Sunday Star-Times back issues from April 2004:
best of the week
Apr 04, 2004 ... THE ROYAL EASTER SHOW The Royal Easter Show at the Auckland Showgrounds will featuretraditional favourites as well as new events. Along with carnival rides, street entertainers and the GreatCadbury Easter Egg Hunt, the show will include a Mr Puniversecompetition, and a live ...
HEADS-UP / The week ahead
Apr 04, 2004 ... MONDAY z AMP and Skellmax go ex-dividend at nine cents and 16cents per share respectively. z Despite the rising dollar, exports were up in the Decemberquarter. More on the plight of our exporters and our balance of tradepayments will be revealed today with the release of the ...
taketwo
Apr 04, 2004; ... Adrenalin junkies alison robert, 33, and Jamie chandler, 30, metwhile working on super-yachts, notably Georgia, the largest sloop inthe world. When Alison returned to dry land to set up her business--Main Course cooking school--Chandler was there to offer support andescapism in the form ...
Marshalling the new-look Crusade
Apr 04, 2004 ... Caption ...
A prayer for the dying
Apr 04, 2004; ... Is there a better way to go than "to die like a dog", aseuthanasia advocate Lesley Martin put it? RUTH LAUGESEN reports. At 11 EACH MORNING in the corridors of Mary Potter Hospice inWellington, you can hear the approaching tinkle of the drinkstrolley. Gin, whiskey and ...
Heat put on govt to give coal a go
Apr 04, 2004; ... Cost figures are manipulated to make coal look bad and wind good,say energy experts. LESLEY SPRINGALL reports. As AN energy crisis looms larger in the wake of Project Aqua'sdemise, industry players are crying foul over the government'sprojected coal costs. Far from an ...
'I honestly feel I've done most of the things I want to do'
Apr 04, 2004; ... MICHAEL KING once remarked of Janet Frame that she had "a geniusfor friendship". It was a genius Michael shared. During his agonising chemotherapy and radiation treatment forthroat cancer late last year, he sent poet Bill Manhire a note sayinghow much he had enjoyed a new work of ...
Settlement - making up is hard to do
Apr 04, 2004; ... WHEN THE board of the Crown Forestry Rental Trust inelegantlyrolled its chief executive Karen Waterreus at the start of this year,nobody inherited her Molesworth St office with its harbour view. Instead the trust--the deep-pocketed organisation that stokes theTreaty of Waitangi ...
End in sight after 22 years of negotiations
Apr 04, 2004; ... PAUL QUINN simply had no idea what he was getting into. It was1982, he was young and enthusiastic, and he joined the Ngati Awaclaim committee to push for a Treaty of Waitangi settlement for hisWhakatane-based tribe. These were the days before anyone really knew what a ...
WORLD IN FOCUS:; From oil on canvas to an emergency landing on a residential street
Apr 04, 2004 ... SRI LANKA Polls for peace COLOMBO: President Chandrika Kumaratunga's political alliance wasleading yesterday in early returns in parliamentary elections, whichsaw Sri Lankans turn out strongly, hoping to end the island nation's20-year civil war. The votes counted ...
"Stop bleating' - we're going fast enough
Apr 04, 2004; ... TREATY LAWYER Paul Harman warns the settlement process is alreadymoving too fast and people should stop "bleating about the need tohurry it up". The Wairoa lawyer received $107,000 in legal aid between 1997 and1999 for his action against the Waitangi Fisheries Commission, ...
Stick-in-the-mud firm aims for cutting edge
Apr 04, 2004; ... ICONIC KIWI manufacturer Masport is re-emerging from the shadowswith the first total redesign of its lawnmower in a quarter of acentury. The company is coming out of two decades of stagnation for want ofinvestment. General manager Mark von Batenburg said commitment to anew ...
House price slump kept at bay - for now
Apr 04, 2004; ... AS A very much alive Mark Twain said of rumours of his own demise,reports of the property boom's end, or even imminent death, appeargreatly exaggerated. Barely a week goes by without fresh evidence togainsay the doom merchants. Last week it came in the form of new dwelling ...
