The Press back issues from October 1999:
RUGBY WORLD CUP 99; Souvenir special
Oct 01, 1999; ... Contents include: Sloane grateful for Wallaby wake-up call, by Bob Schumacher. Tasman neighbours favoured to meet in final, by Bob Schumacher. Kronfeld free of Ellis Park grudges, by Bob Schumacher : JeffWilson and Josh Kronfeld at their book launch: Jeff and Josh's ...
Player-pay comment irks Tew
Oct 01, 1999; ... Rugby players funding Jade Stadium's $40 million upgrading wouldbe like Kiri Te Kanawa paying for Covent Garden, says a rugbyofficial. Canterbury Rugby Union chief executive Steve Tew was commentingon a Christchurch City councillor's response to calls for a greaterpublic ...
NZ doubles Timor force; Battalion will cost `tens of millions'
Oct 01, 1999; ... New Zealand's force in ransacked East Timor will be doubled to afull battalion of more than 800 soldiers. Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said the New Zealand militarymission would cost the country "tens of millions of dollars", but itwas not the right time to talk about the cost ....
'Just one of the girls' at 79
Oct 01, 1999; ... Christchurch accounts clerk Joyce Blogg, 79, has been in the samejob for 30 years -- and retirement is the last thing on her mind. Mrs Blogg works for Christchurch law firm Buddle Findlay and hasbeen there so long she remembers some of the firm's partners whenthey were boys in ...
Kiwis favour death penalty
Oct 01, 1999 ... WELLINGTON -- Nine out of 10 New Zealand voters favour either thedeath penalty being reintroduced or natural life sentences withoutparole, according to an opinion poll. The Assignment-Colmar Brunton poll found that 51 per cent ofrespondents believed the death penalty should be an ...
Light shed on crossing street
Oct 01, 1999 ... The Christchurch City Council is offering step-by-step advice onan everyday activity -- crossing the street. The council has sent 136,000 leaflets to Canterbury homesreinforcing the message that green means go and red means stop atpedestrian crossings. The leaflet ...
Kiwi soldiers start patrols in Dili streets
Oct 01, 1999; ... New Zealand's infantry company has arrived in Dili and willpatrol the city's western streets today. The Australian commander of the international peacekeeping force,Major General Peter Cosgrove, welcomed the troops at their new base. General Cosgrove said the New Zealand ...
Back in the groove
Oct 01, 1999; ... Pandemonium, a Christchurch steel band, has a lot of practisingto do before its performance at the Netball World Cup closingceremony on Saturday. The band, which is the only West Indian steel band in NewZealand, lived up to its name when its steel drums went missingclose to the ...
Reviews to decide fate of casinos - Alliance
Oct 01, 1999 ... HAMILTON -- Casinos could be closed if a majority of citizensdecided they did not want them, the Alliance says. Releasing the policy on a visit to Hamilton, Alliance leader JimAnderton said casinos would be subject to five-yearly independentreviews which, if not favourable, would ...
DIARY
Oct 01, 1999; ... Last wave A Christchurch man says his father, Frank Henderson, a St Bede'sCollege old boy and a Canterbury University graduate and laterprofessor of civil engineering, joined in Professor Tom Leech'swartime work trying to develop a bomb that would cause tsunamis. Theproject was ...
Work-for-fees plan
Oct 01, 1999 ... A Green government would pay students' fees, in return for themcompleting paid or community work, Green Party education spokesmanMichael Tritt said. The party planned a "social contract" scheme,where the government would pay ...
New ambassador
Oct 01, 1999 ... New Zealand's next ambassador to Japan will be Phillip Gibson,who is currently director of Asia 2000, Acting Foreign AffairsMinister Simon Upton says. Mr Gibson, a former ambassador ...
Scientist honoured
Oct 01, 1999 ... A New Zealand scientist has become one of about 30 recipientsthis year of China's highest honour for foreigners, the FriendshipMedal. Landcare Research scientist Bruce Trangmar received his awardfrom Chinese Premier ...
More aged forecast
Oct 01, 1999 ... About 295 New Zealanders are 100 years or older but that numberis predicted to rise to 2700 in about 30 years, Senior CitizensMinister David Carter says. Marking International Older ...
Arts lecture
Oct 01, 1999 ... Dr Mark Stocker, a University of Canterbury School of Artlecturer, will speak on Kathleen Scott: ...
Film extras wanted
Oct 01, 1999; ... SATURDAY -- not Sunday -- is the day for aspiring actors to turnout at St Michael's Church, on the ...
Pakehas need shake - Henare
Oct 01, 1999 ... WELLINGTON --Mauri Pacific would "prick the nation's conscience"and shake pakehas out of their comfort zones, leader Tau Henare hastold an indigenous peoples' conference in Wellington. Mr Henare said New Zealanders talked about the nation being multi-racial, but its fabric ...
