Sunday Star-Times back issues from January 1998:
BRIEF - SEXUAL ASSAULT
Jan 04, 1998 ... SEX ATTACK: Police are hunting a man after a 50-year-old womanwassexually assaulted in her Manukau Heights ...
BRIEF - SEXUAL ASSAULT
Jan 04, 1998 ... MAN HUNT: Palmerston North police are investigating an attack ona23-year-old woman who was dragged behind a ...
Anger at hoax mayday, rescue
Jan 04, 1998; ... COROMANDEL coastguard services are angry a prank mayday call andrescue yesterday tied up police and coastguard resources all day. Whangamata Coastguard received a mayday call at 11.13am from amanwho said his five-metre runabout had hit a 44-gallon drum near ShoeIsland, had a ...
Access to Cave Creek reopened
Jan 04, 1998; ... ACCESS to Cave Creek, where 14 people plunged to their deathsfroma viewing platform in 1995, is being reopened. Department of Conservation West Coast community relations officerReg Kemper confirmed work had started on reinstating the track,allowing public access for the first ...
Back on the surf beat again
Jan 04, 1998; ... RECORD breaking Atlantic rower Phil Stubbs found life a littleeasier on the ocean waves yesterday at the 10th Whangamata Surf Boatcarnival. His Waipu Cove crew came third in the eight-boat race and, forStubbs, it was great to catch up with friends and revisit formerlifesaving ...
Maori-only fish zones soon
Jan 04, 1998; ... EXCLUSIVE fishing zones allowing Maori communities to harvest andprotect their customary quota are expected to be created aroundSouthIsland and probably North Island coasts this year. Draft regulations with the Minister of Fisheries provide for thezones -- called mahinga mataitai ...
Plea for falls access
Jan 04, 1998; ... POLICE say the public should still have access to waterfalls,despite four deaths over the holiday period. Brian James Macklan (25) became the latest casualty afterplummeting 55m off the Bridal Veil Falls near Raglan on Friday. TheHamilton man had little chance of survival as his ...
Quiet good works win honours
Jan 04, 1998; ... BY Edna Low's reckoning, she's delivered thousands of Meals onWheels to Mid-Canterbury's needy -- and probably a similar number ofbouquets to Ashburton Hospital patients. It's not something the Methven woman boasts about. But hercommunity thought she deserved recognition and when ...
Hot wind dries out pastures after rain
Jan 04, 1998; ... DRY north-west winds pushed Canterbury temperatures into the 30syesterday, ruining any benefit from a downpour earlier in the week. Ewes on Murray Taggart's farm at Cust, west of Christchurch, hadthe last of the little green shoots in his paddocks resulting fromthe 31mm of rain ...
Snids
Jan 04, 1998; ... PIERRE REY (53) showed memorable optimism when he was accused ofburglary near Marseilles. "You've got the wrong man," he protested."Some ******* must be using my fingerprints." He finished behindbars, however, as did Jon Davison (34) at Key West, Florida. Davisondived into a marina and ...
Attitudes must change - quickly
Jan 04, 1998; ... POLICE have called for a change in New Zealanders' attitudetowardspeeding as the holiday road toll stood at 22 yesterday. With just one day to go, eight more have been killed on the roadsthan last Christmas, prompting concern from Assistant CommissionerPhil Wright. "People are ...
Cut-off finger leads to torture charge
Jan 04, 1998; ... POLICE have laid a rare torture charge against a white power gangmember after a man had his finger cut off. The 23-year-old is incustody after appearing in the Christchurch District Court lastweek.Police allege the man, a member of the Fourth Reich gang, cut thefinger off another ...
It's swim or sink; Swimming lessons to be compulsory in schools
Jan 04, 1998; ... YOUNGSTERS will be forced to learn to swim as part of a newnational effort to reduce the number of drownings. Under new plans, swimming will once again be a compulsory part ofthe school curriculum. Last year, there has been a record low number of drownings, with130 people ...
Pup `a bag of bones'
Jan 04, 1998; ... THEY'VE named her Priscilla, Queen of the SPCA, but unlike hermovie star counterpart who wears a dress, she looks more like a bagof bones draped in a wet paper towel. The six-week-old boxer pup had not had a decent meal in her lifebefore she was picked up wandering a Lower Hutt ...
More hell for the Heavens
Jan 04, 1998; ... A DESTITUTE couple's decade-long battle for compensation from aninsurance company after the collapse of a property deal may bedestined for the Privy Council in London. John and Mary Heaven's New Year celebrations are on hold becauseAMP Finance Ltd might take one last legal avenue ...