CATCH-UP / The week in review
Apr 04, 2004 ... Paying the holiday bill IF YOUR favourite restaurant is closed this weekend, then blamechanges to the Holidays Act which came into force on April 1.Employers must now pay staff time-and-a-half for working on a publicholiday and give them another day off in lieu. Some restaurants ...
Business critic should come in from the cold
Apr 04, 2004; ... I'VE LOST count of the times your columnist Rod Oram has scoffedat business and business leaders. Invariably to do it he sets up hisown version of the views expressed then rubbishes them. How were business people supposed to respond to the Herald's Moodof the Boardroom survey? ...
Can't save? or won't save
Apr 04, 2004; ... Many Kiwis believe it's too hard to put away cash for the future. ROB STOCK reveals techniques to turn us back into a nation ofsavers. MR AVERAGE pays $444,870 in income tax in his working lifetime. MsNormal, who earns less, gets to pay less in tax--$322,858, to beprecise ....
Beatrix Potter notches up surprise figures at auction
Apr 04, 2004 ... DUNBAR SLOANE, AUCKLAND,March 17. A pair of laminated Curvesse chairs manufactured by NZ designerGarth Chester in the 1940s sold for $8500, considered a morerealistic price compared with the $12,000 achieved for a similar pairauctioned by Sloane's last year. Under bidders should ...
Party poopers
Apr 04, 2004; ... I AM often described as a "party girl", a term much favoured bygossip columnists, often when they want to imply you are some sort ofalcoholic, drug-taking nymphomaniac. But that's really only half true. I do enjoy attending socialfunctions, I'll admit, but I don't like throwing ...
THE hype is; THE hype is not
Apr 04, 2004 ... The hype is THE HAVE: Sure the place was buzzing with managers, A&R spottersand millions of music dollars but former high school rockers The Havehad their own celebrity guest at their South by Southwest conferencegig in Texas last month. Queer Eye for the Straight Guy's ...
Milking profits
Apr 04, 2004; ... As if the humble sheep hasn't done enough for New Zealand, nowit's producing some of our finest gourmet cheeses, as Kim Knightreports. Baa baa black sheep, have you any cheese? Yes, actually. And according to the experts making homegrownversions of pecorino, feta, haloumi ...
cocktail of the week
Apr 04, 2004 ... Honey and Ginger Mojito 2 slices fresh gingerbunch of mint leaves 2 drops sugar syrup 4 wedges limedollop liquid honey 45ml Havana club rumsoda Finely chop ginger slices. Muddle them with mint leaves and sugarsyrup. Add lime wedges and honey and ...
BEST BUYS
Apr 04, 2004 ... Heaven sent Church Road Reserve Chardonnay 2002 ($29) Mouth-filling Hawke's Bay style with rich peach and toasty oakflavours, deliciously ripe and rounded. HHHH 1/2 ...
Open spaces
Apr 04, 2004 ... Colin McCahon painted at Muriwai. Toss Woollaston lived at Mapua.Ralph Hotere is synonymous with Port Chalmers. "I think a lot of the best New Zealand art gets done when peopleflee the centre of it really," says writer Gregory O'Brien. TheWellington based profiler of contemporary ...
Go south and prosper
Apr 04, 2004; ... Painter Nigel Brown has swapped Auckland life for a pink art decohouse in Southland where his farm work is as worrisome as his latestnational exhibition, as Kim Knight discovers. `Painting has become my way of communicating. Painting has to havethat element for me or else it just ...
Top of the POPS
Apr 04, 2004; ... This month New Zealand becomes the first English-speaking countryoutside the UK to get its own Top of the Pops. Megan Nicol Reedreports. `We want to make a slick, glossy show, but not superficial by anymeans.' It's 6.36pm, New Year's Day, 1964. A converted church ...
Smarty pants
Apr 04, 2004 ... Crisis of fashion confidence? Question of taste? Ask our fashioneditor to give it to you straight. Email fashion@star-times.co.nz orwrite to Smarty pants, Sunday Star-Times, PO Box 1409, Auckland. Q I'm 32 and recently bought a red mesh vest for an '80s party.The thing is, I ...
