The Press back issues from March 2007:
Mother's warning after baby's collarbone broken; Horror birth
Mar 01, 2007; ... A mother who refused an elective Caesarean for her large baby willhave counselling after a horrendous birth left her baby with a brokencollarbone. The baby, born weighing 4.5kg, was rushed into neonatal intensivecare with breathing difficulties. Five months later, he has ...
Govt defuses land dispute
Mar 01, 2007; ... Some of New Zealand's most valuable land is likely to be protectedfrom sale after a Maori land row that threatened to escalate into aseries of nationwide protests. State-owned Enterprises Minister Trevor Mallard yesterdayannounced a review of sales by Landcorp of all Crown- owned ...
Mother's warning after baby's collarbone broken; Horror birth
Mar 01, 2007; ... A mother who was refused an elective Caesarean for her large babywill have counselling after a horrendous birth left her baby with abroken collarbone. The baby, born weighing 4.5kg, was rushed into neonatal intensivecare with breathing difficulties. Five months later, he ...
Fighting the flab
Mar 01, 2007; ... Are you spending more time on the couch or before the computer?Worried about your ballooning waistline or that of your child? Today The Press begins a 10-day series -- called Life -- lookingat the key factors in diet and exercise that influence our health. Ithas been triggered by ...
Extra $1 billion for Govt coffers
Mar 01, 2007; ... Can't make the chequebook balance? Neither can the Government,which has just found yet another $1 billion it did not know it had. In a scenario now so familiar Finance Minister Michael Cullen didnot even bother to release a press statement, the Treasury hasreported the ...
Councillor over limit
Mar 01, 2007; ... Timaru District councillor and former publican David Jack hasresigned as chairman of the district licensing agency after beingcharged with drink- driving. He will remain on the council after his offer to resign was notaccepted, and will seek re-election in October. Jack ...
Fee increase for foreign students
Mar 01, 2007 ... Canterbury University is increasing international student fees by5 per cent for 2008. International student fees at Canterbury have risen on average4.6% each year since 2000. Yesterday the university council voted to increase fees by another5% for 2008. This year the ...
Clark to visit Bush; Official visit
Mar 01, 2007; ... Prime Minister Helen Clark will this month make her second visitto the White House. Clark has announced that she will travel to Washington on March 19for meetings with United States President George W. Bush and seniormembers of his administration. She will return on March 26 ....
Lincoln defends reputation; University cheating
Mar 01, 2007; ... Lincoln University is defending its reputation after allegationsof widespread cheating among Chinese students, saying it is unfair toassociate breaking the rules with a particular ethnic group. Several staff and students at the university told The Press onTuesday that most of ...
Missing American landlord revealed
Mar 01, 2007; ... The mysterious landlord who bought two Christchurch houses 20years ago and disappeared was a former United States Air Forceofficer who died in a Utah carpark only six weeks ago. Tenants of one of his houses, who have not paid rent for years,have been evicted. The Public Trust ...
Bigger isn't better; LIFE SERIES - DAY 1
Mar 01, 2007 ... One in every three adult New Zealanders is losing the battle ofthe bulge and one in every five, 20 per cent of the adult population,is so overweight they have lost their quality of life and haveserious health problems. We need to break this cycle: . 1 Are you a ...
Whaling venture cut short
Mar 01, 2007 ... Japan has cut short its Southern Ocean whale hunt because of thefire damage which crippled the fleet's mother ship. The Japanese Institute of Cetacean Research said last night thatthe fleet would be called home after inspections showed the NisshinMaru could not be fully repaired ...
Anxious wait for Kiwi investors; [ed 1: Investors on tenterhooks in coming days]
Mar 01, 2007; ... New Zealand investors will remain on tenterhooks for at least thenext few days to see if volatile world markets settle, or if cracksin Asia widen after a damaging Chinese sharemarket slump. The NZX50 index plunged more than 3.2 per cent before clawing backabout half that loss ...
