The Press back issues from February 1997:
Family `not bitter' about cancer trip
Feb 01, 1997; ... A Wellington woman who has been forced to uproot her family forher daughter's cancer treatment in Christchurch is not bitter. Eleanor Harford has had to bring her 11-year-old daughter,Ashleigh, to Christchurch Hospital for three months of treatmentbecause Wellington Hospital's ...
Gang fortifications anger neighbours
Feb 01, 1997 ... Linwood residents are angry that Black Power members haveconverted a house attacked by a rival gang this week into afortress.A corrugated iron addition to the Cashel Street property's fenceon Thursday has caused a howl of protest from residents. One haslodged an official complaint ...
Minister paddles to harbour sites
Feb 01, 1997; ... A four-hour paddle around Akaroa Harbour to check a proposedmarine reserve is all in a day's work if you are ConservationMinister Nick Smith. Dr Smith, who shared his kayak with Banks Peninsula MP DavidCarter, paddled his way to Dan Rogers yesterday to view the site ofthe marine ...
Peters pledges `tight' Budget
Feb 01, 1997; ... Treasurer Winston Peters has signalled his first Budget will notbe a free-spending one and is likely to result in funding cuts forsome areas of Government activity. However, the coalition would deliver on its extra health spendingpromises, he said. Mr Peters told a Tauranga ...
Spending worries SRHA
Feb 01, 1997; ... The Southern Regional Health Authority is looking at ways ofcontaining the money it spends on pharmaceuticals in the southernregion, the highest amount of any RHA in the country. The SRHA's manager of primary care services, Carolyn Gullery,saidthat in 1995-1996 the southern ...
Blood procedure examined
Feb 01, 1997 ... A police inquiry into blood-sampling procedures at AshburtonHospital is expected to produce an outcome in the next fortnight. The inquiry was prompted by a complaint from the parents of a 19-year-old South Canterbury man, Darren John de Filippi, who waskilledwhen his car was hit ...
Doctors' group blasts Canty health changes
Feb 01, 1997; ... The organisation representing Christchurch Hospital's seniordoctors was scathing yesterday in response to comments by CanterburyHealth chief executive Richard Webb that ``major changes'' are underway to address patient safety concerns. Mr Webb said Canterbury Health had already ...
Practising the feel of `Dancing on Cloud 9'
Feb 01, 1997 ... Amy Stopforth, left, with Matthew Woodley, Abbey Parsons withAdamHeinz, Charmaine Hart with Richard Longbottom, and Sian RobinsonwithSean James rehearse Southern Ballet's offering for the Festival ...
Evidence given on bay environment
Feb 01, 1997; ... Movement of sediment at any Clifford Bay port would have to bemanaged as it is at every harbour, University of CanterburyProfessorof Geography Bob Kirk told a hearing in Blenheim yesterday. Clifford Bay's coastal environment was ``not pristine'', but hadbeen disturbed by human ...
Fairlie vulnerable to `serious flooding'
Feb 01, 1997 ... The South Canterbury town of Fairlie is exposed to a significantflood threat from catchments west of the town, a report commissionedby the Mackenzie District Council says. The council has formed a committee, chaired by Mackenzie MayorNeil Anderson, to deal with the flooding ...
Fundraising rabbit culls suggested
Feb 01, 1997 ... A North Canterbury man believes night shoots of rabbits to raisefunds could be the answer to the district's escalating rabbitproblem. Hurunui Mayor John Chaffey says in his new year report to thecouncil that more help is needed from the Canterbury RegionalCounciland urban ...
Historic building may be torn down; Apartments plan for ex-union office site
Feb 01, 1997; ... Plans to demolish a historic central Christchurch building andreplace it with a multi-storey apartment building have come underfire from a residents' group and the Historic Places Trust. An Auckland-based developer wants to demolish Wave House, at 194Gloucester Street, near the ...
New firm set up for meter reading
Feb 01, 1997 ... Southpower will set up an independently run subsidiary companyformeter testing and reading. The wholly owned subsidiary will buy, test, install, and readmeters on contract for Southpower. Meter reading and testing is nowdone directly by Southpower. The new company, not yet ...
