The Press back issues from February 2002:
STOCK SALE
Feb 01, 2002 ... Prices for store lambs lifted slightly at this week's CanterburyAgricultural Park store sheep sale. The yarding was lighter than lastweek. STORE LAMBS Values: Best lambs $62 to $69 with the odd sale to $75, medium $54to $60, light $40 to $45. Sales included: W ...
SEA, AIR, RAIL
Feb 01, 2002 ... Port of Lyttelton VESSELS IN PORT Om, No. 4 West. Irina Zharkikh, No. 4 West. Ksenia Zharkikh, No. 4 West. Chiyo Maru No. 3, No. 3 East. Ivan Golubets, No. 3 West. MSC New Plymouth, Cashin Quay No. 3. Mainstream, Z Berth ....
Costs warning
Feb 01, 2002 ... The Hurunui District Council electoral officer, Janice Bailey,says she will not be part of any national agreement in relation tocost sharing for the Canterbury District Health Board elections inthe future. She told the council yesterday the formula adopted forthe ...
Logging firm's view
Feb 01, 2002 ... Forest giant Carter Holt Harvey has been asked to comment byFebruary 14 on suggestions that the Nelson City Council might invokethe Transport Act to block its logging trucks from residentialstreets. East Nelson residents have been agitating for more ...
Special Coast plates
Feb 01, 2002 ... The West Coast's independent character took another step yesterdaywith the launch of "The Republic of West Coast" number platesurrounds. Central Government and the monarchy need not worry though.The stunt has been labelled "purely an identity exercise" for theregion. "Saying that the ...
Battle to save court begins
Feb 01, 2002; ... National Party justice spokesman Wayne Mapp and Kaikoura MP LyndaScott have lent their weight to the campaign to save the RangioraDistrict Court from closure. They attended the launch of Daniel Gordon's Save Our Courtpetition which the National candidate for the Waimakariri ...
Death of dolphins prompts net debate
Feb 01, 2002 ... Whether set nets should be allowed in Marlborough's French Passneeds to be considered in the Ministry of Fisheries investigationinto the use of set nets in the Marlborough Sounds, says a Departmentof Conservation (DOC) spokesman. DOC Sounds area manager Roy Grose said the finding ...
Little surprise at Shipley retirement
Feb 01, 2002 ... Rakaia MP Jenny Shipley's decision to quit politics at the nextelection was inevitable, according to Ashburton citizens. Most saw it as the inevitable outcome of losing the NationalParty's leadership to Southlander Bill English last year. There waslittle room for sentiment in ...
Refurbished plant closes
Feb 01, 2002 ... The Oxford abattoir is likely to close despite a $200,000 upgradejust over a year ago. The viability of small country abattoirs has been in doubt afteronerous regulations were introduced for those that planned to killfor the retail market. One of the three owners , Peter ...
Southern Cross split questioned
Feb 01, 2002 ... WELLINGTON -- A split between departing Southern Cross chiefexecutive Roger Bowie and the health insurer's board of directorsabout future direction is news to industry players. Mr Bowie was not talking to the media yesterday, which industrysources said was probably part of his ...
Record year for Kiwi tourism
Feb 01, 2002; ... New Zealand has defied the odds, notching up a record tourism yearin the face of a global downturn in travel. Figures released yesterday show that despite the internationalupheaval caused by the September 11 terrorist attacks, New Zealandhosted more overseas visitors in 2001 than ...
Firefighters called in last-ditch attempt to help out horse
Feb 01, 2002 ... If it's not cats stuck up trees, it's horses stuck in ditches. Firefighters were called to a Marshland property yesterday, whenan 18-year-old mare was found wedged in a ditch. Theo and Thea van Hout, who look after their daughter's horse,Lakewood Annelee, on their McSaveneys ...
