Features
Losing Zion
How it happened, how it hurt and what happens now
By AMY MILNE - The Southland Times
Thousands of Southland families line the streets of Invercargill to watch the 10th Southland Times Santa parade, but missing among the crowd is a Waianiwa family and their friends.
Stands to reason
By MICHAEL FALLOW - The Southland Times
What MICHAEL FALLOW knows about the gee-gees you could fit on ... erm ... a page about this size. Here we have his uncluttered insights into that malarky that's on at the Ascot Park today.
Tips for first-time race goers
By LOGAN SAVORY - The Southland Times
Today 9000-plus people are expected at Ascot Park Raceway in Invercargill for a day at the races. Southland Times sports reporter and occasional punter LOGAN SAVORY offers some advice for the many first-time betters who will be on course.
Bright ideas
By MICHAEL FALLOW - The Southland Times
So you want to illuminate your home this Christmas? A few words of advice, then, from those in the know.
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Merry Christmas from Left Or Right
By CHRIS CHILTON - The Southland Times
Ho, ho, ho and a bottle of dub.
Barton's Dozen winner
The Southland Times
Almost 1000 entries were sent in for the draw to win the dozen bottles of Central Otago wine selected by our wine writer Warren Barton as the pick of the crop this year.
Splendour on the hill
The Southland Times
Last Saturday afternoon, when half Southland was apparently gathered at Ascot Park for the racing, a fair proportion of the rest seemed to be making their way to a property in East Gore.
Barton's Dozen
CHEERS: Barton on Wine
By WARREN BARTON - The Southland Times
Among many other things, Christmas means a time to indulge yourself with luxuries you wouldn't dream of treating yourself to at any other time of the year. With that in mind, The Southland Times' wine columnist has selected his 12 favourite wines of the year. And one lucky reader won the lot.
Microsoft sued over Xbox flaw
By ASHER MOSES in Sydney - SMH
Software giant Microsoft is being sued over allegedly malfunctioning Xbox 360 consoles that scratch expensive games discs.
No sign of Dickens in Islington
Southland
Contemporary London bears little resemblance to its counterpart in the pages of Oliver Twist, writes Cherie Sivignon in this week's L'expat.
Learning like the old days
The Southland Times
Last Saturday almost by accident I found myself in a somewhat nostalgic wonderland characteristic of a virtually extinct part of Kiwi culture, writes Mark Wilson in this week's Mate.
Within reach
By MICHAEL FALLOW - The Southland Times
They would come in the mail for her just about weekly. Large, red and valuable. One-shilling postal notes to reward one of Cousin Betty's Little Southlanders for having a poem or story published in The Southland Times.
Teacher left lasting legacy
CICELY PRUDENCE PIERCE 1925-2008
By PAT VELTKAMP SMITH - The Southland Times
When half a hundred women gathered for afternoon tea last week at the Orwell Cres home of Wendy Eichler, they were there to honour her mother who had quietly passed away a few days earlier.
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