The Press back issues from January 1999:
Rent at stake for bowlers
Jan 02, 1999; ... There will be more than the usual measure of friendly bowlsrivalry if Pat Doig's Papanui combination comes up against thatskipped by Carlton's Petar Sain leading up to tomorrow's nationalfours final at Hoon Hay. The Sain quartet is resident in Doig's Christchurch house, ...
Player mourned
Jan 02, 1999 ... AUCKLAND -- The rugby league world has been stunned by the deathof a rising young star who is believed to have drowned in the PortWaikato River. Former Junior Kiwi Tai Savea, 20, signed with Australia's Balmainclub several weeks ago. He also played for the Auckland ...
Kronfeld denies move to Wasps
Jan 02, 1999 ... DUNEDIN-- All Black flanker Josh Kronfeld says joining Englishrugby club Wasps is not even in the back of his mind, despite anEnglish newspaper reporting he is preparing to move. London's Evening Standard said a number of top All Blacks werelooking for contracts in English rugby ...
Harris provides timely reminder
Jan 02, 1999 ... Chris Harris gave the New Zealand cricket selectors yet anotherreminder of his ability while making his maiden Shell Cup centuryforCanterbury in its third round win over Central Districts in Napierlast night. Harris anchored the Canterbury innings with his splendid 107 off138 ...
Festivities sacrificed in hunt for test record
Jan 02, 1999; ... New Zealand's test cricketers gave up New Year celebrations toensure their concentration on the second BNZ cricket test againstIndia starting today in Hamilton was complete. The Black Caps are conscious of their ability to follow a winningperformance with a mediocre one, more ...
Australian tour part of Olympic push
Jan 02, 1999; ... Accumulating a run of good results is the aim of Canterburycyclist Greg Scott in Australia this month. Scott, 24, is part of a five-man team that leaves on Monday forfour races in Victoria including the 195km Australian professionalchampionship. Scott has represented New Zealand ...
Fight for the right to paint; CRITIC'S CHOICE
Jan 02, 1999; ... Artemisia. Written and directed by Agnes Merlet. (R18) Sex is presented as an inextricable part of the creative processin Artemisia, a turbulently erotic film about the 17th-centuryItalian artist who became the first woman acknowledged a masterpainter. Forbidden to use male ...
Wizard off-road plan from Holden
Jan 02, 1999 ... The GM subsidiary drives into the recreational market. Rather than label its new 4X4 a Holden, as it has with most otherfresh model lines in recent years, the Australian GM subsidiary issticking with the supplier's nameplate Isuzu. It does so in recognition of the popularity of ...
Mercedes shows silver arrow for new millennium
Jan 02, 1999 ... For more than 60 years, the performance and particularly theracing variants of Mercedes-Benz cars have been known asSilberpfeile, or Silver Arrows. The Vision SLR, revealed as a concept this week at the DetroitAuto Show, is contrived to synthesise elements of style from ...
Dennis team given a welcome lift
Jan 02, 1999; ... Justice was finally done for one of the South Island's finestracing families, when Irish Chance won the Blue Star Auckland Cup atEllerslie yesterday. Irish Chance, bred by four of the Dennis brothers in Southlandfrom their former South Island Filly of the Year, The ...
Little Rock earns Interdominion bid
Jan 02, 1999; ... Winchmore trainer Carl Middleton is hopeful lightning can striketwice at Alexandra Park in March when he campaigns Little Rock intheInterdominion Trotting Championship. Middleton hit the big-time eight years ago when he won the 1991Auckland Interdominion Trotting Grand Final with ...
Arletty could land double for O'Sullivan
Jan 02, 1999; ... Matamata trainer Paul O'Sullivan is hopeful rather thanoptimisticthat he can win a second Group One race at the Auckland Cup meetingwith Arletty in the JRA Classic at Ellerslie today. Arletty has been brought back from Sydney especially for the raceand will return there soon ...
Paroa Bay set for bold run
Jan 02, 1999 ... TIMARU -- An unlucky run at Ashburton on Boxing Day points toParoa Bay being hard to beat in race six, the first leg of the TABdouble at the Phar Lap Raceway tomorrow. Driven by Scott Dickson, the sometimes unreliable Paroa Baydidn'tput a foot wrong in finishing fifth behind ...
