Sunday Star-Times back issues from October 2008:
GOOD SAMARITAN EXCLUSIVE; He died. She lived. How does that feel?
Oct 05, 2008; ... THE WOMAN Austin Hemmings died trying to save says he stood infront of her to shield her from a knife-wielding attacker andordered her to run just moments before he was stabbed to death. "Who does that? Who dies for someone they don't know?" the womantold the Sunday Star-Times ...
Shadbolt: I ended up in bed with Kedgley
Oct 05, 2008; ... TIM SHADBOLT has admitted being unfaithful to his former wife,Miriam Cameron, and claims he shared a bed with Green MP SueKedgley, who was drunk at the time. The revelations come in Shadbolt's new book Tim Shadbolt - AMayor of Two Cities which will be released on Thursday ....
SUNDAY STAR-TIMES, OCTOBER 5,2008
Oct 05, 2008 ... FALLING WORLD commodity prices prompted a spate of jolly storieslast week predicting a return to more reasonably priced dairyproducts for Kiwi consumers - albeit at the expense of our farmers. But for a little perspective on the issue check out the New YorkTimes' latest story on ...
On the scrap heap
Oct 05, 2008 ... POLITICAL CAMPAIGNING was recycled yesterday with politicianstaking up the cause to recycle electronic waste at this year's eDay.Environment Minister Trevor Mallard and Greens co-leader RusselNorman helped out at Wellington's Westpac Stadium as car after cardropped off ...
Fire damages hotel
Oct 05, 2008 ... A FIRE early yesterday morning badly damaged Carterton's old ClubHotel. The blaze in the two-storey building was discovered by apassing ...
Pedestrian struck
Oct 05, 2008 ... A 65-YEAR-OLD Tauranga man is in a serious condition in WaikatoHospital after he was struck on a pedestrian crossing in a hit-and-run on Friday. The man was hit about 9pm as he was ...
Kiwi extradited
Oct 05, 2008 ... A NEW Zealand man has been extradited to Brisbane over an allegedsexual assault initially linked to a series of attacks. The 33-year-old man has been charged over an alleged assault on an ...
American rescued
Oct 05, 2008 ... A MAN was rescued yesterday afternoon after being trapped onrocks near a waterfall precipice in Tongariro National Park. The 40-year-old American slipped and fell about 2m into a river and ...
Bizarre shooting
Oct 05, 2008 ... POLICE ARE investigating the "bizarre" random shooting of an 18year-old woman in East Auckland yesterday. She was at a barbecuewith friends on Omana Beach near Maraetai, about 3pm, when she wasshot in the back of the leg with what police believe was an airrifle. Manukau Senior Sergeant ...
Shopkeeper stable
Oct 05, 2008 ... THE AUCKLAND shopkeeper stabbed in his Avondale Lotto shop onFriday is stable in Auckland Hospital. Police said a ...
Chisholm on move
Oct 05, 2008 ... DONNA CHISHOLM, the deputy editor of the Sunday Star-Times, hasresigned after 33 years with the paper and its predecessors theSunday Star and the Auckland Star. She is best known for her mid-1990s campaign which led to David Dougherty being freed from jailfor an ...
Powerball powers on
Oct 05, 2008 ... $22 MILLION? Bah. Better to wait a week, and make it $24m.Lotto's biggest- ever prize went ...
More stories online
Oct 05, 2008 ... WE HAVE more stories online. Read how political parties are usingcelebrities to pump up their election campaigns, why ...
Chewing it over
Oct 05, 2008 ... CAN ANYONE deny it? The eating of human flesh did take place inNew Zealand, and not even very long ago. "At the end of battle . . .arms or legs are taken off, thrown on to embers or just held over afire," says historian Paul Moon, author of an explosive new bookcalled This Horrid ...
Police search boyfriend's house
Oct 05, 2008; ... POLICE INVESTIGATING the disappearance of Christchurch womanTisha Lowry yesterday shifted their search to the home of herestranged boyfriend - and the banks of the Avon River. Lowry vanished 10 days ago. She was last seen by her grandfather -with whom she was living in an old ...
Dead dolphin found
Oct 05, 2008 ... A DEAD dolphin discovered in Tasman Bay died after becomingentangled in a fishing net. The 1.8m dusky dolphin was spotted onFriday morning in front of the Marahau township. Department ...
Double decker
Oct 05, 2008 ... TWO PUBLIC buses crashed head-on in Wellington yesterday, causingminor injuries to a bus driver and a passenger. Alex Johnston, 16,said she was the sole passenger on a bus turning into Melrose Rdfrom Buckley Rd in Houghton Bay about ...
Uneasy shopkeepers ready to arm themselves
Oct 05, 2008; ... FRIGHTENED SHOPKEEPERS have turned to a gun store for adviceabout guns, pepper spray and even a bulletproof vest. The spate of requests follows the high-profile murder of Manurewaliquor store owner Navtej Singh and Friday's stabbing of 55-year-old Auckland lotto shop owner ...
