New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand) back issues from January 2009:
Twenty20<br/>gravy train<br/>steals more<br/>of our talent<br/>As Ryder and Southee sign up for big bucks, where does this leave the five-day game?<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... A NOTHER dismal affair was foisted on the long-suffering cricket public on Saturday night, only for the new day to bring the cheering news that some of the perpetrators are to join the throngs making a fortune playing in the backyard bash a long way from home. In a boon to the ...
ADOPT<br/>ME<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... Every summer the SPCA receives many abandoned pets needing good homes. This adorable tabby kitten is a 10-week-old male. He is a vivacious, curious feline with a fine set of whiskers. He hasn't got a name yet as SPCA staff don't name kittens until they have separated ...
Drinking<br/>blamed <br/>for boat<br/>tragedy<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... Police have warned of the dangers of mixing alcohol and boating following the disappearance of a Manurewa man during a fishing trip on the Manukau Harbour. Grieving relatives yesterday kept vigil at Bottle Top Bay, South Auckland, as police searched for 33-year-old Ioielu Faiao, ...
Tenants<br/>tackle<br/>brazen<br/>burglar.
Jan 04, 2009 ... Cries of ``please don't call the cops _ I'm sorry'' did not help a man collared by tenants during a brazen attempted burglary of an Auckland property yesterday. The man, who cannot be identified because his case is before the courts, allegedly broke into the Valley Rd, Mt Eden, ...
COUCH GUIDE<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... 10.45AM, TV ONE ASB BANK CLASSIC ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .....Geoff Bryan and Toni Street host live coverage of the women's WTA Tour event in Auckland. ...
BMW beats<br/>Volkswagens <br/>in first stage of<br/>Dakar Rally<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... BUENOS AIRES _ Qatar's Nasser Al Attiyah won the first stage of the Dakar Rally from a posse of Volkswagens led by former world champion Carlos Sainz yesterday. Al Attiyah, winner of the UAE Desert Challenge, completed the 371km dusty run from Buenos Aires to Santa Rosa in 2 ...
Forest humiliate big-money City<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... LONDON _ Nottingham Forest won 3-0 at free-spending Manchester City for the biggest upset in the third round of the FA Cup yesterday, and Southend scored an injury-time equaliser to snatch a 1-1 draw at Chelsea. Nathan Tyson and Rob Earnshaw scored first-half goals for League ...
World protests mount as Israel unleashes ground forces<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... Explosions thundered over the northern Gaza Strip and smoke billowed into the sky as Israeli infantry backed by armour and helicopter gunships battled against Islamist Hamas fighters last night (NZT). At daybreak from a vantage point on the Gaza border, incessant artillery ...
LEADING QUESTIONS<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... How has the credit crunch changed your world? It's changed everybody's world, it's just some people don't know it yet. How serious is the current downturn in a historical context? It's most likely a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence. Nobody knows how long or short it's going to be. What helps ...
Triathlete's long<br/>struggle back.
Jan 04, 2009 ... Seventeen months after being struck by a car on a training ride, Auckland triathlete Anna Hamilton has defied the odds. The 21-year-old was lucky to survive the horrendous August 2007 smash that left her with severe neck, spine, knee and shoulder injuries and needing an ...
Free use by<br/>big trucks<br/>will cut life<br/>of clip-ons.
Jan 04, 2009 ... Transport officials admit that allowing heavy vehicles unrestricted use of the Auckland Harbour Bridge clip-ons could knock 10 years off their life. The Transport Agency caused an outcry before Christmas by blocking a campaign for walking and cycling links on the bridge, saying ...
Disability <br/>holds back<br/>family's<br/>move to NZ<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... An English family trying to start a new life in New Zealand are afraid their application will be rejected because their daughter has a serious illness. Shaun Potter, who heads a technology department at an East Sussex secondary school, and his wife, a youth justice worker, said ...
Joint buy offers IndyMac the kiss of life<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... A seven-member investor group including billionaire George Soros and Dell founder Michael Dell have agreed to buy failed lender IndyMac Bank, one of the largest casualties of the housing bust, for US$13.9 billion ($23.7 billion). IndyMac, which specialised in loans made with ...
KOPU WORK MAY START EARLY.
