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By Michelle Nelson Changes to a conservation order that will allow water stored in Lake Coleridge to be delivered to irrigation schemes, are unlikely to raise environmental concerns, retired hydrologist John Waugh says.

The amendments to the Rakaia River Water Conservation Order, announced yesterday, will allow electricity company TrustPower to release water stored for hydro generation in Lake Coleridge, to irrigation schemes when river flows are low.

TrustPower, which applied for changes to the National Water Conservation (Rakaia River) Order 1988, can now apply for resource consent to construct a canal from the lake to link up with the Central Plains irrigation scheme. Plans are in place to install several small hydro power stations on the canal.

Last year, ECan adopted the recommendations of independent hearing commissioners supporting the amendments; however, the final decision was left to Environment Minister Amy Adams.

Farmers on the Barrhill Chertsey Irrigation Scheme will be among the first to benefit from the decision.

With increased confidence in the water supply, farmers will have the option of intensifying their existing operations, or expanding into high value crops, vegetable production,

Lake Coleridge is to play a major storage role and is a key component of the Canterbury Water Management Strategy. lamb finishing or dairying.

Mr Waugh, who is also a member of the Ashburton Forest and Bird committee, said the environmental impacts of releasing water from the hydro lake were likely to be minimal.

“The changes will allow stored water, which complies with existing orders, to be released from Coleridge into the river, where it can be treated as a separate block of water,” Mr Waugh said.

“Ecological effects should be rela-

tively minor; it will probably be damned hard to measure them at all – but time will tell.”

“If you can get your head around what they are trying to do, making better use of Coleridge makes sense. Coleridge was made by glaciers and recharges itself.

“There may be some fluctuations up and down the river, but these are generally naturally occurring storm surges.

“The mean flow of the Rakaia is about 200 cumecs (equal to one

cubic metre per second), which drops down to less than 100 cumecs when the river is low.

“Between 30 and 40 cumecs go through Coleridge – which is far less than half the river volume at low flow – therefore it is unlikely have detrimental effects on the river.”

ECan commissioner David Caygill said the use of Lake Coleridge for irrigation storage was a key component of the Canterbury Water Management Strategy.

Speeding ticket rise hard pill to swallow

By Sam Morton Ashburton police officers issued a mountain of speeding fines last year, but the district’s top cop is making no apologies for the 4307 tickets given out.

Recent traffic figures, obtained by the Guardian, reveal a steep increase in speeding tickets over two years.

More drivers were caught speeding on both open and urban roads last year, compared to the previous year’s total of 3037.

On average, police gave out more speed related tickets each year, with the exception of 2010 when the figure totalled a fiveyear low of 2690.

However, last year’s total of 4307 was a hard pill for police to swallow – suggesting the safety messages are still not getting

through to motorists in the area.

Mid-South Canterbury area commander Inspector Dave Gaskin said while police gave out more infringement notices last year, it may reflect the increased police presence on all roads throughout Ashburton.

“The level of enforcement has increased in the last couple of years, but it still doesn’t appear the message is sinking in, just yet,” Inspector Gaskin said.

“It is sad we are giving out more tickets for most years, but until we can get people to understand the seriousness of their offence, we will continue to put the pressure on speeding motorists.”

Inspector Gaskin believes a rapid attitude change is required to bring the figures down, with a recent national report revealing more than one third of New Zealand drivers speed on open

roads. “You hear all sorts of excuses, but until we can get drivers to realise that speeding really is dangerous and that it doesn’t save time, then it’s always going to be an issue,” he said.

“We know that fining the driver on the spot doesn’t necessarily have much of an impact on them, but what we also know, however, is that it does affect the behaviour of other drivers in the area, who see us out there doing our job – and often they will slow down.”

Meanwhile, more than 1000 drivers in Mid Canterbury were snapped by stationary speed cameras last year, all exceeding 50kmh.

In 2011, only 707 drivers were caught, compared to 1138 in 2010, 708 in 2009 and the fivetime high in 2008 of 1710 – all captured by a speed camera.

DEMERITS If you get 100 or more demerit points within two years, you will be suspended from driving for three months. There are no demerit points for speed camera tickets.

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With the Red Checkers in attendance, there’s bound to be a spectacular display at the Ashburton Airport on Saturday.

By Sue Newman All eyes will be focused on the skies over Ashburton Airport on Saturday when the aerobatic team the Red Checkers turn on an aerial display.

The team of crack pilots will be flying over Ashburton during the Ashburton Aviation Museum’s biennial Great Plains Fly In. This event has cemented itself in New Zealand’s sport aviation diary as a must attend event and attracts large numbers of pilots and their aircraft from all corners of New Zealand.

Spokesman for the aviation museum, Keith Pickford anticipates the event will attract record numbers of aircraft this year, with indications more than 100 will be on the airfield.

Aircraft will start arriving on

Thursday with most flying home on Sunday.

During Saturday’s show, aircraft will be judged over a range of categories. Several aircraft owned by Ashburton pilots will be part of the line-up.

Members of the public will be able to get up close to check out the planes and talk to their owners during the day as well as watching many in action in the sky.

While the weather will dictate the final number of aircraft arriving, the forecast is good and this year’s event is likely to see many aircraft lined up on the field by Friday afternoon, Mr Pickford said.

“Saturday will be great viewing for the public, particularly with the Red Checkers here, it’ll be great spectator viewing all day,” he said.

There will also be an oppor-

tunity to talk to Red Checkers team members after their aerobatics display.

The current Red Checkers team is made up of senior instructors from the RNZAF’s Central Flying School and Pilot Training Squadron. They fly the highly manoeuvrable New Zealand built CT-4E Airtrainer and perform a wide range of formation and solo aerobatics.

The team traces its history back to the late 1940s in Wigram, and has been flying under the Red Checkers name since 1967.

In addition to their full-time positions during the week, the team flies most weekends from January through until May, performing at up to 25 airshows and events around the country The Ashburton display will take place at 11.30am over Ashburton Airport on Saturday.

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PUNSELIE. Antoon (Tony) – Born September 7, 1923, Herleen, Holland. Passed away peacefully February 4, 2013, at Tuarangi Home, Ashburton. Aged 89. Dearly loved husband of Margaret (nee Murray). Beloved father of Michael and Gail, Elizabeth and Bruce, David and Jenny, and Jeanette and Don. Treasured Opa of Stacey, Adele, Nathan, Laura, Anna, Brad, Trent, Sinead, Jeremy, and Scott, and four great grandchildren. Sadly missed by all his family in Holland, John and Nilda, Helene and Ruud, Gre, Robbie and Marianne, Bertha, and all his nieces and nephews.

Loving brother of dearly departed Rie and Wim, Annie and Huib, Bertus, Martha, Sjaan, and Jeanette.

Messages to Punselie Family, P O Box 472, Ashburton 7740. Thank you to staff of Ward 1, Ashburton Hospital and Tuarangi Home for all your care of Tony.

A heroic journey through life, May the angels take care of you.

A service to celebrate Tony’s life will be held in Our Chapel, Cnr East and Cox Streets on FRIDAY, February 8, commencing at 1.30pm, followed by interment at the Ashburton New Lawn Cemetery.

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When the Wastebusters Community trust ran Ashburton’s resource recovery park, Mrs Stivens

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developed a system for the mass production of compost from garden waste. She also used this system to utilize sludge and wool waste from a woolscour as a composting tool.

Several years ago the community based organisation lost the contract to run the recovery park, forcing it to relocate to a smaller base on nearby land. It continues to receive greenwaste, but has been forced to move its composting business out of town.

Some compost is still produced on site, manager Sharon Breakwell said, but ultimately Ashburton will have its own greenwaste returned in the form of ready-to-use compost.

The organisation caught a lucky break when it discovered a

Christchurch landscape company was looking for back loads after delivering material to Ashburton and Timaru and it now trucks its greenwaste north for composting.

“We count ourselves lucky to get in with them. They’ve bought our big shredder and within the next year we know we’ll be getting our compost back here. It’ll be our greenwaste and the only difference is we’re not processing it here,” Mrs Breakwell said.

The Resource Recovery Park still produces compost, but by a slower, no shred method, Mrs Stivens said, however, until food waste was introduced into the system, Ashburton’s compost would always be lighter

weight and less nutrient rich, she said.

Timaru’s community recycler has just received a giant tick for the quality of its compost, with Plant and Food Research saying it was a valuable resource for both farmers and home gardeners. In a report, the organisation said that one application of Timaru’s compost could enhance crop production for at least two years.

In Ashburton, however, compost of this quality could not be produced until a kerb side collection of food waste was introduced to allow the nutrient rich material to be mixed with greenwaste, Mrs Stivens said.

She has made several presen-

tations to the Ashburton District Council on putrescible collection schemes and was instrumental in having a collection trialled in Ashburton about 10 years ago.

“I’m still hoping this is on the council’s radar. It would be great to have but not if it became part of a giant wheelie bin full of green waste.

Getting this project up and running is the most important thing we could do.”

While it has made no commitment to a putrescible kerb side collection, the Ashburton Dsitrict Council has tagged the issue as one of concern for the future and has signalled it as an issue for discussion in its 2011 Waste Management Strategy.

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Methven High School former pupils from the 1960s are invited to attend a school reunion, planned for next month.

It is to be held over the Methven A&P Show weekend (March 15 to March 16), with a get together on Friday night and a dinner out on Saturday night.

The reunion is restricted to third

The busting of an international paedophile ring at the “absolute highest end” of child sexual offending has led to charges being laid against four men in New Zealand.

Aaron John Ellmers, 41, appeared yesterday in Hastings District Court where he pleaded guilty to about 60 charges including sexual violation of children, stupefying, making an intimate visual recording, dealing in people for sexual exploitation and attempted sexual conduct with a child under 12.

Ellmers had also abused two children in his care and attempted to abuse an 18-month-old infant.

Police enquiries revealed repeated offending against a boy between the ages of three and seven. This offending was filmed and shared with someone in Auckland. He had also abused the boy after giving him drugs to render him unconscious.

There was a second victim whom he offended against between the ages of nine and 12. This too was filmed.

The third attempted victim was an 18-month-old baby. In October 2012, Ellmers tried to pay $500 in return for “sexual gratification”

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Tension is high in the Northland town of Moerewa this week as locals fear innocent people may be killed or maimed because of escalating gang violence. Residents are planning a public meeting for Thursday night after a stabbing. The 25-year-old man remains in Whangarei Hospital in a serious condition after apparently being stabbed in the head on Friday night. - APNZ

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Flipping it: Local water skier Ben McFadden in action during a recent training drill.

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Eyes firmly fixed on world champs

By Sam Morton Mid Canterbury water-skier Ben McFadden will go head-to-head with Australia’s big guns, before sticking around to tackle the best in the world.

Today, the Hinds athlete is flying over to the Oz-Kiwi Challenge with a contingent of Mid Canterbury

water-skiers, to pit his skills against the best across the ditch.

A few days later, McFadden will head east to Mulwala in New South Wales to compete in the Junior World Championships – featuring as the only South Island based team member in the New Zealand squad.

Before departing, McFadden said he was amped for the event, adding

he had his eyes locked firmly on one event.

“I’m gonna throw everything at it (Junior World Champs) ... it’s going to be an amazing experience.

“What happens at the Oz-Kiwi Challenge doesn’t mean anything at this point, I’m all about the world champs and to me that’s all I have focused on for the past few weeks,” he said.

form attendees from 1965, 1966 and 1967.

Spokesperson Melva Middleton said she had received many registrations, and there had been plenty of interest from those wanting to catch up with old school acquaintances.

“Even people who weren’t in those years want to come,” she said.

There were some Mid Cantabrians who had still to get their registrations in.

She was in the process of finalising

numbers and wanted those who had not yet responded to phone her on 302-8274.

Registrations to date had come in from as far away as Australia, as well as from throughout the North Island and South Island.

A reunion of the 1966 class was held about 15 years ago, and there were about 75 attendees.

Mrs Middleton said a similar number or more would be expected this time around.

NZ police bust paedophile ring

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The Ashburton Police reported no incidents attended to in the last 48 hours.

• The Pendarves Volunteer Fire Brigade attended a callout on McCrorys Road, in Dorie, on Monday night, just after 9pm. The callout turned out to be a false alarm.

• Violence fears

“I can’t wait to get into it.”

The Oz-Kiwi challenge gets underway on Friday.

McFadden has been supported by local businesses in his quest to represent New Zealand in Mulwala later this month.

The 17-year-old will return to Ashburton on February 25.

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By Susan Sandys

Incidents attended to by the Ashburton Police and Mid Canterbury volunteer fire brigades recently.

Check out guardianonline.co.nz, for up-to-the-minute updates on every fire callout in the district during the week.

Ashburton Parents’ Centre is offering a new way for mums-to-be to relax with a series of pregnancy yoga classes. The classes start on Monday night, running for nine weeks, and are open to women at any stage of pregnancy. Tutor Sandra Hurley has been practising yoga for 25 years. Taking part is as simple as registering and then turning up at the parents’ centre rooms with a yoga mat and water bottle and wearing easy fitting clothes. People wanting to take part should email infor@studiofit.co.nz or phone Rachael Rickard, 027 2844 763

By Michelle Nelson Mid Canterbury Rural Women has money to give away!

Applications for this year’s scholarships are open, and in its twelfth year, the group is proud to have supported numerous Mid Canterburybased students, Mid Canterbury president Bev Bagrie said.

Four scholarships with a total value of $2000 are offered to students with a home base within the boundaries of Mid Canterbury.

There are two grants on offer, each valued at $750, the May Clucas Book Grant, worth $250, for study at any tertiary institution, and the Brand Book Grant of $250, awarded to a student studying at Lincoln University.

“The scholarship is about the organisation’s desire to contribute to further education within the community” Mrs Bagrie said.

“We continue to be impressed with the number, standard and dedication of applications we receive each year,” Mrs Bagrie said.

Applicants are required to provide information about their academic background, references, material regarding their proposed course of study and intended use of the qualification.

Applications for the Scholarship close on April 1 and the recipients will be announced later in the month.

Scholarship application forms and further details may be obtained by contacting local Rural Women branches or scholarship co-ordinator Sandra Curd, by phoning (03) 3024754, or by email at curd@xtra.co.nz.

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with the child during a trip to Christchurch.

Ellmers was remanded in custody.

His defence lawyer Shannon-Leigh Litt asked for name suppression and that the matter remain in the district court jurisdiction, but both requests were denied by Judge Bridget Mackintosh.

Crown prosecutor Steve Manning said it was at the “absolute highest end” of child sexual offending in the country, and he successfully argued for sentencing to be moved to the High Court at Hastings in May. Only the High Court can impose a sentence of preventive detention.

Ellmers could be sentenced to a minimum term, and be released thereafter only if authorities are satisfied he no longer represents a significant risk to the public.

Ellmers has a history of such offending in Australia, where he lived from 1999 to 2008. In 2005 he was sentenced to five years imprisonment for rape, attempted rape and indecent treatment of a child under 12. Ellmers was aged 33 at the time. In June 2008 he was deported to New Zealand after serving 18 months of his sentence.

Three other New Zealand men, in Auckland, Northland and Oamaru, face several charges including sexu-

al violation of children and making, possessing and distributing child abuse images.

The Oamaru man is in custody and appears in the Oamaru District Court on February 13 facing 40 charges.

The arrests follow a police operation targeting alleged paedophiles in New Zealand and overseas which began in July last year and involved staff across the country including Northland, Auckland, Eastern, Canterbury and Southern districts.

As a result, four New Zealand children, aged 13 months to 13 years, had been saved from further abuse and police had made 35 referrals to authorities in Australia, the United Kingdom, USA and Canada, said Detective Senior Sergeant John Michael, head of the specialist police team fighting child exploitation, OCEANZ, which is part of the National Criminal Investigations Group.

“This offending is like a spider web which has got wider and wider, involving offenders both here and overseas. Those facing charges have allegedly abused children, recorded that abuse and distributed it amongst themselves and overseas.”

The nature and depravity of this man’s offending has “wreaked havoc

on so many lives”, said Detective Senior Sergeant David Greig, head of the Eastern District child protection team.

He said the guilty pleas entered

by Ellmers will spare a number of young victims and their families the indignity and trauma of the trial process.

“None of us have been left untouched by the nature and depravity of this man’s offending ...

It is heartening to know that children involved have been saved from further offending and can now start to receive the support they need to put their lives back together,” he said.

Mr Michael said police were continuing to build their ability to infiltrate such offending in New Zealand and overseas.

“Child victims almost always know their offenders, who have gained their trust and that of their parents, before the offending occurs. We urge parents and caregivers to be alert to the signs of this kind of abuse, but not alarmed,” he said.

He urged parents who have concerns about an adult’s behaviour or find disturbing images on any computers to contact the police or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

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set in Hubbard death crash case

By Rebecca Ryan The court case against the man charged with causing Allan Hubbard’s death is ready to proceed.

Mr Hubbard, 83, was a passenger in a vehicle driven by his wife, Jean, when it was involved in a head-on collision with a four-wheeldrive utility truck towing a trailer on State Highway 1 at Hilderthorpe, about 8km north of Oamaru, on September 2, 2011.

Andrew John Earl, 40, of Milton, was the other driver.

The court case against Earl, charged with causing Mr Hubbard’s death, was scheduled to start on December 3, 2012, but was postponed after police requested an adjournment.

As a result of a prosecution review of evidence, more inquiries were conducted and Oamaru police Detective

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Kevin Kirkman said the case was now ready to proceed.

A nominal date of February 13 had been set, but a fixture date was yet to be confirmed for a defended hearing, which was expected to last at least three days.

Mr Kirkman said he could not confirm whether Earl would appear in the Oamaru District Court next week.

Earl may appear for a trial date to be set, but his attendance could be excused.

It had been thought the case could go ahead during a week in in April, but a defence lawyer was unavailable. Mr Kirkman said: “So we are still trying to find a week that everyone is available.”

In the Dunedin District Court last May, Earl maintained his not-guilty pleas to a charge of careless driving causing Mr Hubbard’s death and careless driving causing injury to Mrs Hubbard, 82.

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Richard Spraggs’ coffin was adorned with flowers, sand and the word “bugger!” - a nod to the keen yachtsman’s sense of humour. About 300 people gathered in loud Hawaiian shirts, jandals and summer dresses to farewell Mr Spraggs at Mount Maunganui Surf Life Saving Club yesterday. The former surf shop designer died after hitting his head and falling overboard from his yacht during a storm in Thailand on January 26.

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• Maori flag to fly The Independence Flag of the Confederated Hapu of New Zealand will represent Maori in Rotorua today. The Rotorua District Council will fly the Maori flag alongside the New Zealand flag at the council Civic Centre to celebrate Waitangi Day. -APNZ

• Body identified A body found near Kaiti Beach at Gisborne has been confirmed as that of 22-yearold Amandeep Singh. A homicide investigation is underway after his body was found more than three weeks after he went missing.

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• Fraud sentence A man who took almost a quarter of a million dollars from friends in Hawkes Bay in an investment scam has escaped jail but been sentenced to the maximum possible home detention and community work. Peter Jonathon Rens, 73, was sentenced by Judge Geoff Rea in Napier District Court yesterday to 12 months’ home detention and 400 hours’ community work.

• Redundancies Negotiations to settle payouts for 192 employees of Summit Wool Spinners who will lose their jobs at the end of the month are close to a final outcome. Following a meeting between management and union representatives, negotiations to secure some further enhancements for the initial redundancy packages were successful.

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Centre’s funds at $4.4m

By Sue Newman Twelve months ago the balance in the community’s fundraising account for the EA Networks Centre stood at zero; today it reads $4.4 million.

And reaching that point has everything to do with the strong community buy-in to the project that is planned to see a $32 million recreational stadium and aquatic centre open and ready for business within two years, says Ashburton Stadium Trust chair Maurice Myers.

Over the past 12 months, the trust’s fundraising team has been out in the community promoting the facility and calling for contributions to meet its target of $5 million before construction begins.

The remaining cost will be carried by the Ashburton District Council and recouped through rates.

The community’s response has been overwhelming, Mr Myers said.

“We’ve got 87 major funders on board and our goal is 100 by the

time we hold our next funders function in March.”

The trust knows it is guaranteed at least another $100,000 when a house build project spearheaded by the Jennian Homes swim team goes to auction.

“We’re certainly now putting in an all-out effort to get past the $4.5 million mark on our way to $5 million and while we’re quietly confident we’ll achieve this, we’ll definitely be happy to get over the line.”

