Waikato Times - 2012-07-02

• Skifields packed at weekend
• Family expo covers all sizes, styles
• Human impact on Antarctic sparks student’s study
• Leap second keeps us in sync with the Sun
• Poetry wins over rugby
• Amateurs’ taste of the big time
• Residents strike back at ‘Tainui Empire’ plan
• Landlords spurred take safety action
• ‘Smoko’ will beat ban
• Court slams Te Awamutu farm for illegal effluent discharge
• Super-ministry a flop – Labour
• Wood smoke death figures a ‘scam’, says researcher
• Publican calls last drinks for puppets
• Bennett in about-face
• Fuzzy line for tax can still be costly
• Sluggish growth here to stay, economists predict
• Carbon tax ‘reckless claims’ dismissed by Gillard
• Drama unfolds as China’s president clings to power
• Deadly storms cut power to millions
• Extremists destroy saints’ mausoleums
• Assad’s fate unclear in peace proposal
• Al Qaeda plots strike on US jet
• Rob’s rant
• Reconcilia­tion of king and prophet
• The dead tell tales
• MEMORY BOXES
• History repeats itself
• What is the legacy Winston Peters will leave his country?
• Loose-lipped writer tortured for the truth
• When cows cross your path
• Even Rodney Hide was there.
• Two per cent of pensioners who qualify for the gold card are Aucklander­s, who use a huge and disproport­ionate 18 per cent of the $23m for weekly freebie cruises to Waiheke Island.
• Wheeler set to reign at Riccarton
• Morpheus jumps at chance for double
• Fiorano breaks drought to earn crack at the Taumarunui Cup
• Latest loss knocks Melville’s hopes
• Panthers crush Warriors in run for Waicoa Bay title
• English can’t help hoping for Murray
• SCOUTING REPORT:
• Defeat ends Hautapu’s hopes of pushing on to semifinals
• Break sees teams fall off the pace – a challenge to franchises
• Chiefs’ defensive tactics aimed at ABS halfback
• Sports fall from limelight as next hot thing emerges
• Wiggins overshadow­s Evans
• Cruden battles through injury to focus on win
• Warriors repel Cowboys comeback to win
• Oram urges better effort from ‘shambolic’ Black Caps
• Playoff spot there for the taking

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