The Herald on Sunday (Auckland, New Zealand) back issues from August 2007:
Delighted National needs to be concerned of the Clark class act.
Aug 05, 2007 ... THOSE ATTENDING the National Party conference this weekend will be group-pinching themselves with delight over the dream run that the leader, John Key, has had since his bloodless coup against Don Brash. It appears their new leader can do little wrong. Provided the ...
QUICK.
Aug 05, 2007 ... QUICK Across 1. Back gate, door (7) 4. Of doctoring (7) 8. Rower's poles (4) 9. Ruined (10) 11. Meal course (6) 12. Strews (8) 14. A bribe, inducement (9) 15. Slightly leavened bread ...
THE BEST ADVICE FOR HOME BUYERS RIGHT NOW.
Aug 05, 2007 ... WINTER MAY traditionally be less busy for the property market, but canny home buyers can use it to their advantage. Although the selection of homes may be less varied than in the busy spring/summer months, serious home buyers will also get more attention from a real estate agent ...
These golden pastures.
Aug 05, 2007 ... LISTEN TO some and you'd think Waikato's rolling hills were paved with gold, not lush grass. Fonterra's recent dairy payout forecast has served only to confirm a perception that farming, and dairy farming in particular, is a sure road to riches. But land prices are soaring in ...
AFTER HELPING spark a week of nationalistic sloganeering around the suitability of foreign ownership of our biggest airport, Dubai Aerospace Enterp...
Aug 05, 2007 ... AFTER HELPING spark a week of nationalistic sloganeering around the suitability of foreign ownership of our biggest airport, Dubai Aerospace Enterprise chief financial officer Hamish De Run thinks people are now moving past the emotion and will start to really study its plan to buy up ...
KEY POINTS OF THE OFFER.
Aug 05, 2007 ... zAuckland International Airport Ltd (AIAL) will be owned by a new company to be called Auckland Airport Ltd (AAL). zDAE will own between 51 per cent and 60 per cent of AAL, with the rest being owned by existing AIAL shareholders. zThe AAL board will have a majority of ...
Team NZ angry about America's Cup delays.
Aug 05, 2007 ... EMIRATES TEAM New Zealand is growing increasingly testy about the delay to their next campaign caused by BMW Oracle's court action - and say it is harming the America's Cup. Even after the surprise withdrawal of leading Italian syndicate Luna Rossa, the cup courtroom drama ...
Glorious Cupboast dims.
Aug 05, 2007 ... LUNA ROSSA'S shock withdrawal from the 33rd America's Cup not only removes one of the leading contenders, it also accentuates the heavy reverses that are dogging holders Alinghi. Ernesto Bertarelli, the billionaire leader of the Alinghi syndicate, has made it a proud declaration ...
live some sort of secret life or I tell lies to people. It's nothing like that," she says. "It's just it has never been explicitly discussed amongs...
Aug 05, 2007 ... live some sort of secret life or I tell lies to people. It's nothing like that," she says. "It's just it has never been explicitly discussed amongst people that I know. I'm still getting used to the whole concept." Kate only heard about asexuality a couple of years ago on the ...
KERI HULME.
Aug 05, 2007 ... THE 60-YEAR-OLD self-employed writer, author of the Booker Prize-winningThe Bone People and resident of South Westland, answers questions about being asexual. What does being asexual mean to you? It is part of who I am: the major impact is that I am not - and never ...
THE WEEK.
Aug 05, 2007 ... MondayzASB Bank's housing confidence survey shows fewer than half of those surveyed believe house prices will continue to rise. TuesdayzBridgecorp receivers say that investors could receive anything between 25c and 74c for each dollar invested in the collapsed finance company. Investors ...
MONDAYDETAILS OF Dubai Aerospace Enterprise's plan to buy up to 60 per cent of Auckland airport are revealed. The board recommends the deal with sh...
Aug 05, 2007 ... MONDAYDETAILS OF Dubai Aerospace Enterprise's plan to buy up to 60 per cent of Auckland airport are revealed. The board recommends the deal with shareholders to receive up to $3.80 per share. Tuesday MFS Living and Leisure Group fails to reach the 90 per cent threshold for its takeover of ...
What?www.rodneyhide.comWho?Act party leader Rodney Hide.Why?New Zealand's new Minister for Self Promotion?
