The Herald on Sunday (Auckland, New Zealand) back issues from March 2008:
Young gun brought on boardEXCLUSIVE.
Mar 09, 2008 ... SUCCESSION PLANNING is an elusive beast - much recognised but often little executed. Now meet Adam Minoprio, who may be the face of Team New Zealand's America's Cup yachting of the future. Minoprio, whose hot match racing form over the past couple of years has excited plenty of ...
Pets have got it covered.
Mar 09, 2008 ... IF YOUR pooch breaks a paw or swallows a tennis ball, the vet bill could leave you choking - and what if your cat gets cancer? Big advances in medical science mean owners can go the extra mile for their beloved pets, but treatment carries a high price. Try swallowing ...
FOR LOVE OF DAISY.
Mar 09, 2008 ... SHARON MISCHEFSKI was supposed to live it up in Las Vegas at Christmas. But she stayed home so she could pay for a knee operation for her "darling little girl". Daisy, Princess Daisy at Auckland cat and dog hospital VSG, is a friendly bull mastiff, though she's anything but ...
AIR NEW Zealand reported a big jump in earnings on Friday, lifting its half-year net profit by 58 per cent to $115 million.(Financial report)
Mar 09, 2008 ... AIR NEW Zealand reported a big jump in earnings on Friday, lifting its half-year net profit by 58 per cent to $115 million. The airline, which is 80 per cent Government-owned, also boosted its interim dividend by two-thirds to 5 cents per share. Air New Zealand deputy ...
Cruel or just in PM's face?TOM SCOTTPETER BROMHEADROD EMMERSON.
Mar 09, 2008 ... 'HELEN BASHING" or all part of the job? Opinion is divided over the Prime Minister's treatment by our top cartoonists. Helen Clark has been portrayed in a variety of grotesque and unflattering scenarios during her nine years in office - and even before she came to power. ...
Hunt ends, but who'll try thug?THAILAND.
Mar 09, 2008 ... A TUG of war is developing over who gets to try a suspected Russian arms dealer dubbed the "Merchant of Death", as Thai and US authorities both said yesterday they could charge him with terrorism offences. The possibility has arisen that others also may seek custody of Viktor ...
Optimism unshaken as top.
Mar 09, 2008 ... THE PROPERTY slump is hitting the top end of the market hard as several high-profile homes failed to make the reserve at auction last week. About 30 people attended a luxury home auction in Auckland on Wednesday, which included the St Heliers home of All Black coach Graham ...
end auctions stall.
Mar 09, 2008 ... Despite the four non-sellers, Boulgaris said this was "the strongest auction market you would ever find. "It's the preferred method of sale for many owners. The owner can sit back and ascertain what the market's doing and look at what's happening." And he wasn't ...
zBanks began raising their interest rates last week because their cost of borrowing money overseas has increased.
Mar 09, 2008 ... zBanks began raising their interest rates last week because their cost of borrowing money overseas has increased. zzWhile still showing profit growth, the ANZ National Bank's recent financial announcement shows loan repayments more than 90 days late rose 63 per cent in the 12 ...
There are players in the property development sector, however, who will find things tough in the next 12 to 18 months. Many have gone to finance co...
Mar 09, 2008 ... There are players in the property development sector, however, who will find things tough in the next 12 to 18 months. Many have gone to finance companies rather than the banks, who deal more "on the margins" than with sustainable business. "It is those players that will find ...
FEW THINGS grate the public more than the idea of their bank making super profits, year after year, seemingly regardless of the state of the econom...(Financial report)
Mar 09, 2008 ... FEW THINGS grate the public more than the idea of their bank making super profits, year after year, seemingly regardless of the state of the economy. But one thing guaranteed to cause more sleepless nights than a bank with bulging profits is one that's in financial trouble. ...
Chiefs winwith dumbfootball.
Mar 09, 2008 ... FOR A franchise in possession of a portfolio fat with catastrophic performances, the Chiefs really do have to invest considerable energy to set new lows. They had a seriously good go at lowering their benchmark last night in the first half before they finally stopped bumbling ...
Face it, we're in deep doo-doo.
Mar 09, 2008 ... FORGET ALL the usual economic indicators, when Lotto suffers a 4.6 per cent drop in net profit you know the country is, to use a technical term, in deep doo-doo. More traditional analysts might point to the $700 million shortfall in tax revenue, mostly from reduced GST takings, ...
