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Southland celebrated a “once in a lifetime” Ranfurly Shield win in style in Invercargill on Tuesday with thousands turning out for the traditional tickertape parade.
The Stags players were rapturously received as fans crowded both sides of the main street.
A weekend of partying flowed into the formalities as the heroes were feted in the deep south.
Southland won the famous Log o’ Wood for the first time in 50 years last Thursday night when they upset holders Canterbury 9-3 in Christchurch. There are a lot of people here, it’s great for the community,” Southland co-coach Dave Henderson told Radio Sport from the back of one of the floats involved in the parade.
“She’s pretty exciting. Once you do these sorts of things .
“There are 50 years of players that have gone through before us – 30 or 40 challenges have come up with nothing…. this might only happen once in a lifetime . you have to celebrate them in a bit of style which we are doing today..Then to see them turn up at the airport the next day and now to see thousands here cheering us on, it’s quite emotional for some of the guys.
“It was such a thrill to see the faces of the fans at the game with the support we got up there in Christchurch.
The challenge for Southland now is to stay on track in the Air New Zealand Cup where last week’s win had taken them into the semfinals.”
Henderson admitted it had been a long weekend full of partying.
Henderson said the team had trained well on Monday and would face a big hitout on Wednesday. . We have focused on celebrating the Ranfurly Shield but we have also focused on the next Saturday in Wellington because we want to go the next step,” said Henderson.
“I don’t think some of the boys remember arriving back at the airport.
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Seven years after starting work as a furniture mover for a US bedding company, Gary Nisbet was joined by a new colleague, Randy Joubert, who looked so much like him that customers asked if they were brothers.
“We thought they were just trying to razz us,” Joubert said. They really are brothers – and the attention they got after finding each other has alsoturned up a sister. .
“This kid could have been anywhere in the world, and here I am riding in a Dow furniture truck with him,” Joubert said.
The two men were given up for adoption as babies about 35 years ago, then attended rival high schools and even lived in neighbouring towns on the Maine coast before working together at Dow’s Sleep Centre in tiny Waldoboro and uncovering their relationship. She said he knew from a young age he was adopted and she wasn’t surprised he would try to find his biological siblings when he grew up.
Joubert’s adoptive mother, Jacqueline, said she and her late husband raised him with four sisters.
“But when he said he was driving a furniture truck with him, that really surprised me,” she said.
She said she always thought he had a brother because a social worker at the time of his adoption had mentioned it.”
Dow’s hired Randy Joubert on July 7, and soon afterward co-workers began commenting on how similar he and Nisbet looked. “I think it’s great. Their goatees and curled-brim baseball caps add to the effect. Both are light-haired, wear glasses and have stocky builds. He started taking the comments more seriously when people also took notice while he and Nisbet, 35, were out making deliveries.
Joubert, 36, laughed off the commentary but admits he noticed the similarities himself, even mentioning them to his fiancee. “Then my brain started heading that way.
“Customers would ask if we were brothers more often than not,” he said.
With further help from statistics officials, he also learned that he had a brother – and his brother’s original name.”
Joubert had already taken advantage of a new state law allowing adoptees to see their original birth certificates and found out the names of his biological parents, who had died by then.
FAMILY CONNECTION
Well-armed with details, Joubert posed a few questions to Nisbet while the two were making deliveries about three weeks ago. Joubert and Nisbet had been removed from their birth parents’ home because the couple could not properly care for them.
Nisbet gave him a strange look and answered, yes, he was adopted.
“I said, ‘Gary, I’m going to ask you a strange question: Are you adopted?”‘ Joubert recalled.
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Nearly 400 jobs at New Zealand Post Group have fallen victim to the recession.
Acting group chief executive Sam Knowles said there had been 237 redundancies in the first half of this year, 86 jobs were lost through attrition, and 61 fixed term contracts not renewed.
Not all the news was bad, with 90 new jobs created.
The group had about 10,000 permanent staff.
Mr Knowles said the recession, an unprecedented mail volume decline and challenging trading conditions were to blame for job cuts.
“Different businesses within the Group are being affected in different ways and each is responding appropriately,” Mr Knowles said.
Approximately 90 percent of total job reductions were in the postal services business, and 72 percent of that block took voluntary redundancy.
“While the postal services and data processing and management activities have been adversely affected, Kiwibank is experiencing substantial growth and has added 89 people to its payroll during the period.
