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Greymouth Star
New Zealand
Wednesday, September 3, 2014 - 3
Burned boy discharged
The toddler flown to Dunedin
Hospital with serious burns last
week has been discharged. The
three-year-old boy was injured
following an incident in west Otago
on Wednesday. A 23-year-old
Christchurch man was charged with
assaulting a child, and has been
bailed to appear in the Gore District
Court on September 17.
— Otago Daily Times
Winz threat arrest
A man has been arrested in relation
to a threatening phone call to Work
and Income staff in Blenheim
yesterday. Armed offenders squad
members surrounded a Koromiko
house shortly after 1pm and arrested
the 38-year-old man. Police said
Work and Income staff did not face
any direct threat. No charges have
yet been laid. — APNZ
Name suppression stays
A man accused of murdering a
woman in Switzerland in 2000 made
a brief appearance in Auckland
District Court yesterday. The
42-year-old man, originally from Sri
Lanka, was granted continued name
suppression by Judge Barry Gibson
until a bail hearing on September 24.
The man had lived in New Zealand
for 13 years before being arrested last
week over the killing of the woman,
said to be his partner, in Basel,
Switzerland, 14 years ago.
— APNZ-New Zealand Herald
Body not identified
Police are still trying to identify a
person who died in a Northland fire
after an armed offenders squad call-
out. Emergency ser vices were alerted
to the fire at a Mangamuka property
south of Kaitaia about 12.30am on
Monday. AOS members attempted
to get inside the house to rescue the
occupant but had to pull back due
to a number of explosions. A scene
examination was continuing and
police were still working to identify
the body. — APNZ
Rustlers in park
There is concern after reported
incidents of sheep rustlers using dogs
and traps to round up, and capture
sheep after dark at Auckland’s
Cornwall Park. Police said members
of the public caught three men and
three large dogs capturing newborn
lambs last Wednesday. Cornwall
Park staff were concerned for the
stock, particularly in the lambing
season and were working long hours
to ensure the flock’s safety. Police
and park staff asked nearby residents
and visitors to the park to call
police if they noticed any suspicious
behaviour. — APNZ
Keno results
Numbers in Keno draw No 10164:
2,6,9,12,13,15,17,21,22,23,29,32,
34, 36, 42, 46, 47, 50, 67, 76. Draw No
10165: 11, 20, 22, 25, 28, 32, 35, 43, 46,
47, 48, 60, 62, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 77.
Draw No 10166: 4, 6, 19, 27, 31, 34,
37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 46, 56, 60, 61, 68, 69,
71, 72, 77. Draw No 10167: 2, 8, 10,
11, 18, 26, 30, 35, 47, 50, 55, 58, 59, 62,
64, 65, 70, 72, 77, 78.
‘Fire challenge’ horrifies emergency services staff
Wellington
Pay rises for the heads of companies on
government contracts should be allowed
only if other staff also get a share of the
pie, the Green Party says.
It also wants all large publicly-listed
companies to publish pay information
about the highest, middle and lowest
paid, and across the gender divide, in the
hope of closing those gaps.
Green co-leader Metiria Turei said
did not know if that would raise privacy
issues.
“Hopefully they will understand that
it’s about transparency.”
Other centrepieces of the Green Party’s
workers policy are an immediate increase
in the minimum wage to $15 an hour by
December, and annual increases up to
$18 an hour by 2017. It is also committed
to paying core public sector workers the
living wage of $18.80 an hour.
The changes would eventually give a
person an extra $6400 a year, or $125 a
week.
The Greens also want a compulsory
redundancy payout of four weeks’ wages,
and to scrap youth wages, 90-day trials
for new workers, and The Hobbit laws
that make screen workers contractors —
and ineligible for collective bargaining
— by default.
The National Party was quick to dismiss
these measures as costing thousands of
jobs and putting up more roadblocks for
businesses.
The Ministry of Business Innovation
and
Employment
estimates
an
immediate increase to a minimum wage
of $18 an hour could cost up to 16,250
jobs — although economic conditions
could be different by 2017.
