Sunday Star-Times back issues from August 2002:
Shame on you referee, says Mehrtens
Aug 04, 2002; ... Duncan Johnstone and Marc Hinton A REFEREEING storm has erupted after Australia last night retainedthe Bledisloe Cup with another heartbreaking Houdini act. The world champion Wallabies beat the All Blacks 16-14 in Sydney -thanks to a last-minute penalty by centre ...
The election night result that made National look good
Aug 04, 2002; ... Tony Potter THERE were some big losers on election night but none bigger thanDave Bergersen, the lowest polling of the 596 candidates who paid a$300 deposit in the hope of electoral glory. The 60-year-old anthologist managed a mere 27 votes in hisManurewa constituency in ...
Disgraced bowler's wife: `I'm very proud of him'
Aug 04, 2002; ... Oskar Alley THE WIFE of disgraced bowler John Davies is standing by her man. Bev Davies said he had fallen victim to political correctness overthe breast fondling incident which saw him sent home from theCommonwealth Games. She sat next to her husband in tears at a ...
National fails Dame Thea's Rob
Aug 04, 2002; ... Deidre Mussen and Nick Maling DAME THEA MULDOON has slammed National for failing her husband,former prime minister Sir Robert, and says she should have voted forWinston Peters. The 75-year-old widow said her husband would be turning in hisgrave after National's ...
Briefs
Aug 04, 2002 ... Union man dies: Prominent trade unionist, Frank McNulty, 88, hasdied in Christchurch after a lengthy illness. He came through the1951 watersiders dispute to hold senior positions later with the NewZealand Meatworkers Union. Arms charge: Part of central Christchurch was cordoned ...
When Adam met Sally, cricket went for six
Aug 04, 2002; ... Duncan Johnstone GIRLFRIEND Sally Ridge was the catalyst for Adam Parore'spremature retirement from cricket. The controversial Parore says in his biography The Wicked-Keeper,which is released tomorrow, that Ridge "gave me the courage andconfidence" to call it quits ....
Game over for `stupid' burglars
Aug 04, 2002; ... Amie Richardson FOR three stupid crooks, a burglary turned an All Black match intoa game of one half. They were carted away by police after using stolen tickets to getprime seats at Auckland's Eden Park. The tickets belonged to bank worker Paul Farrelly, and were ...
Small town wreaks Havoc on `troublesome' stars
Aug 04, 2002; ... Robyn McLean A COUNCIL is encouraging angry locals to take cyber-space revengeon TV personalities Mikey Havoc and Jeremy "Newsboy" Wells. The pair labelled Hawera the country's teen pregnancy capital,outraging the town. Now the South Taranaki District Council website ...
Friends meddle with medallists' chances
Aug 04, 2002; ... Tony Potter A PUBLIC vote for our most deserving Commonwealth Games athleteshas turned to farce, with three non-medallists well out in front -thanks to family and friends. The three - two of whom came nowhere near winning medals - are inthe running to win two new, $25,000 ...
Alleged sexual assaults labelled a game
Aug 04, 2002; ... Sarah Catherall A 12-YEAR-OLD boy accused of sexually assaulting female classmatesat a Catholic primary school with a group of schoolboys has toldpolice the girls took part in the "game". The boy and seven classmates at St Joseph's primary in Upper Hutthave been segregated ...
Canon Lowe defends shoplifting charge
Aug 04, 2002 ... Barry Clarke CANON Bob Lowe is not seeking forgiveness or even divineintervention. Just some common sense over his court appearance on ashoplifting charge involving chocolate worth $1.69. The high-profile retired vicar of St Barnabas, Fendalton, inChristchurch says he did ...
Helmet-free Tanczos can expect a ticket
Aug 04, 2002; ... Sonya Rowell GREENS MP Nandor Tanczos will be ticketed next time he is caughtriding his bicycle without a helmet, say police. Tanczos told the Sunday Star-Times last week he was applying foran exemption on religious grounds from wearing a helmet. However authorities ...
Timor soldier counselled for depression before his death
Aug 04, 2002; ... Barry Clarke THE New Zealand soldier found dead in East Timor had beencounselled for depression by the army after he had problems copingwith being a young father. Private Dean Russell Johnston's former partner and family believedhe was over his troubles and were stunned he ...
