The Press back issues from October 1997:
Police Association says crime can cut
Oct 01, 1997 ... The Police Association says crime in New Zealand can be cut anditis encouraging the trial of an overseas experiment, which targetsminor crime. President Greg O'Connor said the association wasconvinced the Broken Windows approach, developed in New York, couldreduce crime in New ...
Divers join search for missing woman
Oct 01, 1997 ... Navy divers have joined the search for an American woman missingfrom Great Barrier Island, in the Hauraki Gulf. Clothing belongingto the woman, including gumboots, was found down a bank on Saturday,four days after she was last seen ...
Morale fears as fire chiefs quit
Oct 01, 1997; ... Fire Service executive ranks have been further gutted as two ofthree regional general managers quit over restructuring. Southern region general manager Sean Wilson and his northernregion counterpart, Dave Allen, have joined chief executive MaurieCummings and national commander Bob ...
Power price big smog issue
Oct 01, 1997; ... Reduce power prices and ban the use of coal. Those are thestrongest messages from Christchurch residents to help beat thecity's smog problem. ``The Press'' received 3321 replies after publishing a PIN-pointcoupon on Christchurch's winter air pollution, with almost 74 percent ...
Women in fight
Oct 01, 1997 ... Police were called to a fight between two women in Burnsideyesterday. Senior Sergeant Ian Freeman said police received a 111 call fromawoman, saying she was in a car being chased ...
PM denies `doing deals'
Oct 01, 1997 ... WELLINGTON -- Prime Minister Jim Bolger yesterday flatly deniedhehad ``done a deal'' with possible would-be leadership challengersandalso rejected a suggestion that Finance Minister Bill Birch nolongersupported him. Unsubstantiated rumours that have been through the ...
Wave House heading for demolition
Oct 01, 1997; ... Historic Wave House in Gloucester Street can be demolished, butonly when all consents for a replacement apartment building areobtained, says planning commissioner Kim McCracken. ``This is a heritage building that is being demolished and if thereplacement building is not going to ...
Bolger-Peters rift over case widens
Oct 01, 1997; ... A rift between Prime Minister Jim Bolger and Treasurer WinstonPeters over Mr Peters's challenge to the Winebox findings widenedyesterday. Mr Bolger has opposed Mr Peters's seeking of a court declarationon whether Winebox Commissioner Sir Ronald Davison applied tax lawcorrectly ....
English promises accountability
Oct 01, 1997; ... If a psychiatric practice failure had allowed Jason Mackrell tobefree to rape and murder an elderly Christchurch woman, someone wouldbe held accountable, Health Minister Bill English said yesterday. Mr English, who last week announced an inquiry into the care andtreatment of ...
Fine for nuisance call
Oct 01, 1997 ... TIMARU -- A South Canterbury man who phoned Parliament said therewere five missiles pointed at it and 150kg of explosives in thebuilding, the Timaru District Court was told yesterday. Graeme Paul Brown, 41, a factory worker, of Waimate, pleadedguilty to using a telephone to disturb ...
CYPFS head to leave
Oct 01, 1997 ... Children, Young Persons and Their Families Service generalmanagerGriff Page will leave the job in December. Social Welfare ...
PCB risk ruled out
Oct 01, 1997 ... Occupational Safety and Health is convinced no dangerous PCBchemicals were burnt during the fire in Broadcasting House inWellington, but the neighbouring Bowen State Building will stayclosed today pending the results of ...
Skateboarders under pressure in central Chch
Oct 01, 1997; ... Get tough on skateboarders. That's the message from ChristchurchCity councillor Margaret Murray, who wants bans on skateboarding inlarge areas of central Christchurch. She wants Cathedral Square, the City Mall, Victoria Square,Colombo Street between Lichfield and Kilmore streets, ...
