Sunday Star-Times back issues from October 2000:
Top Green's gay bath frolic has Peters tub thumping
Oct 01, 2000; ... FOR many political parties it would be the stuff of nightmares. But the Green Party insists there are no red faces despite aparty official featuring on an internet website with two other menin a bath, promoting a "gay, clothing optional" guest house. Greensco-convenor Richard ...
Plan to cut speed limit to 90km/h
Oct 01, 2000; ... To News A2 DROPPING the open road speed limit to 90km/h and raising thelegal driving age to 17 are among proposals in a road safety plan tobe unveiled this week. The Sunday Star-Times understands the Road Safety Strategy 2010,to be launched by transport bosses on Thursday, ...
The girl who begged `please don't shoot'
Oct 01, 2000; ... STACEY Percy's whisper was feeble and pleading, "Please don'tshoot me again, please", but the words echoed the length and breadthof the country. A three-year-old girl lying on the back of a ute, bleeding fromthe abdomen and critically injured, her mortally wounded brotherDion ...
Heartbreaker for Kronfeld
Oct 01, 2000 ... JOSH KRONFELD was within five minutes of a glorious end to hisOtago rugby career but all he got last night was another RanfurlyShield heartbreaker. Otago led the shield-holding Canterbury for almost all lastnight's clash at Jade Stadium, before succumbing to another fineCantab ...
Olympic staff feel the pinch
Oct 01, 2000; ... To News A4 in Sydney BOTTOM-pinching Olympic athletes and coaches are stressing outcatering volunteers in the Games village, but one fed-up worker hasleft her mark on an offender. When the worker felt her bottom being groped, she spun around andjabbed her harasser ...
Prominent Nat's wife farewelled
Oct 01, 2000; ... HUNDREDS of mourners yesterday farewelled the wife of a prominentNational Party member whose death police are investigating. Maureen Hammond, 51, was found dead in her bath about 3am onMonday by her husband, Wairarapa National Party electorate chairmanPeter Hammond, who said he ...
Pay rise on the cards for East Timor troops
Oct 01, 2000 ... KIWI troops in East Timor are likely to get pay rises, and arelikely to be there beyond next May, Prime Minister Helen Clarkindicated last night. Troops raised the pay issue with Clark during her whistlestop 26-hour visit to East Timor yesterday. Clark told the Sunday ...
Unions visit schools to recruit
Oct 01, 2000; ... UNIONS have been visiting high schools to promote the unionmovement and recruit members. With new Employment Relations Act coming into force tomorrow,Youth Union Movement spokeswoman Maree Dodd said the Council ofTrade Unions' youth arm had visited about 12 schools in ...
Clark unlikely to return to Waitangi
Oct 01, 2000; ... THE crown appears unlikely to return to Waitangi to celebrate NewZealand's national day - at least while Helen Clark is primeminister. Sources close to Clark told the Sunday Star-Times "you can betget your bottom dollar she won't be going to Waitangi" to celebrateWaitangi Day on ...
Briefs
Oct 01, 2000 ... Time check: Daylight saving time began at 2am today. Clocksshould have been put forward an hour. Daylight saving finishes onMarch 18 next year. Hawkesby's home: Former broadcaster John Hawkesby is using someof his $6 million payout from TVNZ to build a house on WaihekeIsland - ...
Driving cellphone ban likely
Oct 01, 2000; ... Road safety rules being revised -------------------- THE days of holding a cellphone in one hand and driving with theother could soon be over. Motorists face a ban on using cellphones following internationalconcern that they are a distraction and road safety hazard ....
The face of the voice behind the numbers
Oct 01, 2000; ... MEET the voice on the end of your phone. Michelle Parish, anamateur actor from Wellington, went live last week as the new voiceon Telecom's 018 directory. The 26-year-old's voice was chosen by Telecom three years ago torecord an 0800 service. Since then she has recorded the 123 ...