Virus spreads after hospital discharges
Mar 01, 2007; ... Christchurch Hospital has inadvertently discharged patientscarrying the highly infectious stomach bug, norovirus, to at leasttwo rest homes and another hospital. The Canterbury District Health Board said the latest outbreak ofthe severe diarrhoea and vomiting bug at Christchurch ...
Hospital ID security tightened; Bogus nurse case
Mar 01, 2007; ... Cross-dressing bogus nurse Turori Chapman may have used a computerin a hospital cafeteria to help secure the fake ID that allowed himto roam Christchurch wards. Health and Disability Commissioner Ron Paterson's report into howChapman breached security found ID application forms ...
Rural residents relish good, clean country livin'
Mar 01, 2007; ... New Zealanders living in the country eat better and exercise morethan city dwellers, according to a new Ministry of Health study. The report, drawn from almost 1400 interviews in a nationwidesurvey, also found urban dwellers were more likely to have beendiagnosed with heart ...
Wind farms caught in a Catch-22 situation
Mar 01, 2007; ... Wind-farm proposals will not be able to provide much-needed powerto the rest of New Zealand unless Central Otago has new transmissionlines, Transpower says. But the national grid operator cannot justify the multi-million-dollar lines until power companies invest in wind farms, and ...
Hip salsa classes remedy for 'Lards of the Dance'
Mar 01, 2007; ... It is fast-paced, Latino hot and sweeping Christchurch schoolgirlsoff their feet. Saucy salsa dancing is Linwood College's answer to getting girlsup and moving for their health's sake. Getting girls exercising and keeping them interested is a growingproblem, particularly in ...
Ice-climbing wall opened at $6.8m tourist centre
Mar 01, 2007; ... Two former midwives have delivered their biggest baby -- thesouthern hemisphere's first ice- climbing wall. Hukawai Glacier Centre and Ice Wall shareholders Jennie O'Loughlinand Roberta Giacon officially open their $6.8 million tourist venturein Franz Josef today. The ...
Solid Energy takes report to court
Mar 01, 2007 ... Solid Energy has issued proceedings in the High Court inChristchurch to stop circulation of a fake environmental report. Environmental group Save Happy Valley Coalition yesterday issued a12-page report purporting to be an environmental report from thestate coalminer. The ...
Goff reveals more on role of NZ SAS troops; Afghanistan mission
Mar 01, 2007; ... The Government has lifted the lid on Special Air Service (SAS)commando missions in Afghanistan, including rounding up al-Qaeda andTaliban suspects. It has also indicated possible concerns about treatment ofcaptives by United States forces. Defence Minister Phil Goff said ...
Midwives open ice-climbing wall; FRANZ JOSEF DEVELOPMENT
Mar 01, 2007; ... Two former midwives have delivered their biggest baby -- thesouthern hemisphere's first ice- climbing wall. Hukawai Glacier Centre and Ice Wall shareholders Jennie O'Loughlinand Roberta Giacon officially open their $6.8 million tourist venturein Franz Josef today. The ...
Sentence 'stern' but fair
Mar 01, 2007 ... A woman with five special-needs children in her care has failed tooverturn a jail term imposed when she was found with three differentdrugs, including methamphetamine. Police found Christine Elizabeth Taukamo, 41, of Kaikohe, asleepin a car in Cashel Street, Christchurch, in ...
Goff details SAS role; Afghanistan mission
Mar 01, 2007; ... The Government has lifted the lid on Special Air Service (SAS)commando missions in Afghanistan, including rounding up al-Qaeda andTaliban suspects. It has also indicated possible concerns about treatment ofcaptives by United States forces. Defence Minister Phil Goff said ...
Pizza worker robbed
Mar 01, 2007 ... A 17-year-old pizza worker has no fears about returning to workafter he was robbed at knife-point while working at a Christchurchstore. Kyale Heads, of St Albans Domino's Pizza, said he closed the storeabout 10.30pm on Tuesday night and was taking rubbish out the back ofthe shop ...
