New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand) back issues from July 2007:
RADIOGUIDE.
Jul 02, 2007 ... RNZ NATIONAL6.00 Morning Report Radio New Zealand's breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour, including: 6.18 Pacific News; 6.22 Rural News; 6.27 & 8.45 Waatea News; 6.47 Business News; 7.42 & 8.34 Sports News; 6.44 & 7.41 New Zealand Newspapers; ...
Choking on boomPollution - and Mickey Mouse - threaten to spoil Hong Kong party 10 years after handover to China.
Jul 02, 2007 ... Choking on boomPollution - and Mickey Mouse - threaten to spoil Hong Kong party 10 years after handover to China. C13Milk revolutionKiwi agricultural entrepreneurs say there is huge potential to cash in on Pakistan's dairy industry as the world's fourth largest milk supply looks ...
WEATHER.
Jul 02, 2007 ... WEATHER Occasional showers, heavy at times. Strong and gusty NW, up to 70 km/h in exposed areas. 17C. INDEX Full index - A2Births, deaths - C7-C8TV - B6 Crosswords - B4, B6Sudoku - A11, ...
Setting up your home office.
Jul 02, 2007 ... The twenty-first century has seen a major trend towards work-life balance. Employers have become more flexible about working hours and place of work, freeing up employees to spend more time with their family. But as we gaily plonk the laptop down on the diningroom table and get stuck into ...
Getting your shipping career rolling.
Jul 02, 2007 ... As long as New Zealand trades, there will be demand for people with specialist skills in shipping, freight and logistics. Within this industry are many roles in operations, documentation, marketing and customer services and knowledgeable staff are hard to find. Manukau Institute ...
Labour and Act have struck a co-operation agreement, and its first major effect could be resolution of the impasse over the proposed transtasman dr...
Jul 02, 2007 ... Labour and Act have struck a co-operation agreement, and its first major effect could be resolution of the impasse over the proposed transtasman drug agency. The deal means the minority Labour Government will no longer automatically ignore Act when it looks for backing for ...
MALCOLM BURGESSAgricultureAt loggerheads with Erma.
Jul 02, 2007 ... NATIONAL agriculture spokesman David Carter and his fellow primary produce committee members must be wishing they had inserted a terminator gene into a recent report slamming the Environmental Risk Management Authority as too rigid in its application of the law governing the release of new ...
Fyfe takes Air NZ higherBETWEEN THE LINES.
Jul 02, 2007 ... AS Air New Zealand heads for an increased profit for 2006-07, CEO Rob Fyfe says if he's made an impact on the airline's performance, it's been his willingness to try something new in the market. He says that while not everything has worked, most has. The record so far suggests he is right, ...
Australia won Cupfrom 3-1 down,Team NZ reminded.
Jul 02, 2007 ... On the tow in after yesterday's defeat, Team New Zealand mastman Matthew Mason reminded his team of the story of Australia II in 1983. Down 3-1 against Dennis Conner's Liberty, the Australians fought back to win the America's Cup off Newport 4-3, a feat Mason's crewmates would ...
Lush sounds delight.
Jul 02, 2007 ... ON Thursday, the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's The Age of Chivalry concert offered the chance to sink into some of the lushest music ever written. With 88 musicians on the stage, playing Wagner, Rachmaninov and Richard Strauss, the late romantic spirit was alive, ...
Reborn Ariadne eyes more of waterfront.
Jul 02, 2007 ... Team New Zealand would have had some extra Aussie support this morning - from an ASX-listed marine business keen to buy more waterfront assets around Auckland. Murray Boyte, chief executive of Ariadne Australia, was in Auckland on Friday with company representatives who were ...
Rider's lifedraws inHouston.
Jul 02, 2007 ... Art and pushing 500kg of horse flesh through a fence you can barely see over the top of have absolutely nothing in common. But they are the two passions in life for Shelley Houston. Art nearly claimed the career of Houston, who is now one of New Zealand's most ...
Baby 'burned in shower accident'.
Jul 02, 2007 ... The death of a 22-month-old South Waikato girl from burns was an accident caused when her 8-year-old brother turned on the shower, a relative has claimed. Malcolm Hopa, the grandfather of the man who was caring for Tyla-Maree Dayrll Flynn, yesterday told the Herald the little ...