For the fundraising team, the on-going community support was a big confidence booster and while there was no firm deadline by which the $5 million had to be achieved, Mr Myers said the team would be working to exceed this.

“We’ve got a mixture of cash that’s come in and pledges of money to be given over a period of time, but we certainly wouldn’t be where we are today without EA Networks buying the naming rights.”

The willingness of the community to continue giving to the project was a huge confidence booster for the fundraising team.

An anonymous donation for $50,000 was typical of the response from people who wanted nothing more than to see the centre built, Mr Myers said.

“Reaching this goal is not about us and what we have done, it’s what the community has done.

The ongoing feedback we keep getting is people just want this constructed.”

Construction on the complex is anticipated to begin by the middle of this year with the project likely to open in the second half of 2015.

With two years to run until the new centre opens, the Ashburton Community Pool will continue to struggle to meet the community’s aquatic needs.

The ageing pool will only receive minimum maintenance to ensure it remains open for use but eventually it will be closed and the site will revert to the ownership of the Ministry of Education.

While a future for the site has yet to be decided it has already been tagged as a potential site by Ashburton College for a school hall.

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• Hit toddler dies A toddler has died after being hit by a vehicle in Northland.

Emergency services were called to State Highway 12, Ohaeawai, at 1pm yesterday, where an 18-month-old child had been hit by a vehicle in a driveway.

After treatment from paramedics at the scene, the child was flown to Whangarei Hospital in a serious condition. Police say the toddler has since died.An investigation is underway and the driver of the vehicle is helping police with inquiries. Next of kin are being advised. -APNZ

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This house currently under construction using voluntary labour and donated materials on Magnolia Lane is expected to generate at least $100,000 towards the EA Networks Centre funds.

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Margaret Jackson (left), receives her Samsung Galaxy tablet from Guardian editor Coen Lammers as winner of the competition among subscribers who have registered for GuardianOnline.

Age is no barrier for Margaret Jackson to be part of the digital age.

The 82-year-old from Hampstead is one of the hundreds of Guardian subscribers that have registered for the GuardianOnline website and was delighted to win our competition for those who have registered.

Mrs Jackson was excited to receive the Samsung Galaxy tablet from editor Coen Lammers and said one of her 15 grandchildren would show her how to use it.

“They bounce in and out of here like a yo-yo anyway.”

The mother for five uses her computer on a daily basis to keep up with her family around Australia and New Zealand and was interested to find out whether it was easier to Skype them on her new device.

She also has GuardianOnline listed as one of her favourites.

She has no shortage of good advice as son Graham in Australia is an IT expert and remotely fixed his mother’s computer from across the Tasman. He even noticed that his mum’s internet speed was too slow after she had signed up for broadband and gave the provider “a bit of hurry up”.

Daughter Kaye, who still lives in town, said her mum’s face regularly pops up for a Skype chat on her

computer at work, but not always at the most appropriate moment.

Kaye and her sister Sylvie had registered their mother for GuardianOnline service as “Nanajackson”, but Mrs Jackson admitted that she still preferred to read the paper in its original hardcopy form.

“I like that I can just grab it when I’ve forgotten something,’’ she smiled.

Mrs Jackson has been a subscriber for over 60 years since she got married and moved into her Hampstead home back in 1951.

She said she had cancelled the paper for a few months after her husband had died and when she was in hospital, but missed the daily routine too much.

“I just missed not knowing what was going on in town. And especially checking out the death notices.’’

Mr Lammers said that an increasing number of subscribers are registering for the online service as they realise that the website offers them an additional service alongside the paper, including breaking news, videos and photo galleries.

“If you hear a fire siren go off during the day, there is a good chance you can find out on GuardianOnline within the hour whether it was a crash, a fire, a cat up a tree or a false alarm.”

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shburton is set for a bumper day as thousands of locals and visitors will stream into town for the Multicultural Bite Festival and the Waitangi on East event.

Last year the events attracted over 10,000 visitors on the weekend before Waitangi Day and moving the festival to the public holiday could prove to be a master stroke.

As Christchurch marketing expert Tracey Chambers explained in yesterday’s Guardian, the two combined events could become the foundation for even a bigger cluster of happenings around the town centre that could become a landmark event for the district.

Boulevard Day attracts people from far and wide, especially as it coincides with South Canterbury’s public holiday, so to attach the Multicultural Bite Festival permanently to Waitangi Day may guarantee success for the future.

At first glance it might make sense to combine the two happenings into one big-ticket affair and build a marketing campaign around this, but Mrs Chambers pointed out that the two different events side by side could feed of each other’s diverse audiences.

Mrs Chambers said that the current set-up could be used for “cluster-marketing” Waitangi Day in Ashburton, but it may need some council involvement to create a helicopter view across the two events, and look at possible expansions.

The marketing director,

Key waits on ‘Granny-gate’

By Claire Trevett It was, as a highly amused Shane Jones observed, the year that will go down as “Granny-gate”.

The turbulence that usually bubbles over when the Prime Minister arrives at Te Tii Marae at Waitangi was over before he even arrived, and had nothing to do with his competence or lack thereof.

It forced him to circle the streets for over half an hour waiting for news that the big issue of the day was settled and he was ready to be welcomed on.

That big issue was over who would hold the Prime Minister’s hand - and there were two contenders for the job. The first, Titewhai Harawira, had done the job since time immemorial.

The second, the tiny Ani Taurua, was the choice of the marae itself,

which claimed she had earned the right by dint of decades of washing dishes and cooking the kai compared to Mrs Harawira’s effort of swanning in every year, grabbing the limelight, and leaving.

As the rest of the Government ministers stood there, waiting for Mr Key to be allowed in, the two women stood at the gate with their support crews. There was Mrs Harawira’s family, some marae organisers and a troupe of negotiators, including Superintendent Wally Haumaha and Ngati Whatua leader Naida Glavish.

Onlookers happily chipped in, all but laying bets on who they thought would win.

“Kia kaha, Aunty,” one of Mrs Taurua’s backers yelled, before sighing at Mrs Harawira’s apparent breach of tikanga (custom).

When marae kaumatua Kingi Taurua dared to suggest a compromise, Mrs Harawira told him to “go

to the Harawira family en masse, and the result was inevitable. Although Mrs Taurua was in the front line, it was Mrs Harawira who walked next to Mr Key. The two women were separated by Ms Glavish.

The impasse served to take the

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Seven Sharp presenters Jesse Mulligan, Ali Mau and Greg Boyed. year.

Up to 497,000 tuned into Seven Sharp on the first night, while 242,800 watched TV3 rival Campbell Live.

Seven Sharp maintained Close Up’s lead over Campbell.

With heavy promotion combining with secrecy over its format, competitors at TV3 and Prime TV said they expected a lot of people would be trying out the new show.

They would be watching second night ratings very closely to see if they held up, they said.

The TV2 soap Shortland Street maintained its dominance of the 7pm timeslot, and picked up two ratings points in its second half, while Seven Sharp lost one ratings point.

Ratings in the early evening time slot are always low this time of the

year with good weather drawing people outside.

But problems at the start also risk burning off the new, younger viewers TVNZ wants to attract to the show.

Among people aged 25-54 years, Seven Sharp scored 17 per cent of the TV audience watching at the time, compared to 12.3 per cent for Campbell Live and 45.5 per cent for Shortland Street.

Last night’s show started off with the same sort of satirical jokes from the previous night.

The stories were again a mix of the serious and not so serious, with the first item looking at the problem of poisoned drinks in Bali. The second story focused on the debate about nudists being out in public and appeared to cut it a little too close in some of the shots. - APNZ

Man killed at train crossing Police have released the name of a man who died when he was hit by a train at Lincoln Rd in Christchurch on Monday night.

He was Murray Bruce Miller, 26, of Christchurch.

Police said initial enquiries indicated Mr Miller and another person had been walking on Lincoln Road towards Moorhouse Avenue shortly after 10pm, when he attempted to cross the railway crossing.

away”.

He replied in kind, telling her to “shut your bloody mouth”.

Two minutes later the situation was resolved - an apparent compromise by kuia.

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whose clients include Meridian, Ngai Tahu, Lincoln University, Port Lyttelton and many other major companies, said the Waitangi Day festivities could expand with attractions for children and a market where local arts and crafts are represented.

The vital part though is that the council or another third party gets involved to consider the interests of both the Multicultural Festival and the Waitangi on East, as they have different motivations.

The Waitangi on East is organised to raise funds for the Ashburton Business Association by charging stall holders but sadly most of the ABA members are not actually getting involved. Most of the shops on East Street will be closed today and most of the money spent at the event will leave town with the out-of-town stall holders The Multicultural Bite Festival on the other hand simply wants to celebrate the district’s ethnic diversity and is not really interested in profit.

Both these motivations have merit but are based on their own interests and may lack the ambition to look beyond the current success. There may be room for Experience Mid Canterbury, Grow Mid Canterbury or the council to put their heads together and explore where this could lead to.

Waitangi Day is the perfect date as this day does not only mark the signing of the treaty but should also celebrate the positive integration of new people and cultures into the fabric of New Zealand society.

Sharp backlash at seven The newest current affairs show on the block has received a mighty backlash from critics and the public, but last night’s effort wasn’t as bad, some say.

TVNZ’s Seven Sharp second show last night had to make up for a lot after receiving heavy criticism for its debut on Monday.

On the programme’s Facebook page, members of the public gave mixed reactions. But those who did not like the show were not shy to say so.

Neil Bayliss wrote: “Biggest load of rubbish I’ve seen in years - never again.” Another wrote: “Thought it was great!”

Another woman said she would not be watching it again; commenting: “Fluffy and no depth.”

Last night’s episode saw the presenters, Ali Mau, Greg Boyed and Jesse Mulligan, looking more relaxed.

One Facebook fan said he felt the show was a lot crisper than the previous night.

Another person had some fashion advice for Mulligan: “Either wear a tie with [your] top button done up - properly - or follow Greg Boyed’s lead and not wear a tie. A tie with the top button undone just looks scruffy.”

Ratings for Monday’s debut show a solid but unspectacular first night audience, according to overnight ratings supplied by NielsenTAM people meters. Estimates for the new programme were similar to those for Close Up this time last

Prime minister John Key is led on to Te Tii Marae by Titewhai Harawira.

Lights and bells were sounding at time.

Mr Miller was hit by the front of the train and was carried some distance down the railway line. He was pronounced dead at the scene The death has been referred to the coroner.

KiwiRail is supporting the train driver, with a spokeswoman saying it would have been a “very traumatic experience”.

attention off the Prime Minister giving him the rare treat of a visit to Te Tii without being yelled over, hit or jostled.

Despite the apparent compromise, the battle of wills continued afterwards.

Mrs Harawira called Mr Taurua and others who wanted to stop her doing the role “women bashers” for interfering.

In reply, Mr Taurua pointed out that both Mrs Harawira and her daughter had been arrested in the past “for violence”.

He also pointed out Mrs Harawira had defended marae protocols years ago to prevent former Prime Minister Helen Clark speaking on the marae - but did not seem to think they applied to herself.

“It seems to me, it’s all right for Titewhai to break our laws, but it’s not all right for pakeha to break our laws.”

-APNZ

He has been stood down for a minimum period of three days as a matter of procedure.

The driver will take as much time off as he needs, and will also be offered counselling, the spokeswoman said.

“Some of our drivers want to get back into work straight away - others seek a different approach,” .

KiwiRail urged people to always take care at level crossings. - APNZ

More than 200 cellphones have been seized each year in prisons since jamming technology was put in place to stop inmates from illicitly contacting the outside world.

Prison authorities say prisoners “spend large amounts of their time attempting to subvert our security systems” and keep obtaining cellphones in the hope they will work, despite the blocking technology.

The jamming devices were introduced in December 2009 and 644 phones have since been confiscated from inside prisons, according to figures released to the Herald under the Official Information Act. Of those, 72 were seized from inside the maximum security Auckland Prison at Paremoremo, New Zealand’s toughest jail. A further 155 were found in the Spring Hill facility in North Waikato and another 160 in Rimutaka prison, near Wellington.

David Linstrom, in charge of technology in the Corrections Department, said blocking cellphones was one tool to stop “many of New Zealand’s most dangerous and antisocial individuals”from

organising more crime from behind bars.

While jamming technology was in all 19 New Zealand prisons, he conceded the systems are not designed to “provide full site coverage but are directed to the designated prisoner-accessible areas”.

“While jamming technology restricts cellphone use, some prisoners spend large amounts of their time attempting to subvert our security systems and continue to obtain cellphones anticipating they might work,” said Mr Linstrom.

On any given day, around 8600 prisoners are in custody and Mr Linstrom said there were thousands of movements - between prison, court or police facilities - as well as personal visits from lawyers, family and friends each year.

“While searches are undertaken every time a prisoner enters prison, and after every visits session, all these contacts represent an opportunity for contraband introduction.”

Auckland lawyer Davina Murray is facing criminal charges of smuggling an iPhone, cigarettes and a light to a high profile killer

in Mt Eden prison.

She has pleaded not guilty and says her 80 visits over 9 months to Liam Reid, sentenced to preventive detention in 2008 for the rape and murder of Emma Agnew, was to help prepare an appeal against his convictions.

The number of confiscated cellphones was not recorded by Corrections before December 2009.

But a high profile drugs case - conducted before jamming technology was introduced - revealed how inmates used cellphones to conduct business with one another.

Detectives in Operation Web bugged the phones of dozens of prisoners at Paremoremo, Spring Hill, Wanganui, Wellington and Christchurch.

The phones were also used to call China to organise the smuggling of pseudoephedrine to New Zealand, which was then manufactured into methamphetamine.

Among those convicted for running the P ring was Arthur Taylor - recently successful in appealing a smoking ban in prisons - and King Cobra leader Rocky Pulete.

- APNZ

Kiwi woman’s body found in Melbourne apartment

By Alanah Eriksen Australian police have revealed that officers found the body of a New Zealand woman in her Melbourne apartment after her worried family asked them to check on her.

Zahra Hammond, 26, was discovered in her bed at her home on Blackshaws Rd, Newport, about 8am on Saturday. It is understood she may have laid dead for days before she was found.

Victoria police said officers went to the address “following a welfare check requested by her family”.

Detective Sergeant Brad Lawrence said yesterday there

were “certainly no suspicious circumstances” and a report was being prepared for the coroner.

Results from a post-mortem examination were due in the next few days.

“We don’t want to speculate until such time as a full enquiry has been conducted,” Mr Lawrence said.

The Herald had previously been told by a Williamstown police officer that a friend had discovered Miss Hammond’s body.

But it is understood her mother, Cindy Lomas, had become worried when phone calls and text messages to her daughter went unanswered and called police.

She has flown to Melbourne to

bring her daughter home.

A cousin, Kelly Gillard of Auckland, said the family were devastated at the news.

“We’re just shattered,” Ms Gillard said.

“She was such a beautiful girl and she loved her family and friends. There was nothing wrong with her at all. We’re just at a loss, we don’t know what’s happened.”

Miss Hammond attended Whangarei Girls’ High School.

She moved to Melbourne recently and had been working in an administration job at a law firm.

The family are now fundraising to bring the body back home.

- APNZ

A mother grieving for her younger daughter, fatally injured in a car accident, has acknowledged the driver responsible was also suffering.

Millie Constance McCutcheon, 20, of Dunedin, was driving her father’s car near Morrinsville last August 31 when she failed to see a truck and trailer unit almost stopped in front of her and ran into the back of it.

Her passenger, 20-year-old Felicity Paige Wren, was severely injured and died.

The two young women were flatmates and close friends, a fact Ms Wren’s mother, Anne, mentioned in the victim statement she read in the Dunedin District Court yesterday (Tue) when McCutcheon was sentenced for causing Felicity Wren’s death by driving carelessly on State Highway 27 at Patetonga.

Mrs Wren said she knew Millie was suffering. And there was nothing the court could impose as a penalty that could come close to “what Millie has to live with every day, for the rest of her life”.

“We hope she can find a way to move forward but realise that will take a long time.”

In the statement from herself and her husband, Mrs Wren spoke of the shock and disbelief when told their youngest child had been killed, two and a-half months short of her 21st birthday. They were a few days into an overseas holiday at the time.

She described their younger daughter as uncomplicated, happy, smiley, beautiful “inside and out” with the rare gift of being “a listener”, a quality that brought her many friends. She was studying photography at Massey University in Wellington and was excelling.

Mrs Wren said it was difficult to accept their expected future with the daughter “mostly known as Fliss” had gone - her career, marriage and grandchildren - that was something that would never go away from them. And although it was five months since the accident, it still felt “very raw” to them. Some days they were still in disbelief. It had not got easier with time.

“If anything, it feels harder as this is the longest we have ever have gone without talking to Fliss or seeing her.”

They would talk two or three times a week, catch up on Facebook and on visits home or to Nelson to visit family together or to Wellington.

While her husband had gone back to work, she had not been able to do so, Mrs Wren said. She often had moments of “absolute grief or quiet tears every day”. Learning to adapt and cope with the effects of such a tragic event in their lives was an ongoing process. Sometimes they coped well and, at other times, “the grief just swallows you up”.

They had gone through “some of those terrible firsts” - their daughter’s 21st, Christmas and New Year - with family around. But there was an enormous hole - “a Fliss-shaped hole” - where she should have been, and it would never be filled.

Judge Michael Crosbie thanked the couple for their courage in reading their statement in court. He said it was important for Millie to hear it too. As a parent with children of a similar age, he said he could “only imagine” what the family was going through.

Having earlier indicated he would be imposing no penalty other than a conviction and a driving ban, the judge said the charge of careless driving causing injury or death was the lowest level of culpability that existed in law.

He convicted McCutcheon and disqualified her for one year and one day. No penalty was necessary.

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Police officer admits assault

By Kurt Bayer A police officer who yesterday admitted assaulting a man who allegedly rifled through his personal cellphone has been suspended on full pay.

Sergeant Craig Prior has also voluntarily stood down from his role at the New Zealand Police Association while he is being considered for diversion.

The Christchurch officer was called out to a domestic dispute on November 24 last year but mistakenly left his phone behind.

Christchurch District Court heard yesterday that a man at the city property phoned police to boast that he had discovered the phone and had searched through its contents.

He found things on the phone that he found “interesting”, the court heard, and claimed to have taken photographs of some content.

Prior, fearing that the man had snatched pictures of his own children that he had on his phone, returned to the house.

Defence counsel Jonathan Eaton said Prior allegedly reached through a gate and grabbed the man by his scruff of the neck and demanded to know what photographs he had taken.

Mr Eaton said the alleged assault

was so minor that if his client was not a serving police officer, it would never have reached court.

The lawyer said that since it was his client’s personal cellphone, also used for Police Association work, it contained personal, private and privileged information, including pictures and details of his children.

The facts were not disputed, he said, and asked Judge Paul Kellar for the case to be adjourned until April 2 for his client to be considered for diversion. Since he was a serving police officer, diversion would have to be considered by the Commissioner of Police, Mr Eaton said.

The Commissioner will now consider whether diversion - the scheme for first-time offenders where a criminal conviction can be escaped if they apologise - is an appropriate outcome for Prior.

Mr Eaton said that if diversion was not granted, he would apply for a discharge without conviction.

Judge Kellar recorded the guilty plea but did not enter a conviction.

Prior was remanded at large, while his lawyer did not seek a continuation of the interim name suppression order.

Through his work as Police Association Canterbury branch director, Prior is highly popular with local front-line officers.

One officer, who did not wish to be named, said all of the rank and

file knew of the incident and was surprised it had made it to court.

“Craig’s a great guy and doesn’t deserve to be hung out to dry,” the officer said.

“I hope there’s a positive outcome from all of this.”

Police Association president Greg O’Connor said Prior had “voluntarily” stood down from his Association role while the court case was ongoing.

His work answerphone today directed enquiries to Association colleagues, while the national website listed him as “currently unavailable”.

In the meantime, Prior - who is also a police search and rescue coordinator - has the backing of the Association.

“Officers on duty, dealing with matters that arise out of their duty, get the support of the Police Association,” Mr O’Connor said.

A police spokesman confirmed that Prior is currently suspended on full pay while court proceedings are live.

District Commander Superintendent Gary Knowles says police will continue to deal with the matter internally.

National manager of professional standards Detective Superintendent Sue Schwalger said police take a zero-tolerance approach to criminal behaviour in their ranks.

- apnz

Southern rata on Mt Somers’ Rhyolite Ridge (above) is flowering prolifically this summer.

Fire ban to get lifted for a day Auckland’s total fire ban will be lifted for one day only today to allow Waitangi Day hangi and barbecues.

