The Press back issues from June 2007:
LEADING DRIVERS PICK THEIR BEST CHANCES FOR THE HARNESS JEWELS; THE JEWELS: A RACE BY RACE GUIDE
Jun 01, 2007 ... LEADING DRIVERS PICK THEIR BEST CHANCES FOR THE HARNESS JEWELS . MARK JONES My best chance: Themightyquinn. The horse I would love to drive: Monkey King. The upset: Luckisaladytonight. . JIM CURTIN My best chance: Holmezy ....
PUNT FRONT COVER; Harness Jewels
Jun 01, 2007 ... Harness Jewels 9 races $1.5 million . What's the goss? Champion three-year-old colt Changeover (left) and champion fillyOne Dream, hot favourites for their respective $200,000 HarnessJewels events at Ashburton tomorrow, in deep conversation at ...
NAME THE FACE; Answer
Jun 01, 2007 ... Who is this harness trainer? Answer in OFF TRACK, P16 ....
OFF Track
Jun 01, 2007 ... * QUICK QUIZ: The P. J. O'Shea Stakes in Brisbane was for years aNew Zealand benefit but has not been so easy to win in recent times.In fact, what was the last New Zealand-trained horse to win --Gorgeous George, Gaze, Pakaraka Star, Rough Habit, Shuzhora or ThePhantom Chance? (Answer ...
Aussie raider set for jewel heist
Jun 01, 2007; ... Sports fans the world over, from Americans defending theiryachting cup in the 1980s, through to All Blacks with World Cupaspirations in 2003, have learned the hard way to be wary of aspanking from quiet Australians carrying a big stick. Peter Rixon, trainer-driver of Divisive, the ...
Stressful move for rail-freighted moggies
Jun 01, 2007; ... Three cats have been rescued from a rail container after anAshburton woman attempted to freight them to Hamilton. The trio of grey long-haired moggies, names unknown, spent threedays in the Hamilton-bound container, which had reached onlyChristchurch. They were yesterday ...
Planes close to collision on runway
Jun 01, 2007; ... An investigation has been launched into a near-miss between an AirNelson and an Eagle Air plane while one was taking off and the otherlanding. The Press understands air-traffic controllers failed to give thepilots appropriate information or directions before the incident ...
Infants out in the cold; HOSPITAL TRANSFERS
Jun 01, 2007; ... A quarter of newborns moved from a cramped Christchurch Women'sHospital -- many as soon as two hours after birth -- are sufferingmild hypothermia. Christchurch Women's Hospital, built two years ago, has struggledto cope with a baby boom, often moving infants and their mothers ...
Stressful move for rail-freighted moggies
Jun 01, 2007; ... Three cats have been rescued from a rail container after anAshburton woman attempted to freight them to Hamilton. The trio of grey long-haired moggies, names unknown, spent threedays in the Hamilton-bound container, which had got only as far asChristchurch. They were ...
Apple exports resume
Jun 01, 2007 ... New Zealand's apple exports to Taiwan have resumed after a six-week suspension. Taiwanese officials suspended exports in mid-April following theinterception of a codling moth larva in a consignment of fuji apples.New Zealand exports about one million cases of apples each year ...
Police apologise for error; EDGEWARE ROAD TRAGEDY
Jun 01, 2007; ... The police have apologised to the family of a youth badly hurt atan Edgeware Road party for wrongly telling the Christchurch DistrictCourt he was in a coma from which he might never wake up. On Wednesday, police cited the condition of Ben Devine, 17, whenthey successfully opposed ...
Family want answers
Jun 01, 2007; ... The family of a woman who died after riding through a temporaryfence on her mobility scooter want answers from the MarlboroughDistrict Council. Blenheim woman Beth Morrison, 83, died early yesterday morningafter battling serious injuries when she became entangled in a fenceat ...
Blue Gene purchase approved; CANTERBURY UNIVERSITY
Jun 01, 2007 ... Canterbury University has become the first research institute inthe southern hemisphere to buy a Blue Gene supercomputer worthmillions of dollars. The IBM computer, dubbed Blue Fern by the university, is one ofthe world's top 100 most powerful supercomputers and uses ...
Road trip for Westport mail
Jun 01, 2007; ... Westport residents eager to send a letter across town will now geta little extra for their postage -- a 668km trip via Christchurch. From Tuesday, letters posted in Westport will be couriered toChristchurch for sorting. The next morning they will be courieredback to Westport for ...
