The Press back issues from July 2004:
Silver Ferns flatten Aust rivals
Jul 01, 2004; ... World champions New Zealand last night justified their tag asfavourites by defeating Australia 54-45 in a scrappy first netballtest in Christchurch. Both coaches say to expect more of the same bruising encounters inthe next two tests. The match resembled something of a ...
University accused of gender bias
Jul 01, 2004; ... Canterbury University is facing accusations of gender bias asfemale academics cry foul over alleged bullying and intimidation bythe predominantly male hierarchy. One lecturer has lodged a complaint with the Human RightsCommission (HRC) and others are complaining of a ...
MP and lesbian relative keep it civil; MP, lesbian relative keep it civil
Jul 01, 2004; ... They have been having barneys about politics over the dinner tablefor years. But the one conversation Erin Kennedy and her MP brother-in-lawBrian Connell never had was about whether bringing up her three kidsas a lesbian mum was morally repugnant. Face to face for the first ...
No avalanche risk seen on fatal day
Jul 01, 2004; ... A combination of factors hid the avalanche danger that led to thedeaths of four people, Timaru Coroner Edgar Bradley found yesterday. He was inquiring into the deaths of Mount Aspiring guides PaulScaife, 51, and David Hiddleston, 34, both of Wanaka, David Gardner,40, an Australian ...
DIARY
Jul 01, 2004; ... Pressing business WHAT AN obedient species we homo sapiens are. A patient inChristchurch Hospital was fascinated to see people passing her ward,pausing, pushing their hands against the door and walking on. It sopuzzled her that as soon as she was able she shuffled to the door ...
Canterbury roads get $230m
Jul 01, 2004; ... Increased traffic on Canterbury roads has paved the way forTransit New Zealand to spent $230 million on state highway projectsin Canterbury over the next 10 years. Transfund, the Government road funding agency, and Transit issuedtheir financial forecasts yesterday and said ...
Dwelling on plans to move
Jul 01, 2004; ... A Christchurch woman who lives alone in a three-bedroom, two-storey state house says 10 months have passed since she requested atransfer to free her home for a needy family. Administrator Angela Campbell said she "rattles around" in theBryndwr property she has occupied for the ...
Daniels upset by bankruptcy
Jul 01, 2004 ... Ngai Tahu board member and former radio personality James Danielssays he is upset and shocked at being declared bankrupt. Daniels, one of 18 members of Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu, was adjudgedbankrupt on Monday. Court records show Westpac Banking Corporation applied for ...
No avalanche risk seen on fatal day
Jul 01, 2004; ... A combination of factors hid the avalanche danger that led to thedeaths of four people, Timaru Coroner Edgar Bradley found yesterday. He was inquiring into the deaths of Mount Aspiring guides PaulScaife, 51, and David Hiddleston, 34, both of Wanaka, David Gardner,40, an Australian ...
Gorse saviour
Jul 01, 2004 ... A gorse bush may have saved a woman's life after she fell down a60m cliff near Dunedin early yesterday. The woman, in her late 20s,became wedged in the bush about 5m down the cliff at Highgrove, ...
Bail granted
Jul 01, 2004 ... A South Westland farmer accused of murdering another man during afight at Ross 11 months ago has been granted bail. In the GreymouthDistrict Court yesterday Judge Noel Walsh granted an application forhome bail but refused to continue name suppression for Gary PhillipHope Wilson, 44, of ...
Rail sale talks on on track
Jul 01, 2004; ... Government officials and a team from transport operator TollHoldings remained locked in talks over the sale of the nation's railinfrastructure last night. The Government had been hoping to secure a deal yesterday, butChris Mackenzie, a senior adviser to Finance Minister Michael ...
Brawls in union firing line
Jul 01, 2004; ... Violence in schoolboy rugby matches is damaging to the image ofthe sport and must not be tolerated, the Canterbury Rugby Union says. Union chief executive Hamish Riach yesterday viewed video footageof a brawl between players in the weekend's first XV match between StAndrew's ...
Martin stays in jail
Jul 01, 2004 ... The Parole Board has told euthanasia campaigner Lesley Martin shewill stay in jail unless she admits she was wrong to break the law.Martin's application for home detention was yesterday ...
Appeal for sightings
Jul 01, 2004 ... Police are appealing for sightings of a man who went missing inhis car after leaving Christchurch on Monday. Rodney John Hall waslast seen driving a blue, 1983 Mitsubishi Mirage, registrationKU8640. His intention was to travel to his ...
Body on riverbank
Jul 01, 2004 ... A family search party looking for two teenage women missing in theMangawhero River near Wanganui after a fatal car crash two weeks agohave found a body, police said last night ....
