The Press back issues from September 2001:
Pinfiring banned
Sep 01, 2001 ... The Australian Racing Board has amended the rules of racing toban horses which have been pinfired. A ban already exists in NewZealand. The new rule ...
Ela Athena in Belmont
Sep 01, 2001 ... Ela Athena, one of the female turf runners rated ahead of Sunlinein last year's international classifications, is to race in the $1mMan O'War ...
TAB computer glitch
Sep 01, 2001 ... A computer problem caused havoc with bets placed on race six atWarwick Farm last Saturday for the New Zealand TAB which will resultin extra payouts for punters. The race did not close at 240 outletssouth of Taupo ...
Cool Hand Luke steps up to NZ cup class
Sep 01, 2001; ... Some questions about the next Canterbury tier stepping up to cupclass were answered by Cool Hand Luke and Makati Galahad at the NewZealand Metropolitan Trotting Club's More FM race night. The fresh challengers to northern topliners Yulestar and Holmes DG confirmed they have the ...
All Blacks under siege; Oliver calls for cool heads
Sep 01, 2001; ... Captain Anton Oliver wants the All Blacks to forget about the Tri-Nations title being at stake and the hype surrounding John Eales'last game and "focus on beating Australia in a test match". Tonight's Tri-Nations decider is shaping as the biggest match theAll Blacks can play ...
Families back their Canterbury sons in black
Sep 01, 2001; ... Rising above the din at Stadium Australia tonight will be aspecial cheer for a Canterbury All Black. Ray and Gail MacDonald, of Blenheim, are in Sydney to see theirson, Leon, play at fullback against the Wallabies. Leon's sister Natalie, 18, says the family is very close ....
Mother returns to US to resume fight; WHAT IS THE HAGUE CONVENTION
Sep 01, 2001; ... A Christchurch mother at the centre of a bitter custody battlefaces an uncertain future as she returns to the United States withher four children. Robin McLaughlin's children were taken into Child, Youth andFamily care on Thursday after the High Court in Christchurch ruledthat ...
Aust offer to NZ on refugees
Sep 01, 2001; ... Australia says it would pay New Zealand to take all 460 Afghanirefugees on a ship marooned off the coast of Christmas Island. Determined to keep all of the illegal immigrants off its ownsoil, Australia would pay for other governments to take them, said aspokesman for Australian ...
Grades used for jobless; Winz system under fire
Sep 01, 2001; ... Work and Income New Zealand (Winz) is grading the unemployed onhow hard they will be to place in jobs. Beneficiary Advisory Service spokesman Jim Lamb has decried thesystem saying it treats people like commodities, is imprecise, andis an inappropriate way of introducing them to ...
Zoo 'mum' makes meal of job
Sep 01, 2001; ... Ian Adams spends $250 a week on fruit and vegetables and abouttwice as much on meat. The bananas may be a little over- ripe. The meat may includehorse, rabbits, and day-old chickens. But his diners love it. They are the 300 animals of Orana Wildlife Park. Ian Adams isanimal ...
DIARY
Sep 01, 2001; ... Unpopular mechanics? IN A NEWSLETTER headed Institute of Automotive MechanicalEngineers, staff were invited to a kitchen design and constructionmeeting and told that "wives or partners are welcome to attend. Ifyou are planning any modifications this is one you can't afford ...
Parry faces further disciplinary charges
Sep 01, 2001 ... WELLINGTON -- Whangarei gynaecologist Graham Parry, who wasstruck off the medical register for negligence in his treatment ofNorthland woman Colleen Poutsma, but reinstated on appeal, is toface four more disciplinary charges. His lawyer, Harry Waalkens, confirmed yesterday that Dr ...
Judge says he will refuse reparation claim
Sep 01, 2001 ... A Christchurch District Court judge has refused to allowreparation to a second- hand store after it repeatedly bought stolengoods from the same burglar. Damian Aaron Anderson, 23, appeared for sentence yesterday onthree counts of burglary, attempting to take a car, and theft ....