Women's leadership role backed
Feb 01, 1997 ... Cathedral Grammar Girls' School's first head teacher says womenmust be able to take their place as leaders of tomorrow's world. Judy Munro-Keene said she was a keen proponent of excellence ingirls' and women's education and said teachers ``must inspire in ourstudents a great love ...
Otago CHE `ready' for cardiac work
Feb 01, 1997 ... Healthcare Otago says it is ready and willing to provide cardiacsurgical services to the people of Canterbury. Health Minister Bill English said on Thursday he was asking theSouthern Regional Health Authority to continue its tender processforheart surgery in the South ...
Tourism council backed; CCC responds to tour operator's criticism of role
Feb 01, 1997; ... The Christchurch City Council has backed the role of its tourismcouncil after criticism by a tour operator. Rick Blackburn, of Trailblazers, said yesterday that it was ananomaly of the free market to have a council-funded body, theCanterbury Tourism Council, competing with private ...
Trade chance noted
Feb 01, 1997 ... Canterbury businesses should tap into the huge potential todevelop trade and tourism with India, says Christchurch Citycouncillor Ishwar Ganda. He and council director of operations Jim Williamson returned onThursday from India, where they spoke to trade organisations ...
Division over spending package
Feb 01, 1997; ... Canterbury business leaders are divided over four national lobbygroups' rejection of $100 million of increased Government businessspending. Canterbury Employer's Chamber of Commerce president Rob McKaysaysit was too early to reject the increased spending package out ...
Most against casino poll
Feb 01, 1997; ... Queenstown people have voted against having a casino in thedistrict. The results of a poll of 1000, released yesterday, say 69 percentwere against, 22 per cent in favour, and 10 per cent unsure. The Casino Action Opposition Group asked the Queenstown-LakesDistrict Council ...
Timaru police net 7000 plants
Feb 01, 1997 ... The Timaru police's annual helicopter searches for SouthCanterbury cannabis plantations netted 7000 plants with an estimatedprocessed street value of $3 million. Timaru Criminal Investigation Branch chief, Detective SergeantPeter Burt, said growers were now planting in smaller lots ...
Small town stage for award-winning black comedy
Feb 01, 1997; ... HANS PETROVIC talks to Shirley Barrett, director of `LoveSerenade', about the appeal of a bleak place. A ustralian director Shirley Barrett is a hero to the inhabitantsof the small Riverina town of Robinvale for putting it on the map byshooting her first feature film ...
Dealers reject car market glut claim
Feb 01, 1997 ... Claims by the Consumers' Institute of a glut of cars on themarketare exaggerated, Motor Vehicle Dealers Institute chairman BrentHodder says. Institute chief executive David Russell claims the New Zealandcarmarket is overstocked, and says consumers could bargain down dealersby ...
They came out on the Chariot of Fame
Feb 01, 1997; ... 1913 A number of surviving passengers who made the voyage from Londonto Lyttelton in the Chariot of Fame have gathered in Christchurch tomark the 50th anniversary of their arrival. The group met atBroadway's tearooms in Cathedral Square. At the time, in 1863, the Chariot of ...
Street award nominations
Feb 01, 1997 ... The judges for this year's Christchurch Street and CommunityPrideGarden Awards have their lists of streets for consideration. Thejudging will be done from Tuesday to Friday and the winners in eachcommunity board area will be announced on February 13. Waimairi-Fendalton ...
Greg Graham to rally in NZ and Australia
Feb 01, 1997; ... Greg Graham's rally programme in the coming season will feature atwo-pronged attack, including the New Zealand championship serieswith a Group A specification Subaru Impreza and an Australiacampaignwith the car he drove in New Zealand last season in Group N trim. Graham's ...
Aotearoa Television allegations a hot potato for NZ First leader
Feb 01, 1997; ... Winston Peters's insistence on using unnamed private contacts tolook into allegations of wrongdoing at Aotearoa TV has needlesslycomplicated an already messy affair, writes MICHAEL RENTOUL inWellington. A s the saga over Aotearoa Television grows by the day, Nationalhas been ...
Necessary Waihopai
Feb 01, 1997 ... The tenth annual demonstrations at Waihopai have resulted inseveral arrests and the expressed willingness of a leading QC, PeterWilliams, to defend without payment those charged. The demonstratorshave been regular and persistent rather than huge in numbers. Theyincluded two members of ...
