The Press back issues from May 1998:
Golf title on the line
May 01, 1998 ... Titleholders Chris Marple and Erin Hensley will defend theirCanterbury women's golf foursomes championship over 36 holes atRussley today. The joint runners-up last year, Carol Bates and ...
Heated reaction to fire brigade's Anzac party
May 01, 1998 ... MASTERTON -- Carterton's only female firefighter has been sackedfrom the brigade in the aftermath of a party at the fire station onAnzac Day, but says she has been unfairly treated. Kirsten Baker, 17, said she had learned of her sacking the nextday when she responded to a fire ...
Hundreds mourn accident victims
May 01, 1998 ... Hundreds of mourners attended a funeral service in Timaru for themembers of the Spark family killed in a head-on crash at Seadown.The combined service was held yesterday at Te Aitarakihi CulturalCentre. Husband and wife Geoffrey and Marlene Spark, daughterJosephine, 5, and ...
Blast cuts power to Motueka consumers
May 01, 1998 ... Hundreds of businesses and homes in Motueka were without powerafter an electrical explosion in the town. Tasman Energy said 600customers, including businesses and a school, had their power cutafter the blast in a switching-gear box at ...
Skateboard park plan for Blenheim
May 01, 1998 ... A skateboard park is planned for an area beside Centennial HallinBlenheim to alleviate problems involving skateboarders in the towncentre. The Marlborough District Council has lodged a non-notifiedresource consent for the site. Cr ...
Council proposes joint roading body
May 01, 1998 ... The Tasman District Council has suggested forming a joint roadingbody with the Nelson City Council, Marlborough District Council, andBuller District Council to manage roads in the region. Theengineering services committee will organise a meeting with ...
Blackball residents to mark May Day
May 01, 1998 ... The small mining town of Blackball will not allow May Day to slippast without recalling its turbulent past. Political activistsincluding Sue Bradford and locked out Milton workers will take partin ...
TV item aids inquiry
May 01, 1998 ... NELSON -- Publicity about a five-year-old Nelson murder mysteryona national television crime show has already generated many calls,the police say. The police have reoffered a $20,000 reward for information tosolve the murder of Kevin James O'Loughlin, 30, a carpenter. Mr ...
Chch's `lady-in-waiting' back on the brink
May 01, 1998; ... It's the same situation I faced on election night as the numbersrolled in.Anne Dill ACT list hopeful Christchurch's Anne Dill could be voted into Parliament by NorthIsland electors who have never heard of her.At No. 9 on ACT's party list, Ms Dill is poised to step into ...
Events promoters get inside view as Addington complex nears; completion
May 01, 1998 ... There is light at the end of this tunnel, say Arthur Pitcher,left, of the Christchurch Casino, Christopher Doig, centre, of NewZealand Cricket, and Darryl Park, of Air New Zealand, as they peerthrough an air-conditioning duct. They were among sports and eventspromoters from ...
Family-abuse calls flood in
May 01, 1998; ... Canterbury police are called out an average of 14 times a day tosuspected family violence. Every day, one Christchurch person, usually a woman, takes out aprotection order against a partner. Every two days, the police arecalled after a protection order is breached. Figures ...
Recycling fans a week early
May 01, 1998 ... Many Christchurch households left their recycling bins at thegatethis week, though collections do not start until next Monday. Christchurch City Council city services committee chairman DenisO'Rourke said he was pleased at the enthusiasm of people who puttheir bins out. He ...
Tapu over the top Sir Edmund
May 01, 1998 ... AUCKLAND -- Sir Edmund Hillary, the New Zealander who conqueredthe world's highest mountain 45 years ago, says he would probablyignore a Maori tapu on the summit of Mount Cook. Mount Cook is New Zealand's highest mountain at 3764m but SouthIsland Maoris say climbers should not ...
