Sunday Star-Times back issues from August 2008:
Nats double their tax promise
Aug 03, 2008; ... NATIONAL HAS fired the opening salvoes in the election yearbattle over the economy, saying there is room for two rounds of taxcuts this financial year - and more government debt. National leader John Key told 700 National Party delegates at itsannual conference in Wellington ...
Police protect Dixon jurors
Aug 03, 2008; ... A GANG member has been charged following a late-night visit tothe home of an Antonie Dixon murder-trial juror - an action whichnearly derailed the million-dollar court case. Claims of jury tampering are believed to have led to policeproviding secret around- the-clock surveillance ...
Triple fatal crash
Aug 03, 2008 ... THREE PEOPLE died last night in a car accident on Glenmurray Rd,in Rangiriri, just south of Te Kauwhata in Waikato. The crash, whichinvolved two vehicles - one a van, happened at around 8.30pm. Therewere no survivors. A ...
Kain sentenced
Aug 03, 2008 ... KEVIN BERNARD KAIN, the Northland man who abused his neighbour'syoung children over three years has been sentenced to preventivedetention. The 64-year-old featured in the May 18 Sunday Star-Timesstory "The devil next door", and was sentenced by Justice Lang onFriday, in the ...
Train death
Aug 03, 2008 ... A PERSON was hit and killed by the TranzAlpine train nearChristchurch at about 6pm last night. A passenger said the train ...
Stop stadium rally
Aug 03, 2008 ... MORE THAN 1000 people marched in central Dunedin yesterday tooppose further public spending on a proposed new stadium to replaceCarisbrook. Stop the Stadium president Bev Butler said $14 millionof ratepayers' money had already been spent on ...
Passenger dies
Aug 03, 2008 ... A MAN in his early 20s has died after the vehicle he was apassenger in ran off the road and into a ditch in Whangarei onFriday. He was in a four-wheel-drive which left State Highway 1 nearOtaika, south of Whangarei just before 4pm. No other vehicles wereinvolved and police said they ...
Prisoner escapes
Aug 03, 2008 ... RED-FACED DUNEDIN police were yesterday searching for a barefootprisoner who escaped from their custody. Inspector Dave Campbellsaid Steven Allen Shaw, 43, had been remanded in custody yesterdaymorning following a brief appearance in the Dunedin District Courtcharged with burglary and ...
SkyCity strike
Aug 03, 2008 ... AUCKLAND'S SKYCITY workers walked off the job yesterday as partof a 24-hour strike. Unite and the Service and Food Workers Unionrepresent ...
Case thrown out as judge attacks courts
Aug 03, 2008; ... SERIOUS CRIMINAL charges are being thrown out unheard afterdelays caused by what a judge has called "shamefully inadequate"court facilities. Two courts can't be used because of leaks and a broken jury boxseat - and a third has been ruled out because the table in the juryroom ...
Napier man's fright night as two found shot at gate
Aug 03, 2008; ... A NAPIER man has described his horror at finding a man shot inthe face and a dead woman on the footpath in front of his home earlyyesterday morning. Jed Coates was woken shortly after midnight by his partner whohad heard a loud bang outside their Harold Holt Ave house ....
SUNDAY STAR-TIMES; AUGUST 3, 2008
Aug 03, 2008; ... IT MIGHT be a little premature to be looking for silver linings,but there's no doubt we will emerge from the credit crisisconsiderably more sceptical - and knowledgeable - about the financesector than we were at the outset. In the past year, thousands of New Zealanders have woken ...
Home of the year
Aug 03, 2008 ... THE MOST beautiful homes designed and built in New Zealand in thepast year. What are the five finalists for home of the year like?Well, some are very expensive, but not all. One was built out ofbreeze ...
Aussie anthem but her heart's All Black
Aug 03, 2008; ... SHE'S A passionate All Blacks fan but teen singing star ElizabethMarvelly had to put professionalism first last night as she sang theAustralian national anthem before the second Bledisloe Cup match atAuckland's Eden Park. The 18-year-old from a "rugby mad" family said despite ...
