The Herald on Sunday (Auckland, New Zealand) back issues from February 2008:
Bid to counter meat market mentality.
Feb 24, 2008 ... THERE'S A temptation to have a good laugh at the Australian Football League's insistence on producing a DVD on how to behave with women. At least, there would be if it wasn't so sad. But you can only congratulate the men in charge of Australian Rules football for pressing ahead ...
Boomerskeen towork on.
Feb 24, 2008 ... GARDENING GRANDMOTHER Eileen Herbert might be 69, but she still works at least 32 hours a week. The Woolworths checkout supervisor has no immediate plans to retire and she's far from alone. A record number of seniors are in work, scuttling fears that a "grey tsunami" of baby ...
Shareholders up inair over takeover bid.
Feb 24, 2008 ... INVESTORS IN Auckland Airport hoping to gain from a partial takeover bid have been left wondering what to wish for, after its share price jumped 30c in a week. Airport shares hit $2.83 on Thursday, up from $2.53 at the close of the previous week. They closed at $2.80 on Friday. ...
'The flame flickeredin his eyes and he died'.
Feb 24, 2008 ... TWO BROTHERS have told how their father died of a broken heart six days after their mother. Brian and Erima Banks - Brin and Rima to family and friends - were married for 63 years and proved equally inseparable in death. Rima died on February 12 aged 85, and Brin ...
Pumas test unlikely - All Blacks freed.
Feb 24, 2008 ... THE PROPOSED test with Argentina in August has little chance of happening and it is now likely All Blacks will be released to play at least two rounds of provincial football instead. A desire to build greater rest periods into the extended format has given the All Blacks a full ...
$20m mansion's makeover.
Feb 24, 2008 ... NEW ZEALAND'S richest man has hired dozens of workmen to gut his clifftop mansion and add some fun features, in a million-dollar-plus renovation. Graeme Hart's sprawling home in Auckland's Glendowie is undergoing major renovations, including the demolition of vast sections of ...
LABOUR DOWN BUT NOT OUT IN LATEST POLL.
Feb 24, 2008 ... THE LABOUR Party is confident it can bounce back from a poll result that puts it 23 points behind National. The Fairfax Media-Neilsen survey gives National 55 per cent of the party vote, its best result since Labour returned to government in 1999. A Labour spokesperson said ...
THE LOSS OF A LOVED ONE.
Feb 24, 2008 ... Dying of a broken heart is not as far-fetched as it sounds, according to Martin Connolly, Freemasons professor of geriatric medicine at Auckland University. He said there was almost certainly an increased rate of death within the first few months of a close relative dying. ...
BEING ABLE to kick back and relax over the holiday season gives you the time to do the things and go places you wouldn't normally get to.
Feb 24, 2008 ... BEING ABLE to kick back and relax over the holiday season gives you the time to do the things and go places you wouldn't normally get to. And with all that left over turkey and ham, there's no great pressure to spend all day in the boat in search of a feed of fish. ...
Week of pure political theatre.
Feb 24, 2008 ... IT WAS a week of outrage. Shocked to the core, we discovered cops do deals with crooks, lawyers know criminals, journalists chase exclusives, politicians accept campaign donations, wealthy philanthropists get gongs, and the Leader of the Opposition can't remember whether or not he made a ...
MONDAY FREIGHTWAYS reports a 2 per cent lift in half-year profits to $16.77m. Revenue was up 12 per cent. TuesdayCasino and cinema operator SkyCity...
Feb 24, 2008 ... MONDAY FREIGHTWAYS reports a 2 per cent lift in half-year profits to $16.77m. Revenue was up 12 per cent. TuesdayCasino and cinema operator SkyCity says it will write down the value of its cinema assets by $60m. Its cinemas are up for sale. WednesdayCompanies ...
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19External migration statistics for December. Tourism Holdings and PGG Wrightson's half-year results. Wednesday, February 20 Pump...
Feb 24, 2008 ... TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19External migration statistics for December. Tourism Holdings and PGG Wrightson's half-year results. Wednesday, February 20 Pumpkin Patch's half-year result. Thursday, February 21Electronic card ...
THE WEEK.
