The Press back issues from June 2008:
SUPER 14 CHAMPIONS 2008; .; CRUSADERS; ROAD TO GLORY
Jun 02, 2008 ... SUPER 14 CHAMPIONS 2008 Crusaders Road to glory . GAME 1: February 15 v Brumbies in Christchurch GAME 2: February 23 v Bulls in Pretoria GAME 3: March 1 v Stormers in Cape Town GAME 4: March 9 v Force in Perth GAME 5: March 15 ...
Superior Ellesmere retains hold on Southbridge Shield
Jun 02, 2008; ... The Ellesmere faithful did not mind that the match was not aspectacle. All that mattered was that North Canterbury had beendefeated and the Southbridge Shield retained for the third year in arow. "Magnificent" was the word Ellesmere coach Kerry Pauling used todescribe the ...
Linwood, Christchurch score crucial victories
Jun 02, 2008; ... Plenty of movement in mid- table marked the ninth round of themetro club rugby ladder on Saturday but nothing changed at the topor bottom of the table. HSOB and New Brighton had little more than training runs tomaintain their front- running positions against Belfast and ...
Six new caps in NZ Maori
Jun 02, 2008 ... Six new caps, including Canterbury Crusaders backs Tim Batemanand Stephen Brett, have been named in the New Zealand Maori rugbysquad for the Pacific Nations Cup tournament. A feature of the squad announced yesterday is the selection ofWellington utility back Tamati Ellison and ...
Coaches shown red card
Jun 02, 2008 ... There was plenty of action off- field in the Mainland premierleague with two of the region's leading coaches given their marchingorders by referees. Former All White Keith Braithwaite, coach of defending championNomads United, was dispatched from the dug-out against ...
Saints win secures top spot
Jun 02, 2008 ... Saints issued an ominous warning for fellow national basketballleague title contenders with a 117-78 whipping of Manawatu in itsfinal regular season match to underline its status as the No. 1ranked team entering the play-offs. The Wellington team has finished its season a week ...
Unbeaten Lincoln University downs Marist-Albion
Jun 02, 2008; ... Lincoln University maintained its unblemished record in premierclub netball to climb its way to the top of the challenge pointstable. Facing its toughest match of the Christchurch Netball Centre clubseason so far, it held on for a 42-40 win over Marist-Albion at theHagley courts ...
RESULTS
Jun 02, 2008 ... AUSSIE RULES AFL Australian Football League results this weekend:- Adelaide 9.20 (74) Essendon 10.9 (69), Collingwood 27.11 (173)West Coast 10.13 (73), Western Bulldogs 15.16 (106) Hawthorn 12.2(74), Brisbane 18.21 (129)North Melbourne 15.8 (98), Geelong 19.19(133) ...
RESULTS
Jun 02, 2008 ... AUSSIE RULES AFL Australian Football League results this weekend:- Adelaide 9.20 (74) Essendon 10.9 (69), Collingwood 27.11 (173)West Coast 10.13 (73), Western Bulldogs 15.16 (106) Hawthorn 12.2(74), Brisbane 18.21 (129)North Melbourne 15.8 (98), Geelong 19.19(133) ...
Bamford earns place in squad
Jun 02, 2008; ... Line-breaking Linwood second- rower Chris Bamford has clinched aplace in the Canterbury Bulls' training squad with a hat-trick oftries in a trial match. The big, burly forward left tacklers trailing in his wake as hehelped Eastern Suburbs to a 42-32 win over Western Suburbs in ...
Price signs for fifth season with Warriors
Jun 02, 2008 ... Skipper Steve Price has extended his contract with the NewZealand Warriors for another year, the National Rugby League clubannounced on Saturday night. Price, 34, will play on next season, which will be his fifthsince he moved to Auckland. The club also said injured ...
CHRISTCHURCH MARATHON RESULTS
Jun 02, 2008 ... SBS HALF-MARATHON CONTD Results continued from the SBS half- marathon held inChristchurch yesterday: Cathy Cooper (Christchurch), 01:53:42, 228; Janene Moffatt(Invercargill), 01:53:44, 229; Linda Poulsen (Christchurch),01:53:50, 230; Helen Bones (Christchurch), 01:53:56, ...