The one-day partial lift, effective until midnight today, will allow cooking fires on private property including hangi, umu, pizza ovens and solid fuel barbecues.

The ban won’t be lifted on open air fires or solid fuel cooking in

public areas.

Principal rural fire officer Bryan Cartelle said Auckland Council would be lifting the ban on account of Waitangi Day celebrations and rainfall over the last 24 hours.

“We want people to enjoy traditional Waitangi Day celebrations and the recent rain has given us a short reprieve to allow this as

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Rata makes a strong showing

By Susan Sandys Southern rata in the Mid Canterbury foothills is flowering prolifically this summer, and that is something to celebrate, say nature enthusiasts.

Methven Tramping Club and Mt Somers Walkway Society stalwart Lew Shaw said it had been an amazing sight for him recently when he walked to Mt Somers’ Rhyolite Ridge, about 40 minutes from the Woolshed Creek carpark, and saw the rata trees there in full flower.

Staveley ecotourism operator Warren Jowett said 2013 had

long as people are responsible and considerate,” he said.

“We trust people will take care with barbecues and hangi, and enjoy a safe and happy Waitangi Day with friends and family.”

Complete fire bans are in place in numerous locations around the country thanks to prolonged dry conditions and high temperatures.

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begun as “the year of the rata” for the district.

“I have never seen the rata in the Sharplin Falls Scenic Reserve in such full flower,” Mr Jowett said.

He had also had other residents phone him to say they had noticed rata blooming on their properties “more profusely” than they could remember, and that rata recently planted on the McClimont Green at Mt Somers was flowering, as was rata on the lower slopes of Mt Hutt.

“We can celebrate the flowering of this spectacular and iconic native tree. Long may it last,” he said.

He said he was not sure what combination of natural factors had resulted in the episolde of bountiful flowering this summer. It may be climatic, but also it seemed to suggest that possum numbers in the Mid Canterbury foothills were not too high.

“Possum love rata so it is encouraging to see healthy rata trees on Mt Somers, helped, no doubt by the trapping that occurs in the area,” he said.

“Rata leaves, especially the new season’s shoots, are like ice cream for possum and repeated eating of the new growth soon leads to the death of the tree.”

Possum hunters were out in

force in the area, probably encouraged by good pelt prices.

Mr Jowett had noticed possum browsing on the rata at Rhoylite Ridge, and on the West Coast large areas of rata forest had been laid waste by the introduced marsupials, despite trapping there. The mixed broadleaf podocarp makeup of the West Coast forest favoured higher possum populations.

New Zealand has 11 species of rata, five trees and six climbers.

The best known are the pohutukawa, the northern and southern rata.

Red is the most common colour although four of the climbers have white flowers.

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Shalvin Prasad described as “innocent and naive” and may have been the victim of blackmail, bribery or fraud.

The final time Mr Prasad was heard from was in a text he sent to his parents at 9.45pm to say he would be home by 10.30pm.

That text was sent via the Drury telecommunications tower, which had a broad range and didn’t necessarily mean Mr Prasad was in Drury, Mr Lynch said.

The withdrawn funds was discovered later that night by Mr Prasad’s parents when they checked the account online after becoming worried about their son not returning home.

“The police investigation will focus on anyone who had knowledge of the fact that Shalvin had a large sum of money with him and believe that identifying such persons will assist in progressing the investigation,” Mr Lynch said.

- Age: 21 (he would have turned 22 on Sunday) - Lived: with parents and brother in Dannemora, South Auckland - Worked: as a produce assistant at Botany Pak’nSave supermarket - Last seen: leaving home about 8.30pm on Wednesday, Jan 30 - Last heard from: in a text about 9.30pm saying he would be home by 10.30pm - He was “well liked” and had a lot of friends - He did not have a current girlfriend - No indication he was involved in any illegal activity - Described as “innocent” and “naive” - APNZ There has been no strong evidence to suggest when Mr Prasad’s car was parked on Plunket Ave in Papatoetoe, where it was found at the weekend.

Mr Lynch said it was believed he either arranged to meet somebody there and was taken away by a “person or persons”or the people involved in his death took his car back there.

Police were spending today building a timeline of Mr Prasad’s movements during the last week by interviewing family members and friends, including the soccer teammates he played with hours before his death.

The teller who Mr Prasad withdrew the money from would also be interviewed, although Mr Lynch said there’s “certainly no indication by his behaviour or his demeanour” that Mr Prasad feared for his safety at the time.

Mr Prasad’s funeral was held on Monday.

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more teacher appraisal, and moving school reporting from students’ performance to how much they have improved.

Teachers unions today (Tue) said the Treasury ideas were designed primarily to save money, and called on Minister of Education Hekia Parata to “come clean” on her education agenda.

“The Minister and Treasury were knocked back on increasing class sizes last year, and these policies are equally wrong-headed,” said NZEI Te Riu Roa National president Judith Nowotarski.

“The Minister has no mandate to foist radical change on New Zealand’s highly successful public schools or to re-introduce failed policies from the 1990s.”

In a statement released this afternoon, Ms Parata played down the significance of the Treasury advice.

“The Treasury supplies the Government with a lot of advice, but it doesn’t mean we agree with it or accept

it.”

She denied a radical overhaul of the school funding model was in the pipeline: “Our plan does not include bulkfunding schools”.

The Minister said the Government had increased investment in education in each of the last four Budgets.

“We are investing $9.6 billion into early childhood education and schooling in 2012/13 - the most ever.”

Post Primary Teachers’ Association president Angela Roberts said the lack of consultation was frustrating.

“The trend that seems to be happening is that we won’t know. Because they are not interested in discussing policy while it is being developed.

“Like class sizes, they announced it, and then discovered that the community didn’t want it, the sector didn’t want it, and that the evidence said it’s no good.”

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Hours before he was burned alive, Shalvin Prasad withdrew tens of thousands of dollars from his bank account.

The withdrawal from a teller at the ASB Bank on Ronwood Ave at Manukau last Wednesday afternoon (Jan 30) almost emptied the account holding the 21-year-old’s years of savings.

He made his way to soccer training, returned to the family’s south Auckland home then went out at 8.30pm, telling his parents he was going to play pool.

A week later detectives have revealed there is no explanation for why Mr Prasad withdrew the cash and what happened to it before he was burned alive some time after at McRobbie Rd, Kingseat.

His body was found the next day (Jan 31) with no indications he suffered injuries before being set alight, Detective Inspector Dave Lynch said yesterday.

“It’s impossible to determine [if he was unconscious at the time], other than to say he was certainly alive when he was set on fire,” Mr Lynch said.

The money he withdrew in $100 notes is still missing and the discovery of his Toyota Rav 4 outside an industrial building 15 minutes from his home had failed to provide any leads.

Mr Lynch said he wanted to “emphasise that there is no indication that Shalvin was involved in any illegal activity”.

He said people may speculate “as to how a 21-year-old came to have a large sum of money” but checks with his family and of his bank account confirmed he was a “diligent saver” over a long period of time.

Detectives will trawl through Mr Prasad’s online and mobile phone history from the last week to establish who he had been contacting before his death.

Mr Lynch said Mr Prasad had been

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The public need to be protected from disgraced lawyer Barry Hart after he overcharged a “vulnerable” family by $20,000 and then refused to repay the money.

Hart has been struck off the Law Society’s registrar, ending his 46-year career as one of New Zealand’s most high-profile criminal defence lawyers.

He did not turn up to his own disciplinary hearing last year after seeking an adjournment and sending in medical certificates to say he was too unwell to attend.

The hearing went ahead and Hart was found guilty of three misconduct charges, including overcharging, by the Lawyers and Conveyances Disciplinary Tribunal.

He appealed his case to the High Court at Auckland in December last year, saying the Tribunal had no right to proceed in his absence.

However, chief High Court judge Justice Helen Winkelmann and her colleague Justice Graham Lang dismissed Hart’s appeal in their decision released yesterday.

The judges said Hart had “persistently delayed and obstructed” the Law Society’s investigation and the disciplinary process.

The judges upheld the Tribunal’s ruling that Hart had overcharged a client’s family and was guilty of two further misconduct charges.

They also upheld the Tribunal’s result which has spelled the end of Hart’s career that included representing samurai sword killer Antonie Dixon.

Justices Winkelmann and Lang dismissed a suggestion from Hart’s lawyers that he could work under the supervision of another lawyer.

“It is unrealistic, in our view, to suggest that an order requiring Mr Hart to

practise under the supervision of another practitioner would be sufficient to properly protect the public.”

The court head how Hart charged $1000 an hour while he waited for seven hours in North Shore District Court for the client’s matter to be called. The appearance took a few minutes.

The bill for several appearances came to $35,000.

“The tasks undertaken by Mr Hart for Mr A could and should have been achieved at a far lower cost to the family.

Mr Hart seems to have made little or no attempt to manage the cost of the work done,” the judges said.

It found that Hart’s fees were “far too high” and further criticised Hart for his lack of communication skills.

Hart was ordered to repay the family $20,000 but that payment has not been made.

“His failure to make the payment calls into question his bona fides in dealing with the Tribunal.”

The judges of the High Court found that Hart’s attitude to his client’s vulnerable family had been “exploitative and showed a lack of integrity.”

They also noted that it was not the first time Hart had overcharged clients.

Law Society President Jonathan Temm said his organisation welcomed the court’s comments that lawyers must not exploit clients and must not charge more than their work is worth.

“This has been a long and drawn-out proceeding and the judgment shows very clearly that our justice system takes a very serious view of a failure to cooperate promptly with the disciplinary process.”

Hart did not return phone calls today.

He has also lost his multimillion-dollar properties northwest of Auckland after owing $30 million to the ANZ National Bank.

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Hart overcharging 1982: Hart found guilty of professional misconduct after overcharging. Hart was censured and ordered to pay a fine of $750 and costs of $2750 March, 2010: Standards Committee of the Auckland District Law Society upheld two complaints that Hart overcharged. The Committee reduced Hart’s fees charged to the client from $10,000 to $5000 and ordered Hart to pay a fine of $2000 and costs of $1000.

June, 2010: The Committee found Hart guilty of unsatisfactory conduct and reduced Hart’s fees from $8437 to $1250 and ordered him to pay costs.

2012: The Lawyers and Conveyances Disciplinary Tribunal orders Hart to repay $20,000 in legal fees after finding he grossly overcharged the family of one of his clients. Hart has so far not paid the sum. ordered Hart to vacate the last property so it could be sold by the bank, and said Hart was liable for the $20,543,951.92 which remained outstanding on his bank loan.

His companies Woodhill Stud and Woodhill Holdings were also liable for loans worth $16,170,727.11, which must also be paid back at a rate of five per cent per annum.

It has also been revealed that Hart’s fleet of luxury cars - including an Aston Martin and a 2011 Ferrari California have been put up for auction.

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Allies prepare for N. Korea nuke test South Korean and US troops began naval drills yesterday in a show of force partly directed at North Korea amid signs that Pyongyang will soon follow through on a threat to conduct its third atomic test.

The region has also seen a boost in diplomatic activity since last month, when North Korea announced it would conduct a nuclear test to protest UN Security Council sanctions toughened after a satellite launch in December that the US and others say was a disguised test of banned missile technology.

Pyongyang’s two previous

nuclear tests, in 2006 and 2009, both occurred after it was slapped with increased sanctions for similar rocket launches. As it issued its most recent punishment, the Security Council ordered North Korea to refrain from a nuclear test or face “significant action”.

North Korea’s state media said Monday that at a high-level Workers’ Party meeting, leader Kim Jong Un issued “important” guidelines meant to bolster the army and protect national sovereignty. North Korea didn’t elaborate, but Kim’s guidelines likely refer to a nuclear test and suggest that Pyongyang appears to

have completed formal procedural steps and is preparing to conduct a nuclear test soon, according to South Korean analyst Hong Hyun-ik.

“We assess that North Korea has almost finished preparations for conducting a nuclear test anytime and all that’s left is North Korea making a political decision” to do so, South Korean Defence Ministry spokesman Kim Minseok told reporters yesterday.

The spokesman said he couldn’t disclose further details because they would involve confidential intelligence affairs. Recent satellite photos showed North Korea

may have been sealing the tunnel into a mountainside where a nuclear device could be exploded.

A North Korean nuclear test “seems to be imminent,” South Korea’s UN Ambassador Kim Sook said Monday at a news conference at UN headquarters in New York.

He said there are “very busy activities” taking place at North Korea’s nuclear test site “and everybody’s watching”. The ambassador said he expects the Security Council to respond with “firm and strong measures” in the event of a nuclear test.

Yesterday, the South Korean and US militaries kicked off three

days of exercises off the Korean Peninsula’s east coast that involve live-fire exercises, naval maneuvers and submarine detection drills.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the manoeuvres are part of regular joint military training that the allies had scheduled before the latest nuclear tensions began. But the training, which involves a nuclearpowered American submarine, could still send a warning against possible North Korean provocation, a South Korean military official said, requesting anonymity because of department rules.

A US gunman and murder suspect who snatched a five-yearold boy and held him for a week underground in a bunker besieged by police has been killed and the child is safe, the FBI says.

Police had earlier identified the abductor as Jimmy Lee Dykes, a 65-year-old retired trucker.

The motive of the January 29 abduction in the town of Midland City in the southern state of Alabama remained unclear.

“At approximately 3.12 this afternoon, FBI agents safely recovered the child who’s been held hostage for nearly a week,” said FBI Special Agent Steve Richardson, who is in charge of the Mobile, Alabama division.

“Within the past 24 hours, negotiations deteriorated and Mr Dykes was observed holding a gun. At this point, FBI agents, fearing the child was in imminent danger, entered the bunker and rescued the child.”

The child, said Richardson, “appears physically unharmed and is being treated at a local hospital. The subject is deceased”.

Dykes is thought to have shot dead the driver of a school bus when he seized his young hostage, retreating to an underground room on his property and defying – AFP calls for his surrender.

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Notorious Belgian child serial killer Marc Dutroux has appeared before a special court seeking to be released and placed under house arrest with an electronic tag. His appeal for early release comes just three months before he completes 16 years of his life sentence for the kidnap and rape of six girls, and the murder of four of his victims, in one of the darkest episodes in Belgium’s criminal history. The 56-year-old appeared behind closed doors yesterday and a decision on Dutroux’s request is not expected before – AFP February 18.

He was king of England, but for centuries he lay without shroud or coffin in an unknown grave, and his name became a byword for villainy.

Yesterday, scientists announced they had rescued the remains of Richard III from anonymity – and the monarch’s fans hope a revival of his reputation will soon follow.

A team of archaeologists, geneticists, genealogists and other scientists from the University of Leicester announced that tests had proven what they scarcely dared to hope – a scarred and broken skeleton unearthed under a drab municipal parking lot was that of the 15th-century king, the last English monarch to die in battle.

Lin Foxhall, head of the university’s school of archaeology, said the discovery “could end up rewriting a little bit of history in a big way”.

Few monarchs have seen their reputations decline as much after death as Richard III. He ruled England between 1483 and 1485, during the decades-long battle over the throne known as the Wars of the Roses, which pitted two wings of the ruling Plantagenet dynasty – York and Lancaster – against one another. – AP

• New archbishop The new Archbishop of Canterbury has formally taken office at a ceremony in St Paul’s Cathedral. Justin Welby, the former Bishop of Durham, was confirmed as the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury at a service under the dome of the cathedral attended by the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, and seven other senior Church of England bishops.

The ancient ceremony forms part of the legal process for appointing a new Archbishop of Canterbury and will be followed by Welby’s enthronement at Canterbury Cathedral next month. Welby, 57, succeeds Rowan Williams, who left after a decade in office at the end of December to take up a new post as Master of Magdalene – PA College, Cambridge.

wages advanced a quarterly 0.6 per cent.

Private sector wages rose at an annual pace of 1.9 per cent, and all salary and wages gained 2 per cent in 2012.

Canterbury’s construction sector led those gains, rising 1.6 per cent in the quarter and up 3.9 per cent from the same quarter a year earlier.

Construction wages across the rest of the country rose a quarterly 0.8 per cent and an annual 2.3 per cent.

Yesterday’s release comes ahead of the household labour force survey tomorrow, which is expected to show the unemployment rate declined 0.2 of a percentage point to 7.1 per cent in the December quarter.

The labour market has confounded forecasters, with the headline unemployment rate remaining unexpectedly high, even as the economy shows tentative signs of improving.

The Treasury on Monday said it expected gradual employment growth this year as the Canterbury rebuild picked up momentum and improved business confidence led to actual hiring.

Statistics NZ’s quarterly employment survey, released separately, showed a surprise fall in private sector of 0.4 per cent to $25.17 an hour in the quarter.

Economists surveyed by Reuters were picking 0.4 per cent growth.

The QES showed a 0.4 per cent

increase in total filled jobs to 1.72 million and a similar gain in full-time equivalent employees to 1.36 million.

Manufacturing, a sector which has been under scrutiny as local plants shut up shop in the face of a strong New Zealand dollar, showed a 0.8 per cent gain in total filled jobs to 166,900 and a similar gain in FTEs to 186,700.

Still, the sector has lost 0.2 per cent FTEs in the year, and 1 per cent of total filled jobs.

Construction FTEs climbed 2.6 per cent in the quarter to 97,200 with total filled jobs up 2.6 per cent to 122,800, while public administration and safety FTEs advanced 5.3 per cent to 87,300 with total filled jobs up 4.5 per cent at

94,400.

Forestry and mining reported the biggest quarterly decline in jobs, with FTEs falling 4.3 per cent to 11,000 and total filled jobs down 5.4 per cent to 12,300. Information, media and telecommunications FTEs shrank 3.9 per cent in the period to 27,200 and total filled jobs in the sector dropped 4 per cent to 30,900.

Total weekly paid hours rose 0.6 per cent to a seasonally adjusted 52.1 million in the quarter, turning around a 0.3 per cent contraction in the September period.

Average weekly paid hours for FTEs’ ordinary time shrank 0.2 per cent to – APNZ 37.5 hours.

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A Saudi cleric says even girls who have not yet reached puberty should be covered from head to toe, citing instances of child molestation in the ultraconservative kingdom and elsewhere. Sheik Abdullah Daoud made the remarks on the satellite channel al-Majd.

He says many viewers watching the programme had probably come across instances of sexual harassment as children. Judge Mohammed alJazlani, a senior sheik, said yesterday that such talk denigrates Islam and may push non-Muslims to view Islam negatively. He urged Saudis to ignore unofficial fatwas, or – AP edicts.

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“The dark cloud of war is approaching to the Korean Peninsula,” North Korea’s official Uriminzokkiri website said in a commentary. “Our patience has the limit.”

North Korea said similar things when South Korea and the US conducted previous drills; the allies have repeatedly said they have no intention of attacking the – AP North.

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Bigger workloads, tighter budgets take a toll

By Ben Chapman-Smith Bigger workloads and tighter company budgets are causing higher stress levels among New Zealand employees in certain sectors, according to a report out yesterday.

Global recruitment company Hudson surveyed 1328 employees in New Zealand late last year and found 41.6 per cent were feeling more stressed than a year before.

Salary and Employment Insights 2013 also showed 67 per cent of 1392 employers were sinking their lids – spreading workloads over existing employees rather than hiring a replacement when a team member left.

With Kiwi employers trying to do more with less, 77 per cent of employees said they were shouldering more responsibility and working longer hours, said Hudson NZ executive general manager Roman Rogers.

“Where roles aren’t being replaced, that’s putting pressure on the current team and is not sustainable in the long term,” he said.

“People say they are working considerably harder than 12 months ago and many are working longer than 40 hours a week.”

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for new roles, and better pay was cited as the most important consideration when changing jobs.

“With employees motivated by pay and budgets remaining tight, employers should prioritise spending and ensure rewards and benefits incentivise and retain high performers,” Rogers said.

“Employers need to strike the balance between rewarding staff and managing financial pressures.”

He said it is impossible for a company to reward everyone equally but employers should be taking a good look at which roles were the most essential.

“The key thing is they’ve got to prioritise the roles that are the most important and then look at whether people in those roles are people are being paid a fair salary.

“And of individuals that are performing well, are they being remunerated accordingly?”

Where bosses were unable to increase staff salaries, they could consider other rewards like flexible working hours or better holiday leave, Rogers said.

“If employees understand their efforts will be recognised and rewarded, they are more likely to be engaged, work productively and contribute to a positive company culture than can survive challenging economic times.”

Hudson carried out the survey in October and November last year and contacted people – APNZ from its own database.

