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| | Cullen spurns petrol tax cut
By VERNON SMALL
The Government has rejected a call to cut taxes on petrol, amid warnings that pump prices could hit $2.10 a litre.
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| | Power crisis? What power crisis?
By TRACY WATKINS
Households will be urged in a television campaign to start saving power - but the Government insists there is no crisis and lights are not about to go off.
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Technology |
 | Apple introduces new iPhone
BREAKING NEWS: Apple has unveiled a second-generation iPhone, a sleek black unit with faster Internet access.
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| | IBM flexes its market muscles
By TOM PULLAR-STRECKER
IBM New Zealand increased its revenues by 7 per cent to $381 million last year and is now preparing to compete in an information technology services market that will be recast by the merger of rivals Hewlett-Packard and EDS
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| | Shops feel Snapper's bite
By TOM PULLAR-STRECKER
Wellington bus ticket agents say they will be short-changed by the Snapper smartcard, which will be used to pay for bus travel in the capital from next month.
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| | Big guns behind online whodunit
By CLAIRE MCENTEE
FANS of crime-scene investigation television shows will soon be able to crack cases themselves through a computer game developed by Dunedin company Clocktower Games.
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National News |
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| | Jhia plea change allowed
Karl Check, one of the two men who pleaded guilty to murdering Wanganui toddler Jhia Te Tua, has been allowed to withdraw the plea.
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| | Kiwi Movember cut in row over funds control
By ANNA CHALMERS
Mo men are bristling because the Australian organisers of "Movember" have given their Kiwi counterparts the chop after a row about control of funds raised.
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Sport |
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| | Auckland Stars dumped for non-payment
By GEOFF LONGLEY
The Auckland Stars basketball team has been dumped from the national basketball league play-offs after it failed to make a final payment of its entry fee yesterday.
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 | Controversial refereeing hurts Mystics
By GARY BIRKETT
Controversial refereeing calls hurt the Northern Mystics as they fell 64-62 in overtime to the NSW Swifts at Trusts Stadium in Waitakere last night in netball's ANZ Championship.
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World News |
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| | Fair poll 'impossible' in Zimbabwe
A systematic government campaign of murder and brutality has eliminated any chance of a fair presidential election in Zimbabwe, an international rights group says.
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| | Angry fuel protests in Spain, India
Spanish truckers have begun an indefinite strike over rocketing fuel prices, smashing windscreens of vehicles that crossed picket lines and Spaniards stockpiled petrol over fears of shortages.
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Rural |
| | Russian firm takes control
By TINA LAW
The Russian firm that last month gained approval to become the first foreign owner of a New Zealand dairy company has wasted no time in gaining control of New Zealand Dairies Ltd (NZDL).
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| | Rural property market hot
By TIM CRONSHAW
The rural property market is running hot on the back of high milk and grain prices in contrast to lurching city residential sales.
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| | Russians move to majority dairy stake
The Russian company at the heart of a dairy industry takeover damned by New Zealand First leader Winston Peters now has a majority stake in the local target company.
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Business |
| | Oil bill may jump $1.2b
NICK CHURCHOUSE
Skyrocketing petrol prices could cost the country another $1.2 billion a year, Westpac chief economist Brendan O'Donovan says.
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| | IBM flexes its market muscles
By TOM PULLAR-STRECKER
IBM New Zealand increased its revenues by 7 per cent to $381 million last year and is now preparing to compete in an information technology services market that will be recast by the merger of rivals Hewlett-Packard and EDS
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Dominion Post |
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| | Cullen spurns petrol tax cut
VERNON SMALL
The Government has rejected a call to cut taxes on petrol, amid warnings that pump prices could hit $2.10 a litre.
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 | Hutt Hospital revamp goes ahead
RUTH HILL
Hutt Hospital is set to get a much-needed $81.9 million redevelopment after Health Minister David Cunliffe gave the project his blessing.
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 | Power crisis? What power crisis?
TRACY WATKINS
Households will be urged in a television campaign to start saving power - but the Government insists there is no crisis and lights are not about to go off.
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Manawatu Standard |
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 | Fundraiser burns rubber
By KATIE CHAPMAN
They weren't allowed to push, but it didn't stop them burning wheelchair rubber during a celebrity race for Ben Hekenui.
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| | No legs, no problem
By KATIE CHAPMAN
The song Can't Keep a Good Man Down could have been written for Ben Hekenui.