Jan 04, 2009 ... Construction is likely to start before the end of next year on a replacement for the rickety one-lane Kopu Bridge _ bane of holidaymakers travelling between Auckland and the Coromandel Peninsula. Transport Minister Steven Joyce said last night that he wanted to get the $32 ...
$10m pollution battle on target<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... A $10 million wall designed to stop nutrients polluting Rotorua's Lake Rotoiti is successfully diverting water away from the lakebed. But Environment Bay of Plenty says it is too early to say whether the wall has lowered levels of harmful algae in the lake. The Ohau ...
EDITORIAL<br/>PUBLISHED SINCE 1863, NO. 44,151 IMONDAY, JANUARY 5, 2009<br/>Attitudes the<br/>problem, not<br/>liquor outlets<br/>.(Editorial)
Jan 04, 2009 ... W E REPORT today the beginnings of a backlash in some communities around the country against sales of liquor in their locality. The number of outlets has more than doubled since the law was liberalised in 1989 but resistance to new licences seems to have greatly intensified since the ...
BREVITIES<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... ON DOMINIQUE PRIEUR Interesting that Ms Prieur has joined the French Fire Service. She knows a lot about starting fires, now she'll have to learn to put them out. Sort of like poacher turned gamekeeper. Don Donovan, Albany. ON WARMING I welcome a wide variety a opinions in the ...
Rainbow Warrior attack reckless<br/>READERS' FORUM<br/>BODY'S VIEW<br/>.(Letter to the editor)
Jan 04, 2009 ... For you to say that Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira ``was accidentally killed'' seems bizarre. ``Recklessly'' would have been more accurate, or possible ``inadvertently'', but it's not as if the French agents (saboteurs, terrorists, call them what you will) tripped and ...
Liquor <br/>backlash _<br/>locals say<br/>no to stores.
Jan 04, 2009 ... The liquor industry has been hit by a grassroots backlash around the country since Manurewa liquor store owner Navtej Singh was killed last year. Communities at Mairangi Bay, Oranga and Roskill South in Auckland and Cannons Creek in Porirua have all protested against proposed ...
Manukau low on<br/>liquor outlet list<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... Manukau has the second-lowest density of liquor outlets in New Zealand, despite intense public concern about the proliferation of outlets there. A Herald analysis of liquor licences against population shows that most low-income urban districts, including Manukau's neighbours ...
Bertos gets his reward as Phoenix cash in<br/>Phoenix 3<br/>Jets 0<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... The season lives on for the Wellington Phoenix. After an hour as pretenders rather than genuine Hyundai A-League contenders, the Phoenix last night snatched two goals in five minutes, added a third five minutes from time and comfortably held on to beat the Newcastle Jets 3-0 at ...
Princess Coup has run her last race<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... Princess Coup was retired yesterday. The shock announcement was made after the mare started to show significant signs of wear and tear in the legs that carried her to multimillion-dollar stardom. Princess Coup had been back in Mark Walker's Matamata stable only a ...
3 pulled out alive after<br/>quake demolishes hotel<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... MANOKWARI _ A hotel in Indonesia's West Papua province collapsed when the second of two powerful earthquakes hit the region yesterday. Three people were pulled alive from the rubble. The three guests who had been staying at the Mutiara hotel in the city of Manokwari were taken ...
RADIO GUIDE<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... RNZ NATIONAL 6.00 Summer Mornings with Stuart Keith A miscellany of music, stories and random thoughts. 7.00 Summer Report Todd Niall and Rowan Quinn present three hours of information and entertainment (summerreport@radionz.co.nz). 9.06 Summer Noelle with Noelle McCarthy ...
No ordinary days for<br/>not-so-lone rangers<br/>CONSERVATION<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... On New Zealand's protected island reserves there is an emerging new breed of Department of Conservation ranger. The not-so-lone rangers are a far cry from the hermit cliches of the past. Often young and techno-savvy, the sociable rangers are all-rounders and take the ...
Broken bottles society's hangover<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... Rachael Vakauta has had to stop her children playing in the park which is virtually outside their front door _ because it is so often strewn with drinkers' broken bottles. Mrs Vakauta, 33, has lived close to Molley Green Reserve since she was four, a tiny patch of greenery in a ...
