By JAYNE HULBERT and RICHARD WOODD jayne.hulbert@tnl.co.nz - Taranaki | Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Critical water shortages are not being taken seriously by some South Taranaki residents, which is frustrating authorities.
Last week South Taranaki District Council imposed full water restrictions in a bid to prevent the water supply in the region drying up.
STDC engineering services group manager Neil McCann says they are disappointed some people don't seem to understand the critical situation and continue to disregard the ban.
"Some people think it's the same thing every year and it's no big deal ... but we are in a critical situation. This is not like previous years," Mr McCann said yesterday.
He says the council is holding just two weeks' supply in its reservoirs.
Water restrictions have been imposed in the district to see it through the next couple of months.
The total water ban means all hoses, sprinklers and irrigation systems - whether urban, rural, commercial or industrial - are banned until further notice.
Council officers have approached people they've seen using hoses and are often fielding indifferent feedback.
Mr McCann says they rely on people contacting them about water being wasted.
"People must be vigilant. Everyone needs to cut back."
However, one approach by the council is achieving results. More than 100 significant water leaks, collectively causing losses amounting to hundreds of thousands of litres a day, have been identified and repaired in South Taranaki without a single threat being issued by inspectors.
A two-pronged attack on critical areas - rural water schemes and Patea township - got great results, says utilities engineer Clive Margetts. A helicopter was hired to fly over four rural supply schemes and identify major leaks on farms by spotting fresh grass growth around pipelines and troughs.
Leaks were identified on 28 properties and letters were sent to them individually. By the time an inspector made a followup visit over the next four weeks, all the leaks had been repaired.
In Patea, an alarmingly high night-time usage of 30 cubic metres an hour, resulted in the council offering to provide a plumber to fix dripping taps, running water cisterns and leaking pipes, because there is no plumber in Patea.
Mr Margetts visited several locations, including the old freezing works and hospital sites, but was unable to see any obvious major leaks.
So a letter explaining the offer was hand-delivered to every address.
From this door-knocking and householders phoning in, the council was notified of 85 leaks that needed fixing. Many of the calls came the same day the letters were delivered.
Hawera plumber Bruce Commerer has been contracted to fix the leaks and the council is paying.
High demand continues to cause concern in the Waimate West dairy farming area with peak use at daily milking times taking the reservoir level down to just 20% of its capacity.
Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Saturday, 12 January 2008
Obituary: Sir Edmund Hillary, a Kiwi colossus
By MICHAEL FIELD - Fairfax Media | Friday, 11 January 2008
LIFE OF ACHIEVEMENTS: After conquering Everest, Sir Ed devoted the rest of his life to fundraising to improve the health, education and environment of the Sherpa people of Nepal.
New Zealand's greatest hero, Sir Edmund Hillary, is dead.
The tall, gangly beekeeper seized world headlines when he and Tenzing Norgay, on May 29, 1953, became the first to scale the summit of Mount Everest.
He was 88 when he died.
Sir Ed – as all New Zealanders knew him - never forgot that he reached the summit with Tenzing and he devoted the rest of his life to fundraising to improve the health, education and environment of the Sherpa people of Nepal.
When he first started that work he personally built many of the schools and hospitals in the Himalayas with his own hands.
Born in Auckland on July 20, 1919, he started his working life as a beekeeper.
During World War II he served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, spending much of his time at the Laucala Bay base in Fiji.
Back in New Zealand he began climbing in South Island's Kaikoura Ranges and the Southern Alps.
Three Himalayan expeditions followed and in 1953 Sir Ed, then 33, was selected to join John Hunt's British Expedition to take on Everest.
Sir Ed was renowned for his fitness. His lung capacity was measured at seven litres as compared to five litres for an average man.
On Everest the first assault team that tried to reach the summit was driven back by altitude sickness. Sir Ed and Tenzing were next.
Hunt wrote later of watching Sir Ed and Tenzing return: "[As] they came into view, I could see they were dragging their feet and looking down in the dumps. My heart sank. Suddenly, at 20 metres, they began to show signs of animation.... Ed Hillary pointed his axe to the top.
"'We've knocked the bastard off,' he shouted, and I wept and collapsed into his arms."