Bus-stop changes `kill business'
May 01, 1998; ... Changes to bus stops and parking are killing business aroundChancery Lane, retailers say. About a quarter of Chancery Lane premises had closed since busstops were established in front of the AMP building in CathedralSquare three years ago, said Form Gallery proprietor ...
Wildlife sponsor pulls out
May 01, 1998 ... State Insurance is pulling out of its sponsorship of thethreatened species recovery programme for the Kokako, regarded asNewZealand's premier songbird. Marketing manager Jason McCracken said areview of ...
ATM robbery foiled
May 01, 1998 ... An attempt to rob the Bank of New Zealand automatic tellermachinein Christchurch's Arts Centre was thwarted by a passer-by. Theoffenders gained entry to the back of the machine through the ...
Petition against whaling
May 01, 1998 ... A World Wide Fund for Nature petition to try to stop``scientific'' whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary has161,000 signatures. WWF New Zealand conservation director SimonTowle said the petition would be presented to ...
Art prices top estimates
May 01, 1998 ... More than $500,000 was paid for 160 art works auctioned inWellington by Dunbar Sloane. The auction included works by FrancesHodgkins, Rita Angus, Peter McIntyre and several others. The highestbid ...
More time for clubs to argue fees
May 01, 1998; ... Christchurch sports clubs and community groups have an extra twomonths to comment on a discussion paper on sports ground charges. Christchurch City councillor and parks and recreation committeechairman Gordon Freeman has extended the submissions period from May28 to July 31 to give ...
Return of stolen desk delights owner
May 01, 1998; ... The return of a child's desk and chair has delighted and puzzledPapanui shop owner Carol Garland. The desk and chair made by her 93-year-old father were two of theitems stolen when her kitchen showroom was burgled at the weekend. When Mrs Garland arrived at work yesterday she ...
Unit's security vital, MPs say
May 01, 1998; ... A young offenders' unit to be built in Christchurch must be moresecure than Kingslea Residential Centre, say Christchurch MPs. Social Welfare Minister Roger Sowry announced on Wednesday thatpart of $13.2 million for extra beds for troubled youngsters wouldbespent moving the ...
`Climber' complains of rough treatment
May 01, 1998; ... David Bailey stole his international cyclist sister's limelightwith his performance at Lancaster Park. While Rebecca Bailey was last night celebrating her inclusion inthe New Zealand Commonwealth Games team, David was fielding mediacalls and contemplating his brush with security ...
Enormous response to hostel sale, says Fahey
May 01, 1998; ... Feelings on the possible sale of the Hagley nurses' hostel arerunning high. Christchurch deputy mayor Morgan Fahey said he received an``enormous response'' yesterday to his comments in The Pressopposingthe sale of the hostel to Ngai Tahu. The phone rang all day, Cr Fahey ...
ANZ, PostBank cut rates
May 01, 1998 ... ANZ and PostBank will trim some of their fixed home loan interestrates from tomorrow. ANZ managing director Murray Horn said thebanks' one-year fixed rate would decrease from 9.95 per cent to 9.75per cent a year and the two-year fixed rate would ...
Stabbing in Woolston
May 01, 1998 ... Police are investigating a stabbing in Woolston on Wednesdaynight. Detective Sergeant Bob Scott said a man was in ChristchurchHospital after being stabbed in the back ...
Meningitis cases on the increase
May 01, 1998; ... Health experts fear disastrous year Christchurch health authorities fear a ``disastrous'' year if theincrease in meningitis cases continues. Cases are already well up on this time last year and in the lasttwo weeks a 49-year-old woman has died and another case has ...
New sweet condemned as fire hazard
May 01, 1998 ... AUCKLAND -- The Fire Service has condemned a new line of sweetsthat resemble cigarette lighters as three-year-old twins used a realone to set their Auckland home alight. Tonga and Deu Nimo were rescued by their mother, Ana, after usinga lighter to set the master bedroom in their ...