Pinned officer in a forgiving mood
Aug 03, 2008; ... THE POLICEWOMAN who is facing major surgery after being hit by adrunk driver says he is a "bloody idiot" but she can't wait to getback to work. The newly sworn constable and mother of two, Bryony Brown, 30,was pinned against her patrol car in Swanson Rd, West Auckland, by adrunk ...
Author thinks Tamihere had accomplice
Aug 03, 2008; ... -------------------- A NEW book on some of the country's mostinfamous murder cases suggests David Tamihere did not act alone whenhe killed Swedish tourists Heidi Paakonen and Urbahn Hoglin. Bryan Bruce, an award-winning documentary maker and producer ofthe top-rating TV series The ...
Hidden threat to storm claims
Aug 03, 2008; ... SOME HOMEOWNERS might miss out on compensation for flood and slipdamage because of a little-known clause in the Building Act. The Earthquake Commission and the Insurance Council are urginghomeowners to check their property titles for references to theclause, which would show that ...
HOW MUCH TAX ARE YOU REALLY PAYING?
Aug 03, 2008; ... As the Nats promise a second round of tax cuts to take effectfrom April, Adam Dudding adds up the average family's tax bill,including the levies we don't even think about. --------------------JAW-DROPPING PRICE tags on everything from cheddar cheese to petrolhave seen many New Zealand ...
DRUG A SIGHT FOR SORE EYES
Aug 03, 2008; ... Dramatic recovery brings calls for public funding to help others.By Karen Arnold . -------------------- AN AUCKLAND woman who wastold to prepare to go blind has regained her sight thanks to aremarkable new drug. Viv Jones, who suffers from a form of macular degeneration, ...
Wedding bells sound end of Bachelors International
Aug 03, 2008; ... HE HELD out longer than all his mates but, finally, BachelorsInternational's only remaining member is getting hitched. And when 60-year-old Bill Horton says "I do", it will be thedeath knell for a select Auckland-based club which has been flyingthe flag for singles for 30 years ....
Milo gets a tick - and a ticking off; Too much sugar to qualify as 'healthy choice'
Aug 03, 2008; ... ICONIC CHILDHOOD chocolate drink Milo has been given a HeartFoundation tick as a "healthy choice" - worrying nutritionists whosay the powder is half sugar. The dietary experts - who include a Heart Foundation adviser -say the coveted green tick will mislead people into thinking ...
PACIFIC DIVISION PROBE REVEALS BRAZEN FRAUD
Aug 03, 2008; ... Scrutiny of a troubled agency turns up a case of luxury travel atthe taxpayer's expense. Tony Wall and Deidre Mussen report. -------------------- FOR 10 months Pelesa Visesio- Skelton defraudedImmigration NZ, using her position as personal assistant to two ofits most senior officials ...
INQUIRIES INTO IMMIGRATION NZ
Aug 03, 2008 ... * The auditor-general's office has launched a wide-ranginginquiry at the request of Prime Minister Helen Clark. It will lookat the "integrity and probity" of Immigration decision-makingsystems, processes and practices, especially within the PacificDivision, recruitment processes around ...
HANDOVER FINANCE? THEY COULD
Aug 03, 2008; ... Adam Dudding looks at the resources of businessmen Eric Watsonand Mark Hotchin as they pledge support for their beleagueredHanover Finance. -------------------- HANOVER FINANCE is on thebrink. Half a billion dollars belonging to 16,000 investors havebeen frozen while its owners Eric ...
THREE KEY STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE
Aug 03, 2008; ... John Key talks to political editor Ruth Laugesen about tax, howhe would help struggling households and his big idea. -------------------- JOHN KEY has a bottomless amiability. But when we ask him totry out for size Prime Minister Helen Clark's seat in parliament'sdebating chamber for a ...
Tail wagging horse
Aug 03, 2008 ... YOUR ARTICLE "A one-horse race'' (July 27) demonstrates alarminghypocrisy on the part of government, and specifically our financeminister, Michael Cullen. Despite continual protests prior toelection year budget that tax cuts were unaffordable, they haveapparently yielded to pressure from ...