Aug 05, 2007 ... What?www.rodneyhide.comWho?Act party leader Rodney Hide.Why?New Zealand's new Minister for Self Promotion? Tuesday, July 31, 2007 "I launch my book tomorrow. I am very excited. It will get in the shops on Friday I am told. I am on breakfast TV tomorrow at 8.10am on ...
Home players for test team.
Aug 05, 2007 ... SOUTH AFRICA'S leading rugby players have been dealt a blow after the country's rugby bosses decided that players basing themselves abroad would no longer be eligible for the national team. The decision by the South African Rugby Union's (SARU) President's Council means some of ...
Fullback Fran agood, keen man.
Aug 05, 2007 ... MANAWATU MANAGER John Knowles has an anecdote he believes sums up his Argentinian fullback perfectly. With just seconds to go before kickoff in this year's Air New Zealand Cup, Knowles went down to the bench as Waikato and the green-and-whites prepared to do battle. Francisco ...
THE NEWS that Maori Television is to establish a digital channel that will broadcast solely in te reo is a pleasing vindication of the efforts of t...
Aug 05, 2007 ... THE NEWS that Maori Television is to establish a digital channel that will broadcast solely in te reo is a pleasing vindication of the efforts of the young broadcaster. For an organisation that suffered such terrible birth pains - the victim for a long time of opportunistic ...
No need for legislation on lactation.
Aug 05, 2007 ... THERE'S NO faulting the timing of Rotorua MP Steve Chadwick's bill proposing that cafe owners and employers, among others, be forced to allow mothers to breastfeed their babies in public view. But the timing does not mean that the idea is not silly. Chadwick, a former midwife, ...
Discouraging the wrong people from driving.
Aug 05, 2007 ... zLETTER OF THE WEEK Kudos to Annette King for addressing NZ's rampant drug- driving (You ask the questions, July 29). A line in the sand must be drawn now. We're in the midst of a P epidemic and there's no traction here with reducing marijuana use. In some regions, drugs fuel ...
Pippa for Breakfast.
Aug 05, 2007 ... SHE IS lauded as the "thinking man's piece of crumpet" by many an enthusiastic internet fan, and now Pippa Wetzell will be the face 290,000 Kiwis wake up to each morning as the new co-host of TV One's Breakfast. But she may have to get her thinking cap on - the new mum scored ...
Spam and law breaking.
Aug 05, 2007 ... Spam and law breaking NEW LAWS coming into force in September will hopefully mean an end to many unsolicited emails. But how do you ensure your company's legitimate emails will get to the right people without breaking the law? The Auckland Chamber of Commerce is ...
Cairns fire scare.
Aug 05, 2007 ... CRICKET LEGEND Chris Cairns' wife and two boys were lucky to survive a house fire in Belgium earlier this year. Chris, 37, was in London while wife Carin, 31, and sons Thomas, 5, and Bram, 3, were caught in an inferno in a friend's luxury home. In an exclusive ...
CLUB RUGBY.
Aug 05, 2007 ... Counties ManukauPukekohe scrambled back to the top of Counties Manukau club rugby with a last minute 9-6 victory over top qualifiers Karaka in yesterday's grand final. Karaka will be scratching their heads as to how they lost after dominating possession and territory for 75m and ...
Paradise lost with lack of action on crime.
Aug 05, 2007 ... IT'S GOOD to be home, woken by tui to walk the dog through native bush. New Zealand - land of badly dressed women, personalised number plates and the ubiquitous portable water bottle. Nothing's changed when you open the newspaper and read a 3-year-old was allegedly spun in the ...
Coca-Cola turned down rugby drinks deal.
Aug 05, 2007 ... COCA-COLA SAYS the man who spearheaded a new "healthy lifestyle" sponsorship change at nine rugby unions around the country twice tried to sew up a beverage deal with them for the same unions. Most of the nine unions (known as the G9) decided to axe fizzy drinks at their ...
Cautionary note as the corsetmakes a fashion comeback.
Aug 05, 2007 ... CORSETS MIGHT be a cinch to get into, and are back in style, but there are still some dangers in being tightly laced. Corsets, and their underwear cousins the girdle or slimming garments, are making a comeback. But women need to be aware of their effect. Michelle ...
Harbour pumpedup to hold Shield.
Aug 05, 2007 ... SEEMS LIKE North Harbour have taken a liking to the Log o' Wood they stuffed into the trophy cabinet last season. Certainly they don't appear too keen about giving it up and made that clear to Taranaki last night. Harbour, so sloppy and only partially committed last ...
