The Press back issues from November 1998:
Southland tour to test top cyclists
Nov 02, 1998 ... INVERCARGILL -- The prime object of cycling stage races such asthe Tour of Southland, which starts in Invercargill tonight, is tofind the most complete bike rider. In the southern hemisphere there is no better tour than Southlandto test the versatility of riders. It is why ...
Pressure on former champs
Nov 02, 1998 ... Two former national singles champions, Kelvin Scott and and hislead, Stan Lawson, (Belfast) were forced to play their last match toqualify for post-section play in the Canterbury bowls pairschampionship after being beaten by a grandfather and grandsoncombination. Jack Gillespie, ...
Kiwi locks to fore
Nov 02, 1998 ... LONDON -- Two New Zealand provincial locks, Mark McAtamney andEddie Jones, helped bottom-ranked London Scottish to a huge upset inthe English rugby club premiership. They played key parts in London Scottish's 13-11 defeat of BathatTwickenham yesterday. The Bath side included ...
High praise for Jones and Paul
Nov 02, 1998 ... LEEDS -- The absence of former captain Matthew Ridge may bemissedat times by the Kiwi rugby league team, but coach Frank Endacottsaysit has allowed the New Zealand halfbacks to shine. He praised Stacey Jones, the official man of the match, andRobbiePaul after the Kiwis 22-16 ...
Canty sevens sides too tired for final
Nov 02, 1998 ... Canterbury's two teams at the rugby sevens tournament in TimaruonSaturday both won their pools and their semi-finals, but they calledit quits when it came to the final. After a frenetic afternoon with matches against teams fromSouthland, Mid-Canterbury, and Otago the Canterbury ...
Bowls NZ asks club for slower green
Nov 02, 1998 ... WELLINGTON -- Bowls New Zealand (BNZ) is looking to go intopartnership with a club to establish a full-time slow green to givetheir bowlers an even chance in preparing for overseas challenges. Wellington's Victoria club has an early chance to prove it canhandle the task. The ...
Sudden moves shock residents
Nov 02, 1998; ... Anthony O'Connor has said goodbye to two of his favouritecaregivers at the Laura Fergusson Trust, and he is puzzled over whythey had to leave. Manager Pauline McKay and deputy manager Helen Coombs were giventwo weeks notice on October 15. The sudden move has shocked andsaddened ...
ASHBURTON A & P SHOW RESULTS; Baby Cheyenne blooms; SHEEP AND CATTLE
Nov 02, 1998 ... More than 600 exhibitors produced more than 4000 stock, horses,produce, and home-industry entries at the two-day Ashburton A & PShow on Friday and Saturday. Results include: .HORSESHack or hunter led stockYearling, colt, filly or gelding: S E Anderson 1 ....
WHEAT INDICATOR
Nov 02, 1998 ... The wheat indicator price for this week fell $6.15 to $293.45 atonne, according to Agri-Fax and United Wheatgrowers. The ASW (11 per cent protein) ...
Taylors warns of tough trading
Nov 02, 1998 ... AUCKLAND -- Shareholders of laundry and linen company TaylorsGroup have been warned not to expect much, if any, improvement intrading profit for the year to June 30, 1999. The warning came from the company's chairman Brian Blythe at thecompany's annual meeting. Mr Blythe told ...
SEA, AIR, RAIL
Nov 02, 1998 ... PORT OF LYTTELTON VESSELS IN PORT Om, Gladstone Pier Centre.Pirit, No. 3 West.Planerist, No. 3 West.Osha, Gladstone Pier Centre.Orlovka, Gladstone Pier Centre.Ognevka, Gladstone Pier Centre.Olenino, Gladstone Pier Centre.Nathaniel B. Palmer, No. 1 Breastwork.Ksenia ...
Otter to lift reserves
Nov 02, 1998 ... AUCKLAND -- Otter Gold is confident it will increase its goldreserves by at least one-third to more than one million ounces bytheend of its current financial year. At the same time, Otter is forecasting actual gold production --from investments such as the Martha Hill mine at ...
INTERNATIONAL MARKETS
Nov 02, 1998 ... Wall Street Friday, October 30, ($US): Abbott Labs 465/8, Alcan 251/4, Aluco791/4, Alliedsignal 385/8, Amb Property 23, Amex 883/8, AmericanGeneral 681/2, Amhomepr 483/4, Amhess 551/4, Amerint 851/4,Ameritech535/8, Anheuserb 591/2, Armco 43/4, Asarco 211/2, Atlantrich ...
