The Press back issues from August 1999:
Scarfies 'key to revive inner Chch'
Aug 02, 1999 ... University students are the key to the rebirth of centralChristchurch, says Melbourne urban design expert David Yencken. Professor Yencken told a conference in the city on Friday andSaturday that an immediate step in revitalising the inner-city wouldbe to cater for university ...
Canty in for surgery boost; $22m will benefit thousands
Aug 02, 1999; ... A funding boost of $22 million will allow Canterbury Health torecruit six more surgeons and to provide surgery for about 3200people who would otherwise not have been treated. The money will also allow for first assessments for an extra 2360patients. A month into the new ...
Second blow for Payne family
Aug 02, 1999; ... Heartless vandals have struck a second blow to the family ofChristchurch murder victim Glen Payne by stealing a plaque erected inhis memory. The plaque was placed outside the Caledonian Hotel bottlestore,where Mr Payne was shot during a botched hold-up in June 1997. The brass ...
Firefighters' sabotage 'unlikely'
Aug 02, 1999; ... Claims that professional firefighters are sabotaging volunteerfirefighters' equipment are "absolutely ridiculous", says the SouthIsland Firefighters Union's president, Steve Warner. Firefighters in Taupo are under pressure for allegedlyintimidating volunteers and sabotaging their ...
A promise kept as cemetery stays open
Aug 02, 1999; ... When mourners gathered at the Stafford cemetery to celebrate thelife of Florence Annie Merewether they were also witnesses to the endof an era. After Mrs Merewether's committal on Saturday the main steel gatesof the bush-clad, hilltop cemetery were shut, chained, and locked ...
AA credit rating for city council
Aug 02, 1999; ... The Christchurch City Council has received an AA rating frominternational credit analysts Standard and Poor's. The rating puts the council in the top third of New Zealandorganisations audited by the company. The Auckland City Councilreceived the same score, as did Christchurch City ...
Siblings hope to strike gold
Aug 02, 1999 ... Brother and sister Sophie Westenra, nine, and Isaac, six, payclose attention to the competition as they await their turn toperform in auditions for the musical Rush. The home-grown productionis set ...
Ministry alert on 'cancer cure'
Aug 02, 1999 ... WELLINGTON -- Cancer patients should not abandon orthodoxmedicines when a possible new cancer cure made from the oil in green-lipped mussels goes on sale this week, the Health Ministry warns. Although the oil extract lyprinol had killed cancer cells inlaboratory trials, it had not ...
Diary
Aug 02, 1999; ... Celebration THE ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury, the Most Rev Dr George Carey, willpreach the sermon at St Paul's Cathedral, London, to celebrate thefounding of Canterbury, New Zealand. The service of thanksgiving, tobe held on June 14 next year, will be attended by other ...
Teenager found
Aug 02, 1999 ... A secondary school student, missing since Thursday morning, hasbeen found. Detective Richard Crowe, of the Lyttelton police, saidJessica Clark, 17, was found yesterday afternoon. The ...
Farm-bike warning
Aug 02, 1999 ... Six people died in four-wheel farm-bike accidents in the yearending June 30 and more will occur if farmers fail to identify likelyhazards, the Occupational Safety and Health Service says. Itlaunched its national agricultural ...
Fingers reattached
Aug 02, 1999 ... A Wellington man who severed three fingers in a saw accident hashad them reattached by Hutt Hospital doctors. The man arrived at thehospital clutching two of the three severed fingers, which had beenwrapped in a moist cloth and packed in ice. Senior registrar ...
GM on Aust agenda
Aug 02, 1999 ... The labelling of genetically modified food will be on the agendawhen Health Minister Wyatt Creech visits Canberra tomorrow for ameeting with Australian ministers. Mr ...
Exercise prescriptions
Aug 02, 1999 ... Doctors are urging their patients to take up exercise in greaternumbers under the Hillary Commission's green prescription scheme.Green prescriptions are a part of the commission's Push Playcampaign, to help people to start ...
Jams recognised
Aug 02, 1999 ... A range of diabetic jams and sauces has won the New ZealandBerryfruit Federation Award for 1999. The Jok'n'Al range of productshas been available for just over a year in the South ...
Murder charge laid
Aug 02, 1999 ... A 37-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a woman,believed to be in her 30s, at their home in Blenheim. The man called the police to tell them what had happened at 5am onSaturday. The police found the woman's body in a bedroom. She haddied of head injuries. The ...
Website set up for schools
Aug 02, 1999 ... WELLINGTON -- The Education Ministry is setting up an electronicwebsite for schools. Education secretary Howard Fancy said the project, which should berunning within a year, would "impact on our education system for manyyears". It will be built by Learning Centre Trust, with ...