Man rescued after car plunges off Summit Road
Jun 01, 2007 ... A "very lucky man" was winched to safety by the Westpac RescueHelicopter yesterday after his car went off the Summit Road on thePort Hills. The 50-year-old man's Hyundai Accent fell about 10m, butstopped short of a several- hundred metre drop when it lodged on abushy outcrop above Scotts ...
Lucky escape
Jun 01, 2007 ... Two people have narrowly escaped serious injury or death on aChristchurch rail bridge -- just days after a man was killed in thesame spot ....
Name changed
Jun 01, 2007 ... A glacier on Mount Tasman, second-highest mountain in the SouthernAlps, will be known as the Heemskerck Glacier following a namechange ....
Kiwi schoolgirl's US spelling-bee run nearly lost in translation
Jun 01, 2007; ... New Zealand's top speller has become the first Kiwi to get to thesemi-finals of the "Olympics of Spelling" despite her accent nearlyruining her ambitions. Linwood College student Kate Weir has so far triumphed in fourrounds of the 80th Scripps National Spelling Bee in the ...
Road trip for Westport mail
Jun 01, 2007; ... Westport residents eager to send a letter across town will now geta little extra for their postage -- a 668km trip via Christchurch. From Tuesday, letters posted in Westport will be couriered toChristchurch for sorting. The next morning they will be courieredback to Westport for ...
Work near pass
Jun 01, 2007 ... ARTHURS PASS -- Transit is warning motorists to expect delays onState Highway 73 between Klondyke Corner and Arthurs Pass ascontractors widen the road. The work ...
Consents review
Jun 01, 2007 ... RAKAIA -- The review of more than 400 groundwater consents in theRakaia-Selwyn groundwater zone will start at the end of June. Thereview forms part of Environment Canterbury's ...
Air pollution
Jun 01, 2007 ... CHRISTCHURCH -- Christchurch experienced its second high pollutionnight on Wednesday. The health guideline is set at an average of ...
Rally over bill
Jun 01, 2007 ... HOKITIKA -- Opponents of the Therapeutic Products and MedicinesBill that will establish a joint Australasian regulatory authoritywill rally through ...
Hospital remand
Jun 01, 2007 ... CHRISTCHURCH -- A man who allegedly set fire to a service stationforecourt after spraying petrol around has been remanded for apsychiatric report. The man, 34, who has ...
Hotel wrecked
Jun 01, 2007 ... ASHBURTON -- Work on the demolition of Ashburton's 100-year-oldSomerset Hotel has begun. The demolition is expected to take morethan a ...
Age Concern urges compassion; POWER DISCONNECTION
Jun 01, 2007 ... Age Concern is joining calls for hugely profitable power companiesto show greater compassion to those struggling to pay electricitybills. Auckland woman Folole Muliaga died on Tuesday after a contractorworking for Mercury Energy disconnected the electricity to herMangere home ...
Masterton teen charged with assault
Jun 01, 2007 ... An Australian woman who was sexually assaulted during a holiday inChristchurch is "pleased and relieved" her alleged attacker has beencaught, police say. The 20-year-old left a central city bar early on Easter Sundaydestined for a backpackers when she was lured into a side ...
Woman jailed for two years over meth; HIGH COURT SENTENCIING
Jun 01, 2007 ... A young woman said to be naive and from a respectable backgroundhas found herself behind bars on a methamphetamine charge. In the High Court in Christchurch yesterday, Joanne Marie Aitken,25, who admitted a charge of possessing methamphetamine for supply,and possessing a drug ...
Frame an award finalist; 2007 MONTANA NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDS
Jun 01, 2007 ... Three years after her death, Janet Frame is a finalist in thecountry's glittering literary prizes -- the 2007 Montana New ZealandBook Awards. Frame's last collection of poetry, The Goose Bath, was publishedposthumously last year. There were 26 finalists in New Zealand's ...
Chill out, the weather's fine ...
Jun 01, 2007 ... The first day of winter is here, despite the balmy May weatherthreatening to fool many South Islanders into thinking that summercould last year-round. In Christchurch yesterday residents made the most of near 20degtemperatures. Tim Robins, Phil Vesty and Craig Nissen enjoyed ...
Family appalled by killer's sentence; DISQUALIFIED DRIVER
Jun 01, 2007; ... The family of a Nelson woman killed in a head-on crash with adisqualified driver, says his 5 1/2-year sentence is a joke. Debbie Marie Ashton, 20, died from horrific injuries when the carshe was driving was shunted 30m backwards in last December's crash onthe notorious Paton Road ...