Heroic rescuers baffled by lack of assistance
Feb 01, 2002; ... Three young men are being hailed as heroes after pulling fourpeople out of rough seas at New Brighton Beach. Matt Roxburgh, 19, Brien Keegan, 20, and Shannon Reed, 23, wereswimming near the pier on Wednesday when they noticed several peoplecaught in a strong rip. "A woman ...
Surgery bus 'waste of money'
Feb 01, 2002; ... A taxpayer-backed $25 million mobile surgery bus service is awhite elephant, critics say. But its promoter, Christchurch surgeon Stuart Gowland, is urgingpatience. One doctors' group has called it a waste of money, and a healthauthority has backed out of being the first to ...
Vincent takes close finishes to heart
Feb 01, 2002 ... PERTH -- Black Cap Lou Vincent will see a cardiologist when hegets back to New Zealand from the tri-series one-dayers, after hispulse pounded at 231 beats-per-minute following Tuesday's narrowcricket loss to Australia. The good news is that after an injection he will be ready ...
Minimum wage rise reaction mixed
Feb 01, 2002; ... Workers have welcomed the Government's 3.9 per cent increase inthe minimum wage -- but most agree $8 an hour is still not a lot tolive on. Labour Minister Margaret Wilson has announced that the minimumwage will rise from $7.70 an hour to $8, while the youth rate will gofrom ...
Vow to fight marine reserves plan
Feb 01, 2002; ... The fishing industry is promising a concerted fight againstGovernment plans for a major overhaul of marine reserves legislation. Conservation Minister Sandra Lee's announcement of her intentionto see the new law passed this year has been hailed byconservationists lobbying to get ...
Race on in Rakaia to replace Shipley
Feb 01, 2002; ... The race to replace Jenny Shipley is on as National Party membersprepare to battle for the candidacy in true-blue Rakaia. Mrs Shipley announced on Wednesday that she would not be seekingre-election at the end of this parliamentary term, ending a 15-yearpolitical career ....
DIARY
Feb 01, 2002; ... Certificate collected CHRISTCHURCH police lost property staff report that the Englishbirth certificate which was handed in to the central police station(Diary, January 31) has been collected by its grateful owner. Family affair A BRITISH amateur football club, which ...
Hit-and-run charge talks
Feb 01, 2002 ... Talks are going on regarding the charges faced by three young menover an alleged hit and run accident in which a Chinese exchangestudent was killed. A pre-depositions conference in the Christchurch District Courtyesterday brought a hint that the three may eventually plead ...
Health impacts of lower drinking age for review
Feb 01, 2002; ... Health impacts of the lower drinking age -- including youthsuicide and teenage pregnancy -- will be studied as part of theJustice Minister's review of the law change. Alcohol Advisory Council chief executive Mike MacAvoy said it wasundertaking a comprehensive study looking at ...
Christchurch cars spared
Feb 01, 2002 ... Christchurch is being spared from a surge in car theft grippingother parts of the country. In Auckland, some insurers are reportinga rise of more than 50 per cent in the number of ...
Nothing to it ... today
Feb 01, 2002 ... No matter how busy you are, today is the day to spend time sometime doing nothing. The Mental Health Foundation has declared ...
Teen trains eye on circus life
Feb 01, 2002; ... Rangiora teen Gregory Price is more determined than ever to jointhe circus following his debut performance with the spectacular GreatChina Circus. The 13-year-old juggled and contorted alongside some of the bestin the profession during last night's world premier of the ...
Govt fails to act on botched liquor law
Feb 01, 2002; ... Mounting concerns from police and local bodies about a botchedliquor-prohibition law have failed to persuade the Government tourgently fix the problem. The Local Government (Prohibition of Liquor in Public Places) Actwas passed under urgency before Christmas containing a wording ...
PM to return to face demons
Feb 01, 2002; ... Prime Minister Helen Clark is to confront her demons in anelection- year return to Te Tii Marae at Waitangi, and is expected tobe given the opportunity to speak. She will again come face-to-face with Ngapuhi activist TitewhaiHarawira, the woman who reduced her to tears in 1998 and ...
