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Banksy opens sinister seaside theme park Graffiti artist Banksy has announced the opening of a dystopian theme park in a British seaside town, featuring boats filled with migrants and an anarchist training camp. The Dismaland theme park is located in a derelict outdoor swimming pool centre in Weston-super-Mare, a coastal town near Bristol in the west of England. Visitors will be greeted by a burned-out version of the famous Disneyland castle, and a dead Cinderella hanging out of her crashed pumpkin carriage surrounded by paparazzi.

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Injury leads to the big one Having a dodgy shoulder led Whangarei fisherman Bruce Yorke to land the largest rainbow trout caught in Northland during a fishing trip to Kai Iwi Lakes. Mr Yorke landed a 4.32kg, or 9.5 pounds, rainbow trout at Lake Tahora this month, using cooked prawn as bait. Northland Fish & Game manager Rudi Hoetjes said it was believed to be the largest trout caught in Northland and it was an encouraging sign that the lakes were in good health. Mr Yorke said he normally fly-fished for trout, but a shoulder injury meant he could not cast for fly fishing, so he decided to use bait for the first time a few months ago.

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2 Urban bender Kiwi actor Karl Urban racked up a bar tab of $16,420 on top shelf champagne and cognac in a boozy night out with a group of friends in Wales. The Star Trek and Lord of the Rings actor was in Cardiff nightclub Maddison at the weekend with five other friends when the pricey alcohol started to flow. Wales Online published a photograph of the receipt and asked: “Is this one of the biggest bar tabs ever racked up in a Cardiff bar?” Urban was on a night out with film investor Ali Pour, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels actor Nick Moran and other friends. The group drank the bar dry of their top-end liquors, including a $1655 bottle of Hennesy cognac, Ace of Spades champagne, Dom Perignon and Crystal Head vodka.

Cat breeding high risk? The Health and Safety Reform Bill will classify worm farming and cat breeding as high risk, ahead of sheep, beef and dairy farming. A list of industries classified as ‘high risk’ was released by Workplace Relations Minister Michael Woodhouse, and included the category “other livestock farming”. Alongside cats and worms, the category also covers the breeding of dogs, and the farming of rabbits, alpacas, crocodiles and snakes. During Parliament’s Question Time yesterday, Labour MP Sue Moroney asked Mr Woodhouse how worm farming was more dangerous than cattle farming, when more than one-third of New Zealand’s workplace deaths in the past five years had happened in the agricultural sector. “The member does trivialise the 11 deaths in the category of other livestock farming, of which worm farming is one. There were 11 people killed at work, and more than 1000 serious injuries,” Mr Woodhouse responded. Labour leader Andrew Little called the legislation a national joke. Story, P5

Lawrence highest paid The odds really were in Jennifer Lawrence’s favour last year as she raked in $US52 million ($NZ78.55 million), topping a ranking of the highest-paid actresses by a wide margin. The Hunger Games star easily surpassed the $US35.5 million ($NZ53.62 million) second-placed Scarlett Johansson earned over the past 12 months, according to Forbes magazine’s annual estimates of the earnings of Hollywood’s top female stars, released yesterday. No Australian leading ladies appeared in the complete list of actresses Forbes estimated to have earned more than $US6 million. All told, four women made more than $US20 million from their acting and endorsements, before taxes and fees, while 21 male actors did, underlining a lingering pay gap in Tinseltown. The magazine also said it was rarer for women to score the sort of big blockbusters that command huge deals won by some male counterparts.

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Dorie home severely damaged by fire Firefighters were unable to save a family home in the Dorie district yesterday. The Rakaia Volunteer Fire Brigade was alerted to the blaze on Harrison Road at 10.10am, and arrived to find the fire well established in the kitchen and washhouse areas, firefighter Fred Clarkson said. “We were able to stop the fire spreading through the bottom of the house, but it got into the ceiling through the manhole in the washhouse,” he said. Before the firefighters could gain access into the roof it had taken hold and travelled right through the ceiling. “We had to put the safety of our people first and it was not safe to get into the roof cavity,” Mr Clarkson said. Pendarves Rural Fire Force and the Dunsandel Volunteer brigade assisted, backed by a tanker from the Ashburton Volunteer brigade. Firefighters were at the scene for about four hours. Mr Clarkson said the property was severely damaged, but no-one was injured. Investigations are under way to determine the cause.

Volunteer firefighters battle to save a home in the Dorie district yesterday.

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Three senior councillors opting out of re-election By Sue NewmaN

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Local body elections are just over a year away and it’s clear there will be some significant gaps around the Ashburton District Council meeting table after October 2016. Three senior councillors are calling time on their local body careers – deputy mayor Darryl Nelson, environmental services chairman Alan Totty and councillor Don McLeod. A fourth, Ken Cutforth, is most unlikely to stand, Martin Nordqvist is on the unlikely list and Neil Brown, Rod Beavan and Alasdair Urquhart are unsure. The only councillors whose names will definitely be on the 2016 ballot paper are Stuart Wilson, Peter Reveley, Russell Ellis and Donna Favel.

Ashburton Mayor Angus McKay is reluctant to show his hand 14 months out, he intends to make his decision on whether or not to run for a third term by the middle of next year, but says he would be unfazed by having a team of councillors that were short on experience. “For the first few months, yes, it would make it slightly difficult, but there are always some people who have the ability to pick up local government quite quickly because it’s not dissimilar to a business, particularly if you’ve been self-employed.” Darryl Nelson will sign off from an 18-year local government career and says he will leave council knowing he has done his bit for the community. His career has spanned 21 years (he took time out in 2007-

2010 term) and says the commitment to council has meant he was unable to work fulltime. “Judith and I will enjoy a retirement now. It’s time for me to step down and let someone else have a go,” he said. Alan Totty will wrap up two terms in October next year and said he made up his mind early in the piece that he’d retire after two terms. “While I’ve enjoyed my two terms – most of the time – I’ve got other things I want to do, things that I’ve put off,” he said. Don McLeod will also step down after two terms, also looking to a future where he has more time to do other things. “Council is a commitment you don’t make lightly, you give it your best shot but it’s not something you can do forever.”

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Ken Cutforth is likely to move out of the district before the next election. His Rakaia bed and breakfast business is on the market and he’s looking to relocate closer to family in the North Island. Martin Nordqvist’s name is only likely to be on the ballot papers if he can’t find someone else to stand for his western ward. He’s keen for a retirement that has time for things other than council, but says he would never see the ward seat go begging. Time needs to tick by before Neil Brown, Rod Beavan and Alasdair Urquhart make up their minds, but it’s likely at least councillors Brown and Beavan will be chasing a seat in 2016. How our councillors are performing P15-17

The Maori King says he is determined to launch a claim for greater Auckland. In a rare public appearance, King Tuheitia addressed about 1000 people at his annual speech at Turanagwaewae Marae yesterday. The king said he was entering into a new era of rights and claims – one that was destined to bring about problems and disagreements, but he was obliged to go there. The claim for greater Auckland goes as far as the Mahurangi Peninsula, the Firth of Thames and across to the Manukau Harbour and Piha. The king’s spokesman Tuku Morgan said the Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Minister, Chris Finlayson, had agreed to hear the claim. Mr Morgan said it was an opportunity for the tribe to talk to government, to address the unresolved interests of Waikato Tainui and the Kingitanga into Tamaki. - NZME

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Pain-free vasectomies in Methven The Methven Medical Centre held its first vasectomy clinic yesterday. Dr Martin London, a prominent doctor within the rural GP network, visited the medical centre at the end of June to train doctors in the pain-free procedure. He stopped by again yesterday to give Dr Simon Banister one final training session. While Dr Banister was being trained, Dr Cheryl Tallon was performing the procedure. The vasectomies can be offered by appointment, with the procedure and pre-consultation advertised as costing $400.

A Christchurch woman will likely stand trial in February for the murder of Ashburton man Cory James Protos last year. Zariah Jay Samson, 23, denies murdering 30-year-old Mr Protos in Christchurch on April 27 last year. Police believe he was killed at an inner city Conference Street property before his body was moved to a Bryndwr house, where it was found. In the High Court at Christchurch yesterday Justice Cameron Mander set down three weeks for the trial, proposed to begin on February 8 next year. A pre-trial hearing was arranged for October 30. Samson remains remanded in custody. – NZME

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Right – Dr Martin London (left) and Dr Simon Banister (right) with Methven Medical Centre’s no-scalpel vasectomy equipment. PHOTO AMANDA KONYN 210815-AK-025

Health reform coming BY CAITLIN PORTER

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Some local nurses may soon be able to do tasks once reserved for doctors. A local nurse practitioner, Kathryn Hellyer, said the Health Practitioners Bill, which passed its first reading in parliament this week, could affect many health professionals, including people in her own field. The bill is intended to make it easier for the public to access health services while also utilising the skills of health professionals. Mrs Hellyer said the proposed changes, which included the ability of some nurses to do driver’s medicals or sign off

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Nurse practitioner Kathryn Hellyer may soon be able to carry out tasks previously restricted to doctors. PHOTO AMANDA KONYN

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It would “absolutely” affect her day-to-day work at the Methven Medical Centre, she said, predominantly by easing the pressure on doctors. Often simple tasks – such as signing off a sickness certificate – require a doctor, who may be busy or out of the office, she said, so these changes need to happen. “I think there’s around 140 NPs in NZ so it’s probably not high on [the Government’s] priority list ... but if they want to really utilise us well then they have to get on with it.” Current legislation outlines functions to be carried out by medical practitioners, however if amended, will enable health practitioners with the required PICK UP YOUR COMPLIMENTARY COPY AT OUR DESIGN CENTRE OR SHOWHOME

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A cyclist has been taken to hospital in a serious condition after a collision with a car in east Auckland last night. Ambulance and police services were called to the scene on Taniwha Street, Glen Innes, where the accident happened. A St John spokeswoman said one person has been taken to Auckland City Hospital in a serious condition. Authorities were called to the scene just before 7pm. - NZME

Man shot in abdomen A man who was shot in the abdomen in Taupo early Thursday morning remains in hospital. Police said they were called to the incident on Spa Road, near the intersection of Motutahae Street, Taupo about 1.20am on Thursday. They said a 32-year-old man had been shot in the abdomen. Yesterday, police said the man was still in a serious condition in hospital, after having undergone surgery. - NZME

Man arrested A man who was allegedly at large armed with two firearms has been arrested without incident. A man allegedly presented a firearm at another person and then took off with two firearms in central Hawke’s Bay, police said. Police put cordons in the area of State Highway 2 between Waipukurau and Takapau to try to find the 57-year-old man. He was located by police and taken into custody by members of the Armed Offenders Squad. - NZME

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Best deal possible for bins By Sue NewmaN

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When Ashburton’s wheelie bins hit the kerbside in July 2017, they’ll come at the lowest possible cost to ratepayers says the Ashburton District Council’s waste minimisation officer Craig Goodwin. The community gave the switch from rubbish bags to wheelie bins the tick after a round of public consultation last year and that kick-started a major project designed to encourage recycling and reduce

the amount of waste going into landfill. Lead-in to the arrival of wheelie bins is, of necessity, a long process, Mr Goodwin said. “We need to have the tender documents out and the preferred contractor decided by October next year because of the amount of work they’ll need to do, building trucks and ordering bins,” he said. Changing the way a council carried out its kerbside collection meant complying with a raft of both Government and

council requirements around level of service, Mr Goodwin said. “The challenge is making sure we do this properly. It’s a significant piece of expenditure and we need to take the best advice we can around the project.” As well as taking advice from experts in the waste field, Mr Goodwin said he also wants to work with the community to determine the best way of delivering the service. For him, the over-riding issues will be keeping the impact

of the project on rates as low as possible. “One of the elements we need to take a second look and at and discuss with the community are the options out there around user pays; we need to find out which ones are best,” he said. He’s taking a long hard look at ways around some form of user pays which would ensure the impact on rates was lessened. “User pays also works better for waste minimisation. You can use something like the bin

lifter weighing bins. It’s been expensive to do this in the past but things are changing all the time. There are lots of options and we just need to find the way that works best for Ashburton.” By making the residual waste bin (material that goes to landfill) user pays, Mr Goodwin said there would be considerable cost savings for the council in terms of material that was trucked to the Kate Valley Landfill. “We’re doing the best we can to get the best deal for ratepayers.”

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Local cat breeder backs bill’s safety claims By Sue NewmaN

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Mary and Paul Hefford farm two vastly different animals – deer and cats. At first glance it would seem there’s a high risk of injury from handling volatile, flighty deer, many weighing well over 100 kilograms. And at first glance there would seem to be minimal risk from handling gentle five or six kilogram cats. The Health and Safety Reform Bill, however will classify cat breeding as high risk, ahead of sheep, beef, deer or dairy farming. The anomaly is just one that is seeing scorn heaped on a bill that classifies activities such as cat breeding and worm farming as high risk. Mrs Hefford, however, says the bill makers might just have got the classifications right. As a farmer of both, she says she’s not aware of any of her fellow deer farmers who have suffered injury from their animals, but knows of at least four cat breeders who’ve been injured badly enough by the animals they farm to earn a trip to hospital. “I also thought it would be the other way round but once I started to think about it I realised it wasn’t,” she said. Cat breeders lining up for antibiotics for cuts, scratches and bites incurred while handling their animals were quite common while the deer industry seemed to be relatively injury free, Mrs Hefford said. The ‘other’ livestock category has unleased a storm of controversy as it puts dog breeding, rabbit and alpaca farming on the dangerous list alongside more likely candidates such as crocodiles and snakes. During Parliament’s Ques-

Cat breeder Mary Hefford with British Blue Haxtendorf Rita Sullivan is officially working in a hazardous occupation as cat breeding falls into the high risk category in the Health and Safety Reform Bill. PHOTO AMANDA KONYN 210815-AK-050

tion Time on Thursday Labour MP Sue Moroney asked Work Place relations minister Michael Woodhouse how worm farming was more dangerous than cattle farming, when more than onethird of New Zealand’s workplace deaths in the past five years had happened in the agricultural

sector. She was told that 11 deaths had occurred in activities categoried as ‘other’ livestock farming along with more than 1000 serious injuries. The anomalies don’t stop with farming, with mini-golf on the dangerous list while golf is not. Driving a tourist bus is also

deemed to be dangerous while driving a school bus does not. The high-risk industries, once confirmed in regulation, will have no exemption, no matter how small the business. The criteria in defining high risk is any industry that falls into one of these categories:

■ Business that carry the risk of a catastrophic event causing multiple fatalities; ■ Any industry with a fatality rate greater than 25 per 100,000 workers ■ Any industry with a serious injury rate of more than 25 per 1000 workers.

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New system to be rolled out By Caitlin Porter

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Ashburton’s GP practices and rest homes could soon have the same training systems in place as their larger, urban counterparts. The system is called healthLearn and is the Canterbury and West Coast district health boards’ learning management tool. It works as an online e-learning system, which provides standardised clinical and non-

clinical training courses to district health board staff – at the moment primarily to people in the field of nursing. Canterbury and West Coast DHB executive director of nursing, Mary Gordon, said it was recently decided healthLearn would be available to the wider Canterbury health system, including Primary Health Organisations (PHOs), which cover GPs and private healthcare providers – such as rest homes.

The system is not compulsory, and it will be up to each practice to decide whether they wish to adopt healthLearn, Mrs Gordon said. Ashburton is next on the cards for the roll-out, and an information session for clinical staff is set to be held early next month. Practices will then decide whether they want to join up. It is anticipated those practices will join up over the next months.

The system has many benefits – from giving smaller clinics access to the same content as staff based in larger centres, to giving staff the flexibility to work from home. The standardisation of training for clinical staff will also reduce the duplication and cost of sharing resources, Mrs Gordon said. The system is already being used in the Canterbury and West Coast DHBs and has been live for over a year.

In brief Ultra fast broadband When it comes to securing a share of a multi-million dollar Government fund to improve ultra- fast broadband coverage around the district, Ashburton will be fighting most of the country. The Ashburton District Council has already filed a submission outlining why it should be considered for a share of the fund and because of the keen competition, communications minister Amy Adams has asked local authorities to put together a plan showing how they would take advantage of any investment. Rather than campaigning on its own for funds, the council has opted to support a regional approach to the broadband plan and this will be led through the Timaru District Council. Ashburton is unique in that most of its fibre optic infrastructure is already in place through projects led by EA Networks and Chorus.

Three-vehicle crash Two people are in a critical condition, and three others have moderate injuries after a three vehicle crash on State Highway 1 north of Puhoi yesterday. One of the critical patients was trapped in a vehicle, and seven fire engines attended, a Fire Service spokesman said. One critical patient, a male, was flown to hospital by the Westpac rescue helicopter. The serious crash investigation team is at the scene. Emergency services were called to the scene about 11.20am and the crash occurred between Cook Road and Mahurangi West Road, north of the Puhoi turn off. - NZME

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Fantastic response to call for food By MiChelle nelson miChelle.n@theguardian.Co.nz

The Salvation Army put out the call for help and the Ashburton community rallied – filling the empty shelves of the charity’s foodbank in two short weeks. Foodbank manager Judith Lilley said an unprecedented demand this winter had result in food stocks dwindling to a 10 year low. The Guardian got

behind the cause and donations started flowing in. “It’s been fantastic – we’ve had a lot of support from members of the public, businesses and community groups,” Mrs Lilley said. “Hoops and Peter Mac at Hokonui put together an appeal. St Vincent de Paul, Safer Ashburton, Altrusa, the Baptist Youth Group and the Guardian

all donated. “People also donated a fair bit of money and vouchers – I will be filling in any gaps.” Mrs Lilley said the unusually cold winter had put pressure on families struggling to pay power bills and buy firewood to heat homes. Silver Fern Farms’ decision not to process bobby calves through its Fairton plant this

season has also had an impact on the service, by pushing the start date out for many meat workers. While there is a hint of spring in the air, Mrs Lilley expects the heightened demand for the service will continue for the next few weeks at least. “Most people will still have one big power bill to come,” she said.

A Waikato man found guilty of murder has been granted permission to appeal against his conviction and sentence. Todd Marteley was sentenced in 2010 to life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 14 years, for murdering Piki Kingi. Three others were also jailed for their part in the murder, which involved the use of a cricket bat and a tomahawk on the victim. Marteley was initially granted legal aid to appeal his sentence, but not for an appeal against his conviction. The Supreme Court has now unanimously decided to allow legal aid for his conviction appeal. - Newstalk

Wires close road Fallen trolley bus wires closed a busy Wellington road yesterday. Emergency services were called to Brooklyn Road about 8.15am and the downed wires forced the closure of the southbound lane of traffic, although vehicles could still use the city-bound northern lane. - NZME

Ashburton Zone Committee focuses on local biodiversity Three new projects which will protect and enhance local wetland and stream values will be considered for Immediate Steps funding when the Ashburton Zone Committee meets on Tuesday. The Immediate Steps programme aims to protect ecosystems and habitats to conserve

indigenous freshwater biodiversity. To date, more than $370,000 in has been approved with around $130,000 still available. Search Immediate Steps at www.ecan.govt.nz or phone Environment Canterbury for more information on Immediate Steps funding.

The committee will also receive an update from the Canterbury District Health Board on its communication plan for people living in areas where nitrates in groundwater may exceed drinking water standards. Environment Canterbury will deliver a presentation on its 2015 Canterbury Water Man-

agement Strategy targets report. An update on the Land and Water Regional Plan, due to become partly operative next month, will follow. The LWRP contains rules to improve water quality by controlling the leaching of nitrates from landuse activities in both rural and

urban areas. Some parts of the LWRP are subject to unresolved appeals. The meeting will conclude with an update from the Ashburton River Water Users’ Group. The zone committee will meet in the Ashburton Trust Event Centre’s Bradford Room at 1pm on Tuesday.