CHRISTCHURCH MARATHON RESULTS
Jun 02, 2008 ... SBS MARATHON Results from the SBS Marathon in Christchurch yesterday. For fullresults go to www.sbsmarathon.co.nz: Full Marathon: men Rowan Hooper (Team New Balance), 02:21:41, 1; David Ruschena(Glen Huntly Vic), 02:22:30, 2; Paul Martinico (Highett), 02:24:10,3; ...
Tactix out to grab spot in top four
Jun 02, 2008; ... New challenges await the Tactix against an old foe out toresurrect a season blighted by off-court issues. A place in the top four awaits the red-and-black side if they cantopple the Northern Mystics at Trusts Stadium in Auckland tonight. The last time the two sides met, ...
AT A GLANCE
Jun 02, 2008 ... TACTIX versus NORTHERN MYSTICS Trusts Stadium, Auckland, 7tonight. Tactix Julie Seymour (captain) C, WD 1.72m. Maree Bowden WA, C, WD 1.75m. Demelza Fellowes GD, GK 1.88m. Phillipa Finch WD, C, WA 1.71m. Ellen Halpenny GS, GA 1.85m ....
Hooper scores hometown win
Jun 02, 2008; ... Rowan Hooper scored a popular hometown win in the SBSChristchurch marathon yesterday running down Australian raider DaveRuschena in the closing kilometres. Hooper, 29, seized the lead from Ruschena with about 5kmremaining just before Hagley Park and outfinished the ...
Olympian Rillstone takes women's title
Jun 02, 2008; ... Beijing-bound runner, Nina Rillstone, found room in her suitcasefor another half- marathon title as she packs her bags inpreparation for the Olympic Games. Rillstone lived up to her tag as favourite for the SBS half-marathon women's crown yesterday when she crossed the finish line ...
SUPER 14 CHAMPIONS 2008
Jun 02, 2008; ... SUPER 14 CHAMPIONS 2008 . SUPER14 2008 FINAL MAY 31 . No matter who you are as a player - whether you're a 50-test AllBlack or a first-game Crusader - you're all treated the same and youall live by the same values ... We often say, 'it's better to ...
Bateman revels in victory
Jun 02, 2008; ... Tim Bateman had only one regret after the Crusaders' Super 14title win over the Waratahs -- he forgot to record the post- matchantics. "It is my first time to be part of it. It's pretty cool just tosit back and watch it. But I didn't bring a camera which was a bitof an amateur ...
Poke in ribs made Thorn lash out
Jun 02, 2008; ... A poke in the ribs caused Brad Thorn to uncharacteristicallyerupt and belt Dan Vickerman before he was yellow-carded in theSuper 14 final on Saturday night. Thorn's ill-discipline in the second half cost the Crusaders acrucial try to loosehead prop Wyatt Crockett, with referee ...
The difference? Isn't it obvious?
Jun 02, 2008; ... James K. Baxter knew a couple like Ewen McKenzie and Phil Waugh."National mum and Labour dad" he christened them, "two birds thatpeck in one fouled nest." Baxter did not have the Waratahs' coach and captain in mind, backin 1960, but it summed up the pair, perched together at the ...
Deans out in style; Lucky seven for Crusaders
Jun 02, 2008 ... Robbie Deans flies to Sydney this morning to take up the reins asWallabies coach, leaving Crusaders fans able only to wonder at thevoid he leaves behind. The Crusaders gave Deans a fitting send-off on Saturday, claimingthe Super 14 franchise's seventh Super rugby title with a ...
Gong sets off judicial career
Jun 02, 2008; ... A creaking courts system is creating unacceptable delays indelivering justice, says a retired High Court judge. Justice John Hansen, today appointed a Distinguished Companion ofthe New Zealand Order of Merit, was an architect of the High Court'scase- management system ....
Hi-tech race chair puts Hickling back in contest; [ed 1: Hi-tech race chair puts Hickling back in race]
Jun 02, 2008; ... A Wellington tetraplegic's life came full circle when he finisheda half marathon in Christchurch yesterday. Chris Hickling competed in the SBS Half Marathon along with hisfriend Alex McIntyre who is paraplegic. Hickling ran his first half marathon 23 years ago, just ...