Stations may sacrifice service
May 01, 1998 ... Service could disappear from service stations with morecompetition among oil companies. Jim Champin, manager of Caltex New Zealand, said in Christchurchyesterday that full service could end at stations if margins fall aslow as some new competitors suggested. ``We are ...
Anyone for second?
May 01, 1998 ... Who will come second? That is the compelling question abouttomorrow's Taranaki-King Country by-election. A Colmar-Brunton pollthis week suggested that ACT might just pip Labour for second spot.National is expected to hold Jim Bolger's old seat, albeit with areduced majority. New Zealand ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
May 01, 1998 ... Coal fire ban Sir--People who use coal and recently installed multi-fuelburnerswhich meet Canterbury Regional Council emissions' criteria have alegitimate expectation to be able to continue to use them. Theposition is: 1. New coal burners which meet the present standard of ...
In King Country, the exciting odds are for the minor places
May 01, 1998; ... Voters in Taranaki-King Country will tomorrow continue theirtradition of sending a National man to Wellington, writes PETERLUKE.The likely also-rans see the by-election as a test of theirpoliticalrelevance. Labour credibility is on the line tomorrow as the by-electioncontest ...
Publish and be damned; Jailed: World Press Freedom Day
May 01, 1998 ... In dozens of countries around the world, journalists, editors,andpublishers are murdered, assaulted, detained, and harassed. Theirpublications are censored, fined, suspended and closed down. WorldPress Freedom Day, on May 3, recognises the sacrifices made in thestruggle for freedom of ...
Academic hurdles include surgery 22 times
May 01, 1998 ... Surgery and study run side by side for graduand VictoriaGallington. She can hardly believe she has finished her Bachelor of Artsafter22 operations and the removal of her lower left arm in the last sixyears. She graduates this afternoon with a double BA in Classics ...
Ducks and geese face more lethal hunters
May 01, 1998 ... Duck and goose hunters in North Canterbury will pack extrafirepower this season. Unpinned magazine shotguns, which fire up to five shots withouthaving to be reloaded, will be legal for the first time when theseason opens tomorrow. The weapons were brought in to reduce the ...
Iraqis leave again after bitter rows
May 01, 1998 ... WELLINGTON -- Three of four Iraqi refugee families have moved outof the Hutt Valley suburb of Stokes Valley, north Wellington, aftertrouble with their neighbours. Refugee and Migrant Service director Peter Cotton said one familyhad shifted to Wainuiomata, another to Naenae, and the ...
Marriage law anomaly irks
May 01, 1998 ... WELLINGTON -- Dunedin marriage celebrant Alan McDonald wantsJustice Minister Doug Graham to tell him why the law preventsweddings between 10pm and 6am. He has twice written to Mr Graham asking for an explanation andasking him to say ``I do'' to legislation to eliminate it. He ...
Move frees goods, jobs
May 01, 1998 ... WELLINGTON -- The Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Arrangement,which will remove barriers to the movements of goods and service-providers across the Tasman, comes into force today. Commerce Minister John Luxton and Australian High CommissionerGeoff Miller marked the commencement of ...
Test for fishing rights
May 01, 1998 ... GREYMOUTH -- The right of the Ngai Tahu Tribal Authority todictate customary fishing rights to individual Maoris has beenchallenged in the Greymouth District Court. Judge Michael Green was to hear the case of Lionel Tuhuru Tainui,charged with taking whitebait from a closed area ...
Grey Hospital criticised for emergency-care delay
May 01, 1998 ... GREYMOUTH -- A West Coast man who rushed a critically burntteenager to Grey Hospital demands to know why no one was at theaccident-and-emergency ward to greet them. The resident, who requested he not be named, also wants to knowwhy the victim, suffering from 75 per cent burns to ...
Ancient pa site returned
May 01, 1998 ... BLENHEIM -- An ancient pa site near Blenheim has been returned toMarlborough's Rangitane people after five years of negotiations. The former Conservation Department depot at Grovetown, north ofBlenheim, was vested in the Rangitane runanga as freehold land bytheMaori Land Court ...
