The Press back issues from November 2007:
MELBOURNE CUP [HORSES]
Nov 06, 2007 ... RACE 7 - MELBOURNE CUP 3200 METRES START 5.00PM (NZT) $A5 MILLION, 3200m, NO ALLOWANCES . 1 TAWQEET FOR: Checked early and got home well, Caulfield Cup. No chanceMackinnon on Saturday. Favourite last year but with foot problem.Top stable and jock. Handles ...
CUP FEVER
Nov 07, 2007 ... THE HISTORY BOOKS will always show that the 1943 New Zealand Cupat Riccarton Park was won by northern mare Classform. The reality isthat neither anybody close to the finish line, nor several of thejockeys involved, have ever believed the judge got it anywhere nearright. They ...
RACING WORLD
Nov 07, 2007 ... CHRIS JOHNSON has accepted the mount on Coup Triumphal in the NewZealand Cup at Riccarton next week and will ride Final Reality inthe Coupland's Mile. Johnson will also ride Eel Win in the TwoThousand Guineas. Eel Win is nominated for a three-year-old event atRiccarton on Saturday, for ...
De Filippi step closer to title
Nov 07, 2007 ... Kiwi representative Colin de Filippi, so noted for placing hisdrives into positions where they will kick home best, has done thesame on his own behalf moving into the trail for the World Drivers'Championship, two heats of which were held at Addington last night. Winning on Brylin ...
Few surprises in NZ Cup lead-up
Nov 07, 2007; ... There were no shocks to the fixed odds market for the $750,000New Zealand Trotting Cup after Changeover won the Cup Trial atAddington yesterday but the connections of most of the form runnerswent home happy seven days out from the big event, in spite of theleisurely early pace ....
TRACKWORK
Nov 07, 2007 ... FINAL REALITY and Eel Win were impressive workers on the biggrass trial at Riccarton yesterday. With Ashlee Mundy and LauraParker up, Final Reality and Eel Win finished 1000m in 1min 02.1secand 35.1 the 600. Dark Suspect recorded 48.6 and 36 the 600.Sheerachardonay 1:01.7 for the 1000 ...
Funding row over surgery jumping
Nov 07, 2007; ... Taxpayers helped fund a health board employee to develop aprivate business where fee- paying patients queue-jump publicwaiting lists. Former Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) employee KayPoulsen recently established Help4U, a business that offers fee-paying clients ...
$6m prize, and now it's NZ's turn; MELBOURNE CUP
Nov 07, 2007 ... The Kiwi trainer who lifted the $NZ6 million Melbourne Cup willrace into Christchurch today for Cup Week. The Graeme Rogerson- trained Efficient yesterday became the firstVictoria Derby winner since the legendary Phar Lap to return a yearlater and claim the premier staying event ....
Swipe at MPs for no-show; FILM PREMIERE
Nov 07, 2007; ... Christchurch property developer Dave Henderson blasted the LabourParty at the premiere of a film about his life last night, saying itwas time it got over his success. Henderson said all the Labour MPs were invited to the premiere ofWe're Here to Help in Riccarton last night, but ...
Lord of the Rings artist faces ecstasy charge
Nov 07, 2007; ... An Oscar-winning artist who also worked in Lord of the Rings hasresigned from his teaching job at a Christchurch design school afterbeing caught with drugs. Sean Foot, famous for applying the prosthetic feet to the hobbitsin Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, has been ...
Financier's debts may 'get up to $15m'
Nov 07, 2007; ... Creditors of failed Christchurch financier Darryn Hunt have beentold his debts are likely to be far higher than the $4 million thatprompted his bankruptcy. Hunt, 39, was adjudicated bankrupt for the third time in 20 yearsby the High Court in Christchurch last week on a petition by ...