Probe follows irregular betting.
Aug 05, 2007 ... THE ASSOCIATION of Tennis Professionals has launched an investigation into irregular betting patterns surrounding the recent match between Russia's Nikolai Davydenko and Argentina's Martin Vassallo Arguello at the Poland Open in Sopot. Betfair, which has cancelled all bets on ...
"The NRL is too close to get carried away," Swann says. "We are in pretty good shape at the moment but all of that can change in a couple of weeks ...
Aug 05, 2007 ... "The NRL is too close to get carried away," Swann says. "We are in pretty good shape at the moment but all of that can change in a couple of weeks so it's hard to look too far ahead. We focus week to week. This week it's the Roosters, who are travelling well under Brad Fittler. ...
SOME 25 years ago Mum worked as a volunteer cook at the Wellington Friendship Centre. She made friends, as is her wont, with a refugee from Cambodi...
Aug 05, 2007 ... SOME 25 years ago Mum worked as a volunteer cook at the Wellington Friendship Centre. She made friends, as is her wont, with a refugee from Cambodia, a widow with five children. She'd escaped what became known as the Killing Fields. Her husband, a doctor therefore an intellectual, was ...
Prince guidesTitans to victory.
Aug 05, 2007 ... THEY CALLED Robin Hood the prince of thieves but it was another prince, Scott Prince, who stole the Tigers' thunder at Carrara Stadium last night. The Titans have been less like titans and more like tight ends with Prince out with injury. The difference he makes to them was ...
NZ Idle: TV star facing$20,000 bill over no show.
Aug 05, 2007 ... TELEVISION STAR Dominic Bowden may face a $20,000 bill after he cancelled on an international travel show just two hours before the plane took off yesterday, leaving staff in Auckland scrambling to find a new presenter. The crew of Intrepid Journeys, a Jam TV production which ...
THE DUBAI Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) bid shows all the signs of a swiftly arranged courtship where the prospective bride (Auckland International Ai...
Aug 05, 2007 ... THE DUBAI Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) bid shows all the signs of a swiftly arranged courtship where the prospective bride (Auckland International Airport) has decided to secure her own preferred marriage partner instead of succumbing to the all-or-nothing offers being worked up by three ...
Kiwis tough it out in Spain.
Aug 05, 2007 ... MARINA ERAKOVIC and Sacha Jones have both scored three-hour-long wins over their opponents to reach the semifinals of the US$25,000 Challenger at Vigo, Spain, in which they will play each other. Nineteen-year-old Erakovic beat fifth-seed Melanie South (Britain) 7-6, 6-7, 6-2, ...
AT A GLANCE.
Aug 05, 2007 ... zChild Youth and Family had seized one of Lisa Kuka's children after the child suffered non-accidental head injury - but there were no follow-up checks on other children. zCYF investigated allegations of sexual abuse in the household of co-accused Wiremu and William Curtis. ...
Fleming expected to be.
Aug 05, 2007 ... BLACK CAPS skipper Stephen Fleming would have figured highly in conversations held yesterday as the NZ selectors met for the first time since the naming of the 20 contracted players. The selectors - John Bracewell, Glenn Turner, Dion Nash and Sir Richard Hadlee - have met in ...
Drug trial hopes to beat the bug.
Aug 05, 2007 ... A NEW influenza drug being trialled in New Zealand has the potential to save millions of lives during a worldwide pandemic and could be as effective as - or more effective than - Tamiflu in combating a outbreak of avian flu, experts believe. Antiviral drug Peramivir, developed ...
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Aug 05, 2007 ... THE ENZYME neuraminidase is responsible for the release of particles from 'flu-infected cells. These particles then spread the disease and may also assist in spreading the virus through mucus, allowing it to escape the host through a sneeze or a ...
FLU STATS.
Aug 05, 2007 ... THE DREADED flu has been keeping a relatively low profile so far this season, statistics show. But experts say they can never predict when a big outbreak will occur, and there is often a nasty, late-season spike of infections in August and September. There have been four ...
Nats plot conservative course.
Aug 05, 2007 ... DON'T FIXATE on our sparse policy, just listen for the nuances - that's the message business should take from a resurgent National Party. At the party's annual conference in Auckland yesterday, the first since John Key was elected leader, there were plenty of signals to the ...
Healthy times forhouse building.