February feast for royal fans
Feb 01, 2002; ... February brings a feast for Christchurch's royal watchers withvisits by the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh and their daughter,Princess Anne. Princess Anne is due to arrive in Christchurch next Tuesday on herway to Antarctica as guest of the Antarctic Heritage Trust. While in ...
Officers in a hurry
Feb 01, 2002 ... WELLINGTON -- Speeding police officers are being snapped by speedcameras more than twice a day on average. Figures from police national headquarters reveal that in the eightyears since the cameras were introduced, police officers have beensent about 6000 speeding tickets, with at ...
Fire site clearance
Feb 01, 2002 ... Crown Relocations has begun clearing the site of a devastatingfire in preparation for salvage work. A December 13 blaze at theHornby warehouse destroyed the stored belongings of 106 CrownRelocations' clients. City Salvage has been removing heavy items ofdebris to allow the month- ...
Young-patient packs
Feb 01, 2002 ... Children discharged from any of the pediatric services atChristchurch Hospital will from today be given a special Going Homepack that will help them get the right care in the community. TheGoing Home packs are a joint initiative between Pegasus Health, ...
Special Coast plates
Feb 01, 2002 ... The West Coast's independent character took another step yesterdaywith the launch of "The Republic of West Coast" number platesurrounds. Central Government and the monarchy need not ...
Attack on office
Feb 01, 2002 ... A vandal has kicked in the front fence and front part of Nelson MPNick Smith's electorate office in Nelson. Dr Smith said he and hisfamily were woken by the "unnerving" noise about 1.30am yesterday."We ...
Campaign begins to save court
Feb 01, 2002; ... National Party justice spokesman Wayne Mapp and Kaikoura MP LyndaScott have lent their weight to the campaign to save the RangioraDistrict Court from closure. They attended the launch of Daniel Gordon's Save Our Courtpetition which the National candidate for the Waimakariri ...
Price rises energise power rivals
Feb 01, 2002; ... Competition is set to heat up on the Christchurch power marketwith the return of two of Meridian Energy's biggest rivals. Contact Energy and TrustPower, which both shut their books to newcustomers during last winter's electricity crisis, are returning in abid to cash in on recent ...
New Brighton action call
Feb 01, 2002; ... The lights will go out in New Brighton if nothing is done withintwo years to rejuvenate it, Auckland design and planning consultantJohn Long says. Already more than 10 per cent of New Brighton's shop fronts weredark. Without action, more shops would turn out the lights ....
Patient transfers spark concern
Feb 01, 2002; ... Patient transfers from Hillmorton Hospital are being questionedafter patients were moved to rest homes without a formal clinicalassessment. National Party associate health spokeswoman Lynda Scott saidMinistry of Health mental health director David Chaplow confirmedpatients from ...
Dolphin deaths spark net probe
Feb 01, 2002 ... Whether set nets should be allowed in Marlborough's French Passneeds to be considered in the Ministry of Fisheries investigationinto the use of set nets in the Marlborough Sounds, says a Departmentof Conservation (DOC) spokesman. DOC Sounds area manager Roy Grose said the finding ...
Lundy murder trial to start next week
Feb 01, 2002 ... The trial of Mark Lundy, the man accused of murdering his wife anddaughter in Palmerston North in August 2000, starts in the High Courtin Palmerston North next week. The trial is expected to last six toeight weeks. Last November letters were sent to 500 eligible jurors ...
Man, 22, dies of brain injuries after attack
Feb 01, 2002 ... A 22-year-old logger died from brain injuries after being attackedin the central North Island town of Ohakune, police say. SergeantMike Hill said a post-mortem yesterday showed Scott Charles Milliken,of Raetihi, near Ohakune, died from cerebral haemorrhage as a resultof a fractured ...
Response to murder aid call 'mediocre'
Feb 01, 2002 ... The South Otago community of Milton has been criticised for notgiving more help to police trying to solve the mystery of JodieBrowne's death. Operation Moore inquiry head Detective SeniorSergeant Steve Wood called the community's response to the freephonenumber mediocre. "Police believe ...