Policeman quits after wife killed
Aug 04, 2002; ... Deidre Mussen A POLICE officer whose wife was brutally stabbed to death isquitting the force after struggling to cope with the job's demands. Queenstown police sergeant Trevor Burton will leave next monthunder the police employment rehabilitation fund (Perf) scheme. Hewill ...
Kiwi whiz tackles classic tale
Aug 04, 2002; ... Kim Knight THE Kiwi co-creator of Oscar-winning animated movie Shrek sayshe'll be tackling "all the hard things in film making" when hedirects one of the world's best-loved children's stories, The Lion,the Witch and the Wardrobe. The project will involve children, animals ...
Blessed film's journey to Venice - on a shoestring
Aug 04, 2002; ... Haydon Dewes AFTER selling her bed, kitchen table and half her shoe collection,Rachel Douglas' dream of being a fulltime film maker took a giantstep forward last week. The Wellington woman's low-budget feature Blessed - whichpremiered on Wednesday at the Wellington Film ...
Paintergate figure wins state job
Aug 04, 2002; ... Oskar Alley THE man who helped destroy Prime Minister Helen Clark's fakepainting before police could examine it was appointed to the board ofa government agency three weeks later. Dr Graham Hill was made a director of the National Institute ofWater and Atmospheric Research ...
Hero gets his man - now for the girl
Aug 04, 2002; ... A car thief eluded police for two hours last week, endangering thelives of dozens of people in a high-speed chase. Then AnthonyTuivaiave stepped in. Amie Richardson reports. -------------------- ANTHONY TUIVAIAVE always dreamed of being a hero - a Tom Cruise-esque star of ...
US scoffs at Iraqi invite; IRAQ
Aug 04, 2002 ... THE United States yesterday scoffed at Iraq's offer of talks onUnited Nations arms inspections and renewed its call for the oustingof President Saddam Hussein. White House National Security Council spokesman Sean McCormacksaid the United States was demanding completely ...
Briefs
Aug 04, 2002 ... Killer bees: A woman in Sunizona, Arizona, who was stung at least80 times by a swarm of bees has died. Cheryl McClain, 46, died fromanaphylactic shock, the local coroner's office said. She was thefifth person in Arizona to die from a bee attack since 1993. Cat killed: A ...
Let Games continue
Aug 04, 2002 ... THE "friendly" Games are again drawing to a close and once againthe Commonwealth Games critics are questioning the relevance of thisextremely popular event. It is, many claim, of little importance inthe world sporting pantheon. They are missing the point. In this commercial age ...
National can win in 2005
Aug 04, 2002 ... NATIONAL is wrong if it thinks it can rebuild simply by sackingMichelle Boag. Much more sweeping reform is needed. Nor will it makeany progress by claiming it was bound to lose the election anyway. Itwas probably doomed to lose - long-term governments do not often getre-elected after a ...
Let's hear it for our army team
Aug 04, 2002 ... ONE of your correspondents grizzled recently about our involvementin East Timor. The other day I was in the crowd welcoming back 5Battalion Group to Christchurch. I am proud beyond words of our servicemen and women and of thedifference they have made and continue to make there ....
Creche case New Zealand's shame
Aug 04, 2002 ... FRANK HADEN didn't go nearly far enough (July 28) - Christchurch'sshame over the creche case is New Zealand's shame. Worse, it isparliament's shame. The evidence in Lynley Hood's book is compelling, but politiciansseemingly lack the moral courage to rectify this dreadful ...
Arab-Israeli strife goes back long way
Aug 04, 2002 ... PALESTINE has been Palestine longer than Scotland has beenScotland, or New Zealand New Zealand. Israel has been Israel for 54years. Between 1882 and 1939, 417,000 European immigrants of the samereligion arrived in Palestine. The first British census in 1922 found a population of ...
A gut feeling over those election polls
Aug 04, 2002 ... EVERY three years, voters in our small country are smitten by pollfever. It is not a notifiable disease, but pollsters collect a recordharvest from the infestation. As polling day approaches "the margin of error" continues toexpand. After polling day no attempt is made to ...
Bledis-woe again!