Sth Eastern profit likely to hit target; South Eastern likely to reach profit forecast
Feb 01, 1997 ... South Eastern Utilities, the reborn Amuri Corporation, which haslifted its share price 253 per cent in two years, is on track tomeetits profit forecasts. The company, which has switched its focus from car selling andthen property, to electricity, reported a half-year profit ...
IRD clarifies DB ruling
Feb 01, 1997 ... The Inland Revenue Department has spelled out its reasons forruling tax-free the planned return of capital to DB Groupshareholders. The Auckland-based brewer plans to cancel three of four shares onissue, and return to shareholders 60c for each cancelled share. Inall 302,508,836 ...
Maersk raises flag in Lyttelton
Feb 01, 1997 ... One of the world's biggest container lines, the Maersk Line, ofDenmark, will incorporate the Port of Lyttelton into its worldwideshipping route. Maersk New Zealand's managing director, Jens Madsen, and thecompany's Asia region general manager, Flemming Gamst, inChristchurch ...
NMFM Asia looks to economic upswing
Feb 01, 1997 ... An upswing in economic growth in China this year will be positivefor stockmarkets in Hong Kong and Taiwan, says NMFM AsiaInvestments.The Melbourne-based group, listed in New Zealand, says it willremain overweight in Hong Kong, with further improvement expected.In its report for the ...
Breaches cost fisherman $9250
Feb 01, 1997 ... A Kaikoura fisherman who deliberately misreported the extent ofhis catches was yesterday fined $9250 by a Christchurch DistrictCourt judge. Judge Stephen Erber said fisherman Allan Charles MacDonald'sactions were ``serious evasions'' of the fish quota system, butstopped short of ...
Grades firm slightly
Feb 01, 1997; ... The 12th Wrightson deer velvet South Island sale included thesecond wapiti offering for the season. Other grades generally firmedslightly. Range of prices: Super A, $98.10 to $114.60; A, $75.11 to $96.17;B, $66.38 to $88.02; C, $60 to $82.50; D, $58.99 ...
Jury acquits man of pipe assault
Feb 01, 1997 ... A Christchurch District Court jury yesterday found a man notguilty of wounding with intent by hitting a former prostitute on thehead with an iron pipe. Vivian Stephen White, 42, a self-employed driver, was dischargedby Judge David Holderness. White gave evidence that he was ...
Man admits taking gifts
Feb 01, 1997 ... A burglar who stole presents from under a Christmas tree whilethefamily who lived in the house were sleeping was remanded in custodyfor sentence on February 14 when he appeared in the ChristchurchDistrict Court yesterday. Linton Michael Thwaites, 23, unemployed, of no fixed ...
SEA, AIR, RAIL
Feb 01, 1997; ... VESSELS IN PORT Chatham Explorer, No. 1 Breastwork. Pacsun, No. 2 East.Milburn Carrier 2, No. 2 West.Mys Chaykovskogo, No. 3 East.Novonikolsk, No. 3 West.Olenino, No. 4 West.Dorada, No. 4 West.Tarihiko, Dry Dock.Saltlake, Gladstone Pier Centre.Ranginui, Gladstone ...
Bold use of colours creates distinctive moods
Feb 01, 1997; ... Striking colour combinations give each room in this Fendaltonhomean element of surprise, and create living environments with theirowndistinctive personalities. The owner, artist Alison Ryde, has used the walls as a canvas,boldly mixing colours which give the 70-year-old family ...
Exposing the textures and patterns of nature; Canadian
Feb 01, 1997; ... Canadian photographer Freeman Patterson has spent a lifetimecapturing intimate details of the natural world around him. VERONIKAMEDUNA spoke to him. From sand dime landscapes in African deserts tothe gravel path in his own- backyard in rural New Brunswick, thestream of inspiration never ...
Mt Cook top viewing spot to see in 2000
Feb 03, 1997 ... FAIRLIE -- The first place in Canterbury to see the light of theyear 2000 will be the top of Mount Cook, the Mackenzie DistrictCouncil was told on Friday. Rae Knutson, the director of Turning Point 2000, said theMackenzie was privileged to have Mount Cook -- those there as ...