PM takes helm after $3m cup pledge
Feb 01, 2002 ... Prime Minister Helen Clark was handed the helm of Team NewZealand's winning yacht yesterday soon after pledging an extra $3million to back the America's Cup regatta. Team New Zealand skipper Dean Barker gave Ms Clark a few tips onsteering before trusting her with ...
Builder hurt in 8m fall
Feb 01, 2002 ... WELLINGTON --A 20-year-old builder is in hospital with seriousinjuries after falling 8m when two floors collapsed at a centralWellington construction site. Emergency services were called to the Tory Street apartmentsconstruction site, Galleria on Tory, about 9am yesterday ....
Insurer brings back manager
Feb 01, 2002 ... AUCKLAND -- Southern Cross has recalled a former senior managerand taken new public relations advice as staff and board members workovertime to sort out major operational problems. The health insurer has brought back Peter Turnwald, a formeroperations manager who left the company ...
Interrupted sleep but no bad blood
Feb 01, 2002 ... Canterbury's bitter health dispute gave Walter Grills manysleepless nights but it was an early morning trip to the gym thatgave him a real boost. The affable negotiator, who has been chairing marathon talksbetween unions and the Canterbury District Health Board, saidhammering ...
Push for stance on Zimbabwe
Feb 01, 2002 ... WELLINGTON -- Foreign Minister Phil Goff is to use his trip tosouthern Africa to push countries there to support New Zealand'sdesire for action against Zimbabwe. A decision by Commonwealth foreign ministers to send observers tooversee Zimbabwe's election, rather than suspend its ...
Interim suppression on Wallace movements given
Feb 01, 2002 ... NEW PLYMOUTH -- Two Justices of the Peace temporarily suppressed achunk of the evidence presented yesterday at a depositions hearinginto the fatal police shooting of Steven Wallace. The suppressed evidence related to about 40 minutes between whenMr Wallace left New Plymouth's The ...
Pair admit arsons
Feb 01, 2002 ... DUNEDIN -- Two Christchurch massage parlour buildings were"significantly damaged" by deliberately lit fires 15 months ago, theDunedin District Court was told yesterday. John James Theodore Samuels, 35, unemployed, of North Taieri, andBrendan Andrew Baker Noah, 21, a beneficiary, ...
Departing with dignity
Feb 01, 2002 ... The tributes now being paid to Jenny Shipley cannot disguise thefact that it was time for the nation's first female prime minister tobow out of politics. On the verge of turning 50, she has time aplentyto begin a new career and to reclaim a private life. Others beforeher have not been ...
IN A FEW WORDS
Feb 01, 2002 ... * Creative New Zealand spends nearly $1 million for a trade markfor Maori-made items. The squiggle could be found free on any pieceof paper in a standard three class, that being, I feel, indicative ofthe quality of judgment. The whole exercise achieves nothing, whilethe legal definition ...
Name suppression
Feb 01, 2002 ... Sir--Parentline Inc, Hamilton (Prevention of Child Abuse andNeglect and Child Advocacy Agency) is outraged at Judge ChristopherSomerville's decision to permanently suppress the name of a 37-year-old man who tried to hire a 12-year-old girl for sex. This judgment is about adult ...
Name suppression
Feb 01, 2002 ... Sir--It is alarming enough that commercial considerations wereallowed to override the public's right to know the identity of theChristchurch businessman convicted of attempting to hire a 12-year-old girl as a prostitute. It is even more alarming that the presiding judge, ...
Immigration
Feb 01, 2002 ... Sir--Before Richard Prebble writes his next populist treatise onenvironmental determinism, wherein he will no doubt argue that whiteZimbabwean farmers are more appropriate refugees for New Zealandconditions than those from "desert cultures", he should conductthorough research on the ...