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Representative rugby clothing goes eco-friendly BY SUE NEWMAN

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Mid Canterbury’s rep rugby players may not know it, but when they run out onto the field this season, they’ll be wearing plastic bottles. Their new playing and off-field gear is as ecofriendly as any clothing on the market and is made out of fabric created out of melted plastic bottles. Each of the ecofit shirts created by company Tsunami Sport, contains about six 500ml bottles and each wearer can play rugby in the knowledge they’ve kept a small amount of unwanted plastic out of landfill. The plastic yarn is mixed 50-50 with bamboo charcoal treated polyester yarn. When it came time to replace its playing an offfield kit this year, the Mid Canterbury Rugby Union chief executive Ian Patterson said going down the eco-friendly path was a “nobrainer”.

The relatively short life of playing gear meant the union was conscious of the amount of waste generated every two or three years when gear was turned over. “In the past we’ve sent some sets out to the islands, but when we have this option available, it makes sense to take this path,” he said. Playing gear, off-field clothing and most tracksuits are now made from a fabric that can be recycled at the end of its useful life. While environmentally friendly fabrics of the past often felt quite different to other fabric, Mr Patterson said the players said their new gear felt no different to a cotton garment. Right - Mid Canterbury MC Hammers team manager Tony Harrison pushing the cause for ecofriendly rugby gear. PHOTO TETSURO MITOMO 200815TM-085

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Mum removes son from CYF care A woman who is believed to have abducted her teenage son from CYF care over a month ago has since been posting about him on social media. Yesterday, police said they had concerns for the safety of 14-year-old Loyal Hayward, who was abducted from Child, Youth and Family care by his mother. Detective Sergeant Kris Clarke, from Hamilton’s child protection team, confirmed police had been looking for Loyal and his mother Elizabeth for a month, after he went missing from Tangata Trust in Ngaruawahia on July 12. Loyal went missing from the trust, where he would have court-approved contact with his mother, Ms Clarke said. He was not in the trust’s care. “The trust was a neutral location where the pick-up and drop-offs occurred.” However, Loyal was staying with a CYF-approved family in Cambridge, where he attended school. “That’s one of the reasons for concern – he hasn’t attended school since he went missing,” Ms Clarke said. “After a month without school and away from his approved caregivers in the company of a person that he was removed from we have to be concerned for his general wellbeing.” On Facebook, a user believed to be Loyal’s mother – who goes by the name Storm Hayward on the social media site – has made a number of comments about her son since July 12. Friends have also been in touch with

Ms Hayward through the Facebook site, to ask if they could speak to Loyal. One of the woman’s posts said: “YAY my sons health is finally getting better ~ three whole weeks of having to watch him struggle. Hopefully he is well enough for school ~ Praise God I kept him in my care cos two months of watching his health get worse Is SIMPLY not good enough. What the hell is CYPFs thinking ... dont even think they even care or protect at all unless its THEMSELVES. Enuff said. Have a gud week whanau [sic].” Another post said: “The power of care and protection ~ Sadly A parent recieved a new proposal today from the Ministry of Social Development. All source of income will be cut until a minor is returned to Cypfs care. Forgetting the fact that the minor recieved two black eyes and a stomped on head while in cypfs care ~ while the mother wasnt permitted to see her child until a few days later. Nor prewarned of the incident. Also both mother and child were expected to live seperated like nothing happened. Even though the incident took place earlier this year. Nice going Cypfs. What a winning Organisation [sic].” Police were not immediately available for comment regarding the Facebook posts. A Ministry of Social Development spokeswoman would not comment on the posts on the woman’s Facebook page. - NZME

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■ VARIETY GREAT SOUTHERN DASH

Welcome makeover for reserve BY CAITLIN PORTER

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Over 50 volunteers piled into 18 highly decorated vehicles descended on Longbeach School yesterday, to take part in a working-bee. The troop was a part of the Variety Great Southern Dash, an event run to raise money for Variety – The Children’s Charity. The charity aims to give Kiwi kids a hand, kids with disabilities, talented kids, those whose parents can’t manage the school uniform or specialist equipment can all apply. Everyone taking part in the dash undertook a number of tasks, such as working bees and coin collections, along the way. Yesterday the group headed to Longbeach School where they pitched in to clean up the Willowby Reserve. Principal Neil Simons said the 51 volunteers turned up

at the school in all sorts of odd vehicles. They were separated into teams and as well as getting stuck in clearing the reserve, also compete against one another for prizes and points. Mr Simons said he met with the people behind the Great Southern Dash just over a month ago, and had to come up with an idea to keep the group busy. The reserve was an easy choice. “We’d been able to use it, previous to the September winds of two years ago and so a lot of the fallen timber and trees had made it difficult for us to get into,” Mr Simons said. “So they did a big clean up and it’s much better, we can get around now.” Mr Simons said the school really appreciated the hard work, and will once again be able to use the area once Volunteers partaking in the Variety Great Southern Dash (from left) Lynne Prujean, “Clogs”, Karen Mcagain for things such as fit- Namara, and Lynne Bjarnesen pitched in at Longbeach School yesterday. PHOTO AMANDA KONYN 210815-AK-002 ness training and science.

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■ DIVERSIONAL THERAPY AWARENESS WEEK

Therapist’s job ‘fulfilling’ By Caitlin Porter

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Diversional therapy is a topic not many people know about, but its awareness week aims to change that. Diversional Therapy Awareness Week runs from September 7 to September 11 and is intended to raise the profile of diversional therapy. Sharon Kelly is a diversional therapist on the New Zealand Society of Diversional Therapists’ national executive who works at Ashburton Hospital on Ward 6. The society defines diversional therapy as client centred leisure based activity programmes based around organisation, design and co-ordination. The aim of which is to improve quality of life. Mrs Kelly said the society is working towards making diversional therapy a professional body and implementing a diploma of diversional therapy. “We’ve got to get ourselves out there and bring ourselves up,” Mrs Kelly said. Currently diversional therapists can train on the job, through different programmes but having a professional status would bring them on par with occupational and physiotherapists, she said. Training takes three years and diversional therapists must complete 3000 hours of on-site training and belong to the national society to become registered. In Ashburton there are six registered diversional therapists, with a further four in training. Mrs Kelly has been a diversional therapist since 2003 – but has spent most of her life working with the elderly. It all began at age 17, when

Sharon Kelly works in Ashburton as a diversional therapist, and finds her job fulfilling.

she began working in a rest home and enjoyed it so much she eventually went on to manage her own small rest home. When it became a requirement for every rest home to have a registered diversional therapist on staff, Mrs Kelly decided to change her career path. In her job at the hospital Mrs Kelly works with people going through rehabilitation, many of whom are non-weight bearing. “I am really passionate about it,” she said. “And you can have a lot of

fun.” Diversional therapy keeps people’s minds going, it keeps them active, she said. “And it means their days aren’t dragging.” Mrs Kelly said when she first started work in a rest home residents were cared for but often found themselves sat in a lounge with a magazine – there was no intellectual stimulation. However, with the addition of diversional therapy people can take part in activities ranging from newspaper reading to games, crafts or quizzes. Often people go out and about,

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WHERE DO DIVERSIONAL THERAPISTS WORK? They practice in many areas of the community including hospitals, residential aged care facilities, hostels or group homes, rehabilitation centres or as private consultants. In New Zealand they’re often re-

ferred to as diversional therapists, motivation therapists, activity therapists, recreation officers or occupational therapy aids. *Information taken from the Society of Diversional Therapists’

for walks or even visit nearby farms. In rest homes, the therapy can differ as the residents can often work towards goals, and

Mrs Kelly said she does miss rest home work. “You learn a lot from them [the residents].”

■ MOULDY STATE HOUSE

Son’s serious health issues blamed on mould An Auckland mother says her youngest son’s medical woes are caused by mould at the state house she and her family lives in. Mother-of-two Te Ao Marama Wensor’s youngest son, Iriah, 7, suffered from strokes and was now in hospital, she told Newstalk ZB. She had been told by specialists that Iriah had holes in his lungs, and an enlarged heart, all as a result of the mould at her Glen Innes home, she said. She was now worried she would wake up one day and her son would not “be there anymore”, she said. Earlier yester-

day Ms Wensor told Radio New Zealand there were holes in a wall of the bedroom shared by her two sons. “All the mould from the bathroom is just coming through the walls. Because the water’s coming straight down from the inside of the wall, coming down to the bottom, and it’s just rotted all the wood on the side of it.” Last year one of her sons fell against the wall and went straight through it, she told Radio New Zealand. Mrs Wensor said she had now temporarily moved into her

cousin’s house while she continued to wait for a Housing New Zealand transfer. However, Housing New Zealand said it had offered a motel room to Ms Wensor and her two sons which would be paid for by the Government agency. Island Child Charitable Trust Manager Danielle Bergin told Newstalk ZB the Government had not done enough. “We have an issue. We need to, together as a nation, work out how we are going to resolve it. We’ve got elected representatives who would not live in these houses themselves and would

not put their children in peril.” Labour’s housing spokesman Phil Twyford said it “beggers belief ” a new home could not be found for the Wensors and called for Housing New Zealand to “immediately and permanently” find the family a warm, dry house. “Te Ao Marama Wensor and community workers assisting her have been asking Housing NZ to move them for several months,” Mr Twyford said. Housing New Zealand should have moved the family as soon as they were told of the boy’s health problems, he said. “It is not good enough that

after months of asking, nothing has been done. “Housing NZ, which has 68,000 state houses nationally has 2000 empty state houses around the country.” The Green Party has also come out swinging about the issue. Greens co-leader Metiria Turei said the lack of minimum standards for rental homes was making children sick. “Te Ao Marama Wensor and her family should never have been expected to live in a house that’s infested with pink and black mould - no New Zealand family should be.” - NZME

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■ ASHBURTON JPS

Two new justices added to local ranks By Michelle NelsoN

dren Floyd and Estella and is the current chairperson of the Methven Community Board. She returned from a year-long student exchange to Japan to study Japanese at Christchurch Polytech and worked in tourism for many years in Christchurch, Queenstown, Aoraki Mt Cook and overseas. After travelling extensively Ms McMillian returned to Christchurch to study massage therapy. She now runs her own business and works as a play centre supervisor in Methven and Mt Somers. In her spare time Ms McMillian enjoys skiing, spending time with family and travelling. Mr Cawte JP and his wife Kathy have three children. Born in Westport, his family later shifted to Ashburton where he attended Netherby Primary School then Ashburton College. Mr and Mrs Cawte started

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Mid Canterbury has two new Justices of the Peace with the swearing in of Liz McMillian and Max Cawte. The ceremony was conducted by Judge Joanna Maze at the Ashburton District Courthouse, before fellow JPs, family and friends earlier this week. Following their swearing in the new JPs were presented with a copy of the recently released book Reading the Riot Act, recognising 200 years of JPs in New Zealand. Both come to the role with a history of commitment to their communities. Ms McMillian JP lives in Methven with her two chilLeft - New Justices of the Peace Max Cawte and Liz McMillian take their oaths in the Ashburton District Courthouse yesterday. PHOTO MICHELLE NELSON 180815-MN-107

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their own business, Ashburton Powder Coating, in 1999 which is still in production today employing two staff. Mr Cawte JP has been on the board of the Ashburton Business Association for a number of years, serving as chairman for three years. He was also on the board of Safer Mid Canterbury for five years. He is a past president of the Ashburton Lions Club and an officer in the Masonic Lodge. His involvement with the scouting movement saw him gain a Queen’s Scout Award in 1972 and in recent years he has obtained his private pilot’s licence. In his working life Mr Cawte has been a production manager for a food manufacturing company in Ashburton, a production employee for Ford Australia in Brisbane, and is a qualified diesel mechanic and a licensed heavy truck driver.

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â&#x2013; THE GREAT NEW ZEALAND FLAG DEBATE

We want to have a say too I

n a multi-cultural country, is it appropriate to have a heavily themed Maori flag? We believe it is important to honour our Maori past, however we now live in a country that consists of many different cultures. Is it economically the right time to change the flag in New Zealand, especially with the recent fall in dairy profits and the drop in the Kiwi dollar? Canadians changed their flag because their country segregated from its union with England. We are too small to get rid of this affiliation, so should our Union Jack be removed? Supporters of a new flag argue that changing it does not advocate for New Zealand becoming a republic, reasoning many Commonwealth countries do not have the Union Jack on their flag. People have fought for and died under the flag of our country, so is it appropriate to change the design entirely? Representing the future of New Zealand, many of those in

Ashburton College head girl Kate Whiting and head boy Lachlan Davidson want those aged under 18 to have more of a say in the new flag debate.

Ashburton College head girl Kate Whiting.

Kate and Lachlanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favourite proposed flag designs.

Ashburton College head boy Lachlan Davidson.

our younger generation are embracing the impetus for change. And when the topic arises, it can become obvious why some want this, the similarity with the Australian flag being one example.

If changed, our generation will be the ones living under the new flag, so why do we not have more of a say? Although anyone could submit designs, those under 18 will not have any say when it comes to vot-

ing on the final four designs, or when making the final decision on whether to accept a new flag or not. If the flag is changed, we think the silver fern has to be included as it is our national

symbol. All our national sports teams wear it on their jerseys, so the silver fern is really the perfect symbol for New Zealand. When you see it on the All Blacks jerseys or the Silver Ferns there is an instant feeling of national pride. With regard to colours, the black, grey and white on the silver and black fern is a good symbol for our multicultural nation. Any red on the flag would also nicely symbolise our Maori heritage. Our national sporting teams are the All Blacks and the All Whites, so black and/or white are the colours representing our country. Our other favourite is the Black Jack submission by Mike Davison. Having a Maori design on our Union Jack symbolises the uniting of Maori and British in the establishment of our nation, however we wonder how Maori may consider the merging of the two symbols in light of controversy over the Treaty of Waitangi.

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■ TAKAHE SHOT

Volunteers devastated Volunteers who spent decades restoring Motutapu are devastated and angry that hunters mistakenly shot four of their takahe “friends” on the island. The Department of Conservation (DoC) on Thursday confirmed volunteers from the Deerstalkers Association shot the critically endangered takahe while carrying out a cull of 600 pukeko on the island in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf. The island – which has been transformed over the last 20 years with the help of volunteers from the Motutapu Restoration Trust – was declared a protected, pest-free haven for endangered bird species in 2011. Trust chairman Rick Braddock said volunteers were devastated and deeply distressed by the deaths of four takahe. “We have become friends with these birds. We know them because we see them on the island every day. They’ve become part of our lives and we’re deeply saddened by

A takahe with his pukeko buddy.

their loss,” he said. “What’s happened is a tragic mistake. But we’re angry these birds have been shot after the shooters were instructed to shoot pukeko on the wing, having been told that takahe can’t fly.” Mr Braddock said DoC needed to investigate to find out how that happened, and what action had been taken. Despite the tragedy, Mr Braddock defended the pukeko cull as necessary.

He said pukeko posed a real threat to the eggs and chicks of takahe, pateke, shore plover and the other native birds released on Motutapu. “They’re also a real problem with our planting programme to expand the native forest on Motutapu. The pukeko rip the native tree seedlings from the ground virtually the day after our volunteers have planted them.” The takahe deaths were a setback, he said.

“But takahe have had many setbacks since they were rediscovered in Fiordland in 1948. We’ll get over this and move forward. “There are 300 takahe in the world and we’ve just had a very successful breeding season adding 40 takahe chicks to the population. “The recovery programme is in good shape and we will all continue our work to secure the survival of these special birds for future generations.” Bill O’Leary, president of the Deerstalkers’ Association, said he was embarrassed and upset to hear about the takahe being shot. “I do know that the people involved in the group are very, very upset themselves. “It’s very difficult to deal with,” he said. South Island iwi Ngai Tahu are understood to be angry about the deaths, and Mr O’Leary said he had been considering how best to approach the iwi to offer an apology. - NZME

■ MATURE JOB SEEKERS

Would-be employees often prejudiced By Nikki PaPatsoumas Mature jobseekers in New Zealand often face prejudice when searching for work because of their age, a new survey has found. Earlier this week, Tauranga residents Liz and Ross Grant explained that since making the move from Auckland to Tauranga, they had struggled to get work. Mr and Mrs Grant, aged 62 and 60, said they feared their ages could be the main reason they were being overlooked. The couple said that they had unsuccessfully applied for about 150 jobs between them over the past year, and were determined to find work before

their savings ran out. Figures from the newly released Randstad Workmonitor and Mobility Index reinforced that would-be employees were often prejudiced against based on age. For the survey, 400 Kiwis between the ages of 18 and 65 were asked to complete a questionnaire. It found that more than one fifth (23 per cent) of those surveyed believed those older than 55 were less productive, and took more sick leave. Randstad New Zealand manager Brien Keegan said these were “common misconceptions”. “In reality, productivity levels are comparable throughout the generations, and absentee-

ism is actually often lower in the 55 [and older] age group than among younger employees. The survey also found that just 39 per cent of employers had active policies in place to attract people aged 55 years or older. Mr Keegan said businesses needed to recognise mature workers had a lot to offer. “Kiwis businesses stand to benefit if they take advantage of the knowledge and expertise older generations bring to the workforce. “There is no reason for businesses to discount mature jobseekers and instead should be looking to them to add value to the business,” he said.

Mr Keegan said it was important that mature workers knew they had a lot to offer an employer, most notably a wealth of knowledge and experience, which he said younger generations often could not compete with. He said it was “critical” older workers sold their skills, knowledge and experience – but in order to be employable, they also needed to “continuously refresh their knowledge and upskill”. “The way in which we work and the skills needed in the workplace are constantly evolving. Older workers need to keep pace with the new skillsets younger generations are bringing to the force.” - NZME

High Court sinks controversial flyover The controversial flyover around Wellington’s historic Basin Reserve cricket ground has been sunk. The High Court has dismissed the New Zealand Transport Agency’s appeal of a decision denying consent for the $90 million project. The agency could appeal to a higher court, but that is expected to be unlikely. The decision is a second victory for campaigners opposed

to the State Highway 1 upgrade proposal, after a Board of Inquiry last year declined resource consent for the project. NZTA could still appeal the decision to the Court of Appeal, but the agency today said it was too early to speculate on its next steps. It said its remained committed to improving Wellington’s transport network, and it would continue to work closely

with council partners to identify a way forward to keep people and freight moving. NZTA said it would take a closer look at the full 139-page High Court decision over the coming days. It said at the heart of the project was a desire to improve travel throughout the Wellington transport network, and congestion at the Basin Reserve remained a real constraint to achieving this.

