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For columnist Brannavan Gnanalingam, nothing beats watching our New Zealand cricket team play at the moment, with captain Kane Williamson leading the charge to glory here in the second test against Pakistan in Christchurch on January 5.
OPINION: When I was 5, we had to tell the class what we wanted to be when we grew up. I said, “Cricket player,” even though I had no idea what that was. A year later though, we stopped class to watch New Zealand beat Australia at Basin Reserve. John Wright scored a fourth innings hundred, which I maintain is one of New Zealand’s most underrated test innings. I was hooked. I stayed up to watch Richard Hadlee’s last series in England. And then there was Martin Crowe’s 299, and, of course, the 1992 Cricket World Cup when New Zealand agonisingly lost in the semifinals. My love even lasted through the dark days of the mid-1990s.
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Green was given a 20-year sentence for his robberies, but was living out in the community in recent years. He died shortly after being discovered by fellow career criminal Arthur Taylor at Green s Papatoetoe flat, after a report that Green hadn’t been seen in weeks. Taylor discovered Green in a bad state and emergency services were called. According to a coroner’s report, Green was cachectic (physically wasted), dehydrated, malnourished, and hypothermic when discovered; his death was directly caused by oesophageal cancer, and contributed to by pneumonia, and cardiovascular disease. Green had considerable health issues including diabetes, asthma, osteoarthritis, hernia and dementia.
This summer
Stuff and the
Sunday Star-Times are meeting New Zealand’s favourite chefs to share their unique recipes with readers. It’s 5.30pm on Wednesday and USSCO bar and bistro is just over a quarter full, but by 7pm there’s not one spare table. The rustic restaurant with its sea foam walls, stained-glass windows, polished wooden floors and white-washed fireplace is tucked down Childers Rd in the heart of Gisborne. Owned and operated by Gisborne local and award-winning head chef Thomas Boyce for the past 13 years, the space boasts a taste of local in a historical, yet relaxed atmosphere.
Wellington.Scoop
Two Wellingtonians have become Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit in today’s New Year Honours List:
Sue Chetwin, for services to consumer rights.
Having begun her career in journalism, Ms Chetwin was editor of the Sunday News from 1994 to 1998, the Sunday Star-Times from 1998 to 2003, and founding editor of the Herald on Sunday from 2003 to 2005. As Chief Executive of Consumer New Zealand from 2007 to 2020 she successfully campaigned for many important consumer law reforms, including prohibitions on unfair contract terms, fairness in consumer credit contracts, country of origin labelling, and controlling door knockers. She has led other successful campaigns on behalf of consumers including calling for mandatory standards for sunscreens, helping to regulate mobile truck shops, and calling out businesses on misleading claims such as greenwashing. Her commitment to consumer rights have contributed to New Zealand having a strong consumer protection ethos