Lord of the Rings artist faces ecstasy charge
Nov 07, 2007; ... An Oscar-winning artist who also worked in Lord of the Rings hasresigned from his teaching job at a Christchurch design school afterbeing allegedly caught with drugs. Sean Foot, famous for applying the prosthetic feet to the hobbitsin Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, has ...
'Little cutie' fondly remembered; FIRE DEATH
Nov 07, 2007; ... The foster mother of a Christchurch boy killed in a house firebelieves he may have smuggled matches or a cigarette lighter intohis room. Aron Harwood, eight, died from smoke inhalation on Sunday afterhis bedroom in a Bromley house caught fire. His foster mother, Pamela ...
Boy dies of aneurysm
Nov 07, 2007; ... A 14-year-old boy who collapsed while hitting golf balls andlater died of a brain aneurysm had "a bad feeling" about thefamily's weekend trip to Hanmer Springs. Keegan Holland was at a Hanmer Springs driving range last Sundaymorning when he complained of a headache. Within ...
Rugby coup
Nov 07, 2007 ... MOTUEKA -- About 8000 fans will more than double Motueka'spopulation in January for one of the biggest events the town has had-- a pre-season Super 14 rugby match between the Hurricanes and theCrusaders. The January 25 game ...
300kg catch
Nov 07, 2007 ... GREYMOUTH-- A Hokitika whitebaiter is revelling in a monstercatch, taking 300kg off just one tide. At the going rate on the WestCoast, he will make between $22,500 and ...
Fight arrests
Nov 07, 2007 ... TIMARU -- Police have arrested two alleged gang associates aftera fight yesterday afternoon. The two ...
Cyclist hurt
Nov 07, 2007 ... CHRISTCHURCH -- A 12-year-old boy is in Christchurch Hospitalafter being knocked off his bicycle by a car yesterday. He ...
River search
Nov 07, 2007 ... NELSON -- Commercial river operators have been asked to monitorthe Buller River for a missing Nelson man who was swept away after acar accident. Leith McConochie, 25, was last seen early ...
Spa unveiled
Nov 07, 2007 ... HANMER -- Hanmer Springs yesterday officially unveiled its $3million spa complex. About 550,000 people are expected ...
Resort flights
Nov 07, 2007 ... DUNEDIN -- The four-month trial of a Queenstown airline servicefrom Dunedin started in earnest yesterday. Dunedin's Mainland Airflew its first passengers into Queenstown on its 10-seater PiperChieftain aircraft yesterday, after ...
Rugby coup
Nov 07, 2007 ... MOTUEKA -- About 8000 fans will more than double Motueka'spopulation in January for one of the biggest events the town has had-- a pre-season Super 14 rugby match between the Hurricanes and theCrusaders. The ...
Stabbing count
Nov 07, 2007 ... WESTPORT -- A 35-year-old man is to stand trial for stabbinganother man outside a Westport restaurant. In the Westport DistrictCourt yesterday Shaun Craig Wastney, 35, of Hector, ...
Flora adds finesse to fella's fine fashion; MELBOURNE CUP
Nov 07, 2007; ... There was a buzz of excitement in the local pub of MasterO'Reilly trainer Pat Jones as the riders prepared for the MelbourneCup yesterday. "The people know that it is a local horse," said the owner of theSouth Rakaia Hotel, Peter Harrison. "Everybody is interested in it. We ...
Second Kiwi detained, 'beaten'; FIJI PLOT CLAIMS
Nov 07, 2007; ... A second New Zealander has been detained and allegedly beaten inFiji amid claims by coup leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama of aplot to kill him. Prime Minister Helen Clark said the man's family had contactedNew Zealand diplomats in Suva fearing for his safety. She said ...
More turbines planned for SI
Nov 07, 2007; ... TrustPower has released details of a second major windfarmplanned for the lower South Island. Environment Southland and the Gore District Council yesterdayconfirmed they had received an application from the company for a$440 million wind farm, with 83 turbines, each 145m high, at ...