Feb 24, 2008 ... MondayzFonterra abandons a vote by shareholders to approve plans to list on the NZX. TuesdayzPGG Wrightson reports a 68 per cent increase in first-half net profit to $34.6m. WednesdayzPumpkin Patch reports a half-year net profit ...
THE GHOSTS of McLean Park were laid to rest in Christchurch last night, with New Zealand starting and finishing the job - just.
Feb 24, 2008 ... THE GHOSTS of McLean Park were laid to rest in Christchurch last night, with New Zealand starting and finishing the job - just. Yes, they had a little help from the rain, the umpires and Messers Duckworth and Lewis but 3-1 looks a comprehensive series win in the books. ...
What?
Feb 24, 2008 ... What? http://monkeyswithtypewriter.blogspot.com/ Who?Lee Clark: "I am a white male in my 40s. I like photography, playing the ukulele and guitar and listening to music. Married, one baby boy. Used to be rather 'left' now am 'a bit right'." Why? What more ...
Probe into property hard sell.
Feb 24, 2008 ... THE COMMERCE Commission is investigating several alleged breaches of the Fair Trading Act by Blue Chip, which may have broken a string of laws. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is also looking into the property investment business and asking for investors to call a free-phone ...
BURDEN OF PROOF.
Feb 24, 2008 ... THE COMMERCE Commission needs to prove there has been misleading or deceptive conduct generally - or that false statements or represent- ations were made in the sales process - to take action against Blue Chip and other companies. Its director of fair trading, Adrian Sparrow, ...
Collins preferred as Braid still sidelined.
Feb 24, 2008 ... IT SEEMS strange that, in these days of new rules and freer-flowing games, the Blues will again be without a specialist openside flanker when they take on the Lions at 6am today. Daniel Braid is still recovering from injury and Blues coach David Nucifora will keep the team that ...
NZ VS ENGLAND.
Feb 24, 2008 ... England A Cooklbw Vettori42 P Mustardc How b Mills 2 I Bellc Flynn b Mills24 K Pietersenc Ryder b Patel39 P Collingwoodst McCull b Vettori14 O Shahc McCullum b Mills 29 L Wrightc Taylor b Mills 47 Mascarenhasnot out 29 S Broadnot out11 Extras (3lb, 2nb) 5 ...
Bond's quick pitstop at Hampshire.
Feb 24, 2008 ... NEW ZEALAND fast bowler Shane Bond will play for Hampshire in the opening weeks of the 2008 season, the English county announced yesterday. While Bond's presence in county cricket was prefaced by the Herald on Sunday on February 10, Worcestershire was expected to be his county ...
Sir Howard would liven up politics.
Feb 24, 2008 ... NEWS THAT silver-haired songster Sir Howard Morrison turned down a million-dollar offer from political donor Owen Glenn to stand as an independent MP came as a surprise to many. Sir Howard, known for speaking his mind on subjects as taboo as the size of female pop stars, has ...
Street's cleanliness finds favour with most.
Feb 24, 2008 ... I was interested to note that restaurant reviewer Peter Calder drank four glasses of wine, three beers and 500ml of Sangria as he reviewed Tasca on Nuffield St, Newmarket (Spanish for starters, Detours, February 17). Admittedly, he was dining with two others, one being his daughter. Mr ...
Dreams ofplayoffshot down.
Feb 24, 2008 ... THE REALITY of playoff basketball was underlined to the Breakers last night after they were dealt to ruthlessly by the Bullets. The defending NBL champions were not in a charitable mood playing at home in Brisbane and unleashed a blistering second quarter 41-point display to ...
Brumbies bounce back.
Feb 24, 2008 ... IT WAS with heavy irony that the Brumbies suffered a comfortable loss to the Crusaders last week. Coach Laurie Fisher had earlier and somewhat high-handedly sniffed that he wasn't going to pass on any information about his players to Wallaby coach Robbie Deans until he'd finished being ...
Anger atSERBIA.
Feb 24, 2008 ... THE UNITED States, European Union and United Nations yesterday led condemnation of attacks on Western embassies in Belgrade, but Russia argued that nations backing Kosovo's independence had only themselves to blame. The EU called on Serbian authorities to ensure the security of ...
Crazy Chiefs nearly toss.