Byelections worry for Nats
Jan 04, 1998; ... * The Government could face up to three byelections this year asNational MPs consider their future, reports political editor RUTHLAUGESEN -------------------- THIS summer Jim and Joan Bolger will enjoy the sun and fishing atSnells Beach north of Auckland with their old ...
BRIEF - SEA LIVING MAMMALS
Jan 04, 1998 ... SEAL WATCH: Christchurch police are keeping a close eye on Dumbothe sea elephant after two incidents of cruelty in two days. Lastnight police were ...
BRIEF - BUILDING FIRES
Jan 04, 1998 ... FIRE WATCH: More than 50 firefighters and 15 appliances were onstandby until midnight last night after a blaze destroyed ...
BRIEF - PATROL AND RESCUE CRAFT
Jan 04, 1998 ... SEA DRAMA: Police were last night towing a fishing boat to safetyin Wellington Harbour after it filled with water and started tosink.An ...
BRIEF - HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
Jan 04, 1998 ... UNIT PROBE: Chief Ombudsman, Sir Brian Elwood, will investigatethe agency overseeing crown health enterprises after a complaint byMP Neil Kirton. Sir ...
BRIEF - MOUNTAINS
Jan 04, 1998 ... SUN TIME: The Millennium Office says Mt Hikurangi, in Gisborne,will be the first place in New Zealand to see the sun of the ...
BRIEF - ROAD ACCIDENTS
Jan 04, 1998 ... DROVE OFF: Christchurch police want to find a driver who failedtostop after an accident in ...
BRIEF - PRISONERS
Jan 04, 1998 ... BACK INSIDE: A Paparua Prison inmate who escaped while oncompassionate leave has been caught. Reece Skipper (19), who ...
BRIEF - VIETNAM WAR
Jan 04, 1998 ... CLAIM PIFFLE: Claims former Prime Minister Keith Holyoake misledNew Zealanders over plans to send troops to Vietnam were"unadulterated piffle", ...
BRIEF - PRISONERS
Jan 04, 1998 ... STEER CLEAR: Two escapers are still on the run from New PlymouthPrison. Police say ...
BRIEF - SEXUAL ASSAULT
Jan 04, 1998 ... KILL CHARGE: A Rotorua man has been charged with sexualviolation,kidnapping, threatening to kill and assault. The ...
Kiwi cops by March for Queenslanders
Jan 04, 1998; ... THE FIRST Kiwi police to be lured across the Tasman will bewalking the beat in sunny Queensland in March, but just how many NewZealand officers will be in the first intake will not be confirmeduntil this week. At last count, Queensland police had received 20 applicationsfromNew ...
A Little love goes a long way for Di
Jan 04, 1998; ... WHEN Princess Diana died, Foxton Doll Gallery owner ChristinaLittle was devastated -- but out of the sadness came a 1000-hourlabour of love to recreate Diana's wardrobe. Mrs Little has been a royalty fan since she was child, but it wasDiana who really made an impression on her -- ...
Teachers plan party to back the centre-left
Jan 04, 1998; ... THE Post Primary Teachers' Association plans to form a quasi-political party called People First to campaign for the centre-leftat the next election. The Sunday Star-Times has obtained a letter detailing the plan,sent to some principals and other educationalists last year, ...
Police not told of release; Convicted bomber paroled
Jan 04, 1998; ... POLICE were not told one of New Zealand's most dangerouscriminalswas released from jail before Christmas. Convicted bomber Neil Raymond Swain (40) was paroled fromAuckland's Paremoremo Prison in early December after serving fiveyears and two months of a 12-year sentence for a ...
Science may pinpoint rapist
Jan 04, 1998; ... POLICE hope to use forensic evidence this week to trap a man whosexually attacked two teenage girls. They have been working overChristmas to hunt the man who raped an 11-year-old in her southAuckland home on December 18. The same person, who police fear willstrike again, is believed to ...
Owners threaten to log rimu forest
Jan 04, 1998; ... AGROUP of Maori landowners is threatening to log two blocks ofprime rimu forest in Southland. The freehold blocks are in the middle of the 2300ha WaitutuForest, most of which the Waitutu Incorporation has signed over tothe Department of Conservation for $13.5 million in ...
How the figures stack up
Jan 04, 1998; ... STATISTICS New Zealand has just released the final 1996 censusfigures relating to Maori. They include: * Twenty-three percent of employed Maori men worked as plant andmachine operators and assemblers, while 26% of Maori women worked inthe sales and service field -- the most common ...
