The Press back issues from August 2008:
Hurt MacDonald's career in balance
Aug 01, 2008; ... Leon MacDonald's playing future remains uncertain with hisconcussion set to sideline him from the August 16 test against theSpringboks. If he does not travel to the republic, there is a chanceWellington's Cory Jane will be called into the All Blacks squad as areplacement ....
On wing and a prayer
Aug 01, 2008; ... The All Blacks coaches have lost faith in specialists Rudi Wulfand Anthony Tuitavake, drafting in Richard Kahui at wing instead. The listing of Kahui on the right wing for tomorrow night's testagainst the Wallabies confirms Wulf and Tuitavake have not come upto scratch for the All ...
Thorn not about to don kid gloves
Aug 01, 2008; ... Undaunted by a suspension and two yellow cards, Brad Thorn willnot be softening his hard-man reputation. Last week's yellow card for a high tackle on Matt Giteau was thethird time in two months the 1.95m All Blacks lock has landed in hotwater, but it has not sapped his desire to ...
No pressure, coach
Aug 01, 2008; ... Despite his team having lost two tests in a row All Blacks coachGraham Henry has remained relaxed and focused this week on preparinghis squad for another test against the Wallabies tomorrow night,RICHARD KNOWLER reports from Auckland. -------------------- To anoutside observer it has ...
Brett ruled out of Air NZ Cup opener
Aug 01, 2008; ... Star first five-eighths Stephen Brett is out of the Canterbury team to play Manawatu tomorrow. The 22-year-old suffered a recurrence of the quad injury hesustained during the New Zealand Maori team's Pacific Cup campaign,during Canterbury's 20-12 loss to Wellington in their ...
South Island drivers vie for a go at rally title
Aug 01, 2008; ... Tomorrow's Gore Rally is the final South Island round of theRally Xtreme Series, the second tier of New Zealand's rallyingchampionships. The top contenders in the 80 car field will chase a chance tomeet the top Xtreme contenders from the North Island in two finals,one in each ...
CJC on weather watch
Aug 01, 2008; ... It is a nervous times for Canterbury Jockey Club (CJC) officialsin the countdown to the three-day winter Carnival starting tomorrowat Riccarton Park. Traditionally this carnival is run on a heavy track, but chiefexecutive Tim Mills can't quite remember this much rain falling ...
Riccarton raid
Aug 01, 2008; ... History reflects that success does not come often for localstables in the $125,000 Aussie Browne Winter Cup, but at RiccartonPark tomorrow you could make a strong case that this year thingsmight be different. In the past 10 years only once, in 1999, when the Tania Forde-trained ...
Off track
Aug 01, 2008; ... * QUICK QUIZ: During the 1990s one two-year-old and four three-year-olds were thoroughbred Horse of the Year. How many can youname? * * * * STAR OF THE WEEK: No doubt it is Michael Pitman, the firstSouth Island trainer in 35 years to win the trainers' premiership ....
Debut win, money on
Aug 01, 2008; ... Scotlynn Hamish was backed down to hot favouritism in his racedebut at Addington last night and did not let his army of supportersdown with an impressive winning display. The $1.90 win shot is prepared at Ladbrooks by Dean Taylor whoshares the ownership with his wife Lesley, also ...
That's bizarre
Aug 01, 2008; ... Most owners are thrilled to win any race and especially theirlocal cup. Except John Buchanan, the most important figure in theAkaroa racing club. When his horse, Ambiose, won the Akaroa Cup in 1907 Buchanan was"the most surprised and disappointed person on the course" ....
Driver's mother no wiser; CORONER INQUEST
Aug 01, 2008 ... The mother of one of the three schoolgirls killed in a car crashnear Springston last year feels "none the wiser" as to how the crashhappened after an inquest in Christchurch yesterday. Lincoln High School students Emma Reynolds, Melissa Norton andChloe Cockerell, all aged 15, were ...
