Sunday Star-Times back issues from February 2009:
Winston drives into sunset
Feb 01, 2009 ... WHEN IT'S over, it's time to say goodbye. But Winston Peters'attachment to his government- issued car endures. Three months afterbeing voted out of parliament, the former minister is the only oneyet to return his car to Internal Affairs - we ...
Banks milk credit card customers
Feb 01, 2009; ... NB: Accompanying graphic "High Price of Card Debt" only availablein hardcopy. Interest rates are plunging everywhere except on yourcredit card. By Rob Stock . -------------------- BANKS ARE underpressure to cut the interest rates on credit cards, with a SundayStar-Times investigation ...
Clarification
Feb 01, 2009 ... AN ARTICLE in the Sunday Star-Times on January 18 said formerTongan police officer Sionetosi Tapueluelu was a ...
Sportsman dies in beach rescue
Feb 01, 2009; ... Echoes of Sonny Fai death as league coach saves family ANOTHERKIWI sportsman has drowned while trying to save family members. In an incident eerily reminiscent of Warrior Sonny Fai, who isbelieved to have drowned on January 4 at Auckland's Bethells Beachwhile trying to save his ...
Peters and the VIP car
Feb 01, 2009; ... WHEN IT'S over, it's time to say goodbye. But Winston Peters'attachment to his government-issued car endures. The ex-MP's ministerial car, a 2005 Ford Territory SUV, is stillparked outside his home in Auckland's St Mary's Bay. The car has a "VIP" sticker in its window and ...
Screw turns on Fonterra to come clean
Feb 01, 2009; ... CALLS ARE mounting for Fonterra to release documents at thecentre of the melamine baby milk scandal in China, with a NewZealand legal expert rubbishing the dairy giant's claims it couldnot release the information for legal reasons. Sanlu chairwoman Tian Wenhau last week said she ...
Overseas buyers start new gold rush
Feb 01, 2009; ... -------------------- NEW ZEALAND is poised for another gold rushbut it's unlikely anyone will be digging for their fortunes. As gold prices hit record levels, it's overseas buyers with moneyto spare who are turning their dollars into Kiwi gold. New Zealand Mint head bullion ...
The reluctant sex symbol
Feb 01, 2009; ... All Black Richard Kahui has got it all - whether he likes it ornot. Duncan Johnstone reports. -------------------- MEET ALL BlackRichard Kahui: the reluctant sex symbol. The Chiefs pin-up has sent out a strong message that he wants tobe known for his rugby skills rather than his ...
Nats ready 'controversial' RMA planning shakeup
Feb 01, 2009; ... THE GOVERNMENT is poised to make radical changes to the ResourceManagement Act, drastically raising fines, cutting the time spentconsidering major projects and limiting some appeal rights. Environment Minister Nick Smith says the bill will be a majorchange to the country's ...
RSA survivor back in court for compo
Feb 01, 2009; ... THE SOLE survivor of RSA triple murderer William Bell's rampagereturns to the Supreme Court next month to fight a bid by the Crownto stop her claiming compensation. Last June, Auckland woman Susan Couch broke down in tears whenthe Supreme Court delivered its landmark decision ...
Sophie's family in despair
Feb 01, 2009; ... Trial delays prolong grief THE MOTHER of murdered Dunedin womanSophie Elliott says delays in bringing her alleged killer to trialare cruel and prolong the family's grief. Sophie, 22, suffered 216 stab wounds after she was attacked atthe Elliott's Ravensbourne home, in Dunedin, on ...
Bennett ticked off over letters to back gang member
Feb 01, 2009; ... PRIME MINISTER John Key has reprimanded his renegade socialdevelopment minister Paula Bennett after she failed to tell himabout letters of support she had written for her daughter's jailedpartner. Key yesterday said he was "disappointed" to have not been toldabout the letters ...
SPLIT-SECOND DECISION; THE POLICE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
Feb 01, 2009; ... A week after the death of Halatau Naitoko - from a bullet firedby an armed offenders squad officer - senior reporter Tony Wall finds out when police are permitted to shoot. --------------------What is the AOS? The squads were set up in 1964, after the fatal shooting of ...
THE CAMPAIGN TO CHANGE POLICE AMMUNITION
Feb 01, 2009 ... The bullet which killed Halatau Naitoko was of the type that hasbeen causing controversy around the world for more than 100 yearsand there are calls for New Zealand police to ban its use. Hollowpoint ammunition - also known as soft point, or semi-jacketed - can expand on impact, ...