Man skips detention
Sep 01, 2001 ... Nelson police are looking for a man who has escaped homedetention. A warrant to arrest Hemi Curtis, 19, was issued after hecut his security bracelet and left his court-approved accommodationa week ago. A ...
Truck driver killed
Sep 01, 2001 ... Police have named a truck driver who died when his vehicle rolledon a gold mine claim at Murchison. Senior Constable Allan Peacocksaid the driver, Bevan John Tinetti, 29, was dumping boulders in theMatakitaki Valley when the accident ...
Record book price
Sep 01, 2001 ... A rare 19th century book containing colour lithographs of Maorichiefs and tribal families fetched a record price at auction thisweek. Bethunes Rare Books manager Peter Trewern said the bidding fora copy of The New Zealanders, Illustrated ...
Toxic vitamin stolen
Sep 01, 2001 ... About 30kg of highly toxic vitamins have been stolen from theWaitoa Dairy Factory, near Morrinsville, and police are concernedthey could be fatal if ingested. The vitamin, sodium selenite,sometimes known as selenium, was stolen from the vitamin store ...
Girl drowns in pool
Sep 01, 2001 ... A five-year-old girl drowned on Thursday night at a Rotoruaswimming pool complex. Acting Senior Sergeant Karl Konlechner saidthe girl, a recent arrival with her mother from China, was ...
Afghanistan community calls for NZ help
Sep 01, 2001; ... The Afghanistan community in Christchurch is appealing to the NewZealand Government to help some of the 460 refugees stranded on aNorwegian cargo ship in the Indian Ocean. Rubina Nawabi and Ashrafa Masud are no strangers to the plight ofrefugees and yesterday made a heartfelt plea ...
Aust man tells NZ: wake up
Sep 01, 2001; ... New Zealand needed to wake up and look at the broader picture, anAustralian told a Nelson rally protesting against his county'shandling of the Afghani boat people crisis. Michael Lincolne, speaking at the end of yesterday's small andpeaceful noon rally on the Nelson Cathedral ...
AUSTRALIAN REFUGEE CRISIS
Sep 01, 2001 ... Christchurch may be asked to host some of the refugees strandedon a freighter off Christmas Island. Prime Minister Helen Clark confirmed yesterday that theGovernment had been approached by the United Nations and theAustralian Government to take some of the refugees ....
Mystery bride has baby
Sep 01, 2001 ... NEW PLYMOUTH -- The couple who met and married through a Hamiltonmystery bride radio promotion have embarked on a new mystery --parenthood. Paula Nicholl (nee Stockwell), a sales manager formerly of NewPlymouth, gave birth to a baby boy at 12.09am yesterday, severalweeks early ....
11 hurt as jetboat hits rocks
Sep 01, 2001 ... WELLINGTON -- Eleven jetboat passengers were injured when theircraft slammed into a rock wall on the Shotover River nearQueenstown. The boat was operated by Shotover Jet. Company chief executiveAdrian Januszkiewicz said all 11 passengers on the jet were hurt.Six of the 11 had ...
Warning on degraded Rangitata River
Sep 01, 2001; ... A degraded Rangitata River is likely if Environment Canterbury(ECan) councillors follow the advice of their staff, Fish and Gamesays. Fish and Game central South Island regional manager Jay Graybillsaid yesterday that a submission recommended by ECan staff on Fishand Game's ...
Time top of the list for Father's Day
Sep 01, 2001; ... Many fathers will wake up tomorrow to breakfast in bed or giftsof socks, ties, books, power drills and chocolate. However, the greatest gift the fathers themselves can give backto their children is time, former national Plunket pediatrician DrRussell Wills said. "Making ...
Child severely injured in father's assault
Sep 01, 2001 ... Chamana Watene Pene could not stand the constant crying of hisbaby daughter, so he shook her to the point she now has permanentsevere injuries -- if she survives. In the Christchurch DistrictCourt yesterday, Pene, 23, admitted charges of assaulting a childand causing grievous bodily harm ...