Faith ideas listed
Jun 01, 2007; ... A conference to promote religious education has called for morestudent exchanges across the Asia-Pacific region as part of proposalsfor children to learn about different faiths. Delegates at the third Asia- Pacific Interfaith Dialogue atWaitangi have also strengthened a call for ...
Teachers ask for $450m pay rise
Jun 01, 2007; ... Primary school teachers have voted to lodge a pay claim worthnearly half a billion dollars. The primary teachers union, the New Zealand Educational Institute(NZEI), will lodge the claim for a 4 per cent pay increase in each ofthe next three years with the Education Ministry today ...
Evacuation plan target for 23,000; TSUNAMI THREAT
Jun 01, 2007; ... More than 23,000 coastal Canterbury residents could be evacuatedwithin five hours under a door-to-door emergency plan for a tsunami,police say. Police and the Christchurch City Council have spent 18 monthsdeveloping the detailed plan in the wake of the 2004 Asian tsunamiwhich ...
Plant project wins award
Jun 01, 2007 ... A Nelson company's partnership with indigenous Vietnamese hilltribes who produce products from native medicinal herbs has won aUnited Nations- sponsored award. The Forest Herbs Medicinal Plant Innovation Project, which wasfunded by New Zealand Aid, was one of five winners selected ...
Punters to reap benefits from new deal
Jun 01, 2007; ... New Zealand's racing industry and punters will see financialbenefits from a new deal with Australian racing authorities. The deal, announced yesterday, will see major betting pools onboth sides of the Tasman combined -- meaning better odds for Kiwipunters and more money for ...
Researchers get $2m for water study; WATER
Jun 01, 2007; ... Nearly $2 million is being pumped into water-management researchin Canterbury to help dampen fierce competition for the diminishingresource. The Foundation for Research, Science and Technology has awarded$1.8m over four years for a Landcare Research-led project called ...
Volunteer project to get rid of graffiti
Jun 01, 2007; ... Christchurch ratepayers are paying nearly $1 million a year toclean up graffiti. The Christchurch City Council is now asking the community for helpto deal with the problem. The council has launched a city- wide volunteer programme aimed atgetting local residents to clean up ...
Uncertain future despite historic status; SUTER GALLERY
Jun 01, 2007 ... The icing on the cake for the birthday of one of Nelson's oldestbuildings was the presentation of Category Two Historic Places Trustrecognition. But while the original Bishop Suter Gallery received its plaquepresent yesterday, along with a cake and a party, its future is ...
Farm 'will mar view of range'; WIND FARM APPLICATION
Jun 01, 2007; ... The effects of the world's largest wind farm will stretch for manykilometres beyond its proposed Central Otago site, commissionershearing Meridian Energy's Project Hayes application were toldyesterday. The company wants to build 176 wind turbines, each up to 160mtall, on the ...
Westport patients face long wait
Jun 01, 2007; ... Westport's medical centre has a full complement of doctors butpatients are still waiting 10 working days for a routine appointment. This is twice the wait to see a doctor at the West Coast DistrictHealth Board's Greymouth practice. The board, which runs the Buller Medical ...
Court battle looms over development levies
Jun 01, 2007; ... A court battle is looming over a rise in Christchurch developmentlevies. Developers told the Christchurch City Council's annual planhearings yesterday that its proposed development contribution policyhad errors similar to the North Shore City Council's regime which ...
Parents helped
Jun 01, 2007 ... As a ToughLove parent, I have read with great interest the mediastories following the tragic events of Edgeware Road. I have feltgreat sadness for all the families involved. Our Mayor called a public meeting to raise community awareness.Former prison boss and author Celia Lashlie ...
Power company death must be accounted for
Jun 01, 2007 ... I cried on Wednesday night when I saw the plight of the familywhose mother died, apparently because Mercury Energy cut off thepower because of an unpaid power bill. This apparently cut the supplyof oxygen to the mother who died. (All this is unproven, says MercuryEnergy.) The ...
Police action right
Jun 01, 2007 ... The article (May 29) blaming the police for breaking up a teenageparty attended by 200 contains below-the- belt reaction from parentswho were responsible for ...
Cartoon spot on
Jun 01, 2007 ... Your editorial cartoon of May 29 amused and saddened me. I am a Filipino working in New Zealand and I totally agree withthe cartoon. It is true that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo wouldnot mind treading on blood just to get red-carpet treatment. Despite her dismal record ...
News to me
Jun 01, 2007 ... I have yet again been informed by a female acquaintance that "mennever notice ...
IN A FEW WORDS
Jun 01, 2007 ... Dancing with the Stars has been won by a former rugby-playingalcoholic and this year by a person whose business has beenliquidated. Next year David Bain? Why do we put these losers up ascelebrities. PAT WEEKS What a show this Dancing with the Stars is. What a thrill to ...