Mayor pushes for central Chch food bazaar
Aug 02, 1999; ... Christchurch Mayor Garry Moore plans to promote immediately theestablishing an inner-city produce bazaar for sales of fruit,vegetables, wines, meats, and specialty foods and drinks. Mr Moore announced the plan at a weekend conference, whichexamined the need to revitalise the inner ...
Campaign to save Warners
Aug 02, 1999 ... What would "the grand old lady" of Cathedral Square, WarnersHotel, look like with a facelift? Hotel lessees Stan and Lynne O'Keefe say constant questions frompatrons about the grand old lady hotel have led to them have a modelmade of a revitalised building. The October ...
Legal aid overhaul
Aug 02, 1999; ... The Government is pressing ahead with a major revamp of the legalaid system in an effort to prevent the bill to the taxpayer risingabove $100 million a year. A 58 per cent rise in the cost of legal aid -- from $59 million in1993 to $94 million this year -- has triggered political ...
Giveaway of candy cigarettes 'sickens'
Aug 02, 1999 ... Parents of children at Christchurch's Paparoa Street primaryschool were horrified to discover that candy cigarettes had beenhanded out at a Parents Teachers Association-run disco. One mother said she was "absolutely sickened" when up to 200children aged between five and nine years ...
Survivor turned away at Swiss disaster scene
Aug 02, 1999 ... WELLINGTON -- Wellington man John "JD" Hall, who survived theSwiss canyoning tragedy that killed 20 of his travel companions sixdays ago, was turned away by police when he tried to return to thesite to pay his respects, his father says. It emerged that Mr Hall's life was saved by ...
Aviation industry lauds Chch Airport
Aug 02, 1999 ... Christchurch Airport has had its praises sung loudly by theAviation Industry Association. The association's golden jubilee conference in Dunedin has made anaward to Christchurch International Airport Ltd, which it describesas "a company which has made a significant contribution to ...
Moses leaves the Mount
Aug 02, 1999 ... A prisoner working in the officers' mess outside Mount Eden'sprison walls walked to freedom yesterday. Minimum security inmateJeremy Moses, serving a ...
New Caledonia visit
Aug 02, 1999 ... Governor-General Sir Michael Hardie Boys will officially visit NewCaledonia from Thursday to Sunday, the first time a New ZealandGovernor- General has visited the territory. The Governor- Generaland Lady Hardie Boys ...
$2m in school security
Aug 02, 1999 ... A Tauranga property consultant has won a $2 million Ministry ofEducation contract to protect schools across the country fromburglary, vandalism, and fire. Paul Barnett Property Services willbe responsible for supervising this year's security programme, whichinvolves ...
Behaviour study on 'shopaholics'
Aug 02, 1999; ... Compulsive shoppers may have a new psychological excuse to blamefor their wild shopping sprees. University of Canterbury psychologists are investigating the shop-till-you-drop habit as a behavioural disorder, comparable to bingeeating. The symptoms are that shoppers ...
Police hope arrest will help tourism image
Aug 02, 1999; ... Police are hoping a Friday night arrest will help restoreChristchurch's reputation as a safe tourist city. Acting Detective Sergeant Derek Shaw, of the Papanui police, saida proliferation of thefts targeting tourists had occurred in recentmonths, from camper vans and at shopping ...
NZ listed for plant conservation
Aug 02, 1999 ... Four areas of New Zealand are included in a list of 200 plant hotspots marked for protection by the World Conservation Union. Christchurch botanist David Given, the chairman of the union'sSpecies Survival Commission plant conservation team, is due to launcha plan to protect the hot ...
Viaduct to open ahead of time
Aug 02, 1999 ... Work on the Otira viaduct is so far advanced that plans foropening celebrations are now on hold while a date for the grandopening event is moved forward. Favourable working conditions haveallowed contractors to move towards completing the viaduct six weeksahead of its projected December ...
Aust visitor at Travis Wetland
Aug 02, 1999 ... A rare Australian glossy ibis has made a temporary home at TravisWetland. Heavy rain had created the conditions favoured by thewandering species, ornithologist Scott Butcher said. The bird had been seen from about the middle of last week and wasstill at the wetland yesterday. The ...
Chch chef in world challenge
Aug 02, 1999 ... Christchurch cook Sean Marshall will represent New Zealand in thefive-day world junior chefs' challenge starting in Auckland today.Ten other nations, among them Australia, Canada, Luxembourg, andAustria, will participate, says the Hospitality Standards Institute. "Having the ...
Motelier, 78, to contest election
Aug 02, 1999 ... A 78-year-old West Coaster plans to stand for election toParliament as an independent. George Halsey, a Fox Glacier motelier and former miner andtrapper, is the oldest West CoastTasman candidate in at least 16years. He says he has had enough of watching rural communities inthe ...
