A01 001 **[001 TEXT A01**]
A01 002 *<*'*4Slap in Face**' On Pay for Police*>
A01 003 *<*5Police Reporter*>
A01 004    |^*4Police industrial action looms closer with the
A01 005 Government giving notice yesterday that it will stick to its 5
A01 006 per cent basic salary rise offer.
A01 007    |^*0Although cabinet ministers say the whole package deal
A01 008 will bump up some police salaries by 30.8 per cent, the Police
A01 009 Association faces mounting anger in police ranks.
A01 010    |^The association's industrial advocate, \0Mr Graham
A01 011 Harding, said he was trying to *"hold the line**" as frustrated
A01 012 branches maintained calls for industrial action aimed at
A01 013 fouling up police administration.
A01 014    |^The cabinet yesterday deferred police pay claims for
A01 015 consideration by the powerful cabinet policy committee today.
A01 016 *<*4Increase Refused*>
A01 017    |^*0The pay issue will go back to the cabinet on Monday but
A01 018 the Prime Minister, \0Mr Lange, made it clear yesterday that
A01 019 the Government offer will not be increased.
A01 020    |^The bone sticking in association members' throats is the 5
A01 021 per cent basic salary offer, which they say would be for their
A01 022 first basic pay rise for a decade.
A01 023    |^Police negotiators had set a minimum goal of an 11 per
A01 024 cent rise for constables and sergeants and 8 per cent for
A01 025 senior sergeants and inspectors.
A01 026    |^The remainder of the Government package offer is made up
A01 027 of the 15.5 per cent increase granted to all state servants, a
A01 028 4 per cent *"catch-up**" for wage drift, special payments for
A01 029 overtime in excess of five hours and merit payments of between
A01 030 1 and 6 per cent.
A01 031    |^Promised room for negotiation in this last part is what
A01 032 \0Mr Harding said the association was now pinning its
A01 033 optimistic, if slim, hopes on.
A01 034 *<*4Nod and Wink*>
A01 035    |^*"*0We are hoping we are getting a nod and wink in a
A01 036 different direction that will achieve the same end,**" he said.
A01 037    |^But even if \0Mr Lange suggested scope for negotiation on
A01 038 incentive payments, other remarks he made after the cabinet
A01 039 meeting went down like a lead balloon.
A01 040    |^\0Mr Lange said the Government's offer could be revised *-
A01 041 but only downwards.
A01 042    |^*"It certainly would not be revised upwards.
A01 043    |^*"If anyone thinks that in the world we are now living in,
A01 044 we are going to offer people one year after they had a
A01 045 substantial increase another 30 per cent plus, they are
A01 046 wrong.**"
A01 047    |^Frustration and annoyance was the general reaction
A01 048 reported among police ranks to \0Mr Lange's words.
A01 049    |^An association vice-president, Sergeant Jeff Taylor, said
A01 050 in Mosgiel that members were extremely disappointed at what was
A01 051 a Government slap in the face.
A01 052 *<*4Action Plan*>
A01 053    |^*0He shares \0Mr Harding's worry about some police
A01 054 starting selective industrial action *- *"somehow we have got
A01 055 to try and keep control of our members for another week.**"
A01 056    |^A plan for limited industrial action has already been
A01 057 drawn up.  ^It includes police refusing to perform after hours
A01 058 those jobs done during the day by telephonists and other
A01 059 civilians, failing to handle traffic matters outside their
A01 060 normal role, not filing routine reports and a *"hands-off
A01 061 computer**" policy.
A01 062    |^But association spokesmen in Whangarei, Auckland and
A01 063 Hamilton said members were adopting a *"waiting and see**"
A01 064 attitude while their national council decides on a course of
A01 065 action.
A01 066    |^The association's branch chairman for South Auckland,
A01 067 Detective Sergeant Stuart Mangnall, said 5 per cent as a fair
A01 068 offer was laughable.  ^\0Mr Lange got a 37 per cent basic
A01 069 salary increase last year.
A01 070    |^*"I personally feel that he could have underestimated the
A01 071 depth of feeling among police as far as the pay rise is
A01 072 concerned,**" he said.
A01 073    |^\0Mr Lange's reference to a *"substantial increase**" for
A01 074 policemen last year also has Police Association officials
A01 075 puzzled.
A01 076    |^They said the only rise in pay police received was the
A01 077 7.02 per cent annual general adjustment that state servants got
A01 078 on January 10, 1985.
A01 079 *<*4Confused*>
A01 080    |^*0\0Mr Harding said the police had not had a substantial
A01 081 increase since 1976.  ^*"So the Prime Minister is getting us
A01 082 confused with someone else.**"
A01 083    |^All state servants had received a 15.5 per cent pay rise
A01 084 and all, except trades workers, had got the 4 per cent
A01 085 correction for wage drift.
A01 086    |^*"We are not getting anything special... only 5 per cent on
A01 087 top of that.  ^So \0Mr Lange's mathematics are found
A01 088 wanting,**" \0Mr Harding said.
A01 089    |^The Minister of Police, \0Mrs Hercus, gave out details
A01 090 showing the package would mean a first year constable's salary
A01 091 going from *+$22,638 to *+$29,611, a rise of *+$6973.
A01 092    |^She said other rises, compared with rates last November,
A01 093 would be:
A01 094    |^A constable after six years' service on *+$24,703
A01 095 receiving *+$32,316, an increase of *+$7613.
A01 096    |^A first-year sergeant on *+$28,500 going up to *+$37,288,
A01 097 an increase of *+$8788.
A01 098    |^A first-year senior sergeant on *+$31,577 receiving
A01 099 *+$41,318, an increase of *+$9741.
A01 100    |^An inspector on *+$35,286 going up to *+$46,174, a rise of
A01 101 *+$10,888.
A01 102    |^Those figures did not include the extra payments for merit
A01 103 and overtime, she said.
A01 104 *<*4Hint by {0PM} On Default Is Refuted*>
A01 105    *<Wellington Staff*>
A01 106    |^An attempt by the Prime Minister, \0Mr Lange, to link the
A01 107 morals campaigner, Sir Peter Tait, with the *+$100 million
A01 108 default on Government stock last week, backfired last night.
A01 109    |^*0Sir Peter said there was *"no truth whatsoever**" in
A01 110 the implication that he was in any way associated with the
A01 111 company which defaulted, Rakiura Holdings.
A01 112    |^But he confirmed that he is chairman of Alexander
A01 113 Associates, a Wellington merchant bank formerly associated with
A01 114 the governing director of Rakiura, \0Mr Brian Alexander.
A01 115    |^\0Mr Alexander resigned as a director of Alexander
A01 116 Associates in September 1984 because of ill health.
A01 117 *<*4Rakiura Link*>
A01 118    |^*0Sir Peter, a former Mayor of Napier and joint leader of
A01 119 the campaign against the Homosexual Law Reform Bill, was linked
A01 120 with Rakiura by \0Mr Lange at a press conference after the
A01 121 first cabinet meeting of the year yesterday.
A01 122    |^\0Mr Lange was asked: ^*"Is there any evidence to suggest
A01 123 that Rakiura Holdings may have been bidding [for Government
A01 124 stock] on behalf of a principal?**"
A01 125    |^He replied: ^*"I think there is plenty of evidence of
A01 126 that.  ^I don't know who they were.
A01 127    |^*"I was reading in one of the weekly publications, a
A01 128 religious one that is posted to all members of Parliament, an
A01 129 advertisement for Tait Associates in association with Alexander
A01 130 Associates offering mortgage finance.**"
A01 131    |^Sir Peter confirmed last night that both Alexander
A01 132 Associates in Wellington and Tait Associates of Napier had
A01 133 advertised in the Auckland-based *1Challenge Weekly *0seeking
A01 134 mortgage finance.
A01 135    |^But he said that neither company was a money-lender
A01 136 itself.  ^*"We only deal through solicitors,**" he said.
A01 137    |^*"Any money we raise we pay directly to solicitors, who
A01 138 pass it on to their clients.  ^We get our fee for doing
A01 139 that.**"
A01 140 *<*4Surprised*>
A01 141    |^*0He said \0Mr Brian Alexander had resigned from Alexander
A01 142 Associates in 1984 because of ill health.
A01 143    |^Sir Peter added: ^*"We have nothing whatsoever to do with
A01 144 Rakiura Holdings *- and never have had.
A01 145    |^*"I am surprised to say the least that \0Mr Lange would
A01 146 make any comment that we were.**"
A01 147    |^However, he said he was glad to hear that \0Mr Lange read
A01 148 *1Challenge Weekly *0and he did not plan to take any legal
A01 149 action over the matter.
A01 150    |^Apart from Sir Peter, the other directors of Alexander
A01 151 Associates are \0Mr Alan Frost, \0Mr Michael Jensen and \0Mr
A01 152 Maurice Sands.
A01 153    |^All three work full-time for the company in the ornate
A01 154 former head office of the Public Trust in Wellington, now
A01 155 called Alexander House.
A01 156    |^\0Mr Frost said that in spite of the bad publicity, the
A01 157 company had no intention of changing its name.
A01 158    |^*"There are lots of companies called Alexander.  ^In
A01 159 London there is a famous merchant bank called Alexander,**" he
A01 160 said.
A01 161    |^It is understood that \0Mr Brian Alexander told the
A01 162 Reserve Bank last week that he did bid *+$100 million for
A01 163 Government stock for a principal, but that it was not for
A01 164 Alexander Associates.
A01 165 *<*4Letter*>
A01 166    |^*0He named the institution in a hand-written letter to the
A01 167 bank and explained that he had made the deal with an officer of
A01 168 the institution who had since left it.
A01 169    |^Market sources said last night that it was feasible that
A01 170 an institution could have chosen to use Rakiura Holdings to bid
A01 171 for stock in order to hide its real identity.
A01 172    |^But several expressed disbelief and pointed out that there
A01 173 was no way the Reserve Bank could prove or disprove any such
A01 174 claim.
A01 175    |^\0Mr Lange was attending a concert by the rock group The
A01 176 Drongos at a Wellington nightclub last night and could not be
A01 177 reached for further comment on the matter.
A01 178 *<*4France *'Balking**' Over Talks*>
A01 179    *<Wellington Staff*>
A01 180    |^The Prime Minister, \0Mr Lange, yesterday accused the
A01 181 French Government of balking at a resumption of Rainbow Warrior
A01 182 compensation talks, hinting that prospects were receding for a
A01 183 satisfactory settlement of New Zealand claims.
A01 184    |^*0\0Mr Lange also hinted that the suggestion of a
A01 185 full-scale marine inquiry into the sinking of the vessel was being
A01 186 used to persuade the French to return to the negotiating table
A01 187 in New York.
A01 188    |^The talks were adjourned after two substantive sessions in
A01 189 November and December with no fixed date for their resumption.
A01 190    |^But \0Mr Lange indicated that the Government would be
A01 191 reluctant to follow through with the threat of an inquiry,
A01 192 given New Zealand's present high profile in international
A01 193 affairs.
A01 194    |^*"From the French point of view, we are in enough strife
A01 195 around the world without actively going around waving red flags
A01 196 at bulls *- and there is our problem,**" he said.
A01 197 *<*4Legal Right*>
A01 198    |^*0While agreeing that France had not actively declined to
A01 199 negotiate further over compensation claims, \0Mr Lange claimed
A01 200 the French Government was balking at a resumption of talks.
A01 201    |^It was legally entitled to do so, he said, since France
A01 202 had renounced jurisdiction by the World Court and international
A01 203 law was powerless to assist New Zealand.
A01 204    |^New Zealand had the forces of logic and right on its side,
A01 205 said \0Mr Lange.  ^*"But what does that matter when you have no
A01 206 forum to which you can compulsorily draw both parties to a
A01 207 dispute?
A01 208    |^*"They are not obliged to talk to us at all about the
A01 209 matter.**"
A01 210    |^\0Mr Lange said he hoped the talks would resume and that
A01 211 New Zealand would receive compensation.  ^(An initial claim for
A01 212 *+$20 million was dismissed as ridiculous by the French
A01 213 external relations minister, \0Mr Dumas.)
A01 214    |^*"But we do not have the right to demand even that they
A01 215 talk, much less the right to demand *- in the sense of having a
A01 216 judgment which could be executed *- compensation for what they
A01 217 did.**"
A01 218    |^When asked whether the prospect of a full marine inquiry
A01 219 was being used to exert pressure on France, \0Mr Lange did not
A01 220 deny the suggestion.
A01 221    |^*"There is a possibility that some of our friends would
A01 222 see us doing that, as the Chinese would say.**"
A01 223    |^\0Mr Lange said he had not seen a report by the Solicitor-
A01 224 General, \0Mr Paul Neazor, on the legality of a marine inquiry.
A01 225 *<*4Delay Decision*>
A01 226    |^*0In the report to the Minister of Transport, \0Mr
A01 227 Prebble, late last year, however, \0Mr Neazor was likely to
A01 228 have suggested that an inquiry was not necessary because the
A01 229 cause of the sinking was not a mystery, said \0Mr Lange.
A01 230    |^*"That is how a lawyer would look at it,**" he said.  ^*"A
A01 231 political lawyer would look at it differently.**"
A01 232    |^\0Mr Lange said a decision on whether to hold an inquiry
A01 233 would be made *"after some more reflection.**"
A01 234    |^\0Mr Prebble has withheld permission for plans to sink the
A01 235 Rainbow Warrior off Matauri Bay in Northland until a decision
A01 236 is made.
A01 237 *<*4\0N-Ship Idea Ruled Out*>
A01 238 *<*0{0NZPA} Wellington*>
A01 239    |^The Prime Minister, \0Mr Lange, has ruled out a 
A01 240 Japanese-style solution to New Zealand's problem with port visits by
A01 241 United States warships.
A01 242    |^At his post-cabinet press conference yesterday, \0Mr Lange
A01 243 was asked to comment on statements made last Friday by United
A01 244 States Congressman Stephen Solarz.
A01 245    |^At an American Embassy press conference \0Mr Solarz made
A01 246 repeated references to the Japanese situation as a possible
A01 247 means of resolving the United States-New Zealand ship visit
A01 248 problem.
A01 249    |^Japan's anti-nuclear constitution has three non-nuclear
A01 250 principles *- not to possess, produce or introduce nuclear
A01 251 weapons into Japan.
A01 252    |^\0Mr Lange said he was surprised when \0Mr Solarz
A01 253 rehearsed a Japanese solution.
A01 254    |^The Prime Minister said he specifically rejected a
A01 255 Japanese-style solution in the two-hour meeting with \0Mr
A01 256 Solarz in his office last Thursday.
A01 257    |^*"I had specifically rejected it... I dismissed it
A01 258 completely.  ^We are not into that solution,**" \0Mr Lange
A01 259 said.
A01 260    |^Despite the Japanese constitution there had been
A01 261 disclosures that United States ships visiting Japanese ports
A01 262 during the past 14 years have been nuclear armed.
A01 263    |^\0Mr Lange said it was good \0Mr Solarz came to New
A01 264 Zealand.
A01 265    |^*"I think that he was positive,**" \0Mr Lange said.
A01 266    |^*"I was pleased that he was here because he was a
A01 267 Democrat... who was au fait with the Republican Administration's
A01 268 position,**" \0Mr Lange said.
A01 269    |^*"While he did not engage in some sort of partisan
A01 270 denunciation of the Administration's policy he was nonetheless
A01 271 able to be receptive to the idea that this is a matter which
A01 272 could be examined rather than dismissed inflexibly.**"
A01 273 *#
A02 001 **[002 TEXT A02**]
A02 002 *<*5Uniforms Spark Mutiny*>
A02 003    |^*0Compulsory uniforms for some Waiheke High School pupils
A02 004 are being opposed by a group of parents and children, despite
A02 005 threats of action against them.
A02 006    |^About 200 students, in forms one to four at the school,
A02 007 will be required to wear the new uniforms from Monday.
A02 008    |^But about 25 of the pupils *- backed by their parents *-
A02 009 have said they will not wear the uniforms.
A02 010    |^The school headmaster, \0Mr Frank Solomon, said action
A02 011 against the defaulting students and their parents would be
A02 012 decided next week.
A02 013    |^He did not know about his rights to have trespass notices
A02 014 served on children, but thought continued refusals to wear the
A02 015 uniforms would result in parents being asked to remove their
A02 016 children.
A02 017    |^A parent, \0Mr Alan O'Neill, said he would support his
A02 018 12-year-old son, Rufus, if he decided not to wear the uniform.
A02 019    |^He said it would be his son's decision, but he would stand
A02 020 by it even if it meant his son was suspended.
A02 021    |^Another parent, Barbara Disley, said her son had not yet
A02 022 made his decision, but she would support him despite the
A02 023 consequences if necessary.
A02 024    |^*"I am personally against the imposition of the will of
A02 025 some people on others who philosophically disagree.
A02 026    |^*"It is not just a matter of uniforms.**"
A02 027    |^The assistant secretary for schools and development, for
A02 028 the Education Department, \0Mr Peter Brice, said the department
A02 029 saw uniforms as a matter for the local controlling authority of
A02 030 the school concerned.
A02 031    |^But the chairman of the board of governors, \0Mr Jim
A02 032 Cairns, said that Waiheke parents had demonstrated their
A02 033 support for school uniforms both in a referendum and during the
A02 034 board elections.
A02 035    |^Compulsory school uniforms was one of the issues parents
A02 036 voted on when they elected board members last July, and all but
A02 037 one of the successful candidates favoured uniforms, \0Mr Cairns
A02 038 said.
A02 039    |^Two vacancies created on the board since had also been
A02 040 filled by people who supported them.
A02 041    |^A referendum conducted by \0Mr Solomon at the beginning of
A02 042 this year showed that more than 60 per cent of parents favoured
A02 043 compulsory uniforms.
A02 044    |^Waiheke High School was formed at the beginning of this
A02 045 year after the primary and secondary sections of Waiheke Area
A02 046 School were separated.
A02 047    |^\0Mr Cairns said the board wanted to make a clean break
A02 048 from the previous school, and introducing uniforms was one of
A02 049 the steps towards becoming a *"normal New Zealand school.**"
A02 050    |^Uniforms at the area school were optional and had
A02 051 disappeared from use.
A02 052    |^\0Mr Cairns said the proposed uniform still allowed for
A02 053 flexibility.
A02 054    |^It consists of white or grey shirt worn with dark grey
A02 055 trousers of any kind and a maroon jersey, brown sandals or
A02 056 socks and black shoes.  ^Grey shorts for boys and a grey or
A02 057 maroon skirt for girls are optional.
A02 058    |^The school has made no rules about makeup, hairstyles or
A02 059 jewellery.
A02 060 *<*4\0Govt to Reap Millions From Sell-off*>
A02 061 *<*5Wellington Staff*>
A02 062    |^*4The Government is set to earn millions of dollars
A02 063 through the sale of surplus land and buildings in the wake of
A02 064 this week's expenditure review.
A02 065    |^*0The Justice Department alone expects to collect around
A02 066 *+$3 million this financial year through the sale of land and
A02 067 buildings already identified as surplus to its requirements.
A02 068    |^This includes some farm land at Papakura, which had been
A02 069 held for a possible prison, and the Courtville Flats in the
A02 070 centre of Auckland.
A02 071    |^The Minister of Justice, \0Mr Palmer, said last night that
A02 072 there was a lot of scope for major savings through the sale of
A02 073 land and buildings throughout the public service.
A02 074    |^*"We have only just scratched the surface; there is a lot
A02 075 more scope for savings,**" he said.
A02 076 *<*4Large Holdings*>
A02 077    |^*0*"Departments have been put on notice that they must
A02 078 make effective use of their assets, which are wealth, after
A02 079 all.**"
A02 080    |^The Government's expenditure review team, which included
A02 081 \0Mr Palmer, found there were large land holdings, particularly
A02 082 in the older-established departments such as Justice.
A02 083    |^Land had been bought for courthouses which now would not
A02 084 be built, or for future prisons which would not be required.
A02 085 *<*4Full Inventory*>
A02 086    |^*0Among the other departments which had also been found to
A02 087 have large land holdings were the Police and the Ministry of
A02 088 Defence.
A02 089    |^*"It is necessary for the Government to have a full
A02 090 inventory of its assets, so that when they are no longer
A02 091 warranted they can be disposed of,**" said \0Mr Palmer.
A02 092    |^Although there had been programmes aimed at selling
A02 093 surplus Government property before, there would in future be
A02 094 *"a more rigorous effort to monitor the situation
A02 095 constantly.**"
A02 096    |^Apart from the sale of farmland held for prison purposes
A02 097 at Papakura, the department would also be selling land at
A02 098 Ranfurly, Central Otago, and Otatara, near Invercargill.
A02 099    |^\0Mr Palmer said the department would be selling 23 houses
A02 100 in Wellington, Wi Tako, Rolleston, Waikeria and Christchurch
A02 101 this financial year.
A02 102    |^The disposal of land by the Ministry of Defence would be
A02 103 dealt with in the context of the present defence review, but
A02 104 \0Mr Palmer said the department held large areas of land which
A02 105 could be disposed of.
A02 106    |^At present the Government had land and property worth
A02 107 between *+$1 million and *+$2 million on the market in Auckland
A02 108 alone.
A02 109    |^An assistant divisional officer in the Lands and Survey
A02 110 Department in Auckland, \0Mr Bernie Ward, said yesterday that
A02 111 this was likely to increase in the wake of the expenditure
A02 112 review.
A02 113 *<*4Not Required*>
A02 114    |^*0About *+$9 million worth of surplus property had been
A02 115 sold in the Auckland area since the last Government directive
A02 116 to dispose of surplus land, in December 1983.
A02 117    |^Much of the land had been identified by the larger
A02 118 departments, such as Social Welfare, Education, Police and the
A02 119 Ministry of Works and Development, as no longer being needed.
A02 120    |^\0Mr Ward said land had sometimes been bought in the 1960s
A02 121 or 1970s for schools, for example, which, because of population
A02 122 movements would no longer be required.
A02 123 *<*4*'Shape Up Or Ship Out**'*>
A02 124    |^*0The New Zealand Contractors' Federation has told
A02 125 Government corporations to *"shape up or ship out**" once they
A02 126 start to compete with the private sector.
A02 127    |^The president of the federation, \0Mr Roger Douglas, said
A02 128 that if it turned out that state-owned corporations could not
A02 129 compete effectively with private companies, they should go into
A02 130 liquidation and not be rescued by the taxpayer.
A02 131    |^The private sector was capable of doing all the work
A02 132 already performed by the Government at a cost less burdensome
A02 133 to the taxpayer.
A02 134    |^*"We as a federation are not opposed to competition from
A02 135 any state corporation, provided it is structured and run on the
A02 136 lines private enterprise is *- paying the full price for fuel
A02 137 and machinery, and paying sales tax and duties just as we
A02 138 do,**" he said.
A02 139    |^Corporations which received any Government concessions to
A02 140 give them an advantage on the private market would be
A02 141 steadfastly opposed by the federation.
A02 142    |^*"We welcome the opportunity of competition with
A02 143 Government departments for those projects which at the moment
A02 144 they have as of right.**"
A02 145 *<*4National Keeps Quiet on Policy*>
A02 146    *<Wellington Staff*>
A02 147    |^National Party {0MP}s have ended a three-day caucus
A02 148 meeting at Rotorua apparently determined not to tell anyone
A02 149 what their policies are until closer to the next election.
A02 150    |^*0The Leader of the Opposition, \0Mr Bolger, told a press
A02 151 conference on his return to Wellington last night that the
A02 152 meeting discussed policy on the economy, agriculture,
A02 153 education, social welfare, law and order, industrial relations,
A02 154 foreign affairs and defence.
A02 155    |^*"Shadow ministers**" presented papers on each subject and
A02 156 then led debate on that issue.
A02 157    |^But the party was not ready to release its policy on any
A02 158 issue.
A02 159    |^*"There was *- what I guess sounds jargon *- but there was
A02 160 constructive and healthy debate and a remarkable degree of
A02 161 consensus in the caucus on the direction we are going in,**"
A02 162 \0Mr Bolger said.
A02 163    |^*"[But] you are all just going to have to wait as usual
A02 164 until the Opposition determines it is the appropriate time to
A02 165 be specific in various areas.**"
A02 166    |^When pressed, \0Mr Bolger declined even to confirm in as
A02 167 many words policy which has already been declared by shadow
A02 168 ministers in the past.
A02 169    |^National speakers promised in Parliament last December
A02 170 that the party would repeal a legislative ban on visits to New
A02 171 Zealand ports by nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed warships.
A02 172 *<*4Policy*>
A02 173    |^*0But when asked last night whether National would allow
A02 174 such visits, \0Mr Bolger declined to give a direct answer.
A02 175    |^*"You are trying to write the National Party policy and I
A02 176 thank you for your help.
A02 177    |^*"But I am just telling you what we will do and you will
A02 178 have to wait for the details.  ^But you will find that when we
A02 179 are debating the [anti-nuclear] bill when it finally gets back
A02 180 to the House, your concerns on that area I am sure will become
A02 181 very clear.**"
A02 182    |^He said the outcome of the caucus debate on this issue was
A02 183 *"primarily a re-statement of the National Party's absolute
A02 184 commitment to remaining a member of the Western alliance.**"
A02 185    |^*"We would take what steps are necessary to ensure that
A02 186 New Zealand remains a member of Anzus.**"
A02 187    |^\0Mr Bolger confirmed that this would involve repealing
A02 188 *"two or three parts**" of the anti-nuclear bill, and
A02 189 accepting the American policy of neither confirming nor denying
A02 190 whether its ships carried nuclear weapons.
A02 191    |^The Opposition spokesman on state corporations, \0Mr Ian
A02 192 McLean, has said the party would consider selling off the
A02 193 state-owned Bank of New Zealand, Air New Zealand and Petrocorp.
A02 194 *<*4Election*>
A02 195    |^*0But, \0Mr Bolger said: ^*"There was no formal decision
A02 196 to privatise any state corporation by the National Party.**"
A02 197    |^On economic policy, he said: ^*"Call an election tomorrow
A02 198 and we will give you our economic policy.
A02 199    |^*"We have an obligation to put before the public before an
A02 200 election what our alternatives are.
A02 201    |^*"But given that the election looks like being at the
A02 202 latest possible time, September 1987, there is plenty of
A02 203 time.**"
A02 204    |^However, he did say that the major economic decisions of
A02 205 the Labour Government had been wrong because they had caused
A02 206 high interest rates and consequently a high value of the kiwi
A02 207 dollar, which was hurting exporters.
A02 208 *<*4Matter of Size*>
A02 209 *<*0{0NZPA} Wellington*>
A02 210    |^Power plants in nuclear-powered ships are a fraction of
A02 211 the size of the plant which exploded at Chernobyl, the Leader
A02 212 of the Opposition, \0Mr Bolger, said yesterday.
A02 213    |^He was asked at a press conference whether he would find
A02 214 difficulty convincing New Zealanders of the safety of visiting
A02 215 nuclear-powered ships following the Chernobyl disaster.
A02 216    |^Emphasising the fact that he was speaking as a layman,
A02 217 \0Mr Bolger said power plants in nuclear-powered ships were a
A02 218 fraction of the size of the plant which exploded at Chernobyl.
A02 219    |^*"They are constructed differently and they do have
A02 220 different configurations,**" he said.
A02 221    |^Earlier this year \0Mr Bolger had said a National
A02 222 Government would allow nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed
A02 223 vessels, in line with National Party policy, to visit New
A02 224 Zealand ports.
A02 225    |^\0Mr Bolger yesterday avoided a direct restatement of this
A02 226 position.
A02 227 *<*4Opposition Wants Week for Debate*>
A02 228 *<{0NZPA} Wellington*>
A02 229    |^The Opposition wants Parliament to spend a week debating
A02 230 the Government's review of state spending announced on Monday.
A02 231    |^*0However the senior Government whip, \0Dr Michael Cullen,
A02 232 has offered only to extend the general debate on Wednesday by
A02 233 four hours.
A02 234    |^His Opposition counterpart, \0Mr Don McKinnon, said
A02 235 yesterday that for the Minister of Finance, \0Mr Douglas, to
A02 236 release such a major financial statement during a parliamentary
A02 237 recess and not allow a *"normal**" period of debate would be
A02 238 treating the House with contempt.
A02 239    |^He sent a telegram to \0Dr Cullen making the request.
A02 240    |^Parliament resumes next Tuesday after a three-week break.
A02 241    |^*"Any mini-budget under a National Administration was
A02 242 debated in Parliament.  ^It is the natural forum and is the
A02 243 debating chamber of the nation,**" \0Mr McKinnon said.
A02 244 *<*5Avoidance May Be Name Of Tax Game*>
A02 245 *<*0{0NZPA} Wellington*>
A02 246    |^Managers of state-owned corporations will become tax
A02 247 avoiders in order to compete with the private sector, according
A02 248 to the Wellington-based watchdog group Public Eyes.
A02 249    |^With the Government creating more state corporations, it
A02 250 said public interest would be abandoned for commercial
A02 251 expediency.
A02 252    |^Public Eyes said its studies showed that the country's
A02 253 biggest companies paid little or no tax.
A02 254    |^*"They pour thousands of dollars into employing top
A02 255 lawyers and accountants to find ways of avoiding tax,**" a
A02 256 spokeswoman, Vivienne Nelson, said yesterday.
A02 257    |^*"As some state-owned enterprises are now to pay tax and
A02 258 be commercially viable, we can only presume that they will act
A02 259 similarly.**"
A02 260 *<*4Hart Argues For Ban On Penal Goods*>
A02 261    |^Hart has asked for a Customs Department investigation into
A02 262 the legality of permitting imports from South African prison
A02 263 farms.
A02 264    |^The anti-apartheid group has detailed its allegations in a
A02 265 46-page report which it is releasing today.
A02 266    |^Its report, called Fruits of Apartheid, says that the
A02 267 importation of products such as dried fruits, nuts,
A02 268 confectionery, processed foods and wine breaches New Zealand
A02 269 laws and international agreements to which New Zealand is a
A02 270 party.
A02 271 *#
A03 001 **[003 TEXT A03**]
A03 002 *<*4Rift in council over joining district body*> *<Staff
A03 003 Reporter*>
A03 004    |*6OAMARU.*-^*4The serious split in the Waitaki County
A03 005 Council over the Waitaki District Council proposal widened at a
A03 006 special county meeting yesterday.
A03 007    |^*0The meeting ended with the new deputy chairman, \0Cr
A03 008 {0M.J.} McCulloch, lodging a notice of motion, to be discussed
A03 009 at the next council meeting, that the county withdraw from the
A03 010 agreement to join forces with the Oamaru Borough and Waitaki
A03 011 Catchment Commission.
A03 012    |^However, councillors learned yesterday that even if they
A03 013 voted to pull out of the agreement, the Local Government
A03 014 Commission could ignore this and go ahead with promoting the
A03 015 three-body scheme.  ^The county manager, \0Mr {0A.E.} Budd,
A03 016 said he had been told this by a member of the {0LGC}, Miss
A03 017 Vicki Buck, when she visited Oamaru this week.
A03 018    |^\0Mr Budd added that if the Waitaki District Council
A03 019 scheme did not proceed, then the {0LGC} would then consider the
A03 020 other scheme before it, the Aoraki Catchment Authority, which
A03 021 would combine the South Canterbury and Waitaki catchment
A03 022 bodies.
A03 023 *<*6CONCERNED*>
A03 024    |^*0The county chairman, \0Cr {0S.J.B.} Munro, said he was
A03 025 increasingly concerned that Waitaki Catchment Commission
A03 026 ratepayers in the Waimate and Mackenzie county areas had no way
A03 027 of expressing their opposition to the district council scheme.
A03 028    |^\0Cr McCulloch said that representatives of other affected
A03 029 local authorities were worried that they would not be
A03 030 represented on water and soil matters on the new district
A03 031 council.
A03 032    |^However, the deposed county chairman, \0Cr {0J.D.} Kane,
A03 033 said he would like to see the issue proceed to the stage where
A03 034 a survey of opposition among Waitaki County and Oamaru Borough
A03 035 ratepayers was held.
A03 036    |^*"This council is so divided there is no way we can make
A03 037 such a decision,**" he said.  ^\0Cr Kane moved that further
A03 038 discussion on the matter be postponed until after the {0LGC}'s
A03 039 decision on the district council plan, seconded by \0Cr {0W.P.}
A03 040 McKerrow, but this was lost, 4-5.
A03 041 *<*6CHANGING TACK*>
A03 042    |^*0Earlier in the debate, \0Cr McKerrow said he was
A03 043 concerned that in the lead-up to the recent local-body
A03 044 elections the anti-district council councillors had not stated
A03 045 their opposition to the {0WDC}.  ^Now, after the elections,
A03 046 they were changing their tack.
A03 047    |^*"It's a terribly sneaky way of going about things,**" he
A03 048 said.
A03 049    |^\0Crs {0A.T.} Parsons and {0H.J.} Bennett said they would
A03 050 prefer the matter to be left to the survey of opposition, so
A03 051 the ratepayers could indicate how they felt.
A03 052    |^\0Cr {0E.E.} Cochrane pointed out that she was the only
A03 053 councillor who had had to face an election in October and she
A03 054 said that her ratepayers only wanted a four-body district
A03 055 council.
A03 056    |^*"I hope we've got the right to go back to square one *- I
A03 057 hope we're not too far down the tack, **" **[SIC**] she said.
A03 058    |^\0Cr Kane told \0Cr Cochrane that Kurow, which is in her
A03 059 riding, could be *"decimated**" if the district council did
A03 060 not go ahead and the Aoraki proposal came about.
A03 061    |^\0Cr {0J.H.} Dennison said he felt the council should look
A03 062 again at the district council proposal, as although the
A03 063 membership was the same, there was a new chairman and deputy.
A03 064 ^He said he would be happiest if the catchment commission could
A03 065 be retained as a separate entity.
A03 066 *<*6FEELINGS*>
A03 067    |^*0Asked by councillors whether the individual feelings of
A03 068 county ratepayers would be taken into account in the Local
A03 069 Government Commission survey of opposition, \0Mr Budd said that
A03 070 he would know how many in the county opposed the district
A03 071 council after such a survey, and the {0LGC} chairman, \0Mr \0B.
A03 072 Elwood, had stated more than once that if voters in one
A03 073 territorial region were markedly against an amalgamation
A03 074 proposal, then he would take heed of that opinion.
A03 075    |^\0Mr Budd reminded councillors that after the opposition
A03 076 survey, ratepayers from *"across the river**" would get the
A03 077 opportunity to object to the scheme when objections were
A03 078 called.
A03 079    |^*4The district council issue also surfaced when the
A03 080 council was considering a schedule of committees and county
A03 081 representatives on various authorities.  ^\0Cr Kane said he
A03 082 should be one of the representatives on the district council
A03 083 working party, which comprises members of the three
A03 084 authorities.
A03 085    |^*"*0I was one of the instigators, and if I'm not appointed
A03 086 I'll attend the meetings anyway,**" he said, adding that this
A03 087 was permitted under standing orders.
A03 088    |^\0Cr Kane criticised the chairman for excluding him from a
A03 089 meeting with Mackenzie and Waimate county representatives on
A03 090 November 5, saying that he had a right to attend.
A03 091    |^*"It was totally and absolutely wrong and illegal, and you
A03 092 should apologise,**" he said.
A03 093    |^\0Cr Munro said he had arranged the meeting so he could
A03 094 discuss other options relating to the future of the catchment
A03 095 commission with representatives of the other councils.
A03 096    |^\0Cr Bennett reminded \0Cr Munro that when he became
A03 097 chairman he had promised to rule by consensus, so he could not
A03 098 have discussed catchment commission options with the other
A03 099 councils because the Waitaki council did not have a policy on
A03 100 these.
A03 101    |^\0Cr Munro apologised to \0Cr Kane for excluding him from
A03 102 the November 5 meeting, but later \0Cr Kane again criticised
A03 103 the new committee and representatives schedule, saying that it
A03 104 appeared that four councillors had been left off any
A03 105 *"political**" positions.  ^He described his appointment as
A03 106 chairman of the workshop and staff committee as
A03 107 *"chickenfeed.**"
A03 108 *<*4*'Shopping day**' strike continues*>
A03 109    |^Talks aimed at finding a settlement to a dispute which has
A03 110 caused a strike at the Upper Waitaki power stations, failed in
A03 111 Wellington yesterday and the dispute continues.
A03 112    |^*0About 60 power station workers stopped generating
A03 113 electricity at four stations yesterday morning over a claim for
A03 114 one shopping day a month.
A03 115    |^This removed about 760 megawatts from the national grid
A03 116 and led to dropping water levels in Lake Benmore.
A03 117    |^However, the Ministry of Energy's office in Dunedin does
A03 118 not think the stoppage will cause any power failures or
A03 119 blackouts unless the weather suddenly turns very cold, or there
A03 120 is a major breakdown in the grid.
A03 121    |^The department was doing a *"fairly delicate juggling
A03 122 act**" but everything should hold together unless something
A03 123 goes wrong, the assistant regional manager of the Electricity
A03 124 Division, \0Mr {0P.J.} Dowling, said.
A03 125    |^Workers at Tekapo B, Ohau A, B, and C, will remain on
A03 126 strike until they get a positive response from the State
A03 127 Services Commission on the shopping day claim.
A03 128    |^A meeting between the {0PSA} and the commission yesterday
A03 129 resulted in no offers being made, and therefore the power
A03 130 stations would remain shut down, the spokesman for the Twizel
A03 131 sub-group of the {0PSA}, \0Mr {0B.W.} Davies, said yesterday
A03 132 afternoon.
A03 133    |^The group is awaiting further developments on Monday, he
A03 134 said.
A03 135    |^Power workers say they are willing to work an extra 15
A03 136 minutes a day for a day's shopping.  ^For the moment they have
A03 137 dropped their long-standing claims for a Twizel stress
A03 138 allowance of *+$3 a day, and an Omarama-Twizel travelling
A03 139 allowance.
A03 140    |^*4The strike is likely to cost more than *+$100,000 a day
A03 141 in extra fuel for the North Island thermal stations, the New
A03 142 Zealand Press Association reported.
A03 143    |^*0But the Electricity Division is confident no electricity
A03 144 consumers will suffer power cuts.
A03 145    |^Most of the power deficit will be met from running the two
A03 146 gas-powered thermal stations at New Plymouth and Stratford
A03 147 while the expensive oil-fired Marsden A station will be running
A03 148 to cope with peak loads.
A03 149    |^This will cost about *+$100,000 to *+$200,000 a day in
A03 150 fuel costs, although this does not count the loss in stored
A03 151 hydro energy which bypasses the Upper Waitaki dams.
A03 152    |^\0Mr \0D. Swallow, assistant manager for industrial
A03 153 relations with the State Services Commission, said it was
A03 154 sympathetic to the principle of taking shopping leave.
A03 155    |^He said that was something that could have been
A03 156 accommodated at a local level.  ^But the commission baulked at
A03 157 the proposal for an additional three paid days leave.
A03 158 *<*4Broadcasting debate entered by Moore*>
A03 159    |*2WELLINGTON (Special). *- ^*0The Minister of Overseas
A03 160 Trade, the \0Hon {0M.K.} Moore has entered the broadcasting
A03 161 debate *- accusing the {0BCNZ} of using its power over the
A03 162 public mind to protect its position.
A03 163    |^In a weekly column syndicated to some northern newspapers,
A03 164 \0Mr Moore says the {0BCNZ}'s massive campaign, suggesting it
A03 165 is on the public's side, infers that anyone not on the
A03 166 corporation's side is against the public interest.
A03 167    |^*"They suggest it is a *+$150,000 campaign.  ^Well, that's
A03 168 rubbish,**" says \0Mr Moore.  ^*"That's just the cost of making
A03 169 the advertisements.  ^If they had to pay for the time to screen
A03 170 them it would be a multi-million dollar campaign.**"
A03 171    |^Advertisements saying the {0BCNZ} provides so many hours
A03 172 of sport or drama cover, inferred another operator would have
A03 173 less cover or none.
A03 174    |^*"The opposite could be true,**" \0Mr Moore says.
A03 175 *<*4*'SERVANTS**'*>
A03 176    |^*0Broadcasting and television were important public
A03 177 servants, a vital link in modern society and the system served
A03 178 us well.
A03 179    |^*"But there is a strong body of thought that institutions,
A03 180 after a period, turn from being a force for what they were
A03 181 created for, to ones to protect their own interests,**" \0Mr
A03 182 Moore says.
A03 183    |^*"Broadcasting does not exist for the staff it employs,
A03 184 just as education doesn't exist for teachers, or health for the
A03 185 medical profession.  ^All these institutions have been
A03 186 organised by society and funded by taxpayers for the children,
A03 187 the sick and to create a secure society.
A03 188    |^*"Therefore, we have to take a jaundiced view of those in
A03 189 broadcasting who seek to promote themselves, masquerading as
A03 190 representing a wider public interest.
A03 191    |^*"Taking care of the public interest is the final
A03 192 responsibility of governments and elected politicians,**" \0Mr
A03 193 Moore says.
A03 194    |^*"I think New Zealanders will carefully think this
A03 195 through.  ^The {0BCNZ} is frequently saying the Government
A03 196 won't give it enough in licence fees to do its job.  ^I don't
A03 197 think anyone suggests we tax private radio.
A03 198    |^*"It is annoying to see privileged broadcasting executives
A03 199 attacking the Government for not taxing the people enough to
A03 200 subsidise their Alfa Romeos.**"
A03 201    |^Meanwhile, {0TVNZ} will dump its Auckland documentary unit
A03 202 by next February, the *1Auckland Star *0reports.
A03 203    |^Documentaries have been removed from the production-plan
A03 204 of the new network centre in Auckland and several television
A03 205 sources confirm there are no plans for the department for next
A03 206 year.
A03 207    |^Auckland staff said yesterday they were too shocked to be
A03 208 angry.  ^There has never been any suggestion that the Auckland
A03 209 department should be scrapped, they said.
A03 210    |^*"It seems incredible when Auckland has the largest
A03 211 Polynesian population and is the biggest population centre
A03 212 overall that {0TVNZ} should consider not having a documentary
A03 213 department here,**" one producer said.
A03 214    |^Head of Programmes and Production, \0Mr \0D. Monaghan said
A03 215 {0TVNZ} was looking at rationalising its documentary production
A03 216 in Wellington and Dunedin.
A03 217    |^If that plan was adopted the Auckland staff would have the
A03 218 opportunity to go to Wellington or Dunedin or on to other
A03 219 things, he said.
A03 220 *<*6AUXILIARY*>
A03 221    |^But two-thirds of the Auckland staff said they did not
A03 222 want to move.  ^Four producers and a large number of auxiliary
A03 223 staff would be affected by the decision.
A03 224    |^Film crews were told they would be concentrated on drama
A03 225 production but it was understood only one drama programme was
A03 226 being made on film next year.
A03 227 *<*4Burke may drop register*>
A03 228    |*6WELLINGTON ({0PA}). *- ^*4The Minister of Employment, the
A03 229 Hon {0T.K.} Burke, says he is thinking of dropping the register
A03 230 of unemployment in favour of the household labour force survey.
A03 231    |^*0The household survey has produced lower results than the
A03 232 register of unemployment and showed a decrease in the September
A03 233 quarter while the register was going up.
A03 234    |^\0Mr Burke said the household survey, currently conducted
A03 235 quarterly, showed a *"more valid**" result and gave an
A03 236 internationally comparable set of figures for job seekers.
A03 237    |^*"The labour force survey figures clearly indicate that
A03 238 substantial numbers of people on the register are either not
A03 239 seeking work or are unable for a variety of reasons to accept
A03 240 it if it were offered,**" \0Mr Burke said in a statement.
A03 241    |^*"I intend to raise with my colleagues the question of
A03 242 having the survey done on a monthly rather than a quarterly
A03 243 basis and disbanding the less-accurate monthly register.**"
A03 244    |^The household labour force survey counts as unemployed
A03 245 people *"available for work.**" ^To be on it, a person must
A03 246 have taken *"active steps**" to find employment during the
A03 247 reference week or the previous three weeks.
A03 248    |^*4Meanwhile, the Opposition last night called *"audacious
A03 249 in its hypocrisy**" a Government suggestion to drop the
A03 250 unemployment register in favour of a household survey.
A03 251    |^*0The Leader of the Opposition, \0Mr {0J.B.} Bolger, said
A03 252 that the Government argued while in Opposition that the
A03 253 household labour force survey would show a higher figure of
A03 254 people unemployed than the traditional unemployment register.
A03 255 *#
A04 001 **[004 TEXT A04**]
A04 002 *<*4Douglas breaks Labour rule*> *<*1By *3WARREN BERRYMAN*>
A04 003 *<{0NZN} *1News Bureau*>
A04 004    |^*0Finance Minister Roger Douglas broke a cardinal Labour
A04 005 policy rule in last night's Budget.  ^He introduced
A04 006 retrospective legislation against oil and mining companies.
A04 007    |^While scrupulously careful to avoid retrospective
A04 008 legislation in his other tax reforms, \0Mr Douglas hit
A04 009 investors in oil and mining companies with a retrospective tax
A04 010 bill.
A04 011    |^Under the old rules, investors in mining or oil company
A04 012 floats could deduct one-third of this investment against their
A04 013 tax bill.
A04 014    |^This deduction also applied to calls in partly paid shares
A04 015 and options.
A04 016    |^\0Mr Douglas's Budget wiped out the third tax deduction
A04 017 for any money invested in an oil or mining company after July
A04 018 31, 1986.
A04 019    |^This is not retrospective so far as new company floats are
A04 020 concerned.  ^Investors will know the new rules of the game *-
A04 021 that there will be no tax deduction *- before making their
A04 022 investment.
A04 023    |^But it is retrospective when applied to calls and options
A04 024 in mining and oil companies now in existence.
A04 025    |^Investors who bought partly paid up shares in mining and
A04 026 oil companies in the past did so on the understanding that,
A04 027 when they were called to pay the unpaid portion of the shares,
A04 028 one-third of this money was to be tax deductable.
A04 029    |^Under the new rules, it will not be tax deductable and
A04 030 this reduces the value of partly paid shares now on the market.
A04 031    |^An investor buying an option in an oil or mining company
A04 032 in the past did so understanding that when this option was
A04 033 exercised *- the money paid for the share *- then a third of
A04 034 the sum would be tax deductable.
A04 035    |^As of last night the tax deduction is no longer available.
A04 036    |^Investors paid a premium for oil and mining company
A04 037 options and partly paid shares due to the tax advantage
A04 038 attached to them.  ^In effect, they were buying a deferred tax
A04 039 deduction *- which ceased to exist last night.
A04 040 *<*4Homestart plan likely to boost city sales*> *<*1By *3LAURA
A04 041 BELL*>
A04 042    |^*4The Government's new Homestart scheme will boost house
A04 043 sales in south and west Auckland, say land agents.
A04 044    |^*0The Housing Corporation scheme enables low and middle
A04 045 income earners to buy their first home on a 5% cash deposit.
A04 046    |^The price limit for houses in Auckland is *+$100,000.
A04 047 ^The Real Estate Institute's Auckland vice-president Garth
A04 048 Barfoot says there are plenty of houses available in the price
A04 049 range.
A04 050    |^He expects the scheme, starting on October 1, will
A04 051 stimulate house sales and prices, particularly in south and
A04 052 west Auckland.
A04 053    |^Houses in the eastern suburbs and North Shore would mostly
A04 054 be outside the price range for first-home buyers using the
A04 055 scheme.
A04 056    |^Buyers will be able to get 3% loans of *+$6000 to
A04 057 *+$10,000, non-repayable for five years, to build a new house
A04 058 or buy an existing one.
A04 059    |^For couples, maximum loans will be available on joint
A04 060 gross incomes up to *+$28,000 a year, phasing down until they
A04 061 are unavailable to couples earning *+$36,000 and more.
A04 062    |^For single people 26 and over, maximum loans will be
A04 063 available up to *+$20,000 gross income a year and will phase
A04 064 out at *+$28,000.
A04 065    |^Landlords' Protection Association president Peter Chilwell
A04 066 greeted the scheme as a means to help landlords sell property
A04 067 before the introduction of the Residential Tenancies Bill.
A04 068    |^*"Landlords are moving fast out of the rent market,**" he
A04 069 said.
A04 070    |^\0Mr Chilwell expected a 40% reduction in Auckland's
A04 071 50,000 rentable homes in five years.
A04 072 *<*4Super tax surcharge cut *+$33\0m*> *<*1By *3DAVID
A04 073 CLARKSON*> *<{0NZN} *1News Bureau*>
A04 074    |*2WELLINGTON. *- ^*0National superannuitants get a cutback
A04 075 in their tax surcharge and some family benefit payments get the
A04 076 chop next year.
A04 077    |^The Government will forego *+$33 million a year by
A04 078 lowering the tax surcharge for national superannuitants from
A04 079 25\0c to 18\0c in the dollar.
A04 080    |^It will gain *+$7.3 million a year by halting what social
A04 081 welfare Minister Ann Hercus describes as *"a family benefit
A04 082 anomaly.**"
A04 083    |^Roger Douglas' Budget devotes little time to social
A04 084 policy.  ^The Government's major review of health, social
A04 085 welfare and education spending is still under way.
A04 086    |^He sees the Government's economic reforms as a way of
A04 087 generating social equity.
A04 088    |^*"Reform which encourages greater productivity and higher
A04 089 real incomes throughout the community also has the power, given
A04 090 good government, to enhance opportunity and fairness,**" said
A04 091 \0Mr Douglas.
A04 092    |^*"There is more scope for alleviating social strains in a
A04 093 vigorous economy.**"
A04 094    |^National superannuation remains by far the biggest payout
A04 095 for the Social Welfare department.  ^It has been voted *+$3536
A04 096 million of the department's projected *+$5758 million
A04 097 expenditure for 1986-87.
A04 098    |^Social Welfare has received an 8.3% increase in its vote,
A04 099 compared with its 1985-86 spending.
A04 100    |^National superannuitants have faced the surcharge since
A04 101 Labour's first Budget in November, 1984.
A04 102    |^It brought an outcry which led Prime Minister David Lange
A04 103 to acknowledge later they had a right to feel misled by the
A04 104 party's campaign pledge not to alter it.
A04 105    |^Last night's announcement will bring the tax rates on most
A04 106 superannuitants into line with the maximum rate that applies to
A04 107 others *- 48\0c in the dollar.
A04 108    |^The new rate applies from October 1, when the tax changes
A04 109 that come with {0GST} will set the top tax rate for wage and
A04 110 salary earners and for company tax at 48\0c.
A04 111    |^\0Mr Douglas and \0Mrs Hercus say that figure will apply
A04 112 to superannuitants who are paying the surcharge but have
A04 113 incomes of less than *+$30,000 a year.  ^About 20% of national
A04 114 superannuitants pay the surcharge.
A04 115    |^The Government's subsidy on teachers' salaries for private
A04 116 schools will be reduced, saving *+$3.8 million a year.
A04 117    |^However some of that will be paid out again as increased
A04 118 boarding bursaries for country pupils at both state and private
A04 119 schools.
A04 120    |^At present the Government pays half the average state
A04 121 salary cost per pupil.  ^This amounts to *+$560 a student each
A04 122 year for primary school pupils and *+$865 for high school
A04 123 students.  ^The total subsidy cost *+$15.3 million this year.
A04 124    |^Education minister Russell Marshall said the private
A04 125 school sector must accept its share of the curbs on education
A04 126 expenditure.  ^The subsidy is being cut back from 50% to 37.5%.
A04 127    |^Integrated schools are not affected.
A04 128    |^Concessions for motor vehicles purchased by voluntary
A04 129 organisations and disabled people will be simplified.
A04 130    |^People seeking the concession have had to deal with the
A04 131 Customs and Social Welfare departments but from October 1 only
A04 132 Social Welfare will be involved.
A04 133    |^The Sales Tax Act which allowed the concessions is being
A04 134 abolished, and the Government has decided to pay out the same
A04 135 value directly through the social welfare system.
A04 136    |^\0Mr Douglas also spoke of a fundamental re-examination of
A04 137 social policies.
A04 138    |^*"For too long it has been believed that problems in
A04 139 meeting our social objectives can be solved merely by spending
A04 140 more money on them,**" he said.
A04 141    |^*"Expenditure on benefits and social services including
A04 142 health, education and public order, rose from an average 13% of
A04 143 gross domestic product in the 1950s to 25% at the end of the
A04 144 1970s.
A04 145    |^*"However, there is substantial and growing evidence that
A04 146 this increase in expenditure has not enabled the social
A04 147 programmes to serve the purposes for which they were intended,
A04 148 let alone the expectations which the community now has of
A04 149 them.**"
A04 150 *<*4Taxman biggest Budget winner*> *<*1By *3DAVID
A04 151 M*1c*3LOUGHLIN*>
A04 152    |^*4Last night's Budget reveals you will pay more income tax
A04 153 than ever despite the much-vaunted tax cuts which apply when
A04 154 {0GST} begins on October 1.
A04 155    |^*0And before you cheer the petrol price drop, finance
A04 156 minister Roger Douglas has quietly found a way to siphon three
A04 157 times more in tax on petrol into the Government's coffers than
A04 158 he does now.
A04 159    |^The income tax grab this financial year will rise by
A04 160 *+$733 million to *+$9.8 billion *- 60% of all tax revenue and
A04 161 much the same proportion as previous years.
A04 162    |^Company tax continues to fall in proportion to total tax
A04 163 revenue *- this year business will pay *+$1.4 billion in tax,
A04 164 just 8.5% of tax revenue, compared with nearly 10% two years
A04 165 ago.
A04 166    |^And indirect taxes *- which {0GST} was meant to mark a
A04 167 shift to, away from personal tax *- will contribute *+$4.7
A04 168 billion or 29% of tax revenue, again much the same proportion
A04 169 as in previous years.
A04 170    |^The goods and services tax will apply for the second half
A04 171 of this financial year.  ^Its share of the total tax take *-
A04 172 direct and indirect, *- of a record *+$16.2 billion is a
A04 173 comparatively tiny *+$1.2 billion, or 7.4%.
A04 174    |^But it won't happen this year, despite the launch of
A04 175 {0GST}, according to the tables in the Budget.
A04 176    |^New Zealanders pay one of the highest proportions of
A04 177 income tax in the world, and one of the most basic reasons for
A04 178 introducing {0GST} was to move towards lowering the proportion
A04 179 paid in income tax.
A04 180    |^As shown in the graphic, two years ago income tax was
A04 181 60.5% of all tax revenue, the same proportion the Budget
A04 182 predicts for this financial year.
A04 183    |^The proportion rose to 64% in the year ended March 31,
A04 184 1986 *- and that big jump to *+$9.1 billion was probably due to
A04 185 the increase in marginal tax rates last October.
A04 186    |^Although income tax this year drops to 60.5% of total tax
A04 187 revenue, that's only to where it was two years ago.  ^And in
A04 188 actual dollars, this financial year you will pay 8% or *+$733
A04 189 million more income tax than last year.
A04 190    |^At first glance, it looks as if the tax cuts which start
A04 191 on October 1 will not even give back the extra taken in last
A04 192 year's rise in marginal tax rates.  ^And the 10% {0GST} *-
A04 193 which the tax cuts are meant to compensate for *- still has to
A04 194 be paid.
A04 195    |^The major cause of the Government's windfall is probably
A04 196 good old fiscal drag *- the 17%-plus pay rises in the last wage
A04 197 round would have taken many workers into a higher tax bracket,
A04 198 ensuring the Government's total income tax revenue keeps rising
A04 199 despite the tax cuts.
A04 200    |^But the biggest tax grab of all in the Budget was \0Mr
A04 201 Douglas' sleight-of-hand in siphoning the Marsden \0Pt refinery
A04 202 loan levy (16\0c on each litre of petrol) into the consolidated
A04 203 fund.
A04 204    |^The levy was to pay the interest and loan debt of the
A04 205 refinery expansion, which the Government will now take over.
A04 206    |^Until recently, the levy was around 10\0c a litre.
A04 207 ^Although it has reached 16\0c, it would have started to
A04 208 reduce, reaching zero in about 1993.
A04 209    |^By turning it into petrol tax and directing it into the
A04 210 consolidated account, the Government has tapped a gusher which
A04 211 is likely to be gushing long after the loans are repaid.
A04 212    |^The Budget tables show that change will raise petrol taxes
A04 213 (excluding those going to the National Roads Board) from *+$208
A04 214 million to *+$470 million this financial year, without counting
A04 215 the 10% {0GST} which will go on petrol like everything else
A04 216 from October 1.
A04 217    |^The consolidated account got 9.8\0c a litre.  ^After last
A04 218 night's announcement, it will get 25.8\0c a litre plus 7.6\0c a
A04 219 litre {0GST} from October 1, a total of 33.4\0c.
A04 220 *<*4Company tax payments spread evenly*>
A04 221 |*6WELLINGTON ({0PA}) *- ^*4Provisional and terminal tax
A04 222 payments are to be spread more evenly throughout the year.
A04 223    |^*0The changes will apply from the next financial year,
A04 224 says finance minister Roger Douglas.
A04 225    |^The present timing rules meant provisional and terminal
A04 226 tax payments were too heavily concentrated at certain times of
A04 227 the year.
A04 228    |^Most taxpayers pay provisional tax in two instalments *-
A04 229 in September and March.
A04 230    |^The September payment was one-third and the March payment
A04 231 was two-thirds of a taxpayer's total provisional tax liability.
A04 232    |^*"This system causes considerable uncertainty in financial
A04 233 markets at these times,**" \0Mr Douglas said.
A04 234    |^*"As a result small errors in revenue forecasts can have
A04 235 major effects on short-term interest rates.**"
A04 236    |^Under the new rules provisional tax will be due in three
A04 237 equal instalments spread evenly through the year.
A04 238    |^The practice of allowing tax to be paid one month late
A04 239 without penalty will also stop.
A04 240    |^Provisional tax will be payable in the fourth, eighth and
A04 241 12th month of a taxpayer's income year.
A04 242    |^Terminal tax payments will be due on the 11th month for
A04 243 those with balance dates between October and March.
A04 244    |^To avoid an excessive fiscal cost in the initial year, the
A04 245 due date for paying terminal tax will be February 6 for other
A04 246 taxpayers.
A04 247    |^*"These measures will bring substantial benefits by
A04 248 evening out tax flows,**" he said.
A04 249    |^*"To a limited extent, they will also assist tax
A04 250 forecasting.**"
A04 251    |^Under the present scheme, 6% of provisional and terminal
A04 252 tax can fall in March.
A04 253    |^To ease transition, taxpayers with balance dates falling
A04 254 in October, February, March and April will be allowed to pay
A04 255 their first provisional tax instalment in the 1987-88 income
A04 256 year.
A04 257 *<*4Post-budget bills prompt late sessions*>
A04 258    |^*2WELLINGTON ({0PA}).  *- ^*0The National Party conference
A04 259 in Auckland was without a number of the party's {0MP}s today as
A04 260 Parliament continued to sit under urgency.
A04 261    |^The House resumed today after sitting until midnight last
A04 262 night.  ^The Government had pushed through a number of 
A04 263 post-Budget bills.
A04 264 *#
A05 001 **[005 TEXT A05**]
A05 002 *4*<\0Govt attributes rise in jobless to farm slump*>
A05 003 *<By *6PATRICIA HERBERT *4in Wellington*>
A05 004    |^Registered unemployment rose a sharp 8.4 per cent last
A05 005 month *- an increase the Minister of Employment, \0Mr Burke,
A05 006 attributed in part to the drop in farmers' spending.
A05 007    |^*0He said that while much of the rise reflected seasonal
A05 008 lay-offs in the freezing and horticultural sectors, it was
A05 009 clear also that the agricultural recession had *"caused
A05 010 farmers to put their cheque books away until things pick up in
A05 011 the new season.**"
A05 012    |^This, he said, had hit many rural service industries and
A05 013 was most evident in those provinces dependent on sheep farming.
A05 014    |^He was confident, however, that the Government's policies
A05 015 would deliver, saying already the indicators were suggesting
A05 016 *"better things ahead.**"
A05 017    |^\0Mr Burke was commenting on the Labour Department's
A05 018 latest survey which shows the total unemployed at the end of
A05 019 August was 70,831 *- higher than in any month since February,
A05 020 1984, when the figure was 76,403 or 5.7 per cent of the
A05 021 estimated work-force against 5.3 per cent now.
A05 022    |^The acting Leader of the Opposition, \0Mr George Gair,
A05 023 said last month's figure would have been even higher but for
A05 024 the recent *"substantial outflow of migrants**" and predicted
A05 025 unemployment would reach 80,000 soon and 100,000 by the end of
A05 026 the year.
A05 027    |^*"Unemployment is now a disaster area,**" he said.
A05 028    |^The figures show an increase in the August to August year
A05 029 of 42.3 per cent, but this reduces to just under 20 per cent if
A05 030 those on work and skills schemes are counted among the
A05 031 unemployed.
A05 032    |^This is because the number on fully and partly subsidised
A05 033 projects has been almost halved over the period and, even the
A05 034 7189 on the new Training Assistance Programmes added, is still
A05 035 down about 5000 over all.
A05 036    |^The {0T.A.P.} enrolment was, however, artificially low as
A05 037 it dropped about 1000 over the month *- a drop almost entirely
A05 038 due to a fall-off in the number of trainees in technical
A05 039 institute based courses.
A05 040    |^\0Mr Burke attributes this to the August holidays,
A05 041 repeating the May holiday experience.  ^He would prefer the
A05 042 programmes to run without interruption.
A05 043    |^Of those on the August unemployed register, 28 per cent
A05 044 had been out of work for less than four weeks; 37 per cent for
A05 045 between four and 13 weeks; 20 per cent for 13 to 26 weeks and
A05 046 15 per cent for more than six months.
A05 047    |^Included in the total were 3328 school-leavers, down 129
A05 048 on July.
A05 049    |^The survey confirms that the pain of the economic
A05 050 contraction is being felt most keenly in the provincial areas.
A05 051 ^Leading those districts to record significant increases in
A05 052 unemployment was Invercargill, up 870, and Dunedin, up 672.
A05 053    |^They were followed by Hastings, up 478; Hamilton, up 425;
A05 054 Napier, up 412 and Wanganui, up 366.
A05 055    |^Christchurch's total at the end of August was 7747 *- up
A05 056 104 from July.  ^Blenheim was at 854, up 26; Nelson, at 1453,
A05 057 was up 43, Greymouth was up 53 at 948 and Timaru was up 202 at
A05 058 1665.
A05 059 *<*4Parties to press on in wage formula bid*>
A05 060 *<By *6PATRICIA HERBERT *4in Wellington*>
A05 061    |^*0Union and employer representatives are expected to meet
A05 062 in Wellington again today as they attempt to thrash out a wage
A05 063 agreement.
A05 064    |^The Government, after reconvening the tripartite wage
A05 065 conference on Wednesday evening, told the parties to go away
A05 066 and sort out an agreed package.
A05 067    |^In the meantime, they are shunning publicity, mindful that
A05 068 if they do strike a deal they will have to sell it first to
A05 069 their own members.
A05 070    |^Progress, if it is to occur, is likely to be swift not
A05 071 least because of the time pressures.
A05 072    |^Conciliation on three important awards, including the
A05 073 trend-setting drivers' document, is set down for next week and
A05 074 the people involved will want to know the outcome of the
A05 075 central negotiations before they get down to hard bargaining.
A05 076    |^Certainly this is the attitude the employers' assessors to
A05 077 the drivers' award are expected to take when they begin their
A05 078 talks in Christchurch on Monday.
A05 079    |^Their advocate, \0Mr Paul Diver, said they would have to
A05 080 take account of developments in the effort to get a managed
A05 081 round.  ^He did not specify how this would influence their
A05 082 strategy but they probably will be reluctant to make a wage
A05 083 offer until they know whether there are to be controls or not.
A05 084    |^This may have the effect of frustrating the approach of
A05 085 the union advocate, \0Mr Rob Campbell.
A05 086    |^\0Mr Campbell said in a statement yesterday that he had
A05 087 lodged his claims, that the employers had lodged theirs, and
A05 088 that he saw no reason *"to suspend any aspect of the
A05 089 negotiations**" especially as they had not been asked to do so.
A05 090    |^He said that he would be against any deal which provided
A05 091 only for a wage increase and banned all bargaining.
A05 092    |^The Federation of Labour resolution tied affiliates to a
A05 093 common level of wage claim but did not in any way suspend
A05 094 discussion on conditions or allowances.
A05 095    |^*"Our position on Monday will be consistent with that
A05 096 decision,**" he said.
A05 097    |^He indicated that he would prefer *"to negotiate a
A05 098 conclusion across the table**" and divorced the drivers from
A05 099 this latest attempt to get a central agreement saying it had
A05 100 been initiated not from any request of theirs but to resolve an
A05 101 impasse in the metal trades' award talks.
A05 102    |^He is following {0F.O.L.} policy in claiming *+$24 a week
A05 103 but has hinted that he might raise his claims should the
A05 104 employers persist with counter-claims
A05 105  on shift work, working hours, and other issues.
A05 106    |^The same lukewarm commitment to the tack being taken by
A05 107 the {0F.O.L.} surfaced again yesterday when he said that if an
A05 108 acceptable wage increase was fixed centrally, they would regard
A05 109 it as an *"assistance**" but that it *"still would not do
A05 110 away with the need for (their) negotiations to proceed on other
A05 111 matters.**"
A05 112    |^There would be no conflict if a deal was struck which
A05 113 controlled only the wage movement, leaving other claims to be
A05 114 negotiated freely.  ^The Employers' Federation may, however,
A05 115 demand a ban on all conciliation as a condition for agreement.
A05 116    |^The Minister of Labour, \0Mr Rodger, said there was still
A05 117 only a 50-50 chance of a managed wage round this year.
A05 118    He said the Government would be reluctant to regulate a wage
A05 119 rise for all workers.
A05 120    |^*"But if we are confronted with the extraordinary
A05 121 situation of both organisations agreeing on a package and that
A05 122 it ought to be delivered by regulation, we clearly have to take
A05 123 it to the Cabinet for further consideration,**" he said.
A05 124    |^He believed the {0F.O.L.} and employers were still some
A05 125 distance apart over various ingredients that might be included
A05 126 in a managed round.
A05 127 *4*<Labour 9 {0p.c.} ahead of rivals *- poll*>
A05 128 *<By *6OLIVER RIDDELL *4in Wellington*>
A05 129    |^*0Labour has opened a nine-point gap over National in the
A05 130 latest public opinion poll, and the divided Democrats have sunk
A05 131 to a historic low point.
A05 132    |^The latest *"Eye Witness**"-Heylen poll results show
A05 133 Labour support benefiting from increasing confidence in its
A05 134 handling of the economy.
A05 135    |^Compared with the poll a month earlier, taken after the
A05 136 freeing of the French Rainbow Warrior agents, Labour support
A05 137 has risen from 49 per cent to 53 per cent.
A05 138    |^National's support fell from 46 per cent to 44 percent,
A05 139 and from 4 per cent to 1 per cent for the Democrats.  ^The New
A05 140 Zealand Party held firm at 1 per cent.  ^Those undecided were
A05 141 steady at 16 per cent.
A05 142    |^The Prime Minister, \0Mr Lange, was approved by 31 per
A05 143 cent of voters as preferred Prime Minister.  ^Sir Robert
A05 144 Muldoon was steady on 14 per cent; the Deputy Prime Minister,
A05 145 \0Mr Palmer, rose two points to 6 per cent; the Leader of the
A05 146 Opposition, \0Mr Bolger, slipped from 18 per cent to 15 per
A05 147 cent.
A05 148    |^Labour did well in the economic indicators.
A05 149    |^It was up six points to 49 per cent on its economic
A05 150 performance, up five to 47 per cent over-all, up four to 40 per
A05 151 cent on interest rates, up four to 38 per cent on {0GST}, and
A05 152 economic optimism rose four points to 37 per cent.
A05 153    |^More startling was the public's view on unemployment.
A05 154 ^Government approval was still only a very low 26 per cent but
A05 155 that was up four points on a month ago.
A05 156    |^The really amazing indicator was that on public
A05 157 dissatisfaction with the Government's handling of the economy.
A05 158 ^That fell 13 points to 30 per cent.
A05 159    |^These poll results will give greater confidence to the
A05 160 Labour Party in weathering criticism about doubts about
A05 161 economic reforms.  ^They will also dampen the increasing
A05 162 confidence that the National Party has shown.
A05 163 *4*<2 \0Govt departments will become six new bodies*>
A05 164 *<Nelson reporter*>
A05 165    |^*0The uncertainties and fears of Forest Service and Lands
A05 166 and Survey personnel over their future should crystallise late
A05 167 next month.
A05 168    |^The chief executive of the Forestry Corporation
A05 169 establishment unit, \0Mr Andy Kirkland, said yesterday that the
A05 170 physical programmes, financial programmes associated with them
A05 171 and the numbers of people involved, were being examined and it
A05 172 was hoped to bring all these things together in early October.
A05 173    |^\0Mr Kirkland confirmed that a board meeting would be held
A05 174 in the second week of October, at which time these matters
A05 175 would be discussed.  ^However, it was unlikely that any
A05 176 announcement would be made on structuring and staffing until
A05 177 after deliberations by the board, the Government, and the State
A05 178 Services Commission.
A05 179    |^The Forest Service is only part of the restructuring that
A05 180 is taking place.  ^Out of it all, from two Government
A05 181 departments, six new bodies will emerge *- the Forestry
A05 182 Corporation and the Land Development and Management Corporation
A05 183 (Landcorp), which are the production arms of the Forest Service
A05 184 and Lands and Survey Departments respectively; a Ministry of
A05 185 Forests; a Department of Conservation; a Department of Land and
A05 186 Survey Information; and a Ministry for the Environment.
A05 187    |^The complexity of all this is causing great uncertainties
A05 188 and fear among the permanent staff of both Government
A05 189 departments and in the case of the Forest Service, particularly
A05 190 the wage workers employed in planting and silvicultural work.
A05 191    |^The rumours circulating in Nelson, the centre of the South
A05 192 Island's largest exotic forests are extensive.  ^Most of these
A05 193 were put to rest yesterday either by \0Mr Kirkland; the Nelson
A05 194 conservator of Forests, \0Mr Ian Black; or the secretary of the
A05 195 Nelson Timber Workers' Union, \0Ms Rebecca Hamid.
A05 196    |^A total of 213 permanent staff and 320 wage workers (not
A05 197 including contractors) are employed within the Nelson
A05 198 conservancy.  ^None is absolutely certain of retaining
A05 199 employment after the restructuring.
A05 200    |^\0Mr Black said it could not yet be determined what
A05 201 permanent staff would go into which jobs.  ^The Department of
A05 202 Conservation and the Ministry of Forests would retain
A05 203 Government department status.
A05 204    |^*"However there are great uncertainties for those who will
A05 205 change from the Forest Service to the corporation because it
A05 206 has not yet been determined what new conditions of employment
A05 207 there will be in the corporation, how the organisations will be
A05 208 structured, whether they are going to be offered jobs, how many
A05 209 jobs, and if there will be a location change,**" said \0Mr
A05 210 Black.
A05 211 *4*<\0Govt maintaining line on teachers' salaries*>
A05 212 *<*0PA Wellington*>
A05 213    |^The Government is sticking to its decision to cut the
A05 214 teachers' salaries grant to private schools, said the Minister
A05 215 of Education, \0Mr Marshall, yesterday.
A05 216    |^The move to cut the grant in two stages has met with
A05 217 opposition from private schools and produced a flood of
A05 218 petitions to Parliament urging the Government to restore the
A05 219 grant to pre-Budget levels.
A05 220    |^\0Mr Marshall met independent school principals several
A05 221 weeks ago and took their paper to a Cabinet committee.
A05 222    |^However, the committee decided to affirm the earlier
A05 223 decision and that was confirmed at the Cabinet on Monday.
A05 224    |^Explaining the decision, \0Mr Marshall said he had been
A05 225 required to find savings in the last expenditure review.
A05 226    |^He said that next month's tax changes would particularly
A05 227 benefit middle-income earners who represented a significant
A05 228 number of the users of independent schools.
A05 229    |^The exception was Rudolph Steiner schools, which had a
A05 230 broader cross-section of children.
A05 231    |^\0Mr Marshall said there was an *"escape clause**" for
A05 232 independent schools facing the grant cut *- the opportunity to
A05 233 integrate with the State system.
A05 234 *4*<Electricity for rail might not be used*>
A05 235 *<By *6MARTIN FREETH *4in Wellington*>
A05 236    |^*0Electricity pricing will determine whether the North
A05 237 Island Main Trunk line electrification, costing about *+$200
A05 238 million, will be switched on or mothballed at the time of its
A05 239 completion in 1988.
A05 240    |^The Government recently decided to press ahead with the
A05 241 project's construction, but the Minister of Railways, \0Mr
A05 242 Prebble, said yesterday that what happened after that would
A05 243 depend on the price of power fixed between the Railways
A05 244 Corporation and the new Electricity Corporation.
A05 245    |^The Minister of Energy, \0Mr Tizard, raised the pricing
A05 246 issue yesterday to make it clear that the Railways would get no
A05 247 concession on the electricity it required.
A05 248    |^\0Mr Prebble replied that no concession was expected and
A05 249 the price would be that set in standard commercial negotiations
A05 250 between the two corporations.
A05 251    |^*"If the Electricity Corporation says... ^*'We have got
A05 252 other customers who want the power and are prepared to pay the
A05 253 proper price,**' then that is how it will be.
A05 254    |^*"It will be a strictly commercial decision,**" \0Mr
A05 255 Prebble said.
A05 256 *#
A06 001 **[006 TEXT A06**]
A06 002 *<*4Economic measures to stay *- \0Mr Bolger*>
A06 003 *<Wellington reporter*>
A06 004    |^*0The Leader of the Opposition, \0Mr Bolger, has told the
A06 005 international financial magazine, *"Euromoney,**" that National
A06 006 would not repeal any of the Government's major economic
A06 007 measures.
A06 008    |^In an interview published last month, \0Mr Bolger was
A06 009 asked if National would repeal any major measures if it won the
A06 010 next election.  ^He replied, ^*"No, I don't know of any.**"
A06 011    |^*"Euromoney**" quotes \0Mr Bolger as saying National would
A06 012 *"refine**" the policy of a floating New Zealand dollar by
A06 013 lowering interest rates, thereby reducing pressure on exchange
A06 014 rates because of high capital flows into New Zealand for
A06 015 investment.
A06 016    |^\0Mr Bolger is also quoted as saying that the view of
A06 017 National and of himself is *"much more open than that of the
A06 018 Government.**"
A06 019    |^Discussing party philosophies in the interview, \0Mr
A06 020 Bolger said his main difference from the Minister of Finance,
A06 021 \0Mr Douglas, was that he wanted an economy driven by the
A06 022 private sector, without the growth in the public sector that
A06 023 had occurred under Labour.
A06 024    |^\0Mr Douglas drew attention to \0Mr Bolger's comments
A06 025 yesterday, claiming they showed he had told the international
A06 026 financial community the opposite of his *"blustering**" about
A06 027 Government economic policies within New Zealand.
A06 028    |^The Minister asked whether the *"Euromoney**" interview
A06 029 meant \0Mr Bolger did not, after all, favour repealing {0GST},
A06 030 as he had previously pledged.
A06 031    |^A copy of the interview in the latest *"Euromoney**"
A06 032 supplement on New Zealand was distributed to the news media by
A06 033 \0Mr Douglas, who described \0Mr Bolger as a hypocrite.
A06 034    |^However, a spokesman for \0Mr Bolger said the answers in
A06 035 the article had been *"edited rather severely.**"
A06 036    |^The spokesman said that the interview had been conducted
A06 037 six months ago, and that \0Mr Bolger was sure he would not have
A06 038 given the answers in the way credited to him.
A06 039 *<*4Pay cuts rejected; Longburn's future hangs in balance*>
A06 040 *<*0{0PA} Palmerston North*>
A06 041    |^The future of the Longburn meat works was teetering in the
A06 042 balance yesterday after freezing workers rejected a management
A06 043 call for new-season pay cuts and longer hours.
A06 044    |^As the shock waves from the Whakatu shut**[ARB**]-down
A06 045 rippled through the industry, Waitaki's manager of Longburn,
A06 046 \0Mr Brian Cuff, said the issue at the Manawatu works was still
A06 047 negotiable.
A06 048    |^\0Mr Cuff said the new season at Longburn was not due to
A06 049 start until mid-November.
A06 050    |^This meant that there was still time for union and
A06 051 management to get together to thrash out an agreement.
A06 052    |^Freezing workers on Monday overwhelmingly threw out
A06 053 company proposals calling for new manning levels, pay cuts, and
A06 054 higher daily tallies at the works.
A06 055    |^The Meat Workers' Union's west coast (North Island) branch
A06 056 secretary, \0Mr Ken Findlay said that Waitaki's demands for
A06 057 wage cuts varied from 30 per cent to 60 per cent but averaged
A06 058 40 per cent across the works.
A06 059    |^The average worker earned *+$11,000 in a six-month season
A06 060 plus *+$8000 from the dole and so a 40 per cent wage cut would
A06 061 reduce his income to *+$14,500, he said.
A06 062    |^The workers will prepare their own counter**[ARB**]-claims
A06 063 for discussion with the company in the next two to three weeks.
A06 064    |^The union's president, \0Mr Roger Middlemass, said those
A06 065 would involve *"significant**" cost cuts.
A06 066    |^\0Mr Cuff said the company was prepared to look at
A06 067 anything put forward by the union but warned there was
A06 068 *"little room to move.**"
A06 069    |^*"People have got to realise that we are in a crisis
A06 070 situation at Longburn,**" he said.
A06 071    |^\0Mr Cuff said that under the ownership of
A06 072 Borthwick-{0CWS} since 1977, Longburn had lost *+$13 million,
A06 073 posting a loss each year but one, when the works made a profit
A06 074 of *+$40,000.
A06 075    |^The Watties-owned Waitaki International group took over
A06 076 Longburn on March 1 this year.
A06 077    |^In the season just finished, the works lost *+$3.7 million
A06 078 and a projected loss of between *+$4 million and *+$5 million
A06 079 is forecast for the new season, according to \0Mr Cuff.
A06 080    |^He said this was what was behind the company's move to
A06 081 cancel all contracts and agreements at Longburn from Monday,
A06 082 October 19.
A06 083    |^\0Mr Cuff said Longburn, which employs about 800 meat
A06 084 workers at the peak of the season, had a bright future
A06 085 *"provided we can get our unit costs down.**"
A06 086    |^*"Obviously I am very disappointed at the outcome of the
A06 087 shed meeting and I find it very difficult to be optimistic
A06 088 right now.
A06 089    |^*"But we are open for discussion on any proposal for us to
A06 090 become viable,**" he said.
A06 091 *<*0Not everybody wants to work, says report*>
A06 092 *<{0PA} Tauranga*>
A06 093    |^Labour Department policy wrongly assumes that everybody
A06 094 who registers as jobless wants to work, according to a report
A06 095 for the department.
A06 096    |^The report says the Government should recognise that there
A06 097 will always be a number of unemployed people who do not want to
A06 098 work.
A06 099    |^These people should be the Social Welfare Department's
A06 100 responsibility, not that of the Labour Department, it says.
A06 101    |^Labour Department funds and staff time are being wasted on
A06 102 people who do not want to work or train.
A06 103    |^The report is the work of a sub-committee of the Tauranga
A06 104 district employment training and advisory committee.
A06 105    |^This week the sub-committee will examine the finished
A06 106 report before it goes to the committee next week for
A06 107 discussion.
A06 108    |^A sub-committee member, \0Mrs Melanie Southworth, said the
A06 109 present system of handling unemployment was based on a fallacy.
A06 110    |^*"The whole present system is based on the premise that
A06 111 everybody who registers with the Labour Department wants to
A06 112 work,**" she said.
A06 113    |^*"The truth is that some or most of the people registered
A06 114 with the Labour Department want to work, but everybody has to
A06 115 pretend that they want to work if they want an income.
A06 116    |^*"So the present system does not identify *- because it
A06 117 does not ask who wants to work *- who wishes to train and who
A06 118 would be willing to be unemployed for a time,**" she said.
A06 119    |^*"If you filled every job in New Zealand there would still
A06 120 be some people left over, that is what we are saying.  ^There
A06 121 is going to be unemployment for a time.**"
A06 122    |^\0Mrs Southworth said people who could maintain a
A06 123 satisfying lifestyle not working should be allowed to do so,
A06 124 because there were not enough jobs to go round.
A06 125    |^*"The bottom line is we are not acknowledging at the
A06 126 moment that we do not have enough work for everybody,**" she
A06 127 said.
A06 128    |^People should be able to *"take time out**" for
A06 129 activities such as retraining, raising a family, doing
A06 130 voluntary community work, or taking a sabbatical after
A06 131 finishing a job to think about what to do in the future, she
A06 132 said.
A06 133    |^That system was appropriate in a climate where there was
A06 134 not full employment.
A06 135    |^One requirement for collecting a benefit could be to do a
A06 136 spell of community work each week.
A06 137 *<*4Greymouth council set for complete new look*>
A06 138 *<By *6PAT TAYLOR*>
A06 139    |^*0With the election of the new Greymouth Borough Council,
A06 140 interest now focuses on the portfolios which individual members
A06 141 will bear.
A06 142    |^The Deputy Mayor in the last term, \0Cr Russell King, had
A06 143 the responsibility for works, and \0Cr Cecil Walklin was in
A06 144 charge of reserves.  ^Neither sought re-election.
A06 145    |^\0Cr Neville Higgs, in charge of town planning, and \0Cr
A06 146 Paul Purton (sports and ground allocations) both lost their
A06 147 seats.
