: The amiable 27 year old Japanese Kiwi admitted on his return to Auckland yesterday afternoon that the night that he and 5 others spent in a snowcave on the windswept slopes of the countrys highest peak was a very uncomfortable experience for him they climbed within 250 metres of the summit before being forced back
: Paraparaumu scored a good win over Weraroa at Weraroa Domain the home side were well ahead on the first innings with 195 for 7 but crashed in the second and were all out for 79 Gerald Baines was the only batsman to offer any resistance with 36
: Resuming at 15 without loss North East Valley made 56 for 4 against Bezetts Green Island before the match was stopped with Mike Deveraux top scoring 20 at Sunnyvale meanwhile Kaikorai declared their second innings closed at 140 for 4 before their match was abandoned
: Rep bowler Todd Ahrens was the best of the Paraparaumu attack with 4 wickets ably assisted by Robbie Robinson who got three Paraparaumu made 130 in their first innings and 147 for 8 in the second leading scorers were Haike Manning with 37 Robert Parkes 30 and Robin Lang 20 not out
: In reply Taieri were all out for 113 in their second dig with Aaron Ross 25 and Bernie Maher 23 the best batsmen the final match at Tonga Park between University and DB Albion saw Albion declare their first innings closed at 171 for 6
: Darren Munro played a fine captains knock of 53 not out which included 3 sixes and 4 fours University made 121 for 5 in their second innings with Aaron Gale 30 Ash Flannery 24 and Andrew Hore 31 all getting away to useful starts
: Geraldines star batsman 16 year old Shane Reid top scored with 75 in the first day of the fifth round matches Jeff Jones batted well for 51 Geraldine declared at 225 for 6 from 59 overs Noel Veitch was the best of the Star bowlers taking 2 for 12 from 11 overs
: Star in reply were 56 for the loss of 1 wicket at the Rectory Timaru Boys High School were at home to Timaru the school side were all out for 210 Timaru were 136 for 6 from 31 overs with opener Colin Cameron 39 and captain Greg Shackell also scoring 39
: Setting Grafton a target of 244 Takapuna bowled well and restricted Grafton to just 153 despite a good match double from Bruce Aitken North Shore needed only 6 runs in their second innings to beat Kumeu outright although they lost 2 wickets in the process
: Mark Roberts scoring 44 his brother Sean 54 began well but there were not enough support from the rest of the lineup and in the end Howick Pakuranga struggled to hold on at 192 for 9 earlier Sean Roberts had played the major role in earning his side a first innings lead
: East Coast Bays continued their good form to beat Parnell outright by 4 wickets in a game notable for an unbeaten 46 by veteran Ross Morgan for Parnell in their second innings and an innings of 84 not out by Nigel Butler who took his tally for the season close to 660 runs
: He slammed 10 fours and a six racing to 83 against Avis Old Boys Hawera finished with 232 for 8 then restricted Old Boys to 176 for 9 to win by 56 runs while Kaponga edged out Opunaki Old Boys by 7 runs West Town beat Stratford by 105 runs and Inglewood beat MA United by 8
: 80 cars a day one every 18 minutes are stolen in NZ thats 30 thousand a year 4231 cars were stolen in central Auckland up to October of those 1150 worth nearly 8 million dollars are unrecovered last year 5003 cars were stolen and 1273 went unrecovered
: Nationally 29107 offences were reported to police in the year to July stolen cars rate a low priority against crimes of violence robbery rape and so on and only 16 point 2 percent of offences resulted in prosecutions police say people must take care in securing their cars
: Carroll slamed 20 fours and a 6 in his 127 for Utiku to hold Suburbs to a first innings victory by 125 runs he came to life with an eighth wicket stand of 79 and then added a further 62 runs for the ninth wicket this was despite fine bowling by Dave Woolston
: The local colt Pockets was put to the test by 2 Kiwi bred colts Sedgwyn by Grosvenor and Salterello by Danzatore in the 25 thousand dollar Clarins Handicap 1100 metres at Rosehill yesterday but he came through it all with flying colours
: More than 600 entries involving 150 horses and ponies have been received for the showjumping events alone at the first cicuit show to be held on the new Winter Show Grounds at Maunu on January 2 and 3 the events will start at 0900 hours each day