Peters lets fly at Hide; FUNDING SCANDAL
Aug 01, 2008 ... Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters and ACT leader RodneyHide traded vicious verbal blows yesterday. Under the protection of parliamentary privilege, Peters said Hidewas involved in an "incident" on Waiheke Island that Hide had triedto cover up. Hide called Peters "a ...
Further flooding forecast; Scores flee homes. Transport links cut.; Damage in millions. ROAD UPDATE
Aug 01, 2008 ... Much of Canterbury was under water as yesterday's destructivestorm marched south - forcing scores from their homes, cutting majorroad and rail routes and causing millions of dollars of damage. North Canterbury bore the brunt of what local forecastersdescribed as one of the worst ...
By fencepost, pipe and tuft the water rose; [ed 1: By turf, pipe, fence post, the water rose]
Aug 01, 2008; ... Pets, pensioners and proud husbands have stood firm, refusing tobudge in the face of a watery demise in small-town North Canterbury. Civil Defence rallied residents at Amberley Beach yesterdayafternoon, evacuating about 60 residents as persistent rain and arising tide spilled in to ...
Woman saved from flooding; THE BIG STORM
Aug 01, 2008 ... Culverden's Pamela Goble got carried away with the floods. Goble, who lives in a cottage on the The Terrace farm run by herdaughter Robyn Faulkner and son-in-law, had to be carried from herhouse yesterday morning. "During the night I kept getting up every hour, and the ...
Tree just misses teen on phone; THE BIG STORM
Aug 01, 2008; ... Bryan Parks was talking to his 16-year-old daughter by phone whena tree crashed into the house metres from where the girl wasstanding. "He heard what sounded like an explosion, a scream and then theline went dead," his wife, Tracey, said yesterday. "I was picking up the ...
Raging floodwaters bring chaos; THE BIG STORM
Aug 01, 2008; ... People were forced out of their homes yesterday as roads andschools were closed and floodwaters raced across farmland in NorthCanterbury. Traffic ground to a halt on State Highway 1 as a winter delugeleft rivers swollen and creeks overflowing, bringing chaos to theregion ....
Gales smash over 100 houses; THE BIG STORM
Aug 01, 2008; ... Greymouth residents have begun repairing more than 100 homesdamaged in Wednesday's 150km/h storm. Winds dropped yesterday, giving homeowners and volunteers achance to weatherproof houses so that when forecast rain arrived itwould not add water damage to the trail of devastation ....
Marlborough residents move back to homes
Aug 01, 2008; ... Picton and Blenheim residents had an "all hands to the pump"community spirit as they removed sandbags and moved back intoevacuated homes. The state of emergency declared in Marlborough on Wednesday waslifted at 3.30pm yesterday. Marlborough District Council incidents ...
Nelson man's escape a hit on Web; THE BIG STORM
Aug 01, 2008 ... Nelson businessman Paul Thomas has survived a brush with death tobecome an internet superstar. The business broker was driving past a tree in storm-hit Nelsonon Wednesday evening as it crashed to the ground. His MitsubishiDiamante escaped with just a damaged aerial. "It was ...
CD ready to move people out; THE BIG STORM
Aug 01, 2008; ... Residents of the South Canterbury coastal settlement of MilfordHuts have been placed on alert in case surging waters in the nearbylagoon threaten a stopbank. The 40 residents were told by telephone yesterday afternoon thatthere was a minor risk of the lagoon overtopping a stopbank ...
Sea of disarray for homes, roads, rail and farms; THE BIG STORM
Aug 01, 2008; ... Denise Meadows' home was an island in a pool of dirty wateryesterday. Meadows, 58, lives alone in a caravan 10km south of Kaikoura. Shedoes not have many possessions, but she is doing what she can tokeep them. In three years at the tiny settlement of Puketa, the storm is ...
THE BIG STORM
Aug 01, 2008 ... The storm's damage was captured yesterday by photographers forThe Press DAVID HALLETT, KIRK HARGREAVES, STACY SQUIRES and DONSCOTT. . Kaiapoi: Jafar Solomon, 13, enjoys a day off school in a floodedstreet. New Brighton, left: Christchurch's pier is buffeted by high ...