'Defective' firework burns baby in pram
Nov 07, 2007 ... A baby suffered burns to 8 per cent of her body and will needskin grafts after a firework exploded in her pram. One-year-old Mercedez was with her parents, who were letting offfireworks at their Welcome Bay, Tauranga, home when the incidenthappened. Tauranga St John ...
Christmas is indeed the holey season
Nov 07, 2007 ... Who shot Santa? The jolly fella in the big red suit apparently took a bullet thisweek in a drive-by shooting. Jo Bridgman, owner of the I Love Christmas shop, arrived at hercentral Christchurch shop to discover not only did her window have abullet hole through it -- but so ...
Private lives to be out of order; PARLIAMENT
Nov 07, 2007; ... Speaker Margaret Wilson plans a crackdown on references inParliament to MPs' private lives. Environment Minister Trevor Mallard yesterday apologised toParliament and to Wilson for punching National MP Tau Henare in thelobby outside the Debating Chamber nearly two weeks ago ....
Breastfeeding plus gene key factor in intelligence; IQ STUDY
Nov 07, 2007; ... Evidence that breastfeeding boosts the intelligence of babieswith a specific gene lays to rest arguments about nature versusnurture, say Otago researchers. A new study shows breastfeeding alone does not boost intelligence-- as was previously thought -- but is dependent on whether ...
Pay jolt for city board members; SALARY EQUALITY PLAN
Nov 07, 2007; ... Contentious proposals to equalise pay between community boardmembers on Banks Peninsula and in the city will be debated byChristchurch City councillors today. The proposals have divided community board members in the cityfrom their rural counterparts on Banks Peninsula. In ...
Archbishop demands Govt apology for raids
Nov 07, 2007; ... New Zealand's top ranking Anglican archbishop has waded into therow over last month's anti-terror raids, comparing police treatmentof Maori to the persecution of the Jews in ancient Egypt. Archbishop Brown Turei, leader of the Maori strand of the churchand the most senior of New ...
Couple muscle up for contest
Nov 07, 2007; ... A Christchurch couple plan to flex their muscles for New Zealandat the world bodybuilding championships. Annette Gallaher, 40, and her partner, Richard Parnham, 33, arealready officially Mr and Mrs New Zealand after their success at thenational competition in August. Gallaher and ...
Unions divided on pay parity; TEACHERS' WAGES
Nov 07, 2007; ... A war of words has erupted between the country's two teachingunions over pay parity. The Post-Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA) president RobinDuff, who represents secondary teachers, wants to get rid of a linkbetween pay increases of secondary and primary teachers ....
Clark under pressure over tax cuts; PARLIAMENT
Nov 07, 2007; ... The Government is under pressure to release fresh advice from theTreasury that tax cuts are now affordable after National revealedthe department said the same thing four years ago. Prime Minister Helen Clark faced intense questioning inParliament yesterday over her announcement at ...
Meads to leave farm
Nov 07, 2007 ... Colin Meads' 102ha King Country farm goes under the hammer at theend of the month, but the agent does not expect a higher price justbecause the rugby legend is the owner. "Pinetree", one of the greats of the game, and his wife, Verna,are selling up after living on the property for ...
Ice images for stamps
Nov 07, 2007; ... Fifty years after Sir Edmund Hillary's team established ScottBase in Antarctica one of the veterans of the expedition has seenhis photographs commemorated on a new series of stamps. Retired wing commander John Claydon, 90, of Christchurch, tookmany of the pictures on which the ...
Call for tighter curb on booze; ALCOHOL STUDY
Nov 07, 2007; ... Christchurch researchers have uncorked more bad news for drink-loving New Zealanders. By Government standards, alcohol technically constitutes a high-risk drug and is actually more harmful than many illegal drugsincluding LSD, a new analysis shows. "We have in New Zealand a ...