Top trivia
Apr 04, 2004 ... * The record for the longest gap between performances of the samesong on the show is held by Tom Jones, who sang "It's Not Unusual" onthe show in February 1965, and again in June 1987. * In 1967 Jimi Hendrix was seen attempting to mime to "PurpleHaze" while an Alan Price record ...
Taonga tribute
Apr 04, 2004 ... From a mere once owned by Mohamed Al Fayed to the first Europeanobjects left in New Zealand, a new book highlights some of ournational museum's finest treasures. Anne Estelle Rice Portrait of Katherine Mansfield, 1918 Anne Estelle Rice painted this portrait of ...
The next Bic thing
Apr 04, 2004; ... She's arrived back from rhapsodic reviews in the UK to racismheadlines at home. It's no wonder Bic Runga is heading for church, asJo McCarroll reports. It was not the homecoming a homesick Bic Runga expected. After several lonely months in Paris, a wildly successful ...
War of words
Apr 04, 2004; ... As Anzac Day approaches, Iain Sharp wades into a welter of localwar books. PERHAPS it's anxiety that current tensions in the Middle Eastmight explode into global conflict. Perhaps it's the wish to recordthe testimony of veterans before it's too late. Perhaps it's anoffshoot of ...
Cloud cuckoo land
Apr 04, 2004; ... DAVID MITCHELL'S latest novel, which has picked up some worshipfulreviews in his native England, reminds me of a recent TV news itemabout "mashing", a computer technique which enables disparate piecesof music to be fused into a single unified track. One of the chosenexamples blended ...
BiblioFile
Apr 04, 2004 ... Writing contests: Auckland radio station KFM 106.9 is running ashort story competition with a prize of $5000. Organiser LouiseMoulin says she wants the contest "to be the best and biggest in theland". Any subject is allowed, provided the story hasn't beenpublished before, but there's a ...
Quoteworthy
Apr 04, 2004; ... "Gilbert! A tattooed biker called Gilbert. Surely he should becalled Rocky or Zed. Or Scary."--Helen, the narrator of AucklanderKate Langdon's frothy new ...
Life drawing
Apr 04, 2004; ... paint your wife by Lloyd Jones, Penguin, $35 Reviewed by Iain Sharp LLOYD JONES'S latest novel--either his sixth or his seventh,depending on how you regard his controversial 1993 book Biografi--isa brilliant meditation on the themes of intimacy, ...
Lynch's mob
Apr 04, 2004; ... WHEN the All Blacks bombed at the Rugby World Cup, coach JohnMitchell took it very personally. How could he not? He lost his jobover it. So how does NZ Idol vocal coach Suzanne Lynch feel when herproteges get the thumbs down from judges? Does she take itpersonally? Does she feel ...
Frank confessions
Apr 04, 2004; ... Bitches, biff, booze and bonking--and that was just behind thescenes. John Forgeham, who plays Earl's Park club chairman FrankLaslett in the TV drama Footballers' Wives, has gone and done thedirty, blabbing to British tabloid News of the World about what hisco-stars are really like ...
PICKS
Apr 04, 2004 ... If you plan your TV viewing carefully tonight, there's no reasonto leave the couch. Catch the first episode of Africa Overland (TV2,6.30pm). Three "ordinary" Kiwis get to go on safari for five weeks,while you get to think uncharitable thoughts about how unfair lifeis. At 8.30pm ...
NZ coach wary of wounded Wallabies
Apr 04, 2004 ... NEW ZEALAND coach Aussie McLean warned of an Australian backlashwhen the two sides meet in a crucial match at the world Under-19rugby tournament in South Africa, tomorrow morning (NZT). The trans-Tasman rivals play at Pietermaritzburg, 90km north ofDurban. Australia's ...
WHY IT MATTERS
Apr 04, 2004; ... ONE OF THE questions we ask ourselves on your behalf as we debatethe merits of the stories on the news list each week is "why shouldour readers care?" It's a useful, if crude, litmus test of therelevance of a story to readers' lives. The risk is it sometimes letsthe media off the hook ...