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Pepe Gonzalez works at a restaurant offering barbecue for two people for 70 pesos in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The nation’s currency’s official rate is 4.96 pesos per US dollar ($NZ1.18), and the black market rate is about 7.50 pesos per US dollar.

Argentina puts a freeze on prices Argentina announced a twomonth price freeze on supermarket products yesterday in an effort to stop spiralling inflation.

The price freeze applies to every product in all of the nation’s largest supermarkets – a group including Walmart, Carrefour, Coto, Jumbo, Disco and other large chains. The companies’ trade group, represent-

ing 70 per cent of the Argentine supermarket sector, reached the accord with Commerce Secretary Guillermo Moreno, the government’s news agency Telam reported.

The commerce ministry wants consumers to keep receipts and complain to a hotline about any price hikes they see before April 1.

Polls show Argentines worry most about inflation, which private economists estimate could reach 30 per cent this year. The government says it’s trying to hold the next union wage hikes to 20 per cent, a figure that suggests how little anyone believes the official index that pegs annual inflation at just 10 per cent.

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Open up your pantry for great

meal ideas D

eciding what to have for dinner is easy when you have plenty of fresh, inspiring ideas at hand, but all too often dinner time arrives and ideas are sadly lacking.

For most of us, a quick check in the pantry will reveal dozens of dishes waiting to be made. We take for granted the tins, boxes and jars stored away on pantry shelves, forgetting that each one could provide a key dinner ingredient.

Most pantries will have at the most basic tinned tuna or salmon, tomatoes and lentils, boxes of pasta and couscous, rice, polenta and dozens of jars and packets of spices and seasonings.

It’s worth taking an inventory of your pantry and making a point of using hoarded ingredients two or three times a week.

Baked chicken with white beans and tomatoes

6 bacon rashers, cut into 2cm pieces 4 large chicken thighs with skin and bone Salt and pepper 2 medium onions, chopped 1 400g can s tomatoes including juice 2 400g cans small white beans, rinsed and drained

Chickpea and tomato curry 3 T vegetable oil 1 large onion, finely chopped 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped 1T grated ginger 2 T cumin seeds large pinch chilli flakes ½ t ground cinnamon ½ t ground turmeric 2 x 420g cans chick peas, drained 2 x 400g cans diced tomatoes cup coarsely chopped coriander salt freshly ground black pepper steamed rice to serve plain yoghurt to serve

3C chicken stock 1 jar mild salsa 1 can black beans, rinsed and drained 1 can kidney bean, rinsed and drained 1 can corn, rinsed and drained 1 dash hot sauce 1 dash lime juice

Moroccan salmon cakes with garlic mayo

stars

ARIES (Mar 21st Apr 20th) You might have to work hard at not bottling your emotions up over the next ten weeks as Mercury moves back and forwards through the most secretive, but also sensitive, part of your horoscope. This can provide some opportunities but can also see you worrying over things you wouldn’t normally be inclined to. Don’t believe all you hear!

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TAURUS (Apr 21st May 21st) You can be very inspired today when it comes to ideas for your future. However, inspiration does need to be matched by realism. If you come up with plans that others find it hard to relate to or feel are unrealistic, they may accuse you of woolgathering. However, anything of a spiritual or philosophical nature can stand you in good stead.

GEMINI (May 22nd Jun 21st) Mercury combines with Neptune for the next few days and this can make you idealistic about the type of role in life that you would like to have. More challengingly, it can also make you less grounded about what your options are. However, if you are someone who feels you have untapped creative or artistic talent, this is the time to free it up.

CANCER (Jun 22nd - Jul 23rd) This would be a marvellous day to think about holidays, faraway places or people, or to download a wonderful and inspiring piece of music. If you are particularly keen on creative writing or poetry, you can be especially inspired.

Your thinking can be agile, fluid and flexible.

In fact, over the next few nights you may enjoy some stunning, even epic, dreams.

Garlic mayonnaise 1/2 C mayonnaise 1 clove garlic, crushed 1/2 t paprika

Salmon cakes 90g couscous 2/3 cup orange juice 415g can red salmon, drained 250g frozen chopped spinach, thawed, drained and squeezed dry 2 egg yolks, beaten

LEO (Jul 24th - Aug 23rd) You might find yourself coming up with some inspiring ideas around money-making and your finances in general for a couple of days, but if you are looking for formal advice I’d suggest that you shop around. If someone or something seems too good to be true, then be especially careful. You might encounter a trickster of some kind.

VIRGO (Aug 24th Sep 23rd) If you meet someone for the first time, either today or later this week, there may be something particularly mysterious but equally fascinating about this person.

They may well turn out to be of great value to you but just as easily be someone you never really get to know or understand.

First impressions may count for nothing on this occasion.

750g potatoes, peeled, quartered lengthways and thinly sliced crossways 1 red, yellow or orange capsicum, deseeded and chopped 2T olive oil 1 onion, halved and thinly sliced 1½ C drained, tinned corn 6 medium eggs finely chopped parsley pepper to taste

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Put the potato slices in a saucepan of boiling water.

Bring the water back to the boil, then reduce the heat to a simmer.

Add the chopped capsicum and simmer for a further 3 minutes.

Drain well, then cover and keep hot.

Heat a 25cm non-stick frying pan over a high heat.

Add the oil to the pan and swirl it around.

When the oil is hot, reduce the heat to medium.

Add the onion and sauté, stirring often, for about 3 minutes or until softened.

Add the potatoes and capsicum and the corn to the frying pan.

Continue sautéing, stirring and turning the vegetables until the potatoes are tender.

Remove the pan from the heat.

In a large bowl, beat the eggs with the parsley and some pepper to taste.

Add the vegetables to the eggs, stirring them in thoroughly.

Heat oil in frying pan, and pour in the egg mixture, spreading out the vegetables evenly with a spatula to cover the whole pan. Cook the frittata, shaking the pan frequently, for 3–4 minutes or until the edges are set.

Preheat the grill to the hottest setting.

Put the frittata under the grill and cook for 2 minutes or until the top is just set.

Pierce the top of the frittata with a knife to check that it is cooked through.

Remove the pan from under the grill and leave the frittata to set for a few minutes.

Slide it on to a serving plate. Serve hot or warm, cut into wedges.

1 T olive oil 1 red onion, thinly sliced 1 red capsicum, thinly sliced 1 green capsicum, thinly sliced 400g can chopped tomatoes 420g can red kidney beans, rinsed and drained 1 cup corn kernels 1 red chilli, finely chopped with seeds removed Salt and freshly ground black pepper 1/4 C chopped fresh coriander or parsley 1/2C sour cream, to serve 8 flour or corn tortillas, warmed

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Heat oil in a large saucepan.

Add onion plus red and green capsicums, then stir-fry for 5 minutes to soften.

Add canned tomatoes and simmer for 5 minutes.

Add kidney beans, corn kernels and chilli, then simmer for 5 minutes more.

Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Serve topped with coriander or parsley, and with sour cream and warmed tortillas on the side.

1 can cream style corn 1C chicken stock 1 onion chopped 1 pkt 2 minute noodles 1 tin salmon, drained and flaked Pinch chilli flakes Salt and white pepper to taste

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Gently cook onions in a little oil.

Combine cream-style corn and chicken stock.

Bring to boil over medium heat. About 3 minutes.

Stir in the salt and white pepper, chilli flakes and salmon.

Simmer 10 mins.

Add noodles and flavour sachet.

Simmer five minutes.

Serve sprinkled with parsley.

Corn and salmon soup

• Mix and heat.

• Serve sprinkled with chopped coriander.

That’s how much you can pay in marketing costs before you sell with us!

Mexican bean stew

Five jars and a can soup

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• In a small stainless steel or glass bowl, stir together mayonnaise, garlic and paprika. Set aside.

• Prepare couscous according to package directions using 2/3 cup of orange juice in place of water.

• Combine couscous, salmon, spinach, egg yolks, garlic, cumin, black pepper and salt.

• Form into patties.

• In a large frypan over medium heat, heat the olive oil.

• Cook patties until golden brown, turning once, about 8 to 10 mins.

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• Heat the vegetable oil over a moderate heat in a deep frying pan.

• Add the onion, garlic, ginger, cumin seeds, chilli flakes, cinnamon and turmeric.

• Fry gently for 10 minutes until the onion is soft and browned.

• Add the chick peas and tomatoes, mix well, bring to the boil.

• Simmer 15 minutes until thick. Add the coriander just before serving.

Season to taste, serve with steamed rice and a dollop of yoghurt for each • portion.

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2 cloves garlic, crushed 1 t ground cumin 1/2 t ground black pepper 1/2 t salt 3 T olive oil

Potato, corn and pepper frittata

• Preheat oven to 180 degrees.

• Cook bacon in a heavy ovenproof pan over moderate heat.

• Transfer bacon with a slotted spoon to paper towels to drain, reserving fat in pan.

• While bacon is browning, pat chicken dry and season with salt and pepper.

• Brown chicken in fat, turning over once, about 8 minutes total.

Transfer chicken with tongs to paper towels to drain.

• • Pour off all but 3 tablespoons fat from pan and reduce heat to moderate.

• Cook onions in pan, until golden brown, about 10 minutes.

Stir tomatoes and juice into onions and boil, uncovered, 3 minutes, • to concentrate juices slightly. Stir in bacon and beans and bring to a simmer.

• Put chicken, skin side up, in beans and bake, uncovered, 30 minutes.

SIMPLE

LIBRA (Sep 24th Oct 23rd) If you are someone who enjoys a role that helps people practically or are a caring friend, you can come up with some ingenious ideas. Yet there is a thin line between this and getting trapped in a situation where your goodwill is abused or you feel you can’t say no. Then again, you can feel drained by the constant demands of work or heavy situations.

SCORPIO (Oct 24th - Nov 22nd) You can be very sensitive now. If you go on a new date, the mood music and the atmosphere between you can be very romantic. You may even be able to get into this kind of mindset in an existing tie.

Yet if you spend time with someone who is earthier and prefers more prosaic conversation, you may find their grittier take on life hard going.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 23rd - Dec 21st) You are someone with quite firm views but it may be difficult to be so forthright over the next days. The reason is that Neptune, the planet of illusion, is being passed by Mercury, the planet of talk and thought. The problem is that neither is in a very chatty location. This can see you pondering life more but also suffering with some self-doubt or confusion.

SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD Phone Enquiries: 308 6173 LD Online Enquiries: mcgregorrealestate.co.nz/appraisals.htm SO SOLD SOLD

“It’s why more people are choosing McGregors”

CAPRICORN (Dec 22nd - Jan 20th) You can express yourself in quite a lyrical way now. Even if you don’t see yourself as anything other than a regular type of communicator, you can finesse your message if you want to make a point and this can help you in any situation where goodwill is key. However, it is also important to be honest in your approach and say what you mean.

AQUARIUS (Jan 21st - Feb 19th) The next few days are a time when anything concerning your values can seem a little hazy. If you are someone who tends to be very firm in what you will or will not do, this will have less effect.

However, it is important that you don’t get subtly manipulated by anyone over money or possessions. Keep your boundaries strong and be cautious.

PISCES (Feb 20th Mar 20th) As Mercury enters your sign, as it just has for you, ordinarily plans that have been on the backburner can start to power forwards. Yet because your dreamy ruler Neptune lies in wait, it may be harder than usual to be clear about what you want or how you feel. It may be best to accept that certain situations and your responses to them can be fluid.

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Your next job • Your next house • Your next car • Your next event • Your next purchase • Your next sale To place an ad, call 307-7900 or classifieds@theguardian.co.nz

Noticeboard Business Studies TiMETABlE - Semester 1, 2013

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TENdER fOR Ex TERIOR pAINTINg

YOuTh COuNCIl 2013

Balmoral hall, Corner Cass and Cameron Street, Ashburton

ARE YOu REAdY TO MAKE ChANgE?

The Ashburton District Council seeks tenders for the exterior painting of the Balmoral Hall.

The Ashburton Youth Council is a diverse group of young leaders committed to making a difference for youth in Ashburton District.

The work involves the water blasting, sanding and painting of the exterior walls. Tender documents may be obtained from the Receptionist, Ground Floor, Council Administration Building, 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton.

Tenders are to be submitted in a sealed envelope marked “Tenders Balmoral Hall – Exterior Painting� and are to be either posted or placed in the Council tender box at the Administration Building before the closing time of 4:00pm Tuesday 19 February 2013.

Chief Executive Ashburton District Council P O Box 94 ASHBURTON 7740

Classes start on Monday 18 February Enrol now

Lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

520 Economic Environment VC 530 organisations and Management

Tues & Thur 3.00pm - 4.45pm

Tenders will only be accepted by post or hand delivery. Emailed or faxed tenders will not be accepted.

560 Business Communication

Tues & Thurs 1.00pm - 2.45pm

580 Principles of Tourism VC

Mon & Wed 3.00pm - 4.45pm

630 leadership VC

Wed 5.30pm - 8.15pm

633 Human resource Management VC

Mon & Wed 10.15am - 12noon

636 Applied Management

6 Saturday workshops & online

supporting your success

VC = Video Conferencing

supporting your success

AVAILABLE RENTALS 24B Grey Street Two Bedrooms Web ID AS478 $310 per week 2 / 14 Allens Road Two Bedrooms Web ID AS476 $230 per week 85 Grey Street Two Bedrooms Web ID AS482 $290 per week 468 Longbeach Road Three Bedrooms Web ID AS480 $290 per week 162 Alford Forest Rd Two Bedrooms Web ID AS483 $280 per week 67 Creek Road Three Bedrooms Web ID AS484 $350 per week 30 Oxford Street Three Bedrooms $320 per week 1 / 349 Burnett Street Two Bedrooms $260 per week 49 Princes Street Four Bedrooms $370 per week

References required

Michelle 027 77 66 497

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

FOR SALE

landscape supplies

ž Catherine St, Tinwald, three bedrooms, $280 per week

• Bark • Oamaru stone • Rocks • Organic compost • Sand • Screened soil • Home deliveries available Plus much more FREE loan trailer available!

From a shovel load to a trailer load.

Dobson Street West Ph: 307 8302

ž William St, Central, three bedrooms, $310 per week

Hours: Mon-Fri: 7.30am - 5pm Sat: 7.30am - 12 noon

Rentals ž Philip St, Allenton, two bedrooms, $300 per week ž Grigg St, Allenton, three bedrooms, $320 per week

ž Fords Rd, Willowby, five bedrooms, short term, $350 per week inc some power.

Please call Penny at Property Brokers on 307 9194 Website www.propertybrokers.co.nz Please see our TradeMe listings Property Brokers Hastings McLeod Limited Licensed Under the REAA 2008

FOR SALE

GARDENING WIND KNOCKING THOSE PLANTS AROUND????

Come see us for the largest/cheapest stake selection in town. Also made to order raised vegetable garden planter boxes ADAMS SAWMILLING, Malcolm McDowell Road, Ph 308-3595. Mon-Fri 7am5.30pm, Sat 8am-12noon.

Eftpos available.

HIRE

ClOSuRE Of ROA dS TO ORdINARY VEhICul AR TR AffIC Pursuant to the Transport (Vehicular Traffic Road Closure) Regulations 1965, notice is hereby given that for the purpose of allowing the Mid Canterbury Newcomers Network to hold the Multicultural Bite festival and the Ashburton Business Association to hold Waitangi on East the following roads will be closed to ordinary vehicular traffic (with the exception of emergency vehicles) for the period indicated hereunder.

Roads to be closed: • EAST STREET, from Cameron Street to Havelock Street, Ashburton from 7:00 am until 6.00 pm • EAST STREET, from Havelock Street to Moore Street (including the Havelock/East St intersection) from 8.00 am until 5.00 pm • BURNETT STREET, from East Street to 230 Burnett Street from 8.00 am until 5.00 pm • TANCRED STREET, from East Street to Cass Street from 8.00 am until 5.00 pm

GENERAL hire.

Lawnmowers, chainsaws, concrete breakers, trailers, and more.

All your DIY / contracting work, Call and see U-Hire Ashburton. 588 East Street.

Open Mon-Fri 7.30 - 5.30pm; Sat 7.30am - 5.00pm; SunDOES your kitchen smell day 8am - 12.30pm. – Ph: like last night’s dinner? 308 8061 A/h: 308 7460 *Prices Chefs Candles Back www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz in stock. Eliminate kitchen odours from $12.00. Kitchen MEETINGS, EVENTS Kapers, in The Arcade.

MEETING REMINDER DRY cracked feet? Try Ashburton Highland and Linden Leaves Footcare National Dancing massage cream and foot Committee scrub. Treat yourself. The AGM ACCOMMODATION, China Shop in The Arcade.

Wednesday the 20 February RENTAL 7.30pm 40 Farm Road AN A frame, tidy, four GET in early. Dry firewood Ashburton bedroom home to rent. $170 per load. Ph 027-439ALL WELCOME 5 Kermode Street. Available 9322. end of February. Phone 308MOTORING 2650.

WANTED to rent: three four bedroom house with sleepout. Long term. No pets, don’t smoke. Good references. Prefer outskirts Ashburton.

Anything considered. Phone 303-7160 or 027-712-6694.

SPRINK-Professional quality baking spray. You will love it as we do! Giant 500g can only $21.00.

Kitchen Kapers, in The Arcade.

WEDDING gift to buy? We have an extensive collection of crystal for the happy couple. Give a gift to treasure - vases, bowls, jugs, glasses and platters. The China Shop in The Arcade.

ZIERA shoes still available at Style Footwear in the FRISKY Fillies. In/out calls. Arcade. New winter styles in Sensual massages.

New store now. ladies welcome. Phone 021565-126.

GARAGE SALES

FOR SALE $99 SHOE sale on now at CLEAN out your garage, by Style Footwear in advertising your garage sale the Arcade. Selected styles in the Ashburton Guardian . – Phone 307-7900. only, so be in quick.

BUYER of unwanted animals.

Cattle, bobby calves, horse and all farm animals. We also sell pet food. Call Nick’s Pet Food 0272-101-621 A/H 03-3227626.

URGENTLY wanted by a mature rider, paddock for one horse.

Prefer Hinds/Tinwald area.

Consider anywhere. Please phone 027-486-6466.

If you identify hedge or tree trimmings in a stockwater race (for which you are not responsible), please contact Council Customer Services on 307 7700.

Ashburton district Water Supplies - Change To Water Restrictions

OpEN AIR fIRE CONTROl ME A SuRES

The District Council wishes to advise consumers on council operated schemes, that in accordance with the Council’s Water Restriction Management policy, a Level 2 - Time restricted alternate Days Hosing restriction as detailed below shall be in place effective from 30 January 2013.

Ashburton District Council, Open Air Fire Control Measures, Restricted Fire Season. Restricted Fire Season – Ashburton District Plains And Foothills Notice is hereby given that the part of the Ashburton Plains for which the Ashburton District Council is the Rural Fire Authority, is imposed with a RESTRICTED FIRE SEASON for the period midnight Friday 25 January 2013 until further notice.

This means that the lighting of fires in the open air in the Ashburton District is prohibited without permit except as below. A permit is required from the Department of Conservation for any fires on or within 1 km of any Crown land.

A Restricted Fire Season remains in force for the Ashburton Lakes and Rakaia Gorge area.

Exceptions During Restricted Fire Season: The following are approved activities allowed under special authority issued under Section 23 of the Forest and Rural Fires Act 1977: • • • •

Gas fuelled barbeques lit in properly constructed containers and gas cookers.

Hangis (subject to specific conditions).

Fires lit in fully enclosed drums (subject to specific conditions).

The burning of agricultural crop residues, stubble or straw (subject to specific conditions).

Full information is available on the Ashburton District Council website at www.ashburtondc.govt.nz or by contacting Councils Customer Services on 307 7700 (24 hours)

Level 2 – Time restricted alternate Days Hosing Scheme

restriction

Permitted activities

for all schemes listed below

Hosing is only premitted between the hours of 6.00pm and midnight.

ashburton Hakatere Lake Hood Methven rakaia

• even numbered properties may hose on even dates • Odd numbered properties may hose on odd dates

Chertsey

• Properties located on the south-east side of Maldon Street may hose on even dates • Properties located on the north-west side of Maldon Street may hose on odd dates

• Any activity requiring water from a hose connected to the scheme supply • Operation of microspray irrigation systems • Operation of automatic irrigation systems

fairton

• Properties which have frontage to Waymouth Street or Deans Street may hose on even dates • Properties which do not have frontage to Waymouth Street or Deans Street may hose on odd dates.