Aug 05, 2007 ... NEW FIGURES issued last week show a surprisingly hardy construction sector with building consents in June up 15.8 per cent from the month before, which in times of a supposedly slowing property market may seem out of kilter. But demand for new housing remains as strong as it ...
AS A disaffected market unenthusiastically awaits Telecom's annual results this week, all eyes are on three key regulatory decisions expected in th...
Aug 05, 2007 ... AS A disaffected market unenthusiastically awaits Telecom's annual results this week, all eyes are on three key regulatory decisions expected in the next month, which should give shareholders a clearer idea of just how reduced a creature the former monopoly will become. Guy ...
Harbour pumpedup to hold Shield.
Aug 05, 2007 ... SEEMS LIKE North Harbour have taken a liking to the Log O' Wood they stuffed into the cabinet last season. Certainly they don't appear too keen about giving it up and made that clear to Taranaki last night. Harbour, sloppy and only partially committed last week, were ...
1945The first atomic bomb is dropped, by a US aircraft, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.1963The Great Train Robbery - thieves ambush a mail train...
Aug 05, 2007 ... 1945The first atomic bomb is dropped, by a US aircraft, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.1963The Great Train Robbery - thieves ambush a mail train in the UK and steal 2.6 ...
All over barshouting onKiwis coach.
Aug 05, 2007 ... COACHES HAVE applied, some were asked to apply, and now applications have closed. All candidates for coaching the Kiwis will be discussed; some for quite a while and a couple receiving only scant attention. A few weeks ago, the hotline suggested Paul Bergman would ...
Personal crane may be retained.
Aug 05, 2007 ... McLAREN MAINTAINED a diplomatic silence on rumours in the paddock yesterday that they are negotiating an exclusive deal with JCB to help Lewis Hamilton on those rare occasions when he needs to get himself back on to the track. After his escapades in Germany, where his car was ...
INDICATOR OFTHE WEEK.
Aug 05, 2007 ... THERE WERE 2,574 new housing units authorised in June 2007 compared with 1,994 in June 2006, an increase of 29 per cent, said Statistics New Zealand. The ...
Leuluai topfancy now.
Aug 05, 2007 ... YOU NEVER quite know with rugby league but it seems likely the next coach of the Kiwis will be James Leuluai. Barely mentioned as a contender at the beginning of the hunt for the successor to Brian McClennan, Leuluai has been the subject of a decent bit of arm-twisting by New ...
MARKET TALKTelecom.
Aug 05, 2007 ... THE ONE-OFF abnormal gain of $2.08 billion from the sale of the Yellow Pages Group has boosted Telecom's annual profit to $3.02 billion. Adjusting for one-offs, Telecom's net profit after tax was $955 million for the year to June 30, an increase of 16.5 per cent compared with ...
Strong employmentfigures are expected.
Aug 05, 2007 ... BORROWERS ARE unlikely to take much joy from second-quarter employment data this week, even though it is expected to reveal a strong labour market. Economists expect the numbers of unemployed to hover around 20-year lows, and Westpac Bank economists expect the rate to fall to ...
EXPORT NEW Zealand chief executive Bob Walters is philosophical but realistic about the rollercoaster ride exporters have been taken on by the reco...
Aug 05, 2007 ... EXPORT NEW Zealand chief executive Bob Walters is philosophical but realistic about the rollercoaster ride exporters have been taken on by the record-breaking Kiwi dollar. He believes exporters will be encouraged by the kiwi's fall back to US$0.7840 in response to Reserve Bank ...
MAJOR WORLD share markets ended the week sharply lower as concerns about credit conditions in the United States started to bite.
Aug 05, 2007 ... MAJOR WORLD share markets ended the week sharply lower as concerns about credit conditions in the United States started to bite. American stocks plunged for a second day on Friday, in the worst week for the S&P 500 in nearly five years, as tightening credit conditions led to ...
Englishmen cop their beansafter Cook embroils Zaheer.
Aug 05, 2007 ... INDIAN PACEMAN Zaheer Khan was obviously sensitive to confectionary, doing his (dough)nut when an Englishman, reportedly Alastair Cook, took to placing jellybeans on a length while he was batting, winding up Khan about his weight. Ignoring the fact the incident backfired ...
Inventors, exportershave sexy stories.