But Mrs Turei dismissed this: “In the
United States, there are 13 States that
have just raised the minimum wage.
It’s good for the economy, it ’s good for
families. There hasn’t been a significant
drop in jobs.”
— APNZ-New Zealand Herald
Greens unveil
wages policy
Auckland
NZX-listed Mighty River Power has
been caught up in an alleged $2 million
employee husband-and-wife fraud.
The Serious Fraud Office yesterday laid
four charges against Paul Kenneth Rose
and two against Jane Clare Rose for
obtaining by deception.
Paul Rose worked at MRP’s Penrose
gas-fired power station as an electrical
engineer until December 2012 and
it was part of his role to identify what
equipment was required to be ordered or
ser vices provided for that plant, the SFO
said.
Rose, or companies under his control,
allegedly issued invoices of approximately
$2m to MRP for “goods those companies
sometimes didn’t provide or ser vices that
were instead performed by Mr Rose
himself or others”, the SFO said.
The SFO said Jane Rose was also
involved for some time in the alleged
offending, which according to the agency
took place between June 2005 and
December 2012.
A SFO spokeswoman said the Roses,
both 42, were husband and wife — at
least at the time of alleged offending.
MRP chief financial officer William
Meek said the charges relate to a historic
matter and that any financial impact was
absorbed into past accounts.
The company has changed its
procurement and inventory management
process to minimise the “risk of
recurrence”.
Any decisions around recovery options
would be made by the company following
the SFO’s court action, Meek said.
The alleged offending came to light
following an investigation by MRP,
which referred the matter to the police.
It was subsequently referred to the SFO,
which began an investigation in April
2013.
“This investigation resulted from
obser vations and internal checks at
Mighty River Power. The company’s
actions in referring this matter to the
Police and the active support for the
SFO’s investigation means that we are
now in a position to lay charges and
prosecute the people involved,” SFO
director Julie Read said yesterday.
The defendants will next appear in the
Auckland District Court on September
30. — APNZ
$2m fraud
at Mighty
River
Tauranga
A Tauranga principal has issued
a warning to parents in an attempt
to prevent a dangerous social media
craze from catching on.
Teenagers in the United States
have been filming themselves taking
part in the social media fad called
the fire challenge. The new craze
has Tauranga emergency ser vice
professionals “horrified” and in
“disbelief ”.
The fire challenge videos show
teenagers dousing their bare skin
in highly flammable liquids before
lighting themselves on fire and
then jumping into a pool or under a
shower.
Other young people are filming
the action and posting it on-line
to various social media channels
including You Tube and Facebook.
Painful screams can be heard from
the victims as the fire spreads quickly
over their bodies.
The Fire Ser vice issued a warning
late last month which says many
young people have already suffered
horrific burns and two deaths have
already been reported in the US.
“ When young sur vivors are
inter viewed, most say they didn’t
give much thought to the possibility
of being injured or killed and they
didn’t realise the fire would be so
intense,” it states.
“ Most people are not aware how
difficult is it to extinguish burning
flammable liquids. ”
The Fire Ser vice said possible
consequences of the trend included
severe and painful burn injuries,
life-time scarring on the body and
face and lengthy surgery as a young
person grew since burn-damaged
skin did not grow.
Otumoetai Intermediate School
principal Henk Popping for warded
the warning to parents and shared it
on the school’s Facebook page.
He hoped to warn parents of the
new trend online.
“ We just want to be proactive.
The last thing we want is any of our
students harmed.”
Tauranga Fire Station acting
senior officer Nigel Liddicoat said
he was in disbelief when he heard of
the challenge.
“An accelerant is going to ignite
and burn furiously. It’s the sort of
activity that could go horribly wrong
and end in a fatality. ”
St John territory manager Ross
Clarke said the challenge was
horrifying. “Once the flammable
liquid has burned, the next thing it
will grab on to is hair and skin.”
Mr Clarke said fire would quickly
damage a person’s skin and body.
“It is very quick to suffer very
significant injuries. Hair is very
flammable and skin and flesh burn.
“ It ’s horrifying. Burns are very
painful and often very final.”