MPs' full disclosure rule unearths a few skeletons
Feb 01, 2009; ... NOTHING'S A secret between friends in parliament. Social Development Minister Paula Bennett's acknowledgement lastweek that her daughter's boyfriend is in jail - and reports he hasgang affiliations - has put disclosure rules under the spotlight. It turns out politicians have ...
Eating media lunch in novel surroundings
Feb 01, 2009; ... SUNDAY STAR-TIMES columnist Steve Braunias has been awarded aprestigious literary grant that will enable him to work on a comicnovel. Braunias is a joint winner of this year's Buddle Findlay SargesonFellowship and says he is thrilled to add his name to such literaryluminaries as ...
There are ways to lessen plastic pain
Feb 01, 2009; ... NB: Accompanying graphic "Clearing $6000 of credit card debt"only avaiable in hardcopy. All cards are not the same, writes Moneyeditor Rob Stock , who advises how you can reduce your monthlyinterest payments. -------------------- IF YOUR bank isn't going togive you the interest rate you ...
Spammers see the silver lining in recession clouds
Feb 01, 2009; ... IS YOUR job too small? Suffering salary shrinkage? You'll bepleased with your new replica pay cheque. It's official - the recession has hit your inbox. International spam monitors are reporting a rise in emailstargeting people's economic insecurities. The phenomena ...
Canyoning school rebounds
Feb 01, 2009; ... ueue to join Elim College doubles A SCHOOL recovering from thedeath of six students and a teacher in a canyoning accident has beeninundated with applicants for the new year. Staff at East Auckland's Elim Christian College "naively" thoughtthe tragedy at Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor ...
Big-budget weddings bite the dust
Feb 01, 2009; ... Many couples rethink their dream wedding as recession hits home, Lois Watson reports. -------------------- TOUGHER ECONOMICconditions are forcing brides to scale back on their wedding plans. The average New Zealand wedding typically costs around $19,000but with banks tightening ...
New-order peace to rule on controversial marae
Feb 01, 2009; ... Change of government puts a new complexion on commemorationservices, writes Lois Watson . PRIME MINISTER John Key will attendWaitangi Day events at Te Tii Marae which his predecessor, HelenClark, shunned for four years because of the pushing and shoving sheexperienced there ....
Beware the bogan version of Aussie rules
Feb 01, 2009; ... BY A quirk of fate, the Australian and New Zealand national daysfall within a fortnight of each other. They've just had theirperennial debate over the merits of celebrating the beginning ofEuropean settlement, while we're just a few days away from our ownyearly appointment with the ...
Fonterra should come clean about Sanlu minutes
Feb 01, 2009 ... FONTERRA IS understandably embarrassed about the Chinese milkscandal. Its association with Sanlu, and Sanlu's involvement inselling tainted milk, has cost Fonterra $200 million. It has also,inevitably, had some effect on Fonterra's reputation. All the morereason, then, for the dairy ...
Barker gloats as boat floats
Feb 01, 2009; ... RUSSELL COUTTS, the old sea dog, was sent home with his tailbetween his legs after Dean Barker handed out a sailing lesson inthe eagerly anticipated clash between Team New Zealand and Oracle onWaitemata Harbour yesterday. The America's Cup you have when your other America's Cup is ...
Warm-fuzzies out on water is just weird
Feb 01, 2009; ... HOW TRULY weird is the Louis Vuitton regatta being sailed onAuckland's Waitemata Harbour? Think Ricky Stuart throwing a welcome back party for Rugby LeagueWorld Cup final referee Ashley Klein, Jennifer Aniston a baby showerfor Angelina Jolie, and Michael Cullen whispering to John ...
Donaldson's diary: Wacky world of sport
Feb 01, 2009; ... * WELCOME TO an under- construction Heckler page. Over the nextfew weeks we'll be tinkering with this spot until we get it justright, so bear with us. Until then, read on. * STAR OF the week is golfer Pat Perez. Not for his breakthroughPGA Tour win but for the rationale behind his ...
Kiwis on block in IPL auction
Feb 01, 2009; ... CHANCES of Jesse Ryder and Tim Southee joining the Indian PremierLeague have shortened slightly, even though only a fraction of the111 players up for auction this week are likely to win places in theworld's richest cricket competition. Five Kiwis, Brendon McCullum, Daniel Vettori, ...