Man changes plea in scrotum-biting case
Sep 01, 2001 ... A Blackball man will appear for sentence next month on chargesrelating to biting a bridesgroom's scrotum at a wedding function.Nathan John Doig, a 27 year-old labourer, changed his plea to guiltyin the Christchurch District Court yesterday. He had been chargedwith assault and possessing ...
Phone services cut when truck hits pole
Sep 01, 2001 ... Phone services to large parts of the lower South Island were cutyesterday when a truck wiped out a Telecom fibre-optic cable. Thetruck hit a phone pole near Dunedin just before 4am. A Telecomspokeswoman said the accident had not affected local or emergencycalls as initially thought ....
Canty invention may succeed silicon chip
Sep 01, 2001 ... University of Canterbury physicists have invented and patented atechnique that may succeed the silicon chip in world electronics.Their invention entails the use of chains of atom ...
Science congress 'success'
Sep 01, 2001; ... Daily protests have failed to put a damper on New Zealand'slargest international science conference. It has been hailed a success and a major advance for Christchurchas a host city. The 34th International Congress of Physiological Sciences wrappedup yesterday, with ...
Jorgy with a $500 tag on his head
Sep 01, 2001 ... WELLINGTON -- Notorious convicted machinegun murderer RonJorgensen, who is believed to have faked his death while on parolein 1984, was seen yesterday by a Wellington criminal lawyer. "I just had a look and recognised him," barrister Greg King said. Sadly for those who like a ...
Controversial abortion pill in NZ
Sep 01, 2001; ... A controversial abortion pill widely used in other countries isnow available in New Zealand. The French-made pill, Mifegyne, has been approved by the Ministryof Health after extensive investigations into its safety andeffectiveness. Ministry of Health senior medical adviser ...
A Daffodil Day volunteer with spring in her step
Sep 01, 2001 ... Who said volunteer work was a drag? Helen Bussell had a ballcollecting for Daffodil Day on the corner of Main South Road andCarmen Road. She was among hundreds of volunteers who helped in thecancer appeal. Ms Bussell said she was blown away by people'sgenerosity ...
Review concerns GP
Sep 01, 2001; ... Christchurch will have the only ambulance communications centrein the South Island in a proposed revamp costing about $5 million. A review released in Christchurch yesterday recommends trimmingthe country's eight communications centres to three. The South Island's two ...
Mayor denies impropriety in House deal
Sep 01, 2001 ... The Christchurch City mayoral race has entered a new phase, withallegations of impropriety replacing last-minute co-operation talks. Less than a week after refusing to abandon his campaign to fellowmayoral hopeful Robin Booth, George Balani has attacked Mayor GarryMoore and ...
Region pessimistic about house buying
Sep 01, 2001 ... Confidence in the Christchurch housing market is lagging behindthe rest of the South Island as house prices in the city continue toslide. Results of the Quarterly Housing Intentions Survey from ASB Bankshow Christchurch, along with Wellington, was the most pessimisticregion in ...
Plans for $50m park dropped
Sep 01, 2001; ... Plans for a $50 million employment park on the outskirts ofKaiapoi have been dropped. Southern Capital has dropped the proposal for a 43ha parkalongside the motorway and opted for a much smaller planningproposal -- an 11ha motorway service area. The decision by the company ...
Spotless record tarnished by jail
Sep 01, 2001 ... A young mother of two with a previously spotless record isstarting an 18-month jail sentence after coming under the influenceof an experienced criminal. Heidi Maria Greenfield, 24, a university student, was yesterdaysentenced to 18 months jail by Judge Graeme Noble after being ...
Accused may take stand
Sep 01, 2001 ... Ijan John Beveridge is expected to take the witness box on Mondayto tell a different version of events surrounding two allegedattacks on his wife, Robyn. The Crown case in the week-long High Court trial closed lateyesterday, and counsel Pip Hall is expected to open the defence ...