Spooked steed lends celebrations some real spark
Jun 02, 2008 ... Cortezz, the horse that invaded the pitch after the Super 14final and cantered through celebrating players and officials, was"enjoying himself" and did not pose any danger, the Crusaders'stable master says. The horse, one of the Crusaders' promotional steeds ridden by"knights" ...
Fiordland quake
Jun 02, 2008 ... A tremor measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale hit Fiordland at7.24am ...
Draughtsman wins lakeside section
Jun 02, 2008 ... Dunedin structural draughtsman Murray Thomson did not think whenhe slid a raffle ticket into his top drawer that it would bring hima giant section with 360-degree alpine views near Lake Ruataniwha,Twizel. On Saturday, Thomson toasted his good fortune, and South IslandRowing was ...
TranzAlpine mishap
Jun 02, 2008 ... The TranzAlpine train is still in action despite engineers notknowing why its rear passenger carriage became detached during atrip from Christchurch to the West Coast. The mishap occurred about 11.30am on Saturday, just after thetrain cleared Arthurs Pass, near Inchbonnie ....
Water could cost farmers $250m; [ed 1: Levy on water usage proposed]; GREEN PARTY PROPOSAL; [ed 1: GREEN PARTY ANNUAL MEETING]
Jun 02, 2008; ... A new Green Party proposal to charge for commercial water usagewould cost farmers about $250 million a year. Greens co-leader Russel Norman unveiled a levy of about 10 centsper cubic metre of water at the party's annual meeting in Aucklandyesterday. He said the levy would ...
Station robbed
Jun 02, 2008 ... A Shell petrol station on Moorhouse Avenue was robbed atknifepoint about 10.40 last night ....
Man accused of raping teenager; [ed 1: Man faces charges of raping teenager]
Jun 02, 2008 ... A 28-year-old man will appear in the Christchurch District Courttoday charged with raping a 16-year-old girl in New Brighton earlyyesterday. The girl was walking home along New Brighton Road with her 17-year-old boyfriend about 1.50am after a night out when they wereapproached ...
Spinal pioneer honoured
Jun 02, 2008 ... A Christchurch spinal injury specialist has been made an Officerof the New Zealand Order of Merit in this year's Queen's BirthdayHonours. Dr Francis Angelo Anthony was born and trained in Sri Lanka, butmoved to New Zealand in the early 1970s. After first living inTaranaki, he ...
Gong for Coast brass man
Jun 02, 2008; ... Westport bandmaster Graham Mason today marches alongside his latebrother Errol, having been awarded the Queen's Service Medal. Errol Mason, who received a QSM in 1984, was regarded as one ofNew Zealand's finest cornetists. He left the Coast to lead theAuckland Brass Band to ...
Life dedicated to helping Pacific Island women
Jun 02, 2008; ... Tufuga Lagatule was inspired to devote her life to helping thePacific Islands community in Christchurch by her mother. Lagatule's lifetime of service to women and her community hasbeen recognised with an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit inthe Queen's Birthday Honours ....
Women's group work recognised
Jun 02, 2008; ... ueen's Service Order recipient Gail Collingwood earned her awardfor her involvement in a diverse range of local body, women's andcommunity groups. The Nelson City councillor said the theme of her work has been inwomen's affairs. Over the past 30 years Collingwood has been ...
Friend of nature
Jun 02, 2008; ... Landscapes, flora and fauna in the Queenstown Lakes have fewbetter friends than Barry Lawrence. A two-term district councillor and member of the WakatipuEnvironmental Society, Lawrence has been awarded a Queen's ServiceMedal for services to local body affairs and the environment ....
Walkway passion
Jun 02, 2008; ... David Howden led the way when a new hut was opened recently onthe Mount Somers Walkway in his cherished Mid- Canterbury. Howden, who farmed at Mayfield, inland from Ashburton, marked theway, carefully attaching coloured tape to branches so those lessused to the outdoors could find ...
Cadet leader likes to help out
Jun 02, 2008 ... In 1980 aspiring Air Force pilot Shane Cole joined the Air Forcecadets. Twenty-eight years later, Squadron Leader Cole is still withthe cadets, exceptional service which was acknowledged today withthe awarding of the Queen's Service Medal. For a decade Cole, 41, has been squadron ...
Quake funds raised
Jun 02, 2008; ... Christchurch's Chinese community associations have raised morethan $130,000 for the victims of the China Earthquake. The devastating quake struck Sichuan province on May 12. Nearly70,000 people have been confirmed dead with more than 23,000 missingand about 360,000 injured ....