Peters flings accusations at Hide after fraud claim
Aug 01, 2008; ... Parliament has reached new lows in the New Zealand Firstdonations row, with vicious allegations flying around the DebatingChamber. New Zealand First leader Winston Peters yesterday launched afurious attack on ACT leader Rodney Hide. Peters again refused to talk to ...
Islands seen as Kiwi retirement option
Aug 01, 2008 ... Elderly New Zealanders may be encouraged to retire on Pacificislands under a proposal to make some of the world's smallestcountries viable. Luxury hospitals and retirement homes could be built on islandssuch as Niue, Tokelau and the Cooks to build up their economies andprevent ...
Too long to hold on; UNHAPPY LANDING
Aug 01, 2008 ... A Qantas passenger was forced to urinate in a sick bag after theairline refused to let people out of their seats during an extendedlanding. Flight QF183, heading from Sydney to Queenstown this week, wasdiverted to Christchurch three hours into the journey due to badweather. The ...
Girl finds home ablaze; UNHAPPY LANDING
Aug 01, 2008 ... A Christchurch schoolgirl found her Aranui home going up in smokeyesterday. The girl, who did not want to be named, said she had left herelectric blanket on and believed that caused the fire. "She just got back here from school and found the house was onfire," the girl's ...
Reason car swerved stays a mystery; CORONER'S INQUEST
Aug 01, 2008; ... The families of three schoolgirls killed in a car crash nearSpringston, Canterbury, last year may never know why the driverswerved. Chief Coroner Judge Neil MacLean held an inquest yesterday intothe deaths of Lincoln High School students Emma Reynolds, MelissaNorton and Chloe ...
Cunliffe call on care
Aug 01, 2008 ... Health Minister David Cunliffe is calling for greatercollaboration between public and private health providers to improvepatient care. "I'm quite open to the concept that (public and private healthproviders) should play a complementary role and that we should useprivate capacity ...
Finalists named
Aug 01, 2008 ... More than 130 companies of all sizes entered this year'sCanterbury Champion Awards, and last night 42 finalists wereunveiled at the Great Hall in Christchurch's Arts Centre. The ...
IN A FEW WORDS
Aug 01, 2008 ... Your article entitled "Ban on waders" suggests that the ban isonly on felt- soled waders (July 29). This is not fully correct. Theban applies to the use of felt-soled waders or footwearincorporating or ...
Family keeps teen from jail; ARSON, FIREARMS CHARGES
Aug 01, 2008; ... A teenager charged with arson and firearm offences has avoidedjail only because of the support of his parents, a judge has said. Joshua Eric Hill, 19, was instead sentenced by ChristchurchDistrict Court Judge Phil Moran to two years intensive supervision,with the condition he ...
Historic step
Aug 01, 2008 ... Feudal monarchs are not normally disposed to surrendering any oftheir powers, but this is what Tonga's King George Tupou V this weekpromised to do. His decision, made just before his coronation, is awelcome step towards a fairer political system in the island nationand one made necessary ...
Foreign call centres a trial for Telecom's clients
Aug 01, 2008 ... "Trials of call centres in Manila have been good for customers,''say Telecom (July 30). Well, it's not for this customer. Those of us who have had to endure up to an hour or more tryingto understand the accent of a call- centre person when trying tosolve a problem on one's ...
Test devalues
Aug 01, 2008 ... Allison Franklin's article, "An ethical dilemma ahead'' (July29), misses the reason for the Disabled Persons' Assembly (DPA)statement that pre-birth testing "devalues'' disabled people. We already have examples of parents being challenged as to whythey allowed their child to live ...
Rupertish thoughts
Aug 01, 2008 ... Although the art of naming children has been well thrashed out oflate, Joe Bennett's article in Wednesday's issue intrigued me. I would like to know - as would my family and work colleagues -how he would see me, in what way would I be "Rupertish''? Am I seenas a small white bear ...
Merely mortal
Aug 01, 2008 ... I share the sentiments of many of your correspondents about Deansand Henry and had a certain savage satisfaction in seeing Robbie'sAussies beat the All Blacks. There is no doubt that they outplayed New Zealand in the loose,and that the injection of Lauaki had disastrous ...