Misery for Dantelah after Railway success
Jan 02, 1999; ... Australian sprinter Dantelah may have been ``under-armed'' out ofyesterday's Group One Railway Handicap by the Auckland crowd,according to her rider, Damien Oliver. Dantelah beat home the fast finishing Bawalksana by a head, butwas relegated to second after an inquiry judged there ...
Wgtn, CD make final
Jan 02, 1999 ... Central Districts stopped high-scoring batsman Anna O'Leary andWellington in a preview of today's national women's under-21 cricketchampionship final at Ilam. Central Districts beat Wellington by four wickets when the twounbeaten teams met in yesterday's last round-robin match but ...
SEA, AIR, RAIL
Jan 02, 1999 ... PORT OF LYTTLETON VESSELS IN PORT Ognevka, Gladstone Pier Central.Olenino, Gladstone Pier Central.Om, Gladstone Pier Central.Osha, Gladstone Pier CentralOrlovka, Gladstone Pier Central.Petersen, No. 2 West.Independent 1, Z Berth.Spirit of Freedom, Dry Dock.Southern ...
RESULTS
Jan 02, 1999 ... BOWLS NATIONALS Results of post-section play in the New Zealand men's fours bowlschampionships in Christchurch:ThursdaySection 1: Steve Orman (Papanui) 24 Dennis Murray (West Melton)10, Keith Richardson (Allenton) 24 Leenderf Schafer (Redcliffs) 9,Colin Foley (Kia Toa) 24 ...
Petrie produces class act
Jan 02, 1999 ... WELLINGTON -- Had usual Wellington Shell Cup cricket captainRogerTwose been at the Basin Reserve yesterday he would have approved ofRichard Petrie's efforts. Petrie produced a Twose-like all-round performance to providemuchof the impetus behind Wellington's four-wicket win over ...
Nelson on top
Jan 02, 1999 ... NELSON -- Nelson finally ended a gritty Hawkes Bay fightback tosecure a first innings national district championship cricket win atTrafalgar Park yesterday. Chasing Nelson's competitive first innings total of 273, HawkesBay was finally dismissed for 238 in the third over after tea ...
Injury first to disrupt career
Jan 02, 1999; ... New Zealand cricketer Nathan Astle is not disheartened by hishandinjury because it is the first time his career has been interruptedby injury. Astle suffered a broken bone on the back of his left hand and wasforced to retire hurt while batting in the second innings for ...
Top archers to boost chances
Jan 02, 1999 ... Seven of the eight members of Archery New Zealand's newly formedelite squad will be in Christchurch to boost their Olympic selectionchances at the national championships beginning tomorrow. They include Canterbury's New Zealand over-all champions, KenUprichard and Katherine ...
Red Sox disappointing third
Jan 02, 1999 ... Canterbury had to settle for a thoroughly disappointing thirdplace in the Smokefree men's inter-provincial softball championshipsat Surrey Park, Invercargill. The Red Sox went into the final play-offs on Thursday with bothlives intact, but were beaten 7-4 by Wellington and then 7-2 ...
Quest ends in gloom
Jan 02, 1999; ... It was not Andre Smith's day as the field in the national foursbowls championship was reduced to the last 16. Moments after being eliminated from the event he won last summer,Smith glanced at the raffle results on the Hoon Hay Club's notice-board and discovered he had missed a ...
Quality field for new cycle tour
Jan 02, 1999 ... NELSON -- Nelson's Milk Tour de Vineyards, due to start today,hasattracted some high-quality cyclists. The tour is a new event on the Nelson cycling calendar, fillingthe gap left by the Top of the South Tour. It has been divided intothree grades, with Grade A attracting a strong ...
Home patch may aid yachties
Jan 02, 1999; ... Canterbury champion Tim Newman is hoping for light to moderateconditions when the national Hobie yachting championship is decidedat Lyttelton from Monday to Friday. Newman and forward hand Phil Frame, and the father-and-daughtercombination of John and Jess Townshend have the ...