More baby changes [charges]
Jul 01, 2004 ... More charges have been laid against a Nelson couple accused ofassaulting their five-week-old baby, who has multiple fractures. Theman and woman were charged last week with causing grievous bodilyharm to the baby boy. Each also faced a charge ...
No leads on mystery
Jul 01, 2004 ... A public appeal from the family of Auckland scientist Jim Donnellyhas not provided police with any new leads to his mysterydisappearance ....
Police chase
Jul 01, 2004 ... Four men have been arrested and police are looking for a fifthfollowing an afternoon car chase which started in Christchurch's citycentre and ended in Riccarton. Police followed the ...
Choirs to converge
Jul 01, 2004 ... Twenty choirs from throughout the country have been selected forthe final of the high school choral competition, the Big Sing, to beheld in Dunedin in August. The Canterbury finalists are: BurnsideHigh School Male ...
Council truce
Jul 01, 2004 ... A Westland District Council huff over public criticism by Hokitikacouncillor Mohammed Shahadat has blown over. In April the counciltook offence at media statements by Shahadat criticising staff forpoor financial management. Mayor John Drylie said Shahadat had brokenthe code of conduct ...
Warning on race anxiety
Jul 01, 2004; ... The nation's "increasing anxiety attacks" over race-based fundingthreaten to turn the clock of race relations back 30 years, says aleading Maori figure. Ngai Tahu project manager Hana O'Regan -- daughter of Sir TipeneO'Regan -- told 300 delegates at the Public Health ...
Water reports
Jul 01, 2004 ... Two reports on proposals to take water out of the Waitakicatchment have been released by the Ministry for EconomicDevelopment. They are a draft national cost-benefit analysis bySinclair Knight Mertz and an evaluation by Concept Consulting Groupof the economic impact on Meridian Energy's ...
GP bills cut
Jul 01, 2004 ... Older West Coasters will get big concessions on their medicalbills from today. The West Coast Primary Health Organisation hasannounced that the cost of ...
Councillor vows to foil groyne plan
Jul 01, 2004 ... Plans to build a rock groyne on the popular Hokitika Beach mightfail because of aesthetics. Westland District councillor Russell Gugich promised to "lie inthe sand in front of the truck" to prevent the groyne from beingbuilt in the sea directly opposite Weld Street. Two ...
Coroner rules on fatal crash
Jul 01, 2004; ... The circumstances of an accident in Kaiapoi in which two youngpeople were killed were "atrocious", says North Canterbury CoronerDavid Crerar. At an inquest yesterday into the deaths of Anthony Robert Archer,27, a farmer, of South Eyre Road, and Aliesha Jane Doig, 18, abarmaid, ...
Mine work to start soon
Jul 01, 2004 ... Oceana Gold will begin work this month on reopening the richWaiuta goldmine on the West Coast. The GRD Macraes subsidiary advised the Stock Exchange yesterdaythat all the resource consents and access arrangements were now inplace. Oceana managing director Patrick O'Connor ...
Council imposes hefty levies on subdividers
Jul 01, 2004; ... Subdividers throughout Tasman will pay large development leviesfrom today to help the district council fund the cost of growth. The levies have been introduced by the council to help pay for newand upgraded roads and water and wastewater services needed by theregion's increasing ...
One-man show
Jul 01, 2004 ... Writer and actor Brian Hotter will perform his one-man show, NedKelly ...
Flood warning signs to go up today
Jul 01, 2004 ... Civil Defence sudden-flood warning signs will be going up today atFranz Josef Glacier, even though angry residents have vowed to tearthem down. The signs, designed to dissuade visitors from staying at flood-threatened motels, are unprecedented in New Zealand. The Westland ...
Council approves 3.59% rate increase
Jul 01, 2004; ... Christchurch City councillors have approved a 3.59 per cent raterise after a marathon meeting marred by bickering, accusations ofpolitical grandstanding, and threats of court action. For most households the rate increase will amount to less than anextra $1 a week. In a ...
TrustPower defends Wairau hydro plan
Jul 01, 2004; ... TrustPower says environmental groups are feeding "misinformation"to the public on its proposed $240 million Marlborough hydro-electricity scheme. The Tauranga-based company's generation development manager,Judith Magyari, yesterday defended the scheme, which the Green Partyand ...
Development plans on hold after ruling
Jul 01, 2004; ... Irrigators say farming development in the South Island could slowafter a landmark decision to deny water to a multimillion- dollardairying venture. After spending nearly $18 million buying and developing Mid-Canterbury farmland, the Lynton and Pine Grove dairy companies thisweek ...