For several days the news was withheld to be released the day Queen Elizabeth II was crowned.
Sir Ed maintained he and Tenzing – who died in 1986 - reached the summit together, but he was over the years repeatedly asked who got there first. He never said directly, but much later Tenzing, known as the "Tiger of the Snows", said Hillary led the couple on to the summit.
In his first book, High Adventure, Hillary's simple style told of his feelings on the peak: "Awe, wonder, humility, pride, exaltation - these surely ought to be the confused emotions of the first men to stand on the highest peak on earth, after so many others had failed.
"But my dominant reactions were relief and surprise. Relief because the long grind was over and the unattainable had been attained. And surprise because it had happened to me, old Ed Hillary, the beekeeper, once the star pupil of Tuakau District School, but no great shakes at Auckland Grammar and a no-hoper at university - first to the top of Everest! I just didn't believe it."
Before Sir Ed made it out of the Himalayas, the Queen, to his embarrassment, knighted him.
Back in New Zealand he married Louise Rose, and they later had three children, Belinda, Sarah and Peter. In 1990 Peter Hillary scaled Everest and was able, in a live radio broadcast from the peak, to talk to his father here.
Sir Ed Hillary continued a life of climbing and adventure, including involvement in 1958 of a British trans-Antarctic expedition lead by Sir Vivien Fuchs. Hillary's job was to use three small tractors to lay a supply trail for Fuchs' party but in a controversial decision he raced to the pole himself and reached it before Fuchs.
In the early 1960s the Hillary family began building schools and hospitals for the Sherpas, beginning with re-roofing a monastery and research and treatment of goitre among the Sherpas. Before the Hillary schools, the Sherpas were illiterate.
By 1965 Hillary had raised funds for the building and equipping of seven schools. He also built bridges and an airstrip. His work extracted a terrible price when, in April 1975 an aircrash at Katmandu airport killed his wife and youngest daughter, Belinda, 16.
In New Zealand he played a key role in founding Volunteer Service Aboard, which sends New Zealanders to work in Third World countries.
In 1977 Hillary organised his Ocean to Sky expedition from the mouth of the Ganges to the Himalayas on small jet boats. The trip by Hillary, already extraordinarily popular in India and Nepal, assumed great religious significance on the subcontinent.
This allowed New Zealand to repair its savaged diplomatic relations with India after Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon had several angry exchanges with then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi which saw Wellington close its high commission in New Delhi.
In October 1984 new Prime Minister David Lange named Hillary high commissioner to India.
When he returned to settle in New Zealand, Hillary continued fundraising, and became a special ambassador for UNICEF to promote Nepalese aid.
He was also outspoken about the environmental damage in the Himalayas, calling for the Nepalese to close Everest to climbers for several years.
In December 1989, he married June Mulgrew, widow of fellow climber and explorer Peter Mulgrew, who had been killed in 1979 when an Air New Zealand sightseeing aircraft crashed into Mount Erebus in Antarctica.
Hillary was a simple, tolerant man who, in 1992, said he found Buddhism an appealing, open religion which he tended to prefer over his Anglican upbringing.
He said he wondered whether there was a god.
"I have the vague feeling ... that the world is so complex and so remarkable in many ways that there must be some sort of intelligence behind it all but as to whether that intelligence is the slightest bit interested in a little person away down on earth, I have my considerable doubts."
His death removes a towering mountain from the New Zealand landscape.
LIFE OF ACHIEVEMENTS: After conquering Everest, Sir Ed devoted the rest of his life to fundraising to improve the health, education and environment of the Sherpa people of Nepal.
New Zealand's greatest hero, Sir Edmund Hillary, is dead.
The tall, gangly beekeeper seized world headlines when he and Tenzing Norgay, on May 29, 1953, became the first to scale the summit of Mount Everest.
He was 88 when he died.
Sir Ed – as all New Zealanders knew him - never forgot that he reached the summit with Tenzing and he devoted the rest of his life to fundraising to improve the health, education and environment of the Sherpa people of Nepal.
When he first started that work he personally built many of the schools and hospitals in the Himalayas with his own hands.
Born in Auckland on July 20, 1919, he started his working life as a beekeeper.
During World War II he served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, spending much of his time at the Laucala Bay base in Fiji.