— APNZ-Bay of Plenty Times
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NZX50 CONSTITUENTS
market movement
volume
price
1000’s
k
mark tet move t
ment
lvolume
As at 4pm September 2, 2014
a2 Milk Company
0.62 -0 .01 15.65
Air NZ
2.17
–
65.03
Argosy Prop
1.025
–
71.78
Auckland Intl Airpt
3.705
–
319.4
ANZ Banking Gr
36.85
-0.65 1.35
Chorus
1.755
–
21.36
Contact Energy
5.42
- 0 .01 115.7
Diligent BM Services
4.46
–
–
DNZ Prop Fund
1.73 +0.005 22.50
Ebos Gr
9.42
-0.07 0.60
F&P Healthcare
5.05 +0.05 12.11
Fletcher Bldg
9.12
-0.06 309.1
Fonterra Shldrs Fnd
6.13 -0 .02 36.59
Freightways
5.12
–
26.75
Genesis Energy
1.80 +0.01 93.11
Goodman Prop Tr
1.105 -0 .005 185.6
Guinness Peat Gr
0.61
–
41.74
Heartland NZ
0.95
–
42.09
Infratil
2.42
- 0 .01 17.75
Kathmandu Hldgs
3.34 -0 .01 69.55
Kiwi Prop Tr
1.21 +0.005 68 .24
Mainfreight
15.15
–
2.49
Meridian Energy
1.245 +0.005 60 .88
Metlifecare
4.67
–
0.20
Mighty River Power
2.32
–
14.21
NZOil&Gas
0.785
–
6.01
Nuplex Ind
3.06
–
16.00
NZX
1.24
–
8.50
Oceana Gold
3.20 -0 .09 4.83
Pacific Edge
0.79
–
–
Port Tauranga
15.85
–
2.22
Precinct Properties
1.11
- 0 .005 70.43
Prop For Ind
1.395 +0.005 104.0
Restaurant Brands
3.37 -0 .01 7.36
Ryman Healthcare
7.96
- 0 .02 18.35
Skellerup
1.56
–
–
Sky Network TV
6.48 -0 .13 26.71
Sky City
3.81 +0.01 648.9
Spark
3.03 +0.01 4256
Steel & Tube
2.98
-0.01 8.47
Summerset Gr Hldgs
2.95
–
1.25
Tower
2.00 +0.02 2.50
Trade Me
3.73 +0.01 94.61
TrustPower
6.85
–
2.21
Vector
2.62 -0 .01 6.65
Vital Hlth Prop Tr
1.47 +0.005 14.80
Warehouse Gr
3.10
–
6.25
Westpac Banking
39.08
–
43.89
Xero
24.55
- 0 .07 15.10
Z Energy
3.98
–
13.86
Trading to 10:30am,
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
www.nzx.com
RISERS: 21
DECLINERS: 25 TRADED: 89
Aluminium Alloy
2,105.00 2,060.00
Aluminium High Grade
2,082.00 2,114.00
Copper
6,966.50 6,995.00
Lead
2,230.00 2,259.00
Nickel
18,660.00 18,455.00
Tin
21,700.00 21,850.00
Zinc
2,350.50 2,359.00
Gold
1,287.10 1,287.20
Palladium
908.00
902.00
Platinum
1,419.00 1,419.00
Silver
19.42
19.46
Gold
1,282.60 1,285.75
Silver
19.38
19.47
Australia
AUD
0.9347 0.8843
China
CNY
5.7697 4.7932
Euro
EUR
0.6737 0.6244
Great Britain
GBP
0.5332 0.4955
Japan
JPY
92.500 85 .860
United States
USD
0.8824 0.8226
Dairy prices
continue to
tumble
Auckland
Dairy product prices dropped again
at latest Global Dairy Trade (GDT)
auction, putting renewed pressure on
already lowered dairy payout forecasts
for 2014-15.
Prices are now 42.2% down from
where they were this time last year.
Big falls were registered in the two key
segments for New Zealand producers
—
whole milk powder and skim
milk powder — at the auction, which
economists said was starting to show the
effects of Russian sanctions.