Father admits assault on son's 'bully'
Jul 01, 2004; ... An imitation firearm was pulled during a father's misguidedattempt to avenge an alleged incident of bullying. In the Christchurch District Court, Robert Stanley Sanders, 46,admitted two counts of assault and carrying an imitation firearm withintent to commit assault. Judge ...
Drugs discovered in hollowed-out shoe
Jul 01, 2004 ... An attempt to smuggle drugs into Christchurch Women's Prison in ahollowed-out shoe backfired when the crude attempt was discovered byprison staff. In the Christchurch District Court, Coral Nimo Chernikov, 31,yesterday denied three charges of possessing a class B drug, ...
Patients lose out under funding plan
Jul 01, 2004; ... A new era in health funding dawns today with Canterbury patientsthe major losers. The region is deemed to be massively over-funded under theGovernment's long- forecast population-based funding formula. This reshapes the nation's health pie, dishing the cash outaccording to ...
Study finds girls molest young boys
Jul 01, 2004; ... Researchers into sexual abuse by girls say female sexual offendingis chronically under-reported and specialised rehabilitationprogrammes are urgently needed. Findings released yesterday from New Zealand's first study intoadolescent female sexual offending reported a "culture of ...
Rusty Ferns find twinkle toes to secure victory
Jul 01, 2004 ... While the spoils stood polished and glistening the Silver Fernsshowed a little netballing rustiness in a torrid test against long-time foe Australia. World champion New Zealand won the first test 54-45 in a pulsatingmatch at the Westpac Stadium in Christchurch last night. A ...
Government flurry will have you screening or tyred
Jul 01, 2004; ... A pinch and a punch for the first of the month and a slew ofgovernment regulations that will either make your life easier or amisery, depending on who you believe. Today heralds a raft of new legislation, from gaming law to theFamilies Commission, from breast screening to producer ...
Firefighters work in intense heat to quell tyre blaze
Jul 01, 2004 ... Firefighters were keeping a close watch overnight after a largefire In the north of Christchurch was fuelled by thousands of tyres.Thick black smoke billowed over surrounding paddocks ...
Review team at hospital
Jul 01, 2004 ... The external review of Christchurch Hospital's emergencydepartment has completed its first stage. The review team was in Christchurch last ...
Burnside tops city's A Bursary exam results
Jul 01, 2004; ... Christchurch's largest state school has topped the city in ABursary passes. Almost half of the students at Burnside High School -- 47.3 percent -- who sat bursary in 2003 received an A bursary, while 27.8%got a B bursary. Bursary figures supplied by the New Zealand ...
IN A FEW WORDS
Jul 01, 2004 ... My quarterly account from Southern Cross Healthcare has arrived --$442 (including GST). My annual bill is $1768. The Government takes$221 from that. Shouldn't the Government be subsidising (notpenalising) me for paying an exorbitant amount each year to not clogthe already over-stretched ...
Civil Union Bill
Jul 01, 2004 ... Alan Aitken (June 24) appears to have completely missed the point. Helen Clark is now the sixth person within our Parliament who hasstated that she would have had a civil union, had she had the chance.By my math, that's five per cent of Parliament, enough to form aminor party ....
Civil Union Bill
Jul 01, 2004 ... The editorial (June 26) states that family stability is based onthe commitment of the partners and not legal status. Also itdismisses opposition to the Civil Union Bill as based on rhetoric andemotive accusations. This is incorrect. The overwhelming majority of family life ...
Civil Union Bill
Jul 01, 2004 ... Many cynics have noted that marriage has a deleterious effect onromantic love, which makes me wonder why gays and de- factos are sokeen to ...
Civil Union Bill
Jul 01, 2004 ... If God wanted civil union he would have made Adam and Steve, notAdam and Eve. Supporters of the bill accuse society of discrimination. That istheir perception arising from their guilt. It's not our fault theyfeel guilty. It is not a human rights issue at all. These ...
Chatham Island
Jul 01, 2004 ... Your big spread on the Chathams (Weekend Press, June 26-27) hashad mixed reviews here. Chatham Islanders are wary of mainlandjournalists, who have tended to focus on the unrepresentative (likethe Kamo house pictured), but locals concede that Keri Welham seemsto have captured the essence ...
Solar energy
Jul 01, 2004 ... Your correspondent Xu Donghuan (June 22) raises an interestingpoint in comparing China's utilisation of solar energy with ourneglect of the same. Having sat and listened to Energy Minister Pete Hodgson, I fearthat the answer to his question is only too obvious; neither ...
Soulan Pownceby
Jul 01, 2004 ... The editorial regarding the Olympic boxing contender with aconviction for the manslaughter of a child (June 23) wins on points. The Olympics is all about honour. The man in question is no different from any other person whohopes to represent this country locally, nationally ...
