National wins New Zealand General Election

Preliminary results has the National Party winning the New Zealand General Election. (See table). Although National has not, on the results so far, gained a clear majority of 62 seats, it will form the next government with support from the Act Party, United Future and possibly the Maori Party.
A major casualty was Winston Peters who failed to win Tauranga and his NZ First Party which failed to gain 5% of the vote.
The Mangere seat was won by Labour’s Sio with NZ Pacific Party’s Taito Phillip Field well behind.
The counting of special votes is still to be completed.

Headlines : Times 276 11 November 2008
- National wins New Zealand General Election
- Massive savings possible if alternative energy adopted
- Racing from the post-election freeze
- Permanent Residency ceremony in Mangaia
- Mistaken identity in careless driving case?

Headlines : Times 275 02 November 2008
- Minister clarifies purpose of meeting on Civil List
- Demos meet to air concerns
- Fraud Office witness appears
- Local expert back from climate meeting
- Earn Air New Zealand Airpoints and earn status points every time you fly

Headlines : Times 274 25 October 2008
- Leadership change at Environment
- DPM reaffirms support for PM
- Lindsay promotes CD
- Turama! Remembering our loved ones who have passed on...
- Volunteers to help restore marae on Atiu

Headlines : Times 273 20 October 2008
- DPM issues caution notice on Expenditure
- Visitor figures trend downwards
- Changes announced to Ministries
- High Court grants health worker’s application for Arbitration
- “It’s people, not the funding, that makes the real difference”

Headlines : Times 272 13 October 2008
- Port upgrade will benefit locals
- The ill fated Hilton project
- The curse continues...
- Makea contender wanting to rewrite history?
- 2nd Forum of the Pacific Alliance of CSOs and PLWHA on HIV and AIDS in Rarotonga, 14 -17 October 2008

Headlines : Times 271 06 October 2008
- Takitumu Trip All Go!
- Are paying guests owed a duty of care by hoteliers?
- Upsetting the playing field
- Memorial service for Brian Donnelly
- PIPSO holds regional small business forum

Headlines : Times 270 29 September 2008
- Chinese offers attractive, unconfirmed
- Health Director under investigation, may resign
- “He will be missed” Hon Wilkie Rasmussen
- Sir Thomas Davis KBE Memorial Trust launch
- Personal memories of Papa Tom from Tamarii Tutangata

Headlines : Times 269 22 September 2008
- Head of Works resigns
- PERC members resign
- Fishing: foreign boats face higher fees
- Having fun at the Tereora College Food Festival
- Special welcome for Bank Manager

Headlines : Times 268 15 September 2008
- PDL directors plead for understanding and support of creditors
- Emergency Management workshop next week
- Climate change threat to food security
- Anne prepares for pageant
- Ellena to Fashion Show

Headlines : Times 267 08 September 2008
- Environment Minister not advised of FSM meeting
- Special agency to look after northern affairs?
- Joining the Information Age through e-Government
- Hatchery commences production
- Calls for Pacific to enter world contest

Headlines : Times 266 01September 2008
- Audit Office report Tapi’s in the clear
- Study tour learns how others do it
- Cook Islands role in new Pacific Party
- Pleased at his posting
- Mitiaro tackles plastic bag menace

Headlines : Times 265 25 August 2008
- Ministries may be grouped along policy lines
- Wilkie misses out on top Forum job
- Bulk purchase of fuel a cheaper option
- Super Fund now has 4,515 members says report
- Power outage explained

Headlines : Times 264 18 August 2008
- Aere ra Bob, a true friend
- Separate agency to handle nodules revenues?
- Water shortages drive residents to meeting
- New political party to stand for social justice
- PPA Trade Exhibition attracts high calibre companies

Headlines : Times 263 11 August 2008
- $1.2 million defamation suit launched
- QR’s programme in China
- Pensioners the answer to depopulation?
- Monthly economic updates welcomed
- Audience enjoys CIRA conference on Marae