Nurses' pay
Feb 01, 2002 ... Sir--The Canterbury District Health Board and Tony Devenish(January 29) seek to shame the nurses by threatening that "patientswill die" if the nurses' strike is carried out. What the CDHB and the public need to know is that if the presentworking conditions in the wards continue, ...
Flying hazard
Feb 01, 2002 ... Sir--I was very interested in Ron Scarlett's letter (January 24)on deep vein thrombosis and I could not agree more. Between 72 and 86 years of age, I made the trip to England everyother year, travelling straight through, economy class, Air NewZealand. I am not in perfect health as ...
GM vandalism
Feb 01, 2002 ... Sir--Not a "backlash", but a pat on the back for those activists,whoever they are, who scattered a few spuds at Lincoln. Shortly before Christmas, an article in Nature reported thatgenetically modified organisms had been detected in native maize inMexico, including a commonly ...
Crowded footpaths
Feb 01, 2002 ... Sir--I agree with both Mike Crean (November 26) and JillianScandrett (January 1) about crowded footpaths. Uneven and slopingfootpaths and overgrown trees and shrubs are my main problem. For the second time within a year I am on crutches, and it is verydifficult to walk on sloping ...
Birth methods
Feb 01, 2002 ... Sir--Norma Campbell, NZ College of Midwives adviser, says "Thereis an expectation that women need to have babies ... pain free". And what is wrong with that? Would Ms Campbell have a tooth extracted without pain relief?Would she have a cut foot stitched without pain relief? ...
Unfair and absurd
Feb 01, 2002 ... As the tri-series reaches its make-or-break point, once more themandarins of the International Cricket Council have allowed adisservice to be done to the game. The decision to cite, then fine,Black Caps skipper Stephen Fleming for showing "dissent" was patentlyunfair and absurd ....
Aquaculture flexes its mussels; FACT FILE
Feb 01, 2002; ... Environmentalists, surfers, and local authorities plan to fight anapplication to build New Zealand's largest marine farm in the`fairways' of the sea off Christchurch. Shells clatter onto a row of rotating stainless steel tables as 70pairs of shuckers' hands work to open mussels at ...
Shares fly, but watch yields
Feb 01, 2002; ... New Zealand's sharemarket outperformed all but eight of the 53member countries of the World Federation of Stock Exchanges in 2001,but our yield stocks now face a poor year, warns Auckland analystArthur Lim. The Stock Exchange's NZSE All Gross index, which includes allshares on ...
F&P boosted by Aust rival
Feb 01, 2002 ... Technology company F&P Healthcare was bolstered by a recordinterim profit from Australian competitor Resmed. The Healthcare shares jumped 25c to $15.10 yesterday after beingin free fall for most of the last week. Its valuation is based partlyon Resmed, which also exports ...
MP, broker in investment fund plan
Feb 01, 2002 ... ACT member of Parliament Stephen Franks and Auckland sharebrokerWayne Collins plan to form an investment fund to help keep ownershipof key businesses in New Zealand. Mr Collins, formerly of D. F. Mainland and Merrill Lynch, said theplanned fund, either as a company or a trust, ...
Contract dates key for SoftEx
Feb 01, 2002 ... Software of Excellence could have an annual profit of more than $1million above or below the prospectus forecast, because of the timingof new contracts. The dental software provider has about eight contracts at variousstages of negotiation, four of which are very significant ...
Westfield lifts its payout
Feb 01, 2002 ... SYDNEY -- Westfield Trust has forecast a rise in its distributiongrowth per unit for 2002 of around 2.75 per cent. The forecast came as the Trust reported a 3.9% fall to $A440.5million ($NZ539m) in net profit for the year ended December 31. Westfield declared a final ...
FUTURES
Feb 01, 2002 ... Trading on the New Zealand Futures and Options Exchange yesterdaywas moderate involving 2194 futures contracts valued at $1.09billion. The March 90-day bank bill futures contract closed down 4 pointsat 95.04 (4.96 per cent); the June contract finished down 7 points at94.73 ...