Wairau scheme will damn Marlborough
Jul 01, 2004 ... How many of your readers are aware of the devastating effects thatTrust Power's proposed power-generation scheme for the Wairau Riverin Blenheim will have? They propose privatising approximately 50km of diverted river. The Marlborough region is renowned for its droughts and ...
Soulan Pownceby
Jul 01, 2004 ... Some people are saying pretty nasty things about Soulan Pownceby. This hateful and selfish attitude in society is probably one ofthe main reasons we have crime, including violent crime. Let these people do the work on themselves that Mr Pownceby hasdone and hopefully they'll ...
Soulan Pownceby
Jul 01, 2004 ... There is nothing so inconsistent as inconsistency, especiallywhere public opinion is concerned -- not to mention a littlehypocrisy thrown in for good measure. A few months ago one of our nation's most beloved and popular TVpresenters, Paul Holmes, made an off-the-cuff remark about ...
Sex in the city
Jul 01, 2004 ... The Christchurch City Council has been given a common-sense planfor the administration of brothels. After extensive consultations, asubcommittee has recommended that brothels not be corralled into asingle red-light district in the central city but be allowed tooperate in the suburbs ....
Metro more attractive
Jul 01, 2004; ... Christchurch is acting to prevent the sort of traffic problemsthat clog Auckland. ROBERT WOODS outlines the plans. Christchurch's traffic growth is at unprecedented levels. Thecity's population is rising, there are more cars on the road andresidents are travelling further and ...
Index shake-up
Jul 01, 2004 ... The latest rejig of New Zealand's share indices will see Fisher &Paykel Appliances take Sky Network Television's place in thecountry's top 10 listed companies from today, New Zealand Exchange(NZX) says. Releasing the NZX's quarterly review of its indices,effective from July 1, spokesman ...
Mooring system off to new home at Dover
Jul 01, 2004 ... The Mooring Systems board at Southern Cross Engineering farewellthe prototype QuaySailor 80 hydraulic mooring system going to Dover.From left, Joe Pope, Bryn ...
PGC at year high on Marac strength
Jul 01, 2004; ... Pyne Gould Corporation's (PGC) shares have hit fresh highs, buthas failed to make the cut for the NZSX50 index. PGC's shares rose 10c to close at a year high of 580c yesterday onthe back of news that its Marac finance business was tradingstrongly, and expected to turn in a result ...
Today's listing cancelled by StoreFund
Jul 01, 2004; ... Retail investment company StoreFund has dumped plans to listtoday, leading to expectations its $30 million initial publicoffering (IPO) will be pulled. A terse, three-sentence statement from the company late yesterdaybroke a silence that has been maintained since the company's ...
Mooring prototype to have berth in Dover
Jul 01, 2004; ... Engineers who spent four months putting together Mooring Systems'Dover-bound docking unit are now preparing to take it apart again. The prototype 25-tonne QuaySailor 80, which uses the same vacuumtechnology to secure ships to their berths as the smaller QuaySailor40 units already ...
NPT property valuation increase
Jul 01, 2004; ... The bullish retail property market has fuelled another rise inNational Property Trust's (NPT) property valuation. NPT's portfolio, which includes the Eastgate Shopping Centre inChristchurch, rose 5.2% to $230 million, after its annualrevaluation. Executive chairman Paul Dallimore ...
Hunt for gas 'necessary'
Jul 01, 2004 ... Contact Energy's entry into gas exploration is necessary for it tosecure gas supplies, analysts say. The leading electricity and gas company said this week it had beengranted a petroleum exploration permit by Crown Minerals to explorean area in the offshore Taranaki Basin ....
Pohokura gets go-ahead
Jul 01, 2004; ... The $1 billion development of the vital Pohokura gasfield has thegreen light from the three big exploration companies that own it. The field's joint venture owners, Shell New Zealand (48 per cent),Todd Energy (26%) and Austria's firm OMV (26%) signed a finalinvestment decision ...
Telecom deal for directors slated
Jul 01, 2004; ... Telecom should have "done a Contact Energy" and bought out itsdirectors' retirement payments with shares but feared shareholderswould have balked at the cost of near $4 million, the Shareholders'Association says. Instead Telecom's new policy on retirement payments -- to ...
Copier company to open Chch centre
Jul 01, 2004; ... Sharp Corporation of New Zealand is going direct in Christchurchafter its local distributor dumped the company's products in favourof photocopiers from a larger rival. Sharp announced yesterday it had made a "substantial, long-termcommitment" to Canterbury by opening a new ...