The Press back issues from November 1997:
Companies sue union
Nov 01, 1997 ... Four port companies have begun legal action against theSeafarers'Union, seeking damages for disruption caused by pickets. Auckland,Tauranga, Wellington, and Lyttelton ...
Jobs on line as Levenes hits strife
Nov 01, 1997 ... The jobs of about 55 staff are on the line at Levenes inChristchurch after the Auckland-based company was placed inreceivership. Stores nationwide were closed for stocktaking as soon as thereceivers were appointed at noon yesterday. They will reopen at 10amtomorrow, and will ...
Petrol-price war breaks out in Canty
Nov 01, 1997; ... The petrol price war broke out in Canterbury last night. BP fired the first salvo by dropping prices 5c per litre from6pm. Caltex trimmed its price soon after, and Shell also matched thecut. Mobil was the last to slash the price, also by 5c.The new price applies only to the ...
Two die in Kaiapoi rail-crossing accident
Nov 01, 1997; ... The deaths of two men yesterday on a rail crossing near WoodfordGlen realised the worst fears of many who have been warning of thecrossing's danger for 10 years. The men, whose names were not released last night, died whentheirToyota Landcruiser collided with a ...
When llamas lift the spirits
Nov 01, 1997 ... Joyce Islip meets Brullo, a six-month-old male llama, at theNurseMaude Memorial Hospital and Hospice yesterday. Thirty patients weretreated to a visit by ...
Wonderfully wet for racing
Nov 01, 1997; ... Gene Kelly rather than the Everly Brothers was the musicalfavourite of Danny Frye, the Balcairn trainer of top galloper MagnetBay, in Melbourne yesterday. While promoters of the Melbourne spring carnival thought themournful voices of the Everly Brothers crying in the rain summed ...
REPORTER'S DIARY
Nov 01, 1997 ... People for potting THOUSANDS of native plants are springing up at BirdlandsSanctuaryin Okuti Valley, Little River. There are far too many for theregeneration of the sanctuary's bush areas, and so Pat Robson islooking for a potting person. Or better still, a team of ...
Woman gets serious about security
Nov 01, 1997 ... Christchurch businesswoman Lisa Tregenza is serious aboutcommunications security. She works with Christchurch company CES Communications, formerlyCardinal Encryption Systems, which exports anti-bugging telephones,and communication security systems to the United States, ...
A tragic toll among friends
Nov 01, 1997 ... Four out of a group of six young Tauranga friends have takentheirown lives or died in suspicious circumstances since 1992, a tragicstatistic which has prompted a grieving mother to speak outpublicly.A boy aged 16 shot himself after scrawling a satanist message inblood on a ...
Bad day for bonds investor
Nov 01, 1997 ... Last week's sharemarket crash cost a Sumner man more than $2200 --without investing one cent in shares. The man, who asked not to be named, placed $10,000 in aCountrywide Bank sharemarket bond issue launched on October 27,1994.The return on the bond was linked to the NZSE40 ...
Bank robber found in pub
Nov 01, 1997 ... A bank robber who held up a central Christchurch bank yesterdaywas caught in a pub several hours later spending the proceeds of theheist. He will appear in the Christchurch District Court today. The man was recorded on the bank's video surveillance camera, andpolice obtained ...
Chalking up a masterpiece on the path to success
Nov 01, 1997 ... Pavement artist Lucy Dolan, of Christchurch, creates a chalkmasterpiece on the paving blocks of Worcester Boulevard yesterday.She expects to take three days to complete the ...
Bride no longer blue
Nov 01, 1997 ... Andrea Nolan has gone from feeling blue to having shoes. Offersof replacement shoes flooded in from the public yesterday afterthieves stole cream-coloured wedding shoes ...
Richardson joins ACT
Nov 01, 1997 ... Ruth Richardson, a former National finance minister, has joinedACT. She will campaign for the party with her former Labouropponent, Sir Roger Douglas. Yesterday Miss Richardson said ...