Patients miss surgery as ACC, CHE bicker
Oct 01, 1997 ... BLENHEIM -- A contract wrangle between Nelson-Marlborough HealthServices and the ACC means ACC patients in Nelson and Marlboroughareunable to get surgery. A breakdown in communication has also meant ACC patients whocouldhave been treated during September were not. The ACC did ...
Violent crime offences down
Oct 01, 1997 ... GREYMOUTH -- Violent crime and dishonesty offences are down onprevious years, newly released West Coast region police statisticsshow. The acting commander, Senior Sergeant Phil Deazley, said bothcategories had been targeted and it was pleasing to see theirnumbersdown. For ...
Boost for mental health
Oct 01, 1997 ... TIMARU -- Mental health services in South Canterbury received amajor boost with the announcement that Health South Canterbury willbegin taking advantage of additional funding allocated to CHEs bytheGovernment last year. The CHE missed out on almost $600,000 of extra funding for ...
School projects honoured
Oct 01, 1997 ... METHVEN -- Three Mount Hutt College pupils shared honours inannual resource management awards co-sponsored by Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research and the Canterbury Regional Council. Katie Shearer looked into the safe disposal of silage wrap. Kelly Anderson tackled the problem of ...
Site clean-up tenders closer
Oct 01, 1997 ... NELSON -- The clean-up of chemical contamination at Mapua islikely go to tender by early next year if detailed cost estimatesshow it is affordable. Four companies have been selected from eight New Zealand andAustralian consortiums interested in processing and decontaminatingsoil ...
CFTN to screen Canty promotion
Oct 01, 1997 ... Canterbury Family Television Network will launch a new hour-longcontinuous tourism programme to fill the vacuum left by the demiseofCTV and its ``Welcome to Canterbury'' programme. The new programme, ``This is Canterbury'', will screen non-stopfrom 11pm to 3.30pm seven days a ...
Garden `allergy-free'
Oct 01, 1997 ... The planting of an ``allergy free'' garden at Mona Vale will markthe Canterbury Asthma Society's 25th anniversary on Sunday. Herbs such as linseed, sage, various native and exotic shrubs andgroundcover will be part of the garden. Asthma, eczema, and hayfever are three of the ...
Joint fight over price rise
Oct 01, 1997 ... Community groups have joined forces to fight the ChristchurchCityCouncil over Southpower's proposed 4.9 per cent power priceincrease.The Merivale Neighbourhood Group, Grey Power, and rural residentsgroups have called an urgent public meeting tomorrow at the HeatonIntermediate ...
Onyx `best tenderer'
Oct 01, 1997; ... Criticism of the preferred tenderer for Christchurch's refusecollection has been rejected by city councillor Denis O'Rourke. He said Onyx New Zealand Ltd was clearly the best of the sixcompanies which bid for the contract. ``They are clearly the lowest price, the best ...
Overseas teachers scarce PPTA
Oct 01, 1997 ... Sources of foreign teachers for recruitment by New Zealand aredrying up, the Post-Primary Teachers' Association says. The association's president, Martin Cooney, said rising demandforteachers in Australia, Britain, and Canada threatened the supply ofmuch-needed teachers in New ...
Plan to save Maori degree
Oct 01, 1997; ... A proposal for three of Canterbury's four tertiary institutionstojoin forces could ensure the viability of some courses that are atrisk because of low student numbers. The proposal, with Ngai Tahu as a partner, involves ChristchurchPolytechnic, Lincoln University, and the ...
Power-differential cut complaint proposed
Oct 01, 1997; ... A Christchurch City Council complaint to the Commerce Commissionis likely after the axing of the South Island power-pricedifferential. The differential paid to South Island consumers effectively endstoday. Its demise was blamed for 40 per cent of the recent 4.9 percent ...
Smog-bound Kiwi longs for sunshine
Oct 01, 1997 ... Three weeks without seeing the sun in Kuala Lumpur has just aboutdriven a Christchurch businessman to jump on the first flight homewith his family. Brian Cossar, the chairman of the New Zealand-Malaysia BusinessCouncil, is among millions of people living under huge layers ...