Phone ban for drivers
Apr 04, 2004; ... MOTORISTS FINALLY face a ban on using hand-held cellphones,following another deadly crash in which a driver was allegedly on thephone. The government confirmed last night it would move towards a banamid criticism from victims' families and the Automobile Associationthat it has ...
MP faced claims of helping to kill friend
Apr 04, 2004; ... ACT MP and euthanasia supporter Deborah Coddington has faced anaccusation of assisting a tetraplegic friend to end his life. Coddington writes in the Sunday Star-Times today of the death ofprominent Auckland barrister Michael Crew, 36, from a suicidalingestion of Paraquat ....
TODAY
Apr 04, 2004; ... A cloud has always hung over the career of World No 2 golfer VijaySingh. Fiji's most famous son has been dogged by bad press since heleft an unpaid phone bill in Auckland in the early 1980s and signedan incorrect scorecard at the 1985 Indonesian Open. Two decades laterand on the eve of ...
LAST NIGHT
Apr 04, 2004 ... Super 12: The Crusaders left no doubt about their intention toregain the Super 12 rugby title when they silenced George Gregan'sBrumbies 47-28 at Jade Stadium--B2. And the Hurricanes returned totheir roots with line-breaking, offloading athleticism in a 29-12 winover the Reds--B2. NRL: ...
CONTRIBUTORS
Apr 04, 2004 ... Peter Wells ventures into new territory for a sports section todayin his essay "A queer eye on the sports guy" on B14. Wells ...
Snapshot - Chiefs 36 Highlanders 31
Apr 04, 2004 ... Carisbrook, Dunedin Chiefs (penalty try, D Maisey S Sitiveni M Holah L Fa'atau tries,D Hill pen 4 cons) Highlanders (S Mapusua 2 J Blackie H Pedersentries, T Brown pen 4 cons) Ht: 21-21. What it means Both teams sit on 17 points and hover in top four territory ....
SHORTPASSES
Apr 04, 2004 ... Captain seeks extra time Martin Johnson (above), England's now-retired rugby World Cup-winning captain, is set to extend his Leicester Tigers career by oneyear, club chairman Peter Tom said. The 34-year-old lock forward hasdecided to continue playing for his club another season ...
QUICKSINGLES
Apr 04, 2004; ... Light me up "ONE OF the less appealing aspects of cricket's history has beenthe over-reaction that seems to take place whenever a bowler issuspected of having an illegal action, says ICC chief Malcolm Speed.Sri Lankan spinner Murali Muralitharan (above) was recently fittedout ...
How the Black Caps rated
Apr 04, 2004; ... TEST PLAYER OF THE YEAR Jacob Oram by some margin. A stock bowler who takes useful wicketswithout giving away too many runs and the best No 8 in the ...
NEWZEALAND ON SUNDAY
Apr 04, 2004 ... PLEASE NOTE: ELECTRONIC COPY UNAVAILABLE. REFER TO HARD COPY FORFULL TEXT AUCKLAND Trucking good fun TODAY - A fleet of some of the nation's finest trucks will bedisplayed during an annual showcase of vehicles at the Museum ofTransport and ...
NZ doctor fights to keep mercy job in Vanuatu
Apr 04, 2004; ... VANUATU'S MERCY doctor Derek Allen is to lose his job on theisland from where he brought twin babies for life-saving surgery. The Pacific nation's government is at odds with the doctor'sefforts to improve health care on the island where he works. Myriam Abel, Vanuatu's ...
Second sexual complaint made against senior cop
Apr 04, 2004; ... Powell raped me at party, says former female constable SUSPENDEDSUPERINTENDENT Kelvin Powell is facing a second sexual complaint,police national headquarters confirmed last night. Police spokesman Michael Player said the complaint was made amonth ago as part of the police ...
NEWS IN BRIEF
Apr 04, 2004 ... IN e experts have crowned Mainland's Ferndale Raclette thenation's best after sampling more than 500 entries. It won theoverall prize at the inaugural New Zealand Champions of Cheese Awardsfor its "wonderful flavour profile of wild mushrooms and sweetcream". MILKING PROFITS / ...