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Marlborough Express |
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The Nelson Mail |
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| | Drivers feeling the heat
By LAURA BASHAM
Nelson motorists filling up Monday ahead of another expected fuel price rise are exasperated at soaring costs.
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| | Growth in house prices still slowing
By TOM HUNT and FAIRFAX
Property values across Nelson appear set to fall in coming months, with Quotable Value statistics showing a continuing slowing in growth.
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The Press |
| | `No crisis' but save power now
By COLIN ESPINER
The public will be asked to start saving power from this weekend, despite the Government's insistence that there is no looming power crisis.
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| | Lowering lakes an environmental risk
By PAUL GORMAN
Dust-storms in the Mackenzie Basin and damaged highways may be the cost of lowering southern hydro lakes to help ease a winter power crisis.
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| | Prepare for more pain, Kiwis told
By DAN EATON
Kiwis should brace for more pain at the petrol pump, airline ticket counter and supermarket checkout as oil companies say they have not passed on the full cost of fuel price increases to consumers.
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Southland Times |
 | Mob boss signals change
By DYLAN THORNE
The Invercargill Mongrel Mob is seeking an image makeover and its president wants the gang to change direction.
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| | TrustPower wind farm gains consent
By SONIA GERKEN in Gore
TrustPower was yesterday given the green light for its largest wind farm development, east of Mataura, but opponents are already warning to expect an appeal.
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Taranaki Daily News |
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| | St George's gets its mojo back
By RICHARD WOODD richard.woodd@tnl.co.nz
The historic St George's Anglican Church at Patea has got its bell back, and it will be rung on Sunday for the first time in more than four years.
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| | Critics: Flare-off could power city
By LYN HUMPHREYS lyn.humphreys@tnl.co.nz
Tui Oilfield has been accused of flaring off enough gas to power Auckland city at a time New Zealand is bracing for winter blackouts.
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Timaru Herald |
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| | SC people in greater debt
Family debt in South Canterbury has tripled in the last five years as more seek help to meet the bills. Jeff Tollan reports.
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| | Axe claimed as reason for assault
Wayne Bray was attacked because he allegedly went to the home of one the accuseds' grandmothers with an axe, the Timaru District Court was told yesterday.
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Auckland |
 | Robber 'shot to kill'
By KAREN MANGNALL
Armed robbers who killed a Manurewa shop owner on Saturday night are probably "seasoned criminals" responsible for other hold-ups in south Auckland, police say.
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| | Man knifed for jacket
North Shore police are looking for three young men who violently attacked a man when he refused to give up his jacket on May 10.
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| | Playoff bridge battle
By SIMON PLUMB
The Harbour Heat have the all-important home court advantage in tomorrow's cross-bridge NBL playoff crunch with the Auckland Stars.
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Central North Island |
 | Protection sought for historic building
By Simon Earle
A building consent application to demolish Rotorua Club's Fenton St premises has been lodged with Rotorua District Council but opposition is mounting on the grounds of the building's historic value.
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| | Tribute to Harawene possible
By Phil Campbell
A permanent memorial as a tribute to Harawene the dog, which kept vigil on Te Ngae Rd, now appears a possibility.
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 | Companion honour for Treaty negotiator
By Simon Earle
Long service to Maori and the community and ongoing work in Treaty settlement claims has seen Anaru Rangiheuea honoured with the Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
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| | Numbers seem alien to most
By Phil Campbell
It takes seven minutes for Nasa's spaceship on Mars to send messages to Earth. It must have taken councillors seven light years to register all the data of Rotorua District Council's financial review and performance achievements.
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Hawke's Bay |
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| | Lost fencer calls for a smoke
KATHY WEBB
A badly injured fencer who used his hunting skills to survive a freezing night trapped in a gully jokingly asked his rescuers for a smoke and a drink when they arrived on the scene.
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| | Man, 80, attacked
A woman is in custody after what police say was a random home invasion and prolonged assault in the Napier suburb of Pirimai on Saturday night.
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| | Water usage to be limited
Hawke's Bay Regional Council has moved to stop rivers drying up next summer by raising minimum water flows.
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Northland |
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| | Call to catch red light runners
By DENISE PIPER
Whangarei motorists who run red lights are a fatality waiting to happen and need to be stopped, says a local pedestrian.
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| | eDay for e-waste
By DEANNA HARRIS
If you are thinking about throwing out your old cellphone, computer or printer – wait, you may be able to reduce your carbon footprint by disposing of it on eDay.
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