Abused doctor gets justice but hits out at police inaction
Oct 05, 2008; ... He's a prominent public servant who beat his wife. We can revealhis name and his face - but a judge says we still can't tell you hisjob. Leigh Van Der Stoep reports. -------------------- A GP WHOwas hit and kicked by her husband - a prominent public servant -says she is appalled the ...
Maori seats emerging as flashpoint in power deal
Oct 05, 2008; ... MAORI PARTY co-leader Pita Sharples yesterday vowed to lead a"foreshore and seabed"-style protest if National moved on its policyto abolish the Maori seats. The Maori Party is shaping up as an increasingly likely supportpartner for a possible National government, but National's ...
Dead doctor had been stopped for drink driving
Oct 05, 2008; ... FRIENDS AND colleagues are shaken by the sudden death of 52-year-old rheumatologist Min Loke Wong who had a successful career,spanning more 20 years at Waikato Hospital, and a large group offriends. Wong was found dead at Waikato Hospital on Wednesday morning.Police are not ...
Officials investigate bizarre adoption ad featuring Keisha
Oct 05, 2008; ... KIWI FILM star Keisha Castle- Hughes has been unwittingly draggedinto an international baby adoption scam, which is now beinginvestigated by New Zealand authorities. A picture of the famous young mother is being used by a personcalling herself Brenda, who is advertising a baby for ...
Global backlash at Snifter's demise might mean sweet nothing
Oct 05, 2008; ... THE FIGHT to save a kiwi icon is gaining momentum like, well, aSnifter rolling down a cinema aisle. It's a fortnight since Cadbury Schweppes confirmed its companyPascalls was no longer manufacturing Snifters, Sparkles and TangyFruits - and the backlash has gone global ....
Fonterra in the dark over compo claims
Oct 05, 2008; ... FONTERRA IS in the dark about its liability for compensationpayouts as the global fallout from the Sanlu tainted milk sagacontinues. But the government says diplomatic ties between New Zealand andChina remain strong despite Fonterra's link to the scandal. An estimated ...
OLIVER STILL HAS DRIVE FOR MORE
Oct 05, 2008; ... The new Sunrise presenter is his frosty old self. Karen Tay reports. -------------------- OLIVER DRIVER may be better known asthe man who used Lisa Lewis' naked breasts as a marketing tool forAlt TV but he's after a different sort of challenge in his new roleas co-presenter of TV3 ...
Blackmail charge over sex, drugs threat
Oct 05, 2008; ... AN AUCKLAND man is facing a blackmail charge after threatening todisclose details of a lawyer's sex life and drug use, unless hehanded over more than $350,000. Documents from the Auckland District Court allege that inNovember 2006 Paul Desmond Currie, 45, "threatened expressly ...
NEW EVIDENCE FOR COLD CASE MURDER
Oct 05, 2008; ... Ten years after 15-year-old Ashburton girl Kirsty Bentley wasmurdered, there are calls for a review of the police investigationwith allegations significant leads were never followed up. DonnaChisholm reports. -------------------- POLICE INVESTIGATING themurder of Ashburton teenager ...
Well-heeled or too steep? The price of stylish stilettos
Oct 05, 2008 ... Each month Sunday Star-Times and Consumer magazine bring you thebest in consumer affairs news. Whether it's taste tests or thelatest research, we'll have it here. -------------------- IT'S EASYto marvel at designer shoes on the silver screen but their real-life price tags are harder to ...
FEET FIRST
Oct 05, 2008 ... * You can get a full-leather shoe that's beautifully built for$200. Leather means less perspiration, although it's moresusceptible to scratches when compared to hard-wearing vinyl. * Shop for shoes at the end of the day (when your feet tend tobe more swollen). Try both shoes on ...
China milk powder scandal opens can of worms for shoppers
Oct 05, 2008; ... Despite official assurances on food safety, New Zealanders areworried, writes Emma Page. -------------------- CONSUMER HELP linesare buzzing with calls from Kiwis anxious about the safety of theirfood as the Chinese baby formula crisis continues to shake consumerconfidence. In ...
Why they couldn't trust lunatics to run asylum
Oct 05, 2008; ... ONE OF the few heartening things in a disheartening week in theannals of capitalism was the US House of Representatives rejectingthe first attempt to bail out Wall St. The markets hated it and thebillionaires club pretended it was the end of the world, but it wasthe first sign of a ...
Captains, like nannies, know best - not
Oct 05, 2008 ... LABOUR AND National are ancient hyenas pretending to bevegetarian. Last week they showed their real fangs. Their attempt tobully and bludgeon the other parties out of the television debatesis no real surprise. This, after all, is the slathering old duopolythat tried to keep their hold on ...