: In 1989 there were 58 percent of drunk drivers and 28 percent of sober drivers killed had been speeding a total of 165 drivers were killed in crashes where their speed was probably a contributing factor this was 40 percent of all drivers killed in road crashes
: By the end of this year 80 to 100 people will have died because they were not wearing seatbelts the sector of the population with the lowest seatbelt wearing rate young males aged 15 to 24 is also the group that is generally most likely to be involved in crashes
: Young hit 41 not out off 37 balls and was there when the NZ innings ended at 193 for 6 wickets he and Rod Latham added 57 in 10 overs after NZ was 112 for 5 Young kept up the assault on the Australian bowling after Latham departed hitting a six
: The challenge of large scale dairy farming on border irrigation land has led to an Ashburton couple increasing cow numbers from 145 to 510 in fewer than 10 years a further 94 ha was leased in 1985 and later purchased enabling the Yeomans to build up their herd
: Wellsford breeder Gordon Levet topped the sales with a Romney ram sold for 875 dollars a Tangiteroria breeder Frank Tapp achieved second highest with 803 dollars Mr Levet sold 162 rams averaging 275 dollars while Mr Tapp sold 50 averaging 345
: South Devon breeder Peggy and Francis Randall of Northern Wairoa featured in the winning stakes at this years Waikato Royal Show their 3 year old Owairangi Mawgan weighing 1120 kg other cattle the Randalls took to the Hamilton show won the junior male and female championships
: At the time of their visit to the farm it was carrying 90 two year old steers 165 two year bullocks 240 yearling heifers 216 yearling steers and 70 dairy beef calves Lilian says running a number of different classes of beef cattle allows selling and buying flexibility
: Across the United States last week 992 drilling rigs were working compared with 858 a year ago still the number is far short of the 4500 operating at the height of the drilling boom in the year 1981 at present a barrel will fetch between 25 to 30 dollars
: As the 777 approaches reality Boeing is also hard at work on the superfast jetliner of the future refining the design of a so called high speed civil transporter Americas delayed answer to the Concorde Boeing has in mind of carrying  as many as 300 passengers
: The future plane will be able to travel at 10450 km and use new variable cycle engines to reach 2575 km per hour roughly two and a half times the speed of sound while the Concorde travels at 2179 km per hour Boeing has at least 100 engineers working on the project
: The newest wide bodied jetliner the 777 will have a wing span of 60 metres it will not fit comfortably into existing airport boarding gates so 6 point 4 metres of each wing tip will fold up after landing the overall project could cost more than 10 billion dollars
: The 737 which has had 11 versions since it was introduced in 1968 is ths best selling commerial airliner in history with almost 1849 planes delivered its average price is 28 million dollars a copy it is able to carry 108 to 146 passengers over 55 thousand km
: Oil producers finished mixed despite a sharp rise in offshore crude prices the index closed at 12 points weaker at 1323 with 964 lots dealt while Bank stocks ended weaker on debt exposures one Bank slid 6 cents to 381 while another 2 dropped 3 cents to 552 and 4 cents to 570
: The Barclays December contract bottomed at 1180 and in a positive note climbed back up to 1210 its high of the day and showed a 19 point premium to the physical index at 1193 down 12 points the premium seemed hardly justified and was probably caused by late squaring
: Barry Brooks LA MONIQUE and Graeme Woods WOOLY JUMPER both finished mid fleet among 44 yachts racing out of Sydney Harbour on a 75 mile offshore course the Asia Pacific Series will be held every other year to complement the Southern Cross Cup Series
: 19 year old Tania Aebi the youngest person to ever do so circumnavigated around the world on her Contessa 26 varuna in her book she relates to various mistakes and calamities en route to Bermuda from New York a 750 mile voyage which took her 13 days