Out of touch
Jun 01, 2007 ... For nearly eight years, the Prime Minister, Helen Clark, hasdominated New Zealand politics. Assisted by the fact that Nationalwas at a low ebb and afflicted by a succession of problems with itsleadership, Clark has secured an image as a cautious, competent,strong, unflappable leader, ...
Expressive of Chch
Jun 01, 2007 ... It was clever but unfair of the University of Canterbury to handto the Arts Centre the problem of resiting the music school. Theuniversity alone is responsible for the music school and it shouldconduct its own search for a different site. The plan to close the Functions Centre, ...
True heroes
Jun 01, 2007 ... Your editorial (Cat v mouse, May 29) had an unpleasant, cynicaltone. The idealistic young people who are fighting to save HappyValley are not the game players you suggest. They are the ...
Discussion suppressed
Jun 01, 2007 ... I write to complain of the treatment of journalist Ian Wishart'scharges of police corruption by the Government, Police ComplaintsAuthority (May 29) and The Press. Despite the insults directed at him by the above, several factsremain. First, he has outlined serious breaches ...
Embrace plurality
Jun 01, 2007 ... As a minister of religion who has attended meetings surroundingthe setting up of the Christchurch Inter- Faith Council, I find itdisturbing that Destiny Church is not prepared to embrace NewZealand's plurality ....
Something it can do
Jun 01, 2007 ... It has no idea how to run our health, education system or law andorder, but finally this Government may have ...
Back to the past
Jun 01, 2007 ... Your summary of the National Certificate of EducationalAchievement (NCEA) development (May 30) says it started in 1999. Thatleaves out the eight years of unit standards that preceded it andwhich were meant to replace School Certificate and UniversityEntrance examinations. In ...
Don't blame us all
Jun 01, 2007 ... As usual, whenever there is any kind of youth issue in NewZealand, those of us who read the Opinion page of The Press aresubjected to a diatribe of letters bemoaning the behaviour ofteenagers. Not all members of our generation go on destructive or murderousrampages at the drop ...
Zimbabwe: what does the future hold? [1]
Jun 01, 2007; ... TREVOR RICHARDS assesses whether there is cause for optimism overZimbabwe. I t is November 1989. The jacarandas cut a purple blaze throughmuch of Zimbabwe. The 30-something hitch hiker I have just picked upis extolling the virtues of the liberation struggle and nearly adecade of ...
Kidicorp bid
Jun 01, 2007 ... A firm linked to Kidicorp's main shareholder the MitchellInvestment Trust and Wayne Wright has made a takeover for the ...
Toll move
Jun 01, 2007 ... Toll NZ's chairman Mark Rowsthorn has resigned after 84%Australian ...
Scott change
Jun 01, 2007 ... Trevor Scott has resigned as a Scott Technology director. Scottjoined the board when the ...
No limit to Skyline's growth; Search on for new ventures
Jun 01, 2007; ... South Island millionaire and Skyline Enterprises chairman BarryThomas is searching for fresh tourism opportunities after deliveringa record annual result. The Queenstown tourism, gambling and property business reported aannual pre-tax profit of $18.6 million, up 16.3 per cent on ...
PGG WRIGHTSON; Tough trading to lower profit
Jun 01, 2007; ... Agricultural services company PGG Wrightson is warning not all isrosy on the farm front and earnings for the year are likely to be atthe bottom end of what they forecast. Chairman Bill Bayliss said trading had been more difficult thanexpected in the second half of the year with ...
NZ consumers to pay more for dairy goods as global price soars
Jun 01, 2007; ... Surging world dairy prices will hit local consumers in the pocketthis month, with the price of two litres of milk going up as much as36c. Fonterra, which owns the Anchor, Mainland and Tip Top brands, toldretailers a couple of weeks ago that it was hiking prices for itsdairy ...
TRANSPACIFIC; Hopes held for strategic assets
Jun 01, 2007; ... Transpacific Industries' (TPI) bid to further expand in NewZealand may have been consigned to the garbage heap by thecompetition watchdog, but the waste business is hopeful not all islost. TPI still wants to pick up some of the South Island waste serviceassets of Envirowaste ...
Govt opts to forgo millions in exchange for WiMax competition
Jun 01, 2007; ... A Government plan to auction off two big blocks of prized radiospectrum in December will ensure there are at least six nationalproviders of high-speed WiMax wireless broadband. The price of fostering competition will be a reduction in the tensof millions of dollars that are ...