New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand) back issues from March 2007:
Widow nails $250,000.(FRONT PAGE)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Anne Gibson Builders who put up leaky homes could be made to pay after a powerful insurer yesterday abandoned its appeal against a court ruling in favour of a house owner -- and resolved to recover its costs from the builder. Robert McDonald, who built the ...
Mayor's $500m trade dividend based on 'vibes'.(FRONT PAGE)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Maggie McNaughton Auckland Mayor Dick Hubbard says his $500 million estimate of the trade generated by his trip to Hamburg was based on guesswork and''vibes''. The mayor and two council delegates travelled business class to Hamburg last October to discuss ...
Clark to meet George Bush.(FRONT PAGE)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Prime Minister Helen Clark will meet President George W. Bush during a trip to Washington this month. The Prime Minister's office early today confirmed she would meet Mr Bush during a visit on March 20 and 21. She is also likely to have talks with Secretary of State Condoleezza ...
Stings in the tail of beneficiaries bill.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Simon Collins social issues reporter Six years after abolishing the National Government's work-for-the-dole scheme, the Government is being accused of quietly bringing it back. Beneficiary advocates say a bill introduced on Parliament's last sitting day ...
Bike Day rolls around again . . .(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Mathew Dearnaley As children from three North Shore schools received VIP treatment from police motorcycle escorts to Go by Bike Day breakfasts yesterday, a technical hitch left their mayorriding solo. About 75 youngsters from the Belmont and Takapuna Normal ...
Campaign to dob in the red-light runners begins today.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Mathew Dearnaley transport reporter Aucklanders will be invited from today to dob in motorists who drive through red traffic lights, even though promised enforcement cameras will not be installed until late in the year. The Auckland City Council this morning ...
Waikato farmers deaf to pylon logic.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Simon O'Rourke The deputy chairman of the Electricity Commission was sworn at and abused yesterday as he fronted up to 180 Waikato farmers to explain the logic behind the commission's latest pylons decision. At the meeting in Hamilton, Peter Harris tried to ...
IWI LEADERS VOW TO CONTINUE OCCUPATION.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: -- Jon Stokes and Tony Gee Iwi leaders have vowed to continue the occupation of two Landcorp farms despite a Government move to put the sale of the properties on hold. Hauraki spokesman John McEnteer said the tribe would continue the ''repossession'' ...
HUBBARD ON HAMBURG . . .(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Dear Sir I take strong exception to the incorrect statements and inferences in your front-page article yesterday on my business trip to Hamburg last year. The errors of fact are: 1. There is no evidence thatAuckland City had become embroiled in another junket row ...
Govt halts land sales after protests.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Paula Oliver political reporter The Government has been accused of buckling under pressure after its surprise move to halt the sale of a $10 million Coromandel farm-- just hours after the Maori Party encouraged the occupation of land. The sale of Whenuakite ...
Police trial jury adjourns overnight.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... The jury in the trial of suspended Assistant Police Commissioner Clint Rickards and former policemen Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum will resume their deliberations this morning. Justice Judith Potter sent the jury of eight men and four women to their hotel at 9.30pm last night. ...
Hot-selling Chili Peppers announce second concert.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Joanna Hunkin Auckland is set to get a double dose of Red Hot Chili Peppers after the band announced a second show yesterday. Pre-sale tickets to the rock band's April 21 show began selling at 9am but demand was so great that a second concert, scheduled for ...
Jean Batten building just a memory.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: -- Lauren Bartlett The remainsof Auckland's JeanBatten building resembled Ground Zero in New York this week as it lay strippedof its art deco interior, ready tomake way for a new 19-storey BNZ tower on Queen Street. Internal features such as the ceiling and ...
$1m migrant site has just two job ads.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: -- Derek Cheng A $1 million Government recruitment drive to link New Zealand employers with skilled overseas migrants has attracted adverts for only two vacancies this year: a nurse and a hairdresser. The Government admits that the website NetworkZ Online is ...