Back in New Zealand he began climbing in South Island's Kaikoura Ranges and the Southern Alps.
Three Himalayan expeditions followed and in 1953 Sir Ed, then 33, was selected to join John Hunt's British Expedition to take on Everest.
Sir Ed was renowned for his fitness. His lung capacity was measured at seven litres as compared to five litres for an average man.
On Everest the first assault team that tried to reach the summit was driven back by altitude sickness. Sir Ed and Tenzing were next.
Hunt wrote later of watching Sir Ed and Tenzing return: "[As] they came into view, I could see they were dragging their feet and looking down in the dumps. My heart sank. Suddenly, at 20 metres, they began to show signs of animation.... Ed Hillary pointed his axe to the top.
"'We've knocked the bastard off,' he shouted, and I wept and collapsed into his arms."
For several days the news was withheld to be released the day Queen Elizabeth II was crowned.
Sir Ed maintained he and Tenzing – who died in 1986 - reached the summit together, but he was over the years repeatedly asked who got there first. He never said directly, but much later Tenzing, known as the "Tiger of the Snows", said Hillary led the couple on to the summit.
In his first book, High Adventure, Hillary's simple style told of his feelings on the peak: "Awe, wonder, humility, pride, exaltation - these surely ought to be the confused emotions of the first men to stand on the highest peak on earth, after so many others had failed.
"But my dominant reactions were relief and surprise. Relief because the long grind was over and the unattainable had been attained. And surprise because it had happened to me, old Ed Hillary, the beekeeper, once the star pupil of Tuakau District School, but no great shakes at Auckland Grammar and a no-hoper at university - first to the top of Everest! I just didn't believe it."
Before Sir Ed made it out of the Himalayas, the Queen, to his embarrassment, knighted him.
Back in New Zealand he married Louise Rose, and they later had three children, Belinda, Sarah and Peter. In 1990 Peter Hillary scaled Everest and was able, in a live radio broadcast from the peak, to talk to his father here.
Sir Ed Hillary continued a life of climbing and adventure, including involvement in 1958 of a British trans-Antarctic expedition lead by Sir Vivien Fuchs. Hillary's job was to use three small tractors to lay a supply trail for Fuchs' party but in a controversial decision he raced to the pole himself and reached it before Fuchs.
In the early 1960s the Hillary family began building schools and hospitals for the Sherpas, beginning with re-roofing a monastery and research and treatment of goitre among the Sherpas. Before the Hillary schools, the Sherpas were illiterate.
By 1965 Hillary had raised funds for the building and equipping of seven schools. He also built bridges and an airstrip. His work extracted a terrible price when, in April 1975 an aircrash at Katmandu airport killed his wife and youngest daughter, Belinda, 16.
In New Zealand he played a key role in founding Volunteer Service Aboard, which sends New Zealanders to work in Third World countries.
In 1977 Hillary organised his Ocean to Sky expedition from the mouth of the Ganges to the Himalayas on small jet boats. The trip by Hillary, already extraordinarily popular in India and Nepal, assumed great religious significance on the subcontinent.
This allowed New Zealand to repair its savaged diplomatic relations with India after Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon had several angry exchanges with then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi which saw Wellington close its high commission in New Delhi.
In October 1984 new Prime Minister David Lange named Hillary high commissioner to India.
When he returned to settle in New Zealand, Hillary continued fundraising, and became a special ambassador for UNICEF to promote Nepalese aid.
He was also outspoken about the environmental damage in the Himalayas, calling for the Nepalese to close Everest to climbers for several years.
In December 1989, he married June Mulgrew, widow of fellow climber and explorer Peter Mulgrew, who had been killed in 1979 when an Air New Zealand sightseeing aircraft crashed into Mount Erebus in Antarctica.
Hillary was a simple, tolerant man who, in 1992, said he found Buddhism an appealing, open religion which he tended to prefer over his Anglican upbringing.
He said he wondered whether there was a god.
"I have the vague feeling ... that the world is so complex and so remarkable in many ways that there must be some sort of intelligence behind it all but as to whether that intelligence is the slightest bit interested in a little person away down on earth, I have my considerable doubts."
His death removes a towering mountain from the New Zealand landscape.