Headlines : Times 262 04 August 2008
- Approvals by Environment Authority may be illegal
- Rosie – CISNOC’S new Secretary General
- The PDL takeover - what can we expect?
- Research Association to hold second Conference
- The power of positive thinking

Headlines : Times 261 28 July 2008
- Incomplete EIA raises questions
- Rasmussen nominated for top Forum job
- Elikana appointed Solicitor General
- Wichman on renewable energy
- Big crowd at energy meeting

Headlines : Times 260 21 July 2008
- Sea cruises getting the ships to tie up
- Rarotonga to host Trade meeting
- Former ADB head passes away
- Teaching Te Reo Maori in Secondary Schools
- Extensive coverage of Olympics on CITV

Headlines : Times 256 23 June 2008
- Uncertain times ahead
- The Budget: Where the money comes from
- Sunday flights a concern to Aitutaki residents
- Consultant to advise on growing the offshore finance industry
- Community workshops on climate change issues

Headlines : Times 255 16 June 2008
- Cabinet meet to discuss Ui Ariki, Digicel
- No Jail time for Areai
- Proclamation by the Ui Ariki
- Dinner for the Woman of the Month
- Queens in camp for new launch

Headlines : Times 254 09 June 2008
- PM wraps up in Rome – heads for home
- Report card on Takitumu Lagoon Day
- Aere ra, Krystina
- Former boxers invited to provide support
- $47 million to upgrade water supply

Headlines : Times 253 02 June 2008
- Saving Aitutaki
- Tepaki Group committed to Maeva Nui sponsorship
- Takitumu Lagoon Day will show what you can do to help
- Tropikana-a sweet inspiration
- Landowner opposes Taakoka Villas application for reinstatement

Headlines : Times 250 12 May 2008
- High Court ruling will decide if Company can compete with Telecom
- HTTC students get a taste for the good life
- Cook Islands Community Services of Victoria Incorporated launched in Australia
- Lagoon Field Day on 6 June 2008
- 500 days to the Pacific Mini Games

Headlines : Times 249 05 May 2008
- ‘Mr Bankruptcy’ seeks new partners
- The contracting out option
- Cook Islands to feature on TVNZ
- Candles in the wind
- Airport commercial spaces the other side of the story
- Aitutaki wedding for Helen Henry and Prof John Hay

Headlines : Times 239 25 February 2008
-THE NODULE SCANDAL
- Mitiaro identity recovers well
- Government team developing website
- Business Leaders told profits are green
- Award dinner for Woman of the Month for February
- After 5 Business Talk at Club Bana

Headlines : Times 234 21 January 2008
- “It’s not a nice day.” –Tapi Taio
- Freak storm takes Raro by surprise, causes havoc
DPM seeks inclusion in Alcatel cable network with Samoa and other Pacific nations
- Search on for promising young boxers
- Women’s activist, Lynnsay Francis on brief visit home
- SENZ education founders not sitting on their laurels

Headlines : Times 232 24 December 2007
- Response by DPM to ADB loan upgrade reveals concerns
- Tumutevarovaro Games declared a resounding success
- Italian Assists Cook Islands Climate Change Agenda
- Concept for new Te Aponga logo decided
- The woes of Pacific Engineering Standards!
- Koutu Nui visit to First Nations in Canada

Headlines : Times 231 17 December 2007
- Takitumu Basketball Gold contenders disqualified over wrong colour shorts
- Political reform: are we taking the right approach?
- Award of Contract for the Rehabilitation of Avatiu Harbour Marina
- The new face at the helm of Cook Islands Nursing
- Christmas presents from the Indian community to Creative Centre
- Former agriculture research station in Totokoitu under dispute