Be responsible, lifeguards warn; Swimming dangers
Mar 01, 2007 ... Canterbury lifeguards are warning swimmers to take responsibilityfor their actions at unpatrolled beaches after a drowning and arescue at Sumner beach this week. The two incidents occurred within an hour of each other on Mondaynight, and left a 23-year old man dead and a ...
Judge rules prison term should stand
Mar 01, 2007 ... A woman with five special-needs children in her care has failed tooverturn a jail term imposed when she was found with three differentdrugs, including methamphetamine. Police found Christine Elizabeth Taukamo, 41, of Kaikohe, asleepin a car in Cashel Street, Christchurch, in ...
Cuts to universities are harming our economy
Mar 01, 2007 ... The Government increasingly tells us we need to look overseas forsuitable employees to support our developing knowledge economy. Whycan't we fill these positions with New Zealanders educated in NewZealand? The remedy is to make it more attractive for domestic students tostudy in ...
Make NZ attractive
Mar 01, 2007 ... Let's say I am a skilled information technology graduate of a well-thought-of institution, such as the Bangalore Institute ofTechnology. I have a couple of years experience and begin to lookoverseas for new challenges and better salaries, and see the NewZealand Government is aggressively ...
Target skills
Mar 01, 2007 ... Contrary to the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors' Committee (NZVCC)statement (Feb 8), I am correct to report an NZVCC assertion ofoverspending on practical, technical or occupational skills fordirect entry into the labour market. Its report calls New Zealand's expenditure ...
Manual skill abandoned
Mar 01, 2007 ... Technology education is reported as a failure (PPTA News, August2006; Education Weekly, Oct 2006). These alarming, but notsurprising, reports point to a disastrous crisis requiring urgentreview. PPTA News says, "There appears to be an unwillingness toacknowledge that the ...
Not in manner stated
Mar 01, 2007 ... Professor Roy Sharp says in his position as chairman of the NewZealand Vice-Chancellors' Committee (Feb 17) that we have to beproactive in moving women into senior positions in universities. He and his chief executive officer, Tom Gregg, have been ...
Failure costly
Mar 01, 2007 ... The failure of the supposedly free state-education system to leadyoung people into the world as individuals able to contribute tosociety reflects poorly on the Labour Administration. Many parentsalready under financial pressure are required to increasecontributions to school costs, which ...
Life force
Mar 01, 2007 ... Everywhere, it seems nowadays, the news media are full of storiesabout an alarming increase in weight disorders and obesity. In anapparent paradox, a generation that, perhaps more than any other, haspaid attention to its fitness and health has become one whose well-being is jeopardised ...
In a few words
Mar 01, 2007 ... Could the Christchurch City Council have the Boobs on Bikes racechanged to another day? I have an optician's appointment on Friday. HAMISH PETRIE Why should loving parents be lumped with abusive parents in GreenMP Sue Bradford's silly bill, which has the potential of making ...
Nudity welcome
Mar 01, 2007 ... A bare-breasted parade is a victory to those among us who are sickof the minority ruining any semblance of fun the majority of us onceenjoyed. Christchurch's Cathedral Square is a haven for expression. TheWizard is allowed to express his views on the world, as are ...
It's insulting
Mar 01, 2007 ... Every syllable of Barry Pinker's apology for the ExclusiveBrethren (Feb 27) drips with the arrogant conceit of those whobelieve they have a monopoly on truth and morality. He would have usbelieve that the brethren are a poor, inoffensive minority,persecuted for partaking in democratic ...
Wallowing in it
Mar 01, 2007 ... Is there any professional childcare worker in New Zealand whobelieves that Peter Ellis was guilty? Is there anyone in New Zealandof sound mind who believes that the female co-workers who wereinitially prosecuted with him at the same time and on similarmanufactured evidence were guilty? ...
Fear wholesome
Mar 01, 2007 ... As a young schoolmaster in an all- boys inner-city secondaryschool in Britain, I was issued with a cane and a punishment book.Offences and punishments were duly recorded and a note of both senthome to parents. In practice, the cane was rarely used. Pupils knew the outcome ifthey ...