Bus reforms sought
Oct 01, 1997; ... Ideas for better bus services will be sought from Christchurchoperators under a review of competitive pricing procedures. The standard of service provided by some operators who wontenderswas criticised after competitive tendering was introduced forChristchurch bus services about ...
Concern over consent period
Oct 01, 1997 ... Some Canterbury Regional councillors are unhappy that the councilregularly grants resource consents for the maximum 35 yearsallowableunder the Resource Management Act. Cr Diana Shand said things werechanging fast, and the council was learning more and more what ...
Hundreds try luck in drawing competition
Oct 01, 1997 ... Claire Gittings, registrar at the Robert McDougall Art Gallery,can smile at the response from artists to the Cranleigh Bartondrawing award. The biennial competition has attracted 360 entriesfrom throughout ...
Big budget boost for police
Oct 01, 1997 ... WELLINGTON -- The police have been given a funding boost of $18.5million from the Government and intend to use it for crimeprevention, road safety, and to target repeat offenders andorganisedcrime gangs. Announcing the extra funding, Police Minister Jack Elder said itshowed the ...
Cameraman back after taiaha attack
Oct 01, 1997 ... WELLINGTON -- Being clubbed by a Maori warrior took only twoseconds, but it changed Grant Atkinson's life forever. In May the cameraman had been filming the relocation of aWhanganui war canoe for the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa, incentral Wellington. Kneeling behind a ...
Doctors reluctant to share data with police
Oct 01, 1997 ... WELLINGTON -- Giving police the right of access to the medicalrecords of psychiatric patients could stop people seeking treatment,the Medical Association said yesterday. Association chairman Brian Linehan said it was important thatpeople knew they could speak openly with their ...
Man floors intruder after son is stabbed
Oct 01, 1997 ... INVERCARGILL -- Gordon Smithies faced the worst decision of hislife on Monday night. The Invercargill accountant was holding down a burglar in hishomeand saw his son just metres away stagger and fall with bloodstreaming down his back. Craig Smithies, a 28-year-old city van ...
Big search for American woman
Oct 01, 1997 ... Rumours about the fate of an American woman missing from GreatBarrier Island are spreading around the small community, making manyislanders fearful. Nancy Frey-Herschey, 49, the mother of two adultdaughters, has not been seen since last Wednesday. Although policeare not yet using the ...
Crime-cutting experiment urged
Oct 01, 1997 ... The Police Association is encouraging the trial of an overseasexperiment, which targets minor crime. President Greg O'Connor saidthe association believed the Broken Windows approach, developed inNew York, could reduce crime in New Zealand ....
Peters confirms he will face protest
Oct 01, 1997 ... Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has confirmed he will frontup to his Tauranga electorate at a protest rally on Saturday. MrPeters, whose support in Tauranga is eroding, according to recentpolls, has been asked to speak ...
NZ families claim Holocaust money
Oct 01, 1997 ... At least five New Zealand Jewish families have made claims onmillions of dollars held in Swiss bank accounts by possibleHolocaustvictims, the New Zealand Jewish Council says. More than 2700 claimshad been sent in by individuals alleging they were ...
Visitor slams MMP
Oct 01, 1997 ... WELLINGTON -- New Zealand's experience with MMP shows that itsformer method of electing governments -- the Westminster system --was better, Britain's former foreign secretary, Douglas Hurd, says. Lord Hurd said in Wellington that he used to think proportionalrepresentation might be ...
91% unhappy with maternity care
Oct 01, 1997; ... Almost all of the people who responded to a survey carried out bythe Parents' Centre said they were dissatisfied with maternityservices in New Zealand. Speaking at the Parents' Centre national conference inInvercargill, Christchurch-based president Diane Matsas said thesurvey of ...