New rules put in place to target noisy vehicles; ROAD REGULATIONS
Jun 02, 2008 ... Boy racers may have to tone down their exhausts or risk beingtaken off the road after new rules around noisy vehicles came intoforce this month. Amendments to the Vehicle Equipment Rule targeting excessivelynoisy vehicles came into effect yesterday. Minister for Transport ...
McKenzie the wrong man to coach Crusaders
Jun 02, 2008 ... As a Cantabrian living in Sydney, I'm concerned by the volume ofAustralian press reports that Ewen McKenzie is gaining support forthe Crusaders coaching position. Setting aside the obvious issues with having a non-New Zealanderin one of the most important coaching roles in New ...
Freezing uncertainty
Jun 02, 2008 ... A lot has been said about the lack of crowds to AMI Stadium overthe last few years. The obvious reason is that Canterburysupporters have had enough of rugby. Over the years, prices have gone up, players have been rested/rotated or gone off shore. On top of this, we have been ...
Our houses substandard
Jun 02, 2008 ... It is shameful to see The Press cover the leaky and cold homes asthough it is something new (May 29). Ask anyone from the NorthernHemisphere who has spent a winter in NZ - all will say the housinghere is sub-standard. In two years here, no-one has believed me that ...
Facts, not fallacies
Jun 02, 2008 ... Terry Heffernan (May 29) says it is dishonest nonsense to claimthat larger tax cuts will lead to cuts in Government services. Hesays one of the main factors driving our interest rates higher isthe chunk of our taxes wasted on backroom bureaucrats. I would like to think that ...
IN A FEW WORDS
Jun 02, 2008 ... The NZ Food Safety Authority has been lazy and incompetent inprotecting the public, having allowed colours, preservatives andadditives, banned in the US and EU, to pollute the food we consume.What misery the people have paid for the compromises given tobusiness by this sham of an ...
Tax will kill it
Jun 02, 2008 ... The Government's obsession with SOE dividends and taxes, coupledwith its inability to provide leadership in the power planning area,and hand-wringing over yet to be proved global warming (read taxopportunity) has placed our power supply in doubt. Two viable options exist ....
Contaminated by PC
Jun 02, 2008 ... The conclusions of the juries involved in the three high-profilecases that resulted in acquittal cast doubt, not on the legalsystem, but the PC environment from which these juries are selected. There is an increasing sentiment in our society that rejectsanything that smacks of ...
Failed us
Jun 02, 2008 ... In a number of recent court cases, the police and the justicesystem have once again failed the law-abiding among us. Once againmore power has been given to the criminals. No longer is my house my ...
Justice not served
Jun 02, 2008 ... The failure of the police to secure a conviction in any of thethree recent major murder cases should highlight the vast number offlaws the police have made in bringing these cases for prosecution. There are many other cases in which the police make frighteningerrors that are never ...
Name the river
Jun 02, 2008 ... Ian Rodger says that NZ Federation of Freshwater Anglers hasendorsed the examination of nuclear energy (May 30). Just what riveror coastline does he ...
Priorities wrong
Jun 02, 2008 ... The Press reports that the Canterbury University Council has madeup its mind on restructuring of the Faculty of Arts (May 29). The considerations driving this have been staff and money. Theuniversity surely exists for the benefit of its students, yet theneeds of the ...
Super seven
Jun 02, 2008 ... The Crusaders' seventh Super rugby title in 11 seasons confirmstheir status as one of the most successful dynasties in world sport. Those doughty defensive qualities which have served the Crusadersso well in the past were evident again as they repelled the Waratahsat AMI Stadium on ...
PM's declaration may haunt Labour
Jun 02, 2008; ... 'T here will be a new era of moderation, frugality, and integrityin the public sector. We will restore the meaning of publicservice." - Helen Clark, October 1999. The problem with making definitive statements in public life isthat they can come back to haunt you. Perception is ...
Dreamliner slowly taking form
Jun 02, 2008; ... Boeing has opened its doors for the first time since revealingtroubles with its 787 Dreamliner. ROELAND VAN DEN BERGH travelled tothe Seattle factory to have a look inside. Pat Shanahan's phone rings at 5.30 each morning, moments afterthe head of the Boeing 787 programme walks ...