A06 148    |^The Greymouth Borough Council does not operate in
A06 149 committees, but rather in a Cabinet fashion with each
A06 150 councillor having a specific responsibility.  ^He or she is
A06 151 expected to liaise with the head of each department and produce
A06 152 reports and recommendations.
A06 153    |^In addition to the election, some councillors are expected
A06 154 to get further responsibilities.
A06 155    |^\0Cr Fred Holmes, who has been in charge of drainage and
A06 156 is the borough representative on the Westland Catchment Board
A06 157 is likely to find works among his portfolios this year, but
A06 158 could be helped in this sphere by \0Cr Ray Burrell, a factory
A06 159 engineer, who joined the council as an appointment during the
A06 160 last term.
A06 161    |^\0Cr Burrell has been especially interested in downtown
A06 162 development, particularly the proposed Albert Street Mall.
A06 163    |^\0Cr Burrell has been in charge of the library, but his
A06 164 new seniority suggests that this will move to a new councillor,
A06 165 possibly the principal of the Greymouth High School, \0Mr Des
A06 166 Hinch.
A06 167    |^Although \0Mr Hinch is interested in traffic planning,
A06 168 stemming from the high school board of governors' continuous
A06 169 campaign for the reinstatement of a pedestrian crossing outside
A06 170 the school, \0Cr Norman Tvrdeic has a long association with
A06 171 road safety, and is expected to retain that post.
A06 172    |^\0Cr Tvrdeic was second in the polling behind \0Cr Anna
A06 173 van der Geest who has been in charge of finance.  ^She is
A06 174 expected to keep that post and, as the new deputy Mayor,
A06 175 succeeding \0Cr King, is expected to replace him on the West
A06 176 Coast United Council.
A06 177    |^The vexed question of who will replace \0Cr Higgs in 
A06 178 town-planning is an absorbing one.  ^It is an important post and, on
A06 179 seniority would normally have been one for \0Cr Tvrdeic, but
A06 180 many hearings are held in the late afternoons when he would be
A06 181 unavailable.
A06 182    |^The Mayor, \0Dr Barry Dallas, who makes the appointments
A06 183 could give this post to \0Cr Darcy Lucas, who already has the
A06 184 responsibility for health and welfare, and who was re-elected
A06 185 last Saturday.
A06 186    |^\0Cr Lucas, if he is moved from his present welfare post
A06 187 could be succeeded by a new member, \0Mr Eric Belcher, while
A06 188 two other new members, \0Messrs Rex Hay and Mick O'Donnell, who
A06 189 both expressed keen interest in sport, could be the contenders
A06 190 for the reserves department and sports allocation posts.
A06 191 *<*4Cafeteria pay increase 19\0pc*>
A06 192 *<*6CHRISTCHURCH*>
A06 193 |^*2THE *0award for restaurant and cafeteria workers was
A06 194 settled last night, with a wage increase of 19 per cent.
A06 195    |^The new award rate for a full time kitchenhand working
A06 196 Monday till Friday is *+$5.75 an hour, compared with *+$4.83
A06 197 under the old award which expired on March 1.
A06 198    |^The award covers the wages and conditions of about 17,000
A06 199 workers in tearooms, industrial cafeterias, restaurants and
A06 200 takeaway bars.
A06 201    |^Christchurch workers had taken industrial action and
A06 202 threatened more unless the employers agreed to pay *+$6 an
A06 203 hour, but the settlement means that there will be no more
A06 204 action.
A06 205    |^The union assessors, led by advocate Rick Barker, were
A06 206 faced with the choice of taking the 19 per cent or allowing the
A06 207 talks to be adjourned, which would have delayed settlement for
A06 208 about six weeks, when there could be no guarantee that the
A06 209 employers would offer any more and the prospect of not having
A06 210 any backdating. *- {0NZPA}
A06 211 *<*4Dunlop strikers outline views*>
A06 212 *<By *6PAUL JACKMAN *4Industrial Reporter*>
A06 213 |^*2STRIKING *0Upper Hutt Dunlop tyre workers have taken their
A06 214 case to city residents in a pamphlet distributed to Upper Hutt
A06 215 households.
A06 216    |^Entitled Dunlop Tyre Factory Dispute: The Facts, the
A06 217 pamphlet attributes the dispute to a recent change in the
A06 218 plant's overseas owners.
A06 219    |^The dispute is over whether a long-established bonus
A06 220 should be retained.  ^Management has argued that as a new
A06 221 agreement for wages and conditions of maintenance workers is
A06 222 being negotiated, Dunlop has no obligation to retain the
A06 223 traditional bonus.
A06 224    |^The pamphlet says Dunlop's obligation is clear.  ^*"The
A06 225 new owners of the company believe they have some divine right
A06 226 to tear up the agreement freely entered into whenever it suits
A06 227 their selfish ends.**"
A06 228    |^Throughout negotiations Dunlop's management has shown a
A06 229 total lack of response to proposals to end the dispute, it
A06 230 says.
A06 231    |^It says working people have a right to expect their
A06 232 agreements to be honoured.
A06 233    |^Dunlop chief executive David Hills yesterday said he
A06 234 rejected the pamphlet, which he said had the facts wrong.
A06 235    |^A completely new agreement was being negotiated so there
A06 236 was no obligation to include features from earlier agreements.
A06 237    |^Dunlop was trying to make the Upper Hutt plant
A06 238 internationally competitive, and to do that a wage bill
A06 239 including a 15.5 per cent increase in bonuses would be too
A06 240 high, he said.
A06 241 *<*4\0Govt will appoint chief to help in Maori language*>
A06 242    |^*0A Maori language commissioner will be appointed to
A06 243 oversee implementation of the language's official recognition,
A06 244 Deputy Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer said yesterday.
A06 245    |^A Bill granting recognition to the language is before
A06 246 Parliament, but \0Mr Palmer said the issue needed to be
A06 247 addressed immediately.
A06 248    |^*"The Maori language is probably the most important taonga
A06 249 [treasure] the Maori people have,**" \0Mr Palmer said.
A06 250    |^*"It provides the focal point for their future
A06 251 development, giving a sense of oneness and a spirit of
A06 252 inspiration.**"
A06 253    |^The Maori language commissioner would report to the
A06 254 Minister of Maori Affairs, and would consider the
A06 255 infrastructure required once the Bill passed into law, \0Mr
A06 256 Palmer said.
A06 257 *#
A07 001 **[007 TEXT A07**]
A07 002 *<*4Former {0US} envoy to bat for Kiwis*>
A07 003    |*2CHRISTCHURCH, *0Today ({0PA}). *- ^A number of former
A07 004 United States officials could soon be promoting New Zealand's
A07 005 interests in their country, says a retired United States
A07 006 ambassador.
A07 007    |^Anne Martindell, ambassador to New Zealand from 1979 to
A07 008 1981 during the Carter presidency, said yesterday that she was
A07 009 organising a committee to promote greater understanding between
A07 010 the {0US} and New Zealand.
A07 011    |^Details of membership of the new group, tentatively titled
A07 012 the United States-New Zealand Council, would be revealed after
A07 013 a meeting in Washington on April 18.
A07 014    |^But she said members would include former officials in the
A07 015 State Department and a former secretary of state.
A07 016    |^Because contributions to the council would be 
A07 017 tax-deductible, it could not act as a political lobbying group.
A07 018    |^Individual members of the group would, however, point out
A07 019 New Zealand's position in the {0ANZUS} row, she said.
A07 020    |^*"There will be a mix of views among the members regarding
A07 021 New Zealand's defence policies, but they will all share a love
A07 022 of New Zealand.  ^They do not like to see such a long and happy
A07 023 relationship in its present state.**"
A07 024    |^\0Mrs Martindell said she was in two minds about New
A07 025 Zealand's proposed anti-nuclear legislation.
A07 026    |^*"I came into politics on the peace issue so my initial
A07 027 reaction was that it was a very brave thing to do.  ^Now I am
A07 028 worried that if there is no resolution to the problem there
A07 029 would be consequences for New Zealand that would distress
A07 030 me.**"
A07 031    |^\0Mrs Martindell said she would do her best to ensure
A07 032 economic sanctions were not applied to New Zealand, but it was
A07 033 possible that the State Department would yield to the strong
A07 034 protectionist sentiment in the {0US}.
A07 035    |^\0Mrs Martindell said the {0ANZUS} treaty should be
A07 036 retained even if no solution to the nuclear ship dispute could
A07 037 be found.  ^Unlike many Americans she saw the treaty as
A07 038 primarily a political alliance rather than a military one, she
A07 039 said.
A07 040    |^She said, however, that it would be difficult to apply a
A07 041 compromise solution, such as existed in Japan, in New Zealand.
A07 042    |^Much of the work of the council would involve cultural
A07 043 exchanges.  ^These are presently organised by the United States
A07 044 Information Service which \0Mrs Martindell said has been
A07 045 affected by government cut-backs.
A07 046 *<*4Rural action groups plan protest march*>
A07 047    |*2HAMILTON *0Today ({0PA}). *- ^The emerging rural action
A07 048 network is gearing up for a national day of protest which will
A07 049 include a march to Parliament.
A07 050    |^Te Anga, near Waitomo, where the women set up the first
A07 051 rural action group, is co-ordinating activity, liaising with
A07 052 other groups and gauging community feelings on future action.
A07 053    |^Te Anga group organiser Andra Neeley said they had just
A07 054 collated answers from a questionnaire which sought community
A07 055 feelings on the group's next moves.
A07 056    |^Since the Te Anga group formation a few weeks ago, more
A07 057 than half a dozen other groups have sprung up.
A07 058    |^A march in Te Kuiti rallied more than 500 people last
A07 059 week, and a large turn out is expected for tomorrow's march in
A07 060 Te Awamutu.
A07 061    |^Te Anga group secretary Rosemary Shaw said the
A07 062 questionnaire showed a predominant feeling for protest at
A07 063 national level.
A07 064    |^*"Those who couldn't take part in a march on Parliament
A07 065 would march in their own areas in a co-ordinated action.**"
A07 066    |^Other action proposed includes making contact with
A07 067 borough, county and district councils to suggest that rural
A07 068 communities would be prepared to take a decrease in services if
A07 069 rates were held and not increased to pay for local authority
A07 070 staff pay increases.
A07 071    |^A letter-writing campaign, spelling out the plight of the
A07 072 agricultural sector, will be aimed at the Women's Affairs
A07 073 Minister Ann Hercus, Finance Minister Roger Douglas and Prime
A07 074 Minister David Lange.
A07 075    |^Posting will be co-ordinated for April 2.
A07 076    |^The Te Anga group is also collecting data from as many
A07 077 areas as possible for circulation and publication.
A07 078    |^*"We want to hear about farmers who have walked off, farm
A07 079 sales, personal problems including suicides,**" \0Mrs Shaw
A07 080 said.
A07 081    |^South Island rural action groups are also being contacted,
A07 082 \0Mrs Shaw said.
A07 083 *<*4Nats blame report for rail loss tip*>
A07 084    |*2WELLINGTON, *4Today ({0PA}). *- ^A final Booz-Allen
A07 085 report has resulted in the Transport Minister Richard Prebble
A07 086 predicting a *+$65 million loss for the Railways Corporation,
A07 087 says Opposition transport spokesman Winston Peters.
A07 088    |^*0\0Mr Peters said the United States management
A07 089 consultancy firm of Booz-Allen and Hamilton had presented a
A07 090 final report to the Railways Corporation on February 26.
A07 091    |^He believed the report proposed staff reductions of up to
A07 092 4000 and the closure of railway workshops.
A07 093    |^\0Mr Peters said the latest report was the catalyst for an
A07 094 emergency meeting of the Railways Corporation board last week.
A07 095    |^He claimed the existence of the report during
A07 096 parliamentary question time yesterday and asked \0Mr Prebble if
A07 097 he intended to disregard it.
A07 098    |^\0Mr Prebble said \0Mr Peters was talking absolute rubbish
A07 099 and denied receiving a report from Booz-Allen on February 26.
A07 100    |^\0Mr Peters said the final report prompted \0Mr Prebble's
A07 101 Monday night statement that the corporation was facing a *+$65
A07 102 million loss this financial year.
A07 103    |^*"That (the Booz-Allen involvement) should have been
A07 104 publicly disclosed,**" \0Mr Peters said.
A07 105    |^Former Railways chairman, Lyn Papps released the contents
A07 106 of the Booz-Allen report in April 1984.
A07 107    |^It recommended changes to management structures and major
A07 108 staff reductions.
A07 109    |^Meanwhile, Railways Corporation chairman Murray Smith has
A07 110 confirmed the board had received a report from Booz-Allen on
A07 111 February 26.
A07 112    |^He said the report completed the Booz-Allen assignment
A07 113 with the corporation.
A07 114    |^Commenting on \0Mr Peters' claim that the report contained
A07 115 a suggestion for up to 4000 jobs to be lost, \0Mr Smith said
A07 116 there were clearly some ramifications of the report which the
A07 117 board was taking into account.
A07 118    |^*"But the suggestion he's making that the recent
A07 119 developments are in some way related to work by Booz-Allen is
A07 120 totally incorrect.**"
A07 121    |^\0Mr Smith said the report was presented to the board (not
A07 122 \0Mr Prebble) by Booz-Allen.
A07 123    |^*"I did not send the minister a copy.  ^There was no need
A07 124 for it,**" \0Mr Smith said.
A07 125 *<*4Banks' comment causes ripples*>
A07 126    |*2WELLINGTON, *0Today ({0PA}). *- ^A remark by Whangarei
A07 127 National {0MP} John Banks during last week's stormy debate on
A07 128 the Homosexual Law Reform Bill is to go before Parliament's
A07 129 privileges committee.
A07 130    |^The Speaker, Gerry Wall, told Parliament he had received a
A07 131 letter from the Labour {0MP} for \0Mt Albert Helen Clark,
A07 132 saying the National {0MP}'s remark raised a matter of
A07 133 privilege.
A07 134    |^\0Mr Banks, a strong opponent of the bill, had allegedly
A07 135 said during last Wednesday's debate on the bill's committee
A07 136 stages *"you are in collusion with the sponsor of the bill.**"
A07 137    |^The bill's sponsor is Fran Wilde, (\0Govt-Wellington
A07 138 Central) and the remark was directed at the chairman of
A07 139 committees, John Terris (\0Govt Western Hutt), who was chairing
A07 140 the debate at the time.
A07 141    |^After he made the remark, \0Mr Banks was suspended from
A07 142 Parliamentary proceedings for 24 hours.
A07 143    |^\0Dr Wall said the remark could reflect on the
A07 144 *"character and the conduct**" of the presiding officer.
A07 145 *<*4{0NZ} Niueans boycott govt study*>
A07 146    |*2WELLINGTON, *4Today ({0PA}). *- ^New Zealand's Niuean
A07 147 community is boycotting a government committee investigating
A07 148 future relations between New Zealand and Niue.
A07 149    |^*0Niueans in five centres say they believe the Government
A07 150 has neglected their wish to be involved in the committee.
A07 151    |^The seven-member Niuean Review Group is headed by a former
A07 152 vice-chancellor of Lincoln College, Sir James Stewart.
A07 153    |^The joint New Zealand-Niue group is made up of {0L.D.}
A07 154 Nathan group managing director Bruce Cole; the secretary to the
A07 155 Government of Niue, Terry Chapman; the director of external aid
A07 156 for the foreign affairs ministry, Harle Freeman-Greene; the
A07 157 director of Niue's economic development department, Toke
A07 158 Talagi, and a consultant in international and constitutional
A07 159 law, Alison Quentin-Baxter.
A07 160    |^The chairman of the Niue Council of Niueans in New Zealand
A07 161 and the Niue Presbyterian Ministers and Elders Association,
A07 162 Lagi Sipeli, is upset that Niueans living in New Zealand have
A07 163 been excluded from the committee.
A07 164    |^The committee's terms of reference are focused on how the
A07 165 Governments of New Zealand and Niue can work together to
A07 166 sustain a confident and viable community in Niue.
A07 167    |^The committee will investigate how the increasing
A07 168 migration of Niueans to New Zealand can be curbed.
A07 169    |^Today there are about 10,000 Niueans living in New Zealand
A07 170 and fewer than 2000 on the 258 \0sq \0km raised coral outcrop
A07 171 that is Niue.
A07 172    |^There has been growing concern about the decline of the
A07 173 island's population and its economy.
A07 174    |^For some time the Niuean Government has attempted to
A07 175 attract Niueans back to help revive the country economically.
A07 176 ^If the present migration trend continues it is feared there
A07 177 will be no one on Niue by the 1990s.
A07 178    |^The review group is seen by most as the final effort to
A07 179 repopulate Niue and uplift its economic state.  ^It is
A07 180 understood that prospects for Niue's economic development could
A07 181 see a close association between New Zealand and Niue.
A07 182    |^*"It is not enough to say that if Niueans here wish to
A07 183 help Niue they should return to Niue,**" said \0Rev Sipeli.
A07 184    |^*"Any politician in Niue who adopted that view is not
A07 185 worthy of his or her beans.
A07 186    |^*"Niueans in New Zealand want to be involved because we do
A07 187 care and because Niue has only one political party.  ^Only New
A07 188 Zealand Niueans know why they were and are reluctant to return
A07 189 to Niue.**"
A07 190    |^\0Mr Sipeli said the situation was contrary to the Labour
A07 191 Government's policy of involving the community.  ^The tendering
A07 192 of submissions was also not a Polynesian method of decision
A07 193 making.
A07 194 *<*4Korean leader seeking unity*>
A07 195    |*2WELLINGTON, *0Today ({0PA}). *- ^The South Korean Prime
A07 196 Minister Shinyong Lho says his country is determined to end its
A07 197 territorial division with North Korea.
A07 198    |^He told guests at a state luncheon at the Beehive
A07 199 yesterday that South Korea had diligently worked to solve the
A07 200 problem through negotiations with North Korea.
A07 201    |^*"The long-cherished dream of the 60 million Korean people
A07 202 is to end their territorial division and to bring about peace
A07 203 and peaceful unification as soon as possible,**" he said.
A07 204    |^*"President Chun Doo Hwan's proposal for a meeting between
A07 205 the highest authorities of the south and the north is a
A07 206 manifestation of our determination to create a favourable
A07 207 condition for peaceful unification of the Korean peninsula.
A07 208    |^*"Although we have not yet seen any promising signs of
A07 209 success, we will continue our efforts with sincerity and
A07 210 patience, despite whatever obstacles and temporary setbacks we
A07 211 may encounter.**"
A07 212    |^\0Mr Lho said the Korean people had special feelings of
A07 213 friendship towards New Zealand.
A07 214    |^He said South Korea would always remain grateful to New
A07 215 Zealand for the part it played during the Korean conflict.
A07 216    |^Since the establishment of diplomatic ties in 1962, the
A07 217 two countries had developed co-operation in various fields.
A07 218 ^Over the past five years, trade had increased at an annual
A07 219 rate of about 14%, said \0Mr Lho.
A07 220    |^Like New Zealand, South Korea remained fully committed to
A07 221 free trade and an open-market economy, he said.
A07 222    |^*"In spite of the rising tide of protectionism *- a major
A07 223 concern for Korea *- she continues to open her markets.**"
A07 224    |^\0Mr Lho said Korea's import liberalisation ration, which
A07 225 was 68.6% in 1980 and rose to 87.7% in 1985, was expected to go
A07 226 above 95% by 1988.
A07 227    |^*"The Korean market, of course, will continue to be wide
A07 228 open to New Zealand,**" he said.
A07 229    |^\0Mr Lho said he and \0Mr Lange had spent two hours in
A07 230 discussions he described as *"a very productive exchange of
A07 231 views.**"
A07 232 *<*4{0MP} changes sides to back policy*>
A07 233    |*2CHRISTCHURCH, *0Today ({0PA}). *- ^Sydenham {0MP} Jim
A07 234 Anderton, usually a critic of the government's economic policy,
A07 235 this week came to its defence.
A07 236    |^He was responding to criticism at a Christchurch seminar
A07 237 of the government's internal deficit *- the gap between
A07 238 taxation income and what is spent.  ^Director of the Canterbury
A07 239 Manufacturers' Association, Ian Howell, and the managing
A07 240 director of {0PDL} Industries \0Ltd, Don Sellitt, singled out
A07 241 the deficit as a priority for any moves to improve economic
A07 242 conditions.
A07 243    |^\0Mr Howell said it was boosting interest rates, as its
A07 244 financing attracted overseas money.
A07 245    |*"^This, in turn, lifts our exchange rates, creating
A07 246 inflation, and prices our products off our export markets,**"
A07 247 he said.
A07 248    |^The deficit and the floating exchange rate were the real
A07 249 problems.
A07 250    |^In the second half of last year, manufactured exports had
A07 251 dropped by *+$80 million after 10 years of growth.
A07 252    |^*"If our exporters fully reduced staff levels to counter
A07 253 that production decline, it would represent around 12,000
A07 254 jobs,**" \0Mr Howell said.
A07 255    |^\0Mr Sellitt said a reduction in the internal deficit was
A07 256 the most crucial change needed in the economy.
A07 257    |^If it was cut, the flow-on effect would reduce interest
A07 258 rates, cut inflation, and lower the exchange value of the
A07 259 dollar.
A07 260    |^But \0Mr Anderton said the size of the internal deficit
A07 261 was not the key issue.  ^It was now about *+$1 billion less
A07 262 than when Labour took over in 1984, yet interest rates were
A07 263 higher now.
A07 264 *#
A08 001 **[008 TEXT A08**]
A08 002 *<*4*'Flipping foolish...**'*>
A08 003    |^*"They're flipping foolish**" was the reaction today of
A08 004 Maori activist Eva Rickard to news that the Government is
A08 005 returning the Waitangi Day commemoration to Waitangi.
A08 006    |^*0And, asked if the decision would mean a return of the
A08 007 kind of protests that have characterised the Waitangi Day
A08 008 commemoration in recent years, \0Mrs Rickard replied, ^*"Of
A08 009 course it will.**" ^She would not be there next time, however,
A08 010 \0Mrs Rickard told the Post from Hamilton.
A08 011    |^*"I'll address my protest to the Government,**" she said,
A08 012 adding, ^*"It's time we declared a republic and asked for Maori
A08 013 sovereignty and Maori independence.**"
A08 014    |^\0Mrs Rickard led a 2000-strong hikoi (peace walk) of
A08 015 Tainui and others to Waitangi in 1984 to ask that the
A08 016 celebration of the Treaty of Waitangi be set aside and that the
A08 017 treaty be honoured in law.
A08 018    |^Today she said it was appropriate for commemoration of the
A08 019 treaty to be at the place of its birth *- Waitangi *- but not
A08 020 until the treaty was honoured.
A08 021    |^*"It was born up north and it is probably the only place
A08 022 they could commemorate the treaty.
A08 023    |^*"My question to the Government is does that mean they are
A08 024 going to honour the treaty?  ^What is the use of celebrating a
A08 025 treaty that is not honoured by the Government?
A08 026    |^*"Unless the Government is going to honour that treaty
A08 027 then the celebrations will be another farce, a performance with
A08 028 no dignity at all to Maori people.**"
A08 029    |^\0Mrs Rickard criticised the statement by Northern Maori
A08 030 {0MP} \0Dr Bruce Gregory that there had been positive changes,
A08 031 specifically regarding the Waitangi Tribunal and Maori
A08 032 language.
A08 033    |^The tribunal still had no decision-making power, \0Mrs
A08 034 Rickard said.
A08 035    |^*"I will say to \0Dr Gregory (that) that's just a
A08 036 patchwork, a bandaid on the treaty just to pacify the Maoris
A08 037 for a while.**"
A08 038 *<*4Anzus word-war rumbling on*>
A08 039    |^*0Opposition Leader Jim Bolger was ignoring reality in
A08 040 saying a National government would accept the
A08 041 *"responsibilities of Anzus**" Prime Minister David Lange said
A08 042 yesterday.
A08 043    |^*"If that policy were to be pursued by the party in
A08 044 government then, on the absolute assurance of the Secretary of
A08 045 State of the United states, nuclear weapons would come into New
A08 046 Zealand,**" \0Mr Lange told Parliament.
A08 047    |^\0Mr Bolger was reported from Ottawa as saying he would
A08 048 tell the {0US} Administration that New Zealand under National
A08 049 would be committed to remaining in the western alliance and
A08 050 would accept the responsibilities that being in Anzus entailed.
A08 051    |^Asked in Parliament yesterday by Helen Clark (\0Lab, \0Mt
A08 052 Albert) what the implications of \0Mr Bolger's comment were,
A08 053 \0Mr Lange said they were *"consistent with National Party
A08 054 policy.
A08 055    |^*"The statement of the Leader of the Opposition is
A08 056 designed to put forward a positive aspect of the working
A08 057 relationship while completely ignoring the reality,**" he said.
A08 058    |^The reality was *"that the Secretary of State, \0Mr
A08 059 Shultz, told me that if you have visits from the {0US} pursuant
A08 060 to the Anzus alliance, there will from time to time be nuclear
A08 061 weapons on board such vessels.**"
A08 062    |^\0Mr Lange said New Zealand was still in Anzus.  ^There
A08 063 had been *"no steps taken at all by the {0US} to see to our
A08 064 removal from Anzus, no steps taken by Australia and none taken
A08 065 by New Zealand and this Government will not sell the soul of
A08 066 this country, no matter how convenient it is for wandering
A08 067 emissaries of the Opposition...**"
A08 068    |^But Opposition defence spokesman Doug Kidd (Marlborough)
A08 069 said \0Mr Lange had put *"the architect of the exit from
A08 070 Anzus**" in charge of the defence review, to keep defence
A08 071 advisers in line.
A08 072    |^He said the director of the Prime Minister's advisory
A08 073 group, \0Dr John Henderson, who is chairing the inter-departmental 
A08 074 committee that has begun work on the wide ranging
A08 075 review of defence needs, was *"schooled in the
A08 076 non**[ARB**]-aligned.**"
A08 077    |^\0Dr Henderson is a former political science lecturer and
A08 078 director of the Labour Party's parliamentary research unit.
A08 079    |^*"He was Bill Rowling's man who put together the package
A08 080 to pull New Zealand out of Anzus and leave the Americans with
A08 081 the blame,**" \0Mr Kidd said.
A08 082    |^Speaking during the Budget debate in Parliament, \0Mr Kidd
A08 083 said the Government did not want a report coming out with
A08 084 *"nasty unpalatable bits**" in it like the Corner Report of
A08 085 the Defence Committee Of Inquiry.
A08 086    |^*"The best professional advice, the best competence,
A08 087 analysis and assessment can't be trusted any more.
A08 088    |^*"It (the Government) does not want any more unpalatable
A08 089 truths coming through to upset its myths.**"
A08 090  *- {0NZPA}
A08 091 *<*4*'Rail future at risk**' from mounting loss*>
A08 092    |^*0The Railways Corporation lost nearly *+$45 million in
A08 093 the past financial year and says its future is *"seriously at
A08 094 risk.**"
A08 095    |^The *+$44.77 million loss for the year to March 31
A08 096 compares with an overall loss of *+$19.97 million the year
A08 097 before.
A08 098    |^Chairman Ross Sayers said in the annual report tabled in
A08 099 Parliament yesterday the corporation could double its losses in
A08 100 the year to March, 1977.
A08 101    |^He said this prediction took into account the combined
A08 102 effects of a loss of business through the 1983 deregulation of
A08 103 the trucking industry and the funding of the voluntary
A08 104 severance package.
A08 105    |^*"Railways' survival as a viable business is seriously at
A08 106 risk,**" \0Mr Sayers said.
A08 107    |^*"New Zealand cannot afford the luxury of a railway system
A08 108 providing services at a cost greater than their value to the
A08 109 economy, nor is it necessary.**"
A08 110    |^He added, however, that given goodwill and a willingness
A08 111 to change, Railways could be a vital and essential part of the
A08 112 transport industry.
A08 113    |^He said the board had to reshape the business to provide
A08 114 viable long-term employment and competitive services for
A08 115 customers.
A08 116    |^But \0Mr Sayers said that Railways was *"badly out of
A08 117 balance**" with its diminished market, and its future had been
A08 118 put at risk unless some substantial cost reductions could be
A08 119 achieved.
A08 120    |^*"This means a further reduction in manpower and a
A08 121 reduction in other costs.**"
A08 122    |^General manager Gordon Purdy attributed the *"very
A08 123 difficult**" year to a tight economic situation, competition
A08 124 for freight and passengers, and revenue losses from industrial
A08 125 stoppages in a range of industries.
A08 126    |^Although staff numbers reduced by 400 to 17,800, personnel
A08 127 costs rose *+$44.5 million to *+$409.4 million.  ^This, said
A08 128 \0Mr Purdy, was a major element of expense.
A08 129    |^The annual report came one week after the corporation and
A08 130 Mainzeal announced the Gateway development scheme, proposing
A08 131 seven office blocks, hotel, rooftop garden and shops above
A08 132 Wellington Railway Station.
A08 133    |^Railways Minister Richard Prebble, who indicated other
A08 134 plans could follow for Railway land in many other cities and
A08 135 towns, estimated property development schemes could raise the
A08 136 corporation *+$400 million.
A08 137    |^\0Mr Prebble said yesterday that major changes to increase
A08 138 productivity should be emphasised, including changes to freight
A08 139 train manning, consolidation of freight terminals and
A08 140 workshops, and streamlined administration.
A08 141    |^Opposition rail spokesman Winston Peters said the *"quite
A08 142 massive**" unexpected increase in salaries and wages meant that
A08 143 Railways was *"just one further group misled last year by
A08 144 Treasury forecasts.**"
A08 145    |^*"Furthermore, the Government's failure for over 22 months
A08 146 to address the real problem of Railways restructuring shows up
A08 147 in the report as significant reductions in volumes and a lack
A08 148 of competitive edge.**"
A08 149    |^He said there was no use the corporation blaming
A08 150 deregulation for the loss.
A08 151    |^*"Deregulation has been around for four years, and there
A08 152 were no new competitive elements unknown to Railways at the
A08 153 start of the financial year in question.**"
A08 154  *- {0NZPA}
A08 155 *<*4Maori fishing decision not being appealed*>
A08 156    |^The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries will not appeal
A08 157 the Christchurch High Court ruling waiving prohibitions on
A08 158 Maori taking seafood in traditional fishing areas.
A08 159    |^*0Maori people will continue to have open access to
A08 160 fisheries if it can be proved that they have traditional
A08 161 fishing rights.
A08 162    |^However, fisheries inspectors will still arrest anyone
A08 163 breaking existing regulations and, if the ministry's legal
A08 164 advisers identify circumstances different from the 
A08 165 precedent-setting case, the offender will be taken to court.
A08 166 *<*4Judgment*>
A08 167    |^*0\0Mr Justice Williamson's decision in August quashed a
A08 168 conviction for having undersize paua against Tom Te Weehi, on
A08 169 the grounds that he had a *"traditional Maori fishing
A08 170 right.**"
A08 171    |^The ministry's assistant director of Fisheries Management,
A08 172 Ray Dobson, said an appeal on the legality of the ruling would
A08 173 not have got at the heart of the issue, which was defining
A08 174 which Maoris were entitled to fish and where.
A08 175    |^Maoris had fishing rights guaranteed under a law passed in
A08 176 1877 and written into Fisheries Management Plans since 1983.
A08 177 ^However, the ruling was the first to define it in one
A08 178 particular case, he said.
A08 179    |^The ministry's legal advisers would consider cases *"very
A08 180 carefully*" before deciding to take them to court.  ^*"We don't
A08 181 want to clog up the courts for the sake of it,**" \0Mr Dobson
A08 182 said.
A08 183 *<*4Long term*>
A08 184    |^*0Although the courts would rule in particular cases, the
A08 185 ministry was looking at a long-term solution for difficulties
A08 186 in applying the law he said.
A08 187    |^Discussions were being held with Maori groups to determine
A08 188 how best to incorporate who had traditional rights into
A08 189 management plans.
A08 190    |^These plans with a code of Maori fishing practices might
A08 191 be acceptable to most people, although special legislation
A08 192 setting out who was entitled to fisheries might have to be
A08 193 passed.
A08 194    |^The law review commission was studying fishing rights and
A08 195 might produce legislation that could be applied successfully,
A08 196 \0Mr Dobson said.
A08 197    |^*"It's a very complex question and will take some time to
A08 198 come up with the best answer.**"
A08 199    |^Having to enforce existing regulations, in spite of the
A08 200 ruling, would mean fisheries officers faced more problems at
A08 201 beaches but most would accept it as part of the job.
A08 202    |^Life for a fisheries officer was, he said, *"fairly
A08 203 complicated,**" and one more complication would not make much
A08 204 difference.
A08 205  *- {0NZPA}
A08 206 *<*4Pay-way idea for education *'still floating**'*>
A08 207    |^*0The *"user pays**" theory about university education was
A08 208 still ideas in heads rather than policies on paper, Education
A08 209 Minister Russell Marshall said in Christchurch last night.
A08 210    |^He reassured about 40 people at a meeting on university
A08 211 education that nothing had been formally decided about making
A08 212 students pay for their courses.
A08 213    |^Cost recovery from education was a problem, however.
A08 214 *<*4Question*>
A08 215 |^*0*"I still have to think about the money and where it
A08 216 goes,**" he said.  ^*"Is it fair that 18 percent of my total
A08 217 (budget) goes towards the 5 percent in universities, and only 1
A08 218 percent to those in non-academic training?**"
A08 219    |^There had to be alternatives to the American system,
A08 220 however, which typically saw a young veterinarian graduate
A08 221 after seven or eight years of study with a debt of up to
A08 222 *+${0US}100,000.  ^His or her starting salary was usually
A08 223 *+$18,000, \0Mr Marshall said.
A08 224    |^The meeting was an open forum attended by people from
A08 225 universities, polytechnics, schools and community groups.  ^It
A08 226 was to let \0Mr Marshall respond to questions about
A08 227 universities which came out at a similar forum chaired by Dame
A08 228 Jean Herbison earlier this month.
A08 229    |^The chief difficulty with trying to change universities
A08 230 was that no one seemed to have a clear idea of how to answer
A08 231 the questions being asked, \0Mr Marshall said.
A08 232    |^*"The university system in New Zealand is male dominated,
A08 233 hierarchical and British-based.  ^It hasn't changed in 30
A08 234 years.**"
A08 235    |^Universities had to have more community input, had to
A08 236 become more conscious of what society wanted.  ^More
A08 237 participation at top levels by women and Maori and Pacific
A08 238 Islanders was also needed.
A08 239    |^Attention needed to be focused on university hours.
A08 240 ^*"University is dominated by young, fulltime students,**" \0Mr
A08 241 Marshall said.  ^Part-time hours and more flexibility in
A08 242 courses would open universities to more people.
A08 243  *- {0NZPA}
A08 244 *<*4Debt jail changes in wind*>
A08 245    |^*0Imprisonment for a non-payment of debts was a blunt
A08 246 instrument for dealing with the problem, Justice Minister
A08 247 Geoffrey Palmer said yesterday.
A08 248    |^He said a recent *"unfortunate**" case involving a woman
A08 249 imprisoned in Christchurch showed the problems which could
A08 250 arise when a person got into financial difficulty and creditors
A08 251 used the law to obtain payment of the money owed to them.
A08 252    |^A 21-year old Southland woman was reported to have spent
A08 253 14 days in prison for the non-payment of a *+$555 bill to her
A08 254 lawyers.  ^She was also charged about *+$700 for the cost of
A08 255 escorting her to Christchurch by a bailiff.
A08 256    |^*"While the imprisonment of recalcitrant debtors is
A08 257 undoubtedly a blunt instrument for dealing with the problem, it
A08 258 highlights the conflict between one citizen's right to be paid
A08 259 what is due to them and the State's role to provide the
A08 260 machinery by which those rights may be enforced,**" \0Mr Palmer
A08 261 said in a statement.
A08 262    |^*"I would stress that the ultimate sanction of
A08 263 imprisonment is not imposed simply for the non-payment of a
A08 264 debt.
A08 265    |^*"Safeguards are built into the system which are designed
A08 266 to ensure that a debtor cannot be committed to prison until a
A08 267 judge has, in every case, considered his or her situation and
A08 268 is satisfied the debtor has had sufficient money to pay the
A08 269 debt, after providing for the reasonable maintenance of him or
A08 270 herself and any family, but has refused to do so.
A08 271 *#
A09 001 **[009 TEXT A09**]
A09 002 *<*4Farmers dump milk in North*>
A09 003 *<By Russell Baillie*>
A09 004    |^*0An estimated *+$1 million worth of milk was today being
A09 005 flushed away by Northland farmers as workers in the region's
A09 006 dairy factories went on a 24-hour strike following a breakdown
A09 007 in award talks.
A09 008    |^The industrial action at the Northern Wairoa Dairy Company
A09 009 came with claims from the company over the Dairy Workers'
A09 010 Union.  ^Company chairman Fay Deane said today that staff
A09 011 yesterday voted not to go out, but the union at a national
A09 012 level threatened a possible ban on the supply of industrial
A09 013 materials such as diesel.
A09 014 *<*4Difficulties*>
A09 015    |^*0She said the staff at the Dargaville plant voted again
A09 016 today to take part in the stoppage rather than face
A09 017 difficulties in the future.  ^Staff at the Northland 
A09 018 Co-operative Dairy Company's Kaitaia, Hikurangi, Maungaturoto and
A09 019 Moerewa plants were all out today, but Maungatapere was still
A09 020 working, apparently because of a breakdown in communication
A09 021 with the union.
A09 022    |^{0NCDC} assistant general manager, operations, \0Mr Jan
A09 023 Mortensen *"guestimated**" Northland would lose about *+$1
A09 024 million worth of milk during the 24-hour action from 7{0a.m.}
A09 025 today.  ^He said this would represent about two million litres
A09 026 of the raw material.
A09 027    |^Northland Catchment Commission chief executive \0Mr Bob
A09 028 Cathcart advised farmers to discharge their milk on to land and
A09 029 not into waterways.
A09 030    |^He said the commission would watch the situation, but only
A09 031 had three or four officers to police about 1900 dairy farmers.
A09 032    |^Farm land was dry enough to take the milk, \0Mr Cathcart
A09 033 said.  ^He warned farmers against putting more than one milking
A09 034 into oxidation ponds.
A09 035    |^Town milk supplies will not be affected by the strike.
A09 036    |^Talks between dairy workers and the employers broke down
A09 037 in Wellington on Friday after the union rejected the employers'
A09 038 offer of a 4.1% wage rise.  ^The employers also offered an
A09 039 increase in the night shift allowance, which equalled in the
A09 040 total package to an increase of between 4.8 and five per cent,
A09 041 plus a week's extra annual leave for shift workers.
A09 042    |^The union has put in a claim for a 7.5% wage rise and an
A09 043 overall package for a 12% rise.
A09 044 *<*4Dismissal*>
A09 045    |^*0The employers dismissed the claim, saying dairy farmers
A09 046 were facing a 40% cut in their income.  ^The employers have
A09 047 called on the Minister of Labour, \0Mr Rodger, to act because
A09 048 the dairy industry is listed as an *"essential**" industry and
A09 049 14 days' notice of strike action was not given.
A09 050    |^Dairy Workers' Union representatives could not be
A09 051 contacted for comment.
A09 052    |^Meanwhile, household milk deliveries stopped in six
A09 053 regions today as most of the country's 6000 dairy workers
A09 054 staged their 24-hour stoppage.
A09 055    |^About 18 factories and six milk treatment stations were
A09 056 involved, employers' advocate \0Mr Graham Perfect said.  ^He
A09 057 said the factories involved were among the country's biggest
A09 058 and produced cheese and butter for export and domestic
A09 059 consumption.
A09 060    |^\0Mr Perfect said the strike by dairy workers was illegal
A09 061 because claims were still on the table and there had been no 14
A09 062 days notice as required for an essential industry.  ^Dairy
A09 063 Board chairman \0Mr Jim Graham said earlier that farmers would
A09 064 pour 30 million litres of milk away today at a cost in export
A09 065 earnings at more than *+$8 million.
A09 066    |^The strike was *"unfair and totally irresponsible**", he
A09 067 said.
A09 068    |^In other industrial action today, volunteers cooked,
A09 069 cleaned, distributed clean linen, pushed trolleys and emptied
A09 070 rubbish at Auckland hospitals as a two-day domestic workers'
A09 071 strike began.
A09 072    |^About 200 volunteers managed to maintain essential
A09 073 services at the hospitals, but the strike caused considerable
A09 074 disruption to some services.  ^Admissions for operations booked
A09 075 for today and tomorrow have been cancelled and some surgery has
A09 076 been cancelled for the rest of the week.
A09 077 *<*4Four arrested outside plant*>
A09 078    |*0Wellington, {0NZPA}. *- ^Four people were arrested,
A09 079 including a union delegate, outside the General Motors,
A09 080 Trentham plant today, when workers and management clashed on
A09 081 whether people should enter the plant.
A09 082    |^Coach workers were suspended on Friday after they reused
A09 083 to do work normally done by cleaners involved in industrial
A09 084 action.  ^Coachworkers' Union secretary \0Mr Graeme Clarke said
A09 085 on Saturday his members would try to stop people from entering
A09 086 the plant today.
A09 087    |^The picket began peacefully, but soon some workers and
A09 088 industrial manager \0Mr Tom Cunningham clashed verbally.  ^\0Mr
A09 089 Cunningham told drivers to drive through the line of protesting
A09 090 workers.
A09 091 *<*4Running*>
A09 092    |^*0\0Mr Cunningham was seen running alongside vehicles
A09 093 urging drivers to *"keep going forward, keep going forward,
A09 094 don't stop**".
A09 095    |^Pickets became angry when they heard one driver being
A09 096 urged to *"pick up 20 on the bumper, Jack**".  ^At one stage
A09 097 pickets were lying on the road in front of a bus.  ^The driver
A09 098 kept going with \0Mr Cunningham waving him on.  ^One picket
A09 099 jumped in and grabbed the ignition key.
A09 100    |^With the bus blocking the middle of the road and a line of
A09 101 traffic building up behind, \0Mr Cunningham turned his
A09 102 attention to a newspaper reporter's car.  ^He told the reporter
A09 103 to move his car or he would have him arrested.  ^He said the
A09 104 car was preventing other cars from going around the bus.
A09 105    |^Police were called again when some pickets attempted to
A09 106 push and lift individual cars trying to go around the bus.
A09 107 ^Sergeant Tony McCabe quickly approached the pickets and told
A09 108 them to get off the road.
A09 109    |^When they stood their ground and argued with him, he said:
A09 110 ^*"You'll be locked up, the lot of you, no more warning.
A09 111 ^Right, you are under arrest.  ^Take them away one by one.**"
A09 112    |^Four people were arrested and charged with obstruction.
A09 113 ^The four were bailed and will appear in the Upper Hutt
A09 114 District Court tomorrow.
A09 115    |^\0Mr Clark said police had also threatened to arrest him
A09 116 while he was trying to tell a tow truck driver not to cross the
A09 117 picket line.  ^The tow truck driver managed to get one of his
A09 118 keys to fit the bus ignition and it was later moved.
A09 119 *<*4Warned*>
A09 120    |^*0About 20 coach workers who formed a picket outside the
A09 121 main entrance to Ford Motors' Seaview plant today were warned
A09 122 by police that they could face arrest if they blocked the
A09 123 entrance.
A09 124    |^Senior Sergeant Richard Kerry, of the Lower Hutt police,
A09 125 said other workers at the plant were able to cross the picket
A09 126 line and get in.  ^Pickets were maintained by coach workers at
A09 127 several entrances to the Seaview \0Rd and Hutt Park \0Rd Ford
A09 128 premises.
A09 129    |^\0Mr Kerry said there were no incidents, although the
A09 130 situation had been a *"bit tense**".
A09 131 *<*4Pilots angry over Tory Channel delay*>
A09 132    *<*0Christchurch, {0NZPA}.*>
A09 133 |^Airline pilots have reacted angrily to costs delaying safety
A09 134 changes on power cable strung across Tory Channel.
A09 135    |^Several measures urged by the Chief Inspector of Air
A09 136 Accidents, \0Mr Ron Chippindale, after last year's fatal crash
A09 137 have yet to be introduced because of their high cost.
A09 138    |^The Ministry of Transport civil aviation division
A09 139 director, Air Commodore Stuart McIntyre, cited costs amounting
A09 140 to hundreds of thousands of dollars and practical difficulties
A09 141 as reasons.
A09 142    |^Air Commodore McIntyre told the Aviation Industry
A09 143 Association annual meeting last week the majority of \0Mr
A09 144 Chippindale's recommendations after the October 1985 Air
A09 145 Albatross crash which killed eight had been implemented.
A09 146    |^Those which had not been acted on hung around his neck
A09 147 *"like an albatross**" and if nothing was done would *"always
A09 148 be there to haunt us,**" he said.
A09 149    |^The president of the Airline Pilots' Association, \0Mr
A09 150 Tony Dodwell, said it was significant that costs had been
A09 151 declared as a major factor in delaying safety changes.
A09 152 *<*4Picnic*>
A09 153    |^*"*0It would be a journalist's Christmas picnic if someone
A09 154 hit those wires today.  ^All hell would break loose,**" \0Mr
A09 155 Dodwell said.
A09 156    |^*"If those recommendations are not acted on just because
A09 157 of cost and there is an accident, the public will be calling
A09 158 for someone's head.**"
A09 159    |^\0Mr Dodwell said his association realised aviation was
A09 160 expensive, but safety could not be compromised.
A09 161    |^*"Too often things that should be done to ensure safety do
A09 162 not get done because of the old, old cry *- *'we haven't got
A09 163 the money**',**" he said.
A09 164    |^\0Mr Dodwell said with deregulation upon the industry,
A09 165 some airline operators had talked about cutting back to keep
A09 166 cost-competitive.
A09 167    |^*"Cut back too far and safety standards are the first to
A09 168 suffer.
A09 169    |^*"It is only when it's splashed across a newspaper in a
A09 170 headline *'300 killed**' that people seem to think money should
A09 171 be no object,**" he said.
A09 172 *<*4Daily route*>
A09 173    |^*0The Association's technical director, \0Mr Peter Rhodes,
A09 174 said airlines were flying the Tory Channel route daily.
A09 175    |^\0Mr Rhodes said he agreed with \0Mr Chippindale's
A09 176 recommendation for placing daylight warning lights on the
A09 177 towers holding the power wires.
A09 178    |^This would be a white flashing strobe, such as used on the
A09 179 Huntly power station chimneys.  ^These, he said, were
A09 180 *"difficult to miss**".
A09 181    |^As the New Zealand tourism industry developed, scenic
A09 182 areas attracting droves of visitors seeking a bird's eye view
A09 183 should be provided with additional hazard warnings.
A09 184    |^\0Mr Rhodes said the association was aware the Tory
A09 185 Channel wires carried power to just a handful of Marlborough
A09 186 Sounds residents and if costs were too high, they may lose
A09 187 supply.
A09 188    |^However, the civil aviation division should *'recognise
A09 189 the need to provide adequate warning of their presence**'.
A09 190    |^The deputy general manager of the Marlborough Power Board,
A09 191 \0Mr David Waters, said no alteration to the wires or the
A09 192 towers supporting them had been made since the inquiry into the
A09 193 fatal crash.
A09 194    |^The board was awaiting advice from civil aviation.
A09 195    |^\0Mr Chippindale's recommendations were made to the
A09 196 Ministry of Transport, not the power board.
A09 197    |^*"It is up to them to decide what is and what is not to be
A09 198 done,**" \0Mr Waters said.
A09 199    |^Options for completing the outstanding recommendations are
A09 200 up for discussion at the National Aviation Advisory Committee
A09 201 meeting on December 4.
A09 202 *<*6FORESTRY COMPANY PROMISING LONG-TERM JOBS*>
A09 203    |^*0The newly formed company Taitokerau Forests \0Ltd is
A09 204 promising Northland long-term jobs and economic development for
A09 205 Christmas.
A09 206    |^*"Single-minded determination and energy**" will see eight
A09 207 forestry deals signed with Maori land trusts by Christmas, one
A09 208 of the company's five directors, \0Mr Tom Parore, hopes.  ^The
A09 209 Board of Maori Affairs has approved eight projects on idle
A09 210 Maori land in Northland and promised funding of *+$1 million a
A09 211 year for 10 years.
A09 212    |^With the company only two months old, planting has already
A09 213 begun on the Waima North A 22 Block.  ^\0Mr Parore, who is also
A09 214 director of Maori Affairs for Tai Tokerau, is encouraged at the
A09 215 fast progress.
A09 216    |^Trustees from throughout the North had shown interest in
A09 217 the company, he said.  ^But he put their keenness down to the
A09 218 favourable offer combined with the mana of his fellow
A09 219 directors, \0Messrs Graham Wilcox, of Waima, Kevin Prime, of
A09 220 Motatau, Des Ogle, of Onerahi, and Ross Wright, of Tapora.
A09 221    |^Trusts provide land for forestry development in return for
A09 222 an annual rental and a shareholding in the company.  ^Local
A09 223 employment will be created at the rate of about one permanent
A09 224 job for every 40 hectares of forest.
A09 225    |^The Department of Maori Affairs will recoup its investment
A09 226 with interest when crops mature.  ^*"The next step is to go
A09 227 back and consider a whole queue of other projects waiting to be
A09 228 picked up,**" \0Mr Parore said.
A09 229    |^He believed funding for the company needed to be at least
A09 230 doubled or even trebled.  ^As a Maori organisation in the
A09 231 development business, the company may be able to collect a
A09 232 share of the Government's employment and social funding, \0Mr
A09 233 Parore said.
A09 234    |^The company could link in with the new Access training
A09 235 scheme.
A09 236    |^Trainees could expect a working future in forestry, \0Mr
A09 237 Parore said.  ^*"We're talking about development of a permanent
A09 238 nature.
A09 239    |^*"Past employment schemes have been very costly and run
A09 240 for a limited period then closed off.  ^People have been left
A09 241 lamenting.  ^We can provide on-going jobs for people.**"
A09 242 *<*4Parliament's early start will be a record*>
A09 243 *<By Mike Booker*>
A09 244    |^*0When Parliament begins sitting again next year on
A09 245 February 3 it will be the House's earliest start since 1958.
A09 246 ^In that year Sir Walter Nash's Labour Government called {0MP}s
A09 247 back to the capital to begin sitting on January 21.
A09 248    |^Historically Labour has given Parliament longer runs than
A09 249 National.  ^Last year the House possibly sat longer than in any
A09 250 previous 12 month period after proceedings began on February
A09 251 21.
A09 252    |^Under Sir Robert Muldoon's National Government May starts
A09 253 were the rule, although in 1982 and 1983 the House began
A09 254 sitting in early April.
A09 255    |^The latest start in recent history occurred in 1976 when
A09 256 {0MP}s did not take up their seats until June 22 *- an almost
A09 257 eight-month-long break since the House last sat.
A09 258    |^The delay became a constitutional issue when select
A09 259 committees continued to sit through the recess.  ^Labour
A09 260 Opposition members questioned the rights of members who had not
A09 261 been sworn in to sit on the committees.
A09 262    |^It was resolved the committees could only sit on an
A09 263 informal basis.
A09 264 *#
A10 001 **[010 TEXT A10**]
A10 002 *<*4Protesters jeer, jostle Dalton*>
A10 003 |^*6REBEL *4rugby captain Andy Dalton was jostled by jeering
A10 004 tour protesters on his return from South Africa last night.
A10 005    |^*0Dalton arrived at Auckland International Airport from
A10 006 Sydney with his wife and two children but without fellow
A10 007 members of the rebel rugby team which he led on its recent
A10 008 tour.
A10 009    |^\0Mrs Philippa Dalton cleared customs with her children a
A10 010 few minutes ahead of her husband and walked unhindered from the
A10 011 terminal.
A10 012    |^Dalton, however, was besieged by placard-carrying
A10 013 protesters as soon as he emerged from the customs hall about
A10 014 7.20{0pm}.
A10 015    |^Police rushed to Dalton's aid as he struggled to push a
A10 016 baggage trolley through a small group of protesters who blocked
A10 017 his path from the terminal.
A10 018    |^About 20 demonstrators encircled Dalton, pushing and
A10 019 shouldering him and shouting *"racist**" and *"scum**".
A10 020    |^Police cleared a path, but the protesters continued to
A10 021 shove and shoulder Dalton through the carpark to a waiting car.
A10 022    |^Shouting and abuse continued as Dalton loaded his luggage
A10 023 into his car.
A10 024    |^He struggled into the front passenger seat of the car
A10 025 which headed for the carpark exit with protesters in pursuit.
A10 026    |^As the driver paid the carpark fee at the exit toll booth,
A10 027 protesters continued to shout abuse.
A10 028    |^The protest was organised by Hart.
A10 029    |^Speaking later from his Bombay home later last night
A10 030 Dalton said the rugby tour of South Africa was a victory for
A10 031 the individual.
A10 032    |^*"As individuals, we had the right to go and play where we
A10 033 wanted.
A10 034    |^*"On a personal level, I think we achieved what we
A10 035 believed in.  ^I believe we have the right to travel and play
A10 036 sport wherever we chose.
A10 037    |^*"Given the same circumstances, I would do the same thing
A10 038 again.*"
A10 039    |^He said the players would have preferred to have competed
A10 040 in South Africa as official New Zealand rugby representatives.
A10 041 ^They had been denied that chance, however, when last year's
A10 042 tour was cancelled.
A10 043    |^The players had then taken up a suggestion by Prime
A10 044 Minister David Lange, *"that we could go as individuals.  ^And
A10 045 that is how we went.**"
A10 046    |^Dalton refused to speculate on the penalties the players
A10 047 may face from the rugby union.
A10 048    |^He also refused to comment on why the rebels refused to
A10 049 sign declarations which said they had not been paid for touring
A10 050 South Africa.
A10 051    |^*"These are matters between the union and the players,**"
A10 052 he said.
A10 053    |^Asked his reaction to the airport protest, he said: ^*"It
A10 054 was not worthy of comment.**"
A10 055    |^Canterbury flanker Jock Hobbs, captain of the All Blacks
A10 056 in place of Dalton on tours to Fiji and Argentina, arrived in
A10 057 Wellington last night to a far more subdued welcome.
A10 058    |^Hobbs, who was greeted by his parents and family, stuck to
A10 059 a team policy to refuse comment on most issues and to allow
A10 060 Dalton to act as its spokesman.
A10 061    |^He said reports that the players had refused to sign a
A10 062 declaration, avowing to the union that they had not received
A10 063 extra payments for the tour, had not been true.
A10 064    |^But he would not say what the players did with the papers
A10 065 suggesting that was a question for Dalton.
A10 066    |^He said that before departing on the tour, the Cavaliers
A10 067 had considered the penalty of touring without union approval.
A10 068    |^*"Obviously we took into account the penalties of going
A10 069 without board sanction,**" he said.  ^He would not indicate
A10 070 what he thought the penalties would be.
A10 071    |^Taranaki wing Bryce Robins said on his arrival in New
A10 072 Plymouth yesterday he was *"still broke**".
A10 073    |^*"It's now back to the farm and plenty of bills,**" said
A10 074 the Eltham dairy farmer.
A10 075    |^*"There has been no financial gain from the tour,**"
A10 076 Robins said when asked if he or any of the other players had
A10 077 received any lump sum payment.
A10 078    |^*"All we got was our daily allowance.**"
A10 079    |^Kaponga's Kieran Crowley, who also arrived back in the
A10 080 province yesterday morning, said he was not getting paid.
A10 081    |^*"All I received was the daily allowance.**"
A10 082 *<*4Relief delays condemned*> *<By *6VICTORIA MAIN*>
A10 083 *<*4Agriculture Reporter*>
A10 084 |^*2THOUSANDS *0of farming families were near desperation
A10 085 because of the Government's apparent indifference to their
A10 086 plight, Federated Farmers president Peter Elworthy said last
A10 087 night.
A10 088    |^In his harshest public criticism of the Government since
A10 089 the April 30 farmers' march to Parliament, \0Mr Elworthy
A10 090 condemned the Government for delaying announcements on the
A10 091 long-promised farm relief package and new livestock taxes
A10 092 proposed six months ago.
A10 093    |^He has mounted his attack at a time when many farmers are
A10 094 trying to decide whether they can carry on into the new farm
A10 095 accounting year from July 1.
A10 096    |^He said the Government had postponed a decision on 
A10 097 short-term help for farmers several times and it was not now due to
A10 098 make an announcement for at least two weeks.
A10 099    |^*"This is intolerable and reinforces in farmers' minds
A10 100 that the Government neither understands the production
A10 101 requirements of the industry nor the personal stress being
A10 102 experienced by farm families facing huge trading losses and the
A10 103 disappearance of a lifetime's work and savings.**"
A10 104    |^Farmers needed to plan months ahead but the decision of
A10 105 two major sources of seasonal finance, stock firms Dalgety
A10 106 Crown and Wrightson {0NMA}, to reduce their lending next season
A10 107 made this impossible, he said.
A10 108    |^The federation wants the Government to agree to a plan for
A10 109 the Rural Bank to guarantee farmers' seasonal borrowing from
A10 110 July 1.
A10 111    |^The federation is believed to have been arguing *- with
A10 112 the bank's support *- that the scheme need not cost the
A10 113 Government any money if the dollar and interest rates continue
A10 114 to ease.
A10 115    |^\0Mr Elworthy said Finance Minister Roger Douglas's
A10 116 failure to issue the final details of the new livestock
A10 117 standard values to apply from July 1 was worsening the plight
A10 118 of farmers.
A10 119    |^*"Already the Government's proposals have dramatically cut
A10 120 livestock prices and caused uncertainty and further financial
A10 121 stress.**"
A10 122    |^A committee headed by \0Dr Don Brash reported on the
A10 123 controversial taxes on May 9, after receiving 1080 submissions
A10 124 from the public.
A10 125    |^\0Dr Brash said last night the committee would meet \0Mr
A10 126 Douglas today to discuss information it had given the
A10 127 Government on May 23, after being asked to reconsider two
A10 128 matters.
A10 129    |^\0Mr Elworthy said farmers felt duped by the Government.
A10 130 ^They had stopped short of totally opposing the proposals on
A10 131 the understanding that the Brash committee report would be
A10 132 handled *- as with the goods and services tax *- positively
A10 133 and without delay.
A10 134    |^The federation issued a statement on January 28 approved
A10 135 by \0Mr Douglas, saying \0Mr Douglas had refused to scrap the
A10 136 new regime but had said the Brash committee would take a
A10 137 flexible approach in its report to the Government.
A10 138    |^At the time, federation officials saw \0Mr Douglas's
A10 139 assurances as a sign that the Government might allow major
A10 140 changes to the proposals announced in its December 12 economic
A10 141 statement.
A10 142    |^Federation meat and wool chairman Bruce Anderson has said
A10 143 the tax change was the issue most responsible for rallying so
A10 144 many farmers to march through Wellington.
A10 145 *<*4Douglas risks vote loss, say state unions*>
A10 146 |^*2FINANCE MINISTER *0Roger Douglas risks losing state
A10 147 servants' support in next year's general election if he
A10 148 continues pressing for a massive state service reorganisation
A10 149 without consultation, Combined State Unions chairman Colin
A10 150 Hicks says.
A10 151    |^\0Mr Douglas was acting out of line with Labour caucus
A10 152 statements on the reorganisation and jumping the gun on a
A10 153 committee formed to present its views on the plans on June 30,
A10 154 \0Mr Hicks said last night.
A10 155    |^Whereas the caucus said at its last meeting that the
A10 156 planned state corporations would come under the 1977 State
A10 157 Services Conditions of Employment Act, \0Mr Douglas was saying
A10 158 they should follow 1973 legislation.
A10 159    |^*"His views are in stark contradiction to the caucus
A10 160 resolution,**" \0Mr Hicks said.
A10 161    |^*"\0Mr Douglas was away when that decision was made and it
A10 162 seems he's trying to come back to do a balancing act on things.
A10 163 ^He's saying that he wants to have his own way.**"
A10 164    |^Asked if state union members would be asked to vote
A10 165 against the Government next year, \0Mr Hicks said: ^*"We'll
A10 166 wait and see what happens but the electoral implications for
A10 167 {0MP}s in metropolitan areas... are plain.**"
A10 168    |^The 1973 act threatened pay-fixing mechanisms and gave
A10 169 managers far more say in negotiating pay and conditions, \0Mr
A10 170 Hicks said.
A10 171    |^\0Mr Hicks said he hoped \0Mr Douglas realised state
A10 172 unions were determined to retain some control over wage fixing.
A10 173    |^*"If he persists with it (his 1973 legislation push) it
A10 174 will bring him into extreme conflict with the Combined State
A10 175 Unions...**"
A10 176 *<*4Channel bidders reply to Rennie*>
A10 177 |^*2THE BACKERS *0of the Maori bid for the third television
A10 178 channel said last night they found it hard to understand why
A10 179 Broadcasting Corporation chairman Hugh Rennie had complained so
A10 180 bitterly over a few blunt Maori criticisms**".
A10 181    |^Last Thursday night \0Mr Rennie publicly dissociated
A10 182 himself from discussions on broadcasting with Maori
A10 183 broadcasting group Aotearoa Broadcasting Systems, saying he had
A10 184 washed his hands of the matter.
A10 185    |^He followed the announcement by issuing recent letters
A10 186 sent to Aotearoa chairman Whatarangi Winiata complaining of
A10 187 *"abuse, ritualistic posturing, misrepresentation of the
A10 188 facts, and a public charade in which {0ABS} tries to obscure
A10 189 its own failure to meet its objectives and put its own house in
A10 190 order**".
A10 191    |^The events were the latest in a public wrangle between
A10 192 Aotearoa and the corporation after the corporation's withdrawal
A10 193 of a promised *+$74 million in support.
A10 194    |^Last night Professor Winiata issued a letter he had
A10 195 written to \0Mr Rennie.  ^He said he regretted \0Mr Rennie had
A10 196 made an *"angry**" letter public before he (Professor Winiata)
A10 197 had received it.
A10 198    |^He had no choice but to reply to \0Mr Rennie in the same
A10 199 way.
A10 200    |^Professor Winiata's letter said he found it hard to
A10 201 understand why so few words from a people with little power
A10 202 were so hard to accept when Prime Minister David Lange had
A10 203 publicly castigated the corporation for its withdrawal of
A10 204 financial support for Aotearoa.
A10 205    |^*"You [\0Mr Rennie] may not be aware that, perhaps
A10 206 unwittingly, sometimes you have subjected us to slights and
A10 207 even insults according to our own cultural understanding and
A10 208 courtesy,**" he said.
A10 209    |^The corporation would understand *"ritualistic
A10 210 posturing**" better if it had bothered to attend hearings of
A10 211 the Broadcasting Tribunal during the past two weeks where
A10 212 Aotearoa presented its case.
A10 213    |^Letters from \0Mr Rennie and from Television New Zealand
A10 214 director-general Julian Mounter had given Aotearoa no reason to
A10 215 alter its appraisal of corporation initiatives.
A10 216    |^The gap between the corporation's pledge in September and
A10 217 its proposals now was difficult to come to terms with.
A10 218    |^*"We hope to continue to work with your executives to
A10 219 bridge this gap,**" he said.  ^Healing the breach was in the
A10 220 national interest.
A10 221    |^Recent initiatives by the corporation on Maori
A10 222 broadcasting include an offer from \0Mr Rennie to increase
A10 223 Maori programmes to 5 per cent of local production *- an
A10 224 increase of 23 minutes a day.
A10 225    |^Corporation chief executive Nigel Dick announced on Friday
A10 226 the setting up of a committee concerned with Maori programming
A10 227 initiatives. ^\0Mr Mounter has announced a policy review on Maori
A10 228 presenters and a list of recent {0TVNZ} initiatives on Maori
A10 229 broadcasting.
A10 230 *<*4Dalliessi looks for fresh start*> *<By *6MARTYN GOSLING*>
A10 231 |^MARLBOROUGH *4Harbour Board chairman Bruno Dalliessi says the
A10 232 differences between himself, the board and former general
A10 233 manager Mike Goulden can be resolved.
A10 234    |^*0\0Mr Dalliessi returned late last night from Auckland
A10 235 where he has been holidaying and said he had yet to read the
A10 236 Harbours Appeal Board judgment that criticised himself,
A10 237 harbourmaster and acting general manager Don Jamison, and the
A10 238 board for its wrongful sacking of \0Mr Goulden.
A10 239    |^However, he had read of the report's findings and
A10 240 discussed it with some members.
A10 241    |^*"The first thing is the board accepts the 2-1 decision
A10 242 and must work to mend the broken bridges,**" he said.
A10 243    |^\0Mr Goulden was entitled to his job, and had already
A10 244 indicated through his lawyers that he could work again with
A10 245 \0Mr Dalliessi, Captain Jamison and the board, he said.
A10 246    |^*"I don't see any problems,**" \0Mr Dalliessi said.
A10 247    |^The board is holding a special meeting on Wednesday
A10 248 morning to consider \0Mr Goulden's return to work, he said.
A10 249    |^*"The board would want to have him back as soon as
A10 250 possible.**" ^Next Monday?  ^*"It's something the board would
A10 251 have to work out with him.**"
A10 252    |^\0Mr Dalliessi said he would welcome inquiries into the
A10 253 board by the Minister of Transport and the Attorney-General,
A10 254 which they had indicated could be possible.
A10 255    |^All the board's actions had been taken after receiving
A10 256 professional advice he said.  ^*"The board could only be
A10 257 expected to follow that advice.**"
A10 258    |^But, he said, *"the board must accept the criticism of
A10 259 the appeal board and I must accept the criticism the
A10 260 chairmanship attracts.**"
A10 261 *#
A11 001 **[011 TEXT A11**]
A11 002 *<*4Ben on comeback*>
A11 003 *<by *6MICHAEL SMITH*>
A11 004 |^*2CONTROVERSIAL *0former Maori Affairs Minister Ben Couch
A11 005 wants his old job back.
A11 006    |^The ex-Wairarapa National {0MP} turned to God's work after
A11 007 being dumped at the 1984 July snap elections *- and he
A11 008 currently heads the Morman Mission to the Cook Islands.
A11 009    |^This week \0Mr Couch revealed from Rarotonga he's prepared
A11 010 to swap his Bible for a copy of Parliament's Hansard Papers if
A11 011 the party faithful want him back.
A11 012    |^After three years in the cloth, \0Mr Couch showed he
A11 013 hasn't lost any of his famed outspokenness.
A11 014    |^He's all for the rebel All Black tour of South Africa.
A11 015    |^\0Mr Couch said his tour of duty in the Cook Islands
A11 016 officially ends on August 31.
A11 017    |^But \0Mr Couch has already pencilled August 30 into his
A11 018 diary as the date Wairarapa Bush makes its Ranfurly Shield
A11 019 challenge against Auckland *- and he's keen to be in the crowd.
A11 020    |^\0Mr Couch said it was preordained he should lose his
A11 021 parliamentary seat to take up a church missionary job.
A11 022    |^*"I had an inkling I wasn't meant to be in Parliament over
A11 023 the present term of government,**" he said.
A11 024    |^*"I felt I had a mission to perform in life other than
A11 025 sitting on a parliamentary bench.
A11 026    |^*"Maybe with the change of government I wasn't meant to be
A11 027 in opposition.  ^I think I would have withered away on the
A11 028 other side of the house.
A11 029    |^*"I know my calling and I've never regretted turning to
A11 030 the church.
A11 031    |^*"When I come home I'm prepared to do anything the
A11 032 National Party has in store for me.
A11 033    |^*"I'm a party man first and foremost.  ^If they want me in
A11 034 administration, in the organisation or back in Parliament I'm
A11 035 prepared to meet the party's wishes.
A11 036    |^*"I suppose to be beaten by 394 votes last time round was
A11 037 somewhat prophetic.**"
A11 038    |^\0Mr Couch said he asked the then Prime Minister, Sir
A11 039 Robert Muldoon, to let him step down at the 1984 poll.
A11 040    |^*"I wanted to go on my mission but the Prime Minister
A11 041 asked me to carry the flag for another three years,**" he said.
A11 042    |^*"On the night we lost the seat I said to mum, now we know
A11 043 what we must do.
A11 044    |^*"We put in our application for a Mormon mission
A11 045 straightaway.**"
A11 046    |^The Couches took off for Salt Late City, the Mormon
A11 047 church's headquarters and training ground, in late 1984.
A11 048    |^From there they did a brief stint in Hawaii before being
A11 049 recalled to Utah *- to be again shipped off to the Cook
A11 050 Islands.
A11 051    |^*"I don't know what's in store for me when I get home and
A11 052 I ain't too much worried about it either,**" said \0Mr Couch.
A11 053    |^*"We'll be returning to the old family home in Masterton.
A11 054 ^It's been rented out while we've been away and, in fact, that
A11 055 money has gone to providing me with an income because this is a
A11 056 voluntary job.
A11 057    |^*"I'll be back at the end of August.  ^(The National Party
A11 058 Wairarapa selection is expected in September.)
A11 059    |^*"With luck I'll catch the Wairarapa Bush Ranfurly Shield
A11 060 challenge against Auckland.
A11 061    |^*"If I can be home on that day I'd love to see my old home
A11 062 town team play *- just for the sake of being there.**"
A11 063    |^\0Mr Couch said the rebel All Black tour of South Africa
A11 064 was a bolt out of the blue.
A11 065    |^*"This came really as a surprise.  ^I never really thought
A11 066 it was on,**" he said.
A11 067    |^*"But as a person who believes in the freedom of the
A11 068 individual I think those players were free to make whatever
A11 069 choice they felt fit to make.
A11 070    |^*"They can go to Hell if they want to and I'd fight for
A11 071 their right to do just that *- if they could find a way.**"
A11 072    |^\0Mr Couch said politics and religion polarised people.
A11 073    |^*"Sport does more good for the individual and for
A11 074 countries,**" he said.
A11 075 *<*4Kiwis linked to guerilla talks*>
A11 076 *<By *6MICHAEL SMITH*>
A11 077 |^*2TEN *0New Zealanders attended a global guerrilla congress
A11 078 in Libya.
A11 079    |^This was confirmed yesterday by a representative of the
A11 080 Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front in New Caledonia who
A11 081 also went to the conference in March.
A11 082    |^Kanak representative Peu told Sunday News the New Zealand
A11 083 delegation was half Maori and half pakeha.
A11 084    |^But \0Mr Peu declined to name members of the group.
A11 085    |^A row has bubbled in Parliament on the contentious issue
A11 086 since Sir Robert Muldoon was told by Deputy Foreign Affairs
A11 087 Minister Frank O'Flynn that the Government had *"no
A11 088 information whatever**" about a Maori delegation making a trip
A11 089 to Libya.
A11 090    |^This week Sir Robert received confirmation of the New
A11 091 Zealander's visit to Libya in a letter from Prime Minister
A11 092 David Lange.
A11 093    |^In his note to Sir Robert, the Prime Minister said every
A11 094 New Zealander was free to travel to attend a conference or to
A11 095 play sport.
A11 096    |^In reply to our questions \0Mr Lange said he had no idea
A11 097 who the members of the New Zealand delegation in Libya were.
A11 098    |^*"No.  ^I also don't know who is going to the conference
A11 099 in Zurich,**" to overthrow the international banking system.
A11 100 ^I have more to worry about than terrorists in Libya and gnomes
A11 101 in Zurich,**" said \0Mr Lange.
A11 102    |^\0Mr Jean Peu declined to name the New Zealand radicals.
A11 103    |^*"Firstly, I can't tell you the names of the people from
A11 104 New Zealand who attended the conference because it might put
A11 105 their personal security in danger.
A11 106    |^*"If we start naming people there's a real problem,**" he
A11 107 said.
A11 108    |^*"The Government or the police can make life hell for
A11 109 these people.  ^They can be persecuted for their ideals and we
A11 110 don't put people in such a position.
A11 111    |^*"Secondly, I can confirm there was a Maori delegation to
A11 112 the conference *- but there was also a number of white people
A11 113 from New Zealand there too.
A11 114    |^*"There was some Maori and some non-Maori *- there was a
A11 115 group of about 10 people.
A11 116    |^\0Mr Peu rejected suspicions that New Zealanders had also
A11 117 attended Gaddafi's terrorist training camps.
A11 118    |^*"As far as I am aware the New Zealand delegation did not
A11 119 go to any of the camps,**" he said.
A11 120    |^\0Mr Peu also denied fears of terrorist activity now
A11 121 taking place in this country.
A11 122    |^*"I don't think that's likely,**" he said.
A11 123    |^*"The New Zealand delegation went to Tripoli to talk about
A11 124 the situation of the Maori people and Waitangi because outside
A11 125 your country nobody knows the situation of the Maori people.
A11 126    |^*"It was the only time the Maori can express their
A11 127 feelings and their voice.  ^It was very interesting.
A11 128    |^*"I know the names of these people but I'm not prepared to
A11 129 tell you or anyone else.  ^There's too much at stake.**"
A11 130    |^But Sir Robert still believes the aspect of terrorism
A11 131 taking place on our own doorstep cannot be ruled out.
A11 132    |^*"Some of the attitudes of mind of some Maori radicals and
A11 133 those associated with them conceivably would not stop short of
A11 134 this,**" he said.
A11 135    |^*"There is an extreme element in some of the Maori protest
A11 136 movement which it doesn't take any imagination at all to see
A11 137 going over the edge into the kind of things we've seen in other
A11 138 countries.**"
A11 139 *<*4Dirty tricks row*>
A11 140 *<Nats split on choice*>
A11 141 |^*2A MAJOR dirty tricks row is brewing in Wairarapa National
A11 142 Party ranks following the controversial selection of a former
A11 143 Labour man to stand as the Opposition candidate at the next
A11 144 elections.
A11 145    |^Splits in the electorate's executive over the selection of
A11 146 accountant Wyatt Creech as National's man at the next polls
A11 147 have seen long-time party stalwart Jocelyn McKay toss in her
A11 148 hand as Wairarapa vice-chairman *- a job she's had for four
A11 149 years.
A11 150    |^\0Mrs McKay has kept mum on her reasons for opting out *-
A11 151 but the pot has been stirred this week with the publication of
A11 152 a trouble-mongering entry in the personal columns of the local
A11 153 newspaper.
A11 154    |^The contentious item reads: ^*2HOTHOUSE GRAPES *- *0A few
A11 155 bunches of McKay hothouse grapes, noted for their distinctive
A11 156 sour flavour are at present available in Masterton.  ^Some
A11 157 people will go a long way for these and they are a good win for
A11 158 those who enjoy the taste.
A11 159    |^Win is \0Mrs McKay's maiden name.
A11 160    |^And she's hopping mad about the personal slight.
A11 161    |^*"It's particularly nasty.  ^It's unfair and it's not
A11 162 true,**" said \0Mrs McKay.
A11 163    |^*"I have my reasons for stepping down as electorate 
A11 164 vice-chairman but I'm in a hell of a position because I've been
A11 165 asked to put the party's name first before my own.
A11 166    |^*"It's not sour grapes.
A11 167    |^*"But when things like this start appearing in the
A11 168 newspaper it makes you wonder where your loyalty to the party
A11 169 should stop and where you should start speaking out for
A11 170 yourself.
A11 171    |^*"This thing in the paper is very nasty about the family.
A11 172 ^It's a personal affront and a slight on our name *- I'm very
A11 173 unhappy over this suggestion.
A11 174    |^*"I'll stick to my guns to say nothing about what's gone
A11 175 on.  ^I've been squeaky clean and I want to stay that way.
A11 176    |^*"But someone had better start putting a few things right
A11 177 because I can't stand around silent while things like this are
A11 178 happening.**"
A11 179    |^The newspaper insert has also upset \0Mr Creech, who said
A11 180 this week the publication in the personal columns was
A11 181 *"unhelpful under the present circumstances**".
A11 182    |^*"This kind of thing is very unfortunate and doesn't help
A11 183 matters in any way,**" said \0Mr Creech.
A11 184    |^Divisions started appearing in National Party ranks when
A11 185 \0Mr Creech gained the National nod in Wairarapa last month to
A11 186 contest the next general elections.
A11 187    |^At one point during the selection meeting he was asked if
A11 188 he'd been a member of any other political party and \0Mr Creech
A11 189 responded with the George Bernard Shaw quote that if you're not
A11 190 a socialist by 18 you've got no heart and if you're not a
A11 191 conservative when you're 40 you've got no brains.
A11 192    |^Many people took this to mean \0Mr Creech may have had
A11 193 some sympathy with Labour Party philosophies when he was a
A11 194 teenager.
A11 195    |^It has since been revealed he was a member of the Labour
A11 196 Party for four years from 1978 and had been asked by a friend
A11 197 at the time to support \0Dr Allan Levett who was seeking the
A11 198 Labour nomination in the electorate.
A11 199    |^\0Mr Creech was also Martinborough branch delegate to the
A11 200 Labour electoral committee *"for about two years at the
A11 201 most**".
A11 202    |^Informed sources in the area said this week \0Mrs McKay *-
A11 203 who's been a National Party member for 28 years *- had decided
A11 204 she couldn't give \0Mr Creech total support because of his
A11 205 Labour involvement at the time of the 1978 elections.
A11 206    |^We've been told \0Mrs McKay's loyalty to former National
A11 207 {0MP} Ben Couch was the main reason behind the rift.
A11 208    |^\0Mr Creech has responded by saying he and \0Mrs McKay
A11 209 worked *"side by side**" campaigning for \0Mr Couch's 
A11 210 re-election in 1984 and he didn't see any reason why they couldn't
A11 211 *"get on**" in the future.
A11 212    |^*"What's happened is disappointing,**" he said.
A11 213    |^*"I see no reason why \0Mrs McKay and myself can't work
A11 214 together *- it's over to her.  ^I have absolutely nothing
A11 215 personal against Jocelyn McKay.
A11 216    |^*"Some people claim comments I've made have been
A11 217 misinterpreted, I don't think I've misled anyone.**"
A11 218    |^National's Wairarapa electorate chairman, Alistair Orsborn
A11 219 declined to comment on the selection rift.
A11 220    |^He described the personal column insert as ^*"Crazy.
A11 221 ^There's no other word for it.
A11 222    |^*"We completely dissociate ourselves from this newspaper
A11 223 piece.  ^It's nonsense.  ^It has absolutely nothing to do with
A11 224 the party.  ^I wouldn't have the foggiest idea who was
A11 225 responsible for it.**"
A11 226    |^Former {0MP}, \0Mr Couch said he could see \0Mrs McKay's
A11 227 point if her selection stance was a matter of loyalty.
A11 228    |^*"Jocelyn McKay has been a loyal supporter to the party
A11 229 and to me over the years,**" said \0Mr Couch.
A11 230    |^*"I can understand how she feels when she's worked hard in
A11 231 the past *- she was campaign chairman in 1984 and did well.
A11 232    |^*"But the fact remains that the electorate executive has
A11 233 accepted Wyatt Creech and, if that's the case, okay, they're
A11 234 the governing body and responsible for the National Party in
A11 235 the Wairarapa electorate.**"
A11 236 *<*4Mill *'waste**' blasted*>
A11 237 *<By *6SCOTT CORDES*>
A11 238 |^*2A FORMER *0Think Big project worker claims the New Zealand
A11 239 Steel mill expansion is riddled with inefficiencies.
A11 240    |^But the allegations have been denied by steel mill
A11 241 management.
A11 242    |^Rob Brown of Waiuku said he worked on the Glenbrook site
A11 243 just south of Auckland for two years.  ^He was made redundant
A11 244 earlier this year.
A11 245    |^*"There's a lot of money-wasting going on out there,**" he
A11 246 said.
A11 247    |^*"The company put up carpenters' workshops, then they
A11 248 found later on that a drain was supposed to have gone through
A11 249 the site so the building had to be pulled down,**" said \0Mr
A11 250 Brown.
A11 251    |^These sheds were big enough to comfortably hold about 200
A11 252 men during meetings, he said.  ^Two or three were supposedly
A11 253 dismantled because they were wrongly sited.
A11 254 *#
A12 001 **[012 TEXT A12**]
A12 002 *<*4Big fishing deal urged*>
A12 003 *<By *6TIM PANKHURST*>
A12 004 |^*2THE AWARDING *0of a deep-water fishing quota worth millions
A12 005 of dollars to the financially-troubled Chatham Islands is
A12 006 proposed by Internal Affairs Minister Peter Tapsell.
A12 007    |^The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is considering a
A12 008 proposal for an 8000-tonne quota exclusive to the remote island
A12 009 community and Tapsell will urge Fisheries Minister Colin Moyle
A12 010 to approve this.
A12 011    |^Tapsell sees a separate Chathams quota as a means of
A12 012 reducing the impact of tough subsidy cuts proposed for island
A12 013 services.
A12 014    |^He says the Chathams deficit is growing too rapidly and
A12 015 too big and must be reduced.
A12 016    |^Total subsidies on the air and sea links and maintaining a
A12 017 meatworks were *+$3.49 million last financial year.
A12 018    |^Tapsell's support for access to valuable orange roughy
A12 019 fishing grounds is conditional on the fish being processed on
A12 020 Chatham Island.
A12 021    |^He concedes this will be more expensive than mainland
A12 022 processing but could use spare freezing capacity in the
A12 023 meatworks, as well as spreading financial benefits through the
A12 024 Chathams community.
A12 025    |^No deep-sea trawler is based at the Chathams but Tapsell
A12 026 suggests a vessel could be chartered or bought.
A12 027    |^A Chathams development company with 350 members, nearly
A12 028 half the total population, has already been established and is
A12 029 pushing for deepwater fisheries access.
A12 030    |^Islanders argue they contribute to export earnings through
A12 031 the rich rock lobster and paua fisheries and wool production
A12 032 and are entitled to some subsidised services in return.
