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The Weekender 30/10/2011Submitted by admin on Sun, 2011-10-30 20:35
Welcome along to a normal non-RWC week! Let's see what they look like... Sport The Silver Ferns couldn't continue their start of the series win (49-48) against Australia and lost the second (51-44) & third (44-41) games to lose the series for their new coach. The Kiwis are currently in England for the Four Nations' competition, they were thrashed by Australia in their first game & lost 26-12 in the second. In the Rugby World Cup round up, Waiuku renamed itself (for at least one day last week) to Beaverville in honour of the hero of the World Cup Stephen Donald (who has the nick-name Beaver). Did you wonder by Piri Weepu did hopelessly kicking for the final? It turns out he had picked up a groin injury during warm-ups for the game but decided to play anyway. The Rugby World Cup final was the most watched television event in NZ history with 2,036,000 people tuning in to see the win. The semi final against Australia was the second biggest & the opening game was the third biggest. Rounding out the top five were the David Tua vs Lewis boxing fight and a One News special on Princess Diana. RWC matches hold seven of the top 12 spots. The All Blacks had an awesome parade in Auckland on Monday, followed by a parade in Christchurch on Tuesday to pay tribute to the earthquake hit Canterbury, and Wellington on Wednesday. The International Rugby Board awards were held on Monday night with Graham Henry named Coach of the Year and the All Blacks picking up team of the year. Jonah Lomu was inducted into the IRB Hall of Fame. The NZ Breakers delivered for a record breaking crowd at Vector Area this week when they beat the Sydney Kings 76-59. Hayden Roulston has signed a contract with top cycling team RadioShack Nissan pro. The opportunity gives the two time Olympic medallist the time to train for the track for the Olympics as well. The Black Caps had been doing well but lost to Zimbabwe in the final ODI. NZ reached 328 for five with both Ross Taylor and Kane Williamson reaching centuries, but Zimbabwe got to 329 for nine. NZ News The big news of the week has been the lack of gas for industry around the country. At the start of the week there was found to be a break in the gas pipe line supplying the upper North Island with gas. A number of industries were told to stop their gas usage and although homes (like ours) didn't have any problems, all Northern Burger Kings, a number of Fonterra plants and the Chelsea sugar factory were all shut down for a number of days. The shut down of the Chelsea sugar factory actually caused a bread shortage around the North Island. However the pipe was repaired by Saturday and gas was being gradually restored this afternoon. The teams have continued pumping oil off the grounded Rena near Tauranga this week, however another disaster was narrowly avoided when a second container ship ran aground after it had some engine failure. It was quickly taken under control by a tug boat & towed to safety. Formerly high flying Michael Redman has resigned from his high level job in Auckland after fall out from the Hamilton V8's. Audit NZ has done a report on the V8's and singled out former Hamilton Mayor & CEO Michael Redman. Christchurch continues to work through who can rebuild and who can't, with another 6,500 home have been rezoned and are now safe to rebuild. There are still 1,666 homes in the "Orange zone" with owners unsure whether or not they can rebuild. The best apple in the UK was announced this week as the Kanzi - a cross between the Braeburn and Gala and of course, from New Zealand. 53.5: % support for National about four weeks out from the election, Labour is down to 30.3%, but support for Phil Goff rose to 13.7% I guess he couldn't get much lower 57: % of people polled by the Herald thought the Rugby World Cup was worth it regardless of the $40m cost 1.3m: readers of the NZ Herald in print and online Finance NZ Dollar GBP 0.5095 (+0.0056) EUR 0.5808 (+0.0023) USD 0.8215 (+0.0179) AUD 0.7681 (-0.0070) The Weekender NZer of the week Clarence Beeby - design of education http://www.ibe.unesco.org/International/Publications/Thinkers/ThinkersPdf/beebye.PDF Mother's Intuition I don't think I'll ever have a mother's intuition. My sister left me alone in a restaurant with my 10-month-old nephew. I said, "What do I do if he cries?" She said "Give him some vegetables." It turns out that jalapeno is not his favorite. Have a look at our rose! https://picasaweb.google.com/dunwich42/Roses?authuser=0&feat=directlink Darren Harrison: darren@harrison.gen.nz The Weekender: mailed weekly (Sunday nightish) {If these just fill up your junk mail, then send me an email & I'll take you off the list | The Weekender is not a verified news source, sometimes it's even just an opinion} See original: |
