Newsgroups: soc.culture.new-zealand
Subject: NZ news to 15/8/92
From: cctr123@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Alan Murray, CSC Operations, Uni of Canty)
Date: 18 Aug 92 09:48:24 +1200
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Well I'm back with some "spare" time so the news postings will continue. The
format has changed slightly to hopefully enable me to be more comprehensive in
the coverage of notable items.

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News for the week ended Saturday August 15

Fishery boost for Ngai Tahu
Ngai Tahu should be compensated for the loss of its 12-mile zone around 
most of the South Island and given rights to develop a "reasonable share" of 
the 200-mile economic zone. Those are the main findings of the Waitangi 
Tribunal in its report on the Maori tribe's sea fisheries claims released this 
morning.
The tribunal rejected the Ngai Tahu claim to 100 per cent of the fishery, but 
its findings have pleased the chairman of the Ngai Tahu Maori Trust Board, 
Mr Tipene O'Regan. The tribunal has also recommended that the Lake 
Ellesmere eel fishery be returned to the Ngai Tahu tribe and existing licence-
holders compensated, and that the special exclusive Maori fishing zones 
suggested in a task force report this year be allowed.
The finding that the Ngai Tahu have an "exclusive treaty right" to the 12-
mile zone will have no impact on recreational fishing rights, and appears 
unlikely to affect existing private fishing interests. It requires that the 
Government and Ngai Tahu negotiate over compensation for the over-fishing 
of the traditional fishing zone, and rights to parts of the deep-sea fishing 
grounds off the South Island.

Law firm to sue Peters
One of New Zealand's largest law firms said it was suing the National 
member of Parliament for Tauranga, Mr Winston Peters, for defamation. Mr 
Peters made a number of allegations against the firm, Russell McVeagh 
McKenzie Bartleet, and three of its senior partners, Messrs Paul Carran and 
Geoff Ricketts, and Dr Robin Congreve, in Parliament last week. They related 
to the financing of the film "Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence", which starred 
David Bowie and was financed in large part by wealthy New Zealanders 
using tax breaks available in the early 1980s.
Mr Peters scoffed at the threat. "I can see a gagging writ a thousand miles 
off," he said. "It isn't going to work. The judgement of these matters will be 
decided by documnets I have released."

Visas call for Kiwis
Most Australians want New Zealanders to have a permit to work there, 
according to a new poll. A Morgan Poll in "Time Australia" magazine this 
week found 59 per cent of Australians wanted Kiwis to have a work visa, 
rather than the existing permit-free entry. However a survey of New 
Zealanders found 76 per cent supported the permit-free arrangements for 
Australians working in New Zealand.
Australian shearers have called on the Federal Government to tighten 
restrictions on New Zealanders working there, saying they are losing jobs to 
Kiwis who work for below award conditions and who can avoid paying tax 
when they work only part of the year. They want the Government to tighten 
tax arrangements and to introduce compulsory work permits for New 
Zealanders.

Teachers threaten funding walk-outs
Secondary teachers are considering a national walk-out when the first high 
school runs out of funds to pay relief teachers, the Post-Primary Teachers' 
Association said. Around 30 secondary schools are within about a month of 
exhausting their bulk-funded relief teacher funds. Secondary teachers will 
consider the move at meetings to be held outside school hours next week. 
The meetings are to discuss further protest action against full bulk-funding. 
Teachers will also consider rostering students home as a response to 
shortfalls in the relief teacher salaries.

Policeman shoots at offenders
A Christchurch policeman fired two shots as two offenders who threatened 
him with a double-barrel shotgun in Armagh St, Linwood, beat a hasty 
retreat. The armed offenders squad, police and dogs, were called out when 
two men raised a shotgun at a policeman after he stopped them. The police 
confirmed that two shots had been fired. The policeman was alone and 
heading for another call-out to an attempted car theft in a police vechicle, 
when he noticed the offenders' vehicle speeding from the alleged crime 
scene.

Heart disease worry in NZ
New Zealanders are more likely to die of heart disease than their Pacific 
neighbours because they eat more animal fat and less oil, nutritionists were 
told yesterday. A community medicine specialist, Dr Murray Laugesen, told 
the Nutrition Society conference in Palmerston North that most OECD 
countries used oils rather than fats for cooking but more than 60 per cent of 
fats and oils used in New Zealand were from animals.
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development studies had found a 
close correlation between butter and heart disease, he said. "Our diet is very 
different from the diet of other Pacific rim countries such as Australia, Japan, 
Canada and the United States," he said. "They all use more vegetable oil, less 
fat and have less heart disease."

Crowds hail Olympians
Several thousand Aucklanders lined the city's main streets yesterday to give 
New Zealand's Olympic team a rowdy welcome home from Barcelona. 
Intermittent rain and blustery conditions failed to dampen the spirits of 
those gathered as they cheered and threw ticker-tape at the Olympians who 
travelled through the city in open-sided trucks. Most of the team arrived 
back late in the morning in time to take part in the parade. Several then 
caught connecting flights to their homes elsewhere.
A highlight of the welcome was the haka for David Tua, and Auckland hotel 
steward who won the heavyweight boxing bronze medal. Barbara Kendall, a 
boardsailer, who brought home the team's only gold medal and the first New 
Zealand women's Olympic gold in 40 years, was another favourite with the 
crowd.

Hancox jailed 4 years for $1m fraud, forgery
The former Sports Foundation chief executive, Keith Francis Hancox, has been 
jailed for 4 years. He appeared in the High Court at Wellington yesterday 
after admitting 482 charges of fraud and forgery involving $1,045,030.58. 
This followed an overseas spending spree using foundation money between 
1987 and 1992. Chief Justice Sir Thomas Eichelbaum desciribed the 
offending as a mixture of greed and a driving ambition to make a success of 
the foundation. He said Hancox lived a lifestyle and entertained in a way he 
regarded as appropriate for achieving that end.

Alan Murray
CSC Operations
University of Canterbury
a.murray@csc.canterbury.ac.nz