What's the difference?
Mar 01, 2007 ... If it's accepted that I can't smack my spouse or dog, why should ...
Peters ignorant
Mar 01, 2007 ... Winston Peters now backs Australia and the United States, withoutwhom, he suggests, there would be chaos in Iraq (Feb 27). For aForeign Minister to be so ignorant of the fact that there has beenchaos, and now civil war, since US President George W. Bush invadedIraq, is frightening ....
Raise driving age
Mar 01, 2007 ... Many young drivers do not have the temperament or life experienceto take control of a potentially lethal weapon such as a car.Crucially, unlike the drinking age, the enforcement of a legaldriving age is ...
Bargains may arise in fallout; SHAREMARKET SHAKE-UP
Mar 01, 2007; ... Waves of panic from a sharemarket storm could ripple for weeks,but investors are being told they could find some bargains on theway. Panicking investors wiped $800 million off the sharemarket's mainindex, yesterday, but at its worst the market was down twice as much -- $1.6 ...
Widespread on lookout for oil; WEST COAST HOPES
Mar 01, 2007; ... Widespread Energy is hoping to reopen the hunt for commercial oiland gas reserves in the Arnold River region east of Greymouth. Widespread, the New Zealand Exchange's alternative market-listedenergy business, has applied for an exclusive permit to explore the288sq km area in the ...
Profit triggers buying goal; TRANSPACIFIC INDUSTRIES
Mar 01, 2007; ... New Zealand's Waste Management's new Australian parent says it hasalmost doubled its interim earnings, as it revealed plans to buy upto another 100 businesses. Transpacific Industries yesterday posted an interim net profit of$A41.5 million ($NZ46.6m), from the same 2005 December ...
F&P queried on share-price drop
Mar 01, 2007; ... Auckland's Fisher & Paykel Healthcare has been queried by theAustralian Stock Exchange (ASX) on why its share price has fallen10.5 per cent in seven trading days. F&P replied yesterday that it believed analysts' reports had beenpublished between the dates, which showed changes to ...
SEA, AIR, RAIL
Mar 01, 2007 ... PORT OF LYTTELTON Vessels in port RgosGeorga, ArgosHelna, ZBerth; Enmlay MalakhvKurgn Rehua DryDock Arrived Bunga Teratai, (11:30am), 21,339, Napier, (GH Scales); VegaGotland, (6pm), 9,957, Pt Chalmers, (Adsteam). Departed CoscoMelb, (11am), ...
Fewer new houses built; BUILDING CONSENTS
Mar 01, 2007; ... Building consents for new houses have dropped again. Statistics New Zealand figures for January showed buildingconsents nationwide fell marginally compared to January 2006. There were 1880 consents for houses and flats in January, comparedwith 1900 in the same month last ...
Union puts up claim; AIR NEW ZEALAND
Mar 01, 2007 ... Air New Zealand shied away from outsourcing its airport servicestwo years ago over concerns it would have no control over industrialaction in a key part of its business, a union representing some ofthe workers says. The airline wants to outsource 1675 check-in staff and loaders ...
Result disappoints; SKYCITY ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
Mar 01, 2007; ... SkyCity Entertainment Group is looking for ways to put the sparkleback into its jewel-in- the-crown Auckland casino after producing ahalf-year result labelled disappointing by manager director EvanDavies. Davies said yesterday that the company now expected full-yearearnings to ...
Yahoo!Xtra eyes online market
Mar 01, 2007; ... The new centrepiece of Telecom's internet strategy, Yahoo!Xtra,aims to grab a dominant chunk of the burgeoning internet advertisingmarket as it takes on former partner Microsoft MSN in a battle foreyeballs and revenue. Yahoo!Xtra goes live today, replacing XtraMSN, a joint ...
we're drinking
Mar 01, 2007; ... Lost in the crowd Morton Estate Hawkes Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2005, $15 Sauvignon blanc producers from New Zealand regions other thanMarlborough are duty-bound to establish a style that differentiatesthem from the "home" of sauvignon. Certainly Hawkes Bay has itsexamples of a ...