Wednesday, 9 January 2008
Dame Kiri to sing by starlight
Auckland City Harbour News | Thursday, 03 January 2008
One of Auckland’s most famous daughters will perform during the Skycity Starlight Symphony at the Auckland Domain on February 23.
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa will make a special appearance, her first at the Domain since 1996.
"I am excited to be part of it," she says. "It is a wonderful opportunity to showcase some of New Zealand’s greatest musical talent, which is something I am very passionate about supporting."
Dame Kiri was born in Gisborne but spent a good part of her early years with her adoptive parents in Blockhouse Bay. She received singing lessons from Dame Sister Mary Leo at St Mary’s in Ponsonby.
Dame Kiri moved to London to further her studies and made a name for herself appearing in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, at Sante Fe then at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in 1971.
Her recordings ar as extensive and was a soloist at the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981 at St Paul’s Cathedral.
More than 600 million people are thought to have tuned in to her performance.
Dame Kiri will star along with some of the country’s best operatic voices, accompanied by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.
All the proceeds to go to Kidz First Children’s Hospital.
One of Auckland’s most famous daughters will perform during the Skycity Starlight Symphony at the Auckland Domain on February 23.
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa will make a special appearance, her first at the Domain since 1996.
"I am excited to be part of it," she says. "It is a wonderful opportunity to showcase some of New Zealand’s greatest musical talent, which is something I am very passionate about supporting."
Dame Kiri was born in Gisborne but spent a good part of her early years with her adoptive parents in Blockhouse Bay. She received singing lessons from Dame Sister Mary Leo at St Mary’s in Ponsonby.
Dame Kiri moved to London to further her studies and made a name for herself appearing in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, at Sante Fe then at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in 1971.
Her recordings ar as extensive and was a soloist at the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981 at St Paul’s Cathedral.
More than 600 million people are thought to have tuned in to her performance.
Dame Kiri will star along with some of the country’s best operatic voices, accompanied by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.
All the proceeds to go to Kidz First Children’s Hospital.
Friday, 4 January 2008
Kayakers head for Taranaki
5:00AM Friday January 04, 2008
Two Australian kayakers battling to be the first to paddle from Australia to New Zealand are expected to make landfall next week, an expedition spokesman said yesterday.
However, James Castrission, 25, and Justin Jones, 24, are now planning to step ashore in New Plymouth, rather than Auckland.
Two Australian kayakers battling to be the first to paddle from Australia to New Zealand are expected to make landfall next week, an expedition spokesman said yesterday.
However, James Castrission, 25, and Justin Jones, 24, are now planning to step ashore in New Plymouth, rather than Auckland.
Thursday, 3 January 2008
Woman kayaks South Island
8:00AM Thursday January 03, 2008
Big swells and unruly surf were not enough to deter German kayaker Freya Hoffmeister from becoming the first woman to paddle around the South Island.
Hoffmeister, 43, arrived at Okiwi Bay, Nelson, just after 3pm yesterday after a trip lasting 70 days. Hoffmeister said she was drawn to the challenge because it was one of the hardest in the world. "It's one of the most challenging islands to kayak around, and it is beautiful coastline too."
Big swells and unruly surf were not enough to deter German kayaker Freya Hoffmeister from becoming the first woman to paddle around the South Island.
Hoffmeister, 43, arrived at Okiwi Bay, Nelson, just after 3pm yesterday after a trip lasting 70 days. Hoffmeister said she was drawn to the challenge because it was one of the hardest in the world. "It's one of the most challenging islands to kayak around, and it is beautiful coastline too."
Kiwi Erakovic bounces top seed out of ASB Classic
4:02PM Thursday January 03, 2008
By Simon Winter with NZPA
New Zealand's Marina Erakovic caused a major upset in downing top seed Vera Zvonareva, of Russia, in their quarterfinal at the ASB Classic women's tennis tournament in Auckland today.
Erakovic came from behind to win a thrilling third set tiebreaker and take the match 6-3 2-6 7-6.
After a strong start to the match the 19-year-old, ranked 152nd in the world, looked set to exit the tournament after losing the second set and going a break down early in the third.
But after winning a marathon seventh game, Erakovic broke serve to level the set at 4-4.