Lincoln at risk after funds cut
Nov 01, 1997; ... Lincoln University may be forced to consider merging with anotherinstitution after news of a Government funding cut for 1998 of $1.8million, and falling student numbers. This is in contrast to other Canterbury tertiary institutions,Christchurch Polytechnic, the University of ...
Pier criticism driven by ego, promoter says
Nov 01, 1997 ... Attacks on the New Brighton Pier have been driven more by egothanfacts, says New Brighton Pier Trust chairman Peter Dunbar. Mr Dunbar said criticism of the cost of the project and theinvolvement of the Christchurch City Council from the CanterburyEmployer's Chamber of Commerce ...
YOUR SAY BRIGHTON PIER
Nov 01, 1997 ... What do you think the pier will do for New Brighton? I reckon it will be a great attraction. It certainly used to be agreat attraction when they had the old one here. I would like to seethe end of the mall blocked off and covered over against theeasterlywind -- and get rid of the ...
Couple escape shattered glass
Nov 01, 1997 ... A couple had a narrow escape when a pane of glass shattered justcentimetres in front of them at the Big Fresh shopping centreyesterday. Greg Cumming and his girlfriend, Natalie Young, were walkingthrough the glass atrium between the Big Fresh shopping centre car-park and the ...
Fresh start for Farmers as new building begins
Nov 01, 1997 ... Out with the old and in with the new: work has begun on theconcrete foundations, left, after the demolition of the old Farmersdepartment store between Gloucester and ...
Lazy, hazy days of . . . October
Nov 01, 1997 ... The long, dry days of October have brought a record number ofsunshine hours to Christchurch. The previous sunniest and driest October was in 1911, Blue SkiesWeather and Climate Services forecaster Tony Trewinnard says. While it was difficult to compare early statistics that ...
Net Day opens door for youth to discuss issues
Nov 01, 1997; ... A quiet Burnside High School seventh-former will discuss the bigissues for youth with thousands of young people next Tuesday. Somewill be in Bosnia and some in South Africa. Matthew Smith has been appointed to co-ordinate Net Day for ``ThePress'' and its Newspapers in Education ...
Pilot strike to affect flights on Monday
Nov 01, 1997 ... NELSON -- Flights in both islands will be affected on Monday witha strike by pilots at Air New Zealand subsidiaries Air Nelson andEagle Air. It is the second time in three months that pilots flying Air NewZealand Link services have taken strike action over stalledemployment ...
Sunday opening for central Chch shops
Nov 01, 1997 ... Sunday opening will start in the Christchurch city centre fromtomorrow. More than half of the shops, bars, and cafes in the CityMall and Colombo Street were expected to join the promotion, saidcity centre landlord Anthony Gough, managing director of HerefordHoldings. Many ...
Farmer sworn in as regional councillor
Nov 01, 1997 ... Methven farmer Angus McKay, 44, was yesterday sworn in as amemberof the Canterbury Regional Council. He headed off the challenge ofRobin Grigg to represent the Ashburton district in the council'sfirst by-election since its formation in 1989. It is the first time an election has ...
Merivale Mall to get $12m overhaul
Nov 01, 1997 ... Merivale Mall will get a $12 million overhaul, with tenders forthe project set for early next year. Mall owner Tower Corporationhas bought some extra properties on the Papanui Road frontage of themall that after demolition will add about 1000 square metres to theretail ...
Southerners dispute drift
Nov 01, 1997; ... South Island community leaders have rejected predictions of anortherly population drift, saying lifestyle values will keep peoplein the south. Statistics New Zealand released figures this week showing theNorth Island would be home to 78 per cent of New Zealanders in lessthan 25 ...
Three options for Square
Nov 01, 1997 ... Cathedral Square's new look should be decided soon. Three options for paving the Square will be put to the centralcity committee on November 19 after extensive investigation byChristchurch City Council staff. They include the use of aggregate paving stones or natural ...