Attack in toilet cowardly - judge
Sep 01, 2001 ... An assault on a man as he stood urinating in a bar toilettriggered a "Wild West" brawl in Lyttelton, the ChristchurchDistrict Court was told. Lester Mason Wilson, 46, who admitted four counts of assault, wassentenced yesterday to six months periodic detention and a co-offender, ...
Dealer may lose house
Sep 01, 2001 ... A jailed drug dealer now faces legal action to seize his houseand most of the $30,064 cash that the police found there. Gary Owen Hickey, 37, a domestic purposes beneficiary, was jailedfor two years and four months by Justice Panckhurst in the HighCourt at Christchurch, as one of ...
Scam victim thrilled
Sep 01, 2001 ... HAMILTON -- A Waikato grandmother who had a breakdown afterlosing her home in a $2.2 million housing scam jumped for joy whenthe men who fleeced her were found guilty. After a 5 1/2-week trial brought by the Serious Fraud Office, ajury in the Hamilton District Court took three ...
Patient on rape count
Sep 01, 2001 ... WHANGAREI -- A Whangarei man allegedly caught having sex with afellow psychiatric patient in her hospital bed is to stand trial ona rape charge. Daniel Akumahi Rihari, 24, a sickness beneficiary, appeared inthe Whangarei District Court for a depositions hearing on one chargeof ...
Lawyers debate whether Gates was 'bad or mad'
Sep 01, 2001 ... WELLINGTON -- Was David Gates "bad or mad" when he killedVictoria University law student Gavin Dash? That was the main question focused on by prosecution and defencelawyers when they summed up their cases in the High Court atWellington yesterday. Gates, 27, has been charged ...
Police arrest man in Coffin murder case
Sep 01, 2001 ... Police have arrested a man and charged him with the murder ofmissing Auckland chef Michael Coffin. The man, a 23-year- old fromthe North Shore, was to appear in the North Shore District Courttoday. Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Bush said police were last nightexamining a ...
Time runs out for big winner in Lotto
Sep 01, 2001 ... Lost. A Lotto Division One winner -- and there's more than$650,000 at stake. A ticket bought from Peter Dunkerley AmcalChemist in Hastings won the $652,478 prize in Lotto draw 688 onSeptember 9 last year, but no-one has come forward to claim themoney. Now the winner has just one week to ...
Journalists unmoved by lockout threat
Sep 01, 2001 ... Striking New Zealand Herald journalists have reaffirmed theirrefusal to return to work and said they will stay out indefinitely.More than 100 journalists, members of the Engineering, Printing andManufacturing Union (EPMU), walked off the job on Wednesday after afresh breakdown of talks ...
Call for witnesses in hunt for kidnappers
Sep 01, 2001 ... Police are appealing for witnesses to help in the hunt for threeoffenders who kidnapped and robbed a man of thousands of dollars.Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Small, of Lower Hutt CIB, said the 32-year- old mechanic was bundled into the back of a vehicle in centralWellington about ...
Tragedy 'totally avoidable'
Sep 01, 2001; ... Mental health workers are carrying dangerously high caseloads andignoring warnings from patients' families, concerned parents say. As an inquiry begins into why mentally-ill Queenstown man MarkBurton was released from Southland Hospital just 24 hours before hestabbed his mother to ...
King disappointed at UK 'poaching'
Sep 01, 2001 ... WELLINGTON -- A British campaign to recruit doctors hasdisappointed Health Minister Annette King, who plans raising herconcerns with her British counterpart, Alan Milburn. Next month's New Zealand Medical Journal will carry recruitmentadvertisements targeting Kiwi doctors as part ...
More Maori, women wanted at board tables
Sep 01, 2001; ... Ministers have been told that commercial nous should sometimestake a back seat to sex and race when making appointments to theboards of government bodies. White-skinned, white-collar males have typically dominated thelucrative positions on New Zealand's 350 crown boards, panels ...
ACT president praises cull of Nat dead wood
Sep 01, 2001; ... Lunch between the National and ACT NZ presidents was spiced upthis week when ACT president Catherine Judd publicly put the breadknife into National MPs. National president Michelle Boag said yesterday that she hadfound Ms Judd's comments "interesting", coming from a ...