Brief has warning MP
Feb 03, 1997 ... The brief on conservation to the incoming Government soundswarning bells for the tourism industry, Labour's tourism spokesman,Damien O'Connor, says. He said the Department of Conservation had listed priorityactionsand goals for the ongoing management of visitors. It had ...
Attenborough applauds NZ conservation
Feb 03, 1997; ... New Zealand's conservation efforts won high praise yesterday fromworld renowned naturalist Sir David Attenborough when he attendedthelaunch of a beech forest restoration project at St Arnaud. The long-term project to clear pests and predators from 800ha offorest adjacent to Lake ...
Consent for Wanaka paraflying
Feb 03, 1997; ... A commercial paraflying venture using Wanaka lakefront for take-offs and Pembroke Park reserve for landings has been grantedresourceconsent. Lucky Montana's Flying Circus will specialise in tandem flightsto1500 feet (about 500m) over the lake and plans New Zealand's ...
New emergency care system
Feb 03, 1997 ... A new system of pre-hospital emergency care is being developedforrural communities. Tony McKewen, the Southern Regional Health Authority's manager ofmedical and surgical services, said it was important to design asystem that reflected the unique needs of individual communities ...
Police plan to combine two town stations
Feb 03, 1997 ... RANGIORA -- Combining the services of the Kaiapoi and Rangiorapolice stations to improve police safety has been suggested in areview document. The discussion document, released by police administration,suggests that moving several of Kaiapoi's constables to the Rangiorastation ...
Tractor tour heads south
Feb 03, 1997 ... FAIRLIE -- Retired Whangarei farmers Jim and Ora Gunson areheading to Gore for a tractor festival, so it seemed right to towtheir ageing caravan with a tractor. The Gunsons and fellow tractor fans chugged into Fairlie onThursday on their way to the 150th anniversary of the Massey ...
Many dress the part for nostalgic concert
Feb 03, 1997 ... Judging by teenagers at the Strawberry Fields concert yesterday,parents' most cliched 1960s and polyester 1970s outfits were draggedout of dark wardrobe corners. The three-hour concert, which took listeners on a nostalgicjourney through 1960s and 1970s music, drew more than 12,000 ...
Ministers `not told of Maori TV links'
Feb 03, 1997 ... The Government is expected to hear the results of inquiries intoAotearoa Television today, amid reports that Crown agencies wereaware of the company's background, but failed to tell Ministers. Prime Minister Jim Bolger will meet deputy Winston Peters aboutthe issue today, after ...
New lights go on with whimper, not bang
Feb 03, 1997; ... The inaugural switching on of the new lights at Lancaster Parkwasmore of a whimper than a grand illumination. A day-long concert, ``Burning in the Light'', was held at theparkon Saturday to mark the first time the huge stadium lights went on. About 6000 people paid up to ...
REPORTER'S DIARY
Feb 03, 1997; ... REPORTER'S DIARY Canberra going THE CRUISE ship Canberra will be withdrawn from service inSeptember after 36 years sailing the oceans. Her most dramaticepisode occurred on January 4, 1963, when she was crippled by firewhen north-east of Malta carrying about 2000 passengers ...
Coroner declined to investigate death
Feb 03, 1997; ... The Christchurch Coroner last year declined a hearing into one ofthe deaths at the centre of an independent inquiry into patientsafety at Christchurch Hospital. The case is that of 49-year-old Christchurch man, Brian Gardiner,who, according to hospital documents, was admitted with ...
Dragon boat fans flock to Dunsandel
Feb 03, 1997 ... The Wright family, of Dunsandel, hosted 10,000 visitors yesterdaywith the seventh Dragon Boat Festival at Lake Crichton. The sunny and mild easterly conditions were perfect for the 36races, 90 per cent of which were contested by corporate teams. A gamble by organisers to shift ...
Cancer service integration urged
Feb 03, 1997 ... Child cancer services should be centralised into two maincentres,says Alliance leader Jim Anderton. He highlighted the case of a Wellington girl, Ashleigh Harland,who featured in ``The Press'' on Saturday, saying that her family'smove to Christchurch for her leukaemia treatment ...