Aug 05, 2007 ... I WAS MC at the Waikato Exporter of the Year Awards this week, and in this, the year of the exporter, I just wanted to give them a written round of applause. It's not easy being exporters at a time when the Kiwi and US dollars are just about neck and neck. The ...
Bottlefeedingus laws.
Aug 05, 2007 ... WHO WOULD have thought that that monument to political correctness - Te Papa - would have been so crass as to ask a breastfeeding woman to leave its public library? Rotorua MP Steve Chadwick produced several examples of this sort of antediluvian behaviour in support of her bill ...
FOR ALL the criticism of John Howard, maybe we should be looking in our own backyard as yet another child is fighting for its life in Starship hosp...
Aug 05, 2007 ... FOR ALL the criticism of John Howard, maybe we should be looking in our own backyard as yet another child is fighting for its life in Starship hospital. The devoted mother is keeping a bedside vigil as the three-year-old is being treated for a brain bleed, and abdominal injuries ...
HOW MANY people are suspected of driving under the influence of drugs? Is there a particular drug that affects driving ability?Cannabis is known to...
Aug 05, 2007 ... HOW MANY people are suspected of driving under the influence of drugs? Is there a particular drug that affects driving ability?Cannabis is known to be the third most popular drug in New Zealand (after alcohol and tobacco) and international research has shown that cannabis can impair the ...
IT SEEMS every plane in the world has arrived, says Fred Carr, 73, gesturing at an arrivals board that shows that five planes from Sydney, three fr...
Aug 05, 2007 ... IT SEEMS every plane in the world has arrived, says Fred Carr, 73, gesturing at an arrivals board that shows that five planes from Sydney, three from Singapore, two each from Tokyo, Noumea, Bangkok and Hong Kong, and one from Dubai have landed at Auckland Airport in the past 20 minutes. ...
Bonus point victorieskeep coach happy.
Aug 05, 2007 ... PAT LAM'S satisfaction with Auckland's campaign so far has been fuelled more by the nature of the two victories, than their magnitude. A bonus point win in the opening week was followed by another on Friday night against Bay of Plenty, with Auckland again reliant on a late ...
Hog set to get awhole lot posher.
Aug 05, 2007 ... ONE OF Auckland's iconic Viaduct drinking holes, the Loaded Hog, is set to go upmarket and be split into four bars as part of a multi-million-dollar facelift. But its name might be changed sooner than its new owner anticipated, as the bar's previous owners are pursued in the ...
Lythe moves to relaunch career.
Aug 05, 2007 ... AUCKLAND SPINNER Tim Lythe said his shift to Central Districts was to advance his career in the short forms of the game. Lythe's remarkable comeback from what should have been career-ending and what could have been life-ending cancer was documented in the Herald on Sunday two ...
after cancer scare.
Aug 05, 2007 ... medics did not really contemplate for a minute that Lythe would lead anything other than a relatively sedentary existence following such a hugely invasive process. They certainly didn't foresee a first-class cricket career. "In October, I had an operation to fix up my ...
SO, DAVID Benson-Pope is out of his ministerial office and banished to some cupboard with the rest of the backbenchers. Benson-Pope and his politic...
Aug 05, 2007 ... SO, DAVID Benson-Pope is out of his ministerial office and banished to some cupboard with the rest of the backbenchers. Benson-Pope and his political aide, Steve Hurring, warned the Environment Ministry over their appointment of Madeleine Setchell, the bedmate of John Key's media ...
Paroleto homerevoked.
Aug 05, 2007 ... CONVICTED RAPIST Peter McNamara has had his home detention approval revoked because the Parole Board failed to advise his victim in time of the hearing. Millionaire McNamara was convicted for a 1989 pack rape of a 20-year-old woman along with former police officers Brad Shipton ...
Victims aim to move home.
Aug 05, 2007 ... THE FAMILY of a 9-year-old boy left for dead after a hit-and-run incident outside their home are so traumatised by the experience they are moving house. Tawhiri Moka was dragged about 15m underneath a Mitsubishi Pajero as it smashed through a fence outside his Manurewa, ...
WHAT IS it called and what sort of savings product is it?The Hunter Hall Value Growth Trust is a managed fund.Who is the company behind it?Hunter H...
Aug 05, 2007 ... WHAT IS it called and what sort of savings product is it?The Hunter Hall Value Growth Trust is a managed fund.Who is the company behind it?Hunter Hall is an Australian-based fund manager and is now the largest ethical manager on the other side of the ditch. The company is listed on the ...