Kiwi making history in Dakar Rally<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... Michael Shepherd is realistic that the only ``first'' he is likely to get in the Dakar 2009 rally is as the first New Zealander to race a motorbike in one of the world's most demanding endurance races. In fact, 44-year-old Shepherd, Kaitaia born and bred and with no sponsorship ...
z IN BRIEF<br/>Cardinals soar<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... The Arizona Cardinals beat the Atlanta Falcons 30-24 before a raucous, white towel-waving crowd yesterday in their first NFL home playoff game in 61 years. Arizona quarterback Kurt Warner, in the playoffs for the first time since leading St Louis to a second Super Bowl in the 2001 season, ...
STARS GUIDE<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... You handle sensitive issues in a sympathetic but decisive way. Ruling Mars puts you in a take-charge mood, while lunar energy helps you create harmony at home and work. Results may fall short of expectations. Avoid knee-jerk responses and melodramatic statements, and opt instead ...
MY WORST SUMMER: Siobhan Marshall<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... ``Between series three and four of Outrageous Fortune, Antonia Prebble, who plays Loretta, and I went around the world to Thailand, the Netherlands, Barcelona, Japan, Mexico and some other places in between. We had a wonderful trip and met our friend Aidee Walker (she plays ...
Aussies claim lion's share of Orewa surf events<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... New South Wales Country gave their two rival regions a lesson in determination at the first test of the Transtasman Surf Lifesaving series at Orewa yesterday. Of the 27 events NSW won 10, while fellow Australian region Central Coast won eight and the local Kiwi team from ...
Following the<br/>IT<br/>CROWD<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... Spending on IT is expected to be hit in 2009 as the financial meltdown continues to dominate global economics. According to IDC, spending will still be higher than 2008, although the market analyst firm has slashed its local and global growth forecast. Ullrich Loeffler, who ...
Erakovic, <br/>Craybas<br/>are tough<br/>double act<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... Marina Erakovic will be in doubles action tonight but Auckland tennis fans will have to wait at least 24 hours to see the local hope and the ASB Classic's big guns in singles action. Top-seed and reigning Olympic champion Elena Dementieva, second-seed Caroline Wozniaki and ...
Name from past bounces<br/>up again at Stanley St<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... A familiar tennis name will be back on court during this week's ASB Classic and Heineken Open. Jade and Carolina Lewis will run on to the Stanley St courts on which their father David once competed _ as ballgirls. Mr Lewis, a former Davis Cup player, has coached in ...
Chief reigns supreme in Thames Valley feature<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... Reese Jones reckons he's finally worked Matamata galloper Valley Chief out. Yesterday's $40,000 Richmond Villas Thames Cup was the seventh victory Jones has scored on the gallant front-running stayer. But, he says, it's taken all that time to settle on the perfect ...
Japan's jobless hit the streets.
Jan 04, 2009 ... TOKYO _ A tent village set up in a Tokyo park for the country's growing number of jobless filled up so fast that it was moved to a government building to accommodate the overflow. The Government offered a ministry hall, responding to a request from volunteers, to house more than ...
Cooler nights a welcome relief for the sleepless<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... Anyone sweating through stifling, muggy nights could be in for a reprieve, with cooler nights and warm, dry days forecast for this week. Weather Watch Centre head analyst Philip Duncan said high air pressure would bring warm weather to ``most places, but especially the North Island. ...
WHAT'S<br/>ON<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... ANYONE FOR TENNIS? It's opening day of the ASB Classic at the ASB Tennis Centre in Auckland. This year's line-up is stellar, with Olympic champion and world No 4 Elena Dementieva, No 12 Caroline Wozniaki, former child prodigy Mirjana Lucic, and our own Marina Erakovic. Play starts at 11am, ...
Money pours in for Wikipedia upgrade<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... The nonprofit foundation that runs Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia of user-contributed articles, said it has met its US$6 million ($10.23 million) fundraising goal for fiscal 2008. With about six months left in this year's campaign, the Wikimedia Foundation said it ...
US shares<br/>start year<br/>with gains<br/>.
Jan 04, 2009 ... NEW YORK _ US stocks started the new year higher on Saturday as investors looked beyond another piece of grim economic data and hoped that an economic recovery is on the horizon. Analysts said investors are focusing on stocks such as industrials that often lead the eventual ...
z IN BRIEF<br/>Race to South<br/>Pole begins<br/>.
