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Thursday <strong>December</strong> <strong>13</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 5<br />
boxing death<br />
“It didn’t hurt him, he got<br />
straight back up,” he said of the<br />
count after Mr Parsons lost balance.<br />
“I checked him to walk forward<br />
and his legs were great and he was<br />
willing and he said: ‘I just fell, I’m<br />
okay’.<br />
“It was a pretty fiery first round<br />
but he went back to his corner<br />
after the eight counts and he was<br />
willing and fine.<br />
“He came out fired up. When I<br />
spoke to the judges they said they<br />
had him almost winning the second<br />
round until that one punch.”<br />
Pyne stressed the two standing<br />
eight counts he gave Mr Parsons<br />
are not the same thing as a 10<br />
count in professional boxing.<br />
“People think because you’ve<br />
got a standing eight count on a<br />
boxer there’s something wrong<br />
with them,” he said.<br />
“We can use that at any<br />
given moment to go in and<br />
check just how people are in a<br />
heated moment. You don’t have<br />
to get knocked over and hit the<br />
ground.”<br />
What Pyne didn’t know – and<br />
no one at the Horncastle Arena<br />
that night had been informed, he<br />
said – was that Mr Parsons had<br />
taken weeks off training prior to<br />
the bout.<br />
“That was all news to us after<br />
the fight, that he’d had a period<br />
of time out of the gym with headaches,”<br />
he said.<br />
“When the doctor examined<br />
on the Friday [on the eve of the<br />
fight], there was no mention of<br />
anything like that.”<br />
Pyne has not been scared off.<br />
On Saturday he will be one<br />
of the three judges for Joseph<br />
Parker’s heavyweight bout at<br />
Horncastle Arena, in addition to<br />
refereeing the undercard.<br />
And Pyne – the New Zealand<br />
Professional Boxing Association’s<br />
second vice president – said he<br />
still backs the concept of corporate<br />
boxing in spite of calls for it<br />
to be banned after Mr Parsons’<br />
death; the third boxing fatality in<br />
New Zealand since 2016.<br />
“Corporate boxing is a great<br />
thing for people if it’s conducted<br />
properly, under the Boxing and<br />
Wrestling Act,” he said.<br />
“We are looking at head guards<br />
from here on in, that’s mandatory<br />
until we have something further to<br />
look at. And the next year we’re going<br />
to review the whole situation.”<br />
A police investigation is<br />
ongoing into the November 3<br />
Fight for Christchurch event. Mr<br />
Parsons’ death has been referred<br />
to the coroner.<br />
More legal action considered<br />
over plan to take water<br />
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ECan general counsel<br />
Catherine Schache said the<br />
consent didn’t change the<br />
volume, rate or timing of the<br />
take Cloud Ocean already holds<br />
consent for.<br />
“We know this will be a<br />
frustrating decision for members<br />
of the public who wanted to have<br />
their say on this application.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Resource Management Act<br />
allows for consents to be publicly<br />
notified so people can present<br />
their views but only in certain<br />
circumstances, and this wasn’t<br />
the case with this application,”<br />
she said.<br />
Mr Fowler said there were<br />
no special circumstances that<br />
would trigger public or limited<br />
notification.<br />
A High Court decision<br />
this week determined old<br />
industrial resource consents<br />
for a wool scour and freezing<br />
works in Belfast do not allow<br />
for large-scale water bottling<br />
operations by Cloud Ocean<br />
Water and Rapaki Natural<br />
Resources.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Chinese-owned bottling<br />
company has permission to<br />
extract water to sell it overseas.<br />
MORE WATER: A decision was made yesterday to grant<br />
consent to Chinese company Cloud Ocean Ltd to take<br />
Christchurch water.<br />
<strong>The</strong> city council is opposed to<br />
the consent application.<br />
City councillor Vicki Buck<br />
said it was “revolting” and she<br />
was shocked by the decision.<br />
A report will be discussed<br />
today by councillors<br />
recommending ECan change its<br />
approach to how it deals with<br />
water consent.<br />
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