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Beethoven: Piano Trio �The Ghost�John Psathas: TarantismoTchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor

2.30pm, Sunday 9 June, Waikanae Memorial Hall

Public $30 Members $20 Students under 25 $5Tickets at Waikanae New World, Moby Dickens Books

(Paraparaumu Beach) and Lush Design Gallery (Raumati)

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Enquiries 04 905 6070 or visit www.waikanaemusic.org

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A feast of fab furniture

Decor galore: Paula Lynch from Paula’s Furniture and Beds with some of the huge rangeof furnishings and decor. Photo: JOHN NICHOLSON/FAIRFAX NZ

PAULA Lynch hears it a lot – peoplego into her Paraparaumu store,Paula’s Furniture and Beds, and

are ‘‘blown away’’ by the range of furni-ture, beds and furnishings on display’’.

‘‘Lots of Wellington people say ‘Wow,why haven’t you advertised this in Wel-lington, it’s amazing’.

‘‘Our range is huge, and quite unique.’’Mrs Lynch owns two other stores, a

Paula’s in Levin and a Beds R Us in Low-er Hutt. All stores incorporate Beds R Us,but the Levin and Paraparaumu branchesinclude so much more than beds, MrsLynch says.

The Paraparaumu shop on Epiha St ishuge with 2000 square metres of spaceand it has a real ‘‘wow factor’’, she says.

‘‘It’s bigger than anywhere else in Wel-lington, not only in terms of the range ofthings we have such as home decor andgiftware, but it is all displayed as if it wasset up in a home.

‘‘So people can see what their loungesuite would like, plus there’s all the homedecor pieces around it such as rugs andwall art.’’

Mrs Lynch says they stock plenty ofbig name brands such La-Z-Boy and Do-mani, and a great range of beds. They

currently sell some Danske Mobler furni-ture such as the Stressless chairs but willexpand the line in a major way with a big

launch within a couple ofmonths.

Mrs Lynch says this range ofthings sets the store apart, butthere are many other qualitiesas well.

‘‘It’s a really relaxing cus-tomer shopping experience atour store.

‘‘Since we’re locally ownedand operated we don’t have thehard sell like in some of the bigchains.

‘‘ We have our own in-housedelivery team and all our staffare well trained with ourproducts.’’

Mrs Lynch says a new serviceon offer is a design service from

Heather Thorley of Colour Options. If peo-ple want to get a visualisation of whatsome furniture or decor would look likein their home, Colour Options will givethem a good idea so they can pick exactlythe right look.

Paula’s Furniture is also big on kids,having a great range of children’s furni-ture.

‘‘We have a whole floor dedicated tochildren’s furniture which is ideal forfamilies.

‘‘We have a children’s play area whichis somewhere they can go and play.

Mrs Lynch and husband Paul havefive young children, so she makes plentyof use of that area herself.

The stores are at 25 Epiha St, Para-paraumu, 73-181 Oxford St, Levin and theHarvey Norman Centre in Lower Hutt.❚ For more information go to:paulas.co.nz

Talented trio to entertain

Musical treat : The Te Koki Trio, fromleft, Martin Riseley (violin), Inbal Megid-do (cello) and Jian Liu (piano).

THE WAIKANAE Music So-ciety’s concert this Sunday in-troduces the Te Koki Trio to

Kapiti music fans.Formed in 2012, the trio is made

up of three members of the staff fromthe New Zealand School of Musicwhere they are artists-in-residence –Martin Riseley (violin), InbalMegiddo (cello) and Jian Liu (piano).(Te Koki means ‘‘dawn chorus’’ andis the Maori name of the school.)

Chinese-American pianist JianLiu is a sought-after solo pianist,chamber musician and educator,who has been honoured in severalinternational competitions. He imp-ressed his Waikanae audience lastyear with an electrifying solo per-formance when he stood in for PiersLane at 24 hours’ notice.

Israeli/American cellist InbalMegiddo has received many awardsand international accolades andbrings to her performances years ofexperience under the influence ofmaster teachers.

New Zealand-born violinist Mart-in Riseley is head of strings and as-sociate director of performance at theschool. He is a graduate of the Juil-liard School of Music, holding a mas-ter of music degree and a doctorate ofmusical arts.

The trio’s programme includesBeethoven’s well-known Ghost Trioand the Tchaikovsky Trio.

Tarantismo, a brief piece by NewZealand composer John Psathas willprovide an interesting contrast.

The concert is in the WaikanaeMemorial Hall and starts at 2.30pm.There will be door sales or ticketscan be purchased at Waikanae NewWorld, Moby Dickens Books in Para-paraumu Beach or at Lush DesignGallery in Raumati.❚ For information go to:waikanaemusic.org

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El presidente: Guards of honour stand beside the mausoleum of late president Hugo Chavez to mark three months after his death in Caracas.In that time, Venezuela has introduced food rationing in its most populous state. Photo: REUTERS

Food rations start aseconomy crumblesVENEZUELA

VENEZUELA has the largest proven oilreserves in the world and was once thesource of much of Britain’s meat im-ports, but its crumbling economy hasnow led to food rationing in its mostpopulous state.

To counter shortages of the mostbasic goods, the government of the far-western state of Zulia, home to 3.7 mil-lion people, has introduced strict con-trols on the purchase of 20 staples. Pricecontrols will be slapped on items such astoilet paper and chicken, as the state-controlled economy shrinks and super-market shelves are frequently bare.

Last month the government orderedan emergency purchase of 40 milliontoilet rolls after complaints that shop-pers could find none.

The Roman Catholic Church has saidthat it will have to restrict mass becauseof a lack of communion wine and flourfor the Eucharist.