At the previous GDT auction two
weeks ago, prices showed signs of
stabilising but this time around the
GDT price index dropped by 6.0% to
$US2787 a tonne.
Whole milk powder prices fell by 4.3%
to an average price of $2673 a tonne
while skim milk powder prices dropped
by 9.5% to $2600 a tonne.
ANZ said the market appeared to be
struggling to digest the seasonal lift in
New Zealand supply and the recent
Russian sanctions on European Union
dairy exports looked to be flowing
through “in full force”. The effect of the
Russian bans was showing up in skim
milk powder, which have dropped by
26% since sanctions were announced.
In times of surplus milk, Europe
gravitates toward skim milk powder and
butter production due to a longer shelf
life compared with other products, and
government support programmes.
The European Commission last week
said it would open “private storage aid”
for butter, skim milk powder and certain
cheeses in order to alleviate the impact
of Russian restrictions on imports of EU
dairy products and to limit the negative
effects on the internal market.
“So despite European supply now
heading into the seasonally lower
period and the European Commission
announcing last week they will open
private storage aid until the end of the
year the market seems to be anticipating
high supplies,” ANZ said.
ANZ said the latest GDT price action
suggested a sharply lower farm gate milk
price. “ Dairy farms will need to budget
accordingly with a material gap between
current spot prices and Fonterra’s current
$6/kg forecast,” the bank said.
“ We would suggest toward the bottom
of our current forecast band of mid-
to-high $5’s/kg. But even this looks
optimistic given last night’s results,” the
bank’s rural economist Con Williams
said.
Fonterra, New Zealand’s biggest dairy
co-operative, last month said it had
maintained its forecast farm gate milk
price for the 2014-15 season at $6 per
kg of milksolids, after earlier reducing it
from $7 a kg in line with lower GDT
prices.
Just days later, the second biggest co-
operative, Westland Milk Products,
said it had would cut its payout by 60c
a kilogram of milksolids to a range of
$5.40 to $5.80 a kg, before retentions, in
the coming season.
Federated Farmers said at the time that
Westland’s decision would cause “serious
belt tightening” on the West Coast. Skim
milk powder is a substantial proportion
of Westland’s production.
Fonterra last week announced plans to
ramp up milk powder production with
a $555 million investment in new plant
for its south Waikato and Southland
operations.
At the same time, Fonterra said it
intended to take a stake of up to 20%
in Chinese infant formula partner,
Beingmate.
The New Zealand dollar dipped below
US83c for the first time since February
on the back of the weaker auction and
on renewed strength in the US dollar.
The local currency touched a low of
82.89c, and was trading at 83.14c at
8am in Wellington, from 83.46c at 5pm
yesterday. — APNZ
Ashburton
Chilling new details have
emerged about the terrifying
moments three women were shot
at Ashburton’s Work and Income
New Zealand office.
It has also been revealed that
CCTV footage of the gunman
entering and exiting the crime
scene was recorded at a nearby
business.
A source close to the
investigation has described how
the killer is alleged to have picked
his targets and reloaded his
firearm before shooting the third
victim.
The alleged gunman, barged into
the office on Monday morning,
his face covered with a balaclava
and brandishing a shotgun.
The source claims the gunman
walked into the office and looked
at a staff member, turned to first
victim Peggy Noble and fired at
her. She died instantly.
The gunman allegedly then
turned and shot a second female
staff member and stopped to
reload his gun.
Seconds later it is alleged that
he eyed up a customer, then
spotted a third Winz staffer and
pulled the trigger.
Staff at an electrical company
across the road from Winz
unwittingly recorded the
movements of the killer.
He was filmed going into Winz,
and only a minute later, coming
out.
Electraser ve general manager
Blair Watson described the
footage, which was given to police
yesterday.
Mr Watson said his impression
of the gunman was someone who
was calm and quite controlled. As
he walked into Winz, Mr Watson
did not believe there was a
suggestion in his movements that
he was about to go on a shooting
rampage.
“He rode up on his bike and
sat there for a couple of minutes
quite composed before putting his
balaclava on and his gun ready,”
Mr Watson said.