A12 033    |^The Chathams also lack many facilities taken for granted
A12 034 on the mainland such as fully sealed roads, mains electricity
A12 035 outside the major settlement at Waitangi and nearby Te One, and
A12 036 television.  ^Expensive, private generators are used elsewhere
A12 037 on Chatham and the smaller Pitt island and mains electricity
A12 038 costs six times the mainland rate.
A12 039    |^Communication is restricted to telephone, frequent public
A12 040 meetings, whistling radio reception and eagerly read newspapers
A12 041 brought in on the thrice-fortnightly Argosy flights.
A12 042    |^Tapsell rejects the claim of National {0MP}s Winston
A12 043 Peters and Roger Maxwell, who visited the Chathams last week,
A12 044 that the Government intends setting the islands adrift.
A12 045    |^He says the Government accepts Chathams residents are
A12 046 entitled to a similar standard of living to a small rural
A12 047 community on the mainland.
A12 048    |^His support for a deep**[ARB**]-water quota flies in the
A12 049 face of the recent review team report which could see *"no
A12 050 economic justification for an arbitrary allocation of special
A12 051 quota from the deep-sea fishing resources in the 200-mile zone
A12 052 around the Chatham Islands for Chatham Islands interests**".
A12 053    |^Tapsell has also rejected zero rating for the goods and
A12 054 services tax on the Chathams.
A12 055    |^An advisory committee, including a local representative,
A12 056 plus Internal Affairs local government division are considering
A12 057 implementation of the proposals vital to the Chatham Islands
A12 058 future.
A12 059 *<*4National officials perform on video*>
A12 060 |^*2NATIONAL {0MP}*0s and officials are learning to perform in
A12 061 front of video cameras in an effort to improve the party's
A12 062 image following poor performances in public opinion polls.
A12 063    |^National plans to give all its candidates lessons in how
A12 064 to sell themselves and their party before next year's general
A12 065 election.
A12 066    |^The National people are being taught media technique by
A12 067 Ken Casey, described in party literature as a *"professional
A12 068 trainer in the art of interviewing and confidence building**".
A12 069    |^Media training is not the only avenue National is
A12 070 exploring in an effort to improve its performance.
A12 071    |^At this weekend's policy seminar, local management guru
A12 072 John Wren of Management Systems and Training, gave the 25
A12 073 Wellington divisional representatives a course in using *"group
A12 074 focus**" in what Wren's press release described as a *"new
A12 075 approach to policy formulation for a political party.**"
A12 076    |^*"It's a very positive process.  ^It releases minds to
A12 077 think creatively.  ^As far as I'm aware, 90 per cent of those
A12 078 present have no experience of the process, and will be very
A12 079 receptive to it.**"
A12 080 *<*4Staff swaps on again*>
A12 081 *<By *6MURRAY McLAUGHLIN*>
A12 082 |^*2POLITICS *0professor Henry Albinski is again planning to
A12 083 establish staff exchanges between Victoria and Pennsylvania
A12 084 State universities, 16 months after he levelled accusations of
A12 085 political intrigue against the hierarchy of Wellington's
A12 086 Victoria University.
A12 087    |^In late 1984, American Professor Albinski was all but
A12 088 guaranteed a *+$50,000 grant from the United States Information
A12 089 Agency ({0USIA}) *- which acting Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer
A12 090 noted last month appeared to be spending *"considerable
A12 091 sums**" of money to combat New Zealand's anti**[ARB**]-nuclear
A12 092 policies *- to finance the exchange of 17 staff between the two
A12 093 universities over two years.
A12 094    |^But the deadline for {0USIA} funding approval expired
A12 095 early last year, before the Victoria University council could
A12 096 meet to consider the proposal.
A12 097    |^Victoria's vice-chancellor at the time, \0Dr Ian Axford,
A12 098 said the Albinski proposal languished because it arrived too
A12 099 late for the council to sort out the implications for staff
A12 100 leave, though by itself it looked *"very reasonable**".
A12 101    |^But Albinski saw other reasons.  ^*"Intimations appeared
A12 102 that higher administrative circles at Victoria University had
A12 103 become disquieted about how such a linkage could be construed
A12 104 as a political action that would exacerbate the United 
A12 105 States-New Zealand government-to-government differences over {0US}
A12 106 naval ship visits,**" he wrote to colleagues in February last
A12 107 year.
A12 108    |^*"Fears were also voiced that the press in New Zealand
A12 109 would be severe in its criticism of such ties, and that
A12 110 Victoria University would suffer accordingly.**"
A12 111    |^Albinski was apparently nervous about his association in
A12 112 the New Zealand and Australian news media with (retired)
A12 113 Admiral Lloyd Vasey, president of the well-funded,
A12 114 conservative, Honolulu-based research agency, Pacific Forum.
A12 115 ^Vasey has been officially linked in Australia with the
A12 116 collapsed Nugan Hand Bank which had connections with the
A12 117 {0CIA}.
A12 118    |^Albinski and Vasey visited New Zealand in November 1984 to
A12 119 prepare a report for the Pacific Forum on the nuclear ships
A12 120 issue, which advised the United States Administration to tread
A12 121 carefully so as not to upset the *"delicate political balance
A12 122 in the New Zealand Labour Party**".
A12 123    |^They also concluded that the United States should improve
A12 124 its *"information and persuasion efforts in Australia and New
A12 125 Zealand**".
A12 126    |^Albinski heads the Australian Studies Centre at Penn State
A12 127 University.  ^Established in 1982, the centre has links with
A12 128 several Australian universities and Albinski has long wanted to
A12 129 expand its studies to include New Zealand.
A12 130    |^When his wooings of Victoria University were rebuffed,
A12 131 Albinski was bitter but buoyant about his chances of retrieval.
A12 132    |^*"It is... a sad commentary on how academic enterprise can
A12 133 be victimised by political considerations that in this instance
A12 134 were neither well-founded nor shared by those who knew and
A12 135 understood the project,**" he lamented in his letter to
A12 136 colleagues on February 20 last year.
A12 137    |^Axford who retired, was succeeded by Professor Leslie
A12 138 Holborow who came to Wellington from the University of
A12 139 Queensland, with which Albinski's Penn State centre has had a
A12 140 formal link since February 1983.
A12 141    |^Albinski has apparently assessed that the climate has
A12 142 changed enough to favour another attempt.  ^He will visit
A12 143 United States embassy staff in Wellington, government officials
A12 144 and Victoria University staff early next month.
A12 145    |^He plans to meet staff in the politics department, the
A12 146 Institute of Policy Studies and the Stout Research Centre,
A12 147 which focuses on New Zealand society, history and culture.
A12 148    |^Holborow who knows Albinski from his time at Queensland,
A12 149 and remembers him as an academic with a good reputation, said
A12 150 this week he was puzzled about the events of early last year
A12 151 which led to the failure of the Albinski proposal.
A12 152    |^*"If the proposal came up again, I would have to find out
A12 153 if there was apprehension at the university, and why,**" he
A12 154 said.
A12 155    |^Albinski is also planning to meet retired politics
A12 156 professor Walter Murphy, who heads the Professors World Peace
A12 157 Academy of New Zealand, which has links with the Unification
A12 158 Church (Moonies).
A12 159    |^Murphy was a candidate for Albinski's original exchange
A12 160 proposal, and recently abandoned plans for a Professors World
A12 161 Peace Academy conference in Wellington last month, after it was
A12 162 exposed as a Moonie-sponsored exercise.
A12 163    |^Under his original scheme, Albinski proposed to post
A12 164 himself to Victoria University to research New Zealand foreign
A12 165 and defence policy, United States-New Zealand relations and
A12 166 politics of Pacific Island countries.
A12 167    |^And one of his Pennsylvania colleagues was to have
A12 168 researched the role of the New Zealand press in influencing
A12 169 public opinion on defence, and, especially, New Zealand-United
A12 170 States relations.  ^That project was to expand into a 
A12 171 cross-national study of the press and foreign policy formulation.
A12 172 *<*5Nuclear free treaty no nearer solution*>
A12 173 *<*4By *6DAVID ROBIE*>
A12 174 |^*2WHEN *0the South Pacific Forum adopted the historic
A12 175 Rarotonga Treaty creating a nuclear-free Pacific zone last
A12 176 August, it appeared the pact had consensus support.  ^But the
A12 177 day after Forum spokesman, Prime Minister David Lange, assured
A12 178 journalists that all the Forum leaders would be signing the
A12 179 document \0Fr Walter Lini, declared Vanuatu would not endorse
A12 180 a *"partial**" treaty.
A12 181    |^Since then Lini has stuck by his stand and the Solomon
A12 182 Islands has followed Vanuatu's lead.  ^Papua New Guinea is also
A12 183 understood to be reviewing its stance.
A12 184    |^It could be another source of irritation between
A12 185 Melanesian and Polynesian countries at this year's Forum in
A12 186 Suva where the treaty and New Caledonia, are again expected to
A12 187 dominate.  ^Last year, Lini had some harsh words to say about
A12 188 what he saw as corrosion of the traditional *"Pacific way**" of
A12 189 reaching agreement by consensus.
A12 190    |^So far, nine countries have signed the treaty *-
A12 191 Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, New Zealand, Niue,
A12 192 Papua New Guinea, Tuvalu and Western Samoa.  ^But only three
A12 193 have ratified it *- Fiji, Cook Island and Niue.  ^Vanuatu and
A12 194 the Solomon Islands have said they will not endorse the treaty,
A12 195 ^This leaves Nauru and Tonga still in doubt, out of the 13
A12 196 South Pacific Forum countries.
A12 197    |^Nauru has strong anti-nuclear views while Tonga, the only
A12 198 kingdom in the South Pacific, has a conservative stance and is
A12 199 anxious not to upset the United States.
A12 200    |^Eight nations are required to ratify the treaty for it to
A12 201 become registered with the United Nations.
A12 202    |^The South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone commits signatories to
A12 203 renouncing nuclear warfare and doing anything which would
A12 204 assist the conduct of such warfare.  ^But it leaves Forum
A12 205 members free to make their own decisions about letting nuclear
A12 206 ships and planes use their harbours and airports.
A12 207    |^It also overlooks the fact that Australia, which has been
A12 208 the treaty's main advocate, hosts United States communications
A12 209 and tracking bases that are part of a network for nuclear
A12 210 missilefiring submarines.
A12 211    |^On the eve of the Forum heads of government meeting at
A12 212 Suva on August 11-12, an eight-day *"alternative forum**" will
A12 213 be staged in the Fijian capital at the University of the South
A12 214 Pacific.  ^Organised by the Fijian Anti-Nuclear Group (Fang),
A12 215 which has support from the Fiji Labour Party, trade unionists
A12 216 and peace groups, the conference is expected to seek support
A12 217 from Lini and the Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, Sir
A12 218 Peter Kenilorea, for closing the treaty's loopholes.
A12 219    |^Lini will be one of the speakers at the conference, along
A12 220 with Oscar Temaru, the leader of Tahiti's Polynesian
A12 221 Independence Front and representatives of the Kanak Socialist
A12 222 National Liberation Front are also expected to take part.
A12 223    |^Delegates at the *"alternative forum**" are expected to
A12 224 present a draft alternative nuclear-free Pacific treaty to the
A12 225 heads of government.
A12 226    |^While Vanuatu has taken a strong position over the
A12 227 nuclear-free zone, several Polynesian nations, particularly the
A12 228 Cook Islands, have adopted a contradictory and confusing
A12 229 stance.
A12 230    |^Last month, ironically, while Lange was on a brief holiday
A12 231 in the Cook Islands, Deputy Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer
A12 232 lashed out at the Cook Islands prime minister, Sir Thomas
A12 233 Davis, over his statements apparently opposing the Rarotonga
A12 234 Treaty.  ^Davis had claimed ratification of the treaty would
A12 235 mean the end of the Anzus defence alliance.
A12 236    |^Davis, who has strong pro-United States views dating from
A12 237 his years with Nasa as a research scientist, says the Cook
A12 238 Islands has relied on Anzus in the past.  ^But the Rarotonga
A12 239 Treaty would make it difficult for nuclear nations such as the
A12 240 United States to operate in the Pacific.
A12 241    |^Earlier this year, the Cook Islands hosted a foreign
A12 242 military presence of a different kind.  ^On February 17 two
A12 243 Cook Islanders saw the periscope of a submarine moving swiftly
A12 244 near Rarotonga.  ^Three days later a submarine periscope came
A12 245 up about 30 metres away from two fishermen in a canoe 5\0km
A12 246 offshore.
A12 247    |^A New Zealand Air Force Orion later detected the submarine
A12 248 and identified its nationality.  ^The New Zealand Government
A12 249 has refused to disclose the identity and the Cook Island
A12 250 government imposed a media blackout on the affair.
A12 251 *#
A13 001 **[013 TEXT A13**]
A13 002 *<*0Synthetic harmony*>
A13 003 *<*4by Geoffrey Darling*>
A13 004 *<*0Why were relations between management and unions at the
A13 005 Motunui Synfuel plant so good?*>
A13 006 |^*6W*2HEN THE DUKE *0of Edinburgh officially opens the world's
A13 007 first natural-gas-to-gasoline complex on February 27, praise
A13 008 will undoubtedly flow for its industrial relations record.
A13 009    |^Compared with other major projects *- the Marsden Point
A13 010 refinery expansion, stage *=II of the {0NZ} Steel plant at
A13 011 Glenbrook and the Cromwell Dam *- the Motunui methanol plant,
A13 012 four kilometres east of Waitara on the Taranaki coast, has been
A13 013 marked by a relatively smooth construction time.  ^Industrial
A13 014 harmony between the major contractor, the {0US} firm Bechtel
A13 015 (Pacific) Corporation \0Ltd, and the unions involved with the
A13 016 project meant that work was completed for the client, New
A13 017 Zealand Synthetic Fuels Corporation (Synfuel), on time and
A13 018 about 20 percent under the budgeted cost of *+${0US}1475
A13 019 million.
A13 020    |^The plant has been working towards a peak petrol capacity
A13 021 of 570,000 tonnes a year in production, fed by natural gas from
A13 022 the Maui and Kapuni fields, since October 1985.  ^The growing
A13 023 world oil glut has led to doubts about the wisdom of
A13 024 constructing the plant at all.  ^But the manner in which it was
A13 025 constructed seems to have left just about everybody happy.
A13 026 |^*2BOTH MANAGEMENT *0and unions claim credit for the
A13 027 comparatively serene industrial relations at Motunui.  ^And
A13 028 both sides would be right.  ^They are quick to counter myths
A13 029 surrounding the plant; that the Taranaki workforce was soft,
A13 030 docile and provincial and that the site lacked stirrers active
A13 031 on other sites.  ^In fact the workforce was cosmopolitan,
A13 032 experienced and aware of its industrial muscle, potentially
A13 033 very militant.  ^Major contractors Bechtel could easily have
A13 034 screwed up, says its industrial relations manager John
A13 035 Haslemore.
A13 036    |^The record of the infrastructure works associated with the
A13 037 plant bears him out.  ^Work stopped on the Waitara River water
A13 038 intake site for 16 weeks.  ^Wildcat strikes were frequent at
A13 039 Omata near Port Taranaki and the electricity substation near
A13 040 Motunui came under threat.
A13 041    |^Infrastructure workers wanted parity with Motunui
A13 042 construction workers.  ^To stall them the employers invoked
A13 043 wage-price freeze regulations.  ^Unions then sought an
A13 044 exemption.  ^Employer intransigence centred on determination
A13 045 not to let high wages at Motunui spread to the general
A13 046 workforce.  ^The big buck stops here, they said.
A13 047    |^The infrastructure disputes were only one degree removed
A13 048 from those at Motunui, yet they were protracted,
A13 049 stand**[ARB**]-offish, and eventually only resolved at a
A13 050 compulsory conference, called by Labour minister Jim Bolger,
A13 051 before mediator Tom Groves in Wellington.
A13 052    |^The real key to the plant's successful construction was
A13 053 careful planning by Bechtel and acceptance by the unions of
A13 054 that plan.  ^Bechtel signed the contract for the plant with
A13 055 some trepidation.  ^New Zealand industrial relations and safety
A13 056 had a poor track record in the eyes of major overseas
A13 057 companies.  ^But Bechtel's senior management had already
A13 058 identified industrial relations as a key issue and had begun
A13 059 planning in mid-1980, more than a year before the final 
A13 060 go-ahead.  ^Unions were contacted two years before the job began.
A13 061 ^(By comparison, work was in progress at Marsden Point for 18
A13 062 months before industrial relations planning was finalised.)
A13 063    |^Bechtel had experienced industrial relations staff, not
A13 064 always found on large project sites.  ^The team was headed by
A13 065 the Melbourne-based manager of Bechtel corporate services,
A13 066 Sheldon Young, a man with 20 years' experience in industrial
A13 067 relations.  ^On-site was John Haslemore, former Fletcher
A13 068 Construction industrial relations head.  ^His experience
A13 069 stretched back to the first Marsden Point refinery, the
A13 070 original Bluff smelter and Manapouri, Marsden B and Kawerau's
A13 071 \0No 3 paper mill.  ^His assistants, Andy Greig and David
A13 072 Bedford, had spent all their working lives in industrial
A13 073 relations.
A13 074    |^The unions were also experienced, and committed to maximum
A13 075 productivity.  ^Several site delegates were on their third
A13 076 consecutive job in the position for their respective
A13 077 subcontractors; the Kapuni ammonia-urea plant, the Petralgas
A13 078 methanol plant at Waitara Valley and Motunui.  ^They were
A13 079 heavily involved in education, especially of the rank and file
A13 080 union membership.
A13 081    |^Each subcontractor had a site delegate *- full-time, if
A13 082 the size of the contract so dictated.  ^Alan Gardiner, site
A13 083 delegate for leading subcontractor Robert Stone \0Ltd, was so
A13 084 busy with his (at peak) 300 charges he was provided with a
A13 085 deputy.  ^Site delegates fought only the causes they felt they
A13 086 could win, did their homework properly and settled disputes
A13 087 quickly.  ^According to combined union advocate Brian Evans,
A13 088 ^*"That was one of the keys to success.**"
A13 089    |^The combined experience enabled problems to be
A13 090 anticipated.  ^All demarcation disputes on the site were
A13 091 foreseen and few actually arose.  ^(One exception, a rigging
A13 092 dispute between labourers and engineers early in 1983, went to
A13 093 the Arbitration Court.)
A13 094    |^From its early contact with the unions, Bechtel developed
A13 095 an understanding that led to good site agreements.  ^All
A13 096 applications for work were dealt with at Bechtel's New Plymouth
A13 097 office, giving locals the best opportunity to find work.
A13 098 ^Bechtel considered the wind-down phase when planning the job.
A13 099 ^It encouraged subcontractors to help workers find further
A13 100 employment.  ^This resulted in few arguments over redundancy
A13 101 and continuing productivity at the tail end of the job.
A13 102    |^A total of 170 welders were trained to a high standard in
A13 103 block courses at Taranaki Polytech *- more than half from
A13 104 scratch.  ^More than 1000 workers went through one or more
A13 105 training programmes.  ^Some highly qualified electricians were
A13 106 given a week of instrumentation orientation in a specific area.
A13 107 ^Training gave workers increased job satisfaction and a greater
A13 108 ability to find work and enjoy themselves.
A13 109    |^Discontent over food, a common problem on construction
A13 110 sites, never arose thanks to an efficient canteen run on
A13 111 Bechtel lines.  ^Bechtel's comprehensive bus service meant that
A13 112 all workers, anywhere in Taranaki, could get a ride home.
A13 113    |^A two-monthly round table was used by Bechtel to up-date
A13 114 unions on all issues.  ^Bechtel did not play the adversary role
A13 115 often seen in such major projects.  ^Its releases to the press
A13 116 leaned, if anything, towards the union viewpoint.
A13 117    |^And according to delegates who worked at both Motunui and
A13 118 Marsden Point, management attitudes at the Taranaki site were
A13 119 far superior.  ^Delegates were welcomed, made to feel equals.
A13 120 ^Unlike Marsden Point, and typical boss-worker, across-the-table 
A13 121 confrontations, the Motunui site delegates sat informally
A13 122 in a circle, interspersed with employer representatives, and
A13 123 were given coffee.  ^*"We were made to feel human,**" said a
A13 124 rigger delegate who had come from Marsden Point.
A13 125    |^Site delegates often went over the heads of their
A13 126 subcontractor bosses and sought the approachable Bechtel
A13 127 industrial relations team, knowing they would get a fair
A13 128 hearing, though this was not encouraged by the company.  ^And
A13 129 the unions responded to Bechtel's efficient project engineering
A13 130 management and strict quality control that resulted in the firm
A13 131 dismissing some subcontractors for poor performance.
A13 132    |^But some members of the rank and file scorned the high
A13 133 praise constantly being poured on Bechtel's operation.
A13 134 ^*"Let's not forget the great effort by the men to meet
A13 135 management halfway.**"
A13 136    |^And no worker on the site would paint a totally placid
A13 137 picture of their time at Motunui.  ^All agree there were
A13 138 problems and, with hindsight, all agree they were minor *- kept
A13 139 that way by prompt action by negotiating teams.
A13 140 |^*6W*2HEN BRIAN EVANS *0took over as combined union advocate
A13 141 in October 1983 he found a workforce with the potential for
A13 142 major trouble, despite Bechtel's careful planning.  ^He found
A13 143 workers were not doing their homework in disputes with
A13 144 management, and rising frustrations were breeding frequent
A13 145 wild**[ARB**]-cat strikes.  ^They were not serious, just a day
A13 146 here and a day there, but they added up.
A13 147    |^Evans, operating from his Wellington base, ran courses for
A13 148 site delegates at which they learnt about disputes procedure,
A13 149 public speaking and chairing meetings.  ^He encouraged
A13 150 delegates to use the Bechtel-provided Union Fridays *- a 
A13 151 two-hour meeting every third Friday of the month *- more
A13 152 constructively, and aim for better communications with the
A13 153 workforce.  ^(When Evans arrived, he found that only a third of
A13 154 the workforce attended the Friday meetings, and those for just
A13 155 10 minutes before rushing out the gate to an early weekend.)
A13 156    |^Site delegate Alan Gardiner met many workers unfamiliar
A13 157 with union affairs when he arrived in mid-1983.  ^*"They just
A13 158 saw the *+$370 a week in the hand each week and thought how
A13 159 wonderful the boss was,**" he said.  ^*"They didn't realise how
A13 160 hard-won that money was.**"
A13 161    |^Union representation on the two-monthly round table was
A13 162 about 25, and about a third of that number were
A13 163 full**[ARB**]-time delegates or officials.  ^There was good
A13 164 response from the labourers, drivers, clerical workers and
A13 165 engineers unions but poor representation from the electricians
A13 166 and carpenters.  ^The last two produced a number of minor
A13 167 disputes which Evans suspects arose from their casual
A13 168 attendance at round table meetings.
A13 169    |^The round table system eventually solved the tricky
A13 170 problem of rain-off procedure *- when to send which workers
A13 171 home in the event of rain.  ^The problem was one of the biggest
A13 172 industrial headaches at the plant and worst in the winter of
A13 173 1983.  ^Some days workers would sit around their smoko huts for
A13 174 seven hours, other days they would be sent home just as the sun
A13 175 finally emerged.  ^Finally it was agreed that if rain was
A13 176 falling at 11.00{0am} workers could go home.
A13 177    |^But because rain-offs applied only to those working
A13 178 outside when the order was given, the labourers went on strike.
A13 179 ^Bechtel finally agreed, at a round table meeting, to allow all
A13 180 workers to go home *- if the majority were outside when the
A13 181 rain-off was ordered.
A13 182    |^Several arguments developed over work in a confined space
A13 183 but small strikes were usually over in a day.  ^And Bechtel
A13 184 tried to avoid strikes on issues like smoko, accommodation and
A13 185 safety.
A13 186    |^The site's biggest dispute was out of Bechtel's hands.
A13 187 ^It was over the continuation of the wage freeze and the
A13 188 {0FOL}'s *+$20-a-week claim, during March and April 1984.  ^It
A13 189 involved the whole workforce in rolling strikes but was not
A13 190 supported by Brian Evans.  ^He put the stoppages down to a lack
A13 191 of leadership from union officials:  ^*"A futile gesture to a
A13 192 doomed campaign.**"
A13 193    |^Elsewhere, discipline was good.  ^There was only one
A13 194 strike over discipline *- a major achievement for a plant that
A13 195 size *- because the Bechtel team gave constant advice to
A13 196 subcontractors on problems likely to arise.
A13 197    |^Voluntary unionism, introduced in February 1984, could
A13 198 have created problems.  ^Bechtel saw the move as a real risk to
A13 199 the site and undertook a solid education programme.  ^Evans was
A13 200 also busy.  ^He held a secret ballot that showed 87 percent of
A13 201 the then 1600 workers wanted continued compulsory unionism, a
A13 202 situation Bechtel readily accepted.
A13 203    |^The highest profile strike was the expected dispute when
A13 204 natural gas was introduced to the site in May last year,
A13 205 following similar disputes at other sites.  ^Although the
A13 206 arrival of the gas was made widely known and safety drills
A13 207 rehearsed, there were a few disquieting incidents at the first
A13 208 drill.  ^The workforce and foremen did not seem wholly prepared
A13 209 to deal with a gas break, according to site rumours, and some
A13 210 groups, instead of being *"led to safety**" in the drill, were
A13 211 led into the teeth of the *"danger zone**".  ^A relatively
A13 212 small incident, but enough to provoke the engineers to strike
A13 213 and mount pickets at both the plant's gates, though work was
A13 214 not seriously disrupted.
A13 215    |^Safety had been a concern for Bechtel since the contract
A13 216 was signed on December 23, 1981.  ^When construction was
A13 217 completed almost four years later, there had been 1167 
A13 218 lost-time accidents.  ^This was marvellous for a New Zealand plant,
A13 219 but Americans among the Bechtel staff were privately appalled.
A13 220 ^They were used to a handful of lost-time accidents at a site
A13 221 the size of Motunui.
A13 222    |^But, in the main, Bechtel's safety programme paid off.
A13 223 ^It included prizes for good safety records and a regular
A13 224 Monday morning tool-box meeting for all staff on safety
A13 225 procedures *- a first for New Zealand.  ^And though delegates
A13 226 claim that strikes over poor safety gear and lack of gloves for
A13 227 handling steel were prevalent in the early days, for the first
A13 228 time in this country's construction history no fatalities were
A13 229 recorded at a major site.  ^The most serious accident was a
A13 230 fall from a roof, resulting in a broken pelvis.
A13 231 |^*2AS COMBINED *0union advocate for the most crucial 17 months
A13 232 of the plant's construction, Brian Evans was instrumental in
A13 233 helping solve most of the industrial and safety disputes.  ^He
A13 234 saw some long hours, with up to 17 six-day weeks during the
A13 235 five months he was Taranaki's relieving organiser for the
A13 236 Engineers' Union as well as site advocate.  ^He also had to
A13 237 withstand challenges for his job, including one of 
A13 238 no-confidence.
A13 239    |^But he survived the challenges, and saw his base in
A13 240 Wellington as an advantage.  ^It gave him a detached view of
A13 241 the plant, and he felt more on an equal footing with Bechtel's
A13 242 head, Sheldon Young, also based off-site, in Melbourne.  ^Now
A13 243 on the other side of the industrial fence, working for
A13 244 management, Evans sees the success at Motunui as resulting from
A13 245 communication skills which he says are generally lacking in the
A13 246 union movement: ^*"Often the education of union officials is
A13 247 deplorable.**"
A13 248 *#
A14 001 **[014 TEXT A14**]
A14 002 *<*4An American abroad*> *<by Brian Rudman*>
A14 003 |^{0US} *0congressman Stephen Solarz makes his living trying to
A14 004 ease international tensions.  ^But his quick visit to New
A14 005 Zealand produced no quick breakthroughs in the nuclear-ship
A14 006 visits deadlock.
A14 007 |^*6D*2OZENS OF EYES *0followed the little man in the navy
A14 008 reefer jacket as he moved through Wellington's domestic air
A14 009 terminal.  ^United States congressman Stephen Solarz was
A14 010 leaving town.
A14 011    |^But it was not any aura of power that attracted public
A14 012 attention *- or even, for most, recognition.  ^It was his hat,
A14 013 a shoulder-shading, khaki broadbrimmer that just about engulfed
A14 014 the wearer.  ^The latest in New York fashion, perhaps?
A14 015 ^*"Certainly not,**" replies a dapper courtier.  ^*"A Sydney
A14 016 airport souvenir.**"
A14 017    |^On television from Washington, Solarz is the stern
A14 018 messenger from Anzus head office.  ^Here, it is different.
A14 019 ^The airport plays a part, its legendary decrepitude a great
A14 020 leveller, rubbing off on all who pass through.  ^And on this
A14 021 humid January day, even number three on the {0US} House of
A14 022 Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee is not exempt.
A14 023    |^Solarz has had a month of non-stop travel, of airport
A14 024 check-in counters, counting luggage and waiting around, and it
A14 025 shows.  ^He has that slightly glazed-eye, disembodied look of
A14 026 the time-warped, long-distance traveller.  ^*"I really wanted
A14 027 to sleep,**" he says by way of greeting as we wait for the
A14 028 plane north.
A14 029    |^He had jetted into Wellington two days before, seeking
A14 030 solutions to the Anzus row.  ^As chairman of the House Asian
A14 031 and Pacific Affairs subcommittee he had met with the Prime
A14 032 Minister, Leader of the Opposition, other politicians,
A14 033 journalists, academics and pollsters.  ^Now he was off home to
A14 034 Washington, via Auckland to see the chair of Parliament's
A14 035 Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee, Helen Clark, and former
A14 036 prime minister Sir Robert Muldoon.
A14 037    |^From the New Zealand end of the telescope, the
A14 038 Government's tweaking of the imperial eagle's tail was still
A14 039 big news.
A14 040    |^Elsewhere, the world had moved on.  ^In Geneva the Soviets
A14 041 were trying to embarrass the {0US} with new disarmament
A14 042 proposals, while off Aden the royal yacht was poised to
A14 043 rekindle the glow of imperial pasts.
A14 044    |^Even Solarz, though attentive to a fault about the 
A14 045 ship-visit row while here, had other things on his plate.  ^New
A14 046 Zealand had been the last stop on a month-long swing through
A14 047 global trouble spots.  ^We merited just over 48 hours.
A14 048    |^*"I make a point not to declare myself an expert if I've
A14 049 not been in a country more than 24 hours.**" ^He smiles.  ^It
A14 050 is a gentle putdown of himself.  ^Since his election to the
A14 051 House in 1975 Solarz has been circling the globe chatting up
A14 052 foreign leaders.  ^In 1981 the *1New York Post *0talked of
A14 053 *"Solarz's Road Show**", calling him *"the junket king**".
A14 054    |^His reply to this is blunt.  ^The Foreign Affairs
A14 055 committee helps spend millions of dollars in aid and military
A14 056 assistance each year.  ^The best way to understand problems is
A14 057 to face them first hand.  ^It is the members of the committee
A14 058 who do not travel, those frightened of facts getting in the way
A14 059 of prejudices, who should be criticised.
A14 060    |^*"This is no vacation.  ^Do you know what it is like seven
A14 061 days a week for a month, from seven in the morning to midnight,
A14 062 every meal a working meal, travelling from one meeting to the
A14 063 next?**"
A14 064    |^First stop this trip had been the Middle East, Solarz's
A14 065 favourite stamping ground.  ^A Jew himself, he represents New
A14 066 York's 13th District, containing the biggest concentration of
A14 067 Jews in the {0US}.  ^He first entered the Foreign Affairs
A14 068 committee so he could speak up on Israel.  ^This time he had
A14 069 swung through Israel, Jordan and Egypt seeking peace.  ^Then to
A14 070 Thailand to check the strength of the non-communist resistance
A14 071 in Kampuchea; Hong Kong for a spot of China watching; Japan to
A14 072 look at ways to reduce trade imbalances with the {0US} and then
A14 073 three days in Australia to probe the New Zealand problem.
A14 074    |^Part international first-aider, then, and part local
A14 075 elected politician, looking for the breakthrough that could
A14 076 gain him kudos back home.  ^Like his small success last year
A14 077 after trips to Indochina in getting a resolution through the
A14 078 House backing aid for the non-communist resistance in the area.
A14 079    |^But for the past 48 hours he had played the role of
A14 080 dedicated marriage guidance counsellor, recalling the good
A14 081 times, minimising the rifts, trying to get New Zealand out of
A14 082 the spare bedroom.  ^At the press conference earlier he spoke
A14 083 of his talks being with *"close friends**" speaking with
A14 084 *"genuine candour**".  ^He recalled past sacrifices made
A14 085 together for common values and the evident desire on both sides
A14 086 to resolve differences.
A14 087    |^*"This problem cannot be resolved on a theological level.
A14 088 ^If it comes to a question of preaching conflicting theologies
A14 089 there will be no agreement.  ^I don't think we are going to
A14 090 convince the Government of New Zealand to welcome the presence
A14 091 of nuclear-armed ships and the Government of New Zealand is not
A14 092 going to convince the United States to make an exception for
A14 093 New Zealand that it is not prepared to make for other allied
A14 094 countries around the world.
A14 095    |^*"Therefore if there is going to be a solution it is going
A14 096 to be at a practical level rather than at the theological
A14 097 level.  ^Both sides will have to be in a position to maintain
A14 098 their principles while at the same time reaching an agreement
A14 099 in practice that each believes is compatible with its concern.
A14 100 ^I do not believe that is impossible.**"
A14 101 |^*6O*2NE OF THE *0pitfalls of jetset diplomacy is to assume
A14 102 that because people speak much the same language, eat the same
A14 103 foods, look much the same and fought past wars together, they
A14 104 therefore think the same way.  ^But just as an Aussie umpire
A14 105 finds it so hard to give one of his countrymen out {0lbw}, so
A14 106 Solarz, however well intentioned, was trapped behind the
A14 107 American end of the telescope.
A14 108    |^Toss out the theology, he argued, while insisting that to
A14 109 save Anzus the nuclear-capable ship visits had to continue and
A14 110 the policy of *"neither confirm nor deny**" had to stay firm.
A14 111 ^The latter was crucial.  ^The administration *"cannot accept
A14 112 an arrangement with New Zealand that could create serious
A14 113 problems for us in terms of our ability to maintain port access
A14 114 to other friendly and allied countries**".
A14 115    |^Solarz talked of {0US} global responsibilities to keep
A14 116 sea-lanes open and maintain an effective naval deterrent.
A14 117 ^*"It would simply not be possible to do that if its ships were
A14 118 denied access to the ports of allied countries.  ^At a time
A14 119 when 40 percent of our navy is nuclear powered and a growing
A14 120 percentage is nuclear capable, if friendly countries around the
A14 121 world were to adopt policies which made it impossible to send
A14 122 nuclear-powered and nuclear-capable ships into their ports, it
A14 123 would have grave consequences for the ability of the {0US} to
A14 124 maintain its deterrent and preserve the peace.**"
A14 125    |^The odd ship here was not the problem.  ^If New Zealand
A14 126 was the only country involved *"we could have possibly lived
A14 127 with it [the non-nuclear policy].  ^We wouldn't have been happy
A14 128 perhaps, but we could have lived with it.**" ^The {0US} fear
A14 129 was that other allies might seize on the precedent, see New
A14 130 Zealand had not been punished and demand similar non-nuclear
A14 131 privileges.
A14 132    |^So what evidence is there that this *"ripple effect**"
A14 133 theory is any more valid than the *"domino theory**" of the
A14 134 Vietnam War period?  ^Malaysia and Thailand had not fallen
A14 135 then.  ^Nor had Australia, Indonesia or New Zealand, despite
A14 136 the communist victory in Vietnam.
A14 137    |^*"It may ultimately turn out that if we accepted New
A14 138 Zealand policy and continued to conduct business as usual it
A14 139 wouldn't have an effect elsewhere, but nobody can be sure it
A14 140 wouldn't have and the stakes are simply too high.**"
A14 141    |^The Americans fear, for instance, that opponents in
A14 142 Australia of the joint facilities, *"which are very important
A14 143 to us from a strategic point of view, would be significantly
A14 144 strengthened if they could credibly claim that it would be
A14 145 possible for Australia to terminate joint facilities and still
A14 146 continue to enjoy the benefits of Anzus.  ^It's simply not in
A14 147 our interests to encourage the impression we countenance
A14 148 that.**"
A14 149    |^The British Labour Party is another example.  ^Solarz says
A14 150 their policy is similar to New Zealand's.  ^If the {0US} had
A14 151 accepted New Zealand's policy it might have encouraged the
A14 152 British Labour Party to think they could ^*"adopt a similar
A14 153 policy without risk to the fabric of Nato, which I don't think
A14 154 would have been possible.**"
A14 155 |^*6S*2OLARZ ADMITS *0to being not over-optimistic that a
A14 156 solution can be reached with New Zealand, but points to Japan
A14 157 as a case where a *"non-theological**" answer has been
A14 158 reached.
A14 159    |^His reasoning becomes noteworthy for what is left unsaid.
A14 160 ^*"The Japanese constitution prohibits the presence of 
A14 161 nuclear-armed ships in their waters.  ^We recognise their constitution
A14 162 and at the same time we maintain a schedule of ship access to
A14 163 their ports which we deem to be compatible with their interests
A14 164 while maintaining our principle of neither confirming nor
A14 165 denying.**"
A14 166    |^But surely such a practical solution, if adopted with New
A14 167 Zealand, would have to include acceptance of the New Zealand
A14 168 Government's ship-access policy?  ^*"It means we certainly have
A14 169 to take note of that... ^We take note of the Japanese policy and
A14 170 I think therefore the Japanese are satisfied by it and we're
A14 171 satisfied by it.  ^In the case of New Zealand I think any
A14 172 American administration would obviously be aware of your law
A14 173 and I think we can be expected to respect the laws of other
A14 174 countries.**"
A14 175    |^This exchange had been at the press conference.  ^I
A14 176 suggested that on reflection it was rather cynical, that it was
A14 177 widely believed that the {0US} paid lip service to the Japanese
A14 178 law while bringing nuclear weapons into their ports.  ^The
A14 179 Japanese Government chose to turn a blind eye, thus it worked.
A14 180    |^Regarding {0US} ships in Japan, Solarz says he does not
A14 181 know the situation.  ^*"I haven't inspected them.**" ^As for
A14 182 being cynical *- he doesn't mean to be.  ^*"I'm a politician
A14 183 and I'm in the business of reconciling problems, of searching
A14 184 for compromises and resolving conflicting points of view.**"
A14 185    |^He says it would be naive to expect the {0US} to abandon
A14 186 its no-disclosure policy or to expect New Zealand to welcome
A14 187 *"nukes**" into its harbours.  ^The way to deal with it, he
A14 188 says, is to look at which ships will be permitted in and which
A14 189 ones will not.  ^Obviously the {0US} will insist on sending
A14 190 more than just rowboats and tankers.  ^Nuclear-capable ships
A14 191 will have to be included in any schedule of ship visits, even
A14 192 if they are not nuclear armed.
A14 193    |^Given such a compromise *"there's a real possibility that
A14 194 we will send ships that don't have nuclear weapons.  ^But we
A14 195 can't do it in a way that convinces people we've done it.**"
A14 196    |^*"I can understand New Zealand,**" says Solarz, *"so far
A14 197 removed from the centre of action, so unlikely a nuclear
A14 198 target, just as soon having nothing to do with [nuclear arms]
A14 199 at all.**" ^But he feels it is a false security.  ^Whether New
A14 200 Zealand has nuclear-ship visits or not, he argues, the chances
A14 201 of our being targeted during a nuclear war are remote.  ^The
A14 202 danger to us is not the direct hit, it is the threat of nuclear
A14 203 winter, the post-war big freeze which scientists predict will
A14 204 wipe out all life on the planet *- whether they played host to
A14 205 warships or not.  ^To Solarz the only realistic way to get
A14 206 disarmament is by mutual and verifiable agreements between the
A14 207 superpower blocs.  ^And the {0US} is stronger in these talks if
A14 208 its allies stay firm.
A14 209 |^*6W*2HEN HE *0left Washington, the conventional wisdom was
A14 210 that no solution to the New Zealand problem was possible.
A14 211 ^After two working days in Wellington Solarz had gained the
A14 212 feeling that possibly there was a chance.
A14 213    |^That was before his meeting in Auckland with anti-nuclear
A14 214 standard-bearer Helen Clark and a half-hour phone conversation
A14 215 with fellow Labour back-bencher Jim Anderton.  ^Both told him
A14 216 bluntly that a Japanese-type solution allowing nuclear-capable
A14 217 warships into our ports on some sort of *"trust me**" policy
A14 218 was unlikely to be acceptable to party activists or to many
A14 219 voters.
A14 220    |^While Solarz was coping with this message, his secretary
A14 221 planned a little problem-solving of her own.  ^Wellington
A14 222 airport's souvenir shop had been unable to come up with a
A14 223 *"Nuke-buster**" T-shirt.  ^She hoped to find one in Auckland.
A14 224 ^*"For my young brother,**" she insisted with a grin.
A14 225    |^If no solution to the Anzus impasse was possible Solarz
A14 226 emphasised that we would still be good friends.  ^*"Whatever
A14 227 happens, New Zealand should never be made a pariah nation.
A14 228 ^Anything less would be a disservice to the New Zealand and
A14 229 American soldiers who died together in Europe and the Pacific
A14 230 for shared values.**"
A14 231    |^He also says the Deep Freeze base in Christchurch will not
A14 232 move.  ^*"It's not an issue, it's not in either of our
A14 233 interests to let it go.**" ^Mention Chile as an alternative
A14 234 site and he quips back, ^*"I'd prefer Lange to Pinochet any
A14 235 day.**" ^Adding, with a chuckle, ^*"I bet \0Mr Lange has had
A14 236 much better compliments than that.**"
A14 237 *#
A15 001 **[015 TEXT A15**]
A15 002 *<*4Four Rugby Issues For Determination*>
A15 003    |^It's not too often that the lounge of Wellington's \0St
A15 004 George Hotel turns breathlessly quiet, but it may well do so at
A15 005 some time today as delegates to a special general meeting of
A15 006 the New Zealand Rugby Union await the outcome of voting on a
A15 007 specially significant issue.
A15 008    |^*0There are, in fact, four issues for determination, each
A15 009 by a two-thirds majority, by the delegates of the 27 provincial
A15 010 unions.
A15 011    |^The first is a series of recommendations from a special
A15 012 committee appointed some time ago to inquire into the structure
A15 013 of the 18-man council of the union.
A15 014    |^The second concerns the proposal of the promotion and
A15 015 public relations sub**[ARB**]-committee of the council, that
A15 016 the union adopt a trade-marked logo which, applied to a variety
A15 017 of products, could yield an income of thousands, perhaps
A15 018 millions, independently of gate-takings, interest on loans and
A15 019 other matters.
A15 020    |^The third proposes changes in the Ranfurly Shield rules
A15 021 consequent upon the creation of the third division of the
A15 022 national provincial championship; and the fourth, which is
A15 023 likely to cause no excitement whatever, urges that North Otago,
A15 024 Otago and Southland be created as a fourth district within the
A15 025 jurisdiction of the Maori Advisory Board, thus splitting Te
A15 026 Waipounamu (the South Island) into two.
A15 027    |^Before dealing with the breathless hush matter, let it be
A15 028 said, as background information, that the council already has
A15 029 approved the special committee report with, so it seems,
A15 030 amazing speed.
A15 031    |^Since the recommendations *- that the country be divided
A15 032 into three zones each entitled to four councillors, that there
A15 033 be an administration committee of not more than three members
A15 034 and that the chairman and vice-chairman may be elected from
A15 035 anywhere (the council, in all, will total 19, against 18 of
A15 036 old) *- alter the constitution, they can be supported or
A15 037 rejected by delegates, but such has been the clamour for change
A15 038 in the council that rejection seems most unlikely.
A15 039    |^It also ought to be remarked that the council has already
A15 040 approved the substance of the recommendations as to the new
A15 041 logo.
A15 042    |^These centre upon the use of a stylised silver fern
A15 043 devised and recommended by the council's promotional agent,
A15 044 {0A.M.} Haden's Sporting Contacts \0Ltd, and which is to be
A15 045 used in support of such entities as the New Zealand Rugby
A15 046 Union, New Zealand Maoris, New Zealand Juniors and, presumably,
A15 047 other teams of national or quasi-national standing.
A15 048    |^The nub of the arguments today will be the recommendation
A15 049 that the logo be used upon the jersey of the New Zealand
A15 050 representative team to produce a monogram, bold in shape and
A15 051 outline, made up of the words, *"New Zealand All Blacks,**" and
A15 052 the new silver fern.
A15 053    |^A Justice Department official acknowledged yesterday that
A15 054 the logo had been submitted in the proper form by the union's
A15 055 patent attorneys, had been advertised in the official journal
A15 056 for three months and had drawn no objections.
A15 057    |^So far, so good; and Andy Haden from time to time has
A15 058 seemed absolutely sure his creation will be approved, to the
A15 059 great financial benefit of the union and game.
A15 060    |^This is where the breathless hush begins.  ^The Auckland
A15 061 Rugby Union has published its opposition.  ^The great fullback
A15 062 Bob Scott is horrified at the heresy of the change.  ^So are
A15 063 many other players who have worn the jersey.
A15 064    |^It boils down to the issue of cash versus tradition, both
A15 065 of which are compelling factors.  ^Such are the curious strains
A15 066 in the politics of New Zealand rugby that Auckland's opposition
A15 067 to the change might become, for many unions, the most
A15 068 compelling reason why it should be made.
A15 069 *<*4Hooker Hika Set And Eager To Front as Flanker*>
A15 070    |^After scooping the cream from the Argentine teams now
A15 071 touring New Zealand, the Wasps could not find a place for Hika
A15 072 Reid as hooker in their team to play Auckland in the
A15 073 traditional Easter Sunday rugby match at Rotorua on March 30.
A15 074    |^*0One of the six Argentines, most of them Pumas, was
A15 075 Javier Perez-Cobo, the reserve hooker.  ^The Easter match
A15 076 without Reid seemed unthinkable.
A15 077    |^Would, asked Barry Spry, the Wasps' club captain, Hika
A15 078 mind playing on the side of the scrum?
A15 079    |^The Reid smile went from ear to ear.  ^Would he ever!  ^So
A15 080 the Wasps will have a dynamic all-Maori back-row of Reid on one
A15 081 flank, Frank Shelford, the captain, on the other, and Wayne
A15 082 Shelford at \0No 8.
A15 083    |^Originally, the Wasps, sponsored by Air New Zealand, had
A15 084 six Pumas in the side *- Diego Cash at prop, Perez-Cobo as
A15 085 hooker, Sergio Carossio at lock, Guillermo Holmgren at halfback
A15 086 and Marcello Loffreda and Diego Cuesta-Silva in the midfield.
A15 087    |^Unfortunately Carossio's playing career in New Zealand
A15 088 lasted only a few minutes last weekend before he broke an
A15 089 ankle, and \0Mr Spry is now hunting for another lock to partner
A15 090 Gary Braid, Bay of Plenty's All Black now with North Harbour.
A15 091    |^In keeping with their policy of promoting young players
A15 092 the Wasps will field Darryl Halligan, the New Zealand secondary
A15 093 schools fullback, and a promising wing, Warwick Paul, recently
A15 094 out of Western Heights High School.
A15 095    |^The Wasps team for the match, which will start at
A15 096 2.45{0pm}, is *-
A15 097 **[LIST**]
A15 098    |^In the curtainraiser the second *=XVs of Bay of Plenty and
A15 099 Waikato will play in the Wasps and Harlequins colours.
A15 100 *<*4*'Bear With Us**' Plea On Board*>
A15 101    |^*0The spectators at the third New Zealand-Australia
A15 102 cricket test at Eden Park over the next five days may think
A15 103 otherwise, but they will be guinea pigs.
A15 104    |^Unexpected problems with the new *+$600,000 scoreboard
A15 105 have meant that some of the details are obscured by reflections
A15 106 from the shiny surface.
A15 107    |^This has not occurred with similar scoreboards in the
A15 108 United States and Australia and is evidently caused by unusual
A15 109 lighting conditions at Eden Park.
A15 110    |^Before the start of the test today two portions on the
A15 111 left and right sides of the scoreboard will be sprayed with a
A15 112 special opaque material, and the experts will check to see
A15 113 whether this removes the reflections.
A15 114    |^A park authorities spokesman said yesterday he asked the
A15 115 spectators *"to bear with us**" and regretted any
A15 116 inconvenience the spectators might experience.
A15 117 *<*5Baying For Botham's Very Blood*>
A15 118 *<*4{0NZPA} London*>
A15 119    |^*0The love-hate relationship between England cricketer Ian
A15 120 Botham and the British press has entered another hate phase.
A15 121    |^Botham's truly modest performances in the first two tests
A15 122 in the West Indies this year prompted one headline of ^*"Pull
A15 123 your finger out**" and widespread opining that he should not
A15 124 play for England again.
A15 125    |^In the *1Times *0there was an insult meant to indicate
A15 126 precisely how poorly Botham is playing.  ^In one of the less
A15 127 vehement criticisms, *1Times *0correspondent John Woodcock
A15 128 wrote: ^*"Botham simply wastes it [the new ball] by bowling so
A15 129 short, usually with two long legs, as though everyone bats like
A15 130 Andrew Hilditch.**"
A15 131    |^One of the more stinging criticisms came in the *1Daily
A15 132 Express, *0which posed the question: ^*"Has Botham burned
A15 133 himself out at the age of 36?  ^Or is the brutal truth that he
A15 134 was never really good enough to take on the beat the best **[SIC**]
A15 135 in the world?**"
A15 136    |^And the paper produced statistics to back up its *"yes**"
A15 137 answer.  ^Against all countries but the West Indies, Botham has
A15 138 scored 3820 runs, including 13 centuries, at an average of more
A15 139 than 40.
A15 140    |^Against the West Indies he has passed 50 only three times
A15 141 in 209 innings and has an average of 21.8.  ^And Botham's most
A15 142 recent bowling figures strengthen the call for his head.
A15 143    |^His last 13 overs on the Port of Spain, Trinidad, ground
A15 144 where the second test is being played have been hit for 115
A15 145 runs.
A15 146    |^Botham's performances off the field were also brought into
A15 147 discussion by one of the world's most respected sports writers,
A15 148 Ian Woolridge.  ^In the *1Daily Mail *0Woolridge said some of
A15 149 the England team would be *"looking back with nostalgia**" to
A15 150 the tour of India when Botham was at home.
A15 151    |^*"They confide that the dressing room was a much happier
A15 152 place then.  ^They do not say this within Botham's hearing.
A15 153 ^He is a tempestuous man.**"
A15 154    |^He added that if Botham did not play a long and
A15 155 responsible innings in the second innings of the second test
A15 156 *"the unthinkable could happen.  ^England could drop Botham
A15 157 before Botham can carry out his threat to drop England.**"
A15 158 ^(Woolridge wrote before Botham's dismissal for one.)
A15 159    |^Botham, however, wrote in the *1Sun *0that he was not
A15 160 planning to retire from International cricket saying he was
A15 161 hoping to be chosen for next season's tour of Australia.
A15 162    |^At Port of Spain yesterday, Botham lasted just six minutes
A15 163 before he was caught behind.
A15 164    |^As he walked from the field Botham defiantly raised and
A15 165 waved his arm to the press benches and, before disappearing
A15 166 into the dressing room, hurled his helmet to the ground.
A15 167 *<*4Easy for West Indies*>
A15 168 *<{0NZPA} Port-of-Spain*>
A15 169    |^The West Indies were within easy reach of victory at
A15 170 stumps on the fourth day of the second cricket test, needing
A15 171 just 17 runs to make the 93-run target set by England.
A15 172    |^*0Already one up in the five-match series, the West Indies
A15 173 have all day today to make the runs with nine wickets in hand,
A15 174 having reached one for 76 in the final session yesterday.
A15 175    |^The West Indies launched a blistering attack on England's
A15 176 bowlers and would have wrapped up the match yesterday if it had
A15 177 not been for England skipper David Gower calling conferences
A15 178 with his bowlers in the latter stages.
A15 179    |^Gordon Greenidge made a brisk 45 before being caught by
A15 180 Allan Lamb off Phil Edmonds, while Desmond Haynes was still
A15 181 there on 29.
A15 182    |^Resuming at 168 for three yesterday, England quickly lost
A15 183 Allan Lamb for 40, {0lbw} to Walsh after adding 14 to his
A15 184 overnight score.  ^Ian Botham came in and was soon caught by
A15 185 wicketkeeper Payne for one, after his two in the first innings.
A15 186 ^Overnight batsman Peter Willey added seven runs before being
A15 187 bowled by Marshall for 26.
A15 188    |^With the fall of Willey, Downton (5) and Emburey (14)
A15 189 followed in quick succession.
A15 190    |^Marshall picked up his 200th test wicket and ended the day
A15 191 with figures of four for 94.  ^Walsh took four for 74.
A15 192    |^The day was highlighted by a spirited last wicket stand by
A15 193 Richard Ellison (36) and Greg Thomas (31 not out) who batted
A15 194 out the entire session up until tea and added 72 runs.
A15 195    |^Extras topscored with 59, including 27 no-balls.
A15 196 **[TABLE**]
A15 197 **[PLATE**]
A15 198    |^*0Four outstanding performances at last weekend's New
A15 199 Zealand athletic championships in Christchurch point to Simon
A15 200 Poelman, of Auckland, breaking through the 8000-point barrier
A15 201 in the New Zealand decathlon championships starting this Friday
A15 202 at \0Mt Smart Stadium.
A15 203    |^As well as improving on his New Zealand record of 7854
A15 204 points set late last year, Poelman will become the first
A15 205 athlete in Australasia to better 8000 points, if he is
A15 206 successful.
A15 207    |^*"The weather will be a big factor over the two days of
A15 208 competition, but I will still be disappointed with anything
A15 209 less than 8000 points,**" said Poelman.
A15 210    |^Last week Poelman won the pole vault and 110\0m hurdles,
A15 211 was second in the 100\0m and third in the long jump.
A15 212    |^A top-class performance will place the 22-year-old New
A15 213 Zealand hurdles 110\0m and pole vault champion well in line for
A15 214 the silver medal at the Edinburgh Commonwealth Games, given
A15 215 that Daly Thompson, of England, will be competing.
A15 216    |^Over recent weeks, Poelman has set personal bests in the
A15 217 long jump (7.36\0m), pole vault (4.67\0m), 100\0m (10.77\0s),
A15 218 discus (44.44\0m) and 400\0m (49.6\0s).
A15 219    |^Auckland's Stefan Hand will have a third attempt at the
A15 220 Commonwealth Games selection standard of 7400 points.
A15 221    |^He was 28 points short in December and two weeks ago he
A15 222 fell short by 118 points.
A15 223    |^The women's heptathlon at the Countrywide championships
A15 224 will also be held over Friday and Saturday.
A15 225    |^Lyn Osmers, of Canterbury, who has already qualified for
A15 226 the games with 5455 points, should collect this title.
A15 227 *<*4Dinner Helps Hadlee*>
A15 228    |^*0Richard Hadlee already has his stand at Eden Park, the
A15 229 open terraces at the Dominion \0Rd end of the ground.
A15 230    |^Now Auckland, or at least the University-\0St Heliers
A15 231 Cricket Club, are weighing in behind Hadlee in his benefit
A15 232 year.
A15 233    |^Profits from the {0USH} club's annual cricketer-of-the-year 
A15 234 dinner will be split between Hadlee's benefit and the New
A15 235 Zealand Cricket Foundation which will contribute to the sending
A15 236 of a young Aucklander for playing experience in England.
A15 237    |^*"We thought it a good chance to pay tribute to Hadlee,**"
A15 238 said Ross Dykes, a {0USH} official yesterday.  ^*"The idea has
A15 239 brought a very good response, especially among the older folk,
A15 240 for the dinner.**"
A15 241 *#
A16 001 **[016 TEXT A16**]
A16 002 *<*4Coney urges council to *'get act together**'*>
A16 003    |*2TIMARU ({0PA}). *- ^*0Jeremy Coney, the New Zealand
A16 004 captain, yesterday called on the New Zealand Cricket Council to
A16 005 *"get its act together**" before the West Indies arrive here
A16 006 for the three-test series in February-March.
A16 007    |^Controversy has raged since the West Indies refused to
A16 008 agree to a rate of 90 overs a day being written into the test
A16 009 match conditions.
A16 010    |^Graham Dowling, executive director of the New Zealand
A16 011 council, yesterday sympathised with an appeal from fast bowler
A16 012 Richard Hadlee for a new approach to the West Indies but said
A16 013 he doubted further negotiations would be fruitful.
A16 014    |^But in Timaru yesterday, Coney said the upcoming tour
A16 015 presented a challenge not only to the New Zealand players but
A16 016 also *"a test for the administrators and whether they can get
A16 017 their act together prior to the West Indies arriving.**"
A16 018    |^*"If they do, they will be helping the players, the
A16 019 umpires and the public.  ^No one likes seeing bowlers dawdling
A16 020 back 36 paces to start their run-ups.**"
A16 021    |^The {0NZCC} will discuss the overs issue on November 29
A16 022 and will re-open negotiations with its West Indies counterpart
A16 023 if council members feel further talks are necessary.
A16 024    |^But \0Mr Dowling doubted the council would consider a
A16 025 fresh approach and said the {0NZCC} had no power to enforce an
A16 026 overs rate provision in the face of West Indies opposition.
A16 027    |^*"Board members are aware of the West Indian response to
A16 028 our first approach on the over rates issue,**" \0Mr Dowling
A16 029 said.
A16 030    |^*"To be frank, the response was exactly what we expected.
A16 031    |^*"Playing conditions are always negotiable and, if
A16 032 agreement can't be reached, we revert to the laws of cricket.
A16 033 ^I suspect that's the way it will end up.**"
A16 034 *<*6CHANGES*>
A16 035    |^*0\0Mr Dowling said the over rates problem could be solved
A16 036 by changes to the structure of the International Cricket
A16 037 Conference which would make majority decisions of test playing
A16 038 nations binding on all members.
A16 039    |^The West Indies were isolated by their opposition to over
A16 040 rates regulations and would probably be forced to accept those
A16 041 provisions if the {0ICC} made majority decisions law.
A16 042    |^*"It's just the mechanics of the {0ICC} that it is not
A16 043 possible to produce majority decisions which are binding on all
A16 044 members,**" \0Mr Dowling said.
A16 045    |^*"The next {0ICC} meeting should see changes which will
A16 046 give it more teeth and the power to enforce majority decisions.
A16 047 ^Those changes are likely within 12 months but, unfortunately,
A16 048 probably after the West Indies tour.**"
A16 049    |^In the meantime, Dowling appealed for tolerance and an
A16 050 understanding that the New Zealand council could not enforce an
A16 051 over rate quota.
A16 052    |^*"Richard Hadlee and the New Zealand Cricket Council are
A16 053 entirely in agreement on this issue,**" he said.
A16 054    |^*"But there is no point in all the speculation and
A16 055 informed comment on what the New Zealand Cricket Council should
A16 056 do.
A16 057    |^*"We know what should be done and what can be done.  ^The
A16 058 sooner everyone understands that our hands are tied, the
A16 059 better.
A16 060    |^*"Nothing can be done until structural changes are made to
A16 061 the {0ICC} and it's important that people *- the media and
A16 062 Richard Hadlee included *- realise that.**"
A16 063 *<*6PROGRESS*>
A16 064    |^*0Coney said, however, that until the West Indians stepped
A16 065 on to New Zealand soil, there was an opportunity for the
A16 066 {0NZCC} to make some progress on the issue.
A16 067    |^*"But it depends on how much importance the council places
A16 068 on the matter,**" he said.
A16 069    |^*"I'd imagine it would feel threatened if the West Indies
A16 070 weren't to accede to the request which they probably won't
A16 071 anyway.
A16 072    |^*"They (the councillors) may fear the West Indies won't
A16 073 bother coming and obviously they *- and the players *- don't
A16 074 want that to happen.**"
A16 075    |^Coney's statement represents the second time in recent
A16 076 months he has taken the {0NZCC} to task.
A16 077    |^He also strongly criticised the council's agreement to a
A16 078 congested schedule for the recent England tour without
A16 079 reference to the players.
A16 080    |^The New Zealand captain, who led New Zealand to series
A16 081 wins over Australia (home and away) and England last season,
A16 082 predicted a close Ashes series in Australia.
A16 083    |^*"It'll be very close but the Englishmen should do very
A16 084 well if they can tidy up their discipline and their attitudes
A16 085 to training,**" he said.
A16 086    |^*"It has to be remembered that Australia is still very
A16 087 much going through a rebuilding stage.  ^They are expected to
A16 088 perform to the same level as they did in the 
A16 089 Chappell-Lillee-Marsh era but that's not realistic.**"
A16 090 *<*4Thomas to join pro ranks*>
A16 091    *<*0By the Golf Writer*>
A16 092    |^The performance of Dunedin professional, Greg Turner, on
A16 093 the international circuit has inspired Simon Thomas, of
A16 094 Balmacewen, to embark on a career in professional golf.
A16 095    |^Thomas (21) notched four wins in his Government Life debut
A16 096 two weeks ago but is keen to leave amateur competition and make
A16 097 golf his life.
A16 098    |^He has been working in the Otago Golf Shop at Balmacewen
A16 099 for the past 18 months and sees his decision to join the
A16 100 professional ranks as a logical step.
A16 101    |^Thomas hopes to become a touring professional but will be
A16 102 taking a different path to that which led to Turner's success.
A16 103    |^*"I considered going for a golf scholarship but was only
A16 104 likely to get a part scholarship which meant that I would need
A16 105 about *+$10,000 each year,**" he said.
A16 106    |^Thomas was priced out of the American college scene and
A16 107 will start as the assistant professional at the Otago Golf
A16 108 Shop.
A16 109    |^He will be required to undertake a three-year
A16 110 apprenticeship under the club professional, Michael Henderson,
A16 111 before gaining his ticket.
A16 112    |^Thomas has already spent 18 months working in the Otago
A16 113 Golf Shop under Henderson and his predecessor Terry Adcock.
A16 114    |^However, only six months of that time can be credited to
A16 115 Thomas' professional career and he will have to put in another
A16 116 two and a half years before becoming a fully-fledged
A16 117 professional.
A16 118    |^Thomas' intention is to become a touring and not a club
A16 119 professional but he is under no illusions about the difficult
A16 120 task ahead of him.
A16 121    |^*"I spoke to Greg (Turner) about playing and he told me
A16 122 about many of the professionals and how good they are,**"
A16 123 Thomas said.  ^*"Their methods are not that much better than
A16 124 many amateurs but the players who make it have the ability to
A16 125 score.
A16 126    |^*"Greg cited scoring ability and consistency as the main
A16 127 ingredients for success and he told me what I must work at.
A16 128    |^*"I must practice and practice to improve my play and in
A16 129 particular practice my short game which will save strokes,**"
A16 130 he said.
A16 131    |^*"Gaining consistency and improving my temperament are the
A16 132 main objectives I have in the immediate future.**"
A16 133    |^Thomas believes that he has a difficult task to succeed as
A16 134 a touring professional and quipped that it might take a miracle
A16 135 for him to make money.
A16 136    |^His short amateur career has netted him one Otago under 18
A16 137 title (1982) and two Otago Golf Club senior championships.
A16 138    |^He attended Otago Boys High School and along with Turner
A16 139 and Henderson becomes the third golfer from that school to opt
A16 140 for a career in professional golf in recent years.
A16 141    |^But Thomas' decision comes as a striking blow to Otago
A16 142 amateur golf which has lost many top players in recent years.
A16 143    |^His departure from the team brings the total to 16 golfers
A16 144 who have left Otago in the past seven years.
A16 145    |^Thomas intends to make a telephone call to the New Zealand
A16 146 Professional Golfers Association today to inform them of his
A16 147 intention to take up the apprenticeship at Balmacewen.
A16 148 *<*4Wyllie nominated for N.Z. panel*>
A16 149    |*2CHRISTCHURCH ({0PA}). *- ^*0Alex Wyllie, the selector-coach 
A16 150 of the Canterbury rugby team for the past five years, is
A16 151 to seek a place on the New Zealand selection panel.
A16 152    |^Wyllie's nomination was approved last night by the
A16 153 Canterbury Rugby Football Union which also heard that New
A16 154 Zealand selector Stan Hill will not seek re-election on the
A16 155 three-man panel.
A16 156    |^Nominations close on Friday and the next year's panel is
A16 157 expected to be elected at a meeting of the New Zealand Rugby
A16 158 Football Union council on December 5.
A16 159    |^It is the second time Wyllie has bid for a New Zealand
A16 160 appointment.  ^He allowed his name to go forward in 1984 (for
A16 161 the 1985 season), but a rider that he was interested only if he
A16 162 could immediately become the All Black coach rendered it a
A16 163 fairly futile attempt.
A16 164    |^The Canterbury union's decision to nominate Wyllie was
A16 165 made simpler by the announcement of Hill's non-availability.
A16 166    |^With {0CRFU} support, Hill has been an All Black selector
A16 167 since 1981, the year after he retired from a five-year stint as
A16 168 a Canterbury selector-coach.
A16 169    |^Hill said last night his decision to step aside was based
A16 170 mainly on Wyllie's availability.
A16 171    |^*"I only stood last year because Alex didn't want the job.
A16 172 ^Now he does and I don't want to stand in his way,**" he said.
A16 173    |^*"I have been there long enough and I think he is the
A16 174 right man.  ^I just hope he gets the top job before long.**"
A16 175 *<*6DISAPPOINTED*>
A16 176    |^*0Hill is one of the few men, certainly the only one of
A16 177 recent times, to spend so long on the selection panel, but
A16 178 never be appointed the convener, or All Black coach.
A16 179    |^He coached at various stages the New Zealand Colts, the
A16 180 New Zealand Juniors and the New Zealand Emerging Players team.
A16 181    |^Hill said that naturally he was disappointed that he never
A16 182 got to coach the All Blacks, whose colours he wore from 1955 to
A16 183 1959, but he knew *"the writing was on the wall**" as soon as
A16 184 Brian Lochore was appointed to the panel in 1984.
A16 185    |^*"Lochore was the man the powers that be wanted and that
A16 186 was it.  ^It was a knockback, but sport is full of knockbacks
A16 187 and you have just got to accept them,**" he said.
A16 188    |^Hill said that apart from this year he had enjoyed his
A16 189 time as a New Zealand selector.
A16 190    |^*"In all honesty I can't say I enjoyed this year.  ^It was
A16 191 a mess from the time that certain people decided to go their
A16 192 own way, and we never recovered from it.**"
A16 193    |^But Hill said he did not wish to reopen the Cavaliers tour
A16 194 issue.
A16 195    |^*"It's in the past now and that's where I hope it stays.
A16 196 ^The tour upset all our rugby this year and I look forward to a
A16 197 fresh start next year, without any such complications.**"
A16 198    |^Hill said he believes New Zealand still has plenty of good
A16 199 rugby players, but he questioned some of the tactics that the
A16 200 All Blacks had employed in the past two seasons.
A16 201    |^*"I am not knocking Brian (Lochore).  ^He has had a lot of
A16 202 problems this year, but when you look at the All Blacks' record
A16 203 under him, it is not all that wonderful.
A16 204    |^*"The reason, I think, lies in the tactical approach.**"
A16 205    |^Hill said he has great confidence in Wyllie as a coach,
A16 206 and that was why he would not compete against him for a place
A16 207 on the national panel.
A16 208    |^*"I am sure Alex will do the same thing with the All
A16 209 Blacks as he did with Canterbury *- play good rugby and win
A16 210 games.**"
A16 211 *<*4Hart seeking election*>
A16 212    |*2AUCKLAND ({0PA}). *- ^*0John Hart, the man at the helm of
A16 213 Auckland's rugby successes over the past five seasons, said he
A16 214 will join Alex Wyllie, the Canterbury coach, in seeking
A16 215 election as an All Black selector.
A16 216    |^Hart's decision, made yesterday, came after weeks of
A16 217 deliberation.
A16 218    |^As well as nominating Hart for the panel, the Auckland
A16 219 Rugby Union will recommend the New Zealand Rugby Football Union
A16 220 change its traditional *"one coach**" outlook and install a
A16 221 back coach.
A16 222    |^According to Malcolm Dick, the {0ARU} chairman and
A16 223 {0NZRFU} councillor, there were two main reasons for nominating
A16 224 Hart's *"outstanding talents.**"
A16 225    |He said: ^*"The first is our firm belief that the All
A16 226 Blacks should be coached by a coach and an assistant coach.
A16 227    |^*"The last time I can remember the All Blacks being taken
A16 228 by a back was almost 10 years ago, and we certainly believe it
A16 229 is essential the team have a back coach as well.
A16 230    |^*"The other reason is that we also believe successful
A16 231 provincial coaches should be elevated to an All Black selecting
A16 232 role much quicker than in the past.  ^This is the ideal
A16 233 opportunity to do that.**"
A16 234    |^Hart stressed last night he is not standing on a platform
A16 235 of becoming assistant coach.
A16 236    |^*"I am standing for the panel and if, after Auckland has
A16 237 put its case, the {0NZRFU} decided they needed a back coach,
A16 238 then I would be interested.**"
A16 239 *#
A17 001 **[017 TEXT A17**]
A17 002 *<*4Injuries upset selection plans*>
A17 003 *<{0NZPA} Staff Correspondent*>
A17 004    |*6CHRISTCHURCH. *- ^*4Alan Jones, the Wallaby coach,
A17 005 through faith and confidence in developing players, has placed
A17 006 a heavy burden of responsibility on those individuals named in
A17 007 the team to play Canterbury at Lancaster Park tomorrow.
A17 008    |^*0Jones has put his selection policy where his mouth is by
A17 009 asserting tomorrow's match is not the fourth *"test**" it has
A17 010 been called but, rather, a provincial match which will be
A17 011 treated in that vein.
A17 012    |^The Wallaby team to meet Canterbury includes seven of the
A17 013 forwards but only two of the backs who played in the first test
A17 014 at Athletic Park last weekend.
A17 015    |^Jones, with injuries partially forcing his hand, has again
A17 016 resisted the temptation to field a shadow test side against
A17 017 strong opposition a week before an international.
A17 018    |^The significant illnesses or injuries affecting backs are
A17 019 those troubling fullback David Campese, first five-eighth
A17 020 Michael Lynagh and three-quarter Matthew Burke.
A17 021    |^Burke is the most seriously affected, made *"silly and
A17 022 weak,**" according to Jones, by a severe cold.  ^Lynagh is also
A17 023 bothered by a cold, Campese by an injury which the Australian
A17 024 coach would not identify.
A17 025    |^In the forwards, workhorse Ross Reynolds will play his
A17 026 sixth tour match because injuries to locks Damien Frawley and
A17 027 Rod McCall have removed his backup.  ^Reynolds would have been
A17 028 rested for this match but McCall has an injured leg and Frawley
A17 029 has a suspected minor fracture in one hand.
A17 030    |^*"The injuries have required some reconstruction of the
A17 031 team, significant reconstruction,**" Jones said.  ^*"But we've
A17 032 reached the point in the side and there's a bit of excitement
A17 033 about the fact that now one or two people are being called on
A17 034 to do a job that they hadn't thought they would be asked to do.
A17 035    |^*"That's good for the team and it will be interesting to
A17 036 see how they respond.**"
A17 037    |^Those most tested tomorrow will be fullback Andrew Leeds,
A17 038 wing Ian Williams, centres Michael Cook and Glen Ella, halfback
A17 039 Brian Smith and test second five-eighth Brett Papworth, shifted
A17 040 to first five-eighth for the match.
A17 041    |^Jones has reshaped his Saturday backline, conscripting
A17 042 Williams, Cook and Leeds from the side which played Buller on
A17 043 Wednesday.
A17 044    |^Only Peter Grigg, on the right wing, and Papworth remain
A17 045 from the side which beat New Zealand 13-12 in the first
A17 046 international at Wellington.
A17 047    |^*4Jones said the selection is tentative and the condition
A17 048 of Lancaster Park, heavy after persistent rain, and the
A17 049 possible recovery of injured players may inspire late changes.
A17 050    |^*0*"It might be that someone comes good before Saturday
A17 051 and I might shove them in,**" he said.  ^*"Obviously I'd prefer
A17 052 people to have a game before the test.
A17 053    |^*"That doesn't worry me in relation to Lynagh because
A17 054 every time Lynagh goes on the paddock, he's under great
A17 055 pressure.  ^The aim of the exercise is to reduce a bit of that
A17 056 before what is a very significant test match for us.**"
A17 057    |^Tour captain Andrew Slack has been omitted on a similar
A17 058 premise and Simon Poidevin will lead tomorrow's side from the
A17 059 side of the scrum.
A17 060    |^His forward pack includes the Wallaby test front row, test
A17 061 lock Bill Campbell and the Australian backrow from Athletic
A17 062 Park.
A17 063    |^Reynolds is switched from \0No. 8 to lock to give
A17 064 promising Queenslander Julian Gardner a run on one flank.
A17 065    |^Jones' selection alters but does not necessarily weaken
A17 066 the Wallabies' Saturday combination.
A17 067    |^Players such as Cook, Leeds and Williams showed
A17 068 outstanding form against Buller midweek and will inject pace,
A17 069 and, not least, keenness into the Australian backline.
A17 070    |^Leeds will take the goalkicks tomorrow, following his
A17 071 26-point haul at Westport, hoping to extend his total of 59
A17 072 points scored on tour so far.
A17 073    |^Cook failed to share in the seven tries scored by the
A17 074 tourists against Buller but is a gifted player, capable of
A17 075 restraining Canterbury's Cavalier centre, Victor Simpson.
A17 076 *<*6PRESSURE*>
A17 077    |^*0Jones said Papworth had been addressed, before
A17 078 Australia's departure on this tour, about the possibility of
A17 079 playing one day at first five-eighth.  ^Lynagh's illness has
A17 080 hastened the day but Papworth seems equal to the challenge.
A17 081    |^*"Now he's got to absorb a lot of the pressure himself in
A17 082 the decision-making on Saturday, even though he's got Glen Ella
A17 083 beside him who is very level-headed and experienced.  ^This is
A17 084 the chance for Papworth now to rise a notch or two because he's
A17 085 really got to shoulder a big burden on Saturday.**"
A17 086    |^Jones acknowledged the strength of the Canterbury side but
A17 087 said his players are not intimidated by its vaunted power and
A17 088 record.
A17 089    |^*"It's a de facto All Black side,**" he said.
A17 090    |^*"They don't come much better than that, it doesn't worry
A17 091 us but we know how good they are.**"
A17 092    |^*"We're not a bad outfit either.**"
A17 093    |^The Australian team to play Canterbury is: _Andrew Leeds;
A17 094 Peter Grigg; Michael Cook; Ian Williams; Glen Ella; Brett
A17 095 Papworth; Brian Smith; Steve Tuynman; Simon Poidevin (captain)
A17 096 Ross Reynolds; Bill Campbell; Julian Gardner; Mark Hartill; Tom
A17 097 Lawton; Enrique Rodriguez.
A17 098 *<*4Jones defends matches against smaller unions*>
A17 099 *<{0NZPA} Staff Correspondent*>
A17 100    |*6CHRISTCHURCH. *- ^*4Alan Jones, the Wallaby coach, has
A17 101 defended the inclusion of matches against smaller unions on the
A17 102 itinerary for his team's tour of New Zealand.
A17 103    |^*0Jones refused initially to respond to claims by John
A17 104 Hart, the Auckland coach, that matches like Wednesday's against
A17 105 second division Buller should be scrapped in favour of games
A17 106 with New Zealand's premier provinces.
A17 107    |^He later praised the inclusion of a Westport stopover in
A17 108 the Australians' schedule and called for administrators in all
A17 109 countries to pay more attention to traditional or remedial
A17 110 matches when drafting team itineraries.
A17 111    |^*"I don't have anything to do with the itinerary but those
A17 112 comments are almost an insult to the opposition,**" Jones said.
A17 113    |^*"Any person who knows anything about the game knows you
A17 114 don't play provincial matches in centres where test matches are
A17 115 played.  ^That's the standard rule over here and that's why we
A17 116 didn't play Wellington and didn't play Auckland.
A17 117    |^*"That's not a matter for me to judge.  ^I only take the
A17 118 itinerary that's given.  ^That's a comment that should be
A17 119 directed at New Zealand officials.  ^If it's a comment designed
A17 120 to detract from the merit of the performances of the Australian
A17 121 team, I don't take that seriously, either.**"
A17 122 *<*6ATTITUDE*>
A17 123    |^*0Jones said the comments typified the attitude of some
A17 124 New Zealanders to touring teams.
A17 125    |^*"If you win, New Zealanders always want to suggest to you
A17 126 that the opposition is not good,**" he said.
A17 127    |^*"It's rather nice in this game to give a bit of credit on
A17 128 occasion to the winner and to the opposition and I'd hope
A17 129 that's the approach that's taken.
A17 130    |^*"Certainly, when the All Blacks have played in Australia
A17 131 and played outstandingly it would have been churlish to deny
A17 132 them what have been some fairly significant scoring feats.**"
A17 133    |^Matches against minor sides have a valuable place in the
A17 134 schedule of touring teams, Jones said, and no team, no matter
A17 135 how small, gives less than its utmost against international
A17 136 opposition.
A17 137    |^*"The proof of that was in yesterday's game,**" he said.
A17 138    |^*"We happened to play quite well.  ^I haven't read any
A17 139 suggestion that we might have yet, but we're getting used to
A17 140 that.
A17 141    |^*"Yesterday was a great promotion for rugby had it been
A17 142 treated that way and had it been presented that way.
A17 143    |^*"I only recently said to (New Zealand Rugby Football
A17 144 Union chairman) Russ Thomas that these are the games that, if
A17 145 people have their way, will be cut out of the fixture list.
A17 146    |^Wednesday's match at Westport had been therapeutic for the
A17 147 touring team after the intensity of the previous week and the
A17 148 build-up to the first test, Jones said.
A17 149    |^*"This has been fantastic for my players in terms of
A17 150 hospitality, the venue and the weather,**" he said.
A17 151    |^*"The people are actually sitting in the environs of a
A17 152 beautiful ground.  ^Buller are beaten by 80 something points
A17 153 but every Buller player who comes along and puts his head in
A17 154 our dressing room says thanks for the match.  ^You think *'holy
A17 155 mackerel,**' where have I been for the past three years?
A17 156 ^That's rugby, and that's what we should be encouraging.
A17 157    |^*"This fixture recognises the well-being of the tourists
A17 158 and it's just been fantastic, not because we won but because we
A17 159 had a fabulous time.
A17 160    |^*"These fixtures have to be retained.  ^If you're looking
A17 161 to turning players into mobile banks then it was a failure
A17 162 because we didn't get the dough but there's more to an amateur
A17 163 game than that.**"
A17 164 *<*4Otago chasing first leg of double*>
A17 165 *<By the Basketball Writer*>
A17 166    |^The Otago women's basketball side will be doing its best
A17 167 to complete its half of a South Island double when the finals
A17 168 of the national leagues begin in Wellington tonight.
A17 169    |^*0It has been a long time since South Island sides have
A17 170 taken a clean sweep of national honours and that will be the
A17 171 task facing the Mainland Otago women and Canterbury men in the
A17 172 capital this weekend.
A17 173    |^Otago must repel the challenge of a talented Auckland
A17 174 line-up in the women's final scheduled for 6 {0p.m.} tomorrow
A17 175 night.
A17 176    |^The finals weekend kicks off tonight with the Countrywide
A17 177 league semi-finals and first national veterans tournament,
A17 178 continues tomorrow with the respective league finals and
A17 179 concludes on Sunday with action in an all-star game and dunking
A17 180 contest.
A17 181    |^However, all interest in Otago will be focused on the
A17 182 early game tomorrow night when the women's team attempts to
A17 183 become the first Otago side in more than a decade to bring home
A17 184 the national championship.
A17 185    |^For Otago the opportunity to play in the national final is
A17 186 like a resurrection, for it surely thought its chances were
A17 187 dead and buried going into the last weekend of the regular
A17 188 season.
A17 189    |^But then both the leading teams lost and Otago ended up on
A17 190 top of a three-way scramble for the final on superior points
A17 191 difference.
A17 192    |^It was a chance no one had reckoned on.  ^American Joyce
A17 193 Walker had booked her tickets home and coach Aileen Solomon had
A17 194 resigned herself to attending the finals weekend only in her
A17 195 capacity as a member of the New Zealand Basketball Federation.
A17 196 *<*6EXCITING*>
A17 197    |^*0The clash against Auckland is potentially the most
A17 198 exciting matchup in the women's game.
A17 199    |^Auckland is a powerful all-round unit, the showcase of New
A17 200 Zealand's natural talent, while Otago relies heavily on the
A17 201 brilliance of Walker, but at best is capable of steamrolling
A17 202 anything in front of it.
A17 203    |^Both sides have the potential to score highly, like to run
A17 204 the ball and are sure to make the final a more memorable one
A17 205 than the previous two *- won easily in methodical fashion by
A17 206 Hamilton.
A17 207    |^If Otago hopes to win it must get a good game out of
A17 208 Walker, the superstar from Seattle who has set new standards
A17 209 for women's basketball on the court in New Zealand.
A17 210    |^Walker will probably get her 40 or so points, such is her
A17 211 class, but it is the other 40 points Otago may need to win that
A17 212 is important.
A17 213    |^Vicki Garland, the youngster of the starting line-up, came
A17 214 right against Southland a fortnight ago with 16 points and some
A17 215 good outside shooting.  ^It is that type of supporting role
A17 216 Otago needs.
A17 217    |^Jane McMeeken, a former New Zealand captain and one of the
A17 218 country's most experienced players, is another who is no
A17 219 stranger to the finals atmosphere and she might just well pull
A17 220 one out of the bag after an unspectacular season.