Great white moves into holiday resort
Oct 01, 2000; ... DIVERS are being warned to stay out of the water at a populartourist destination because a shark up to 5.4m long and believed tobe a great white, has made a home there. Sightings of a great white are usually rare, but fishermen fromWhitianga on the Coromandel Peninsula have ...
Gold for a silly walk of matchless purity
Oct 01, 2000; ... THE Games are cruel and unnatural and that is why we like them.Consider the rubber-legged lunacy of the men's 50km walk. This is a frenzied waddle for glory, a prolonged denial of thedeep human need to break into a trot. If you did this to a duck youwould find yourself in court ....
Where to now?
Oct 01, 2000; ... THIS was meant to be our chance to shine. The world's greatest sports show was coming as close to theseshores as it was ever going to get and it seemed this wouldtranslate into our biggest medal haul. But as our trans-Tasman rivals rivals bask in the golden glow ofa job ...
The drongos stole our medals
Oct 01, 2000; ... OLYMPIC 1500m bronze medallist and New York Marathon winner RodDixon has hit out at New Zealand sports administrators, calling themdrongos. Dixon was speaking following New Zealand's embarrassingperformance at the Sydney Olympics, in particular in the track andfield disciplines ....
Kiwi with a winning habit
Oct 01, 2000 ... NOT all Kiwis were losers at the Olympics. Matamata woman Maureen Lindsay won three overseas trips in twoweeks. Lindsay's lucky run began when she received two return airfaresto Australia after a local newspaper rugby competition. Her Midastouch continued in the Auckland ...
Drawing the curtains on a painful day
Oct 01, 2000; ... Next month will be the 10th anniversary of David Gray's murderousrampage at Aramoana, but for those left behind it still feels like yesterday. Barry Clarke reports. -------------------- IT IS nearly 10 years since Julie-Anne Burrow was robbed of herdaughter and ...
An unforgettable date with death
Oct 01, 2000; ... POLICE anti-terrorist squad leader Mike Kyne remembers the lifeand death confrontation with David Gray as if it were yesterday. He and his team of Rob Barlass, Tim Ashton and Peter McCarthy hadbeen systematically clearing cribs looking for Gray when they werefired on. "When ...
Knockout price for Tua fight ads
Oct 01, 2000; ... IT WILL cost $500 a second for television advertisers who want aspot either side of the David Tua-Lennox Lewis world heavyweighttitle fight. Corporates are clamouring to get the advertising equivalent ofringside seats for next month's fight - a 30-second ad before orafter the ...
Gold medallist makes splash behind the bar
Oct 01, 2000; ... DOUBLE Olympic swimming gold medallist Danyon Loader has poppedback into the public eye - as a barman at one of Christchurch'strendy watering holes. The publicity shy Loader has been serving drinks at the LoadedHog, where he has been a big hit with patrons, particularly women ....
No tropical paradise for vigilant troops
Oct 01, 2000; ... in East TimorAS THE fronds of giant mango and coconut trees swayin the tropical twilight, the armoured personnel carriers of theKiwi defence force rumble through the streets of Suai. The troops say they would only need a gin and tonic and theycould be at a beach resort. But this ...
Election of anti-gay moderator may split church
Oct 01, 2000; ... GAYS in the Presbyterian Church say there is little hope ofhealing a rift over the appointment of church moderator Robert Yule. An elder of Wellington's St Andrews Church, Helen Beaumont, saysYule's anti-gay beliefs are destructive. Yule, the minister of St Albans Church, ...
Grandad aghast at wife's abuse
Oct 01, 2000; ... Cigarette burns blamed on chicken pox -------------------- HER step-grandfather John Bissett didn't know much but he knewthe little girl was in trouble. The 28-month-old toddler, Sade Patricia Trembath, had been withher grandparents only a week and there she was that ...