Six people die in weekend crashes.
Jul 02, 2007 ... The weekend road toll was six last night, more than the number of people killed over each of the past two Easter long weekends. Five of the deaths happened in the North Island. This is the same as the toll for Easter this year and for last year. A 23-year-old man was ...
Bluey could coach Leeds and Kiwis.
Jul 02, 2007 ... Neither Brian McClennan nor the New Zealand Rugby League were doing any talking yesterday about rumours the Kiwis coach will be off to Leeds to replace Tony Smith at the Yorkshire Super League club next season. McClennan has a contract to coach the national team against ...
A capital view of investment, 15 years onBOOK OF THE WEEK.
Jul 02, 2007 ... Capital Ideas Evolving Peter L. Bernstein (John Wiley; 304 pages) FIFTY years ago, the business of managing other people's money was very much an art, not a science, and was largely a matter of finding someone who was privy to inside information. But ...
Whatever happened to.
Jul 02, 2007 ... AFTER 16 years as managing director of Shotover Jet, Queenstown businessman Jim Boult has been leading a slightly less stressful, but no less busy, life. After selling the business to Ngai Tahu, he and his wife Karen bought the Cobb & Co family restaurant chain, although he insists it's ...
ON SPORTS LOSSESWell, well, well. The sun rose on schedule over the South Pacific on Sunday morning.Brian Pittams, Whangamata Let the choking begin...
Jul 02, 2007 ... ON SPORTS LOSSESWell, well, well. The sun rose on schedule over the South Pacific on Sunday morning.Brian Pittams, Whangamata Let the choking begin! John Hamilton, Gold Coast, QueenslandThe real reason the All Blacks lost in Melbourne is that four of the backs had shockers. Carter, poor, ...
ON THE TERRORIST TRAIL.
Jul 02, 2007 ... Police arrest two people in Cheshire, northern England, in connection with the London and Glasgow incidents. Three terrorist suspects are in police custody and a fourth man is under guard in hospital. Yesterday, a Jeep Cherokee exploded shortly after crashing into the ...
That's Life.
Jul 02, 2007 ... I AM now carrying two PDAs. For someone who only receives a couple of calls a day, reminding me to either (a) "Take the dog for his walk", or (b) "Pick up some milk on your way home", you might be right to think even one PDA represents communications overkill. However, in my ...
Cancer casegoes to courtz IN BRIEF.
Jul 02, 2007 ... The decision to fund Herceptin for just nine weeks for women with early breast cancer will be reviewed by a High Court judge. Eight women who are paying between $70,000 and $100,000 each to be treated with Herceptin have lodged a legal challenge, expected to be heard on July 16. Drug ...
A package mistakenly left at Tauranga Airport led to the terminal being closed for six hours yesterday, disrupting the travel plans of hundreds of ...
Jul 02, 2007 ... A package mistakenly left at Tauranga Airport led to the terminal being closed for six hours yesterday, disrupting the travel plans of hundreds of passengers. Seventeen flights were cancelled as a result of the scare, which ended about 6pm when a Navy bomb squad detonated the ...
I did notsmack mychild, saysminister.
Jul 02, 2007 ... Cabinet minister David Cunliffe has become embroiled in a controversy over whether he smacked his 2-year son at a mall in New Lynn. A witness claims to have seen Mr Cunliffe smack his child on the hand at LynnMall to punish him for having hit another child, according to the ...
Back to the drawing board.
Jul 02, 2007 ... Chinks in the All Black repertoire are few, but centre is one area in which they are struggling. The All Blacks remain the side to beat in this World Cup year but late midfield selection dramas continue an uneasy pattern that has seen them derailed in their two previous ...
40pc ofcentres tosnub freechildcare.
Jul 02, 2007 ... Two out of five childcare centres will refuse to offer the Government's 20-hours free for 3- and 4-year-olds, according to a survey released by the Early Childhood Council. And the council - which represents 1000 centres caring for more than 50,000 children - says that of the ...
Churches see their mission to care for creation.
