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Americas Cup Races Postponed Due To High Winds
Friday, 12 November 1999, 2:44 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland
Americas Cup challenger series races scheduled for today have been postponed until tomorrow due to strong wind gusts. More >>
Americas Cup Update - Who Won, Who Lost, And More
Thursday, 11 November 1999, 9:29 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland
The big race of the day today was Mr Americas Cup, Dennis Conner's win over the previously unbeatable Luna Rossa. The win to Conner's Stars & Stripes yacht broke a winning spell for the Italian Prada team. Luna Rossa lost the match by 1 minute ... More >>
Love-struck Italian Apologises To Cooks For Spam
Thursday, 11 November 1999, 5:48 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland
Article provided by... Cook Islands News An Italian, Gaspare Checchini, has apologised for emailing nearly 250 people in the Cook Islands late last month asking for help in locating an Atiuan dancer. More >>
Qantas Suspends Cairns-PNG Flights
Thursday, 11 November 1999, 5:21 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland
PORT MORESBY: Qantas will suspend all flights between Port Moresby and Cairns for three months starting on Friday, Nov 12, the National reports. More >>
Americas Cup - Leading Prada Team Beaten By Conner
Thursday, 11 November 1999, 4:58 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland
It is a fact well learnt by previous Americas Cup challengers: never under-estimate Dennis Conner's Stars & Stripes team. More >>
Americas Cup Today's Race Report
Thursday, 11 November 1999, 4:35 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland
On a blustery and extremely shifty Auckland day, the Americas Cup Race Committees had to alter course marks to compensate for fickle wind-shifts. The finish line ended up being nearly five miles away from the start area. More >>
Americas Cup - Japan's Azura Breaks Mast
Thursday, 11 November 1999, 4:05 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland
The Japanese Americas Cup challenger yacht Azura has broken its mast. The breakage occured during racing on Auckland's Hauraki Gulf this afternoon, in a match race against AmericaOne. More >>
Junior All Whites Test NZ Soccer's Credibility
Thursday, 11 November 1999, 11:36 am | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland
Thirteen. Unlucky for some. Certainly not an auspicious number for the New Zealand team which contested the last Under-17 World Cup soccer tournament in 1997. More >>
Rumours - Turmoil - Inside Counties Manukau Rugby
Thursday, 11 November 1999, 11:20 am | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland
Chief executive Gary Wilton’s resignation comes after a hefty financial year loss, while NPC attendances and the success of the new Chiefs franchise has been mixed. Wayne Watson asks CMRFU chair and acting chief executive Rod Gabb where the union ... More >>
Americas Cup Todays Races Previewed
Thursday, 11 November 1999, 12:01 am | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland
After the dramatic events of Tuesday and the postponement of Wednesday, everyone is looking forward to an interesting day on the race course today.... if racing goes ahead. More >>
Young America Substitute Yacht Approved
Wednesday, 10 November 1999, 6:10 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland
Americas Cup officials have given approval to the New York Yacht Club backed Young America team to race its substitute boat USA 58. More >>
Young America Likely To Use Second Boat
Wednesday, 10 November 1999, 6:02 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland
Young America is about to apply to Americas Cup officials to use its back up yacht USA 58 in the remaining round robin 2 races of the cup challenger series. More >>
Americas Cup Racing Postponed Due To Gales
Wednesday, 10 November 1999, 2:56 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland
Americas Cup officials decided to postpone todays planned Louis Vuitton Cup challenger races on Auckland's Hauraki Gulf due to high winds and squalls. More >>
French Polynesian Corruption Trials To Be Held
Tuesday, 9 November 1999, 10:08 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland
Radio Australia is reporting a call that French Polynesian corruption trials should be held in Tahiti rather than in France. More >>
PNG Aid Ready - But MPs Slush Funds Must Go
Tuesday, 9 November 1999, 8:55 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland
The Australian is reporting that slush funds provided annually to PNG's 109 national MPs appear to be the last remaining obstacle to a multi-million-dollar aid package. More >>
Oceanic Sustainability Meeting Begins In Suva
Tuesday, 9 November 1999, 8:17 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland
The International Ocean Institute's 27th annual Pacem in Maribus conference opened in Suva today. More >>
Americas Cup Challenger Series Full Report
Tuesday, 9 November 1999, 7:54 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland
Disaster struck the New York Yacht Club's challenge for the Americas Cup today as Young America split almost in half in moderate seas on Auckland's Hauraki Gulf. Here too is a full report on team standings, points, who races who and the weather. More >>
TV3 News
Tuesday, 9 November 1999, 7:36 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland
TV3 News - Young America splits in half - Labour's new advertisement campaign causes split between president and leader - India flood waters go down but death-toll rises. More >>
Americas Cup Report - Who Won, Who Lost, And More
Tuesday, 9 November 1999, 5:26 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland
It was like a replay of the sinking of OneAustralia off San Francisco in 1995. The New York Yacht Club's Young America yacht split almost in two while racing in heavy wind today. More >>
Americas Cup News Flash - Young America Sinking!
Tuesday, 9 November 1999, 3:12 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland
High winds on Auckland's Hauraki Gulf has inflicted serious structural damage to Young America. More >>