Shadbolt's dreaming
Aug 03, 2008 ... CALLS BY Invercargill mayor Tim Shadbolt to be a possiblecontender as the mayor of an Auckland super city are pie in the sky. The Auckland region is growing by the size of Invercargill everythree or four years. We're going to have a population of over twomillion in the next few ...
On drug cheats
Aug 03, 2008 ... I DISAGREE with the premise of Richard Boock's "Just dopey''(Sport, July 27). Just because the war is difficult is no reason not to fight it.It is also difficult to stop crime in our community; however, westill want the police to try. The genuine drug fight is only a few ...
Demonising NZ First
Aug 03, 2008 ... THE JOURNALISTIC feeding frenzy over Tony Veitch and WinstonPeters has been wondrous to behold, particularly the extreme wordsused to demonise them. Now your official editorial (July 27) has passed on more extremewords to the New Zealand First Party, declaring their members ...
It stinks, Winston
Aug 03, 2008 ... THE EDITORIAL sums up Mr Peter's big problem: "The issue ishypocrisy.'' The major reason Mr Peters is being widely condemned forapparently taking large secret donations from at least three wealthypeople is that he criticised another party strongly for doing thesame when in 2005 ...
Assaulting children
Aug 03, 2008 ... FAMILY FIRST'S advertisement "Parents Assaulted'' (July 27)describes a series of actions on the part of parents or caregivers,the police and a CYF member. The parents' or caregivers' actions reveal a view of discipliningchildren that accepts violence. When investigated by police, ...
Suing for heroism
Aug 03, 2008 ... I WAS amazed to read of Leanne and Grant Bradley of Hamiltonsuing the owner of their wedding venue for loss of ambience becausethey and their guests gave help at the Tamihere coolstore fire ...
Bobby Sands
Aug 03, 2008 ... WHILE READING through the Escape section (July 20), I saw a pieceon the 40th International Film Festival Launch where it was stated,"The festival has been running since 1969 and in that year one ofthe films that showed was called Hunger, about imprisoned IRAsoldier Bobby Sands.'' ...
Breast is cheapest
Aug 03, 2008 ... YOUR ARTICLE on the MoneyMinded courses (Business, July 27) madegreat reading for families with young children. As an independent midwife I see many families face the stress ofreducing to a single income and the associated impact of this. The list of tips was practical and ...
TV cuisine
Aug 03, 2008 ... ALLYSON GOFTON'S "Food in a Minute'' TV segment has regularlydrifted into the realms of the banal - just how many dishes can betopped with potato pom-poms anyway? But her latest offering simplybeggars belief. Could someone please tell me how a television segment thatproposes ...
Wind research all blow
Aug 03, 2008 ... JUST HOW futile can Research New Zealand be? Its latest expensiveresearch regarding wind farms makes one wonder as to how ineffectualresearch and researchers can be. Their press release said that the majority of New Zealanders haveno problem with the look of wind farms ....
WINNING WORDS; Scratch racing minister
Aug 03, 2008 ... THE ARTICLE "A one-horse race'' (July 27) reminded me of aquestion I have always wanted to ask because I feel certain thatthere will be no satisfactory answer to it - why do we need a racingminister? Oh sure, racing is an industry involving the breeding ofthoroughbred animals at ...
Moment of destiny for western journalists
Aug 03, 2008 ... UNDER INTENSE international pressure and at the 11th hour, Chinahas relented, restoring international journalists' access to certainirksome websites like the BBC and Amnesty International. But thegrudging and partial concession to press freedom is not enough todisspell the sense that New ...
COCK-A-HOOP: WOODCOCK LEADS BLACKOUT
Aug 03, 2008; ... SO, IT takes a humiliating loss to get the All Blacks reallyfired up. Or maybe it was the chopping block and sharp axe beingwheeled into the coaches' box. Whatever . . . this was more like it;an All Blacks team playing as if very future of the country dependedon victory; luckily we got ...
say it again
Aug 03, 2008 ... "Once Australia had learned how to slow them down in the secondhalf, the (All Blacks) had nowhere to go and their incoherence insome parts of the second half was an embarrassment." - Stephen Joneshits the nail on the head in analysing last week's Bledisloe Cupdebacle ....