: The Superdrome is a blend of Kiwi ingenuity and American pizzazz it will seat 60 thousand people is 16 storeys high 45 metres covering 35 thousand square metres or 8 acres there is a race to build 2 indoor sports and entertainment arenas but Auckland may not be big enough
: 90 Club boats with at least 270 anglers calm seas brilliant sunshine and plenty of fish spelt out Labour Weekend as the best season for many years Napier Tony Hills on the boat Anjakana won the prize with the most varieties 15 species
: On 4 April 1953 a 708 kg Black Marlin was caught off the coast of Peru and according to Harry Fierstine a marlin expert it was about the same size in prehistoric times as the big marlin skull found under a house at Houhora which was estimated as female of about 450 kg
: At the 87 annual general meeting of the Automobile Association on 3 Dec the president Mr Andrews highlighted membership growth and said despite economic conditions there had been a membership increase of approximately 3 point 6 percent during the year to 253162
: The long awaited movable lane barrier designed to make the Auckland Harbour bridge safer for motorists was tested on 26 November there are some 2200 reinforced concrete sections each one metre long and weighing some 670 kg each
: Whangarei is having its driest start to the summer with just 18 point 4 millimetres of rain falling on the city so far this month the lowest December rainfall total is 23 point 6 mm in 1963 but this month is set to be even drier
: The surf patrol at Waipu Cove made 3 rescues yesterday all of young boys they were aged 5 seven and 12 they got into difficulties while swimming out of their depth more than 500 people visited Waipu and some 450 revellers flocked to Ruakaka
: All told there will be between 75 and 80 horses in the dressage events technicalities are important and to avoid penalty points horses must put in the exact number of prescribed strides between fences there are 288 entries from 60 horses and ponies in the American showhunter section
: This country now has 12 artifical hockey surfaces at 10 provincial centres and by 1993 there will be 20 such grounds in 15 different provinces the Northland Hocket Association has 1951 registered players and another 1000 take part in twilight social competition
: The aluminium cat capable of carrying in excess of 500 passengers is able to cruise at 30 knots it is 33 metres long 108 feet and has a 13 metre beam 42 ft and 3 full deck levels it is still reasonably light at just 176 tons nett
: The ski jumping tournament maximum speed for men was 57 kilometres per hour and for women 49 km per hour women jump on a 5 foot ramp whereas men have a choice between a ramp height of 1 point 65 metres or 1 point 82 metres being 6 feet
: Steinlager arrived in Mooloolaba 10 hours ahead of Helsall 11 the previous record holder for the 450 nautical mile voyage run from Sydney she was followed closely by Verbatim 5 hours later with another 5 hours back to the first monohull GOOD MAN ZULU CHIEF
: This leg was started in a 5 knot southeasterly which freshened to 10 knots from the east after the boats had rounded a weather mark off Moolooaba Beach before heading north to Cairns some 770 nautical miles away Steinlager completed this leg in 65 hours
: Last night 10 Ministry Of Transport officers and the booze bus blitzed the Whangarei area between 8 pm and 3 am Mr Te Paa said 175 vehicles were stopped with 21 drivers breathe screened of these 6 will face drink driving charges
: Sydney to Hobart race leader ROTHMANS took line honours on Saturday 29 December in the Provisional time of 2 days 19 hours 7 minutes under the IYRU rules Rothmans was only permitted to carry advertising on about 37 percent of both sides of her 24 metre hull
: Australia lost 6 wickets for 47 in the final session to be all out for 306 on the third day in response to Englands 352 Merv Hughes was the last man out and Fraser finished with personal best figures of 6 for 82 off a marathon 39 overs
: An hour after the 1730 sched the victorian yacht AUSTRALIAN PACIFIC sighted a red parachute flare and altered course to investigate and found the 10 point 6 metre trimaran ESCAPADE upside down with 30 year old Mike Holt and 25 yr old Bob Dunn sitting on the upturned hull
: STEINLAGER was sailing under wing mast alone and even with a sea brake was doing between 10 and 15 knots while VERBATIM the 12 metre Sydney trimaran with only a staysail and trailing 150 metres of warp and chain was doing 18 knots in 55 knots gusts