Fahey 'still serving ratepayers'
Oct 01, 1999; ... Former Deputy Mayor Dr Morgan Fahey says he is still serving hisratepayers, despite complaints by a residents' group. The St Albans Residents' Association has written to the Shirley-Papanui Community Board, asking it to address what it regards as thearea's lack of representation ...
Hot weather has hundreds heading for the beach
Oct 01, 1999 ... School holidays and soaring temperatures in the twenties saw GregFoot, 11, and Cameron Lines, eight, skylarking in the sand at SumnerBeach. Hundreds of Cantabrians flocked to the beaches around thecity to enjoy the hottest day of the spring ...
Judge warns of risk to exports
Oct 01, 1999 ... Fraud offences involving trade documentation could have "seriouson-going ramifications for the whole export sector", a DistrictCourt judge warned when he fined a commodities trader $14,000 onseven charges. Grant Alan Milner, 46, had pleaded guilty to the seven chargesbrought by ...
Peters coalition pledge
Oct 01, 1999; ... NZ First leader Winston Peters says his party would drive a toughcoalition bargain if it held the balance of power after the November27 election. After the 1996 election, Mr Peters dragged coalition talks outfor nine weeks before finally striking a deal with National thatgranted ...
Fines data in sale item
Oct 01, 1999 ... A Christchurch horticulturist inspecting goods at auction hasstumbled on a mine of outstanding- fines information. Greg Witte, who found a microfiche in a microfiche reader beingsold at Smiths Auctions on Wednesday, said he was appalled. "This is a gross breach of privacy. I ...
Price stand 'up to stations'
Oct 01, 1999; ... South Island motorists will know in a few weeks whether ChallengePetroleum's decision to hold its price of high-octane petrol at itscompany stations will be picked up by its South Island chain. Challenge has 17 company-owned stations in the North Island andsupplies about 18 ...
Mystery bride named
Oct 01, 1999 ... NEW PLYMOUTH -- New Zealand's most famous bride of the moment hasbeen unmasked. She is New Plymouth clothing store manager Paula Stockwell. At 7.30am today Paula will marry a man she has never met,Hamilton glazier Zane Nicholl. From her Hamilton motel room last ...
Winz videos cost $25,000
Oct 01, 1999 ... WELLINGTON -- Work and Income New Zealand's in-house videos, somefeaturing the notorious Fletch and Fletch, cost the department morethan $25,000 to make. Chief executive Christine Rankin said five videos had been madeduring the last year, varying in price from $515 to $8681 ....
Crash witnesses sought
Oct 01, 1999 ... Darfield police are seeking witnesses to a fatal crash. A manriding a black 1952 Matchless motorcycle crashed about 8km west ofDarfield, about 1.50pm on Wednesday. He later died in hospital fromhis injuries. The rider, whose name has not been ...
Green Party candidate
Oct 01, 1999 ... The Green Party last night selected organic farmer and healthfood manufacturer David Musgrave as its Aoraki candidate. MrMusgrave, 52, of Woodbury, near Geraldine, was the only nominee ...
Snowmobile tickets
Oct 01, 1999 ... The Press has a further three family passes to give away to theInternational Antarctic Centre's latest attraction. Each day untilMonday, a family of two adults and up to three children can win aride on the new Antarctic Hagglund snowmobile. To enter for ...
Clarification
Oct 01, 1999 ... A $2 charge on top of normal banking fees will apply only todeposits and credit card payments by WestpacTrust customers using ...
Urgent meeting on hospital plans
Oct 01, 1999 ... A group of Heaton Street residents has arranged an urgent meetingwith Christchurch City Council staff and St George's Hospitalmanagement over alleged encroachment by the hospital into theresidential zone. Residents' spokesman Bill Hall said yesterday that he hoped nextweek's ...
Woman wins fight against billboard
Oct 01, 1999 ... Christchurch woman Nicola Bishop is feeling victorious aftersuccessfully fighting a Rock FM billboard depicting woman in a G-string wielding a whip. The Advertising Standards Complaints Boardheard her complaint last week and has ruled the billboard breachesthe code of advertising ...
Court accepts self-defence case
Oct 01, 1999 ... A former foreign legionnaire who made a pre-emptive strike onanother man with an axe handle, leaving a wound that required fivestitches, walked free from the Timaru District Court after JudgeEdward Ryan accepted he had acted in self-defence. Paul James Nichol, 40, mechanic, who ...
Chch Arts Festival produces surplus
Oct 01, 1999 ... Patrons who braved the winter chill to attend events at theChristchurch Arts Festival helped the festival achieve a surplus.Festival director Briony Ellis said the surplus was a result of goodbox-office support together with careful planning and budgeting. The Third Arts Festival ...