Saved by a reluctant hero
Oct 01, 2000; ... John Painting and his son Matt were dying of hypothermia in theKaimanawa Ranges when Brian Pickering loomed out of the blizzard and saved their lives.He talks to Tony Potter. -------------------- BRIAN PICKERING is a Yorkshireman, and Yorkshiremen do not ...
Turning men on for profit
Oct 01, 2000; ... IT'S common knowledge that supermarkets have replaced bars aspick-up joints; and it's true, beautiful women just sit therestaring at you. Inevitably, you pick up one or two and take them home. Then, likeso many things, you discover that what appears nice and cuddly onthe ...
Well worth an arm and a leg
Oct 01, 2000; ... THEY paid as much as $A1300 for tickets to the opening ceremonyof the Olympic Games. They've paid over the odds for Kiwi stapleslike a hot pie, beer and wine but New Zealanders rate the SydneyOlympics as an excellent, value-for-money experience. Australians may struggle to know ...
Briefs
Oct 01, 2000 ... Sigman dies: Carl Sigman, who wrote music or words for dozens ofsongs including the theme to the 1950s Robin Hood television series,has died at age 91. In 1938 he wrote Pennsylvania 6-5000, in tributeto the Hotel Pennsylvania. The Glenn Miller Orchestra recorded thesong. The phone ...
Great white spinners
Oct 01, 2000 ... TWO great white pointers were circling the Sydney environs lastweek, striking fear (and failure) into the hearts and minds of, tobe honest . . . very few, except maybe our hockey girls. Great white opposition leader Jenny Shipley, tripping in theOlympic capital on the largesse of ...
Stop sobbing over Games
Oct 01, 2000 ... Editorial -------------------- NEW Zealand should stop weeping about the Games. We did not winas many medals as we would have liked, but the tally is stillhonourable. On a medals-per-population basis, the true test of acountry's sporting prowess, we did well. It would be ...
TV charter gets poor reception
Oct 01, 2000 ... HAD Minister of Broadcasting Marian Hobbs' draft charter forTelevision New Zealand (September 24) been submitted for grading atany reputable educational institute it would more than likely havebeen given the thumbs down due to its vagueness and lack of clarity. It is evident from ...
More stations, same format
Oct 01, 2000 ... I READ with some disgust the mutterings of Brent Impey regardingTVNZ and the suggestion it should be sold in your paper last week. Impey spent a great deal of time while he was with the RadioBroadcasters Association demanding that Radio New Zealand'scommercial arm be sold to ...
Why don't health watchdogs do the job?
Oct 01, 2000 ... ROBYN STENT has taken issues with my criticism of her handling ofColleen Poutsma's complaint about Northland gynaecologist Dr Parry(September 24). But the former health commissioner has not explainedwhy she failed to have him taken out of action. There was long delaywhile Poutsma's case ...
Forget the medals, they kill the 'roos
Oct 01, 2000 ... THE Aussies have been giving us plenty of flak regarding our poorshowing in the Olympics and have never missed an opportunity toridicule and mock us over our small showing of medals. However, never let it be said we have sunk so low that we wouldserve up our national emblem to be ...
Podium pronunciation
Oct 01, 2000 ... JOHN McBETH has been a sports commentator long enough to knowbetter - a victory ceremony is ...
Sex laws
Oct 01, 2000 ... MICHAEL LAWS on the Prostitution Reform Bill (September 24)describes the bill as "loose". In making the sex industry conform toregulations governing every other industry, the bill potentiallyconstitutes major reform of those "primitive" conditions Lawslaments. Currently, sex workers are ...
Pro TV?
Oct 01, 2000 ... LEGALISE prostitution? And then what - advertising on TV with"how to" programmes, advice to school-leavers on the money they canearn? Courses at ...
Moral code
Oct 01, 2000 ... MICHAEL LAWS says he makes up his morality as he goes (September24). No wonder it's a little shaky. I'm amazed ...