Colonial Motor wants tribunal
Nov 02, 1998 ... Colonial Motor Company says that 75 per cent of car sales occuroutside the protection of the Motor Vehicle Dealers Act. The chief executive, Graeme Gibbons, says in the company's annualreport that the Act is being reviewed by Parliament. The company hasmade submissions, believing ...
Cultus spudding in well
Nov 02, 1998 ... Cultus Petroleum's Maari-1 oil prospect in the offshore TaranakiBasin was likely to be spudded in today. Cultus, listed on both the Australian and New Zealand StockExchanges, has a 50 per cent stake in the joint venture, with ShellPetroleum Mining and Todd Petroleum Mining holding ...
THIS WEEK
Nov 02, 1998 ... GENERAL Today: Customs deferred payment cycle one accounting period ends.Statistics New Zealand provisional national accounts for the yearended March 31, 1998. .Tomorrow: Treasury bill tender results..Wednesday: Institute of Chartered Accountants/Institute ofDirectors ...
Asian crisis affects port
Nov 02, 1998 ... TAURANGA -- The downturn in Asia has had a huge effect on Port ofTauranga but the company was well placed to move forward into thenewmillennium, chief executive Jon Mayson told shareholders last week. Speaking at the company's annual meeting, Mr Mayson said the lastsix months in ...
AMP buys into factory shopping malls
Nov 02, 1998 ... Prime Retail Properties, the company developing Dress-Smartfactory outlet malls, has sold a 50 per cent shareholding to AMPAsset Management, New Zealand's largest funds manager. Announcing the new partnership in Christchurch where thecountry'ssecond Dress-Smart shopping centre is ...
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Nov 02, 1998 ... Conductive Education Conductive Education Canterbury works with children from newbornto school age who have physical disabilities and development delay.An open day will be held on Wednesday at its premises at 71 VivianStreet, Burwood, 10am to 2pm, for anyone wanting to see what ...
Pakistani outcast makes fresh start
Nov 02, 1998; ... A key figure in the Pakistan cricket match-fixing controversyarrived in Christchurch yesterday to continue his quest to return tohis country's senior team. Leading Pakistan A on its tour of New Zealand is another step inRashid Latif's bid to regain a place in the senior team that ...
Kiwis scramble to contentious victory
Nov 02, 1998 ... LEEDS -- A controversial decision by referee Bill Harrigan not togive Great Britain a penalty try in the dying moments of the firsttest saw the Kiwis scramble to a 22-16 win at Huddersfield. Harrigan's influence throughout the match led the British toclaim, falsely, that they were ...
Boss takes charge of Champagne
Nov 02, 1998 ... MELBOURNE -- Hong Kong-based Australian jockey Glen Boss willrideChampagne in tomorrow's $A2.8 million Melbourne Cup (3200m),Cambridge trainer Laurie Laxon says. Boss, who has been one of Sydney's leading riders for many years,has been in Hong Kong for the last year, but jumped ...
Auckland thrashes Canterbury in national final
Nov 02, 1998; ... by John Coffey in Auckland Auckland's emphatic 44-8 victory over Canterbury in yesterday'snational championship final at Carlaw Park effectively restoredprovincial rugby league rankings to where they were a decade ago. It was Auckland's most decisive success since it ...
All Blacks `need a rest' during NPC
Nov 02, 1998; ... The All Blacks should not have to play in the national provincialrugby championship, former captain Sean Fitzpatrick says. The 92-test veteran -- who was offered the job of assistant coachwith this year's All Blacks -- says New Zealand's leading playersoften need a rest by the time ...
Little and Watson save East-Shirley
Nov 02, 1998 ... Helen Watson and Tori Little rescued East-Shirley from a parlousposition with a 95-run seventh-wicket stand against Marist in theirsenior women's cricket competition match on Saturday. Their outstanding partnership came as East-Shirley was reeling at35 for six at Burwood Park, but ...
Rain ruins Max game
Nov 02, 1998 ... Wet weather forced the cancellation of Canterbury's Cricket Maxwarm-up game against Otago in Timaru. Canterbury coach GarryMacdonald said the outfield at Aorangi Oval was ``under water''. NewZealand all-rounder ...
