Articles by Utopia Support

Tepaki sues 7 for $66 million

Monday 4 October 2010 | Published in Local

Arorangi developer Tepaki (Tim) Tepaki is seeking over $66 million in damages. Tepaki last week filed a statement of claim against Rarotonga Resorts Management Limited, New Zealand hotel operators Robin and Kim Eggleton, Arorangi hotel operator Anne Boys, accountant Michael Innes Jones, New Zealand financier Strategic Finance Limited and loans manager David Somerfield. Tepaki is […]

Games begin!

Monday 4 October 2010 | Published in Local

The national lawn bowls team will roll into action today as the triples and pairs teams begin their Commonwealth Games campaign. Bowls is the only Team Cook Islands code competing today (Monday India time) with their competition starting at midday. Lawn bowls will run right through the two weeks of the games. On Tuesday – […]

Kata - October 4, 2010

Monday 4 October 2010 | Published in Kata

Charmers and ei katu

Monday 4 October 2010 | Published in Smoke Signals

Those who were up in the wee hours of the morning yesterday to watch the opening of the Delhi Commonwealth Games live on TV, or who caught the replay in the afternoon, would have noticed our team looking great wearing their colourful ei katu (floral headwear). If you thought the team hunted around Delhi to […]

Fight on says George

Saturday 2 October 2010 | Published in Local

Norman George isn’t expecting Sir Terepai Maoate to cross the floor to join the CIP. The MP for Atiu is convinced that it is more likely that Sir Terepai will run as an independent. George commented: “Firstly commiserations and cheer up old boy, to him from me. I know that my friend is a fighter, […]

Big burglary haul

Saturday 2 October 2010 | Published in Local

A Tikioki home was burgled on Tuesday night of more than 7000 Euro (nearly 13,000 NZD) in electronic equipment. Among the stolen properties were a Sony laptop, four iPhones, a Sony digital camera, a Casio digicam, a flash drive and three memory chips. If you’ve been offered any of the above at a discounted price, […]

High seas keep Forum ship out

Saturday 2 October 2010 | Published in Local

Due to high seas at the entrance of the harbour, the Forum Pacific was unable to come into port yesterday. The vessel tried at 7am, midday and 4pm but the strong north easterly winds prevented it from doing so. The ship’s sheltered around the west of the island overnight before trying again this morning.

Maoates plan next move

Saturday 2 October 2010 | Published in Local

Sir Terepai Maoate’s committee will be meeting next Tuesday to decide where next for the veteran politician. Sir Terepai, 76, lost the Ngatangiia Democratic party candidate run-off against Mann Short on Wednesday, receiving 162 votes to Short’s 172. Sir Terepai said: “We are having a meeting next Tuesday. Nothing is confirmed until then. There was […]

Potter may be back

Saturday 2 October 2010 | Published in Features

Author JK Rowling told US television talk show host Oprah Winfrey she cried uncontrollably when she finished the last of her best-selling Harry Potter books, but did not rule out writing another one. “I’m not saying I won’t. I love writing them,” the 45-year-old British author told Winfrey in a videotaped interview at the Balmoral […]

Singing and breathing in time

Saturday 2 October 2010 | Published in Features

Matavera musicians Mary Hamer and Steve Harsley are recording their first album as husband and wife – a rich, multi-genre mix of tracks underlined by Mary’s resonant vocals and Steve’s guitar riffs. One track called ‘Paradise’, infused with a jazz-Latin feel, is a tribute to the Cook Islands, and another is inspired by the Atiu […]

Test yourself with this maths quiz

Saturday 2 October 2010 | Published in Features

If you didn’t get a chance to take part in the Maths Quiz this week, here are a few of the questions for you to try out! The answers are below Virtues. Grade 6 questions 1. Mataio, Nga, Steven and Ben have 23 marbles each. How many marbles do they have together? 2. Mrs Mataora […]

Legends come alive at Avatea

Saturday 2 October 2010 | Published in Features

Avatea students and siblings Enua (left) and Lavinia Fameitau proudly show off their legends ‘diorama’ which they along with their fellow students have been creating as part of the schools legends project. Enua, 10, created a papier mache double hulled vaka to represent the canoe of legendary warrior Ru while his sister Lavinia, 8, holds […]

Hand surgeons gather

Saturday 2 October 2010 | Published in Features

More than 100 hand surgeons are taking part in a conference at Edgewater Resort. The specialist surgeons are all members of the New Zealand Hand Surgery Society. Karen Smith, the hand specialist from Middlemore Hospital in Auckland, organised the annual get together and decided that an offshore location might be a draw to her colleagues. […]

Money back from Motor Centre

Saturday 2 October 2010 | Published in Features

Kevin Hosking (centre) was the lucky winner in the Motor Centre’s Constitution celebration competition. The promotion offered buyers of garden equipment and white goods between 23 July-20 September the chance to win their money back. Hosking accepted a cheque from General Manager Ken King and Sales Manager Kim Mulholland for $1658, which the Hosking family […]

Phone book art on show

Saturday 2 October 2010 | Published in Features

The winner of the Telecom phone book design competition will be announced on Monday. A top 20 has been selected from around 50 entries – all of which will be on display in the Beachcomber Gallery next week. The judging panel – Ben Bergman, Ian and Kay George and Jules Maher – has chosen the […]

'I will just do my best'

Saturday 2 October 2010 | Published in Features

Two weeks ago 17-year-old track athlete Patricia Taea took on Oceania’s best under 20 sprinters and won a bronze medal. Now she is preparing to take on some of the world’s best at the Delhi Commonwealth Games in India. And although buoyed by her recent achievement on the track, Taea is certainly not talking up […]

Incredible India

Saturday 2 October 2010 | Published in Features

It's all relative in the scheme of destruction

Saturday 2 October 2010 | Published in Features

Just over a week ago I was somewhere very warm and pleasant and the sea temperature was just right to cool you down after a few hours in the hot sun. I was on the beautiful island of Aitutaki, one of the homelands for the people we now call Maori here in Aotearoa. It’s said […]

A very negative holiday

Saturday 2 October 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Last spring I sent a letter to the editor advising the Cook Islands my wife and I were returning for a third holiday to the Cook Islands because there were more positives than negatives. I must regret that our third visit will probably be our last because there were far more negatives than […]

Need to address pensions

Saturday 2 October 2010 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, We read on the front page of your paper that the cost of old age pensions etc to the Government is predicted to rise. One reason of course being that more advanced medication helps to keep people alive longer. I was not surprised to read that Government is advised not to reduce the […]