Winter picnic, sunny side up
Aug 02, 1999 ... The winter sun came out in time for Barbara Millar, left, JanEdems, and Louise Conner, all of Christchurch, to join the crowd atthe Kiwi Winter Picnic in Victoria Square. The event heralded ...
Reward offered after van fire
Aug 02, 1999 ... New Brighton resident Mark Butler says he is sleeping with one eyeopen after his van was apparently torched. Fire gutted the van early on Saturday and threatened his housewith his two young children sleeping inside, he says. Mr Butlerbelieves the fire was deliberately lit and says ...
Power prices blamed on opportunism
Aug 02, 1999 ... Opportunistic behaviour by energy network company Orion has deniedChristchurch consumers lower power prices, says National list MPPansy Wong. Mrs Wong, who sat on the electricity industry reform selectcommittee, was responding to news of a $107,000 pay increase forOrion managing ...
Tree planting marks week
Aug 02, 1999 ... The planting of native trees in a "potential core wildlife area"on the Port Hills has marked the opening of Conservation Week. Christchurch City Council parks project co-ordinator Steven Graysaid the planting of 2500 native trees was a step towards returningthe East Valley Reserve ...
Expressway start set
Aug 02, 1999 ... Work will start in December on the $12.3 million Woolston-Burwoodexpressway section of the Christchurch ring road. Christchurch City Council area engineer Barry Cook saidnegotiations with Transfund over subsidies for the project had beensuccessful. The funding which had been ...
Rape sentence reduced on appeal
Aug 02, 1999 ... A Wellington man who raped an intellectually disabled woman thenowned up to his crime has had 18 months taken off his jail sentenceby the Court of Appeal. Robert Gordon Sanday admitted raping a 31-year-old woman who was in care. She needed 24-hour supervision, was blind in one eye, ...
Delamere to stand as independent
Aug 02, 1999 ... Immigration Minister Tuariki Delamere stand as an independent inthe Maori seat of Waiariki at this year's election. Reports that he would seek the Mauri Pacific nomination for theseat were quashed on Saturday, when he announced at a Rotorua meetingthat he would run as an ...
Former tennis star a list candidate
Aug 02, 1999 ... Former Wimbledon tennis finalist Chris Lewis, 42, could soon beserving for a new team, this time off the court. Selected as a listcandidate for the Lindsay Perigo-led Libertarianz, the Auckland-basedcoach is planning to dish out some winning aces for the politicalparty this ...
Three tickets share major Lotto prize
Aug 02, 1999 ... Ticket holders from Auckland, South Dunedin, and Gisborne shared$2 million in Lotto No.629 drawn in Wellington. The winning numberswere: 1, 2, 9, 13, 22, 27. Bonus number: 39. Prizes and number ofwinners were.-- Division one $666,667 (3), division two $6980 (36),division three $586 ...
Five teens in road deaths
Aug 02, 1999 ... WELLINGTON -- Seven people, five of them teenagers, are dead afterweekend road accidents. In the worst incident of the weekend, a car carrying six teenageboys crashed near Carterton about 3am yesterday, killing three ofthem. Sergeant Bill van Woerkom, of Masterton police, ...
Fund at $113,000 for family
Aug 02, 1999 ... AUCKLAND -- Money cannot buy back John Lawton's past, but thetally raised to ensure a brighter future for him and his family justkeeps growing. The Invercargill man who stood up to the Mongrel Mob has fired thepublic imagination the length of the country. He and his family ...
Fire approach criticised
Aug 02, 1999 ... WELLINGTON -- Figures showing an increasing number of fires,arsons, and rescues are clear evidence the approach of the FireService Commission is not working, the Professional Firefighters'Union says. Fire Service figures issued last week showed the number ofincidents attended ...
Native forest agreement
Aug 02, 1999 ... A Christchurch hui has opened the way for the protection fromunsustainable logging of hundreds of sections of native forest. Trustees representing some of the 16,000 owners of about 400sections of land in the South Island met Conservation Minister NickSmith to negotiate a deal to ...
Stone marker for millennium
Aug 02, 1999 ... WELLINGTON -- A Wairarapa farmer has created the country's firstCeltic stone circle as a millennium marker designed to last at least3000 years. Gavin McLachlan took 50 tonnes of stone to create the country'sfirst such circle among low green hills on his Rangitumau property,about ...
In a few words
Aug 02, 1999 ... The Prime Minister deplores "a disturbing trend nationally" of the"not in my backyard syndrome". I seem to remember a PrimeMinisterial declaration regarding the location of a certain landfillsite. Perhaps the Nimby trend started at the top and is leachingdown. PHILIP ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Aug 02, 1999 ... Orion payments Sir--Cr Alister James described Orion's profit as a "superb effortreflecting skilled stewardship by the directors and executivesinvolved" and so justifying their fees and salaries. What nonsense. Orion has a monopoly of an essential service, andunder those ...