Feb 24, 2008 ... PEOPLE THINK it's crazy to be playing rugby in February. Crazier still is playing in February and watching the Chiefs win, which they only managed to do when Stephen Donald held his nerve to land a last minute penalty. It's become the Chiefs' own curious ritual in recent ...
AgentbacksHayley.
Feb 24, 2008 ... THE MAN who discovered popera princess Hayley Westenra has hit back at Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's "holier than thou" swipe at his star. The opera singer yesterday refused to share the stage with Westenra at last night's postponed Starlight Symphony concert in the Auckland Domain and ...
KATHERINE RICH'S decision to quit politics is her family's gain, but National's loss. Of all the National women MPs, Rich was the only one able to ...
Feb 24, 2008 ... KATHERINE RICH'S decision to quit politics is her family's gain, but National's loss. Of all the National women MPs, Rich was the only one able to connect with women who would not normally vote for the conservatives. National deserves to lose her. John Key's done little to ...
What goes around comes back to bite.
Feb 24, 2008 ... EVERY GIRL who's been around a few suits in her life knows there is no such thing as a free lunch. Last week, the Prime Minister, who seems to have led a very sheltered life when it comes to men and romance (and that's not necessarily a criticism), discovered the truth of this cliche. ...
Support was just too much.
Feb 24, 2008 ... THE ALL BLACK management shake-up has provided an admission of sorts of where the incumbents believe they went wrong last year. The decision to allow two conditioning coaches to move on and hire only one suggests the panel might have been too focused on the athletic preparation ...
Driver critically injuredafter high-speed crash.
Feb 24, 2008 ... ASHLEY COOPER, a 27-year-old driver in the V8 Supercar second-tier Fujitsu series, is in a critical condition in hospital following a high-speed accident at the Clipsal 500 yesterday. The Ulladulla man is in Royal Adelaide Hospital with severe head trauma, swelling of the brain ...
Black Caps wrap up.
Feb 24, 2008 ... INCENDIARY OPENER Brendon McCullum fetched himself a nice little pay-day in Mumbai on Wednesday but you couldn't put a value on his contribution to New Zealand in this series. In all three games New Zealand won he played pivotal roles with the bat and gloves, none more so than ...
IF YESTERDAY proved anything it is that Daniel Vettori is not the finished article as a captain.
Feb 24, 2008 ... IF YESTERDAY proved anything it is that Daniel Vettori is not the finished article as a captain. There's nothing outrageous in that. His predecessor, Stephen Fleming, said he only felt he had it sussed in the last three years of his reign. So the fact Vettori put the ...
Ryder onouter fortest match.
Feb 24, 2008 ... IF YOU are the kind to look for omens, the fact Jesse Ryder's name was missing from the invitational side to face England in Dunedin next week doesn't bode well for his selection in the test team to face England. The selectors will name the side to face the tourists in the first ...
one-dimensional Bulls.
Feb 24, 2008 ... the speed of the Crusaders. As the Crusaders began to click, the pace of the game told and the gaps started to open. Robbie Deans - the man the NZRFU didn't want - has thought long and hard about the new rules. The Bulls haven't. Enter Brad Thorn. Some might have ...
Crusaders overpower.
Feb 24, 2008 ... IF ANYONE wants to see the difference between a team that has embraced the new rules and one that hasn't - just run the eye over the video of this game where the Super 14's most prolific winners cruelly dispatched last year's champions. Most New Zealanders feel the Bulls' ...
Spitfiredowned.
Feb 24, 2008 ... THE MOST famous fighter plane of World War II has lost none of its awesome reputation if the reaction of United States authorities is anything to go by. A Supermarine Spitfire Mk IX, which was to have been the star attraction at this weekend's Mercury Bay Shell Airshow at ...
TWO-WHEEL ZEAL.
Feb 24, 2008 ... I AM A cyclist. I bike to work in downtown Auckland most days, except when it's raining heavily. It's a 6km trip, and I am possessed of a hunted animal's vigilance every breath of the way. I lock eyes (defiant, faintly crazed, baleful) with drivers approaching on side roads, or ...
Crazy Chiefs nearly toss.
Feb 24, 2008 ... PEOPLE THINK it's crazy to be playing rugby in February. Crazier still is playing in February and seeing the Chiefs win, which they managed only when Stephen Donald held his nerve to land a last-minute penalty. It's become a Chiefs ritual that they muck around until late March ...