Shoe-shine man sets up in Square
Nov 01, 1997 ... His Union Jack Doc Martens give away Vaughan Smith's latest job. He's set up as a shoe-shine in Cathedral Square on Thursdays andFridays -- one of the first professionals in the city for manyyears. Mr Smith, 39, who arrived here 13 years ago from Hull, England,worked in ...
Stalking `more common'
Nov 01, 1997; ... Stalking and harassment is more common than first thought, sayPapanui police. Publicity in ``The Press'' about the case of a Merivale familystalked by a former boyfriend of their daughter has led to otherscontacting police. The family were critical of the Domestic Violence ...
Ghosties out in force for Halloween
Nov 01, 1997 ... All the witchies and ghoulies were out yesterday as Minke Unwin,four, left, Stephanie Webber, three, Josephine Gallagher, four,Joshua Walker, three, and Georgina ...
Prozac caution backed
Nov 01, 1997; ... The coroner who said general practitioners should not be able toprescribe an anti-depressant drug, Prozac, was on the right track,says a Christchurch worker in the mental-illness field. Judy Tait, a founding member of the Schizophrenia Fellowship,saidyesterday that Prozac should ...
Study into mobile phone~ill health link
Nov 01, 1997 ... People who believe their ill health is linked to the use ofcellular telephones can register in a study by Lincoln Universityresearcher Neil Cherry. Dr Cherry has begun the register after reading a Britishnewspaperreport that 50 British Telecom engineers claimed they ...
Health chief warns patients could die waiting for surgery
Nov 01, 1997 ... AUCKLAND -- The head of Auckland Healthcare warned yesterday thatpeople could die while they waited for treatment because ofrestricted hospital services. Chief executive Graeme Edmond said requiring people to get sickerbefore they could have their operations increased the risk to ...
Memories of store revived
Nov 01, 1997 ... WELLINGTON -- Lena Lenihan's memories of working at KirkcaldieandStains at the time of World War 1 have been revived for a historycommissioned by the Wellington department store. Mrs Lenihan, who turned 100 on August 14, started working at thestore about 1915 -- the memory is a ...
Police hunt for `sexual predator'
Nov 01, 1997 ... The Auckland police are hunting for a ``sexual predator'' whobroke into a woman's suburban home and sexually assaulted her atknifepoint yesterday. Senior Sergeant Gary Allcock said the woman,in her 30s, had just arrived at her Allum Street, Kohimarama, homeafter picking up her ...
Lucky escape as boat catches fire
Nov 01, 1997 ... A Queenstown man and five children aged between five and nine hada lucky escape yesterday when their late-model power boat caughtfireon Lake Wakatipu. John Guthrie, his three sons, and two familyfriends had left Frankton Arm for a weekend camping trip when heheard a cracking ...
Ministry warning over portable cots
Nov 01, 1997 ... The Ministry of Consumer Affairs yesterday warned owners ofportable wooden cots to check them for a Baby Bunting NurseryProducts stamp. The ministry received a complaint this week from aconcerned mother who bought such a portable cot in 1990. The cot haswooden dowelling bars and a hinged ...
NZ doctor may inject HIV
Nov 01, 1997 ... WELLINGTON -- A New Zealand doctor at the forefront of pioneeringAIDS research is preparing to inject himself with a strain of theHIVvirus to help test a vaccine. Dr Charles Farthing is an internationally known AIDS researcherand director of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation in Los ...
Panel reports on super campaign
Nov 01, 1997 ... WELLINGTON -- More research is needed into options for targetingMaori audiences in public relations campaigns, the IndependentReferendum Panel says in its report on the compulsory superannuationreferendum campaign. The panel's report, released at Parliament yesterday, ...
Prisons tipped to hold over 6500
Nov 01, 1997 ... WELLINGTON -- New Zealand's prison population will swell 41 percent to more than 6500 over the next three years, the Department ofCorrections has predicted. A report by the Justice and Law Reform Select Committee on budgetfunding for the department says prisons are close to ...
