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Pay up or else
Oct 01, 2009; ... When you are working to pay the bills, sometimes the last thingyou feel like doing when you get home is sitting down and actuallypaying them. A direct debit can be a handy way of making sure your bills getpaid without all the hassle. But what is the difference between adirect ...
Children checked for free; MEDICAL NOTES
Oct 01, 2009; ... Every four-year-old child in New Zealand is now eligible for afree health and development check. Canterbury District Health BoardB4 School co-ordinator Brigid Jenkinson describes what parents canexpect when they take their child for a check in Canterbury: What is the B4 School ...
Good-bye gluten; YOUR HEALTH
Oct 01, 2009; CROOT James ... Gluten-free is a catchcry of the 21st century. But, it is acenturies-old worry, as JAMES CROOT learns when he catches up withgluten guru Dr Rodney Ford ahead of this weekend's ChristchurchGluten- Free Food & Allergy Show. Gluten has been causing people ill-health for thousands of ...
WATER therapy
Oct 01, 2009; DUNBAR Jane ... The relaxing and healing powers of water are being harnessed tohelp women who've had surgery for breast cancer. The YWCA Encore programme is a pool-based course that helps womenregain strength and confidence - and it's free. Each course involves eight two-hour sessions, that ...
ODDSPOT
Oct 01, 2009; ... More than 300 people, including university students, have dancedin robotic unison to break a Guinness world record. The group brokethe world record dancing on a lawn at the University of Melbourne.The previous record for the largest number of people ...
Helicopter crash
Oct 01, 2009; ... Two Chinese tourists escaped unhurt when the helicopter they werein crashed on Fox Glacier. The Hughes 500 operated by Franz Josefcompany Heliservices was about to land at the top of the glacierwhen it tipped over ...
Zest correction
Oct 01, 2009; ... The recipe in Zest yesterday for chocolate brownies supplied byMorgana Mountfort-Davies had an error in the measure of flour andalmonds. An anomaly in the ...
Big day at the office; PACIFIC TSUNAMI
Oct 01, 2009; ... Christopher Moore, of United States National Oceanic andAtmospheric Administration, looks at computer graphics at thePacific Tsunami Warning Centre in ...
Fears for tourists - English; PACIFIC TSUNAMI
Oct 01, 2009; ESPINER Colin ... One Kiwi is dead and more are likely to have been killed intsunami-hit Samoa, Acting Prime Minister Bill English says. As the overall death toll rose to more than 100 last night, theNew Zealand Government confirmed an air force Orion had arrived inSamoa and would start searching ...
Kiwi holidaymakers sprint for their lives; PACIFIC TSUNAMI
Oct 01, 2009; TODD Rebecca ... Christchurch artist Melissa Sharplin was woken in Samoa by afriend screaming and the jolt of an earthquake. Sharplin was last night sheltering in a primary school on a hillafter a magnitude 8.3 quake struck Samoa early yesterday, followedby a tsunami that killed at least 100 ...
Model shows wave impact; PACIFIC TSUNAMI
Oct 01, 2009; ... A model of wave heights was generated by GNS Science yesterday toestimate the effect of the Pacific tsunami on New Zealand.Seismologist Bill Fry said the model successfully ...
Warnings for those who wait and watch; PACIFIC TSUNAMI
Oct 01, 2009; ... A policeman warns Heiko Wiederman, holding son Maxim, and hiswife Stefanie of the potential danger as they wait at Takapunabeach, on Auckland's North Shore, for ...
Watch on Chch shore
Oct 01, 2009; GATES Charlie ... Traffic cameras have been used to monitor the impact of thetsunami on Christchurch coastlines. Christchurch City Council civil defence staff used a trafficcamera on Humphreys Drive to check water levels in the Estuary whenthe first wave - triggered by an earthquake near Samoa - ...
Aorangi vows to battle on; SCHOOL CLOSURE
Oct 01, 2009; TODD Rebecca; HARTEVELT John ... Christchurch's Aorangi School has vowed to fight its closure. Education Minister Anne Tolley broke the news that the schoolwill be shut to Aorangi's principal and board chairman in a meetingat Christchurch Airport yesterday. Twenty-seven staff face redundancy. A ...
Love is blind . . . this could be partly true
Oct 01, 2009; ... One-eyed female morepork, Rua (right), has a fitting new home andthe chance at romance at a Canterbury wildlife park. Rua, foundinjured by a Wellington home owner and handed to New Zealand BirdRescue Charitable Trust, is now at Orana Wildlife Park where shewill be paired with resident ...
Mission support
Oct 01, 2009; ... Wallabies rugby coach Robbie Deans has added his support to a$10.5 million Christchurch City Mission redevelopment. Deans was a guest at yesterday's fundraising campaign launch,where designs for the two-storey building opposite the welfareorganisation's Hereford St base were ...
Shares B10
Oct 01, 2009; ... New Zealand's sharemarket posted modest gains in mixed tradingyesterday, with bargain-hunters emerging in so-called situationissues. Turnover was a solid 45.2 million, worth $104 million.Fletcher Building lost some of its recent strong, falling 10c at835, but Telecom recovered recent ...
Revamp grows by over $30m; CHRISTCHURCH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Oct 01, 2009; WOOD Alan ... Christchurch International Airport is going to supersize its big$208 million domestic terminal upgrade, by spending $30m-plus onadditions to that plan. CIAL has bought back hangar site leases from Air New Zealand foran undisclosed sum, will likely spend up to $20m on a new ...
Salary agreed before loans known; PYNE GOULD CORPORATION
Oct 01, 2009; STEEMAN Marta ... Pyne Gould Corporation says it agreed to a $1.1 million salary toformer managing director Brian Jolliffe before impaired loansemerged. Jolliffe, managing director from July 2005 to June 2009, was paid$1.34m in the year to June 2009, the annual report shows. That wasmade up, PGC ...
Tourists to help nation rebuild; SAMOA TSUNAMI
Oct 01, 2009; CHURCHOUSE Nick ... Samoa's tourism infrastructure has been selectively damaged byyesterday's tsunami, and travellers are being urged to stick totheir plans. With Samoa's southern coast slammed by a tsunami following the8.3 earthquake, operators offering traditional fale accommodationhave been ...