She then held serve to lead 5-4, but, after Zvonareva had also held serve, an increasingly nervous Erakovic dropped serve to hand the Russian what appeared the decisive advantage.
But in a stunning turn of events, Erakovic found her A-game to break back to love and force a tie-breaker.
With the tiebreaker level at 5-5, Erakovic's forehand seemed destined for the net, but clipped the top, and bounced in.
There was nothing Zvonareva could do and Erakovic had match point.
Moments later she closed it out.
Earlier, second seed, Maria Kirilenko, of Russia, lost 1-6 3-6 to sixth seeded Austrian Tamira Paszek.
By Simon Winter with NZPA
New Zealand's Marina Erakovic caused a major upset in downing top seed Vera Zvonareva, of Russia, in their quarterfinal at the ASB Classic women's tennis tournament in Auckland today.
Erakovic came from behind to win a thrilling third set tiebreaker and take the match 6-3 2-6 7-6.
After a strong start to the match the 19-year-old, ranked 152nd in the world, looked set to exit the tournament after losing the second set and going a break down early in the third.
But after winning a marathon seventh game, Erakovic broke serve to level the set at 4-4.
She then held serve to lead 5-4, but, after Zvonareva had also held serve, an increasingly nervous Erakovic dropped serve to hand the Russian what appeared the decisive advantage.
But in a stunning turn of events, Erakovic found her A-game to break back to love and force a tie-breaker.
With the tiebreaker level at 5-5, Erakovic's forehand seemed destined for the net, but clipped the top, and bounced in.
There was nothing Zvonareva could do and Erakovic had match point.
Moments later she closed it out.
Earlier, second seed, Maria Kirilenko, of Russia, lost 1-6 3-6 to sixth seeded Austrian Tamira Paszek.
Wednesday, 2 January 2008
Westenra's Pure biggest selling UK classical album since 2000
Tuesday, 01 January 2008
DEAN KOZANIC/The Press
Westenra busts British record
A breakthrough album from 20-year-old New Zealand singer Hayley Westenra, has been named Britain's biggest-selling classical album of the 21st century so far.
Westenra was 15 when the album, Pure, her third, but the first to be released internationally, was issued.
The BBC reported British stars Russell Watson and Katherine Jenkins dominated the rest of the top 10 chart based on sales between January 2000 and December 2007.
The list was compiled by the Official UK Charts Company for Classic FM.
Watson, who is recovering from surgery to remove a brain tumour, took second and third spot with his albums The Voice and Encore.
Jenkins had three entries - Living a Dream, Second Nature and Serenade. - NZPA
DEAN KOZANIC/The Press
Westenra busts British record
A breakthrough album from 20-year-old New Zealand singer Hayley Westenra, has been named Britain's biggest-selling classical album of the 21st century so far.
Westenra was 15 when the album, Pure, her third, but the first to be released internationally, was issued.
The BBC reported British stars Russell Watson and Katherine Jenkins dominated the rest of the top 10 chart based on sales between January 2000 and December 2007.
The list was compiled by the Official UK Charts Company for Classic FM.
Watson, who is recovering from surgery to remove a brain tumour, took second and third spot with his albums The Voice and Encore.
Jenkins had three entries - Living a Dream, Second Nature and Serenade. - NZPA
20,000 salute the first sun of 2008
By MATT CALMAN - The Dominion Post | Wednesday, 02 January 2008
A happy 20,000-strong crowd in Gisborne was the first to see the New Year sun while jumping to the music at the 5th Rhythm & Vines Festival.
The run of sun-soaked days broke on New Year's Eve, with grey and at times drizzly weather, but it did little to dampen the mood. And yesterday the golden weather returned.
Tom McRae, 24, from Auckland, said his first visit to the festival and his stay at the BW camp ground - a stone's throw from the city's main beach - was one of his best New Years.
The Gisborne locals had been welcoming and everyone was there for a good time.
"Everyone's really friendly. You kind of just get chatting to randoms, hang out, and have a couple of beers.
"The fact that it's R18 at the campground and at Rhythm & Vines is great because you don't get drunken 13 and 14-year-olds passing out at 7 o'clock."
In the lead-up, nearly 10,000 campers stayed at four BW Camping Festival campsites enjoying the live music and sunbathing weather.