Maoridom's big leap forward
Jan 04, 1998; ... * Last year was in many ways the year of the Maori. Huge progresshas been made by Maoridom -- and not just in treaty settlements.RUTH BERRY reports -------------------- Last year was probably Maoridom's best yet. The number of MaoriMPs in Parliament was higher than ever -- ...
Handouts still going to the rich
Jan 04, 1998 ... THE millions of dollars of bonuses paid to public servants on topof their actual salaries will come as something of a surprise tomostNew Zealanders. According to Labour MP Trevor Mallard, the Treasury has paid $1.6million in staff bonuses in the past year, Accident ...
Arise Sir/Dame Ordinary Kiwi
Jan 04, 1998 ... ONCE again an honours list comes and goes without any referencetoSir Bob Charles, and once again the country's golfers -- if, indeed,not the entire population -- must ask "why?" Be that as it may, it is a welcome sign in the latest list thatthere is an extremely democratic spread ...
Calling Sir Tipene
Jan 04, 1998 ... MRS SHIPLEY has announced plans for the roading system in which,among other things, she heralded the imposition of a tax of 11c perlitre as part of the user-pays policy. Like all politicians, Mrs Shipley has a notoriously selectivememory. For many years successive governments have ...
Thank you for front page
Jan 04, 1998 ... FOR THE first time in "yonks" the front page of your paper(December 21) brought joy to my heart. And how appropriate it was a child called Virginia who had avirgin's belief ...
The meaning of pakeha
Jan 04, 1998 ... YOUR Opinion "Loony legislation" (December 28) alluded to thecontroversy the word "pakeha" evokes. Curious, I bought a Maori dictionary from the local book ...
Don't go the Thatcher way
Jan 04, 1998 ... SO Prime Minister Shipley considers the welfare state through itsmechanism "produces young illiterates, juvenile delinquents,alcoholics, drug addicts" etc (December 28). As someone who left New Zealand in the late '50s -- a time whenthe rest of the world regarded this country's ...
There is an alternative
Jan 04, 1998 ... MY WISH for 1998 is that all those who tell me "There is noalternative ... " but to roll over for each and every new economictheory and technological miracle, will engage the unoccupied 90% oftheir brains and consider the ...
Let's create more jobs
Jan 04, 1998 ... THIS Government says it's going to make people work for the dole.People were working before all the factories closed. Does it makeany sense to close down factories, spend our overseas funds on cheapimports, then spend millions creating jobs for people? Car assemblyplants are the latest ...
Christmas all year
Jan 04, 1998 ... AS AN expansion to John Lithgow's letter (December 21), from myobservations it would be apparent that indeed Christmas comes 365times a year in Christchurch. My observations lead ...
Granddad out of touch?
Jan 04, 1998 ... ACCORDING to one of my granddaughters, her friends get pocketmoney without lifting a teatowel. I had hopes that, during the holidays, perhaps some lads mightknock at the door seeking odd jobs and that I might get some helpweeding the garden. I waited in vain. Curious, I ...
The trouble with greed
Jan 04, 1998 ... WHY is it when we introduce personal greed into the equation, allof a sudden former state-owned enterprises head for profit? And whathappens to the clearly incompetent, inefficient management? Do theyall go on the dole, or do they get absorbed into the new structure? If it is so ...
The battle for Orsogna
Jan 04, 1998 ... THE official war history of the battle for Orsogna records:"Therewas some bewilderment among officers as well as men that theoffensive was being pressed so relentlessly, when the commonsensecourse seemed to be to settle down for the winter." The men referred to in your headline ...
Headline was too dramatic
Jan 04, 1998 ... YOUR headline "Kiwis refuse to fight" was unfortunate andmisleading. Crossing the Sangro and attacking Orsogna was a dreadfulbattle, called for intense fighting and resulted in 410 killed and1243 wounded. Battling the length of Italy for 18 months against a stubborn andat times ...
It's all in the blood
Jan 04, 1998 ... RECENT media reports about the high incidence of sunburn raisedquestions as to whether we were getting across the message on over-exposure to the sun. After exhaustive research I have solved the problem. Thosegetting burnt are actually pakehas with a few hundred indigenous ...
New gear for Santa
Jan 04, 1998 ... MAYBE it's time we gave Santa Claus a break. The poor old fellaarrives here faithfully each summer suitably attired for the snowynorthern winter yet constrained by tradition from an appropriatechange of clothes. Perhaps Mr Claus is misguided in visiting the sunny South ...
Time for deworming
Jan 04, 1998 ... I HAVE been living in New Zealand for more than 30 years and havealways considered it to be the best country in the world. I alsofeel very proud to be a Kiwi. But for many years, I see it as a dairy cow -- it has been highlycontagious with internal parasites and ...