Sale of modern NZ art collection
Nov 01, 1997 ... NELSON -- Nelson couple Geoffrey and Margaret Candy have puttheirprivate modern art collection, rated among the top in New Zealand,upfor sale. Their 200 paintings, collected since 1976, include works by ColinMcCahon, Tony Fomison, Sir Tosswill Woollaston, and Robyn ...
Unions launch own scheme
Nov 01, 1997 ... WELLINGTON -- Five trade unions have launched their ownsuperannuation scheme. Put together after the rejection of the Government'ssuperannuation scheme, it offered greater flexibility than thatoffered in the referendum, the unions said. The scheme, to be called the CarePlan ...
Judge Beattie puts legal brains in stew
Nov 01, 1997; ... The acquittal of District Court Judge Martin Beattie on fraudcharges earlier this year began one of the most complex situationsinNew Zealand constitutional law history. IAN STUART investigates. Martin Beattie walked out of the High Court in Auckland on August1 without a legal ...
NZ smacking video slated
Nov 01, 1997 ... LONDON -- A New Zealand-produced video on ``safe smacking' hascome under fire by a British children's lobby group. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Childrenhascondemned the Safe Smack Parenting Programme, a video made in NewZealand by a Hamilton-registered ...
Old Levin school razed
Nov 01, 1997 ... PALMERSTON NORTH -- A suspicious fire razed two-thirds of thehistoric 102-year-old former Levin School in Horowhenua earlyyesterday. The fire was noticed by a Centurion Security guard on patrol inthe area just after 2am. By the time firefighters arrived fromnearby towns, the ...
Duke in NZ for award forum
Nov 01, 1997 ... WELLINGTON -- Prince Philip, flew into Wellington yesterday totake part in a six-day international forum of the International Dukeof Edinburgh Award Association. Prince Philip arrived in Wellington on an Air Force 727 flightfrom Auckland just after 7am. He had flown to Auckland on ...
Irishman `worried' ministers
Nov 01, 1997 ... AUCKLAND -- Official documents show successive Ministers ofimmigration have had grave concerns about the case of Irishman DannyButler and refused his pleas to stay in New Zealand. As the Ulster man awaits a final decision on his case, a six-yearGovernment paper trail has revealed ...
Conference on child labour sparks mute protest
Nov 01, 1997 ... Franklin Blandon, from Nicaragua, in a silent protest during theInternational Conference on Child Labour in Oslo yesterday. He ...
REUNIONS
Nov 01, 1997 ... A Scettrini-Payn family reunion will be held at Easter weekend,1998, at Kumara for the descendents of: Joseph Scettrini, Catherine(nee Henneberg), Francis Davis Payn, and Johanna (nee Scettrini).Registration forms can be obtained by send a stamp addressedenvelopeto: Maurice Payn, Flat ...
SEA, AIR, RAIL
Nov 01, 1997 ... VESSELS IN PORT Novonikolsk, No. 3 West. Dorada, No. 3 East.Ognevka, Glastone Pier Centre.Planerist, No. 3 West.Nathaniel B Palmer, No. 1 Berth.HMNZS Monowai, No. 2 West.Labrador, Glastone Pier Centre.Krasnogvardeec, Cashin No. 3.Orlovka, No. 2 West.Mys ...
Man denies repeated rape of girl
Nov 01, 1997 ... NELSON -- A Nelson schoolgirl was raped repeatedly over more thana year by a man living at her mother's house, Nelson District Courtwas told yesterday. A 27-year-old Nelson man, whose name was suppressed, has denied arepresentative charge of rape between November 1995 and ...
Offender planned long walk
Nov 01, 1997 ... WHANGAREI -- A man convicted of several offences, includingassaulting police using a car as a weapon, intended to walk fromWhangarei to Auckland to attend a rehabilitation centre, a Whangareicourt was told. Toru Tane, 51, of no fixed abode, was due to be sentenced in theWhangarei ...