Today’s figures did not include 74 potential redundancies arising from plans to close the Auckland call centre. .
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He’s done it again for the seventh time.
Kiwi freediver William Trubridge has broken the world record in his specialist diving discipline of constant weight without fins considered the “purest form” of the sport because it uses no fins, weight, rope or any other aid.
On a s of air, he dived to an unassisted depth of 88 metres and swam back to the surface at the Vertical Blue 2009 event in the Bahamas.
The event was held in Dean’s Blue Hole, a 200m-deep sinkhole. He finished the dive, on Saturday morning, in three minutes and 30 seconds.
Trubridge, 28, set his first constant weight without fins record in April 2007, diving to 82m. It was Trubridge’s seventh world record, and his fifth in that discipline. That was broken by Austrian Herbert Nitsch, at 83m, but Trubridge bettered it again with 86m last year.
A few days earlier, he descended to 88m but he blacked out when he got to the surface and took his first breath, which disqualified him. . “But somehow I managed to remain calm and finished the dive completely lucid.
He said he felt anxious as he went for his second attempt.
“Freediving is a sport similar to marathon running, in the sense that athletes peak later in age.”
He planned to keep pursuing records and “extending the idea of the human aquatic potential” for at least another five to 10 years.”
Preparing for a dive required “years of training, months of specific depth adaptation, and a couple of hours of body and lung stretching and meditative exercises on the day”, Trubridge said.”
Preparing for a dive required “years of training, months of specific depth adaptation, and a couple of hours of body and lung stretching and meditative exercises on the day”, Trubridge said.”
Trubridge spent his teenage years in the Bay of Islands and Hawke’s Bay, he said. “He basically learned to walk on the boat before he walked on land.
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Landlords are becoming unwitting pawns in the drug trade as dealers rent their properties and ship illegal imports to them.
The warning from Customs Minister Maurice Williamson came as he told of a huge increase in the seizure of cold medicine being imported to make P.
In one case, the medicine had been boiled down, painted black and formed into the shape of a heel on a pair of shoes.
Last year between January and October alone, customs intercepted 733 kilograms of pseudoephedrine enough to make close toly $83 million worth of methamphetamine. Another haul was found inside ordinary-examining chairs with wooden legs that had been hollowed out and tubes of drugs hidden in them.
“For me, the highest priority that I believe Customs now have is to try to stop the scourge of P which I think is tearing the very fabric of our society to pieces,” Mr Williamson said yesterday. This is 1200 per cent more than five years ago.
“It’s the most insidious drug out there, in my view.
Landlords are the latest group being called on to help fight the scourge.”
Methamphetamine has been linked to some of New Zealand’s most haunting crimes in recent years the murder and sword attack by Antonie Ronnie Dixon, the abduction and murder of Featherston schoolgirl Coral-Ellen Burrows by her mother’s boyfriend, Steven Williams, and the RSA triple murders by William Bell.
Mr Williamson said landlords should look out for people asking for a short-term lease, paying cash upfront, often with no identification, moving little furniture in, or sometimes not moving in at all, and for anyone asking numerous questions about mail delivery.
Officials are worried by a new trend of dealers taking a short-term lease of a property as a false address to which to ship the precursors of drugs.
“Well, just as serious now is is it a drop-off point for the ingredients?”
The cold medicine Contact NT can be bought in New Zealand under tightly controlled conditions, but is freely available in China.
“Up until recently, landlords have had to be watching out for whether their flats were being used as a cookhouse for P. . One kilogram of Contact NT can make 280 grams of P, with a street value of about $113,000.”
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Stacey Stevens did not think twice before confronting a kidnapper in suburban Wellington after he grabbed a young girl at an intersection.
My Nguyen, 7, had sneaked out in her pink pyjamas on Saturday morning to buy sweets at the dairy one block from her home.30am, a man snatched her up in his arms and began to walk off.
As she waited to cross the road on the corner of Adelaide Rd and Britomart St in Berhampore at 11.
The Palmerston North mother, who was in Berhampore visiting her daughter’s “nana”, said: “I saw My waiting at the lights and I saw the guy popping his head around the corner, and looking round.
Hearing My’s terrified screams, Ms Stevens, 20, who was walking with her two-year-old daughter, “just knew it wasn’t right”.