Hinds

• Properties located on the south-east side of the SIMT railway may hose on even dates • Properties located on the north-west side of the SIMT railway may hose on odd dates

Mayfield

• Properties located on the south-east side of arundel rakaia Gorge road may hose on even dates • Properties located on the north-west side of arundel rakaia Gorge road may hose on odd dates

Mount Somers

• Properties which have frontage to Pattons road may hose on even dates • Properties which do not have frontage to Pattons road may hose on odd dates

D GeDDeS, Principal rural fire Officer

SpORT NEW ZE Al ANd RuR Al TR AVEl fuNd Sport New Zealand provides funding to the Ashburton District Council for the Rural Travel Fund. This year just over $12,000 is available to distribute.

The purpose of the Rural Travel Fund is to assist with travel expenses of junior sports teams in rural communities to participate in regular, local sporting competition. It is open to rural sports clubs and rural school teams with young people aged between 5-19 years. • • • •

NOTe: Hosing is not permitted at any time on the Dromore and Winchmore water supplies and the Methven Springfield and Montalto piped stockwater schemes.

For the purpose of travel to regional or national events To individuals For training costs or one off events

r S rOuSe, Operations Manager

Application forms and criteria are available from the Council’s website www.ashburtondc.govt.nz/community/ funding+grants and from the Council office.

For further information please contact Council on 307 7700 ApplICATIONS ClOSE ThuRSdAY 28 fEBRuARY 2013

5 baring Square West, ashburton 7700

PLANTS, PRODUCE

LUCERNE hay, med sq $60 + GST. Con. bales $5 to $7 + GST. Good leaf and colour.

Rakaia Ph 03 960 2335 be in before the drought.

potatoes.

Osprey.

WANTED old 4WDs, Utes, NEW Trucks, Cars. Cash paid, A Brown. Phone 308-5972. de-reg, crashed, mechanical problems, etc. Call or text 027-238-8202.

PEACHES, apricots, nectarines, plus lots more.

WHEEL Alignments at great Waitangi Day at Geraldine prices. Maximise the life of Orchard Farm Shop and your tyres with an alignment Cafe. 56 Main North Road, from Neumanns Tyre Ser- Geraldine. 03-693-9514. vices Ltd, 197 Wills Street. – Phone 308-6737.

RURAL TRADING POST

LIVESTOCK, PETS

Please attend to any requests from ranger staff to clean races in a timely way. Bylaw Enforcement Notices may be issued for races that do not comply with maintenance requirements of the Water Race Bylaw.

b Lester, Chief executive Officer

Better in Blue

THREE bedroom (master with ensuite) home with single garage, to rent.

Heat pump, off street parking. References required. Available February 27. Phone/text 021-033-5870.

When undertaking hedge or tree trimming adjacent to a Council water race, all trimmings are to be removed as the work is carried out. Trimmings left in the race can create blockages and may reduce the availability of stockwater for downstream customers.

WATER RESTRIC TIONS

It will be an offence under the above regulations for any person otherwise than under authority of an authorised permit to use the roads for ordinary vehicular traffic during the period of closure.

Sport New Zealand guidelines state funding shall not be provided:

for sale or hire, ex shipping: general and insulated. Sidelifter available for delivery. – Wilson Bulk Transport, Phone 308-7772.

CONTAINERS

STOCK WATER R ACES - hEdgE ANd TREE TRIMMINgS Council wishes to remind stockwater customers that races are to be kept clean with water flowing at all times. Throughout the year, Council water rangers closely monitor the standard of race maintenance in the network.

b Lester, Chief executive Officer

• Wednesday 6 February 2013

www.aoraki.ac.nz ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

Officer for enquiries – John Rooney, Property Manager

Date of Closure:

0800 426 725

If you would like to represent Ashburton youth in the decision making process for youth issues, build your leadership skills and help improve your community, then Ashburton Youth Council needs you.

Further information and application forms are available on the Council website www.ashburtondc.govt.nz or by contacting Council on 03 307 7700

4 Saturday workshops & on-line

602 Management Accounting VC Tues & Thurs 5.30pm - 7.15pm

We are looking for young leaders aged 15 – 24 with energy and passion to be the voice for their peers in 2013.

Applications for the Youth Council close 15 February 2013.

501 Accounting Practices

Mon & Wed 1.00pm - 2.45pm

06 february 2013

PO box 94, ashburton 7740

p (03) 307 7700

E info@adc.govt.nz

www.ashburtondc.govt.nz

ENTERTAINMENT

Ashburton Society of Arts

Summer Show

Opening Sat 9th Feb 2013 Continuing for nine weeks Mon, Wed, Sat – 10am - 2pm

TRADES, SERVICES We currently have funds available to distribute in grants for the following purposes in the Canterbury area: • Research, treatment, provision of equipment in relation to, and the education and training of skilled persons relative to, the disease of cancer. • Research, development, education for, training and expansion of, the science and practice of agriculture.

PLUS ART FAIR

• The needs of young people who suffer physical or mental disabilities or have less chance in life than their peers.

Framed & unframed art, craft, books & magazines.

Applications close at 5pm, Friday, February 22, 2013.

For further information and application forms, please contact:

Sat 9th – One day only! 10am – 4pm Surplus art materials & equipment, picture frames and many more interesting items

At The Short Street Studio

Enquiries phone Ngaio 308 4533 or Lyndsay 302 3898

TENDERS PEASTRAW - for sale, small conventional bales. Pick-up from paddock, $3 per bale. TEMPORARY fence panels Delivered, $4 per bale. for sale. New stock just Wakanui area. Ph: 302-3857. landed. Highest quality, sharp prices. Enquiries and orders Ph. 027-497-7444.

View: SAWDUST-SAWDUSTSAWDUST. Beat the calf temporaryfencesales.co.nz shed rush - summer special $10m3 plus GST ex yard ADAMS SAWMILLING, Malcolm McDowell Road, Ph 308-3595, Mon-Fri 7am5.30pm, Sat 8am-12 noon. phone 307 7900

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FREE quotes 20 years local service.

Bill Breukelaar phone 0800-368-468 www.tintawindow.co.nz HOME handyman available.

Minor repairs, painting etc.

Ph 027-677-1952.

The Secretary Mackenzie Charitable Foundation C/- Croys Ltd Level 2 161 Burnett Street PO Box 582 Ashburton 7740 Phone 03 308 8353 Email mcf@croys.co.nz

Want to sell your car?

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TRADES, SERVICES SUN CONTROL WINDOW TINTING, UV, heat, privacy etc. Vehicles - Homes Commercial. Phone your only local applicator Craig Rogers 307-6347, member of Master Tinters NZ.

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OFFERS OVER $390,000 $539,000 DEADLINE SALE OFFERS OVER $390,000 SALE MISSDEADLINE SALE DON'T BRAND NEW YOU WANTPICTURE DON'T MISS OUT PICTURE PERFECT MISS OUT $539,000 OFFERSALL OVER $390,000 DEADLINEDEADLINE SALE DON'T DEADLINE SALE ALL YOUPICTURE WANT PERFECT PERFECT OUT

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WEB ID AU27829 WESTSIDE 86 Alford Forest Road A good solid three bedroom home situated in handy Allenton location.

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WEB ID AU28818 TINWALD 33 Buckleys Terrace Uninterrupted views tranquil Hastings McLeod Ltd Licensed under the Real Estate rural Agents Acton 2008 Buckleys Terrace. Spacious open plan living catching all day sun is a real feature here. Enjoy sitting in the pretty $539,000 sheltered outdoor area with attractive plantings. Well fenced for security. Gas WEB ID AU27246A fire will keep you cosy and warm on the EASTSIDE coldest of days.

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WESTSIDE 71 Pages Road Delightfully private sunny home in established well planted garden on westside close to park. Three double bedrooms with loads of storage, master with ensuite. Fourth bedroom or office.

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TINWALD 33 Buckleys Terrace Uninterrupted rural views on tranquil Buckleys Terrace. Spacious open plan living catching all day sun is a real feature here. Enjoy sitting in the pretty sheltered outdoor area with attractive plantings. Well fenced for security. Gas fire will keep you cosy and warm on the coldest of days.

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WEB ID AU28695 WEB ID AU28549 TINWALD WESTSIDE 36A Johnstone Street 49 Havelock Street A townhouse with just a bit extra giving Spacious two bedroom front a good indoor outdoor flow. Two standalone townhouse located handy double bedrooms, open plan living to town. Roomy living areas. Double area, attached garage with internal garage, nice section with good indoor access. Attractively presented and outdoor flow. Deadline Sale Closing currently tenanted.

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10.45am. M.S.A. T’AI CHI CLUB. Qigong exercises, newcomers welcome. M.S.A. Social hall, Havelock Street.

1.30pm. SENIOR NET ASHBURTON INC. Annual General Meeting, all welcome. Card Room, M.S.A. Havelock Street.

7.30pm. GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Old time/sequence dancing. learn to dance. All welcome. Pipe band hall, creek Road.

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WEB ID AU28813 WESTSIDE 13 Kelvin Crescent If where you live is important this 3 bedroom home may suit perfectly. Well respected Allenton Crescent, handy to all schools and shopping amenities. The bright living areas flow well with immediate access to outdoor living.

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Harcourts is a leading real estate franchise company with over 800 NESTLED AWAY offices and 5,000 team members across 10 countries. Our total business focus is on quality people, professional training and building genuine relationships with our clients. This philosophy and the way in which it is realised has become a benchmark for the industry.

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WEB ID AU28813 WESTSIDE 13 Kelvin Crescent If where you live is important this 3 bedroom home may suit perfectly. Well respected Allenton Crescent, handy to all schools and shopping amenities. The bright living areas flow well with immediate access to outdoor living.

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We are a family owned business with a family feel and focused on giving our customers our very best.

• Possess outstanding customer service skills • Exercise honesty and fairness in all areas • Have an outstanding of the importance of One Team • The ability to strive for excellence • Good computing skills are needed as well as an interest in DIY and decorating would be an advantage but not essential.

Some weekend work will apply.

This is a good opportunity for the right person to be part of a great team and make a contribution to a growing business.

Please forward your c.v and covering letter to: HR.Ashburton@mitre10.co.nz or post to P.O. Box 35, Ashburton. 7740.

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Selection is not based on age nor gender but rather on potential to learn and deliver The Harcourts Way to the highest standard.

Harcourts is seeking hardworking and dedicated people wishing to make their first step into an exciting and challenging career in real estate.

When: Monday 18th February 2013 at 6.30pm Where: Longbeach Room, BNZ Bank Ashburton 304 East Street, Ashburton

Places are limited so register NOW by phoning Natalie Harris on (03) 308-6497 or email your name and contact details to natalie.harris@harcourts.co.nz

To promote your business in any of the Ashburton Guardian products, call me now

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03 307 7975 021 892 425

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the right person who has:• A solid accounting background • A sound knowledge of day to day office operations • Strong written and verbal communication skills • High proficiency in computer literacy skills, word processing and transcription • Outstanding time management and organisation skills • Ability to work as a team player and unsupervised • Dedication to client service

If you are the person we are looking for, please send your CV to:

Full Time Produce Assistant

Amicus Legal PO Box 15 Ashburton 7740

We require a person to join the team in our Produce Department at our supermarket.

Closing date: Monday 11 February 2013

Days and hours will be:

General Engineering Labourer

12.00 pm – 8.00 pm 12.00 pm – 8.00 pm 8.00 am – 5.00 pm 8.00 am – 5.00 pm 3.00 am – 12.00 pm

PMR Grain Systems specialise in the supply and installation of grain handling equipment to both farms and commercial operations.

Clean and tidy presentation, good communication skills and reliable work habits are essential.

If you enjoy working as part of a friendly team in a positive workplace, and you think this role may suit you - apply to: H R Manager Ashburton New World P O Box 444 Ashburton 7700 Or e-mail to: donalda.hartley@newworld-si.co.nz Applications close: 17th February, 2013

For further information please contact our advertising team on 307 7974

We are currently looking to recruit a keen person who has either experience in welding/fabricating or a relevant Level 2 or above qualification would be preferable. You will be expected to work at heights and must be prepared to stay away from home on occasions.

Please send your CV and covering letter to:PMR Grain Systems 2 John Street, Hinds Ashburton 7773 Or email: steve@pmr.org.nz

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TUARANGI HOME (Cameron Street) — DAILY, unrestricted ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY medical services visiting.

Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192. Saturday 10am-1 pm; HML ( Homecare Medical Limited) - Ring 0800 700 155 ASHBURTON REST HOMES: Sunday 1pm – 4 pm for FREE 24 hour health advice.

COLDSTREAM HOUSE — DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

COMMUNITY POOL WEEKEND HOURS CAMERON COURTS — DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

DUTY DOCTORS Hours: Sat & Sun 7am - 7pm.

PRINCES COURT — DAILY, unrestricted visiting.

This service is for emergency medical care only. Please remember your Community Services Card.

EMERGENCY DENTIST ASHBURTON MUSEUM Sealy Street Medical Practice, will be the duty practice for If you do not have or cannot contact your regular dentist, please Baring Square East, Ashburton. Phone 308 3167 Waitangi Day, Wednesday, February 6 until 8am Thursday. They phone 027 683 0679 for the name of the rostered weekend Open Saturday and Sunday 1pm - 4pm will hold surgery from 10am until 12noon and from 6pm until dentist in Christchurch. Hours 9am-5pm, Saturdays, Sundays Closed Statutory Holidays only.

7pm. No appointment necessary. Surgery phone 308 1212. and Public Holidays.

Groups by arrangement - phone 308 3167 Emergency phone until 8am Thursday 0800 700 155.

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ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE and emergency details please phone Methven 302 8105. For Mon - Fri 6pm medical attention during Waitangi Day there are drop in clinics Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or 027 857 2133 or FAST POST: from 11am - 12noon and 5pm - 6pm. visit www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.nz for more information. STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT provide an accident and If you want to drink that’s your business, if you want to stop emergency service. Except in cases of emergency persons that’s ours. requiring medical attention must consult their own or the duty MENTAL HEALTH - Call free on 0800 222 955. Ask general practitioner. Persons subsequently requiring treatment for the Crisis Team. at Ashburton Hospital must have a general practitioners referral note.

SAFE CARE - ~ 24 hour rape and sexual assault crisis support. Phone 03 364 8791 PHARMACIES

Wises Pharmacy, Countdown Complex, East Street, will VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP ~ 24 hour number be open on Waitangi Day from 10am until 12 noon and again - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 846) - direct dials to from 6pm till 7pm in the evening. a volunteer. Ashburton office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - 2pm - outside of these hours leave a message on answerHOSPITAL VISITING HOURS phone.

ASHBURTON HOSPITAL GENERAL WARDS — (Medical and Surgical): DAILY, 2pm ALCOHOL DRUG HELPLINE - Call us free on until 4pm & 6pm until 7.30pm. Children must be accompanied (0800 787 797). Lines open 10am - 10pm seven days. by an adult.

LIFELINE - Toll-Free Number: 0800 353 353 CHALMERS WARD (including Assessment, Treatment & community services Rehabilitation Unit) — OPEN VISITING. MATERNITY WARD — DAILY, 10am - 8pm. Husbands and ART GALLERY patient’s own children may visit the patient from 7am - 10pm. Phone 308 1133. Saturday and Sunday 10am - 4pm.

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Excellence is required in the following: People skills Attention to detail, Ability to multi task Ability to work to deadlines, Computer skills

For any enquiries and a copy of the job description please contact President David Bennett phone 302 3720 or visit: www.ashburtonshow.co.nz If this sounds like you then please forward your confidential application along with your CV and References to: David Bennett 1272 Beach Road 7RD ASHBURTON 7777 d.mbennett@farmside.co.nz Applications close February 8, 2013 .

WESTSIDE 2 Reflection Place This home is part of the well established Coniston Waters subdivision. Four bedroom home plus office or extra bedroom, three car garaging, ensuite off master bedroom, large dining, living and kitchen area with separate lounge.

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This is a full-time position (8.30am to 5.00pm) with the opportunity for immediate start.

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The Ashburton A&P Association seek an enthusiastic and motivated person to fill the part time position of Association Manager (secretarial), to commence April 1, 2013.

Harcourts is focused on developing the consultants of our future, providing a quality career path and an opportunity to learn every aspect of the real estate business.

An opportunity has come up for a full time team member to join our team in Ashburton.

Mitre 10 Ashburton is a well established part of the Mitre 10 brand with stores in three locations Ashburton, Timaru and Oamaru.

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10.00am - 3.00pm. ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM, Sport Aviation Fly In, museum open. Seafield Road.

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Birthday Greetings are free for those aged 12 and under only. Free birthday greetings must be received at least two working days before date of insertion otherwise there is no guarantee that it will appear on the day requested. Photos will be available at our ground floor office for collection after notice has appeared in the paper.

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9.00am-4.00pm. ASHBURTON BUDGET ADVISORY SERVICE INC. For free budget advice and workshop enquiries. Phone 307-0496. 60 Cass Street Consultancy House.

9.30am. LINE DANCE JEAN. Low impact line dance. Balmoral hall, Cameron Street.

9.30am. M.S.A. T’AI CHI CLUB. Beginners class, newcomers welcome. M.S.A. Social Hall, Havelock Street.

9.30am - 11.30pm. MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON CLUB. Daytime section, new players very welcome. Sports Hall, Tancred Street.

10.00am. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Fit Kidz, 48 Allens Rd.

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WEB ID AU28813 WEB ID AU28695 WESTSIDE TINWALD 13 Kelvin Crescent 36A Johnstone Street If where you live is important this 3 A townhouse with just a bit extra giving bedroom home may suit perfectly. Well a good indoor outdoor flow. Two respected Allenton Crescent, handy todouble bedrooms, open plan living all schools and shopping amenities. The area, attached garage with internal bright living areas flow well with access. Attractively presented and immediate access to outdoor living. currently tenanted.

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10.00am. WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Tasmania doubles 10-12, assn doubles and golf croquet 1pm4pm. Waireka Croquet Club, the domain, Philip Street.

10.00am - 4.00pm. ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, non members welcome. Upstairs in the Old Polytech Building, 254 Cameron Street. (closed Waitangi Day).

10.00am - 7.00pm. ASHBURTON ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM Open, Baring Square East. (closed today).

10.00am - 3.00pm. ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM, Classic aircraft on display in Heritage hanger RNZAF Aermacchi RAF Harrier GR3. Seafield Road.

11.00am. MID CANTERBURY LADIES PROBUS CLUB. “Movie” Les Miserables. Regent Cinema, Wills Street.

11.00am. MULIT CULTURAL BITE. Cultural performing arts and food stalls. East Street in front of Clock Tower.

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WEB ID AU28549 WEB ID AU27829 WESTSIDE WESTSIDE 49 Havelock Street 86 Alford Forest Road Spacious two bedroom front A good solid three bedroom home standalone townhouse located handysituated in handy Allenton location. to town. Roomy living areas. Double Partly upgraded including aluminium garage, nice section with good indoorwindow joinery and replaced long run outdoor flow. Deadline Sale Closing iron roof plus potential to further Thursday 7th February. enhance.

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WEB ID AU27829 WESTSIDE 86 Alford Forest Road A good solid three bedroom home situated in handy Allenton location.

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POST DELIVERY CENTRES — Allenton: Mon - Fri 5pm Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm Methven: Mon - Fri 4.30pm Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS — Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm

In the event of medical or accident emergencies DIal 111 REFUSE, RECYCLABLES AND RESOURCE RECOVERY PARKS The Ashburton and Rakaia Resource Recovery Parks and the Methven Greenwaste and Inorganic material drop off facility will be closed on Waitangi Day. Rubbish and recycling scheduled to be collected on Wednesday, February 6 will be collected on Thursday, February 7 instead.

animal services

DOG, STOCK & NOISE CONTROL - 24 hour

service, phone Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700.

MID CANTERBURY SPCA WEEKEND EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER: All enquiries Inspector John Keeley, 308 4432 or 0274 342 646

MID CANTERBURY ANIMAL SHELTER Contact (cats) Andrea 021 892 939 or (dogs) Dawn 021 828 350

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CANTERBURY VETS - Phone 307 0686, West Street Clinic, Main Road, Methven. The duty vet for emergencies on Watangi Day is: Steve Williams.

ASHBURTON SELWYN RAKAIA VET SERVICES – Phone 307 8565, 16 Mitcham Rd, RD2, Ashburton. The duty vet for INFORMATION CENTRES emergencies on Watangi Day is: Large: Ben Hallenstein. Full ASHBURTON — Sat 10am until 2pm. Sun CLOSED. emergency service.

Public holidays from 10am until 2pm. Phone 308-1050.

VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Phone 307 5195, cnr East Street and METHVEN — Saturday and Sunday 10am until 3pm. Phone Smithfield Road. The duty vets for emergencies on Watangi Day 302-8955 or methven@i-site.org are: Large: Jane Sykes. Small: Ciprian Verdes.

VET ENT RIVERSIDE - Phone 308 2321, 1 Smallbone Drive.

BUS DEPARTURES Reservations and timetables, 24-hour service. Freephone for The duty vets for emergencies on Watangi Day are: Large: reservations: 0800 802 802. BUSES — Southbound: 9.30am, Catherine Hayward. Small: refer to CARE VETS. Full emergency service all day.

3.20pm. Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

CARE VETS - Ph 308 2327, 246 Tancred Street. The duty vet for emergencies on Watangi Day is: Robert Muir.

Sales / Business Planning Assistant Manager We are a tourist retail store based in Ashburton. As a business planner you will use your skills and experience to develop strategies to grow the business and increase revenue. You will be involved in planning, forecasting and reporting. You will also lead, mentor and train our current sales team in order to drive sales forward and achieve targets. At least 2 years experience in a similar role is required, as is experience in managing people, a dynamic personality and the ability to speak Mandarin / Taiwanese and English , as you will be liaising with overseas agents.

Purchasing Officer and Sales Assistant We are currently seeking for an experienced Purchasing officer / Sales Assistant. You will be responsible for purchasing and receiving products and inventory management. You will also analyse product trends and order stock accordingly to help increase sales. For this, you will also be required to assist in the retail store, and perform sales promotions. The applicant should have at least 2 years experience in a purchasing role, and knowledge of the overseas market is an advantage. The ability to speak Mandarin is also required as our customers are predominately overseas tourists.

Please send your CV to jobs@farmerscorner.co.nz or to: The Manager Farmers Corner Ltd Cnr Longbeach Rd & S.H 1 Ashburton

Quarry Plant Operator Permanent Full-time Mt Alford

Mt Alford Quarry is a limestone quarry operation located in Alford Forest, Mid-Canterbury and is one of three Rorisons RMD Limited quarries supporting the agricultural industry.

We are seeking an enthusiast and energetic person to join our Mt Alford Quarry team.

To be a successful candidate for this role, it is essential you have a ‘can do’ attitude and are keen and willing to learn.

You must be hard working and reliable. You must also be a team player who is able to work well independently.

Experience in operating heavy machinery and a basic understanding of things mechanical is essential.

You must have a current drivers licence.

Please apply in writing and enclose your CV to: jobvacancy@rorisons.co.nz or

Leading specialist outsourced sanitation provider requires a Leading Hand for cleaners for night shift work 5-6 days a week at an export meat processing facility in the Ashburton region.

You will need to be committed to delivering quality work performance each shift.

Process cleaning experience preferable but not essential as full training will be provided.

Must have reliable transport.

Contact: Andre Beukes on (027) 700 8870 or email andre.biogiene@gmail.com or Faried Jamodien on 021 934 060 or email faried@biogiene.co.nz

Part time Bistro Cook/Kitchen Assistant Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday evenings.

5pm -8pm With the opportunity of more hours at times.

Some experience preferred.

Apply Back Again Bistro RSA Ashburton Phone 027 255 9155

Relief Milker Required 780 cows New 60 bail rotary Full milking and wash down required Located at Lauriston

Contact Bernie

027 281 4755

Experienced Carpenter, Hammer Hand

required for new builds, alterations, renovations and repair work.

Immediate start.

Please phone Warren On: 027 438 3337.

Ashburton Club & MSA We have vacancies for part-time bar staff.

Available to work evenings and weekends.

Please contact: Simon McDonnell ph 308-7149

simon@ashburtonclub.co.nz

Operations Manager PO Box 4139 Mount Maunganui South Applications close on Monday 15th February 2013.

Successful applicants will be required to pass a preemployment medical and drugs screen.

Greenkeeper Waireka Croquet Club (Inc) invite applications for the position of Greenkeeper to maintain our Croquet greens area situated in the Ashburton Domain, Philip Street.

Wanted the right person for the job

The contract would involve at least twice weekly mowing through the season and possibly further aspects of green keeping to keep out grounds to the high standard they are now. The successful applicant would need their own mower.

Would interested parties please apply in writing to: Waireka Croquet Club C/- The Secretary Mrs Sue Lamb 49 Short Street Ashburton 7700 Or email twolambs@slingshot.co.nz Applications close Tuesday, February 12, 2013.

Motor Mechanic Or Service Person Motor Mechanic or Service Person required for a busy workshop to work on a wide range of cars, light commercials and boats. * Must have current drivers licence * Work well with others * Maintain a high standard of workmanship * Able to work with minimum supervision

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Advertising Sales Support & Administration We are seeking a star quality person to join our team. This is a new role which will involve all areas of support for our Sales Reps and the Sales Manager. The customer services portion of the role will complement the sales team and will incorporate everything from processing advert bookings, providing clients with pricing and general information covering all aspects of advertising media that we offer. This role will suit someone who has worked in a fast paced sales environment previously and is used to working to strict deadlines and budgets.

The successful candidate will have the following attributes and skills: • Well presented as client meetings may be required • Well spoken, easily understood telephone manner • Excellent written English for proofing adverts and editorial • Computer literacy, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, In design (preferred not essential) • Attention to detail and accuracy • Team player with strong work ethic • Customer focused • Enthusiastic and self motivated The role involves: • Advert bookings • Customer pricing support • Support for sales reps and Sales Manager • Customer data base maintenance • Liaising with the production team to ensure adverts are proofed prior to print deadlines To succeed in this role you must be a team player, able to prioritise your work load and be extremely customer focused. You will take pride in delivering excellent customer outcomes and superior customer service every time. We require someone willing to go above and beyond when required – not a clock watcher.

You will be keen to learn and improve performance and procedures, be proactive and self-motivated and thrive in a busy advertising sales environment. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential.

This exciting opportunity offers good prospects for advancement as ideally we would look to employ someone who can grow with the company and with a good knowledge of the advertising industry would in time have the ability to progress to an sales representative position.

If the above role sounds like your kind of challenge then you should apply in writing, with confidence, to:- Desme Daniels Sales Manager Ashburton Guardian 03 307 7974 Closing date for applications is Friday 15th February

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8.30 Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark.

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MOTORING

ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Kate’s a convert but most of their trips were on bikes.

Time went on and their bikes were replaced by cars, but the bikes were not forgotten.

In recent years Doc, encouraged by Kate, decided to take up riding again and he purchased a 1951 B.S.A. Bantam, and later he had two Suzukis.

Doc enjoyed riding, but about three years ago he decided the time was right to look at other options.

As in all he did Doc approached the idea of finding a replacement in a very methodical way.

After two years Doc had narrowed the search down.

There were two finalists; the red Lexus convertible won.

Kate and Doc knew straight away they had made the right choice, but sadly Doc didn’t get to enjoy driving the car for long.

But looking back, Kate knows the car had given him pleasure from the day he started thinking about a replacement for the bikes.

Doc enjoyed the thrill of the chase just as much as bagging the prize.

This prize was well worth the chase.

A Lexus convertible is a lovely car to own, Kate’s enjoyment has been enhanced because of the story behind its purchase.

So what are the other features which appeal to Kate?

Well the style, the finish, the understated refinement, the comfort, the peppy motor, all come into it.

So does the incredibly easy to operate retractable roof, which offers the option of hardtop or open top motoring at the push of a button.

And then there’s the multi disc CD changer, ideally to suited to Kate who has an eclectic taste in music ranging from medieval chants to

Above: Kate at the wheel of her beloved Lexus Convertible.

Left: Plush interior as befitting a luxury sports car.

modern popular music.

They all sound great in the Lexus!

The car, which has a V8 power plant driving the rear wheels through a superb automatic with manual option gearbox, combines sportiness with creature comforts; driver and passengers are cocooned in leather and maple surroundings.

Kate has always enjoyed driving and she has always noticed, liked and appreciated nice cars.

During their childhood Kate and her family often joined another family for lazy hazy childhood summer days spent swimming in the Selwyn River; they went in a series of new Bentleys.

“Not bad transport for getting

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to a swimming hole,” says Kate.

In the years since Kate has owned some other cars which have been pretty nice too.

But the “little red car” is unique because it’s fun to drive and very special to own.

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Kate Syme says when it comes to the technical details she is not a “car person”.

But when it comes to other aspects, there is no question about it: Kate knows what she likes about cars.

She really likes her “little red car” and it’s easy to understand why.

The journey to getting her convertible stretches back several decades, and in part Kate has it because of motorbikes.

Kate’s so called “little red car” is a 2002 Lexus, it’s not really all that little, but it is red.

Obviously there is quite a difference between a motorbike and a Lexus convertible, in fact they probably don’t have a lot in common apart from the fact that both provide the opportunity for open air motoring.

So what did motorbikes have to do with Kate getting her car?

This is where the story goes back several decades, back to the days when Kate and her late husband Doc were courting.

In those days Doc had motorbikes, and he and Kate went places on them.

Occasionally they borrowed a car from a family member,

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Right: From any angle the Lexus presents a superb sight for any motoring enthusiast.

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Nissan Pulsar returns with more for less The much-loved Nissan Pulsar name is returning to New Zealand from March 2013.

With more space, more performance, and more value than ever before.

Powered by an advanced and highly efficient 1.8-litre engine, the Pulsar sedan launches first, with the all-new hatchback following in June 2013.

Pulsar sedan will be available in two trim levels: ST and Ti. While both grades feature a stylish 16-inch alloy wheel design, the Ti sedan is differentiated with a boot-lid spoiler, front fog lights and LED accent lights, and indicator repeaters within the exterior mirrors.

On the interior, Ti features luxurious leather upholstery, and leather steering wheel, plus a colour display for the audio system.

Both ST and Ti have the added convenience of steeringwheel mounted controls for cruise control, audio system and Bluetooth handsfree phone.

The new Pulsar sedan has a longer cabin than any of its key market rivals and many midsized family vehicles, combined with an exceptional 510 litres of boot space.

The Pulsar’s long-stroke 1,798cc four-cylinder engine is equipped with twin continuously variable valve timing control (C-VTC) and develops 96kW of power and 174Nm of torque.

The Pulsar sedan is available with Nissan’s new Xtronic CVT transmission, which offers much smoother acceleration and a broader gear ratio range than a conventional automatic.

Considerable efforts have been made to reduce friction in both its engine and CVT transmission in the interest of greater fuel saving and driving comfort.

Fuel economy is rated at 6.7 litres per 100km, on the ADR combined cycle.

Despite its larger size, the new Pulsar sedan matches the best vehicles in its class for aerodynamic efficiency, with an impressive drag coefficient value of 0.30.

Pricing is as equally attractive as the Pulsar itself. The ST sedan model has a recommended retail price of $29,990 plus onroad costs, and $33,490 plus onroad costs for the Ti sedan.

Following its local launch, Pulsar will be in Nissan showrooms in the latter half of March.

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RACING

ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Wednesday, February 6, 2013

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Mufhasa to face Caulfield starter

By Caryl Williamson New Zealand champion Mufhasa has been confirmed as a starter in Saturday’s C F Orr Stakes at Caulfield.

His new trainer Bruce Wallace said the eight-year-old, which was also nominated for the Waikato Sprint at home, also over 1400 metres, would fly to Melbourne tonight.

Mufhasa, which has his name changed to King Mufhasa when he races in Australia, arrived on Wallace’s doorstep unexpectedly less than two weeks ago after his owner David Archer took his horses out of Stephen McKee’s nearby stable.

A disagreement over the employment of King Mufhasa’s strapper and track rider Amy Doran led to the transfer, and Wallace admitted he was still getting to know the 10-time Group One winner which has twice been New Zealand’s Horse of the Year.

“He came to us in great order,” Wallace said.

“He had three weeks off after his last run and we have kept the work up to him.

“We haven’t tried to do anything flash with him.

“We haven’t got any history with him and on his trackwork you wouldn’t really know.

“He doesn’t do anything spectacular in his work but I’ve gone back through the videos of his races and it’s amazing how on raceday he is a racehorse.

Jockey Michael Rodd will be re-united with King Mufhasa on Saturday “Amy rides him all the time and has been happy with him.”

Wallace is no stranger to winning Group One races in Australia but admits it has been some time with many of his better horses earmarked from an early age for the Asian market.

Inheriting a horse with King Mufhasa’s record is a two-edged sword.

“He is eight years old now and we’re not going to be able to improve him. It’s a matter of keeping him at the level he’s at,” Wallace said.

“It’s no small task to take on a horse with his record.

“I’d love him to win obviously but

I’m not sure what to expect.

“He will stay in Melbourne for the Futurity which he won last year and then possibly go to Sydney again.”

Wallace won’t make the trip to Melbourne as it clashes with his son’s engagement party and will leave the care of the horse to his right hand man, former jockey Alan Peard along with Doran who will remain with the horse in Australia.

Michael Rodd rides King Mufhasa on Saturday. Nash Rawiller, who is sidelined with injury, has ridden him to his two Australian Group One victories - the 2011 Toorak Handicap and last year’s Futurity.

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Baster riding for Waterhouse Stephen Baster makes his return to Australian racing on Sunday when he rides the Gai Waterhousetrained Power Broker in the Hobart Cup. The meeting featuring the $225,000

Cup will be the jockey’s first appearance since having his riding licence in Singapore withdrawn without explanation by the Singapore Turf Club last month.

Power Broker is one of 16 accep-

tors for the Hobart Cup (2400m) including fellow interstate entrants Fieldmaster, Hurdy Gurdy Man, Westsouthwest, and Lucky Angel.

Power Broker has barrier two.

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Amberley Trotting Club Inc Venue: Rangiora (Grass) Meeting Date: 6 Feb 2013 NZ Meeting number: 8 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 12.02pm (NZT) CAVALIER TROT PRODUCTS-NTH CANTERBURY HCP TROT $8000, 3yo+ up to 1 win spechcp trot, stand, 2600m 1 09 Freefall (1) fr..............................B Borcoskie 2 08590 Sunrise Invasion (2) fr.................. I Cameron 3 053 Contella (3) fr......................................B Ford 4 74476 Nasty Brat fr.................................. Scratched 5 3000x Sixty Plus (4) fr..........................A Tomlinson 6 07486 Joltin Joe Demagio (5) fr..............G O’Reilly 7 P0006 Last Love (6) fr........................V Atherton (J) 8 9 Barry (7) fr.................................M Edmonds 9 P7203 Armed Force (U1) fr............................ D Butt 10 14 Astrapi (1) 20...................................... A Butt 11 23100 Bim Bom Bay (2) 20.................. R Anderson 12 59453 Clifden Clowers (3) 20...................B Orange 13 14327 Sent Again (4) 20.......................M Purvis (J) 14 817x6 All Shook Up (U1) 20....................... G Smith 2 12.27pm FLAIR (CANTERBURY BRANCH) - AVON CITY FORD PACE $3000, 4yo+ non winners pace, stand, 2000m 1 0888 Bee Jay Star (1) fr.........................G O’Reilly 2 84902 Riverboat Princess (2) fr............. R Close (J) 3 0055x Fortune And Glory (3) fr...................J Curtin 4 99707 Flying Lexi (4) fr........................... J Versteeg 5 08706 Ah Van (5) fr.....................................R Curtin 6 0x2 Western Gretel (6) fr................... M DeFilippi 7 Ireby Doris (7) fr.........................C Hunter (J) 8 79994 The Vicar (8) fr................................K Barron 9 76508 Hotmamalinemypockets (9) fr.............R May 10 65994 One And Only (10) fr..........M Williamson (J) 11 0x007 Double Vision fr............................. Scratched 3 12.52pm KENNEDY HARNESS RACING STABLES MOBILE PACE $4000, 6yo+ 1 to 3 wins +claimer mob. pace, mobile, 1950m 1 190x0 Pretty Boy Floyd (1) fr.........................R May 2 35039 Escape The Fate (2) fr.......................J Dunn 3 35603 K C Pedro (3) fr...................M Williamson (J) 4 76789 Tommy Golightly (4) fr....................B Orange 5 90030 McPadden (5) fr.....................J Anderson (J) 6 32156 Oursjean (6) fr............................... R Holmes 7 60419 Storm’s Rule (7) fr............................M Jones 8 378x5 Lets Talk Art (8) fr......................K Riddell (J) 9 00077 Wot The Owl (9) fr.......................J Young (J) 10 63700 Cloudy Beach fr............................ Scratched 11 89776 Town Icon (21) fr........................ C McDowell 12 05879 Jack Frost (U1) fr......................... I Cameron 13 79356 Mullingar Mac (U2) fr.................... S McNally 4 1.27pm DAKINS RAL PLASTICS HANDICAP TROT $8000, 3yo+ up to 1 win spechcp trot, stand, 2600m 1 00423 Sunoflindenny (1) fr......................... G Smith 2 7 Elle Galleon (2) fr...............................J Dunn 3 9 The Wicket Keeper (3) fr.....................R May 4 34233 Fear The Knight (4) fr.....................T Chmiel 5 P9x40 Xmas Joy Belle (5) fr....................S McNally 6 Tui Spur (6) fr........................ M Hjalmarsson 7 x5569 Latent (7) fr......................................... D Butt 8 Sun King (8) fr........................... P Borcoskie 9 85664 Davey’s Gift (9) fr.........................C Ward (J) 10 07 Ton Tine (U1) fr.......................... R Anderson 11 30003 Whata Gamble (1) 20............... S Smolenski 12 64282 Sarah Palin (2) 20.............................P Davis 13 1x317 Millicent (3) 20..................................J Curtin 14 29731 Lavros The Great (U1) 20................... A Butt 5 2.02pm CANTERBURY BREEDERS (J BELCHER

BRED BREEDERS $50,000, WFA F&M, 1600m 1 x1311 I Do d (1) 57.................................. O Bosson 2 25245 Kekova t (8) 57.............................. L Allpress 3 81537 L’Amour dm (4) 57........................... K Myers 4 55151 Scarlet O’Hara t (11) 57................. H Tinsley 5 57604 Cosabella dm (9) 57......................... L Innes 6 16181 Denlee (10) 57...............................D Bradley 7 31710 Don’t Dilly Dally d (6) 57................. J Riddell 8 57002 Outback Girl m (5) 57..................R Hannam 9 35311 Virginia Wade (7) 57....................D Johnson 10 F1732 Jilted (2) 57........................................ M Hills 11 32150 Poetic Licence td (3) 57.............. V Johnston 12 31717 Deecruz (12) 57...............................R Myers 8 5.15pm THE MARQUIS HOTEL CARTERTON MAIDEN 1300 $7000, MDN, 1300m 1 36825 Exceeding A Dream (15) 58.5...... L Allpress 2 20x Meo (10) 58.5.................................D Walker 3 x9656 Armani Code (11) 58.5.................... K Myers 4 780x9 Littleguppy (1) 58.5............................ M Hills 5 02335 Golden Bay (2) 58 6 64404 Little Drummer Boy (8) 58........... R Hannam 7 44 Canyon (4) 58................................. J Riddell 8 0 Exemption (7) 58......................... D Johnson 9 Sir Douglas (13) 58......................B Lammas 10 02520 Skupina (3) 56.5..............................D Walsh 11 52634 Wee Jean (5) 56.5....................B Grylls (a3) 12 Twilight Doll (14) 56.5....................D Bradley 13 All Ginga h (6) 56.5................... T Baker (a4) 14 0 Tart Of Gold (9) 56.5......... J Shackleton (a3) 15 5406x Corsicana (12) 56............................R Myers Blinkers on : No Escape (R1), Pit A Pat (R2), Exceeding A Dream, Armani Code, Exemption (R8) Blinkers off : Boss Jones, Pescatore, Prohibition (R1), Mr Polo (R2), Outback Girl (R7) Winkers on : Pescatore, Prohibition (R1), Kings Court (R6) Winkers off : No Escape (R1) SELECTIONS Race 1: Revolutionary, No Escape, Handsome Ken, Pescatore Race 2: Golden Bay, Little Drummer Boy, Elusive Law Race 3: Prioritise, Irish Strings, Optimistic, Hot Rod, The Alcippe Race 4: Maranello, Ciron, Sports Coat, Sworntoperfection Race 5: Sadlers Rock, Valley Of Pentire, Celebration, Jack’s Boy Race 6: Savarhys, Kings Court, Jakob Gambino, Surreal Storm Race 7: I Do, L’Amour, Poetic Licence, Scarlet O’Hara, Kekova Race 8: Wee Jean, Golden Bay, Canyon, Little Drummer Boy