The government of the Socialist presi-dent Nicolas Maduro, who narrowly wonApril’s elections, denied that the

measure amounted to food rationing,and said it was aimed at curbing smug-gling of subsidised goods from Zulia intoits neighbour Colombia. Blagdimir Lab-rador, a senior official in Zulia, said thatthe state would start issuing smart cardsnext week that will allow a limited pur-chase of staples such as rice, flour, cook-ing oil, sugar and powdered milk.

The system would apply to 65 super-markets in two cities and would ensurethat ‘‘the same person can’t go to a differ-ent store on the same day and purchasethe same product’’.

Maduro has been trying to breathelife into a struggling economy that isalmost entirely dependent on oil exports,while fending off challenges to his legit-imacy from the opposition, which claimsthat it won the election.

The government was at pains tostress that the measure was not nation-wide.

‘‘This is only in Zulia state and it isnot rationing,’’ said Raimundo Ur-rechaga, a spokesman for the Infor-mation Ministry. ‘‘It is focused only onZulia, to control contraband.’’

Many economists have blamed con-stant shortages on the state’s existingprice controls, a move aimed at ensuringthat the poor can afford staples.

But the artificially low cost of basics,including petrol, has also led to rampantsmuggling to neighbouring countries.Many storekeepers ignore the price con-trols and hoard goods to sell at higherprices in times of scarcity. Economistspredict that the oil-dependent economyis contracting and will be in recessionthis year.

Inflation reached almost 30 per centin April and many people worry abouthow much they will pay for everydaygoods, or even whether they will beavailable at all.

Meanwhile, Venezuela said yesterdaythat it had deported an independentAmerican film-maker arrested after Ap-ril’s elections for spying.

Timothy Tracy, 35, had been workingon a film about the divisions inVenezuelan society when he was ac-cused of inciting opposition members toviolent protests against Maduro’s vic-tory. The Times

Mau Mau-era abusevictims win payoutBRITAIN/KENYA

Detained: A captured Mau Mau fighter staresfrom behind the wire of a British prison campin Kenya. Photo: GETTY IMAGES

THE British Government has agreed topay nearly £14 million (NZ$27.2m) incompensation to Kenyans tortured dur-ing the Mau Mau uprising against Brit-ish colonial rule in the 1950s.

William Hague, the Foreign Sec-retary, is expected to make a statementin the House of Commons today express-ing ‘‘sincere regret’’ over the mistreat-ment of detainees during the violent re-bellion against British rule in Kenya.

The government will pay a total of£13.9m to compensate about 5200Kenyans, and finance the building of apermanent memorial in Kenya to thevictims of torture during the Mau Mauinsurgency.

More than 100,000 Kenyans weredetained in British-run camps, wheremany were subjected to systematic mis-treatment, including beatings, torture,rape and castration.

The landmark settlement marks theend of a long legal battle in which thegovernment repeatedly denied liabilityfor colonial-era abuses in Kenya.

Lawyers for the Foreign and Com-monwealth Office unsuccessfully arguedthat legal responsibility for what hap-pened under the colonial governmenthad been inherited by the government ofKenya when the country gained its inde-pendence in 1963.

In 2009, four elderly Kenyans filed asuit at the High Court, claiming to havesuffered brutal abuse in the camps. Be-fore the case opened, The Times revealedthe existence of a secret Foreign Officearchive at Hanslope Park, Buckingham-shire, containing documents removedfrom Kenya and other former colonies.

David Anderson, Professor of Africanhistory at Warwick University, told thecourt that the secret archive contained‘‘a highly significant amount of new in-formation’’ about human rights abusesduring the Mau Mau uprising, and re-vealed how British officials at the high-est levels sought to cover up what washappening and protect British officersfrom prosecution.

Negotiations over a financial settle-ment began last October after the HighCourt ruled that there was ample evi-dence to allow the case to proceed.

The so-called Kenya Emergency erup-ted in 1952, when Mau Mau insurgentslaunched a bloody, eight-year rebellionagainst colonial rule, killing more than1600 people, including 32 white settlers.

Thousands of Kenyans were detainedwithout trial on suspicion of being MauMau supporters, and many suffered hor-rific abuse. The Times

Environmentin perilousstate – reportCHINA

MORE than three quarters of China’scities lack ‘‘safe’’ air, while the country-side is facing an increasingly ‘‘grim’’ en-vironmental crisis, according to the en-vironment ministry’s annual report.

The ministry laid bare the challengesfacing new president Xi Jinping as heseeks to build what the incoming leader-ship has dubbed a ‘‘beautiful China’’.

Just 27 of the 113 largest Chinese cit-ies enjoyed ‘‘safe’’ air last year whilenearly a third of China’s most importantrivers were polluted or severely polluted.Government officials also found that 60per cent of ground water was of ‘‘bad’’ or‘‘extremely bad’’ quality.

The report’s authors described aneven bleaker situation in rural China,where it admitted ‘‘increasing pressurefrom mining’’ and ‘‘heavy pollution fromlivestock farming’’ was wreaking havoc.

‘‘Rural environmental problems havebecome increasingly prominent,’’ theysaid. ‘‘As industrialisation, urbanisationand agricultural modernisation con-tinues, the rural environment is in agrim situation.’’

The report concluded that China wasa long way from building what the Com-munist Party has dubbed an ‘‘ecologicalcivilisation’’ and said overall environ-mental trends ‘‘remained extremelyserious’’.

The report skirted over the issue ofsoil pollution, which has become one ofChina’s most controversial environ-mental topics. Estimates have suggestedthat up to 10 per cent of Chinese farm-land could be contaminated with toxins.

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