A17 221    |^She has been forced to fill the role of centre for Otago,
A17 222 a difficult one for her she says, but is too good a player to
A17 223 stay in a groove for too long.
A17 224    |^Completing the Otago team will be Donna Solomon, somewhat
A17 225 of a defensive specialist, and Heather Fleming, likewise not a
A17 226 big scorer but such a hard worker on the boards that her
A17 227 contribution is invaluable.
A17 228    |^A key player for Otago's chances will be Angela Kerr, now
A17 229 coming off the bench, who is capable of hitting three or four
A17 230 in a row if she can find her confidence.
A17 231 *<*6KINGPIN*>
A17 232    |^*0Auckland is by no means a one-woman team, but the
A17 233 diminutive Corrina Poto is certainly the kingpin of its attack.
A17 234    |^She can hit all night from a three-point line.  ^Mary Po
A17 235 Ching who has a deadly-accurate jump shot, American Kendee
A17 236 Eulert, Marie Poto and Marg Johns are all fine players and will
A17 237 need watching.
A17 238    |^Solomon, the Otago coach, is under no illusions as to the
A17 239 importance of the game for her side, with the media attention
A17 240 and national television coverage making it probably the most
A17 241 important in Otago's history.
A17 242    |^Sponsorship deals, player recruitment and support for the
A17 243 game can hinge on winning or losing a national final and \0Mrs
A17 244 Solomon is determined to make the most of the chance.
A17 245 *#
A18 001 **[018 TEXT A18**]
A18 002 *<*4Another poor effort by Bond boat*>
A18 003    |*6FREMANTLE. *- *4^Kookaburra 3 yesterday crushed Alan
A18 004 Bond's Australia 3 by a huge margin, shaking for the third day
A18 005 in a row the morale of the team which brought the America's Cup
A18 006 to Australia.
A18 007    |^*0Seven-times world 18\0ft class champion Iain Murray
A18 008 piloted the huge gold yacht to victory by 4\0min 30\0sec on the
A18 009 third day of the America's Cup defender selection races.
A18 010    |^Australia 3, the current world 12\0m fleet racing
A18 011 champion, has already been beaten by Kookaburra 2, and could
A18 012 not match the newest yacht from Perth millionaire Kevin Parry's
A18 013 Taskforce '87 syndicate in the 15 to 25 knot winds.
A18 014    |^Bond's newest yacht, Australia 4, which lost to Kookaburra
A18 015 3 on Sunday, had great trouble keeping ahead of Kookaburra 2
A18 016 yesterday and won by just 20\0sec after Kookaburra 2 threw the
A18 017 race away with a poor spinnaker change.
A18 018    |^Kookaburra 3 leads the standings for the six defender
A18 019 yachts with three points, ahead of Kookaburra 2 and Australia
A18 020 4, with two each.
A18 021    |^With three races run out of 10 in the first series, the
A18 022 defender fleet has raced in both light winds and the heavier
A18 023 conditions experienced yesterday for which all six yachts were
A18 024 designed.
A18 025    |^The Bond syndicate, which evolved from the 1983 cup
A18 026 victory of Australia 2, must now be wondering what it can
A18 027 change to match the Kookaburras.
A18 028    |^On the first windward leg against Australia 3, Kookaburra
A18 029 3 pointed higher into the wind, rode the seas more smoothly and
A18 030 outmanoeuvred the Bond yacht to reach the mark more than a
A18 031 minute ahead.
A18 032    |^Australia 4 struggled throughout the race to fend off the
A18 033 supposed second-choice Taskforce boat, never leading by more
A18 034 than a few boat lengths and engaging in a tough final-leg
A18 035 tacking duel.  ^Kookaburra 2 carried a protest flag across the
A18 036 finish line but the jury will not hear the protest until today.
A18 037    |^In the third match, the Australia 3 clone, South
A18 038 Australia, fended off spirited competition from the lowly-rated
A18 039 Sydney entrant Steak'n'Kidney to win by 1\0min 12\0sec.
A18 040    |^The defenders race in three points-scoring selection
A18 041 series before semi-finals in late December.  ^The best two
A18 042 yachts go on to a best-of-nine final in mid-January to select a
A18 043 defender for the cup challenge itself from January 31.
A18 044 *<*4Promising {0UK} rider for cycle classic*>
A18 045    |^Leading New Zealand riders will renew acquaintance with
A18 046 the rising young English star, Deno Davie, in next month's
A18 047 Raleigh classic cycling tour through the North Island.
A18 048    |^*0Davie, 21, will head a strong English presence at the
A18 049 major fixture of the New Zealand road season.  ^At the
A18 050 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh earlier this year, Davie was a
A18 051 member of the gold medal-winning England team in the teams time
A18 052 trial.  ^He was fourth in the individual road race, two places
A18 053 behind Kiwi Brian Fowler and ahead of Graeme Miller.
A18 054    |^At home, Davie is reigning British road champion.
A18 055    |^He will team with the runner-up in the British road
A18 056 championships, Jon Clay, 21st in the world road race
A18 057 championship in the United States, 19-year-old Stuart Coles,
A18 058 12th in Edinburgh (the first Welsh rider to finish), John
A18 059 Tonks, who has won stages in this year's Tour of Lancashire and
A18 060 Milk Race, and 20-year-old Dave Williams, who comes here after
A18 061 spending some time in France where he had two major wins this
A18 062 year.
A18 063 *<*4Swiss team*>
A18 064    |^*0The five-man Swiss team is headed by 26-year-old Thomas
A18 065 Wegmuller.  ^The Swiss road champion will turn professional
A18 066 early and join Irishman Sean Kelly's {0KAS} team.
A18 067    |^Also in the strong Swiss team are Fabion Fuchs, who was
A18 068 sixth in the Swiss championships, Michael Ansermet, a 23-year-old 
A18 069 who was seventh in the same championships, Jocelyn Jolidan,
A18 070 a 23-year-old who was 9th in the same race, and 23-year-old
A18 071 Jochen.
A18 072    |^None of the Japanese team which raced here last year has
A18 073 returned for the inaugural Raleigh classic.
A18 074    |^The team is headed by 21-year-old Yoshisa Akiyama, who has
A18 075 contested all major road races in Japan this year and finished
A18 076 sixth in the Tokyo international road race.
A18 077    |^The other team members are all students, Jyunichi Kikuta,
A18 078 Katsunori Takakuwa and Sakare Umezawa and all finished in the
A18 079 top five in the All Japan inter-college individual road race
A18 080 championship to earn their trip to New Zealand.
A18 081    |^The Australians will send a new-look team with only Ron
A18 082 Versteegh of their 1985 team returning.  ^Little is known of
A18 083 the team headed by Versteegh, who finished 21st *- 5\0min
A18 084 40\0sec down on the winner *- in the individual road race at
A18 085 Edinburgh.  ^Other team members are Kevin Berwick, Andrew
A18 086 Logan, Clayton Stevenson and Scott Sunderland.
A18 087    |^There will be another Australian in the race with former
A18 088 professional Greg Clifton in the strong international All Stars
A18 089 team.
A18 090    |^Clifton, a 26-year-old from New South Wales returned to
A18 091 amateur ranks this year and is the {0NSW} criterium champion.
A18 092 *<*4Silver medals*>
A18 093    |^*0He will be joined by Czech-born Australian Kvetoslav
A18 094 (Omar) Palov, a 23-year-old who was a Czech national team
A18 095 member for five years.  ^He finished fifth in the 1984 Milk
A18 096 Race.
A18 097    |^Two Dutch riders will join the All Stars.  ^Bob Rassenberg
A18 098 is a 21-year-old who won three silver medals at the 1986
A18 099 Student Games in Moscow and has already this year won major
A18 100 road races in Holland and France.  ^He was in the Dutch team at
A18 101 the world championships.
A18 102    |^His 20-year-old Dutch team-mate Arjan Jagt could be the
A18 103 dark horse of the Raleigh classic.
A18 104    |^He finished third in the 1986 world road championship.  ^A
A18 105 well-performed road rider with a devastating sprint, Jagt also
A18 106 is a strong criterium rider.
A18 107    |^The team is completed by 22-year-old Swedish road rider
A18 108 Mats Anderson.
A18 109    |^The tour opens with a prologue time trial at Lyall Bay,
A18 110 Wellington, on November 1.
A18 111    |^On succeeding days the field travels to Palmerston and
A18 112 Wanganui, then through the centre of the North Island, to
A18 113 Hamilton and eventually Auckland, where the tour ends with a
A18 114 criterium on the afternoon of Saturday, November 8.
A18 115 *<*4One drive... and Tony makes sure it pays*>
A18 116 *<By Dave Cannan*>
A18 117    |*6GREYMOUTH. *- *4^The next time Ashburton horseman Tony
A18 118 Robb has only one drive at a race-meeting, take a tip *- be on.
A18 119    |^*0That was the situation at last night's meeting at
A18 120 Victoria Park when Robb travelled all the way to Greymouth just
A18 121 to handle Mini Coon in the Olsens Pharmacy Pace.
A18 122    |^The Rakaia-trained mare responded to Robb's great faith by
A18 123 leading for the last 1600\0m, gamely turning back the
A18 124 challenges from several others over the last circuit to win by
A18 125 a length and a half.
A18 126    |^Back at the Nelson meeting in June, Robb drove north just
A18 127 to drive Regal Visit, which won a maiden on the first day.
A18 128    |^*"As long as I've got company and I think the horse is
A18 129 worth it, then I don't mind going so far just for one drive,**"
A18 130 said the amiable Robb.
A18 131    |^*"Now I'll have to come back again on Wednesday night,**"
A18 132 he added.
A18 133    |^But Robb will have even further to travel tomorrow as he
A18 134 is going to the Timaru trials beforehand to drive the C8 pacer
A18 135 Regal Maina, which is making a comeback bid this season.
A18 136    |^Mini Coon provided Robb with his first winner at Victoria
A18 137 Park and the 15th of his career in trotting.  ^He had also
A18 138 ridden more than 100 winners over jumps.
A18 139    |^*"I came here years ago to drive a horse called Mala Nada,
A18 140 but I don't remember exactly how long ago,**" said Robb.
A18 141    |^Mini Coon is trained at Rakaia by Steve Jones, whose
A18 142 initials of {0V.L.} give no clue to his christian name.
A18 143    |^Formerly of Lake Coleridge, where he worked for the
A18 144 electricity department, Jones retired eight years ago.
A18 145    |^A hobby owner-trainer, Jones enjoyed success while at Lake
A18 146 Coleridge with Willie Coon, which won four races before being
A18 147 sold to America.
A18 148    |^Flying Coon, another of the Jones breed, was sold after
A18 149 only a couple of starts here and is now racing and winning in
A18 150 Australia.
A18 151    |^Jones and Robb's luck held up later in the night when
A18 152 Greymouth Trotting Club officials carried out the peculiar
A18 153 (probably unique) system of catering for first night maiden
A18 154 winners on the second night.
A18 155    |^Because the club guarantees all horses two starts at its
A18 156 meeting in the class for which it was originally nominated, all
A18 157 maiden winners do not gain a start in the C1s on the second
A18 158 night.
A18 159    |^The issue was decided by pulling the names out of a
A18 160 cardboard box and Mini Coon's came out early.
A18 161    |^Eventually Brown Loch, which won in the fastest time last
A18 162 night, missed out.  ^He was made first emergency for both C1
A18 163 events though trainer Leo May was given the rather unappealing
A18 164 alternative of starting 30\0m behind in a maiden.
A18 165    |^The club could have avoided this by just dropping the 
A18 166 out-of-form C1 performers from the first night and putting them in
A18 167 behind the maidens but chose not to follow that logical path of
A18 168 selection.
A18 169    |^The horse-for-courses theory held up well in the {0TAB}
A18 170 double last night.
A18 171    |^Crackerash, a maiden winner at the meeting last year, came
A18 172 off 20\0m to beat 13 others with a courageous effort in the
A18 173 Operatic Society Pace.
A18 174    |^And Micro Mary, which also quit maidens on the track in
A18 175 1985, grabbed a neck decision over I'm No Angel in the second
A18 176 leg, the Half a Sixpence Pace.
A18 177    |^Crackerash is owned and trained by Grant Archer, of West
A18 178 Melton, who had won with the gelding at Timaru last month at
A18 179 lengthy odds.
A18 180    |^He earned a 10\0m rehandicap for tomorrow night by winning
A18 181 and originally it mattered little to Archer.
A18 182    |^*"No, he'll start again.  ^He likes it here and so do
A18 183 I,**" he said.  ^But, later in the night, Archer changed his
A18 184 mind and withdrew from the second night.
A18 185    |^Crackerash, last early, began to work his way around the
A18 186 field three and four out from the 1000\0m.  ^It was hard going
A18 187 on the tight, 800\0m circuit, but Crackerash had control 300\0m
A18 188 out and came away to beat the outsider Gold Row by two lengths,
A18 189 taking 61.1 for the last 800\0m, the first 400\0m of that in
A18 190 29.9.
A18 191    |^There were no excuses for the others either.  ^Favourite
A18 192 Oh Douglas wound up parked outside Lady Singer from the 800\0m
A18 193 but dropped away in the straight to finish eighth.
A18 194    |^Micro Mary led for the last 1400\0m of the second leg.
A18 195    |^Trainer-driver John Hay dictated the terms and judged it
A18 196 well, taking 62.2 and 30.4 for the final sectionals.
A18 197    |^It was Micro Mary's first start since February but she was
A18 198 a solidly-backed second favourite, probably on the strength of
A18 199 her excellent record at Victoria Park.
A18 200    |^*"She's never been further back than third on this track
A18 201 and this is her third or fourth trip here,**" said Hay, who
A18 202 prepares the Micron mare for her Invercargill owner, Russell
A18 203 Hill.
A18 204    |^Two drivers, Wally Forsyth, of Westport, and Murray
A18 205 Edmonds, of Greenpark, were suspended by the stewards, headed
A18 206 by chief stipe Peter MacKenzie.
A18 207    |^Forsyth, found guilty of careless driving on High Fancy in
A18 208 the first race, was sidelined until November 3.  ^Forsyth
A18 209 allowed High Fancy to hit the cart of pacemaker Our Tony after
A18 210 600\0m, breaking up and causing checks to Havaway and Kate's
A18 211 Baby.
A18 212    |^Edmonds was suspended until after October 24 after an
A18 213 inquiry which showed Gee Dee (Edmonds) had checked Reb's Star
A18 214 (Eddie Cowie) with 400\0m to run.
A18 215    |^Chickadee was stood down from racing until November 19
A18 216 after taking no part in the eighth race, while the connections
A18 217 of Charlotte Trixie and Kotare Pewter received warnings.
A18 218 *<*4All marching titles go to city teams*>
A18 219    |^Christchurch marching teams won every grade at the Central
A18 220 South Island Association's championships in Temuka at the
A18 221 weekend.
A18 222    |^*0It was the first competition of the season.
A18 223    |^The first in Christchurch will be an event at Rugby Park
A18 224 on Sunday, November 2, the first of three qualifying events for
A18 225 the South Island championships.
A18 226 **[LIST**]
A18 227 *<*4Elmwood croquet win*>
A18 228    |^*0Elmwood beat United 5-1 in the only A-grade match
A18 229 decided in the latest round of Countrywide interclub croquet.
A18 230 **[LIST**]
A18 231 *<*4Two aces at Kaiapoi*>
A18 232    |^*0Former Russley professional John Brooker scored his
A18 233 second ace when he holed a 3-iron on the 175\0m eighth hole at
A18 234 Kaiapoi at the weekend.
A18 235    |^The 6-handicapper was joined in the customary shout by
A18 236 Stephen Schultz, a 10-handicapper, who holed out with a 5-iron
A18 237 on the 152\0m fifth hole.
A18 238 *<*4Golfers packed for course*>
A18 239    |^*0Twenty promising young Canterbury golfers have been
A18 240 selected for a coaching course and a series of strokeplay
A18 241 competitions this summer.
A18 242    |^The players have been selected in four-man teams.
A18 243 **[LIST**]
A18 244 *<*4Cup win*>
A18 245    |^*0The Simon Cup inter-club competition finished on Sunday,
A18 246 with Harewood a narrow winner over Waimairi Beach and
A18 247 Templeton.
A18 248    |^All ended with nine competition points, Harewood taking
A18 249 the title with a superior countback score.
A18 250 *#
A19 001 **[019 TEXT A19**]
A19 002 *<*4Auckland too good*>
A19 003 *<*0{0PA} Auckland*>
A19 004    |^An error by Canterbury fullback, Robbie Deans when his
A19 005 side had been pressing the Auckland tryline may have cost the
A19 006 challengers the chance of lifting the Ranfurly Shield from
A19 007 Auckland at Eden Park on Saturday.
A19 008    |^Auckland were leading 19-15 when second five-eighths Kurt
A19 009 Sherlock kicked deeply upfield.
A19 010    |^Deans, who muffed the catch was swamped by the Auckland
A19 011 pack.
A19 012    |^From a scrum first five-eighth Grant Fox dropped a goal
A19 013 which clinched the game for the shield holders.
A19 014    |^Canterbury's resistance seemed to buckle at that point.
A19 015    |^From another scrum, Fox lobbed a pass to give Terry Wright
A19 016 his second try of the game and Auckland their 28-15 win.
A19 017    |^The lead changed five times in a magnificent game before a
A19 018 crowd of 46,000.
A19 019    |^Key to Auckland's victory, the margin a shade flattering,
A19 020 was an awesome pack in which prop Steve McDowell was
A19 021 outstanding.
A19 022    |^His opposite, Chris Earl, had to leave the field just
A19 023 after halftime with damaged rib cartileges.
A19 024    |^Canterbury \0No.8 Dale Atkins was a power-horse in the
A19 025 pack.
A19 026    |^One Atkins drive led to Warwick Taylor's try.
A19 027    |^Canterbury winger Craig Green was always dangerous,
A19 028 scoring his team's other try.
A19 029    |^Robbie Deans made a cut, Green joined the ruck to help
A19 030 force the ball free.  ^Bruce Deans scuttled around the ruck
A19 031 and, when he popped the ball up, there was Green to dive over
A19 032 to give Canterbury a 15-12 lead.
A19 033    |^Michael Jones, at  0No 8, was Auckland's leading lineout
A19 034 forward and he produced some shattering tackles.  ^In the
A19 035 backs, Wright and Greg Cooper ran with pace and incisiveness.
A19 036    |^Their partnership grabbed the lead back for Auckland when
A19 037 Fox stole around the blindside and set the pair on a passing
A19 038 rush that cut Canterbury to bits and ended with Cooper scoring
A19 039 in the corner.
A19 040    |^Canterbury's backs were not convincing.
A19 041    |^At centre, Steve Hansen looked out of his depth, twice
A19 042 kicking when passes would have set alight men who appeared to
A19 043 have overlaps.
A19 044    |^Victor Simpson's death-or-glory style was thus rarely
A19 045 seen.
A19 046 *<*4Wellington champions*>
A19 047 *<*0{0PA} Wellington*>
A19 048    |^Jubilant Wellington captain Kevin Boroevich expressed some
A19 049 annoyance yesterday that the Auckland-Canterbury Ranfurly
A19 050 Shield challenge had overshadowed his team's winning of the
A19 051 National Mutual first division rugby championship at Palmerston
A19 052 North on Saturday with their ninth straight victory.
A19 053    |^*"Everyone seems to have forgotten that we've beaten
A19 054 Auckland and Canterbury this season.  ^All day I've been
A19 055 hearing how great they are,**" said Boroevich.
A19 056    |^*"As far as we were concerned all they were doing was
A19 057 playing for second and third place.
A19 058    |^*"I don't think some people have been giving us our dues.
A19 059 ^Television and the papers have been full of the shield match.
A19 060    |^*"Now we've won the championship our aim next season will
A19 061 be the shield.
A19 062    |^*"We won't be relaxing in our final game next Saturday.
A19 063 ^We badly want to beat Wairarapa Bush to come through with a
A19 064 clean slate.**"
A19 065    |^Boroevich, who turns 26 next Saturday, has matured
A19 066 considerably this season, his first in the capital since moving
A19 067 south from the King Country.
A19 068    |^Initially his biggest problem was trying to make the
A19 069 Wellington representative side with Brian McGrattan and Scott
A19 070 Crichton very much established as the top propping pair in the
A19 071 province.
A19 072    |^New selector-coach Earle Kirton appointed Crichton as his
A19 073 skipper and Boroevich did not really receive his chance till
A19 074 Crichton went off to South Africa with the Cavaliers.
A19 075    |^Boroevich, formerly captain of the Waitete senior club
A19 076 team and King Country, subsequently enhanced his status by
A19 077 being made captain of the New Zealand Maoris and North Island
A19 078 pack leader.
A19 079    |^Halfback Neil Sorenson led Wellington in Crichton's
A19 080 absence and with Sorenson on the Emerging Players' internal
A19 081 tour Boroevich was thrust the reins.
A19 082 *<*4Waikato snatch re-entry to rugby at highest level*>
A19 083 *<*0{0PA} Hamilton*>
A19 084    |^Waikato snatched re-entry into the national first division
A19 085 rugby competition with a dramatic last-minute try at Hamilton's
A19 086 Rugby Park on Saturday.
A19 087    |^Winger-turned-fullback Darryl Halligan scored the try
A19 088 after a sweeping move with time up to give Waikato a 13-12 win
A19 089 over North Harbour in the second division decider.
A19 090    |^The home team finished with two tries to none, but trailed
A19 091 much of the way and almost lost a closely fought match on poor
A19 092 goal kicking.
A19 093    |^Halligan, who took over the fullback spot from injured
A19 094 Andrew Strawbridge eight minutes into the game, missed a total
A19 095 of five kicks at goal, succeeding only with the conversion to
A19 096 Waikato's first try, which was scored near the posts.
A19 097    |^North Harbour fullback Paul Feeney, on the other hand,
A19 098 took four shots and kicked them all, almost booting his union
A19 099 into the first division from third division in the space of two
A19 100 years.
A19 101    |^Two of those kicks took North Harbour to a 6-0 half-time
A19 102 lead, despite the home team's slight edge in the battle for
A19 103 possession.
A19 104    |^With the breeze at its back, Waikato started the second
A19 105 half strongly, just missing a try in the corner and a John Boe
A19 106 dropped kick rebounding off an upright, before Boe finally
A19 107 found his target to put the home team's first points up in the
A19 108 fourth minute.
A19 109    |^Three minutes later, Feeney opened the gap to six points
A19 110 again, with his third penalty goal, but in the 10th minute came
A19 111 the first try of the game.
A19 112    |^It was brilliantly executed by the Waikato backs, with
A19 113 North Harbour's defence buying a blindside decoy move to enable
A19 114 second five Chris Ellis to slash through on the open side and
A19 115 score.
A19 116    |^Halligan's conversion tied the scores, but midway through
A19 117 the half, Waikato infringed within Feeney's range again and
A19 118 North Harbour was back in front.
A19 119    |^North Harbour's forwards, who had been buffeted about by
A19 120 the strong Waikato pack in the scrums, but had earned parity in
A19 121 the lineouts with a number of variations, looked to be
A19 122 finishing strongly.  ^But their backs did not vary the attack
A19 123 and Waikato stormed back in the final moments with a move that
A19 124 brought the nearly 20,000 people to their feet.
A19 125    |^After a number of individual dabs, Fijian lock Ilaitia
A19 126 Savai set up a ruck and then there was another from which
A19 127 Waikato's backline got the overlap and centre Paddy D'Abo put
A19 128 Halligan in for the try.
A19 129    |^The crowd had to be cleared from the field before the
A19 130 conversion attempt was taken.  ^It missed and referee Tom
A19 131 Doocey blew for fulltime.
A19 132 *<*410 rebels in All Blacks*>
A19 133 *<{0PA} Wellington*>
A19 134    |^An early morning phone call three years ago helped project
A19 135 Wellington fullback John Gallagher into the All Blacks rugby
A19 136 team for France.
A19 137    |^Clive Currie, the injured All Black fullback in the
A19 138 historic 1978 *"lineout**" test against Wales, rang Gallagher
A19 139 and told him he should play rugby in New Zealand.
A19 140    |^*"*0Boy am I glad I listened to Clive and came here,**"
A19 141 the joyful London-born Gallagher said today.
A19 142    |^*"Gee, it's terrific.  ^But it hasn't sunk in yet, I just
A19 143 can't believe it.
A19 144    |^*"I don't care where I play, it's just a great honour to
A19 145 make the side.
A19 146    |^*"I had my tickets booked to fly home for Christmas.  ^I'm
A19 147 going to ring my parents up in London now and tell them I'll be
A19 148 over a bit earlier,**" the Wellington police constable said.
A19 149    |^The red-haired Gallagher with Irish born parents was only
A19 150 five months out of school and playing for London Irish when
A19 151 Currie lured him to Wellington.
A19 152    |^Gallagher and Otago half-back Dean Kenny are the only new
A19 153 caps in a fairly predictable All Blacks team named yesterday to
A19 154 tour France next month.
A19 155    |^Kenny gets his first call up to the All Black tour party
A19 156 though has **[SIC**] been a reserve all season.
A19 157    |^Gallagher, 22, comes into the side ahead of Auckland
A19 158 fullback Greg Cooper who helped New Zealand beat France in June
A19 159 and figured in the first two tests against Australia.
A19 160    |^All Black selectors Brian Lochore, Colin Meads and Tiny
A19 161 Hill pencilled Gallagher in their tour party after his
A19 162 courageous game against Canterbury.
A19 163    |^Cooper has fallen from grace probably because of his shaky
A19 164 defence which was exposed, not for the first time, in
A19 165 Saturday's Ranfurly Shield match.
A19 166    |^There has been a change of captaincy, but it was half
A19 167 expected.
A19 168    |^Jock Hobbs, the Canterbury flanker who led the Cavaliers
A19 169 in three tests during their controversial South African trek in
A19 170 May, has deposed Auckland halfback David Kirk as All Black
A19 171 captain.
A19 172    |^Kirk, an Auckland doctor and Rhodes scholar who turned
A19 173 down the offer to make the Rebel tour, keeps his All Black
A19 174 place to concentrate on his own game.
A19 175    |^Of the Cavaliers who shocked the rugby world with their
A19 176 surprise unofficial South African tour, only 10 are named in
A19 177 the 26-man tour party.
A19 178    |^The tour party, to assemble in Auckland on October 13, is:
A19 179 **[LIST**]
A19 180    |^Tour itinerary:
A19 181 **[LIST**]
A19 182 p6 *<*4Hawke's Bay finish with good win*>
A19 183    |^Hawke's Bay concluded its rugby season in reasonably good
A19 184 style with a 42-14 victory over Marlborough at McLean Park,
A19 185 Napier yesterday, but hopes of a revival to its former strength
A19 186 were given little boost by the win over what looked an only
A19 187 partially fit side.
A19 188    |^*0In fact having viewed the televised Auckland \0v
A19 189 Canterbury Shield match the previous day those who attended
A19 190 yesterday would have little alternative but to reach the
A19 191 conclusion that attaining first division status would be one
A19 192 thing, matching the Auckland, Canterbury and Wellington sides
A19 193 something again.
A19 194    |^Highlight yesterday was supposed to have been winger Paul
A19 195 Cooke equalling Bert Grenside's try scoring record and there is
A19 196 no question but that Cooke has very high scoring ability.
A19 197    |^Four tries earlier in the season against Manawatu clearly
A19 198 demonstrated that.
A19 199    |^But to compare what he has managed in mainly second
A19 200 division games against the likes of Poverty Bay, King Country,
A19 201 Buller, West Coast and the like with Grenside's efforts as a
A19 202 Ranfurly Shield defender has to be viewed just a trifle
A19 203 sceptically.
A19 204    |^Cooke has plenty of speed and the ability to beat a man;
A19 205 he is not yet a Bert Grenside.
A19 206    |^And his record equalling try was a gimme, handed to him by
A19 207 Daryl Tamati under the bar, though to be fair he played a major
A19 208 role in setting it up.
A19 209    |^The game itself went in two spells and two phases with
A19 210 Marlborough more than holding its own in the first half and
A19 211 leading 8-6 at the break after 40 minutes of doldrums rugby.
A19 212    |^In the second spell the Marlborough forwards ran out of
A19 213 puff and Hawke's Bay, without ever really taking over the game
A19 214 ran in some entertaining tries with first five eight Peter
A19 215 O'Shaughnessy forsaking his usual kick and be careful tactics
A19 216 to spearhead some excellent passing movements.
A19 217    |^First try in the second spell went his way after the sort
A19 218 of run that would have had All Black selectors scratching their
A19 219 heads had any been present, and again O'Shaughnessy showed that
A19 220 it is not lack of ability but choice of tactics that has made
A19 221 him such a controversial selection.
A19 222    |^Two other players starred, excluding Cooke, who of course
A19 223 received the accolades.  ^But Matthew Cooper at fullback looked
A19 224 capable of emulating or even outshining his brother and while
A19 225 he made a mistake or two this young fullback and utility looks
A19 226 a tremendous prospect.
A19 227    |^The other star was Dannevirke prop Graham McNair who did
A19 228 his usual tidy job in the tight and yesterday complemented it
A19 229 with a number of slashing runs in support play after linking up
A19 230 with one or other of the backs.
A19 231    |^One of McNair's driving runs brought a try; an earlier one
A19 232 should have but someone took a wrong option with an unmarked
A19 233 wing and reversed inside where Marlborough managed to stifle
A19 234 things.
A19 235    |^McNair has retained his place in the side throughout the
A19 236 season without ever looking likely to forfeit it, and
A19 237 yesterday's game must surely have sealed a spot for him early
A19 238 next year.
A19 239    |^Adding mobility around the field to solidity was just what
A19 240 was required to not only sew things up in the selector's eyes
A19 241 but also to add to his own enjoyment and zest for the game.
A19 242    |^Overall the result had to be very satisfactory despite the
A19 243 first half ineptitudes of both sides, but to be realistic there
A19 244 is still an awfully long way to go.
A19 245    |^Putting Hawke's Bay in against Auckland would be similar
A19 246 to matching Jimmy Peau with Marvin Hagler.
A19 247    |^Again it has to be stressed that revision of the
A19 248 competition or competitions in the Bay area is a must for
A19 249 improvement at provincial level.
A19 250    |^There are going to be some who will claim that
A19 251 streamlining the system will detrimentally affect the stalwart
A19 252 of rugby, the club footballer, but this need not be so.
A19 253    |^More grades are needed not more clubs.  ^And some will
A19 254 just have to accept that they may not have the ability or
A19 255 perhaps physique to make senior.  ^They would not have done it
A19 256 in Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch anyway.
A19 257    |^It is most important that they be kept in rugby where
A19 258 possible, and there will be a bad period during which those who
A19 259 are going to drop down the grades will quit in pique.
A19 260    |^That will correct itself in five years or less, and clubs
A19 261 that could live with Ponsonby, Petone, Auckland and Wellington
A19 262 Marist, Linwood and Christchurch may emerge and get our
A19 263 province's fortunes back on the road.
A19 264    |^The attempt by Excelsior and Dannevirke Old Boys to
A19 265 amalgamate and establish more grades could be a first step
A19 266 along the way.
A19 267    |^For the record,_ Cooke (3), O'Shaughnessy, Shaun Rutene,
A19 268 Gary Gregory, Paul Renton tries; Cooper two penalties, four
A19 269 conversions. ^For Marlborough tries to *- Joe Stafford, Bo Palmer
A19 270 and Peter Marfell; conversion Ross Wilcock.
A19 271 *#
A20 001 **[020 TEXT A20**]
A20 002 *<*6DICKSON MASTERS INNER GAME*>
A20 003 *<*4Psyched up to handle tough series*>
A20 004 *<By Gary Dixon*>
A20 005    |^*4Yachting's flavour of the year Chris Dickson has spent
A20 006 the last few weeks studying the psychology of match racing.
A20 007    |^*0He goes into this week's Citizen Watch series psyched up
A20 008 by a raft of tests that told him truths about his reaction to
A20 009 stress and other emotional hurdles that ride the shoulders of
A20 010 skippers duelling in one-to-one races.
A20 011    |^The hero of the 12\0m world championship admitted that
A20 012 there were two or three races which he should have won racing
A20 013 off Perth in {0KZ5}.
A20 014    |^*"I've looked at my mental processing capabilities and
A20 015 things like methods of relaxing,**" Dickson revealed.
A20 016 *<*4Errors*>
A20 017    |^*0*"It's a matter of trying to get the body and mind
A20 018 operating effectively and eliminating errors.**"
A20 019    |^Dickson's attempt to streamline his mental approach to
A20 020 match racing underlines just how badly he wants to keep the
A20 021 Citizen Watch title.
A20 022    |^He won nine straight races in last year's event and is
A20 023 confident he has the crew to take him to his third victory.
A20 024    |^He has called up Joe Allen and Earle Williams who crewed
A20 025 under him in Perth.
A20 026    |^Dickson admits that anything can happen in match racing.
A20 027    |^*"There isn't an easy race.  ^Every skipper has
A20 028 international experience and is very good at his craft.**"
A20 029    |^But some will do better than others.  ^Of the nine
A20 030 skippers and crew that pose the greatest threat to Dickson,
A20 031 none is tougher than fellow Kiwi Brad Butterworth.
A20 032    *<*4Favourite*>
A20 033    |^*0This is his fourth Citizen and he brings to the event
A20 034 kilometres of international racing in Australia, Hong Kong and
A20 035 England.  ^Butterworth is helmsman for the top-rated Mad Max
A20 036 that took the Southern Cross series.
A20 037    |^Gordon Lucas (Australia) is another favourite.  ^He has
A20 038 found it tough adapting to 12\0m racing after steering 34s but
A20 039 Dickson makes no bones about his respect for the likely skipper
A20 040 of one of Australia's defenders of the America's Cup.
A20 041    |^Canada's Terry McLachlan won the Citizen in 1984 and faced
A20 042 Dickson in Perth.  ^He is steeped in match racing and having
A20 043 sailed in New Zealand will be a threat.  ^If a bookie laid odds
A20 044 on the series McLachlan would rate in the top five.
A20 045    |^Peter Isler and Chris Law are expected to finish around
A20 046 fifth and sixth.
A20 047 *<*4Expert*>
A20 048    |^*0Isler is another America's Cup exponent and an expert
A20 049 tactician.  ^The American called the shots for Dave Perry as he
A20 050 took three Congressional Cups.
A20 051    |^He will be a danger, specially if he brings his own crew.
A20 052    |^Law, an Englishman, is like Isler a shrewd tactician and
A20 053 servant to the United Kingdom's America's Cup challenger
A20 054 Harold Cudmore.  ^A hot and cold competitor, Law could push at
A20 055 the title or be an also ran.
A20 056    |^The Italian challenge comes from Stephano Roberti and
A20 057 Tommasso Chieffi.
A20 058    |^Roberti is helmsman for America's Cup racer Azzura, a
A20 059 tough competitor and one of the nice guys of the match racing
A20 060 circuit.  ^Has never really come to terms with the two horse
A20 061 event and is expected to struggle.
A20 062    |^Chieffi is a late replacement for Flavio Scala and like
A20 063 Dickson is in his early 20s.  ^One of the up-and-comers of the
A20 064 yachting world with 12\0m experience.
A20 065    |^Ken Davern won the right to race the Citizen after
A20 066 finishing in the top three during the New Zealand trials.
A20 067    |^This is his first international series.
A20 068    |^Another to qualify at the trials is Chris Packer who is
A20 069 rated as the dark horse of the contest.  ^He is very new to
A20 070 match racing.
A20 071    |^With success in the Admiral's Cup and a real desire to
A20 072 take match racing by storm, Parker could surprise.
A20 073 *<*5Penn *- doing it country style...*>
A20 074 *<*4By Doug Baker*>
A20 075 |^The unsung coaching hero of the 1985 rugby season is back
A20 076 again.
A20 077    |^*0Wairarapa-Bush's Lane Penn is now starting his fourth
A20 078 year, after taking his unrated country charges to an
A20 079 unbelievable fourth place in last season's national
A20 080 championship, just behind big shots Auckland, Canterbury and
A20 081 Wellington.
A20 082    |^What's more, they knocked over both Canterbury and
A20 083 Wellington and only narrowly lost to Auckland on a bitter
A20 084 Masterton day.
A20 085 *<*4Thrilled*>
A20 086    |^*0By rights, country boys Wairarapa-Bush should be buried
A20 087 in the lower ranks of the second division instead of the heady
A20 088 heights of the first.
A20 089    |^*"I was thrilled with what happened last year,**" Penn
A20 090 said.  ^*"The whole area here had a terrific lift because of
A20 091 it.**"
A20 092    |^But Penn, shut away in the Wairarapa, still didn't get his
A20 093 share of the limelight with the Harts, Wyllies or Upstons that
A20 094 he ought to have.
A20 095    |^Yet the former Taranaki winger of the 1960s Ranfurly
A20 096 Shield era is used to doing things in a big way.  ^When he's
A20 097 not on the rugby sidelines he farms the huge 6000 hectare
A20 098 Glenburn Station away over on Wairarapa's east coast.
A20 099    |^It was there that he coached the local Gladstone club team
A20 100 from an average country side up to be championship winners *-
A20 101 *"after a lot of hard work.**"
A20 102    |^Penn's Wairarapa-bush team starts the union's centennial
A20 103 year with a warm-up match this week**[ARB**]-end against an
A20 104 Invitation *=XV.
A20 105    |^Penn doesn't believe that he has any magic formula for
A20 106 success.
A20 107    |^*"We've got gifted ball players, try-scoring wingers and
A20 108 ball-playing forwards who capitalise on mistakes.
A20 109    |^*"We've also got more depth in crucial positions now, but
A20 110 the work rate per player has to be 100 per cent plus.  ^Fitness
A20 111 and support play are our strengths so we play the game to suit
A20 112 those players, which is also crowd pleasing.**"
A20 113    |^Penn played his own football under a mixture of coaching
A20 114 styles, from the hard-nosed types through to {0J.J.} Stewart at
A20 115 New Plymouth Boys' High School.
A20 116    |^He certainly doesn't see himself as one of the abrasive
A20 117 old-school style coaches, though.  ^*"Players don't pay subs
A20 118 for us to insult their intelligence by screaming at them.**"
A20 119    |^But neither is Penn any soft touch.  ^*"I don't pander to
A20 120 players and I demand dedication to teammates and the cause.
A20 121 ^Wairarapa-Bush won't survive without that attitude.
A20 122 *<*4Essential*>
A20 123    |^*"*0It's a team sport and no one's indispensable in any walk
A20 124 of life.**"
A20 125    |^He sticks to his other essential philosophies too, such as
A20 126 never selecting more than 22 or 23 players in his squad and
A20 127 utilising his training runs to the full, appreciating that some
A20 128 players travel a long way, from Wellington, Woodville and over
A20 129 the hills from Puketoi.
A20 130    |^*"We spend the whole one and a half hours on skills.  ^I
A20 131 don't regard getting players fit as my job.**"
A20 132    |^As modest as ever, Penn acknowledges that Brian Lochore
A20 133 did the spade work in dragging Wairarapa-Bush up out of the
A20 134 second division, even though a lot of water has flowed through
A20 135 the Wairarapa since then *- only four Lochore players remained
A20 136 in 1985.
A20 137    |^Penn isn't naive enough to realise that the Wairarapa-Bush
A20 138 renaissance will last forever.
A20 139    |^*"We're humble in numbers, also humble in attitude.
A20 140 ^We've had our 56-point hidings,**" he said.
A20 141    |^Despite all the glamour, Penn admits to an affinity with
A20 142 country rugby.  ^*"I couldn't coach a city side,**" he said.
A20 143    |^*"City players require sophistication which has become the
A20 144 aim at the expense of dedication.**"
A20 145    |^But being a rural union Penn concedes that there is always
A20 146 more pressure on his players right from the start of the season
A20 147 just to hold first division status.
A20 148    |^*"The bigger teams can coast in a few games whereas every
A20 149 game is a test match for us.**"
A20 150 *<*4Michelle's no to the Mediterranean...*>
A20 151    |^Willowy Michelle Parun is winning her battle on the tennis
A20 152 courts of the world *- but she isn't about to become involved in
A20 153 the hostilities in the Mediterranean.
A20 154    |^*0The young left-hander will forego tournaments in Spain
A20 155 because of the American-Libyan clash in that region.
A20 156    |^But the recent winner of the South Australian singles
A20 157 title in Adelaide will still make a scheduled trip to London
A20 158 following her appearance in Canberra where she continued her
A20 159 good form.
A20 160    |^*"I will take in tournaments in France as well,**" she
A20 161 told me, *"but even visiting that country at this time is a
A20 162 bit scarey.**"
A20 163    |^While Parun is frightened by the threatening actions of
A20 164 governments, she isn't flying the white flag on the tennis
A20 165 court.
A20 166    |^She has prepared hard for battle and as a result won a
A20 167 major in Adelaide beating Michelle Bowry to take the South
A20 168 Australian title.
A20 169    |^*"I've trained extra hard with national coach Kevin
A20 170 Woolcott on my visits home.  ^And at the same time my game has
A20 171 come together.
A20 172    |^*"I don't think I've ever played so well.**"
A20 173    |^Trips home to New Zealand as often as possible is another
A20 174 reason Parun's game is on a high.
A20 175    |^Last year she hit the road for eight months which she says
A20 176 was six months too long.
A20 177    |^*"Whenever possible I like to get back every six weeks
A20 178 but, of course, that isn't always possible.**"
A20 179    |^Parun also has a travelling mate, her doubles partner
A20 180 Jacquelin Masters.  ^Company on tour takes the lonely edge off
A20 181 circuit travel, she says.
A20 182    |^The upshot is a more aggressive Parun who in Adelaide
A20 183 fought back after she was mortified at losing two match points
A20 184 in the second set.
A20 185    |^But instead of wilting she bounced back strongly and raced
A20 186 to a 5-0 advantage in the third before winning the set and
A20 187 match 6-3, 6-7, 6-2.
A20 188    |^Her strong back-to-back performances in Adelaide and
A20 189 Canberra by her reckoning shoots her ranking from 240 to the
A20 190 high 100s.
A20 191    |^*"It's the highest ranking I've ever enjoyed.  ^My
A20 192 previous best was 210.**"
A20 193    |^Parun's good form in Australia was the result of another
A20 194 successful battle, this time against illness.
A20 195    |^Last October she suffered a rare form of typhoid which
A20 196 laid her low, but with guts and hard work *- especially with
A20 197 Woolcott *- she has fought back.
A20 198 *<*4Comedy of errors*>
A20 199 *<By Dennis Duffy*>
A20 200    |^The three players summarily pruned from the women's
A20 201 bowls squad for the Commonwealth Games were the victims of
A20 202 bungling by their own officials.
A20 203    |^*0Compared with the professionalism evident in the Kerry
A20 204 Clark era of men's bowls, the women did not appear in a good
A20 205 light at all.
A20 206    |^The games selectors showed further scant regard for the
A20 207 nominations before them by plucking Joyce Osborne out of the
A20 208 pair and placing her in the four.
A20 209    |^The decision to announce the squad of seven even before
A20 210 the local season had opened was a disastrous one which rightly
A20 211 drew heavy flak from all quarters.
A20 212    |^When the apparently unwieldy panel of five selectors were
A20 213 approached for comment they again showed a dismal lack of {0PR}
A20 214 skills.
A20 215 *<*4Heavy*>
A20 216    |^*0They felt that because of the heavy Scottish greens the
A20 217 local season's results wouldn't mean much, and that extensive
A20 218 practice in Scotland *"wouldn't make much difference.**"
A20 219    |^The omission of Kapiti bowler Daphne Le Breton from the
A20 220 original squad was apparently inexplicable and national
A20 221 president Thora Farrell, when pressed on national radio to name
A20 222 the selection panel so that they could be approached for
A20 223 comment after the team announcement, was not prepared to do so.
A20 224    |^The whole affair was a sad comedy of errors from start to
A20 225 finish and some lessons must be learned from the men's
A20 226 administrators if other women players are not to be
A20 227 disappointed in the future.
A20 228 *<*4Lessons*>
A20 229    |^*0Meanwhile the men's squad was named in its entirety as
A20 230 expected and lessons learned from the 1984 world bowls in
A20 231 Aberdeen will be applied to the preparation of this year's
A20 232 side.
A20 233    |^Manager-coach and chairman of selectors Kerry Clark told
A20 234 me: ^*"We'll be having a period of just under a fortnight's
A20 235 solid practice on the slow Scottish greens, just as we did two
A20 236 years ago.
A20 237    |^*"We've already made contact with the Bonnyrigg club just
A20 238 outside Edinburgh which was our head**[ARB**]-quarters last time,
A20 239 but I understand that the team will also be allowed practice on
A20 240 the surfaces at Balgreen where the Games series will be played.
A20 241    |^*"I'm sure the long period of preparation had a lot to do
A20 242 with our success at Aberdeen and it won't be any different this
A20 243 time.**"
A20 244 *<*4All eyes on mean John Green*>
A20 245 *<By Howard Booth*>
A20 246    |^Mean John Green will attract most of the attention when
A20 247 Canterbury defend the Rugby League Cup against Waikato on
A20 248 Thursday night.
A20 249    |^*0Second-rower Green is one of several newcomers to a
A20 250 Canterbury combination beset by transfers and retirements since
A20 251 last season.
A20 252    |^And Green promises to make a big impact on his debut.
A20 253    |^Since he returned from an off-season with the British
A20 254 second division club Keighley Green has been outstanding.
A20 255    |^An intimidating figure with his close-cropped hair, black
A20 256 head-bands, and scowling expression, Green has made his mark
A20 257 both with his powerful running and forceful defence.
A20 258    |^Canterbury coach Ray Haffenden praises Green's form and
A20 259 fitness, his improved skills and, most important of all, his
A20 260 attitude as he prepares for first**[ARB**]-class football.
A20 261 *#
A21 001 **[021 TEXT A21**]
A21 002 *<*2SPORT*>
A21 003 *<*0Kiwi commitment pays off*>
A21 004 *<*0by Terry Mclean*>
A21 005 |^*2WHEN THE SENIOR *0officer of a leading New Zealand sport
A21 006 says that his game has had *"a magical year**", the mind
A21 007 flicks back 56 years to a remark made about the same game by a
A21 008 nabob of England's sporting Establishment.  ^Told, during the
A21 009 tour of New Zealand by the British Isles rugby team of 1930,
A21 010 that rugby league was well established in Auckland, the Lions'
A21 011 manager, James or *"Bim**" Baxter, icily remarked: ^*"Every
A21 012 city must have its sewer.**" ^The remark was not published at
A21 013 the time, else Baxter, who was already detested in rugby here
A21 014 because he was leading an assault, successful as it turned out,
A21 015 on that venerable institution of rugby, the rover, or 
A21 016 wing-forward, might have been run out of town on a rail.
A21 017    |^In 1985 the president of the Zealand Rugby League, Ron
A21 018 McGregor, an Auckland accountant whose playing days as a great
A21 019 wing threequarter are still warmly cherished, says with total
A21 020 sincerity: ^*"We have had a magical year.**" ^A little later
A21 021 the national coach Graham Lowe, announcing that New Zealand
A21 022 Breweries is this year putting up *+$20,000 in sponsorship of
A21 023 the Auckland club competition, says forthrightly: ^*"The
A21 024 Auckland competition is the best organised, the most
A21 025 competitive and attracts the finest publicity of any sport in
A21 026 the country.**" ^Whether or not Lowe's statement will stand
A21 027 microscopic examination, *"Bim**" Baxter's insult now sounds
A21 028 prehistoric.
A21 029    |^In the 1980s we have witnessed two powerful assaults upon
A21 030 rugby as the only true and proper institution for God-fearing
A21 031 young Kiwis.  ^(Rugby, as they would say in baseball, must be
A21 032 credited with two assists: both the 1981 Springbok tour of New
A21 033 Zealand and the attempted All Black tour of South Africa in
A21 034 1985 were serious examples of that grave army crime known as
A21 035 {0SIW} *- self-inflicted wounding.)  ^Soccer staged a brilliant
A21 036 campaign to get its All Whites to the World Cup in Spain (and
A21 037 subsequently suffered a little {0SIW} itself).  ^Then came the
A21 038 Rugby League Kiwis to hit the world-champion Australians for
A21 039 six, to demolish Great Britain in New Zealand and to enter 1986
A21 040 as next best to the Aussies and only a mite removed from the
A21 041 top, at that.
A21 042    |^If soccer suffered, at the top, a touch of {0SIW} *- soon
A21 043 to be overcome, because the game has many fine youngsters
A21 044 reaching their potential *- league by contrast appears to be
A21 045 heading onward and upward.  ^On the inspirational side,
A21 046 especially playing, the professional expertise of a great
A21 047 coach, Ces Mountford, enlarged the minds and abilities of a
A21 048 number of players, on tour in Britain and at home.  ^Lowe as
A21 049 Mountford's successor *- without any of the ill-feeling on
A21 050 either side which was so much a topic at the time *- by a
A21 051 master-stroke captivated his players, who ever since have
A21 052 maintained their sturdy march, onward and upward.
A21 053    |^Having served, very ably, as a coach in Brisbane club
A21 054 league, Lowe had become the Kiwi Queenslanders love to hate as
A21 055 he prepared his team for the test at Brisbane two years ago.
A21 056 ^He baited back.  ^He sent his Kiwis onto the field one by one.
A21 057 ^Each was jeered.  ^He marched on himself as Tail-End Charlie
A21 058 and the booing reached higher decibels than Bob Dylan and Dire
A21 059 Straits could combine.  ^In Ron McGregor's phraseology, the
A21 060 effect was *"magical**".  ^At kick-off, the Kiwis were not a
A21 061 team, they were a single body of absolute commitment.  ^This
A21 062 was expressed in the first tackle, by Kevin Tamati.  ^Then and
A21 063 there was the game won.
A21 064    |^And then and there did New Zealanders become aware that
A21 065 from their midst was building another champion of sport, a
A21 066 Walker, a Devoy, a rowing crew.  ^The accounts for 1985, which
A21 067 show that the New Zealand League made a profit of *+$156,000,
A21 068 signpost but do not wholly explain what McGregor meant with his
A21 069 *"magical**".  ^Of a sudden, so to speak, the country's
A21 070 sporting television taste has extended to league.  ^The ball
A21 071 can be seen.  ^The play can be followed.  ^If, sometimes, the
A21 072 tackles seem to surpass the bounds of sportsmanship and descend
A21 073 into cruelty, it has still been heartwarming to see little guys
A21 074 like Shane Varley or Dean Bell rebound like a rubber ball and
A21 075 themselves smash down huge, fearsome opponents.
A21 076    |^During last season, rugby men of my acquaintance, fine
A21 077 first-class players in their day, often furtively slipped from
A21 078 Eden Park to Carlaw Park to study the techniques and to applaud
A21 079 the skills.  ^It was not in disloyalty that they spread the
A21 080 word that league had become a fine game to watch.  ^It was in
A21 081 fair tribute to a game which has indeed become good to watch
A21 082 and in which the ordinary spectator cannot resist the urge to
A21 083 become deeply involved.
A21 084    |^By normal standards, League's profits from last year were
A21 085 phenomenal.  ^Most heartening for the Lowes and McGregors *-
A21 086 and the players *- those profits weren't confined to the
A21 087 balance-sheet.
A21 088 *<Watch Swiss!*>
A21 089 *<Kiwi cyclists take back seat*>
A21 090 |^*2HOPES *0for a Kiwi victory in New Zealand's premier road
A21 091 cycling event have effectively vanished with Brian Fowler's
A21 092 late scratching through illness.
A21 093    |^And now it seems the inaugural seven-day Raleigh Classic
A21 094 will become an overseas benefit when it begins in earnest from
A21 095 Wellington today after yesterday's prologue time trial.
A21 096    |^Raleigh Classic promoters Global Sports have engaged the
A21 097 best line-up yet of overseas riders for this premier event on
A21 098 the New Zealand cycling calendar (now running a Wellington to
A21 099 Auckland route instead of the reverse in days past).
A21 100    |^The visitors could be in for a clean sweep of the major
A21 101 prizes.
A21 102    |^Swiss national road champion Thomas Wegmueller was awesome
A21 103 in winning Waikato's three-day Chartwell Classic last weekend
A21 104 and he will be the man to beat over the next seven days.
A21 105    |^Wegmueller, who was second in last year's Australian
A21 106 Commonwealth Bank Classic, handed out a lesson in strength and
A21 107 race tactics during the Waikato tour.
A21 108    |^Incredibly, he rode the race on a borrowed bike after his
A21 109 own was lost somewhere in the airways' luggage system.  ^Even
A21 110 on the morning of the race start he had to borrow a pair of
A21 111 pedals to suit his particular type of racing shoe.
A21 112    |^The genial Swiss rider, who begins a professional career
A21 113 in January, enjoys racing in New Zealand.
A21 114    |^*"New Zealand is hilly, just like Switzerland, and I like
A21 115 the hills,**" he said.
A21 116    |^Wegmueller has strong back-up in fellow countryman Fabian
A21 117 Fuchs, who was also one of the more aggressive riders in the
A21 118 Chartwell tour.
A21 119    |^Another interesting visitor is Australian-based
A21 120 Czechoslovakian Omar Pavlov who until last year was rated one of
A21 121 the world's best amateurs.  ^Pavlov has obtained political
A21 122 asylum across the Tasman.
A21 123    |^There are many other outstanding overseas riders in the
A21 124 race, among them an interesting contingent of Australians.
A21 125    |^South Australian Ron Versteeg was the most impressive
A21 126 Aussie in last year's Wellington to Auckland race (then
A21 127 sponsored by Healing) and he's evidently again in good form.
A21 128    |^John Logan must also be respected from the Australian camp
A21 129 with his extensive European experience.
A21 130    |^Team racing will play a major part in the Raleigh Classic,
A21 131 and possibly the strongest team will be the Countrywide
A21 132 international all-stars which includes Pavlov plus top Dutch
A21 133 riders Arjan Jagt and Bob Rassenburg and English professionals
A21 134 Mark Bell and Dave Mann.
A21 135    |^If the overseas' takeover is to be foiled by Kiwis then the
A21 136 two likely to do the job could be Jack Swart and Graeme Miller.
A21 137    |^Miller didn't compete in the Chartwell tour, apparently
A21 138 preferring to rest after a hard ride in the recent Australian
A21 139 Commonwealth Bank Classic.  ^But he's highly competitive.
A21 140    |^Swart, even at 32 years old, won a stage in the
A21 141 Commonwealth Bank race and took the King of the Mountains
A21 142 title.
A21 143    |^He was superb on the first day of the Waikato tour last
A21 144 weekend but not so hot on the second and third days.  ^He can
A21 145 never be written off, though, and will be a major force this
A21 146 week along with younger brother Steven, who also won a
A21 147 Commonwealth Bank stage.
A21 148    |^The race proper sets off from Wellington today.  ^The race
A21 149 schedule day-by-day, stage-by-stage is: *-  _^Today: Wellington
A21 150 to Palmerston North (stage 1 *- 167{0km}).  ^Tomorrow:
A21 151 Palmerston North to Wanganui (stage 2 *- 122{0km}); Wanganui
A21 152 Criterium (stage 3 *- 36{0km}).  ^Tuesday (riders transported
A21 153 to New Plymouth): New Plymouth to Hawera (stage 4 *- 89{0km});
A21 154 Hawera to Wanganui (stage 5 *- 90{0km}) Wednesday:  Wanganui to
A21 155 Chateau Tongariro (stage 6 *- 150{0km}).  ^Thursday: Chateau
A21 156 Tongariro to Taupo (stage 7 *- 99{0km}); Taupo teams trial
A21 157 (stage 8 *- 24{0km}).  ^Friday: Taupo to Te Awamutu (stage 9 *-
A21 158 142{0km}); Te Awamutu to Hamilton (stage 10 *- 47{0km}).
A21 159 ^Saturday: Hamilton to Auckland (stage 11 *- 140{0km});
A21 160 Epilogue Criterium (30{0km}).
A21 161 *<Wayne gets big break*>
A21 162 |^*2OTAGO *0captain Mike Brewer, whose international rugby has
A21 163 all been in the {0No.} 8 jersey this year, seems likely to play
A21 164 the coming two-test series against France as a flanker.
A21 165    |^This will allow the dynamic Wayne Shelford to come into the
A21 166 test *=XV as the {0No.}8 for next Saturday's first test against
A21 167 the French in Toulouse.
A21 168    |^Shelford would re-introduce the *"crunch ability**" to the
A21 169 position which has been missing since Murray Mexted's
A21 170 departure.
A21 171    |^Brewer's expertise has been in the line-outs and as a
A21 172 tackler but, in the four tests he has played at the back of the
A21 173 scrum this year, New Zealand managed only one try from an
A21 174 attacking scrum.
A21 175    |^That was against Australia at Carisbrook when David Kirk
A21 176 and John Kirwan combined in their ingenious Merde move, the one
A21 177 where Kirwan commits two or three defenders and Kirk doubles
A21 178 around to take the outside pass.
A21 179    |^The All Blacks regularly scored tries from attacking
A21 180 scrums when maestro Mexted packed down in the back.
A21 181    |^However, Brewer, talented footballer though he is, does
A21 182 not possess the drive power of Mexted or even Canterbury's
A21 183 bulldozing Dale Atkins.
A21 184    |^Shelford does, and he has been in outstanding form so far
A21 185 in France.
A21 186    |^Coach Brian Lochore gave an indication of his test match
A21 187 intentions by placing Shelford at {0No.} 8 and switching Brewer
A21 188 to the blindside flank position for the clash with the
A21 189 Roussillon-Languedoc selection in Perpignan (played earlier
A21 190 today {0NZ} Time).
A21 191    |^Shelford was in irresistible form in Toulon in the Tuesday
A21 192 night match there, repeatedly spreadeagling the French defence
A21 193 with a series of those great thundering runs of his.
A21 194    |^The North Harbour captain is yet to play a test.  ^He was
A21 195 understudy to Mexted in Argentina 12 months ago and missed the
A21 196 opening two home tests this winter (against France and
A21 197 Australia) as punishment for his involvement with the
A21 198 Cavaliers' South African tour.
A21 199    |^Then, when selected for the Carisbrook test against the
A21 200 Wallabies, he had to withdraw with a broken thumb.
A21 201    |^Selection in the test line-up to play France in Toulouse
A21 202 would bring a deserved change of fortune for Shelford who has
A21 203 not had much to cheer him since the Cavaliers' venture.
A21 204    |^After breaking his thumb, he saw Brewer secure the test
A21 205 position, which should have been his, and the North Harbour
A21 206 side he captained endured that agonising last-minute setback in
A21 207 their division one promotion bid against Waikato.
A21 208    |^Should Brewer measure up to Lochore's blindside flanker
A21 209 plans with his Perpignan display, it will probably signal the
A21 210 end of Mark Shaw's test career.
A21 211    |^Shaw, now 30, remains a great driving forward but lacks
A21 212 that essential metre of pace.  ^He is unlikely to be recalled
A21 213 for World Cup duties in 1987.
A21 214 *<Lochore hot on trainer*>
A21 215 |^*2ALL BLACK *0rugby coach Brian Lochore reacted angrily when
A21 216 one of the Littoral Province selection side's trainers went on
A21 217 to the field at halftime in Tuesday night's French tour match
A21 218 in Toulon.
A21 219    |^Under International Rugby Board laws, officials are not
A21 220 allowed to talk to their teams during the halftime break.
A21 221    |^Imagine therefore, Lochore's reaction when he sighted one
A21 222 of the French team's trainers on the field gesticulating
A21 223 wildly.
A21 224    |^*"Gee I was wild,**" said Lochore.
A21 225    |^*"I would have gone down myself but our manager Richie Guy
A21 226 restrained me.
A21 227    |^*"It wasn't that I felt our guys needed any guidance,
A21 228 (they were leading 16-3 and had played superb rugby), it was
A21 229 the principle of the thing.**"
A21 230    |^Back in August, Australian coach Alan Jones reacted
A21 231 strongly at Wanganui when he felt information was being relayed
A21 232 to the local team at halftime.
A21 233    |^This incident in France was far more blatant and it should
A21 234 have been dealt with by Irish referee Dick Beamish.
A21 235    |^The French are playing things cagily in the lead-up to
A21 236 next Saturday's first test against the All Blacks in Toulouse.
A21 237    |^National Coach Jacques Fouroux hasn't allowed any members
A21 238 of his test *=XV to appear against the All Blacks in the
A21 239 provincial games.
A21 240    |^Several of the players were originally named in the French
A21 241 selections but all have been withdrawn along the way.
A21 242    |^The only sighting the All Blacks will have had of Daniel
A21 243 Dubroca and his 14 team-mates will be their (boring)
A21 244 performance against Rumania in Bucharest.
A21 245    |^The game was telecast live in France and watched by the
A21 246 All Blacks during their stay in Clermont-Ferrand.
A21 247    |^The test, played in rain on a waterlogged field, yielded
A21 248 little.
A21 249    |^*"All it showed was that the French are dangerous, given
A21 250 the sniff of a try,**" said Lochore.
A21 251    ||^Lochore said the French would suffer more through
A21 252 Fouroux's decision not to play any of his test stars against
A21 253 the touring team.
A21 254 *#
A22 001 **[022 TEXT A22**]
A22 002 *<*0{0P.O.} split predicted*>
A22 003 *4{0PA} Wellington
A22 004    |^*0Radical proposals to carve up the Post Office, New
A22 005 Zealand's biggest employer, into three separate functions are
A22 006 expected to be aired soon by the Postmaster-General, \0Mr Hunt,
A22 007 Wellington's *"Evening Post**" newspaper reported yesterday.
A22 008    |^If carried through, the Post Office's 38,000 workers would
A22 009 work for one of the new organisations grouped under the broad
A22 010 headings of telecommunications, postal, and banking, the
A22 011 *"Post**" said.
A22 012    |^Once the breakdown occurred, some of the traditional
A22 013 monopolies held by the Post Office could be opened for
A22 014 competition with the private sector, the *"Post**" said.
A22 015    |^The newspaper reported that \0Mr Hunt declined to answer
A22 016 questions about the subject, but quoted him as saying that some
A22 017 statement would be made *"very soon.**"
A22 018    |^The Post Office has assets of more than *+$5 billion.
A22 019 *<*4Flood grant*>
A22 020 {0PA} Wellington
A22 021    |^*0An interim grant of *+$600,000 is being made for urgent
A22 022 repairs along river courses in South Canterbury, the Minister
A22 023 of Works and Development, \0Mr Colman, said yesterday.
A22 024    |^It was essential the South Canterbury Catchment Board had
A22 025 the least delay in restoring safety on the Orari, Waihi,
A22 026 Temuka, Opihi, Pareora, and Waihao rivers, he said.
A22 027    |^The total amount needed for repairs to catchment works
A22 028 would be considerably higher but preliminary estimates were
A22 029 being used.
A22 030 *<*4{0R.N.Z.} decision *'dismaying**'*>
A22 031 {0PA} Wellington
A22 032    |^*0A decision by Radio New Zealand to cut the amount of
A22 033 local choral music on the \0YC stations has *"dismayed**" the
A22 034 Choral Federation.
A22 035    |^The federation's president, Professor Peter Godfrey, said
A22 036 the move could seriously affect the standard of singing in New
A22 037 Zealand.
A22 038    |^It had been common practice for Radio New Zealand to
A22 039 record concerts given by choirs and broadcast them on local
A22 040 \0YC stations.
A22 041    |^*"In future it appears that all choral concerts will be
A22 042 broadcast on the Concert Programme network only, thus reducing
A22 043 the number of choirs who will be offered broadcasts,**"
A22 044 Professor Godfrey said.
A22 045    |^*"The federation believed this role to be vital in fostering
A22 046 choral music nationally, and it must be maintained,**" he said.
A22 047 *<*4Pensioner on charges*>
A22 048 *0{0PA} Auckland
A22 049    |^A pensioner, aged 61, will stand trial in the District
A22 050 Court at Auckland on four charges of indecency involving a boy,
A22 051 aged 12.
A22 052    |^The man's name was suppressed, and he was allowed bail.
A22 053    |^At the end of depositions, \0Messrs {0J.A.} Ward and
A22 054 {0W.R.} Familton, Justices of the Peace, found there was
A22 055 insufficient evidence to justify a charge of abduction and one
A22 056 of stupefying the boy.  ^The man had denied all the charges.
A22 057 *<*4Advice available for foresters*>
A22 058 Rangiora reporter
A22 059    |^*0People contemplating moving into private forest growing
A22 060 can obtain assistance from an advisory service offered by the
A22 061 Forest Service.
A22 062    |^Forest management extension officers at Forestry House in
A22 063 Victoria Street, Christchurch, are available to advise growers
A22 064 in Canterbury on agroforestry, timber production, shelter
A22 065 belts, woodlots, a variety of high-value timber trees, and on
A22 066 finance.
A22 067    |^The service exists to encourage a high standard of forest
A22 068 management for all private growers, said \0Mr {0D.A.} Black,
A22 069 Conservator of Forests.
A22 070    |^The forest extension also acts as a referral agency when
A22 071 more specialised information is required.  ^This includes
A22 072 inquiries about forest valuations which are handled by forestry
A22 073 consultants.  ^Some queries are passed on to the Forest
A22 074 Service's forest product extension officers, who specialise in
A22 075 the processing and use of forest produce.
A22 076    |^The Christchurch-based forest extension officers are
A22 077 available to private growers on Friday afternoons between 1
A22 078 {0p.m.} and 4 {0p.m.}
A22 079    |^Growers living south of the Rakaia River can get in touch
A22 080 with \0Mr Richard McAslan of the Forest Service in Timaru.
A22 081 *<*4Student gets post*>
A22 082    |^*0\0Mr John Ring, aged 27, a philosophy student, has been
A22 083 named president of the Canterbury regional council of the New
A22 084 Zealand Democratic Party.
A22 085    |^He succeeds \0Mr Kevin Earle, who resigned because of
A22 086 business commitments.  ^The change was unrelated to the
A22 087 leadership row involving \0Mr Gary Knapp, said \0Mr Ring.
A22 088 *<*4Treasury official gets new post*>
A22 089 *0{0PA} Wellington
A22 090    |^A senior Treasury official, \0Mr Rob Laking, has been
A22 091 appointed to a top new post in the Social Welfare Department.
A22 092    |^\0Mr Laking would take up one of the posts of deputy
A22 093 director-general, a departmental spokesman has said.
A22 094    |^It is the second senior Government department post to go
A22 095 to a Treasury executive.
A22 096    |^Last week the Treasury's economic adviser, \0Mr Jas
A22 097 McKenzie, was named as the Secretary of Labour.
A22 098    |^The other new deputy director-general of Social Welfare
A22 099 will be \0Mr John Yuill, at present Assistant Director-General
A22 100 of Education.
A22 101    |^Appointed also to the Social Welfare Department's senior
A22 102 ranks is \0Mr Alan Nixon, formerly divisional director,
A22 103 benefits, who moves up to the post of Assistant 
A22 104 Director-General, policy development.
A22 105    |^\0Mr Laking, a son of the former Chief Ombudsman, Sir
A22 106 George Laking, holds the post of assistant secretary in charge
A22 107 of the Industrial Division of the Treasury.
A22 108 *<Two fires in \0Chch*>
A22 109    |^The Fire Service was called to two fires in Christchurch
A22 110 last evening.
A22 111    |^Two engines were called to a house fire in Hoon Hay Road
A22 112 at 10.30 {0p.m.} ^It was thought two elderly persons were in
A22 113 the house, but the premises were found to be empty.
A22 114    |^The house was severely damaged.  ^The cause of the fire is
A22 115 unknown.
A22 116    |^Three engines went to a fire in timber stacks behind
A22 117 Heating World, in Riccarton Road, at 10.38 {0p.m.} ^The stacks
A22 118 were badly damaged.  ^The cause of the fire is unknown.
A22 119 *<*4Youth hostels commended*>
A22 120    |^*0More New Zealanders should follow the lead of overseas
A22 121 visitors and make use of youth hostels, says the Minister of
A22 122 Consumer Affairs, \0Mrs Margaret Shields.
A22 123    |^Speaking at yesterday's laying of a foundation stone at
A22 124 the Mount Cook hostel, \0Mrs Shields said that overseas
A22 125 visitors knew far more about hostels in New Zealand than
A22 126 locals.
A22 127    |^Hostels gave New Zealanders an ideal opportunity to see
A22 128 national parks cheaply, she said.
A22 129    |^A *+$50,000 grant from the Government was made to the
A22 130 Youth Hostel Association towards the cost of the 59-bed hostel.
A22 131    |^The chairman of the association, \0Mr Gary Sturgess, said
A22 132 the hostel would be the *"flagship**" of New Zealand hostels
A22 133 and a key link in the international network.
A22 134    |^Membership of the association had reached 28,000 last
A22 135 September, which was a record in its 54-year history.
A22 136    |^To meet the constant foreign and domestic demand for 
A22 137 low-cost accommodation, *+$1 million had been spent on buildings
A22 138 during the last five years and several hundred thousand dollars
A22 139 would be spent this year, he said.
A22 140 *<*4Flood fund growing*>
A22 141    |^*0The South Canterbury flood relief fund launched at
A22 142 Christchurch Cathedral has so far raised *+$23,000 for South
A22 143 Canterbury flood victims.
A22 144    |^The Dean, the very \0Rev. \0Dr David Coles, said yesterday
A22 145 that each day for the last week cheques and cash had come to
A22 146 the Cathedral from a wide variety of people.
A22 147    |^*"The funds are being redirected to Timaru as quickly as
A22 148 possible so that they are available for local use,**" he said.
A22 149 ^*"At this stage there appears no sign of donations diminishing
A22 150 and we will keep the fund open for at least another week.**"
A22 151    |^Donations for the fund can be left in the collection box
A22 152 at the entrance of Christchurch Cathedral or mailed to *"South
A22 153 Canterbury Flood Relief**" {0P.O.} Box 855, Christchurch.
A22 154    |^A collection box for flood relief funds is also at the
A22 155 Christchurch City Council's treasury department on the ground
A22 156 floor of the Civic Offices in Tuam Street.  ^The box has been
A22 157 there three days and has collected *+$157.
A22 158 *<*4United Service licence renewed*>
A22 159    |^*0The United Service Hotel has had its liquor licence
A22 160 renewed after being improved to meet health and fire-safety
A22 161 requirements.
A22 162    |^The Canterbury Licensing Committee granted the hotel an
A22 163 interim licence for three months last December, which required
A22 164 work to bring the hotel up to standard.
A22 165    |^The committee's chairman, Judge Frampton, said the hotel
A22 166 had come a long way since December and now met the standards
A22 167 required.
A22 168    |^The committee ruled that the public bar must open before
A22 169 June 19 to meet licensing requirements.
A22 170    |^A director of the Auckland-based company which owns the
A22 171 hotel, \0Mr Russell Green, said he was delighted that
A22 172 permission to continue as a hotel-keeper was granted.
A22 173    |^The house bar, kitchen, and bedrooms had been
A22 174 substantially improved, and work on renovating the public bar
A22 175 would be finished within the next two months, he said.
A22 176 *<*4Changes *'Should be made**'*>
A22 177    |^*0Any Government efforts to reduce the urban transport
A22 178 subsidy should not be at the expense of providing a good public
A22 179 transport service, the chairman of the Canterbury united
A22 180 Council's urban transport committee, \0Mr Mel Foster, has said.
A22 181    |^Changes should be made to get away from full Government
A22 182 funding of urban rail in Auckland and Wellington.  ^Local
A22 183 government, through ratepayers, should make some contribution,
A22 184 he said.
A22 185    |^This did not imply that the Government funding of buses in
A22 186 Christchurch should be further reduced, as Christchurch
A22 187 ratepayers already paid over half the subsidy for buses in
A22 188 rates.
A22 189    |^Improvements to the bus service suggested by \0Mr Prebble
A22 190 were worthwhile, but he was confident bus operators were
A22 191 already working on this.
A22 192    |^*"Improved service will not greatly reduce the need for
A22 193 continuing support both from Government and the local ratepayer
A22 194 for public transport,**" \0Mr Foster said.
A22 195 *<*4Public help to hold man*>
A22 196    |^*0Members of the public helped to hold a man arrested for
A22 197 disorderly behaviour in central Christchurch last evening.
A22 198    |^A police spokesman said a constable arrested a man who had
A22 199 been jumping on car bonnets about 9 {0p.m.} at the corner of
A22 200 Colombo Street and Gloucester Streets.
A22 201    |^The man struggled but was held by three men until a police
A22 202 car arrived to take him away.
A22 203    |^The spokesman said he was pleased people were prepared to
A22 204 help the policeman.
A22 205 *<*4*+$330,000 townhouse*>
A22 206    |^*0A two-bedroom townhouse in Redcliffs was sold for
A22 207 *+$330,000 at auction yesterday, a figure 78 per cent above
A22 208 Government valuation.
A22 209    |^The townhouse in west Beachville Road has an
A22 210 electronically controlled security system, a motorised vehicle
A22 211 turn-around platform in the driveway, and a private jetty.
A22 212    |^The director of Neumann Real Estate, \0Mr Daniel Sherry,
A22 213 said the auction bidding was brisk.
A22 214    |^Demand for luxury houses in Christchurch was high and
A22 215 Government valuations were often conservative because they did
A22 216 not take account of special fittings or furnishings, he said.
A22 217    |^The townhouse was sold to an anonymous buyer.
A22 218    |^Last year, a *"twin**" to the property sold yesterday
A22 219 fetched *+$280,000.
A22 220 *<*4Hansen Park meeting*>
A22 221    |^*0Residents of Opawa and \0St Martins are forming an
A22 222 association in response to plans to use Hansen Park as a
A22 223 headquarters for softball in Canterbury.
A22 224    |^A meeting of residents will be held on April 1 to elect a
A22 225 committee and appoint spokespeople.
A22 226 *<*4Big ride for big rug*>
A22 227    |^*0Abracadabra... it is a magic carpet ride all the way for
A22 228 a rug maker, \0Mr Hugh Bannerman, of Christchurch.
A22 229    |^But while \0Mr Bannerman will not leave the ground, the
A22 230 9\0m by 5\0m wool carpet, made by Dilana Rugs, will.
A22 231    |^The rug was commissioned by a private buyer in Seattle,
A22 232 Canada, for his *"little room just off the lounge.**" ^The
A22 233 rug is the largest the Arts Centre-based firm has freighted
A22 234 overseas.  ^Because of its size it had to be made in four
A22 235 separate pieces and sent in two pieces to fit into the
A22 236 aeroplane.
A22 237    |^\0Mr Bannerman, the founder of Dilana Rugs, has worked on
A22 238 the rug with three other people for about six months.  ^Work on
A22 239 hand tufting the two-pile, two-tone carpet started about six
A22 240 weeks ago.  ^The rest of the time was spent on design and
A22 241 dyeing the wool.
A22 242    |^The yellow and yellow-green rug is insured for *+$10,000.
A22 243 *<*4Rare tyres stolen*>
A22 244    |^*0Rare, imported tyres, valued at *+$16,000, were stolen
A22 245 from the Goodyear truck store in Main South Road, Hornby, on
A22 246 Thursday night.
A22 247    |^The tyres were especially imported for Toyota campervans,
A22 248 said a police spokesman.  ^They were not available anywhere
A22 249 else in New Zealand.
A22 250    |^The tyre type was *2GY G10 195 R14LT 18 *0ply radial.
A22 251    |^Anyone being offered such tyres should call the police.
A22 252 *<*4Charge of murder*>
A22 253 *0{0PA} Auckland
A22 254    |^The police charged a man with murder last evening after a
A22 255 baby boy, aged six months, died from head injuries.
A22 256    |^Detectives went to a Henderson house after ambulance
A22 257 officers were called to the injured child about 1 {0p.m.}
A22 258    |^The baby died in Auckland Hospital.
A22 259    A man, aged 28, will appear in the District Court at
A22 260 Henderson today charged with murder.
A22 261 *<*4Canty contender boxes on*>
A22 262 *0{0PA} Wellington
A22 263    |^A wayward contact lens may have cost the Canterbury boxer,
A22 264 Peter Warren, the chance of representing New Zealand at the
A22 265 Edinburgh Commonwealth Games in July.
A22 266    |^At the Games trials in Lower Hutt last evening, Warren
A22 267 lost his featherweight bout to the Southlander, Johnny Wallace,
A22 268 on a unanimous points decision, but the fight was closer than
A22 269 the result suggested.
A22 270    |^Early in the opening round Warren lost a contact lens from
A22 271 his left eye and was severely inconvenienced from that point.
A22 272    |^The lens was not found till the bout had finished.  ^It
A22 273 was recovered undamaged from the canvas.
A22 274    |^In between, Warren had battled bravely and given as good
A22 275 as he got though Wallace deserved to take the verdict.
A22 276 *#
A23 001 **[023 TEXT A23**]
A23 002 *<*0Douglas silent on dollar gamble*>
A23 003 *<*1By *3SIMON KILROY *1in Wellington*>
A23 004    |^*0A money market miscalculation which cost Bank of New
A23 005 Zealand clients millions of dollars will not be looked at by
A23 006 the Government.
A23 007    |^The *1Sunday Star *0revealed the Government-owned bank
A23 008 gambled between *+$100 million and *+$130 million on a fall in
A23 009 the value of the Kiwi dollar and lost between *+$12 million and
A23 010 *+$15 million of clients' money when it rose in value.
A23 011    |^Some of the {0*2BNZ} *0clients who lost money in the
A23 012 transaction are seeking legal advice to see if those losses can
A23 013 be recovered.
A23 014    |^A spokesman for the Minister of Finance's office said
A23 015 today \0Mr Douglas did not want to comment.
A23 016    |^The transactions were between the bank and its clients,
A23 017 the spokesman said.
A23 018 *<Kiwi winner*>
A23 019    |^An Auckland ticket won the *+$100,000 first prize in
A23 020 Golden Kiwi lottery 263 drawn today.
A23 021 *<Cleaners win *+$63 pay rise*>
A23 022    |*2WELLINGTON ({0PA}). *- ^*0The Arbitration Court today
A23 023 approved a pay rise for commercial cleaners of 30.1%.
A23 024    |^The Caretakers' and Cleaners' Union sees the decision as a
A23 025 major breakthrough for the lower paid worker as it takes the
A23 026 commercial cleaners hourly rate to *+$6.83, a *+$63 weekly
A23 027 increase.
A23 028    |^The union has campaigned since 1979 to achieve the same
A23 029 rate for commercial cleaners as that of school cleaners.  ^The
A23 030 matter was taken to the Arbitration Court last year.
A23 031    |^The court found in favour of the union's claim but there
A23 032 was a dissenting opinion in the decision from the employers
A23 033 representative.
A23 034 *<Cheats upset Red Cross*>
A23 035 By *2LINDA DONALDSON
A23 036    |^*0Auckland Red Cross is upset at bogus collectors who
A23 037 pocketed its annual appeal money.
A23 038    |^The charity organisation warns householders to look out
A23 039 for fakes following a report of two schoolboys pretending to be
A23 040 collectors for Red Cross in Ranui on Sunday.
A23 041    |^The house-to-house appeal begins there on Thursday night.
A23 042    |^Red Cross public relations officer Eileen Makley said she
A23 043 had no idea how much was taken before a donor became suspicious
A23 044 and queried them.
A23 045    |^The police were notified but the names and addresses given
A23 046 by the boys turned out to be false.
A23 047    |^The pair had got hold of official donation bags but real
A23 048 collectors could be identified by 1986 Red Cross stickers worn
A23 049 on their clothes.
A23 050    |^She said the fakes had spoiled the credibility of genuine
A23 051 collectors who will be out in their thousands this week.
A23 052    |^Red Cross hopes to raise *+$1 million from its nationwide
A23 053 house-to-house appeal.
A23 054 *<Coffee flagged away*>
A23 055    |*2TAURANGA ({0PA}). *- ^*0A friendly gesture which had
A23 056 officials in a tizz nearly resulted in an unscheduled cup of
A23 057 coffee for Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.
A23 058    |^\0Mr Lee spent yesterday afternoon visiting the Te Puke
A23 059 property of Kiwifruit Authority deputy chairman Bruce
A23 060 Honeybone.
A23 061    |^Neighbour Ewen Lowden, an admirer of \0Mr Lee, decided to
A23 062 fly a Singapore flag on the roadside where \0Mr Lee and his
A23 063 entourage would pass.
A23 064    |^He rang the Department of Internal Affairs in Rotorua to
A23 065 see if they could lend him one.
A23 066    |^They were not able to, but \0Mr Lowden's inquiry triggered
A23 067 off a security check on him by the police.
A23 068    |^Not to be put off, he finally obtained the appropriate
A23 069 flag through the Bay of Plenty Harbour Board.
A23 070    |^He erected a temporary flagstaff outside his home and
A23 071 waited for the entourage to pass.  ^The leading driver, seeing
A23 072 the flag, started to pull into \0Mr Lowden's driveway, so \0Mr
A23 073 Lowden frantically waved them on up the road.
A23 074    |^Officialdom was not amused and a uniformed constable was
A23 075 sent along to check on \0Mr Lowden.
A23 076    |^*"I was just going to invite him for a cup of coffee when
A23 077 he was recalled,**" \0Mr Lowden said.
A23 078    |^But he got some recognition *- as the entourage left for
A23 079 Rotorua, \0Mr and \0Mrs Lowden received a wave from the
A23 080 official party.
A23 081 *<Briefly*>
A23 082 *<Deductible dogs*>
A23 083    |^The cost of replacing farm dogs purchased by farm workers,
A23 084 is a deductible item and not limited to *+$250, says the Inland
A23 085 Revenue Department.  ^The department said there seemed to be
A23 086 some confusion in relation to claims for the purchase of
A23 087 replacement farm dogs.  ^The amount which could be claimed was
A23 088 the total cost of the new dog, minus the weekly allowance and
A23 089 employers' reimbursement.