Kohanga Reo bosses accused of inaction.(POLITICS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Jon Stokes Maori issues reporter Senior officials of the Kohanga Reo National Trust have been accused of failing to act on serious complaints about misuse of a preschool's money. The complaints were made by Te Tane-nui-arangi Kohanga Reo treasurer Keriana ...
Rejection of stem cell procedure dashes hopes.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Jarrod Booker South Island correspondent Karen Jones dreams of being able to use her hands again. But the 29-year-old Auckland tetraplegic fears her brightest hope may be dashed after a Ministry of Health committee rejected an eagerly anticipated trial using ...
Killer-for-hire tells court of husband's grisly orders.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: David Eames A taxi driver's alleged plot to kill a priest underwent three revisions before the hitman he tried to hire realised he was serious and contacted the police. The would-be assassin yesterday told the High Court at Auckland he met the taxi driver a ...
Schools get creative over class sizes.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Simon Collins High schools have only slightly reduced average class sizes despite their numbers of foreign fee-paying students almost halving in the past three years. A survey of 66 schools by the Post-Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA) has found that ...
Fraught results of zoning.(PERSPECTIVES)
Mar 01, 2007 ... IN a world untainted by school zoning, children showing particular scholastic ability could be educated with others of similar talent, so their potential stood the best chance of being fully realised. Likewise, parents who wanted to enrol their children at a school that emphasised the ...
Crowd comes to see wrecked iron ship.(PERSPECTIVES)
Mar 01, 2007 ... News was received in Nukualofa from a native who had ridden down from Fatumu, a village about 16 miles (25km) away by road, that a large three-masted vessel was ashore on the reef below the village, and that the crew had all landed safely. The news spread rapidly and before an ...
Bill rides roughshod over the public will.(PERSPECTIVES)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: GARTH GEORGE THE thing about Sue Bradford's anti-smacking bill that gets right up my nose isnot the stupidity and futility of it but that parliamentarians are permitting itto proceed in the face of the opposition of a vast majority of the populace. It'snot ...
Have your say on city's signs.(PERSPECTIVES)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Bruce Hucker PROPOSED new rules on signs and billboards aim to create a better urban environment. The Auckland City Council encourages people to have their say on the draft bylaws. At the heart of the debate about signs and billboards is a desire to determine ...
Another look at McGehan Close.(PERSPECTIVES)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Richard O'Dowd INEVITABLY Mr Minto will trot out examples of how hard done by certain social groups in society are. So he uses the recently much publicised McGehan Close, that alleged cauldron of economic despair and blunted aspiration, complaining about the fact that 80 ...
Find of the century or a Titanic hoax?(THE BACK PAGE)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: James Ihaka Movie director James Cameron of Titanic fame is behind a documentary, The Lost Tomb of Jesus, which argues that 10 coffins found in a Jerusalem suburb in 1980 may have held the bones of Christ and his family. The 2000-year-old cave is in ...
The Numbers.(THE BACK PAGE)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: -- Compiled by Phoebe Falconer 600 44-gallon rubbish bins at last year's Pasifika Festival. 400 kilos Corned beef sold at last year's Pasifika Festival. 200 Portaloos at last year's Pasifika Festival. ...
Side Swipe.(THE BACK PAGE)
Mar 01, 2007 ... ROMANIAN Bishop Calinic Argatu fears his priests'fat tummies suggest they enjoy too many worldly pleasures and have ordered them to lose weight. He wants them to extend their fast over Lent and recommends extended prayer sessions to reduce weight. The bishop, in chargeof the Arges region, ...
Police try fighting rampant crime with faith.(WORLD)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Rahul Bedi Herald correspondent, New Delhi A police officer in India's lawless eastern Bihar state is seeking divine help to control crime in a province where 16 people are killed, kidnapped or robbed every hour. Rita Kumari, officer in charge of the Hajipur ...
