The Press back issues from July 2001:
Health meetings
Jul 02, 2001 ... The Canterbury District Health Board will outline its plans forservices, at public meetings in Christchurch this week. The meetingswill also give people the chance to air their views about ...
Man killed in crash
Jul 02, 2001 ... One man is dead and four are injured after an accident on DyersPass Road in Christchurch. Detective Paul Piper, of the Sydenhampolice, said a 16-year-old youth driving the car was ...
Plea from police after attack on Nelson man
Jul 02, 2001 ... Nelson police continue to appeal for information from the publicafter an attack on a seriously disabled Nelson man who lived alone.The man, 52, was attacked in his Atawhai Drive flat on Thursdaynight and lay unable to move until he was found by a caregiver about9am the next day ....
Pool complex for Tasman approved
Jul 02, 2001 ... Tasman District residents are to get a covered swimming poolcomplete with all the bells and whistles. The district council hasvoted 10 to two to build the pool, which will include an eight-lane, 25m main pool, a leisure pool with a wave maker, a beach,rubber rocks, a lazy river, ...
Rangiora celebrates fresh new image
Jul 02, 2001 ... Rangiora has a fresh new image -- Refreshingly Rangiora. The blue-green brand was hoisted high in Rangiora's main street at theweekend as the town celebrated its launch with entertainment,parades, and a street market. Refreshingly Rangiora, which alsocarries the words "soul, style, ...
'Waterproof' bar opens at Wanaka
Jul 02, 2001 ... Shooters Bar, the first commercial building on the Wanakalakefront designed to be flood-proof, was opened on Friday night,almost packed to its capacity of 300 patrons. The foundations of the$2 million, two-storey development were laid 10cm above the maximumheight of the town's ...
Power dispute heads to court
Jul 02, 2001; ... Disappointment summed up the mood of Marlborough Electric PowerTrust trustees over a decision by Marlborough Lines' directors totake the dispute between them to the High Court. Marlborough Lines chairman Peter Radich confirmed that thecompany had filed papers in the High Court in ...
Court to settle landscape rules
Jul 02, 2001; ... The Environment Court will start sittings in Wanaka today to setnew landscape-protection rules and remove some of the last barriersto a new district plan for the Queenstown-Lakes district. Three parties -- the district council, the Upper CluthaEnvironment Society, and the Lakes ...
Home-building figures dwell in doldrums
Jul 02, 2001; ... Fewer new homes are being built in the Waimakariri District. New-home building peaked in 1999 when 526 building consents wereissued and since then has been declining. Last year there were only344 consents and this year the figure looks set to drop further withonly 114 consents ...
Nelson pipfruit growers seek smaller debt levy
Jul 02, 2001; ... Pipfruit growers hope to hear this week if their export companyEnza will continue to extract a levy of $4.50 a carton to pay fordebt or settle for payments of 85 cents over five years. On Friday almost 300 Nelson growers informally voted for thelatter plan, claiming the longer ...
Workers' action cuts fish plant's output
Jul 02, 2001 ... NELSON -- Industrial action by Sealord workers has cut productionat the company's fish processing plant in Nelson and forced it tosell fish to a rival seafood processing company. Sealord said the action had made a significant impact on outputat its Nelson plant, just as the peak ...
Cullen will not be rushed
Jul 02, 2001; ... Star fullback Christian Cullen will be given as much time as heneeds to recover from knee surgery and will not be rushed back intoTri-Nations duty. The All Black selectors yesterday added Waikato centre KeithLowen and Taranaki prop Gordon Slater to a now 26-strong squad ...
Belfast marches on
Jul 02, 2001 ... Belfast crossed another hurdle on its way to a semi-final berthwhen it accounted for Rangiora 26-5 in the latest round of the NorthCanterbury senior rugby competition played on Saturday. Thefoundation for its victory was laid in the first quarter when itscored ...
Kiwi coxless four to fine-tune world champs preparation in Europe
Jul 02, 2001 ... Three full months of hard slog on the Avon River will only be thefirst stage of the New Zealand men's coxless four's preparation forthe world rowing championships in Lucerne. The national crew will wind up the Kerrs Reach leg of itstraining on Friday, but still has well over a ...