Jan 05, 2009 ... Six ski teams set off on an international race to the South Pole on Sunday, nearly a century after Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen beat Britain's Robert Scott to reach it, organisers said. The teams, which include an Olympic rower and a blind Irishman, will travel 430 nautical miles ...
Good boaties are sober boaties is the message from Maritime NZ<br/>.
Jan 05, 2009 ... Keep your speed down and don't drink and drive. It's a message motorists are used to having drilled into them but it's one boaties are being urged to listen to, especially after the death of Manurewa fisherman Ioielu Faiao at the weekend. Speaking to the Herald before ...
Home victory ends<br/>wooden spoon race<br/>.
Jan 05, 2009 ... Ricki Herbert is quick to point out that for the first time in A-League history a New Zealand team will not end the season with the wooden spoon. Sunday's 3-0 home win over the defending champion Newcastle Jets guaranteed the Wellington Phoenix will, no matter what, not finish ...
ANZ parent<br/>sets up as<br/>branch in<br/>New Zealand<br/>.
Jan 05, 2009 ... The Australian-based ANZ Banking Group has set itself up as a branch in New Zealand. Australia and New Zealand Banking Group announced to the NZX yesterday that it had established a licensed banking branch in this country, effective immediately. The company said that ...
Australian dollar up<br/>.
Jan 05, 2009 ... The Australian dollar closed higher yesterday, as a more optimistic mood among investors lifted the currency above US71 cents. Commonwealth Bank of Australia currency strategist Joseph Capurso says the move was overdone and expected the local currency to drop back towards US70 ...
BILL RICHARDSON'S RISE _ AND FALL<br/>.
Jan 05, 2009 ... Bill Richardson abandoned his bid to become Commerce Secretary under pressure of a grand jury investigation about political favouritism. Richardson was elected to a second term as New Mexico Governor in 2006. He had been a leading Democrat in the House of ...
Boyhood rivalry revived as<br/>Watson knocks out champ<br/>.
Jan 05, 2009 ... The first game defeat of reigning champion and double world title holder Gary Lawson by Nelsonians Gary Watson and his lead James Pugh was the sensation of the fourth day's play at the National Open Bowls Championships in Auckland yesterday. It wasn't only the result which ...
Doctor got top horses for disabled<br/>.
Jan 05, 2009 ... In the covered arena at Ambury Riding for the Disabled, four horses stand. One seems bothered by the crowd, but a little gentle walk around soothes him. His companions wait patiently as more and more people come to celebrate the life of Jill Calveley, QSM, who died suddenly last ...
Card transactions show record decline<br/>.
Jan 05, 2009 ... Falling petrol prices drove the value of electronic card transactions in November to its biggest monthly decline since monitoring began in 2002. Statistics New Zealand figures show the total value of transactions fell 2.8 per cent in November compared with October 2008 when ...
Bookies resigned<br/>to taking beating<br/> on champion<br/>.
Jan 05, 2009 ... Bookmakers have shelved plans to ignore Auckland Reactor at Cambridge this Friday _ because the champ has scared away most of his opponents. The unbeaten pacer will open a $1.05 favourite tomorrow morning for his next assignment, the $40,000 Ambreed Four-Year-Old Classic on ...
Aiming to get drunk biggest worry.
Jan 05, 2009 ... When Californian midwife Susan Parker arrived in Christchurch in 2001, she found she had settled in ``the most alcohol-driven country I have ever encountered''. It's not that we drink more than anyone else, although we do drink about 15 per cent more than Americans and almost ...
Huge fire rages<br/>in Dargaville<br/>.
Jan 05, 2009 ... Firefighters were struggling to contain a large blaze in Dargaville in Northland last night. The Fire Service received dozens of calls at 7.30pm alerting them to a Normanby St fire blazing in a paint store, a furniture store, a curtains shop and a Red Cross building. ...
ERAKOVIC HAS LOSING START TO TOURNAMENT<br/>.
Jan 05, 2009 ... The prospects of a local title to celebrate at the ASB Classic took a serious dive last night when top seeds Marina Erakovic and Jill Craybas were bundled out of the doubles. The pair had won six of their seven previous matches together and picked up the Japan Open title in ...