Report puts treaty settlement delays at $96m a year
Apr 04, 2004; ... Claims calculated in advance of negotiations -------------------- ` Political editor DELAYS TO settling Maori land claims are costing the country $96million a year, a leaked report says. Yet ministers admit Treaty of Waitangi settlements have beenlargely ...
ACC patients told to write own epitaphs
Apr 04, 2004; ... PATIENTS ON ACC were told to write their own epitaphs in a coursedesigned to help them get back to work. Dunedin lawyer Peter Sara said two of his clients who had been onseparate "work ready" programmes, one of them in Balclutha, werespooked by the request which they found ...
Raging wool - Colin Meads says baa humbug to lambs on the loose
Apr 04, 2004; ... It's no bull - Te Kuiti makes history with first Running of theSheep IT WAS JUST like Pamplona. Fine beasts, chafing in the heat. Hooves scraping, muscles underskin twitching, flexing. Raw power aching to be freed, the frenzy to be unleashed in a mad,scrambling race. An ...
It's too early to celebrate: Jonah
Apr 04, 2004 ... FORMER ALL BLACK star Jonah Lomu says he is "far from celebrationmode" and months away from knowing whether any of three potentialkidney donors are a successful match. Lomu says he has been fielding calls all week, following SouthChina Morning Post reports subsequently picked up ...
We killed our mother - legally
Apr 04, 2004; ... Margot Westen ended her sick mother's life with doctors' help,writes DEIDRE HENZELL . -------------------- ` DOCTORS TOOK seven days to end the life of Margot Westen'sterminally ill mother with lethal morphine overdoses. It was supposedto take only a day. "It isn't ...
Martin keeping other euthanasia stories under wraps
Apr 04, 2004; ... VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA advocate Lesley Martin isn't taking anychances with the dozens of names of people who have told her of theirinvolvement in mercy killings. The former Wanganui nurse, found guilty last week of attempting tomurder her terminally ill mother in 1999 with a ...
Gory road safety ads written off
Apr 04, 2004; ... ROAD SAFETY officials are ditching their controversial gory andgraphic road smash ads to focus on emotive and scientific warningsabout dangerous driving. After nine years of the blood-soaked ads showing the consequencesof road smashes, a new television campaign begins tonight, ...
Court orders ACC to compensate families of disabled children
Apr 04, 2004; ... ACC FACES an estimated $20-30 million payout to up to 60 familieswith severely disabled children who missed out on care they wereentitled to. The Court of Appeal has ruled ACC must compensate two North Islandfamilies who struggled without its help for the first six and 10years ...
Giving the finger to un-PC sign language
Apr 04, 2004; ... `Offensive' traditional gestures used to signify ethnic groups andgays replaced -------------------- IT'S A sign of the times - politically incorrect sign language isbeing given the thumbs down. Traditional signs used by deaf people to signify ethnic andreligious ...
In the shadow of hope and despair
Apr 04, 2004; ... Twin babies return home to Vanuatu - one saved by an operation inNew Zealand, the other to die. KIM KNIGHT and photographer DAVID WHITE join the family's brave journey. -------------------- IF THIS story has a soundtrack it is the soft shhhh that ...
Cash-starved schools pay for own teachers
Apr 04, 2004; ... david.fisher@star-times.co.nz MIDDLE NEW ZEALAND schools are blaming falling government fundingfor cuts in subjects and increasing class sizes. Schools in the middle of the decile range say they are sufferingmost - being not poor enough to get government grants but not ...
New offer for Cassino vets
Apr 04, 2004 ... ANOTHER 80 World War II veterans could yet attend the MonteCassino 60th anniversary commemorations, with a Christchurchbusinessman trying to raise $600,000 for a private charter flight. Software company founder Greg Evans and other businessmen arecalling for donations to help pay ...
My role in Wahine rescue was ignored; Pilot ship picked up 40 passengers among rocks
Apr 04, 2004; ... matthew.lowe@star-times.co.nz THE CAPTAIN of a pilot ship who risked his life to pluck Wahinesurvivors from the sea wants to rewrite the history books on thedisaster, claiming his role has been ignored. Doug Newey has vivid memories of the tragedy, which claimed 51 ofthe ...