With Lee out, Black Caps will mash Aussies 4-1
Feb 01, 2009; ... THREE WORDS are all you need to give New Zealand more than afighting chance in the Chappell-Hadlee one-day cricket seriesagainst Australia, which starts today in Perth. No Brett Lee. Say what you like about Australia's weakened state, theirdiminishing confidence, form ...
Vili pushes coach for top honour
Feb 01, 2009; ... OLYMPIC CHAMPION Valerie Vili is a hot contender for the supremeaward at the Halberg Awards on Tuesday night, but she would get abigger thrill to see her coach Kirsten Hellier again win the coachof the year award. Vili confirmed she would be turning up to the Westpac- ...
OUR CUP AT LAST
Feb 01, 2009; ... AUSTRALIA HAVE never won the women's Rugby League World Cup butit hasn't stopped them from hanging on to the trophy. The Kiwi Ferns thumped Australia 34-0 in their final on November15 last year in the curtain-raiser to the Kiwis' triumph over thesame country in the men's final at ...
Change or kiss cash goodbye, says report
Feb 01, 2009; ... RUGBY LEAGUE will be told to accept wide-ranging changes to therunning of the sport or kiss goodbye to a huge pot of governmentmoney. The Sunday Star-Times understands the Sparc-commissioned AndersonReport, a wide-ranging review of how league is run in New Zealand,will be ...
Benji side-steps decision on switch
Feb 01, 2009; ... FOR BENJI Marshall, this is a weekend away from the pressure tomake a career-defining decision on whether he stays in league orswitches to rugby. Flying into Auckland last night with the rest of the Kiwis' worldcup- winning squad for a weekend of delayed celebrations, ...
It's broken and the Breakers need to find a quick-fix to their troubles
Feb 01, 2009; ... SOMETHING IS rotten in the state of Breakerland, and embattledcoach Andrej Lemanis has less than a week to sniff out a solution. That's the inescapable conclusion after Thursday night's bizarre94-101 Australian NBL defeat to the league-leading South Dragons inAuckland. Mixing the ...
Claim hosting rights worth 'many millions'
Feb 01, 2009; ... THE PROMOTER of the David Tua v Shane Cameron fight has deliveredstudies claiming the bout will be worth "many millions" to the hostcity as he prepares for a final decision on the venue of the June 6fight. David Higgins says four cities, Auckland, Waitakere, Hamilton ...
BIG BROTHER LOVES LITTLE BRENDON
Feb 01, 2009; ... Brendon Hartley's Formula One hopes are in Red Bull's hands asmuch as his own. He talks to Steve Kilgallon about being a slave tohis dreams. -------------------- "He had won the victory overhimself. He loved Big Brother." - 1984, George Orwell -------------------- WHEN HE was just 15, ...
Walker ushers in a new era
Feb 01, 2009; ... RICHARD USSHER isn't competing at this year's Coast to Coast butfor the race favourite, Gordon Walker, he will be alongside himthroughout the race: at his shoulder as he slogs up to Goat Pass onthe mountain run, in his wake as he paddles through the Rock Gardenin his kayak, in his ...
I'm going to have to put in a marathon effort on this one
Feb 01, 2009; ... ONCE YOU'VE experienced the whole palette of pain that a marathonbrings, what's next? Where is a bridging point between the garden-variety suffering of your traditional road marathon and the offbeatinsanity of ultra-runners such as Dean Karnazes, who made a careerfrom chomping pizza ...
Iron-willed Bozzone still harbours Olympic aspirations
Feb 01, 2009; ... IF TERENZO BOZZONE one day becomes Ironman world champion he canthank the Triathlon New Zealand selectors who failed to pick him forthe Beijing Olympics. Bozzone was controversially omitted from the New Zealandtriathlon team for the 2008 Olympic Games when the selectors optedfor ...
Driver cops fine, suspension
Feb 01, 2009; ... SPEEDSTAR MIGHT not have drawn the best in the sixth race atFoxton today but he will have plenty of supporters after his driverwas suspended and fined at Manawatu. Driver Brendan Crowley copped a one month suspension and $100fine for failing to give Speedstar every opportunity to ...