Increase in jet-skis prompts warning
Feb 03, 1997 ... An upsurge in the number of jet-skis in Canterbury waters has ledthe coastguard to issue a safety warning. Del Hurley, of the Canterbury Coastguard, said the risk of aserious accident was rising along with the numbers of jet-skis andwave-riders. A potential problem was ...
Love for sport links couple
Feb 03, 1997 ... A common love of sports has been one of the things which keptArthur and Jean O'Cain together for 65 years. The Riccarton couple celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary onSaturday with a family party. Mr O'Cain, 88, first spotted his bride-to-be on a tennis court ...
Tourists' van taken
Feb 03, 1997 ... A Swiss couple lost all their belongings after their van was thelatest tourist vehicle to be targeted by thieves. Their white 1983 Nissan van was stolen from Oxford Terrace onFriday night, just hours after Karin Zumbrunnen and ErnestKlopfenstein arrived in Christchurch. In the van ...
Loading of coal restricted to let residents sleep
Feb 03, 1997 ... GREYMOUTH -- Dunollie residents are entitled to reasonable sleepat night, the Grey District Council hearing commissioner, PeterKerridge, has said in a consents finding. He has imposed a restriction on night-time loading of coal trainsbetween 10pm and 7am at Dunollie, as part of the ...
Brief has warning MP
Feb 03, 1997 ... The brief on conservation to the incoming Government soundswarning bells for the tourism industry, Labour's tourism spokesman,Damien O'Connor, says. He said the Department of Conservation had listed priorities forthe management of visitors. It had started, however, in the ...
NZ conservation applauded; Attenborough guest; at new project launch
Feb 03, 1997; ... New Zealand's conservation efforts won high praise yesterday fromworld-renowned naturalist Sir David Attenborough when he attendedthelaunch of a beech forest restoration project at St Arnaud. The long-term project to clear pests and predators from 800ha offorest adjacent to Lake ...
Mr William Douglas Hood, contractor
Feb 03, 1997 ... OBITUARY Doug Hood, who turned a tiny farm contracting operation into amillion-dollar company, died at his Ashburton home last Monday. Hewas 63. William Douglas Hood, born and educated in Ashburton, went intobusiness at 18 with a borrowed baler and a gorse cutter, ...
Moore attacks stiff tariffs on NZ spreadable butter
Feb 03, 1997; ... Kiwi ingenuity in the form of spreadable butter, a popularexport,is suffering from hefty tariffs from the European Union which couldcost New Zealand farmers ``tens of millions of dollars'', saysLabour's trade spokesman, Mike Moore. Mr Moore said the arrival today of the European ...
School suspensions labelled cultural cleansing
Feb 03, 1997; ... Some schools are using suspensions as a form of ``culturalcleansing'', says Commissioner for Children Laurie O'Reilly. He was responding to the release of figures that showed 10,016pupils were suspended from schools last year -- almost 21/2 timesthenumber in ...
Who's calling?
Feb 03, 1997 ... Telecom's introduction this month of a caller-display service,allowing inspection of an incoming number before a phone isanswered,may prove a mixed blessing. ``Introduce yourself over the phonewithout saying a word,'' says a Telecom promotional leaflet.``Friends and family can ...
Smaller yarding helps to buoy prices
Feb 03, 1997; ... FLOCK RAM FAIR No-one was surprised by the mood at Friday's Canterbury flock ramfair at the Ellesmere showground. Buyers were selective, just like every year. The best rams soldstrongly, just like every year. The rams slightly below parstruggled to make their reserves, just ...
Bidding good for angora, boer offering
Feb 03, 1997; ... GOAT SALE Buoyant bidding at the South Island premier and open angora andboer sales last Friday pushed the top price to $1300, more thantwicelast year's maximum. Seventy lots were offered in the sales held at Tinwald Saleyardswith the much larger offering of boers than in ...
Somalis fear for relatives abroad
Feb 03, 1997; ... Somalis living in Christchurch say they fear for relatives caughtup in violence in their southern Kenya refugee camp. One Christchurch man, Abdi Jama, said he had received adistraughttelephone call from his father pleading for his son to save his lifeas ``I have a head injury, no ...