England's unlikely win pays off for punters
Jan 02, 1999; ... England's remarkable win in the fourth Ashes cricket test againstAustralia earned two TAB sports punters healthy returns on Tuesday. One had $2000 on England at $9 for an $18,000 collect, while theother punted $1000 at $7 for a $7000 return. The prospect of collecting looked ...
Dunlop makes revised squad
Jan 02, 1999 ... WANGANUI -- The Rowing New Zealand Campaign 2000 and 2004 elitesquads have been changed after a training camp. Among the heavyweight men, 1996 Olympian Toni Dunlop ofChristchurch's Avon club has been named in the squad for the firsttime since 1997. He had been unavailable while ...
Coach under pressure to choose top line-up
Jan 02, 1999; ... Sorting out the top playing nine will be ``the big thing'' forCanterbury women's softball coach Lynda O'Cain over the first fewdays of the Smokefree nationals at Colquhoun Park, Palmerston North. Strongly favoured Canterbury is chasing its fourth straightnational title in the ...
Chance for triathletes to challenge top order
Jan 02, 1999 ... GISBORNE -- Olympic places are at stake at the New Zealandtriathlon championships in Gisborne this weekend. Despite a tremendous year for the sport with five athletes in theworld's top 25, the national selectors have earmarked only world No.1 Hamish Carter as a certainty for the ...
FUTURES
Jan 02, 1999 ... Trading for 1998 ended on Thursday, with the futures and optionsexchange experiencing a quiet close to an otherwise busy week. George Price, of Egden ...
Quiet trading for firmer kiwi dollar
Jan 02, 1999 ... WELLINGTON -- Ninety-day bank bills eased back below 5 per centonthe last day of the year which was a quiet one for a firmer kiwidollar at US52.76c. The kiwi traded in a narrow range to close at US52.73/80c fromitsclose at US52.43/50c on Wednesday. The kiwi was pushed ...
BIL uncertainty builds
Jan 02, 1999 ... Brierley Investments Ltd goes into 1999 with even moreuncertainty. Its biggest shareholder, the Camerlin Group, ofMalaysia, has assigned a significant part of its BIL stake to BTTrustees (Hong Kong). The transfer is on debt owed by Camerlin to the Japanese securityhouse Nomura ....
Who follows 1998's winners?; Who follows 98's winners?
Jan 02, 1999; ... Fletcher Challenge target shares and other out-of-favour bluechips should do well in 1999 if the Asian recovery continues and ifWall Street's Internet bubble or Brazil do not cause upsets. Hard-hit by poor forestry, paper, and oil prices, and by the slowNew Zealand economy, ...
Over-selling takes 2% off main index
Jan 02, 1999 ... A late sell-off sent the sharemarket into the New Year with anear2 per cent fall. Telecom lost 23c to 825 and other leaders were also markedsharplylower at Thursday's midday close. Campbell Stuart, director of equities at Warburg Dillon Read inAuckland, described the ...
Top pay for Contact
Jan 02, 1999 ... Contact Energy chief executive Paul Anthony, 43, was paid morethan $640,000 in the past year making him the highest-paid person ina ...
NZ conditions of entry
Jan 02, 1999 ... According to the New Zealand Immigration Service's web site, thegeneral skills immigration category exists to ``increase NewZealand's level of human capital, enterprise, and innovation, andfoster international linkage''. At present, migrants seeking entry under this category ...
Zany comedy about lying lawyer
Jan 02, 1999 ... In the days before The Truman Show, zany comedian Jim Carrey usedhis role of a lawyer who cannot tell the truth, in Liar Liar (SkyTV,tomorrow, 8.30pm), to show that he could really act. Carrey's slick lawyer is forced, by the magic of a birthday wishmagically granted his ...
WEEKEND WORK
Jan 02, 1999 ... VEGETABLES * Hoe weeds, rake, and remove before watering. * Ensure that mulched areas get a thorough soaking.* Plant main crop celery, brussels sprouts, ...
Hot crime, funny ghosts
Jan 02, 1999; ... The pick of the week of films on television has Robert De NiroandAl Pacino joining forces in the first-rate crime drama Heat (TV2,tomorrow, 8.30pm). Also worth viewing are two Shirley MacLainemovies, Guarding Tess (TV2, Thursday, 8.30pm) and Two Mules forSister Sara (TV3, Thursday, ...