The footage shows the man then
looked in the building’s windows
and quite casually walked inside.
In less than one minute he came
and again his movements were
unhurried. He casually put his
gun in his back pack and then
unlocked is bike. Still appearing
composed, Mr Watson said he
cycled off, leaving two people
dead and a third injured.
Mr Watson said that while
the camera did not show the
gunman’s face, his movements
were clear.
He only moved at pace once he
was on his bike and someone was
giving chase, he explained.
A Winz client told the Herald
that she walked past the alleged
killer as she went in to see her
housing manager.
She saw what she thought was a
long black stick poking out of his
backpack, that she later realised
was a firearm, and heard someone
yelling at him. Not realising what
was happening, she walked into
the office.
“I thought ‘where is everybody?’
And then I looked down and
saw a person on the floor covered
in blood,” said the woman, still
shaken last night.
“ I was ushered out. It was so
horrible. I got in my car and cried
all the way home.”
Russel John Tully, 48, appeared
in the Christchurch District
Court yesterday charged with
the murder of Peggy Noble and
Susan Cleveland, and attempting
to murder Lindy Curtis.
He limped into the dock in his
bare feet.
No application for bail was
made, and he was remanded in
custody to reappear later this
month.
Police later confirmed the
alleged gunman did not hold a
firearms licence, however they
would not say if the gun used at
Winz had been found or where it
could have been obtained.
Meanwhile, Social Development
Minister Paula Bennett, who laid
flowers in memory of the Ms
Noble and Ms Cleveland at the
Ashburton Winz office yesterday,
said the pair’s colleagues were
coping as best they could.
“They are such a tight group and
they ’ve got this absolute sheer
tragedy,” she said.
“ Right now they just want to be
together. Talk it through. There’s
lots of tears.”
A hearse also arrived at the
office about 11am yesterday, and
at least one of the woman’s bodies
was taken away.
— APNZ-Ashburton Guardian-
New Zealand Herald
Shooting build-up on CCTV
PICTURE: New Zealand Herald
Locals comfort each other after placing flowers outside the Ashburton Winz office where Russell John
Tully went on his shooting spree.
Christchurch
All Work and Income offices
in Canterbury have been closed
down for the day following a
threat to Christchurch staff.
It follows a spate of threatening
and intimidating behaviour
towards Work and Income staff
in the wake of Monday morning’s
shooting at Ashburton’s Work
and Income centre, which
claimed the lives of two women
and left another in hospital.
Today the Ministry of Social
Development said it had
closed all Canterbury sites as a
precautionary measure, after being
made aware of a verbal threat
against staff in Christchurch.
They would be closed until further
notice, it said. — APNZ
New threat closes Canterbury Winz offices
Auckland
The hacker Rawshark has rejected
claims Facebook
conversations
between Papakura MP Judith Collins
and blogger Cameron Slater are
forgeries.
Instead, he has accused the pair of
trying to spin their way out of the
Dirty Politics storm.
The former justice minister ramped
up the stakes by accusing the hacker
of creating forged conversations when
quizzed over comments attributed to
her and Slater.
The alleged
conversations
purportedly showed Ms Collins
involved in conversations about
the release of controversial SIS
information before it was made
public, and the possible leaking of
police evidence.
She had she had “no record” of the
conversations and told the Herald
“you are likely to have been taken in
by a criminal”.
Through encrypted e-mails, the
anonymous hacker yesterday accused
Ms Collins and Slater of not being
straight with the public.
“They think they can get away with
it because they deleted the original
Facebook account that Ms Collins
was using, so it doesn’t have her name
on it. That ’s stupid.”
He said in his opinion, the content
of the messages identifed the
“ Facebook User”as Judith Collins,
“clear as day ”.
Rawshark said the “same trick”
was attempted when Dirty Politics
was launched, when Mr Slater
denied receiving e-mails from the
Prime Minister’s press secretary
Jason Ede. The hacker had then
released copies of e-mail addresses
under assumed identities which had
been filed by Mr Slater under Mr
Ede’s name.