THE WEEK.
Mar 09, 2008 ... MondayzGovernment announces changes to the rules governing overseas purchase of strategic assets.TuesdayzThe Canada Pension Plan Investment Board says it will push on with its partial takeover bid for a 40 per cent stake in Auckland Airport despite changes to overseas investment ...
MONDAY SKYCITY reports a 97.1 per cent fall in first-half net profit to $1.3m. This includes a $60m write-down in the carrying value of the company...(Financial report)
Mar 09, 2008 ... MONDAY SKYCITY reports a 97.1 per cent fall in first-half net profit to $1.3m. This includes a $60m write-down in the carrying value of the company's cinema assets. TuesdayThe Government unveils plans to close a tax loophole around stapled securities. WednesdayThe Kiwi dollar soars to new ...
What?
Mar 09, 2008 ... What? http:www.publicaddress.net Who?Russell BrownWhy? Murray McCully has called him a "Labour Party mouth-piece and Judith Tizard campaign activist". "The irony of the last-minute move to fence off Auckland airport is that when Labour was in ...
Statistics and irrational behaviour.
Mar 09, 2008 ... A FINDING by online employment company Seek that 41 per cent of people are "unhappy at work" seems unremarkable. But add them to the nine per cent who said they would not work if they did not have to and you have a statistical problem. Now, many in the "unhappy at work" group must also be ...
Trinny and Susannah bring out tall poppies.
Mar 09, 2008 ... The tall poppy syndrome is alive and well in the form of Suzanne Winterflood's article (Even style gurus have their off days, March 2). Is Winterflood young and anorexic enough to wear the coat-hanger fashions presented by modern designers, or is she ...
One sees red as Bulls labour to win.
Mar 09, 2008 ... DEFENDING CHAMPS the Bulls - who now embark on a season-shaping tour involving games against the Reds, Chiefs, Blues and the Force - gave themselves some hope with a 31-17 win over the Lions in spite of having to play for 10 minutes with 13 men in an ill-tempered match. The home ...
NZOC looksinto hosting2018 Games.
Mar 09, 2008 ... THE NZOC has tabled a report to Government endorsing a bid to bring the Commonwealth Games to New Zealand for the fourth time in 2018. The Minister for Sport and recreation, Clayton Cosgrove, will consider the report and whether Christchurch or Auckland is best equipped to host ...
Chiefs winwith dumbgameplan.
Mar 09, 2008 ... FOR A franchise in possession of a portfolio fat with catastrophic performances, the Chiefs really do have to invest considerable energy to set new lows. They had a seriously good go at lowering their benchmark last night, before they finally stopped bumbling around for long ...
The man chargedwith giving NZ asporting chance.
Mar 09, 2008 ... POLITICS AND sport do mix. If you think of all sport in Olympic cycles, then the road from Athens to Beijing has been potholed. At the heart of most of the biggest issues facing sport in this period lie politics. To pick just three issues and their nexus: the New Zealand cricket ...
Time to drop liberal ideas and get tough.(Conference notes)
Mar 09, 2008 ... ENTER, STAGE right, Sir Roger Douglas to rescue the Act Party, and not a moment too soon. Hard-core free-marketeers and anti-statists will open their arms and their chequebooks for this 70-year-old who, to judge from a recent interview on National Radio, still bristles with ideas. As David ...
SCAM STORIES.
Mar 09, 2008 ... From the fraud and security services team at Westpac: The overpayment scam: A Westpac customer advertised his car for sale on Trade Me in June last year for $5000. He received a reply from an international buyer who wanted to ship the car overseas. The buyer sent the ...
Smoke and mirrors asseven more sign to IPL.
Mar 09, 2008 ... THE INDIAN Premier League (IPL) has effectively ring-fenced the entire New Zealand team in a sensational week that has seen several more players sign deals with the Twenty20 league. In an extraordinary development, the Herald on Sunday has learned seven more New ...
England skipper Michael Vaughan must have been pinching himself.
Mar 09, 2008 ... England skipper Michael Vaughan must have been pinching himself. The third-innings curse that killed New Zealand when they toured theMother Country in 2004 had returned with a vengeance. On that ill-fated tour, New Zealand were competitive for the first two innings of ...
Sidebottomhat-trickrevitalisesdying test.