Mr McRae said camping with 10,000 other people was chaos, but he praised the organisation and laid-back atmosphere.
Rhythm & Vines' main stage at Waiohika Estate had a strong pre-midnight lineup that included Kiwi bands the Checks, the Mint Chicks, Scribe and dDub.
A light show and a 20-minute fireworks display heralded the start of 2008 before the music resumed till daybreak and beyond. It finally wound up at midday yesterday.
Sergeant Lincoln Sycamore said 40 staff patrolled the festival but did not encounter any trouble.
"Traditionally there's no problems out there and I think last year we had one arrest."
Though the BW Campground - which housed most of the revellers - had its own security, officers patrolled the beach on quad bikes and kept an eye on the area.
Apart from a few cases of theft everyone was well behaved.
"It's generally not the out-of-towners that cause us the problems, it's the locals."
By 5pm yesterday half the campers had gone home
A happy 20,000-strong crowd in Gisborne was the first to see the New Year sun while jumping to the music at the 5th Rhythm & Vines Festival.
The run of sun-soaked days broke on New Year's Eve, with grey and at times drizzly weather, but it did little to dampen the mood. And yesterday the golden weather returned.
Tom McRae, 24, from Auckland, said his first visit to the festival and his stay at the BW camp ground - a stone's throw from the city's main beach - was one of his best New Years.
The Gisborne locals had been welcoming and everyone was there for a good time.
"Everyone's really friendly. You kind of just get chatting to randoms, hang out, and have a couple of beers.
"The fact that it's R18 at the campground and at Rhythm & Vines is great because you don't get drunken 13 and 14-year-olds passing out at 7 o'clock."
In the lead-up, nearly 10,000 campers stayed at four BW Camping Festival campsites enjoying the live music and sunbathing weather.
Mr McRae said camping with 10,000 other people was chaos, but he praised the organisation and laid-back atmosphere.
Rhythm & Vines' main stage at Waiohika Estate had a strong pre-midnight lineup that included Kiwi bands the Checks, the Mint Chicks, Scribe and dDub.
A light show and a 20-minute fireworks display heralded the start of 2008 before the music resumed till daybreak and beyond. It finally wound up at midday yesterday.
Sergeant Lincoln Sycamore said 40 staff patrolled the festival but did not encounter any trouble.
"Traditionally there's no problems out there and I think last year we had one arrest."
Though the BW Campground - which housed most of the revellers - had its own security, officers patrolled the beach on quad bikes and kept an eye on the area.
Apart from a few cases of theft everyone was well behaved.
"It's generally not the out-of-towners that cause us the problems, it's the locals."
By 5pm yesterday half the campers had gone home
Tuesday, 1 January 2008
Happy New Year - 2008
SMASHED ON NEW YEAR'S: The damage done by the brick thrown at Prime Minister Helen Clark's Auckland electoral office on New Year's Eve.
An unlikely alliance of fireworks, a vigilant neighbour and a mysterious midnight moggy combined to possibly prevent more widespread damage at Prime Minister Helen Clark's Mt Albert electorate office early this morning.
A brick was thrown at the office's window around 12.30am today, with the offender seen disappearing on a scooter immediately afterwards.
The window was cracked but not broken.
An email from a lobby group, People Power, claimed the brick was thrown in protest against the Electoral Finance Act, which came into force today.
Police northern communications spokesman Inspector Ian Brooker said a woman who witnessed the attack possibly prevented further damage through her actions.
The woman, a local resident, had been watching midnight fireworks when she noticed a cat wandering near the office at about 12.30am. Knowing that a neighbour had lost their cat, she went to have a closer look.
At the same time she noticed a person on a motor scooter, who had a short time earlier ridden up the road, stopped and thrown a brick at the window of the electorate office.
"As she went closer to try to get the registration number of the scooter, she was attacked by the cat and screamed. Both the cat and the motor scooter rider were alarmed and left at speed," Mr Brooker said.
The woman called police and supplied them with descriptions of the offender and his scooter.
The woman was not injured by the cat, which grabbed her leg in what she described as a playful attack.
The cat was not the animal belonging to the neighbour.
The woman wishes to remain anonymous.
- NZPA
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