Jul 02, 2007 ... Churches are urging their congregations to take action on climate change and other green issues. Anglican, Catholic and other denominations are trying to address concerns about environmental challenges caused by global warming. An Anglican diocesan climate change ...
COUCHGUIDE.
Jul 02, 2007 ... 8.30PM, TV3 CRIMINAL INTENT A teenager is found dead in her car after a night of partying. The investigation focuses on an ex-boyfriend, the victim's boss and his wife, a supermodel played by Brooke Shields 9.30PM, TV3 MEDIUM Allison dreams ...
Dairying'sbonanzatriggersgoldrush.
Jul 02, 2007 ... The prospect of bumper payouts is luring farmers in other agricultural areas to switch to dairy farming. But although rural lenders say forecasts of increasing dairy income are starting to justify the rising cost of farm land, they are warning against making decisions based on ...
YOUR VIEWS.
Jul 02, 2007 ... The proposal for Auckland's Tank Farm has captured the enthusiasm of many of our online readers. For more Your Views, go to nzherald.co.nz/yourviews. Here is a selection of readers' views: Harry Kay There is always a group of Aucklanders who will object to anything ...
IN MY OPINIONVoldemort? Dumbledore? Who IS Murdoch?
Jul 02, 2007 ... A couple of years ago when I was on a course at New York's Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, my group got the chance to have lunch with some of the senior staff at the Wall Street Journal. Over bread rolls and ghastly iced tea, they explained the internal machinery of their unique ...
Gourmet experience for the connoisseur.
Jul 02, 2007 ... THE 10th anniversary of Princess Diana's death gives Decadence at the Musgrove Studio a timely, even salacious, relevance. Any other time it would be easy to question the relevance to a New Zealand audience of Steven Berkoff's wickedly funny polemic on the English class system. ...
What price tourism after a disaster?
Jul 02, 2007 ... SUFFERING from a tsunami or terrorist attack comes in stages. First are the casualties - the people killed and injured, and the lives that are shattered; then comes the less dramatic but still devastating damage to surviving businesses, which can pile hardship on trauma. ...
Guns N' Roses.
Jul 02, 2007 ... It had been 14 years since Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose last graced New Zealand's shores and it seems the ageing rocker isn't the only one who's grown up a touch. As 12,000 people packed Auckland's Vector Arena on Friday night, the crowd was positively tame compared with that ...
Choose a KiwiSaverplan based on facts.
Jul 02, 2007 ... MUCH has been written and said about KiwiSaver since it was first tabled in the 2005 Budget. It was part of a package of initiatives designed to increase the level of saving by New Zealand households and to support New Zealanders in retirement. And after this year's Budget, with ...
Beauty masks the dangers LINCOLN TAN.
Jul 02, 2007 ... TIME and again, Asian migrants prove they are greenhorns when it comes to facing up to New Zealand's great outdoors. Masters of urban living they may be - probably because most come from cities and need no prompting when it comes to shopping and spotting the best restaurants - ...
Team must kick true and get streetwise.
Jul 02, 2007 ... THE Australians talked a terrific game in Melbourne and the All Blacks need to respond in kind. Mistakes cost the All Blacks dearly at the MCG, which had a marvellous atmosphere on Saturday night. If they had been more accurate, we wouldn't be analysing an All Black defeat. ...
Drugmakers see profit in niches.
Jul 02, 2007 ... LIPITOR is a drugs company's dream. The cholesterol pill made by Pfizer, an American pharmaceuticals giant, is the world's best-selling drug. Last year it earned over US$13 billion ($17 billion) in revenues. Other hugely successful drugs include GlaxoSmithKline's Advair, an asthma remedy, ...
EDITORIALToughing outthe flying kiwi.
Jul 02, 2007 ... With the benefit of hindsight, there was cruel irony in designating 2007 as Export Year. As the kiwi dollar soared through 76USc - no, wait, 77USc - many exporters found it hard enough hanging on to the markets they had, let alone bravely going out into the world to find new outlets for ...
1The general manager of DHL Express New Zealand first worked as a shipping clerk for the kiwifruit exporting side of Dalgety Export Import, an oper...