Investors feel cheated; LOMBARD FINANCE AND INVESTMENTS
Jun 02, 2008; ... Investors in Lombard Finance and Investments say they feelcheated by the reassurances of the company and let down by itsformer Cabinet minister directors after receivers warned last weekthey could lose up to 80 per cent of their money. Lombard Finance, part of the listed Lombard ...
Business support served up with breakfast
Jun 02, 2008; ... Most working relationships, business or otherwise, get by on afair deal of give and take, but there is an alternative mindsettaking Kiwi entrepreneurs by storm. AMANDA MORRALL gets a gauge onthe give-is-gain belief driving the spread of Business NetworkingInternational. Every ...
SEA, AIR, RAIL
Jun 02, 2008 ... PORT OF LYTTELTON Ships in Port: Aleksandr Ksenofontov, Gladstone Pier East. Atria, 3E. Altair 2,3E. Cook Strait, CshnQy1. Wh76, Cattle Jetty. Zlatno More, 4W.Arrived, Saturday: OOCL Ability (3am), 16,705 Taurnga Seatrans.Tuhoe 6am 198 sea Stark. Sur Este 709 (10:30am), ...
Going global earns award
Jun 02, 2008; ... Phil Lough is in the business of building global companies. The Nelson man, who has been made an officer of the New ZealandOrder of Merit, has helped a long list of Kiwi companies grow intosuccessful international operators. The honour was something he never thought about ...
Interest in sustainability delights businessman
Jun 02, 2008; ... A clear theme running through the business accolades in theQueen's Birthday honours list is innovation, cultivation andprotection of the generosity of Mother Nature. One of the founders of New Zealand's leading organic waste andcomposting operator, Living Earth, Rob Fenwick has ...
War horrors revisited
Jun 02, 2008; ... In September 1916 Cecil Malthus fought with the CanterburyRegiment in the Battle of the Somme, one of history's bloodiestaffairs. More than 90 years later, DAVID KING traces his footsteps. . On a gorgeous spring afternoon, the tiny French village of Flerslooks like the sort ...
MEGA GUIDE; THE PRESS GUIDE TO EVERYTHING; MONDAY, JUNE 2-SUNDAY, JUNE 8; email entries to guide@press.co.nz
Jun 02, 2008; ... Hi, What to look forward to this week. Sex in the City looks setto be one of the greatest chick flicks of our time. While the showgave a fairy tale you could believe in, the movie promises to bemuch more! To begin with, it is as long as five episodes promotingwomen's independence and ...
FAMILY/TO MARKET/PERFORMANCE/COMMUNITY/THEATRE; MEGA GUIDE
Jun 02, 2008 ... ADRENALIN FOREST: Aerial adventure course in the tree canopy,opposite Spencer Park campground, 9am daily. For all ages butminimum height of 1.25m. Phone 0800 TO GO APE to book. AIR FORCE MUSEUM: Fun aviation-themed activities. 10am-5pm.Admission charges apply. CHILDREN'S ...
GIG GUIDE; MEGA GUIDE
Jun 02, 2008; ... CARTEL: Adam McGrath. SAINTS AND SINNERS: 7pm-9pm, Happy Hour hosts; 9pm-12.30am, SweetAs. SOL SQUARE: Christchurch Banjo -- Spit Roast, Beer and BourbonMusic Festival. 1pm Liz Nichol; 2.30pm John Sanchez-Lloyd; 3.40pmJohnny Possum's Goodtime Hootin' Band; 5.20pm Rural ...
WIN! WIN! WIN!; MEGA GUIDE
Jun 02, 2008 ... The Press has four passes to giveaway to see Scriptless Uncut atThe Forge, The Court Theatre, which runs until Saturday 4 June. Toenter this draw, write your name, address and a contact ...
VISUAL ARTS; MEGA GUIDE
Jun 02, 2008 ... AIGANTIGHE GALLERY: (49 Wai-iti Rd, Timaru) Meridian EnergyPlunket art show (to June 15). Tickets $25 from Timaru IsiteInformation Centre, phone (03) 688-6163. Exhibitors include ClarkeEsplin, Ben Woollcombe, Hamish Allan and others. Proceeds to PlunketSouth Canterbury. Open Tues-fri ...