Clubs struggle to field teams
Nov 02, 1998 ... Some cricket clubs in Christchurch continue to struggle withplayer depth. The Burnside West-University second-grade side defaulted for thesecond game in succession when unable to muster a team on Saturday.It followed an earlier default on Labour Day. An Old Collegians ...
Carter wins Auckland World Cup race
Nov 02, 1998 ... AUCKLAND -- New Zealand's Hamish Carter raced away on the finalleg of the 10km run to win his hometown Auckland triathlon, thepenultimate race of the 1998 World Cup series. His victory on the Auckland waterfront yesterday keeps him at thetop of the world rankings as well as putting ...
Bowlers in heaven on hellish wickets
Nov 02, 1998 ... Short scoreboards Sydenham 132 and 27-4 v HSOB 130; Marist 63 and 46-2 v Riccarton97-8 dec; St Albans 110 (G Barrett 5-41) and 13-1 v Burnside-WestUniversity 150 (M Everest 63no); Lancaster Park-Woolston 165 v OldCollegians 109 (J Quinn 5-18). It was seam bowling heaven in ...
Big fight in Chch `long shot'
Nov 02, 1998; ... Promoter George Calvert regards the chances of ageing Panamanianboxing legend Roberto Duran fighting in Christchurch early next yearas ``quite a long shot''. Calvert was surprised when American boxing commentator andpromoter Bob Sheridan confidently announced on Radio Sport ...
Turner eight adrift
Nov 02, 1998 ... New Zealand golfer Greg Turner was eight shots off the pace, tiedfor 26th, after the third round of the Volvo Masters at Jerez inSpain. His four-under 68 was one of the best rounds of the day, ...
Fox wins marathon
Nov 02, 1998 ... INVERCARGILL -- Doug Fox, winner of yesterday's Ascot Park HotelRiverton-Invercargill marathon, has a score to settle in nextmonth'sKepler Challenge near Te Anau. The 37-year-old industrial coater only made the halfway point inlast year's Kepler edition. He had to be hauled off ...
Classic racing cars relive former glory at Ruapuna
Nov 02, 1998 ... Allan Wills finds the Ruapuna track a little slippery for hisRansley Riley during a classic motor racing day yesterday. KeithCowan, in a ...
Chance for Reihana
Nov 02, 1998 ... AUCKLAND -- The All Black selectors have suggested two players onthe Maori tour to Scotland be given the chance to play in unfamiliarpositions. The squad assembled in Auckland yesterday in preparation for athree-match tour that will include a game against the Scottish sideat ...
Challengers accuse NZ
Nov 02, 1998 ... LONDON -- New Zealand is being accused of doing a bad job inorganising the America's Cup 2000 by damaging challenger teams'prospects of raising vital sponsorship. The accusations in the Financial Times yesterday say NewZealand'sslowness over the sale of television rights have ...
Wind Flower blossoms
Nov 02, 1998; ... Slim Gillman has trouble putting his thoughts into words thesedays, but the emotion spoke for itself after Wind Flower won hersecond successive Banks Peninsula Cup at Motukarara. Gillman, 82, who has had a lifetime association with horses, wasstruck down by a stroke two years ago ...
Weight won't stop Faithful Son trainer
Nov 02, 1998; ... There is an air of confidence from trainer Saeed Bin Suroor aboutFaithful Son's chances of landing the winning prize in tomorrow's$A2.8 million Melbourne Cup. Suroor said there was no doubt in his mind the Melbourne Cupfavourite would get the 3200m distance despite not having ...
Royal chance for Prince Sheldon
Nov 02, 1998; ... Runners starting off the front could hold the key to today's$27,000 DB Draught Kaikoura Cup. The Brian Kerr-trained Prince Sheldon, and Brian Gliddon'sWhitecliff Whistler, are the only C9 performers in today's 2400mcontest, and chasing a win that would guarantee a start in ...
NZ filly gallant in defeat
Nov 02, 1998 ... WELLINGTON -- New Zealand pacer Under Cover Lover has racked upanother second placing on her North American campaign, but it took arecord-breaking performance to beat her. Under Cover Lover went down by a length to Ohyouprettything inthe$US180,000 ($345,500) American-National ...