Tell Tibet's real story
Aug 01, 2008 ... It's difficult to see how the real picture presented by three so-called Chinese Tibet experts could be real when all of them weresent here by their government to justify its crackdown in Tibet,presumably for the glory of the Beijing Olympics (July 29). It'seven harder to understand why ...
Never bush-clad
Aug 01, 2008 ... The reforestation of Quail Island is a very worthwhile ecologicaland educational project which deserves support. However, IanMacDonald is incorrect in relation to the aims of the Otamahua/Quail Island Trust (July 30). It was never the trust's aim to returnthe island to its pre-European ...
All at sea
Aug 01, 2008 ... Hayden Tibbotts iscorrect (July 28). If his car was below thehigh- water mark - it must have been swamped as the tide rose - itwas at sea, so it can be deemed to be a vessel. Maritime legislation (or the lack thereof) should apply. It is a ludicrous gap in the law that it is ...
IN A FEW WORDS
Aug 01, 2008 ... A visually disabled 85-year-old lady friend of my wife and Icaught the four o'clock bus from Merivale to Kaiapoi and had tostand all the way. The bus was full of schoolchildren, none of whomoffered to let her sit down. Are children taught bad manners or isit bred into them? ALAN ...
Work safely
Aug 01, 2008 ... Although not wishing to trivialise the plight of Blaine Horton(July 29), who drilled his eye in what he considers to be a freakaccident, he, and others like him who hurt themselves in similarpreventable ways, don't necessarily need to wear goggles to savetheir sight. Simply use the ...
Good quality care
Aug 01, 2008 ... I am a resident at the Oaks Senior Care Centre. As this is nowunder the umbrella of Elder Care, residents of their rest homes feelconcerned. When Elder Care took over the Oaks, a short while ago, there werea few changes. However, the level of care for all ...
Homes fall apart
Aug 01, 2008 ... Mr Shamy (Rannerdale Veteran Hospital and Home) is correct inhis reply to my letter re nursing homes and profits (July 26). Theresidents' care is paramount but this is often not the case. Icertainly do not include homes such as those run by Mr Shamy. It is a domino effect: ...
Keep in perspective
Aug 01, 2008 ... I make a plea to the media not to go overboard on coverage of theOlympics. As communications technology improves, it seems to encourageendless replays, repeats, forums, discussions, interviews,predictions and pundits flooding the papers and especiallytelevision. Of course ...
Garden of birds
Aug 01, 2008 ... When I moved into this address two winters ago, I started to feedthe birds. Now the six or seven sparrows have increased to about 25and it is good to see the varieties increasing, from sparrows forbread and scraps, greenfinches for the sunflower seeds, thengoldfinches for the cosmos ...
The will of your Father
Aug 01, 2008 ... Oh, the irony and tragedy of recent reports of multi-thousanddonations to political parties by individuals, timed to theannouncement of the Rich List, just as another finance companycrashes and the impact of the cost-of-living increases crush harderon households. There's a ...
Footage breaks Games security
Aug 01, 2008 ... China's massive security network has failed, with a South Koreantelevision station broadcasting footage of the Beijing Olympicsopening ceremony after a reporter managed to walk into the NationalStadium during a rehearsal this week. The opening ceremony, directed by China's ...
Fuerbringer dies
Aug 01, 2008 ... Otto Fuerbringer, who was Time magazine's managing editor duringthe turbulent 1960s when it famously asked: Is God Dead? on thecover and switched to opposing the Vietnam War, has died in ...
Hanover tells of borrowings by its owners
Aug 01, 2008; ... Hanover Finance owners Eric Watson and Mark Hotchin borrowed $9.7million from the company and subsidiary United Finance to buyQueenstown sections in July before the company froze $554m ofinvestors' funds, Hanover managing director Bruce Gordon says. Hanover was forced to reveal ...
