– Dorothy – 2/10/97 A business that has grown from a small country business to a worldwide network through Kiwi skills, ingenuity and flexibility. Rural beginnings William Hamilton, founder of the company, was born in 1899 in South Canterbury. He was brought up on Ashwick Station near Fairlie. A lover of the Canterbury countryside, in…
Dorothy – 25/9/97 Walks and Mountain Bike Tracks on the Port Hills The Port Hills south of Christchurch not only give the city a distinctive character with its houses built at the foot of the hills and increasingly on the lower slopes. They also provide a range of interesting walks, mountain bike rides and scenic…
Dorothy – 25/9/97 An interview with Brenda Lowe, manager of Emergency Relief at the Christchurch Methodist Mission and advocate for beneficiaries. “I’m not talking about poverty and hardship as someone who has never experienced them”, said Brenda as we began to talk. Brenda’s life story She was the older of two girls in a family…
– Dagny – 18/9/97 Now that the incredible public and media outpouring that has surrounded Diana’s death has subsided a little, perhaps we can hope to examine the issue with a bit more clarity and judgement. In the days following her death and leading up to the funeral there was such a hysterical fervour to…
– Conrad – 11/9/97 No one would deny that Christchurch, New Zealand, has a problem with smog in the Winter. It’s an asthmatics nightmare and can, at times, exceed the World Health Organisations standards. That the Canterbury Regional Council is serious in its desire to tackle the problem is admirable, but the community is divided…
– Conrad – 4/9/97 A recent report, by retired High Court judge Sir Thomas Thorp, recommends that military-style semi-automatic weapons should be banned and that the New Zealand Government should buy back currently owned ones at market prices. This is a move similar to that made recently by the Australian Government, which has spent an…
Film review – Dagny – 4/9/97 I have to say that I think the name of this film is somewhat misleading. I was expecting the title character to be a 4,000 year old South American mummy with a penchant for terrorising museum staff, but this was not the case. It was in fact a genetic…
– Helen – 28/8/97 I have reached the age when my grey hair and crows feet entitle me to air my grievances. It is a truism perhaps but the person who said “Everything has changed, but it has always been that way,” was right . Throughout the centuries the older generation has taken upon itself…
– Lynda – 21/8/97 We all complain about politicians’ dishonesty and greed, and we’ve brought about some changes – the change to MMP for starters. But I wonder if a little “civil disobedience” mightn’t get them listening more carefully. Civil disobedience isn’t violence, it doen’t involve damaging property or endangering people in any way. But…
– Dorothy – 21/8/97 In Part I there was an indication that moves by the Government had changed long-established institutions in New Zealand. In Part 2 we will look at more major changes. Between 1984 and the present time the government has restructured the government departments and shed most of its business operations. Subsidies have…