Champagne in vintage trial for cup
Nov 02, 1998 ... MELBOURNE -- Cambridge trainer Laurie Laxon is on target torepeathis 1988 Melbourne Cup triumph with Empire Rose after Champagnescored a brilliant win in the $A400,000 ($478,700) Mackinnon Stakes(2000m) at Flemington. Ten years ago Empire Rose won the Mackinnon Stakes before ...
Woolston surges ahead
Nov 02, 1998 ... Two clean sweeps in two weeks has made Woolston the big mover inthe Bowls Canterbury three fours division one championship after tworounds. Woolston has won both its games, 11-0, and holds a three-pointlead over its nearest rivals, Burnside I and Beckenham I. It stillhas to meet ...
Waikato may test masters favourites
Nov 02, 1998 ... Canterbury plays the traditionally strong Wellington and Aucklandteams in the Tower New Zealand Freyberg Masters (40 years and over)golf tournament at Hastings from today until Friday. Of the previous 12 masters tournaments, Auckland has won six andWellington four, but Wellington ...
Teen athlete sprints clear
Nov 02, 1998 ... A high school athlete took senior sprint honours in theCanterburyinter-club track and field meeting at Queen Elizabeth II Stadium. Entitled to compete in the under-18 grade, Andrew Foster (Papanui-Toc H) won the senior 100m by two metres in 10.19sec and the 200m in22.59sec by a ...
Scot Reid prevails in battle of imports
Nov 02, 1998; ... Scottish woman Alison Reid's tense victory over Oksana YarikovaatWilding Park might be her last at the expense of an internationalopponent. Playing for Shirley against Edgeware on Saturday, the 26-year-oldReid was forced to work hard to complete her win over the ...
In-form Randall rewarded
Nov 02, 1998; ... Young Christchurch club golfer Isaac Randall has played his wayinto the Canterbury five-man team for the Tower New Zealand inter-provincial championship at North Shore this month. Randall won all four games at No. 5 for Canterbury in the annualtriangular contest with Wellington and ...
SENIOR SCOREBOARDS
Nov 02, 1998 ... WESTPAC TRUST TROPHY ST ALBANS V BURNSIDE-WEST UNIVERSITY ST ALBANSFirst inningsC Cumming c Everest b Hastings 2111 G Bromley c Blackman b Barrett20 S Cunis c Ogilvie b Hastings 11 J Davidson c Hastings b Kember270J Ward lbw b Barrett 1913 M Griffen run out 015 Total ...
RESULTS
Nov 02, 1998 ... ARCHERY SI BOWHUNTERS Results of the South Island 3-D bowhunter championships(competitors from Canterbury unless stated otherwise) were;Over-all champion: Paddy Long 1536.Women's champion: Maureen Davidson (South Westland) 1140.Junior champion: Reagan Thomson (South ...
Richmond youngster rises to challenge
Nov 02, 1998 ... Richmond came from behind to shade Papanui, 5-4, in an eighth-inning tiebreaker in the latest round of premier men's softball atPapanui Domain. Youngster Brent Cations played a big part in the tiebreaker forRichmond on Saturday, first scoring the winning run on a CarlFranklin ...
SI showjumper on top
Nov 02, 1998 ... Showjumper Tracey Kovacs, of Rangiora, and Billion continuedtheirgood form, winning the Bomac Grand Prix at the Wairarapa A and PShowin Carterton. The win ...
Brassey beaten
Nov 02, 1998 ... New Zealand's Rowan Brassey was knocked out of the semi-finals inthe 64,000 ($NZ206,052) International Open bowls tournament at GreatYarmouth in England. Brassey lost to Scotland's 1996 world championDavid Gourlay, 7-5 7-1 1-7 7-4. Gourlay ...
Loader ultimatum
Nov 02, 1998 ... Swimming coach Duncan Laing has put an ultimatum to his starpupilDanyon Loader regarding the 2000 Sydney Olympics. If Loader decidesto keep swimming, Laing will demand a long-term preparation for theOlympics and no repeat of the fast-track lead-up to the Kuala ...
Fowler rules roost
Nov 02, 1998 ... Canterbury cyclists still struggle to match the class of BrianFowler. The former New Zealand representative destroyed the best inthe province in the annual Christchurch-to-Hanmer race on Saturday,taking the fastest time by almost two minutes. Fowler has still to win the race, named ...