NZOG has $280m war chest to invest; TUI OILFIELD
Aug 01, 2008; ... New Zealand Oil & Gas (NZOG) is sitting on a near- $300 millioninvestment war chest after a boom year from the Tui oilfield andrecord world prices, but it may end up spending the money overseas. NZOG yesterday reported June quarter revenues of almost $81m,equal to almost $900,000 ...
Ethanol subsidy erodes Argent hopes; BIODIESEL
Aug 01, 2008; ... A British biodiesel producer has backed off building a plant inTauranga and may pull out of the country altogether, saying agovernment ethanol subsidy makes doing business here illogical. After three years in New Zealand, Argent Energy said it hadshelved plans to invest $100 ...
Battle for Warehouse may go on
Aug 01, 2008; ... The two-year battle for control of New Zealand's largest retailerlooks set to move to a new arena - the Supreme Court - after theCourt of Appeal blocked Woolworths and Foodstuffs from launchingbids. Yesterday's decision sent The Warehouse Group's share priceplunging to a ...
NAB retail head named as chief
Aug 01, 2008; ... The Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) has named National Australia Bank's(NAB) retail head, Andrew Thorburn, as its new chief executive. From October 1 Thorburn replaces Cameron Clyne, who has beenappointed chief executive of NAB, which owns the BNZ. Clyne willsucceed John Stewart ....
Economy down - but award entries up
Aug 01, 2008 ... Businesses looking to celebrate their successes in a tougheconomy have prompted record entries in this year's CanterburyChampion Awards. More than 130 firms entered the annual awards, 30 more than lastyear. Forty-two finalists were unveiled at the Great Hall in theArts Centre, ...
ING devalues
Aug 01, 2008 ... ING Medical Properties Trust's property valuations have eased0.5% to $297.9m, with an exchange rate gain of $13.5m on Australianassets being moved to ...
TrustPower call
Aug 01, 2008 ... Listed Tauranga electricity retailer TrustPower has confirmed itsearnings will be adversely affected by lack of wind and lack ofrain. The weather had reduced generation and forced it to buy on thespot ...
Greymouth nod
Aug 01, 2008 ... New Zealand oil explorer Greymouth Petroleum and other foreignfirms that won bids to explore for crude oil and gas in thesouthernmost regions of Chile will begin drilling in ...
Contact in gas
Aug 01, 2008 ... Contact Energy says it has a new gas sale agreement with OMV forthe supply of an additional 32 petajoules of natural gas from thePohokura gasfield. This supply ...
SPLF signs ING
Aug 01, 2008 ... St Laurence Property & Finance (SLPF) says ING (NZ), part of theglobal ING Group, has signed a nine-year lease at its Auckland'sPrinces Wharf property. ING would take three existing floors, plusan additional floor, which is yet to be ...
Russian firm to boost stake; NEW ZEALAND DAIRIES LIMITED
Aug 01, 2008; ... A Russian baby food firm will substantially lift its stake in NewZealand Dairies Ltd (NZDL) to above 75%. Russian-controlled Singapore company Nutritek could also investup to $130 million to expand NZDL's milk-processing factory atStudholme, near Waimate. It has invested the bulk ...
Go green, tourist sector told
Aug 01, 2008; ... Tourism businesses are being told they need to turn green or riskbeing left behind in the battle for a dwindling number of visitorsin fuel-starved times. The Tourism Industry Association (TIA) and other leaders gatheredin Christchurch ahead of tourism awards next week, ...
Rich-lister buys in via joint venture; BLIS TECHNOLOGIES
Aug 01, 2008; ... Blis Technologies will have a significant new shareholder in NBRrich-lister Eion Edgar, following a $500,000 placement of shares toa joint venture. The listed South Island firm, keen on growing international salesfor its bad breath and anti- infection products, yesterday ...
Finance woes help building society; CBS CANTERBURY
Aug 01, 2008; ... Building society CBS Canterbury says reinvestment rates haveremained over 90% despite competition from the banks, as investorscontinue to retreat from finance company woes. The Ashburton firm that is still bedding down a merger with theLoan and Building Society told shareholders ...