Bagful of toads for pot of beer.(WORLD)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Nick Squires Herald correspondent, Sydney Australians have come up with a new weapon in the increasingly desperate battle against cane toads -- a beer bounty for the capture of the invaders. Cane toads, despised by most Australians for their unlovely ...
Ageing explorer to take his career to a new high.(WORLD)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Paul Vallely in London There is something splendidly barmy about Sir Ranulph Twistleton-Wykeham Fiennes, the aristocratic British explorer who can, it is said, trace his lineage back to Charlemagne. He was, after all, expelled from the SAS, where he had ...
NZ shares weather China storm.(BUSINESS HERALD)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Liam Dann and Christopher Niesche The New Zealand market stood firm in the wake of the Chinese equity slump which sent shockwaves around the world yesterday, but market players warn more volatility is likely. Indeed, the 1.5 per cent fall in the NZX50 index -- ...
A $200 billion hiccup -- but nothing has actually changed.(BUSINESS HERALD)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: CHRISTOPHER NIESCHE IT'S worth remembering this: the 9 per cent plunge in the Shanghai Composite Index on Tuesday takes Chinese stocks back to where they were a couple of weeks ago before the Chinese New Year. Whichmeans the $200 billion that was wiped off the value of ...
Rise of the hoon economy.(BUSINESS HERALD)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: BRIAN FALLOW Economics Editor IT IS the hoon economy. Like young guys with too much testosterone and no memoryto speak of, households are taking a lot of risks. They feel invulnerable and are happy, year after year, to spend more than theyearn and drive up ...
SkyCity hit as luck changes for VIPs.(BUSINESS HERALD)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Owen Hembry The high rollers have taken SkyCity Entertainment to the cleaners, slashing interim profit at the listed gambling, hotel and entertainment company. Net profit for the six months ending December 31 was $45 million down from $58.6 million the ...
Project costs put NZOG into red.(BUSINESS HERALD)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Stephen Ward NZ Oil & Gas chalked up a $2.86 million half-year loss as it spent $41 million on three big development projects. The loss compared to a surplus of $2.3 million the previous year and included a provision for writing off the $2.5 million costs of ...
Kiwi net surfers face loyalty choice as web portal wars begin.(BUSINESS HERALD)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Peter Griffin The opening shots of the web portal wars in New Zealand have been muted asinternet giants Microsoft and Yahoo quietly bed in new relationships based on Australian media tie-ups. The XtraMSN portal that has been the default start page for tens of ...
Charlie's thinking big as it announces first net profit.(BUSINESS HERALD)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: John Drinnan retail reporter Drinks company Charlie's Group is ramping up marketing for its Char-lie's and Phoenix Organic brands, comparing its growth plans to those of vodka firm 42 Below. Announcing its first net profit yesterday, chief executive Stefan ...
Building surge 'dead cat bounce'.(BUSINESS HERALD)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Anne Gibson House building surged in January but not enough to redress the general decline in new construction during the past few months. Statistics NZ said yesterday that the number of consents for new houses and apartments rose in January by 3.9 per cent ...
State-owned network plan aims for level playing field.(BUSINESS HERALD)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Peter Griffin He is launching a new company he wants to take global, but that hasn't stopped Wellington entrepreneur Rod Drury from formulating a plan he says could end our broadband woes. Drury has published a report, Securing our Digital Trade Routes, in ...
'Cable-the-country' challenge could shake broadband blues.(BUSINESS HERALD)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: PETER GRIFFIN web walk ROD DRURY'S idea for a Government-owned broadband network, open to any players on a cost plus 10 per cent basis, is one worth serious consideration. It's scary that a tech-savvy entrepreneur feels the need totry to find the answer to a ...
Knuckle-raps show telcos still out to profit from confusion.(BUSINESS HERALD)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: SIMON HENDERY interrupt CONFUSION still appears to be a key marketing tool used by telecommunications companies to flog their services. Last week the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)-- the ad policeat the centre of our self-regulating complaints system-- ...