ANGRY ALL BLACKS MUSCLE UP
Aug 03, 2008; ... NEW ZEALAND 39 AUSTRALIA 10 -------------------- GRAHAM HENRY andhis All Blacks put the boot into their critics and the Wallabies asthey produced their promised kicking improvements and backed it upwith power and precision to tie up the Bledisloe Cup with a hugelysatisfying win at ...
We won't be chasing Sonny Bill for ABs: NZRU
Aug 03, 2008; ... THE NEW Zealand Rugby Union won't go out of its way to secureSonny Bill Williams for the All Blacks, says union chief executiveSteve Tew. League star Williams is predicted to make his union debut forToulon in the upcoming French season but even if he proveS a smashhit at Tana ...
THE CUP
Aug 03, 2008 ... OPENING ROUND Thursday Bay of Plenty 8 Tasman 7 Northland 18 Waikato 10 Friday Taranaki 20 North Harbour 13 Wellington 30 Hawke's Bay 6 Yesterday Manawatu 25 Canterbury 24 Otago 25 Southland 23 Today ...
COWAN STEPS UP
Aug 03, 2008; ... Jimmy Cowan has been waiting for a chance to let his rugby do thetalking and he felt he went some way to achieving that with astandout role in the All Blacks' 39-10 demolition of the Wallabiesin Auckland last night. Having held his place in the All Blacks despite his ...
NRL ACTION OVER SONNY BILL IN DOUBT
Aug 03, 2008 ... THE NRL'S involvement in court action against Sonny Bill Williamsis in doubt amid revelations of an approach to Benji Marshall tojoin his Kiwis team-mate in French rugby union. Australian agent Greg Keenan, who manages Willie Mason, WendellSailor and Matt Henjak among others, ...
Ill wind blowing for Kiwi crew
Aug 03, 2008; ... The latest America's Cup legal wrangling leaves Team New Zealandvulnerable on many fronts. Michael Donaldson reports. -------------------- TEAM NEW Zealand's ability to stay afloat until the nextAmerica's Cup has reached a new precipice following last week'sdramatic turn of legal events ...
NZ boarder leads world series
Aug 03, 2008 ... KIWI SNOWBOARDER James Hamilton is on top of the world afterjumping to the lead of the Burton global series following today'sNew Zealand Open at Wanaka. Hamilton, New Zealand's top-ranked male, was eighth in the men'shalf-pipe and that, combined with his 11th in the slopestyle ...
Tide starting to turn against 'arrogant' boss
Aug 03, 2008; ... A SWELL of opinion is building against Surfing New Zealand'spresident Bruce Scott with calls for him to resign ahead of anannual meeting next month which could prove volatile. The tide has turned against Scott in the wake of Surfing NZ'sbullish reaction to a court case taken by ...
Suspension and fine for botched bet trainer
Aug 03, 2008; ... CAMBRIDGE TRAINER Bernard Dyke has been suspended for threemonths and saddled with fines and costs totalling $17,500 over hisdishonesty with a botched TAB bet. In releasing the decision, judicial committee chairman MurrayMcKechnie said the offence, while serious, did not warrant ...
FAHEY UNLEASHES THE TALENT
Aug 03, 2008; ... Trainer's winners will soon have competition from his nextgeneration of rising stars, writes Barry Lichter. -------------------- PUNTERS MIGHT have thought it was the dogs standing on top ofthe victory dais at Addington that heralded a new wave of stars fromthe Fahey team. But ...
Talented duo ready to deliver on promise
Aug 03, 2008; ... TAKANINI TRAINER Bruce Wallace and two of his long-time clientsare in for some real excitement in the next few months with Ruakakawinner Gigino and his money-can't-buy stablemate Sufficient. Wallace would have forgiven Gigino if he'd been beaten in the91.6 More FM Three-year-old ...
Fudoh rises
Aug 03, 2008 ... YURI FUDOH of Japan and South Korea's Ji-Yai Shin shared thehalfway lead at the Women's British Open after both shot four- under68s to tie the halfway ...