Eel Win slips tidy win - Pitman's other top prospects also face shot at big time
Feb 01, 2009; ... TRAINER MICHAEL Pitman will plot an ambitious path for his threetop performers in the next month despite only one of them bagging abig win on Champions day at Wingatui yesterday. Pitman took away the day's biggest prize when Eel Win won the$75,000 White Robe Lodge Stakes, making ...
Easy Ryder fires an NZ Derby warning shot
Feb 01, 2009; ... CAMBRIDGE TRAINER Roger James revealed his stable's Telecom Derbytrump card at Te Rapa yesterday when lightly tried Easy Ryder wonthe $75,000 H S Dyke Waikato Guineas (2000m). James had three runners in the group three event and Easy Ryderhad done the least racing of all of them ....
Auckland's title hopes kick bucket
Feb 01, 2009; ... AT EVERY Auckland City home game, a man sits in his back garden,adjoining Kiwitea St, and bangs on an upturned bucket when somethinggood happens. For three-quarters of this game, he was almost silent; for thelast quarter, he may well have been contemplating hiding his head inthe ...
JUSTICE DEFERRED; MOVIE REVEALS THE STORY OF DAVID DOUGHERTY; JUSTICE DEFERRED
Feb 01, 2009; ... When David Dougherty was wrongly convicted of the rape of a younggirl, his freedom would ultimately rely on the dogged persistence ofthree people: lawyer Murray Gibson, scientist Arie Geursen andjournalist Donna Chisholm. Now the story has been made into a filmfor TV, Kim Knight catches ...
POWERFUL, WELL-MADE DRAMA
Feb 01, 2009; ... Assistant editor and film reviewer Mark Broatch assesses thefinal cut of Until Proven Innocent. -------------------- "I JUSTCAME to clear up a misunderstanding." David Dougherty, a private, ordinary man facing terrible andeventually hugely public claims - that he molested his ...
THE CREATIVE CAVEMAN
Feb 01, 2009; ... Canterbury University professor Denis Dutton claims in a new bookthat we are hard-wired to love stories and music and paintings,because evolution made us that way. He took time out from anAmerican book tour to talk to Anthony Hubbard . DENIS DUTTON is asitar-playing philosopher who ...
Pasta gets a pizza the action
Feb 01, 2009; ... RESTAURANT BRANDS is likely to put pasta on the menu at its PizzaHut outlets by the middle of this year. Restaurant Brands chief executive Russel Creedy said the companywas closely following the introduction of hot pasta dishes at PizzaHut outlets in other countries, such as ...
The bank job
Feb 01, 2009; ... An ANZ shareholder sees no irony in a campaign against his ownbank, writes Rob Stock. -------------------- BUSINESSMAN ANDREWDavidson knows fair play when he sees it. As a director of Scarborough Fair, a fair trade chocolate, teaand coffee company, Davidson has fair dealing ...
World famous at home - that's NZ's problem
Feb 01, 2009; ... BANKS AIMING to take advantage of the government's wholesalefunding guarantee say overseas investor ignorance of New Zealandmust be overcome before they can raise money. The guarantee was announced by then finance minister MichaelCullen on November 1 at the height of the financial ...
The plastic's not so fantastic
Feb 01, 2009; ... I DIDN'T GET my special Christmas present this year and I'm stillsulking. Let me explain. In 2007, just before the festive season, Ireceived a letter from my bank (which in the interests of fulldisclosure is the National Bank). Unfortunately I didn't keep thisparticular missive, but the ...
The missing elements: public and trust
Feb 01, 2009; ... IN COMING to office, state- owned enterprises minister SimonPower inherited an organisation in the thick of an annus horribilis -Public Trust. Its litany of troubles last year reads as follows: * Mortgage-lending losses requiring an emergency government bail-out of near ...
Developer pleads poverty
Feb 01, 2009; ... PROPERTY DEVELOPER Dan McEwan is claiming debts of more than $100million as he faces sentencing for breaking the Securities Act withtwo property schemes. The criminal convictions - two against McEwan personally and afurther three against two of his companies - carry maximum fines ...
Port hit by the Santa clause
Feb 01, 2009; ... A Christmas Eve fax bluntly reminded Port of Tauranga about asignificant contract signed five years ago. Garry Sheeran reports.-------------------- PORT OF Tauranga will have no one to blame butitself when, as seems likely, arch-rival Ports of Auckland gainsentry to its home turf later ...