Jul 02, 2007 ... 1The general manager of DHL Express New Zealand first worked as a shipping clerk for the kiwifruit exporting side of Dalgety Export Import, an operation since swallowed up by PGG Wrightson. 2His Mastermind subject would be the works of P.G. Wodehouse. "You could say that Jeeves ...
Joiner is outfitterto the business stars.
Jul 02, 2007 ... ROBERT Darroch used to be a joiner. Now he runs his own successful export company with the likes of McDonald's, IKEA, Mobil and BP on its books. The boss of manufacturer Future Products Group is having a good year: his company is on track to expand its European market and will ...
GAS THAT CAUSES WORLD WARMING.
Jul 02, 2007 ... What's wrong with methane gas?It traps the sun's rays in the Earth's atmosphere, which heats up the world. Isn't carbon dioxide the main problem?It is in most countries. But methane is nine times as bad and in New Zealand our belching sheep and cows produce a lot of it.Maybe ...
GREENHOUSE GASESChance for livestock to breathe easy.
Jul 02, 2007 ... Satellite images of greenhouse gas clouds over New Zealand suggests methane from livestock may not be as big a problem as first thought. And the New Zealanders who found the satellite discrepancy believe that if their theory proves true, the find could have major implications on ...
Debt hangover for new PM.
Jul 02, 2007 ... ALTHOUGH finance directors often become chief executives, the same is not true in politics. More often than not, the tricky job of managing the country's economy and the public finances wrecks promising careers. Gordon Brown is an exception because he presided over a decade of ...
AthleticsTAUPOFor the second week in a row, in-form cross-country runner Sam Dobson was tested right to the finish by a younger runner.
Jul 02, 2007 ... AthleticsTAUPOFor the second week in a row, in-form cross-country runner Sam Dobson was tested right to the finish by a younger runner. At the North Island cross-country championships at Taupo on Saturday, Dobson had to endure a determined attack from Wellington's Terefe Ejigu ...
THE GREEN TEST.
Jul 02, 2007 ... What are you personally doing to make a difference environmentally? At home we use energy-efficient light bulbs, have double-glazing, a heat pump and underfloor heating. I constantly try to convince my daughter that the light doesn't have to be on in her room when she's not there. We turn ...
Inside America's packed gulags.
Jul 02, 2007 ... IF there was any upside to the whole Paris Hilton brouhaha, it is that her brief incarceration in the Los Angeles County jail system has exposed a real scandal: the dramatic growth of the US prison population and the chronic overcrowding in a penal archipelago bursting at the seams. ...
An illusion ofthose wild times.
Jul 02, 2007 ... IT WILL never be the same. But no one here - not even the bogan chick vomiting over the railing or the teens in their ironic bandanas or the politely seated older fans - expects this strange incarnation of Guns N' Roses to fully transport them to the 80s. You have to use your illusion. ...
On-again, off-again $198mHobsonville bypass on again.
Jul 02, 2007 ... Waitakere City leaders are highly relieved by assurances that bulldozers will begin work on a $198 million motorway bypass of Hobsonville this year, but residents say they have heard it all before. "Once again we are thrilled, but we will believe it when we see it," said Malcolm ...
Many house-sellers favourbypassing estate agents.
Jul 02, 2007 ... Half of the people trying to sell their homes plan to go private and bypass real estate agents, research released today shows. The sellers blame high commissions and undue pressure from agents for their decision, the Nielsen research reveals. Alistair Helm, chief ...
Ref's bizarre call has big effectAustralia 20All Blacks 15.
Jul 02, 2007 ... It was one of the more puzzling decisions from referee Marius Jonker on an evening when he confused most at the MCG. For much of the opening Bledisloe Cup test, he unveiled the new referee rotation system at scrums, finding alternate fault with the All Blacks then the Wallabies ...
Trouble? You could write a book about it.
Jul 02, 2007 ... Apartment advocate Jules Flight was so enthusiastic about inner-city living that last year he wrote a book, The High Life, about the topic. Describing apartment living as a "glamorous, exciting and affordable" style of living without transport or maintenance worries, Mr Flight ...
When a $2.5m settlementis nowhere near enough.