LEGACY) MBL PACE $8000, 3yo+ f&m non winners mob. pace, mobile, 1950m 1 Whyamibettor (1) fr.........................K Barron 2 54324 Tiana Franco (2) fr........................S McNally 3 0xP08 Empire State (3) fr..................... T Bagrie (J) 4 809 Twitch (4) fr.............................. C D Thornley 5 0x0 B Four Da Fire (5) fr..........................J Dunn 6 0x Newmans Jet (6) fr...............................B Hill 7 0622 Julia Bardon (7) fr...............................R May 8 95656 Rainbow Classic (8) fr................. K Cameron 9 52646 Aqua Luvvy (9) fr.......................M Edmonds 10 7494x Elegant Lustre (21) fr...................C DeFilippi 11 42 Memorable (22) fr.............................D Dunn 12 7x037 Zoerotten (23) fr.......................... S Ottley (J) 13 23345 It’s Only Me (24) fr.........................B Orange 14 00533 Knight Action (25) fr..........................P Davis 15 x3054 De Real Diva (26) fr.........................M Jones 16 27x Flickering Ember (27) fr................... G Smith Emergencies: Twitch, Newmans Jet 6 2.37pm CULLIVER & TYLER LTD (RANGIORA) PACE $9000, 3yo+ 1 win pace, stand, 2000m 1 PP645 The Empire’s Sister (1) fr......... C D Thornley 2 57678 Riverboat Gracie (2) fr...................B Weaver 3 24160 Bona Ventura (3) fr..............................R May 4 6x219 Beaver Boy (4) fr...................................B Hill 5 x0304 Crusader Courage (5) fr..................M Jones 6 58227 Shantahlia Knight (6) fr...............K Cameron 7 97991 Albie Al (7) fr................................. R Holmes 8 54923 Iwannabebig (8) fr.............................D Dunn 9 31841 Massimo (9) fr....................................J Dunn 10 9x1 Delgado (10) fr................................. G Smith 11 41050 Chloe Finn fr................................. Scratched 12 29100 Suzali Queen (11) fr.........................J Curtin 13 32782 Field Officer (12) fr..................... T Bagrie (J) 14 10973 Waikari Cash (13) fr........................ K James 15 64200 Westburn Creed (14) fr..................B Orange 16 42739 Spotafalcon (15) fr...........................W Higgs 17 8975x Majestic Lustre (16) fr 18 49703 Eyre Of Expectancy (17) fr........C Hunter (J) 19 3767P Johnny Mick (U1) fr.........................J Rogers Emergencies: Riverboat Gracie, Chloe Finn, Majestic Lustre, Johnny Mick 7 3.13pm HSW LTD ACCOUNTANTS-PROMED EDGEWARE DOCTORS PACE $8000, 3yo+ non winners pace, stand, 2600m 1 900 Panic Slowly (1) fr..........................B Orange 2 28208 Countess Vale (2) fr..........................J Curtin 3 Billythehuntedone (3) fr............... S Ottley (J) 4 3808x Sublime Lustre (4) fr........................M Jones 5 75303 Sky Ruler (5) fr............................. R Holmes 6 74725 Aces Fella (6) fr.........................M Edmonds 7 27836 Augustus Time (7) fr...........................R May 8 33357 Donna Belle (8) fr..............................J Dunn 9 97870 Hey Knowitall (9) fr.......................G O’Reilly 10 Morven Lad (10) fr................... C D Thornley 11 58222 Limitation (11) fr.........................B Borcoskie 12 0534 Midnight Mayhem (12) fr.................T Chmiel 13 59269 Riverboat Diamond (13) fr........... I Cameron 14 0x Newmans Jet (14) fr.............................B Hill 15 4 Lindennys Buttercup (15) fr.........C DeFilippi 8 3.48pm RANGIORA EQUINE SERVICES AMBERLEY CUP HCP PACE $18,000, 3 to 6 wins discrhcp pace, stand, 2600m 1 1D102 Democracy (1) fr.................M Williamson (J) 2 79328 Wonderful Tonight (2) fr..................T Chmiel 3 31323 Cam Before The Storm (3) fr.............. A Butt 4 12648 Paradise City (4) fr...................B Thomas (J) 5 22725 Jackaroo Bromac (5) fr....................W Higgs

Canterbury jockey Ryan Bishop was caught out for the second time by a breath test before a race, when he was preparing for Saturday’s meeting at Wingatui.

Bishop had a reading of 512 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath when he was tested before

the first race. Scheduled to have five rides, he was stood down for the day and suspended for five weeks after admitting the breach.

As an apprentice Bishop had the unwanted distinction of being the first jockey in New Zealand to fail an on-course breath test, at Riverton in March 2008 after stewards were given the power to breath-test riders the previous November.

Wanganui Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Hatrick Raceway Meeting Date: 06 Feb 2013 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 12.19pm ABSOLUTELY ELECTRICAL C0 C0, 305m 1 833 Steel Belt nwtd............................M Goodwin 2 8 Groovy Leo nwtd........................J McInerney 3 5853 Go Russel Go nwtd.....................J McArthur 4 3257 Hilton Friday nwtd......................J McInerney 5 44425 Knocka Off Time nwtd....................J Harland 6 65584 Yeah Nah nwtd.....................................L Udy 7 Ostapchuk nwtd................................L Ahern 8 Sarah’s Cool nwtd F &....................Turnwald 9 677x5 Jamie Baxter nwtd.....................J McInerney 10 65767 Charlie’s Pal nwtd......................J McInerney 2 12.39pm HARRISON HIRE MASTER C0 C0, 305m 1 5 Another Pizza nwtd....................J McInerney 2 65 Amy Wineglass nwtd.................A Duganzich 3 Black Hennessy nwtd F &...............Turnwald 4 Jager nwtd.....................................J Harland 5 Cawbourne Bree nwtd...............J McInerney 6 F Go Max nwtd............................... B Johnston 7 44843 Gunpowder Gertie nwtd...............J McArthur 8 5 Sectioned nwtd...........................M Goodwin 9 37548 Brave Phoenix nwtd..................... J Chatfield 10 44786 Winsome Extra nwtd..................J McInerney 3 1.00pm GUTHRIE BOWRON C0 C0, 520m 1 5333 Go Dolphin Power nwtd F &...........Turnwald 2 85674 Billy Holmes nwtd..........................J Harland 3 8 Cawbourne Zac nwtd.................J McInerney 4 552 Cawbourne Anna nwtd..............J McInerney 5 32653 Cluain Meala nwtd...................... B Johnston 6 Summer Tension nwtd.......... E S Duganzich 7 5F68 Fergie’s Belle nwtd...........................S Maher

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SELECTIONS Race 1: Sent Again, Astrapi, Clifden Clowers, Armed Force Race 2: Western Gretel, Riverboat Princess, Flying Lexi Race 3: Storm’s Rule, Lets Talk Art, Oursjean, K C Pedro Race 4: Whata Gamble, Lavros The Great, Millicent, Sarah Palin Race 5: It’s Only Me, Tiana Franco, Flickering Ember, Julia Bardon Race 6: Beaver Boy, Field Officer, Massimo, Spotafalcon Race 7: Lindennys Buttercup, Midnight Mayhem, Augustus Time Race 8: Cam Before The Storm, Jackaroo Bromac, Twist And Twirl Race 9: Sailing On, Hunter Victoria, Kotare Kano, Beacon Hill Race 10: Cyclone U Bolt, Trip’s On Me, Pretty Sunday Race 11: Mighty Peruvian, Reklaw Supreme, Moonlight Gambler Blair Orange has the drive on Twist Race 12: Captain Webber, Young Tommy, Motu Cup Day Cullen

And Twirl, likely to be a favoured runner in the Rangiora Equine Services Amberley Cup Pace at the Amberley meeting at Rangiora tomorrow

The Racing Integrity Unit’s cochief stipendiary steward, Nigel McIntyre, said Saturday’s result in Otago was the first positive test in New Zealand since a senior jockey was caught at Riverton in April 2009.

The unit did random tests at both harness and gallops meetings throughout the country, he said.

“We can turn up any time, any-

7 2.12pm WANGANUI SECURITY C1 C1, 520m

467 Belldeen nwtd...........................A Duganzich

4 1.19pm J P PRINT, PETONE C0 C0, 305m

1 Seconds Good nwtd.................A Duganzich 2 5444 Sydenham Opal nwtd....................J Harland 3 43457 Waimak Dave nwtd....................J McInerney 4 22364 Working Camarade nwtd............... D Donlon 5 Tarryn’s Pride nwtd F &..................Turnwald 6 F5 Ringa Ding nwtd........................J McInerney 7 Rene Ranger nwtd............................L Ahern 8 6838x Matilda’s Babe nwtd.....................J McArthur 9 667 Queen Cobra nwtd............................ A Clark 10 7673 Supreme Shelleen nwtd.............J McInerney 5 1.37pm CROMBIE LOCKWOOD (NZ) LTD C0 C0, 305m 1 256x4 Green Treats nwtd......................J McInerney 2 76838 Gerard Haka nwtd.........................P Blanche 3 66 White Legs nwtd........................J McInerney 4 Tawny Port nwtd F &.......................Turnwald 5 63833 Ruthless nwtd..............................J McArthur 6 22 Paw No More nwtd F &...................Turnwald 7 3 Prefontaine nwtd........................J McInerney 8 87727 Azure Dreams nwtd.......................J Harland 9 67x86 Jumpin’ Joseph nwtd.................J McInerney 10 7865F Cuts Deep nwtd.......................... B Johnston 6 1.54pm GARY ROSS DECORATOR C1 C1, 305m 1 54374 Easy Silence 18.00....................J McInerney 2 6x436 Downey nwtd.................................J Harland 3 46463 Sedgebrook Lad 18.06........................F Kite 4 14333 Where’s Chicken 18.14 F &............Turnwald 5 55566 Mainland Sonic 17.88................. G Holswich 6 31121 Lynny Southcombe 17.69..........J McInerney 7 67673 Dogged Dan nwtd....................T McCracken 8 21556 Homebush Julie 18.55......................G Quirk 9 78858 Missy Macabre 17.99.....................A Speight 10 66675 Diggin’ On You 17.74................... B Johnston

1 55756 Heroism nwtd.................................... J Tapiki 2 48264 Bullabakanka 30.54 U &............. McCracken 3 38445 Red Herring 30.54.......................J McArthur 4 54655 Wind Up Whitey nwtd..................B Goodwin 5 85354 Another Gunna nwtd..................J McInerney 6 17747 Sapphire Phoenix nwtd................ J Chatfield 7 34212 Cawbourne Kesha nwtd.............J McInerney 8 13153 Time Fraud 30.38 F &.....................Turnwald 9 77667 Belle Cadeau 30.76.............................S Kite 10 66378 Go Boof 30.46 B &........................ G Atwood 8 2.29pm PALAMOUNTAINS NUTRITION C1 C1, 305m 1 62466 Nuts For Sure 17.83................... B Johnston 2 61868 Gus The Muss 18.04........................... L Bell 3 42338 Blair Ninety 17.97 G &........................Denby 4 27253 Homebush Alex 17.90................J McInerney 5 453P4 Gunna Excite 18.03 L &...................... Morris 6 24656 Sedgebrook Skite 18.19......................F Kite 7 82166 Liquorice Whip 18.05.................J McInerney 8 21188 Dolly Wind 18.08 F &......................Turnwald 9 7x648 Saucy Tomato 18.09.........................R Waite 10 25478 Cyclone Six 18.00 B &.................. G Atwood 9 2.47pm MICKEY’S SUPER LIQUOR C1 C1, 305m 1 32453 Kezz 17.97...............................T McCracken 2 43383 Opawa Miata nwtd...........................S Maher 3 45544 Don’t Call Me 18.03...................J McInerney 4 85367 Face The Demon 18.24.............. S Drysdale 5 55332 Scarilicious nwtd L &.......................... Morris 6 34126 Stevie’s Magic 18.09...........................W Kite 7 76652 Another Street 17.67..................J McInerney 8 666x2 Go Ayla Go nwtd..........................A Turnwald 9 37648 Saffron Flaherty 18.32...................J Harland 10 65658 Homebush Lestat nwtd..............J McInerney 10 3.05pm KEENAN CONCRETE C1 C1, 520m

Race 7: Time Fraud, Cawbourne Kesha, Bullabakanka, Heroism Race 8: Blair Ninety, Homebush Alex, Nuts For Sure, Dolly Wind Race 9: Go Ayla Go, Another Street, Kezz, Stevie’s Magic Race 10: Red Crystal, Cawbourne Philip, Big Girl Welshy, Flying Rebel Race 11: Homebush Rosebud, Your On Fire, Run Mischief Run Race 12: Crystal Wave, Working Working, Fawn Allegro, High Fly Hunter, Homebush Cruden

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9 56822 Amy’s Invasion (9) fr................... M Hjalmarsson 10 x2115 Pretty Sunday (U1) fr....................... G Smith 11 x089x William Lance (U2) fr........................D Dunn 12 12017 Trip’s On Me (U1) 10..................C Middleton 13 77343 Native’s Brite Spark (U2) 10........C DeFilippi 14 2113x Cyclone U Bolt (1) 20....................B Orange 15 0x162 Dragons Den (2) 20................... R Anderson 16 40666 Beat The Monarch (1) 40................T Chmiel Emergency: Beat The Monarch 11 5.33pm KEITH USSHER ARCHITECTURE MOBILE PACE $9000, 3yo+ 1 win mob. pace, mobile, 1950m 1 607x1 Givethejobtobarnsy (1) fr............. J Versteeg 2 24606 Alta Cleopatra (2) fr.......................B Weaver 3 1280x Lexington Lad (3) fr...................S Thompson 4 834L2 Fortunately (4) fr........................A Tomlinson 5 42952 Stylish Babe fr............................... Scratched 6 87833 Shifty Shivas (5) fr........................... G Smith 7 25223 Mighty Peruvian (6) fr.........................R May 8 10x06 Bounty Eyre (7) fr..................... S Smolenski 9 63x84 Lima Lass (8) fr........................... R Close (J) 10 03224 Safedra (21) fr...................................D Dunn 11 99754 Franco Envoy (22) fr................ C R Thornley 12 78886 Shezarocker fr............................... Scratched 13 67085 Will He Rule (23) fr............................. D Butt 14 50041 Reklaw Supreme (24) fr...................W Higgs 15 2x12 Moonlight Gambler (25) fr...............K Barron 16 x0705 Drum Major fr................................ Scratched Emergencies: Shezarocker, Drum Major 12 6.05pm ZILCO (NZ) LTD - RANGIORA SADDLERY PACE $10,000, 3yo+ 2 wins pace, stand, 2000m 1 x5017 Major Dave (1) fr...............................J Curtin 2 98346 Thats Bettor (2) fr..........................B Weaver 3 2272x Motu Cup Day Cullen (3) fr.................R May 4 51681 Young Tommy (4) fr.................. C D Thornley 5 70x64 Oursue (5) fr.....................................D Dunn 6 9x082 Maddison Hill (6) fr.........................T Chmiel 7 12174 Roo Star (7) fr..............................T McMillan 8 03194 Bee Tees (8) fr.................................M Jones 9 73361 The Falcon Legend (9) fr...............L O’Reilly 10 x7153 In Tandem (10) fr.......................... R Holmes 11 61800 Petes Reward (11) fr...................... K Cox (J) 12 x3054 Bedtime (12) fr.................................... D Butt 13 43323 Captain Webber (13) fr...................K Barron 14 09171 Shadow Rider (14) fr.........................P Davis 15 9262x Four Needed fr.............................. Scratched 16 57251 Master Pip (15) fr........................ S Ottley (J) Emergency: Petes Reward Pacifiers on : Yaldy Boyz (R10) Pacifiers off : Sixty Plus (R1), Sunoflindenny (R4)

LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down

where, and do them,” he said.

As in any industry, safety was paramount, and tests were made for both alcohol and drugs, he said.

Bishop did not offer an explanation but “was very remorseful”.

Although he was suspended for five weeks, he was allowed to fulfil the engagements he had booked at Monday’s Banks Peninsula meeting.

- STA

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SELECTIONS Race 1: Ostapchuk, Sarah’s Cool, Knocka Off Time, Steel Belt Race 2: Cawbourne Bree, Gunpowder Gertie, Black Hennessy Race 3: Go Dolphin Power, Cluain Meala, Cawbourne Anna Race 4: Rene Ranger, Tarryn’s Pride, Waimak Dave, Sydenham Opal Race 5: Paw No More, Prefontaine, Tawny Port, Azure Dreams Race 6: Lynny Southcombe, Where’s Chicken, Sedgebrook Lad

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6 53216 Hairy Maclary (6) fr....................... R Holmes 7 x7561 Meads Quaff (7) fr........................ S McNally 8 5112x Twist And Twirl (8) fr.......................B Orange 9 04899 Eyre County (9) fr.......................K Cameron 10 59331 Roxy Bromac (10) fr.....................J Young (J) 11 71233 Lively Shard (11) fr.......................... G Smith 12 31102 Chechnya (1) 10..........................N McGrath 13 31150 Formidable (2) 10..............................J Dunn 14 85015 Sonnetsson (1) 20............................P Davis 9 4.23pm DAWE CONTRACTING LTD MOBILE PACE $8000, 3yo+ non winners mob. pace, mobile, 1950m 1 Hunter Victoria (1) fr......................B Orange 2 5x232 Sailing On (2) fr...............................M Jones 3 x00P3 Winged Warrior (3) fr.................... R Holmes 4 2602 Levels Legacy fr............................ Scratched 5 43350 Shantahlia’s Star (4) fr................K Cameron 6 60382 Fiery Rock (5) fr...........................J Sheenan 7 0x883 Brute Ute Anvil (6) fr................ C D Thornley 8 Ireby Doris fr................................. Scratched 9 93340 Hotdiggitydog (7) fr.................... C McDowell 10 66564 Beacon Hill (21) fr............................. M Pash 11 x0985 Caesar’s Flame (22) fr........................ D Butt 12 0x007 Double Vision (23) fr........................ G Smith 13 80434 Toppathepark (24) fr...........................R May 14 76826 Kotare Kano (25) fr.................. J Thomas (J) 15 0572 Tubby Jim fr.................................. Scratched 16 32335 Diamond Rule (26) fr.......................... A Butt Emergencies: Ireby Doris, Double Vision 10 4.58pm GLENIS STEVENS MEMORIAL HANDICAP TROT $10,000, 2 or more wins discrhcp trot, 2600m 1 65315 Speedy Earl (1) fr.......................K Cameron 2 6P68x Yaldy Boyz (2) fr....................................B Hill 3 55251 Trick Star (3) fr.............................T McMillan 4 776x1 Kowhai Whiz (4) fr....................... S Ottley (J) 5 65564 Oscar (5) fr........................................ J Smith 6 63559 Sunny Jewel (6) fr......................... P Wakelin 7 34525 Take For Granted (7) fr................... D Nyhan 8 33536 Hot Vacation (8) fr...............................R May

Jockey over the limit - again

By Nick Tolerton

Wairarapa fields and form Wairarapa RC Venue: Tauherenikau Meeting Date: 6 Feb 2013 NZ Meeting number: 4 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 1.10pm WAIRARAPA TIME AGE MAIDEN STAYERS $7000, MDN, 2200m 1 80044 No Escape (2) 58.5......................B Lammas 2 8L40x Boss Jones (4) 58.5.................... M Dee (a4) 3 00. Handsome Ken (6) 58.5............ J Riddell 4 079x8 Pescatore (3) 58.5...........................D Walsh 5 7900. Prohibition (5) 58.5......................R Hannam 6 00 Cynosure (7) 56.5.............................K Smith 7 03237 Revolutionary b (1) 56.................. O Bosson 2 1.45pm SCOTTY’S MEATS MAIDEN 1000 $7000, MDN, 1000m 1 6249x Elusive Law b (9) 58.5.................. L Allpress 2 Webe Jake h (7) 58.5....... J Shackleton (a3) 3 02335 Golden Bay (4) 58 4 64404 Little Drummer Boy (6) 58........... R Hannam 5 4x Mr Polo (3) 58..............................B Lammas 6 9x7. Sydney Girl (8) 56.5.......................... L Innes 7 Carella 56.5.................................. Scratched 8 Sammy Fox (1) 56.5..................... O Bosson 9 Star Emerald (2) 56.5...................... K Myers 10 76x35 Mels Evie (5) 56...........................D Johnson 11 6676 Pit A Pat (10) 56.......................B Grylls (a3) 3 2.20pm HAIGHT ASHBURY HAIRDRESSING 2YO 1000 $8000, 2YO HCP, 1000m 1 6x Cool Hand Duke (6) 58................... J Riddell 2 Interpreting Halo (3) 58.................. H Tinsley 3 848 Miss Rhythmic (9) 56................... D Johnson 4 66x5L The Alcippe (5) 56...........................R Myers 5 56. Irish Strings (11) 56........................... M Hills 6 5x Hot Rod (8) 56................................. K Myers 7 Optimistic (1) 56............................ L Allpress 8 Prioritise (10) 56.............................D Walker 9 5x Silver Shadow (7) 56................B Grylls (a3) 10 Minstrel Flyer (2) 56..................... B Lammas 11 Redline (4) 56............................. V Johnston 4 2.55pm BULL4U RATING 65 1400 $8000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 712x Sports Coat m (8) 59..................... H Tinsley 2 04x61 Ciron d (3) 58.................................. J Riddell 3 53084 Maranello (2) 56.5............................. L Innes 4 50431 Peit Rox m (4) 56........................ V Johnston 5 168x6 Rampantexcuse d (7) 56....... A Morgan (a3)

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Recurring leg soreness may rob grand old trotter of a crack at riches across the Ditch.