: This year the EXZEL computers sponsored event attracted a record 93 starters 66 rally competitors and 27 race boats whilst the number of rally boats was exceptional the amount of race boats was also encouraging and a sign that the sport is growing
: The 6 metre sports targa reported 4 knots at 5400 rpm on a standard speedo and tacho for the rally there were 3 crew and full fuel tanks and a race weight of 1580 kg over the 50 mile course the average speed was 38 point 28 mph with 81 litres of fuel used
: Deep water snapper around 90 metres deep 300 ft Sam Mossman suggests 8 or 10 kg line and a 7 foot fast tapered rod with a trace thickness of 15 to 35 kg with the dropper rig the sinker on the bottom and 2 hooks on the dropper loops
: The acetylene cylinder is made from mild steel it is packed with a porous material in which a liquid called acetone is stored Acetylene becomes unstable at high pressures and could explode spontaneously if compressed freely to more than 250 Kpa which is 35 pound foot per inch square
: Mark Kitteridge writes that the best way to catch a John Dory is livebaiting around the wharf pilings or down near the seabed from the boat and use one metre of 24 to 37 kg trace and 10 to 15 kg main line with a 3 to 5 ounce sinker
: When fishing for XOS snapper 10 to 15 kg line is necessary as a fish of the 9 kg bracket is capable of putting on a burning 50 metres burst on its first panic stricken run no sinker is used and a trace line of approximately 25 kg 60 lbs nylon is joined to the mainline
: The Bicentennial Goodman Fielder Wattie Two Sail Australian 1988 Around Australia Yacht Race is definately the longest name for a yachting event the race attracted 17 two handed boats and 5 crewed boats the race began in 25 to 30 knot southwesterly winds
: 1730 radio sched that afternoon the competitors began reporting winds ranging from 30 to 50 knots from the south to southwest the 21 starters had already become spread out along the east coast with STEINLAGER having bounded ahead clocking up 60 miles in 2 hours
: To produce 1 ton of Pigiron in a Blast Furnace requires 4 tons of Air 2 tons of Ore 1 ton of Coke and half a ton of Limstone the Blast Furnace is approximately 100 feet in diameter and will produce about 5 hundred tons of Pigiron per day
: Bronze has maximum strength with 20 percent of Tin and max Ductivity with 5 percent of Tin when it can be rolled at Red Heat it is used chiefly for casting and most useful Bronzes contain 8 to 11 percent Tin when maximum Combined Strength and Toughness are obtained
: To exceed 44 knots the 4500 hp Lycoming Turbine connects through an Arneson Drive to a 838 millimetre five bladed Rola Propeller this adds an additional 26 knots to continentals proud bird giving in ideal conditions a top speed of 70 knots
: Tom Gentry chose a 110 foot Vosper Thornycroft hull designed by Peter Birkett the challenger was powered initially by two 3480 hp diesels through Kamewa Jets and capable of 44 knots then he added a turbine to increase its top speed
: As the rules of International Game Fish Association do not apply leaders and traces are not restricted in length when fishing for Kings says author Richard Baker who uses up to 15 ft of 90 kg 200 lbs nylon trace and a mainline of 37 kg 80 lb is ideal
: Adam Clancey who took first prize in the Fitzroy One Base Tournament surprised even himself by landing his biggest ever Kingfish at 42 kgs he also caught 10 kgs of snapper he was fishing with Richard Baker off the rocks who also caught 9 kgs of snapper and got third prize
: 17 year old Stephen Gordon hit a solid 73 in round 3 at Whitford Park Country Club to win the junior golf Classic this week Gordon who plays at the Redwood Park Golf Club in Swanson shot a total of 220 being 11 shots clear of his nearest competitors Brian Inglis of Kerikeri who shot 231
: Inglis made a late charge to the front starting badly with an 86 but improving in the next 2 rounds with 74 and 71 And in the junior womens section only 3 shots seperated the leaders but 15 year old Tania Holbrook of the North Shore on 239 finally edged out Pam Sowden of Pupuke with her 240
: The Funny Cars will record speeds of over 350 km per hour 220 mph and cover the distance in a little over 6 seconds representing the Kiwis in this challenge will be Wellingtonian Alan Dunlop in his 90 Oldsmobile Cutlass powered with 526 cubic inches