Unions divided on pay parity; TEACHERS' WAGES
Nov 07, 2007; ... A war of words has erupted between the country's two teachingunions over pay parity. Post-Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA) president Robin Duff,who represents secondary teachers, wants to get rid of a linkbetween pay increases of secondary and primary teachers. However, ...
Court date delays ship sailing
Nov 07, 2007 ... The master of a South Korean fishing vessel delayed its departurefrom Lyttelton by getting drunk and falling asleep outside theChristchurch Casino. The Christchurch District Court was told yesterday the ship wouldsail as soon as its master, Jong Jeong, was free from his ...
Outrage as tree goes; LANDMARK TREE FELLED
Nov 07, 2007; ... The cutting down of a landmark copper beech tree in Blenheimyesterday has sparked outrage and highlighted a lack of protectionfor notable trees in Marlborough. The tree, more than 20m high and between 80 and 95 years old, waschopped down without notice. The Marlborough ...
Woodend backs eastern bypass; TRANSIT SURVEY
Nov 07, 2007; ... Woodend residents strongly favour an eastern bypass instead ofwidening the main road through the town, a Transit survey has found. The roading authority received 350 replies to a survey as part ofits traffic planning for the North Canterbury town. Transit expects traffic ...
Students in demand for summer jobs
Nov 07, 2007; ... University is out for the year and students are looking to cashin on summer jobs as employers cry out for their skills in the tightjob market. Data from Statistics New Zealand this week shows skilled andunskilled labour continues to be in high demand. Westpac bank's ...
Minister grilled over escape
Nov 07, 2007 ... The Department of Corrections' process for classifying prisonerswas challenged in Parliament yesterday after a convicted axemurderer was able to escape while doing gardening work. National MP Gerry Brownlee questioned how John Ericson was ableto walk away from an unsupervised ...
Firefighter's action 'political, not racist'
Nov 07, 2007; ... A Canterbury volunteer firefighter stood down for covering upMaori words on his uniform says the move was politically motivated. The long-serving Leeston fireman, Nigel Thomas, met seniorofficers last night after being stood down from operational dutieson October 16 after ...
CRIME STOP
Nov 07, 2007 ... Police want to locate Nikita McCausland, who has a warrant toarrest for failing to appear in court. Call Detective RichardQuested on 363 7786. . Do you know this person? He is required to be spoken to in relation to cashing stolencheques at the Kiwibank on the ...
Advice accepted?
Nov 07, 2007 ... Recent articles in The Press (Oct 11, 27) have drawn attention tothe possibility of retrofitting equipment to markedly reduce theemissions of non-complying solid-fuel burners, including openfireplaces. In their September 29 decision, the Natural Resources RegionalPlan (Air) ...
How would we cope if all the ex-pat Kiwis returned?
Nov 07, 2007 ... What an interesting juxtaposition of articles on the Perspectivepage yesterday. Doom and gloom from David Round, and the Simon Uptondescription of increasing barbarism when stuff happens. Yea, verily, the end of the world is at hand. Certainly the endof the oil- fed civilisation ...
Not so dangerous
Nov 07, 2007 ... Rob Ritchie postulates that nuclear weapons and power reactorsare giving rise to increases in cancer (Nov 2). In anyindustrialised country, including those with nuclear powerprogrammes, exposures from artificial sources of radiation form avery minor component of average annual doses. In ...
More than us here
Nov 07, 2007 ... The nasty humans are at it again. On National Radio we were toldthat a clam had been found in the North Sea. It was then taken to alaboratory so someone could work out its age. It had lived for 400years. A human had to come and kill it to find this out. In his book A Short ...
Cruel to horses
Nov 07, 2007 ... Interesting contrast: the front page has a cute photo of kidstrotting on ponies (Nov 5). The ponies have open mouths. Page A10has a photo of a horse cantering at liberty. Its mouth is closed. The reason for the difference? The ponies have bits in theirmouths, while the horse ...