Save the Basin campaigners have now urged NZTA to “let it go”. Campaign spokesman Tim Jones said the agency had failed to mount a strong case and he hoped there would be no further appeals. He said a Basin Reserve flyover would be ugly, unnecessary, outdated and inappropriate, and Wellington deserved modern, sustainable transport options. - NZME

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Sharples calls for more organ donors Sir Pita Sharples has called for more Maori to become organ donors after his wife received a life-changing kidney transplant. For seven years, Arapera Sharples has had kidney dialysis for five hours, three times a week. After watching the All Blacks lose the first Bledisloe Cup rugby match earlier this month, she received a 2am phone call. “This voice goes, ‘Is this Arapera Sharples?’ I said yes, and he goes, ‘This is Dr Michael Collins from Auckland Hospital, I’m ringing to offer you a kidney, would you like it?’,” Lady Sharples told TV One’s Te Karere. “I just started screaming, ‘Oh my god, oh my god’.” After being admitted to hospital, a number of tests were carried out between 3am and midday. “Then they came back and said, ‘It’s a perfect match – you’re going down to theatre now’. I just cried and cried and cried.” The Sharples do not know any details of the deceased donor, other than that the person’s family agreed to both kidneys and a liver being made available for donation. Since the operation, Lady Sharples has made daily visits to the hospital for check-ups. She said the transplant would be life-changing: “I can see my mokopuna growing up. I can spend quality time with my darling.” Last year, four deceased Maori were organ donors, compared with 37 New Zealand Europeans, Te Karere reported. Lady Sharples and Sir Pita, former Maori Affairs Minister and co-leader of the Maori Party, want to encourage more Maori to donate their organs. “Our culture has to catch-up with the times I think. There was a time when we didn’t cremate. Now, cremations are quite common in Maori families,” Sir Pita said. Lady Sharples, who wants to donate her body to science when she dies, said many Maori were in need of an organ transplant, but the pool of people that could match them was small. “It’s up to us. We have to do it ourselves. We have to give to each other.” Lady Sharples’ situation was mentioned in Parliament last week, during the first reading of National MP Chris Bishop’s bill to provide financial assistance for live organ donors during their convalescence. The bill would give organ donors the same support as ACC recipients while they recovered, increasing support from the equivalent of the sickness benefit to 80 per cent of the donor’s pre-operation earnings. - NZME

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Flu takes family by surprise Flu season is fully under way in Mid Canterbury, with the virus affecting sufferers for over two weeks. Among those laid low this winter is Methven Playcentre supervisor Liz McMillan and her family. Susan Sandys reports.

iz McMillan felt like she had been hit by a bus. Earlier this month the Methven Playcentre supervisor started to feel unwell and by the next day she could not even get out of bed. Headaches, a very sore throat and fever, feeling hot one minute and cold the next, combined with a cough and aches and pains to make her feel miserable. “I never felt like that ever before,” Ms McMillan said. Her son Floyd, 10, had three days earlier come down with similar symptoms, and soon her daughter Estella, 8, was also suffering. “The good thing about Methven is you can ring up (the Methven Medical Centre) and talk to the nurse. She just said stay home, stay in bed, keep fluids and vitamin C up.” A friend dropped around groceries, while others brought soup. However, while the trio did not feel nauseous or suffer vomiting or diarrhoea, they could not stomach any food and more or less lived on lemonade for two days. She spent four days mainly either in bed or on the couch, and had to phone in sick for work. The Methven Playcentre did not have a back-up supervisor and had to be closed for two days. “Also a lot of the children were sick as well, one of the days we would have had only a couple of kids coming,” Ms McMillan said. The family’s experience is proving all too common in Mid Canterbury this winter as this flu season proves to be the worst since 2012. Ms McMillan said she suspected it was the flu which had bowled her and her two children, as a cold would not have made them so ill.

Liz McMillan and her children Estella, 8, and Floyd, 10, are feeling a lot better this week after being bedridden with flu symptoms. PHOTO TETSURO MITOMO 180815-TM-028

“I was telling everyone a week before that I just don’t get sick and the kids don’t get sick,” she said. They had not received the flu vaccine and Ms McMillan generally never gave this much consideration each year. However, her latest experience had

made her think twice, and she would be considering getting her and her family vaccinated next year. Ms McMillan was back at work last week, although found it exhausting and would come home and go straight to sleep. On Monday of this week she

began to feel a lot better and was able to lead the six-weekly meeting of the Methven Community Board, fulfilling her role as the board’s chairwoman. She was pleased to be well enough in time not only for this, but also being sworn in as a Justice of the Peace at

the Ashburton courthouse on Tuesday. The community board meeting day represented two weeks to the day since she had first become ill. “If you have got flu symptoms, just rest up because there’s nothing else you can really do,” she said.

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‘reports’ are out The triennial local body elections will be held in October next year. With just a third of the term to run, local body reporter SUE NEWMAN takes a look at the performance of the 12 elected members of the Ashburton District Council. The press bench provides a voyeur’s spot from which to watch councillors as they discuss, debate and vote. It also provides an opportunity to get to know them and to understand what each brings to the council table, their strengths and weaknesses, their knowledge and understanding of issues.

As the months tick by it becomes clear that a council table is not a table of equals. Some work harder, some understand more, some contribute more. The council table is a microcosm of life. The past 22 months have been a time of growth for some councillors, consolidation for others and a marking of time for a few. One or two have yet to leave the starting blocks. For the first time the Ashburton District Council has seen voting by factions, with councillors dividing themselves into two camps with the power often lying with a handful of independent or swinging voters.

THE ESTABLISHMENT DARRYL NELSON, deputy mayor

ouncillor Darryl Nelson, deputy mayor, tells it like it is. If he thinks you’re a fool, he’ll tell you; if he thinks your attitude or idea is wrong, he won’t mince words. He’s a voice of commonsense, a man who cuts to the chase and his

knowledge of the workings of both local government and the community is immense. He’s never been a councillor to deal in trivia, to let debate meander along. He’d rather cut to the chase and wrap discussion up with a few succinct words in a motion.

And it’s not just around the council table his input has been huge, he’s been part of dozens of committees, sub-committees and community organisations over those years. His store of knowledge is huge and he’s always happy to share that with anyone who asks.

After 18 years he’s decided to call it quits. He’s had one term off so those 18 years actually stretch over 21. He knows he’s done his bit for his community and he’s keen to have more time to do some of the things he’s put on hold.

NEIL BROWN, chairman of finance and business support

ouncillor Brown has mastered the art of making a few words mean a lot. He’s the second most experienced head around the table and will wrap up four terms (12 years) next October. There’s not much he hasn’t

seen, not much he doesn’t know but like all good committee chairmen he’s happy to let his fellow councillors have a good run at debate before he wades in with his opinion. He’s mastered the art of delivering a discrete sucker punch when needed. His capac-

ity for work is huge matched only by the bucket of knowledge he’s able to draw from. He has a solid handle on just about every issue that crosses the council table. If he doesn’t know the answer, he’ll find it. Will he stay another term? The jury’s out. He admits he

has unfinished business, but adds that’s likely to always be the case. It’ll come down to balancing what he wants to do on council with what he wants to do with the rest of his life. There’s pressure to apply and someone needs to apply it.

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THE ESTABLISHMENT STUART WILSON, chairman service delivery committee

ouncillor Wilson doesn’t mince words. He shoots straight from the lip, tells it like it is and doesn’t really care who he upsets. His knowledge of things rural is immense. Complex water and roading issues that see some councillors’ eyes glaze

over are his bread and butter. He’s practical, no nonsense and hard working and he’s happy to get out on the ground and walk the talk. He has little time for anyone who isn’t equally straight or for a councillor or staff member who hasn’t done their

homework. He doesn’t like wasting council money and he’s happy to vote against a project that he believes isn’t value for money. Spending ratepayers’ money is a responsibility he doesn’t take lightly. He doesn’t agree with not saying what he thinks but if

the vote goes against him then he’ll give whatever decision the majority makes his unwavering support. With two terms under his belt, councillor Wilson can’t see any reason why his name won’t be on the ballot papers next year.

DON MCLEOD, deputy chairman environmental services

ouncillor McLeod has become the voice of reason around the council table. He sits back, listens and then speaks. He has a knack of summarising and analysing discussion, frequently coming up with a solution to problems or thorny

debate that is pure, well-reasoned commonsense. For all that he’s no pushover. He’s his own man. He is always a well-read, well-reasoned councillor who is usually the solution finder when discussion and debate are mired in conflict or when

a resolution seems impossible to find. If there’s a challenge, he faces it head-on. Over his two terms he’s been a staunch supporter of the arts and has suffered for that with public criticism. That hasn’t sat comfortably

with him, but even under fire, councillor McLeod has maintained his dignity and integrity. He’s decided not to seek a third term. Committing to stand and committing not to stand are something he hasn’t done lightly.

ALAN TOTTY, chairman of environmental services

ouncillor Alan Totty is the quietly-considered councillor, often delivering his opinions with a wry smile. He might look like a gentle individual but he is never a pushover. Don’t underestimate this councillor. Always well

read and well prepared, councillor Totty can be counted on to make a solid contribution to debate. If he doesn’t agree, don’t count on him to throw his vote your way. He’ll argue the toss, but can be convinced if the argument is compelling.

During his term he’s the most travelled councillor, travelling a 90km-round trip from his Staveley farm to council meetings and on council business often several times each week. He’s now living in town and makes the reverse trip into his foothills’ patch several

times each week. He says he’d decided months ago that his second term would be his last. There are other things he wants to do and while he’s enjoyed his time, he says a few tough battles have been fought over the past couple of years.

THE INDEPENDENTS ROD BEAVAN

ouncillor Beavan was no newcomer to the council table when he was reelected after a term away. He’s long been the champion of the underdog and the council’s social conscience. It’s a rare debate that passes without councillor Beavan’s considered contribution.

He often plays the devil’s advocate. His style is to listen to other speakers and then to agree with or counter their points with a sound argument. He’s a thinker, reader and analyst. He might be the council’s social conscience but he’s also a solid contributor across

all issues. It’s rare for him to be challenged on facts and figures or knowledge of a subject. He does his homework and votes the way he sees it rather than with any faction. He’s his own man. He’s also a councillor who finds some of the processes of council frustrating. One

man can’t change the world, but councillor Beavan never stops trying. When it comes to standing for council next year he’s refusing to make a commitment. The most he’ll give is a 66 to 33 chance that his name will be on the ballot papers.

PETER REVELEY

ouncillor Reveley is the council’s wild child. He’s happy to fire bullets and challenge the establishment. His heart is in rural and roads rather than social and community issues, but his knowledge is across the board. He’s always prepared with

facts and figures. He votes as he sees it and neither the establishment nor the citizens’ cartel can count on him. He’s his own man. Councillor Reveley was a returnee to the council table in 2013. He resigned part-way through the previous term and

had no hesitation in making an early commitment to standing again in 2016. He believes there is more support for diverse opinions around the council table than there was in the past. Previously he was often under fire for taking an opposing view,

but says there’s less voting with the crowd than there was in the past. He’s never afraid to stand up and say what he thinks; he believes being a councillor is not a popularity contest. He’s not afraid to be the lone wolf, the council renegade.

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THE CITIZENS’ CARTEL RUSSELL ELLIS

irst termer Russell Ellis stood on the Citizens’ Association ticket, his interest in council prompted by community dissatisfaction with the district’s new art and heritage centre. He came determined to change minds, to change at-

titudes, to make a difference, but says his first two years have been challenging and at times he’s doubted his effectiveness. After a quiet start he has grown in confidence and knowledge and is regularly contributing to debate and asking questions Councillor Ellis is clearly a

champion of Joe Citizen but he’s more than just a mouth for the masses, he’s not afraid to challenge staff or other councillors, he comes to meetings well prepared and while he often votes with the citizens’ cartel he’s not afraid to stand alone. Of all the current crop

he’s grown the most in the role and now has a good grasp of a wide range of issues. He’s done his homework and it’s paying off. He’s one of the few who has to juggle a business and council work, but he’s pretty sure he’ll be seeking a second term.

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ouncillor Favel probably spends more time on the ground than any other councillor. In her second term, she’s the citizens’ champion, the voice for the small man (or woman) and will happily bring quite minor concerns to the council table.

She admits she’s still learning the job. She still has to make her mark as a contributor to debate when big issues are on the table. She’s the councillor who deals most in minutae, who will call staff (or other councillors) to task if promised reports have not been com-

pleted. Like many of her fellow councillors she says she’s often frustrated that council moves more like a freight train than a bullet train. She’s the sole woman councillor and believes the council needs more diversity around the meeting table to reflect the changing ethnic make-up of the district.

Her focus is on improving communication between staff and councillors to ensure all the information is on the table before the votes are cast. When a vote is called, councillor Favel is most often found among the citizens’ cluster. She’s committed to seeking a third term as a councillor.

ALASDAIR URQUHART

ouncillor Urquhart is still to get out of the starting blocks in terms of his contribution to council debate. He’s a thinker and watcher and can be counted on to vote against spending on anything other than essentials.

He came to council on the Citizens’ Association vote as a vocal opponent of the council’s second bridge project. He’s critical of what he sees as an ongoing lack of communication with councillors by council staff and believes coun-

cillors should have more say in what is spent and where. He knows he hasn’t been a big contributor to debate and discussion, but said he preferred to sit back and not speak until he had all of the facts. He believes the newer

councillors have brought issues to the council table that has helped more experienced councillors look at issues in a different light. He’s undecided whether his name will be on the ballot paper in 2016.

MARTIN NORDQVIST

ouncillor Nordqvist is unashamedly a champion for Methven. He’s in his second term as a district councillor, but prior to that served 12 years on the Methven Community Board. Around the council table he’s one of the quiet ones, contrib-

uting when he feels strongly, but he’s not a councillor to rattle anyone’s cage. He’s no pushover, but he’ll state his case and move on. When a decision’s made he’ll stand by it. He’s a solid, reliable councillor who can be counted on to

have done his homework, read his agenda thoroughly and to have a good understanding of issues. When it comes to voting he’s one of the swingers. He has the courage to vote as he sees it rather than with any particular group, but he’s more likely to lie with the conserva-

tives rather than throwing his lot in with the big spenders and high fliers. He’s unsure whether he’ll take another tilt at council next year. There are other things he wants to do, but he says if no-one else puts their name forward then he will be back for another term.

afraid to voice an opinion that goes against the tide and he’s not afraid to vote as he sees it. He’s his own man and while he can sometimes run off on a tangent during debate, he says what he thinks, making other councillors pause and think.

He says he often feels like the leader of the B team that loses most of the time, but he says he won’t concede an opinion simply because it’s politically correct. It’s unlikely he’ll be a returnee. He’s selling up in Rakaia and planning to move away.

KEN CUTFORTH

ouncillor Cutforth is not a man to stand on ceremony or to hold back. He’s happy to plough into a debate, stating his opinion and backing it up with facts. He’ll argue the toss and push the boundaries if he feels

strongly about something. He’s in his second term, settled into his role very quickly and within a short time had a good understanding of how the council worked and where the weight of power lay. Councillor Cutforth is not

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Our DIY district doesn’t wait around Stu Oldham

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orward-thinking Mid Cantabrians are making bold steps into the future as some parts of the country wait for central Government to do what should have been done decades ago. The Methven Hot Pools project is close to applying for resource consent to build beside Mt Harding Racecourse. It might need more than $7.5 million to build the first stage. Earlier this year, the project group said the pools held as much promise for the district as Mount Hutt skifield did when it was developed. It would be a fillip to sustained tourism growth. Since then, the Government has reminded agriculture-rich regions to invest in tourism to further diversify their economies and build in resilience to commodity price shocks. The hot pools plan exemplifies this approach and shows many Mid Cantabrians do not have to wait to be told when to take a leap of faith into what could be a canny investment. They’ve done it before. Mount Hutt was buoyed by public fundraising when it was developed in the 1970s. Now, it is the major reason the district has such a healthy tourism industry. If there is a sense that the groundwork in Mid Canterbury was laid decades ago, the Government’s latest infrastructure spending plan shows what happens when nothing happens. The 30-year plan identifies $35 billion worth of mega projects, of which the lion’s share will be spend north of Taupo, and of which some of the biggest will be in Auckland. Billions will be spent on roading and rail projects that are a consequence of decades of growth, but which politics and partisanship in Auckland politics prevented from being tackled. Inevitably, local taxpayer cash will help fix Auckland as other Mid Cantabrians prepare to pass the hat to kick-start a project to add to their district’s future.

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Your article (Other diners have rights, August 18) prompts me to point out that the Sale of Liquor Act specifies underagers be “accompanied” in licensed premises by parents. This means they should be at the parents’ elbow. Clearly it assumes all children to be under parental control and respectful of others. Substantial cash penalties can be placed on businesses as a result, essentially, of parents’ [faults]. The proper cure is for the parents to control their little darlings. Edgar W. Smith

Just like you, Ashburton librarians love books. We also love the new technology that is improving access to a wide variety of reading material. It is also saving people money. For example, many borrowers have praised the emails that alert them to books coming due, so they don’t forget and have to pay a fine. Others love PressDisplay, which enables all residents, who are members of the library, to read national and international newspapers and magazines online, wherever they are. Library membership is free and all of these publications can be accessed from the library

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computers, if you don’t have access to a computer elsewhere. There are still six daily newspapers available on the racks at the library from Ashburton, Christchurch, Timaru, Oamaru, Greymouth and Dunedin. We’d be more than happy to teach you to use the library computers and access other newspapers online. It’s simple to do and after a couple of sessions, you may well find it a very valuable skill. Ashburton Library Manager Jill Watson This letter responds to J. R. Jones, who this week urged librarians to heed the needs of older users as the Ashburton library adopted new technology. – Editor

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ev. Fred Kammer of the Society of Jesus in his Catholic Social Teaching and Social Analysis quoted Thomas Clarke who said: “Social analysis is not the perogative of an elite. “If a participatory, democratic way of life is to be a possibility, it requires a basic confidence and skill on the part of the ordinary people in making critical and informed judgments regarding the social contexts of our lives.” I am not making a social analysis though, but I believe that our personal answers to the questions that journalists would normally have – what, who, why, when, where and how – are enough to say that we are analysing the situation of our community. Mine is just a reaction and at the same time, a judgment

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to what we are experiencing in our community. In the 2013 world’s record breaker Typhoon Haiyan that devastated the Central Philippines, Ashburton people and the whole world were involved in the relief operations for the victims in the Philippines. The whole Filipino community of the Ashburton District is very grateful for that. In the strong earthquake that Naples experienced a few months ago, we saw people from Ashburton extending their precious help to the people of Naples. In the July 2, 2015, Thompson Street, Tinwald tragedy, we

helped the family of the victims and their relatives who came to attend their funeral. The Taumaoe family who lost their house to fire early in the morning of July 3, I witnessed Falaniko and Monica crying, not so much of their losses, but because they felt the loving presence and care of their community, not only from the Catholic Church where they belong, but from all people of different walks of life and faith of the Ashburton District. People who are rich do not complain about life, but they need paid people to help them; poor people receive support from the government to help meet their needs. The people who are not rich, but not poor, either are also crying for support to maintain their kind of living condition. Therefore, everybody needs

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In brief City signs Otamendi Argentina defender Nicolas Otamendi has signed for Manchester City, the English Premier League side announced yesterday after a deal was agreed with his current side Valencia. The 27-year-old has signed a five-year contract although no financial details of the transfer were released. Otamendi will bolster central defensive ranks at City that include two familiar faces in former Porto teammate Eliaquim Mangala and international colleague Martin Demichelis, as well as captain Vincent Kompany. - AFP

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Wakanui Black will face Oamaru’s Tainui in the Mid-South Canterbury senior men’s hockey division final today in a bid to win the Walker and Hall Shield for a fifth successive year. Tainui edged out Cambridge by a point to win the round robin section and lift the McCosker Trophy a fortnight ago, while Wakanui Black finished in third place ahead of fellow Ashburton side Wakanui Blue in fourth. Wakanui Black then toppled Cambridge 4-3 in last Saturday’s semi-final to secure a place in the final for a fifth successive year

and Tainui downed Wakanui Blue 2-1 in a tightly contested affair to book their place in the competition’s final. Wakanui Black captain Adam Wilson said his side have had an inconsistent campaign, but took confidence from last weekend’s semi-final display. “It hasn’t been the most consistent season, it’s been a bit of a struggle but last week was a good result to pull off in the semi-final and now it’s one more job to do,” he said. Wakanui have narrowly had the better of the three matches the two sides have played this season, in week two Tainui

downed Wakanui 4-3 before Wakanui dealt Tainui a 6-0 mauling in June and a took a 2-1 victory last month. Wilson said he expects the Oamaru side to play with plenty of attacking flair, but hopes to exploit their defensive frailties. “They play a really fast, attacking game, but not so much defence orientated and not necessarily so structured, but they’ve got a good forward line and a good midfield, they’re fast and have good basic skills and can certainly put the ball away. ‘’We’ll need to be very wary of their attack but we won’t be changing much, we’ll be trying

to get at them early and put the pressure on.” Tainui player-coach Jared Ovens said he was anticipating a high-tempo tie from the outset and his hoping to catch Wilson’s side on the counter-attack. “Their group of four in the middle will control everything, they’ll try and get goals early on and put pressure on us early on,” he said. “Hopefully we can catch them napping at the back if they do that and get some quick goals,” he said. Today’s final will begin at 4pm at the Aorangi Hockey Turf in Timaru.