Ms Collins did not respond to
questions, including how the forger
had accurately described the timing
of a telephone conversation Mr Slater
had taken part in. Mr Slater also
did not respond, but blogged that
the hacker had “gotten desperate”
and created the Facebook messages
because other hacked material failed
to do “as much damage as he had
hoped”.
Information sent to the Herald
has provided a potential explanation
on why the times of the alleged
exchanges between Ms Collins and
Mr Slater appeared to be so late.
Prior to the hack attack earlier this
year, Mr Slater’s website was hosted
on ser vers in the United States. It
meant the purported conversation
regarding the Uruwera’s began at
4.23pm on Sunday afternoon rather
than 12.23am — the time it was in
the US.
Rawshark
also forecast
the
possibility of more material yesterday.
— APNZ-New Zealand Herald
Collins-Slater conversations genuine — hacker
Key unveils Cera change
Christchurch
National has reaffirmed
its commitment to the
rebuild of Christchurch, but
its proposed changes have
been dismissed by Labour
as an admission of defeat.
Prime Minister John
Key announced yesterday
afternoon the Canterbury
Earthquake
Recovery
Authority (Cera) would
be made an agency within
the Department of Prime
Minister and Cabinet.
This would allow Cera to
have its functions wound
down gradually instead of
being suddenly cut off at
its scheduled expiry date in
April 2016.
“The
notion
that
everything finishes and the
Government involvement
finishes in 2016 is not
realistic and we’re trying to
show Cantabrians there’s a
long-term commitment to
the future of their rebuild,”
Mr Key told reporters after
a speech to the Canterbury Chamber of
Commerce in Addington.
Cera was established in 2011 and
was given special powers, along with
Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry
Brownlee, to keep the rebuild on track.
Mr Brownlee said a transition plan
would be put in place to hand back Cera’s
powers and responsibilities to councils
and other government
agencies.
Labour leader David
Cunliffe said National’s
plan was nothing more
than a name change for the
agency tasked with fixing
the city.
He said Labour had
previously proposed the
gradual scaling back of
Cera, but the idea had been
dismissed by National as a
“fizzer”.
“The Government is tired
and has run out of steam,”
Mr Cunliffe said in a
statement.
“It has no fresh ideas.
Having sat on its hands over
the Canterbury recovery
and allowed the rebuild
to slide, the Government
is now forced to adopt
Labour’s
progressive
positive policies. ”
Mr Cunliffe pointed to
Labour’s policies including
10,000 new homes for the
region, a special earthquake
court for outstanding claims and a
$100 million rail network.
In his speech, Mr Key said National
remained committed to Canterbury
region. He said the central city had
moved “firmly from demolition to
construction” and the “hectic rebuild is
only going to ramp up over the next few
years”. — APNZ-New Zealand Herald
Auckland
State highway 2 was closed
overnight after extensive rain
caused a slip.
The slip on the road between
Napier and Wairoa known as The
Devil’s Elbow came down about
1pm yesterday and closed the
highway overnight.
New Zealand Transport Agency
regional highways manager Chuck
Dowdell said the slip was still
unstable. “O ur geotech experts have
detected further movement in the
slip, so in the interests of safety,
we need to wait until things settle
down before we can start work
clearing it.”
Mr Dowdell said the only
alternative
route
between
Napier and Wairoa is via State
highway 5 and then down State
highway 2 through the Waioeka
Gorge, or the reverse. — APNZ
David Cunliffe
John Key
Slip closes North Island east coast highway Wellington
The Foreign Minister is to be
investigated over his decision to
withhold papers relating to the
Malaysian diplomat case.
In late July Murray McCully gave a
blanket denial to an Official Information
Act request seeking copies of advice
and correspondence relating to the use
of diplomatic immunity by Malaysian
defence attache Muhammad Rizalman
bin Ismail.
Ismail had been charged with burglary
and assault with intent to rape, but left
the country after diplomatic immunity
was invoked.
Chief Ombudsman Dame Beverly
Wakem has agreed to investigate Mr
McCully’s decision on an urgent basis,
Newstalk ZB reported today. — APNZ
McCully faces investigation