Mar 09, 2008 ... THAT WILL teach you for falling asleep. A test that for three-and-a-half days had moved as quickly as a condemned man on his way to the gallows suddenly turned on a sprightly Stephen Fleming cameo and a sensational spell from Ryan Sidebottom. New Zealand ended day four of this ...
Fleming scathingon English attitude.
Mar 09, 2008 ... TOP SCORER Stephen Fleming threw down a 'men-or-mice' challenge to an England team he clearly doesn't feel deserve to be in a position to win this first test today. Fleming punctuated his 66 with some powerful shots and saved a few for the post-match hostilities too, taking a ...
Cyclist injuredafter bus rage.
Mar 09, 2008 ... SHOCKED WITNESSES have described an apparent bus rage incident in which a driver ran a cyclist off the road and left him injured on the pavement. Passengers and motorists were stunned as the bus appeared to pursue two cyclists along Great North Rd in Auckland's Pt Chevalier, ...
GRANT DALTON doesn't particularly want to be in New York right now, suing one of the world's richest men for tens of millions of dollars. He'd rath...
Mar 09, 2008 ... GRANT DALTON doesn't particularly want to be in New York right now, suing one of the world's richest men for tens of millions of dollars. He'd rather go sailing. Or at least get Emirates Team New Zealand ready to go sailing. Instead, he's spent the past two weeks in secret ...
MANIN THEEYE OFTHE STORM.
Mar 09, 2008 ... about how Kiwis will react. In the past few months he and his inner team have weighed this up carefully. Dalton can accept losing the last America's Cup, even a court case, but he doesn't want to lose New Zealanders. "I do care very much how New Zealand will respond because it ...
THE STORY SO FAR.
Mar 09, 2008 ... zThe next America's Cup regatta was scheduled for 2009 but was postponed in November amid a courtroom war between cup-holder Alinghi and US challenger BMW Oracle. zOn Friday, Team New Zealand launched a twin-pronged legal case, seeking tens of millions of dollars in compensation ...
Warnings of third uprisingISRAEL.
Mar 09, 2008 ... EIGHT STUDENTS WHO died on Friday when a gunman attacked their religious school were buried yesterday as Israelis and Palestinians braced for things to get worse. A river of mourners accompanied the bodies from the bullet-scarred school to their funerals, where they were buried ...
Model mysteries probedFRANCE.
Mar 09, 2008 ... THE FAMILY of African former model Katoucha Niane asked French judges yesterday to investigate their suspicions she was murdered. The family filed a legal complaint with an investigating judge, formally saying they suspected her death was a homicide, an official said. ...
SYDNEY, LAST month - torrential rain, second-hand bookshops, fish markets and returning home another year older.
Mar 09, 2008 ... SYDNEY, LAST month - torrential rain, second-hand bookshops, fish markets and returning home another year older. In my absence, one of the cows I likened to the slatternly state of some New Zealand mothers in my column a few weeks ago was sent to the abattoir. The farmer lost ...
Sir Slick is far too quick.
Mar 09, 2008 ... TE AROHA-BASED trainers Graeme Nicholson and Paul Allbon have some bad news for rival horsemen with weight-for-age stars currently racing in New Zealand. Front-running warrior Sir Slick, a gutsy winner of the $200,000 (Group One) First Sovereign Trust Stakes at Ellerslie ...
'Singlish'speakingBRITAIN.
Mar 09, 2008 ... TRADITIONAL ENGLISH is fragmenting into dialects as it spreads around the world, a language expert has claimed. Professor David Crystal said people would have to learn two varieties of the language - one spoken in their home country and a kind of Standard English which could be ...
Women's hopes restwith NZOC.
Mar 09, 2008 ... THE FOOTBALL Ferns did what they needed to do yesterday and must now hope the New Zealand Olympic Committee think they are worthy of sending to Beijing. Many expected yesterday's match would be a goal-fest but John Herdman's side found it hard to break down a spirited PNG in hot ...
THE FINGER.
Mar 09, 2008 ... GPS: 36 - 46 . 989S 175 - 11 . 6222E On the Tamaki Strait chart at the eastern end of Waiheke Island there's a finger of deep water running parallel to the shore on the inside of Pakatoa Island. The southern end is 46m deep, rising to 33m at the northern end. Drift ...
Local knowledgevital for success.
Mar 09, 2008 ... IT'S THE time of year when we are often fishing unfamiliar coastal areas, and it can be hard working out where to head. Before you launch the boat, call at the local tackle store or petrol station to ask where the fish are biting. Half the battle in gleaning ...