Aug 04, 2002; ... Hurt Mehrts says referee should be ashamed -------------------- RUGBY Duncan Johnstone and Marc Hinton at Stadium Australia ANDREW MEHRTENS says the All Blacks are hurting more than lastyear after another last-minute Bledisloe Cup disaster against ...
O'Neill told to stay out of NZ
Aug 04, 2002; ... RUGBY Marc Hintonat Stadium Australia AS NEW ZEALAND rugby bosses continue to build bridges with formerPublic Enemy No 1 John O'Neill, the Australian has revealed he wasurged not to attend Bledisloe I in Christchurch last month by a high-ranking NZRFU official ....
Ex-Wallaby gives ABs a big serve
Aug 04, 2002; ... Duncan Johnstone in Sydney IF YOU noticed any additional anger in the Australian performancelast night, put it down to former Wallaby Sam Scott-Young who urgedthe Aussies to intimidate the All Blacks at every opportunity. Scott-Young, a controversial character who ...
Rejected Randell poised to pull pin on NZ for pastures new in Britain
Aug 04, 2002; ... Marc Hinton UNWANTED All Black Taine Randell is poised to join the exodus ofKiwi talent heading to Britain, with his latest national rejectionsparking an imminent offer from a leading club in the UK. Rugby sources in Britain have linked Randell to at least one topclub there ...
Heartbreak again at the death
Aug 04, 2002; ... RUGBY Marc Hintonat Stadium Australia Australia 16 NZ 14 BLEDISLOE? Blediswoe, more like it, for once more there was onlyheartache at this graveyard of New Zealand rugby hopes, a last-minute Matt Burke penalty ensuring the Wallabies' five-year run asholders of the ...
By the clock
Aug 04, 2002 ... 2min: Matt Burke badly hooks a penalty attempt after Richie McCawruck infringement. Australia 0 New Zealand 0 5min: Andrew Mehrtens just misses from 40m after an Aussie ruckinfringement. Australia 0 New Zealand 0 8min: Mehrtens misses again ....
Luck runs out for quick draw McCaw
Aug 04, 2002; ... Marc Hinton at Stadium Australia RICHIE McCAW rode his luck last night in yet another standout testperformance but the All Black flanker was left ruing the desertion ofLady Fortune when it counted most. The flying flanker, who scored his team's only try shortly ...
Wheel Blacks win
Aug 04, 2002 ... Briefs Wheel Blacks win: The New Zealand wheelchair rugby team, the WheelBlacks, beat the Australian Steelers to regain the Chris Handy Cup inSydney on Friday. The Wheel Blacks recovered from a disappointingsixth at the recent world champs to beat world No 3 Australia 42-37 ....
Tew seen as one to stop rot
Aug 04, 2002; ... RUGBY Marc Hinton AS New Zealand's rugby provinces prepare to deliver their verdicton the future of the NZRFU's board, leading figures in the game havesounded a call to halt the bloodletting and start the rebuilding. And at the head of that list has been a strong ...
Chiefs lock accused of foul play
Aug 04, 2002 ... WAIKATO and Chiefs lock Keith Robinson has been accused ofpunching an opponent during a club match and a complaint laid withthe police. United Matamata Sports hooker James Hamau went to the police lastweek after the Waikato Rugby Football Union judiciary clearedRobinson of ...
Dogs dig deep to scrape past Cowboys; NRL table
Aug 04, 2002 ... THE Bulldogs stretched their National Rugby League winning streakto 17 games last night in a nail-biting 34-26 victory over NorthQueensland to keep a four-point breathing space over the second-placed Broncos. The Cowboys had a 10-point lead midway through the second half butthe ...
Watson races to the altar
Aug 04, 2002; ... Get me to the church on time, if I'm not too exhausted, could bethe catch cry this week of Kiwi triathlete Craig Watson. -------------------- If you are not in the pack, you have to work hard to be incontention for the rest of the race. If you are there, everything iseasy ....
Umpire burns Aussie hopes
Aug 04, 2002 ... BOWLS NEW ZEALAND bowler Mike Kernaghan won a Commonwealth Gamesquarterfinal match against Australia yesterday, a 21-17 victory whichswung on a controversial removal of a bowl by English umpire MichaelRoberts. The win, which guarantees Kernaghan at least a bronze medal in ...