Bulk funding separate issue to pay Creech
Oct 01, 1997 ... WELLINGTON -- Bulk funding for schools will remain optional anditis not a matter for discussion in teachers' pay negotiations,Education Minister Wyatt Creech has told the secondary schoolsunion.Speaking at the Post-Primary Teachers' Association annualconference in Wellington ...
NZ woman `harassed'
Oct 01, 1997 ... WELLINGTON -- New Zealand Embassy officials in Thailand areconcerned a New Zealand woman detained in Burma was denied consularassistance. Jude Smith, 37, was picked up by Burmese authorities at theweekend. They said her activities did not tally with the professionlisted in her ...
Plan is eugenic party
Oct 01, 1997 ... WELLINGTON -- The Christian Heritage Party has condemned NorthHealth's plans to reintroduce a free pregnancy screening test,sayingit will lead to more abortions. The pregnancy test, which costs $73, uses a blood sample tocalculate the risk of birth defects, ranging from brain ...
Investigators re-enact fatal crash
Oct 01, 1997 ... PARIS -- Magistrates leading the investigation into PrincessDiana's fatal car crash ordered the wrecked Mercedes limousine to behauled to the accident site on Monday night to study how the crashtook place. Investigating magistrate Herve Stephan, accompanied by a dozenofficials ...
Health-care rationing
Oct 01, 1997 ... The row over whether Northland Health should stop dialysis for a64-year-old man with mild dementia throws into sharp relief thedebate over what criteria are appropriate when rationing healthdollars. The widespread support for continuing Rau Williams'streatment has obscured the ...
Guest jazz tutors help students aim for stars
Oct 01, 1997; ... Three musicians with international reputations have been sharingtheir combined expertise with music students at the ChristchurchJazzSchool for an intensive two weeks. American pianist Mark Levine, Adelaide-based American vocalistConnaitre Miller, and British guitarist Martin ...
Industry sets up odometer check
Oct 01, 1997 ... The motor industry is setting up a certification system to checkthe odometers and invoice value of all used imported vehicles, saysthe managing director of Toyota New Zealand, Bob Field. The system would virtually end odometer and duty fraud on usedimports by next year. It was ...
HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES
Oct 01, 1997 ... PARKS AND ZOOS Orana Park Wildlife Trust, McLeans Island Road, telephone 359-7109: Open daily 10am to 5pm. Adults $12, children aged five to 14,$6. Birdlands Sanctuary and Holiday Park, Okuti Valley, Little River,telephone (03) 325-1141: Just 40 minutes from Christchurch ....
SEA, AIR, RAIL
Oct 01, 1997 ... VESSELS IN PORT Novonikolsk, No. 3 West. Dorada, No. 3 East.Ognevka, Gladstone Pier Centre.Planerist, No. 3 West.Labrador, Gladstone Pier East.Osha, Gladstone Pier Centre.Orlovka, No. 2 West.Mys Chaykovskogo, No. 3 East.Amaltal Endeavour, Cattle Jetty.Southern ...
Butler wants court to await pardon ruling
Oct 01, 1997 ... WELLINGTON -- An application for a British government pardon byIrishman Danny Butler, could have a bearing on the Court of Appealhearing into his immigration appeal, his lawyer said yesterday. Mr Butler's lawyer, Rodney Harrison QC, asked the court for anadjournment of one to two ...
Child molester jailed, verbally abused
Oct 01, 1997 ... A carpenter was jailed yesterday for sexually abusing threelittlegirls within months of being deported from Australia after servingpart of a five-year prison term there for similar offending. Ian Gordon Chesterton Rowlands, 48, hung his head in theChristchurch District Court dock ...
Jail for man who robbed taxi, burgled two houses
Oct 01, 1997 ... A man who robbed a taxi driver of $180 and burgled two houses onthe same day was sent to prison for a year. Charles Renee Taam, 20, unemployed, admitted the charges and wasalso sentenced to one year's supervision and ordered to payreparation to the taxi driver when he appeared in ...