A23 090 *<Costly settlement*>
A23 091    |^Farmers in the Otago may have to pay increased processing
A23 092 charges at Waitaki International's Burnside works as a result
A23 093 of today's settlement of the freezing workers dispute.
A23 094 ^Waitaki says it calculates the settlement will cost the
A23 095 company between *+$1.4 and *+$1.5 million in extra wages.
A23 096 *<Job scheme protest*>
A23 097    |^The organisers of a rally to protest about government cuts
A23 098 to job schemes expect 1000 Aucklanders to join a city march.
A23 099 The Umbrella Group on Unemployment is organising the protest on
A23 100 April 21 with a march from the Chief Post Office to Aotea
A23 101 Square.  ^It will present a petition to the Labour Department
A23 102 calling on it not to drop fully subsidised work schemes.
A23 103 *<Employers meet*>
A23 104    |^Employers met in private today to discuss how to oppose
A23 105 the Union Representatives' Education Bill going through
A23 106 Parliament.  ^The Employers' Association and Manufacturers'
A23 107 Federation organised today's meeting at the Auckland
A23 108 Showgrounds but closed the session to the media.  ^The bill
A23 109 provides paid leave for workers to attend trade union education
A23 110 courses.
A23 111 *<Plan abandoned*>
A23 112    |^Daihatsu New Zealand \0Ltd has dropped plans to build a
A23 113 *+$10 million assembly plant in Te Awamutu.  ^The company has
A23 114 confirmed it would pull out of the project, despite already
A23 115 spending *+$750,000 on site development.
A23 116 *<Cosmonaut visit*>
A23 117    |^The first Soviet cosmonaut to visit New Zealand is to
A23 118 arrive at the end of the month *- six years after another
A23 119 Soviet cosmonaut was refused entry for political reasons.
A23 120 ^Cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov, a veteran of three space
A23 121 missions and holder of the title Hero of the Soviet Union, will
A23 122 arrive in New Zealand on April 26.
A23 123 *<Dispute closes warehouse*>
A23 124    |^Nissan's national parts warehouse is closed because of a
A23 125 dispute between the company and its stores and clerical
A23 126 workers.  ^The workers have been on strike for a week after the
A23 127 company rejected their claims on job classification and
A23 128 technology issues.
A23 129 *<Murder charge*>
A23 130    |^A 58-year-old man charged with murder was remanded for
A23 131 psychiatric examination when he appeared in the Whangarei
A23 132 District Court today.  ^Mane Kire Tahere, farmer, of Te Iringa,
A23 133 near Kaikohe, was charged with murdering Sidney Mane Kire
A23 134 Tahere at Te Iringa on March 29.
A23 135 *<Freighters' reprieve*>
A23 136    |^Safe Air's two veteran Bristol Freighter
A23 137 work**[ARB**]-horses, earmarked for withdrawal from the
A23 138 Woodbourne-based airline tomorrow, have had a stay of
A23 139 execution.  ^General manager Ron Tannock, said one freighter
A23 140 would continue its Cook Strait service for a while.
A23 141 *<Fisherman rescued*>
A23 142    |^A salmon fisherman trapped on a sandbar when the
A23 143 Waimakariri River rose rapidly was plucked to safety by
A23 144 helicopter *- still grasping his rod.  ^Fears were held for the
A23 145 man's safety as a flash flood, brought on by heavy rain in the
A23 146 high country, left him stranded far from the bank.
A23 147 *<Stone laid*>
A23 148    |^Justice Minister Geoff Palmer was to lay the foundation
A23 149 stone for Auckland's new District Court in Albert \0St today.
A23 150 *<Army veteran dies aged 73*>
A23 151    |*2TAURANGA ({0PA}). *- ^*0Major Eric Rowland Firth who
A23 152 served in the New Zealand Army for 28 years, has died at his
A23 153 home in Te Puna, aged 73.  ^Auckland-born Major Firth was
A23 154 active in community affairs in and around Tauranga.
A23 155 *<Restaurant for lake*>
A23 156    |*2ROTORUA ({0PA}). *- ^*0Construction of a floating
A23 157 restaurant in the form of a 22-metre paddle boat will begin in
A23 158 Rotorua this week.
A23 159    |^Behind the venture is *+$500,000 and *"a bit of ambition**"
A23 160 according to a principal of Lakeland Steel Products, Ian
A23 161 Stewart whose company will build the boat.
A23 162    |^The boat, which will offer two-hour cruises on Lake
A23 163 Rotorua for up to 150 passengers, is expected to be completed
A23 164 and ready for transporting to the lake in late September or
A23 165 early October.
A23 166 *<Renewal package in works*>
A23 167    |*2WELLINGTON ({0PA}). *- ^*0A new urban renewal scheme to
A23 168 replace the community home improvement programme ({0*2CHIP})
A23 169 *0will be announced this month by the Housing Minister Phil
A23 170 Goff, says a city planner.
A23 171    |^The old programme expired at the end of last month.
A23 172    |^The new programme would contain a package for the elderly,
A23 173 neighbourhood renovation advice services and an up-grading in
A23 174 the home improvement loans.
A23 175    |^Discussions on the new programme would soon be held with
A23 176 interested bodies such as the Housing Corporation and local
A23 177 bodies.
A23 178    |^Wellington City planner Ken Clarke said the corporation's
A23 179 officials had advised him the minister was conscious of his
A23 180 commitment to a new programme.
A23 181 *<Cricketers run amuck in restaurant*>
A23 182    |*2WELLINGTON, ({0PA}). *- ^*0Dinner-suited diners in a
A23 183 popular Wellington restaurant went berserk smashing glass and
A23 184 throwing bleach, food and alcohol around the upstairs dining
A23 185 room, says the restaurant manager.
A23 186    |^The thousands of dollars worth of damage was apparently
A23 187 part of an annual outing by members of a social cricket team,
A23 188 manager and part-owner Mark Avery said.
A23 189    |^\0Mr Avery and a waitress spent much of their weekend
A23 190 trying to clean up the *"disgusting**" mess.
A23 191    |^The group of 17 professional people, in their early and
A23 192 mid-twenties, had booked into the Roxburgh restaurant on Friday
A23 193 night to celebrate their annual prizegiving.
A23 194    |^\0Mr Avery said he later found a typed piece of paper
A23 195 awarding a prize to the person who paid the bill for cleaning
A23 196 up another Wellington restaurant after last year's prizegiving.
A23 197 *<Briefly*>
A23 198 *<Missing in Waitakeres*>
A23 199    |^Auckland search and rescue police feared today for the
A23 200 safety of a West Auckland man, missing in the Waitakeres since
A23 201 yesterday.  ^Ian Wilson (38), of Mountain \0Rd, had been with a
A23 202 party of about six people.  ^Inspector Gerry Hugglestone said
A23 203 the man had no safety equipment or extra clothing but had done
A23 204 the walk previously.
A23 205 *<Meeting house dismantled*>
A23 206    |^Maori elders gathered at the Otawhiwhi Marae at Bowentown
A23 207 for a special ceremony to dismantle by hand the old meeting
A23 208 house, which has fallen into despair and has not been used for
A23 209 many years.  ^Marae members have nearly completed a new meeting
A23 210 house nearby.
A23 211 *<Milk rise sought*>
A23 212    |^Milk vendors are seeking a rise of only 1.2 cents in the
A23 213 cost of a bottle of milk, says National Union of Milk Vendors
A23 214 president Ian Murray.  ^The general manager of the Milk Board,
A23 215 Hamish Turnball, recently said a bottle of milk could increase
A23 216 by five cents.
A23 217 *<Drink-driving increase*>
A23 218    |^Ministry of Transport figures show there are almost twice
A23 219 as many drinking drivers on Tauranga roads than there were
A23 220 three years ago.  ^Figures compiled by Tauranga's chief traffic
A23 221 officer, Senior Traffic Sergeant Fred Oakley, show that the
A23 222 number of evidential breath tests given also rose markedly from
A23 223 333 in 1983 to 628 last year.
A23 224 *<Tannery cut-back*>
A23 225    |^Workers at the Glendermid Tannery at Sawyers Bay have
A23 226 agreed to work a four-day week for four days' pay in an effort
A23 227 to avoid redundancies.  ^The 80 employees are working four
A23 228 short weeks until April 21, when the situation will be
A23 229 reviewed.
A23 230 *<Diver recovers*>
A23 231    |^A diver working on the recovery of oil from the Mikhail
A23 232 Lermontov is in Wellington Hospital after a dive near the
A23 233 wreck.  ^Ray Hatch of Wellington was listed in a satisfactory
A23 234 condition, after a doctor found an air bubble trapped in a lung
A23 235 cavity.
A23 236 *<Flood auction*>
A23 237    |^A weekend auction of flood-damaged antique furniture drew
A23 238 an audience of 300 in Timaru and netted *+$83,000 for the 105
A23 239 items sold.  ^About 150 bargain hunters from as far afield as
A23 240 the Bay of Plenty and Invercargill payed **[SIC**] between *+$20 and
A23 241 *+$4000 for items from a local antique shop damaged in the March
A23 242 13 flood.
A23 243 *<Swimmer drowns*>
A23 244    |^A New Zealand man has drowned in the Thomson River in
A23 245 Queensland's central west.  ^Longreach police said *4Stephan
A23 246 Gordon Forester, *0of Christchurch, had been swimming with
A23 247 friends when he disappeared.  ^His body was recovered four
A23 248 hours later.
A23 249 *<Trampers found*>
A23 250    |^Three young trampers lost in rugged West Coast bush over
A23 251 the weekend walked out fit and well.  ^The three, Michael
A23 252 Richard Glayus (22) and Warwick John Taylor (22), both of
A23 253 Wellington, and Gerald Pritchett (25), of Auckland, became
A23 254 overdue on Friday and police mounted a search.
A23 255 *<Initial advice for 767 flyers*>
A23 256    |^Disabled people have been asked to memorise the letters B
A23 257 and J when travelling by air.
A23 258    |^This advice comes from the {0NZ} Paraplegic and Physically
A23 259 Disabled Federation on how to use toilet facilities on the new
A23 260 Boeing 767 Aotearoa.
A23 261    |^B and J are aisle seats on the new plane, strategically
A23 262 placed near the toilets.  ^The disabled person can get there in
A23 263 a *"narrow wheelchair**" designed to move quickly down the
A23 264 aisle.
A23 265    |^The new toilet has a wide door with pull-across curtains
A23 266 and grab rails for turbulent flights, and the aisle seats have
A23 267 armrests that drop down so it's easy to get in and out.
A23 268    |^*"Don't be surprised when a large covered truck arrives at
A23 269 the end of the flight,**" the disabled newsletter says.
A23 270 ^Wheelchair passengers are lifted to the door on the truck's
A23 271 hydraulic tray.
A23 272 *#
A24 001 **[024 TEXT A24**]
A24 002 *<*4Tourist found*>
A24 003 *2HAMILTON ({0PA}). *- ^*0A Finnish tourist has been found
A24 004 safe and well in Hamilton.
A24 005    |^Police yesterday expressed concern for the safety of
A24 006 Karsten Steen, 20, after some of his property was found near
A24 007 the Waikato River.
A24 008    |^\0Mr Steen turned up at the Hamilton police station
A24 009 yesterday afternoon after the owner of the motel he was staying
A24 010 at recognised his picture, which was published with a report
A24 011 about his disappearance in the *"Waikato Times.**"
A24 012    |^Despite the fact that a substantial amount of money and
A24 013 his passport were among the recovered property, \0Mr Steen had
A24 014 not thought to contact the police.
A24 015    |^He still had enough money to survive on without the
A24 016 missing money, Constable Tony Easter said.
A24 017 *<*4Stop work by bus drivers*>
A24 018    |^*0Christchurch Transport Board buses will be off the road
A24 019 for about two hours tomorrow during a stop work meeting by
A24 020 drivers.
A24 021    |^The meeting scheduled for 10.30{0am} means bus services
A24 022 will begin winding down about 9.15{0am}.  ^They should be back
A24 023 to normal by about 1.30{0pm}.
A24 024    *<*4Shot fired at woman*>
A24 025    |^*0Police scoured the Spreydon area today for a carload of
A24 026 men who allegedly fired at a woman pedestrian.
A24 027    |^A police spokesman said the woman, who had a child with
A24 028 her, said she was shot at from a passing white Hillman Hunter
A24 029 car near the corner of Barrington and Rose \0Sts about
A24 030 12.40{0pm}.
A24 031    |^Three European men were in the car which drove on and had
A24 032 not been located by 1.15{0pm}.
A24 033    |^The woman was shaken but unhurt.
A24 034    |^*"At this stage we are assuming it was a shot which was
A24 035 fired, as opposed to blanks,**" the spokesman said.
A24 036    |^The Christchurch armed offenders squad was alerted after
A24 037 the incident was reported but was later stood down.
A24 038 *<*4Employers in pay talks*>
A24 039    |*2AUCKLAND ({0PA}). *- ^*0Employers' Federation members
A24 040 were meeting here today to plan tactics to keep wage rises to
A24 041 about 6 per cent.
A24 042    |^The meeting coincided with the lodging of a claim in
A24 043 Wellington by rest-home workers for a 25 per cent pay rise and
A24 044 further industrial action by Engineers' Union members to back
A24 045 their claims.
A24 046    |^Today's action, a strike at Wilson Portland Cement, now
A24 047 involves a total of 6000 union members in the northern region.
A24 048    |^Stage hands, who stopped the *"Pirates of Penzance**" show
A24 049 for 30 minutes on Saturday over the breakdown of their award
A24 050 talks, expect to hear by tomorrow night when talks with
A24 051 employers were to resume.
A24 052 *<*4{0PM} on trail for votes*>
A24 053    *<By Simon Kilroy, {0NZN} news bureau*>
A24 054    |^*0The Prime Minister, \0Mr Lange hit the campaign trail
A24 055 running today, beginning what promises to be a long run-up to
A24 056 the next general election.
A24 057    |^He started a tour of vital marginal electorates in
A24 058 Hamilton.
A24 059    |^Greeted at the airport by local Labour {0MP}s Trevor
A24 060 Mallard and Bill Dillon *- both sitting on precariously thin
A24 061 majorities *- \0Mr Lange embarked on a whirlwind tour.
A24 062    |^First on the agenda was a tour of Fletcher Aluminium
A24 063 \0Ltd, a new venture which will eventually employ 120 people in
A24 064 a city hard-hit by the effects of the rural downturn.
A24 065    |^Later in the day he was due to meet local business and
A24 066 community leaders for lunch and a cruise on the Waipa Delta.
A24 067    |^The visit to Hamilton is the first of a two-month 
A24 068 part-time 15-electorate tour testing the waters for the next
A24 069 election.
A24 070    |^The tour covers nine Labour marginal seats which the
A24 071 Government will have to hold to stay in power, but also
A24 072 includes six National marginal seats \0Mr Lange claims Labour
A24 073 can win, including Rotorua, which he will visit tomorrow.
A24 074    |^\0Mr Lange said the tour was *"designed to allow me to
A24 075 make a decision which cannot be done from Wellington about how
A24 076 we are viewed as a Government in the provincial marginal
A24 077 electorates.**"
A24 078 *<*4Gelignite sticks used*>
A24 079    |*2NELSON ({0PA}). *- ^*0Nelson police have established that
A24 080 two sticks of gelignite were used to blow up the Richmond
A24 081 police patrol base early yesterday, but are still in the dark
A24 082 about who was responsible for the attack.
A24 083    |^Police have received no information from the public about
A24 084 the explosion and have not established any motive for the
A24 085 attack.
A24 086 *<*4Petitioner wants action*>
A24 087 *<By Allison Gregory*>
A24 088    |^*0Drink-drive petitioner, \0Mr Alan Boal, has slated the
A24 089 Ministers of Justice and Transport for their lack of action on
A24 090 his supplication.
A24 091    |^Signed by 14,500 people in Canterbury and South
A24 092 Canterbury, his petition was presented to the Minister of
A24 093 Justice, \0Mr Palmer, in Christchurch early last month.
A24 094    |^It called for harsher penalties for drunken drivers in an
A24 095 attempt to reduce the road toll.
A24 096    |^\0Mr Boal has had no word from either \0Mr Palmer or the
A24 097 Minister of Transport, \0Mr Prebble, on whether changes are
A24 098 proposed for the drink-dive laws.
A24 099    |^*"It's been another appalling, horrifying weekend with 15
A24 100 people killed in road accidents.**"
A24 101    |^A spokesman for \0Mr Prebble's office said both \0Mr
A24 102 Prebble and \0Mr Palmer and their staff had discussed the
A24 103 petition.
A24 104    |^A reply had been posted to \0Mr Boal in the past few days.
A24 105    |^However, \0Mr Boal has not yet received the letter.
A24 106 *<*4Tracy doing well*>
A24 107    |*2LONDON. *- ^*0Ten days after her second liver-transplant
A24 108 operation, 11-year-old Southlander Tracy Holmes is making a
A24 109 good recovery at her Cambridge hospital.
A24 110    |^An Addenbrookes Hospital spokeswoman, \0Ms Celia White, said
A24 111 Tracy's progress seemed to be satisfactory.
A24 112    |^\0Ms White said it would probably be another two or three
A24 113 months before Tracy would be able to return to New Zealand.
A24 114 *<*4Car driver found dead*>
A24 115    |*2AUCKLAND ({0PA}). *- ^*0Police say a 56-year-old man
A24 116 found dead after a collision between his car and a bus last
A24 117 night probably had a heart attack moments before the accident.
A24 118 |^He was:  *4Gordon William Watson McCulloch, *0a chemist, of
A24 119 Birkenhead.
A24 120 *<*4Shriek women given bail*>
A24 121    |*2TAURANGA ({0PA}). *- ^*0Two women charged with the
A24 122 knifepoint robbery of a \0Mt Maunganui taxi driver on Friday
A24 123 night were remanded on bail today for the taking of depositions
A24 124 on November 19.
A24 125    |^Pania Louise Ohia, 21, solo mother, of Welcome Bay, and
A24 126 Kelly Te Kirikau, 20, beneficiary, of no fixed address, were
A24 127 granted bail by Judge Wilson in Tauranga Court yesterday.
A24 128    |^But the judge reversed his decision and ordered them to be
A24 129 remanded in custody after one of them gave a shriek of delight.
A24 130    |^He freed them on bail of *+$10,000 today with a surety of
A24 131 *+$9000 for each woman.
A24 132    |^Judge Wilson said he had remanded the women in custody not
A24 133 simply because one had given a shriek of delight but because
A24 134 the incident indicated a certain irresponsibility.
A24 135    |^Neither woman pleaded to the joint charge of robbing
A24 136 Martin Ian Brady of *+$2.15 while armed with a knife.
A24 137    |^\0Mr Brady is in Tauranga Hospital recovering from stab
A24 138 wounds.
A24 139 *<*4Jacket robbery charge denied*>
A24 140    |^*0A youth robbed of a *+$200 leather jacket was later made
A24 141 to push-start the offender's car, it was alleged in the
A24 142 Christchurch District Court today.
A24 143    |^Poiva James Fa'aaliga, 18, a sickness beneficiary, has
A24 144 denied robbing the youth of his leather jacket and *+$25 on
A24 145 September 19.
A24 146    |^At a preliminary hearing, Fa'aaliga was remanded on *+$750
A24 147 bail to appear for a trial date on October 31 by \0Mrs {0C.M.}
A24 148 Holmes and \0Mrs {0F.M.} Cox, Justices of the Peace.
A24 149    |^Peter Andrew Owen, 18, said he and two 15-year-olds had
A24 150 been waiting at a bus stop on Cashel \0St near England \0St.
A24 151    |^A car with two occupants pulled up and the driver
A24 152 Fa'aaliga said he wanted to fight him for his black leather
A24 153 jacket.  ^Not wanting to be hit, \0Mr Owen threw the jacket
A24 154 into the car.
A24 155    |^The car would not start and the three were made to push
A24 156 it, he said.
A24 157    |^Sergeant Tony Smith appeared for the police and \0Mrs
A24 158 Deidre Orchard for Fa'aaliga.
A24 159 *<*4Asylum sought by {0U.S.} man*>
A24 160    |*2WELLINGTON ({0PA}). *- ^*0An American has applied for
A24 161 political asylum in New Zealand.
A24 162    |^The man is understood to be a criminologist claiming to
A24 163 have uncovered links between the {0CIA} and the Mafia, however
A24 164 no details have been released by the Ministry of Foreign
A24 165 Affairs.
A24 166    |^Attempts have been made on his life, he said.
A24 167    |^A Foreign Affairs official said today applicants for
A24 168 political asylum must have a genuine fear of persecution on
A24 169 political, religious or other grounds.
A24 170    |^*"This must be objectively sustainable.**"
A24 171    |^These criteria were set out in the 1951 {0UN} convention
A24 172 on refugees' status to which New Zealand was a signatory.
A24 173    |^The official was not prepared to comment on any particular
A24 174 case while it was being considered.
A24 175    |^Over the years New Zealand has had quite a number of
A24 176 cases.  ^He did not give details on those.
A24 177    |^Last month a Soviet seaman sought permanent residence in
A24 178 New Zealand after deciding not to return to his fishing vessel
A24 179 berthed in Dunedin.
A24 180    |^He said he was not seeking political asylum.  ^Having a
A24 181 valid temporary permit *- due to expire on November 6 *- he was
A24 182 able to stay legally while his application was being processed.
A24 183 *<*4Bottles thrown*>
A24 184    |*2WELLINGTON ({0PA}). *- ^*0Beer bottles were thrown at a
A24 185 Ministry of Transport patrol car when guests at a party tried
A24 186 to help an arrested man escape on Saturday night, police said.
A24 187    |^The incident began when two officers in the patrol car
A24 188 chased a suspected drunken driver along the Hutt motorway
A24 189 towards Wellington.
A24 190    |^After stopping his car, the man got out and tried to run
A24 191 away, pursued by the two officers.
A24 192    |^They soon caught him and brought him back to the patrol
A24 193 car.  ^However a guest leaving a nearby party tried to trip up
A24 194 one of the officers.  ^As he drove away, other guests started
A24 195 throwing beer bottles.
A24 196    |^Police later arrested two people who were charged with
A24 197 depositing dangerous litter.
A24 198    |^The arrested driver will appear in the Wellington District
A24 199 Court on Thursday.
A24 200 *<*4Obstruction alleged*>
A24 201    |*2AUCKLAND ({0PA}). *- ^{0HART} *0supporters protesting
A24 202 against the live telecast of the All Black-France rugby test to
A24 203 South Africa prevented employees entering Television New
A24 204 Zealand's Shortland \0St studios, a court was told.
A24 205    |^Four {0HART} supporters appeared before Judge Deobhakta in
A24 206 the Auckland District Court.
A24 207    |^Andrew James Campbell Aitkenhead, 53, a \0Mt Wellington
A24 208 unemployment officer, and Marx Jones, 37, a Herne Bay builder,
A24 209 were charged with obstructing police.
A24 210    |^Jones' mother, Margaret Burnett Jones, 66, retired, of
A24 211 Henderson, and Graeme Alastair Keall, 50, a Forest Hill
A24 212 teacher, were charged with trespassing.
A24 213    |^The court was told that on June 28, the day of the French
A24 214 test, about 30 protesters were assembled on the footpath and on
A24 215 the steps in front of the \0TV studio doors, chanting
A24 216 *"shame,**" *"pull the plug**" and *"don't transmit.**"
A24 217    |^A {0TVNZ} employee, Russell Henry Fox, said he arrived at
A24 218 the studio and asked, unsuccessfully, to be let through the
A24 219 group of protesters so he could get inside.  ^He also tried to
A24 220 push his way through.
A24 221    |^A security guard, Neville Cyril Collins, said some of the
A24 222 protesters tried to force their way through the front doors
A24 223 while another persisted in ringing the doorbell.
A24 224    |^Judge Deobhakta reserved judgement for two weeks.
A24 225 *<*4Sheep deal*>
A24 226    |*2HAMILTON ({0PA}). *- ^*0Cambridge-based New Zealand
A24 227 Agricultural Exports has won approval for its planned sheep
A24 228 export deal to the Middle East.
A24 229    |^The deal has been approved by the government-appointed
A24 230 Committee on Live Sheep Exports and means the company will
A24 231 supply Saudi Arabia with 500,000 long-tailed ram lambs.
A24 232    |^All the lambs will go to the Saudi Livestock Transport and
A24 233 Trading Company, which last year bought 270,000 ram lambs from
A24 234 Agricultural Exports, its general manager, \0Mr Graeme James,
A24 235 said.
A24 236 *<*4Andersen seeks seat on {0FOL}*>
A24 237    |*2AUCKLAND ({0PA}). *- ^*0\0Mr Bill Andersen will try to
A24 238 regain his seat on the Federation of Labour's national
A24 239 executive.
A24 240    |^\0Mr Andersen, the president of the Auckland Trades
A24 241 Council, said he had been nominated for the vacancy created on
A24 242 the executive by the resignation of \0Mr Rob Campbell.
A24 243    |^At the {0FOL} conference in May, \0Mr Andersen did not
A24 244 seek re-election because he wanted to devote more time to trade
A24 245 union affairs in Auckland.
A24 246    |^He said yesterday that \0Mr Campbell's resignation had
A24 247 caused him to reappraise his position.
A24 248 *<*4Stolen Mini beached*>
A24 249    |^*0A stolen blue Mini was beached at South Brighton at the
A24 250 weekend, its wheels and number plates removed.
A24 251    |^The car was driven on to the beach near the South Brighton
A24 252 Surf Club on Saturday night.
A24 253 *<*4Union, health clinic*>
A24 254    |*2AUCKLAND ({0PA}). *- ^*0The Government has offered a
A24 255 trade union a three-year funding contract to set up a health
A24 256 clinic providing cheap medical care for workers in South
A24 257 Auckland.
A24 258    |^The offer, to the Northern Hotel and Hospital Workers
A24 259 Union, is estimated to be worth *+$40,000 a year for each
A24 260 doctor hired.  ^Other subsidies and grants are expected to
A24 261 boost that figure to *+$80,000 a doctor.
A24 262    |^The union says it intends to hire four doctors and expects
A24 263 more than 10,000 patients to register with the clinic.
A24 264    |^It says the level of funding offered means it will be able
A24 265 to keep patient charges to about *+$5, while paying a senior
A24 266 doctor between *+$60,000 and *+$70,000 a year.
A24 267    |^Funding for the experimental clinic will be based on the
A24 268 *"broad principles**" of a Board of Health report on dual
A24 269 funding, which suggests the state pay roughly half of the gross
A24 270 income of general practitioners.
A24 271    |^Both the union and the Minister of Health, \0Dr Bassett,
A24 272 see the clinic as a possible blueprint for future cheap health
A24 273 care for lower paid workers.
A24 274 *#
A25 001 **[025 TEXT A25**]
A25 002 *<*2NEWSFRONT*>
A25 003 *<*4Stopwork will halt trains*>
A25 004    |^*0All suburban train services in the Wellington area will
A25 005 stop tomorrow morning because of a stopwork meeting by train
A25 006 guards.  ^The guards' meeting will start at 10{0am}.  ^All
A25 007 suburban trains will operate as normal up to and including the
A25 008 following services:  _Wellington to Paraparaumu 7.55{0am},
A25 009 Paraparaumu to Wellington 9{0am}, Wellington to Porirua
A25 010 8.23{0am}, Porirua to Wellington 8.50{0am}, Wellington to Upper
A25 011 Hutt 8.05{0am}, Upper Hutt to Wellington 9{0am}, Wellington to
A25 012 Johnsonville 9.06{0am}, Johnsonville to Wellington 9.30{0am}.
A25 013 ^Secretary of Wellington branch of the National Union of
A25 014 Railwaymen Joe Haenga said the guards will be discussing the
A25 015 new two-man train crew system which has yet to be implemented
A25 016 in the Wellington region.  ^If the new rosters for the two-man
A25 017 system are adopted the number of guards employed by the
A25 018 corporation in Wellington will drop from 75 to 52.  ^*"We are
A25 019 not happy about it,**" \0Mr Haenga said.
A25 020 *<*4Jail for *'vicious**' attack*>
A25 021    |^*0The president of a Lower Hutt chapter of the Mongrel Mob
A25 022 was yesterday sent to prison for six months for a *"vicious**"
A25 023 attack on another man.  ^Appearing in the Lower Hutt District
A25 024 Court was Tai Anthony Pairama, 27, works trust supervisor of
A25 025 Pomare.  ^He had earlier pleaded guilty to injuring with
A25 026 intent.  ^Judge {0J D} Rabone said that during the assault,
A25 027 which took place on November 13 in Lower Hutt, Pairama smashed
A25 028 a bottle over a man*'s head, punched him in the face and then
A25 029 smashed a half-pint glass over his head.  ^Counsel Annabel
A25 030 Clayton said there was a domestic background to the assault
A25 031 which her client did not want to elaborate on.  ^Pairama
A25 032 presented a dilemma *- on the **[SIC**] hand
A25 033 he had a long list of criminal convictions, on the other he
A25 034 had an excellent work record and a great deal of commitment to
A25 035 his family, said \0Ms Clayton.  ^He was not willing to give up
A25 036 his Mongrel Mob membership.
A25 037 *<*4Persian carpets stolen*>
A25 038    |^*0Wellington Police are warning people against *"buying
A25 039 cheap Christmas presents for mum,**" after three reported
A25 040 thefts of Persian carpets around the Capital.  ^Hand-knotted
A25 041 Iranian carpets worth *+$70,000 were reported stolen from a car
A25 042 parked outside Quality Inn early Thursday morning.  ^The
A25 043 complainant firm is Persian Carpet Trading Company \0Ltd.
A25 044 ^Detective Inspector Martin Sears said it was the third
A25 045 reported theft of Persian carpets in six weeks.
A25 046 *<*4Caught three times*>
A25 047    |^*0A *"very sorry 20-year-old**" breakfasted at Wellington
A25 048 Central Police Station today after being caught three times
A25 049 last night, driving while disqualified.
A25 050    |^Ministry of Transport Senior Sergeant Derek Chapman said
A25 051 the young Porirua man was first stopped in his car at
A25 052 Featherston Street about 12.45{0am}.  ^A police patrol spoke to
A25 053 him before letting him carry on.  ^However, traffic officers
A25 054 stopped him 10 minutes later and when a test indicated he was
A25 055 over the legal breath-alcohol limit, escorted him back to
A25 056 Pearse House.  ^Under investigation it was found the man had
A25 057 supplied false information.  ^The original police patrol was
A25 058 called.  ^It was later found the man was a disqualified driver.
A25 059 ^He was arrested and taken to central police station.  ^After
A25 060 the police had done their paperwork he was put on bail and
A25 061 released about 3{0am}.
A25 062    |^The man then wandered back to his car parked outside
A25 063 Pearse House.  ^But as he drove around the corner a traffic
A25 064 patrol appeared from the building and caught him.  ^This time a
A25 065 breath test proved negative.  ^He was taken back into police
A25 066 custody.  ^He faces three charges of driving while disqualified
A25 067 and one of drunken driving.
A25 068    |^Last night 1053 motorists were stopped at 14 checkpoints
A25 069 around the Capital, but although 14 were breath-tested none are
A25 070 to face further action.
A25 071 *<*4Vandal's mess cleared*>
A25 072    |^*0Masterton's East School was open again today after
A25 073 staff, parents and commercial cleaners spent yesterday clearing
A25 074 up a mess left by weekend vandals.  ^Principal Eric Fraser said
A25 075 children at the primary school would be able to have their
A25 076 final festivities before holidays started at the end of the
A25 077 week.  ^Workers cleaned up broken glass, splashed milk, ink,
A25 078 water and smashed equipment.  ^Masterton Police said two
A25 079 13-year-olds had been caught for the vandalism spree and were
A25 080 referred to police youth aid.
A25 081 *<*4Crowd watched as police were attacked*>
A25 082    |^*0Two police officers were attacked, one having his shirt
A25 083 ripped from his back, while a crowd stood by in Taradale.
A25 084    |^Sergeant Mark Devon said it appeared the crowd, many
A25 085 thought to be residents, were quite content to watch while the
A25 086 incident took place on Saturday night.
A25 087    |^He said two plainclothes officers stopped a car with three
A25 088 people in it at 5{0pm} and were immediately set upon.
A25 089    |^While the officers struggled to subdue their attackers a
A25 090 crowd formed and stood by watching.
A25 091    |^Three people were arrested and charged with assault on
A25 092 police, resisting arrest, intentional damage and obstruction.
A25 093  *- {0NZPA}
A25 094 *<*4Public invited by foundation to give views*>
A25 095    |^*0A recent report on services for the handicapped showed
A25 096 that 50 percent of disabled people have more than one
A25 097 disability, even though services tend to cater for only a
A25 098 single area of handicap or professional interest.
A25 099    |^Coinciding with the report, the Royal New Zealand
A25 100 Foundation for the Blind has released its review on the place
A25 101 and function of Homai College, the national centre for visually
A25 102 impaired children in Auckland.
A25 103    |^Foundation director Geoff Gibbs said that in studying the
A25 104 reviews it was important to focus on total issues rather than
A25 105 on specific interests segments.
A25 106    |^*"We will welcome additional observations and comments
A25 107 from the general public.**"
A25 108    |^Written submissions can be made to the foundation, Private
A25 109 Bag, Auckland until February 3.
A25 110 *<*4Appeal boosted*>
A25 111    |^*0The Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind's Talking
A25 112 Book Library fundraising campaign was given a boost recently
A25 113 with a *+$20,000 donation.
A25 114    |^It came from the {0J R} McKenzie Trust, and pushed the
A25 115 total amount raised to more than *+$500,000.  ^The foundation
A25 116 has a final target of *+$2 million.
A25 117 *<*4Wal, dog star hits*>
A25 118    |^*0Footrot Flats *- The Dog's Tail/ Tale has created new box
A25 119 office records by grossing *+$300,000 in its first weekend of
A25 120 release.
A25 121    |^Co-producer John Barnett said yesterday: ^*"This is the
A25 122 biggest opening of a New Zealand film and one of the biggest of
A25 123 any film in New Zealand history.**"
A25 124    |^He said the film had been a sell-out success across the
A25 125 country.  ^*"The response has been enthusiastic from all age
A25 126 groups and from cities and towns alike.**"
A25 127  *- {0NZPA}
A25 128 *<*4Break-out would tap Capital's potential*>
A25 129    |^*0Wellington needs to break out of its adolescent
A25 130 inferiority complex and realise it has great marketing
A25 131 opportunities, says Director of the Porirua Business
A25 132 Development Council Richard Mayson.
A25 133    |^\0Mr Mayson has just returned from Perth where he was
A25 134 responsible for the Wellington regional stand at the Perth
A25 135 America's Cup International Exposition.
A25 136    |^It was a 10-day extravaganza at which New Zealand was well
A25 137 represented with Te Maori stand and displays of woollen
A25 138 apparel, ceramics, a paua craft and other tourist-related
A25 139 stands, he said.
A25 140    |^Wellington was the only regional stand at the New Zealand
A25 141 pavilion.
A25 142    |^Of the thousands of people who poured through the
A25 143 pavilion, many commented on the presence of the Wellington
A25 144 stand and the absence of any Auckland representation, said \0Mr
A25 145 Mayson.
A25 146    |^*"That in itself was a coup.**" ^Wellington has a lot to
A25 147 sell and market, but it had to believe in itself, he said.
A25 148 ^*"Wellington could eat Perth in terms of economic development,
A25 149 investment climate, services and social sophistication.
A25 150    |^*"In fact, it could compete with any Australian city *-
A25 151 the Australian economy can be likened to a 1967 Morris Oxford
A25 152 at the moment.**"
A25 153    |^The backdrop to the Wellington stand was a huge photograph
A25 154 of the harbour and city, taken from Roseneath.
A25 155    |^It generated a great deal of interest from people from
A25 156 many different countries, said \0Mr Mayson.
A25 157    |^People were interested in all aspects of the city *- the
A25 158 views, activities and the retail sector.
A25 159    |^*"We are right at the forefront of marketing our own
A25 160 region and for that reason we will pick up on the appropriate
A25 161 opportunities.**"
A25 162 *<*4Babe shut in hot car*>
A25 163    |^*0Sydenham police yesterday warned people against leaving
A25 164 children and animals shut in cars on hot days, after they had
A25 165 to rescue a dehydrated baby girl from her mother's car.
A25 166    |^A woman passer-by reported the baby, aged about two, to be
A25 167 alone in the car in a distressed condition about 11.50{0am}.
A25 168    |^The car was parked in the Sydenham Mall carpark and the
A25 169 temperature outside was at least 20 degrees.
A25 170    |^Constable Norm Sloan, said that the baby was taken to the
A25 171 Sydenham police station where she was given water.
A25 172    |^Police had left a note on the car and the mother arrived
A25 173 soon afterwards.
A25 174    |^The baby had been left in the car about 35 minutes before
A25 175 she was rescued.
A25 176  *- {0NZPA}
A25 177 *<*6IN SHORT*>
A25 178 *<*4Power failure unexplained*>
A25 179    |^*0The cause of a massive electricity short-circuit which
A25 180 plunged most of Christchurch into darkness early today is
A25 181 still a mystery to the Electricity Department.
A25 182    |^*"Often in cases of power cuts we find traces of a bird *-
A25 183 feathers *- telling us it must have flown across a critical
A25 184 part of the system.  ^But so far we have found nothing like
A25 185 that here,**" said Ian Craigou, Christchurch substation
A25 186 superintendent.
A25 187    |^The major inconvenience seemed to be to the thousands of
A25 188 households without electricity until 7.07{0am}.
A25 189 *<*4Parliament sitting*>
A25 190    |^*0Parliament resumes today for its last three sitting days
A25 191 of the year, but the vagaries of parliamentary rules could
A25 192 stretch the time.  ^Standing orders say if urgency is taken on
A25 193 a certain day, that day continues until urgency is broken.  ^It
A25 194 is hoped the House will rise for Christmas on Thursday night,
A25 195 but Chief Government Whip \0Dr Michael Cullen said today there
A25 196 was a *"faint possibility**" {0MP}s would still be here on
A25 197 Saturday if urgency were taken.  ^He said there were *"about a
A25 198 dozen**" pieces of business on the order paper the Government
A25 199 would like to get through and eight or nine bills for
A25 200 introduction.
A25 201 *<*4Milk venture proposal*>
A25 202    |^*0A joint venture between the Wellington City Council Milk
A25 203 Department and the Manawatu Co-op Dairy Company, forming the
A25 204 biggest milk processing unit in the lower North Island, may be
A25 205 announced before Christmas.  ^Talks have been continuing for
A25 206 several months, and follow government deregulation of the
A25 207 industry.  ^The discussions with Manawatu include the supply,
A25 208 processing, packaging and distribution of town milk, associated
A25 209 milk products and compatible secondary products.
A25 210 *<*4Cannabis flourishes*>
A25 211    |^*0Cannabis plants are flourishing in muggy weather around
A25 212 Wanganui, local police say, with three garden plots discovered
A25 213 in the Santoft Forest.  ^Police removed 90 plants from the
A25 214 forest, 30\0km out of Wanganui.  ^Meanwhile *"normal visits**"
A25 215 around town are yielding many plants, but not in great numbers,
A25 216 Detective Wayne Mills said.  ^One woman was caught with 100
A25 217 cannabis bullets, selling from her home.  ^A 23-year-old was to
A25 218 appear in the Wanganui District Court today charged with
A25 219 possession for supply.
A25 220 *<*4Council starts centre*>
A25 221    |^*0Work on the Wellington City Council's first childcare
A25 222 centre starts today with mayor Jim Belich due to turn the sod
A25 223 on the Hugh Street, Newtown, site.  ^It is the first time the
A25 224 council has had a childcare centre of its employees and it is
A25 225 expected to be ready in mid-April.  ^The council has set aside
A25 226 *+$195,000 for the centre which will cater for 24 children.
A25 227 *<*4{0ACC} levy announcement*>
A25 228    |^*0New Accident Compensation Corporation ({0ACC}) levies
A25 229 will probably be announced before Christmas, a spokesman for
A25 230 the Minister responsible for {0ACC}, Stan Rodger, said today.
A25 231 ^The new levies were not discussed by Cabinet yesterday, but
A25 232 will probably be considered by the last Cabinet meeting of the
A25 233 year on Friday and the new rates announced shortly before
A25 234 Christmas, he said.
A25 235 *<*4Views on coinage wanted*>
A25 236    |^*0A nationwide survey on coinage will be carried out in
A25 237 February.
A25 238    |^The survey of 1600 people throughout New Zealand is to be
A25 239 carried out by the National Research Bureau for Treasury.  ^It
A25 240 is part of a currency review being conducted by former Internal
A25 241 Affairs secretary Jack Searle.
A25 242    |^\0Mr Searle said today that the survey was expected to be
A25 243 pilot tested before Christmas to ensure it was well designed.
A25 244    |^One of the things he wanted to know was people's views on
A25 245 one and two cent coins.
A25 246 *<*4Little value*>
A25 247    |^*0\0Mr Searle said the one and two cent coins had very
A25 248 little value and many people treated them with contempt.  ^They
A25 249 were worth less than it cost to make them.  ^Although it is
A25 250 politically sensitive it is possible that the review might
A25 251 recommend the phasing out of these coins.
A25 252 *<*4Airport decision sought*>
A25 253    |^*0Wellington City Council officials hope to meet Transport
A25 254 Minister Richard Prebble tonight to get a decision on the
A25 255 Capital's airport terminal buildings.
A25 256    |^Forty minutes of discussions between \0Mr Prebble, Mayor
A25 257 Jim Belich, airport authority head \0Cr Helene Ritchie and
A25 258 Ministry of Transport officials yesterday failed to reach a
A25 259 decision.
A25 260    |^The council resolved last week to allow Ansett New Zealand
A25 261 to build a terminal at the airport as the first stage of a
A25 262 grander council proposal.
A25 263    |^\0Mr Prebble said yesterday that it was a decision between
A25 264 the council's proposal and Ansett's original stand-alone
A25 265 terminal.  ^He said it was a matter of *"technicalities**" and
A25 266 not a political issue.
A25 267 *#
A26 001 **[026 TEXT A26**]
A26 002 *<*4Charged with murder*>
A26 003 *<*0{0NZPA} Christchurch*>
A26 004    |^Police said a 32-year-old unemployed man was arrested at
A26 005 Rangiora yesterday and charged with the murder of Louisa
A26 006 Domadran, the Christchurch girl who has been missing for six
A26 007 days.
A26 008    |^The man, who is unemployed and comes from the 
A26 009 Kaiapoi-Rangiora area, would appear in the District Court in
A26 010 Christchurch today.  ^He was being held in custody overnight at
A26 011 the Christchurch Central Police Station.
A26 012    |^Christchurch police would give no more details about the
A26 013 man last night, saying the matter was now before the courts.
A26 014    |^The man has been charged with murder while the body of his
A26 015 alleged victim is still missing.
A26 016    |^Detective Inspector Mal Griebel, who heads the
A26 017 investigation, said last night that the search for the body of
A26 018 Louisa, 6, would continue.  ^The police were *"very
A26 019 confident**" that it would be found.
A26 020    |^More than 100 searchers, including soldiers from Burnham
A26 021 Military Camp and police, continued to comb the banks of the
A26 022 Waimakariri River yesterday.
A26 023    |^The searchers are looking in an area where six days ago
A26 024 two whitebaiters told the police they saw the body of a girl in
A26 025 the river.
A26 026    |^It was the same day that Louisa was last seen alive,
A26 027 walking home from Bromley Primary School.
A26 028    |^\0Mr Griebel praised the public for their help in the
A26 029 investigation.
A26 030    |^*"It was a real team effort *- the public and my own
A26 031 staff.
A26 032    |^*"The public response to the requests for information has
A26 033 played a big part.**"
A26 034    |^However, \0Mr Griebel said that those on the inquiry had
A26 035 been saddened when it was realised that Louisa was dead.
A26 036    |^*"We would have dearly loved to have found that little
A26 037 girl alive.**"
A26 038    |^The police were certain that she was dead because of the
A26 039 time she was missing, the sighting of a body in the river, the
A26 040 discovery of her clothing, and *"other circumstances**".
A26 041    |^Her back-pack and clothing were found *"in the vicinity
A26 042 of Kaiapoi**" at the weekend.
A26 043    |^\0Mr Griebel said that the man arrested had been spoken to
A26 044 by the police at *"various stages over the last few days**".
A26 045 *<*4Floods cost *+$30m*>
A26 046    |^*0The final cost of damage caused by the historic March
A26 047 floods in South Canterbury and North Otago has been set at
A26 048 *+$30 million.
A26 049    |^In a report to the Insurance Industry Council, \0Mr John
A26 050 Doggett, the chairman of the insurance emergency committee set
A26 051 up at the time of the flood, said commercial damage amounted to
A26 052 *+$20 million while domestic damage was *+$10 million.
A26 053    |^More than 360 houses were damaged, with 40 to 50 (some
A26 054 being holiday bachs and below-standard accommodation) being
A26 055 uninsured.
A26 056    |^\0Mr Doggett said the insurance emergency committee
A26 057 received about 20 complaints as to the methods of settlement of
A26 058 claims and payouts.  ^But, he said, in every instance when the
A26 059 complaints were followed-up with the company concerned,
A26 060 invariably the matter was rectified.
A26 061    |^The co-operation between all insurance offices was of the
A26 062 highest level and at no time was there any friction, \0Mr
A26 063 Doggett said.
A26 064    |^*"We all had the one aim, to present a united front and to
A26 065 settle the claims fairly with all parties involved.**"
A26 066 *<*4Wave fears recede*>
A26 067 *<*0{0NZPA} Auckland*>
A26 068    |^Fears of a seismic wave proved groundless following a
A26 069 strong earthquake which shook the South Pacific last night
A26 070 about 1000\0km north-east of New Zealand near the sparsely
A26 071 populated Kermadec Islands.
A26 072    |^The quake, which registered eight on the Richter scale,
A26 073 occurred at 6.52{0pm} in the Kermadec Island-Tonga trench area.
A26 074    |^Civil Defence authorities began a tsunami watch about
A26 075 8{0pm} after notification by the Pacific warning centre in
A26 076 Honolulu.  ^But Civil Defence official \0Mr Doug Bent told the
A26 077 Press Association the watch was cancelled three hours later.
A26 078    |^A wave measuring less than 10\0cms had been recorded in
A26 079 Western Samoa which meant *"there sure won't be a tidal wave
A26 080 here**", \0Mr Bent said.
A26 081 *<*4*'No**' to Soviet sub*>
A26 082 *<*0{0NZPA} Wellington*>
A26 083    |^Defence officials now believe it *"most unlikely**" there
A26 084 was a submarine operating in the Cook Islands in February, the
A26 085 Prime Minister, \0Mr Lange, said yesterday.
A26 086    |^\0Mr Lange said he had been told initially there was a
A26 087 submarine there, and his feeling was that it was Russian, but
A26 088 defence advice about it was later *"amended and then
A26 089 negated**".
A26 090    |^The submarine was supposedly tracked by the Air Force
A26 091 using Orion aircraft and sonar buoys but \0Mr Lange said
A26 092 analysis of the results meant the Ministry of Defence could not
A26 093 be sure what they heard was a submarine.
A26 094 *<*4Man admits attempt to kill after sex shop abduction*>
A26 095 *<*0{0NZPA} Christchurch*>
A26 096    |^A man accused of the kidnap, sexual assault and attempted
A26 097 murder of a Christchurch sex shop assistant, pleaded guilty to
A26 098 all charges yesterday.
A26 099    |^John Douglas Bennett, flanked by three prison officers,
A26 100 appeared briefly in the dock of the High Court yesterday to
A26 101 admit the four counts arising from of the incident.
A26 102    |^In a hoarse, muted voice, Bennett, 31, pleaded guilty to
A26 103 the knife point abduction of the 25-year-old woman from the
A26 104 Cupid Adult Boutique with intent to have sexual intercourse;
A26 105 the theft of *+$54.25 from the Cupid Shop and assaulting the
A26 106 woman with intent to sexually violate her.  ^Bennett hesitated
A26 107 fleetingly before pleading guilty to the fourth and final count
A26 108 *- attempting to murder the woman.
A26 109    |^\0Mr Justice Holland remanded him in custody for sentence
A26 110 on 29 October after Bennett's counsel, \0Mr Nigel Hampton,
A26 111 tendered what he called *"quite a volume**" of psychological
A26 112 and neurological reports on Bennett dating back to 1972.
A26 113    |^In addition to these, said \0Mr Justice Holland, he was
A26 114 calling for a probation report before Bennett came up for
A26 115 sentence.
A26 116    |^Bennett's plea came after a preliminary hearing in which
A26 117 the Crown called evidence to establish that the woman was
A26 118 subjected to sexual indecencies after the abduction and then
A26 119 hung by a cord around her neck from a water tank until she lost
A26 120 consciousness.
A26 121    |^The Crown called evidence that the woman was working alone
A26 122 in the sex shop when Bennett entered shortly before lunchtime
A26 123 and abducted her at knifepoint.
A26 124    |^She was forced to drive Bennett in her husband's car to an
A26 125 isolated area near Birdlings Flat.  ^There she was made to
A26 126 strip naked and various sexual indecencies took place before
A26 127 she was hung from a water tank until she lost consciousness.
A26 128    |^About 2.15 that day, the car rolled on Birches \0Rd,
A26 129 Lincoln, and the naked woman was found near the boot.  ^Her
A26 130 hands were tied, she had been gagged with her bra and was
A26 131 extensively injured.
A26 132 *<*4Health promotion*>
A26 133    |^*0The promotion of health for adolescents is the subject
A26 134 of a three-day course for South Island public health nurses
A26 135 starting in Timaru today.
A26 136    |^The 20 nurses attending the course will hear from a
A26 137 variety of speakers and will also visit Mountainview High
A26 138 School.
A26 139    |^Subjects to be covered include dental and occupational
A26 140 health, sexuality, anorexia, understanding money matters, the
A26 141 needs of Maori youth, teenage parenthood and drug and alcohol
A26 142 abuse.
A26 143    |^There will also be case studies on solving problems for
A26 144 the adolescent.
A26 145 *<*4Gangs report confidential*>
A26 146    |^*0A report detailing Government funding of work schemes
A26 147 carried out by Timaru gangs is being kept under wraps by the
A26 148 police.
A26 149    |^A request by The Timaru Herald for the release of the
A26 150 report under the Official Information Act was denied yesterday.
A26 151    |^The head of crime and operations at police headquarters,
A26 152 Assistant Commissioner Stuart McEwen, said that good reason
A26 153 existed for keeping the report confidential in the meantime.
A26 154    |^He said the information sought was protected by section 6
A26 155 (c) of the Official Information Act.
A26 156    |^It states: ^*"Good reason for withholding information exist
A26 157 **[SIC**] if making available that information would be likely to
A26 158 prejudice the maintenance of the law, including the prevention,
A26 159 investigation and detection of offences and the right to a fair
A26 160 trial**".
A26 161    |^Both the police and the Labour Department are
A26 162 investigating claims that South Island gangs were paid more
A26 163 than they should have been paid for work schemes.
A26 164    |^The departments of Maori Affairs and Social Welfare are
A26 165 also assisting in the investigations.
A26 166    |^\0Mr McEwen said that because of the public interest in
A26 167 the matter he would reconsider the release of information once
A26 168 the inquiries had been completed.
A26 169 *<*4Overseas trip for farming leader*>
A26 170    |^*1\0Mr Bruce Anderson, Fairlie dominion chairman of the
A26 171 meat and wool section of Federated Farmers, leaves today on a
A26 172 five-week overseas trip that will take him to the United
A26 173 States, the United Kingdom and Japan.
A26 174    |^On the tour he will address the International Federation
A26 175 of Agricultural Producers' annual conference in Denver,
A26 176 Colorado, on the subject of animal welfare and international
A26 177 trade.
A26 178    |^He will also chair a conference session on sheepmeats.
A26 179 ^And he will visit New York and Toronto, Canada, to study the
A26 180 operations of Devco and Atlanta, Georgia, to assess the work of
A26 181 the International Wool Secretariat in its promotion of carpet
A26 182 wools.
A26 183 *<*4Cannabis season under way*>
A26 184    |^*0Cannabis growers in South Canterbury are in business for
A26 185 another season, and Timaru police have appealed to the public
A26 186 for assistance in catching offenders.
A26 187    |^Superintendent Gordon Knight asked that people report
A26 188 suspicious activities, especially around riverbeds.  ^Frequent
A26 189 visits by strangers to remote spots were a tell-tale sign, he
A26 190 said.
A26 191    |^\0Mr Knight said that police would be conducting their
A26 192 usual inquiries, but any help from the public was appreciated.
A26 193    |^The first cannabis find of the season was made on
A26 194 Saturday, when Temuka police recovered 58 plants from a Waitohi
A26 195 farm.
A26 196 *<*4339 drivers checked*>
A26 197    |^*0Random stopping in South Canterbury is still producing a
A26 198 high proportion of drinking drivers, Traffic Sergeant {0A.D.}
A26 199 Mackay of the Timaru Ministry of Transport said yesterday.
A26 200    |^The {0MOT} began its pre-Christmas blitz on Thursday, and
A26 201 from then until Sunday 339 motorists were stopped, of whom 19
A26 202 were given roadside tests, and 13 of that number also given
A26 203 evidential breath tests.
A26 204    |^He said 11 officers were deployed on random stopping
A26 205 during the four days.
A26 206 *<*4Retailer reviews {0GST} labelling*>
A26 207    |^*0A national retailer is reviewing its {0GST} labelling
A26 208 following a run of complaints, including several from Timaru.
A26 209    |^The firm is Placemakers, which operates hardware and
A26 210 builder supply outlets throughout the country.
A26 211    |^Deputy director of the {0GST} Co-ordinating Office in
A26 212 Wellington, \0Ms \0M. Goddard, said the company maintains the
A26 213 price system it has been operating is best from the consumers'
A26 214 point of view.
A26 215    |^It is the label prices plus the 10 per cent {0GST}.  ^The
A26 216 company also claims that two thirds of its customers are
A26 217 builders who can claim back credits.  ^The company believes
A26 218 that total pricing leaves the way clear for extra costs to be
A26 219 slipped in along with the {0GST}.
A26 220    |^\0Ms Goddard doesn't believe there has been any attempt by
A26 221 the company to mislead customers.
A26 222    |^Rather, she said, it genuinely believes it is acting in
A26 223 their best interests... and there is no law against what it is
A26 224 doing.
A26 225    |^However, \0Ms Goddard said the company has found itself out
A26 226 of step with a lot of its customers and, after consultation
A26 227 with the {0GST} co-ordinating office, is reviewing its
A26 228 situation.
A26 229    |^She said the public at large seems to want pricing to
A26 230 include {0GST}.
A26 231 *<*4New consumer post in ministry*>
A26 232 *<*0{0NZPA} Wellington*>
A26 233    |^The newly-established Ministry of Consumer Affairs is to
A26 234 have an assistant secretary to co-ordinate its activities.
A26 235    |^Consumer Affairs director, \0Ms Elizabeth Sewell, said the
A26 236 position is a new one, and the *+$55,000 to *+$64,000 salary
A26 237 range is the lowest of the assistant secretary positions.
A26 238    |^*"It's a small ministry with a total staff of 12,**" she
A26 239 said.
A26 240    |^*"A lot of work will have to be contracted out, but it is
A26 241 better to start small and be successful and build from that.**"
A26 242    |^*"There's not a lot of money and not a lot of people and
A26 243 we'll be working closely with the community and the
A26 244 Government.**"
A26 245    |^\0Ms Sewell said the assistant secretary's job would be to
A26 246 promote the ministry's work and to *"listen to what the
A26 247 community and consumer want and to implement that wherever
A26 248 feasible.**"
A26 249    |^The assistant secretary will be working with a wide range
A26 250 of community groups such as Citizens Advice Bureau, legal aid
A26 251 groups and Maori and Pacific Island groups.
A26 252 *<*6BUSINESS IN BRIEF...*>
A26 253 *<*4{0FTC} to be de-listed*>
A26 254    |^*0Farmers Trading \0Co \0Ltd will be removed from the
A26 255 Stock Exchange list after close of trading on 31 October,
A26 256 following completion of its takeover by Chase \0Corp \0Ltd.
A26 257 ^The exchange said yesterday that acceptances for the Chase
A26 258 offer now exceeded 90 per cent and Chase had confirmed its
A26 259 intention to acquire the remaining shares, under Companies Act
A26 260 provisions, as soon as it could. *- {0NZPA}, Wellington.
A26 261 *<*4{0FCL} buys 9.9\0pc of Goodman*>
A26 262    |^*0Fletcher Challenge \0Ltd has bought a 9.9 per cent
A26 263 shareholding in Goodman Fielder \0Ltd for *+$\0A133.6 million
A26 264 (*+${0NZ}170.9 million), {0FCL}'s chairman, Sir Ronald Trotter,
A26 265 said last night.  ^The purchase of 36,905,335 shares was made
A26 266 from Arnotts \0Ltd at the market price of \0A362 cents per
A26 267 share.  ^Fletcher Challenge will buy the holding by issuing to
A26 268 Arnotts 25 million {0FCL} shares at yesterday's market price of
A26 269 {0NZ}514 cents per share, ex final dividend, with the balance
A26 270 being in cash. *- {0NZPA}, Wellington.
A26 271 *<*4{0Wiljef} removed from {0SE} list*>
A26 272    |^*0Williamson Jeffery \0Ltd has been removed from the Stock
A26 273 Exchange list following virtual completion of the takeover by
A26 274 Whitcoulls Group \0Ltd, a Brierley subsidiary.  ^The name of
A26 275 the former Coal and Energy New Zealand \0Ltd has been changed
A26 276 to Advantage \0Corp \0Ltd. *- {0NZPA}, Wellington
A26 277 *<*4{0NI} meat firms to merge*>
A26 278    |^*0Two Gisborne meat companies are to merge as part of the
A26 279 continued restructuring of the North Island meat industry.
A26 280 ^\0Mr Athol Hutton, the managing-director of Waitaki
A26 281 International, which owns Advanced Meat \0Ltd, and \0Mr Peter
A26 282 Johnston, the chairman of the Gisborne Refrigerating \0Co
A26 283 \0Ltd, said the move was essential to ensure the viability of
A26 284 the industry in the region.  ^The merger is subject to the
A26 285 necessary regulatory approvals. *- {0NZPA}, Wellington
A26 286 *<*4Tipoka-{0IS} well tested*>
A26 287    |^*0Testing of a reservoir section obtained negligible flow
A26 288 of hydrocarbons in the Tipoka-{0IS} well in South Taranaki at
A26 289 the weekend, Petrocorp (Exploration) \0Ltd said yesterday.  ^An
A26 290 11-metre section from 2250 to 2261\0m in the Matamateonga
A26 291 formation was tested.  ^The well was at 4359\0m at 6{0am}
A26 292 yesterday, with test equipment being rigged down. *- {0NZPA},
A26 293 Wellington.
A26 294 *<*4Interest rates steady*>
A26 295 *<*0{0NZPA} Wellington*>
A26 296    |^Long-term money market interest rates were steady
A26 297 yesterday on the levels set by the *+$500 million stock tender
A26 298 last Friday.
A26 299    |^Trading was quiet and dealers said no firm post-tender
A26 300 trend had yet emerged, but it was possible rates would resume a
A26 301 gently falling trend.
A26 302    |^Government stock quotes yesterday were 16-months, 16.02
A26 303 per cent; three years, 15.95 per cent; and five years, 16.65
A26 304 per cent *- all very close to tender rates.
A26 305    |^Prime 90-day commercial bills were a touch firmer at 16.2
A26 306 per cent (Friday, 16.15 per cent) while on-call money firmed to
A26 307 15.4 per cent (Friday, 14 per cent).
A26 308    |^The Reserve Bank sold *+$55 million of 5 February Treasury
A26 309 bills in an open market operation yesterday morning.  ^Yields
A26 310 were 15.98 to 16.05 per cent.
A26 311 *<*4Fitness centre popular*>
A26 312    |^*0The popularity of the Temuka Lioness Club's new fitness
A26 313 centre has surpassed the club members' more optimistic
A26 314 predictions.
A26 315    |^After just one week of operation the centre has around 25
A26 316 regular members and a considerable number of people intend to
A26 317 use the facilities on a casual basis, rather than pay
A26 318 membership for a term.
A26 319    |^Lioness \0Mrs Bev Stonehouse said she had spoken to people
A26 320 who believed the centre's facilities compared favourably with
A26 321 professionally run gymnasiums.
A26 322    |^She emphasised that the centre was operating under the
A26 323 guidance of trained instructors between 4.30{0pm} and 9.30{0pm}
A26 324 on weekdays, and 2{0pm} and 5{0pm} on Sundays.
A26 325    |^Although the majority of members using the facilities are
A26 326 younger persons, \0Mrs Stonehouse said the centre provided
A26 327 equipment for general fitness as well as muscle developing
A26 328 apparatus.
A26 329 *#
A27 001 **[027 TEXT A27**]
A27 002 *<*4Top National job to city lawyer*>
A27 003    |*6AUCKLAND ({0PA}). *- ^*4Christchurch legal consultant
A27 004 Neville Young has been elected the new president of the
A27 005 National Party.
A27 006    |^\0Mr Young, 45, the divisional chairman of the party's
A27 007 Canterbury-Westland division, was elected on a second ballot
A27 008 defeating Christchurch marketing consultant, \0Mr Brian
A27 009 Shackel.
A27 010    |^The first ballot had been inconclusive and after that the
A27 011 third candidate, \0Mr Hamish Kynoch, dropped out.
A27 012    |^Delegates at the conference gave \0Mr Young long applause
A27 013 when his election was announced and sang For He's a Jolly Good
A27 014 Fellow.
A27 015    |^He replaces retiring president, \0Mrs Sue Wood.
A27 016 *<*6NEWSFRONT*>
A27 017 *<*5Ambulance officer killed...*>
A27 018    |*2PALMERSTON NORTH ({0PA}). *- ^*0A Palmerston North
A27 019 ambulance officer on his way to help a stabbing victim has been
A27 020 killed in a head-on collision.
A27 021    |^The man, 35, whose name was not made public at the request
A27 022 of his family, was driving a Palmerston North Hospital Board
A27 023 car from Palmerston North to Pohangina early yesterday to help
A27 024 another officer with the stabbing victim.
A27 025    |^The hospital board car and a flat-deck truck collided
A27 026 about 2.45 {0am} near Whakaronga, between Palmerston North and
A27 027 Ashhurst.
A27 028    |^First on the scene of the accident was the other ambulance
A27 029 returning from Pohangina with a Palmerston North man, 25, who
A27 030 had stab wounds to his chest.
A27 031 *<*5Remanded...*>
A27 032    |^*0A Tapanui man was remanded for depositions on September
A27 033 25 when he appeared in court this morning charged with
A27 034 attempting to sexually violate a female.
A27 035    |^Judge {0A.J.}Twaddle ordered that interim suppression of
A27 036 both the defendant's and complainant's names be continued.
A27 037    |^Police opposed bail but after hearing submissions in
A27 038 chamber, Judge Twaddle released the defendant on *+$1500 bail
A27 039 in his own bond and a *+$1500 surety.  ^The defendant was
A27 040 ordered to report to police regularly and not to associate with
A27 041 the complainant or any other person connected with the case.
A27 042 *<*5Beauty scare...*>
A27 043    |*2WELLINGTON ({0PA}). *- ^*0Reports of hi-jackings and
A27 044 violence in the Philippines have scared Wellington beauty queen
A27 045 Tracey Watson into withdrawing from the Miss Asia contest in
A27 046 September this year.
A27 047    |^Although the contest is in Hong Kong the contestants will
A27 048 spend two weeks in Manila and Miss Watson said this was one
A27 049 reason why she was pulling out.
A27 050    |^She won the title of Miss Asia New Zealand in March this
A27 051 year representing the Bay of Islands where she lived before
A27 052 moving to Wellington.
A27 053    |^The runner-up in the New Zealand contest, Helen Crawford
A27 054 of Auckland, will take Miss Watson's place in Hong Kong.
A27 055 *<*5Opposed stand...*>
A27 056    |*2WELLINGTON ({0PA}). *- ^*0New Zealand and Australian
A27 057 representatives at last week's meeting of Commonwealth law
A27 058 ministers in Zimbabwe had opposed Britain's stand on South
A27 059 Africa, the Deputy Prime Minister, \0Mr Palmer, said today.
A27 060    |^The conference's final communique said the British
A27 061 delegation had not accepted *"some moderate language about
A27 062 apartheid**" because it felt it was outside the competence of
A27 063 the meeting, \0Mr Palmer said in a statement.
A27 064    |^*"New Zealand and every other country present could not go
A27 065 along with this approach,**" \0Mr Palmer said.
A27 066 *<*5Special appeal...*>
A27 067    |*2WELLINGTON ({0PA}). *- ^*0New Zealand conservation groups
A27 068 are launching a special appeal for rain forests in the South
A27 069 Pacific.
A27 070    |^The Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society and the
A27 071 Native Forest Action Council have set up a Pacific Forests
A27 072 Conservation Fund to support conservation efforts in the
A27 073 Pacific.
A27 074    |^The groups say sawmillers and log export companies are
A27 075 threatening to kill off many of the rain forests throughout the
A27 076 Pacific and the unique communities of plants and animals
A27 077 inhabiting the forests.
A27 078 *<*5Kiwi Swim...*>
A27 079    |*2ROTORUA ({0PA}). *- ^*0Kiwi Swim *- a learn to swim
A27 080 programme through swimming clubs is to be introduced next year.
A27 081    |^Devised by the education and water safety committee of the
A27 082 New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association, the new learn to swim
A27 083 programme will splash off at the beginning of the 1987-88 summer. 
A27 084 *<*4Found Dead In Pool*>
A27 085 *<*2({0PA}) ROTORUA*>
A27 086    |^*0A young Rotorua woman was found dead in a private
A27 087 thermal pool shortly after 7{0am} on Saturday.
A27 088    |^She was Jackie Warena, aged 23.
A27 089    |^Senior Sergeant Max Jones, of Rotorua, said there had been
A27 090 a party at the Sala street address on Friday night, where the
A27 091 woman was a visitor.
A27 092 *<*4Man Arrested*>
A27 093    |^*0A 43-year-old American man was arrested yesterday
A27 094 afternoon at the Invercargill Showgronds for possession of an
A27 095 offensive weapon.
A27 096    |^When the man was arrested at 4.40{0pm}, he had in his
A27 097 possession a tomahawk.
A27 098    |^He will be appearing in the Invercargill District Court
A27 099 tomorrow.
A27 100 *<*4Man Dies in Crash*>
A27 101 *<*2({0PA}) AUCKLAND*>
A27 102    |^*0A 35-year-old man was killed in a collision between his
A27 103 van and a car on the Whitford-Beachlands road near Auckland.
A27 104    |^He was Barry Williams, a Beachlands electrician.
A27 105 *<*4Club Burgled*>
A27 106    |^*0The Old Boys rugby clubrooms in Lithgow street,
A27 107 Invercargill, were broken into on Saturday night.
A27 108    |^Cash totalling *+$90 was taken.
A27 109    |^Entry was gained by smashing a window in one of the
A27 110 clubrooms doors.
A27 111    |^Police are continuing with their inquiries.
A27 112 *<*4Doctor Censured*>
A27 113 *<*2({0PA}) WELLINGTON*>
A27 114 |^*4A Riverton doctor convicted of cannabis offences has been
A27 115 found guilty of disgraceful professional conduct by the Medical
A27 116 Council.
A27 117    |^*0The latest Medical Journal says \0Dr Stephen McGregor
A27 118 was convicted in the Invercargill District Court in 1984 for
A27 119 possession of cannabis resin, cannabis plant, and a pipe for
A27 120 the purpose of an offence against the Misuse of Drugs Act.
A27 121    |^He had also been convicted of cultivation and use of
A27 122 cannabis in 1982 and 1984.
A27 123    |^The council considered \0Dr McGregor's convictions earlier
A27 124 this year and has censured him.
A27 125    |^\0Dr McGregor's prescriptions of controlled drugs will be
A27 126 monitored by the Department of Health and his place of practice
A27 127 monitored by the council for the next three years.
A27 128 *<*4Model Delays Big Offer*>
A27 129 *<*2({0PA}) AUCKLAND*>
A27 130    |^*4Teenage mannequin Rachel Hunter has put off a *+$100,000
A27 131 chance-in-a-lifetime offer to model in Paris this winter.
A27 132    |^*0The Auckland 16-year-old, who worked on the Simon Le Bon
A27 133 Sasson commercial last summer, had the chance to sign with
A27 134 prestige Parisian agency Karin Models and work for high fashion
A27 135 glossies French Vogue and Elle magazine.
A27 136    |^But the statuesque Miss Hunter has put off the continental
A27 137 trip until January because she wants more modelling experience
A27 138 close to home before joining the cut-throat French fashion
A27 139 race.
A27 140    |^And the Glenfield model fears she is too young to live
A27 141 away from home in a non-English speaking country for 12 months
A27 142 as a contract with Karin requires.
A27 143    |^The delay has attracted criticism from some in the New
A27 144 Zealand fashion industry who say most young models would jump
A27 145 at the chance for international success.
A27 146    |^Karin owner Jean Luc Brunel said from Paris: ^*"Rachel is
A27 147 fabulous.  ^She has beautiful hair, face, hands and figure.
A27 148 ^She has a lot of potential.  ^But when she arrives in Paris
A27 149 she will have to want to work hard to make it.**"
A27 150    |^He says a young model in Paris can earn around *+$181,000
A27 151 a year.
A27 152    |^Meantime, Rachel has just returned from Sydney where she
A27 153 modelled for Australian Vogue.
A27 154 *<*4Prieur Orders NZ Paper*>
A27 155 *<*2({0PA}) CHRISTCHURCH*>
A27 156    |^*0The Star Christchurch has snared a loyal reader now
A27 157 overseas *- Captain Dominique Prieur, the paper's first
A27 158 subscriber on Hao atoll in the Pacific.
A27 159    |^The French spy, deported to Hao last week, took the paper
A27 160 while she was in Paparua prison, Christchurch.  ^She has asked
A27 161 for it to be sent to her on the atoll.
A27 162    |^Copies will be sent to the French Embassy in Wellington to
A27 163 be forwarded to her.
A27 164    |^Prieur and fellow agent Major Alain Mafart will spend
A27 165 three years in exile on Hao.
A27 166 *<*4Furniture Makers Concerned*>
A27 167 *<*2({0PA}) WELLINGTON*>
A27 168    |^*0Makers of handcrafted furniture say they are concerned
A27 169 about their future survival because of new government controls
A27 170 on native timber.
A27 171    |^The national secretary of the newly formed national body
A27 172 of furniture designers and makers, \0Mrs Noeline Brokenshire,
A27 173 said yesterday the policy of the new Department of Conservation
A27 174 to restrict the felling of native timbers was likely to put
A27 175 some furniture makers out of business.
A27 176    |^Craftworkers who used only native timber such as rimu and
A27 177 matai would be the worst affected, she said.
A27 178    |^\0Mrs Brokenshire said some native timber should be set
A27 179 aside to be made into individually designed quality furniture.
A27 180    |^It was important for New Zealand furniture craftspeople to
A27 181 have a supply of indigenous wood to work with in order to
A27 182 produce works with a national identity, she said.
A27 183    |^Native timber was in short supply because native forests
A27 184 were not replanted after they were felled.  ^\0Mrs Brokenshire
A27 185 said that instead, the Forest Service had planted trees such as
A27 186 larch and birch for use as wood chip and pulp.
A27 187 *<*4Car Phones Next Year*>
A27 188 *<*2({0PA}) AUCKLAND*>
A27 189    |^*4Car and brief-case phones will move out of the realm of
A27 190 American movies and into reality at the end of next year.
A27 191    |^*0The Post Office is setting up a network of radio cells
A27 192 for a mobile telephone service.
A27 193    |^They will initially be available only in Auckland but the
A27 194 Post Office hopes to provide coverage for 90 per cent of the
A27 195 country during the next decade.
A27 196    |^The network is being set up and operated by the Post
A27 197 Office, but the phones will be supplied by private firms.
A27 198    |^The cost of an installed car phone is likely to be between
A27 199 *+$3000 and *+$5000.  ^On top of that the Post Office will
A27 200 charge a connection fee of about *+$100, a monthly rental of
A27 201 about the same amount and a charge for each call.
A27 202 *<*4Any Distance*>
A27 203    |^*0Mobile phones use cellular radio.  ^Unlike a cordless
A27 204 phone, which works only within 50 metres of a jackpoint, a car
A27 205 phone can be used over any distance to contact ordinary
A27 206 telephones or other drivers.
A27 207    |^As well as being installed in cars, the phones can be
A27 208 carried in briefcases and hand-held.
A27 209    |^Auckland and Wellington will have a switching centre
A27 210 surrounded by a network of area cells.  ^Auckland will have
A27 211 nine cells sited from Torbay to Papakura to service 11,000
A27 212 mobile subscribers.
A27 213    |^The Auckland network can be expanded to serve up to 50,000
A27 214 users as demand increases.
A27 215 *<*5Appointed Sybiz Dealer*>
A27 216    |^*0Invercargill Computer Services \0Ltd has been appointed
A27 217 the official Southland dealer for Sybiz microcomputer business
A27 218 software.
A27 219    |^The Invercargill company was formed in 1974 as a data
A27 220 processing bureau, and has since expanded into the field of
A27 221 selling and installing hardware and software to small and
A27 222 medium-sized businesses in the province.
A27 223    |^The general manager of Sybiz Distributors \0Ltd, \0Mr
A27 224 Lindsay Kirschberg, said Invercargill Computer Services was
A27 225 experienced in implementing and supporting computer systems.
A27 226 ^He said the company was also well equipped to thoroughly train
A27 227 people who wanted to get the best use out of their
A27 228 microcomputer.
A27 229    |^*"This aspect is particularly important,**" he said.
A27 230 ^*"Especially in the small business market where some users may
A27 231 be unfamiliar with computer systems.**"
A27 232 *<*1Airport Open Again*>
A27 233 *<*2({0PA}) AUCKLAND)*>
A27 234    |^*0Auckland Airport began operating again at noon yesterday
A27 235 after an airport workers' 24-hour strike ended.
A27 236    |^Air New Zealand expects delays to international services
A27 237 for several days.  ^The airline cancelled 58 domestic and seven
A27 238 international flights during the stoppage.
A27 239 *<*4Pigs Stolen*>
A27 240    |^*0Four pigs were stolen from a farm at Longbush during the
A27 241 weekend.
A27 242    |^The pigs are worth about *+$100 each.
A27 243    |^Police inquiries are continuing.
A27 244 *<*5Size of Team Attacked*>
A27 245 *<*2({0PA}) WELLINGTON*>
A27 246    |^*0The Opposition spokesman on sport, \0Mr John Banks, has
A27 247 criticized the size of the {0TVNZ} team covering the Edinburgh
A27 248 Commonwealth Games as a *"junket of extraordinary
A27 249 proportions.**"
A27 250    |^But Television New Zealand's director of programmes and
A27 251 production, \0Mr Des Monaghan, said the coverage was being done
A27 252 in the most cost-effective way possible.
A27 253    |^\0Mr Banks said the New Zealand public deserved and
A27 254 applauded good Games coverage.
A27 255    |^*"But it shouldn't be an open ticket and an excuse for a
A27 256 holiday in the sun for {0BCNZ} executives at taxpayers'
A27 257 expense,**" he said.
A27 258    |^But \0Mr Monaghan said the coverage was a commercial
A27 259 venture, funded by advertising revenue.
A27 260    |^Any reduction in the 54-strong broadcast team would have
A27 261 significantly increased the number of people having to be hired
A27 262 locally.
A27 263    |^*"\0Mr Banks has called the project an overseas junket but
A27 264 videotape operators in Edinburgh who are working 14-hour days
A27 265 won't enjoy the funny side of the {0MP}'s remarks,**" he said.
A27 266 *<*4Kea Found In Hokonui*>
A27 267 *<*2WINTON*>
A27 268    |^*4The appearance of a young male kea on a Hokonui farm
A27 269 aroused interest at the weekend.
A27 270    |^*0The kea, promptly named Kevin by \0Mrs Beverly Clark,
A27 271 arrived on the Clark farm on Saturday.
A27 272    |^\0Mrs Clark thought that arrival was unusual and confined
A27 273 the bird to a garage attached to the farm house.
A27 274    |^Knowing from a previous survey taken in the area that keas
A27 275 did not exist there, \0Mrs Clark contacted the wildlife
A27 276 division of the Department of Internal Affairs.
A27 277    |^A wildlife officer, \0Mr Martin Bell, of Mossburn, agreed
A27 278 the find was extraordinary.
A27 279    |^He took the bird yesterday for examination and release.
A27 280    |^\0Mr Bell said the bird looked to be a young male and
A27 281 *"very well fed.**" ^He was puzzled why any kea would be found
A27 282 so far down-country.
A27 283 *#
A28 001 **[028 TEXT A28**]
A28 002 *<*4Taxi moves for disabled*>
A28 003    |^*0Moves aimed at better safety for handicapped children
A28 004 travelling to and from school have been announced by Education
A28 005 Minister Russell Marshall and Transport Under-Secretary Bill
A28 006 Jeffries.
A28 007    |^Some pupils, because of handicaps, have to travel to
A28 008 school by taxis contracted by Education Boards.  ^These have
A28 009 been criticised in the past by parents and organisations for
A28 010 the disabled as overcrowded and under**[ARB**]-equipped with
A28 011 seat belts.
A28 012    |^\0Mr Marshall said the Education Department had modified
A28 013 the criteria for taxi use.
A28 014    |^There is a rear seat loading of three children and only
A28 015 taxis equipped with rear seat belts will be used.
A28 016 *<*6IN SHORT*>
A28 017 *<*4Mag changes*>
A28 018    |^*0Major changes will be made to the Consumers' Institute
A28 019 magazine Consumer *- including a 37.5 percent increase in the
A28 020 price.  ^The subscription price rise to *+$24.75 a year will
A28 021 take effect from October 1 and includes *+$2.25 to cover the
A28 022 goods and services tax.  ^Announcing the changes today the
A28 023 director of the institute, Dick Smithies, said the magazine
A28 024 will incorporate ideas to make Consumer more topical.
A28 025 *<*4Own show*>
A28 026    |^*0Broadcaster Sharon Crosbie will host her own \0tv
A28 027 programme next month. ^The Crosbie Report, beginning on August
A28 028 17 at 9.30{0pm} on One, replaces Sunday, which will end on July
A28 029 27.
A28 030 *<*4Earthquake*>
A28 031    |^*0A mild earthquake shook Invercargill at 8.29 last night,
A28 032 registering 5.5 on the Richter scale.
A28 033 *<*4Murder youth gets life*>
A28 034    |^*0Darrin Francis Lloyd was yesterday found guilty of
A28 035 murdering Barbara Leigh Hutchinson on March 14 and sentenced to
A28 036 life imprisonment.
A28 037    |^Lloyd, 17, unemployed, of Anatoki, had pleaded not guilty
A28 038 when he appeared in the Nelson High Court.
A28 039    |^The jury of six men and six women took just over an hour
A28 040 to reach its guilty verdict following a five-day trial.
A28 041    |^Lloyd nodded his head in assent when the verdict was
A28 042 given.  ^When asked if he wished to speak before being
A28 043 sentenced he replied:  ^*"No.**"
A28 044    |^He appeared pale but calm when sentenced to life
A28 045 imprisonment and was led away quickly by two prison guards.
A28 046    |^Chief Justice Sir Ronald Davison said it was sad to have
A28 047 to sentence Lloyd but the only sentence provided by the law for
A28 048 murder was life imprisonment.
A28 049    |^Earlier in the day Crown prosecutor Warwick Flaus and
A28 050 defence counsel Chris Tuohy made their final submissions to the
A28 051 jury and Sir Ronald gave a summary of the case. *- {0NZPA}
A28 052 *<*4Hilda 100, but admits only 98*>
A28 053    |^*0\0Mrs Hilda Molesworth is 100 years old tomorrow *- but
A28 054 insists she's only 98.
A28 055    |^Staff and residents at Churtonleigh Private Medical
A28 056 Hospital, where she has lived since 1984, are throwing a
A28 057 birthday party for \0Mrs Molesworth tomorrow.
A28 058    |^She was born on The Terrace in 1886, but she said this
A28 059 week she wasn't 100, only 98.
A28 060    |^She was a foundation member of the Wellington Repertory
A28 061 Society.
A28 062    |^In 1935 she married Alex Molesworth in Peshawar on the
A28 063 North West Frontier of India.
A28 064    |^The Molesworths were bombed out twice during the Blitz
A28 065 when they lived in London, and \0Mrs Molesworth was with her
A28 066 husband when he led the Gurkha delegation to King George's
A28 067 Coronation.
A28 068    |^\0Mr Molesworth died in 1942.  ^The couple had no children
A28 069 but \0Mrs Molesworth had many nieces and nephews, including a
A28 070 great great grand nephew.
A28 071 |^{0NZPA} reports from Napier one of New Zealand's oldest
A28 072 residents, \0Mrs Hannah Milligan, celebrated her 100th birthday
A28 073 with family and friends in Wairoa yesterday.
A28 074 *<*4Marineland to catch two dolphins*>
A28 075    |*2NAPIER, *0July 11. *- ^A three-year ban on Napier's
A28 076 Marineland catching live dolphins ended today when Agriculture
A28 077 and Fisheries Minister Colin Moyle gave the go-ahead to catch
A28 078 two more dolphins.
A28 079    |^The ban was lifted by \0Mr Moyle at a critical time for
A28 080 the marine park *- one of its four remaining dolphins died of
A28 081 cancer last week and the other three are aged.