We're building a town
Oct 05, 2008 ... READING YOUR reporter's description of Pegasus last week, I wasstruck by the sense that she was describing a place that was totallyunfamiliar. As anyone who has visited the full site recently during workinghours can attest, Pegasus is a hive of activity. As one of thelargest ...
Right and left
Oct 05, 2008 ... SO BRIAN Edwards thinks that right- wingers are lessunderstanding, more judgemental, more self-satisfied, and moreuncaring than the alternative, presumably left-wingers like himself(Focus, September 28). As one who is of a far-right political persuasion, I would agreethat right- ...
China in the gun
Oct 05, 2008 ... FINLAY MACDONALD is at pains to assure readers he is not aSinophobe or xenophobic in his anti-Chinese rant - and that's all itcan be called (September 28). How odd. Having long lulled readers with predictable and anodynetakes on social and world affairs, Macdonald's shift to such ...
Breast cancer
Oct 05, 2008 ... WHILE YOUR article by Lynda Wharton "In the Pink'' (Escape,September 28) includes valuable general advice on weight, exerciseetc, the subject of breast cancer prevention is a difficult one.Breast cancer seems to be a number of quite different and verycomplex diseases, almost as ...
Milk substitutes
Oct 05, 2008 ... WE NEED only look to our own shores to find breast milksubstitutes marketed irresponsibly by companies that have previouslyhad infant-death scandals. Nutricia is currently in direct violation of the WHOInternational code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes. NutriciaKaricare ...
Maori seats must go
Oct 05, 2008 ... THE MAORI parliamentary seats are an embarrassing anachronism andit is good that a major political party has made known they want toabolish the seats and when. And National had the courage to say sobefore an election. Until recently the Maori seats were indispensable instruments ...
Rewards for wastage
Oct 05, 2008 ... MY ELECTRICITY supplier has advised me of the new rewards scheme -consumers are encouraged to use electricity. It ...
Testing primary kids
Oct 05, 2008 ... I AM worried about the implications of the National Party's planto test primary school children, particularly for children withspecial educational needs. It appears that the results of thesewritten tests will be made public and fed into comparative leaguetables. Parents of children with ...
Left hanging
Oct 05, 2008 ... WHAT A farce - Tony Wall's expose on the so-called "infamous''Spencer Trust (September 28). Months of excitement, speculation and media frenzy over a trustthat appears to have had a paltry $14,600 in its coffers prior to a$26,400 donation to cover legal costs to Clarkson. I ...
Stick to your knitting
Oct 05, 2008 ... ROSEMARY McLEOD (Gang influence on Flaxmere violence all tooclear, September 28) should stick to subjects she is conversant with(her knitting). Gang liaison Denis O'Reilly, who consistently over many years haswalked his talk by effective ...
Police tribute
Oct 05, 2008 ... THANK YOU for publishing Stacy Burnard's letter praising yourjournalist's tribute to Sergeant Don ...
Fund irresponsible
Oct 05, 2008 ... THE CHAIR of the Super Fund Board, David May, boasts that thefund invests responsibly and upholds New Zealand's reputation as agood global citizen. It is impossible to reconcile this claim with the Super Fundinvestments in the US Corporation, Freeport McMoran Copper and Goldand ...
WINNING WORDS; Justice studies
Oct 05, 2008 ... IT WAS a community scandal. How dare Carol (her real name) standup in class and repeat verbatim from the Auckland Star an articlecovering the Profumo Affair as part of our ''show and tell'' lesson. Nowadays my alma mater, Belmont Intermediate, is progressiveenough to introduce ...
Hobbs offers provinces Super stake
Oct 05, 2008; ... PROVINCIAL RUGBY unions look set to take a direct ownership stakein New Zealand's Super rugby franchises in a series of proposedmoves which could mean the end of well- known brand names such asthe Blues, Hurricanes and Highlanders. In a wide-ranging interview in today's Sunday ...
NZRU GET BACK IN BLACK
Oct 05, 2008 ... The New Zealand Rugby Union is poised to make it back into theblack. Union chairman Jock Hobbs told the Sunday Star-Times this weekthat despite forecasting deficits for the next four years the NZRU"will make a surplus this year" thanks largely to depreciation ofthe New Zealand ...
say it again
Oct 05, 2008 ... "They have been given two home series to time a graceful exitfollow- ing which they are open to the axe." - An Indian cricketofficial reveals Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Rhaul Dravid, V VS Laxman and Anil Kumble have been told to plan their "retirements".It'll be a pretty thin ...
Save us from Boock
Oct 05, 2008 ... I WRITE with a plea for mercy to the Sunday Star-Times inresponse to Richard Boock's position as the Final Whistle in thesports section. Please give sports fans some peace and put him in the Focussection or the little magazine supplement that the girls and artytypes like to ...