Albion holds edge on three rivals
Nov 02, 1998 ... Albion shut out Burnside, 3-0, to have the competition lead onitsown after two full rounds of the premier women's softballcompetition. The side was looking over its shoulder on Saturday, though, atnational club champion Christchurch United. In an excellent competition the ...
Peace accord delayed
Nov 02, 1998 ... ABUJA -- West African leaders have failed to clinch an expectedpeace deal to end fighting in Guinea-Bissau, but a summit communiquesaid mediation would continue in the Nigerian capital of Abuja. The communique issued at the end of the two-day summit of theEconomic Community of West ...
Teacher in porn inquiry
Nov 02, 1998 ... WHANGAREI -- A Whangarei primary school teacher is underinvestigation after hundreds of images of Internet child pornographywere allegedly seized from his home. Detectives and Internal Affairs staff searched two addresses inWhangarei, confiscating computers and computer disks ...
Car firm offers training
Nov 02, 1998; ... Relations between industry and schools have taken another stepforward with one of Christchurch's car dealerships offering anaccredited automotive training course to schools. Fifteen Papanui High School students are the first to sign up forthe course be run on-site at Avon City ...
Bodies in demand for science
Nov 02, 1998 ... People who want to take a quiet but important role in medicinearein demand as Otago University's School of Medical Sciences appealsfor people to donate their bodies to science. The bodies will be used by the university's Department of Anatomyand Structural Biology for research, ...
The keen lobbyist who lost his life
Nov 02, 1998 ... WELLINGTON -- Keith Macdonald, of Waikanae, was preparing tolobbyfor action against river erosion. However, he did not get a chanceto prepare a case. He drowned on Wednesday in the flooded Waikanae River, a likelyvictim of erosion. Nobody saw him disappear, but an ...
Serial-arsonist fears grow in the capital
Nov 02, 1998 ... WELLINGTON -- A fire that badly damaged an old wooden home inWellington's Aro Valley was ``almost certainly'' lit by a suspectedserial arsonist, police say. The confirmation makes it the eighth probable deliberate blaze incentral Wellington since October 17 when a three-storey ...
Ohura remains water emergency zone
Nov 02, 1998 ... WELLINGTON -- A state of emergency remains in the township ofOhura in the Ruapehu district after concerns of water contaminationduring this week's flooding. Chris Ryan, the Ruapehu District Council Civil Defencecontroller,said a house-by-house survey had been conducted by ...
Three ticket-holders win $434,000 each
Nov 02, 1998 ... Two Queenstown ticket-holders and another from New Plymouth willeach receive $434,224 as their share of the first division prize inLotto No. 589, drawn in Wellington on Saturday night. The winningnumbers were: 2, 7, 20, 27, 32, 34. Bonus number: 18. Prizes and number of winners: ...
Prisoners send gift to grieving family
Nov 02, 1998 ... Prisoners touched by news of a treasured bone carving stolen froma Whangarei child's grave have sent the grieving family areplacement. The manaia figure inlaid with paua shell was this weekblessed and sent from Rimutaka Prison near Wellington. The stolen pendant was taken three ...
Ex-health inspector not guilty of bribery
Nov 02, 1998 ... Former Hamilton City Council health inspector Harold Tautari haswalked free after a Hamilton District Court jury found him notguiltyon four charges of corruptly obtaining bribes. The 55-year-old, now living on Auckland's North Shore, had beenanenvironmental health officer at ...
N Canty woman killed in N Island accident
Nov 02, 1998 ... WELLINGTON -- A North Canterbury woman was one of three peoplekilled on New Zealand roads over the weekend. Palmerston North Sergeant Stewart Taylor said Maureen MargaretStopforth, 59, of North Canterbury, was killed in a two-car crashabout 4pm on the outskirts of Palmerston North ...
Irate elderly turn up the heat on Government policy
Nov 02, 1998 ... AUCKLAND -- The rage of the aged has filled the Auckland TownHall. More than 1300 elderly people raged against the NationalGovernment, superannuation cuts, and called for an immediate generalelection on Saturday. Labour leader Helen Clark, Alliance leader Jim Anderton, ...