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Brilliant start for Ko at Vancouver Two-time champion Lydia Ko shot a 5-under 67 yesterday at Vancouver Golf Club to take the early lead in the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open. Ko won in 2012 at Vancouver Golf Club at 15 years, four months to become the LPGA Tour’s youngest winner and fifth amateur champion. She successfully defended her title in 2013 as an amateur, win-

ning by five strokes in Edmonton, Alberta. The 18-year-old New Zealander has two victories this year. “It’s a really solid start,” Ko said. “I had the same score the last time I was here. “It’s always good to start off well, and hopefully this will give me some good momentum for

the next couple of days.” Danah Bordner and Sweden’s Pernilla Lindberg shot 68. Canadian teen Brooke Henderson, coming off a victory Sunday in the Portland Classic, played in the afternoon. Top-ranked Inbee Park, the Women’s British Open winner in her last start, opened with a 71. She has a tour-high four victories this season. - NZME

Brazilian left-back Alex Sandro has snubbed reported interest from Manchester United and Real Madrid to sign for Juventus from FC Porto. The 24-year-old Brazil international joins the Turin giants on a five-year deal for $A39.57m to be paid over three years. A statement from Juventus said: “Juventus Football Club can today confirm that Alex Sandro has completed a permanent switch from Porto for a fee of 26 million euros, to be paid over the next three years. “The 24-year-old has signed a five-year contract with the club.” Juventus won the league and Cup double last season. - AFP

Support for Blatter He might be president of a world body being investigated for bribery and corruption but Russian president Vladimir Putin believes Sepp Blatter deserves a Nobel prize for his stewardship of Fifa. Putin’s comments came on the back of a meeting in St Petersburg in the weekend when Blatter said Fifa passed a resolution offering full support for holding the 2018 World Cup in Russia. “We all know the situation developing around Mr Blatter right now. I don’t want to go into details but I don’t believe a word about him being involved in corruption personally,” Putin said. - AFP

Fox drops lead Ryan Fox has relinquished his lead at the latest European Challenge Tour event in Switzerland. After a stunning 10-under par opening round, the Kiwi golfer has fired a two under par 70 to lie second, four shots behind Spain’s Nacho Elvira. - NZME

Tiger hits form

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Tiger Woods fired his lowest round in two years yesterday, launching his quest for a place in the Fedex Cup play-offs with a sparkling six-underpar 64 at the US PGA Tour’s Wyndham Championship. Woods, bidding to bounce back from a disappointing missed cut at last week’s PGA Championship, roared back to form with seven birdies and a bogey at Greensboro’s Sedgefield Country Club.- AFP

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In brief Guptill’s hand ok Black Caps opener Martin Guptill’s been cleared of any serious injury to his hand. He hurt his hand while fielding in the opening ODI loss to South Africa and needed an injection before going out to bat. However MRI scans have revealed no fracture and Guptill will be monitored daily with a hope to playing in the remainder of the series. - NZME

Nicholson ‘fortunate’ Top New Zealand equestrian Andrew Nicholson is home from hospital and “extremely fortunate” not to be paralysed after he fell from his horse at a recent event. Nicholson fell at the final fence of the cross country section of an event in Gloucestershire earlier this month. The 54-year-old was taken to hospital, where he had neck surgery. “My surgeon, Mr Jeremy Reynolds, told me that the injury I sustained would have caused paralysis in 98 per cent of cases.” - NZME

Federer, Djokovic win

Paul Coll, Bill Brownlee and Chris van der Salm at the Rakaia Squash Club on Thursday evening.

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Exhibition match a big hit Rakaia Squash Club hosted Malvern Squash Club as part of the annual Brownlee Trophy challenge on Thursday evening. Malvern organised an exhibition between world-class players Paul Coll and Chris van der Salm to play a match that was

refereed by nationally qualified Jackie Hamilton of Otago. Coll was fresh from his stunning victory in the Australian Open final over Australia’s top player Cameron Pilley last week. President of the Rakaia

Squash Club Jeremy Duckmanton said the match was highly entertaining. “The match was played in good spirit, they were entertaining the crowd, it was fantastic,” he said. “It was a great occasion for

a small country squash club to have players of that calibre, and Malvern helped bring the match together.” Following the exhibition match, Rakaia reclaimed the Brownlee Trophy from Malvern.

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Mostert quickest as Ford battle heats up By Roje AdAimy Mark Winterbottom might be in the driver’s seat to take out this year’s V8 Supercars Championship, but Ford team-mate Chaz Mostert isn’t about to take his foot off the pedal and let him win. Mostert is third in the overall standings and 292 points behind Winterbottom heading into this weekend’s event at Sydney Motorsport Park, with Holden rival Craig Lowndes sandwiched between them. The reigning Bathurst winner has enjoyed three race victories, seven other podium finishes and eight pole positions so far this season in Prodrive Racing Australia’s pacy new FG X Falcon. He topped the timesheets

in practice yesterday ahead of Winterbottom, who was 0.4655secs off the lead pace in fifth. And, according to Mostert, there’s nothing to stop him from continuing his charge. “As far as I know, we’re all pushing for the championship still,” the 23-year-old said. “We’ve all got our own races to run. “That’s the good thing about Prodrive - they’ve always left it open. “They left it open last year when Frosty was leading the championship. “I think it’s a different situation this year ... I think we’ve got a better package going into the endurance series. “I haven’t been told of any

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team orders but, for me, I’m just going out there to win as many races as I can and try and get as many points in the championship as I can.” Despite his pace, Mostert was “pretty unhappy” with his car. “There’s a bit of work to do, but I guess it’s nice to be at the pointy end of the timesheets,” he added.

Lowndes didn’t have a great start to the round, finishing 19th fastest. The three-time champion, chasing his first V8s crown since 1999, admitted it was a tough day. “I just don’t think we got on top of it fully today,” he said. “We do have direction though and we do understand what we did. “I’m looking forward to tomorrow to put it all together.” Red Bull Racing team-mate and six-time champion Jamie Whincup fared a little better, crossing in 13th. He finished the second session in 13th place, but could’ve gone much better if he hadn’t been excluded for a curb violation. - AAP

Roger Federer engineered a 6-1 6-1 rout in less than an hour, outclassing the big-serving Kevin Anderson to join Novak Djokovic in the quarter-finals of the ATP and WTA Cincinnati Masters yesterday. Former champion Rafael Nadal was a casualty, losing to Spanish compatriot Feliciano Lopez 5-7 6-4 7-6 (7/3) in another night-time marathon. Djokovic survived a scare in the pursuit of a first career Cincinnati title, holding off David Goffin 6-4 2-6 6-3. - AFP

Freak accident V8 Supercars star James Courtney has been taken to hospital after being hit by debris blown over by a low-flying Navy helicopter at Sydney Motorsport Park. He was struck in the chest and ribs by a piece of hoarding outside the Holden Racing Team’s garage barely 10 minutes before yesterday’s second practice session. The helicopter was flying over pitlane as part of a military demonstration. Courtney was taken to the medical centre for checks, before being transported to Westmead Hospital for further assessment. - AAP

F1 start-line issues Mercedes’ problems with starting are beginning to become a big issue as the Formula One season resumes at this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix. World champion Lewis Hamilton and team-mate Nico Rosberg, his main championship rival, have been beaten off the mark in the last two races — despite locking down the front two places on the grid as usual in qualifying. “I’m very concerned,” Mercedes head of motorsport Toto Wolff says. “We were jumped by the two Williams at Silverstone, jumped by the two Ferraris in Hungary, which triggered the mess and the lap-one incident (when Hamilton went off the track).” - AP

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Keenan ready for Hea By James Ford

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eads Cup holders Mid Canterbury will kick-off their Heartland Championship campaign at the Ashburton Showgrounds against Hanan Shield rivals South Canterbury today. Today’s clash, which will be Mid Canterbury’s fourth defence of the shield, will be the first Heartland tie with Grant Keenan at the helm since the departure of Glenn Moore last year. Mid Canterbury’s Heartland preparations have been less than ideal following an unsuccessful Ranfurly Shield challenge against Hawke’s Bay last month. Preseason fixtures against Southland and South Canterbury were cancelled before Keenan’s side got some much-needed game-time in a 21-10 loss to North Otago in dismal conditions in Oamaru last Saturday. Despite a lack of playing time and a loss against the Old Golds in their last outing, Keenan is confident his side can bounce back against the old enemy today. “I think we’ll freshen up well this week, we had a lot of guys that hadn’t played a lot of football on Saturday, so the main thing was that they got time under their belts, but it’s a fresh start this week,” he said. “We don’t really mind having them (South Canterbury) first, it’s probably better to have them first up because I think they’re going to be a good side this year.” Following back-to-back Meads Cup triumphs as Glenn Moore’s assistant, Keenan has relished the challenge since being appointed head coach in October last year, and intends to maintain the high standards set by his predecessor. “It’s been a challenge and that always comes down to time because when you work fulltime and have a family and travel from Christchurch, it is a challenge, but it’s an enjoyable challenge and that’s why we coach,’’ he said. “I think having someone like Glenn Moore with us has been huge, he was able to bring what is done in that top echelon

of competition, and he’s been able to bring those standards to us.” The Hammers will be missing some key personnel in Gary Redmond, Brenton Connell, Richard Catherwood and Peni Manumanuniliwa, but Keenan is confident his squad has the depth of talent needed to succeed. “We have lost some key guys from last season, four or five really key guys, so to have them unavailable this year has left a hole, but it opens up opportunities for other guys.’’ Following two successful Heartland seasons, Keenan insisted his side’s focus will be on the upcoming round robin fixtures, not a potential three-peat. “Our main goal is to win the next eight games and we’ll worry about the semifinals, finals after that,” he said. “We’re looking forward to it, the Heartland Championship is such a great competition, it’s not like the Super 15 or the NPC, anyone can beat anyone on the day and that’s the great thing about it, if you’re five or 10 per cent off your game you will get beaten.”

HEARTLAND CHAMPIONSHIP Mid Canterbury v South Canterbury, Ashburton Showgrounds, 2.30pm. Mid Canterbury: Mark Andrew, Jackson Donlan, Tama Tuirirangi, Eric Duff, Adam Ross, Scott Vessey, Jon Dampney (c), Tevita Ula, Will Mackenzie, Murray Williams, Seta Koroitamana, Nete Caucau, Fa’aitu Tuamoheloa, Ashton Tuck, Matt Thatcher. Replacements: James Annabell, Adam Williamson, Maikeli Mudu, Sam Watt, Mavae Tomasi, Ewan Scott, Gideon Lambrechts. South Canterbury: Timaru Tafa, Sione Vea, Matt Fetu, Sione Tauelangi, Will Joines, Sam Vea, Frank Havea, Kieran Coll, Theo Davidson, Jason Merrett, Rupeni Cokonasign, Jared Matthews, Matt Kottier, Erenimo Tau, Jared Trevathan. Replacements: Junior Kolisio, Ben Hewitson, Kane-Paul Smith, Nick Strachan, George Lott, Miles Medlicott, Paula Fifita.

Grant Keenan’s side will kick-off their defence of the Meads Cup at the Ashburton

Hansen confident he can solve SBW’ By GreGor Paul Ma’a Nonu did more than destroy the Wallabies last week at Eden Park, he unwittingly cast Sonny Bill Williams, his rival for the All Black No 12 jersey, in the most unflattering light. Williams had made the simple business of running hard and straight on to the ball look damned near impossible the week before. Where he’d shuffled and dithered, Nonu erupted, as unstoppable as lava and about as much fun to touch.

If there had ever been a debate about which one of the two was the All Blacks’ first choice, there wasn’t by the time the Bledisloe Cup was secured. What actually became more relevant to ask was whether there was even room in the World Cup squad of 31 for Williams. Williams had three tests, bombed in two and went quite well in the other. It wasn’t really enough - especially when his performance in Sydney was so flawed. He looked like a player who was paying the price for chasing too many goals. There was no conviction or confidence the

way there would have been had he stayed with rugby in 2012. He looked like he was feeling his way all over again - as he had done in his first All Black stint. The game still doesn’t appear to be in his blood and his decision-making is contrived - learned by poring over hours of footage rather than innate. When Williams, equipped with shoulders broad enough to hold up the planet, opted to twice stop dead in his tracks and aimlessly kick the ball in Sydney, it was presumably because a thick fug had engulfed his brain.

A fug born of learning the plays by r rather than trusting his instincts. After Sydney, the All Black coaches much the same concerns. But they w never going to give up on him. An exquisitely constructed athlete wi near obsessive dedication to improve, W liams is a little like Midas in that ev coach he encounters ends up seeing gold It’s understandable. In 2012 when Williams had finally set in rugby, he was sensationally good. W he keeps it simple, doesn’t overdo the loading or trickery, he’s a genuine weapo

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This is your captain speaking . . . “It’s about working hard for each other, what we put in is what we get out. “If we don’t back each other up, we’re going to fall short and I think the advantage we’ve had over the last few years is that everyone has wanted to be here and die for the cause. “We’ve had a great team culture, there’s great camaraderie and that’s why we play footy, for the love of the game and times like this.” - Jon Dampney, Mid Canterbury skipper.

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The All Blacks want that player back for the World Cup and Steve Hansen is confident he’ll get him. Confident, because they think they have found the nub of the problem that has been holding Williams back. “He’s been a bit apprehensive because he has a knee injury that is going to be there for the rest of his life,” says Hansen. “He’s had it since he was 21 and he’s getting older obviously. “In the week of the Sydney test I think it bothered him a lot, so we have sat down and put a really good structure around that to try to help him ease that apprehension.

“I think he’s feeling better about it himself and you know confidence is a wonderful thing for an athlete and if you have plenty of it you can do whatever you like.” Could it really be that simple? One fireside chat and they were inside his head, all his troubles soothed away? Hansen thinks so, and he’s seen it happen many times before. Anxiety is like a weed, it doesn’t take much for it to grow and when it does it smothers everything. Nor, though, is it particularly difficult for it to be pulled out.

Being obsessive is great, but not when it’s fretting over tiny detail and being almost paranoid about making a mistake. Yes, he is going to go and he’s going to be given game time. How much and in what capacity is guesswork, but Hansen is sure that Williams is on the verge of re-establishing himself as a world class rugby player. “I am confident that he will go like that - get better and better - onwards and upwards since we had the sort-out. “In his own mind I think he can see light at the end of the tunnel.” - NZME

Burgess below par Ireland rugby great Brian O’Driscoll believes Sam Burgess’ attacking game is below the standard required at international level and was more impressed by Henry Slade during England’s victory over France last week. Former Souths superstar Burgess and Slade forged a new-look centre partnership as they made their Test debuts at Twickenham last Saturday in their only opportunity to advance claims for inclusion in Stuart Lancaster’s squad. O’Driscoll said it was Slade and not Burgess who caught his eye. “Burgess has proper defensive X Factor, of that there’s no doubt,” O’Driscoll said. - AAP

Genia in, White out Will Genia admits he’s embarrassed to have earned a Rugby World Cup spot ahead of fallen halfback Nic White. But now that he’s made Australia’s 31-man squad and restored to fitness after knee surgery, Genia is hoping to help lead the Wallabies to an unprecedented third World Cup in Britain. Genia hasn’t played since limping off with a knee injury in Australia’s lastgasp Rugby Championship opening win over South Africa a month ago. But Cheika kept the faith to pick the 59-Test veteran and one-time World Player of the Year nominee along with Nick Phipps in a touring party featuring just two specialist halfbacks. - AAP

Giteau savours recall Four years after being controversially overlooked, Matt Giteau can hardly believe he’s been recalled for a third Rugby World Cup appearance. Giteau’s selection in Australia’s 31-man squad was a mere formality after the veteran midfielder confirmed he remained up to the Test rigours during the Rugby Championship. But after three years in the international wilderness while playing in France, Giteau admitted he thought his Test days were long finished. “I thought that 92 caps was it for me,” said Giteau, who has now played 95 Tests and has the chance to join the magical 100-club during the sevenweek tournament. - AAP

Cheika defends call A bemused Michael Cheika has defended his decision to persist with mercurial playmaker Quade Cooper at the Rugby World Cup. Cheika’s gamble to pick the polarising No.10 in last weekend’s Bledisloe Cup decider proved a disaster with Cooper shouldering plenty of blame for the hammering at the hands of the All Blacks. Robbie Deans’s similarly stubborn persistence with the enigmatic No.10 backfired spectacularly at the last World Cup. Cheika leapt to the five-eighth’s defence. “I don’t know why people are quizzing that selection. He’s been a long-time player for Australia and I think he’s done well for us.” - AAP

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In brief Winning ugly Nice evening in Nelson and great conditions for some rugby adventure. That was the theory last night, until Tasman and Bay of Plenty took to Trafalgar Park. Both sides seemed to have overdosed on cranky pills which lasted until at least the interval and reduced the enjoyment level for everyone. Referee Nick Briant’s patience was tested to extremes in his 100th match as both teams’ tempers frayed from the kickoff. The final result was a win for Tasman 34-13. - NZME

Hickey, Piutau return

Christian Vainerere is intending to make a good impression on the Heartland coaches.

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Christian out to make impact BY JAMES FORD

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Christian Vainerere may not be involved in today’s Heartland fixture, but the 18-year-old will be a player to look out for this term following an impressive club season with Celtic. The former Ashburton College student, who can operate on the wing and at centre, arrived in New Zealand from the Cook Islands in 2010 and played for the 1st XV. Vainerere said he is hoping to

make a good impression on the coaches and the Mid Canterbury faithful. “I feel really happy, it’s a blessing for me because it was my goal at the start of the year. “I wanted to make it somewhere in my career and making it to Mid Canterbury is my first step,” he said. “I’m hoping I can earn my spot, it’s a big step up for me and I have to perform. “I want to get fitter, stronger and play well.”

Mid Canterbury coach Grant Keenan said the 94kg wing is developing well, and will be keeping a close eye on the young prospect. “Christian is a strong lad who has a real physical presence about him. “He’s very strong with ball in hand and has an eye for the outside gap, the exact type of winger we are looking for in the province,” he said. “In addition Christian is a great listener and is taking his

learnings on board, which is all you can ask for from a coaching perspective. “Christian will value the learning experience he will gain in being part of the Heartland group, especially around the individual requirements to play at this level. “We look forward to watching Christian grow and develop over the upcoming campaign.” Vainerere will be playing for Mid Canterbury Development against South Canterbury today.