Coastal trader aground
May 01, 1998 ... NELSON -- A 93m coastal cargo ship, the Spirit of Vision, wasaground for several hours in French Pass near the MarlboroughSounds,stranded in the channel. Pacifica Shipping chief executive Rod Grout said from Lytteltonthe ship had to wait five hours yesterday for the tide to ...
Hospital ward row settled
May 01, 1998 ... NELSON -- Consumer representatives have resolved a row overplanned cost-saving changes to the maternity and pediatric wards atNelson Hospital. This year mothers protested when Nelson Marlborough Healthannounced plans to close part of the maternity ward so thechildren'sward ...
Lawyer says fisheries officials broke the law
May 01, 1998 ... COURTS NELSON -- Fisheries officials broke the law in providingconfidential information to support a Department of Conservationprosecution, a lawyer said in the Nelson District Court. In a hearing before Judge Pat Grace yesterday, the lawyer alsoclaimed the rights of a ...
Volunteers like the odd jobs best
May 01, 1998 ... GREYMOUTH -- Hokitika's Red Cross Emergency Response Unitvolunteers can be called out to the most unlikely places -- and unitmembers say it is a part of their job they like. This week the unit's mobile kitchen and staff went bush and werebased on the banks of the Styx River, ...
Council spends $50,000 to encourage `big ideas'
May 01, 1998 ... Develop a calicivirus to eliminate stray dogs and ministers oftheCrown. That is one of many ideas that has come from the ChristchurchCityCouncil's ``What's the Big Idea'' scheme to encourage creative ideasfor the city. The council has allocated $50,000 in its 1998-99 ...
Devaluing cars rife, says defendant
May 01, 1998 ... Devaluing imported cars to avoid Customs duty is widespread intheChristchurch used-car industry, says a convicted importer. When 44-year-old company director Neil David Sales stopped usingthe devaluing system out of conscience, he found himself unable tocompete and went under, ...
Early oysters high flyers
May 01, 1998 ... New season's Bluff oysters should be on sale in Christchurch thisafternoon. Oysters will be airlifted off a fishing boat in Foveaux Straitthis morning and flown around the country from Invercargill. The Big Fresh supermarket hopes to have the delicacies in itsChristchurch ...
Expanding mall chaos predicted
May 01, 1998 ... Expansion of the Riccarton Mall will increase traffic and parkingproblems in the area, says a community board member. Helen Broughton, of the Riccarton-Wigram community board, saidthe$30 million plans for an eight-screen cinema complex and anothersupermarket at the Rotheram ...
Health union workers may strike again
May 01, 1998 ... Healthlink South's union workers look likely to strike againwithin weeks -- and it could be for 48 hours this time. Two weeks ago about 1000 workers of various unions stopped for 24hours when their contract talks broke down. Further talks were held on Wednesday for 12 hours but ...
People's republic targets brewer
May 01, 1998 ... When beer baron Doug Myers sits down to breakfast this morning hemay already be admiring a gift from the city of Christchurch -- hisvery own People's Republic of Christchurch T-shirt. Mayor Vicki Buck has sent Mr Myers the shirt bearing the label heused in a speech he made on ...
Power pole at centre of Redcliffs lane dispute
May 01, 1998 ... A power pole covered in dead ivy is at the centre of a dispute ina Redcliffs lane. The pole off Moncks Spur Road is 25 years old and due to bereplaced. Ivy which was grown up the pole several years ago hasdied. Margaret and Gordon Smith say they want the pole removed as it ...
Council offers grants to convert open fires
May 01, 1998 ... Christchurch people who want to change from open fires to clean-air heating can now apply for conversion grants. The ChristchurchCity Council has launched its incentives package providing grants ofup to $500 for people to block open fires and install flued gas ordiesel heaters, electric ...