END OF THE AFFAIR
Feb 01, 2009; ... As the bottom falls out of the property market, Greg Ninness looks at the future for speculators. -------------------- AS ONE ofthe country's most prolific property developers Rick Martin is usedto riding high. But lately he's been having a harder slog. Almost exactly five years ...
The major players come crashing down
Feb 01, 2009; ... * DAVE HENDERSON At the end of 2007, Christchurch- based developer Dave Hendersonwas riding high. A feature film chronicling his long-running battleand ultimate victory over the IRD had just been released and he wasdeveloping a string of hotels around the country. But his ...
How Icelandic banks cost New Zealand investors $65 million
Feb 01, 2009; ... Credit Sails notes were sold as low-risk and high- yield, butdelivered losses of 71%. Tim Hunter unravels the story. -------------------- CREDIT SAILS $91 million bond issue Listed on NZX June2006 Promoter: Forsyth Barr Issuer: Credit Sail Ltd, Cayman IslandsLosses to date: ...
HOW TO PUT HUMPTY TOGETHER AGAIN
Feb 01, 2009; ... Plummeting sharemarkets and interest rates are tough onpensioners and those preparing for retirement. Money editor RobStock offers some tips on how to deal with the double whammy. -------------------- PRE-RETIREMENT PORTFOLIO BLUES ANYONE CLOSE to retirement is likely to be ...
Break fees: even the banks don't get it
Feb 01, 2009; ... THERE'S INCREASING evidence that banks' own staff and bankmanagers do not understand the mortgage break fees they are chargingcustomers. Two weeks ago the Sunday Star-Times revealed, right, how officialconcerns were rising over the vast discrepancies between the feesdifferent ...
LOANS STAMPEDE
Feb 01, 2009; ... AS MUCH as $12 billion worth of mortgages could have been brokenin the past five months as borrowers rushed to take advantage offalling interest rates. The estimate by mortgage broker John Bolton from SquirrelFinancial Services, a former bank executive, is based on ...
WHAT'S BULGING YOUR WALLET?
Feb 01, 2009; ... As everyone from petrol stations to porn shops queue up to giveyou plastic, Rob Stock looks at the 21 different types of card youmay have on you. -------------------- THERE ARE now approaching twodozen unique kinds of plastic financial cards stuffing the nation'swallets, but the good ...
Building blocks to success
Feb 01, 2009; ... Now may be the time to take a punt on building a commercialproperty portfolio. Greg Ninness reports. THE RESERVE Bank'sdecision on Thursday to slash interest rates will likely firm theresolve of property investors who believe fortune favours the bold. With the recession causing ...
Cast away
Feb 01, 2009; ... Tony Wall eschews a relaxing Cook Islands holiday by the poolfor a survivor-style adventure. -------------------- "THIS IS not aTV show, this is reality," says Nga Pureariki, "survival expert" andthe bloke we're relying on to get us through the next 24 hoursalive. Later, as I run out ...
ED'S NOTE
Feb 01, 2009; ... TONY WALL, who sits at the desk next to me, defines a metrosexualas a man who drinks decaf. He's originally from the South Island,and says down there they don't even have coffee - they drinkSpeights instead. Tony feels vaguely ashamed about leaving hismanhood behind on the Mainland and ...
36 hours; wellington
Feb 01, 2009; ... Sunday, 12pm: Coffee tastes better in Crown Lynn. The 1960scolourglaze cup is the same teal hue as the calm ocean in theharbour a few hundred metres away. It's Wellington and this is oneof the finest, crispest, brightest blue days I can remember. I putthe cup down on one of the fine ...
cd reviews
Feb 01, 2009; ... VARIOUS Motown 50 (Universal) * * * The premise of Yesterday Today Forever is to showcase Motown, alabel that has produced 180 No 1 hits. The unique touch that thisone has going for it is that the 47 tracks from the Jackson 5's "IWant You Back" to Thelma Houston's ...
A garden of earthly delights; QUICK BITES a round-up of recent reviews
Feb 01, 2009; ... THE GARDEN DELI 3.5/5 WHERE: 4 Raumati Rd, Raumati Beach, KapitiCoast, ph (04) 902-7745. WHEN: Monday to Saturday, 8am-4pm; Sunday,9am-2pm. HOW MUCH: $72.50 for lunch for two, including desserts anddrinks. WHAT'S TO EAT: Classic deli food. WHAT DO WE THINK: Mouth-watering ...