Maria's Games over
Aug 03, 2008 ... RUSSIAN WORLD No Maria Sharapova will miss the US Open and couldbe sidelined for up to three months after an examination of herinjured right shoulder revealed a torn rotator cuff. Dr DavidAltchek said the injury ...
Wie off beam
Aug 03, 2008 ... MICHELLE WIE'S slim hopes of making the cut at the PGA Tour'sReno-Tahoe Open evaporated when she battled to an eight- over-par 80in the second round at Montreux Golf & Country Club in Reno, ...
Team stripped
Aug 03, 2008 ... THE AMERICAN 4x400m relay team that won gold at the SydneyOlympic Games in 2000 have been stripped of their medals afterAntonio Pettigrew admitted to doping, the IOC decided yesterday.Reallocation of the medals was not discussed at the IOC's executiveboard meeting ...
Nadal top dog
Aug 03, 2008 ... RAFAEL NADAL guaranteed he would become the third Spanish man totop the world men's tennis rankings with a 7-6 6-1 victory overEcuador's Nicolas Lapentti in the quarterfinals of ...
OH SONNY BOY
Aug 03, 2008; ... Sonny Bill Williams shocked the sporting world when he turned hisback on his supporters, his team-mates and what promised to be oneof the great rugby league careers. Former fans are calling him acoward, a rat, a dog and a 'gutless piece of shit'. Now the runawaywants to be an All Black. ...
'HE COULD BE AN ALL BLACK'
Aug 03, 2008; ... Sonny Bill Williams is set apart from his peers by his freakishathleticism, which is one of the reasons fellow code- switcher BradThorn believes Williams will one day play for the All Blacks, aseither a flanker or centre. "He would make a great rugby union player," said Thorn, who ...
AN ELEGANT MYSTERY
Aug 03, 2008; ... A collection of century-old unknown Frances Hodgkins paintingshas been unearthed in France. Kim Knight reports exclusively ontheir homecoming. -------------------- FOR 100 years they lay,undiscovered, in a French attic. The watermelon seller, the sail mender, the mother and child ...
THE GIFT OF LIFE
Aug 03, 2008; ... The couple who donated their embryos to another couple afterkeeping them frozen for 15 years tell Deidre Mussen why theysimply couldn't say no. -------------------- BOTH BABY albums ofPeter and Chris's teenage sons open with photographs of the newbornsnestled among presents under their ...
bedside table
Aug 03, 2008 ... PETER FEENEY What's on your bedside table and are you enjoying it? Nothing at the moment, and the absence is hellish. I'm touringand have slunk into the terrible habit of watching whatever junkhappens to be showing on late- night Sky TV. My wife, however, isreading Daphne ...
The life of meaning
Aug 03, 2008; ... FROM AFTERWIT TO ZEMBLANITY By Simon Hertnon New Holland, $25 -------------------- THE SECRET LIFE OF WORDS By Henry HitchingsHachette Livre, $65 Reviewed by Mark Broatch --------------------BOOKS ABOUT words and language have been popular forever. We seemparticularly fascinated by the ...
Spotlight on: Taranaki
Aug 03, 2008; ... Taranaki is the land of the plenty, and attractive propertyopportunities, writes Vicki Holder. -------------------- ON THENorth Island's wild west coast, with Mt Taranaki 30 minutes' driveaway, New Plymouth is a city where you can surf and ski all in oneday. The commercial ...
THE MAN BEHIND RICHMASTERY
Aug 03, 2008; ... There's no one in the small world of New Zealand residentialproperty investment who does not have a strong opinion about PhilJones, a man who claims multimillionaire status after starting outin property investing seven years ago with $25,000. His marketing company Richmastery, ...
Blue Peak faces angry backlash
Aug 03, 2008; ... The company's claim that it is delivering results is news tolicensees, who say they have nothing to show for their money, writesRob Stock. -------------------- BLUE PEAK DEALS Here's how a typicaldeal would work * A licensee finds a home they can buy for $275,000, perhapsfrom a ...