Art lovers and meat lovers join forces
Oct 01, 1999 ... Buying meat at the local butcher will be an artistic experiencefor Darfield residents from today. Malvern Community Arts Council convener Margaret Murchison said anew concept was being introduced for Darfield Art Week with worksdisplayed in local businesses where they could be ...
Group evicted from inner-city office home
Oct 01, 1999 ... A group of urban Maoris living in a central Christchurch officebuilding has been evicted. About 30 members of the Nga Uri Rangitira O Kahuhura (NUROK)group, including former psychiatric patients and released prisoners,yesterday moved out of the building they had rented in ...
Girl spent stay in care 'out of it'
Oct 01, 1999; ... A Christchurch mother claims her 14-year-old daughter had accessto drugs, alcohol, and tobacco while in the care of the Children,Young Persons and Their Families Agency. The woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, saidyesterday she was sorry she had called in the agency ...
Gold trail to boost Nurse Maude fund
Oct 01, 1999 ... A trail of gold from Cathedral Square to Merivale early nextmonth aims to raise awareness of the Nurse Maude Hospice -- andmoney to keep it going. Organisers of the gold trail hope thousands of people fromthroughout Canterbury will lay $1 and $2 coins along the 2.78kmroute from ...
Travel headaches loom for dawn of Y2K
Oct 01, 1999; ... Catching a cab at the dawn of the new millennium will bedifficult but not impossible. Catching a plane may be slightlyeasier. Christchurch taxi firms said yesterday they expected most driversto be working as usual over New Year's Eve and New Year's Day,unlike Melbourne, where ...
NZ 'dangerous for children'
Oct 01, 1999 ... New Zealand children face twice the risk of being killedaccidentally as Australian children, says Commissioner for ChildrenRoger McClay. Comparing New Zealand figures with international statisticsshowed this country was a dangerous place to be in, especially ifyou were a child, ...
Network to cut stations
Oct 01, 1999; ... The Radio Network has agreed to reduce the number of stationsbroadcasting from its Ouruhia transmitter in an out-of-courtsettlement with residents. The residents had taken the network to the Environment Court overconsents allowing it to broadcast two more stations from the site ....
Radio waves kill sweet dreams
Oct 01, 1999 ... Radio waves may cause sleep disruption, the president of theWorld Federation of Public Health Associations says. Professor Theo Abelin, who was to give evidence in theEnvironment Court for Ouruhia residents before they settled with theRadio Network, told an audience in ...
Days of pain start early
Oct 01, 1999 ... WELLINGTON -- Tranz Rail employee Ioasa Iuni still wakes upbefore dawn -- it is a hard habit to break. Since the loss of his leg in a shunting accident last November,however, 4.30am no longer marks the start of his working day. Instead, it is the lonely start of another long ...
Air Nelson flying high for All Blacks
Oct 01, 1999 ... A second Air New Zealand plane sports a giant sticker supportingthe All Black Rugby World Cup campaign, which kicks off tomorrow. Following on from the launch of its new B747 featuring the AllBlack front row, Air New Zealand has put the same image on to one ofits domestic fleet ...
UN credibility on the line - McKinnon
Oct 01, 1999 ... WELLINGTON -- The credibility of the United Nations SecurityCouncil depends on it being seen as "even-handed" in its attentionto crises regardless of whether CNN (a United States televisionnetwork) is there, Foreign Minister Don McKinnon says. In a speech to the UN General ...
NZ-US exercises planned
Oct 01, 1999 ... WELLINGTON -- Planning is under way for defence exercises betweenNew Zealand and the United States -- the first in more than adecade. Defence Minister Max Bradford confirmed yesterday that the issueof exercises with the United States military was discussed brieflyduring talks in ...
NZ First to phase out means tests
Oct 01, 1999 ... WELLINGTON -- New Zealand First will phase out parental means-testing of student allowances and reduce the interest rate onstudent loans to the level of inflation, according to its tertiaryeducation policy. The party, which in 1996 promised to immediately scrap means-testing and ...
Wages rise nearly 4%
Oct 01, 1999 ... WELLINGTON -- New Zealanders should have a bit more money intheir pocket, with a Statistics New Zealand survey showing averagewages rose almost 4 per cent over the last year. The typical Kiwi was taking home $441 in the June 1999 quarter,up from $425 in the same period in 1998, a ...
Campaign to save 'heritage site' toilets
Oct 01, 1999 ... WELLINGTON -- A campaign has been launched in Wellington to savethe Aro Street men's toilets -- the scene of New Zealand's mostfamous Russian spy drama. Former city councillor and National Party candidate StephenRainbow has launched the campaign and wants to feature the ...
Policeman cleared after shooting probe
Oct 01, 1999 ... A police officer who shot a man after a domestic incident inGreenhithe, Auckland, in August has been cleared after a criminalinvestigation. The officer shot Gordon Drewett once in the chestinside the house of Drewett's former partner after he allegedlylunged forward with a knife ....
