6.05 a ...
Kiwis confident about sundown years.(BUSINESS HERALD)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Adam Bennett New Zealanders are more confident than Australians about receiving sufficient retirement income despite having less than an eighth of Australia's per capita savings, according to a recent survey by AXA. The fund manager's annual Retirement Scope ...
Compensation issues may figure in Transpower plan.(BUSINESS HERALD)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Adam Bennett Farmer opposition to Transpower's revised plan to upgrade the national grid between south Waikato and Auckland is unlikely to derail the plan financially, chief executive Ralph Craven says. Having given its initial rubber stamp to the plan, the ...
Drop in dairy exports leads to wider December-quarter trade gap.(BUSINESS HERALD)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Brian Fallow A drop in dairy shipments saw the trade gap widen in the December quarter as the country pulled in $1.19 of imports for every $1 of exports. Adjusted for seasonal effects, exports fell 3.4 per cent compared with the September quarter, Statistics ...
You'll enjoy the view from your new Windows.(BUSINESS HERALD)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Peter Griffin There was a moment 45 minutes into my installation of Windows Vista Ultimate when I thought I had made a terrible mistake. The progress bar was frozen at 82 per cent complete, the computer churned away but nothing happened. Finally the computer ...
Ten good reasons why it's worth switching.(BUSINESS HERALD)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: PETER GRIFFIN interrupt IT'S true what the analysts say-- amove to Windows Vista is inevitable. Unless you make late conversionto the Apple Mac or Ubuntu Linux, you'll be using Vista before long. It's nota matter of if, but when. Buying an ...
Stepped-up security will be a key selling-point for business users.(BUSINESS HERALD)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: SIMON HENDERY interrupt WELLINGTON businessman Shaan Stevens was at Beijing airport, about to board a flight to Mongolia, when the scammer struck. An official-looking man told Stevens and other passengers the plane was too full so they would have to hand over ...
Tough job for trotters to put One Over Kenny.(SPORT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Guerin A campaign that ended in failure may be the key to One Over Kenny winning the Australasian Trotting Championships. The exciting mare starts the toughest week of her career at Ballarat on Saturday night, taking on Australia's best trotters (and ...
Aucklanders left stumped by surprise loss to Central.(SPORT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Chris Rattue Auckland were semifinal certainties before taking the field against Central Districts yesterday, but their one-day title prospects hardly progressed at Eden Park in their final-round match. Otago had already assured themselves of hosting this ...
Best in world coming to Auckland water polo cup.(SPORT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: -- David Leggat World champions Serbia will contest water polo's Southern Cross Cup in Auckland, adding real lustre to the March event. The Athens Olympics silver medallists opted out of a similar pre-world championship event in Sydney to avoid a clash to ...
Cameron returns to Waikato franchise.(SPORT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Tall Blacks captain Pero Cameron is set to return to the National Basketball League for Waikato, after spendingthe summer in Turkey with the Tab Baldwin-coached Banvitspor club. Waikato general manager John Davey hopes to have his ...
Sosa comeback.(SPORT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Baseballer Sammy Sosa, 38, signed a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers yesterday, taking a first step towards a return to the major leagues. A seven-time All-Star and former National League MVP, Sosa reportedly agreed to a base salary of US$500,000 ($734,755) but could ...
Breakers looking to their tall timber.(SPORT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... The Breakers are looking to their big men to slay the Dragons tonight and keep their ANBL playoff hopes alive. Fresh from back-to-back wins over fellow playoff contenders from Singapore and Wollongong, the Breakers are in a group of four teams all gunning for the one remaining ...
Nacewa key to striking back at Crusaders.(SPORT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Wynne Gray By default last year, by design this season. Isa Nacewa's choice as Blues first five-eighths will enter a new phase tomorrow as they look to unsettle the champion Crusaders in the start to the Super 14. Former Fijian international Nacewa wore the ...
U-20 All Whites qualify for Cup.(SPORT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Terry Maddaford The New Zealand men's under-20 team will follow their female counterparts on to the international stage at the Fifa World Championship later this year after winning the Oceania Championship. Needing a win over New Caledonian in the tournament ...
Vaughan will miss out.(SPORT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... England cricket captain Michael Vaughan is set to miss therest of the tri-series as he struggles to recoverfrom a hamstring injury. Vaughan suffered the injury in England's second game-- and only win against New Zealand-- of the series and was ...
Flynn to join world body.(SPORT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... NewZealand cycling is to lose highly regarded official Michael Flynn, who has been head-hunted by the sport's world governing body. BikeNZ's high performance director for the past two years has accepted a role with the ...