In a paddy over words
Jan 04, 1998 ... ALAN PEARSON (December 21) made reference to racist jokes andcomments about the English, including the use of the derogatory term"Poms". To this we can add reference on national ...
Farmer beautified his land
Jan 04, 1998; ... JOHN CARRICK ROBERTSON Long-time King Country farmer. BornWaihi, May 22, 1907. Died Auckland, December 18, 1997, aged 90 -------------------- NINETY years ago, John Robertson was carried to outlying farmsandtimber mills around Waihi as his parents did their ...
Facts of Life
Jan 04, 1998 ... THE average New Zealand family travels just over 17,000km a yearon the country's ...
Today in History
Jan 04, 1998 ... ON THIS DAY in 1813, Isaac Pitman, inventor of the world's pre-eminent shorthand system, was born in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. Hisattempts to reform English spelling were much less successful. * In 1809, Louis Braille was born at ...
Rugby field best place for dumping
Jan 04, 1998; ... IT IS saddening to read that Dungannon has been the scene ofdeathand violence in the outbreak of sectarian hatred in NorthernIreland.The place was the seat of the Ranfurly earldom, one of whosemembers, as Governor of New Zealand, gifted to the New Zealand RugbyUnion the shield ...
Colourful surgeon had flair for dramatic life
Jan 04, 1998; ... CHARLES BRUCE NOBLE Surgeon, solider, traveller. Born Hamilton,Scotland, October 7, 1919. Died Wanganui, December 21, 1997, aged 78 -------------------- COLOURFUL Scots-born surgeon Charles Bruce Noble offered Wanganuiflair and style during his 45-year sojourn in the city.He ...
Seven Days
Jan 04, 1998 ... KILLED (1): Seamus Dillon (45), in Dungannon, Ulster, by pro-British guerrillas in a reprisal attack after the killing ofLoyalistVolunteer Force leader Billy Wright, by Irish republican prisonersinthe Maze Prison. -------------------- GRANTED: To billionaire ...
Holiday all-white with princes
Jan 04, 1998 ... ROYALS ON ICE . . . Prince Charles and his two boys -- heir tothe throne Prince William and Prince Harry -- pose for photographerswhile skiing in Klosters, ...
That's odd
Jan 04, 1998 ... THE World Peashooting Championships exhibition and Flea AwarenessWeek are among thousands of events due to be held in Britain thisyear. The peashooting extravaganza will be held in Cambridgeshire inJuly, followed by the World Bog Snorkelling Championships inLlanwrtyd Wells in August ....
All hands on deck in fourth leg dash to Auckland finish line
Jan 04, 1998; ... FIVE days on the rail to Auckland? There seems to be anexpectation in Sydney that's how the fourth leg of thew Whitbreadround the World yacht race will unfold when we get underway today. Boat on boat. Eyeball to eyeball sailing. A boat-speed sprint ofan intensity never before seen ...
Lancaster Park still in doubt for games
Jan 04, 1998; ... LANCASTER PARK will host tomorrow's Shell Cup match betweenCanterbury and Wellington but the Canterbury Cricket Association hasmajor reservations about the ground's ability to host two firstclassmatches in February, including a tour game against Zimbabwe. Tomorrow's match will be ...
Champion pleads for bad boy of bowls
Jan 04, 1998; ... NEW national singles bowls champion, Kelvin Scott from theBelfastclub in Christchurch, has called for the peace pipe to be smokedbetween the national organisation and the sport's bad boy, GaryLawson. Scott, who came from relative obscurity to claim an amazingnational success on ...
Cairns on the move; Options wider at top of order
Jan 04, 1998; ... CHRIS CAIRNS will retain a floating role in the New Zealandbatting order but is unlikely to be placed in the troublesome No 3position for the vital World Series cricket one-dayers in Australiaduring the next fortnight. Coach Steve Rixon's experiment with Cairns so high in the ...
Open champion hopes to carve up skins field
Jan 04, 1998; ... GREG TURNER is hoping the same laidback approach that netted himhis New Zealand Open golf title last month will bring another bigpayday this week at the Formosa Auckland Skins tournament on Friday. Turner made a mockery of the old theory that practice makesperfect when he won his ...
Tall Blacks lose final, but gain experience
Jan 04, 1998 ... NEW ZEALAND lost the final of the Haarlem invitation basketballtournament 74-93 to Brazil in Holland yesterday, but gainedinvaluable experience during its gruelling European tour, coachKeithMair said. New Zealand was a surprise finalist at the high-calibre Dutchtournament after ...