Rivals like chalk and cheese.
Feb 24, 2008 ... IN ONE corner is a clean-cut family man who is the undisputed king of New Zealand ironman, going for his seventh straight title next weekend. In the other is a dreadlocked upstart who has had run-ins with the establishment and who desperately wants to dethrone the monarch. ...
Waddell throwsoar in the works.
Feb 24, 2008 ... THE WORD around rowing circles in recent times has been that three-time world champion single sculler Mahe Drysdale was likely to claim the sole spot for the Beijing Olympics because of arch-rival Rob Waddell's enormous talent and versatility. Yesterday's assured win by Waddell at the ...
FOR KEEPS.
Feb 24, 2008 ... surge, lots of insulin is produced to counter that and the excess glucose is turned into fat by an unhappy liver. Sounds complicated but it's made crystal clear by the cartoon stories of Harry and Sally who show what can happen when you exchange rice bubbles and milk, plus white ...
SLIM.
Feb 24, 2008 ... LEIGH ELDER is whippet thin. Turn him sideways and you'd miss him. He's a guy who has never had to give a passing thought to his own weight. But our fat nation is something that occupies his every waking moment and has become, in his 65th year, nothing short of obsession. Elder ...
FLETCHER BUILDING shares confounded analysts last week by plunging to $8.87, despite the company announcing better-than-expected half-year profits.(Financial report)
Feb 24, 2008 ... FLETCHER BUILDING shares confounded analysts last week by plunging to $8.87, despite the company announcing better-than-expected half-year profits. The share price fell 28c on Wednesday even though the company reported a 22 per cent rise in interim profit, boosted its dividend ...
MARKET TALK Fonterra.
Feb 24, 2008 ... AFTER MUCH fanfare, Fonterra's plans to get non-farmer investors on board were pushed back last week after failing to win farmers' support. The dairy co-operative had said it would hold two votes on the board's plans to split Fonterra into two parts, creating a company to hold ...
IT'S BEEN a long time coming, but Subaru has launched its horizontally opposed (or "boxer") diesel engine. That's the good news. The bad news is th...
Feb 24, 2008 ... IT'S BEEN a long time coming, but Subaru has launched its horizontally opposed (or "boxer") diesel engine. That's the good news. The bad news is that it's intended mainly for the compression-ignition crazy European market, and it's unlikely to land in New Zealand until next year. ...
All bets are off on Monaco.
Feb 24, 2008 ... HOW CAN Labour appoint its financial sugar daddy as honorary consul to Monaco when it has previously consistently refused to appoint a New Zealand representative, despite personal representations from Prince Albert himself? Letters obtained by the Herald on Sunday show that ...
THE SECURITIES Commission and the Serious Fraud Office should probe the statements made by telemarketers and other professionals allegedly acting o...
Feb 24, 2008 ... THE SECURITIES Commission and the Serious Fraud Office should probe the statements made by telemarketers and other professionals allegedly acting on behalf of the Blue Chip structured residential property investment group of companies and franchises. What's going down should ...
AMERICAN JOHN Merrick, bidding for his maiden PGA Tour golf title, shrugged off gusting winds to maintain his one-shot lead in the Mayakoba Classic...
Feb 24, 2008 ... AMERICAN JOHN Merrick, bidding for his maiden PGA Tour golf title, shrugged off gusting winds to maintain his one-shot lead in the Mayakoba Classic second round while New Zealand's Tim Wilkinson, ninth previously, fell away. A stroke in front of the chasing pack overnight, the ...
Advertisingon mobiles TOP TIPS.
Feb 24, 2008 ... QWhat have you been doing in New Zealand? AI'm participating in a conference being held by The Hyperfactory. It has pulled together agencies, marketers and people from the industry to share best practices on mobile marketing and advertising, and the industry in general. ...
The sheer brass of it.
Feb 24, 2008 ... IT REALLY was tough work trying not to laugh in the face of the IRB's top brass who were in Auckland last week. First IRB chief executive Mike Miller said with a straight face that Eden Park was on its way to becoming a "magnificent venue for the World Cup final". No ...