Police, Defence Force on prison alert
Sep 01, 2001 ... WELLINGTON -- Police and Defence Force staff have been told theycould be needed to help run the country's prisons by Monday. The dispute between prison staff and the Corrections Departmentlooks set to escalate with the Defence Force placed on standby againyesterday. A ...
Alarms-for-all call after deaths; Heat 'at 1000deg within 2mins'
Sep 01, 2001 ... WHANGAREI -- A room in which a fire killed three childrenprobably reached 1000deg within two minutes, an inquest has beentold. The fire has prompted recommendations for compulsory fire-safetyeducation in schools and smoke alarms in all New Zealand homes. The inquest into ...
Groups lobby for education on folate benefits
Sep 01, 2001; ... Health groups and disability support group CCS are worriedpregnant women are not eating enough folate-rich food. Research indicates that women who take folate before and duringpregnancy can reduce the risk of a baby having a neural tube defectby up to 70 per cent. The ...
Apple industry sour over Taiwan exports
Sep 01, 2001; ... The Government's decision to manage apple exports to Taiwan fromOctober 1 this year has found little favour from the pipfruitindustry. Trade Negotiations Minister Jim Sutton said Cabinet had endorseda proposal to impose an export prohibition order on apple exports toTaiwan until ...
Fines for smoky vehicles
Sep 01, 2001 ... WELLINGTON -- Owners of smoky vehicles will face fines of up to$150 from today. Under laws that came into force last March, vehicles are notallowed to emit a continuous stream of visible smoke or vapour for10 seconds or more. Transport Minister Mark Gosche said motorists ...
Apportioning blame
Sep 01, 2001 ... The trial of Mark Edmund Burton is over but the matter must notend there. Burton's family, and the general public, have the rightto have a simple question answered -- why was a man suffering fromchronic paranoid schizophrenia, and identified by his own family asa danger, not in ...
IN A FEW WORDS
Sep 01, 2001 ... * I wish to compliment Trevor Agnew for his wonderful Ode toSouthland (Weekend, August 18). He mentioned so many great features -- the Takitimus, blue cod, old Riverton houses, glow-worm caves,swedes (frosted, of course). It stirred vivid memories of years pastin Southland. I am sure ...
Garbage city
Sep 01, 2001 ... Sir--I can only agree with the reader (August 24) who calledChristchurch the Garbage City. Parts of the central business district are now a thoroughlyunpleasant place to walk through in the weekend. The area along theriverbank from Lichfield Street to Worcester Street is ...
More recycling
Sep 01, 2001 ... Sir--Denis O'Rourke, chairman of the Recovered MaterialFoundation (August 16), draws our attention to the council'sdecision to budget for a second recycling bin per household "toaccommodate the increasing volume of recyclables". Great. But has the council also thought to budget ...
Teaching English
Sep 01, 2001 ... Sir--James Kearns's (August 21) letter on why education standardshave dropped was insolent, ignorant, and insulting. I grew up in thesituation that he described, yet I am working my first year on adouble degree at the University of Canterbury. I was deeply offended by his remarks ....
Native species
Sep 01, 2001 ... Sir--Those who label the guardians of New Zealand's naturalheritage as "ecofascists" (August 24) protest too much. Certainly vigilance is necessary to prevent identity and pridefrom becoming xenophobic. But this does not mean that it is OK forinvasive organisms to subjugate our ...
Dairy prices
Sep 01, 2001 ... Sir--I am annoyed about the recent more than 10 per cent rise inthe price of milk. Our supplier claims that world prices and the kiwi dollar are thereason. In reality, the costs of production -- being wages,buildings and land, energy, and raw materials -- are local costs ....
Defence needs
Sep 01, 2001 ... Sir--It must be asked why on earth is the army so hellbent onpurchasing the LAV 3 considering its inappropriateness for theterrain types of the south-west Pacific. The series 3, unlike the Australian army's LAV 2, is notamphibious and can not fit in a RNZAF C130 without the gun ...