Headlines : Times 230 10 December 2007
- A travesty of personalities!
- Maine Tiare girls at Competition Finale at Auditorium
- What is happening at the Punanga Nui?
- Cook Islands World AIDS Day 2007
- We still owe $54.8 million
- Boxing: Club competition set for 18 December
- Youngsters urged to take up boxing
- A Cook Island experience in China Final

Headlines : Times 230 10 December 2007
- A travesty of personalities!
- Maine Tiare girls at Competition Finale at Auditorium
- What is happening at the Punanga Nui?
- Cook Islands World AIDS Day 2007
- We still owe $54.8 million
- Boxing: Club competition set for 18 December
- Youngsters urged to take up boxing
- A Cook Island experience in China Final

Headlines : Times 229 03 December 2007
- Over $50,000 raised for Hosking family
- Industry ushers in new media council
- USP Pro Vice Chancellor upbeat on proposed International Campus in Totokoitu
- Forever young – the new 60s social club
- Audit Office reports busy year
- Appeal in land partition case – Privy Council only recourse after Court of Appeal decision?

Headlines : Times 228 26 November 2007
- $3,500 super nest egg disappears
- Finance Secretary continues to comment on indoor sports complex
- Manganese fever, the new gold rush
- Cook Islands given tourism destination rating of 69
- Tepaki Group host netball team
- A Cook Island experience in China Part II
- Te Mire Tarai Vaka parade

Headlines : Times 224 29 October 2007
- Asbestos to go to watery grave
- CISNOC President thankful that decision on Sports Stadium made
- Cooks NGO to commit to conference goals
- Cost of bread increases as of November 4th
- Leaders call for immediate action to protect region’s fisheries
- Rarotonga scooter club
- CICC celebrate Gospel Day with Nuku Religious Pageants
- Letter to the Editor: Health Ministry recruitment process
- Boxing Association begins promotion
- Auckland East Win Roller Mills
- Party to celebrate opening of new Ocean & Earth store at Turtles
- Oasis Hydroponics set to expand

Headlines : Times 223 22 October 2007
- Fiji, RAMSI, Pacific Plan main issues for PM at Leaders meeting in Tonga
- Takuvaine bridges in need of attention
- Man remanded back in custody
- Clemency celebrates her Masters in Health Practice & Nursing
- Commemoration of Te Rua-o-Te-Tonga Meeting House
- Ten minutes with Krystina Kauvai
- Blue Light Day at Te Atukura ready for Saturday night
- Koutu Nui to attend Climate Change meeting
- Days away from the biggest Conservation Conference for the Pacific
- Conservation Conference casts a wide information net

Headlines : Times 222 15 October 2007
- The CPU saga- Lets get back to the central issue-Cowan
- Delay in Police investigation into Rakahanga case
- Government has lost its focus-Marsters
- Pacific countries discuss Tuna Fishing Management Options for region
- Graduation ceremony for Midwifery Graduates at Public Health
- Public Health conduct October Tutaka to fight dengue
- 2008 Pacific Year of the Reef
- Experts help to develop policies

Headlines : Times 221 08 October 2007
- The CPU saga-the other side of the story
- British Crown may have a duty to Cook Islanders following 1950s A bomb tests
- Fast ferry a step closer
- Financial Secretary recommends upgrade of facilities for Mini Games
- AOG Conference in October
- Cook Islands to attend Lawn Bowls World Singles Champion of Champions
- Business Toolkits workshop opens new pathways for participants
- World Cup next for Sam Pera Jnr
- Good rankings for Sam Pera Jnr
- Power prices set to increase again

Headlines : Times 220 30 September 2007
- Manihiki medical emergency details
- Stop Press: 60kg of donated drugs dumped by Ministry
- Surveyor in beach saga explains his role
- Staff flee MFEM-why?
- Exactly what is our population and ethnic mix?
- Reception for French Naval Officers at Te Atukura
- French helicopter lands at Tereora
- Historical trip reunites families
- Woman of the Month Award
- A Letter Home
- SPREP works to combat invasive species