■ OPINION

Should Richie accept a knighthood?

ew Zealand’s most revered sportsperson perhaps most revered person? - Richie McCaw turned down a knighthood a couple of years ago, and at the time that was definitely the right decision. Despite just having won a Rugby World Cup, and on the way cementing his reputation as one of the finest (and most courageous, playing a major tournament with a broken foot) rugby players in the world, there would have surely been some awkwardness in the dressing room, with a fully-fledged, genuine Knight of the Realm dishing out the orders. But if the rumour mill is correct, then immediately postRugby World Cup this year the offer will be on the table again.

There’s plenty of arguments for and against; social media is full of the usual whiners saying that firemen and nurses should be given knighthoods ahead of someone playing a game (why do they always pick on firemen and nurses?) and not doing stuff for the community, while another lot are convinced it’s all an ‘old boys’ network, and John Key is just dishing them out to his mates. There is absolutely no doubt that firemen and nurses form a vital part of our society, and are as deserving as anyone of recognition for their efforts - but they are. Those who reach the top of their profession regularly appear in the gongs lists, and in doing so they represent each and

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every fireman and nurse doing their good work throughout the country. But - what Richie does, and has done for well over a decade, is lead a group of New Zealanders out into the big wide world, where they have made a massive impression in so many areas, sporting, cultural and business, and as such he is representing each and every lock, first-five and fullback who slog their guts out every Saturday striving to be the best they can.

And serving the wider community magnificently while he’s at it, putting New Zealand on the map as surely as any dodgy trade deal. Sure the system has faults, which system doesn’t? But every society has a hierachy thing going on, and every society recognises its best soldiers/artists/philosophers in some way, and for us the top of the tree is getting the word ‘Sir’ in front of your name. There’s no way in the world Richie will be demanding all and sundry should be calling him Sir and bowing and scraping before him, but having recognition (that’s accepted world-wide) for his achievements? Yeah definitely. Arise, Sir Richie.

Auckland welcome back captain Simon Hickey and All Black Charlie Piutau for their home clash with defending ITM Cup Premiership champions Taranaki. Hickey has missed the past month with a knee injury while Piutau is back from All Black duty. Prop Charlie Faumuina will not play after being knocked out in a training accident on Tuesday, so he will have just one shot - next Saturday against Canterbury - at making a late run for an RWC berth. - NZME

Gold on track There was double golden delight for the New Zealand team at the junior world track cycling championships in Astana, Kazakhstan yesterday. The women’s team pursuit broke the world record on their way to an emphatic victory in the final over Australia. It is the first time a New Zealand women’s team pursuit has won the coveted rainbow jerseys, and just the second time any Kiwi woman has won a gold medal at the junior world championships since Sarah Ulmer in 1994. The celebrations continued when brilliant Manawatu prospect Campbell Stewart prevailed in the final sprint of the men’s 10km scratch race, the first time a New Zealander has won this title in nearly 50 years of the competition. - NZME

Clarke a great? Retiring Australia captain Michael Clarke received a guard of honour on his way to the wicket at The Oval yesterday he returned to the pavilion not too long after, his dismissal for 15 probably ensuring he will not leave the game with a 50+ average. If you’ve read any of the press in the fortnight since Australia’s Ashes capitulation, Clarke will leave the game just shy of being a great. He can still average 50 if he manages 157 not out or better in the second dig. - AAP

Sailors favourites World No 1 sailors Peter Burling and Blair Tuke will take a 15-point advantage into their final medal race in the 49er class at the Rio test event today. The pair, unbeaten since the London Olympics in 2012, added another couple of wins on Guanabara Bay yesterday to go with two fourth placings. That gives them five out of 10 races. - NZME

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■ RUGBY LEAGUE

U18 tests back on

Grinding his way to recovery By DaviD Skipwith Injured Warriors halfback Shaun Johnson still can’t walk, and faces four more months’ recovery after suffering a fractured left leg and dislocated ankle, but you won’t hear him complaining. Four weeks after the injury ended his season 26 minutes into the round 20 match against Manly, Johnson oozes positivity as his rehab process begins in earnest. Still confined to crutches and a moonboot and unable to place any weight on his foot, he hopes to begin walking in the next month and be back running by early December, but is already working on improving his fitness and conditioning. The Kiwis test No7 was back in the Warriors gym yesterday, spending the first of many long hours doing cardio work under the watchful eye of former clubman and unforgiving team trainer Ruben Wiki. “I had my first session on the grinder today and had a bit of a blowout which was good,” said Johnson. “Rubes is chomping at the bit to get me back in and start working me out and he was really good for me today. “He just broke me into it and I’m sure over the coming weeks he’ll test me out more.

Injured New Zealand Warrior Shaun Johnson talks about his road to recovery.

“It was pretty tough but it’s just about taking it day by day. And its feeling better every day - my foot, my ankle, everything - so I’m glad it’s heading in the right direction. “I’ve done a couple of weights sessions this week. “I’ve come in three times so that’s the plan until the offseason and then I’ll be able to make some serious gains with rehabbing and getting some range back in it. “The 24-year-old knows there will be days ahead when enthusiasm and motivation are in short supply, but just needs to look

around him to find reasons to keep plugging away. “There will be sessions, even the one this morning, where I’m on the grinder, but what for at this stage? Why am I doing it? “But you’ve got to find a reason,” he said. “I’ve got some other players down there with me. Ben Henry is a classic example. “He’s been doing that all year, so really, I don’t have it too bad, do I? There’s always someone worse off than you.” Next year’s Dick Smith NRL Auckland Nines tournament at Eden Park over Waitangi week-

The New Zealand Under 18s side’s two test series against the Australian Schoolboys will go ahead after an agreement was reached between the financially strapped New Zealand Rugby league and NRL yesterday. Two scheduled games for September 27 October 2 in Brisbane have now been resurrected after the NZRL was forced to withdraw from the fixtures two weeks ago because it could not finance the trip. - NZME

end February 6 and 7 is the light at the end of the tunnel. Johnson’s dominant cut and thrust performances over the first two years of the tournament have come to define the short-form game, and he is desperate to feature in the third edition and embrace his status as the event’s poster boy. “The Nines is a massive tournament for me and the people of New Zealand. “For the Warriors, we love playing in it, so I wouldn’t want to miss it. That falls well outside that recovery period so I should be able to get there. “The only way I resonate with it [the Nines] is being a local kid growing up here, and if there was a tournament like this that came in, I would love nothing more than to go to it. “That’s why I want to do everything I can to give kids that experience. If that means me being the face of it then that’s the angle I’ll come at it from. “Watching on from the coach’s box as the Warriors struggle in his absence has been difficult, but his stint as a spectator has given him a fresh outlook on the game he loves. He’ll be there again for today’s final home game against the North Queensland Cowboys as the Warriors look to end a fivegame losing streak. - NZME

Tedesco targeted Cronulla will zero in on James Tedesco in today’s round 24 NRL clash with Wests Tigers in a bid to keep their chances of a top four finish intact. The Sharks’ hopes of a finals double chance were dealt a significant blow in Monday’s heavy loss to Melbourne, but they can still sneak into the top four if they win their three remaining games of the regular season and other results go their way. The Tigers sit equal last on the ladder and are coming off a last-start loss to Newcastle. Fullback Tedesco has been one of the stars of 2015, illustrated by his status as the game’s leading tackle breaker. - AAP

Booze ban ‘boring’ Famous teetotaller Wayne Bennett says he won’t copy NRL rival Sydney Roosters by slapping a booze ban on Brisbane. “They (bans) are as boring as I am,” said Bennett ahead of tonight’s top of the table clash with the Roosters in Sydney. The Roosters, the bookies’ favourites to win their second NRL title in three years, have agreed to an indefinite alcohol-free run ahead of the finals. The Roosters swear by the move after their 2013 premiership. Bennett said: “They will have a boring month but best of luck to them. They’ll be no fun. There’s no booze ban here. If teams want to do them then good on them but I am not a fan of them personally.” - AAP

Front row battle may settle minor premiership By JameS macSmith Tonight’s top-of-the-table showdown between Sydney Roosters and Brisbane - and even the NRL minor premiership - could be settled by another brutal bat-

tle between Jared Waerea-Hargreaves and Sam Thaiday. The two form front rowers staged a ding-dong personal battle in the clubs’ round six fixture, when Broncos star Thaiday enjoyed a points win and Bris-

bane defeated the Roosters in golden point. That was back in April amid a four-game losing streak for the Tricolours, who have won their last nine straight. Brisbane rocketed to the top of the ladder on the back of

their early season form and have stayed there. But the Roosters can claim top spot with a win at Allianz Stadium over a Broncos side who have lost two of their last three matches. - AAP

Taranaki gallops Today at New Plymouth Raceway

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4 562L7 Lamason (6) 57 ...............................J Riddell 5 31895 Time Bomb tdmh (4) 57 ..................R Myers 6 20x35 Skychi (12) 56.5 .........................L Hemi (a2) 7 50517 Itsalright tmh (5) 56.5 ........R Goldsbury (a2) 8 26076 Power Trip dm (2) 56.5 ............ D Turner (a1) 9 4x291 Onefortheditch m (8) 56 .................. K Myers 10 75345 Spendaholic m (3) 56 ..............S McKay (a2) 11 355Px Lumiere Blue tdh (1) 56 ........ N Teeluck (a3) 12 5x044 Floozie Cat dm (11) 54.5 ............. D Mo (a3) 13 x5504 Raisedinasandpit dm (14) 54 ........L Allpress 14 08x09 Rosamosa (7) 54 ................... L Werner (a4) 6 3.41pm ITM NEW PLY BUILDING SUPPLIES INTERPROVINCIAL $50,000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 1600m 1 55748 Werio tdm (11) 55.5 ........................ R Jones 2 x1221 Spoke To Carlo dm (12) 57 .............R Myers 3 06243 Vincent Street (2) 59 .....................M McNab 4 5x643 Close Up b (15) 55.5 .................S McKay (a) 5 78187 Khemosabi tdm (1) 59.5.....................M Hills 6 64826 Old Drumble dm (7) 58 ...................J Riddell 7 28191 Kindaleica tdm (10) 54 ...............A Jones (a) 8 11227 Keyora dm (9) 59............................H Tinsley 9 02672 Red King mb (13) 54.5 ..................L Allpress 10 x5183 Cool Moon tm (5) 56 ................... R Hannam 11 13180 Jackfrost dm (14) 55 ....................L Hemi (a) 12 540x0 Miss Enders 54 ............................ Scratched 13 1412x Mangaroa Flo Jo tmb (6) 54............ K Myers 14 68810 Brave Kat dmh (3) 54 ....................D Bradley 15 51433 Choice tdmh (4) 54 ..................... D Johnson 16 12736 Justlikeyasister m (8) 54 Emergency: Justlikeyasister

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■ METHVEN TOURISM

New role at the ‘coalface’ for Birt

he “wall of worry” always exists around financial markets. Forgotten during bull markets and over-used during bear markets, the attention on Greek issues and the collapse in Chinese equity markets shows we continue to climb this wall. However, neither event is derailing markets or the global recovery. Greece is less important than it was five years ago. Chinese economic growth is expected to slow, but the changes in share prices are not a reflection of the Chinese economy and should have negligible impact on it, given 90 per cent of Chinese household savings are in banks. Instead we continue to focus on the rebound in the United States and the emerging cyclical recovery in Europe. In our view, the central issue (in terms of market direction) is the divergence in monetary policy expected in the second half of 2015, which would result in significant interest rate differences between major global economic regions. In particular the US Federal Reserve is expected to take the first step in normalising policy (towards higher interest rates) while the next steps in the UK would also be towards a tightening bias. This would be in contrast with the lower interest rate stances in Europe, Japan and also the downward rate bias in NZ and Australia. Exchange rates movements are expected to be the transmission mechanism.

Selwyn Sloan and Michael Coleman MONEY MATTERS

Global Headline equity returns were mixed over the past three months. Of the markets we monitor the worst performers were Hong Kong equities. These were impacted by Chinese equity market falls. Clearly Chinese equities ran up too far in the first part of 2015. Following the recent declines, forward PE multiples now appear more realistic. Developed markets fared the best with most markets delivering double-digit returns, taking into account the weaker NZ dollar. Japanese and US equities provided the strongest gains with Japanese equity returns bolstered by significant monetary policy stimulus. United States equity returns were largely currency driven, with market performance following the historic trend of marking time ahead of interest rate rises.

Aust and NZ Australian equities underperformed most markets, with resource sectors declining with commodity prices. Pressure on banks continues with the regulator increasing capital

adequacy requirements. Consumer sectors were also weak with the retail and media sectors declining. Healthcare companies and others with foreign earnings were the strongest performers. Our New Zealand equity market managed a positive return, but was held back by a weaker electricity sector.

Fixed interest market In the New Zealand fixed interest market, interest rates were dominated by a cut of 25 basis points to the Official Cash Rate with indications of further easing. Two more cuts are priced into forward rates. This is great news for borrowers, but harder for income investors. Expected increases in United States short-term interest rates are likely to be staged, with the impacts gauged before successive moves are made. We expect authorities to be cautious about fixed interest market instability, should longer-dated bonds rise too rapidly. This, and surplus global capital, should mean any increases in global longer-term bonds will be moderated. Selwyn Sloan and Michael Coleman are Investment Advisors with Forsyth Barr Limited in Ashburton and are both Authorised Financial Advisers. This column is general in nature and should not be regarded as personalised investment advice. Disclosure Statements are available on request and free of charge.

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to be continuing that but in a different role. “I’m just super excited to be back at private sector tourism,” Mr Birt said. “It’s really nice to be back at the coalface.” Mr Birt also operates family businesses Back Country New Zealand and Red Cottage at Staveley. He is based in the Methven Travel office, which has recently moved from its former Main Street location to the Methven Heritage Centre. His appointment has almost doubled the staff on-site, with Mrs Monk being the only other fulltime employee. She said it was good to have his talent and expertise on board.

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Nigel Birt has taken the newly created position of Methven Travel Group business development manager. He is based at Methven Travel with ofﬁce manager Jodie Monk.

Former Experience Mid Canterbury general manager Nigel Birt is pleased to be back at the coalface of private sector tourism in Mid Canterbury. The dad of three, who lives at Staveley with wife Myriam, has taken the newly-created position of business development manager at Methven Travel Group. The inbound tourism operation business is owned and directed by Dave Dynes of Methven. Under its umbrella are three businesses – Methven Travel, which operates a ski and airport bus, Southern Cross Lodge and Amazing Space Golf Tours. Part of Mr Birt’s new job

will be dealing with Australian wholesalers packaging tours for Methven and developing new products and packages utilising Methven’s resources. He said Tourism New Zealand had a strategy to promote golf, cycling and hiking in the country. “I will try and work in the product with their initiatives,” Mr Birt said. He had worked with Mr Dynes and Methven Travel office manager Jodie Monk in a professional capacity previously in his Experience Mid Canterbury role. He had enjoyed the Experience Mid Canterbury focus on growing tourism in Mid Canterbury and was now happy

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Saturday, August 22, 2015

25 years of hope This year marks 25 years of hope and the impact a spring soaked daffodil can have on the lives of ordinary New Zealanders struggling with a devastating disease. From its first year of inception Daffodil Day has become both a fund-raising flagship and a symbol of compassion and togetherness. Originating from an idea born at an International Cancer Society Fundraising Convention in the United States Daffodil Day began in 1991 following a limited pilot scheme twelve months earlier. The inaugural Daffodil Day raised $1.2 million and today that figure has risen to between $4.5 and $5 million annually. It has become the Cancer Society of New Zealand’s principle fundraising earner with the street collection vital to an organisation that does not receive Government funding. Over the years vast armies of volunteers have responded to the call to arms, headed by ANZ bank – who continues to be an integral and unwavering supporter of the cause. CEO Claire Austin says it isn’t melodramatic to suggest public support has helped save lives.

“When times are tough, we are there for each other in support of the one in three New Zealanders affected by cancer.” The daffodil was chosen to represent the cause because it has long been thought of as a symbol of hope and as one of the first flowers of spring, its bright yellow bloom reminds every person of the joys the new season will bring. Ms Austin says while it remains a symbol of regeneration it also was a symbol of regeneration “after the toughest of tribulations.” With around 21,000 New Zealanders diagnosed with cancer every year and 9,000 losing the battle, the Cancer Society has become a lifeline for many. All funds raised on Daffodil Day go back into the region they were raised in – ensuring long term support to the

community. So this Daffodil Day, reflect on 25 years, the message of hope and the encouraging fall in cancer rates as we learn more – and make sure you donate to the wonderful volunteers. Every little bit helps.

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Saturday, August 22, 2015

Cancer Society a lifeline to cancer By NadiNe Porter

Barry Hayman - a cancer survivor.

It wasn’t an ordinary illness. It displayed little in the way of symptoms and was rare in younger men, so when funeral director Barry Hayman discovered he had a problem after feeling tired, he was shocked to find out it was serious. Like many men he ignored his weariness but eventually he chose to see his local GP. Initially all seemed well, until blood tests revealed abnormalities. Eventually a colonoscopy would reveal a tumour the size of an orange embedded in his bowel and it was estimated it had been there for three and a half years. His initial surgeon was shocked that Barry had not experienced any pain and was fearful the tumour could cause a blockage unless operated on immediately. But as if that wasn’t difficult enough for Barry and his wife Beth to come to terms with, a CT

scan in Blenheim three days later revealed further serious tumours – this time in three secondary tumours in his liver. Barry told his surgeon, on receipt of the news that he was determined to be positive and he would fight it “all the way.” However, his surgeon warned him he might not be able to fight it – that it may in fact be terminal. Faced with a life altering illness Barry continued to work in an effort to continue his normal routine. He continued to be positive although the cancer diagnosis and outlook was not overly optimistic. The next week, in May 2009, he went to Nelson under a top surgeon who removed two foot of his bowel in a four and a half hour operation. He remained in hospital for fifteen days, during which time he lost 15 kilograms. He was told that he was lucky the tumour was high up in the bowel as that meant no

colostomy bag, and even though he was weak and exhausted he understood how lucky he was that the secondary cancer in his liver had not spread via the lymph nodes – but instead via his bloodstream. But there was still the issue of his liver and the three tumours populating it. What followed would test anyone’s resolve. Intensive chemotherapy with a drip for eight hours carrying the heaviest doses of an intravenous cancer killing drug anyone in New Zealand had experienced up until that time and massive doses of tablets over a three week cycle, which he had three of. They caused incredible fatigue, tingling in his hands, inflamed nerve endings, failing appetite and a feeling of his skin peeling off whenever he removed his clothing over his chemo arm. This was all carried out in the hope that it would shrink the tumours in a time when liver surgery was very new to New

Zealand. Barry’s surgery was the biggest operation done in Christchurch at that time. Luckily a Christchurch surgeon described as a ‘liver genius’ offered Barry what would be a lifeline. The surgeon told him that if he didn’t get surgery to remove the tumours he would have less than twelve months to live, but if he did have surgery he only had a 50 per cent chance of waking up at the other end. Barry didn’t have to think about it and immediately chose surgery. In September 2009 he underwent 10 and a half hours of surgery, during which time his body was slowed down to keep the bleeding in the liver to a minimum. It was a dangerous procedure but his positivity and the help of his wife and the Cancer Society saw him go home some nine weeks later. Barry had another three cycles of chemotherapy after his surgery. During his time of recuperation

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sufferin Christchurch when he needed to be near the hospital he stayed at Daffodil House along with other patients. Cancer Society volunteers popped in regularly with baking and a chat and offered support Barry has never forgotten. Now, as manager of Paterson’s Funeral Services, Barry appreciates every day. He speaks often to groups about his journey with cancer – and knows it is a continuing journey where blood tests every three months, and regular GP visits help to ensure his health. He can’t speak highly enough of the Cancer Society and events such as the Relay for Life. For him they were a lifeline in a time of great stress and gave him information and advice in a time of confusion. Keep positive remains his message to those suffering from a cancer diagnosis. “I’ve been given a second chance.”