A28 082    |^Marineland and Aquarium Trust Board chairman \0Mr George
A28 083 Townshend said staff would prepare for catching expeditions
A28 084 immediately.
A28 085    |^*"We would hope to go to sea just as soon as the weather
A28 086 conditions, availability of dolphins in the Hawke's Bay area
A28 087 and other relevant factors are satisfied,**" he said today.
A28 088 *<*4Fatalities*>
A28 089    |^*0The catching ban was imposed in 1983 at a time when
A28 090 Marineland was a centre of controversy because of a high
A28 091 fatality rate of dolphins caught in Hawke Bay.
A28 092    |^\0Mr Moyle subsequently appointed a working party to
A28 093 consider submissions on Marineland capturing and holding
A28 094 dolphins.
A28 095    |^That report recommended a permit for two common dolphins
A28 096 be granted only if extra facilities were provided to care for
A28 097 the dolphins at the complex.
A28 098    |^Marineland spent *+$50,000 on the upgrading programme to
A28 099 extend the holding pool and provide a hospital pool with
A28 100 quarantine area.
A28 101    |^The conservation group Greenpeace strongly opposes the
A28 102 further capture of dolphin stock.
A28 103    |^In May this year wildlife campaigner \0Ms Janet Agar said
A28 104 Greenpeace supporters were prepared to take to the sea to halt
A28 105 catching operations.
A28 106    |^Greenpeace has been lobbying for some time against the
A28 107 issuing of a permit to catch dolphins and has threatened to
A28 108 undertake widespread public campaigns in protest action at
A28 109 Marineland. *- {0NZPA}
A28 110 *<*460 quit Addington*>
A28 111    |^*0Sixty Railways Corporation staff walked away from the
A28 112 Addington workshops in Christchurch yesterday for the last
A28 113 time.
A28 114    |^They were the first to accept voluntary severance there
A28 115 under the corporation's restructuring plan announced last
A28 116 month.
A28 117    |^Addington, the country's biggest workshop in terms of
A28 118 manpower must cut staff, but final numbers are still unknown.
A28 119    |^The Addington works manager, \0Mr Brian Worrall, said
A28 120 yesterday's departures included all trades, semi-skilled
A28 121 workers and administrators in all age groups.
A28 122    |^Two tradesmen left for every semi-skilled worker and four
A28 123 administration staff accepted the package.
A28 124    |^The workshop still employed 521, *"doing the work**" and
A28 125 73 salaried staff, \0Mr Worrall said.
A28 126    |^He would not divulge the terms of the severance package
A28 127 but said it was an in-house payment to provide an incentive for
A28 128 staff to leave.
A28 129    |^Releasing staff was married to the workload at the
A28 130 workshops, he said.
A28 131 *<*4Jail extension planned*>
A28 132    |^*0The Justice Department intends designating part of
A28 133 Auckland's Oakley Hospital for use as a special facility for
A28 134 disturbed male prison inmates, says Justice Minister Geoffrey
A28 135 Palmer.
A28 136    |^Documents seeking the necessary planning approval have
A28 137 been forwarded to the \0Mt Albert City Council.
A28 138    |^The new proposal, subject to receiving the necessary
A28 139 planning approval, would meet an immediate need in the
A28 140 country's penal system, \0Mr Palmer said.
A28 141 *<*4Seven years*>
A28 142    |^*0*"It will allow time for the planning and construction
A28 143 of a purpose-built facility on land at the Paremoremo prison
A28 144 complex and I expect that to be completed within the next seven
A28 145 years.**"
A28 146    |^The proposal would have a significant impact in an area of
A28 147 the prison system that had attracted increasing concern among
A28 148 the public, Justice Department authorities and the prison
A28 149 population.
A28 150    |^\0Mr Palmer said the Oakley project might be seen as a
A28 151 stopgap measure.
A28 152    |^But it would allow the more immediate removal of inmates
A28 153 in need of special care from the pressures of normal prison
A28 154 surroundings and minimise possible disruption there.
A28 155    |^*"In the longer term the facility to be built at
A28 156 Paremoremo will be tailored for the very specialised needs of
A28 157 this segment of the prison population. *- {0NZPA}
A28 158 *<*4Caravan arson plea changed*>
A28 159    |^*0Alan Howard Thompson, 54, unemployed orchard worker,
A28 160 changed his plea to guilty when he appeared in the Tauranga
A28 161 District Court yesterday charged with wilfully setting fire to
A28 162 a caravan at the Mayfair camping ground on June 11 when danger
A28 163 to life was likely to result.
A28 164    |^Constable Ross Nicol said Thompson told him he had set the
A28 165 caravan on fire to cause concern to the camping ground
A28 166 proprietor, whom he felt had wrongfully evicted him.
A28 167    |^*"He said he couldn't tow the caravan away and knew there
A28 168 were people about who could put the fire out if it spread,**"
A28 169 \0Mr Nicol said.
A28 170    |^Counsel \0Mr John Douglas said no evidence had been given
A28 171 that Thompson knew danger to life was likely.
A28 172    |^Justices of the peace \0J Harwood and \0A Sindlen remanded
A28 173 him in custody to the Rotorua High Court, on July 25, for
A28 174 sentencing. *- {0NZPA}
A28 175 *<*4Burgled to pay fines*>
A28 176    |^*0An Island Bay man burgled a house to get money to pay
A28 177 court fines, the Wellington District Court heard yesterday.
A28 178    |^Dean Arthur Butterworth, 18, process worker, pleaded
A28 179 guilty before Judge {0B J McK} Kerr to a charge of burglary.
A28 180    |^Sergeant Max Grey told the Court that on July 1
A28 181 Butterworth entered an Island Bay house through the back door.
A28 182 ^No one was home, and Butterworth took a video recorder, camera
A28 183 and other goods to the value of *+$1800.
A28 184    |^Police caught Butterworth at a city store where he was
A28 185 trying to sell the stolen goods.  ^He told police he was trying
A28 186 to pay off some court fines with the money, \0Mr Grey said.
A28 187    |^Judge Kerr convicted Butterworth and remanded him to
A28 188 August 1 for pre-sentence report and sentence.
A28 189 *<*4Squirted wine at policeman*>
A28 190    |^A man who squirted wine in a constable's face said he was
A28 191 *"just seeing if the man wanted a drink.**" ^In the Lower Hutt
A28 192 District Court yesterday, Harry Dennis Haenga, 27, of Taita,
A28 193 pleaded guilty to disorderly behaviour in a Taita bar on June
A28 194 26.  ^He was fined *+$200 by Judge {0E B} Robertson.
A28 195 *<*4Man admits theft from honesty box*>
A28 196    |^*0The theft of *+$9.01 in cash from a newspaper honesty
A28 197 box was a *"mean offence**" a District Court judge said
A28 198 yesterday.
A28 199    |^Chester Hobden Pratt, 29, sickness beneficiary, of
A28 200 Wellington, pleaded guilty in the Wellington District Court to
A28 201 a charge of theft.
A28 202    |^Judge {0B J McK} Kerr fined him *+$100 and costs.
A28 203    |^Prosecuting Sergeant Max Grey said that on July 7 Pratt
A28 204 had opened a Wellington Newspapers \0Ltd honesty box at the
A28 205 railway station.
A28 206    |^When spoken to later by police, Pratt said he had been
A28 207 trying various keys on his key ring on the box padlock when it
A28 208 opened.
A28 209    |^*"This is a mean offence; there is an element of trust in
A28 210 these situations,**" Judge Kerr said.
A28 211 *<*4No-hands driver mashes vehicles*>
A28 212    |^*0A disqualified driver who took his hands from the
A28 213 steering wheel to check his new car's wheel alignment hit two
A28 214 other cars as a result.
A28 215    |^In the Lower Hutt District Court yesterday Kara Moeke, 23,
A28 216 labourer, pleaded guilty to driving carelessly and to driving
A28 217 while disqualified.  ^He had been disqualified from driving a
A28 218 month earlier.
A28 219    |^Sergeant Bill Gordon said Moeke was driving along Cuba
A28 220 Street, Petone, at 3.45{0pm} on July 4.  ^He took his hands
A28 221 from the steering wheel.  ^The car veered left and hit a parked
A28 222 car.
A28 223    |^Moeke grabbed the wheel and swung the car to the right.
A28 224 ^It crossed the centre line and collided with an oncoming car.
A28 225    |^Moeke's car went out of control, crossing a verge and a
A28 226 footpath before coming to rest in front of a fence.
A28 227    |^Moeke told the police he had just bought the car.
A28 228    |^Judge {0E B} Robertson convicted Moeke and remanded him to
A28 229 August 4 for a pre-sentence report and sentencing.
A28 230 *<*4Fined for changing \0Dr's scrip*>
A28 231    |^*0A Wellington man who altered a doctor's prescriptions
A28 232 was fined *+$500 in the Wellington District Court yesterday.
A28 233    |^Clinton Anthony Rauretti Love, unemployed, had earlier
A28 234 pleaded guilty to two charges of altering a doctor's
A28 235 prescription with intent to defraud.
A28 236    |^Counsel Fuimaono Tuiasau, said Love had been under intense
A28 237 emotional pressure when the offences were committed.  ^Love now
A28 238 considered his actions foolish, \0Mr Tuiasau said.
A28 239    |^*"Any interference with a medical prescription is a
A28 240 serious matter,**" Judge {0B J McK} Kerr said.  ^Judge Kerr
A28 241 fined Love *+$250 on each charge and ordered him to pay costs.
A28 242 *<*4Plea to save airport*>
A28 243    |^*0The Wellington City Council will lose its airport if the
A28 244 Government insists that it be run by a company, the chairman of
A28 245 the airport committee, \0Cr Helene Ritchie, said last night.
A28 246    |^She told the Institute of Personnel Management that under
A28 247 the company proposal the Government would *"take the money and
A28 248 run.**"
A28 249    |^*"The assets would be sold and the company would have to
A28 250 borrow to buy them back and pay for a new domestic terminal.
A28 251    |^*"The domestic terminal project, which is on the brink of
A28 252 achieving an important approval to go to Government, would
A28 253 certainly be jeopardised under a company operation.**"
A28 254    |^She said the council's analysis shows that if the airport
A28 255 was run by a company, landing dues and fares would
A28 256 *"skyrocket**" and, if a domestic terminal was to be achieved
A28 257 the company would be in the red for several years.
A28 258    |^The airport had to be seen as an important public amenity
A28 259 not to be sold off for profit.
A28 260 *<*4Namu cools nationhood celebrations*>
A28 261    |^*0Solomon Islanders living in New Zealand will celebrate
A28 262 eight years of independence tonight.  ^But it will be a subdued
A28 263 celebration in the wake of cyclone Namu, which struck in May
A28 264 leaving 100 people dead.
A28 265    |^The independence celebration in Wellington will take the
A28 266 form of a pot-luck dinner, at Crossways, \0Mt Victoria, at
A28 267 7.30{0pm}, followed by a fundraising evening for disaster
A28 268 relief.  ^The main event in Auckland will be a memorial
A28 269 service, the Solomon Islands Wantoks Association says in a
A28 270 statement.  ^Wantoks, in Solomons pidgin, are people who speak
A28 271 the same language, or friends.
A28 272    |^The Solomon Islands are scattered near the equator, 
A28 273 north-west of New Zealand.  ^The inhabitants are Melanesian,
A28 274 Polynesian, and a small number of Micronesians and Asians.
A28 275 ^They speak some 80 local languages, as well as English and
A28 276 Pidgin.
A28 277 *#
A29 001 **[029 TEXT A29**]
A29 002 *<*4\0TV sports cutback tipped*>
A29 003 *<By *6PAUL SMITH*>
A29 004 |^*2TELEVISION *0sports and racing coverage is likely to be
A29 005 substantially reduced next year.
A29 006    |^Poor ratings for the Sport On One programme point to it
A29 007 being shortened on Saturdays.  ^Production planning for next
A29 008 year has started and cutting back on sports coverage is being
A29 009 considered, director of programmes and production Des Monaghan
A29 010 has confirmed.
A29 011    |^*"We're looking at a whole range of options and certainly
A29 012 taking a very hard look at sports commitments and whether we
A29 013 are doing things in the most sensible way.**" ^The option being
A29 014 considered would see Sport On One later on Saturdays.  ^A
A29 015 suggested time has been a 3.30{0pm} start compared with the
A29 016 present midday start.
A29 017    |^That could solve a commercial and a public relations
A29 018 problem for Television New Zealand.  ^Advertisements could
A29 019 still be incorporated in the coverage which, if delayed, could
A29 020 be seen by people who have completed their Saturday sports
A29 021 fixtures.
A29 022 *<*4In brief*>
A29 023 *<Rally death*>
A29 024 |^*2A PASSENGER *0in a support vehicle for the Subaru team in
A29 025 the {0AWA} Clarion Motor rally died yesterday after a collision
A29 026 with a farm truck at Paparoa, about 30\0kms from Dargaville.
A29 027 ^A 12-year-old boy who was riding in the farm truck was taken
A29 028 to hospital and later discharged.
A29 029 *<*4Road fatalities*>
A29 030 |^*2MICHAEL JAMES WOOD, *022, of Epsom, Auckland was killed
A29 031 yesterday when a car overturned in Beach Road Papakura, at
A29 032 2{0pm} yesterday.  ^One other occupant of the car was seriously
A29 033 injured.  ^Another person also died in an accident at the
A29 034 corner of Bond Street and Great North Road, Auckland,
A29 035 yesterday.
A29 036 *<*4Smoker campaign winning*>
A29 037 |^*2ONE *0in every eight smokers gave up during the Great New
A29 038 Zealand Smoke Free Week and intends to stay off the habit,
A29 039 according to a survey by Spectrum Research. ^Organisers of the
A29 040 week said the survey indicated 102,000 of New Zealand's 786,000
A29 041 smokers intended staying off smoking.
A29 042 *<*4Antinuclear message*>
A29 043 |^*2THE *0man who leaked the Pentagon papers to the New York
A29 044 Times and the actor who plays \0TV's Lou Grant have joined 170
A29 045 other Americans in a message praising New Zealand's antinuclear
A29 046 policies.  ^Daniel Ellsberg and Ed Asner were among signatories
A29 047 to the open letter sent to newspapers.
A29 048 *<*4Woman murder arrest*>
A29 049 |^*2PALMERSTON *0North carpenter, 31, was arrested yesterday
A29 050 and charged with the murder of Joanne Aroha Warren, 21, who was
A29 051 found bashed in her Palmerston North flat on June 21 and died
A29 052 later the same day.
A29 053 *<*4Refugee resettlement appeal*>
A29 054 |^*2TODAY *0is Refugee Sunday throughout New Zealand's
A29 055 churches.  ^The day marks the launch of the Inter-Church
A29 056 Commission on Immigration and Refugee Resettlement *+$100,000
A29 057 appeal.
A29 058 *<*4This week*>
A29 059 |^*2A POLICEMAN *0drowned and another is missing believed
A29 060 drowned after the capsize of the police launch Lady Elizabeth
A29 061 in heavy seas at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.  ^Two
A29 062 survivors were winched from the water by helicopter.  ^The
A29 063 launch was on a training exercise and none of the policemen
A29 064 wore lifejackets.
A29 065 |^*2THE *0Government caucus voted to allow privatisation of up
A29 066 to one third of the Bank of New Zealand's capital by issuing
A29 067 new shares to private investors thereby raising *+$150 million.
A29 068 ^New shares carry no voting rights or board representation.
A29 069 |^*2THE *0long-awaited farm package was unhinging on Rural Bank
A29 070 and private sector restructuring and on Social Welfare and
A29 071 Labour Department grants.  ^New measures include reducing
A29 072 principals of Rural Bank loans as interest rates increase, a
A29 073 seasonal finance scheme, farm finance meetings, special needs
A29 074 grants, earlier payment of family support, and travel and
A29 075 accommodation assistance.
A29 076 |^{0MP}s opposing the Homosexual Law Reform Bill, confident
A29 077 they had the numbers to defeat it, failed by 43 votes to 42 in
A29 078 their bid to have the bill put to the vote.  ^The bill will be
A29 079 considered again on Wednesday.
A29 080 *<*4Rugby shoot up replay averted*>
A29 081 |^*2POLICE *0believe they narrowly averted another shoot-out
A29 082 between rival gangs after a rugby match at Te Teko in the Bay
A29 083 of Plenty yesterday.
A29 084    |^A gang battle blew up there after a recent game of rugby
A29 085 and police said had they not stepped in after yesterday's game
A29 086 the rivals could have been shooting it out again.
A29 087    |^Te Teko and Kawerau police were at a match between Te Teko
A29 088 and Ruatoki teams when a Mongrel Mob member started provoking
A29 089 opposing Black Power gang members with gang salutes and taunts.
A29 090    |^Police warned the Mongrel Mob member to stop and when he
A29 091 and a fellow gang member drove off at 4.30{0pm} they were
A29 092 followed and stopped.  ^Inside the car police found a shotgun
A29 093 which had been sawn down to a pistol and a quantity of
A29 094 ammunition.
A29 095    |^Two 24-year-old Kawerau men, one a labourer and the other
A29 096 a timber hand, will appear in the Tauranga District Court
A29 097 tomorrow on weapons related charges.
A29 098 *<*4Island comes of age*>
A29 099 |^*2GOODBYE *0sleepy hollow *- here comes the 20th century.
A29 100 ^And it's arriving at Great Barrier Island complete with bylaws
A29 101 and ordinances, the like of which the island has never known.
A29 102    |^Great Barrier slumbers north of Auckland, its population
A29 103 of 830 kept in check by just two sets of bylaws *- one for
A29 104 buildings, the other for animals.
A29 105    |^But that had to change, the island's administrators
A29 106 decided.
A29 107    |^They enlisted the aid of nearby Rodney County Council and
A29 108 its manager Brian Sharplin.  ^In a jiff, they had bylaws for
A29 109 everything from jawed traps and cemeteries, to hawkers, dogs
A29 110 and other nuisances.
A29 111    |^*"I found that there were a lot of things basic to the
A29 112 operation of a local body which were just not in place,**"
A29 113 Sharplin says.  ^He has a degree of sympathy for the fading
A29 114 lifestyle of the island but says it is coming out of its hippy
A29 115 phase.  ^*"The island needs the controls,**" he says.
A29 116    |^Not that things will change overnight on the Barrier.
A29 117 ^For a start Sharplin has only one fulltimer on the island
A29 118 council staff.  ^*"And anyway,**" he says, *"everything gets
A29 119 done a different way on the island.**"
A29 120 *<*4Futures*>
A29 121 *<*5Aussie woes rub off on kiwidollar*>
A29 122 *<*4By *6IAIN MORRISON*>
A29 123 |^*2AUSSIEDOLLAR *0bashing from the big corporates around the
A29 124 world gave the kiwidollar some pain this week, basically
A29 125 because the rest of the world doesn't know its geography and
A29 126 New Zealand tends to get lumped in with Australia.
A29 127    |^The aussiedollar fell a dramatic five cents in three days
A29 128 and some of it rubbed off on New Zealand to erode the value of
A29 129 the kiwidollar from 55{0US}\0c to below 53{0US}\0c.  ^The
A29 130 falling kiwidollar coincided with an interest rate increase of
A29 131 about one per cent above last month's stock tender levels.
A29 132 ^The rise had been stimulated by announcements that the deficit
A29 133 would be *"more than *+$3 billion**" and that the Government
A29 134 stock tender programme would be seeking *+$500 million a month
A29 135 from the private sector for debt financing.
A29 136    |^However, Finance Minister Roger Douglas appeared to cast
A29 137 some magic late in the week when he announced a further *+$1
A29 138 billion would be pruned from Government spending.  ^These cuts
A29 139 would put the deficit at around *+$2.5 billion *- at exactly
A29 140 the level financial markets had anticipated.  ^The minister's
A29 141 announcements had an immediate calming influence on the
A29 142 wholesale interest rates which eased back on Friday afternoon
A29 143 by a few points.
A29 144    |^One dealer described the money markets as well balanced at
A29 145 the end of the trading week with the market players waiting for
A29 146 more news to break.  ^He said if interest rates held at these
A29 147 levels, a couple of offshore eurokiwi or {0US}-kiwi bond issues
A29 148 might start to appear.
A29 149    |^The big indicator is likely to be next week's government
A29 150 stock tender.  ^If this tender isn't well supported, the
A29 151 Government will be forced to pay higher yields for the stock
A29 152 and this will flow-on through shorter term money markets.
A29 153 ^However if the tender is well supported, the lower yields
A29 154 accepted will continue to stimulate confidence in the country's
A29 155 economic management.
A29 156 *<*4Currency*>
A29 157 |^*2ECONOMIC *0data from the {0US} shows a slowdown in
A29 158 spending, falling employment and generally sluggish growth.
A29 159 ^Along with a poor trade balance, these factors had increased
A29 160 negative feeling towards the {0US} dollar, Auckland Coin and
A29 161 Bullion reports.  ^Only fear of Central Bank intervention has
A29 162 stalled what may have otherwise been another large fall.  ^It
A29 163 is almost inevitable the {0US} discount rate will be cut,
A29 164 leading to lower {0US} interest rates.
A29 165    |^Auckland Coin says the Australian dollar holds the key to
A29 166 the kiwidollar at the moment and though the kiwi followed the
A29 167 aussie down, this was not a lack of confidence in New Zealand,
A29 168 but people taking advantage of the attractive exchange rates
A29 169 against the aussiedollar.  ^It expects further weakening next
A29 170 week with further lows testing 52.5{0US}\0c.
A29 171 *<*4Interest rates*>
A29 172 |^*2McDONNELL *0said 90-day futures ({0PCP}}) prices fell 
A29 173 mid-week then recovered.  ^No clear trend has emerged with buyers
A29 174 and sellers remaining cautious ahead of further developments in
A29 175 the physicals market.  ^McDonnell said the government stock
A29 176 futures index ({0GSK}) plummeted as a result of the
A29 177 Government's borrowing programme.
A29 178 *<*4Agricultural contracts*>
A29 179 |^*2PETER MARSHALL *0from John Marshall Futures said the easing
A29 180 kiwidollar on Thursday led to wool futures firming by four to
A29 181 six cents.  ^Overseas inquiry seems better as the cross-rates
A29 182 for European buyers are moving in their favour.  ^Marshall said
A29 183 a ray of sunshine has been the strong buying from Eastern
A29 184 Europe for delivery in August and September, but he says an
A29 185 additional wool sale at the end of this month may cloud
A29 186 prospects for a buoyant opening to the new season.  ^He says a
A29 187 question mark must hang over the late sale because most
A29 188 Europeans are on holiday and their mills are closed.
A29 189    |^Guy Spooner, also of Marshall Futures, said wheat prices
A29 190 had fallen a dramatic *+$10 a tonne during the week.  ^He says
A29 191 the sharp movements are mainly due to falling wheat futures in
A29 192 the {0US}.
A29 193    |^*"We are led to believe that both Canadian and {0US} wheat
A29 194 reserves are being dumped on the {0US} market and signs of
A29 195 further weakening prices are imminent,**" Spooner said.  ^*"Our
A29 196 advice to farmers is to still hedge wheat production for the
A29 197 coming season.**"
A29 198 *<*4International*>
A29 199 |^*2MIKE EATON *0from Kinetic Investments said the major
A29 200 currencies continued to climb against the {0US} dollar this
A29 201 week.  ^Sugar made new lows as did timber.  ^Grains were all
A29 202 weaker due to a lack of export orders and good weather
A29 203 conditions.  ^He said meat futures were mixed and he recommends
A29 204 traders should stand aside till the buying has been satisfied.
A29 205 *<*4Huntley destroys North Shore*>
A29 206 *<Canterbury 97 North Shore 92*>
A29 207 |^*2PACESETTERS *0Converse Canterbury are just one match *-
A29 208 today's against Ponsonby *- from making the Countrywide
A29 209 basketball league top four playoffs.
A29 210    |^They scored an impressive 97-92 win over Truth North Shore
A29 211 last night.
A29 212    |^Typically, it was Canterbury's Clyde Huntley who, in the
A29 213 final piece of action, jammed home a 2-pointer in an
A29 214 entertaining match.
A29 215    |^As he had when the teams met in the first round, Huntley
A29 216 destroyed Shore with his outside shooting.  ^This time he hit
A29 217 six 3-pointers.
A29 218    |^North Shore, who may now be struggling to make the top
A29 219 four, had only themselves to blame.
A29 220    |^They enjoyed an 11-point lead after 13 minutes and then
A29 221 went to pieces.  ^Canterbury thrived on the mistakes and it was
A29 222 Andy Bennett, rather than Huntley, who did the damage.
A29 223    |^In a 21-point turnaround in seven minutes, Bennett who was
A29 224 not in the starting five, hit 10.
A29 225    |^Canterbury led 56-47 at halftime and though Shore got back
A29 226 to 71-71 and then 83-82, Huntley put in another 3-pointer to
A29 227 virtually finish off the home team.
A29 228    |^Shore's consistent Tony Webster scored a game high of 39
A29 229 but his fellow American Lamar Jackson, who was rested on four
A29 230 fouls with 12 minutes to go, ended with six miserable points.
A29 231    |^Shore will be hoping for a better effort today when they
A29 232 meet U-Bix Palmerston North at 2{0pm}.
A29 233 *<*4Saints 88 Hamilton 86*>
A29 234 |^*2OLLIE *0Johnson clinched a last minute 88-86 victory for
A29 235 Exchequer Saints over 898{0FM} Hamilton in Church College
A29 236 gymnasium last night.
A29 237    |^Saints came back from being 14 points down with five
A29 238 minutes play for Johnson to win the game with a 3-point play on
A29 239 the inside with just 12 seconds left.
A29 240    |^Star of those final minutes for Saints was American guard
A29 241 Willie Preston who blitzed the Hamilton defence with a stream
A29 242 of baskets, while a full court press threw Hamilton's offence
A29 243 into chaos.
A29 244    |^Preston finished with 36 points, while Johnson got 21 and
A29 245 11 rebounds.
A29 246    |^Hamilton led 50-36 at halftime and was still 14 points
A29 247 ahead five minutes from the end, its star performers being Sam
A29 248 Potter with 28 points, Chris Carlson with 18, Steve Agnew with
A29 249 14 and Eric Howard with 13.
A29 250 *<*4\0Palm \0Nth 108 Ponsonby 107*>
A29 251 |^*2TYRONE BROWN'S *0one-man show squeezed a 1-point win in
A29 252 extra time for Palmerston North over Ponsonby in Auckland
A29 253 yesterday afternoon.
A29 254    |^U-Bix Palmerston North's 108-107 win put it fifth equal in
A29 255 the championship with a chance of making the playoffs.
A29 256    |^And Brown's 40-point game may well have ruined Ponsonby's
A29 257 chance of a playoff place.
A29 258    |^{0DB} Ponsonby are second on points difference *- three
A29 259 teams are tied on 16 points *- but face competition leaders
A29 260 Canterbury in the next round.
A29 261    |^Brown pulled U-Bix out of the fire right on the stroke of
A29 262 ordinary time, then clinched the match with 21 seconds of extra
A29 263 time left.
A29 264    |^Both teams started with man-to-man defence but after five
A29 265 minutes Ponsonby chose to go into a zone.  ^The matchups were
A29 266 registering with Palmerston North's Willie Burton marking
A29 267 Ponsonby's top scorer Ronnie Joyner.  ^Ponsonby's Benny Anthony
A29 268 was rotationally marked by Grant Cutler, Guy Sayers and Duncan
A29 269 Taylor.
A29 270    |^Brown was guarded by three former New Zealand team members
A29 271 *- Neville Corlett, Tony Compain and Kim Harvey.  ^But they
A29 272 were no match for Brown.
A29 273    |^With Brown and Burton dominating, U-Bix led early on till
A29 274 Ponsonby put their fast break together.
A29 275    |^Then came a spate of 3-point shots from both teams but
A29 276 with Brown dominating the rebounds and scoring two 3-pointers
A29 277 in a row, then another, Palmerston led 54-49 at halftime.
A29 278 *#
A30 001 **[030 TEXT A30**]
A30 002 *<*4Head ripped off in ritual death*>
A30 003    |^*0A man had his head ripped off when he committed suicide
A30 004 in a bizarre ritual based on a Bible passage.
A30 005    |^A coroner's inquiry was told the man tied a metal chain
A30 006 around a tree and then around his neck.
A30 007    |^He then climbed into his car and slammed down the
A30 008 accelerator.  ^The chain snapped tight with such ferocity it
A30 009 decapitated him.
A30 010    |^A Coroner's Court in Taree, 200\0km north of Sydney, heard
A30 011 that a Bible was later found on a table in the man's bedroom.
A30 012    |^It was open at a page in the book of Revelations.
A30 013 ^Underlined in ink were the words: ^*"Behold, he tied a thin
A30 014 chain around his neck and mounted his chariot and drove
A30 015 away.**"
A30 016    |^Neil Woollard, 26, apparently left his parents' home in
A30 017 Taree in April last year and drove to a dirt road in Pembrooke
A30 018 where the incident took place.
A30 019    |^A police spokesman said a farmer found the dead man's car
A30 020 in a ditch.
A30 021    |^Woollard, dressed only in a pair of jeans, was sitting
A30 022 behind the steering wheel, his head lying between the
A30 023 transmission hump on the floor and his left foot.
A30 024    |^The farmer was taken to hospital suffering from severe
A30 025 shock.
A30 026    |^A recent inquest found Woollard's death was caused by
A30 027 sudden trauma due to decapitation.
A30 028 *<Body art: Feminists see red!*>
A30 029    |^*4Outraged feminists have failed in a bid to stop a
A30 030 Hamilton pub's pretty girl, body-painting contest.
A30 031    |^*0The women picketed the Hillcrest Tavern's bars but were
A30 032 quickly given the message to move on by angry patrons.
A30 033    |^One hundred women had threatened to disrupt the contest
A30 034 unless publican Steve Daly called it off.
A30 035    |^*"But it was a roaring success,**" the elated Daly told
A30 036 Truth.
A30 037    |^The contest *- in which artists paint the models behind
A30 038 the stage and then parade them before the audience *- has
A30 039 attracted scores of entrants so far.
A30 040    |^And with the first prize of *+$500 the hotel expects many
A30 041 more before the finals.
A30 042    |^The contests, which attract big crowds in Australia, have
A30 043 not been held here before.
A30 044    |^*"It's a first for New Zealand,**" said manager Daly.
A30 045 ^*"We decided to give it a go.
A30 046    |^*"Actually it's quite artistic.
A30 047    |^*"Ages ranged from 20 up to about 80.
A30 048    |^*"We had the odd protest.
A30 049    |^*"But most people loved it.**"
A30 050 *<*4Year will be tough!*>
A30 051    |^This year will be a time of change and development in the
A30 052 road transport industry, according to the Road Transport
A30 053 Industry Training Board.
A30 054    |^*0Competition will be tough, and will increase between the
A30 055 road transport industry and competing modes *- specially rail
A30 056 and sea, says the board:  ^*"Any company concerned about its
A30 057 ability to maintain a competitive service needs to look at the
A30 058 vital factors which will influence this ability.
A30 059    |^*"The first concern must be for management skill.**"
A30 060 *<*4Thumbs up for Windy City race*>
A30 061 |^Spectacular Wellington Nissan-Mobil 500 race in January gets
A30 062 the thumbs-up in Wellington Harbour Board's annual report,
A30 063 which describes it as a *"memorable spectacle**":
A30 064    |^*"*0Although the staging of such an event around the
A30 065 waterfront presented some serious operational problems for the
A30 066 board, these were overcome and on the day the race proved to be
A30 067 an outstanding success.
A30 068    |^*"The high standard of the course, the professional
A30 069 management by the organisers and the spectacular locale could
A30 070 bring international status to this event in the future.**"
A30 071 *<*2ESCORT SALES NEAR FIVE MILLION*>
A30 072    |^*4Ford's Escort, the front-wheel-drive successor to the
A30 073 car which was replaced in New Zealand by the Ford Laser, was
A30 074 the world's best selling car last year *- for the fifth year in
A30 075 a row.
A30 076    |^*0World sales totalled 823,000.  ^The model is made in
A30 077 Britain, West Germany, Spain, Portugal, Canada, the United
A30 078 States and South Africa.
A30 079 *<*4Second*>
A30 080    |^*0Total world production of Ford cars and trucks in 1985
A30 081 was 5.5 million units, placing Ford second to General Motors as
A30 082 the world's largest maker of motor vehicles.
A30 083    |^Third was Toyota.
A30 084    |^Respective figures were:
A30 085 **[LIST**]
A30 086 *<*2TOP STARS ON SHOW*>
A30 087 *<*0Bob Moore calls *6COUNTRY & WESTERN*>
A30 088    |^*4Clubs from in and around Auckland presented their star
A30 089 performers in the Queen City recently at the annual Auckland
A30 090 Country Music Awards.
A30 091    |^*0With nearly 40 clubs throughout Auckland province, from
A30 092 Kaitaia to Taihape and points east and west the depth of talent
A30 093 was quite diverse.
A30 094    |^Overall winners this year, representing senior,
A30 095 intermediate and junior sections, were the Legends Trio
A30 096 (Western Districts), Keryn Rowe and Caren Flintoff (Waipa) and
A30 097 Carla Werner (Kaitaia).
A30 098    |^Runners-up were Wendy McMillan (Western Districts),
A30 099 Vanessa Alexander and Gail Tipene (Kaitaia).
A30 100    |^Successful clubs to reach the finals included Manurewa,
A30 101 Eastern Districts and Fountain City.
A30 102    |^A highlight of the weekend was the special guest
A30 103 appearance by top Nashville recording artist Connie Smith.
A30 104    |^Smokey Marshall's Talent Contest and Stage Show was a
A30 105 drawcard for Canterbury folk early in June.
A30 106    |^Successful section winners in the quest were Des Davies
A30 107 (beginners), Susan Redmond (under 18), Bob Clarkson (male),
A30 108 Barbara Lloyd (female) and Joffre Marshall (variety).
A30 109    |^Finalists appeared in a mini-quest at a local workingmen's
A30 110 club to wind up the weekend.  ^This was won by Ted Yaxley.
A30 111    |^Out-of-town guest, Auckland entertainer Rusty Greaves, was
A30 112 a favourite with audiences at both venues.
A30 113    |^*<*6BIRTHDAY STARS:*> *0Roy Drusky, Kris Kristofferson
A30 114 (June 22); June Carter (23); Johnny Greenwood (29).
A30 115 *<Last... but not least!*>
A30 116 *<By Alf Kneebone*>
A30 117    |^When rider Tim Wheeler saw that only three horses had
A30 118 finished Saturday's Coachman Tavern Steeplechase at Tauranga he
A30 119 showed quick presence of mind by taking Master Troy back into
A30 120 the race after he had pulled him up.
A30 121    |^He had to go back and jump the third-last fence, which he
A30 122 had missed, and then clear the two remaining fences.
A30 123    |^At the finish he was given a big hand by the crowd *- and
A30 124 won the *+$225 fourth stake for Master Troy's connections.
A30 125    |^Another who showed an appreciation of the rules was the
A30 126 judge, Jim Lambert.
A30 127    |^He brought his stop**[ARB**]watch into operation and timed
A30 128 Master Troy to finish two minutes behind third-placed Coober's
A30 129 Knight.
A30 130    |^Stipendiary steward George Lawson said under the rules the
A30 131 judge is allowed 20 minutes to finalise his placings.
A30 132    *<Angel's shining*>
A30 133 *<By Alf Kneebone*>
A30 134    |^Well-performed three-year-old filly Imperial Angel has
A30 135 arrived in the United States under the care of her Matamata
A30 136 trainer Mike Moroney.
A30 137    |^Imperial Angel travelled very well and is in excellent
A30 138 order.  ^She will spend the next month on an agistment farm
A30 139 near Los Angeles and will then enter the stables of trainer
A30 140 Charlie Whittingham.
A30 141    |^Moroney will be staying in America for about three weeks
A30 142 and will inspect some broodmares, among them Change Partners,
A30 143 who is in foal to top sire Majestic Light.
A30 144    |^Change Partners is owned by the Hamilton-based
A30 145 thoroughbred company Vision Bloodstock, of which Moroney is a
A30 146 director.
A30 147 *<*4Unfair delay*>
A30 148    |^*0Second favourite Santerno's late scratching from the
A30 149 {0DB} Drive In Handicap at Tauranga on Saturday was because of
A30 150 the unfair delay being suffered at the start by the rest of the
A30 151 runners.
A30 152    |^Some people had suspected it was because of a need to keep
A30 153 a tight schedule for live television commitments.
A30 154    |^Santerno surprised his rider Chris Otto by dropping his
A30 155 head and diving through the front gate shortly after he had
A30 156 been assembled in his stall.
A30 157    |^Just as the field was being reassembled Santerno arrived
A30 158 back at the start and it was noted his saddle was broken.
A30 159    |^The field was despatched without him.
A30 160 *<*4Coming up a treat!*>
A30 161    |^*0Robin Butt looks to have the Noodlum trotter Cracker
A30 162 coming up a treat for a new campaign.
A30 163    |^As a youngster he showed enough for Butt to rate him one
A30 164 of the most promising trotters he had ever been associated
A30 165 with.
A30 166    |^He looked it too as a three-year-old but a kidney ailment
A30 167 nearly ended his career and he is now rising five.
A30 168    |^When he does line up it could pay to remember his fifth in
A30 169 the {0NZ} Trotting Stakes over a year ago.
A30 170    |^He chased home Highwood, Wedgewood, Borrowed Time and Firm
A30 171 Offer.
A30 172    |^All of whom have gone on to much greater things.
A30 173 *<Not so regal*>
A30 174 |^*4The smart Blenheim pacer Radiant King was to go out for a
A30 175 spell after the end of the local meeting yesterday and it could
A30 176 be well into the spring before he is seen in racing trim again.
A30 177    |^*0*"I think I'll give him a decent break, perhaps as much
A30 178 as six weeks.  ^He seems back to his best now but it's taken a
A30 179 long time,**" said trainer Max Miller after Radiant King's
A30 180 Nelson triumph.
A30 181    |^It has been a most disappointing season for a horse from
A30 182 which Miller expected big things.
A30 183    |^Disappointing efforts in the {0DB} Superstar series was
A30 184 the first blow and the horse was below peak all through the
A30 185 spring and early summer.
A30 186    |^*"A blood test showed anaemia.  ^I can only think he had
A30 187 some virus and took a good while to get over it,**" Miller
A30 188 said.
A30 189    |^Radiant King certainly looked the horse of old at Nelson
A30 190 when posting his first win since June last year.
A30 191    |^That sort of form points to his potential.
A30 192 *<*4Pete gets a granny challenge...*> *<*0By Dennis Duffy*>
A30 193    |^*4A 56-year-old grandmother has challenged New Zealand's
A30 194 world singles bowls champion Peter Belliss to a winner-take-all
A30 195 encounter.
A30 196    |^*0A miss-match?  ^Not necessarily so.  ^The game lady is
A30 197 Australian Merle Richardson who has become the world's first
A30 198 professional woman bowler.
A30 199    |^In her new career playing draw shots for dollars,
A30 200 Richardson is already in great demand and now wants to take on
A30 201 the top men's professional Belliss.
A30 202    |^Richardson is undisputedly the world's finest women's
A30 203 player.
A30 204    |^She's won world championship gold medals in 1977 (fours)
A30 205 and in 1985 (pairs and singles) and gave up a certain medal at
A30 206 the forthcoming Edinburgh Commonwealth Games by turning
A30 207 professional.
A30 208 *<*4New post for Ces*>
A30 209    |^*0Ces Blazey (above) has not retired from rugby.
A30 210    |^The recently-resigned {0NZRFU} chairman has been given a
A30 211 new post.
A30 212    |^He is to head the {0NZRFU}'s {0VIP} and protocol 
A30 213 sub-committee for next year's World Cup.
A30 214    |^As a proven diplomat, Blazey should do the job well.
A30 215 *<*4Elliot looks north*>
A30 216 *<*0By Brian Lawlor*>
A30 217    |^*4Young rider Grant Elliot had a drastic change of scene
A30 218 only a day after winning the biggest race of his career aboard
A30 219 Timandra Bay in the *+$60,000 Fay Richwhite Cornwall Handicap
A30 220 recently.
A30 221    |^*0Elliot, not long out of his apprenticeship, booted
A30 222 Timandra Bay to a convincing win in Ellerslie's rich winter
A30 223 flat race but the next day he was out in the sticks at a
A30 224 Taranaki point-to-point fixture.
A30 225    |^Elliot has been spending a bit of time with Hawera trainer
A30 226 Kevin Myers and he handled one of the Myers' jumpers in the
A30 227 steeplechase at the point-to-point.
A30 228    |^To cap a memorable weekend, Elliot combined with Spring
A30 229 Fortune to win.
A30 230    |^*"It was a great day,**" Elliot said of the 
A30 231 point-to-point.
A30 232    |^*"I was nervous right up until the first fence.  ^Once we
A30 233 jumped that, there was no time to be nervous**".
A30 234    |^The stay at Myers' stable is a bushman's holiday for
A30 235 Elliot but it has had at least one beneficial spinoff.
A30 236    |^The young rider's weight has dropped markedly since being
A30 237 at Hawera and he now rides around 51\0kg quite comfortably.
A30 238    |^Elliot would be keen to take up a riding position in the
A30 239 northern area if a suitable job came up.
A30 240    |^*"The north provides a lot more race days and the stakes
A30 241 up there are so much better,**" he said.
A30 242    |^After his Cornwall win on Timandra Bay there would be a
A30 243 few northerners ready to give him the chance.
A30 244 *<*4Marushka out*>
A30 245    |^*4Capable winter galloper Marushka (Norfolk Air-Battling
A30 246 Lass) pulled up sore after a training gallop last week and he
A30 247 is now spelling until next season.
A30 248    |^*0Marushka, who recently won on the flat at Paeroa, had
A30 249 been schooling well and was the pre-post favourite for the
A30 250 hurdles at Avondale last Friday, when he was to have made his
A30 251 debut over fences.
A30 252    |^It was unfortunate for his trainers, Bruce and Robert
A30 253 Priscott, that he should have gone amiss on the eve of the
A30 254 meeting but the partners gained some compensation through
A30 255 winning runs by Double Fault (Avondale), and Landsdowne Road,
A30 256 Hopscotch and My Ballerina (Te Awamutu) at the end of the week.
A30 257 *- Alf Kneebone
A30 258 *<*4Heading north*>
A30 259    |^New Plymouth filly Phantasy World could trek north next
A30 260 month for the *+$10,000 Northland Breeders 10,000 at Ruakaka.
A30 261    |^*0Taranaki horses rarely travel north of Auckland to race
A30 262 but New Plymouth training partners John Wheeler and Ian Adams
A30 263 are seriously considering the Whangarei Racing Club fixture.
A30 264    |^Phantasy World scored her second win from six starts last
A30 265 week at Hawera and is a filly of some worth.
A30 266    |^John Wheeler said the fact the race was for fillies and
A30 267 the likelihood of good footing at Ruakaka were the main
A30 268 attractions.
A30 269    |^If Phantasy World does not trek north, she is likely to
A30 270 contest the *+$20,000 Ryder Stakes at Levin on July 16.
A30 271 *#
A31 001 **[031 TEXT A31**]
A31 002 *<*4Australians now control {0TNC}*>
A31 003    |^*0The Australians who bought into Transport North
A31 004 Canterbury Holdings, \0Ltd, last year, have now taken control.
A31 005    |^Newmans Group, \0Ltd, announced yesterday that it has sold
A31 006 its 20 per cent holding in the Rangiora-based Transport North
A31 007 Canterbury for *+$1.3\0M to the Australians.
A31 008    |^This makes {0TNC} a subsidiary of the Australian
A31 009 investment company, Van Berg Holdings, \0Ltd, through the
A31 010 firm's New Zealand arm, Southern Cross Enterprises.  ^The
A31 011 Australians have 58 per cent of {0TNC}.
A31 012    |^Under its new chairman, \0Mr Ian Langford, of Rangiora,
A31 013 {0TNC} has been restructuring.  ^It has 40 staff fewer than two
A31 014 years ago, and has been selling trucks.
A31 015    |^This month it should be back in profit, \0Mr Langford said
A31 016 last evening.  ^This has been achieved in what some are saying
A31 017 is the worst year for country carriers for a quarter of a
A31 018 century.
A31 019    |^Van Berg is the investment arm of \0Mr Paul Petersen, of
A31 020 Sydney, who owns a construction company.  ^His associates in
A31 021 {0TNC} are \0Mr Warren Duncan, of Sydney, a chartered
A31 022 accountant, and \0Mr Charles O'Neil, a Sydney businessman.
A31 023    |^The Australians have interests at Queenstown, and have
A31 024 said they are looking for other investment opportunities in the
A31 025 South Island.  ^There have been suggestions that they might use
A31 026 {0TNC} as a holding company for interests in Australia, which
A31 027 may offer them tax advantages.
A31 028    |^Earlier last year, {0TNC} bought about *+$1.7\0M worth of
A31 029 trucks.  ^Some of the 40 vehicles sold or awaiting sale have
A31 030 been replaced; others are redundant because of more efficient
A31 031 use of plant.
A31 032    |^\0Mr Langford said the firm had sold about *+$1.1\0M worth
A31 033 of assets which were not required.
A31 034    |^The sale to Southern Cross Enterprises has been announced
A31 035 shortly after the Commerce Commission and the Overseas
A31 036 Investment Commission gave approval for Southern to take over
A31 037 {0TNC}.
A31 038    |^The Newmans representatives, \0Mr Robbie Dyce and \0Mr
A31 039 Peter Ammundsden, resigned from the {0TNC} board a few weeks
A31 040 ago.
A31 041    |^Newmans said it has sold its total {0TNC} holding of
A31 042 478,965 shares for 270\0c each.  ^It had obtained the
A31 043 shareholding at 250\0c each last July in consideration of the
A31 044 purchase by {0TNC} of Service Transport, \0Ltd.
A31 045    |^The negotiated price compares with the 350\0c the shares
A31 046 attracted when they were last traded on January 7.
A31 047    |^The sale came after statements by Southern Cross that it
A31 048 intended to expand {0TNC}'s operations into areas of possible
A31 049 future conflict with Newmans, Newmans said.
A31 050    |^In December, Southern Cross predicted {0TNC}'s profit in
A31 051 the year to September would reach *+$1.2\0M after tax, despite
A31 052 being only *+$133,000 last year.
A31 053 *<*4Countrywide ahead*>
A31 054 *<*0{0PA} Auckland*>
A31 055    |^The Countrywide Building Society has reported an unaudited
A31 056 profit after tax of *+$2.25\0M for the half year ended December
A31 057 31.  ^It is well ahead of the profit for the corresponding
A31 058 period last year.
A31 059    |^No comparative figures are provided for the revenue
A31 060 statement, as it is the first half-year report produced.
A31 061 ^Revenue for the latest half was *+$39.9\0M.  ^Cost of funds
A31 062 and expenses was *+$37.6\0M.
A31 063    |^The chief executive, \0Mr Peter Martin, said Countrywide
A31 064 had achieved a satisfactory strengthening both on its financial
A31 065 position and in profitability.
A31 066    |^*"The deregulatory measures of Government economic policy
A31 067 led to a period over the last six months of increasing interest
A31 068 rates, resulting in intense competition for the saving and
A31 069 investing dollar,**" said \0Mr Martin.
A31 070    |^Countrywide's assets increased to *+$506\0M, an increase
A31 071 of *+$53\0M from June 30.
A31 072    |^During the half-year Countrywide lent *+$54.7\0M on
A31 073 mortgage, compared with *+$74.5\0M for the whole of the last
A31 074 financial year.
A31 075    |^\0Mr Martin said his organisation was looking forward to
A31 076 the pending changes in the legislation governing building
A31 077 societies.
A31 078    |^*"Changes to the Building Societies Act and the
A31 079 introduction of new legislation relating to banking activities
A31 080 in New Zealand are expected to provide Countrywide with
A31 081 opportunities to strengthen its position and to move into new
A31 082 areas of operations.**"
A31 083    |^As well as launching a life insurance company in the
A31 084 period under review, Countrywide has announced it will be
A31 085 shortly issuing a Visa card.
A31 086    |^*"We are increasingly adopting a greater consumer banking
A31 087 role in order to provide a total service to our customers,**"
A31 088 said \0Mr Martin.
A31 089    |^Although interest rates eased in December, the present
A31 090 levels would be maintained in the immediate future, he said.
A31 091 *<*4{0ANZ} *'truly international**'*>
A31 092    |^*0Australian and New Zealand Banking Group, \0Ltd, has
A31 093 become a truly international bank through its acquisition of
A31 094 Grindlays Bank, the Chairman, Sir William Vines, says in the
A31 095 group's annual report for the year ended September 30.
A31 096    |^The group profit, before extraordinary items, of
A31 097 *+$\0Aust320.2 million reflected increased contributions from
A31 098 offshore operations, partly because of favourable exchange rate
A31 099 movements.
A31 100    |^The profit represented a return of 16.2 per cent on
A31 101 average shareholders' funds, increased by the one-for-four
A31 102 rights issue which raised *+$\0Aust225 million in September,
A31 103 1984.  ^The earnings rate in 1984 was 18.6 per cent.
A31 104    |^The group received its first contribution from the
A31 105 Grindlays group, amounting to *+$\0Aust11.7 million.  ^This
A31 106 result was depressed by additional doubtful debt provisions
A31 107 made in segments of the lending portfolio adversely affected by
A31 108 economic and business conditions.
A31 109    |^However, Sir William said that considerable progress had
A31 110 been made with the integration and nationalisation of {0ANZ}
A31 111 and Grindlays operations around the world.  ^Although
A31 112 Grindlays' profit return for the year was below that of the
A31 113 {0ANZ} group as a whole, benefits have begun to flow to the
A31 114 group and are expected to increase in future years, he said.
A31 115    |^As announced, the recommended final dividend of 16\0c a
A31 116 share will make a total payment of 31\0c for the year, compared
A31 117 with 30\0c for the previous year; the 31 per cent dividend is
A31 118 covered more than three times.
A31 119    |^Other highlights for the year were :
A31 120 **[LIST**]
A31 121    |^Regional administrations were established in London, New
A31 122 York, and Hong Kong.
A31 123    |^Establishment of a combined merchant banking operation
A31 124 under the name of {0ANZ} Capital Markets Corporation, \0Ltd,
A31 125 after the acquisitions of minority shareholdings in {0AIFC} and
A31 126 Delfui-{0BNY}, and merging them with Grindlays Australia,
A31 127 \0Ltd.
A31 128    |^Establishment of integrated investment banking and
A31 129 stockbroking operations in London, to trade as {0ANZ} Merchant
A31 130 Bank Limited from January 1986.  ^This combines the activities
A31 131 of Grindlays' Investment Bank and Capel-Cure Myers,
A31 132 stockbrokers.
A31 133    |^Transaction Banking, {0ANZ}'s electronic teller terminal
A31 134 value capture system, operational in approximately 900
A31 135 branches.
A31 136    |^Esanda group expanded asset base by 21.0 per cent.
A31 137    |^Investment and Trust Services division established to 
A31 138 co-ordinate the marketing of the Group's investment and trust
A31 139 subsidiaries and services.  ^Total funds under management
A31 140 exceed *+$4000 million.
A31 141    |^{0ANZ} lead managed the *+$380 million Amadeus Basin to
A31 142 Darwin gas pipeline.
A31 143    |^Incorporation of Daiwa-{0ANZ} International Limited in
A31 144 which {0ANZ} has a 50 per cent interest and which will provide
A31 145 Japanese sourced capital market and securities facilities to
A31 146 Australian corporations.
A31 147    |^Acquisition in New Zealand of a building society ({0UDC}
A31 148 Endeavour Building Society) and a 50 per cent interest in
A31 149 Metropolitan Life Assurance Company by the Group's New Zealand
A31 150 subsidiary.
A31 151    |^Acquisition of operations of Barclays Bank {0plc} in Fiji
A31 152 and Vanuatu.
A31 153    |^Australian Trading Bank deposits increased by 21.2 per
A31 154 cent, and Saving Bank deposits increased by 6.3 per cent.
A31 155    |^Referring to New Zealand operations, the directors say
A31 156 that the performance of the 75 per cent owned New Zealand
A31 157 subsidiary continues to be very satisfactory.
A31 158    |^Its result was achieved against a background of a rapidly
A31 159 changing banking and financial environment.  ^In December,
A31 160 1984, new Government liquidity management arrangements were
A31 161 established, and foreign exchange controls, which had been in
A31 162 place since 1938, were abolished.  ^Further deregulatory moves
A31 163 included the removal of the statutory reserve assets ratio and,
A31 164 significantly, the floating of the New Zealand dollar in March,
A31 165 1985.  ^These moves followed measures in 1984 to remove
A31 166 institutional credit growth guidelines and interest rate
A31 167 controls.
A31 168    |^The Bank agrees with the increasing reliance being placed
A31 169 on market mechanisms to achieve monetary control, and
A31 170 particularly welcomes the liberalisation of the finance sector.
A31 171 ^Effectively this has meant that trading banks have been free
A31 172 for the first time in many years to compete across all deposit
A31 173 maturities, and to offer a full range of domestic and
A31 174 international financial services.
A31 175    |^Government monetary policy has focused on controlling the
A31 176 growth of a primary liquidity base and thus influence **[SIC**] the
A31 177 wider monetary aggregates.  ^However, both money supply (\0M3) and
A31 178 private sector credit have risen strongly in 1985, partly
A31 179 reflecting the increasing share of banks in the financial
A31 180 system.  ^Interest rates have reached very high levels,
A31 181 resulting mainly from the heavy government stock tender
A31 182 programme.  ^It also reflects increased competition for
A31 183 deposits and a strong demand for funds for both business and
A31 184 personal use as the economy continued to exhibit steady growth
A31 185 through the first half of 1985.
A31 186    |^Bank lending rates increased throughout the year,
A31 187 reflecting the rising deposit costs and strong pressure on
A31 188 margins.  ^By the September, 1985, quarter it was evident that
A31 189 the high cost of finance was impacting on both personal and
A31 190 business spending decisions, thus reducing the level of
A31 191 economic activity.
A31 192    |^{0ANZ} deposits rose 23 per cent during the year, while
A31 193 lending increased by 22 per cent.
A31 194    |^The wholly-owned finance company {0UDC} Group Holdings,
A31 195 \0Ltd, experienced strong growth in business demand amid a
A31 196 strong competitive environment and made a profit contribution
A31 197 slightly reduced from the previous year.
A31 198    |^In November, 1984, the Permanent Investment Building
A31 199 Society of Canterbury was purchased by {0UDC}.  ^Subsequently
A31 200 renamed {0UDC} Endeavour Building Society, the acquisition
A31 201 forms part of an initiative by {0UDC} to develop personal
A31 202 sector business.
A31 203    |^In July, 1985, the Bank acquired 50 per cent of the
A31 204 shareholding of Metropolitan Life Assurance Company of {0N.Z.}
A31 205 \0Ltd.
A31 206 *<*4More to Export Pain Than Exchange Rate*>
A31 207 *<By *6{0M.A.} McPHEE,
A31 208 *4Business News Editor*>
A31 209    |^The New Zealand dollar exchange rate continues to be the
A31 210 major focus for the price depression in exports with particular
A31 211 complaint from the farm sector.
A31 212    |^*0The attribution of blame though, is surely too
A31 213 simplistic.  ^The exchange rate is rather more symptom than
A31 214 cause.
A31 215    |^It is not just a question of high New Zealand interest
A31 216 rates *- high relative to those of other countries *- making
A31 217 attractive the buying of New Zealand securities as investment
A31 218 here so causing buying demand for the kiwi dollar.
A31 219    |^The relative value of other currencies matters, too.
A31 220 ^Thus, if investors decide the United States dollar is
A31 221 overvalued and its exchange rate falls (as it has), then even
A31 222 if the kiwi were to *"stand still**" it would rise in terms of
A31 223 exchange rate with the American unit.
A31 224    |^The kiwi-United States dollar rate receives the most
A31 225 attention.  ^It is certainly important, but it is not the whole
A31 226 story.
A31 227 *<*4Better Off*>
A31 228    |^*0New Zealand exporters are also worse off in exchange
A31 229 rate terms (price aside) compared with pre-dollar float rates
A31 230 in Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia.
A31 231    |^But they are better off in Britain, France, Japan, the
A31 232 Netherlands and West Germany.
A31 233    |^Of course, the reverse applies with imports.
A31 234    |^And imports go to make up the costs exporters price
A31 235 inputs.
A31 236    |^Here surely is the rural issue: inflation or cost rises.
A31 237    |^In spite of assertions that New Zealand used to have a
A31 238 fixed exchange rate, it did not.  ^It had rates that were
A31 239 stable for often considerable periods but they were adjusted
A31 240 when cost pressures mounted.
A31 241    |^The adjustments were invariably down *- down all the way
A31 242 on the Reserve Bank's trade weighted exchange rate index from
A31 243 133.1 in June 1974 to 62.7 just before the dollar floated in
A31 244 March last year.
A31 245    |^The index ended last week at 67.4, a 7.5 per cent lift
A31 246 since the float, but halved since 1974.
A31 247    |^Incidentally in terms of the American dollar in that
A31 248 12-year-term the kiwi dollar has fallen more than half, from
A31 249 being worth *+${0US}1.47 to 56{0US}\0c.
A31 250    |^Coincidentally there was a long period of a rising United
A31 251 States exchange rate which was a de facto depreciation of the
A31 252 kiwi.
A31 253 *<*4Put Finger*>
A31 254    |^*0The periods of stability in the New Zealand exchange
A31 255 rate may have helped planning but when the adjustment times
A31 256 were increasingly anticipated.
A31 257    |^The devaluations could be described as the easy way out,
A31 258 the soft option of postponement of resisting internal cost and
A31 259 price rises and economic adjustment and restructuring.
A31 260    |^That, too, is probably only partly right.  ^The chairman
A31 261 of Fletcher Challenge, Sir Ronald Trotter, in a Wellington
A31 262 address last week put his finger on the other big factor *-
A31 263 trade protection or subsidised farm price support in New
A31 264 Zealand's overseas markets.
A31 265    |^In one form or another Europe, the United States and Japan
A31 266 all practise it.
A31 267    |^It costs the United States *+${0US}5.5 billion a year in
A31 268 dairying alone; the European Community's common agricultural
A31 269 policy price support is running at the rate of *+${0NZ}37.5
A31 270 billion a year.  ^That is now more than 60 per cent of the
A31 271 Community's budget.  ^Trade is on the agenda for the coming
A31 272 Gatt talks.  ^But even if there were a breakthrough in them *-
A31 273 and the costs are becoming a break-point for taxpayers and
A31 274 budgets *- the solution to a problem that has been worsening
A31 275 for all of 30 years will not be achieved overnight.
A31 276 *#
A32 001 **[032 TEXT A32**]
A32 002 *<*4Omnicorp Nets *+$3.9\0m, Plans Options Issue*>
A32 003    |^Omnicorp Investments \0Ltd is to make a one-for-four
A32 004 renounceable options issue and pay a maiden dividend after
A32 005 reporting an audited tax-paid trading profit of *+$3,933,000 in
A32 006 the 11 months to March 31.
A32 007    |^*0The options are to be offered at 50\0c each with the
A32 008 right of conversion to one new share on payment of a further
A32 009 50\0c on March 31 1991.
A32 010    |^The options will rank equally with existing capital in
A32 011 respect of all bonus, cash or other issues made.  ^They will be
A32 012 transferable but will not carry voting rights.
A32 013    |^The new shares arising from the options will qualify for
A32 014 dividends for the March 31, 1992, financial year.
A32 015    |^The options issue will raise *+$12.5 million now and a
A32 016 further *+$12.5 million in 1991.
A32 017    |^The *+$3,933,000 profit is after writing off preliminary
A32 018 expenses of *+$78,000 and represents an annual rate of profit
A32 019 of *+$4.9 million.  ^In the prospectus for the float of
A32 020 Omnicorp last year a profit of *+$2,027,000 was forecast for
A32 021 the first year.
A32 022 *<*4Fluctuation*>
A32 023    |^*0A maiden dividend of 0.5\0c a share (1 per cent) is
A32 024 recommended.  ^Payment and ex entitlement dates for the
A32 025 dividend and the options issue will be announced later.
A32 026    |^As at March 31 shareholders' funds totalled *+$53,433,000,
A32 027 and in addition the investment fluctuation reserve stood at
A32 028 *+$8,142,000.
A32 029    |^Total assets were *+$80,176,000.
A32 030    |^The investment fluctuation reserve includes *+$2,243,000
A32 031 of realised gains from the partial sale of investments which
A32 032 have been used to write down the cost of the remaining shares.
A32 033    |^*"This is a most satisfactory result for our set-up
A32 034 period,**" said \0Mr Lloyd Morrison, chairman of Omnicorp.
A32 035    |^*"We have developed an excellent base for the coming year,
A32 036 and are confident of a substantial profit increase for the next
A32 037 financial year.
A32 038    |^*"These profits consist of conservatively stated cash
A32 039 earnings.  ^No unrealised profits are included and all interest
A32 040 costs and other expenses have been fully written off,**" he
A32 041 said.
A32 042 *<*4Advantage*>
A32 043    |^*0During this period, Omnicorp has developed a network of
A32 044 contacts, established a funding base with a number of undrawn
A32 045 lines, and accumulated a number of strategic positions.
A32 046    |^The company has also taken advantage of profitable trading
A32 047 opportunities involving sharemarkets, government stock/ fixed
A32 048 interest securities and foreign exchange in New Zealand as well
A32 049 as Australia, Britain, the United States and Hong Kong.
A32 050    |^*"In the coming year we will actively pursue both trading
A32 051 opportunities and the long-term accumulation of strategic
A32 052 positions, mainly in New Zealand and Britain,**" said \0Mr
A32 053 Morrison.
A32 054    |^He said Omnicorp would make a number of significant moves
A32 055 in the local market as well as committing management and
A32 056 resources to establishing an office in London.
A32 057 *<*4Rewards for Right Decisions*>
A32 058    |^*0The sharemarket was rewarding correct business decisions
A32 059 and penalising poor management decisions, the Minister of
A32 060 Finance, \0Mr Douglas, said last night.
A32 061    |^But he said the continual strong performance of the
A32 062 sharemarket continued to surprise him.
A32 063    |^Speaking at the opening of the new Auckland Regional Stock
A32 064 Exchange offices and trading floor, \0Mr Douglas said this
A32 065 strong performance had promoted greater interest in holding and
A32 066 trading shares by all types of people.
A32 067    |^*"It is sometimes important to remember that what
A32 068 ultimately backs share prices is the profitable production of
A32 069 goods and services,**" he said.
A32 070    |^The rationalisation that had gone on in the sharemarket
A32 071 and the attention paid to share prices sometimes seemed to
A32 072 obscure the real things that were happening.
A32 073    |^\0Mr Douglas said he was constantly amazed at the speed at
A32 074 which many businesses were adjusting to meet the challenge of
A32 075 change.
A32 076    |^*"We are seeing a rapid shift of resources out of some
A32 077 activities into growth activities of the economy,**" he said.
A32 078    |^The consistency of Government policy was providing people
A32 079 with a platform from which they could plan effective response
A32 080 to change.
A32 081    |^*"Although many companies are facing short-term pressure
A32 082 on their earnings because of the major restructuring that is
A32 083 taking place in a number of areas, they have moved ahead
A32 084 because they see longer run possibilities of higher
A32 085 profitability through cost efficiencies,**" said \0Mr Douglas.
A32 086    |^Internationally there was a rapid trend towards the global
A32 087 trading of securities.
A32 088    |^*"New Zealand has now got a significant number of
A32 089 companies which are large enough to compete internationally,
A32 090 and provide future earnings and wealth for the New Zealand
A32 091 shareholders of these companies,**" said \0Mr Douglas.
A32 092    |^If New Zealand had not moved to become part of this
A32 093 internationalisation process it would surely have been left
A32 094 behind.
A32 095    |^*"Now we have some large companies headed by entrepreneurs
A32 096 who are as good or better than any of their overseas
A32 097 competitors using other countries' money to purchase and own
A32 098 overseas assets for the benefit of New Zealanders,**" he said.
A32 099    |^\0Mr Douglas said that while he was aware that high
A32 100 interest rates were causing concern, evidence was now starting
A32 101 to come in that the Government's policy to get inflation down
A32 102 was working.
A32 103 *<*4Call Option Offer by Jarden*>
A32 104 *<Wellington Staff*>
A32 105    |^A new tool for investors is available with Wellington
A32 106 broker Jarden and \0Co prepared to deal in three-month call
A32 107 options in Brierley Investments and Fletcher Challenge shares.
A32 108    |^*0Although options are traded widely overseas they have
A32 109 not been available in this form in New Zealand.
A32 110    |^However, Wellington-based Tag Corporation \0Ltd announced
A32 111 on Monday it would offer a similar scheme for Brierley-linked
A32 112 units.  ^These, however, are longer term and redeemable on
A32 113 March 31, 1989.
A32 114    |^The senior partner at Jarden, \0Mr Bryan Johnson,
A32 115 explained that with call options an investor buys an option at
A32 116 a premium on the present market price and in three months the
A32 117 options are exercised.
A32 118 *<*4Traded*>
A32 119    |^*0On a Brierley market price of 560\0c a share, Jarden is
A32 120 offering a 70\0c premium.  ^On the Fletcher Challenge options a
A32 121 40\0c premium is likely.
A32 122    |^\0Mr Johnson says the options will not be listed but can
A32 123 be traded on the *"grey**" market any time until the exercise
A32 124 date.
A32 125    |^He said Jarden had been looking at the possibility of an
A32 126 options market for some time and that the move was not prompted
A32 127 by Tag's announcement.
A32 128    |^At present the broker will be offering only options in
A32 129 Brierley and Fletcher Challenge shares but others may be
A32 130 offered later, depending on how things go initially.
A32 131    |^The market has shown interest in the options already and
A32 132 \0Mr Johnson said he was *"quite staggered**" by the response
A32 133 to date and a few trades were made yesterday.
A32 134    |^In Australia an extensive options market exists, and this
A32 135 is a possibility in New Zealand eventually, according to
A32 136 Jarden.
A32 137    |^The premium price for the options in Brierley and Fletcher
A32 138 Challenge will vary according to demand, market price of the
A32 139 shares and interest rate levels.
A32 140 *<*4Offered*>
A32 141    |^*0\0Mr Johnson explained that institutions who held the
A32 142 shares in Brierley and Fletcher Challenge offered a contract to
A32 143 investors for an option.  ^The contract gave the investor the
A32 144 right to buy a share after the three-month period and these
A32 145 contracts could be bought or sold.
A32 146    |^The options are sold in 1000 share lots.
A32 147 *<*4Charter Gets *+$10.2\0m For {0SSB} Holding*>
A32 148 *<*0Wellington Staff*>
A32 149    |^Charter Corporation \0Ltd, which announced on Tuesday it
A32 150 had lifted its 11 per cent stake in Salmond Smith Biolab to
A32 151 16.5 per cent, has now sold the entire holding to an un-named
A32 152 buyer, believed to be an institution, for some *+$10.2 million.
A32 153    |^Charter told the stock exchange yesterday it had completed
A32 154 the sale of its 16.5 per cent shareholding in Salmond Smith
A32 155 Biolab *"following a number of approaches in recent weeks.**"
A32 156    |^The 3,945,329 shares were sold to the un-named buyer in an
A32 157 offmarket transaction for 260\0c each.  ^On Tuesday Charter
A32 158 said it paid 251\0c for the 1,189,628 shares it bought to
A32 159 increase the holding.
A32 160 *<*4*'Relaxed**'*>
A32 161    |^*0The joint managing director of the newly merged Salmond
A32 162 Smith Biolab group, \0Mr Trevor Smith, said his company
A32 163 suspected the buyer was an institution *"who felt the company
A32 164 was a good investment.**"
A32 165    |^He said Smith Biolab was *"quite relaxed**" about the
A32 166 sale and the probable buyer.
A32 167    |^Although recent trading may have changed the holdings, the
A32 168 larger shareholders in the company are understood to be
A32 169 Barclays {0NZ} Nominees with 8.7 percent, National Mutual Life
A32 170 6.3 per cent, {0AA} Mutual Insurance and Government Life
A32 171 Insurance 4.8 per cent each and Foresight Nominees \0Ltd 3.7
A32 172 per cent.
A32 173    |^The chairman of Charter, \0Mr John Lawrey, told the
A32 174 *1Herald *0yesterday that he understood a number of parties had
A32 175 been interested in the holding.
A32 176 *<*4Released*>
A32 177    |^*0Charter said the sale of the shares realised a
A32 178 significant surplus and released funds for other investments in
A32 179 equity markets both in New Zealand and overseas.
A32 180    |^\0Mr Lawrey said there were no specific plans and the
A32 181 funds would be used in the general investment activities of the
A32 182 group.
A32 183    |^The bulk of Charter's holding in Salmond Smith Biolab
A32 184 arose from an option granted by {0AA} Mutual to acquire shares
A32 185 in the old Smith-Biolab company in February for 275\0c a share.
A32 186    |^That left Charter with 19.8 per cent of the old Smith
A32 187 Biolab which, with a small holding in Salmond, gave Charter 11
A32 188 per cent of the new company.
A32 189 *<*4{0FAI} May Have Quit {0NZI}*>
A32 190    |^*0A big {0NZI} Corporation shareholder in Australia,
A32 191 {0FAI} Insurance, is believed to have quit its holding
A32 192 yesterday in trading which saw 10.4 million shares change hands
A32 193 there.
A32 194    |^The stock closed steady in Australia on-market at
A32 195 150\0A\0c after peaking at 155\0c.  ^The special trade of 9.9
A32 196 million shares, which was at 160\0c, is thought to have gone to
A32 197 more than one Australian holder.
A32 198    |^An {0NZI} Corporation spokesman confirmed his company
A32 199 understood {0FAI} was the seller and said his company was not
A32 200 particularly concerned.
A32 201    |^The trade represents around 2 per cent of {0NZI} capital.
A32 202    |^In New Zealand, the stock closed 9{0NZ}\0c lower at
A32 203 182\0c, with 590,200 shares reported trading.
A32 204 *<*4Batley Again Warns Shareholders*>
A32 205    |^*0Directors of Batley Printing Group \0Ltd yesterday
A32 206 repeated their warning to shareholders, first made two weeks
A32 207 ago, not to sell their shares.
A32 208    |^Directors said negotiations which would *"result in a
A32 209 change in the control of the company**" were well advanced and
A32 210 were expected to be concluded before Friday, May 2.
A32 211    |^Shareholders were advised not to sell their shares until
A32 212 the changes were announced.
A32 213    |^Batley is at present controlled by the Batley family whose
A32 214 interests hold 58 per cent of the capital.
A32 215 *<*4Rate Rises Slacken*>
A32 216    |^Financial markets consolidated yesterday with rates edging
A32 217 higher rather than soaring as in the past few days.
A32 218    |^*0The New Zealand dollar climbed to 57.23{0US}\0c from an
A32 219 opening of 56.9\0c.  ^On Tuesday the close was 56.95\0c.
A32 220    |^Dealers reported good two-way business in an upward trend.
A32 221 ^The announcement of the final March year Government budget
A32 222 deficit figure had little or no effect immediately but that
A32 223 could come later.
A32 224    |^The Reserve Bank exchange rate index closed at 67.5
A32 225 compared with 67.6 on Tuesday.
A32 226 *<*4Cautious*>
A32 227    |^*0The cross rate with the Australian dollar was 78.41\0c
A32 228 compared with 78.54 on Tuesday.
A32 229    |^In Tokyo the United States dollar fell to a
A32 230 post**[ARB**]-war record low of 166.8 yen but moved up later in
A32 231 quiet and cautious trade.  ^In New Zealand the close was
A32 232 168.00/10 yen compared with 168.90/05 at the opening.
A32 233    |^Against the West German mark the United States dollar
A32 234 firmed slightly to 2.1855/70 from 2.1850/65 in the morning.
A32 235    |^Rates remained firm on the New Zealand money market with
A32 236 the call rate at 22.5 to 23 per cent and 90-day commercial
A32 237 bills at 21.5 per cent.  ^Dealers said the call rate was
A32 238 holding up the term rates and there was a flat yield curve
A32 239 through the whole market.
A32 240    |^The Reserve Bank sold *+$45 million in treasury bills
A32 241 after offering to sell *+$75 million.  ^The bank sold *+$22
A32 242 million at five-day bills at 19.43 to 20.13 per cent and *+$23
A32 243 million of eight-day bills at 19.48 to 19.9.
A32 244 *<*4Reversal*>
A32 245    |^*0The recent downward trend in Government stock yields on
A32 246 the secondary market suffered a reversal as profit-takers moved
A32 247 in. ^June 1991 stock was at 17.65 per cent compared with 17.33
A32 248 per cent on Tuesday.
A32 249    |^Dealers said the reversal has come suddenly and had grown
A32 250 as a mild panic hit the market.  ^Such reversals were not
A32 251 uncommon in a bull market and this one would probably prove
A32 252 short-lived.
A32 253 *<*4{0IEL} Subsidiary Purchased*>
A32 254    |^*0May and Baker Australia \0Pty \0Ltd, part of the Rhone
A32 255 Poulenc Group and represented in New Zealand by May and Baker
A32 256 New Zealand \0Ltd, has acquired Amalgamated Chemicals \0Ltd, a
A32 257 Sydney-based, wholly owned subsidiary of Industrial Equity
A32 258 \0Ltd.
A32 259    |^Amalgamated Chemicals manufactures and distributes a range
A32 260 of agricultural chemicals and a small range of animal health
A32 261 products.
A32 262 *<*4{0BIL} Gets To Post*>
A32 263 *<*0{0NZPA} Wellington*>
A32 264    |^A massive increase in the number of shares traded, and new
A32 265 Brierley Investments \0Ltd shareholders, have delayed the
A32 266 mailing of {0BIL} cash issue documents by a week.
A32 267    |^But the documents were posted last night along with the
A32 268 {0BIL} interim report.
A32 269    |^The secretary, \0Mr Ray Robinson, said sheer volumes of
A32 270 transactions put the company's mail behind.  ^{0BIL} had to
A32 271 process 12,000 transfers received from brokers in a fortnight,
A32 272 normally a two month job.
A32 273    |^In the process the company added another 5000
A32 274 shareholders, making the grand total of 62,000.
A32 275 *#
A33 001 **[033 TEXT A33**]
A33 002 *<*4{0ANZ} parent bids for full control*>
A33 003 *<By *6TERRY HALL*>
A33 004 |^*2THE {0ANZ} GROUP *- *0parent and 74.2 per cent owner
A33 005 of{0ANZ} Banking Group {0NZ} \0Ltd *- is to make a takeover for
A33 006 the shares it does not already own, it announced last night.
A33 007    |^The statement came two hours after a don't sell notice was
A33 008 put on the shares.
A33 009    |^If successful, the offer will return the local subsidiary
A33 010 to full group control, 6 1/2 years after it was floated.
A33 011    |^The offer is conditional on the acceptance of the Overseas
A33 012 Investment Commission and locally based directors of the
A33 013 subsidiary, who are expected to make a decision based on an
A33 014 independent valuation later this week.
A33 015    |^Under the terms of the offer, the local board members will
A33 016 retain their seats and act as an advisory board.  ^\0Mr Will
A33 017 Bailey, group managing director and chief executive officer of
A33 018 the Melbourne-based bank, implied at a press conference last
A33 019 night that an additional director or directors from New Zealand
A33 020 would get seats on the parent board, joining local chairman Lyn
A33 021 Papps there.
A33 022    |^\0Mr Bailey said the decision to buy out the local
A33 023 shareholding was because of the need to live with the
A33 024 globalisation of the banking world.  ^It was better for the
A33 025 parent to have 100 per cent ownership of all its subsidiaries
A33 026 in these circumstances.
A33 027    |^He said it had been a great idea in 1979 to float off the
A33 028 subsidiary in New Zealand, and the bank as a whole had gained
A33 029 great benefit from local incorporation, which would be
A33 030 continued.
A33 031    |^The involvement of the local board was one of the reasons
A33 032 that the bank had fared so well.
A33 033    |^The takeover would mean the parent would be able to draw
A33 034 on the full capital resources of the bank.  ^The position of
A33 035 New Zealand as a subsidiary was not helpful.  ^The pressure to
A33 036 change came from the emergence of strong local and new large
A33 037 integrated banks, and the deregulation of financial markets.
A33 038    |^To help expansion *- and the bank was looking at further
A33 039 diversification in New Zealand *- a wholly-owned subsidiary was
A33 040 more appropriate operating on an integrated rather than a
A33 041 geographic basis, \0Mr Bailey said.
A33 042    |^Shareholders in {0ANZ} ({0NZ}) are being offered an
A33 043 outright cash payment of *+${0NZ}3.75 a share, or, seven {0ANZ}
A33 044 Group shares for every 10 {0ANZ} ({0NZ}) shares.  ^Accepting
A33 045 shareholders would receive {0ANZ} Group shares with a value (as
A33 046 at August 1 1986)of *+$3.80 per {0ANZ} ({0NZ}) share.
A33 047    |^The shares will rank equally in all respects with the
A33 048 existing ordinary *+$\0A1.00 shares of {0ANZ} Group, including
A33 049 the right to participate in the final dividend for the year
A33 050 ending September 30, 1986.  ^This is expected to be paid in
A33 051 January 1987.
A33 052    |^*"In the absence of unforeseen circumstances, directors
A33 053 expect to maintain the existing dividend rate on the increased
A33 054 capital,**" a statement said.
A33 055    |^This said that shareholders who accept the share exchange
A33 056 alternative will receive substantial benefits on current
A33 057 exchange rates in that their dividend income will increase by
A33 058 97 per cent, and the underlying earnings on their investment
A33 059 will increase by 78 per cent (based upon earnings in the six
A33 060 months to March 3, 1986).
A33 061    |^The offer will remain open to September 26.
A33 062    |^Asked if the sale would strengthen the {0ANZ} Bank's
A33 063 balance sheet and was necessary because of adverse problems
A33 064 following the recent takeover of Grindlays Bank, \0Mr Bailey
A33 065 denied this and said Grindlays was performing very well apart
A33 066 from two divisions where more management skills were needed.
A33 067    |^Asked how he felt that the sale would appear to New
A33 068 Zealanders who for six years had been told of the advantages of
A33 069 having shares in the local subsidiary, \0Mr Bailey said:
A33 070 ^*"That is a minus factor.**"
A33 071    |^He said it would be valuable if *"somehow**" dividends
A33 072 could be created that were paid on a weighted basis,
A33 073 representing the percentage of shareholdings of the holders in
A33 074 different countries.  ^It might also be possible that one day
A33 075 there would be a dual currency under the closer economic
A33 076 relations scheme.
A33 077    |^The bank hopes that most shareholders will take shares
A33 078 instead of the cash offer.  ^If this happened about 10 per cent
A33 079 of the group's shareholders would be New Zealanders.
A33 080    |^\0Mr Bailey said he believed the Australian dollar was
A33 081 undervalued.  ^This made it, in his view, a better deal for
A33 082 local shareholders to benefit from any rise in that currency.
A33 083    |^At present prices the Australian shares are yielding
A33 084 around 7 per cent, at a price of around *+$4.60, and the New
A33 085 Zealand shares 4.5 per cent at current prices, a spokesman
A33 086 said.
A33 087 *<*4Mayfair plans *+$3.3\0m capital expansion*>
A33 088 |^*2MAYFAIR *0Corporation plans to expand its issued capital by
A33 089 almost *+$3.3 million before listing on the Stock Exchange
A33 090 later this year.
A33 091    |^The Auckland property investment company will seek
A33 092 approval for the expansion at its annual meeting this week.
A33 093 ^The meeting will also be told the proposed listing date.
A33 094    |^Mayfair, which is an unlisted public company formerly
A33 095 known as Macro Holdings, is to make a one-for-20 bonus issue in
A33 096 lieu of a cash dividend in respect of the March 31, 1986, year
A33 097 and will then make a renounceable cash issue at 130\0c a share.
A33 098    |^It will also place 800,000 shares with institutional and
A33 099 private investors, subject to shareholder approval.
A33 100    |^The total capital expansion will lift the company's issued
A33 101 capital from 4.25 million *+$1 shares to 7.5 million *+$1 shares.
A33 102    |^It is intended the number of shareholders will grow as a
A33 103 result of the issue and placement from its present 346
A33 104 shareholders.
A33 105    |^Twelve months ago there were only 135 shareholders, but
A33 106 Auckland brokers Whiteman and \0Co have conducted an unofficial
A33 107 market in the shares which sees them presently trading at
A33 108 230\0c.  ^This has helped the shareholding base grow.
A33 109 *<*4Profit*>
A33 110    |^*0Mayfair's annual report shows the company made a
A33 111 *+$1,077,791 profit from operations from turnover of *+$7.95
A33 112 million.  ^In addition, annual revaluations added
A33 113 *+$976,966.
A33 114    |^Total assets at the March 31 balance date were *+$26.03
A33 115 million, *+$13.4 million of which was land and buildings at market
A33 116 valuation.
A33 117    |^Shareholders' funds were *+$8.2 million (31 per cent) and
A33 118 term liabilities *+$6.7 million.
A33 119    |^Mayfair has embarked on new property projects in Auckland,
A33 120 Hamilton and Rotorua as well as making a first step into
A33 121 Wellington with a major 16-storey office building in Boulcott
A33 122 Street *"on the drawing board**", chairman Robert Narev says.
A33 123    |^Developments in progress are taken into the accounts at
A33 124 *+$8.05 million.
A33 125    |^The report does not contain a breakdown of the major
A33 126 shareholders but directors do control 27 per cent of the
A33 127 shares.