Few butterflies as former champ inspires finalist
Aug 04, 2002; ... SWIMMING Andrew Sanders in Manchester NEW ZEALAND swimmer Moss Burmester took a framed photo to theCommonwealth Games. Taken 10 years ago, the picture shows double Games gold medallistAnthony Mosse instructing Burmester on his starts at a Taurangacoaching ...
Coach Aitken ready for her greatest test
Aug 04, 2002 ... NETBALL RUTH AITKEN will make her coaching "debut" against Australia intonight's Commonwealth Games netball final and it only dawned on herhow much it means after the Silver Ferns dispatched Jamaica inFriday's semifinals. Since taking over from dumped stalwart Yvonne ...
Avery figures his way to double gold lifts
Aug 04, 2002; ... WEIGHTLIFTING DOUBLE gold medallist Nigel Avery resorted to working outmathematical puzzles as he attempted to calm his tortured nervesahead of the superheavyweight competition at the Commonwealth Gamesin Manchester. And he also had three books on the go. Avery won ...
Ulmer's golden goose bumps
Aug 04, 2002; ... CYCLING SARAH ULMER'S concentration wavered before her gold medal-winningride at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester and the result was aserious case of goose bumps. But the bubbly golden girl of the track didn't mind. Producing the goose bumps at the National ...
Skipper justifies strategy
Aug 04, 2002 ... RUGBY ERIC RUSH has defended his New Zealand sevens team's CommonwealthGames rugby buildup amid grumblings from other athletes at theirapproach last week. New Zealand came through day one of the sevens in front of 30,000fans at the City of Manchester Stadium with not ...
Emotional coach quits on our biggest night
Aug 04, 2002; ... MAX VERTONGEN showed himself the red card after one of thegreatest nights in New Zealand track cycling history. Minutes after Sarah Ulmer and Greg Henderson had turned the finalnight of track racing into New Zealand night, Vertongen announced hewas quitting as national track ...
Roz misses by just a second
Aug 04, 2002 ... ROZ REEKIE-MAY was only a second away from adding to an impressiveNew Zealand cycling Commonwealth Games campaign, finishing fifthafter a last ditch sprint at the end of the women's road raceyesterday. Reekie-May was one of a group of seven riders left in contentionon the final ...
Women shooters home on range
Aug 04, 2002 ... SHOOTING AUCKLANDER Juliet Etherington won the bronze medal in the women's50m rifle prone singles at the Manchester Commonwealth Games. It was the fifth medal won by a New Zealand woman at the Bisleyrange, south of London, with none of the male team members reachingthe dais ...
Food, sleep and dreams of a medal
Aug 04, 2002 ... SQUASH CAROL OWENS and Leilani Rorani were craving some traditionalEnglish cuisine and a long night's sleep as they emerged from amarathon squash day with at least Commonwealth Games bronze medals intheir pockets. The pair, formerly tense rivals on the world circuit but ...
Games results
Aug 04, 2002 ... BOWLS Men's singles.-- Quarterfinal: Robert John Donnelly (Rsa) b MervynKing (Eng) 21-7, Jeremy Henry (Nir) b Eddie Nkole (Zam) 21-11, MikeKernaghan (NZ) b Stephen Glasson (Aus) 21-17, Robert Weale (Wal) bDarren Burnett (Sco) 21-18. Women's pairs.-- Semifinal: Sharon Sims, ...
Tails will be wagging in Christchurch for champion swimmer
Aug 04, 2002; ... Andrew Sanders in Manchester IN CHRISTCHURCH, a dalmatian called Tilman and a weimaraner namedJae are waiting to leap at Zoe Baker and it is a welcome home fromthe Commonwealth Games which can't come soon enough for New Zealand'sde facto gold medallist. "I am ...
Bronze not quite the right colour for professional career
Aug 04, 2002; ... BOXING HEAVYWEIGHT boxer Shane Cameron believed a Commonwealth Games goldmedal could have opened doors for him in professional boxing but abronze lacks clout and he must now decide whether to continue as anamateur. "I'm 50-50," he said. "I really don't know what I want to ...
Strike duo makes merry
Aug 04, 2002; ... BEVAN HARI overcame a sleep-deprived night to remedy twoirritating sores while team-mate Phillip Burrows doubled his previousbest goalscoring haul in a test as the New Zealand men thumpedPakistan in their Commonwealth Games hockey semifinal yesterday. Between them, the two ...