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Saturday, August 22, 2015

Friends, family and faith keep me strong By Michelle NelsoN

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Nicky Hogg was surprised when she was diagnosed with bowel cancer five years ago. She underwent surgery to remove a section of her bowel and life quickly returned to normal. Nicky was soon back at her job as a manager of the ATS customer service centre. “The surgeon said it was gone – they had got it all and there was no need for chemotherapy. I was destined to live a long and happy life.” Her peace was short lived. Two years later Nicky’s sister lost her battle with pancreatic cancer. In 2013 bowel cancer was once more on her mind, after tumours were discovered in her liver. Once again Nicky put her faith in her surgeon, however this time the news was not positive. “The plan was to cut out half my liver and leave it to recover before going back to have the other half removed, but it didn’t work out. “I had open-and-close surgery – when they found the cancer had already spread to my lymph nodes they closed me up again.”

With the discovery came discussion around life expectancy. “I had six months without chemo and up to a year with it.” Nicky opted to have the treatment and began her first round of chemo six weeks after the diagnosis in February last year. “It worked well and bought me about 13 months before the tumours started growing again.” She continued to work but gave up the demanding customer service role to become the Market Manager Dairy. “The crew at ATS were wonderful – everyone from the Board of Directors, the CEO and managers to the staff were awesome, very, very supportive.” Last November Nicky retired. “My life expectancy is quite short so this is my retirement – it’s all I get.” While accepting the fact, Nicky remains positive and motivated to make the most of the time she has. “I’m an extremely positive person which has had an effect on how I’ve made it this far.” This attitude combined with demand has resulted in

Nicky establishing her own business, which she calls Positive Mentoring, aimed at helping other people plan for success. “I didn’t set out to do it – people were asking me. “The other thing which has contributed has been the positive support of my family and friends, and my faith – that has made it all worthwhile. I don’t like being around

I’ve made friends who I meet for lunch.” “The Relay for Life was also an incredible experience. I stayed the whole distance and walked most of the way – for about 13 hours I think. All those other people are here walking for people like me and I thought I can’t be sitting on my chuff.” Two weeks later Nicky was back for another round of chemo

While accepting the fact, motivated to make the most negative people – I find it very draining. “Health is everything – you can have all the riches in the world but without your health you have nothing.” The Cancer Society has also provided Nicky with support and friendship on her journey. “They are great people, so are all the volunteers who do a huge amount. I’ve done the ‘Look Good, Feel Good’ course and ‘Canbead’ with Sarah Clifford.

– with her feet still blistered from her Relay for Life effort. Sitting in the bright sun in her living room with views out to the mountains and surrounded by her art and knitting, Nicky does not look like woman in the midst of her third round of chemo. “I try to look well and project positivity – I want to be a role model for people so if they find themselves in my position they won’t be scared.” Nicky is making the most of

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every day, one day at a time and finds comfort in the words of philosopher Henry David Thoreau: ‘It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day,

a trip around the top half of the South Island planned for next month. “We’ve bought a new caravan – the plan is to head out to the highway, turn left and hit the road. Whale watching in Kaikoura is on my bucket list but other than that we will just wing it. I’m looking forward to spending time in some quiet remote places, walking and

Nicky remains positive and of the time she has. that is the highest of arts’. “When I’m on the go I try to fit the most I can into every day – you can only do so many Sudoku and so much knitting. “People say I’m an inspiration. I do have down days but in all honesty everyone does. Being retired through this round of chemo has made a huge difference. There is more time to enjoy pottering around in the garden and knitting.” Travel is also on the radar with

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gym because I have very low immunity.” Mega doses of vitamin C are also part of the wellness regime. While remaining positive about the benefits of chemo treatment, Nicky says the reality is that it’s hard work. She would like to see the proposed national bowel cancer screening programme rolled out without delay. She encourages anyone with a family history of cancer and those who feel something is wrong to seek advice without delay. “If you get a diagnosis early bowel cancer is not a death sentence. Nicky has found comfort in her faith and regularly attends church. “I’m not afraid of dying, it’s the process beforehand that bothers me – I’ve read about what to expect, and the church does give me peace. “Friends, family and faith keep me strong.” She encourages everyone to support the

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day landed near four military posts but caused no injuries. No one was reported injured in the South, either, though hundreds were evacuated from frontline towns. The loudspeaker broadcasts began after South Korea accused the North of planting land mines that maimed two South Korean soldiers earlier this month. North Korea denies this, too. Authoritarian North Korea, which has also restarted its own propaganda broadcasts, is extremely sensitive to any criticism of the government run by leader Kim Jong Un, whose family has ruled since the North was founded in 1948. The loudspeaker broadcasts are taken seriously in Pyongyang because the government does not want its soldiers and

residents to hear outsiders criticise what they call worldleading human rights abuse and economic mismanagement that condemns many to abject poverty, South Korean analysts say. South Korea has raised its military readiness to its highest level. Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesman Jeon Ha-kyu told a televised news conference that South Korea is ready to repel any additional provocation. Escalation is a risk in any military exchange between the Koreas because after two attacks blamed on Pyongyang killed 50 South Koreans in 2010, South Korea’s military warned that any future North Korean attack could trigger strikes by South Korea that are three times as large. - AP

■ THAILAND

Foreigners queried in hunt for bomber Swedish national Marcus Westberg was typing on his laptop when Thai police came knocking. He is one of a handful of foreigners, including an Australian, who have been questioned because of their similar looks to the primary Bangkok bomb suspect. Initially Westberg, who is visiting Thailand on holiday, thought the questioning on Tuesday afternoon in Bangkok was just part of a routine security check. But then police asked him to account for his wherea-

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suspect and any accomplices he may have had. Most appear to have come under suspicion because they share a passing resemblance to a primary suspect, seen leaving a backpack under a bench at the shrine in Bangkok’s bustling shopping district just moments before the bomb went off. A sketch of the alleged bomber released by Thai police shows a young man dressed in a yellow T-shirt with dark shaggy hair, a suggestion of stubble and thick-rimmed glasses. The same day Westberg was

being questioned, Australian model and aspiring actor Sunny Burns posted a selfie on Instagram from inside a Thai police station. He said he had handed himself into police after amateur internet sleuths started posting his details online as a potential bomb suspect. Westberg, who has a beard and neck-length hair, said his encounter with Thai police was “fairly relaxed” and that officers showed “politeness and professionalism” throughout the one-hour conversation. - AFP

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More Cosby accusers Two more women have joined the growing list of dozens who have accused disgraced TV star Bill Cosby of sexual assault in the 1970s. They bring to around 50 the number of women who claim abuse at the hands of the pioneering AfricanAmerican comedian who played a beloved family doctor on hit 1980s sitcom The Cosby Show. Charlotte Fox said that she was working as an extra on a film set when she met Cosby, who invited her out for the evening. “We ate and drank. I became ill,” she said. Fox said she remembers being in bed naked. “I was incapacitated and couldn’t say no. He engaged in sexual activity with me. It was not consensual.” - AFP

Euro migrant crisis Europe’s interior and foreign ministers will meet in mid-October to discuss how to respond to the huge influx of migrants and refugees arriving at EU borders, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says. The meeting, to be followed by further talks in Berlin, will pave the way for broader discussions at a November EU summit in Malta that will also be attended by African leaders. - AFP

Rallying cry for jihadists The US military prison in Guantanamo Bay should be shut down before President Barack Obama leaves office, Pentagon chief Ashton Carter has said, calling the facility a “rallying cry for jihadi propaganda”. He said the Department of Defense was actively searching for an alternative detention facility. “This is not something, in my judgment, that we should leave to the next president,” Carter told reporters at the Pentagon yesterday. He said he and the White House were on the same page when it came to closing the prison, as Obama promised to do before being elected. - AFP

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Call Toni & Peter May on 03 308 8893 to find out more! 151 Alford Forest Rd, Ashburton www.petermay.co.nz

Applications close September 4, 2015

To be successful in these roles, you will be enthusiastic about working with food and will be able to create products to the high standard our customers deserve. You will have a tidy appearance and a high standard of personal hygiene. Honesty and reliability are essential, as is the ability to work as part of a great team and be able to deliver a high level of customer service. If either of these positions appeals to you, please apply in writing to:

www.ashburtondc.govt.nz/careers

We are currently looking for a suitable person to join our Canterbury Branch, based in Ashburton. The successful applicant will be required to install aluminium tubes into soil using a motorised auger or breaker hammer. You will also be required to monitor soil moisture using a neutron probe and provide scheduling advice to our farming clients on a scheduled basis. You will be assigned tasks as part of a team, with a strong support network to help. Experience with operating small motors and a farming/horticultural background is a definite advantage. Full training is given.

Service Deli Positions We currently have a full time and a part time position available in our Service Deli.

Both positions will include a weekend shift.

Applications close 24 August 2015.

HydroServices provide soil moisture monitoring and irrigation management advice to growers throughout NZ.

SITUATIONS VACANT

Executive Assistant

Seasonal Position in the Canterbury Branch

Ashburton Guardian

Guardian Situations Vacant

307 7900

Human Resources Manager Ashburton New World PO Box 444, Ashburton 7740 Applications close on September 1, 2015.

RURAL TRADING POST

T C LOVETT

AGRI CONTRACTING LTD FODDERBEET

MAIZE

WINDROWING

WHAT ARE YOU PAYING for your FODDER BEET PLANTING? We are available for Fodder Beet planting throughout Canterbury. BOOK YOUR PLANTING WITH US NOW!

Fodder Beet planting pricing starting from

$120 per ha

CONTACT Tim Lovett 021 062 9202 or Email: cazwells@xtra.co.nz Providing planting & drilling services in Canterbury since 2005

Birthday Greetings Brought to you by Kitchen Kapers.

Lily Jane Reed Happy 12th Birthday Lily. With our love Grandma and Grandad Murchie. xx

Hayley Skevington Happy Birthday to a very special 3 year old. Lots of love from Grandad and Jo. 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 level 3 office for collection after notice has appeared in the paper.

Book now!! Cake Decorating Classes

With Kirsten Day Mid August Be quick limited spaces From only $10pp To enquire phone 308 8287

The Arcade, Ashburton 03 308 8287 www.kitchenkapers.co.nz

Guardian Motoring

307 7900

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Saturday, August 22, 2015

RURAL TRADING POST

REAL ESTATE

LIFESTYLE PLUS

Elgin

328 Beach Road East

Deadline Sale

This immaculate 8 hectare lifestyle block is only minutes from town. The home boasts a open plan kitchen, dining and living, separate formal lounge, four bedrooms (master with ensuite and walk in wardrobe), office and separate bathroom. Further complemented by a double garage, a seven bay shed and cattle yards.

12pm, Thurs 17 Sept 2015 (unless sold prior) View Sun 11-11.45am www.bayleys.co.nz/550472

Mike Preston

M 027 430 7041 B 03 307 2400 mike.preston@bayleys.co.nz

WHALAN AND PARTNERS LTD, BAYLEYS, LICENSED UNDER THE REA ACT 2008.

TRADES, SERVICES

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

For all subscriber enquiries, missed delivery, new subscriptions, temporary stops, call our subscriber hotline 0800 274 287 0800 ASHBURTON

WANTED WANTED shed for rent for workshop, may be some late night work. Suitable for working on cars in Ashburton district consider. Anything must be secure. Txt or phone 0277 399 325 after 7pm. WORK WANTED NOW Male late 40s with general manager’s certificate and admin / management / parts experience. Phone 027-3158086.

TRADES, SERVICES

MATURE couple with vast experience cleaning have available to clean a few houses, Methven/Ashburton. Reasonable rates, references available. Phone Sharon 303 0956.

ashburton

FEED BARLEY SELL. Approx 75 tonnes. Top grade. $330 tonne on farm. Three months deferred payment, interest free. Ph 0274 360 860.

COMPUTER PROBLEMS? For prompt reliable service. Contact Kelvin Boult, KJB Systems Ltd, 4 Ascot Place. Ph 308 8989. 30 years Local service. Same day service if possible. SUPERGOLD REAL ESTATE THINKIING OF SELLING? Discount card welcomed. Save yourself up to 15k. COMPUTER Tuneup and Looking for my first home Repairs, New Computer $250 – $270k. Tinwald or Sales & Setup, Internet setup, Allenton. Needs work? No Onsite Day Or Evenings and worries. Phone Logan on 027 Weekends, LOW FEES, call 331 0985. Robin Johnstone at Networks Firewalls & PCS 308 1440 or 027-768 4058. HOME handyman available. Minor repairs, painting etc. Ph 027-677-1952.

RENZ

RURAL TRADING POST PLANTS, PRODUCE

Guardian Job Vacancies

307 7900

CONVENTIONAL pea straw. Weed free. $6 per bale delivered. Ph 027 390 0002.

MOTORING

WHEEL alignments at great prices. Maximise the life of your tyres with an alignment from Neumanns Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills Street. Phone 308-6737.

E N R Z ashburton

MEETINGS, EVENTS Ashburton Junior Athletics Club A.G.M. Tuesday September 1, 2015 7.30pm Cricket Pavilion Domain Oval All welcome Contact: Bridgitte 308 1490

MEETINGS, EVENTS Ashburton Rowing Club A.G.M. Monday, August 24, 2015 at the Lake House Meeting 7pm Supper to follow Any apologies, nominations, etc, please contact Secretary at ashburtonrowingclub@ gmail.com or on 027 310 2442.

Trevor Hurley Real Estate Limited REAA 2008

FLOORING

Call today for an obligation free quote East to Burnett St, Ashburton • Phone 03 308 5269

Trevor Hurley Real Estate Limited REAA 2008

Daily Events Saturday

Main Street, Methven. 10.00am - 12.00pm VINTAGE CAR CLUB. Museum and parts shed open. 86 Maronan Road. Tinwald. 10.00am - 12.00pm ST ANDREWS ANGLICAN CHURCH. Preloved clothing bargains. St Andrews Anglican Church, Cnr Thomson and Jane Street. Tinwald.

10.00am - 1.00pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. New rooms open for research. Ground floor Heritage Centre, all welcome, West Street. 10.00am - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton

Airport, Seafield Road. 5.00pm ASHBURTON MASTERS SWIMMERS SOCIAL EVENINGS. A social group for Masters swimming. E A Stadium, River Terrace. 6.00pm HOLY NAME PARISH. Mass, Holy Name Church, Havelock Street.

9.30am ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH. 8.00am Service and worship with Rev Tevita ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Taufalele. Baring Square Church Lounge. Holy Communion, Park Street. Baring Square East. 8.30am 10.00am HOLY SPIRIT CHURCH. Mass, Holy Spirit Church, Thomson Street, ASHBURTON MODEL AERO CLUB. Radio controlled aeroplane flying, Tinwald. weather permitting. Lovetts Road, off 9.30am Maronan Road. ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. 10.00am Worship Service. 48 Allens Road. METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. 9.30am New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture ST PAUL’S PREBYTERIAN CHURCH. Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Combined Service at Baring Square Main Street, Methven. Methodist Church Lounge, Baring Square 10.00am East. ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH.

Holy Communion, Park Street. 10.00am ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Church service with Rev David Brown, Cnr Havelock and Park Street. 10.00am HOLY NAME CATHOLIC CHURCH. Mass, Sealy Street. 10.00am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion every Sunday. 151-153 Thomson Street, Tinwald. 10.30am VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

10.30am EVANGELICAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Worshipping God and transforming lives. 63 Princes Street, Netherby. 1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road. 1.30pm ASHBURTON M.S.A. PETANQUE CLUB. Club and family day, everyone welcome. M.S.A. Grounds, 115 Racecourse Road. 2.00pm ASHBURTON CIVIC MUSIC COUNCIL.

Festival Concert, admission at door, adults $5, children free. St Andrews Presbyterian Church, Havelock Street. 4.30pm - 6.00pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Youth group BBQ, 48 Allens Road, Allenton. 7.00pm VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall). 7.00pm ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Church Service with Rev David Brown in the Sinclair Centre, Cnr Havelock and Park Street.

Monday

GROUP. New rooms open for research. Ground floor Heritage Centre, East St. All welcome. 1.15pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Mahjong - counting. Waireka Croquet Clubrooms, Philip Street. 6.00pm RAKAIA REAL WOMEN.

Circuit training, 1st time free. St Andrews Church Hall, Bridge Street, Rakaia. 6.00pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in hall. 48 Allens Road, Allenton. 7.30pm CATHOLIC WOMENS LEAGUE. Euchre . Holy Name Parish Hall, Winter Street.

7.30pm HINDS AND DISTRICT CITIZEN ASSOCIATION (HDCA). To improve Hinds and surrounding areas. Hinds Hall, Davidson Room. 7.30pm ASHBURTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. A.G.M. and competition awards, decorative “spring”. Sports Pavilion, Walnut Avenue.

9.30am ST ANDREWS ANGLICAN CHURCH TINWALD. Community garden working bee and fellowship, each Saturday, weather permitting. Behind the St Andrew’s Anglican Church, 157 Thomson Street, Tinwald.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY INC. Open Thursday and Saturday mornings www.toylibrary.ashburtononline.co.nz/ Methodist Church Hall, Baring Square East. 10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages.

Sunday

6.00am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in hall, 48 Allens Road, Allenton. 9.45am THE PLAINS LADIES PROBUS CLUB. Monthly meeting held in the Doris Linton Lounge, R.S.A. Cox Street. 10.00am

METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Main Street, Methven. 1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Seafield Road. 1.00pm - 4.00pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY

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Saturday, August 22, 2015

PLANTS, PRODUCE

FOR SALE

Potatoes 10kg $4.99 bag Leeks 2 for Easypeel Mandarins 1kg Pears 1kg Tele Cucumber

$2 $3.99 bag $1.99 bag $1.99 ea

Specials available from 18/08 - 25/08

OPEN 7 DAYS The Green Grocer Fresh Fruit & Vege

LOST, FOUND

LOST around Ashburton, Tom Ford reading glasses. Large dark frames. Phone 303 7366.

LIVESTOCK, PETS

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 03 348 9439. Looking for a builder with a little more experience?  Housing  Commercial  Farm

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION

Main South Road Tinwald 308-1095

GRAZING

GOOD grass wanted for lamb grazing in spring, mobs 300 AKAROA - CHARMING, plus. Top money for top feed. spacious holiday home, 3 Phone Mitch 027 313 1320. bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, all electric heating. Sky, all mod cons, short walk to village. GARAGE SALES goods, Phone Brian 307-8000 or HOUSEHOLD camping gear, shearing gear, 308-6180. lawn mower, furniture, quilts, books, pictures, ornaments, HIRE GENERAL hire. Lawn- radio, quad bike Yamaha, mowers, chainsaws, concrete pool table. 6 Orchard Grove, breakers, trailers, and more. Braebrook. All your DIY / contracting work, Call and see U-Hire We’ve built Ashburton. 588 East Street. Open Mon-Fri 7.30 - 5.30pm; a reputation Sat 7.30am - 5.00pm; Sunday 8am - 12.30pm. – Ph: 308 of being solid 8061 A/h: 308 7460 and reliable, www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz

Contact Des anytime for an obligation free quote.