A33 128    |^Executive directors Gerald Williams and Len Johnson own 16
A33 129 and 6 per cent respectively.
A33 130 *<*4Flower market opens*>
A33 131 |^*2SIR *0Robert Muldoon yesterday opened FloraPacific's new
A33 132 whole-sale flower market in Auckland.
A33 133    |^Until now, FloraPacific had only exported cut flowers.
A33 134 ^Chairman Tom Dresner said export sales were almost *+$5
A33 135 million last year, but the group's turnover was projected at
A33 136 around *+$15 million in the next 12 months.
A33 137    |^FloraPacific, a public co-operative company, issued a
A33 138 prospectus for *+$387,450 capital in June to expand existing
A33 139 operations.
A33 140    |^The new flower market, employing 16 staff, will
A33 141 incorporate FloraPacific's three divisions.  ^Flowers and
A33 142 foliage will be sold both at auction and fixed prices.
A33 143 *<*4Nelson independent plans in-pub brews*>
A33 144 |^*2NELSON *0independent brewery Roc Mac \0Ltd has formed a
A33 145 subsidiary to build and market small in-pub breweries.
A33 146    |^The new company, Micro-Brew Consultants \0Ltd, has nearly
A33 147 completed construction of the first complete unit.
A33 148    |^Depending on the amount of beer required each week, the
A33 149 small breweries are to cost between *+$140,000 and *+$200,000.
A33 150    |^Each batch is 1200 litres and up to 10 brews a week can be
A33 151 made.
A33 152    |^The units, made in Nelson of stainless steel and to be
A33 153 finished in fibreglass and wood, are designed so they can be
A33 154 installed in a bar in full view of customers.
A33 155    |^Owners will be able to produce their own distinctive brew.
A33 156    |^*"They are designed to produce naturally fermented and
A33 157 conditioned ale with no chemicals or sugar added,**" general
A33 158 manager Brian Moriarty said.
A33 159    |^There were already more than 80 in-house breweries in the
A33 160 United Kingdom and enormous interest was being shown in the
A33 161 United States, Europe and Australia, he said.
A33 162    |^Micro Brew was set up to try to lead the introduction of
A33 163 the breweries into New Zealand.  ^Overseas firms had begun
A33 164 trying to sell their product here.
A33 165    |^The Nelson company has yet to sell an in-house brewery,
A33 166 but has had inquiries from around New Zealand, the Pacific and
A33 167 Australia.
A33 168    |^\0Mr Moriarty said that with the increasing number of
A33 169 independent hotels, prospects for the business were *"quite
A33 170 exciting**".
A33 171    |^He envisaged that 15 to 20 New Zealand hotels might
A33 172 install their own brewery within five years and there was
A33 173 nothing to stop someone setting up a brewery in a warehouse and
A33 174 marketing from there.  ^Organisations such as large clubs could
A33 175 brew their own brand.
A33 176  *- {0NZPA}
A33 177 *<*4Mineral Resources still confident of Martha Hill licence*>
A33 178 |^*2MINERAL *0Resources \0Ltd directors are still expecting a
A33 179 mining licence for the Martha Hill prospect to be granted early
A33 180 next year.
A33 181    |^They say in the quarterly report to June that a water
A33 182 rights hearing will be held this month and a date will then be
A33 183 set by the Planning Tribunal for hearing a mining licence
A33 184 application.
A33 185    |^Work on the final feasibility study will be completed
A33 186 early in the fourth quarter of this year.  ^Particular emphasis
A33 187 is being placed on minimising projected capital costs, they
A33 188 said.
A33 189    |^Trenching and shallow drilling is being done to provide
A33 190 assay data so ore grades can be maximised during the first
A33 191 years of drilling.
A33 192    |^At Union Hall another six holes had been drilled, bringing
A33 193 the total to 23.
A33 194    |^Another six holes were drilled by {0BP} Oil {0NZ} at the
A33 195 Te Puke gold prospect, as well as further channel sampling,
A33 196 geological mapping and a magnetic survey.  ^While no economic
A33 197 mineralisation was located, the results were encouraging, the
A33 198 directors said.
A33 199    |^A mining licence application has been submitted for the
A33 200 Awatuna alluvial gold prospect in the South Island where bulk
A33 201 sampling of trenches defined reserve of 455,000 cubic metres
A33 202 with an average grade of 197 milligrams of gold a cubic metre.
A33 203    |^Mining licence applications have also been made for Houhou
A33 204 Creek (reserves of 3.04 million cubic metres with an average
A33 205 grade of 220\0mg of gold) and Nelson Creek (reserves of 1.6
A33 206 million cubic metres grading 215\0mg of gold, plus further
A33 207 inferred reserves).
A33 208    |^Prospecting licence applications have been lodged over
A33 209 large areas of alluvial ground in Bell Hill and Mossy Creek.
A33 210 ^Churn drilling has started at Matai Terrace to test dredgeable
A33 211 material which reported high grades in the 1930s.
A33 212    |^The Planning Tribunal had recommended an exploration
A33 213 licence be granted for Warawara, north of Hokianga, while work
A33 214 continued testing epithermal gold prospects at Kauaeranga
A33 215 Valley and Waihi Beach.
A33 216    |^Agreement had been reached with {0CRA} Exploration \0Pty
A33 217 regarding two large prospecting licences and a prospecting
A33 218 licence application near Lake Stanley in northwest Stanley.
A33 219    |^{0CRA} may earn a 75 per cent interest by spending
A33 220 *+$750,000, after which Mineral Resources can elect to either
A33 221 contribute its share of further exploration funds or reduce to
A33 222 10 per cent with {0CRA} providing deferred funding to meet
A33 223 Mineral Resources obligations up to the stage of a decision to
A33 224 mine.
A33 225    |^Prospecting and evaluating continues at the Fiji joint
A33 226 venture with encouraging results from Tau and Rakiraki.
A33 227 ^Mineral Resources has a 53 per cent interest in the project.
A33 228    |^The quarterly funds statement shows *+$624,637 was spent
A33 229 *- 309,516 on exploration, *+$115,121 on administration and
A33 230 *+$200,000 on an investment.
A33 231    |^The options issue raised *+$819,554, with investment
A33 232 income contributing *+$37,912 and the sale of fixed assets
A33 233 raising another *+$46,317.
A33 234    |^The company started with liquid funds of *+$559,243 and
A33 235 ended the quarter with *+$878.389.
A33 236    |^It has 26,132,965 20\0c shares on issue, 2.5 million
A33 237 unquoted options exercisable at *+$1 in June 1987 and
A33 238 16,391,038 quoted options exercisable at 60\0c in March 1988.
A33 239 *<*4Long-term rates steady*>
A33 240 |^*2LONG-TERM *0interest rates on the money market were
A33 241 virtually unchanged yesterday.
A33 242    |^Secondary market rates are currently averaging 0.3 per
A33 243 cent above the last tender four weeks ago, reflecting doubts
A33 244 that there will be much overseas bidding at this week's tender.
A33 245    |^Dealers said the Budget had been largely neutral for the
A33 246 long-term bond market but overseas investors were confused by
A33 247 last week's hectic money trading in Australia and were out of
A33 248 the market.
A33 249    |^The tender will offer a total of *+$500 million spread
A33 250 over three maturities *- three years, five years and 10 years.
A33 251    |^Yesterday's market quotes were three years 17 per cent
A33 252 (unchanged from Friday), five years 16.95 percent (Friday 16.9
A33 253 per cent) and 10 years 16.2 per cent (unchanged).
A33 254    |^Prime 90-day commercial bills were unchanged at 16.15 per
A33 255 cent.  ^Dealers said there was solid post-Budget bidding on
A33 256 Friday when the rate dropped from Thursday's 16.6 per cent, but
A33 257 the market was quieter yesterday.
A33 258    |^On-call money eased to 13.9 per cent (Friday 14.3 per
A33 259 cent).  ^The Reserve Bank injected *+$20 million into the
A33 260 market by way of sellback deals secured by nine-day securities
A33 261 at 15.31 per cent.
A33 262    |^This week's treasury bill tender will be a small one *-
A33 263 just *+$30 million and all 14-day bills.
A33 264    |^This is well down on last week's *+$100 million tender but
A33 265 in line with a recent Reserve Bank statement that most tenders
A33 266 this month would be small.
A33 267    |^The tender will be held today.  ^Bill tenders are held
A33 268 most weeks and are the fine tuning on the monthly stock
A33 269 tenders.
A33 270  *- {0NZPA}
A33 271 *#
A34 001 **[034 TEXT A34**]
A34 002 *<*6ECONOMY*> *<BRIAN EASTON*>
A34 003 *<*4Some more equal than others*>
A34 004 |^*6T*2HE INCOMING *0Labour Government inherited an
A34 005 extraordinary array of government *"assistance**" to industry.
A34 006 ^Very often, however, assistance to one industry is to the
A34 007 detriment of another.
A34 008    |^A good example of this was observed by Des O'Dea when he
A34 009 recently investigated the withdrawal of import licensing on
A34 010 strong beers in 1980 (see {0NZIER} Research Paper \0No 31).
A34 011 ^Australian canned beer flooded into the market, and for a
A34 012 while New Zealand producers felt themselves under severe
A34 013 threat.
A34 014    |^One of the reasons for the Australian success was that
A34 015 their beer was cheaper.  ^O'Dea found that a major cause of
A34 016 this was that New Zealand brewers had to pay more for their
A34 017 cans than the Australians, and because of protection ({0ie},
A34 018 assistance) to the canning industry the local beer producers
A34 019 could not get the cheaper Australian can.  ^The Australians
A34 020 were in effect smuggling in their cheap cans, wrapped around
A34 021 beer.  ^The assistance given to one industry *- canning *-
A34 022 undermined another *- brewing.
A34 023    |^The Labour Government understood this interdependence in
A34 024 an economy and concluded, I think rightly, that the existing
A34 025 assistance measures were not as effective as they appeared.
A34 026 ^Accordingly, it has been dramatically withdrawing assistance.
A34 027 ^This withdrawal can be rather painful, so the principle of
A34 028 *"equal pain**" was adopted.  ^In particular it was intended
A34 029 that assistance would be withdrawn from agriculture and
A34 030 manufacturing at roughly the same rate.
A34 031    |^Because of interdependence, the assistance to
A34 032 manufacturing through tariffs and import licensing was to the
A34 033 detriment of agriculture.  ^Just as the brewers faced a cost
A34 034 excess from the protection to the cans they had to use, farmers
A34 035 faced a cost excess from having to purchase local manufactures.
A34 036 ^As assistance was withdrawn from manufacturers, the farmers
A34 037 would benefit from lower cost excess.
A34 038    |^Thus the level of the cost excesses the farmers faced
A34 039 became an important component in devising the *"equal pain**"
A34 040 strategy.  ^The casual reader of the Syntec report on
A34 041 protection (see this column, February 1, 1986) might conclude
A34 042 that those excesses are as high as 30 percent, representing an
A34 043 additional cost of around *+$40,000 per farm.  ^The implication
A34 044 is that the dramatic (but phased) reductions in protection of
A34 045 manufacturing which started with {0CER} and were speeded up by
A34 046 the Labour Government would be of immense value to farmers.
A34 047 ^Accordingly, the farm sector conceded major reductions in its
A34 048 assistance, with the expectation of benefit from the reductions
A34 049 in manufacturing assistance.
A34 050    |^These benefits have not appeared, nor are they likely to,
A34 051 for the simple reason that the Syntec report numbers are not
A34 052 correct.  ^Despite the *+$100,000 cost of the report the Syntec
A34 053 team did not *1measure *0the cost excesses.  ^It merely
A34 054 *1assumed *0them.  ^Somehow or other these assumptions got
A34 055 treated as though they were serious statistical estimates, and
A34 056 were incorporated in the policy-makers' thinking.
A34 057    |^We now have a serious statistical estimate of the farm
A34 058 excess-cost estimate.  ^It comes from the Research Project on
A34 059 Planning, which has a *"general equilibrium model**" of the New
A34 060 Zealand economy that includes the interdependencies between
A34 061 agriculture and manufacturing and the rest of the economy.
A34 062    |^It is therefore able to answer the question: what would
A34 063 happen if border protection was removed, and sectors, wage
A34 064 rates, the exchange rate and so on were to adjust?  ^From this
A34 065 the model estimates that the cost excess on farm inputs is only
A34 066 3.6 percent, much lower than the Syntec assumptions.
A34 067    |^The conclusion is that while protection on manufacturing
A34 068 raises farm costs, the increase is small.  ^Conversely,
A34 069 reductions in manufacturing protection will give only small
A34 070 benefits to farmers.  ^With hindsight the result is not
A34 071 surprising.  ^Over the years farmers have successfully lobbied
A34 072 against the worst protection in terms of their cost excesses.
A34 073 ^What remains does not affect them unduly.
A34 074    |^Thus the *"equal pain**" policies were founded on faulty
A34 075 advice deriving from research.  ^It is not the failure of
A34 076 research economists; they were barely consulted.  ^Rather it
A34 077 was the failure to carry out the research and then for the 
A34 078 non-research economists to treat vague assumptions as gospel.
A34 079 ^This is not the only recent occasion of such policy failure.
A34 080 *<*4Matinee mania*>
A34 081 |^*6THE *4New Zealand sharemarket is carrying on like a 
A34 082 long-running West End blockbuster, with no signs of any fall in
A34 083 patronage yet in sight.
A34 084    |^*0Nor are the star players showing any signs of 
A34 085 over-exposure or becoming bored with their roles, while good quality
A34 086 tickets close to the action continue to be scalped at 
A34 087 ever-increasing levels.
A34 088    |^It seems the market trend is now firmly cemented in place,
A34 089 and for investors the only possible mentality is to embrace it
A34 090 thoroughly.
A34 091    |^The reality is that good quality scrip is in tight supply,
A34 092 and those who want some of the action are simply having to pay
A34 093 the price.
A34 094    |^As the balance sheets and results have become available,
A34 095 share values figures have generally been underpinned, despite
A34 096 noises from the Accountants Society.
A34 097    |^Stocks such as Rainbow are finding more support from
A34 098 within institutional camps and, like smaller investors, the big
A34 099 boys are having to pay the going rates to be part of the show.
A34 100    |^In many respects, smaller investors have played a 
A34 101 path-finding role in the continuing bull market by buying on
A34 102 reputations rather than balance sheet figures, now the results
A34 103 are coming through.  ^What were high-flyers are becoming
A34 104 professionally re-rated and the target for some big buys.
A34 105    |^The end result is that stocks with any pedigree are not
A34 106 only sitting at high price levels, but are sitting on solid
A34 107 bases of support.  ^Such support means that the risk of any
A34 108 significant price falls is limited.
A34 109    |^But even with this support, there is no doubt that on
A34 110 occasions the hype can get out of control.
A34 111    |^The enthusiastic bidding that pushed \0Robt. Jones shares
A34 112 up to *+$9.50 on the company's bonus and profit package
A34 113 probably surprised even the company's champion, Bob Jones.
A34 114    |^That jump was probably enough to make Bob believe in bonus
A34 115 issues, despite his tirade against them earlier this year.
A34 116    |^We predicted at that time that Bob wouldn't last long
A34 117 without bonus issues in his goodies bag, and we were right *-
A34 118 even sooner than we expected.
A34 119    |^Bob surprised the market not only with his change of heart
A34 120 but with the additional scope of his shareholder rewards.
A34 121    |^Unlike many of their counterparts of earlier times, the
A34 122 present high-flying corporate idols, like their matinee
A34 123 counterparts, take the issue of rewarding their fans seriously.
A34 124    |^Soft cash issues, bonus issues, share splits and
A34 125 preferential entitlements to new floats are now a regular part
A34 126 of the game, not the oddities they once were.
A34 127    |^The irony is that the moves often take more cash out of
A34 128 shareholders' pockets than they put back, but that doesn't
A34 129 matter when it is all translated back into an even higher
A34 130 shareprice.
A34 131    |^No longer are shareholders a bunch of people who needed to
A34 132 be given morning tea and a bit of history once a year at an
A34 133 annual meeting.  ^Now a loyal shareholder base is looked upon
A34 134 as an asset to be treasured more greatly than a friendly bank
A34 135 manager, and that's got to be a real improvement.
A34 136    |^There is the argument that it's getting out of hand as
A34 137 spin-off companies permit an even greater gearing up of the
A34 138 investment funds that are the essence of the high flyers.
A34 139    |^As these funds become greater, so too do the sorts of
A34 140 targets that they can be spent on, and the renewed talk about a
A34 141 New Zealand Forest Products bid now has an added credence
A34 142 because that company's size no longer makes it safe.
A34 143    |^A cash bid on that scale would certainly see the market
A34 144 break into another gallop, as would a resolution of the
A34 145 Equiticorp camp's position in {0BHP} and {0ACI}, which the
A34 146 rumour mill increasingly says has now been achieved.
A34 147 *<*4We're switching*>
A34 148 |^*6WITH *4the market locked into its one-way mega trend, it's
A34 149 time to do a bit more switching.
A34 150    |^This week we will take a quick turn on {0IFC} and back out
A34 151 of our Brierley Tag-Link units, on the basis that the market
A34 152 has yet to appreciate the virtues of each.
A34 153    |^Instead, we will run with the bulls and spend the cash on
A34 154 Equiticorp shares, but as a trade, not a long-term core
A34 155 position.
A34 156    |^Equiticorp shares have been consolidating well after an
A34 157 earlier session down in the doldrums.  ^We will look to divest
A34 158 part of our total Equiticorp holding around the *+$5.80 level.
A34 159    |^The other investment group currently in the process of
A34 160 being re-rated by the market is Kupe, and it may have further
A34 161 ground to make despite a fairly solid performance over the past
A34 162 few weeks.
A34 163 *<*4Lucky for some*>
A34 164 |^*6DO *4as we say, not as we do seems to be the message from
A34 165 the Rainbow Corporation's boardroom, and some of the company's
A34 166 shareholders are not amused.
A34 167    |^*0While friends and associates of the company more than
A34 168 doubled their money this week with the listing of Questar
A34 169 shares at a sensational *+$3.80, Rainbow shareholders are
A34 170 wondering why they were left out of the float to buy on the
A34 171 market.
A34 172    |^Questar has taken over Rainbow's leisure activities and
A34 173 merged them with the {0DFC} and Rosemary Tarlton Leisure
A34 174 Activities, the end result being a company 51 per cent owned by
A34 175 Rainbow Corporation.
A34 176    |^Of the company's issued capital of 25 million shares, some
A34 177 three million were earmarked for general distribution among
A34 178 friends and associates.
A34 179    |^The lucky selected few put up *+$1.50 a share and have
A34 180 been able to watch the market place a value on them of *+$3
A34 181 plus, just two weeks later.
A34 182    |^The facts of the matter were that there just weren't
A34 183 enough shares for a significant entitlement to be given to all
A34 184 Rainbow's shareholders.
A34 185    |^But what must gall with those shareholders feeling
A34 186 neglected is the sight of Rainbow's lawyers carrying the flag
A34 187 for the ordinary shareholders of another company, Rothmans, who
A34 188 it maintains are being short-changed with the planned sale of
A34 189 the company's cigarette interests to Rothmans Australia at a
A34 190 price lower than that offered by Rainbow itself.
A34 191    |^Rainbow's depth of concern for its fellow ordinary
A34 192 shareholders in Rothmans is welcome, but many are thinking a
A34 193 little charity closer to home would have been even more
A34 194 welcome.
A34 195    |^Questar shares issue price was pitched using a price
A34 196 earnings ratio of 10.6, which, as it turns out, is around half
A34 197 the ranking the market has put on them.  ^The market {0PE} of
A34 198 about 22 for Questar compares with market's average of about
A34 199 15, so the issue price was a bargain.
A34 200    |^Scarcity is one factor that has seen the price rocket.
A34 201 Another would have to be the charismatic rub-off from the
A34 202 Rainbow connection.
A34 203    |^Rainbow's shareholders have done extremely well over the
A34 204 last year, and they have the consolation prize of a 51 per cent
A34 205 take in Questar, which they hold collectively.  ^However, the
A34 206 question remains, does that match the laurels won by friends
A34 207 and associates?
A34 208    |^In the meantime, Questar shares look like capable **[SIC**]
A34 209 of holding their present price levels once the profit-taking
A34 210 settles down, given that they are having a good run in the tip
A34 211 sheets.
A34 212    |^Elsewhere the market remains firm with the lack of 
A34 213 pre-Budget jitters quite surprising.
A34 214    |^The Budget is now less than two weeks away, and some tough
A34 215 deficit crunching decisions are expected to be unveiled.
A34 216    |^Roger Douglas appears to have clearly done away with the
A34 217 traditional pre-election rev job that New Zealanders had grown
A34 218 to love and know so well.
A34 219    |^The economy may be heading for a softer landing than many
A34 220 expected and homeowners are starting to experience the other
A34 221 side of market economics, now that interest rates have come
A34 222 back.
A34 223    |^All of a sudden 17 per cent and 18 per cent looks too
A34 224 cheap to refuse and the banks are falling all over themselves
A34 225 to buy market share with mortgage rates at that level.
A34 226    |^The only dark cloud is the possibility of a capital gains
A34 227 tax, but with {0GST} on their plates it's doubtful that the
A34 228 {0IRD} could cope.  ^Such a tax wouldn't knock the market,
A34 229 given that it would tend to lock shareholders in, and a lack of
A34 230 sellers is as good a way as any of keeping prices high.
A34 231    |^Now is the season for annual meetings with the tone so far
A34 232 pretty predictable.  ^Manufacturers are lamenting, but taking
A34 233 stronger action, property and investment chiefs are making
A34 234 glowing promises and providing no detail.
A34 235    |^Still, the champagne has been ordered for the Chase and
A34 236 Equiticorp meetings, so look out for some fired-up private
A34 237 investors in the next three weeks.
A34 238 *#
A35 001 **[035 TEXT A35**]
A35 002    |^Five minute cigarette breaks, shouts of excruciating pain,
A35 003 perspiration dripping from their foreheads, Walkman radios
A35 004 blaring, occasional yawns.
A35 005    |^*0It was not the glamorous world of ballet audiences
A35 006 usually see from their national ballet company.  ^But it was
A35 007 not supposed to be.
A35 008    |^For many of the 1000 people who popped in during the day,
A35 009 it was their first glimpse of the real ballet world; the pain,
A35 010 the sweat, the sheer hard work and long hours that is the
A35 011 gruelling life of every professional dancer.
A35 012    |^There are no morning and afternoon tea breaks here, no
A35 013 leisurely chats with fellow dancers and no rushing home early.
A35 014 ^Most would be lucky to see the outside world and fresh air for
A35 015 half-an-hour a day.  ^Most don't.
A35 016    |^*"Ya de dum, ya de dum,**" muttered a short, thick-set man
A35 017 in white tracksuit pants and a blue T-shirt.  ^His rich 
A35 018 upper-class English accent echoed through the centre.
A35 019    |^Silently the dancers marked his steps, observing closely.
A35 020 ^Nobody wants to make fools of themselves and get it wrong.
A35 021 ^Not when there is an audience, anyway.
A35 022    |^*"Heels forward, releve passe, pirouette, then finish in
A35 023 attitude,**" says the man, the company's artistic director,
A35 024 Harry Haythorne, who took the dancers for their first class of
A35 025 the day.
A35 026    |^*"Now ladies, it's not just a turn out, so lift those
A35 027 legs,**" says Harry, demonstrating the height of the lift.
A35 028    |^Someone yawns.  ^Another sits on the floor shaking her
A35 029 legs, which are still tight.  ^She must work harder and push
A35 030 herself if she is to tackle the strenuous working sessions that
A35 031 lie ahead.
A35 032    |^The centre doors had only been open half an hour but the
A35 033 auditorium was already full.  ^There were grandmothers, 
A35 034 bald-headed men, a party of school children, students, shoppers and
A35 035 budding ballet dancers who never made it to the top.
A35 036    |^One was 23-year-old Rosita Wong, a secretarial student who
A35 037 always wanted to be a ballerina but her father never allowed
A35 038 her to dance.
A35 039    |^*"But it's just as well,**" explained Rosita, who was
A35 040 wearing a Swan Lake T-shirt and working on a ballet tapestry.
A35 041    |^*"I've had so many operations on my feet, I could never
A35 042 have coped.**" ^After a while, she hurriedly packed up her
A35 043 belongings and left, perhaps pondering what could have been.
A35 044    |^The dancers worked tirelessly on.  ^There are no made-up
A35 045 faces, elegant head-dresses or tutus today; it's just plain
A35 046 working clothes.
A35 047    |^Some are in old black shorts, torn at the ends, others
A35 048 wear long white T-shirts with Chinese inscriptions on the back,
A35 049 mementoes of their China tour.
A35 050    |^One dancer pirouettes around the stage in a black leotard
A35 051 and chiffon skirt.
A35 052    |^One male dancer in a tight-fitting glittering purple
A35 053 unitard receives curious glares from the audience.
A35 054    |^After 16 changements Harry dismisses the class.  ^For some
A35 055 it's time for a quick smoke backstage.  ^Others rush off to
A35 056 retrieve a glass of water.
A35 057    |^Five minutes later it's back on stage for the first
A35 058 rehearsal of the day, *1Portraits of Desire.
A35 059    |^*0*"Right you guys, we'll get straight on with it,**"
A35 060 instructed choreographer Chris Jannides, whose long ginger hair
A35 061 was tied in a pony tail.
A35 062    |^It's a modern work which has the dancers leaping,
A35 063 stretching and bending in a variety of sequences.  ^A spritely
A35 064 **[SIC**] figure soft-foots her body across the stage with
A35 065 enviable ease.  ^But few would envy the ribs protruding from
A35 066 her chest.
A35 067    |^There are high-pitched screams from another who is hoisted
A35 068 into the air.  ^For a frightful moment, she was sure her
A35 069 partner had lost his grip and that she would come tumbling to
A35 070 the floor.  ^Thankfully, the strong, masculine body lowered her
A35 071 safely to her feet.
A35 072    |^The clicking of high heels and loud music blaring from a
A35 073 Walkman radio broke the silence as a ballerina in a bright
A35 074 green jump-suit made her way down the stairs out of the
A35 075 auditorium door.  ^Another in a white suit and lace pantyhose
A35 076 followed.
A35 077    |^The audience watched as they made their way to friends and
A35 078 spoke to them *- ballerinas are ordinary people.
A35 079    |^At 11.45{0am} when most of the audience were popping out
A35 080 for lunch, the dancers were preparing for their next rehearsal
A35 081 of *1An Evening to Remember, *0a light-hearted fun work which
A35 082 the dancers obviously enjoyed.
A35 083    |^There were plenty of giggles and much laughter as dancers
A35 084 seemingly lost their partners or got the wrong ones.  ^It was
A35 085 more like a ballroom than stage as the men whisked their
A35 086 partners into natural spins.  ^It looked a lot of fun.
A35 087    |^*"Sonya, where are you?**" asked choreographer Paul
A35 088 Jenden, as he glanced across the stage, searching for her.
A35 089    |^*"I'm over here, trying to teach Lee.**"
A35 090    |^As there are always two casts for every ballet, it is
A35 091 essential everyone knows all the steps.  ^Lee, it appeared, was
A35 092 having some difficulty mastering this one and even popped
A35 093 backstage to retrieve a pencil and notebook.  ^Perhaps jotting
A35 094 the steps down will help.
A35 095    |^Dancing requires a quick, alert mind.
A35 096    |^I felt nothing but admiration for the dancers who always
A35 097 seem to remember each step and never get one dance mixed up
A35 098 with another.
A35 099    |^*"It's different, certainly not what I expected,**" one
A35 100 elderly woman among the audience, a former ballet teacher, told
A35 101 me.
A35 102    |^*"Ah, that's more like it,**" she exclaimed, watching the
A35 103 company's rehearsal of *1Bliss, *0a portrayal of the Katherine
A35 104 Mansfield story of the same name.
A35 105    |^It was the company's first *1Bliss *0rehearsal with the
A35 106 orchestra and there was constant conferring with choreographer
A35 107 Patricia Rianne, a former ballerina, and the conductor.
A35 108    |^*"Too, fast, too fast,**" yelled Patricia.  ^The conductor
A35 109 obliged and slowed his orchestra down to a more workable pace
A35 110 for the dancers.
A35 111    |^Although it was a modern work, it did contain some
A35 112 classical ballet, certainly more than most of us had seen since
A35 113 the morning's first class.
A35 114    |^Indeed the ballet company is moving with the times and
A35 115 venturing into more modern and contemporary works.  ^Like any
A35 116 professional body, it feels obliged to keep up with modern
A35 117 tastes, but for older audiences, brought up on a diet of plies
A35 118 and fouette rond de jambe en tournants it was a sad reality
A35 119 that classical works are taking a backward step.
A35 120    |^*"That man in grey, he's so supple!  ^He's the best of the
A35 121 lot, I'd say,**" commented one man in the audience.
A35 122    |^*"Well he should be, he is the ballet master, Peter
A35 123 Boyes,**" replied his wife, as she observed Peter take
A35 124 principal dancer Helen Booth and senior soloist Stephen
A35 125 Nicholls through their paces in another modern work,
A35 126 *1TraNZsformations.
A35 127    |^*0*"Help, help, that's not right!**" yelled Helen when
A35 128 Stephen lifted her effortlessly into the air.  ^It might have
A35 129 looked effortless but for Helen it was obviously painful as she
A35 130 soothingly rubbed her side.
A35 131    |^Peter is not happy either.  ^It's got to feel right.  ^He
A35 132 changes the position of the lift and everyone seems happier.
A35 133 ^Now it just needs to be polished and perfected.
A35 134    |^For Helen, it has been a long day.  ^Slim, fit and
A35 135 extremely supple, she has been on stage nearly seven hours and
A35 136 there have been few breaks.  ^In the few minutes off, she
A35 137 smokes socially, she enjoys drinking beer.
A35 138    |^At 4.30{0pm} Harry announced it was time for the audience
A35 139 to leave even though rehearsals were to continue.
A35 140    |^But many seemed reluctant to do so and Harry was forced to
A35 141 usher them out.
A35 142    |^Behind them the dancers worked on.  ^Perspiration dripped
A35 143 from their foreheads, most were tired, some yawned.
A35 144    |^But the work of a ballerina is never done.
A35 145 *<*6WE ARE SO DULL*>
A35 146 |^*4Most foreign opinion about New Zealand falls into three
A35 147 categories: the uninformed (^Do they speak English there?); the
A35 148 misinformed (^What do the kangaroos eat?); and the
A35 149 underinformed (^*"We saw it all *- hot mud, the glacier, big
A35 150 trees and 67.8 million sheep.**").  ^But what do foreigners
A35 151 with broader experience of New Zealand life think of us and our
A35 152 country?  ^In an attempt to find out, the *5New Zealand Herald
A35 153 *4sent questionnaires to the diplomatic missions of 34
A35 154 countries, seeking the unofficial views of resident foreign
A35 155 staff.  ^Seventeen missions obliged and *6STEVEN CRANDELL
A35 156 *4reports on the result.
A35 157 |^*6C*2ONJURE *0up a country.  ^In areas as diverse as the
A35 158 arts, fashion, night life and driving skills, this place is
A35 159 definitely sub-par. ^The conservative inhabitants eat plain
A35 160 food, drink too much and are rather ordinary in appearance.
A35 161 ^Their favourite films, television shows and music come from
A35 162 other lands *- a fact which shows just how easily the populace
A35 163 can be swayed by foreign trends.  ^All in all, life here is
A35 164 uneventful *- to some, painfully dull.
A35 165    |^Now imagine a physical paradise, a sanctuary from war and
A35 166 pollution, a place where a high standard of living and
A35 167 excellent job opportunities exist near idyllic natural
A35 168 settings.  ^This land's individualistic inhabitants exude
A35 169 friendliness.  ^Life is invigorating *- outdoor activities
A35 170 abound.  ^In short: people have a healthy, easy-going lifestyle
A35 171 *- as good for raising children as it is for raising livestock.
A35 172    |^Now look around you.  ^Both these worlds are New Zealand
A35 173 *- as foreign diplomats see it.
A35 174    |^Diplomats, not surprisingly, tend to act and speak
A35 175 diplomatically.  ^They like to think of themselves as statesmen
A35 176 rather than politicians and so only very warily give their
A35 177 personal opinions to the press.
A35 178    |^Only a small portion of the world's nations have posted
A35 179 diplomatic staff in New Zealand.  ^So, in order to obtain a
A35 180 full and forthright response, the survey assured these New
A35 181 Zealand-based diplomats that their opinions would not be linked
A35 182 with their countries.  ^As a result the following unfettered
A35 183 and unofficial views are classed only by continent or region.
A35 184    |^(Despite two entreaties, neither the Canadian nor the
A35 185 United States missions deigned to fill out the survey.  ^Hence,
A35 186 North American opinion is unrepresented here.)
A35 187    |^The survey contains two sections.  ^One required the
A35 188 diplomats to rate New Zealand and New Zealanders on a number
A35 189 scale (see box).  ^The second consisted of short answer
A35 190 questions.  ^The replies to these questions, grouped by region,
A35 191 are as follows:
A35 192    |*11) ^New Zealand has often been described as a paradise
A35 193 because of its natural attributes.  ^Taking in the whole of the
A35 194 New Zealand experience (city life as well as country, mores and
A35 195 manners as well as glaciers), would you rate New Zealand as
A35 196 paradise, purgatory or hell, and why?
A35 197    |^*0Paradise is the choice of the majority of the diplomats.
A35 198 ^Despite one comment that New Zealand is a *"hopelessly
A35 199 underpopulated country**" which needs to double its inhabitants
A35 200 to be economically efficient, New Zealand is generally seen as
A35 201 a beautiful, healthy, peaceful place.
A35 202    |*4Europe: ^*0New Zealand has paradise-like natural
A35 203 surroundings.  ^Other than that, there is little agreement
A35 204 among the diplomats.  ^One ambassador writes: ^*"I do not find
A35 205 life in this beautiful country very exciting.  ^Manners are
A35 206 extremely friendly but mores can have an ugly, violent
A35 207 feature.**"
A35 208    |^Another ambassador lists things which make New Zealand a
A35 209 *"purgatory in some cases verging on hell*":
A35 210    |^The *"difficulty to engage people in conversation of any
A35 211 depth and significance, due possibly to the British temperament
A35 212 of reserve and self-restraint.*"
A35 213    |^The lack of *"good service to the public.**"
A35 214    |^The lack of imagination and flair in consumer products.
A35 215    |*4Middle East: *0^A paradise *"blessed with a fine climate
A35 216 and a magnificent landscape encompassing the best qualities of
A35 217 many other countries,**" says one diplomat.  ^Another, from an
A35 218 African country, lists New Zealand's attributes:  moderate
A35 219 climate, evergreen countryside and *"no wildlife to inhibit
A35 220 outdoor activity.**"
A35 221    |*4Pacific region: ^*0Though *"paradise**" is a term many of
A35 222 the countries find inappropriate, they freely praise New
A35 223 Zealand.
A35 224    |^Of New Zealanders, one diplomat says: They are
A35 225 *"basically fair in their dealings with people, and they do
A35 226 not have some of the deep-seated hatreds and historical
A35 227 divisions and prejudices that plague other countries.**"
A35 228    |^Echoing the sentiments of most of the Pacific diplomats,
A35 229 one representative states: ^*"The people are on the whole
A35 230 conservative in outlook, but this is probably more the result
A35 231 of the country's relative isolation rather than an inborn
A35 232 resistance to change and new ideas.**"
A35 233    |^But one diplomat adds the proviso: ^*"New Zealand is a
A35 234 temperate-zone paradise.  ^Paradises with tropical climates are
A35 235 a different category altogether.**"
A35 236    |*4Asia: ^*"*0For those who look for a quiet and peaceful
A35 237 life, New Zealand is a paradise.**" ^All the Asian diplomats
A35 238 agree on that, but some qualify it with: almost paradise.
A35 239 ^Weather is a bit severe.  ^Excellent for a short stay.
A35 240 *#
A36 001 **[036 TEXT A36**]
A36 002 *<*4*'Ban the booze**' was the battle cry of the early
A36 003 protesters*>
A36 004 |^This weekend the New Zealand Temperance Alliance is
A36 005 celebrating a century of struggle for prohibition, or the
A36 006 *"alcohol-free way of life.**" ^People from all walks of life,
A36 007 even prime ministers, have been prohibitionist.  ^The father of
A36 008 China's most famous New Zealander, Rewi Alley, was one, as also
A36 009 was the mother of Sir George Laking, the chairman of the
A36 010 working party set up last year by the Government to review the
A36 011 liquor laws.  ^*6RIC ORAM *4outlines the history of the
A36 012 prohibition movement, how it has influenced New Zealand's
A36 013 attitude to liquor, and reveals its new allies.
A36 014 |^*6THEIR *4opponents have called them *"wowsers.**" ^They
A36 015 prefer *"temperance workers,**" although at times in their
A36 016 fight against the demon drink, intemperate measures were used.
A36 017 ^The fervent even took to burning down hotels.
A36 018    |^*0Over the years their efforts closed bars, had unwary
A36 019 publicans before the courts, banned liquor licences from parts
A36 020 of the country, got rid of barmaids from behind bars and even
A36 021 paved the way for the notorious *"six o'clock swill.**"
A36 022    |^Throughout, the movement has been largely church-based,
A36 023 and even now 99 per cent of the New Zealand Temperance
A36 024 Alliance's members are church-goers.
A36 025    |^Today, *"prohibition**" is regarded as a dirty word by
A36 026 many in society, and the alliance promotes, instead, an
A36 027 alcohol-free way of life.  ^In that, they have modern-day moral
A36 028 support from alcohol treatment agencies.
A36 029    |^With the earliest settlers, came liquor.  ^Pubs arrived
A36 030 before churches and schools.  ^Drunkenness was rife.  ^The
A36 031 behaviour worried God-fearing folk.  ^Many of their early
A36 032 temperance meetings were in hotels *- there was nowhere else.
A36 033    |^As the century wore on, the womenfolk who, with their
A36 034 children, suffered most from the alcoholic excesses, dug their
A36 035 collective toes in.  ^They became the *"woman warriors**" for
A36 036 prohibition.
A36 037    |^The early campaigns to combat the evil of liquor were
A36 038 sporadic and were fought under various banners.
A36 039    |^Church of England missionaries in 1834 established the
A36 040 first Temperance Society at Paihia, in the Bay of Islands.
A36 041 ^The first thing off the first printing press in New Zealand is
A36 042 said to have been a call to that first temperance meeting.
A36 043 |^*6T*2EETOTAL *0societies were formed in the Hokianga and
A36 044 Nelson in 1842 and 1843.  ^Preachers in Auckland and Wellington
A36 045 were conducting open-air temperance meetings.
A36 046    |^The Independent Order of Rechabites reached Nelson from
A36 047 England in 1843.
A36 048    |^The first Band of Hope was established in Auckland in
A36 049 1859.  ^It later reached Christchurch and by 1884 had 5000
A36 050 members there.
A36 051    |^The Sons and Daughters of Temperance appeared in Dunedin
A36 052 in 1871.
A36 053    |^The International Order of Good Templars arrived in
A36 054 Invercargill in 1872 from the United States.
A36 055    |^Prohibitionists reached the settlement of Akaroa, near
A36 056 Christchurch, and one night in 1882 a fanatic ran around
A36 057 setting light to its three hotels.  ^One was razed and another
A36 058 badly damaged.
A36 059    |^The Women's Christian Temperance Union *- the women
A36 060 warriors *- born in the United States, reached New Zealand in
A36 061 1885.
A36 062    |^These women had fire in their bellies.  ^By 1893 they had
A36 063 the vote for women.  ^The first woman {0MP}, \0Mrs {0E.R.}
A36 064 McCombs, was dominion treasurer of the {0WCTU} at the time.
A36 065 ^Six of the first seven women appointed Justices of the Peace
A36 066 in 1927 were {0WCTU} members.
A36 067 |^*6I*2N *01886 the New Zealand Alliance was formed.  ^It was
A36 068 an alliance of church-based prohibition forces and was charged
A36 069 with their direction.
A36 070    |^Within 12 months it had drawn 2000 subscribers, and was
A36 071 based in Auckland until the headquarters moved to Wellington
A36 072 six years later.
A36 073    |^(In 1972, its name was changed to the New Zealand
A36 074 Temperance Alliance.)
A36 075    |^The first president of the alliance was Sir William Fox,
A36 076 who was four times premier of New Zealand.
A36 077    |^The third president was Sir Robert Stout, who also became
A36 078 Prime Minister.
A36 079    |^Later, it was to have as vice-president Sir George Fowlds,
A36 080 who introduced the Rotary movement to this country and also
A36 081 became a cabinet minister.
A36 082    |^The prohibitionists did not unite with any political
A36 083 party, but they became a political force.
A36 084    |^The Christchurch Prohibition League put up Tommy Taylor as
A36 085 a candidate for Parliament in 1896.  ^{0T.E.}Taylor (known as
A36 086 *"Tea**") beat rival {0R.M.}Taylor (*"Rum**") handsomely.
A36 087    |^Taylor was in and out of Parliament three times and was
A36 088 also Mayor of Christchurch when he died.
A36 089    |^He was so well known that when someone asked ^*"Are you a
A36 090 Tommy Taylor?**"  they meant ^*"Are you a teetotaller?**"
A36 091    |^Taylor was succeeded in Parliament by the \0Rev Leonard
A36 092 Isitt, another fiery prohibitionist.
A36 093 |^*6I*2SITT *0was the alliance president between Fox and Stout,
A36 094 and editor of the temperance publication *1Vanguard.
A36 095    |*0About him it was said: ^*"Lawbreaking liquor sellers were
A36 096 fearlessly exposed, and they writhed under his lashings.  ^Each
A36 097 issue was a clarion call to the battle.
A36 098    |^*"...with his pen he attacked the drink dragon.**"
A36 099    |^In 1890, *"a great flame of enthusiasm swept the
A36 100 country,**" according to the prohibition movement.  ^*"A breath
A36 101 of God moved the people.  ^The blood of reformers was hot.**"
A36 102    |^Things were not to cool down for 30 years.
A36 103    |^In Christchurch up to 3000 people would be drawn to
A36 104 meetings on the pros and cons of prohibition.
A36 105    |^The prohibitionist farmer would not defile his good earth
A36 106 by growing barley destined for beer production.
A36 107    |^On two consecutive Sunday nights in Christchurch in 1895
A36 108 four young Methodists visited hotels to see whether drink could
A36 109 be obtained during the forbidden hours.  ^Their evidence led to
A36 110 the prosecution of 17 publicans.
A36 111 |^*6W*2ITHIN *0months of adding the power of women's votes to
A36 112 their cause the prohibitionists forced Parliament to give
A36 113 electorates the choice, at each general election, of whether
A36 114 they wanted liquor licences retained, reduced or abolished.
A36 115    |^The first such vote was in 1894.  ^By 1908, 12 electorates
A36 116 were *"dry.**" ^Hundreds of publicans were put out of business.
A36 117    |^To this day, several dry pockets remain, including the
A36 118 Eden, Roskill and Grey Lynn no-licence districts in Auckland.
A36 119 ^The areas form old electoral boundaries.
A36 120    |^The electorate of Bruce went dry in 1908.  ^It nearly did
A36 121 in 1905, but the prohibitionists in that year were five votes
A36 122 short of victory.  ^So confident were their forces that five
A36 123 prohibitionists went on a picnic on polling day, and did not
A36 124 vote.
A36 125    |^*"Had they realised their responsibility more clearly,
A36 126 Bruce would not have been doomed to suffer for another three
A36 127 years from the miseries of the open bar,**" comments an early
A36 128 alliance history.
A36 129    |^The Manukau electorate never went dry.  ^It should have in
A36 130 1908, according to the prohibitionists.  ^The vote that year
A36 131 was 59.45 per cent (60 per cent was required) for no licence *-
A36 132 31 votes short.
A36 133    |^The prohibitionists were aghast that the drunks housed in
A36 134 the drying out institution on Rotorua Island in the Hauraki
A36 135 Gulf were given the vote.  ^They, of course, had voted for
A36 136 continuance.
A36 137    |^By 1908, support for *"reduction**" in electorates had
A36 138 taken 343 licences away.  ^Before the first vote in 1894 there
A36 139 were 1579 publican's and accommodation licences in the country,
A36 140 by 1927 there were 458 licences fewer, and by then the
A36 141 population had doubled.
A36 142 |^*6T*2HIS *0had been the era of the prohibitionist rally
A36 143 songs.  ^Songs like *1Twas Drink that Spoilt My Boy, *0or
A36 144 *1Onward Temperance Soldiers.
A36 145    |^*0The most famous of campaign cries was written by George
A36 146 Dash, later mayor of Waimate:
A36 147 |^*1Strike out the top line,
A36 148 ^Strike out the top line,
A36 149 ^Vote for no-licence that day.  ^Strike out the top line,
A36 150 ^Only the top line,
A36 151 ^Sweep the drink traffic away,
A36 152 ^Sweep the drink traffic away.
A36 153    |^*0The *"top line**" was obviously *"continuance**".
A36 154    |^Their efforts continued.
A36 155    |^In 1909 the prohibitionists had legislative plans for wet
A36 156 canteens in compulsory military camps thrown out...*"and so
A36 157 saved the young men from the constant temptation of the
A36 158 *'liquor bar.**"
A36 159    |^In 1910 the legal drinking age for bars was forced up from
A36 160 18 to 21.  ^(It took until 1969 to come back to 20.)
A36 161 ^Authority for bars to remain open after 10 {0pm} was repealed.
A36 162    |^The same year, barmaids were banned, except for the family
A36 163 members of publicans and those barmaids already employed.
A36 164 ^They were not permitted back until 1961.
A36 165    |^So, *"sin supported by stunning ankles**" faded.
A36 166    |^Prohibitionists argued that pretty young barmaids were
A36 167 employed by publicans to lure men into bars.
A36 168    |^As the verse said:
A36 169 **[POEM**]
A36 170 |^*1Wanted, a beautiful barmaid
A36 171 ^To shine in a drinking den,
A36 172 ^To entrap the youth of the nation
A36 173 ^And ruin the city men...
A36 174 |^*6T*2O *0the {0WCTU} strong drink during the First World War
A36 175 was as big an enemy and as much to be dreaded as the Germans.
A36 176    |^It hoped to keep the enemy from the country's politicians,
A36 177 and presented a petition to Parliament in 1915 to have liquor
A36 178 banned from the parliamentary bar, Bellamy's.  ^The vote in The
A36 179 House was lost by a small majority.
A36 180    |^Anti-treating regulations were introduced in 1916 aimed at
A36 181 suppressing *"the pernicious habit of *'shouting**'**" in
A36 182 bars.
A36 183    |^Throughout the First World War prohibitionists campaigned
A36 184 for earlier closing as an efficiency measure, presenting two
A36 185 petitions to Parliament.  ^Finally, in 1917, six o'clock
A36 186 closing was introduced initially until six months after the war
A36 187 ended.
A36 188    |^But in 1919, early closing was made permanent.  ^Ten
A36 189 o'clock closing did not return until 1967.
A36 190    |^(Before long, the rate of convictions for drunkenness was
A36 191 halved.)
A36 192    |^What almost became the prohibitionists' greatest weapon,
A36 193 the poll for national prohibition, was granted by legislation
A36 194 in 1910.  ^A two-thirds majority could send the country dry.
A36 195 ^In the first poll, in 1911, 55 per cent voted *"national
A36 196 prohibition.**"
A36 197    |^They forced the Government to reduce the required majority
A36 198 to 50 per cent.
A36 199 |^*6I*2N *01914 the vote was 48.9 per cent for national
A36 200 prohibition.  ^In April 1919, on election night, the
A36 201 prohibitionists had won.  ^They had 51 per cent of the vote; a
A36 202 13,396 majority.
A36 203    |^They had to wait for soldiers' votes from overseas,
A36 204 however.  ^Their vote was four to one in favour of
A36 205 *"continuance.**" ^A majority, therefore, of 10,362 for
A36 206 continuance.
A36 207    |^In another vote in December 1919 there was 49 per cent
A36 208 support for national prohibition *- 3362 votes short.
A36 209    |^The crisis for drinkers was over: the vote in subsequent
A36 210 polls gradually dropped, falling to 13 per cent in 1969 but
A36 211 climbing back to 18 per cent at the 1984 triennial poll.
A36 212    |^Prohibitionists teetotallers, temperance workers *- call
A36 213 them what you may *- may be down, but not out.
A36 214    |^Concern by society about the effects of alcohol abuse is
A36 215 growing *- as it did over a century ago *- and members of the
A36 216 alliance believe that today's abuse is causing a backlash.
A36 217 |^*6A*2UCKLAND *0temperance apologist Graham Creahan says:
A36 218 ^*"The alliance is no longer a lone voice.  ^It's exciting to
A36 219 hear the alcohol treatment groups also speaking out.
A36 220    |^We are trying to work with these groups.  ^We think it's
A36 221 great.  ^We're on the move.**"
A36 222    |^Creahan says the emphasis is not on prohibition *-
A36 223 *"that's because it is something of a dirty word.**"
A36 224    |^It is rather on promoting the alcohol-free way of life.
A36 225    |^*"We are realistic.  ^We haven't softened our stance;
A36 226 we've just widened our horizons.  ^We support anything that
A36 227 will reduce consumption.**"
A36 228    |^He believes that the way to go now, unlike the early
A36 229 efforts, is to encourage people to support prohibition by
A36 230 personal choice rather than enforce it with the compulsion of
A36 231 legislation.
A36 232 *<*4Modern movie Mary not hailed by {0NZ} Catholics*>
A36 233 |^French director Jean-Luc Godard's film *5Hail Mary *4has been
A36 234 dubbed *"pornoblasphemous,**" and before it has even arrived in
A36 235 this country, conservative Catholics are planning protests.
A36 236 ^*6KIRSTEN WARNER *4discusses the movie.
A36 237 |^*6FOR *4a start, the name of the movie *5Hail Mary *4gets
A36 238 some Catholics' backs up: it strikes at the heart of their
A36 239 faith.
A36 240    |^*0To make matters worse, it is also regarded as
A36 241 blasphemous in content and in its portrayal of the Virgin Mary.
A36 242    |^Never a film-maker to pull his punches, French director
A36 243 Jean-Luc Godard has taken on the full force of the Catholic
A36 244 Church in his contemporary version of the virgin birth.
A36 245    |^He has portrayed his modern-day Mary as a basketball-playing 
A36 246 petrol pump attendant, Joseph as a Swiss taxi-driver,
A36 247 and the Archangel as Uncle Gabriel who arrives by plane to
A36 248 announce that Mary has been chosen among women.
A36 249    |^The film has been widely denounced for protracted nudity,
A36 250 explicit eroticism, repeated gutter language, and for the
A36 251 portrayal of Gabriel as a foul-mouthed bully.
A36 252    |^The movie, starring Myriam Roussel and Thierry Rode, has
A36 253 been roundly accused of being boring as well as blasphemous.
A36 254    |^Nevertheless, *1Hail Mary *0has been chosen as being of
A36 255 sufficient artistic merit for inclusion in the Auckland and
A36 256 Wellington film festivals next month.
A36 257    |^At the Sydney film festival this week, violence erupted
A36 258 when protesters attacked cinema patrons and police were called
A36 259 in to protect them.
A36 260    |^But most of the 1000 or so demonstrators stood peacefully,
A36 261 holding candles and saying their rosaries, their prayers
A36 262 starting with the contentious words ^*"Hail Mary, full of
A36 263 grace...**"
A36 264 *#
A37 001 **[037 TEXT A37**]
A37 002 *<*0Home and leisure section*>
A37 003 *<*4Selecting vinyl floor*>
A37 004 *<*5Harry's Handy Hints*>
A37 005    |^*0Of the wide variety of flooring vinyls available today,
A37 006 the two most popular in domestic situations are cushionfloor
A37 007 and inlaid.
A37 008    |^As the name implies, cushionfloor features a soft
A37 009 cushioned walking surface.  ^It comprises a composition
A37 010 backing, a foam inner layer and an outer vinyl film.
A37 011    |^The thickness of the surface, or wear layer, generally
A37 012 denotes the quality.  ^The heavier the layer the better the
A37 013 quality.  ^The principal advantages of cushionfloor are that it
A37 014 is softer, quieter and warmer to walk on, particularly when
A37 015 laid over concrete or particle board.  ^The range of designs
A37 016 and colours is almost unlimited.
A37 017    |^The only maintenance required is a wash with warm soapy
A37 018 water or an application of resin emulsion polish can be used to
A37 019 obtain a higher shine.  ^Minor damage can usually be repaired
A37 020 with a liquid welding solution.
A37 021    |^Inlaid vinyls are similar to the old inlaid lino.
A37 022 ^Instead of resins and cork they are made up of a vinyl base.
A37 023 ^The surface is not usually as shiny as cushionfloor but it can
A37 024 be buffed or brought up with self-shine or resin emulsion
A37 025 polishes.  ^The advantages claimed for inlaid vinyls are their
A37 026 long life and ease of maintenance.
A37 027    |^Careful preparation before laying is essential as any
A37 028 problems in the subfloor will tend to mirror through the top
A37 029 surface.  ^With particle board floors, you should need only to
A37 030 lightly sand the surface making sure the joints are tight and
A37 031 flush.  ^Tongue and groove floors should be machine sanded,
A37 032 cutting diagonally and overlaid with bison board or hardboard,
A37 033 all joints being sanded flush.  *4(\0c) Syncom.
A37 034 *<*4Winter mildew can be countered*>
A37 035    |^*0During the winter months mildew will occur in many New
A37 036 Zealand homes.  ^According to a survey undertaken by the
A37 037 Building Research Association of New Zealand 46 percent of
A37 038 homes could be affected.
A37 039    |^In one home in five the attack is likely to be recurring
A37 040 or prolonged.
A37 041    |^Already this winter the home science information service
A37 042 at the University of Otago has noted an increased demand for
A37 043 information on how to cope with mildew on a variety of
A37 044 household surfaces.
A37 045    |^All air holds moisture in the form of water vapour.  ^The
A37 046 higher the temperature of the air in a heated room the more
A37 047 water vapour is held before saturation point is reached.  ^Once
A37 048 this point is reached the water vapour condenses on to the cold
A37 049 surfaces of the room.  ^Because glass is often the surface to
A37 050 receive the condensation curtain linings are very vulnerable to
A37 051 a mildew attack.
A37 052    |^The spores from which mildew grows are widely distributed.
A37 053 ^When the conditions are suitable for their growth, such as
A37 054 high humidity, they grow and become visible on household
A37 055 surfaces such as wallpaper, curtains (particularly shower
A37 056 curtains), shoes, clothes and books.
A37 057    |^To lessen the likelihood of mildew occurring in a home it
A37 058 is necessary to reduce the humidity.  ^This can be done by
A37 059 having a balance between heating and ventilation.  ^Raising the
A37 060 temperature allows the air to hold more water vapour,
A37 061 ventilation removes the moisture from the room.  ^Several
A37 062 windows open a little to provide constant ventilation is
A37 063 recommended.
A37 064    |^However, when a house or flat is left unattended all day
A37 065 it is unwise for security reasons to leave windows open to vent
A37 066 the moisture-laden air.
A37 067    |^When mildew appears it should be treated *- the method
A37 068 depending on the surface involved.  ^The publication *1Mildew
A37 069 *0(80\0c posted) from the Home Science Information Service,
A37 070 University of Otago,{0P.O.} Box 56, Dunedin, gives suitable
A37 071 methods of removing mildew from a variety of household
A37 072 surfaces.
A37 073    |^The publication *1Warmth Without Waste *0(*+$1.30 posted)
A37 074 provides information on efficient home heating.  ^These two
A37 075 publications will be supplied from the above address for *+$2
A37 076 posted.
A37 077 *- Home Science Information Service.
A37 078 *<*4End of era at Otago Museum*>
A37 079 |^In November, Te Maori will be installed at the Otago Museum
A37 080 for two months.  ^In preparation, the Maori gallery has been
A37 081 closed and is in the process of being dismantled before being
A37 082 repainted and recarpeted, and at the end of Te Maori, it is
A37 083 hoped to completely re-exhibit the collections.  ^Its closure
A37 084 marks the end of an era, as the museum anthropologist, Wendy
A37 085 Harsant, explains.
A37 086    |^*0The layout of the gallery had changed little over the
A37 087 past 50 years.  ^It was set up \0Dr {0H.D.}Skinner, one of New
A37 088 Zealand's foremost anthropologists and museum directors.  ^\0Dr
A37 089 Skinner was the first anthropology teacher appointed to a New
A37 090 Zealand university, and he trained many of our present day
A37 091 archaeologists.  ^He was also a foundation member of the New
A37 092 Zealand Archaeological Association.
A37 093    |^The Otago Museum was founded in the 1860s following the
A37 094 successful 1865 Dunedin Exhibition.  ^On display at this
A37 095 exhibition were more than 2,000 geological specimens mostly
A37 096 from Otago, which had been collected by Sir James Hector during
A37 097 a survey of the mineral resources of the Otago province.
A37 098 ^Cultural material was limited to a few Australian and Indian
A37 099 pieces which had been brought to New Zealand especially for the
A37 100 exhibition.
A37 101    |^After the exhibition's closure, there was considerable
A37 102 pressure from a number of interested people for the assembled
A37 103 material to remain in Otago.  ^Most of the people involved were
A37 104 businessmen, local politicians and wealthy settlers who were
A37 105 keen to establish cultural and educational facilities in the
A37 106 young settlement.
A37 107 *<*4Opened in 1865*>
A37 108    |^*0After much discussion and lobbying, particularly over
A37 109 the question of where the building would be sited and whether
A37 110 or not the Provincial Government would pick up the tab for the
A37 111 cost of maintaining the collection, the Otago Museum opened its
A37 112 doors to the public for the first time in September 1868.
A37 113    |^There were three rooms of display *- one devoted to
A37 114 botany, one to geology and the other to zoology.  ^This
A37 115 emphasis on the biological and natural sciences dominated the
A37 116 museum's administrative and collection policies for the next 50
A37 117 or so years.
A37 118    |^In 1877 the University of Otago assumed responsibility for
A37 119 the administration of the museum which it did not relinquish
A37 120 until 1955.  ^Dual appointments in the chair of natural history
A37 121 and curator of the Otago Museum were initiated in 1877 and
A37 122 continued until 1937.
A37 123    |^It was not until 1919 when \0Dr Skinner was appointed to a
A37 124 joint position of lecturer in anthropology at the University of
A37 125 Otago and assistant curator at the Otago Museum that he set
A37 126 about to systematically develop and expand the museum's
A37 127 anthropology collections and to encourage members of the public
A37 128 to participate directly in the functioning of the museum.
A37 129    |^It was, however, in the development of the collections
A37 130 that \0Dr Skinner made his greatest contribution to the museum
A37 131 and to Pacific anthropology.  ^His achievements in these areas
A37 132 cannot be over-emphasised.
A37 133 *<*4\0Dr Hocken's collection*>
A37 134    |^*0Before his appointment, the anthropology collections
A37 135 were small and reflected the rather piecemeal approach to their
A37 136 acquisition.  ^Indeed, the only substantial collection received
A37 137 until 1919 was \0Dr {0T.M.} Hocken's magnificent collection.
A37 138 ^The excellence of this material is well known and even today
A37 139 it remains the most important gift of New Zealand material
A37 140 received by the museum.  ^Just as Sir James Hector's 1860s
A37 141 mineral collection formed the basis of the museum's geological
A37 142 collection, Hocken's material formed the basis of the museum's
A37 143 Maori collection.  ^Most of it, however, was acquired by \0Dr
A37 144 Hocken in the North Island and the material culture of southern
A37 145 New Zealand was grossly under-represented when \0Dr Skinner
A37 146 arrived in the museum.
A37 147    |^The fossicking of Otago archaeological sites had started
A37 148 as early as the 1860s and, although the Otago Museum did not
A37 149 collect Otago material in the early period, many Dunedin people
A37 150 did.  ^A number of large and important private collections were
A37 151 built up during the late 1800s and early 1900s.  ^Several of
A37 152 these were given to the museum in the first decade or so after
A37 153 \0Dr Skinner's arrival.  ^Among them was Charles Haines'
A37 154 collection, and that of James Murdoch, Murray Thomson, Sir
A37 155 Frederick Chapman and Willi Fels.
A37 156    |^\0Dr Skinner had studied anthropology at Cambridge
A37 157 University, England, between 1915 and 1918, at a time when
A37 158 anthropology was still establishing itself as a scientific
A37 159 discipline.  ^The world was small and as a consequence, \0Dr
A37 160 Skinner was taught by, and trained with, many of the world's
A37 161 leading anthropologists.  ^The contacts he made at this time
A37 162 subsequently played an important role in the development of the
A37 163 Otago Museum's collections of overseas ethnology and
A37 164 archaeology.  ^This was by way of exchange with other museums.
A37 165 ^Today we may decry and mourn the loss of important Maori
A37 166 carvings and stone and bone tools to overseas institutions but
A37 167 their exchange was the only means by which the underfunded
A37 168 museum could acquire such excellent collections of, for
A37 169 example, Australian and American Indian artefacts.
A37 170 *<*4Distinct cultural areas*>
A37 171    |^*0\0Dr Skinner's major academic interest was in the origin
A37 172 and development of Maori culture.  ^Much of his research was
A37 173 directed towards tracing the connections between the Maori
A37 174 people on the one hand and Polynesian and Melanesian and
A37 175 ultimately Asian and other Pacific area peoples, on the other.
A37 176 ^The answers he believed lay in the material culture of the
A37 177 peoples concerned *- their adzes, amulets and pendants, fish
A37 178 hooks, weapons and domestic utensils.
A37 179    |^\0Dr Skinner proposed that there were eight distinct
A37 180 cultural areas in New Zealand, and set up the Maori Gallery
A37 181 accordingly.
A37 182    |^Visitors to the museum are thus able to compare artefact
A37 183 types and styles between areas.  ^The displays are particularly
A37 184 suitable for students of New Zealand archaeology and
A37 185 anthropology and one must not forget that \0Dr Skinner was also
A37 186 a university teacher *- and a good one at that.
A37 187    |^Although the gallery does have some thematic displays *-
A37 188 Maori weaving, food preservation, wood carvings and the like,
A37 189 which do make an attempt to show how each piece was made and
A37 190 used, \0Dr Skinner emphasised the shape and style of artefacts
A37 191 rather than the story each has to tell.  ^The museum has a
A37 192 display of eel and fish traps, nets and shellfish rakes but no
A37 193 information as to how and when each was used, how the eels or
A37 194 fish caught were cooked and stored for future use, or their
A37 195 social and economic importance to the people who obtained them.
A37 196 ^Likewise, although there are several hundred adzes on display,
A37 197 there is little information provided on who made them and how,
A37 198 and what they were used for.  ^To some extent, this may be due
A37 199 to a lack of data, as the methods of excavating the artefacts
A37 200 were not sophisticated enough to provide the answers to such
A37 201 questions, but not totally.  ^Like most of his contemporaries
A37 202 \0Dr Skinner was interested in finished articles, not those
A37 203 which were half completed and certainly not waste flakes, fish
A37 204 bones and midden shell, the things that delight present day
A37 205 archaeologists.
A37 206    |^Museums are repositories of tribal taonga and the Maori
A37 207 gallery must reflect Maori values and ideologies.  ^It is
A37 208 unlikely that there was much if any consultation between Maori
A37 209 groups and the museum during the setting up of the 1930s
A37 210 display.
A37 211    |^In the intervening years the attitudes of both the Maori
A37 212 people and museum professionals towards each other, as well as
A37 213 towards Maori artefacts or taonga, have altered considerably.
A37 214 ^However, it remains the museum's role to interpret and show
A37 215 New Zealand's cultural heritage but it must now do it in such a
A37 216 way that all New Zealanders *- Maori and pakeha can understand,
A37 217 appreciate and be proud of.
A37 218 *<*4Scene set for long battle over bill*>
A37 219 *<Backgrounder*>
A37 220    |^Public hearings on the proposed Bill of Rights start in
A37 221 Auckland this week.  *6JOHN GOULTER *4reports...
A37 222    |^*0The forces that gathered against the Homosexual Law
A37 223 Reform Bill last year are rounding on a new target *- the Bill
A37 224 of Rights.
A37 225    |^This hopelessly general and worthy-looking piece of
A37 226 planned legislation has already provoked vigorous and often
A37 227 vicious protest.
A37 228    |^Most of it comes from that right wing cluster of
A37 229 fundamentalism in religion and conservatism in policies which
A37 230 has come to be known as the Moral Majority.
A37 231    |^A campaign against the bill has been mounting in some
A37 232 conservative religious papers for months.  ^It has surfaced in
A37 233 the daily press most often in letters to the editor suggesting
A37 234 dark communist, anti-Christian inspiration in the Bill of
A37 235 Rights.
A37 236    |^The war will heat up this year.  ^Public hearings on the
A37 237 bill will open in Auckland this week, and will visit other
A37 238 centres in coming months.
A37 239    |^More than 500 submissions were made on the legislation
A37 240 which was part of Labour's pre-election manifesto.
A37 241    |^After the bill is finally drawn up it could go to the
A37 242 public for a referendum.  ^All of which means it could be 1988
A37 243 before a Bill of Rights enters New Zealand's statute books *-
A37 244 if it ever does.
A37 245    |^The architect of the bill, Justice Minister Geoffrey
A37 246 Palmer, described the bill as a momentous piece of legislation
A37 247 for New Zealand and says it demands a full debate.
A37 248    |^Indeed, it has been a long time coming.  ^When National
A37 249 came to power in 1960 it was promising a Bill of Rights.  ^It
A37 250 duly delivered one in 1963, without much enthusiasm.
A37 251 *#
A38 001 **[038 TEXT A38**]
A38 002 *<*4{0Y.W.C.A.} offers new courses*>
A38 003 *<By *6DEBORAH McPHERSON*>
A38 004    |^*0A look at the {0Y.W.C.A.}'s summer programme reveals the
A38 005 association's main aim is still geared to helping women realise
A38 006 their full potential.
A38 007    |^The {0Y.W.C.A.} is continuing with many of its courses
A38 008 which were popular last year during the end of the decade for
A38 009 women.
A38 010    |^The summer programme, which begins on February 9, will
A38 011 include two new courses *- *"Women and Money**" and *"Women and
A38 012 the Law.**"
A38 013    |^A tutor from the Budget Advisory Service will lead the
A38 014 *"Women and Money**" course, and an adviser from the Community
A38 015 Law Centre will take the *"Women and the Law**" classes.
A38 016    |^The new courses are being offered to give women an
A38 017 opportunity to increase their knowledge of the wider community.
A38 018    |^Women who would like to become more confident in doing
A38 019 minor repairs and maintenance jobs round the house can learn
A38 020 the basics in the *"Handywomen**" course.  ^A car maintenance
A38 021 course will also be offered.
A38 022    |^The assertiveness training and naturopathy courses, which
A38 023 were popular last year, would also be offered again this year,
A38 024 said the president of the association, \0Mrs Veronica Pyle.
A38 025    |^Other course topics include stress management, massage for
A38 026 health and relaxation, yoga, herbalism, weight reduction and
A38 027 nutrition.
A38 028    |^Women's physical health is also covered, including a
A38 029 women's running group, the *"\0Y**" walkers trips in and round
A38 030 the city, as well as recreational gymnastics classes.
A38 031 ^Self-defence classes teaching the Sue Lytollis method will be held.
A38 032    |^An over-60s group meets each month and bus trips are
A38 033 planned.
A38 034    |^The courses have been popular because they were what women
A38 035 wanted to do, said \0Mrs Pyle.  ^The association made a 
A38 036 survey to find out what topics interested women, she 
A38 037 said.
A38 038    |^The *"\0Y**" offered a comprehensive range of topics but
A38 039 there was still a lot of work that needed to be done for women,
A38 040 said \0Mrs Pyle.
A38 041    |^She said she would like to see a job retraining scheme for
A38 042 older women, as well as a teen mother support club for teen-age
A38 043 mothers.  ^The association had applied to Telethon for a grant.
A38 044    |^*"Unfortunately, you can have all the good ideas in the
A38 045 world, but if you are limited in your resources there is only
A38 046 so much that can be done,**" \0Mrs Pyle said.
A38 047    |^An important part of the association's work in the last
A38 048 four years was the pre-school gymnastics classes organised by
A38 049 \0Mrs Lynn Koster, an experienced gymnastics instructor.
A38 050 ^Classes for two to five year olds are held at Redwood
A38 051 {0Y.W.C.A.}, Riccarton, Bishopdale, Parklands and the Windsor
A38 052 School Hall.
A38 053    |^Physically disabled children were welcome at the classes,
A38 054 said \0Mrs Koster.  ^Last year a special class for disabled
A38 055 children was organised, but \0Mrs Koster said she hoped to
A38 056 integrate the children into other classes this year.  ^Parents
A38 057 had supported the idea, she said.
A38 058    |^Last year the classes attracted up to 130 pre-school
A38 059 children a week.
A38 060    |^*"Seeing children grow and develop is one of the most
A38 061 rewarding aspects of teaching the classes,**" \0Mrs Koster
A38 062 said.
A38 063    |^The {0Y.W.C.A.} hoped to start other pre-school gymnastics
A38 064 classes in other suburbs this year, if the right tutors could
A38 065 be found.  ^It was important to find teachers who could build a
A38 066 rapport with the children, said \0Mrs Koster.
A38 067    |^Another traditional and important aspect of the *"\0Y**"
A38 068 work is finding accommodation for young people coming to
A38 069 Christchurch to attend courses at the Polytechnic.  ^The
A38 070 accommodation bureau is run by \0Mrs Claire Richards for the
A38 071 Labour Department.  ^\0Mrs Richards is responsible for placing
A38 072 young apprentices on special block courses at the Polytechnic
A38 073 in hostels or private homes.
A38 074    |^The association does not have a hostel.  ^It sold its
A38 075 building in Latimer Square.
A38 076    |^A scheme for young school-leavers which has been
A38 077 successful in the last three years is the training assistance
A38 078 programme run by the association and partly funded by the
A38 079 Labour Department.  ^Three eight-week courses in clerical work,
A38 080 knit design and child care are offered.  ^At the moment 18
A38 081 trainees, six in each course, are learning practical skills for
A38 082 the work-force.
A38 083    |^The clerical course had placed most of its trainees into
A38 084 the work-force, said the course supervisor, \0Mrs Elane
A38 085 Robinson.
A38 086 *<*5Auckland's threat*>
A38 087    |^*0When plans for Auckland's Aotea Centre were announced,
A38 088 Michael Maxwell, director of the International Festival of the
A38 089 Arts, rang Dame Cath Tizard to congratulate her.
A38 090    |^*"I imagine I'm the first from Wellington to congratulate
A38 091 you,**" he said.
A38 092    |^*"You are,**" Dame Cath replied.  ^*"And in 1990 we are
A38 093 going to take your festival away from you.**"
A38 094    |^That, says \0Mr Maxwell, is impossible.  ^The
A38 095 International Festival of the Arts is firmly rooted in
A38 096 Wellington.
A38 097    |^It was the brainchild of the Wellington City Council and
A38 098 is run by an incorporated trust.  ^The people of the city of
A38 099 Wellington are right behind it.
A38 100    |^*"I think it would be great if Auckland or Christchurch
A38 101 had a festival, but why not in the odd years.  ^Wellington will
A38 102 definitely keep its festival.**"
A38 103    |^\0Mr Maxwell's own contract as director does not expire
A38 104 until after the 1988 festival and planning has already begun
A38 105 for two years hence.  ^Some of the performers and events not
A38 106 possible for 1986 may appear in 1988.
A38 107    |^But \0Mr Maxwell says the direction of the 1988 festival
A38 108 will be different from its predecessor.  ^This year the
A38 109 emphasis is on music.
A38 110    |^While Wellington is quite selfish in wanting to retain the
A38 111 festival, which will have many spinoffs for the community, it
A38 112 is not a festival just for Wellingtonians.
A38 113    |^Nor is it a festival for the rich.  ^With the exception of
A38 114 the Sutherland performances and the Design Awards, prices have
A38 115 been kept to *+$25 or less.  ^Twenty thousand tickets to 55
A38 116 events had been sold by mid-January.
A38 117    |^*"It is a festival in Wellington for New Zealanders,**"
A38 118 \0Mr Maxwell says.  ^*"We have not marketed it overseas because
A38 119 the accommodation here could not have coped.**"
A38 120    |^As it is 75 people are coming from New York, some from New
A38 121 Guinea, and more from Sydney, where the festival has an agent.
A38 122    |^Those who have joined the Friends of the Festival
A38 123 organisation will have no trouble with accommodations.
A38 124 ^Six hundred rooms are available in Wellington for billets for
A38 125 Friends.
A38 126 *<*4Fringe handicapped*>
A38 127    |^*0The Flying Kiwi Fringe Festival is well down on its
A38 128 target of *+$100,000 to fund its programme.
A38 129    |^The programme co-ordinator, Brett Harston, says that major
A38 130 sponsorship for the fringe festival is not forthcoming.  ^The
A38 131 organisers are hoping instead for small contributions from
A38 132 several sponsors.  ^They are still awaiting results from
A38 133 applications to the Wellington City Council and the Arts
A38 134 Council.
A38 135    |^*"We want to run the programme as a fully professional
A38 136 one, with the festival meeting the performers' expenses,**"
A38 137 Brett Harston says.
A38 138    |^The fringe activities are being organised and run by the
A38 139 Wellington Arts Centre as a separate programme from the main
A38 140 festival.  ^The centre's staff has been boosted by Labour
A38 141 Department-sponsored workers to organise the eight-day
A38 142 festival.
A38 143    |^\0Mr Harston says the Flying Kiwi programme is 98 per cent
A38 144 New Zealand in content.  ^*"We are very happy with the people
A38 145 we have.  ^They come from all over the country.  ^The fringe is
A38 146 essentially all New Zealand.  ^One of two have come back for
A38 147 the festival.**"
A38 148    |^The Flying Kiwi will run from March 15 to 23, based at the
A38 149 Wellington Arts Centre.
A38 150    |^Another festival within the festival is the Writers' Week,
A38 151 which brings together overseas authors with New Zealand
A38 152 writers.  ^During five days from March 12 the writers will give
A38 153 public readings of their works.
A38 154    |^The international contingent includes David Lodge, claimed
A38 155 to be the funniest novelist currently writing in English, the
A38 156 controversial British poet, Craig Raine, and African poet,
A38 157 Felix Mnthali, a Samoan, Albert Wendt, an avant-garde French
A38 158 novelist, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Australians David Malouf and Tom
A38 159 Shappett, and a Canadian, Tim Findlay.
A38 160    |^Fleur Adcock, of New Zealand, is returning, and other New
A38 161 Zealanders taking part are
A38 162 **[LIST**].
A38 163 *<*4Arts festival's international flavour deliberate policy:
A38 164 but places for {0N.Z.} artists*>
A38 165 *<By *6KAY FORRESTER*>
A38 166    |^*0The first New Zealand International Festival of Arts at
A38 167 Wellington in March has its critics of the glittering array of
A38 168 international stars, led by one of the world's most durable
A38 169 personalities, Dame Joan Sutherland, that is surely the
A38 170 festival's strength.
A38 171    |^But for the critics the international flavour of the
A38 172 three-week festival is also a weakness.  ^They claim the
A38 173 festival organisers have sought overseas stars at great cost
A38 174 and at the expense of New Zealand talent.
A38 175    |^The list is indeed impressive:
A38 176 **[LIST**].
A38 177    |^The festival director, Michael Maxwell, make **[SIC**] no
A38 178 apologies for the international emphasis.  ^His aim when he
A38 179 took up his full-time position as director 10 months ago was to
A38 180 snare as many international artists as possible.
A38 181    |^But not, he insists, at the expense of New Zealand
A38 182 content.
A38 183    |^*"What I wanted to do was bring international artists to
A38 184 New Zealand and, to complement them, bring back New Zealanders
A38 185 who had gone abroad and achieved their own international
A38 186 standing,**" he explains.
A38 187    |^*"Take the pottery exhibition by Robert Shay, the American
A38 188 ceramic sculptor.  ^He is in New Zealand already, travelling
A38 189 with a New Zealander, James Greig, who has a big reputation in
A38 190 Japan.  ^The two are working with potters at a grassroots level
A38 191 throughout the country for three months, giving lectures,
A38 192 workshops, demonstrations.  ^The exhibition in Wellington
A38 193 during the festival is the culmination of that project.
A38 194    |^*"The idea is for the potters to benefit from an overseas
A38 195 visitor and also to give James Greig, as a New Zealander, a
A38 196 chance to exhibit here with an overseas artist.**"
A38 197    |^And there is the New Zealand Puppet Festival, which will
A38 198 run for two weeks at the beginning of the arts festival.
A38 199    |^*"As soon as the local puppet people found that the Awaji
A38 200 Theatre from Japan would be here, they wanted to organise a
A38 201 festival of their own.
A38 202    |^*"Now we have several days of puppet festival with
A38 203 puppeteers from New Zealand, Australia, and Greece.  ^They will
A38 204 present all forms of puppetry.  ^That's another example of New
A38 205 Zealanders working with international people.
A38 206    |^*"The rationale behind the festival is the international
A38 207 link.  I wanted a programme that would reflect the links
A38 208 between New Zealand and international artists.**"
A38 209    |^Maxwell believes he has achieved that in the festival's
A38 210 programme.  ^The feedback from people booking tickets has been
A38 211 good.
A38 212    |^*"Some have asked why haven't you got so and so.
A38 213 ^Sometimes it has been a case of saying we wanted them but they
A38 214 turned down our invitation.
A38 215    |^*"One woman from Wellington wrote booking tickets for the
A38 216 Small Change Theatre, which is a Canadian mime group.  ^She had
A38 217 looked through the programme and that was all she could find
A38 218 that her family could go to.
A38 219    |^*"The family will really enjoy Small Change.  ^They are
A38 220 wonderful entertainment.  ^But I wrote back saying what about
A38 221 this, what about that, what about the lunch-time concerts.
A38 222 ^There really is a lot available.**"
A38 223    |^He has fielded complaints about the lack of New Zealand
A38 224 content by pointing out that 1000 New Zealanders are in the
A38 225 main festival programme, and many more in the Fringe Festival
A38 226 running alongside the main programme.
A38 227    |^*"The 1000 takes in all the players in the New Zealand
A38 228 Symphony Orchestra and the regional orchestras 
A38 229 from Auckland and Wellington, the dancers in 
A38 230 the Royal New Zealand Ballet.  ^In spite of some
A38 231 large overseas groups there are nowhere near that 
A38 232 many overseas artists.**"
A38 233    |^The largest international group is the Berlin
A38 234 \Staatskapelle, the first overseas symphony orchestra 
A38 235 to visit this country in 13 years.  ^The festival 
A38 236 organisers were able to bring the German musicians 
A38 237 to New Zealand at the end of an Australian tour because the 
A38 238 orchestra's travel contract with Qantas included Wellington on 
A38 239 the same leg as Australia.
A38 240    |^*"We had no travel costs to bring the 120 musicians on to
A38 241 New Zealand.  ^If we had had travel expenses on top of the
A38 242 performance costs, I would have had to say, sadly, no.**"
A38 243    |^As it is the package of two performances by the 
A38 244 Berlin orchestra will cost *+$125,000.  ^That is a 
A38 245 large chunk from the festival budget, but well worth 
A38 246 it, \0Mr Maxwell adds.
A38 247    |^He has been able to secure many of the international
A38 248 artists because they were already booked for the Perth and 
A38 249 Adelaide festivals in Australia.
A38 250    |^His first step when he was asked by the festival trust in
A38 251 late 1984 to direct the 1986 festival was to approach the
A38 252 organisers of the Australian festivals.  ^They could not have
A38 253 been more helpful, he says.
A38 254    |^*"It was a commercial thing.  ^If they could offer the
A38 255 artists extra performances it was an incentive for them.
A38 256 ^Suddenly, New Zealand became a big factor in the Australian
A38 257 circuit.**"
A38 258 *#
A39 001 **[039 TEXT A39**]
A39 002 *<*4Legislation covering artificial insemination introduced*>
A39 003 *<By *6OLIVER RIDDELL *4in Wellington*>
A39 004    |^*0Children born as a result of artificial insemination and
A39 005 the transfer of an egg from an ovary to a fallopian tube
A39 006 together with semen are covered by a new legislation introduced
A39 007 in Parliament.
A39 008    |^The Status of Children Amendment Bill has been referred to
A39 009 Parliament's Justice and Law Reform Select Committee for
A39 010 consideration and public comment.
A39 011    |^The intention is to clear up the status of children
A39 012 conceived through modern birth techniques such as in vitro
A39 013 fertilisation.
A39 014    |^The legislation follows up work done by the Justice
A39 015 Department in recent years, which culminated in an issues
A39 016 paper, *"New Birth Technologies,**" last year.
A39 017    |^Public submissions have been made on this paper, and the
A39 018 Government will release a summary.
A39 019    |^An inter-departmental committee is being set up to gather
A39 020 information on new birth techniques, to monitor the issues, and
A39 021 advise the Government.
A39 022    |^Further legislation is likely to be required.
A39 023    |^The bill makes no reference to access to information about
A39 024 any donor, and neither facilitates nor prevents such access.
A39 025    |^The Government is seeking broadly based community support
A39 026 for the detail of the legislation.
A39 027    |^*"There may be people in the community who oppose this
A39 028 bill simply because they are opposed to the birth
A39 029 technologies,**" said the Minister of Justice, \0Mr Palmer.
A39 030 ^*"I would ask them to think again.**"
A39 031    |^The essential fact was that the technologies existed and
A39 032 were practised.  ^This meant that there must already be some
A39 033 New Zealanders in the anomalous *"legal limbo**" the bill
A39 034 sought to address.