Ngapuhi's fantasy
Oct 01, 2000 ... NGAPUHI, Dover Samuels' tribe, must be living in fantasyland ifthey think he deserves to be reinstated in Cabinet. Hopefully ...
Hack writers?
Oct 01, 2000 ... YOU publish the two most boring and brainless columnists of allNew Zealand newspapers, namely Jeremy Clarkson and India Knight. Ihave no idea why these two low-quality hacks from Britain currentlyoccupy prime print space in your paper. Their material is narrow-minded parish pump only ...
Kiwis abroad
Oct 01, 2000 ... SO Frank Haden didn't like the behaviour of Kiwis in Florence asshown on The Big OE and lambasts New Zealand on Air for funding theprogramme (September 24). More cosmopolitan observers might ...
Whodunnit first?
Oct 01, 2000 ... NEW ZEALAND'S Fergus Hume writer of "the first detective novel inthe English language" (September 24)? Sadly, no. Whereas Hume's bookwas published in 1886, this was a full ...
Mayoral moan
Oct 01, 2000 ... HOW can Maureen Reynolds be the mayor of Dannevirke (September24) when there is no mayor of Dannevirke? She is, however, the mayor of the Tararua District Council and assuch represents all townships in the Tararua, which encompasses ...
Laws unfunny
Oct 01, 2000 ... MICHAEL LAWS thinks that anyone who was neither amused norimpressed by his satire (sic) about Dannevirke should "look up theword satire in the dictionary" (September 24). Thinking that maybe Ihad misunderstood the meaning of the word, I did, but was unable tofind any definition of satire ...
Negative on Yates
Oct 01, 2000 ... I WAS disappointed that Linda Herrick's obituary on Paula Yates(September 24) was so negative. She has portrayed Paula only as aninsecure, mad, bad, sad alcoholic and drug-addicted woman. A good obituary should contain a balanced account of a person'slife, no matter how it ends ....
Holmes, um, he's OK
Oct 01, 2000 ... IN reply to K A J Christensen on the irrepressible Paul Holmes(September 24), he is one of TV's characters and let's face it,television is about entertainment. There's no shortage of capable ...
Holmes critic
Oct 01, 2000 ... I HAVE never understood why Paul Holmes is so popular. On askingaround I discovered it is exactly the opposite. They watch himbecause "it's part of the news" or "in spite of him fronting it".His embarrassing questions make us cringe - I applauded when ...
Cheer up
Oct 01, 2000 ... AFTER reading through your paper (September 24) I felt annoyedthat New Zealand was portrayed as a country of no opportunity, poorathletes, sunken economy with a brain drain. I've returned after living in England for four years. Yes, I wasearning three times what I earn here, yes I ...
Resident query
Oct 01, 2000 ... ACCORDING to an immigration officer recently, I am deemed anoverstayer. Records, which only go back to 1983, don't list myarrival as a permanent resident in 1963. Does this mean that as thearrival of the Maori is unrecorded, they too are overstayers? My great grandfather brought ...
Mururoa mop up
Oct 01, 2000 ... I RECALL after the last nuclear explosion at Mururoa Atoll onJanuary 28, 1996, it was reported that years would be spent oncleaning up the site. To date, I have heard not a word. Even ...
Muscle drain
Oct 01, 2000 ... IT IS time to draw attention to the rallying cry of the ultra-right wing - the supposed brain drain. Included in this bunch of emigrees are lawyers. We are knee deepin lawyers. We are awash with accountants and there is a dentalsurgery on just about every street corner. More ...
The man to blame for our Olympic shame
Oct 01, 2000; ... " IN THE wake of the Olympics disappointments Chris Ineson shoulddo the honourable thing and resign as head of the New Zealand SportsFoundation. He is, after all, the man responsible for funding the directionof our Olympic campaign. The result is New Zealand's worst ...
Judgement day
Oct 01, 2000; ... New Zealand's failed Olympians warned they face funding cuts -------------------- THE underachievers among New Zealand's high-performance athletescould be placed on probation and face greater scrutiny of theircompetition schedules after the pride-pricking disappointment of ...