Spiritualist rejects food-claim offer
Oct 01, 1999 ... Controversial Australian spiritualist Jasmuheen has rejected achallenge to stay in a Nelson house for a month to prove her claimsthat she does not need food. The New Zealand Association ofRationalists and Humanists offered Jasmuheen $100,000 if she couldprove her claims of being able to ...
Worker badly hurt in three-storey fall
Oct 01, 1999 ... A three-storey fall has left a 38-year- old Tranz Rail worker inhospital with serious head, back and leg injuries. The man fell 10mdown a stairwell at Tranz Rail's headquarters in the ...
Facing up to student debt
Oct 01, 1999 ... Labour has grasped the student-loan nettle and offered a middle-ground compromise. Faced with National's unpopular system and theAlliance's plan for a land-tax to fund free tertiary education,Labour proposes instead loans that would be interest-free whilestudents are studying full time ...
IN A FEW WORDS
Oct 01, 1999 ... Why do all politicians understand so clearly the needs of thenation a few weeks out from an election, yet, when elected, fail torespond to most requests, other than seeing that they themselves arewell cared for? HAMISH PETRIE Jim Anderton says he will ask us to contribute ...
Logging ban
Oct 01, 1999 ... Sir--As an academic D.J. Round (September 24) serves hiscolleagues poorly. Of the 88 major forest associations on the West Coast only 13have 15 per cent or less of their original cover protected, and onlythree of the better protected proportion of that group forms a smallpart of ...
Logging ban
Oct 01, 1999 ... Sir--If West Coast forests belong to all New Zealanders as ColinBurrows says (September 24), then the land they grow on must alsobelong to us. As land ownership entails responsibilities such as the payment ofrates, one must assume those who wax long and loud about ownershipare ...
Logging ban
Oct 01, 1999 ... Sir--I agree with Dan Gilsenan (September 23) when he says thatthe real loser on the Coast is Labour. Having been a Coaster most of my life, I will not be supportingeither of the two main parties because, in the 30 years since I havebeen voting, I have finally come to the ...
Logging ban
Oct 01, 1999 ... Sir--Nicky Hager's letter (September 21) points out that WestCoast mayors first suggested the hand-over of Timberlands' exoticestate to local communities. So what? The issue is that there will be negligible benefits to the regionby simply transferring ownership to an unproven ...
Who is Joe Bennett?
Oct 01, 1999 ... Sir--I wish to take issue with Joe Bennett over his insultingcomments regarding Bill Clinton, Jenny Shipley, and the thousands ofordinary New Zealanders who turned out to welcome our distinguishedvisitors. Who is Joe Bennett that he is so much more intelligentthan the rest of us? Bill ...
Waimak candidate
Oct 01, 1999 ... Sir--Referring to article headlined, The battle for Waimakaririelectorate (September 17), I am curious. Until recently I lived inthe Papanui area, where Yvonne Palmer was a very well- known local-body politician whose service to the community was rewarded with aQSM. Your article did not ...
Famous women
Oct 01, 1999 ... Sir--I wish to support Ruth Todd of Women on Air in hersuggestion that the Christchurch City Council should be taking theinitiative in organising the annual celebration of Suffrage Day inthe city. The Kate Sheppard Memorial is in this city and celebrates thelives of five {{ ...
Shipley's qualifications
Oct 01, 1999 ... Sir--The National Party is promoting its leader as "a good wifeand mother". So am I and thousands of other New Zealand women. Butthat does not qualify us to lead a political party. Nor do we ...
Leaves and seeds
Oct 01, 1999 ... Sir--City Councillor O'Rourke is concerned about cycleways. Myproblem is more pressing. I am 73, with limited income, but this week paid a tradesman toclamber over my roofs to clear gutterings. He scooped largebucketfuls of muddy, sprouted seeds originating from two ...
Voting under MMP: all you need to know; Discontent about the system has prompted two referendums
Oct 01, 1999; ... The general election on November 27 will be the second go at MMPfor voters -- and they will get to vote on two referendums. KEVINTAYLOR answers key questions about the system. Q. How many votes will I get? A. This time around, four. Two votes are for the generalelection: ...
Labour tipped to retain strongholds; NORTH; SOUTH
Oct 01, 1999; ... Labour will weather Dr Cullen's departure from Dunedin, reportsMICHAEL RENTOUL. The two Dunedins promise an interesting race, with the departureof one strong candidate, and the entry to politics of another. Labour deputy leader Michael Cullen's decision not to stand againin ...
DILI: down but not out
Oct 01, 1999; ... Their homes have been trashed, their town is in ruins, but theTimorese people of Dili endure. As one tells IAN STUART, `They willnever kill off our spirit.' There is a certain irony about the polished mahogany headboardleaning against a corrugated iron wall in the shantytown that ...