FA CUP FOURTH ROUND DRAW<br/>.
Jan 05, 2009 ... (Premier League unless stated, numerals denote division, ML denotes minor league). Liverpool v Everton Southampton (II)/Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur Hull City/Newcastle United v Millwall (III)/Crewe Alexandra (III) Sunderland ...
Big man destined for shining career<br/>by Chris Rattue.
Jan 05, 2009 ... Sonny Fai was destined for great things in league. The 20-year-old's ascent wasn't quite a certainty, and his 2008 debut season in the NRL could be rated as reasonable but not exceptional. But he had outstanding raw material, and was on the right track at a club that ...
Finn & co turn on<br/>super star-power<br/>.
Jan 05, 2009 ... It might be the season for big multi-act outdoor rock festivals but Neil Finn prefers to throw his own international three-day event indoors _ and with just one band. Well, a group of many illustrious parts _ that includes two chaps from Britrock titans Radiohead, most of the ...
Tech shows losing their buzz<br/>.
Jan 05, 2009 ... NEW YORK _ The International Consumer Electronics Show, the largest trade show in the US, opens this week in Las Vegas with a full slate of giant TVs and inventive gadgets, despite the pall of a recession. The economic downturn will temper the normally dizzying extravaganza, and ...
Casting blame over Mideast<br/>conflict futile, says minister<br/>.
Jan 05, 2009 ... The Government is continuing to take a reserved approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict in Gaza and refuses to take sides. Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully said that while deeply disappointed with Israel's invasion, which has caused over 500 Palestinian deaths, it was ...
Trainers poised for hometown honours<br/>.
Jan 05, 2009 ... Telecom New Zealand Derby favourite Le Baron takes a back seat to two unsung stable 3-year-olds on Ruakaka's dual-code card today. It's the turn of lightly-raced maidens Mr Bertarelli and Wearemarshall to shine as the Dean and Donna Logan/Chris Gibbs combination build to a ...
Car theft<br/>leads to<br/>Harder<br/>times<br/>.
Jan 05, 2009 ... Controversial former Auckland lawyer Christopher Harder has spent 13 years documenting his rollercoaster legal career _ but it disappeared in an instant when thieves stole his laptop. Mr Harder says he will give $500 to get the computer back after it was taken when thieves broke ...
HOW FAR<br/>WILL THEY<br/>F<br/>A<br/>L<br/>L<br/>.
Jan 05, 2009 ... So just how far will house prices fall this year? That's the question facing many people considering selling, getting their foot on the ladder or simply keeping a watchful eye on New Zealand's biggest investment sector. Housing's ever-fluctuating fortunes can make or ...
`Hughesie' roves over to<br/>Auckland to shoot TV ad<br/>.
Jan 05, 2009 ... He's known for losing it but Australian comedian Dave ``Hughesie'' Hughes was surprisingly calm as he sauntered Auckland's Vulcan Lane yesterday, filming a budget airline advertisement. A popular radio DJ in Australia, Hughesie is best known to New Zealand audiences for his ...
EDITORIAL<br/>PUBLISHED SINCE 1863, NO. 44,152 ITUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2009<br/>Teacher skill<br/>trumps class<br/>size argument<br/>.(Editorial)
Jan 05, 2009 ... T HE number of children in a school classroom is obviously important to the education each can receive but for many years now we have been led to believe it is the single most important element. Class sizes, or teacher-pupil ratios, have been the profession's explanation for every ...
BREVITIES<br/>.
Jan 05, 2009 ... ON WHALING I'd like to see our Government cut back on ties with Japan until they pull their horns in over killing whales (for any purpose). There's no excuse for killing these beautiful creatures. Mary Nash, Nelson. ON ISRAEL Why is it that when Arabs attack Israel, targeting ...
Agriculture won't be our saviour<br/>READERS' FORUM<br/>BODY'S VIEW<br/>.(Letter to the editor)
Jan 05, 2009 ... Craig Norgate, chairman of PGG Wrightson, writes: ``It will be agriculture that again leads this country out of the crap'' (January 1). Fatally, this perpetuates the myth that agriculture is our economic saviour. We are a low-income, low-productivity nation near the bottom of the OECD ...