: Up against the Kiwis is the yellow 88 Oldsmobile Cutlass which has run a best of 6 point 140 seconds at over 365 km per hour in the United States the 4 member team from California comprises the 2 owners Tom Lemon 45 and Jack Burr 49
: Tom Bristow the driver of this 2500 hp car is 48 and the youngest member at 42 is Gregg Bellemeur each of the Kiwis will have 1 race against the American team at each event and will also compete against there fellow team members
: Aucklander Garth Hogan is keen to retrieve his record as the quickest drag racer outside North America his 4000 hp chemically and mechanically supercharged 8 cylinder powered dragster has recorded a best of 5 point 526 seconds at over 420 km per hour
: New Zealand ended with a record haul of 58 medals 17 of them gold after the Commonwealth Games Graeme Miller Brian Fowler Ian Richards and Gavin Stevens won the first of 6 cycling golds in the 100 km team trial on the Southern Motorway
: They left enduring memories of sporting excellence over the past 30 years during which a state of 16 million rivalled the United States and the Soviet Union as one of the worlds great sporting nations the East Germans superiority hauled in 12 gold medals
: A contract for gas supplies from the Tariki Ahuroa and Waihapa fields in Taranaki has been signed by the fields operator Petrocorp Exploration Ltd and Electricity Corporation it provides for supplying 91 petajoules of gas from 1996 until 2004
: The Opio Forestry Fund which controls the 655 hectare Opio forest in Western Southland has reported a bottomline loss of 49230 dollars for the half year to September the fund trustee said the fund recorded a loss before abnormal items of 2026 compared with a 3799 profit
: Sale of farm property brought an abnormal loss of 47204 compared with a 3799 profit previously the farm sale had increased current assets and investments to 369038 from 134555 the fund was launched in 1981 with termination in 2016
: The Nuhaka Farm Forestry Fund reported a 19012 bottomline loss for the September half compared with a 60868 loss previously the trustee said the Forest manager advised that work schedules were progressing well and within budget
: Fraser took a career best 6 for 82 yesterday that saw Australia fall for 306 with 46 runs short of Englands first innings of 352 Aust lost 6 for 47 in the final session and suffered from the absence of any player going on to score a century Captain Allan Border top scored with 62
: Gale force northeasterlies and huge seas had sent Rothmans rocketing towards Hobart at speeds of 22 knots winds of up to 50 knots and waves 5 metres high hit the 106 boat fleet a total of 14 boats have pulled out of the 630 nautical race so far
: The American maxi KIALOA set the race record of 2 days 14 hours 36 minutes and 57 seconds back in 1975 the headwinds have also seen Australian downwind flyer BRINDABELLA drop back from third to fourth CONDOR which has taken line honours twice is in third place
: The extreme weather conditions revived memories of the 1984 race when 106 of the 152 yacht fleet were forced to withdraw three nearly sank and a 70 year old crew member drowned after being swept overboard but now a windshift looks set to rob ROTHMANS of linehonours
: Japanese companies spent an estimated record 4980 billion yen 62 billion NZ on corporate enterainment in the year ending January 1990 the tax agency reported earlier this year the average firm spent 2 point 5 million yen entertaining contacts at bars
: May 22 speedster Walter York flashes toward the electronic timing gate as he succeeds in breaking a 60 year old land speed record on 90 Mile Beach York driving a turbo charged Falcon broke Norman Wizard Smiths record of 146 point 3 mph set on the same beach in 1930
: Central were 3 down for 25 before McLeod found a stalwart partner in Simon Wilson when the Marlborough batsman was bowled by Kelly Suunderland for 47 the total was 131 McEwen went on relentlessly as wickets fell around him and at stumps he had batted for 324 minutes and hit 12 fours
: Swedish tennis star Stefan Edberg 25 the Wimbledon champion received 683 votes for the male athelete in the survey of the MILAN DAILY among its editorial staff while Merlene Ottey 30 dominated the womens section with 781 points ahead of Florence Arthaud with 773 points