Derby favourites get awkward draws.(SPORT)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Mike Dillon The cheers probably outweighed the groans, but the groans were loud enough when the barrier draw was completed yesterday for Saturday's $700,000 Mercedes Derby. Loudest of all came from the connections of well-fancied Stolen Thunder, one of the ...
Ricky asked to pull right rein.(SPORT)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Michael Guerin It is hard to argue with Steven Reid's logic for jumping off Montecito in tomorrow night's $200,000 Woodlands Northern Derby. The outstanding trainer has added another string to his bow in the last year, compiling an amazing strike rate as a ...
Big names in women's tour.(SPORT)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Women's Tour of New Zealand officials are delighted with the field assembled for the five-day cycling race starting next Wednesday. Race director Jorge Sandoval released the names yesterday, saying the lineup was well beyond his original expectations. He said the 12 ...
Youngster sends them down as quick as lightning Boults.(SPORT)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Martha McKenzie-Minifie He's just 17 but Tauranga schoolboy Trent Boult can bowl as fast as a Black Cap. The Otumoetai College student yesterday bowled 129km/h in wet conditions to be named the country's fastest secondary school bowler. New ...
No horsing around.(SPORT)
Mar 01, 2007 ... India had their first win at the polo World Cup zone D tournament in Clevedon yesterday, beatingAustralia 71/2 to 6. India received a half-goal head start because they had a lower handicap than the Australians, which proved important in a ...
Blues trio recalled to face H'landers.(SPORT)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Wynne Gray The Blues routinely clicked through their selection riches while the Highlanders had to scrabble about to cover for the late withdrawal of wing Viliame Waqaseduadua from tomorrow's Super 14 game. After a week's rest, loose forward Angus Macdonald ...
Holah sidelined again as tough schedule bites.(SPORT)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Wynne Gray For the second time on the Chiefs tour of South Africa, rookie Tanerau Latimer will begin as openside flanker instead of the vastly experienced Marty Holah. Coach Ian Foster thinks his senior loose forwards may be a bit weary after their tough ...
Sailing to Qingdao.(SPORT)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Seven sailors were yesterday named to race at the pre-Olympic regatta in China in August. The team contains Dan Slater in the Finn class, Jo Aleh in the Radial, Laser yachtsman Andrew Murdoch, Star pair Hamish Pepper and CarlWilliams, and boardsailors ...
a little more light.(AUCKLAND FESTIVAL)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Christophe Berthonneau When Christophe Berthonneau - co-founder of the French pyrotechnics company Groupe F - tells you he is a fisherman you know why he might wish that. Most days he spends planning or implementing spectacular shows which involve noise, fireworks, ...
eddie perfect says drink pepsi bitch.(AUCKLAND FESTIVAL)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Direct fromhugely successful seasons at the Edinburgh Fringe and across Australia comes the jet black musical comedian Eddie Perfect. Eddie's voice is angelic but that is where it ends - his lyrics and humour is caustic but devilishly funny. Eddie Perfect's disturbing sense of humour sets ...
the spaghetti western orchestra.(AUCKLAND FESTIVAL)
Mar 01, 2007 ... In a hilarious one hour show The Spaghetti Western Orchestra pay homage to legendary composer, Ennio Morricone's movies scores from western movies such as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and Once Upon Time in the West. The Spaghetti Western Orchestra, formerly the Ennio Morricone ...