Boock a hero
Oct 05, 2008 ... GREAT JOURNALISM Richard Boock. A powerful hard-hitting exposureof the unholy alliance between alcohol and sports interests with theconsequences spelled out explicitly and comprehensively. The othergreat scourge of New Zealand society, gambling, is intimatelyassociated with the sport/ ...
Enough now
Oct 05, 2008 ... TO RICHARD BOOCK: I'm a long-time reader of your column in theSunday Star- Times although recently it occurs to me that you seemto have changed direction and gone on a crusade against theinjustices in the world of sport and society in general. These columns, while thought- ...
Straight to the toilet
Oct 05, 2008 ... BRILLIANT PIECE (In Bed with the Booze Barons, Sunday Star-Times, Sept 28)! My husband and sons are sports junkies . . . addicted to sportson TV. This is the first sports story I've ever ...
Thorn's example
Oct 05, 2008 ... TO RICHARD BOOCK: Your weekly article in last weekend's SundayStar-Times was one of the best you have written. It is about time the booze barons were taken to task over theiralleged sponsorship which they would not continue if it was not aprofitable exercise. Possibly it ...
Mooloos' Messam in mix for northern tour
Oct 05, 2008; ... THE DRUMS are beating for an All Blacks call-up for Liam Messam. The Waikato skipper is said to be at the front of a short queueof candidates to snatch the seventh spot in the squad's roster ofloose forwards. The Sunday Star-Times understands Messam, All Blacks ...
Toothless Lions pay a heavy price
Oct 05, 2008; ... OTAGO 36 WELLINGTON 21 -------------------- WELLINGTON'S HOPESfor a perfect season unravelled in Dunedin last night when theirback-up brigade were shocked by a lively Otago side at Carisbrook. Having tucked away the Ranfurly Shield for the summer, the Lionsare now in search of ...
Pressure off, Tuitavake boys and Harbour strut their stuff
Oct 05, 2008; ... NORTH HARBOUR 57 COUNTIES MANUKAU 28 -------------------- FORWHAT it's worth, North Harbour finally unleashed the full gamut ofits offensive firepower at Mount Smart Stadium yesterday afternoon. It probably won't be any consolation to its long-sufferingsupporters, but at least it ...
CRISIS? WHAT CRISIS?
Oct 05, 2008; ... New Zealand Rugby Union chairman Jock Hobbs says New Zealandrugby isn't in crisis, despite the mood in the provinces. Greg Fordreports. -------------------- G IVEN THE problems now confrontingNew Zealand rugby you'd think this would be a tailor-made situationfor a bloke like Jock Hobbs ....
Troy in charge
Oct 05, 2008 ... FORMER NEW Plymouth golfer Troy Ropiha is poised to complete ahappy homecoming after blitzing his old course to carry a four-shotlead into today's final round of the Taranaki Open. Ropiha, who nowlives in Taupo, carded a stunning six- under 66 at the New PlymouthGolf Club to move to ...
Redmond in runs
Oct 05, 2008 ... OPENERS AARON Redmond and Martin Guptill shared a 190-runpartnership to give New Zealand A a solid start to their second four-day tour cricket match against India A at Chennai. At stumps, NewZealand were 270 for three ...
Double fun
Oct 05, 2008 ... NEW ZEALAND tennis player Marina Erakovic has continued her goodform in doubles by reaching the women's final at the Japan Open.Erakovic and American Jill Craybas ...
Cambo close
Oct 05, 2008 ... FOR A third week running New Zealand golfer Michael Campbell hasput himself in position to end a three-year winless drought after hecarded a two-under 70 at St Andrews on day two of the Alfred DunhillLinks Championship in Scotland. Campbell ended a chilly day in aneight-way share of ...
Wilkinson surgery
Oct 05, 2008 ... INJURY-PRONE ENGLAND rugby star Jonny Wilkinson underwent surgeryon his injured left knee with his Newcastle club reporting nocomplications, although he is still unlikely to play again beforeChristmas. England's 2003 ...
Castroneves in dock
Oct 05, 2008 ... TWO-TIME INDIANAPOLIS 500 champion Helio Castroneves pleaded notguilty to federal tax evasion charges and declared outside thecourtroom that he would treat the case like a race against theInternal Revenue Service. "I'm a race car driver," Castroneves said."This is a very difficult ...
Scholes stays on
Oct 05, 2008 ... MANCHESTER UNITED midfielder Paul Scholes, who has spent hisentire career at the football club, signed a contract ...
Axe over Sachin
Oct 05, 2008 ... COACH GARY Kirsten told India's cricket squad to distancethemselves from the controversy surrounding five senior playersahead of the start of the test series against Australia next week.The countdown for the four-test series starting in Bangalore thisweek has been overshadowed by news ...