Guardian Motoring

FIREWOOD - semi to dry old man pine - $150, green old man pine - $120, dry bluegum - $250, green bluegum $140. All 3.6m3. Phone Shane James Firewood 303 7063.

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

ASIAN - New exotic sexy beauty busty 38DD, sweet great body and good massage. Ph 021 048 6053.

FRIDGE freezer Kelvinator CINDY, Kiwi attractive, late 300l in very good condition 30s, size 8. Ph calls only 027 363 7916. $195. Phone 307 8283. FIRST TIME, 100 per cent LADIES Japanese. In town. 23 years, Pop-up shop selling slim size 6, busty 38DD. NZ designed women’s Doubles. really good gumboots. massage. Phone Aiko 020 Sizes 35-45, 4068 7352 8 styles in 8 colours. MISS Eva, attractive and Winter sale: busty, friendly. Straight and TODAY & TOMORROW clean. No texting, no blocked 10am to 4pm calls will be answered. Phone in the former 021 044 0698. Methven Travel Centre, Main Road, Methven. Eftpos available. Also pre-packaged fragrant lily bulbs. www.lilyfields.co.nz. Wendy P. Millichamp.

We Help Save Lives

SCOOTER’S - new and secondhand three and four wheel electric scooters and wheel chairs. Call Fred Reddecliffe at Electric Mobility Ashburton today. Phone 308-3602

Find out how you can help save lives by visiting: www.otago.ac.nz/chchheart

307 7900

Cnr Cass & Havelock Sts Phone 308 5409 www.ashburtonbaptist.co.nz

10am Morning Service

Speaker: Pastor Rob Davison

TO RENT: Sunny, warm, two bedroom flat. West side. Heat pump, single garage. Available September 14. $290pw. Phone Sue 027 322 8422.

40 Days Of Community

Life 2 da Max (Kids Church) Creche available Refreshments to follow 6.00pm House of Prayer ALL VERY WELCOME

WANTED: house to rent for working couple with wellbehaved dog. Prefer country, long term, good references. Phone 302 4968 or 027 319 4753.

A University of Otago Centre of Research Excellence

307 7900

Goods must be under $500 and used (not new)

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES (Ashburton) Join us for an Encounter with Jesus Christ Sundays@10.00am Including Children’s Church Everyone is welcome. See you at Cnr Cass & Cameron Sts Ph 308 7610 or 308 7062

Include a picture for only $10

FREE

C L A S S I F I E D ADVERTS*

*Terms and conditions apply, offer available until August 31, 2015.

Ph 03 308 9936 or 0274 323 258

Church Services

TO LET - Two bedroom middle flat of three carport only, fridge and some furniture, Park Street, central location. TO LET - Four bedroom house, double garage, Walnut Ave. Call 0211 097 806.

Guardian Classifieds

03 307 7900

211 Alford Forest Rd, Ashburton (03) 307 6130 www.calderstewart.co.nz

CHURCH SERVICES

HOUSE to rent. Located on Swamp Road, 10 minutes from Ashburton. Two bedroom cottage $200 per week. Phone 03 303 7522.

For Private Buyers and Sellers Only

just like the buildings we construct.

Ashburton Guardian

Assembly Of God Sunday Meeting 10.00am Hakatere Marae SH1, Fairton

St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Havelock St. Worship 10am & 7pm

Jubilee Christian Fellowship 10am Every Sunday All welcome

Fear not for all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet.

206 Cameron Street Pastors Jim & Ida Heath Ph 308 7511

You are welcome Enquiries Phone 308-8699

Call Mitch Jamesto totend tendto toall allyour yourrural ruralelectrical electricalneeds needs....ElectraServe, ElectraServe,for foreverything everythingelectrical electrical 24/7 Breakdown Service Dairy Effluent Irrigation Generators

Industrial Commercial Residential

the ElectraServe guarantee

Blair Watson, General Manager personally guarantees ElectraServe’s tradesmen’s workmanship. If you are not 100% satisfied with the quality of the work, ElectraServe will put it right . . . every time, or your money back.

a 166 moore street ashburton p 03 308 9008 e service@electraserve.co.nz w www.electraserve.co.nz

Weekend Services

MEDICAL SERVICES

HML Home care Medical Limited - Ring 0800 700 155 for FREE 24hr Health Advice.

Methven Pharmacy, 101 Main Street, Methven MENTAL HEALTH will be open Saturday, from 9am - 1pm. Call free on 0800 222 955. Ask for the Crisis Team.

HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS

ASHBURTON HOSPITAL WARD 1 - DAILY, 10 - 11.30am & 2 - 7.30pm. This service is for emergency medical care Children must be accompanied by an adult. WARD 6 - (including Assessment, Treatment & only. Please remember your Community Rehabilitation Unit) - OPEN VISITING. Services Card. MATERNITY WARD - DAILY, 10am - 8pm. Allenton Medical Centre, The Mall, Harrison Street will be the duty doctor for Saturday until -Husbands and patient’s own children may visit 8am Monday. They will hold surgery from 10am the patient from: 7am - 10pm. until 12 noon and from 6pm until 7pm both days. TUARANGI HOME (Cameron St) - DAILY, No appointment necessary. Surgery phone 308 -unrestricted visiting. 9139. ASHBURTON REST HOMES

DUTY DOCTORS

METHVEN & RAKAIA AREA

Saturday, and Sunday doctor and emergency details - please telephone the Methven Medical Centre, ph 302 8105.

Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT

provide an accident and emergency service. Except in cases of emergency persons requiring medical attention must consult their own or the duty general practitioner. Persons subsequently requiring treatment at Ashburton Hospital must have a general practitioners note of referral.

PHARMACIES

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

SAFE CARE - 24 hr Rape and Sexual Assault Crisis Support. Ph: 03 364 8791

20 River Terrace - Phone 03 308 4020 WEEKEND HOURS: Sat & Sun 7am - 7pm. Public Holidays 10am - 5pm.

MAIL CLOSING TIMES

ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm 24 hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 POST DELIVERY CENTRES 846) - Direct dials to a volunteer. Allenton & Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - Methven & Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm 2pm - outside of these hours leave a message. ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm ALCOHOL DRUG HELP LINE Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm Call us free on (0800 787 797). Lines open 10am - 10pm seven days. INFORMATION CENTRES ASHBURTON - Sat 10am until 2pm. COLDSTREAM HOUSE, CAMERON COURTS LIFELINE - Toll-Free: 0800 353 353 Sun CLOSED. Public holidays from 10am until and PRINCES COURT all have DAILY, 2pm. Phone 308-1050. OMMUNITY ERVICES unrestricted visiting. METHVEN - Saturday, Sunday and Public ART GALLERY EMERGENCY DENTIST Holidays 10am until 3pm. 327 West Street, phone 308 1133. If you do not have or cannot contact your Phone 302-8955 or methven@i-site.org Open Daily: 10am – 4pm Wed: 10am – 7pm regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 BUS DEPARTURES for the name of the rostered weekend dentist ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service. in Christchurch. Hours 9am-5pm, Saturdays, Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192. Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802. Sundays and Public Holidays. Saturday: 10am - 1pm, Sunday 1pm - 4pm BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm. Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm. ELPLINE ERVICES ASHBURTON MUSEUM 327 West Street, Asburton. Ph 307 7890. Open ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS NIMAL ERVICES Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or 027 weekdays 10am - 4pm, weekends 1pm - 4pm.

Wises Pharmacy, Countdown Complex, East Street, will be open from 9am - 1pm Saturday, 857 2133 or visit www.alcoholics-anonymous. from 10am - 1pm Sunday, and from 6pm - 8pm org.nz for more information. both evenings.

Research facilities weekday afternoons.

MID CANTERBURY SPCA

WEEKEND EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER: All enquiries - Inspector John Keeley: 308 4432 or 0274 342 646

MID CANTERBURY ANIMAL SHELTER - Contact (cats) Tracey 021 1356

969 or (dogs) Dawn 021 828 350

VETERINARIANS

VET ENT RIVERSIDE - PH 03 308 2321, 1 Smallbone Dr, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. 24-hour Emergencies: Large: Phil Stoakes, Kate Foxcroft, Tammy Wilson. Small:

Nina Field.

CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, West Street Clinic, West Street, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Renate Haveman. VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Cnr East St & Smithfield Rd, Ashburton. Saturday clinic 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Large: Ashburton: John Achten, Dunsandel: Matt Wall. Small: Ref Vet Ent. ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 0276 838 111, 149 Cameron St, Ashburton: Duty vet: Jo Hallenstein. Full emergency service all weekend. Vet Ent and Vet Life now operate a joint after-

DOG, STOCK & NOISE CONTROL hours small animal emergency service. To use Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700 - 24

EA NETWORKS CENTRE - POOLS hour service.

this service please phone your vet as usual.

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Saturday, August 22, 2015

Saturday, August 22, 2015 TV ONE

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TV TWO

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TV THREE

FOUR

PRIME

SKY SPORT 1

6am Te Karere 3 2 6:30 Country Calendar 3 0 7am Rural Delivery 7:30 Infomercials 9am Tagata Pasifika 9:30 Come Dine With Me UK PGR 3 Noon N Cook Me The Money Three pairs of contestants test their culinary skills as they compete to win over the paying public in a cookery contest. 12:55 Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook – Through The Seasons 3 0 1:30 Kiwi Living 3 0 2:30 Highway Cops PGR 3 0 3pm Rapid Response PGR 3 0 3:30 SCU – Serious Crash Unit 30 4pm NZ Story 3 0 4:30 The Game Chef 0 5pm Monster Fish 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Country Calendar 0 7:30 Outback Truckers PGR Logging trucker Brett Robin must deliver large machines into a mountain forest. 0 8pm L Lotto This week’s Lotto draw. 8:05 Outback Truckers PGR Continued. 0 8:30 Coronation Street 0 9:30 Mr Selfridge AO 0 10:30 Word Up PGR 3 0

6am Guess How Much I Love You 3 0 6:10 Wiki The Kiwi 3 0 6:15 Transformers Rescue Bots 3 0 6:40 Paw Patrol 3 0 7am The Jungle Bunch – To The Rescue! 3 0 7:25 Thunderbirds Are Go 3 0 7:50 Teen Titans Go! 3 0 8:15 N Transformers Robots In Disguise 0 8:40 Beware The Batman 3 0 9:05 Regular Show 3 0 9:35 F Lab Rats 10am 2Kaha PGR 10:30 Step By Step 3 0 11am Full House 3 0 11:30 Family Matters Noon F Capture 0 1pm F Switched At Birth 0 2pm Pretty Little Liars PGR 0 3pm Malibu Country 0 3:30 The Neighbours 3 0 4pm The Amazing Race 0 5pm America’s Funniest Home Videos 0 5:30 My Wife And Kids 3 0 6pm Wipeout 0 7pm M Daddy Day Care 2003 Comedy. Eddie Murphy, Steve Zahn, Anjelica Huston. 0 8:50 M Zack And Miri Make A Porno AO 2008 Comedy. Seth Rogen. 0 10:55 M Eight Legged Freaks PGR 2002 Horror Comedy. David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scarlett Johansson. 0

6am Charles Stanley 6:30 Gone Fishin’ 3 7am Outdoors With Geoff 3 The Outdoors team takes some visitors from Christchurch on a charter boat out of Mangawhai to the fishing grounds around the Moko Hinau Islands. 7:30 Infomercials 9:30 The Nation An in-depth weekly local current affairs show. 10:30 Smokefree Rockquest 2014 3 11am Survivor – Philippines 3 Noon Bondi Vet PGR 0 12:30 Winter Games FIS Snowboard Slopestyle World Cup. 2:30 MasterChef New Zealand 30 4pm MasterChef New Zealand 3 5pm Outdoors With Geoff 5:30 The Simpsons 3 0 6pm 3 News 7pm Safe Crackers PGR 0 7:30 American Ninja Warrior The Top 30 contenders from the St Louis qualifier compete in the St Louis finals course. 0 8:30 Blue Bloods AO A woman recants a domestic abuse claim, but Danny and Jackie continue to investigate the situation. 0 9:25 SVU AO 0 10:25 Winter Games

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Sticky TV 3 8:25 Sidekick 3 8:50 BeyWheelz 3 9:15 Power Rangers – Megaforce 3 9:40 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Infomercials 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm Big Time Rush 3 5:30 Victorious 3 6pm iCarly 3 6:30 M Bee Movie 3 2007 Animated. A young bee eager to explore the world outside his hive goes to New York, befriends a human florist, and becomes outraged at the selling of honey, leading to a lawsuit. Voices of Jerry Seinfeld, Renee Zellweger. 0 8:20 M The Karate Kid PGR 3 1984 Family. Under the guidance of a martial arts master, a boy develops the faith and selfconfidence to overcome great odds. Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita Noriyuki. 0 10:50 Entertainment Tonight Weekend 3 The biggest entertainment stories of the last week.

6am Home Shopping 11:30 Rugby League – NRL Fulltime (Highlights) Round 24. Noon The Crowd Goes Wild Omnibus 3 2:30 Celebrity Wife Swap USA PGR 3 Kate Gosselin’s rigid house rules and eight children contrast with Kendra Wilkinson’s relaxed parenting style and married life. 3:30 Rugby – ITM Cup Tasman v Bay of Plenty. From Trafalgar Park, Nelson. 5:30 Prime News News, sport and weather, with updates through the night. 6pm Deal Or No Deal 6:30 Great British Food Revival Award-winning chef Jason Atherton showcases the cabbage.

11pm Best Bits AO 3 0 11:30 Love Child AO 3 0 12:30 Doc Martin PGR 3 0 1:50 L Football – English Premier League West Ham v Bournemouth from Upton Park in London. 4am Infomercials 5:30 The Key Of David

12:55 M Red Planet AO 2000 Sci-fi. Val Kilmer, Carrie Ann Moss. 0 2:50 Jeremy Kyle USA AO 3 3:35 The Bachelor Pad PGR 3 0 5:05 2Kaha PGR 3 5:30 It Is Written 3

12:30 Infomercials 4am Infomercials 5am Hillsong 5:30 Charles Stanley

11:45 90210 PGR 3 Adrianna considers coming clean about her affair with Taylor when she suspects Dixon might propose. 12:35 Infomercials

12:55 Home Shopping

CHOICE TV 6am Better Homes And Gardens 7:30 Holiday Home Sweet Home 8:30 Love Nature – Monkey Thieves 9am Love Nature – World’s Wildest City 9:30 Donna Hay – Fast, Fresh, Simple 10am Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook – Cosmopolitan Cook 10:30 Decks, Docks And Gazebos 11am House Crashers 11:30 Auction Kings Noon My Dream Derelict Home 1pm Beyond River Cottage 1:30 Better Homes And Gardens 3pm American Restoration 3:30 Yard Crashers 4pm The Apartment 5pm The Fashion Fund 6pm Travels With The Bondi Vet 6:30 Secret Creatures Of Jao 7pm Shark Man 7:30 Love Nature – Natural World Prairie Dogs 8:30 Guy Martin Industrial Wonders 9:30 Toy Hunter 10pm Auction Room 10:30 American Restoration 11pm The Apartment

SUNDAY

Midnight The Fashion Fund 1am Guy Martin Industrial Wonders 2am Shark Man 2:30 Travels With The Bondi Vet 3am Holiday Home Sweet Home 4am Auction Room 4:30 Yard Crashers 5am Toy Hunter 5:30 Secret Creatures Of Jao

7pm Storage Wars – Canada 7:30 Wild Brazil 3 8:30 Sex, Drugs And Rock ‘n’ Roll – The 60s Revealed AO 3 9:30 Silent Witness AO The team changes tactics as prime suspect Alan Lane protests his innocence, and insists he did not kill his wife. 10:40 M Intermission AO 2003 Comedy Drama Crime.

MAORI TV 6:30 Pukoro 3 2 7am Dora Matatoa 3 2 7:30 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 3 2 8am Tribe 3 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Project Matauranga 3 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Toku Reo 3 2 2pm The Big Hit 2:30 Homai Te Pakipaki 3 3:30 Rugby League – Fox Memorial Shield Semi-finals. 5:30 Te Kaea 2

THE BOX 6am The Simpsons Super Saturday PG A marathon of Simpson’s episodes. 8:05 The Simpsons PG 8:30 Last Man Standing PG 8:55 Modern Family PGL 9:20 Survivor Marathon PG 1:25 Outback Hunters PG 2:15 Shearing Gang PG 2:40 Smashed Palace ML 3:05 Wild West Alaska M 3:55 SVU MVS 4:45 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG A marathon of Simpson’s episodes. 7pm The Simpsons PG 7:30 Last Man Standing PG 8pm Modern Family PGL 8:30 Duck Commander ML 9pm Counting Cars PG 9:30 Outback Hunters PG 10:30 Shearing Gang PG 11pm Smashed Palace ML 11:30 Crossing Lines MV

SUNDAY

12:25 Raw MC 3:10 Crossing Lines MV 4am Last Man Standing PG 4:25 Modern Family PGL 4:50 Duck Commander ML 5:15 Survivor Marathon PG

6am Motorsport – Road Racing Series Ulster, Part Two. 7am Golf – Big Break 8am The Golf Fix 9am Cricket – The Ashes (Highlights) England v Australia – Fifth Test, Day Two. 9:30 The Late Night Crowd 10am #SkySpeed 10:30 Motorsport – WRC Deutschland (Highlights) Day One. 11am Grassroots Rugby Noon L Rugby – Women’s Provincial Championship Manawatu v Bay Of Plenty. 2pm Rugby – ITM Cup (Highlights) North Harbour v Wellington. 2:30 L Rugby – ITM Cup Manawatu v Waikato. 4:30 Rugby – ITM Cup (Highlights) North Harbour v Wellington. 5pm Rugby – ITM Cup (Highlights) Tasman v Bay of Plenty. 5:30 L Rugby – ITM Cup Northland v Southland. 7:30 L Rugby – ITM Cup Otago v Hawke’s Bay. From Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin. 9:30 L Rugby League – NRL Roosters v Broncos. From Allianz Stadium, Sydney.

11:30 Triathlon – ITU World Series (Delayed) Women’s Race. From Stockholm, Sweden. 2am Rugby League – NRL (Replay) Sharks v Tigers. From Remondis Stadium, NSW. 4am Rugby – ITM Cup (Replay) Manawatu v Waikato.

SKY SPORT 2 6pm Marae Kai Masters PGR 3 7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 M The Last Unicorn 1982 Animated Family Fantasy. A unicorn and a magician fight a king obsessed with capturing the world’s unicorns. Voices of Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Angela Lansbury. 9:30 M A Separation AO 3 2011 Drama. Peyman Moaadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat. Silent Witness 11:45 Te Kaea 3 2 9:30pm on Prime 12:15 Closedown

DISCOVERY 6am Tickle M Drinks on the House. 6:30 MythBusters PG Greased Lightning. 7:30 MythBusters PG Myth Evolution. 8:30 ET Fishing Escapes PG 9:30 Catching Monsters PG 10:30 Saltwater Heroes PG 11:30 100 Miles From Nowhere PG 12:30 Sons Of Winter M 1:30 Aeroplane Repo PG 2:30 MythBusters PG 3:30 MythBusters PG 4:30 MythBusters PG 5pm Auction Hunters 5:30 Outrageous Acts Of Psych M 6pm Outrageous Acts Of Psych M 6:30 Ice Cold Gold PG 7:30 Treehouse Masters PG 8:30 Epic Mancave Builds PG 9:30 The Last Alaskans M 10:30 Auction Hunters 11pm Hour China – Ultimate Warfare M SUNDAY Midnight Aeroplane Repo PG 1am Crimes That Shook The World M 2am Flying Wild Alaska PG 3am Flying Wild Alaska PG 4am Edge Of Alaska M 5am MythBusters PG

MOVIES PREMIERE 6:20 Draft Day MVL 2014 Drama. Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner. 8:10 Biography – Hugh Jackman PG 9am Rush MVLS 2013 Drama. Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Bruhl. 11am Anchorman 2 – The Legend Continues MLS 2014 Comedy. Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd. 12:55 Draft Day MVL 2014 Drama. Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner. 2:45 Knights Of Badassdom 16VLC 2013 Comedy Horror. Peter Dinklage, Ryan Kwanten. 4:10 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 MV 2014 Action. Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx. 6:30 The Monuments Men MV 2014 Drama. George Clooney, Matt Damon. 8:30 Edge Of Tomorrow MVL 2014 Action. Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt. 10:25 Life Of Crime 16VLSC 2013 Crime. SUNDAY 12:05 Disorientation 16VLSC 2012 Comedy. 1:25 The Monuments Men MV 2014 Drama. 3:25 Knights Of Badassdom 16VLC 2013 Comedy Horror. 4:50 Edge Of Tomorrow MVL 2014 Action.