Line-up is everybody's guess
Jul 02, 2001; ... New Zealand is again destined to go into a rugby league testagainst Australia with a line-up largely dictated by injuries andsuspensions. Kiwis coach Gary Freeman and co- selectors Gerard Stokes andJarrod McCracken have been studying medical reports as much as formwhen ...
Determined Bulls outpace Leopards; POINTS
Jul 02, 2001; ... There were plenty of anxious Auckland eyes looking on as theCanterbury Bulls knocked the spots off the Otahuhu Leopards, 34-20,in their Bartercard Cup rugby league showdown at Henham Park. Although defending champions, the Bulls had slipped to seventh bythe end of the first ...
Mid-winter swimmers cool but not so calm
Jul 02, 2001; ... Pale flesh quivered in the winter sun, and nervous eyes scannedthe chill, blue sea glinting just metres away. After the countdown there was no turning back, and it was in andunder the icy-cold water. About 100 hardy souls took the polar plunge at New Brighton ...
Winner behind the $8m ball in claiming prize
Jul 02, 2001 ... WELLINGTON -- Somewhere in Whangarei someone could be celebratingbecoming a millionaire -- eight times over. A ticket bought at a Shell service station in the Whangareisuburb of Kensington has scooped $8.2 million, the biggest singlepayout in Lotto's 14-year history. Last ...
Chch gains 40 jobs in airline deal
Jul 02, 2001; ... A Qantas and Origin Pacific venture will run 132 new serviceseach week and create more than 40 jobs in Christchurch. From July 16 the airlines will provide extra services betweenAuckland, Wellington, and Christchurch, and daily links toQueenstown and Rotorua. Origin Pacific ...
Winter thrills for Antoinette
Jul 02, 2001; ... Antoinette Berry is looking forward to the adventure of alifetime at Queenstown's Winter Carnival. The shy 11-year-old, whohad a kidney transplant eight years ago, is one of six New Zealandchildren invited to Queenstown by the Cure Kids charity, whichraises money for research into ...
Prize trip sees Andrew sailing away
Jul 02, 2001; ... Christ's College student Andrew Denton will stow away this weekto Wellington. Andrew has been selected from 1700 budding young Canterburysailors to travel on the cargo ship SV Pacifica for a return tripfrom Lyttelton. But this young sailor is not looking for an easy ride ....
CDC is keen to run fund
Jul 02, 2001; ... A group of powerful business leaders wants to administer part ofthe Christchurch City Council's $75 million capital endowment fund. The Canterbury Development Corporation (CDC), the CanterburyManufacturers' Association, and the Canterbury Employers Chamber ofCommerce said the CDC ...
DIARY
Jul 02, 2001; ... Bureaucracy rules IT SEEMS there is an surplus of local government on the WestCoast -- three district councils and a regional council for apopulation of just 34,000. Highlighting the issue is a report on alikely Buller Council appeal against Buller Council decisions on aresource ...
Kiwi's robber jailed for two years
Jul 02, 2001 ... LONDON -- A New Zealand-born publican, robbed by the daughter ofCoronation Street star Johnny Briggs, has sold his story to aBritish newspaper. Karen Briggs, 35, whose father plays businessman Mike Baldwin inthe British soap, has been jailed for 2 1/2 years for her part inthe ...
Body found by tracks
Jul 02, 2001 ... The discovery of a 94-year-old man's body beside Whangareirailway tracks came just weeks after a warning about the dangers ofwalking along the rail corridor. The badly damaged body of Whangareiman Francis James Hughes was found by a member of the public ...
Cookie muncher missing
Jul 02, 2001 ... The Cookie Time Muncher is missing and a sweet reward awaitsthose who bring him home. The life-size mascot that sits at thefront of the Cookie Time factory at Templeton was taken last week.Spokeswoman Verity ...
