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Dec 26, 2011

NEW ZEALAND Summer News, Dec 26, 2011

Racing: Sensational plans loom for Sharrock
New Zealand Herald
By that point Sharrock was bullet proof - group one glory at the New ZealandHerald Summer Carnival had been achieved. This wasn't just any group one victory, this meant more to Sharrock than any previous win he could remember. ...
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Farmers hard at work over the rural season
The Ashburton Guardian
While 94 per cent of New Zealand welcomes in the festive barbecue season,summer is the ideal time for people to get out into rural New Zealand to discover farming. "As the saying goes, you make hay while the sun shines and farmers will be hard at it ...
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Crowds take to the water
Taranaki Daily News
Hundreds of people took advantage of the public holiday to enjoy some time in the summer sun. Cousins Jordan Riddick, 9, and Cole Horgan, 10, were having a great time at New Plymouth's Lake Rotomanu despite being thrown off a ski-biscuit when things ...
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Taranaki Daily News
Jandals fly off shelves
Stuff.co.nz
With every good pair of lady's jandals goes a good bikini, and that is where Chances Surf New Zealand on Albert St comes in. It has been selling swimwear for years and shop assistant Melanie Kitchingman says she is always busy at this time of year ...
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Stuff.co.nz
'Weak' La Nina makes it tough for forecasters
TVNZ
McDavitt told TVNZ News at 8 that the current weak La Nina has resulted in cooler than normal sea surfaces in the Pacific Ocean which tend to favour easterly and northeasterly winds for New Zealand. A mixture of rain and anticyclones will bring good ...
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New sports co-ordinator finds she has plenty of territory to cover
Otago Daily Times
The Christchurch native, who holds physical education and marketing degrees from Otago University, and who studied in Christchurch at the New Zealand Graduate School of Education, has spent the last month canvassing the district; assessing resources ...
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Downhill racers head to town
The Daily Post
Launched this year as a breakaway from Mountainbiking New Zealand's summerseries - which kicks off next month - the NZDH programme got under way at Rotorua in September, with further rounds in Levin, Napier, Taupo and Auckland. ...
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Technology glut means cricket resembles a forensic TV show
Herald Sun
The Vodafone Viewers' Verdict fluctuates like the graphic equaliser on a ghetto blaster, as we predict how many runs New Zealand will score, how many days the Test match will last, how many seagulls are snoozing at fine leg, how manytimes Michael ...
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Man U plan for quiet transfer window
3News NZ
Going into Tuesday's matches (NZ time), the defending champions are two points behind City, which has considerably outspent its neighbour in recent years and is now reaping the rewards as it sits at the top at Christmas for the first time since 1929. ...
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3News NZ
City shops brace for invasion
The Daily Post
We have had a hot winter so we are hoping for a wet summer, so people won't be so inclined to leave town." Rotorua publican Reg Hennessy, who is vice president of Hospitality Association of New Zealand, said several of the city's bars and restaurants ...
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Taylor is Black Caps' quiet but aggressive skipper
3News NZ
“I don't think the New Zealand public know who I am,” he says. “I'm not one of those people who like to be in magazines; my job is to score runs and win games of cricket for New Zealand.” It is a job that brings out another side of Taylor – the ...
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3News NZ
Heroic Hui happy but at crossroads
Hawke's Bay Today
The daughter of accounting clerk Shirley Hui and salesman Benny Hui, the former Howick College pupil arrived in Auckland with her parents when she was 6 years old before they became New Zealand citizens. She was born in the Philippines after her ...
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David Warner passes the Test after limbo
Herald Sun
"It was such a fine line. If I missed out (on playing first-class cricket for NSW thissummer), I would have said, 'Nah, I'm leaving'. I got my opportunity with NSW at the right time and I showed them what I could do. "I was comfortable living in ...
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Family rallies round Duke as Queen praises love that binds
Telegraph.co.uk
“The bereaved and the lonely will find it especially hard. And, as we all know, the world is going through difficult times.” in New Zealandand the mining tragedy in Wales, had brought out the best in people. She said: “In this past year my family and ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Why Boxing Day needs Big Bash
Herald Sun
During that summer fewer than 29000 turned up to watch the opening day of the MCG Test while almost 53000 came for a one-day game between Australia andNew Zealand. Through the `80s and `90s one-day crowds at the MCG were enormous. Five times they ...
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Support from road company
SunLive
Local Club Development Officer Scott Bicknell says the club is hugely appreciative of the support from local businesses such as Fulton Hogan, supporting their volunteers' efforts especially in times such as these. over summer, but also coach and ...
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Christmas Eve meeting defies critics
Taranaki Daily News
He admitted the idea of a Christmas Eve meeting had its share of critics, but he stuck to his guns, saying it was important to have at least one gallop meeting inNew Zealand on Saturday. "I'm not right all the time, but I was right this time," he...
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Orwin to star in 450cc class
Wanganui Chronicle
The 23-year-old from Mount Albert certainly has the talent and that's been recognised by No Hair Racing team boss Greg Percival, of Te Kauwhata, who has offered him a 2006-model 600cc Yamaha R6 bike to tackle this year's New Zealand Superbike ...
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Twenty20 numbers add up to a successful future
The Daily Telegraph
During that summer fewer than 29000 turned up to watch the opening day of the MCG Test while almost 53000 came for a one-day game between Australia andNew Zealand. Through the '80s and '90s one-day crowds at the MCG were enormous. Five times they ...