Mechanic accused of manslaughter lauded
Oct 01, 1997 ... AUCKLAND -- A car mechanic accused of faulty workmanship whichallegedly led to the deaths of three elderly people got a glowingaccolade from his employers yesterday. The service manager at Cawthray Motors, Christopher Ronke, told ajury in the High Court at Auckland that they were ...
Taxi driver sent to trial
Oct 01, 1997 ... A taxi driver alleged to have attempted to rape a female faretoldhis victim he would ``give her good loving,'' a ChristchurchDistrictCourt hearing was told yesterday. The driver, 46, who has name suppression, denies a charge ofassaulting the woman, 27, with intent to rape her ...
ANZ farms out funds control
Oct 01, 1997 ... WELLINGTON -- ANZ Funds Management will allow two outside fundmanagers to handle a mix passive and active management of $200million in New Zealand equities it has under management. The change, announced yesterday, means ANZ Funds Management nowonly manages domestic bonds and some ...
Banks in $18.8m joint claim against trustee
Oct 01, 1997 ... AUCKLAND -- National Australia Bank and the Bank of New Zealandhas begun a joint claim for $18.9 million -- plus about $18m ininterest -- against the trustee of the collapsed CommercialSecurities property group. The banks' counsel, Bill Wilson, QC, alleged the trustee, NewZealand ...
Abalone venture
Oct 01, 1997 ... AUCKLAND -- An Auckland company has formed a joint venture withAustralian investors to spend as much as $45 million developingabalone -- or paua as it is commonly known -- farms in New Zealandand Australia. The venture, Greatlands Aquaculture, may be partly financed bypublic ...
NATIONAL TOP 10
Oct 01, 1997 ... Top 10 by turnover: Brierley 6,464,937 Lion Nathan3,286,012FCL Paper2,286,732Burns Philp2,250,000Carter Holt 1,971,243St Lukes nts1,633,154Kingsgate1,450,800FCL Forests1,383,407Eastern Eq782,198Air NZ B ...
British mill sale boosts FCL Paper
Oct 01, 1997 ... Fletcher Challenge Paper rose on a firmer New Zealand sharemarketyesterday after Monday's news of selling a mill in Britain. The Fletcher target share rose 2c to 308. After the marketclosed, Fletcher Paper announced another mill sale, this time in theUnited States. Matt ...
Ceramco stake up
Oct 01, 1997 ... AMP Investments has increased its holding in clothing andceramicscompany Ceramco Corporation from 14.17 per cent to 17.31%, ...
Top young banker
Oct 01, 1997 ... ANZ Bank manager, asset and liability management, Andrew Sheed,was named young banker of the year. Mr Sheed was selected from ...
Winebox dregs drained
Oct 01, 1997 ... The Serious Fraud Office has filed notice to discontinue its HighCourt action against winebox inquiry commissioner Sir RonaldDavison.That puts an end ...
Waitoriki plans
Oct 01, 1997 ... Indo-Pacific Energy said it planned to drill its onshore TaranakiWaitoriki prospect during 1998. The company, which has a 50% stakein the exploration block ...
Kiwi weaker in thin trading
Oct 01, 1997 ... WELLINGTON -- The New Zealand dollar closed a touch weakeryesterday after local selling earlier in the day took it as low asUS63.68c. A dealer said the kiwi had traded as high as US64c in New Yorkovernight and was subject to local selling when it opened here. ``That shifted ...
BHP split into eight units
Oct 01, 1997 ... MELBOURNE -- Broken Hill Proprietary Co yesterday announcedchanges to its management structure to help boost profit. BHP will create eight businesses from the previous five:petroleum, copper, integrated steel, steel products, ferrousminerals, coal, world minerals, and service ...
BT posts record profit
Oct 01, 1997 ... Bankers Trust New Zealand yesterday reported record earnings andwarned that stronger growth in the economy was not yet ``in thebag''. BTNZ's after-tax profit for the six months ended June 30 was$18.64 million, a 52 per cent increase on the same period last year. It reported ...