: Bangladesh totalled 170 for 6 wickets in 50 overs in the opening match of the 3 nation Asia Cup one day cricket tournament at Chandigarh India achieved this in 36 overs for the loss of one wicket Indian opener Navjot Sidhu finished 104 not out and was named man of match
: Ken Anderson is being cagey about his 9 point 4 kg brown trout he says he landed somewhere near South Canterbury for the record the fish is 77 cm long 14 cm thick and 27 cm deep it will be mounted and hang on his wall next to a 7 kg brown trout caught in the same place last year
: The 33 year old Smith who has played 56 tests since 1990 is enjoying his new role as vice captain he noted that the side which played in 76 to Pakistan also lost the opening match of the series as did the 1984 tourists of which only he and skipper Martin Crowe remain
: More people arrived in NZ than departed in September according to the Statistics Dept as there was a net gain to the resident population of 1400 people The figures for Sept last year were a net loss of 200 but the net gain figures this Sept including tourists were 169100 with 132500 departures
: NZ today made one change when it named its 12 for the second cricket test against Pakistan The coach said 4 seamers had been named because a first look at the pitch had shown it to be quite green Roberts 25 had had figures of 1 for 39 and 1 for 61
: New batsman Salim Malik was at the crease for 21 minutes before he got off the mark and brought up the hundred Malik got to 6 before Watson struck again getting him leg before wicket and the arrival of Miandad to join Shoaib meant the tempo increased again and the 2 put on 43 runs in the hour
: The feed impedance of the antennas in figure 14 ranges from approximately 35 to 75 ohms as the actual value is dependant upon the height above the ground Yet in figure 23 to take advantage of a multiband dipole that has balanced tuned feeders the line impedance is not critical provided it is between 300 and 600 ohms
: TV ribbon line may be used or the line may be 450 ohm ladder type with a transmatch designed for balanced feed If not a 4 to 1 balun transformer must be used between the balanced feeder and the transmatch connected up exactly as shown in figures 34 or 47 A 1 to 1 SWR is then the aim which means a minimum reflected power
: Your dipole should be dimensioned for 80 meters if you plan to use it for 80 through to 10 metres thus a dipole for 3 point 7 mHz will be roughly 126 feet 6 inches long overall Height above ground and nearby conductive objects will affect the initial dimension 468 divided by the frequency in mHz somewhat
: Eddie Jones a renowned lineout leaper added an extra dimension to his play and scored 2 tries by backing up diligently in Hokianga rugby on Saturday in doing so he helped Motukohu romp home 26 to 3 over highly related Horeke
: In the Trajectory Correction Maneuver Ulysses is firing its thrusters to adjust the aim point for its closest approach to the planet Jupiter and to speed itself up by 99 meters per second which is about 220 miles per hour when designing the maneuver was originally planned to span 4 days
: Launched in 1973 Pioneer 11 provided scientists with their closest view of Jupiter passing within 26600 miles of the cloud tops in December 1974 the close approach and the spacecrafts speed of 107373 mph by far the fastest speed ever reached by a manmade object hurled Pioneer 1 point 5 billion miles across the solar system toward Saturn
: Ramiz on 48 edged a delivery into the slips the ball rebounded off second slip Ken Rutherfords left hand and went to Mark Greatbatch at first slip who managed to hold the chance Ramiz hit 7 fours in his 85 minute innings of 61 balls and his dismissal with the total at 98 slowed the pace of scoring
: All of Magellans spacecraft systems are performing nominally as Magellan starts orbit 229 the 7 star calibrations and the 2 desaturations of the reaction wheels of the past 24 hours were fully successful with nominal attitude updates
: Pioneer 11 will join Pioneer 10 and Voyagers 1 and 2 in searching for the heliopause the point at which the Suns electromagnetic influence gives way to the galaxys influence as it crosses Neptunes orbit Pioneer 11 will be 2 point 8 billion miles from the Earth