The good, the bad and the ugly
Oct 01, 2000; ... As the inquest into New Zealand's poor Sydney Olympic performancecontinues, Andrew Sanders rates the Kiwis. -------------------- THE anorexic medal count of the New Zealand Olympic team may haveone final serpent-type twist. And unfortunately there may be no happy ...
Forgotten art of winning is a victory for the Kiwi wowsers
Oct 01, 2000; ... MY FLATMATES can't understand it. Here I am cheering forAmericans and Aussies to win yet more gold and they're looking at melike I've just announced I'm starting a campaign to fund C JHunter's defence. Forgive me flatties, for I do sin. I love the Seppos and theAussies. And I'll ...
Kiwi coach: our sport will survive
Oct 01, 2000; ... THE drug-darkened image of weightlifting is prompting calls forits removal from the Olympic Games, but New Zealand coach GarryMarshall believes the sport will survive. The International Olympic Committee will examine the sportclosely with president Juan Antonio Samaranch ...
First of many in their sights
Oct 01, 2000; ... Andrew Sanders talks to two first-time Olympians about theirGames experience in Sydney. THEY will never exchange CDs. Geoffrey Jukes and Helen Norfolkare, afterall, at opposite ends of the age scale. But the first-time New Zealand Olympians do have one thing in common ....
Federation could snatch precious metal
Oct 01, 2000; ... WEIGHTLIFTING in Sydney A BOARDROOM decision could harm Nigel Avery's weightlifting medalhaul at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester. Avery was an outstanding performer at the Sydney Olympics withthree personal bests. In the process he became the Commonwealth ...
Coach crisis for downbeat Bea
Oct 01, 2000; ... BEATRICE FAUMUINA must confront a crucial coaching decision asshe looks to block out the disappointment of the Sydney Olympics andresurrect her discus throwing career. The 25-year-old and Olympic team-mate Ian Winchester are coachedby Les Mills, but the New Zealand Olympic team ...
Olympic briefs
Oct 01, 2000 ... Olympic briefs Golden girl: Birgit Fischer became the greatest medal winner inOlympic kayak history yesterday, leading Germany to victory in thewomen's four for the sixth gold medal of her career and ninthoverall. She tied the German record for most Olympic golds and willhave a ...
It's Waddell vs Black Magic but Tua has a shot
Oct 01, 2000; ... in Sydney THE Olympic gold of Rob Waddell has created one of the greatestdilemmas in the history of the Halberg Awards. In a too-tight-to-predict race, the Games hero will be pittedagainst the Black Magic crew which retained the America's Cup inAuckland this year ....
Jumper Bruce looks a Goodin
Oct 01, 2000 ... HE already has his princess, so the story goes, but can horsemanBruce Goodin complete a fairytale ending for himself and New Zealandat the Sydney Olympics? After all hopes evaporated yesterday of the Star class sailorsadding to New Zealand's meagre medal total, Goodin and his ...
Learning curve for new pair
Oct 01, 2000 ... Kiwis complete Games sailing education with ninth place overall -------------------- YACHTING THE Olympic Star yachting regatta was essentially a learningexperience for relative new boys Gavin Brady and Jamie Gale. That part of their sailing education ended ...
Why an audit is essential to save lives
Oct 01, 2000; ... SO FAR I have refrained from commenting on the Gisborne CervicalScreening Inquiry. I took the position that it was not helpful forevery man and his dog to comment on matters being properlyadjudicated by the committee. But when the minister of health sees fit to directly insert ...
Too many dopes in the Games TV play
Oct 01, 2000; ... DIDN'T they do well, muttered one of the newsreaders in thosethrowaway lines that they contrive to make them look and sound allhuman and caring, divorced from the news that they're paid todeliver. Well no, Ms Bailey, they didn't do well. They didn't do well atall. The "they" in ...