Waitakerewin ugly toreclaim lead.
Mar 09, 2008 ... WAITAKERE UNITED like to play music at their home games and it wouldn't have been a surprise if they pulled out The Rolling Stones' ditty Winning Ugly yesterday. The home side produced one of their worst performances of the season but it was still one that netted three points ...
Coach believes two-tryhalfback will improve.
Mar 09, 2008 ... IT SEEMED like Brendon Leonard chipped in with a pretty big effort last night - but his coach Ian Foster reckons the little halfback has got a whole lot more to come. And that has to be good news for the Chiefs and All Blacks. Leonard is one of those special players who makes ...
GOVERNMENT AND AIRPORT BOARD PLAY CHESS WITH SUITORS.
Mar 09, 2008 ... zGame on: Dubai sheikhs forge a deal with the board of Auckland International Airport to invest $2.6 billion, giving Dubai Aerospace 51-60 per cent of new company holding airport assets (July 22, 2007). zSpoiler: Government's allies say New Zealand cannot afford to let our major ...
'Porkies' fly over airport saga.
Mar 09, 2008 ... WHO PLANTED the story that Auckland Airport chairman Tony Frankham was considering "action" against the Herald on Sunday over last week's column, which revealed he had twice briefed the Prime Minister ahead of shareholders on key decisions during the protracted takeover saga? ...
THE PRIME Minister is taking an unusually close interest in the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Fund's hostile bid for 40 per cent of Auckland Int...
Mar 09, 2008 ... THE PRIME Minister is taking an unusually close interest in the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Fund's hostile bid for 40 per cent of Auckland International Airport. Airport chairman Tony Frankham is keeping Helen Clark informed and has advised her ahead of shareholders on two ...
Turbinator gets in a parting shot at Hayden.
Mar 09, 2008 ... CONTROVERSIAL SPINNER Harbhajan Singh has further deepened the animosity between India and Australia, calling Matthew Hayden "a big liar" and Adam Gilchrist "no saint". The Indian was in the headlines on the acrimonious tour of Australia ever since he was banned for three ...
SENSE TAKES WING.
Mar 09, 2008 ... I'M DARNED if I can figure it. With polls indicating its annihilation in a few months, with the tide going out on the world economy at breathtaking speed, with sharemarkets around the world shivering, the Government launches a two-pronged attack on the Canadians and within a couple of ...
HOT TECHNOLOGY with Peter Griffin.
Mar 09, 2008 ... Golden Age is upon usGIVEN THE sacrifices you chose to make when buying Apple's thin and sexy MacBook Air - no ethernet port, optical drive, no way to remove the battery - the $2999 price tag is a little off-putting for some. For others, the Air doesn't even have enough ...
Eee-ven better this time THE TINY, cut-price Asus Eee PC proved a smash hit last year and also offered a glimmer of hope of reaching the mass marke...
Mar 09, 2008 ... Eee-ven better this time THE TINY, cut-price Asus Eee PC proved a smash hit last year and also offered a glimmer of hope of reaching the mass market for the Linux operating system, which was shipping with the computers as an alternative to Windows. Asus has followed it up with the new, ...
Can Kirkshow trueenterprise?
Mar 09, 2008 ... WITH SO much happening in the off season, from the resignation of the NZRL chairman and Kiwi coach and the associated fallout, to the appointment of Stephen Kearney and the saga of Wayne Bennett, it's been very busy. But the most influential incident prior to the start of the ...
Stanlake'smurdererconvicted.
Mar 09, 2008 ... THE MAN FOUND guilty of murdering Tony Stanlake was convicted as a teenager of holding up a dairy armed with a fake pistol. A jury deliberated for more than two days before returning its verdict at Wellington High Court late yesterday afternoon after a four-week trial. ...
Staggeringdisplay ofbullying.
Mar 09, 2008 ... IT SEEMS incredible that a law change is needed to put an end to body snatching. Yet that seems to be precisely what is required, given that New Zealand has seen its third case of body snatching in the past year. This time, it was the estranged daughter of a 76-year-old Hamilton ...
Go on, state theobvious.
Mar 09, 2008 ... ONE OF the most extraordinary stories this week concerned a Japanese scientist who has spent the past 10 years working out the reason for traffic jams. He and his team of researchers soaked up millions of yen studying the reason for log-jams and this month, the New Journal of Physics ...