A39 035    |^It clarified the legal situation of certain people who had
A39 036 had no say in the manner in which they had been conceived, he
A39 037 said.
A39 038    |^In one sense it was a technical measure, but it was a
A39 039 technical measure of great significance for the people
A39 040 concerned.
A39 041    |^The legislation clarified the legal status of children
A39 042 conceived through the use of donated sperm, donated ova or
A39 043 donated embryos, in the techniques of artificial insemination,
A39 044 in vitro fertilisation, and gamete intra-fallopian transfer.
A39 045    |^Artificial insemination refers to the placing of semen
A39 046 inside the vagina or uterus by means other than sexual
A39 047 intercourse.
A39 048    |^In vitro fertilisation refers to the fertilisation of an
A39 049 ovum by a sperm outside the mother's body.
A39 050    |^Gamete intra-fallopian transfer refers to the transfer of
A39 051 an ovum from the ovary to the fallopian tubes, together with
A39 052 semen.
A39 053    |^The legislation provides that six rules apply when donated
A39 054 gametes are used in any of these techniques.
A39 055    |^Where donated sperm is used, either as sperm or in an
A39 056 embryo, the mother's husband is the legal father of the
A39 057 resulting child, provided he consented to the procedure.
A39 058    |^Where a donated ovum is used, either as ovum or as an
A39 059 embryo, the woman who bears the child is the legal mother of
A39 060 the child.
A39 061    |^The donors of sperm or ova are excluded from legal
A39 062 parenthood.
A39 063    |^The consent of the mother's husband is presumed in the
A39 064 absence of evidence to the contrary.
A39 065    |^Couples living in a relationship in the nature of a
A39 066 marriage are treated in the same way as legally married
A39 067 couples, and so a child is not at a disadvantage simply because
A39 068 of the marital status of its parents *- for which it is not
A39 069 responsible.
A39 070    |^If a single woman or a married woman without the consent
A39 071 of her husband is involved, the donor of the sperm remains the
A39 072 legal father of the child, but has no rights or liabilities
A39 073 over the child unless he subsequently marries the child's
A39 074 mother.
A39 075    |^The Minister of Justice, \0Mr Palmer, said the need for
A39 076 the legislation had arisen because of the legal relationship of
A39 077 the child with the sperm donor and with the mother's husband.
A39 078    |^At present the donor of the sperm is the legal father *- a
A39 079 man the child will never know *- whereas the man the child does
A39 080 know cannot fulfil the rights and responsibilities of the legal
A39 081 father.
A39 082    |^\0Mr Palmer said the husband of the child's mother at
A39 083 present would commit an offence if he registered the birth of
A39 084 the child as his own, knowing that the child had been conceived
A39 085 using donated sperm.
A39 086    |^Such a man had no legal standing to exercise rights over a
A39 087 child, such as consenting to a change of name, consenting to
A39 088 adoption, or consenting to the child's marriage.
A39 089    |^He would be in no better position than a stranger to the
A39 090 child in any dispute over guardianship, custody, or access with
A39 091 the mother.
A39 092    |^In questions of inheritance, the child could not claim
A39 093 against the estate of the mother's husband, \0Mr Palmer said.
A39 094    |^Where a donated ovum was used, the child's mother might be
A39 095 either the woman who contributed the ovum or the woman who bore
A39 096 the child *- there was no clear legal rule.
A39 097    |^This meant that the law was uncertain as to which woman
A39 098 might register the birth of the child as hers, or who might
A39 099 exercise legal rights over the child.
A39 100    |^It was equally uncertain against whom, as its mother, the
A39 101 child might claim for the purposes of a will, intestacy, or
A39 102 family protection.
A39 103    |^*"These anomalous situations are clearly not in the best
A39 104 interests of the child,**" \0Mr Palmer said.
A39 105    |^Legislation was necessary to protect the children involved
A39 106 by giving them security with the parents in the same way
A39 107 children conceived in the usual way had.  ^Legislation was also
A39 108 necessary to protect donors who wanted to give the gift of
A39 109 parenthood to others.
A39 110    |^The need for legislation to cover this area had been
A39 111 recognised widely overseas, \0Mr Palmer said.
A39 112 *<*4Making it happen*>
A39 113 *<Alzheimer's disease*>
A39 114 *<Polytech course for carers*>
A39 115    |^*0Carers of the elderly or disabled tend to be a much
A39 116 neglected group.
A39 117    |^Because they are often with their charges 24 hours a day,
A39 118 they don't have the time *- or energy *- to organise meetings,
A39 119 set up support groups or shout their cause to the public.
A39 120    |^Yet the demands *- both physical and emotional *- can be
A39 121 enormous.  ^Stroke victims and those crippled with arthritis
A39 122 need a lot of careful handling in toileting, dressing and
A39 123 feeding.  ^Sometimes it means getting up to them every night *-
A39 124 and every mother of a wakeful child knows how exhausting that
A39 125 becomes.
A39 126    |^Then there is the emotional strain, especially with an
A39 127 elderly person with Alzheimer's Disease who needs supervision
A39 128 every moment of the day and night.
A39 129    |^Social life is often non-existent, with friendships
A39 130 limited to occasional chats on the phone.
A39 131    |^In many ways, the stresses are like those of bringing up
A39 132 small children *- but with a fundamental difference.
A39 133    |^*"With children you know they are going to grow up and
A39 134 become more independent.  ^You've that to look forward to.
A39 135 ^With a sick person, there's only gradual decline.  ^For 
A39 136 full-time carers, especially, the future often doesn't look very
A39 137 bright,**" says Anne-Marie Dixon, former social worker for the
A39 138 elderly and executive member of {0A.D.A.R.D.S.} (Alzheimer's
A39 139 Disease and Related Disorders Society).
A39 140    |^Anne-Marie is the co-ordinator of a new Polytech course
A39 141 for *"Women as Carers**" which begins on September 12.
A39 142    |^The six-week course, held every Friday from 9.30{0a.m.}
A39 143 until noon, is for all women caring for mentally or physically
A39 144 dependent spouses, parents, in-laws, other relatives or friends
A39 145 on a full-time or part-time basis.
A39 146    |^*"These women need to learn to take care of themselves.
A39 147 ^They so often get to the point of exhaustion, yet even then
A39 148 it's difficult for them to let go and have someone come in to
A39 149 give them a break, or put the person in hospital for a
A39 150 while,**" she says.
A39 151    |^*"The Government gives a subsidy for one month's break a
A39 152 year *- but many women don't take it, even though they need
A39 153 three times that.  ^They feel guilty not being there 24 hours a
A39 154 day, 365 days a year.
A39 155    |^*"What they must realise is that by taking a break, the
A39 156 quality of their caring will be better.**"
A39 157    |^Anne-Marie doesn't know how many women in Christchurch are
A39 158 carers, but she guesses *"an awful lot.  ^Within one's own
A39 159 network, most women know three or four who are caring for
A39 160 someone on a full-time basis,**" she says.
A39 161    |^*"Women as Carers**" will teach women how to recognise
A39 162 their limitations, use resources and cope better with stress.
A39 163 ^The emphasis will be on informal talks, rather than lectures
A39 164 and lots of discussion and sharing.
A39 165    |^Cost for the course is *+$13, plus {0GST}.  ^For more
A39 166 details telephone Christchurch Polytech at 798-150, \0ext.
A39 167 8091.
A39 168 *<*4Health today*> *<Help for cocaine addicts*> *<*1By *3ROBERT
A39 169 STOCKDILL*>
A39 170 |^*6R*2ESEARCHERS *0in the United States believe they can treat
A39 171 even the most severely addicted cocaine users with medicines
A39 172 which either block the craving for cocaine or stop the euphoria
A39 173 caused by it.
A39 174    |^And unlike methadone, which blocks the effect of heroin,
A39 175 the newer prescription drugs are not addictive and can be given
A39 176 on an outpatient basis.
A39 177    |^Ironically, all the medicines thought to cause such an
A39 178 effect are already sold for other purposes, such as to combat
A39 179 depression, correct menstrual abnormalities and prevent
A39 180 influenza.
A39 181    |^Neuro-scientists are in the middle of a series of animal
A39 182 tests to test the drugs' efficiency with the hope of
A39 183 determining how effective they would be in humans.
A39 184    |^Ironically, extensive animal testing is usually carried
A39 185 out before new drugs receive approval from the {0US}' strict
A39 186 Food and Drug Administration ({0FDA}).  ^Once approval is
A39 187 given, nothing prevents a doctor from prescribing them to his
A39 188 patients for any reason he sees fit.
A39 189    |^Several tests have seen cocaine addicts given the drug,
A39 190 and shown the medicines could be effective with up to 75% of
A39 191 cocaine addicts.
A39 192    |^Cocaine addiction is a major problem in the {0US},
A39 193 particularly in the middle and upper classes, although in New
A39 194 Zealand its use is only now beginning to grow.
A39 195    |^Hospital detoxification also provides a success rate of
A39 196 about 75%.
A39 197    |^So far hospitals in the {0US} have been slow to accept the
A39 198 new forms of treatment, mainly through fears treatment of
A39 199 addiction to one drug with another could cause addiction to the
A39 200 second.
A39 201    |^But with the impending rise of the cheaper and more
A39 202 addictive forms of cocaine *- *"crack**" in the east and
A39 203 Australia and *"rock**" in the west *- cheaper outpatient
A39 204 medicinal treatment may be used more widely.
A39 205    |^Rock is normally smoked and the drug reaches the brain
A39 206 much more quickly than when cocaine is snorted.  ^Highs
A39 207 produced by rock are generally more intense and addiction is
A39 208 harder to treat.
A39 209    |^The use of medicines to treat cocaine addiction is based
A39 210 on the increasing knowledge of cocaine's effects on the body,
A39 211 which include chronic coughing, chest congestion, impotence,
A39 212 infertility, lactation in women, enlarged breasts in men, brain
A39 213 seizures and even cardiac arrest.
A39 214    |^For the cocaine users however, the most important effect
A39 215 is the euphoria created by disruption of communication between
A39 216 brain cells.
A39 217    |^Here's how cocaine has that euphoric effect:  ^Cells
A39 218 intereact **[SIC**] via chemical messengers called 
A39 219 neuro-transmitters.  ^After a brain cell receives a chemical message,
A39 220 it sends the neuro-transmitters back so they can be used again.
A39 221    |^Researchers believe cocaine stimulates the 
A39 222 neuro-transmitters and blocks their return.  ^Thus they gather in
A39 223 abnormally high quantities at the receiving cells flooding and
A39 224 overstimulating them.  ^The flooding is believed to cause the
A39 225 euphoria.
A39 226    |^Meanwhile, because of the overproduction of 
A39 227 neuro-transmitters, the brain eventually runs out of the chemicals
A39 228 from which they are made.
A39 229    |^The addicts then become depressed and develop a strong
A39 230 craving for cocaine.  ^If they get high the stock of 
A39 231 neuro-transmitters is further depleted and the depression and craving
A39 232 becomes worse next time around.
A39 233    |^Researchers believe the new medicines either block the
A39 234 cells where neuro-transmitters gather abnormally or stimulate
A39 235 the growth of more neuro-transmitters.
A39 236    |^New York psychiatrist Jeffrey Rosecan, director of the
A39 237 Cocaine Abuse Treatment Programme at Columbia-Presbyterian
A39 238 Medical Centre has been treating cocaine addicts with the 
A39 239 anti-depressant imipramine (tradename Tofranil).
A39 240    |^He discovered its effects accidentally when three patients
A39 241 taking the medicine told him they no longer got high on
A39 242 cocaine.
A39 243    |^But he warns while the medicines treat the addiction, they
A39 244 can have no effect on the underlying psychological problems
A39 245 which may have led to the addiction in the first place.
A39 246    |^Other drugs found successful in addict treatment include:
A39 247 Bromocryptine *- used to treat menstrual problems or
A39 248 infertility.  ^Desipramine *- an antidepressant (tradenames
A39 249 Norpramin and Pertofrane.)  Amantadine hydrochloride,
A39 250 (Symmetrel) *- used to cure influenza, and for the treatment of
A39 251 Parkinsons' Disease.
A39 252 *<*4New technique shatters stones*>
A39 253 |^*6D*2OUGLAS *0Maxwell, (pictured) a retired roadworks
A39 254 contractor from Alexandra, Central Otago, is the first New
A39 255 Zealander to have his kidney stones disintegrated without
A39 256 surgery, using the new lithotripsy technique.
A39 257    |^\0Mr Maxwell, 61, was photographed the day after his
A39 258 surgery, fully dressed and able to walk around the hospital.
A39 259 *#
A40 001 **[040 TEXT A40**]
A40 002 *<*4Greater promotion of the arts as key goal*>
A40 003 *<By Debra Millar, Wellington Staff*>
A40 004 |^*6*"WE *4are an ingenious lot,**" insists Ian Cochrane, newly
A40 005 appointed chairman of the Queen Elizabeth *=II Arts Council,
A40 006 *"but what annoys me is that we are too self-effacing, too
A40 007 unassuming.  ^We don't stand up and think we are as good as
A40 008 anybody else.**"
A40 009    |^*0Cochrane never ceases to be impressed by the variety of
A40 010 artistic talent produced in this country.  ^We are a naturally
A40 011 gifted nation, he says.  ^The trouble is that we have
A40 012 difficulty trumpeting our excellence to others.
A40 013    |^The talent is here.  ^All that remains is for New
A40 014 Zealanders and people overseas to be awakened to the rich arts
A40 015 resource within.
A40 016    |^Greater promotion of the arts is a key goal of Cochrane's
A40 017 three-year term as arts council chairman.  ^*"I want to
A40 018 highlight the art and culture available in this country; to
A40 019 make people aware of what is going on.  ^There is a lot
A40 020 happening out there to enrich their lives.
A40 021    |^*"It strikes me all the time how a country of this size
A40 022 can turn out so many talented people in all fields, with very
A40 023 little resources.**"
A40 024 |^*6A*2LONG *0with increasing the awareness here of New Zealand
A40 025 artists' work, Cochrane wants also to awaken overseas interest
A40 026 in what is offering.  ^The diversity and excellence of New
A40 027 Zealand indigenous art and culture demands that it be given
A40 028 greater promotion overseas.
A40 029    |^It is the task of the government and the tourist operators
A40 030 within New Zealand, working in conjunction with the arts
A40 031 council, to raise international awareness of local artists'
A40 032 work, he believes.  ^Artistic exchanges between New Zealand and
A40 033 other countries need to be further encouraged and this
A40 034 country's arts marketed through trade and diplomatic posts
A40 035 overseas.
A40 036    |^Tourist operators have a large role to play in exposing
A40 037 visitors to New Zealand to the pool of talent here.  ^Tourists
A40 038 were being whisked around the attractions of the established
A40 039 resort sports, but were not being encouraged to explore the
A40 040 theatres, ballet or galleries.  ^And yet when New Zealanders
A40 041 travel overseas, they flock to the European opera houses and
A40 042 theatres.
A40 043 |^*6T*2HE *0American tour of the Te Maori exhibition provided
A40 044 an excellent example of how successfully New Zealand art could
A40 045 be marketed on the world stage, Cochrane says.  ^The exhibition
A40 046 gave Maori art an international profile.  ^His fervent hope is
A40 047 that in time all artwork from this country will be identified
A40 048 throughout the world as distinctively New Zealand in origin.
A40 049    |^*"I want people, when they hear or see something from this
A40 050 country, to instantly recognise it as coming from New
A40 051 Zealand.**"
A40 052    |^Funding of the arts is another key area in which Cochrane
A40 053 sees scope for development.  ^He would like to investigate,
A40 054 while he is arts council chairman, the possibility of
A40 055 committing funds to organisations and individuals for a two or
A40 056 three-year period, rather than annually as at present.  ^Groups
A40 057 at the moment are able to plan no further than a year in
A40 058 advance, and even then they must wait for about three months
A40 059 into the financial year to receive their allocation from the
A40 060 arts council.
A40 061    |^*"I would like to think we could allow for a little more
A40 062 forward planning, so groups could be assured of funding rather
A40 063 than stumbling on from year to year.**"
A40 064    |^Effective management of resources is always uppermost in
A40 065 Cochrane's mind *- during five years as chairman of the
A40 066 Wellington City Opera Trust his flair for marketing and
A40 067 management has been proven.  ^The trust, formed as a charitable
A40 068 trust in 1981 from the old De Latour group, has progressively
A40 069 increased its budget, culminating this month with a *+$100,000
A40 070 production of *1Rigoletto.
A40 071 |^*6S*2ECURING *0a substantial sponsorship deal with Caltex Oil
A40 072 for the production of six operas was a major coup for Cochrane.
A40 073 ^Commercial enthusiasm for arts sponsorship had clearly grown
A40 074 and corporate funding should continue to be encouraged, he
A40 075 says.
A40 076    |^But there was opportunity also for an increased
A40 077 contribution to the arts from smaller businesses and
A40 078 individuals with money to spare.  ^As much revenue could be
A40 079 gathered from the smaller investor with, for example, *+$500 to
A40 080 donate, as the giant corporations.  ^*'When you add up all the
A40 081 little people's contributions you can find yourself with a
A40 082 significant amount,**" Cochrane says.
A40 083    |^At present in New Zealand probably only 1 per cent of
A40 084 finance available from the smaller sources was being tapped.
A40 085 ^Yet a large number of people with artistic and cultural
A40 086 interests would no doubt be prepared to contribute modest
A40 087 amounts to an investment pool for the arts which they knew was
A40 088 being well managed.
A40 089    |^Cochrane, to support his theory quotes a recent American
A40 090 survey which found that 7 per cent of total theatre sponsorship
A40 091 was raised from small contributors, compared to 6 per cent from
A40 092 large corporations.
A40 093    |^Clearly there was not enough money available for the arts
A40 094 in New Zealand at the moment, he says.  ^But probably no amount
A40 095 would ever be seen as adequate.  ^*"Even if *+$20 million were
A40 096 made available each year, more would be called for.**"
A40 097 |^*6C*2OCHRANE *0knows the hardships many artists suffer in
A40 098 pursuing their craft.  ^He admits he *"chickened out**" of
A40 099 pursuing an acting career in Britain when he was faced with
A40 100 having to forsake a weekly income of *+$15 from a comfortable
A40 101 desk job, for *+$5 working in repertory.
A40 102    |^*"I didn't have the courage or the confidence, really.  ^I
A40 103 was not filled with that burning ambition.  ^I was a little bit
A40 104 older than most of the excitable young actors flushed with
A40 105 enthusiasm.  ^I was not prepared to make the sacrifice.**"
A40 106    |^Before leaving New Zealand Cochrane worked in
A40 107 broadcasting, compering radio dance programmes and taking bit
A40 108 parts in radio drama.  ^He also had experience as a television
A40 109 presenter and interviewer.  ^He left Christchurch with letters
A40 110 of introduction from Ngaio Marsh to support his attempt to
A40 111 break into English theatre.
A40 112    |^Acting colleagues reached the stage.  ^He instead plumped
A40 113 for a regular income in a legal office.
A40 114    |^When Cochrane returned home he decided to make law his
A40 115 career, and the arts a hobby.  ^He played his last stage part,
A40 116 that of Henry *=IV, at the Unity Theatre in Wellington about
A40 117 1968.
A40 118 |^*6A*2RTS *0administration though time-consuming was a natural
A40 119 progression for the busy lawyer and father of two to make.
A40 120 ^But he is left still with a hankering to act.
A40 121    |^His latest appointment is unlikely to leave much time,
A40 122 however, for a return to the stage.  ^The past month has been
A40 123 taken up with detailed briefing sessions on the workings of the
A40 124 arts council squeezed around commitments to his active
A40 125 Wellington legal practice.
A40 126    |^*"It is going to be an enormously complex and delicate
A40 127 job.  ^I am only now getting to grips with how very complex it
A40 128 all is.**"
A40 129 *<*4Tongan scholar reticent over plot of new novel*>
A40 130 *<By John Richardson*>
A40 131 |^*6EPELI HAU'OFA *4doesn't want to say too much about the plot
A40 132 of his forthcoming novel.  ^Except that: ^*"It's about a
A40 133 sensitive part of the body.**" ^The hero goes on a desperate,
A40 134 world-wide cure...
A40 135    |^*0The Tongan scholar's second work of fiction, already
A40 136 accepted for publication by Penguin in New Zealand and due for
A40 137 release around March, is his first full-length novel.
A40 138    |^His first piece of fiction, *1Tales of the Tikongs, *0was
A40 139 published in 1983.  ^It sold slowly at first, but its
A40 140 acceptance as a set book in New Zealand for university entrance
A40 141 students taking a Pacific option should help to change that.
A40 142    |^*1Tikongs *0is a collection of short stories set in a
A40 143 fictional South Pacific Island nation.  ^It's irreverent,
A40 144 blasphemous and highly amusing.  ^It pokes fun at overseas
A40 145 experts, local government departments, civil servants and the
A40 146 Pacific way of life in general.
A40 147    |^How does Hau'ofa, a doctor of social anthropology
A40 148 lecturing at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji,
A40 149 measure his first novel?  ^It will make *1Tikongs *0read like
A40 150 Sunday school material, he promises.
A40 151    |^Hau'ofa is an unusual Pacific Islander and an unusual
A40 152 Tongan.  ^He was born of Tongan missionary parents in Papua New
A40 153 Guinea, spent his early childhood there *- part of it gazing up
A40 154 at Second World War aerial dogfights and wondering vaguely what
A40 155 was going on *- and spoke three {0PNG} languages before moving
A40 156 on to master English.
A40 157    |^Tongan was his fifth language.  ^He and his parents did
A40 158 not arrive home after the war until young Epeli was nine.  ^By
A40 159 the time he had finished school in Tonga and Fiji, been to
A40 160 university in Australia and Canada and returned to Tonga, where
A40 161 he worked for a time as assistant secretary to the king,
A40 162 Hau'ofa knew what he wanted to do in life.
A40 163    |^The problem was, where to start?  ^Getting recognition in
A40 164 the Pacific Islands as a writer of fiction isn't easy.  ^There
A40 165 is no real tradition of literature on the curricula of most
A40 166 schools, and education tends to be geared more to the practical
A40 167 needs of developing nations.
A40 168    |^So Hau'ofa and a friend decided to do it themselves and
A40 169 publish their own literary magazine.  ^*"It was to encourage
A40 170 other writers and to publish our own stuff,**" said Hau'ofa.
A40 171 ^*"And if it was any good, it would be picked up by
A40 172 publishers.**"
A40 173    |^His first short stories in the magazine *1Faikava
A40 174 *0(meaning a kava-drinking party) were to form the backbone of
A40 175 *1Tales of the Tikongs. ^*0Albert Wendt, the Samoan novelist
A40 176 and the major literary figure in the South Pacific, republished
A40 177 some of them in a collection and Longman Paul of New Zealand
A40 178 became interested.  ^They liked what they read and asked
A40 179 Hau'ofa for more.  ^When Hau'ofa obliged they published the
A40 180 *1Tales.
A40 181    |^*0Hau'ofa insists that Tiko *- the nation where the
A40 182 Tikongs dwell *- is not Tonga, nor is it any other place in
A40 183 particular.  ^It's a pot-pourri of his experience throughout
A40 184 the Pacific.
A40 185    |^*"Pacific Islanders in general, in this part of the South
A40 186 Pacific anyway, have an enormous sense of humour,**" said
A40 187 Hau'ofa.  ^*"This doesn't come out in other forms of writing.
A40 188 ^In fact one of my criticisms of anthropology just before I
A40 189 left Australia was that they portrayed us as so serious,
A40 190 controlled by our social structure.**"
A40 191    |^There's a character in Tikongs who brings down the wrath
A40 192 of Moses and the Israeli Defence Force after he accidentally
A40 193 uses a page of the *1Bible *0to roll a cigarette.  ^*"That was
A40 194 straight fun.  ^I was lying down smoking one day and I think
A40 195 the Seventh Day Adventists had had an antismoking campaign that
A40 196 particular week.  ^Suddenly the idea occurred to me and I
A40 197 laughed and laughed.  ^Yes, it's blasphemous, deliberately so,
A40 198 too.**"
A40 199    |^And how did religious people react to that?  ^*"In Tonga
A40 200 people can be religious but they can also be very blasphemous.
A40 201 ^Polynesians wear their religion and their righteousness and
A40 202 their conscience on their sleeves...**"
A40 203    |^Did *1Tales of the Tikongs *0upset Islanders who thought
A40 204 they were being poked fun at?  ^*"The people who have written
A40 205 to me, they can't help but laugh.  ^They may get angry later
A40 206 when they think about it, but again, this is the vein of Tonga,
A40 207 and Fiji too.  ^Socialising with people, you don't criticise
A40 208 directly.  ^You put your criticisms through humour.  ^It's more
A40 209 acceptable.
A40 210    |^*"If you go too direct, you are uncouth.  ^But if you
A40 211 snake your way around, that's better.  ^At big gatherings you
A40 212 might get people who stand up and rib each other.  ^People may
A40 213 get angry later, but by then it's too late.**"
A40 214    |^For Hau'ofa, writing fiction doesn't come easy.  ^*"I'm a
A40 215 slow writer.  ^I don't write consistently, I have to wait for
A40 216 inspiration, but once the inspiration is there it totally grabs
A40 217 you and it can stay for months and months.**"
A40 218    |^When he has the inspiration, nothing interrupts him.
A40 219 ^Lying on his stomach, surrounded by cushions and scribbling in
A40 220 longhand, he writes his best work.
A40 221    |^Hau'ofa regards himself as lucky.  ^He has the time to
A40 222 write fiction.  ^*"Writing is a privilege in the South Pacific
A40 223 today, because you've got to put yourself in a position to be
A40 224 free to write.**" ^Most bright young writers were university
A40 225 students who went on to important jobs where their talent was
A40 226 badly needed in newly independent countries.
A40 227    |^That's why Hau'ofa is among the frontiersmen of modern
A40 228 Pacific Islands literature.  ^*"It's exciting to know you are
A40 229 in a field in a region in which you are one of the pioneers.
A40 230 ^Not because you want to be pioneer, but because it's a virgin
A40 231 field.**"
A40 232 *#
A41 001 **[041 TEXT A41**]
A41 002 *<*4Under-age sex, ignorance shown*>
A41 003 *<*0{0NZPA} Wellington*>
A41 004    |^About one third of 15-year-old female students from the
A41 005 Hutt district are sexually active, but knowledge of
A41 006 contraception among the group is *"extremely poor,**" a new
A41 007 survey shows.
A41 008    |^The survey of 389 girls in Hutt secondary schools was
A41 009 carried out in June by the Health Department's community
A41 010 medicine registrar, \0Dr Hasel Lewis.
A41 011    |^Girls who consented and had their parents' permission
A41 012 answered questionnaires on reproductive health anonymously.
A41 013    |^Forty-three per cent of the sexually active girls had only
A41 014 one partner.
A41 015    |^\0Dr Lewis said she was concerned that 16 per cent of the
A41 016 sample of sexually active girls were not using contraception.
A41 017    |^Knowledge of reproductive health facts was extremely poor
A41 018 among both the sexually inexperienced and experienced
A41 019 respondents.
A41 020    |^Twenty-six of the sample relied on peers for information
A41 021 on reproduction; mothers, teachers and books were other
A41 022 important sources.
A41 023    |^\0Dr Lewis said the condom was the most frequently used
A41 024 method of contraception followed by the Pill.
A41 025    |^The majority of those surveyed indicated they would like
A41 026 more information on sexually transmitted diseases,
A41 027 contraception and sexual relationships.
A41 028    |^Preferred sources of information in order of preference
A41 029 were, parents, books, films and videos, a family planning
A41 030 clinic and friends.
A41 031    |^\0Dr Lewis said the survey showed the importance of school
A41 032 programmes on sex education which should begin at an early age.
A41 033    |^Education programmes should be appropriate to the
A41 034 developmental age of children and emphasise the risks of
A41 035 pregnancy as well as of acquiring transmitted diseases.
A41 036    |^She said sex education programmes for under 16 year olds
A41 037 in secondary schools were only just getting under way, and
A41 038 while they were excellent, more information was needed.
A41 039 *<*4Chris is now a leading light in glass*>
A41 040    |^*"*0Gosh, you are a woman!**" some clients exclaim when
A41 041 they arrive at Hawke's Bay lead-light maker Chris Smith's back
A41 042 door.
A41 043    |^*"We never thought a woman could do lead-light, cutting
A41 044 all that heavy glass,**" they confess obviously impressed with
A41 045 the work displayed in her studio.
A41 046    |^Proving herself as capable as any man on the job has been
A41 047 Hawke's Bay's only woman lead-light maker's most difficult task
A41 048 in her first year of business.
A41 049 *<*4Traditionally a male job*>
A41 050    |^*0*"Some people just find it impossible to accept a woman
A41 051 working in what is traditionally a male-dominated job,**" says
A41 052 Chris.
A41 053    |^*"When clients phone they ask to speak to the lead-light
A41 054 maker.  ^There's often a long silence when I explain that's me.
A41 055 ^It's just as well *'Chris**' could be a man or a woman,**" she
A41 056 quips.
A41 057    |^*"I was manning a display at a craft show, when a male
A41 058 friend came over and spoke to me.  ^Meanwhile, a client came
A41 059 asking my male friend if he could look at his lead-lights.
A41 060    |^*"My friend told him it was I who did the work, but the
A41 061 client just kept talking to my friend.  ^It happened three
A41 062 times before the client just walked out.  ^He couldn't bring
A41 063 himself to even talk to me,**" she says.
A41 064    |^However, the 32-year-old certainly has not let other
A41 065 people's prejudices interfere with her work, which decorates
A41 066 the foyers, hall ways and windows of many Hawke's Bay business
A41 067 houses, churches and home lounges.
A41 068    |^Big, bold, colourful feature windows are her forte.
A41 069    |^She has created everything from flowers to a peacock on
A41 070 full parade and a farming scene featuring cows, sheep and pigs
A41 071 on a butcher's window.
A41 072 *<*4Unusual window for butcher*>
A41 073    |^*0Among her proudest accomplishments was the peacock 
A41 074 lead-light, on the Onekawa Hotel Peacock Room, which, due to its
A41 075 complex design, required a great deal of effort and time.
A41 076    |^She cites the butcher's window as among her most unusual
A41 077 projects.  ^The window features a great many animals in a
A41 078 meadow.
A41 079    |^*"You could almost call it a child's painting, it's got
A41 080 everything in it even big fluffy clouds.
A41 081    |^*"Some clients request certain designs like a still life
A41 082 or fuchsia but others just leave it up to me.**"
A41 083    |^Once a pattern has been agreed upon, Chris retires to her
A41 084 work room in her Korokipo country cottage and sets about the
A41 085 delicate task of making the lead-light.
A41 086    |^Basically the procedure involves choosing the type of
A41 087 glass, cutting specific shapes from it, soldering it all
A41 088 together and glazing.
A41 089    |^The glass used as colour is not made in New Zealand, it is
A41 090 exported from overseas, mainly from the United States, France,
A41 091 Belgium, Germany and Australia.
A41 092    |^*"It's a job which demands much precision and abundant
A41 093 patience.  ^You've got to get each step perfect before you can
A41 094 progress to the next otherwise you're just wasting your
A41 095 time.**"
A41 096 *<*4Steady demand for her work*>
A41 097    |^*0A steady demand for her work has enabled Chris to earn a
A41 098 living from light-lighting which she says is becoming popular
A41 099 among all sectors of the community.
A41 100    |^Evidence of its growing popularity is demonstrated by the
A41 101 increasing number of people from teenagers to pensioners,
A41 102 flocking to Chris's night classes at both Napier and Colenso
A41 103 High Schools.
A41 104    |^*"Once the classes comprised nearly all women but now men
A41 105 too are becoming interested in learning the art,**" she says.
A41 106    |^Her work sells anywhere from about *+$40 to thousands of
A41 107 dollars depending on its complexity and time taken to create
A41 108 it.
A41 109    |^*"Its much more profitable making larger feature windows
A41 110 than say smaller lamp-shades,**" she said.  ^*"To make any
A41 111 profit on the lamp-shades which take much time and effort, I
A41 112 need to sell them for about *+$40 and there are few people
A41 113 prepared to pay that much for what looks so little.  ^But they
A41 114 are much happier to pay hundreds of dollars for a big work.**"
A41 115 *<*'*4Don't stand on the glass**'*>
A41 116    |^*0Chris receives much positive feedback from her clients,
A41 117 who are proud to have her work gracing their homes.
A41 118    |^*"I felt so sorry for one client,**" recalls Chris, who
A41 119 gave him instructions on how to care for his lead-light when he
A41 120 collected it.
A41 121    |^*"He was giving his children strict instructions on
A41 122 admiring it from a distance when he stepped back and stood
A41 123 right in the middle of it.  ^He felt so embarrassed phoning me
A41 124 up, asking that I repair it.**"
A41 125    |^Chris is disappointed some Hawke's Bay business people
A41 126 search for lead-light makers outside the district.
A41 127    |^*"Many business firms don't even realise Hawke's Bay has
A41 128 its own lead-light makers and there is no need for them to buy
A41 129 from outside the area.
A41 130    |^*"Originality is the greatest advantage lead-lighting
A41 131 offers, for you'll never find rows of the same work in a chain
A41 132 store.
A41 133    |^*"Each work has its own strengths and qualities,**" she
A41 134 said.
A41 135    |^Chris's interest in lead-lighting grew from a hobby seven
A41 136 years ago.
A41 137    |^*"I used to observe lead-lighters at work while home in
A41 138 Christchurch and eventually they got so sick of me they gave me
A41 139 a sheet of glass and said *'here go away and have a go.**'**"
A41 140 *<*4Self-employment *'a greater teacher**'*>
A41 141    |^*0It was not long before Chris turned the family caravan
A41 142 into a lead-light work shop and eventually she obtained
A41 143 employment with a Christchurch glass company.
A41 144    |^Six years ago she moved to Hawke's Bay to further her
A41 145 lead-light experience with other firms before setting up her
A41 146 own business in December last year.
A41 147    |^*"You certainly learn a lot having your own business for
A41 148 there isn't anyone telling you what to do next.  ^You learn how
A41 149 to communicate with people and it's been a good experience
A41 150 handling the book work side of it as well,**" Chris said.
A41 151    |^Although she is kept busy fulfilling the many orders on
A41 152 her books, Chris eventually hopes to venture into glass making,
A41 153 which she says would complement the lead-light process.
A41 154 *<*4Education in action*>
A41 155    |^*6*"T*4HE staff and students were full of enthusiasm.
A41 156 ^They are keen to try the idea again.**"
A41 157 |^*0This is how economics teacher Anne Dobbie described the
A41 158 outcome of a three-day consumer awareness intensive at
A41 159 Broadgreen Intermediate School this year.
A41 160    |^She thinks the programme got off to a good start because
A41 161 teachers were impressed and inspired by the newly available
A41 162 consumer education resource material.
A41 163    |^*"The kits are full of appealing, easy-to-use ideas,**"
A41 164 she said.  ^*"Teachers saw immediately how the materials could
A41 165 be used to meet the needs of their students. ^*"They felt at
A41 166 ease with the content because they could relate it to their own
A41 167 consumer experience.**"
A41 168    |^The staff co-operated to develop lessons on a series of
A41 169 themes such as the appeal of advertising, consumer rights,
A41 170 television advertising, supermarket shopping and the way people
A41 171 choose and use goods.
A41 172    |^Students were exposed to three options over the three
A41 173 days.
A41 174    |^*"The programme had an immediate appeal,**" said Anne
A41 175 Dobbie. *"the students could all see themselves in a consumer
A41 176 situation, so interest level was high.**"
A41 177    |^Here is what students Kandy Boffa, Joanna Hargreaves,
A41 178 Vanessa Bunt, Brigette Furlong, Amelia Jacobson and Gaye Berry
A41 179 had to say:
A41 180    |^*"\0Mrs Bunting taught us we had the right to return any
A41 181 product if it was faulty.  ^Most people our age don't want to
A41 182 take things back because they are afraid shopkeepers will not
A41 183 listen to children...**"
A41 184 |^*"\0Mr Smith and \0Mr Rait taught us how companies use
A41 185 children, pretty women and handsome men to sell their
A41 186 products...**"
A41 187    |^*"Writing and acting out our own version of *1Fair Go
A41 188 *0was a good way to get our points across.  ^We learned how to
A41 189 stick up for ourselves if we ever get into that sort of
A41 190 situation...**"
A41 191    |^*"We watched some television advertisements and discussed
A41 192 what we thought was right or wrong with them.  ^We considered
A41 193 whether they were realistic or if they were trying to con
A41 194 us...**"
A41 195    |^*"We learned about things we need and things we don't
A41 196 need, how to be better consumers and how to get the best
A41 197 bargains we could...**"
A41 198    |^*"It was great going into the community.  ^In the
A41 199 supermarket we looked at different products and compared
A41 200 prices...**"
A41 201    |^*"We're glad we did consumer education, because we feel
A41 202 more confident buying products now, and we're not afraid to
A41 203 take them back if they're faulty...**"
A41 204 *<*4Helping others to Grow*> *<By *6JESMA MAGILL*>
A41 205    |^*0Nancy has spent over 40 years looking at the power of
A41 206 the mind over the body.
A41 207    |^*"Somebody I cared for very much had an emotional tie-up
A41 208 in his life.  ^I found psychiatry no help at all, and I'm 
A41 209 anti-drugs unless they're absolutely necessary.**"
A41 210    |^Nancy is one of the leaders of Grow (Group Recovery
A41 211 Organisations of the World) in Hastings.  ^It is a group set up
A41 212 to help people who have had nervous breakdowns or who simply
A41 213 feel they cannot cope with their lives.
A41 214    |^She said Grow has helped her realise her problems stemmed
A41 215 from self-pity, resentment, and anxiety about the situation she
A41 216 was in.
A41 217    |^*"I thought I was a pretty good wife, but it was being a
A41 218 better person that was more important.**"
A41 219    |^Grow was set up in Sydney in 1957 by a group of former
A41 220 mental patients attending {0AA} (Alcoholics Anonymous)
A41 221 meetings.  ^They were not alcoholics, but they found {0AA} the
A41 222 best way to have their needs met.
A41 223    |^The former patients felt the self-help emphasis of the
A41 224 {0AA} programme was what made it so successful, so they decided
A41 225 to set up something similar.
A41 226    |^The group was brought together by a common need to get
A41 227 back into society after a mental breakdown.  ^By pooling
A41 228 resources, they found they were being helped and were helping
A41 229 others as well.
A41 230    |^The group first called itself Recovery but had to change
A41 231 its name because there was a group in Hawaii with the same
A41 232 name.  ^So it was renamed Grow.
A41 233    |^Grow caught on in New South Wales, and by the 1960s was
A41 234 established in every Australian State.
A41 235    |^There are now also groups in Ireland, the United States,
A41 236 England and Singapore.
A41 237    |^In New Zealand there are groups in Gore, Invercargill,
A41 238 Winton, Morrinsville, Tauranga, Wanganui, Wellington,
A41 239 Christchurch, Auckland and Hastings.
A41 240    |^The Hastings Grow group which has been going for nearly
A41 241 three years, meets in the Wesley Lounge every Tuesday.  ^There
A41 242 are two groups, one morning and one evening.
A41 243    |^The group isn't only for people who have had breakdowns.
A41 244 ^Preventive therapy is an important aspect of it *- problems
A41 245 are best tackled before they seem unsolvable.
A41 246    |^At this meeting there are five women and a little boy
A41 247 playing in the corner.
A41 248    |^There is no smoking *- physical health is important too.
A41 249    |^Joan, in her 50s, tall, strong and capable-looking, says:
A41 250 ^*"When I came to Grow I was obviously looking for something.
A41 251 ^I was suffering from depression, and withdrawal. ^I just didn't
A41 252 want to mix with people.**"
A41 253    |^Ironically, she was trained in psychology.  ^It was her
A41 254 major subject for her bachelor of arts degree.
A41 255    |^She is also a trained nurse.
A41 256    |^*"I knew I was going downhill.  ^I could diagnose myself,
A41 257 but couldn't do anything about it.
A41 258 *#
A42 001 **[042 TEXT A42**]
A42 002 *<*4Food boffins forge links*>
A42 003 *<By *6NGAIRE HOPPER*>
A42 004 |^T*2HE *0New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial
A42 005 Research ({0DSIR}) has over the past decade increased its links
A42 006 with the private sector, particularly in food research.
A42 007    |^Because New Zealand produces and exports such a wide range
A42 008 of quality food products, the department places a high priority
A42 009 on food research.
A42 010    |^Consumers often overlook the fact that the {0DSIR} has
A42 011 helped improve the range, quality and price of products on
A42 012 local and overseas supermarket shelves.
A42 013    |^From its many scientific disciplines, the department draws
A42 014 the expertise needed to develop new products.
A42 015    |^For the past 10 years, scientists have accompanied
A42 016 marketing experts overseas, to help with aspects of the new
A42 017 food products.  ^Approaching the marketplace with a united team
A42 018 allows New Zealand trade missions to meet fully all potential
A42 019 customer requirements.
A42 020    |^An added bonus, is that scientists can gauge the condition
A42 021 of the marketplace for projects they are researching back home.
A42 022 *<*4Eye on Asean*>
A42 023    |^*0Over the years, the benefit of having a complementary
A42 024 scientific and technical presence within the marketing
A42 025 environment has become evident.
A42 026    |^Early this year, the department decided to set up an
A42 027 operational base in Singapore, with an eye on the markets of
A42 028 Asean nations and their 260 million population.
A42 029    |^\0Mr Norman Lodge, the scientist in charge, was back in
A42 030 Wellington for one day last week.  ^I asked him how the New
A42 031 Zealand {0DSIR} food research and development centre
A42 032 (Singapore) was progressing.
A42 033    |^During his first six months in the region, \0Mr Lodge
A42 034 visited 44 local companies and organisations.  ^He is also
A42 035 involved with companies in West Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong
A42 036 and Indonesia.
A42 037    |^He hosted a {0DSIR} display at the first Asean Scientific
A42 038 and Technology conference in Kuala Lumpur, and delivered papers
A42 039 at the inaugural meeting of the Asean-New Zealand Business
A42 040 Council in Jakarta.
A42 041    |^He can act as trouble-shooter by virtue of being the
A42 042 person on the spot, for local companies who export to New
A42 043 Zealand and is looking for opportunities within Asean to tie
A42 044 together, by the use of science and technology, joint-venture
A42 045 companies.
A42 046    |^Much publicity has been generated in Asian newspapers and
A42 047 business reviews, and the New Zealand scientific presence in
A42 048 Singapore has become well-known.
A42 049 *<*4Nuts and bolts*>
A42 050    |^*"*0There are benefits all round,**" says \0Mr Lodge.
A42 051 ^*"It is not an easy market.  ^It is an extremely 
A42 052 cost-conscious one, and it's not like trying to promote a product
A42 053 per se.
A42 054    |^*"What we are trying to promote is a concept, in terms of
A42 055 scientific research and development, and science and
A42 056 technology.  ^And that is infinitely more difficult to promote
A42 057 than nuts and bolts.
A42 058    |^*"The New Zealand trade commissioner is responsible for
A42 059 the marketing side of things, helping New Zealand companies who
A42 060 export into the region.  ^{0DSIR} is the technical arm.
A42 061    |^*"We have been most useful to each other and have a very
A42 062 good understanding of each other's roles, and to my way of
A42 063 thinking it is very useful to observe the way in which the
A42 064 marketing and technical sides can help each other,**" he says.
A42 065    |^*"The whole thing has come together in a very professional
A42 066 manner.  ^We have done something new.  ^I am not aware of any
A42 067 other country in the world trying this before, precisely in
A42 068 this way.
A42 069    |^*"With the support of the private sector, Government
A42 070 departments and trade organisations, we have been able to make
A42 071 it become a reality in a short period of time, which really
A42 072 only goes to emphasise the need for such a position.
A42 073    |^*"If I raise initiatives in Singapore, then I'm very
A42 074 reliant on my {0DSIR} base back in New Zealand to follow up
A42 075 those inquiries, and I have had tremendous support from
A42 076 them,**" he says.
A42 077 p31 *<*4Family doctor*>
A42 078 *<Safeguarding children*>
A42 079 |^*6W*2E DON'T *0seem to be having much effect with the
A42 080 campaigns to reduce accidents involving children.  ^So, it is
A42 081 some satisfaction to find that burns in children appear to be
A42 082 declining in frequency.  ^Those of us who haven't much faith in
A42 083 public education might like to consider that the only way the
A42 084 decline can have happened, if it's indeed real, is due to an
A42 085 increased perception by many people of the dangers to children
A42 086 of burning, and these people have carried out effective
A42 087 measures to minimise the dangers.
A42 088 *<*4Scalds*>
A42 089    |^*0Lowering temperatures in the hot-water tap systems of
A42 090 the nation would reduce scalds, but the idea doesn't seem to
A42 091 have caught on with any frequency as yet.
A42 092    |^But considerable effort has been made to alter the
A42 093 composition of children's nightwear *- burns from flammable
A42 094 nightwear materials have been all too common.  ^Many people
A42 095 have been unaware of the difference in the flammable properties
A42 096 of the many products available from which nighties and pyjamas
A42 097 are made, and shops have been slow to label the materials
A42 098 correctly, let alone have the shop assistants well-versed about
A42 099 the flammable qualities of the goods.
A42 100    |^All children's night clothes sold in the shops have had to
A42 101 comply with the Safety of Children's Night Clothes Act.  ^But
A42 102 there has been no such general control over home-made clothes,
A42 103 and hence the big effort to make the public aware of what is a
A42 104 suitable material and what isn't.
A42 105    |^Cotton and rayon, for instance, burn readily and very
A42 106 quickly. ^Polyester and nylon are pretty slow off the mark.
A42 107 ^Some acrylics burn rapidly; some slowly.  ^As you might
A42 108 expect, mixtures of cottons and rayons are very rapid burning,
A42 109 and although New Zealand sheep farms are having a hard time at
A42 110 the moment and wool may not be the best overseas earner, wool
A42 111 is difficult to get to burn.
A42 112    |^So it pays to bear these general thoughts in mind when
A42 113 choosing materials for nightwear.  ^And it pays to remember
A42 114 that close-fitting clothes burn less readily than the floppy
A42 115 loose kind.  ^If the shop assistant is unsure about the nature
A42 116 of the material, and you suspect that it may not be up to
A42 117 scratch, better not to buy it, despite its perhaps compelling
A42 118 attractiveness.  ^Much better to have a material whose safety
A42 119 is assured than arms, legs or a body that are permanently
A42 120 scarred because your child leaned too close to the fire or the
A42 121 gas ring in their night clothes.
A42 122 *<*4It's official *- men can't cope with Christmas*>
A42 123    |^*0Men are psychologically and emotionally ill-equipped to
A42 124 cope with the stresses and strains of Christmas.
A42 125    |^In fact, a surprising number are filled with dread when
A42 126 anticipating this festive time.  ^If it's any consolation at
A42 127 all, this is quite normal.  ^But there's no reason, says Peter
A42 128 Pascoe, a counsellor at the Glenburn Centre in Auckland, why
A42 129 men can't take hold of their own destiny and make a determined
A42 130 effort to change.
A42 131    |^Don Reekie, a Presbyterian counsellor at Friendship House
A42 132 in Auckland, says Christmas is not always the time of peace and
A42 133 goodwill that it's meant to be for everyone.
A42 134    |^*"But businessmen, in particular, find Christmas
A42 135 difficult.  ^From the business or the retail world or whatever
A42 136 they are doing, they go into an intense home and family
A42 137 situation.  ^It's not easy for men.**"
A42 138    |^*"Christmas is a time when success or rather competence is
A42 139 all about relating successfully to people.  ^Men get their
A42 140 sense of competence from being successful in the world outside
A42 141 the family *- from their work.  ^Their whole concept of
A42 142 themselves is bound up with work and promotion,**" says \0Mr
A42 143 Pascoe.
A42 144    |^*"Its harder for men than for women to stop working.
A42 145 ^That's why we men retire then promptly die.  ^We have no other
A42 146 way of achieving a sense of competence.**"
A42 147    |^To test Peter Pascoe's theory I conducted a small survey
A42 148 with men who had successful careers in the business world.
A42 149    |^One found the whole Christmas ritual a complete bore, a
A42 150 waste of time.  ^He simply avoided family gatherings and
A42 151 festivities all his life, and continued with his work.
A42 152    |^Another confirmed it was for him the worst time of the
A42 153 year because of the expectations built into Christmas which
A42 154 mean having to entertain.
A42 155    |^*"I just don't know what to do,**" he said.  ^*"I feel at
A42 156 a loss.  ^Sure, women have lots to do, and they're under
A42 157 stress.  ^But they seem to be able to cope.  ^It can also be
A42 158 the loneliest time of your life for men like myself, who are
A42 159 single or separated from their wives.**"
A42 160    |^\0Mr Pascoe says men have to stop and take a look at the
A42 161 benefits of making an effort to relate to people in a real way.
A42 162    |^*"They have got to realise they are cutting themselves off
A42 163 from a large and important slice of life.  ^There's no simple
A42 164 solution which will make this Christmas \0OK.  ^I cannot just
A42 165 say... do this... and you'll enjoy Christmas this year.  ^It will
A42 166 be a real struggle, as it has been for women changing their
A42 167 sense of competence when they are entering the business world.
A42 168    |^*"We men are somewhat behind women in making changes.  ^We
A42 169 need to feel it's \0OK to be sensitive and to enjoy our family
A42 170 relationships as well as being masculine.
A42 171    |^*"Because men are often not involved in the ritual of
A42 172 buying presents for the family, the organisation of Christmas
A42 173 visiting and dinner, cooking and so on, and they don't have the
A42 174 skill to relate to those around them, they'll hit the booze.
A42 175 ^There are all sorts of things which compound the problem.**"
A42 176 ^Alcohol is about the only ritual men have which enables them
A42 177 to relax and enjoy themselves.
A42 178    |^*"But it acts as a trigger for violence,**" says Alec
A42 179 Abraham, the director of the Alcohol and Drug Dependency
A42 180 Service in Auckland.  ^Inhibitions are released and urges to
A42 181 violence become more likely.
A42 182    |^John Elvidge, the director of the Campbell Centre in
A42 183 Christchurch, says the Christmas ritual is a stressor similar
A42 184 to divorce or death.
A42 185    |^*"The build up which happens at this time of the year is
A42 186 like adding bricks on bricks.  ^Having the kids around
A42 187 constantly, having to find jobs for them, having to handle
A42 188 office parties, drinking too much *- they all add strain.
A42 189    |^*"It depends on when men place themselves on the social
A42 190 structure.  ^Some men build up to a frenzy before Christmas
A42 191 trying to clear the desk.  ^They deal with more people at this
A42 192 time, so a real cacophony builds up which becomes 
A42 193 over-whelming.  ^And as compensation they drink too much and are a
A42 194 real pain to be with at home.
A42 195    |^*"Men don't feel as free to express their emotion as
A42 196 women.  ^They find it harder to diffuse stress.  ^They don't
A42 197 allow themselves to say *- I can't cope *- or burst into tears.
A42 198 ^They cope in counterproductive ways *- drinking, working
A42 199 harder or getting angry.  ^This lack of emotional outlet is
A42 200 another contributing factor to stress which is probably
A42 201 exacerbated around Christmas time,**" says \0Mr Elvidge.
A42 202    |^John Dugdale, another counsellor at the Campbell Centre,
A42 203 believes Christmas is equally stressful for men and women, but
A42 204 especially for those who are working in business.
A42 205    |^*"We set ourselves targets for getting things done and
A42 206 wind ourselves up thinking about the work to be done.  ^But
A42 207 life goes on after Christmas.
A42 208    |^*"I like the idea of comparing the situation to a bank.
A42 209 ^You're in emotional overdraft.  ^If you draw on more than
A42 210 you've got, before you pay the bank back, you're going to get
A42 211 yourself into trouble.  ^During this period there's too much
A42 212 social contribution.
A42 213    |^*"It's important to accept that if you are under pressure,
A42 214 it takes time to wind down.  ^Openly acknowledge this fact to
A42 215 the family.  ^Say you've been busy lately and if you are
A42 216 irritable then you're trying to unwind.**"
A42 217    |^Talking and sharing your feelings will help others around
A42 218 you to be more understanding and this will help to diffuse
A42 219 stressful situations.
A42 220    |^So, c'mon men, take the risk.  ^This Christmas, how about
A42 221 sitting down and talking to your family.  ^Plan ahead so
A42 222 everybody shares the responsibility of creating a fun time.
A42 223 ^There are lots of benefits to be gained, not just at Christmas
A42 224 time.
A42 225 *<*4After-care essential*>
A42 226    |^*0The director of the Hastings Psychiatric Unit, \0Dr
A42 227 Edwards, says after-care accommodation is a problem for
A42 228 psychiatric patients.
A42 229    |^*"The hospital board is working on an improved programme
A42 230 of development which includes half-way houses and hostels,**"
A42 231 he says, *"but these things always take longer to happen than
A42 232 you think.
A42 233    |^*"Frankly, the biggest obstacle to opening anything like
A42 234 this is public resistance *- based on fear, I think, and lack
A42 235 of knowledge.**"
A42 236    |^After-care is an important priority for the unit, \0Dr
A42 237 Edwards says.
A42 238    |^*"While most psychiatric illnesses are potentially
A42 239 recurrent, the aim of after-care is to prevent that
A42 240 happening.**"
A42 241 *#
A43 001 **[043 TEXT A43**]
A43 002 *<*4Beauty and the feast*> *<by Pamela Stirling*>
A43 003 |^Three beauty pageants screen this week.  ^We can watch
A43 004 Barbara Riley, \0Mrs New Zealand, crowned \0Mrs World in
A43 005 Hawaii.  ^But visiting health and beauty expert Leslie Kenton
A43 006 claims that beauty can be a curse.
A43 007 |^**6T*2HE WITCH *0in room 408 of the West Plaza Hotel is
A43 008 adamant.  ^*"Being born beautiful,**" she says, *"is a
A43 009 *1curse.*0**"
A43 010    |^She should know.  ^American-born Leslie Kenton might have
A43 011 a reputation, in the little Welsh village in which she now
A43 012 lives, for being a witch because of all her naturopathic
A43 013 knowledge.  ^But Kenton, who for the past 12 years has been
A43 014 health and beauty editor of *1Harpers & Queen, *0also has a
A43 015 reputation for her natural beauty.
A43 016    |^*"It's not that nice, you know,**" she says, *"to feel
A43 017 that the only thing some people want to be with you for is
A43 018 because your good looks enhance their social status.  ^But the
A43 019 real curse,**" says Kenton, *"is that life for most
A43 020 conventionally beautiful women is so *1easy, *0huh? ^Most of
A43 021 them don't do anything at all with their lives.  ^They simply
A43 022 measure their self-worth by the wealth of the husband they
A43 023 manage to attract.
A43 024    |^*"Okay, okay,**" concedes Kenton, *"some of these women
A43 025 run, yeah, a little boutique or a modelling agency.  ^But it's
A43 026 still to do with being an object.  ^It's why you get them
A43 027 entering beauty contests.  ^To have their worth as an object
A43 028 validated.  ^To be priced.
A43 029    |^*"Beauty contests are so *1tedious,**" *0groans Kenton,
A43 030 author of the best selling do-it-yourself vitality manual *1The
A43 031 Joy of Beauty.
A43 032    |^*"*0It's like having artificial Christmas trees.  ^Same
A43 033 mentality.  ^They're all standardised objects that you hang
A43 034 tinsel on.  ^The girls all look the same.  ^They have the same
A43 035 long hair which is *1never *0cut with style.  ^Wear the same
A43 036 lipgloss.  ^They all say the same monotonous, wholesome,
A43 037 American things: you know, ^*'\2Ah enjoy jazzercise, travel and
A43 038 am fond of world peace**'.  ^It's so \2*1bor-ring.**"
A43 039 |^*2HER OPINIONS *0may not be exactly new.  ^But they might be
A43 040 worth memorising.  ^Leslie Kenton, according to a recent
A43 041 *1Cosmopolitan *0magazine, *"is the woman *1everyone *0reads
A43 042 and quotes**".
A43 043    |^How come?  ^Because Kenton has published in the last three
A43 044 years no less than six bestsellers on diet and beauty.
A43 045 ^Several of these books, which include *1Raw Energy, Ageless
A43 046 Ageing, *0and *1The Biogenic Diet, *0have already been made
A43 047 into television series.  ^Living *"the Kenton way**" revolves
A43 048 around a high-potency, natural diet.  ^It includes eating 75
A43 049 percent of your food raw in the form of fresh fruit,
A43 050 vegetables, sprouted seeds and grains, eating fruit alone for
A43 051 breakfast, *1never *0mixing concentrated proteins with
A43 052 concentrated starches, doing non-strenuous exercise, fasting
A43 053 regularly and perhaps taking just *1slightly *0unnatural
A43 054 nutritional supplements.  ^Do this, she says, and you'll cure
A43 055 everything from cellulite, wrinkles and jet lag to chronic
A43 056 rheumatoid arthritis and cancer.
A43 057    |^Although by no means accepted by orthodox medical
A43 058 practitioners and dieticians, her work is authoritative: Kenton
A43 059 was last year invited to deliver the McCarrison lecture at the
A43 060 Royal Society of Medicine.
A43 061    |^Kenton has now become, to quote her own publicity, *"the
A43 062 guru of health and fitness**".
A43 063    |^*"Uh, uh,**" she says, *"No *1way.  ^*0I hate that stuff.
A43 064 ^The problem is that you write a book about health and energy
A43 065 and youthfulness and people immediately think you're Jesus
A43 066 Christ.  ^Then when you insist you're not, they're *1certain
A43 067 *0you are, because you're humble as well.**"
A43 068    |^The fact that Kenton always wears white does not, she
A43 069 insists, have anything to do with, well, guru-ness.  ^*"No,
A43 070 I've been wearing white, all white, for 13 years.  ^I just wear
A43 071 it because... well, I suppose it washes easily.**" ^*1Washes
A43 072 easily?  ^*"*0Oh, well, maybe also because its a very calming
A43 073 colour.  ^I feel simple in white.**"
A43 074    |^Right now Kenton is wearing a large, soft, ultra-white
A43 075 jersey that looks as though it's been handknitted out of
A43 076 carefully squeezed toothpaste.  ^It is the perfect setting for
A43 077 her wonderful teeth.  ^But Kenton has decided that she doesn't
A43 078 have to impress.  ^Stuff it.  ^She stretches out her long
A43 079 167\0cm frame in her chair: the *"outsize-gorilla feet**"
A43 080 about which she was once so self-conscious on full display in
A43 081 the centre of the room.
A43 082    |^Kenton has just come in from a morning out in the cold.
A43 083 ^Her exquisite retrousse*?2 nose is bright red.  ^And it drips.
A43 084 ^Kenton shows not the slightest embarrassment about sniffing *-
A43 085 the insufflation elegantly aided by the back of her hand.  ^The
A43 086 lady doesn't normally have to carry a *1hanky.  ^*0She is a
A43 087 picture of rude health.
A43 088    |^She sits there, the perfect exponent of the make-your-own-
A43 089 deodorant-out-of-spinach school of beauty, and talks about the
A43 090 body insecurity of so many women.  ^About the anorexia and
A43 091 compulsive bingeing and bulimia and *"all those crazy 
A43 092 low-calorie diets**".
A43 093    |^*"The girls in beauty contests normally go on strict diets
A43 094 beforehand, right?  ^They lose weight all right.  ^But they
A43 095 lose it in both protein tissue *- muscle *- and fat.  ^When
A43 096 they put the weight back on again as your body *1always *0does
A43 097 with calorie-controlled diets, they gain back not the protein
A43 098 but more fat.  ^So over the years women get flabbier and
A43 099 flabbier.  ^Oh, they might weigh well within the insurance
A43 100 company statistics of what women their height should weigh, but
A43 101 you feel their flesh.  ^Ugh.  ^Not nice.**"
A43 102    |^The sub-clinical nutritional deficiencies most diets
A43 103 create are very dangerous, adds Kenton.  ^*"You don't only get
A43 104 poor nails and poor hair.  ^You get depression and anxiety and
A43 105 fatigue.**" ^It causes many women, she says, to age very badly.
A43 106    |^Not to worry.  ^The Biogenic Diet not only prevents
A43 107 premature ageing and wrinkles.  ^It can also, says Kenton,
A43 108 rejuvenate.  ^But to have the vitality of true health and
A43 109 beauty you need to feel *1okay *0about yourself and most women,
A43 110 she says, simply don't.  ^Kenton talks about self-creation,
A43 111 self-responsibility, self-*1actualisation.  ^*"*0I don't mean
A43 112 that American stuff where you look in the mirror and say,^*'By
A43 113 God, Leslie, I love you.**' ^I'm talking about being gentle
A43 114 with yourself; not being critical of yourself; not being so
A43 115 critical of yourself and of everyone else around you.  ^Using
A43 116 that energy to do what you really want to do.**"
A43 117    |^Kenton has, in fact, self-actualised herself into being
A43 118 everything from an actress and acupuncturist to an 
A43 119 encounter-group leader and Dutzi practitioner.  ^Here is a woman who
A43 120 *"adores**" Tibetans.  ^Has *"visions**".  ^Who has had her
A43 121 life *"transformed**" by Michelangelo's David and Beethoven's
A43 122 7th.  ^Who has lived celibate in a Catholic convent (but is
A43 123 actually *"into Buddhism**").  ^Whose favourite book, she
A43 124 volunteers, is *1Wuthering Heights.  ^*"*0Or, maybe Dostoevsky.
A43 125 ^Anyway, that kind of thing.**" ^This is a woman who as a
A43 126 seven-year-old in 1948 saw *1Hamlet *0no fewer than seven
A43 127 times: ^*"I was so in harmony with his character, now isn't
A43 128 that just weird for a seven-year-old?**" ^A child who spent
A43 129 hours on her stomach listening to Stravinsky and who ^*"fell in
A43 130 love with *- get this *- the *1beast in Cocteau's {0*1La Belle
A43 131 et La Bete}**".  ^*0Kenton is fascinated by herself.  ^Heck,
A43 132 she *1likes *0herself.  ^This self-love is the core of her
A43 133 vitality and beauty.  ^It took her a long, long time to find
A43 134 it.
A43 135 |^*2LESLIE KENTON'S MOTHER *0was ashamed of her pregnancy.
A43 136 ^*"You couldn't even tell she was pregnant just a week before
A43 137 she had me because she was so ashamed of it all.  ^She didn't
A43 138 like the whole process of giving birth.  ^I wasn't breastfed.
A43 139 ^She left me with my grandmother when I was two, two weeks
A43 140 old.**"
A43 141    |^When she was four, Kenton, the only child of jazz musician
A43 142 Stan Kenton, was handed back by her grandmother to her mother.
A43 143 ^*"It nearly killed me,**" says Kenton.
A43 144    |^She became a fierce rebellious child, with strong 
A43 145 self-destructive urges.  ^The *"deep rents**" in her personality,
A43 146 which, she says, caused her to fluctuate wildly between
A43 147 feelings of inadequacy and arrogance for much of her life were
A43 148 only healed through the intense, joyous love she has for her
A43 149 children.  ^She has tears in her eyes now as she speaks of it.
A43 150 ^All four of Leslie Kenton's children have different fathers.
A43 151 ^She is not the least coy about it.  ^*"It's just part of my
A43 152 growth and transformation,**" she says.  ^Kenton's interest in
A43 153 health began as a 12-year-old when her mother gave birth to a
A43 154 little half-sister born with her intestines outside her body in
A43 155 a sac.  ^*"From then on I read everything I could about how the
A43 156 body works.**" ^As she grew older she became increasingly
A43 157 narcissistic about it.  ^*"Oh yeah.  ^I was determined not to
A43 158 look middle-aged like so many women in their late 30s.**"
A43 159    |^Her first major discovery was the raw food diet.
A43 160 ^*"*1Re*0discovery, actually.  ^Doctors have used it for
A43 161 centuries to treat illness.  ^The new Bristol Cancer Health
A43 162 Centre uses this diet.  ^Even the very orthodox American Cancer
A43 163 Society recently stressed the value of fresh raw vegetable
A43 164 juices in detoxifying the body so it is free to heal itself.
A43 165 ^Experiments at the Royal Free Hospital in London have shown
A43 166 arthritic patients to become *'significantly better**' on raw
A43 167 fruit and vegetables.  ^American doctors have found that a raw
A43 168 diet *- which indeed is what the human digestive system was
A43 169 originally designed for *- can eliminate the need for insulin
A43 170 in some diabetics and significantly reduce it in others.**"
A43 171    |^How does it work?  ^It works because raw food contains,
A43 172 among other *"goody**" things, potent enzymes which not only
A43 173 detoxify the digestive system but are a vital factor in
A43 174 providing immunity against degenerative diseases such as
A43 175 cancer.  ^Raw foods also contain natural anti-oxidants *-
A43 176 nutrients such as vitamins A, C and E plus minerals and amino
A43 177 acids *- which help protect against the cellular damage that
A43 178 occurs when the body has a high burden of toxicity which
A43 179 otherwise leads to illness.
A43 180    |^What Kenton discovered was that these enzymes and 
A43 181 anti-oxidants could also prevent and treat brittle nails, crow's
A43 182 feet, excess weight, acne and most other beauty problems.
A43 183 ^*"If it helped diabetes and lowered cholesterol as well, then
A43 184 who was I to complain?**" ^Kenton lost 12\0kg in three months
A43 185 without ever once feeling hungry or counting calories.
A43 186    |^Kenton then researched the age-old, food-combining
A43 187 tradition.  ^*"I'd always pooh-poohed it.  ^But it's true.
A43 188 ^The enzymes which act upon carbohydrates or starches cannot
A43 189 affect proteins or fats.  ^High-protein foods such as eggs and
A43 190 meat need an acid medium.  ^Enzymes needed to break down the
A43 191 starches of bread require just the opposite *- a mildly
A43 192 alkaline medium.**" ^What it means is that the old meat and two
A43 193 veg is *1out.
A43 194    |^*"*0Because if the digestive process isn't properly
A43 195 completed,**" says Kenton, *"your body has to cope with the
A43 196 waste products.  ^Many of the food sensitivities from which
A43 197 people suffer *- and which lead to things like over-eating and
A43 198 bingeing *- can be simply the result of insufficient protein
A43 199 breakdown; with long-chain protein molecules being drawn
A43 200 through the gut into the bloodstream to wreak havoc with your
A43 201 body, brain and behaviour and cause symptoms as diverse as
A43 202 depression, excessive fatigue, obesity and rheumatoid
A43 203 conditions.**"
A43 204    |^Kenton is certain that high-protein diets are in fact
A43 205 among the prime causes of premature ageing.  ^Over-eating is
A43 206 even worse.  ^Experiments with laboratory animals and research
A43 207 into the dietary habits of long-lived peoples such as the
A43 208 Hunzas, Georgians and Vilcabamba Indians have recently led
A43 209 researchers to believe that one of the vital keys to longevity
A43 210 is *"undernutrition without malnutrition**".  ^Eating less but
A43 211 eating better.
A43 212    |^As for eating the highly processed foods which make up the
A43 213 bulk of Western diets, well, says Kenton, it's nothing short of
A43 214 suicidal.  ^In addition to being almost devoid of nutrients,
A43 215 the food additives they contain are, she says, not only toxic
A43 216 and carcinogenic but, according to some geneticists, mutagenic.
A43 217 ^They're poisoning our genes.
A43 218    |^Now fat, says Kenton brightly, often serves as the body's
A43 219 way of neutralising poisons and toxic wastes.  ^Cellulite, even
A43 220 on lean women, is *"nothing less than a kind of internal
A43 221 pollution where fats, toxins and water have become blocked in a
A43 222 relatively static environment.  ^The ugly orange-peel effect on
A43 223 thighs and hips is virtually impossible to get rid of without
A43 224 slow and steady detoxification of the whole body *- which is
A43 225 the whole principle of the Biogenic Diet.
A43 226    |^*"On other diets,**" she says, *"the release of toxins
A43 227 from cells storing fat alerts your brain to what's happening *-
A43 228 that too many acid wastes are being poured in the bloodstream.
A43 229 ^It *1begs *0for things to be rectified for the health and
A43 230 safety of the body.  ^The brain signals for change and you
A43 231 usually become very hungry in order that the body can regain
A43 232 its *'setpoint**', the lost fat.  ^That's where binge eating
A43 233 comes in.**" ^Kenton laughs, tossing her head back so suddenly
A43 234 that her gigantic silver fleur-de-lis and pearl droplet
A43 235 earrings swing violently and threaten to dent the eight
A43 236 essential amino acids in her teeth.  ^*"Oh the way human bodies
A43 237 work,**" she says, *"is just... yeah, beautiful.**"
A43 238 *#
A44 001 **[044 TEXT A44**]
A44 002 *<*4Two-faced city*>
A44 003 |^T*2HE QUEEN *0visibly relaxed when she toured Christchurch. ^British
A44 004 journalists discovered it was her favourite New Zealand city. ^She
A44 005 took comfort in the garden party on the archery lawn at the botanics,
A44 006 was relieved to be in a city so prettily arranged with its
A44 007 unobtrusive, meandering river, carefully bright gardens and trees that
A44 008 belong to another hemisphere *- oak, silver birch and chestnut. ^The
A44 009 people were mannerly and decorous and whispered that she looked just
A44 010 like out of a story book and doesn't the Duke stand straight?
A44 011    |^Christchurch, it is often said, is so terribly English and if
A44 012 the Queen's stress level decreases here, it must be so. ^Of course if
A44 013 you don't share the Queen's colouring or status your stress level
A44 014 might reach alarming proportions.
A44 015    |^Author Sue McCauley remembers when Fendalton residents
A44 016 approached her politely and asked if she and the Maori kids she was
A44 017 looking after, might move on. ^Their presence was detrimental to their
A44 018 property values.
A44 019    |^I come from Christchurch, upper Riccarton if you want to gild
A44 020 the lily, or Sockburn if you don't, and the things I notice have much
A44 021 to do with living in the North Island and something to do with being a
A44 022 former inhabitant.
A44 023    |^Traffic seems to move reliably 10 kilometres an hour below the
A44 024 speed limit, roads are wide and empty and instead of playing spot the
A44 025 car you can play a chancier game called spot the human being.
A44 026 ^Especially on a Sunday.
A44 027    |^A good place to find human beings on Sunday is the airport.
A44 028 ^Christchurch people love watching planes. ^You can find them in cars
A44 029 round the back of the airport or inside the international terminal for
A44 030 a real taste of the exotic.
A44 031    |^In the city there's the pleasurable absence of mirrored,
A44 032 migraine-making monstrosities. ^People in short sleeves wait for buses
A44 033 blissfully unaware of the arctic temperatures circling them. ^\0Mrs
A44 034 Pope's Bargain Bin is still a popular label unless you are in Merivale
A44 035 Mall where mother and daughter outfits shop in loud rude voices.
A44 036    |^Jessica Mitford once said of the upper classes to which she
A44 037 belonged *- and the same would apply to these people *- that they were
A44 038 characterised by a care-free intransigence, a strong streak of
A44 039 delinquency and a supreme self-confidence. ^*"A feeling of being able
A44 040 to walk unscathed through any flame,**" she wrote *"is not hard to
A44 041 trace to an English upper-class ancestry and upbringing.**"
A44 042    |^There is a strain of Christchurch people who are keen to trace
A44 043 their ancestry back to the upper class or at least try to emulate
A44 044 their upbringing. ^Christchurch, is after all, a stratified society.
A44 045 ^The school you went to is the city's social register and the top end
A44 046 of the scale is likely to be found shopping in Merivale Mall.
A44 047    |^But chances are wherever you are shopping the conversation will
A44 048 move from the weather to the latest crime. ^That rape in Hornby. ^It's
A44 049 shocking. ^That man found knifed in the Square reminds them of the
A44 050 bloke blown up in his truck or the chap stabbed while cycling over the
A44 051 Antigua Street bridge near the River Avon boatsheds.
A44 052    |^There is a sense of disbelief and outrage not found in
A44 053 Aucklanders who accept crime as much as they accept the wholesale
A44 054 destruction of their inner city, with a blase equanimity. ^Crime is
A44 055 practically a status symbol in a city which strives so fervently to
A44 056 copy big-city Sydney.
A44 057    |^Like all conservative cities, Christchurch is sealed by an
A44 058 implacable insularity meant to preserve the past and repel change.
A44 059 ^Entrepreneurial drive is regarded as dangerous, handle with care.
A44 060 ^The North Island arriviste must tread lightly. ^*"Christchurch people
A44 061 do business with a handshake,**" marvels Auckland businessman Olly
A44 062 Newland. ^*"The gentleman's agreement still holds. ^It's charming. ^I
A44 063 like it.**"
A44 064    |^There is a debate boiling about a gondola on the Port Hills. ^If
A44 065 this was Auckland, the gondola would be there by now, complained one
A44 066 protagonist in the newspaper.
A44 067    |^Insular resistance also means Christchurch people like to be
A44 068 able to take their good name for granted. ^That good name is getting
A44 069 harder to maintain.
A44 070    |^Locals see the inexplicable, unprovoked stabbing of the cyclist
A44 071 near the gardens as the city reaching a crisis point. ^The gardens are
A44 072 a sanctuary of spring blossom, canoeists and picnicking families where
A44 073 ducks, children and cyclists may fearlessly roam. ^Crime belongs in
A44 074 the streets, not in sweet, safe and public botanic gardens.
A44 075    |^A week before the stabbing The Star had begun a series called
A44 076 Our Violent City which highlighted the spreading rot in Christchurch.
A44 077 ^On April 8 an anonymous couple placed a full-page advertisement
A44 078 condemning the city's *"horrific**" violence, asking people to tell
A44 079 the Minister of Justice longer prison sentences were needed and asking
A44 080 for help to pay for the *+$2352 ad.
A44 081    |^People sent in *+$25,000 but when the remainder was pledged to a
A44 082 police kiosk for the Square some donors asked for their money back.
A44 083    |^Too late. ^The Advertiser had handed the money over and Olly
A44 084 Ohlsen was singing for more in the Square: ^*"I want to be safe in
A44 085 Christchurch, I want to be safe in the Square.**" ^The Square, it
A44 086 seems, has been the setting for some nasty sights.
A44 087    |^Once there were Maori burial grounds in the site now called
A44 088 Cathedral Square. ^Now it is the home of the city's cranks, tourists
A44 089 and glue sniffers.
A44 090 |*4T*0he Square as the centre of Christchurch has always drawn the
A44 091 city together. ^All buses converge on the Square as people come to
A44 092 *"town**". ^So when violence strikes the Square, the empire strikes
A44 093 back. ^The Square, you see, must be specially protected from the
A44 094 insidious metastasis of crime. ^Hence the talk of outlawing
A44 095 glue-sniffing there and censoring the Wizard.
A44 096    |^The Square is the irrefutable hub of Christchurch, the public
A44 097 stage for a normally diffident, socially isolated audience. ^Police
A44 098 say the flat landscape lends itself to the high burglary rate. ^People
A44 099 can't look into their neighbours' properties. ^It also isolates
A44 100 neighbour from neighbour but in the Square everything is on show and
A44 101 what a strange show it can be.
A44 102    |^The Wizard as ever commands the largest audience. ^I suppose he
A44 103 looks striking to newcomers but to locals he is as institutional an
A44 104 oddball as Canon Bob Lowe these days. ^Shocking for the love of it.
A44 105 ^It is not true to say he has no effect, however. ^The Christchurch
A44 106 branch of the National Council of Women recently wanted to curb the
A44 107 old buzzard's words but most people listening, smile indulgently and
A44 108 treat him like a faintly amusing, precocious child.
A44 109    |^Covered by a black, plastic raincoat and sou'wester hat dotted
A44 110 with bird droppings is seagull, scarecrow, or guano man. ^This is John
A44 111 Orr, a blind man with intense dislikes, aluminium is one of them, and
A44 112 peculiar likes. ^He is noted for his dedication to the birds in the
A44 113 Square, feeding them as they perch and poop on his shoulders and head.
A44 114    |^Then there's the Bible Lady spouting religion and waving her
A44 115 violin and occasionally haranguing the Wizard. ^He is said to have
A44 116 smashed her violin once.
A44 117    |^The grinning Chinese man who strode through the Square wearing a
A44 118 kilt and long tartan socks, was an old-time socialist although he is
A44 119 never seen now.
A44 120    |^Friday night specialities include the God Squad women released
A44 121 from their fortress in Rangiora. ^They are noticeably clad from top to
A44 122 bottom in the most demure of fashions.
A44 123    |^The Square as the open, sunning platform of everything that
A44 124 crawls in Christchurch will naturally attract and spotlight the
A44 125 **[PLATE**]
A44 126 unusual. ^In other cities they would merely be passed over as people
A44 127 hurried from one place to another. ^So it's not really fair to say
A44 128 Christchurch breeds mutants but it's a view outsiders and erstwhile
A44 129 residents, with the fervour of all reformed sinners, share. ^Old boy,
A44 130 author and {0PSA} senior industrial officer Tony Simpson belongs to
A44 131 the latter category. ^To him, Christchurch is dipstick city. ^*"If
A44 132 there's an odd religion or philosophy, it's more likely to be found in
A44 133 Christchurch. ^After all, it's the home of the Aid Rhodesia Society,
A44 134 the centre of Zenith Applied Philosophy and it seems to attract more
A44 135 right-wingers than anywhere else.
A44 136    |^*"Where I grew up, the neighbourhood was thick with vegetarians,
A44 137 before it was even trendy. ^Being cranky and eccentric is the only way
A44 138 you're allowed to step out of line in Christchurch. ^It's very easy to
A44 139 shock people there. ^They're so suffocatingly conformist.
A44 140    |^*"Years ago my wife wore a trouser suit. ^Men would come up to
A44 141 her in Christchurch and say *'^Take that bloody thing off. ^What are
A44 142 you wearing that for?**'
A44 143    |^*"The mid-city is pretty but the Suburbs ghastly. ^I think it's
A44 144 a horrible place. ^A lot of people are unhappy there, people who would
A44 145 be happy if they lived somewhere else. ^The atmosphere is suppressive.
A44 146 ^A Christchurch person will form a queue of one.
A44 147    |^*"It's also an extremely boring city. ^Nothing ever happens.
A44 148 ^The most exciting thing that happened there was when some of Samuel
A44 149 Butler's sheep were let loose on High Street in 1862.**"
A44 150 |^*4T*0his brings us to the weird crime theory which is a lot like the
A44 151 weird religion and philosophy theory. ^It goes like this *- crime in
A44 152 Christchurch is violent and often more perverse than crime in other
A44 153 cities. ^It's a theory that got a great boost in the fifties and has
A44 154 never been short of subject matter.
A44 155    |^Within living memory and now of almost mythic proportions is the
A44 156 repulsive Hulme-Parker murder. ^That was the one where two teenage
A44 157 girls murdered the mother of one on the Port Hills. ^The girls lived
A44 158 in a strange fantasy world and believed they were superior beings.
A44 159    |^When one girl's mother attempted to thwart their plan to travel
A44 160 overseas together they killed her with a brick in a sock.
A44 161    |^There's never a shortage of stories to suit the weird crime
A44 162 slant. ^It's an anecdotal premise that is obviously impossible to pin
A44 163 down.
A44 164    |^Statistics show Christchurch crime rate in 1985 to be not
A44 165 insignificant but not out of proportion either. ^In Auckland there
A44 166 were 8.4 per cent violent crimes per 1000 population. ^In Wellington
A44 167 the figure is 7.7 per cent and in Christchurch 7.1 per cent.
A44 168    |^This year has had a bad start, says Detective Senior Sergeant
A44 169 Arthur Rogers. ^Crime usually goes in waves of intensity but this wave
A44 170 has yet to break. ^Such flare-ups usually only last three months.
A44 171 ^This one's been going for nearly five now.
A44 172    |^Police know Christchurch for its plentiful car conversions,
A44 173 sometimes 80 a weekend, numerous burglaries and substantial number of
A44 174 street crimes *- mugging and rape.
A44 175    |^Arthur Rogers goes over possible reasons with Detective
A44 176 Inspector Roger Carson, who reckons Christchurch is where Auckland was
A44 177 at eight years ago. ^He was in Auckland then. ^The last two years have
A44 178 been shockers but they're sure more police is not the answer. ^Neither
A44 179 is the glue-sniffing by-law in the Square since the police have no
A44 180 teeth to enforce it. ^The reason for the upsurge? ^Better leave that
A44 181 to the sociologists and the Commission on Violence. ^The next day the
A44 182 man heading the commission, retired Christchurch judge Sir Clinton
A44 183 Roper's house is firebombed.
A44 184    |^*"I don't know what it is about this year,**" sighs Rogers.
A44 185    |^They are pleased with plans for a police kiosk in the Square
A44 186 although they don't see the Square as the happy hunting ground of
A44 187 no-good glue-sniffing youth that some others do. ^Besides, the
A44 188 Christchurch Youth Centre right behind the Square is helping mop up
A44 189 the sniffers in this area.
A44 190    |^The six-month-old centre began to the hiss and roar of
A44 191 disapproving locals who were angry they couldn't eradicate the problem
A44 192 immediately. ^The centre also suffered from a lack of rules. ^Now it's
A44 193 no glue-sniffing, drugs or alcohol in or around the centre or else
A44 194 face a banning order. ^That means banned from using the centre's
A44 195 sporting facilities, music studio, going to lectures on health and
A44 196 well-being and listening to gigs in the area they call The Venue.
A44 197    |^The kids are actually loyal and let you know who's out of it,
A44 198 says acting manager Kevin Butson. ^He reckons there are only about 20
A44 199 glue sniffers in town anyway.
A44 200 *#