City's kids having a monster of a time during annual festival
Jul 02, 2001 ... The monster with itchy eyes is three-year-old Kurtis Crowe, ofChristchurch, at the Kids Fest fairy tale ball. Two weeks of kids'activities are under way in Christchurch in the city council's 10thannual festival for children. The fairy tale dress-up ball in theGrand Chancellor Hotel on ...
Minister warns of jail recall
Jul 02, 2001; ... Released prisoners on probation may be returned to prison if astrike by probation workers continues, Corrections Minister MattRobson warns. More than 500 Department of Corrections Community ProbationService (CPS) staff walked off the job last Tuesday after 12 SouthIsland ...
Blood donor earns mother's thanks
Jul 02, 2001; ... Christchurch woman Michelle Fitzgibbon utters a silent thank-youevery day to the blood donor who saved her son's life. Ashley, now 13 months old, needed six transfusions while still inthe womb to combat rhesus disease -- a rare condition in which themother's antibodies attack the ...
Prebble demands PM give evidence
Jul 02, 2001 ... WELLINGTON -- The ACT Party is demanding that Prime MinisterHelen Clark give evidence in the Christine Rankin case, whichresumes in the Employment Court this week. "The substance of Ms Rankin's case is that the Prime Minister wasat the centre of a high-level conspiracy to deprive ...
Korean fishing boat and catch impounded
Jul 02, 2001 ... TIMARU -- Fisheries officers have impounded the Korean fishingvessel Dong Won 519 and its catch after confirming a largediscrepancy between the reported catch and what was found aboard. The Dong Won was ordered back to port at Timaru on Friday underthe escort of the navy's diving ...
Plan outrages Greens
Jul 02, 2001 ... WELLINGTON -- The Green Party is outraged at a proposal to allowhuge trucks on the country's roads. Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said the proposal, which shebelieved would be outlined in a Land Transport Safety Authoritydocument to be released this week, would ruin roads ...
Police recruiting boosted
Jul 02, 2001 ... WELLINGTON -- The police will spend a million dollars onrecruitment programmes this year compared with $281,000 last year,the National Party says. Police spokesman Tony Ryall quoted official figures and said theGovernment was facing a crisis. Mr Ryall gained the information ...
Man killed in crash
Jul 02, 2001 ... One man is dead and four are injured after an accident on DyersPass Road. Christchurch youth Robert Joseph Hallahan, 16, was killedwhen the Mazda RX7 he was driving left the road and hit a ...
Boy shot at Dipton
Jul 02, 2001 ... A seven-year-old boy is in a serious condition in the intensivecare unit at Dunedin Hospital after he was accidentally shot byanother child at Dipton, Southland, yesterday. Senior SergeantWarwick Bruce, of ...
Rod on the road to 200
Jul 02, 2001 ... DUNEDIN -- It is not Mount Everest, but when you are 84 yearsold, walk with a stick and have had several heart attacks, strokesand turns, climbing the world's steepest street is an impressiveachievement. It is even more impressive when you do it twice a day. And today ...
IN A FEW WORDS
Jul 02, 2001 ... * National list MP Katherine Rich seems to have a very malleableconscience. She opposes "any move to levy employers" to finance paidparental leave, but has no objection to taking two months leave fromher job paid for by her employer, the taxpayer. JOHN BALNEAVES * Joanne ...
Revolt in PNG
Jul 02, 2001 ... Papua New Guinea is maintaining its violent political traditionswith the rioting that has been rocking its capital, Port Moresby.The army and the politicians have more than once attempted to gettheir way by revolts and demonstrations that have seriouslychallenged governments. The present ...
Waitaki project
Jul 02, 2001 ... Sir--Your report on trout from the Waitaki being rescued by therelease of additional water from Meridian's hydro lakes (June 27)made poignant reading. It was but a few weeks ago that I read an article in The Press onthe possible diversion of three-quarters of the Waitaki's flow ...
Backpackers
Jul 02, 2001 ... Sir--Paul Madgwick's report on West Coast toilet facilities (June26) highlights just one of the costs of increasing tourism. It was disappointing, however, to see that Tourism West Coastchairman Pat McManus singles out backpacker tourists as lessdesirable, having the likely ...