GRAN REID'S HAPUKU AND ALMONDS Ingredients.(Recipe)
Feb 24, 2008 ... GRAN REID'S HAPUKU AND ALMONDS Ingredients z1kg boneless, skinless hapuku z1/2 cup unpeeled slivered almonds z1/2 tsp allspice z1 tsp salt z1 tsp freshly ground black pepper z1 tsp cayenne pepper z2 tsps ground ...
Black Sticks keen to improve.
Feb 24, 2008 ... THE BLACK Sticks will be hoping to acquit themselves better in Wellington today against 2008 Olympic hosts China after being soundly beaten in the first test yesterday. In the first of a five-test tri-series involving Ireland and China, China scored three field goals and ...
A gear Shift.
Feb 24, 2008 ... A gear Shift SOME OF the best new gadgets were on show at the Mobile World Congress last week. My personal favourite from the show was an ultra-mobile PC from Taiwanese electronics maker HTC, which merges computer and mobile with relatively few sacrifices. ...
HOT TECHNOLOGY.
Feb 24, 2008 ... Time to go Blu-ray NOW THAT Sony has won the high-definition disc war, with rival Toshiba ditching its HD-DVD format, you can buy a Blu-ray player with the comfort of knowing it won't be made obsolete in six months' time. Sony itself has celebrated the news with the ...
'The genie's out of the bottle'.
Feb 24, 2008 ... WHEN CRICKET lovers woke on Thursday they faced an inescapable truth: their sport was irreversibly different than it had been the day before. The next couple of years will determine if it has changed for the better, worse, or just plain changed. But make no mistake, it will ...
old for the workforce.
Feb 24, 2008 ... grey tsunami swamping the declining number in the labour force," says Sanderson in an article published late last year. The baby boomers have been turning 60 from about 2005-07 but are simply not retiring at the same rate, he says. In 1991, 25 per cent of those aged 60 to 64 were in the ...
Never too.
Feb 24, 2008 ... POPULAR FEARS that a horde of elderly and dependent baby boomers will soon be sucking the life out of an ever-shrinking younger workforce are being dismissed by a top economist, who says older Kiwis are staying at work in record numbers. Kel Sanderson, managing director of ...
POSITIVE OUTLOOK.
Feb 24, 2008 ... WHATEVER ECONOMIC factors come into play this year - falling house prices and rising interest rates among the most topical - the outlook for job hunters is as positive as ever. A report by recruitment firm Manpower Employment says that of the 953 employers it spoke to, 24 per ...
Loodicrous! $2500 chargeto move a loojust 1.5 metres.
Feb 24, 2008 ... TALK ABOUT flushing money down the drain. A man who moved his toilet just 1.5m was charged almost $2500 for council fees and professional plans - double the cost of the bog-standard bog. Clint, who works in the building industry, had to pay Manukau City Council about $1000 and ...
Three diein crasheson roads.
Feb 24, 2008 ... AFATHER AND young daughter, whose car hit a tractor, and a motorcyclist who collided with a truck, all died on New Zealand roads yesterday. The motorcyclist was killed instantly when he lost control of his vehicle and slid into the path of a truck on State Highway 2 near ...
Eden Park close to kick-off.
Feb 24, 2008 ... RUGBY WORLD Cup organisers have all but secured the $240 million needed to rebuild Eden Park - but are quibbling over $2500 with neighbours left in the dark. The Herald on Sunday can reveal the Government has committed $190m to the project, rather than underwriting Eden Park if ...
Ex-cop saw ketch.
Feb 24, 2008 ... A FORMER POLICE officer with 40 years' experience is the latest boatie to claim police ignored his sighting of the "mystery ketch" that was key to Scott Watson's conviction for the murder of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope. John Gower, a retired police hostage negotiator and ...
The rogue surgeon.
Feb 24, 2008 ... A WOMAN HAD her ovaries removed by a rogue doctor without her knowledge and only discovered it had happened after a routine visit to her GP months later. The revelations - reported in this week's Listener magazine - are the latest in a string of damaging health sector headlines ...
Clampdown on taxis.
Feb 24, 2008 ... NEARLY 120 TAXIS have been ordered off the road as part of an undercover bid to clean up the industry. A Government taskforce was introduced to crack down on rogue operators last year after the Auditor-General slammed "inconsistent and inadequate monitoring" that allowed "unfit" ...