Metal magic
Mar 01, 2007 ... I GAVE AWAY MY FRENCH MOULI or foodmill when food processorsbecame available and have regretted my haste ever since. It was, is,a simple but efficient kitchen tool. No electricity required, notmuch space taken up, and nothing much to wash. I haven't seen one foryears, but suddenly they ...
TINY TONGS
Mar 01, 2007 ... A small small world ... When the pan is small and the contents aregently simmering, small tongs are better than big. When toastedmarshmallows are ready for the cup, picking them ...
PLUM paste; cheese jam
Mar 01, 2007; ... Congratulations to Peter Chambers, winner of our damson recipecontest. Damson cheese (an old term for a fruit paste or fruit jelly) Preheat oven to 120deg. Put damsons in an earthenware dish(casserole) and cover. Bake until the fruit is soft and the juicesrun. Rub through a sieve, ...
the real FATTOUSH
Mar 01, 2007 ... Suzanne Nesbitt was not impressed with a version of fattoush saladthat appeared in Alison and Simon Holst's Eating In column in Zestlast summer. We at Zest are not sticklers for traditional recipes,believing all recipes undergo changes over time. However, Suzannemakes the point that ...
SMALL BITES
Mar 01, 2007; ... Winery notes News from Sandihurst Winery: it has welcomed new business partnersMike and Nicky Salvesen, and its 2006 white wines are available fortasting at the cellar door. The winery has been a bit dusty of lateas construction is under way on its new facilities which it hopes ...
Teaching children to love food
Mar 01, 2007; ... Elisabeth Luard's latest cook book tackles children and theireating habits. It is a pleasure, writes Kate Fraser. On the face of it, a child spending most of her time in thekitchen of whatever embassy her diplomat stepfather was posted toshould result in tales of woe and ...
A feminine swish
Mar 01, 2007; ... How do you pull this season's styles together? Zest has gone tothose with the answers: fashion-store sales consultants. Jody Tozer is new, very new, to the Annah Stretton store in CityMall, but she has quickly embraced the New Zealand designer's styleand made it her own. "I ...
HERA
Mar 01, 2007; ... Icelandic singing sensation Hera has warmed to New Zealand as muchas it has warmed to her, writes VICKI ANDERSON. . Iceland has given the glow of musical success to the global musicscene in many diverse ways, including egg-laying Bjork and thetranscendental electronic ...
Fusing life and cuisine
Mar 01, 2007 ... Taking an holistic approach to the way you dine may be a newconcept for many dining enthusiasts but, for Shammi Sandhu, theapproach is guaranteed to introduce you to a greater level ofculinary appreciation. The owner of Mantra Indian Restaurant in Richmond Village has ...
My Disco
Mar 01, 2007; ... VICKI ANDERSON spends a minute with Liam Andrews of Melbourne trioMy Disco. . Gidday Liam, how's your day going? It's been good so far, but then it's just getting started, so whoknows. Together with Rohan Rebeiro and your big brother, Ben, you ...
Razzaq sidelined
Mar 01, 2007 ... Pakistan suffered mixed fortunes yesterday in the run-up to nextmonth's cricket World Cup after ...
New venue for Open
Mar 01, 2007; ... This year's New Zealand Open golf tournament will not be played atGulf Harbour, and it could be played outside Auckland, the chiefexecutive of New Zealand Golf, Larry Graham, hinted yesterday. Gulf Harbour, the venue for the last two Opens, is undergoing someredesign this year and ...
Can't fathom those Sharks
Mar 01, 2007; ... Corey Flynn expects the Sharks to throw the kitchen sink at themfrom all angles when they meet at Durban's Absa Stadium on Sundaymorning. "I think they are going to play a lot of running rugby," Crusadersskipper Flynn said. "They have got `Plums' (John Plumtree) in there ...