WHAT IS it called and what sort of savings product is it?
Mar 09, 2008 ... WHAT IS it called and what sort of savings product is it? The Liontamer Emerge Series 1 fund is a capital protected fund. What's the company behind it? Liontamer is New Zealand's capital protected investment specialist. While it is a boutique firm, last ...
EVERY BABY is special but there's something about Joachim Aaron Goldberg-Contreras - Joa - that stands out. With his thick thatch of dark hair and ...
Mar 09, 2008 ... EVERY BABY is special but there's something about Joachim Aaron Goldberg-Contreras - Joa - that stands out. With his thick thatch of dark hair and wide, bright brown eyes, this composed little man takes everything in, seemingly filing it for future reference. "He's incredibly ...
Sexism is stillthere, says Chen.
Mar 09, 2008 ... FOR YEARS, high-profile lawyer Mai Chen wished she were a white man. Growing up a Taiwanese girl in 1970s Christchurch meant a double-whammy of racism and sexism, she says. But the 44-year-old Wellington woman realised she wouldn't have achieved what she has without that ...
Hold on tightKNOW YOUR MARKET.
Mar 09, 2008 ... DON'T BUY yet, don't sell right now, and polish the nugget you're sitting on. That's the key advice from three property gurus who claim to have the good oil on how to prosper in New Zealand's slumping housing market. With the number of sales down across the country and prices ...
for the crisis salesLOOKING FOR A BARGAINWATCH, WAIT AND SAVE FOR SIX MONTHS.
Mar 09, 2008 ... who do that have always come out the other side." But it's hard not to want to increase a portfolio in a market in which prices are dropping. Investor Geoff Hall is looking to bag a bargain in the current downturn. "I will have my eyes open for a bargain. I've always ...
MARKET TALK Restaurants Brands.
Mar 09, 2008 ... THE COFFEE is flowing freely and the fried chicken is flying out the door, but pizzas aren't bringing in the dough like they once did for Restaurant Brands. Revealing its fourth-quarter figures last week, the listed fast-food operator showed sales increasing by 1 per cent. ...
I AM FREQUENTLY critical of large corporations' behaviour towards their workers. However, today I congratulate McDonald's, which has agreed to pay ...
Mar 09, 2008 ... I AM FREQUENTLY critical of large corporations' behaviour towards their workers. However, today I congratulate McDonald's, which has agreed to pay its workers under 18 years of age the same as adult workers as from this week. As I am the union advocate currently in negotiations ...
Labour could learn lesson fromClinton's dirty attack strategy.
Mar 09, 2008 ... RECENT POLLS have increased National's already huge lead over Labour - back to the extraordinary levels of last year where it is quite possible they could govern without coalition partners. Not many people would expect this level of support to continue. Only an extraordinarily ...
Reviving 60s spiritFiat hopes to revive the spirit of the 500 sports models of the 1960s - and its Abarth brand - with a hotted-up version of the n...
Mar 09, 2008 ... Reviving 60s spiritFiat hopes to revive the spirit of the 500 sports models of the 1960s - and its Abarth brand - with a hotted-up version of the new 500. The new 500 Abarth will be powered by a 1.4-litre turbo engine with 99kW/206Nm. The car also features a new torque transfer control ...
Save the lastdance for her.
Mar 09, 2008 ... IT WAS murder on the dance floor for the first victim of Dancing with the Stars. Former model Geeling Ng said the TV show's over-critical judges had "stomped" on her heart and should hold fire on their "mean" comments. "Everyone says don't take it personally, but ...
AN ENGINE that will be on the scrapheap two years from now has received a big-budget, g-whizz boost as a final farewell. The turbocharged version o...
Mar 09, 2008 ... AN ENGINE that will be on the scrapheap two years from now has received a big-budget, g-whizz boost as a final farewell. The turbocharged version of the dated inline six-cylinder engine in Ford's FG Falcon range, which is being launched on June 1, has even more torque than the outgoing ...
Conceptcar is the starof show.
Mar 09, 2008 ... MOTOR SHOWS ARE all about sights, but sometimes you get sounds as well. Holden claimed Melbourne Motor Show-star status last week with the surprise unveiling of a new concept car - the Coupe 60. Design boss Tony Stolfo was the man charged with idling the one-of-a-kind machine ...