Controlling Kosovo
Aug 02, 1999 ... Nearly seven weeks have passed since Nato forces entered Kosovo tostamp some control on the province. An interim United Nationsadministration has been set up. But keeping peace is proving harderthan making war. Nato has already run into significant roadblocks. One is the revengeful ...
The aim is no rubbish
Aug 02, 1999; ... Waste is out of fashion. The plan is for Canterbury to be dumpingno rubbish at all by 2020. `We have turned the corner as a community and are beginning tohead in the right direction for waste reduction," says CanterburyDialogues spokesman Paul Honeybone. Waste is among the 10 ...
Chess prodigy ponders her next move
Aug 02, 1999 ... Stephanie Hale, four, considers her next move in an Internet chessgame with chess master Gary Kasparov, in London ....
LOCAL SERVICES
Aug 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) or 379-5230 (rural); Youthline, 5pm to 11pm, telephone (city) 379-4794 or0800 ...
Contours offers women week's free membership
Aug 02, 1999 ... Ever wanted to join a gym but been unsure how to go about it?Wondered whether the place you go to is the right one for you? Contours Health and Fitness Studio is offering women a chance tofind out during its open week. It is offering a week's freemembership so women can take part ...
Kick Fit programme
Aug 02, 1999 ... Contours staff are excited about the new Kick Fit programme, oneof the latest methods of keeping fit. Similar to Tae Bo, Kick Fit combines a range of kick and punchboxing moves with aerobics and dance moves set to music. "It doesn't require too much co-ordination, and has ...
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Aug 02, 1999 ... Goethe Society The Goethe Society, a German cultural circle, meets Tuesdayevenings either at Room 303, Cranmer Centre, corner Montreal andArmagh streets, or at Mainstreet cafe, 840 Colombo Street, for anevening of conviviality -- in German. Tomorrow's gathering, a"stammtisch", is ...
Having a ball
Aug 02, 1999; ... MICHAEL RENTOUL mingles with the crowd at Swing Under the Stars. For the evening of glamour known as the Deutz Swing Under theStars, 750 guests assemble for the chance to dress up and be seen. Guests pay $175 to be here, but the hotel goes all out to create asense of opulence ...
Late call settles cliff-hanger
Aug 02, 1999; ... Sydenham coach Alan Edge had to make a conscience call late in theChristchurch metro division one rugby championship final against HighSchool Old Boys. Playmaker Dion Kerr was struggling with his knee injury and withOld Boys running rampant, the Sydenham first five-eighths ...
Edge ponders coaching options
Aug 02, 1999 ... Successful Sydenham coach Alan Edge has some deep thinking to doin rugby's off-season. After taking Sydenham to its fourth consecutive Christchurch clubrugby championship yesterday, Edge intimated that he might step down. He has been on Sydenham's senior coaching staff for ...
Oxford breaks title drought
Aug 02, 1999 ... Oxford shed the bridesmaid's tag and captured centre attention inthe North Canterbury Sub-Union's senior club rugby final. After being runner-up for the last three years, Oxford took thewinner's podium yesterday, beating a plucky Belfast, 10-3, at theRangiora Show ...
Betting on club finals big hit
Aug 02, 1999 ... The TAB was delighted with the response to betting on nationalclub rugby finals at the weekend. The TAB turned over between $75,000 and $100,000 on the finals,said Mark Stafford, a sports bookmaker. It was the first time the TAB had taken bets on club rugby ...
Bale plays major role for Hornby
Aug 02, 1999; ... Paula Bale's representative rugby days are behind him, but thestrapping Fijian is still proving a hero at Hornby. No longer is Bale the flyer on the wing; now, with a little moreconditioning around the girth, he stands at centre where he rules themidfield roost. Bale played a ...
Serious injury mars final
Aug 02, 1999 ... Leeston fullback Bryce Marshall was recovering at home yesterdayafter suffering a frightening neck injury in the Ellesmere club rugbyfinal. Marshall went by ambulance to Christchurch Hospital after beingtaken from the field on a stretcher mid-way through the second halfof the ...
Canterbury Schools outgun Scots rival
Aug 02, 1999 ... The touring Scottish Youth Development rugby team wascomprehensively outplayed by Canterbury Secondary Schools at StAndrew's College. The Canterbury selection played with fine cohesion and high skillson Saturday in scoring four tries to none, winning 27-3. It was theScottish ...
University joins Linwood in final
Aug 02, 1999; ... Linwood and University will meet in the final of the Telecom Platemetro division one rugby competition on Saturday after both finishedunbeaten in their sections. Linwood had the bye in section one in the final preliminary round,but had already booked its place in the ...