Where the Party's at from the 9 to 25 March.(AUCKLAND FESTIVAL)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Auckland's newest hotspot Red Square @Britomart comprises two themed venues, the world renowned -The Famous Spiegeltent and the AK07 Festival Club (Britomart Pavilion). Every night throughout Auckland Festival, AK07 thesevenues come to life with an irresistible line-up of local ...
les 4 saisons...(AUCKLAND FESTIVAL)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Francesca Horsley Auckland Festival, AK07 audiences can expect a highly energetic, optimistic work from Ballet Preljocaj's Les 4 Saisons .../The Four Seasons. Set to Vivaldi's famous violin concertos, the work marks a playful return to belief in humanity for ...
amata.(AUCKLAND FESTIVAL)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Meredith McGrath For more than a decade Black Grace has been almost solely responsible for ensuring New Zealand male contemporary dance is firmly marked on the international landscape. And in that time, Black Grace founder and artistic director Neil Ieremia's ...
a throw of dice.(AUCKLAND FESTIVAL)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Graham Reid Local audiences wondering why they have never heard of the "classic" silent film A Throw of Dice need not be too concerned: this epic Indian drama from 1929 by the German director Franz Osten was almost lost to the ravages of time . A Throw of ...
tea music.(AUCKLAND FESTIVAL)
Mar 01, 2007 ... In Korea, tea and music have a special and spiritual relationship. As Lee So-jung, Korean Creative Music Society international planning director says: "Recently, incountries including the United States, there has been an increase in interest in zen meditation and meditation ...
s3d (ear and eye).(AUCKLAND FESTIVAL)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: PRESENTED BY An event for everyone with ears to see and eyes to listen, S3D celebrates the magic of the new and unexpected with musical instruments that look like sculptures and produce sounds as if from another world. Seven charismatic innovators in the field ...
Big Aussie sedan has 'suited the Kiwi way of life' since seventies.(AUTOMOTIVE)
Mar 01, 2007 ... The Holden Commodore has never finished out of the top five in its 28 years on the sales charts in New Zealand, despite the hike in fuel prices. It was first last year, just ahead of the Toyota Corolla, its main opposition in the sales race for many years. Commodore ...
Toyota counts down to 20 years at top.(AUTOMOTIVE)
Mar 01, 2007 ... The Toyota Corolla was launched in Japan in 1966 and made its way to New Zealand a couple of years later. Since then it has evolved through nine generations to become one of the most successful vehicles of all time. More than 29 million have been sold worldwide -- of that New ...
Asians with attitude.(TIME OUT)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: SCOTT KARA DAVID Tsai remembers the wave of anti-Asian sentiment after the body of Chinese student Wan Biao was found folded into a suitcase and floating in the Waitemata Harbour last year. This prejudice manifested itself in many ways, but Tsai mostly ...
Policy on Maori in signs criticised.(NEWS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: -- NZPA Land Transport New Zealand (LTNZ) faced criticism from Parliament's Maori affairs select committee over restrictions on the use of Maori words on traffic signs. The issue was sparked by an incident in Rotorua last year where a 55-seater bus from Maori ...
New Porsche on all fours.(AUTOMOTIVE)
Mar 01, 2007 ... These are the clearest pictures yet of the new Porsche Panamera, the carmaker's four-door version of the iconic 911. They were taken by a photographer from German spy agency Automedia. The four-seat coupe is set to be launched in 2009. It will be front-engined with ...
10 years on, we are still coming up with scoop firsts.(AUTOMOTIVE)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Byline: Editor, Alastair Sloane It began in March 1997, sitting every two months inside Wednesday's Herald. A couple of years on it appeared every six weeks, or eight editions a year. These days it comes out once a month, except January. ...
New distributor plans sharper pricing for Citroens.(AUTOMOTIVE)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Citroen's Australian importer, Ateco Automotive Pty Ltd, is celebrating 10 years of growth across the Tasman by taking over distribution of the French carmaker's products in New Zealand from today. And the new distributor promises to boost the profile and sales of Citroen, one ...
GT-R muscles up for camera.(AUTOMOTIVE)
Mar 01, 2007 ... These are the best photographs yet of what's to become Nissan's answer to cars like the new Audi R8 and the future Lexus LF-H -- the all-new Nissan Skyline GT-R. Nissan's motorsport department was testing the production-ready GT-R at the Nurburgring in Germany when these ...