Railways
Jul 02, 2001 ... Sir--A couple of decades ago our Canterbury township had a railline passing through it, a station, and a station master. The man was all but unemployable, yet the Railways gave him ajob, and gave him pride and a certain amount of power. Of course,Railways lost money each year and ...
Massive productions
Jul 02, 2001 ... Sir--It was great to see such a positive letter from LindaMacIntyre regarding Winter Solstice (June 29). We had a fantastic time putting on the event, and agree that itis a pity there are not more youth-orientated events occurring inChristchurch. Massive Productions is a ...
Petrol tax
Jul 02, 2001 ... Sir--Boaties with petrol-powered boats, join me in taking thisGovernment to task for the theft of road (excise) tax on petrol.Boats are off-road craft so this tax should not apply. Diesel-powered boats pay no tax as diesel tax is only on vehicles-- road user charges -- so this is ...
Coast forests
Jul 02, 2001 ... Sir--Tony Edney's dismissal (June 25) of Dr David Norton'sinsightful article on the inconsistency of the current Government'sindigenous forest policy shows up the dated, 1970s-stylepreservationist attitude that dominates popular thinking in theGovernment concerning West Coast forests ....
Air NZ fares
Jul 02, 2001 ... Sir--Good luck to Bruce Fuller (June 19) in attempting to obtainsuitable flights using air points. Having also unsuccessfully triedthis, we applied instead to upgrade to business class for a recenttrip to Europe, hoping to make the horrendous 30-hour journey incomfort. To obtain ...
Safety in homes
Jul 02, 2001 ... Sir--From 1923 to 1930 I lived at Glenbrook, the first station inthe Blue Mountains, New South Wales, with my parents, threebrothers, and baby sister, in a fibro and wooden house. We lived only 10 minutes walk from the railway station, butwithout electricity, reticulated water, or ...
Charter: a television tragedy?
Jul 02, 2001 ... In her zeal to introduce a charter for TVNZ, Marian Hobbs isdestroying an asset, says National broadcasting spokeswomanKATHERINE RICH. The irony is that the key decision makers are people who admitthey do not watch much television. Television is many things to manypeople. It can ...
Nuclear ban left NZ out in the cold
Jul 02, 2001; ... In New Zealand last week, former US diplomat Richard Tearerecalled the Lange Government's 1985 move to ban visits by Americanwarships. He still believes it was the wrong decision, writes NICKVENTER. January, 1985: United States embassy deputy chief of missionRichard Teare ...
New home for at-risk children already full
Jul 02, 2001; ... Services providing residential care for young children arefinding it hard to cope while a shortage of foster parentscontinues. A new Christchurch home for children under 10 is already packed,despite its opening receiving little publicity. The home in Cashmere, which is ...
Ethnic ties embraced; Conciliator calls for 'harmonised diversity'
Jul 02, 2001; ... Embracing ethnic worth will help mend Christchurch's raceproblems, the Race Relations Conciliator says. Gregory Fortuin told the city's mayoral working party on ethnicrelations that recognising and accepting difference would enhancesocial cohesion and help eliminate sometimes ...
Kramer on recorder
Jul 02, 2001; ... Wolfgang Kramer, recorder, with Martin Setchell, harpsichord, andEdith Salzmann, cello. Friday lunchtime concert, Great Hall, theArts Centre, June 29. Reviewed by David Sell. German player Wolfgang Kramer is one of the top performers ofbaroque and contemporary music for the ...
Mild time in south with record highs
Jul 02, 2001 ... It might have felt cold and wintry, but South Island temperaturesreached near record highs in June. Mean temperatures were at least1deg above average across most of the South Island, according to thelatest National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research figures. It was ...
Rust lands farmer's ferry service plans in dry dock
Jul 02, 2001 ... WELLINGTON -- The hull of a ship intended for a Cook Strait ferryservice is so rusted and corroded it breaks away in the hands,Maritime Safety Authority director Russell Kilvington says. A Waikato farmer is bidding to set up a Cook Strait ferryservice, but the intended vessel has ...