After being the star of the show at Alexandra Park, Stig may miss a planned trip to Australia.

The legs which have robbed Stig of his best days are now threatening his shot at the greatest month in the history of Australasian trotting.

The 10-year-old trotter has been one of the most phenomenal comeback stories of all time, clawing his way back to the top of the trotting tree after three years of retirement.

His two defeats of champion rival I Can Doosit in December, both in national record time, were a glimpse into what Stig might have been had he not been dogged by soreness most of his career.

Now with those problems flaring up, trainer Paul Nairn is considering pulling the pin on every trotting trainer’s dream month.

Next month will see three rich races in as many weeks in Australia, starting with the A$200,000 Glenferrie Farms Challenge at Menangle on March 3. That new race will run as part of a seven groupone day, highlighted by the Interdominion Pacing Final.

Two weeks later the elite trotters can head to a A$125,000 Australian Trotting Grand Prix in Melbourne with the biggest new thing in trotting on March 23.

- NZH

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Mid Cantabrians take on the Aussies

By Jonathan Leask

Mid Canterbury water-skiers will battle the best of Australia in their own waters in the next few days.

The annual Oz-Kiwi Challenge pits the best Kiwis against their Australian counterparts in Canberra, with Australia having the hosting rights this year, starting on Friday.

In the New Zealand under 14s Mid Canterbury was set to have a big contingent, but Shay Cousins and Lachlan Woodman withdrew from the team leaving Anna Doig, Jack Engel, George and Hugh Donaldson.

Ben McFadden heads the under 17 team with Hannah Wright, Henly Wayne and Molly McPhail while Lana Donaldson, Alex King and Hilary Munro are in the under 21s.

They all compete as individuals in slalom, trick and jump but also as teams of six skiers from each country in each age group, with the three best scores taken for the overall team scores.

• Juniors in top form The strength of Mid Canterbury’s tennis development programme was clearly demonstrated when junior representatives lined up against Ellesmere over the weekend. In three outings this season, the 12s produced a record of losing only two matches out of 48, with solid wins against Malvern, 16-0, North Canterbury, 14-2 and on Saturday against Lincoln, 16-0. The 10s also won 16-0 on Saturday against Leeston after having previously beaten North Canterbury 13-3. Against Springston on Saturday the 14s recorded a 10-6 win, while in the 16s the Ellesmere boys proved too strong. The Mid Canterbury girls recorded wins but the side lost 16-10.

• Veainu in for Zac Telusa Veainu has been called into the Crusaders from the Highlanders to cover a wing shortage. Zac Guildford’s self-imposed break from the Crusaders, and the hamstring injury to New Zealand sevens player Kurt Baker, has left Todd Blackadder’s team short of wings before the season has started. Veainu, a member of the Canterbury ITM Cup team, was in the Highlanders wider training squad but has been called in

by Blackadder on a short-term contract and been named in the reserves to play the southerners at a pre-season match in Oamaru on Friday. Canterbury’s Johnny McNicholl has recovered from a back injury and takes his place on the left wing. - APNZ

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Lana Donaldson, Hilary Munro, Hannah Wright, Ben McFadden, George Donaldson, Molly McPhail and Hugh Donaldson. Absent were Anna Doig, Alex King, Jack Engels and Henly Wayne.

Rapira gets the skipper’s armband Warriors head coach Matthew Elliott has included a mix of experience and youth for Saturday’s trial against the Gold Coast Titans at Pizzey Park, Burleigh Heads.

In the absence of usual captain Simon Mannering, prop Steve Rapira will lead the Warriors for the match which kicks off at 8.15pm (NZT).

New signings Dominique Peyroux and Harry Siejka will get their first starts for the club.

For Auckland-born and raised Peyroux, 24, the match will be a homecoming of sorts.

The centre-winger was signed in early November after 16 NRL appearances for the Titans in 20112012.

Apart from Peyroux - named to play in the centres - Rapira and former Penrith half Siejka, other players with NRL experience selected are Carlos Tuimavave, Glen Fisiiahi, Pita Godinet, Alehana Mara, Sam Lousi, Sebastine Ikahihifo, Sione Lousi and Konrad Hurrell.

The Warriors’ most experienced players are all being set for the following trials against Penrith in Hamilton on Saturday, February 16 and Brisbane in Dunedin a week later.

Three of them - Feleti Mateo,

Steve Rapira: Captaining the Warriors for their trial match against the Gold Coast Titans on Saturday Shaun Johnson and Dane Nielsen - are all playing in Saturday night’s fourth annual NRL All Stars v Indigenous All Stars season-opener at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane.

“This trial is so important for us, as every trial is,” said Elliott.

“In this case it’s an opportunity for us to use our wider squad, to have a look at not just some established

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Bowls Mid Canterbury Greenkeepers Triples Tournament The Annual Greenkeepers Triples Tournament was successfully hosted by the Allenton and MSA

Bowling Clubs on Sunday. The finals at Allenton produced the following winners: 1st Bob Harrison, John Bennett, Richards Smitheram (Allenton); 2nd Graeme Bishop, Jill May, Dawn Bruce (Allenton); 3rd John Smart, Alistair MacKenzie, Mike Quinn (Ashburton); 4th Rodger Herriott, Shirley Maw, Jan Rooke (Tinwald); 5th David Muir, Murray Smallridge, Tony Inwood (MSA); 6th Bruce Harper, Wendy Blackwell, Ivan Syme (Methven).

Sponsors for the day were P.G.G., Prebble Seeds and the Ashburton Trust. Presentations were done

by Stuart Leadley representing the Trust.

Golf Tinwald Golf Club Results from February 3rd With the course closed on Saturday club members turned up on Sunday to play the first round of the Doherty Trophy (par).Leading scores were: Senior; Steve Anderson 2 up, Randall Feutz 1 up.

Intermediate; Warren Scott 5 up, Colin Johnstone 5 up, Lucas McGee 4 up, Pete Marshall 4 up.Junior;

members of our group, but to also expose some players who are still eligible to play for the Vodafone Junior Warriors in the NYC and players who have been on trial over the summer.”

Elliott also highlighted the selection of Auckland Vulcans utility Aaron Nootai on the bench.

Tuimavave starts at fullback, where he finished the 2012 NRL season, while eight-game Warrior Glen Fisiiahi is on the wing.

Fisiiahi was a Vulcans regular last year as was Godinet, who is paired in the halves with Siejka, 21, who featured for Penrith in each of the NYC’s first five seasons.

Warriors team to play the Gold Coast Titans at Pizzey Park, Burleigh Heads, on Saturday, kick-off 8.15pm (NZT), is: Carlos Tuimavave, Glen Fisiiahi, Dominique Peyroux, Malakai Watene-Zelezniak, Ngani Laumape, Pita Godinet, Harry Siejka, Steve Rapira (c), Alehana Mara, Suaia Matagi, John Palavi, Sam Lousi, Sebastine Ikahihifo.

Interchange: Atelea Nafetalai, Sione Lousi, David Fusitua, Aaron Nootai, Nathaniel Peteru, Siliva Havili, Konrad Hurrell, Sio Siua Taukeiaho, Trent Bishop, David Bhana.

- APNZ

Wayne Ross 5 up, Roger Bruce 3 up, Keith Bonnington 3 up. Women’s stroke; Sally Lane net 68, Sonja Mee 69, Leen Bell 69.

Nearest the pin: Tinwald Liquorland # 2; Tony Sheppard. Gluyas Ford # 6; Steve Anderson.

Stirling Sports # 12; Sue Newman. Ideal Electrical Supplies # 16; Leen Bell.

Two’s: Warren Ineson, Randall Feutz, Steve Kircher Net Eagle # 9 Leen Bell

Ashburton Golf Club On Saturday a stroke round off the blue tees was held with some spectacular results: Gerald O’Sullivan 94 -35 = 59, Chris Lovelock 65, Andrew Tindall 67; Rodney O’Neill, Evan Waters and Hamish Niles all 68; Bryan Donaldson, Mike Holmes and Terry O’Reilly all 69; Peter Topham, David Fisher, George Brown and Tony Gimblett all 70.

Nearest The Pins: Robbies Bar & Bistro: David Fisher, MSA: Jamie Stone, Rothburys Insurance: Bill Hetrick, Netherby Meats: Ron Carlson, Blue Pub (Longest Putt): Evan Waters, Robilliards (Nearest pin #18): Hamish Niles.

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Twos: Clarrie Galway, John Dudley, Charlie Alexander, Andrew Tindall and Bill Hetrick.

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• ‘Honeymoon is over’ George Whitelock: familiar with the captaincy of Canterbury and Crusaders Carter’s group that hitch-hiked via West Coast centres to Hanmer, “so getting picked up didn’t take too long”.

The Crusaders meet the Highlanders in Oamaru on Friday night after their one-point loss to the Hurricanes, and Whitelock said that in the first three quarters of the game in Timaru they stuck to their plan and got some good results from it.

In the last quarter as energy levels dropped they were a bit slow to get

into positions on defence and on attack, he said.

However, they were trying combinations and new ideas, and under fatigue it was what they wanted to do - “test it under pressure and see if it works”.

Asked if the Zac Guildford row had affected the team, Whitelock said “it’s obviously been a bit of an issue for the media, but the team’s 100 per cent behind him, but at the same time it’s his personal time to sort out that.”

- STA

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Starting Time: Morning 8.00am; Afternoon Report at 11.30 for a 12 noon start Saturday Starters: Morning Bryan Donaldson and John Easton; Afternoon M Pope & D Shaw Results G Clinton & P Pratt.

On Sunday 10 February a mixed foursomes game will be played for the AM Bruce Trophy and as the qualifying round for the White Trophy.

Report at 11.30 for a 12noon start.

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Nosh Café Slow-Pitch 1st February 2013 Nosh Café Marines & Angels 27 - 5 TGIF Tinwald Golf Club Sluggers; Hawks 15 - 11 TGIF Sluggers; Hawks 18 - 4 As Good As It Gets; S & Giggles 23 – 3 The Tinwald Golf Club draw for second round Muz’s Tigers. of the Doherty Trophy, which is to be played on

Saturday will be at the clubhouse for an 8am and 12.30pm start.

Players are asked to report at least 15 minutes prior to tee off times.

Starters: am; P Roulston, pm ; Committee Cards; Committee

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• Wizards zap Clippers The Los Angeles Clippers failed to fire without injured All-Star forward Blake Griffin as they lost their third game in a row, falling 98-90 at Washington yesterday.

Griffin had started 197 consecutive games before missing the contest with a hamstring strain.

The Clippers have already been without All-Star guard Chris Paul for the past eight games due to a knee injury. Martell Webster made five of six three-pointers to lead the Wizards with 21 points while Brazil’s Nene and Garrett Temple each scored 15 points and John Wall added 13 points and eight assists for Washington (12-35). Emeka Okafor had 14 rebounds and Trevor Ariza added 10 points off the bench for the Wizards, who snapped a four-game losing streak. It was the first victory for the Wizards over the Clippers since January 31, 2008.

- AFP

By Nick Tolerton “Enjoying the job” is going to be a big thing for the Crusaders this year as they chase the Super Rugby title that has now eluded them since 2008.

Senior player George Whitelock, who has captained Canterbury to NPC titles and was the Crusaders skipper for the opening pre-season match against the Hurricanes last week, said that was something they were concentrating on this year.

“I think most of all you’ve got to enjoy your job, and may be we’ve gone away from that in the last couple of years a wee bit,” he said.

“So the main focus is, if we enjoy turning up every day, we’ll enjoy playing for the Crusaders, and getting those good performances out on the field.

“The closer we are off the field, the better we’ll be on it as well.”

Last week’s bonding in the boondocks was part of that philosophy.

Whitelock said it helped the new players get to know the senior All Blacks and senior players to meet the new Tasman signings “in a casual environment or out on the hills hunting”.

When the team was split into six foraging groups, Whitelock led five other players in country he knows well at the back of the Clarence, where Nepo Laulala, Tyler Bleyendaal, and Willi Heinz each shot a pig and Israel Dagg bagged a deer. Whitelock’s contribution was two goats.

The Crusaders had a wild food feast in Hanmer on the Thursday night.

Whitelock was also in Dan

New Zealand Breakers guard Cedric Jackson has won the National Basketball League Player of the Week award for Round 17. Jackson was outstanding in the Breakers’ 98-81 victory over the Perth Wildcats.

The 26-year-old finishing the night with 22 points on 7-of-13 shooting from the field, 8 assists, 5 assists and 5 steals in one of his most complete games of the season. This is the fourth time Jackson has claimed the NBL Player of the Week award for the 2012/13 iiNet NBL Championship.

- APNZ

Ashburton Golf Club Next Saturday 9 February will be a mixed day with a stableford round being played for the Gordon

Nosh Café Slow-Pitch 8th February 2013 6.30pm: D.1 Hawks v Nosh Café Marines & Angels; D.2 Muz’s Tigers v As Good As It Gets; D.3 S & Giggles v TGIF Sluggers.

Melbourne Rebels coach Damien Hill knows the honeymoon is over for his Super Rugby side. No longer the newbies, with the Southern Kings joining the competition in the South African conference, it’s time for the Rebels, in their third year, to deliver. They finished 13th last season - ahead of the Western Force - but are eyeing a first finals appearance.James O’Connor And success-hungry Melbourne demands it with cross code rivals Melbourne Storm bringing back the NRL title in 2012 to increase the pressure on rugby’s Rebels. “The expectation this year is certainly higher and so it should be,” said Damien Hill, in his second year as head coach. “Everyone’s excited about the possibility of what we can - AAP achieve.”

• Correction Tinwald golfer Robin Simms was pictured in Tuesday’s Guardian, not Don Houghton, as previously reported. Simms was one of the 172 golfers who teed off during the South Island Club Chartered Clubs mens tournament during the weekend at Tinwald and Ashburton golf courses respectively. We regret the error.

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Ko ready for the spotlight There is no doubt Lydia Ko will be the most talked about golfer at Clearwater this week.

The world No1 amateur, who is world No38 on the pro rankings after playing only 11 professional events, will once again be the leading New Zealand hope in a world-class field at the ISPS Handa NZ Women’s Open hosted by Christchurch.

The Pinehurst School student, who recently finished runner-up in her title defence of the NSW Open by two shots to Caroline Hedwall, missed the Australian Masters to be fresh and ready for this week.

The 15-year-old from the Gulf Harbour Country Club knows that she is going to play this week with a weight of local expectation on her performance.

“I do feel a bit of pressure as I know people are expecting a whole lot more from me,” said the youngest winner in professional golf history.

“But I have to block it out and concentrate on my game and my game only. It will be quite hard backing up what I achieved in 2012 as it was a great year for me. It’s a whole new year and I am going to try and start fresh.”

Ko was always the easiest player on the course to spot at Pegasus last year.

A massive gallery followed her every shot until the final putt.

She faded in the final round from being the third round leader to finish in a share of 17th place.

After playing in major championships last year Ko is now much more familiar with big crowds watching her.

“Before, I got really nervous playing in front of big crowds but I’m slowly getting used to it.

“The New Zealand Open is one of my most important tour naments and I’m always happy to play the Open.”

The event has attracted a world-

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class field including three of the previous four champions.

Australian Lindsey Wright is unable to defend her title after withdrawing with injury.

Also in the field for the championship from February 8-10 at the Clearwater Golf Club are former major champions Anna Nordqvist and Sophie Gustafson (both of Sweden).

World No16 Angela Stanford and Cheyenne Woods, the niece of Tiger Woods, are other notable players in a field that will include 32 LPGA tour players.

It is the strongest field ever assembled for the NZ Women’s Open.

Ko is excited by the prospect of becoming the first New Zealander to win the NZ Women’s Open.

“It would mean a lot. It’s making history within New Zealand and I would be so proud of myself.”

- APNZ

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Larissa Srhoy in action on Starburst in the 2013 Bates NZ Dressage Championships last Saturday.

Style of a champion

By Jacq Nesbit Larissa Srhoy and her multitalented horse Starburst rode to success at the Bates National Dressage Championships held in Christchurch over the weekend.

Srhoy tasted victory in the Laneway CN-C5 Rider Championship - a class restricted to riders that have not ridden at advancedlevel dressage.

For a partnership usually seen in the eventing arena, the victory was sweet.

“It was a bit daunting in the

warm-up watching all these fancy-moving warmbloods prancing around my wee thoroughbred, but once I got him moving and collected I felt a lot more confident, and in the end it is what happens in the arena that counts.” Srhoy said.

The combination competed in four classes for the win and three placings over the weekend, in a grade that was dominated by Dunedin rider Anya Durling and Rosari Guest Star.

Srhoy, 23, who has recently started her own massage business Muscle Motion Massage Therapy, has owned Starburst for the past

eight years and they have experienced a lot together.

“The biggest achievement for me is that I produced Starburst to get where he is today, and all the results that we have gained is through the hard work we have put in together to be competitive at CCI*** eventing, dressage and showjumping,” she said.

“Representing New Zealand on the winning Young Rider TransTasman team was definitely a highlight.”

Starburst is currently on the market, but Srhoy is ambivalent about the prospect.

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“If he doesn’t sell he is going to have a non-eventing season this autumn so I can focus on my younger horses.

“I will aim him to step up to advanced dressage next season and may take him back out eventing seeing the national championships are in Christchurch this year.”

Included in her string of younger horses is the promising Smirnoff.

Srhoy is lucky enough to be sponsored by local companies FourFlax, Evans Animal Feeds as well as Hinterlend and Stan McGaffin Saddle Fitter.

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Skipper makes it four from four

By David Leggat A hat-trick by captain Stuart Broad (left), as part of four wickets in four balls, helped England to a comfortable 46-run win over a New Zealand XI in their T20 game at Cobham Oval yesterday.

Having hit 186 for three, with

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major contributions from Jos Buttler (57 not out off 24 balls), Eion Morgan (48 not out off 32 balls) and Luke Wright (44 off 32), England were in good shape.

The New Zealand XI were going well with Colin Munro’s bracing 55 off 32 balls gave them some hope of catching England. However Munro’s departure at 136 to the final ball

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ISPS Handa NZ Women’s Open: 2010 - tied seventh (leading amateur) 2011 - tied fourth (leading amateur) 2012 - tied 17th (runner-up amateur field) 2012 Record Breaking Year: 1st - Canadian Open, LPGA Tour (first New Zealander and youngest in history) 1st - NSW Open, ALPG and LET Tour (youngest winner in pro history) 1st - Australian Amateur (youngest winner) 1st - US Amateur (first New Zealander to win the event) Tied 39th - US Open on her major debut (leading amateur) Tied 17th - British Open (leading amateur) 1st individual at the World Amateur Team’s Championship - (World-record in the event that dates back to 1964 and first NZ woman to achieve this).

of the 18th over precipitated a dramatic collapse as Andrew Ellis, Ian Butler and Matt Henry departed to the next three balls from Broad without another run added.

The skipper finished with three for 22 off his four overs, with Chris Woakes getting three for 27.

The teams meet again at the same venue today.

- NZH

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New moon 10 Feb 8:22 pm ©Copyright OceanFun Publishing Ltd.

Rise 6:40 am Set 8:53 pm Good

Good fishing Rise 2:51 am Set 6:12 pm

First quarter 18 Feb 9:32 am www.ofu.co.nz

Rise 6:42 am Set 8:52 pm Good

Good fishing Rise 3:59 am Set 7:00 pm

Full moon 26 Feb 9:28 am

Maori Fishing Guide by Bill Hohepa