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Palettes loaded, lines drawn
Sydney Morning Herald
The thought of scared, young Japanese sailors being sealed in manned torpedoes to hunt ships under the Harbour Bridge seems impossible on this sun-blasted afternoon in late spring, days before Sydney's summer retreats back into winter. ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Memories of another day
The Hindu
The 2012 Summer Olympics will be hosted by London, which will become the first city in history to host the Olympic Games three times. It will also be the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the ship “Titanic.” Nature's fury Nature struck, ...
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Malta enhances humanitarian, development aid committment
Times of Malta
It also sponsored two NGO officials from SKOP to attend the Development Education Summer School (DESS) which took place this summer in Finland. In response to the earthquake in New Zealand, Malta contributed €15000, while the sum of €23000 was ...
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NICK WADE: Cricket needs to fix video calls
Geelong Advertiser
It also adds to the theatre of a tight session as spectators and players sweat on the match-defining verdict think back to the closing stages of the Hobart Test against New Zealand. Above all, it means the correct decision should always prevail, ...
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Fewer holes the path to golf nirvana
Herald Sun
It meanders along, often peters out in a draw and no one outside Melbourne has much time for it. Earlier this month Australia and New Zealand played an enthralling Test match at beautiful Bellerive Oval. As it unfolded, it was a Test with the ...
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Christian just loves leading a merry dance... Wade dazzles in shadow of giants
Daily Mail
I want England to pick him now, immediately, whisk him down toNew Zealand - so we don't have to face him again.' It was a fitting tribute to a prodigious talent who has soared to prominence this season. The 20-year-old's target for this campaign was ...
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Daily Mail
Mark Cueto: World Cup disappointment drives me on
Mirror.co.uk
So positive were his World Cup memories that at England's summertraining camp he told tournament rookie Richard Wigglesworth he was in for the time of his life. "Looking back now I almost feel I let him down, telling him how fantastic an experience ...
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Mirror.co.uk
Pros see stocks up in 2012, but big risks, too
WXIA-TV
The odds of the US slipping into another recession have fallen since the summer, when the economy had slowed. Monday morning, Asian stock markets are mixed in holiday-thinned trading after weak US indicators dulled optimism about prospects for the ...
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WXIA-TV
blessthefall's Eric Lambert Is Happy to Be Home for the Holidays
Noisecreep
Then we go to Southeast Asia, Japan, New Zealand, then back home to tour thissummer." But on this night, Lambert was most excited about being home for Christmas. "I'm going home to Arizona to see my folks. We were in Toronto playing a show on ...
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Special Report: Cambodia's elusive justice -- How the Khmer Rouge Tribunal ...
Blast
At the time 27, Kerry Hamill was on top of the world when he left the coast of New Zealand to sail the waters of Southeast Asia with his best friend and a charter passenger in the summer of 1978. On August 13, he would encounter paradise lost. ...
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Blast
2011 - Memoirs of a magical year
Cricbuzz
On a day when New Zealand recorded their first win over Australia in Australia after 26 years, Warner displayed the skills befitting a Test opener and surprised the purists with his technique and patience that one though could never be imbibed into a ...
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Inside Bob Sturm's new book: The amazing training routine of Dirk Nowitzki
Dallas Morning News (subscription) (blog)
Where he really kills it is in the summertime. He takes off three or four weeks to start the summer now that he is older, but he never used to do that. Then he is back with Holger, doing two-a-days, and that is where really he molds his craft and puts ...
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Grooming batsmen for all conditions
The Express Tribune (blog)
Even the most accomplished batting line up in the world, the Indians had to face embarrassment at the hands of English bowlers thissummer; the swinging and seaming deliveries proved too hot to handle even for geniuses such as Sehwag, Tendulkar, Raina, ...
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The Express Tribune (blog)
Boat Safety
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
He urges boaties to become members of their local Coastguard and to utilise the '2 minute form' and follow other safety tips available on www.boatsafe.org.nz. "Traditionally we also have a number of jet-ski incidents occurring this time of year and I ...
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Crowds take to the water | Stuff.co.nz
By Leighton Keith
Hundreds of people took advantage of the public holiday to enjoy some time in thesummer sun. Cousins Jordan Riddick, 9, and Cole Horgan, 10, were having a greattime at New Plymouth's Lake Rotomanu ... Surf Life Saving New Zealand club development officer Andy Cronin said there were good crowds at beaches around the region. "It is obviously great weather conditions for going to the beach, so it's awesome to see a lot of families out there ... Taranaki Daily News Homepage ...
Stuff.co.nz - Taranaki Daily News
Summer Report Monday 26 December 2011 - Radio New Zealand
25 December 2011 - 1:16 pm NZ time. Listen live or ... 07:00 News. SummerReport will be covering all the latest news in New Zealand and around the world....
www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/.../20111226
Tastes of summer | Otago Daily Times Online News : Otago, South ...
[image]Chef Bevan Smith shares some recipes for Christmas treats.
www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/food-wine/190665/tastes-summer
NZ Test Match Summer News and Thoughts - Cricket Web
Wright set to rejig Black Caps batting order | Stuff.co.nz Looks like we are ... give all three the NZ summer to cement their spot and look to drop a bowler. .... unless you want a different wicketkeeper, though I reckon give Young a little more time. ...
www.cricketweb.net/.../54751-nz-test-match-summer-news-th...
Summer music: Fat Freddys Drop - Toby Laing - Music - NZ Herald ...
Your preferred transport for summer touring? Whatever it ... Shotgun is where it's at for a spot of summer time mind-wandering. What's on ... Be part of the news. ...
www.nzherald.co.nz/music/news/article.cfm?c_id=264...
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