Avon Theatre facade saved by new plan
May 01, 1998 ... The Avon Theatre's art-deco facade may be saved by a revised planfor an office and residential development on the site. AvonInvestments has applied to the Christchurch City Council forpermission to demolish the old theatre to build an 11-storey officeand apartment block. The ...
Cellphone campaign uses pamphlets
May 01, 1998 ... The campaign against cellphone towers in Christchurch steps up agear with the distribution of a pamphlet to every household in thecity. A spokeswoman for the Environmental Protection for ChildrenTrust, Victoria Woods, said the campaign coincided with ShirleyPrimary School's case against ...
Oxford school judged top NZ composite
May 01, 1998 ... The Oxford Area School has been judged the top composite schoolinNew Zealand. It beat two other finalists at the Goodman FielderSchool of the Year awards in Wellington yesterday to win thecategoryand $10,000. It is one of the largest composite schools in thecountry with a roll of ...
Rugby row shows SA tension consul
May 01, 1998 ... The South African rugby controversy shows tensions within thecountry that need to be resolved, says South African honorary consulGregory Fortuin. ``How can a sport which three years ago stood as a symbol for asmall miracle become an icon of resistance to change? ``The way we ...
South Island tribe refuses to obey fisheries laws
May 01, 1998 ... The Waitaha tribe says it will not obey the new South Islandcustomary fisheries regulations that will be launched at Nga Hau EWha National Marae tomorrow. Waitaha say they are the pre-Ngai Tahu people of the South Islandand do not want to be part of the Ngai Tahu settlement bill, ...
Fletcher will back Govt with conditions
May 01, 1998 ... Epsom MP Christine Fletcher has set conditions on reinstating hersupport for the Government, saying she was not prepared to seeAuckland marginalised by Wellington. When Parliament adjourned itslast session four weeks ago, Mrs Fletcher voted against a bill tohold a referendum on the ...
Baby Factory fined over pyjamas
May 01, 1998 ... A leading babywear retailer, the Baby Factory, has been fined$8100 for selling children's pyjamas without proper fire-warninglabels. The Commerce Commission took action when the store ignored awarning that it risked breaching the Fair Trading Act by sellingchildren's nightclothes ...
Ducks miss out on duck-calling contest
May 01, 1998 ... Green, black, and brown painted faces and clothing werefashionable at a bar in Dunedin as about 40 competitors fromthroughout New Zealand gave their best duck-calling imitations intheWorld Duck-calling Championships. All that was missing were ...
New dentistry idea pure gold
May 01, 1998 ... Most people wear their gold jewellery on the outside of theirbodies -- but now you can have it inside, on your teeth, thanks to apair of Wanganui dentists. Surfing the Internet led the twodentists, Graham Croxford and Stan Harris, to the new sideline totheir normal business. Mr ...
New cheekbones on wish-list
May 01, 1998 ... TAURANGA -- Diane Wilson hopes that by the time she turns eightshe will have her first set of cheekbones -- and a new lease oflife.Surgeons from England, Canada, and Auckland plan to take her inhand about mid-year and rebuild her face, changing its shape and --even more important ...
New flu test offers same-day diagnosis
May 01, 1998 ... New Zealanders are the first people in the Southern Hemisphere tobenefit from a new test for diagnosing influenza. The test, ZstatFlu, identifies both type A and type B influenzaviruses. New Zealand Diagnostics managing director Cavan Haines said itwasthe first test to ...
Peninsula, Wgtn Central boundaries scrutinised
May 01, 1998; ... Banks Peninsula and Wellington Central will be two keyelectorateswhen the Representation Commission begins hearing objections to itsproposed boundaries. The deadline for objections expired this week. The commission will publish summaries of the objections to theboundaries ...
PPTA president `confrontational'
May 01, 1998 ... WELLINGTON -- Post-Primary Teachers' Association president MartinCooney was confrontational during a speech at an Auckland conferencelast year, a principal has alleged. His comments follow a letter from 11 former PPTA executives --including two former PPTA presidents -- calling on ...