White Christmas in a radish field
Jan 02, 1999 ... David Lacey of Tai Tapu celebrates his fourth white Christmas inapaddock of Chinese radish flowers. The 6ha of radishes are grown forseed to export ...
Summer prune your fruit trees
Jan 02, 1999 ... Summer pruning is as important as conventional winter pruning,particularly with fruit trees, vines, and bramble fruits. Apples andpears should be summer pruned about now to encourage the productionof fruit spurs, which carry flower buds. Summer pruning simply involves cutting back ...
Chilling murder, she writes
Jan 02, 1999; ... Veteran Kiwi writer Laurie Mantell has again delved into thepolice world in her latest novel, Mates. She talks to CHRISTOPHERMOOR about her chosen genre. Laurie Mantell has never poisoned a victim in her six publishedcrime novels and many short stories. ``Poison's the ...
Kiwi delves into hero's last flight
Jan 02, 1999; ... A new book sheds a different light on the life of flight heroCharles Kingsford Smith and his untimely end. GERARD CAMPBELL talksto author Ian Mackersey. Somewhere off the southern Myanmar coast, a few pieces of twistedmetal are all that mark the grave of one of aviation's ...
LOCAL SERVICES
Jan 02, 1999 ... EMERGENCY SERVICES Alcoholics Anonymous: Telephone 379-0860. Animal emergencies: Help for an injured animal, telephone 366-3886.Counselling: Lifeline, 24 hours, telephone 366-6743 (city); or379-5230 (rural); Samaritans, 24 hours, telephone 366-6676.Emergency dentist: ...
The natural hazards that threaten NZ
Jan 02, 1999 ... Floods, earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions -- the riskofnatural hazards is part and parcel of living on an island in thePacific Ocean. According to Awesome Forces, a book written by some of thecountry's leading scientists to coincide with an exhibition at TePapa, every ...
Ireland's 380,000km of stone walls
Jan 02, 1999 ... For dogs and goats on Inishmore, in County Galway's Aran Islands,stone walls and John Mulkerrin's back serve as a playground. Anestimated 380,000km of stone walls form part of largely deforestedbut cherished Irish landscapes. Some are thousands of years old, butmost were built ...
BESTSELLERS: FICTION
Jan 02, 1999 ... 1 (1) Jessica by Bryce Courtenay (Penguin) 2 (0) The Simple Truth by David Baldacci (Macmillan) 3 (3) Jingo by Terry Pratchett (Corgi)4 (4) Street Lawyer by John Grisham (Arrow)5 (6) The Eleventh Commandment by Jeffrey Archer ...
Gloomy start to century and close links to Empire
Jan 02, 1999; ... 1900 ``With heavy clouds on the horizon and anxiety at the heart ofevery son and daughter of the British Empire the voice of hope wouldseem to be stilled altogether, or subdued to a low tremulouswhisper.'' That was how The Press greeted what it insisted was the last yearof ...
Changing ideas of intelligence
Jan 02, 1999; ... CHRISTOPHER MOORE finds that what used to be described as softskills are now at the top of the employer's wishlist. The rules have changed. We are all, according to Americanpsychologist Daniel Goleman, being judged by a new yardstick -- onewhich could increasingly decide who will ...
Bazaar
Jan 02, 1999 ... * Teenagers in Fort Lupton, Colorado, are being ordered to listento an hour of either Gene Autry, Hank Williams jun, or Ludwig vanBeethoven for violating the town's noise law. Municipal Judge PaulSacco thinks the penalty is a better deterrent to young people withloud speakers than fines ...
Sleepless in Samoa
Jan 02, 1999; ... SIMON CUNLIFFE was just eight years old when his family travelledto Western Samoa in the 1960s. He discovered a people and culturefar removed from his West Coast roots. The memories will endure alifetime. The best holiday I ever had was in Samoa. It was theearly 60s. I was eight and ...