We can beat them, vows coach
Aug 04, 2002; ... Despite heavy loss to Australia in pool play, Towns backs NewZealand in Games final -------------------- HOCKEY GNARLY defender Dion Gosling and coach Kevin Towns are backing theNew Zealand men's hockey side to overturn a five-goal loss againstAustralia in their ...
Two free throws win title for Titans
Aug 04, 2002 ... BASKETBALL Titans 85 Giants 83 IN A final of passion and drama, it took two unlikely heroes - andperhaps an unlikely villain - to propel the Waikato Titans to asuccessful defence of their NBL basketball crown. With 1.3 seconds remaining, Tall Black forward Dillon ...
World record swim
Aug 04, 2002 ... Briefs World record swim: Oleg Lisogor of Ukraine set a world record of27.18s yesterday in the men's 50m breaststroke to win the gold medalat the European swimming championship in Berlin. Skating fix denied: A Russian at the centre of a United Statesprobe into supposed ...
Brady owes so much to little so-and-so
Aug 04, 2002; ... DON'T believe anyone who tells you horses can't understand humans. This was a deliberate act. A stomping that would have earned ayellow card anywhere. Barely a minute before the little so-and-so lined me up I'd beentelling trainer Neil Brady how she looked nothing like a ...
It's big day for Bruton
Aug 04, 2002 ... GRAHAM Bruton, Christchurch-based major owner of super trotterLyell Creek, has a huge day today. It's Bruton's first day back in the sulky for more than 12 years. He drives at the Kurow meeting at Oamaru. And beforehand the 50-year-old will watch on Trackside as ...
Elect To Live wins in photo finish
Aug 04, 2002; ... Barry Lichter TOP filly Elect To Live last night won the prestigious title ofHarness Horse of the Year by one vote despite not being named thebest of her age group. In the closest polling in the history of the awards, with eighthorses winning votes for the top honour, Elect ...
Name's Harris and the game is winning big
Aug 04, 2002 ... IF YOUR name was Harris it helped a lot at Riccarton yesterday. Local trainer Paul Harris trained three winners. Two of them were ridden by Noel Harris and the veteran northernrider added two more for his most successful day at Riccarton. But the Winter Cup win on Real ...
Leahy - Archer right for another bullseye
Aug 04, 2002 ... THERE was a warning as well as a whipping for the rivals ofstylish jumper Silver Archer in the Koral Steeplechase at Riccartonyesterday. "He will only improve with that," said rider Finbarr Leahy inreference to the Grand National Steeplechase on the course thiscoming Saturday ....
Hazlett glimpses dream
Aug 04, 2002 ... MARK down Willywince as a top Grand National Hurdle chance andmark Tom Hazlett down as a man out to achieve a lifetime ambition. Hazlett arrived in Christchurch in the early hours of yesterdaymorning to ride the John and Karen Parsons-trained gelding in theSydenham Hurdle and by ...
Coppins looks likely to cop ban
Aug 04, 2002; ... JOSH COPPINS races in Belgium tonight (NZ time) then goes straightto Switzerland for the FIM court hearing of his doping case. The Motueka racer, second in the world 250cc championship, testedwell over the limit for pseudoephedrine earlier this year aftertaking a hayfever tablet ....
Unrated students put up brave challenge
Aug 04, 2002 ... THE boot of first five-eighths Mark van Gisbergen led HamiltonMarist to its first Waikato premier club rugby title in eight yearsin a nail-biting 15-11 win over Waikato University at Waikato Stadiumin Hamilton last night. Marist, whose last final appearance was just two years ago, ...
Let's hope Bea is buzzing in Athens
Aug 04, 2002 ... Your letters -------------------- QUEEN BEA, Beatrice Faumuina, is back and with Valerie Adams ather side New Zealand athletics finally has some real size andpresence in the field arena. Let's hope they can build on this for the Athens Olympics in 2004. G ...
Nats search for election culprits
Aug 04, 2002; ... Is National Party president Michelle Boag being unfairlyscapegoated for a wider malaise within National? Ruth Laugesenreports. -------------------- For anyone who thinks we were ever going to win in 1999 they justdon't know history. Not knowing it, they got themselves all ...