“I said, ‘What the F are you doing?’, and he said he was just trying to help her. Then he picked her up and she kept screaming. He put his hands up, like surrendering, and walked off. .
My, who regularly goes to the dairy by herself, said the man was “evil and scary”.”
Ms Stevens gave the crying girl a cuddle and, recognising her from the neighbourhood, made sure she returned safely home.”‘
A man has been arrested and is due to appear in Wellington District Court today, charged with kidnapping. “I was screaming, ‘Let me down.
“When the police were gone, she said, ‘I’ve still got my lollipop,’ but they took her favourite shoes and her pyjamas.
My’s neighbour, Melaia Kumoto, 11, said the young girl was shaking and scared after the attack but soon returned to her usual chatty self.”
Melaia said she and her friend were approached by a man earlier this year while walking together in Berhampore. She was really lucky Stacey was there. “We didn’t say anything and just walked away really fast. He followed them and asked where they were going.
Police are asking the occupants of a red hatchback seen in the area to come forward to help with their investigation.”
Detective Sergeant Michael Patz said police were aware of “a number of incidents” in the area that shared similarities but could not say whether they were related to Saturday’s case.
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The alleged kidnapper was seen approaching the car, which stopped at the traffic lights shortly before the attack on My
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Online dating warning after alleged sex assault
By CLIO FRANCIS – Monday, 02 March 2009
Police have issued a warning over the perils of online dating after an alleged sexual assault in Hamilton over the weekend.
Detective Inspector Greg Nicholls said a 41-year-old man was facing a variety of charges relating to the alleged sexual assault of a woman in her home on Saturday morning.
"The offender and victim had connected via the internet sometime last November and had been in subsequent contact since by phone, text and email but had not previously met in person.
He would appear in Hamilton District Court this afternoon, he said.
He urged people to exercise caution.
"The pair had planned to meet on Friday night, however when that fell through the accused had gone to the victim's house and sexually assaulted her," Mr Nicholls said."
The woman, 36, struck up an online friendship with a man she believed was a 33-year-old PhD student from Dunedin in October.
"Wherever possible when meeting with someone for the first time meet in a public place, such as a cafe or restaurant and inform someone where you are going and who you are meeting.
She went to his house, where chickens lived inside among cartons and rubbish, and there was no electricity.
When she arrived on February 8, she realised the unkempt, unemployed 54-year-old had lied about his identity.
The Armed Offender Squad were called while the pair were in Kaikoura, but she was later rescued by police.
When he refused to let her leave the house on her own or take her passport, she contacted a person she had met on her plane, who called police.
The man would not be prosecuted, police said.
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Anger as woman to be freed after murder
By BARBARA WITHINGTON in Alexandra – Tuesday, 13 January 2009
Marking the first anniversary yesterday of the finding of her murdered brother's body was always going to be a difficult day for 17-year-old Sarah Hutchings.
Hearing the news that a woman convicted of helping dispose of his body is to be released from jail after serving less than one year has made her angry.
Ms Hutchings said the justice system had let her down.
Her brother, Michael Hutchings, was stabbed in Kaitangata and his body thrown into the Clutha River several days before being discovered on January 12, 2008.
"I can't let this go away, it is so incredibly low to have it happen like this," she said. . His killer, Christopher Wayne Patterson, was arrested six days later.
Patterson's former de facto partner, Nichole Field, 30, was sentenced to two years' jail after admitting a lesser charge of being an accessory after the fact.
Name suppression for Patterson and Field lapsed yesterday when rape charges against them were withdrawn by Crown prosecutor Robin Bates in the Dunedin District Court.
She drove the killer and Hutching's body to the Clutha River where it was weighed down and dumped in the water." Ms Hutchings said.
"I said at the time that two years was a ridiculous sentence for what she had done, but to let her out after less than a year; I just don't know what to think. The anniversaries (of his death, the finding of his body, the funeral) were always going to be tough but now I don't know what to do, what to think.
"I thought I would have at least another year to heal, to work things through in my head. Someone should do something to make sure that this does not happen again. Someone should do something to make sure that this does not happen again.
"They went out today and planted another tree at the site where they found Michael's body. Her own family live in Australia.
"I have no idea just when she will be released or what her plans are, she could turn up in Balclutha, or keep contacting me on the cellphone the way she did before it all happened. This has been a blow to them too."
understands Field will be released this week. She walks free and I live with this forever.