Seeing new year in through age-tinted glasses
Jan 02, 1999 ... Two women wear 1999 glasses as they get ready to celebrate theNewYear in Times Square, New York. More than half a ...
Rodeo attracts some tough cowboys
Jan 02, 1999; ... Rodeo cowboys are riding into Central Otago holiday spots tocompete in the dust-churnin', bronco-buckin', and whip-crackin' oldtime of the annual Wakatipu rodeo series. Arrowtown this week hosted the fourth of the programme's sixrodeos held over 10 days which saw Canterbury cowboy ...
Rail staff may strike if contract talks fail
Jan 02, 1999 ... Railway workers are threatening strike action if talks on theircollective employment contract fail. At stopwork meetings around the country members of the Rail andMaritime Transport Union have told negotiators that protecting theirjobs is their top priority. They have also ...
Police praise drivers after low 1998 figure
Jan 02, 1999 ... Police have given New Zealand drivers a guarded pat-on-the-backafter the lowest annual death toll on the roads for 34 years. Provisional figures for 1998 show 503 people died on New Zealandroads, the lowest since 1964 when 428 people died. During the 1990s the death toll has ...
NZ hostage feared she would die
Jan 02, 1999 ... AUCKLAND -- Freed New Zealand hostage Mary Quin has told how shewrestled a loaded gun from a shot terrorist, kicking him in the faceand fleeing under gunfire towards Yemeni troops and safety. Ms Quin, 45, who has worked in America for 24 years, was one of15tourists kidnapped by ...
Top Lotto prize split in three; Strike won
Jan 02, 1999 ... Ticket-holders from Whangarei, Tauranga, and Dunedin each won$666,667 as their share of the first-division prize in Lotto No.598,drawn in Wellington on Thursday night. The numbers drawn were: 5, 7, 15, 24, 26, 30. Bonus: 37. Prizesand number of winners were: division one $666,667 ...
Bite thwarts rape attempt by intruder
Jan 02, 1999 ... A South Otago woman thwarted a rape attempt in her Taieri home bybiting her attacker on the lip, the police said. They said the woman, aged in her 40s, then ran several hundredmetres to raise the alarm at a ...
Korean-made cars to be traced after fault
Jan 02, 1999 ... Ford New Zealand is tracing Korean-made Festiva cars it importedlate last year after a fault affecting the brakes of three cars. Ford Motor spokeswoman Lisa Franklin said up to 350 cars could beaffected. Cars ...
Child phones police after mother stabbed
Jan 02, 1999 ... A distraught young child called the police when his mother wasstabbed in a domestic dispute in Te Kuiti. The police said the woman disappeared for two hours after thecallyesterday, but was found later curled up on a ...
Hydro lake spilling likely to continue
Jan 02, 1999 ... WELLINGTON -- Transpower's hydro lakes are likely to continuespilling water this year because North Island electricity demandwillbe met by thermal plants, an internal memo shows. The memo from Transpower chief executive Bob Thomson to all staffis dated December 22. It was ...
Holiday road toll doubles within 24 hours
Jan 02, 1999 ... WELLINGTON -- The road toll for the holiday period more thandoubled in 24 hours, from seven to 15, after five fatal accidents inthe North Island. The latest crash occurred about 3.50pm when a car travellingsouthon the Desert Road between Turangi and Waiouru failed to take ...
Fishermen lost in trouble spot
Jan 02, 1999 ... WELLINGTON -- The body of one of two fishermen who went missingwhile netting at Port Waikato, on the west coast south of theManukauHarbour, has been found by police divers. Bill Roebeck, 17, from Manurewa, Auckland, and Tai Sava Savea,20,a former Auckland Warriors rugby league ...
We will see more of the McDonalds four
Jan 02, 1999; ... Whether National wins or loses the Treasury benches this year, athrusting quartet of the party's new generation is set to dominatethe party's politics. PETER LUKE reports. Shortly after the 1990 election four of the rising stars in theNational Party were photographed having lunch ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Jan 02, 1999 ... Hospital care Sir--I am a recent and grateful recipient of the services ofmodern technology and the expert care of nursing and medical staffatChristchurch Hospital. I came away more convinced that the public health system needs tobe politically supported so the healthy ...