Explosive defender earns recall to fill Davu's Silver Fern shoes.(SPORT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Julie Ash Sheryl Scanlan's hard work in the off season has been rewarded with a place in the Silver Ferns squad. Netball New Zealand yesterday announced the former Silver Ferns defender had been added to the squad after impressing national selectors in recent ...
AUSSIES TAKE 'PACK OF DOGS' CHARGE AS A COMPLIMENT.(SPORT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Richard Boock Australian batsman Matthew Hayden reckons a clutch of disparaging comments made by New Zealand counterpart Lou Vincent wouldonly help his side win this summer's tri-series. Vincent hit the headlines in Australia yesterday after claiming the ...
All right, we were wrong about the formerly Unwatchables.(SPORT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Richard Boock in Melbourne Okay, time for another apology. In common with other newspapers, we may have been guilty of suggesting that John Bracewell was not quite the next Albert Einstein, and that his selection policies appeared to have been designed by a ...
Musings and motorbikes.(TIME OUT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Byline: Ross Noble WHAT's comedian Ross Noble, who is TimeOut's favourite rambler, thinking? Can't stand it. Think it's the dullest sport alive, and if you're English, people just assume that you care. Cricket is just like watching a bunch of blokes standing in a ...
In-tent on having a good time.(TIME OUT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... YOU wouldn'texpect an Aucklandcentric event to be named after Moscow's most famous plaza. But Red Square is where you'll want to be during next month's AK07 Festival. Britomart's Gore St will be closed and renamed to host a nightly line-up of performers in the famous ...
Stacks of sleaze.(TIME OUT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... THEY'RE sleazy, they're sexy and the Eagles of Death Metal want you. They're so keen to score that the band's founders -- Jesse ''The Devil'' Hughes and his childhood friend Josh Homme (formerly of Jyuss and now frontman of Queens of the Stone Age) -- are heading to Auckland to ...
Lighting up Dark Side.(TIME OUT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... SOLO FLIGHT: No it's not A Piper at the Gates of Dawn (above) but saxophonist Ian Ritchie blowing up a solar storm on Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun.Mr Waters himself (right) who we can't decide looks more like Richard Gere or Bill Nighy. And (below) yes it'sthe great pig in ...
THE SELECTION.(TIME OUT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... . . . I get these days, I found out about being accepted into Sundance through email. I was stoked. I think I even did the fist in the air things that you Americans do. But I didn't say ''YES!!!'' That would have been too much. UsNew Zealanders are subtle people.'' any. . . I ...
Sweet sounds from the radio.(TIME OUT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Cast: Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Garrison Keillor, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan, Virginia Madsen, John C. Reilly, Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin Director: Robert Altman Running time: 105 mins Rating: PG (contains coarse language) Screening: Northcote Bridgeway, ...
In pursuit of relief.(TIME OUT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Cast: Will Smith, Thandie Newton, Jaden Smith Director: Gabriele Muccino Running Time: 118 mins Rating: M, low-level offensive language Screening: SkyCity, Hoyts and Berkeley cinemas Reviewer: Francesca Rudkin Verdict: Depressing and ...
PI ploy dulls Man of Steel.(TIME OUT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Cast: Ben Affleck, Adrien Brody, Diane Lane Director: Allen Coulter Rating: M (violence, offensive language, sex scenes) Running time: 127 mins Screening: Village, Berkeley cinemas Reviewer: Russell Baillie Verdict: Drama ...
Verbosity deconstructs.(TIME OUT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Director: Sydney Pollack Running time 83 minutes Rating: Exempt Screening: Academy Reviewer: Peter Calder Verdict: Intimate and illuminating documentary that lingers too little on the buildings. PROLIFIC producer, ...
Pretty close to home.(TIME OUT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... Cast: Starfish Director: Sandor Lau Running time: 75 minutes Rating: R16, violence, offensive language, drug use Screening: Academy from Feb 6 Reviewer: Peter Calder Verdict: Engaging portrait of a traffic-light windscreen ...
R&B.(TIME OUT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... ONE OF the most successful boy bands in history performs across the North Island in the coming week. Boyz II Men formed in 1988, and since then have sold millions of albums, on the strength of three major songs;End of the Road, I'll Make Love To You, and One Sweet Day. Even if you're not a ...
CLASSICAL.(TIME OUT)
Feb 01, 2007 ... UNTIL BURT Bacharach broke his collarbone, the NewZealand Symphony Orchestra was set to perform this weekend in Auckland. Bacharach's replacement is none other than legendary songstress Dionne Warwick. The multi-Grammy winner sings with the NZSO at Auckland's Aotea Centre ...