2008-12-01 Christchurch Press
STACY SQUIRES/The Press EXPLOSIVE: fireworks mark the end of the 2008 Christmas in the Park show, which drew thousands to Hagley Park in Christchurch on Saturday...
2008-12-01 Taranaki Daily News
By KIRSTY JOHNSTON and LIZ ST GEORGE - Taranaki Daily News | Monday, 01 December 2008 Email a Friend| Printable View | Have Your Say CAMERON BURNELL/Taranaki Daily News Sunseekers and surfers sizzle in the summer...
2008-11-30 Taranaki Daily News
Taranaki welcomed summer with arms open and face tilted skyward at the...
2008-11-30 The Courier-Mail
A TOTAL of 88 people drowned along the Australian coastline during the past year, a 7 per cent increase on the previous year - and most were...
2008-11-30 OptusNet
Drowning deaths at Australian beaches have jumped by more than seven per cent since last year, despite the efforts of surf rescuers to lower the toll. The 2008 National Coastal Safety Report, released on Sunday, revealed that 88 people have died in the surf - six more than the...
2008-11-29 Taranaki Daily News
Swimming scooped three titles at the Taranaki Sportsperson of the Year awards in New Plymouth last...
2008-11-28 Marlborough Express
Most people would settle for having one sporting talent. DAVID DAWKINS sat down with a young man who is excelling at three sports and looking to improve...
2008-11-28 Gisborne Herald
GISBORNE-BASED brothers Mike and Daniel Janes and Madison Boon are among the eight New Zealanders having a crack at the sport's richest series - the Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Ironman trials in Sydney this...
2008-11-28 The New Zealand Herald
A record field of eight New Zealand surf lifesavers will attempt to crack the sport's richest series when they line up at the Australian ironman trials this...
2008-11-27 Liberty Savings Bank
The 2008 Taranaki Daily News Sportsperson of the Year Award will be announced at a function in New Plymouth on Friday. -------------------- Subway International BV junior sports team of the year nominees Francis Douglas Memorial College Milo Cup, cricket This team of 13 and 14-year-olds achieved the best.
2008-11-25 Bay of Plenty Times
by Vicki Waterhouse Surf lifesavers young and old are hitting the streets and the malls and going door to door this year to fundraise for Bay surf lifesaving clubs with National Jandal...
2008-11-25 The Southland Times
Should you be drowning, or maybe if your child or loved one is drowning, Water Safety NZ can offer a step-by-step guide to what it's like, writes The Southland...
2008-11-24 Taranaki Daily News
Taranaki's popular beach spots will again be patrolled this...
2008-11-24 Sunshine Coast Daily
Ocean Assault Series round two at Kawana Beach. Mooloolaba's Dylan Newbiggin. Photo: Brett Wortman/179586 Photo Gallery: Kawana Ocean Assault Enlarge photos | View thumbnails In Saturdayâ s opening Ocean Assault qualifying round at Kawana beach, Shannon Eckstein did not figure in the finish of the...
2008-11-24 Gisborne Herald
GISBORNE beach-sprinter Daniel Harris picked up two fifth placings in the prestigious Ocean Assault series in Kawana, Queensland, at the weekend. Meanwhile, Orewa surf lifesaver Teneale Hatton continued her impressive Australian form, finishing second in the open womens ski race in the second.
2008-11-24 3 News
Orewa surf lifesaver Teneale Hatton has continued her impressive Australian form, finishing second in the open women's ski race in the second round of the prestigious Ocean Assault series in Kawana, Queensland,...
2008-11-21 Voxy.co.nz
- Thames-Coromandel District Mayor Philippa Barriball and council staff will again be donning jandals on Friday December 5 and pledging a donation to support safer summers on our beaches.
2008-11-20 Auckland
Like the waves, a strong start this season has come to Muriwai surf lifeguards.
2008-11-20 Auckland
Swimming mentor Donna Bouzaid is the winner of Sport Waitakeres coveted supreme...
2008-11-19 Northland
After many years absence lifeguard patrols will return to Baylys Beach this...
2008-11-18 InfoNews
National Jandal Day is back - Surf Life Savings national appeal day is set to make a huge splashagain this year as Kiwis all over New Zealand are urged to wear their jandals in support of Surf Life...
2008-11-18 Scoop
Press Release: Surf Life Saving New Zealand No shoes in sight on National Jandal Day Click to enlarge News Release 18 November 2008 No shoes in sight on National Jandal Day National Jandal Day is back - Surf Life Savings national appeal day is set to make a huge splash again this year as.
2008-11-18 The Dominion Post
Police are urging boaties to use common sense after a man had a lucky escape while trying to set a long-line off a Kapiti Coast beach at the...
2008-11-17 Sunshine Coast Daily
Beachgoers are reminded to swim between the flags after a 47-year-old man and two young children nearly drowned at Noosa North Shore on last Sunday. Surf Life Saving Queensland duty officer David McLean said the man who reportedly made his own way back to shore with the children near..
2008-11-17 Gold Coast Bulletin
SUPERSTARS of the surf are generally humble -- and Dennis Green and Bruce Kolkka definitely fit the mould. Green, 77, from Kurrawa, and Kolkka, 53, from Northcliffe, received phone calls recently from SLSA president Ron Rankin to tell them they would enter the sport's Hall Of...
2008-11-16 ABC Gold & Tweed Coasts
Queensland surf lifesavers say a man who drowned on the Gold Coast yesterday was swimming at an unpatrolled beach.
2008-11-16 3 News
Rotorua teenager Kane Radford has shown he is going to be a tough nut to crack in this year's ocean race series. The 18-year-old has dominated the event for the past two years and in the season openings Auckland Harbour swim he was once again too...