Jul 02, 2007 ... Residents of three large apartment towers in Ellerslie settled their leaky building claim for $2.5 million - but are aghast to discover the blocks will probably cost double that to fix. Inhabitants of the 76-unit Ellerslie Court iron-gated community on Harrison Rd won a $2.5 ...
Team NZhavedoneus proud.
Jul 02, 2007 ... WHATEVER the outcome of this America's Cup, when we look at where Team New Zealand are now compared to where they were in 2003 we should be proud. For me, from a country of four million, being here in the middle of Europe, where we don't count, I find the awareness of New ...
Kiwi swaps oil tankers formedia role in inflatables.
Jul 02, 2007 ... When you are at an America's Cup regatta, you often think that the 24m, fantastically sleek yachts are as big as it gets and that skippers such as Dean Barker and Brad Butterworth have the heaviest responsibility of all. Nuh-uh. Meet Khushla Draffin of Gisborne, one of the ...
LETTER FROM SYDNEYGo directlyto jail.
Jul 02, 2007 ... PROFESSOR Allan Fels, now dean of the Australian and New Zealand School of Government, tells a wonderful story about price fixing. During his energetic and effective period as chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), he chanced to be in Newcastle, ...
Draw No 1047Bonus.
Jul 02, 2007 ... Draw No 1047Bonus 1132328324038 Total prize pool: $3,675,640 Four division one winners, from Manukau, Palmerston North, Christchurch and Kaiapoi, each take home $500,000. Division One:$500,000(4) Division Two:$14,420(18) Division ...
Where there's a Wills, there's a way.
Jul 02, 2007 ... WILLS and Kate are back on. That's the word from the New Zealand Woman's Weekly and the Woman's Day. It seems Prince William has realised what he let go when he broke up with Kate Middleton and they have been spotted getting intimate. The Weekly quotes a guest at an ...
High marksMANAGEMENTfor civil servants.
Jul 02, 2007 ... DB Breweries came out number one in a recent survey by organisational psychology company Winsborough, which rated companies on their success in creating productive senior teams. The management of selected companies was ranked on their decision making, direction and sense of ...
WENDY MEYER: TRAFFIC WATCH.
Jul 02, 2007 ... Wendy Meyer has just about seen it all in eight years of keeping Aucklanders updated on traffic conditions. But the behaviour of some drivers can still amaze - for example, the man who stopped on the Harbour Bridge in rush hour to eat a bowl of cereal. Then there was ...
Helplessness of rare lossstings All Black fullback.
Jul 02, 2007 ... Shunted to his favoured fullback position in his 50th test, Mils Muliaina did not see an appealing All Black picture unfolding in front of him. As he had done on just four other occasions in coach Graham Henry's 41-test tenure, Muliaina felt the helplessness of defeat. ...
Girl, 11, missing for five days.
Jul 02, 2007 ... Police are becoming increasingly concerned for the safety of an 11-year-old girl who has been missing for five days. Gemma Williams was last seen at her sister's house in Mt Roskill on Wednesday about 9.30am. She doesn't have access to money and doesn't have a mobile ...
MONEYFrom problems to opportunities.
Jul 02, 2007 ... There's no doubt that making money out of investment property is becoming nigh-on impossible. With interest rates tipping 10 per cent, rents well out of kilter with property prices, and now talk of a capital gains tax, it's a rare investor who can turn up a profitable property. ...
Labour puts faith in trioof policiesOUR VIEW.
Jul 02, 2007 ... THE LABOUR PARTY celebrated yesterday. July 1 was the launch date for three disparate policies upon which the Labour Government is depending for a bounceback in the opinion polls. The noisiest entry comes from KiwiSaver, the superannuation savings policy substantially rewritten in the ...
Congress reining Bush inTHEIR VIEW.
Jul 02, 2007 ... AFTER six years of kowtowing to the White House, Congress is finally challenging President Bush's campaign to trample all legal and constitutional restraints on his power. Congressional committees have issued subpoenas for documents and witnesses in two major cases and have ...
WE'RE MOVING.
Jul 02, 2007 ... This is the final Monday edition of The Business. From next week, we'll be publishing every Friday, in a new and enlarged section. As well as the features that now appear in The Business, there'll be the latest news from the Business Herald and its ...