Uniform requirements
Nov 07, 2007 ... We are Year 6 students at Windsor School, and have beendiscussing the problems Opawa School is having introducing itscompulsory new school uniform policy. We understand why some parentsare complaining. In our discussion, we thought of all the things that needed to beconsidered, ...
Delicious irony
Nov 07, 2007 ... John Wood is critical of Elizabeth Osmers Gordon for herdisinterest in good standards of English (Oct 31). There is adelicious irony, therefore, in his demonstration of precisely theissue he complains of. Disinterested is one of those words in transition through usage,and a true ...
We deserve better
Nov 07, 2007 ... In response to Milton Hayward (Oct 31), Richard Dawkins hasdeclared belief in God irrational, not from examination of the worldbut from examination of the faithful. It is unsettling for any mentally healthy person to be confrontedwith religious belief, as it appears to be a mental ...
Arguments puerile
Nov 07, 2007 ... It seems hypocritical of John Stringer (Oct 31) to accuse RichardDawkins and other atheist writers of playground antics, whiletrotting out puerile arguments, crucified time and again in atheistliterature, in an article that boils down to: "Those damn, smug,evil atheists are so annoying." ...
PUTTING IT RIGHT
Nov 07, 2007; ... Putting It Right is a weekly column of corrections andclarifications relating to stories in The Press. . Sara Raudsepp bemoaned The Press charging for foundadvertisements (October 29). It discouraged honesty, she said. Raudsepp was wrongly informed. The Press runs ...
You didn't tell us the fireworks would be so early
Nov 07, 2007 ... It was with not a little rage that my family and I summitted thedunes on Monday evening at 9.17 to discover that the annual pierfireworks display had just ended. In every previous year it has beenscheduled for 9.30, a time not congenial to younger school childrenbut necessary to achieve ...
What about car noise?
Nov 07, 2007 ... Prime Minister Helen Clark has trouble sleeping because offireworks and promptly threatens to ban them. One of the motelowners in Bealey Avenue should offer her a free room for theweekend ....
Funthies fulminate
Nov 07, 2007 ... The pop and crack of fireworks as people enjoyed Guy Fawkescelebrations must have been to the funthies like the sound ofChristmas carols to the Grinch. One could almost hear the grindingteeth of the ban-the-fireworks band pushers, as they watched smallchildren play with sparklers, and ...
Not her say
Nov 07, 2007 ... Prime Minister Helen Clark has warned the citizens of New Zealandthat if we don't behave ourselves with our fireworks she will banthem. Excuse me, who does she think she is? I thought New ...
Treated as bunnies
Nov 07, 2007 ... Full marks to The Press for its second leading article on Monday,on Labour and its duplicitous statements on tax policies. They are a pathetic lot and treat us as ignoramuses. They thinkwe believe them when they blame their Treasury advisers for theirpersistent refusal to give ...
Crucible shaken
Nov 07, 2007 ... The suspension of the constitution in Pakistan and the impositionof emergency rule is not just another twist in that nation's longentanglement in dictatorship. At stake is the future of a linchpinin the struggle against terror. Pakistan is the strong neighbour of Afghanistan, and ...
Raids right
Nov 07, 2007 ... So much criticism of the police raids in the Ureweras disgustsme. That this has been compared to Parihaka and apartheid isridiculous. The group has not been targeted because of their race orethnicity but because they were thought to be involved in ...
In a few words
Nov 07, 2007 ... Every November we put up with neighbours using fireworks untillate at night or early in the morning -- 1am on Saturday. This lastsfor at least a week before and after Guy Fawkes Day. Isn't it timeto ban these expensive and dangerous toys? R. PROSSER Why do children brought ...
Mallard provoked
Nov 07, 2007 ... Little by little the facts come out. Before being hit by TrevorMallard, Tau Henare verbally insulted a lady friend of Mallard andthen physically assaulted him. The assault apparently includedgrabbing him by the tie. If you are very politically correct you may believe that ...