Wickliffe found guilty
Nov 01, 1997 ... ROTORUA -- Dean Wickliffe has been found guilty of murder after atwo-week trial in the High Court at Rotorua. The 49-year-old, who had denied murdering Richard HetarakaBluett,refused to take part in the trial proceedings after he dismissed hiscounsel, Craig Horsley, on ...
Man jailed for road rage
Nov 01, 1997 ... A man who bashed a woman in a ``road rage'' incident and thenwenton to punch and head-butt her son, was sentenced to three months injail when he appeared in the Christchurch District Court yesterday. Judge Neil Hattaway said Johnathon Arthur Jones, 21, a mechanic,had been a ...
PD for crashing stolen car
Nov 01, 1997 ... NELSON -- A Nelson man was yesterday sentenced to periodicdetention after his careless driving in a stolen car caused hispassenger serious head injuries. When he appeared in the Nelson District Court Kelvin FredrickRakatau, 34, admitted charges of careless driving causing injury ...
CHH loses $3.4m in fire
Nov 01, 1997 ... NELSON -- An uninsured Carter Holt Harvey has been left $3.4million out of pocket by last week's Tasman forest fire, and iswarning of a highly dangerous fire season ahead. The cost of the Tasman fire, previously described as financiallyone of the worst in New Zealand's history, was ...
Proposal on the boards
Nov 01, 1997 ... WELLINGTON -- Theatre is well known for romance, but patrons at aperformance of Anthony McCarten's ``Four Cities'' in Circa Theatre,Wellington, got more than they bargained for this week. After the obligatory bows at the end of the play, the cast calledRegan Shaw to the stage ...
Tree-planting record set
Nov 01, 1997 ... WELLINGTON -- It's official -- Wellington City Council parksstaffhave got themselves into the ``Guinness Book of Records''. The 120 staff recently planted 25,250 native trees on the townbelt in less than eight hours -- an average of one tree every twominutes. As well as ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Nov 01, 1997 ... Home heating Sir--Pat Palmer denies the facts when he says there is scantevidence of the public health risk posed by Christchurch's homefires(October 29). Solid scientific work, particularly that conducted over the lasttwo years, proves what has long been suspected ....
Polluting the oceans
Nov 01, 1997 ... Polluted by everything from sewage to shipwrecks, they occupymorethan 70 per cent of the Earth's surface. The world's oceans haveprovided a waste disposal ground for thousands of years. Home tomore species than those on dry land, they are also efficientconsumers of some rubbish. For ...
Valentines expands
Nov 01, 1997 ... Licensed buffet restaurant operator Valentines is expanding inAustralia by securing six suburban properties ...
Maine faces new pressures
Nov 01, 1997 ... Maine Investments, which put its Levenes retail subsidiary intoreceivership yesterday, faces further pressure from its auditor andthe bondholders' trustee. The trustee, Guardian Trust, said the receivership action putMaine in breach of its bondholder trust deed. Guardian Trust had ...
More surprises possible
Nov 01, 1997; ... New Zealand shares fell 5 per cent in the volatile week to theclose of Stock Exchange trading yesterday. World markets, although calmer after the record swings of Tuesdayand Wednesday, still have the potential to surprise investors. The market value of shares of all listed ...
Unfortunate maturity date for bond issue
Nov 01, 1997 ... This week's sharemarket crash cost a Sumner man more than $2200 --without investing one cent in shares. The man, who asked not to be named, placed $10,000 in aCountrywide Bank sharemarket bond issue launched on October 27,1994. The return on the bond was linked to the ...
Hong Kong market sentiment picks up
Nov 01, 1997 ... Hong Kong stocks continued their roller-coaster ride yesterday,with the key Hang Seng index rallying 257.85 points, or 2.5 percent,to close at 10,620.71. The market's China-linked stocks led the rally. Sentiment improved after a monetary authority official said thatinterest ...