Burwood beefs up transfusion system
Jul 02, 2001 ... Giving a patient the wrong blood has led to the strengthening oftransfusion procedures at Burwood Hospital, general manager JimMagee says. A patient received a unit of the wrong blood at Burwoodabout two months ago. The patient recovered fully and wasdischarged. "This was an extremely ...
Plea from police after attack on Nelson man
Jul 02, 2001 ... Nelson police continue to appeal for information from the publicafter an attack on a seriously disabled Nelson man who lived alone.The man, 52, was attacked in his Atawhai Drive flat on Thursdaynight and lay unable to move until he was found by a caregiver about9am the next day ....
Rangiora celebrates fresh new image
Jul 02, 2001 ... Rangiora has a fresh new image -- Refreshingly Rangiora. The blue-green brand was hoisted high in Rangiora's main street at theweekend as the town celebrated its launch with entertainment,parades, and a street market. Refreshingly Rangiora, which alsocarries the words "soul, style, ...
Nothing holds Chris back in school of life
Jul 02, 2001; ... Chris Wiberg marked New Zealand's first Helen Keller DeafblindCommunication Day with the people who are his lifeline. Born deaf and blind, 30-year-old Mr Wiberg is totally dependenton an interpreter. While life might be tough, Mr Wiberg has not let his disabilityhold him ...
Project proves to be a class act
Jul 02, 2001; ... Most school assignments are quickly forgotten. The Catholic Cathedral College construction class has justfinished one which could last a lifetime. The class of Year 12 and Year 13 students built 70 trapprotectors for Quail Island. They will help snare pests while ...
Fuss over strip visit continues
Jul 02, 2001; ... The strip-club visit by Women's Refuge boss Merepeka Raukawa-Tait may raise eyebrows, but it does not detract from theorganisation's message, prominent Christchurch women say. The refuge's chief executive was photographed at a newly openedWellington strip club on Friday night, ...
Support 'central' to Olympic bids
Jul 02, 2001; ... Any future Christchurch bid for the Winter Olympics must focus ongathering international support, the company behind a failedproposal say. The chairman of Winter Olympic Bid Ltd, Austin Forbes, QC, saidvaluable lessons had been learnt about Olympic politics in theinvestigation ...
Chinese contest seat on council
Jul 02, 2001; ... Two Chinese candidates will go head-to-head in this year'sChristchurch local body elections. Sitting Fendalton-Waimairi Community Board member Yiyi Ku willcome up against newcomer Ronald Fung in seeking a Christchurch CityCouncil seat in the Waimairi ward. Mr Fung announced ...
Woman awarded $22,000
Jul 02, 2001 ... A Christchurch woman and former employee of The Press has beenawarded $22,000 by a Human Rights Act tribunal after being sexuallyharassed by a colleague. The incident occurred in 1998 when Bryan Hislop Smith, then aPress advertising consultant, invited the woman, Sarah Te Huki, ...
Booklet answers teenagers' curly questions
Jul 02, 2001; ... Frank health advice on everything from zapping zits tocontraception is included in a new free booklet for teens. Straight Answers to Curly Questions, produced by the PharmacyGuild and launched by Youth Affairs Minister Laila Harre, is beingdistributed through community pharmacies ....
Woman charged
Jul 02, 2001 ... DUNEDIN -- Police have laid a last-minute charge against a 29-year-old woman whose vehicle struck and killed a Dunedin man nearWanaka early on New Year's Day. Dion Wells, 19, was walking from Wanaka to a camping ground atAlbert Town about 2.35am when he was hit. His aunt, ...
Man gets PD for revenge attack; Jail for misleading welfare officer; Ukulele attack `serious violence'
Jul 02, 2001 ... A revenge attack resulted in the assailant getting a severely cutarm when he broke into the victim's house, the Christchurch DistrictCourt has been told. John Ilkiw, 34, who admitted a charge of assault, was sentencedto five months periodic detention by Judge Brian Callaghan, who ...