6am Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Rabbitohs v Bulldogs. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney. 6:30 L Rugby League – Super League Playoffs – Round Three, Game Two. Teams TBC. 9:30 Rugby League – Super League (Highlights) Playoffs – St Helens v Huddersfield. 10am Cricket – The Ashes (Highlights) England v Australia – Bee Movie Fifth Test, Day Two. From The Oval 6:30pm on FOUR in London. 10:30 Rugby League – NRL (Replay) Rabbitohs v Bulldogs. MOVIES GREATS 12:30 The F1 Show 6:30 Ace Ventura – Pet 1:30 Cycling – Road Racing Series Detective PGL 1994 Comedy. Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox Arquette, Ulster, Part Two. 2:30 Sky Sport 365 Sean Young. 7:55 The Hours 2:30 L Rugby League – NSW MC 2002 Drama. Meryl Streep, Cup Newtown v Newcastle. Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman. 3pm Motorsport – World Rally 9:50 Exorcist – The Beginning Championship (Highlights) 16VLC 2004 Horror. Stellan Skarsgaard, Deutschland – Day One. Izabella Scorupco. 11:40 The 3:30 #SkySpeed Mask MVL 1994 Comedy. Jim Carrey, 4pm Rugby League – UK Super Cameron Diaz, Peter Greene. League (Highlights) Warrington v 1:20 Crazy Heart ML 2009 Drama. Wigan. Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, 4:30 L Rugby League – Robert Duvall. 3:10 Harry Potter Holden Cup Warriors U20 v And The Goblet Of Fire MV 2005 Cowboys U20. Adventure Fantasy. Daniel Radcliffe, 7pm L Rugby League – NRL Rupert Grint, Emma Watson. Warriors v Cowboys. 5:45 Gangs Of New York 9:25 The After Match 16VLS 2002 Historical Drama. 10pm L Darts – Sydney Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Masters Day Three. Cameron Diaz. 8:30 Braveheart 16V SUNDAY 1995 Historical Drama. Mel Gibson, 1:30 Rugby League – NRL Sophie Marceau. 11:30 Duets MLS (Highlights) Round 24 Saturday. 2000 Comedy. Gwyneth Paltrow, 2am Fox Sports News Huey Lewis. SUNDAY 2:30 Rugby – ITM Cup (Replay) 1:25 Panic Room 16V 2002 Thriller. Northland v Southland. 3:15 Braveheart 16V 1995 Historical 4:55 L Cycling – La Vuelta Drama. Stage One.

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6am Rural Delivery 3 6:25 The Fishing Show – Classic Episodes 0 6:50 Sunday 3 0 7:35 Tagata Pasifika 3 8am Praise Be 8:30 Attitude 0 9am Q+A 0 10am Waka Huia 10:30 Marae 2 11am Neighbourhood 0 11:30 Fair Go 3 0 11:55 Wild Planet – North America 3 0 1pm What’s Up Down Under 1:30 Global Radar 3 0 2pm George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 3 0 3pm Tricked PGR 3 0 4pm Australia’s Deadliest 3 0 4:30 Wild Vets 3 0 5pm N Biggest And Baddest Niall is in the American South investigating swamp monsters. 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Sunday 0 8pm N Topp Country PGR The twins explore goat cheese and meat. 0 8:30 Sunday Theatre – Venus And Mars: A True Story AO After a detective is attacked, and his home burned down, the residents of Palmerston North are afraid, but as the facts unfold, a bizarre and twisted reality is revealed. 0 10:25 A Place To Call Home AO 3 0 11:25 Q+A 3 Local political affairs programme. 0 12:30 Attitude 3 0 1am Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3:05 Marae Maori current affairs show. 2 3:35 Infomercials

CHOICE TV 6am Toy Hunter 6:30 Through The Bible With Les Feldick 7am Love Nature – Natural World Prairie Dogs 8am American Restoration 8:30 Guy Martin Industrial Wonders 9:30 The Apartment 10:30 The Fashion Fund 11:30 Travels With The Bondi Vet Noon Shark Man 12:30 Yard Crashers 1pm Secret Creatures Of Jao 1:30 Love Nature – Natural World Prairie Dogs 2:30 Full Frontage 3:30 Better Homes And Gardens 5pm Thai Street Food With David Thompson 5:30 Backroad Bounty 6:30 The Living Room 7:30 The Auction House Follow the collectors, the eccentric staff and magnificent artefacts that pass through Lots Road Auction House. 8:30 Easy Virtue AO A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future – blowing out their entrenched British stuffiness. 10:30 Backroad Bounty Antique experts Marty and Bam Bam discover vintage gems – from antique furniture to forgotten family heirlooms. 11:30 Being Erica PGR

TV TWO

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6am Fishtronaut 3 0 6:25 Art Attack 3 0 6:50 Crash And Bernstein 0 7:10 SpongeBob SquarePants 3 0 7:35 Kung Fu Panda 3 0 8am What Now The first set of best friends win Planet Fun goodies in Holla at Ya Homie; the Young Ocean Explorers go on another deep-sea adventure; more tips from the Sno Pros. 10am ANT Farm 0 10:25 The Bachelorette PGR Noon Shortland Street Omnibus PGR 3 0 3pm Suburgatory PGR 0 3:30 Home And Away Omnibus 30 6pm Hart Of Dixie 0

7pm Repeat After Me PGR 0 7:30 I Can Do That USA 0 8:30 M We’re The Millers AO 2013 Comedy. A small-time marijuana dealer, in trouble with his supplier, creates a fake family as part of a plan to smuggle a shipment from Mexico to clear his debts. Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston. 0 10:40 M Side Effects AO 2013 Thriller. 0 12:50 The Walking Dead AO 3 0 2:25 Mike Tyson Mysteries AO 2:50 Infomercials 3:20 Jeremy Kyle PGR Summer updates. 4:15 It Is Written 3 4:45 Hart Of Dixie 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

FOUR

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Strawberry Shortcake – Berry Bitty Adventures 3 Strawberry Shortcake and her friends have fun in Berry Bitty City. 7:25 Rugrats 3 7:50 The Winx Club 3 8:15 Max Steel 3 8:35 Rocket Power 3 9am Lalaloopsy 3 9:25 Sticky TV Omnibus Noon Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Ready, Steady, Wiggles 3 3:40 Infomercials 4:40 Pukana 2 5:10 M Legally Blondes 2009 Family Comedy. Milly Rosso, Becky Rosso, Christopher Cousins. 7pm MasterChef New Zealand 0 7pm Glee PGR 3 8pm Community PGR 3 8:30 M About Time AO 2013 8:30 M Stomp The Yard AO 3 Drama Fantasy Romance. At 2007 Drama. Columbus Short, 21, a man discovers he can Meagan Good. 0 time travel, and change what 10:45 Parks And Recreation PGR happens and has happened 3 April must keep everything in his life, but his decision running smoothly on Donna to make his world better by and Joe’s wedding day; getting a girlfriend is not as Ron makes things awkward easy as it seems. Domhnall between Tom and Lucy. Gleeson, Rachel McAdams. 0

11pm Winter Games FIS Freeski Halfpipe World Cup finals. 1:10 Infomercials 5:30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong TV 3

11:10 Entertainment Tonight Weekend The biggest entertainment stories of the last week. 12:05 Infomercials

PRIME

THE BOX 8:35 Crossing Lines MV 9:25 The Simpsons Super Sunday PG A marathon of Simpson’s episodes. 11:55 Raw MC 2:40 WWE Main Event MC 3:40 SmackDown! MC 5:25 Shearing Gang PG 5:50 Smashed Palace ML 6:15 Counting Cars PG 6:40 Outback Hunters PG 7:30 Longmire 16V Walt teams up with Lucian Connally to narrow the field of suspects in the aftermath of his wife’s murder. 8:30 Hawaii Five-0 MV 9:30 Hawaii Five-0 MV 10:30 Father And Son MVL 11:30 Longmire 16V

MONDAY

SKY SPORT 1

6am Religious Programming 10:30 Sport Box The best of the past week’s sports from New Zealand and around the world. Noon Australia With Simon Reeve 3 While exploring Australia, Simon discovers how an unlikely animal threatens the fragile desert ecosystem, learns the art of wine tasting and dives with endangered blue-fin tuna. 1pm Superstorm – Hell And High Water PGR 3 2pm Storage Wars – New York PGR 3 2:30 Grassroots Rugby 3:30 Animal Airport 3 4pm Stephen Fry – Gadget Man 3 4:30 Rugby Nation 5:30 Prime News 6pm The Great British Bake Off 3 7pm Storage Wars 7:30 Top Gear – Ambitious But Rubbish PGR Automobile interior design, and nonAmerican stretch limos. 8:35 Weekend Murders – Lewis AO Lewis and Hathaway investigate the death of a researcher from the University of Oxford’s Department of Psychology, who is found dead in a psychic’s office. 10:40 Psych PGR

6am Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Warriors v Cowboys. 6:30 The After Match 7am Rugby – ITM Cup (Replay) Otago v Hawke’s Bay. 9am Rugby – First XV (Replay) Auckland Final – Wesley College v New Plymouth Boys. 10:30 Rugby – ITM Cup (Highlights) 11am Sport 365 11:30 Athletics – IAAF World Championships (Highlights) Day One. 12:30 Rugby – ITM Cup (Highlights) 1pm Cricket – The Ashes (Highlights) England v Australia – Fifth Test, Day Three. 1:43 L Motorsport – V8 Supercars Qualifying. 2:30 L Rugby – ITM Cup Auckland v Taranaki. 4:30 L Rugby – ITM Cup Canterbury v Counties Manukau. 6:30 Cycling – La Vuelta (Highlights) Stage One. 7pm Cricket – The Ashes (Highlights) England v Australia – Fifth Test, Day Three. From The Oval in London. 7:30 Sport TBC

11:35 Vegas AO 3 Lamb suspects Savino in a kidnapping, but the gangster has other things on his mind; with Milwaukee out for revenge, the arrival of his family from Chicago is ill-timed. 12:30 Home Shopping

11:35 Rugby – ITM Cup (Highlights) Featuring Auckland v Taranaki and Canterbury v Counties Manukau. 12:05 Sport TBC 4am Rugby – ITM Cup (Replay) Auckland v Taranaki. From Eden Park.

MAORI TV 10am Korero Mai 2 1pm The Rugby Show (Replay) First XV – Auckland Final. 2:30 Code 3 3:30 Rugby League – Fox Memorial Shield Semi-final two. 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Waka Huia 6:30 Paepae Chris and Tupoutahi Winitana debate the latest issues with te reo speakers from around the country.

12:30 SmackDown! MC 2:10 Father And Son 12:30 Easy Virtue AO MVL 3:05 Hawaii Five-0 2:30 Buying The Bayou 3am Full Frontage 4am Better Homes And MV 3:55 Hawaii Five-0 MV 4:45 Counting Cars PG Gardens 5:30 Thai Street Food With David Thompson 5:10 Longmire 16V

MONDAY

TV THREE 6am Life TV 6:30 Brian Houston 7am Charles Stanley 8am Universal Church Of The Kingdom Of God 8:30 Turning Point 9am Three60 9:30 Re-Think 10am The Nation 3 0 11am Missing Pieces 3 0 11:30 Prison Families PGR 3 0 11:55 Family Secret PGR 3 0 12:30 Winter Games FIS Freeski Halfpipe World Cup finals. 2:30 Motorsport – NHRA New England Nationals (Highlights) 3:30 Motorsport – FIA RallyCross Round five from Germany. 4:15 Motorsport – MotoGP Round 11 from Czech Republic. 5pm Big Angry Fish 6pm 3 News 6:30 3D 0

SKY SPORT 2 7am Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Round 24 Saturday. 7:30 Triathlon – ITU World Series (Replay) Women’s Race. From Stockholm, Sweden. 10am Motorsport – GP3 Series (Replay) Race One. From Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium. 11am Motorsport – GP2 Series (Replay) Race One. Noon Cycling – La Vuelta Topp Country (Highlights) Stage One. 8pm on TV One 12:30 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Round 24 Saturday. 1pm Rugby League – NRL MOVIES PREMIERE MOVIES GREATS (Highlights) Warriors v Cowboys. 6:10 The Mask MVL 1994 Comedy. 6:40 The Making Of The Man 1:30 L Rugby League – Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz, From U.N.C.L.E. PG 6:55 The Holden Cup Titans U20 v Raiders Peter Greene. 7:50 Duets MLS Amazing Spider-Man 2 MV U20. 2000 Comedy. Gwyneth Paltrow, 2014 Action. Andrew Garfield, 3:30 L Rugby League – NRL Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx. 9:15 Life Huey Lewis. 9:40 Panic Room Titans v Raiders. 16V 2002 Thriller. Jodie Foster, Of Crime 16VLSC 2013 Crime. 6pm L Rugby League – NRL Forest Whitaker. 11:30 Gladiator Tim Robbins, Jennifer Aniston. Sea Eagles v Eels. MV 2000 Action. Russell Crowe, 10:55 The Monuments Men 8pm Rugby League – NRL Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen. MV 2014 Drama. George Clooney, (Highlights) Warriors v Cowboys. 2:05 High Fidelity MLS 2000 Matt Damon. 12:50 Edge Of From Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland. Romantic Comedy. John Cusack, Tomorrow MVL 2014 Action. 8:30 Rugby Nation Catherine Zeta Jones. 3:55 Harry Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt. 2:40 The 9:30 Rugby League – NRL Potter And The Order Of The Counsellor 16VLS 2013 Crime. (Highlights) Round 24 Sunday. Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz. Phoenix MV 2007 Fantasy Adventure. 10pm Rugby – ITM Cup Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, 4:40 Hours ML 2013 Thriller. (Highlights) Featuring Auckland v Rupert Grint, Gary Oldman, Paul Walker. 6:20 X-Men – Days Taranaki and Canterbury v Counties Imelda Staunton. 6:15 Mystic Of Future Past MVL 2014 Action. Manukau. River 16VL 2003 Drama. Sean Penn, Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence. 10:30 Rugby – ITM Cup Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon. 8:30 Ace (Highlights) Featuring Manawatu v 8:30 A Walk Among The Ventura – When Nature Calls PGS Tombstones 16VLS 2013 Thriller. Waikato and Northland v Southland. Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens. 10:25 A 1995 Comedy. 10:10 Sherlock 11pm Fox Sports News Holmes MV 2009 Action. Million Ways To Die In The West 11:30 Rugby League – NRL (Replay) Titans v Raiders. 16VLSC 2014 Comedy. MONDAY MONDAY 12:20 Rob The Mob 16VLSC 2014 12:20 The Boy In The Striped MONDAY Crime. 2:05 The Counsellor 16VLS Pajamas MC 2008 Drama. 1:30 L Triathlon – ITU World 2013 Crime. 4am A Walk Among 1:55 High Fidelity MLS 2000 Series Men’s Race. The Tombstones 16VLS 2013 Thriller. Romantic Comedy. 3:45 Mystic 4am Rugby League – NRL (Replay) 5:55 Close Up – Sandra Bullock PG River 16VL 2003 Drama. Sea Eagles v Eels.

7pm Rugby League – NRL Warriors v Cowboys. From Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland. 8:30 M Yojimbo AO 1961 Drama. A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town. Toshiro Mifune, Eijiro Tono. 10:35 Poutiriao PGR 2 Biggest and Baddest 11:05 Te Kaea 3 2 5pm on TV One 11:35 Closedown

DISCOVERY 6am Tickle M Shine-Squatch. 6:30 MythBusters PG Crash and Burn. 7:30 MythBusters PG 8:30 Alaskan Bush People M Now or Never. 9:30 Epic Mancave Builds PG The Lakehouse. 10:30 Incredible Engineering Blunders – Fixed PG 11:30 Ice Cold Gold PG Divided or Conquered. 12:30 Tutankhamun – The Truth Uncovered M 1:30 Sons Of Winter M Lost Boys. 2:30 MythBusters PG 3:30 MythBusters PG 4:30 The Last Alaskans PG 5:30 Saltwater Heroes PG 6:30 Deadliest Catch PG 7:30 Supersized Earth PG 8:30 NASA’s Unexplained Files PG 9:30 How The Universe Works PG 10:30 Epic Mancave Builds PG 11:30 Outrageous Acts Of Psych M

MONDAY

Midnight Outrageous Acts Of Psych M 12:30 MythBusters PG 1:30 Edge Of Alaska M 2:30 Chaos Caught On Camera M 3am Deadliest Catch PG 4am Survive That! PG 5am Edge Of Alaska M

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3 1

Midnight Tonight

less than 30 fine

30 to 59 fog

isolated snow thunder flurries

sleet thunder

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FZL: About 1200m

TOMORROW

FZL: Rising to about 1600m

Fine. Wind at 1000m: NW rising to 40 km/h. Wind at 2000m: NW rising to 50 km/h.

MONDAY

Rain spreading north about the divide, with scattered falls further east. Snow to 1400m. NW rising to gale in exposed places. Showers, especially towards the foothills, gradually clearing. Snow lowering to 600 metres. Northwesterlies tending southwesterly.

Showers clearing and southwesterlies dying out.

WEDNESDAY

Mainly fine. Light winds.

World Weather fog fine rain fine showers showers fine thunder showers rain fine thunder fine showers cloudy

Mainly fine. Southwesterlies dying out.

Frankfurt Geneva Hobart Hong Kong Honolulu Islamabad Jakarta Johannesburg Kuala Lumpur London Los Angeles Madrid Melbourne Moscow Nadi

10 15 26 14 15 18 24 27 7 25 19 26 33 12 13

fine fine showers fine showers rain fine fine fine showers fine showers fine fine showers

27 26 16 33 32 30 33 28 33 28 26 31 18 23 28

14 13 9 28 24 22 24 10 25 15 19 20 12 11 21

New York Y Paris Perth Rarotonga Rome San Francisco Seoul Singapore Stockholm Sydney Taipei Tel Aviv Tokyo Washington Zurich

fine fine showers showers fine drizzle cloudy thunder fine showers rain fine cloudy showers fine

Saturday 9 noon 3

9 pm am 3

Sunday 9 noon 3

9 pm am 3

9 noon 3

9 pm

2:52

Bad

showers

Hamilton

showers

Napier

fine

9:10 3:17 9:32 3:44 10:01 4:13 10:25 4:37 10:52 5:10 11:17 The times shown are for the Ashburton River mouth. For the Rangitata river mouth subtract 16 minutes and for the Rakaia river mouth subtract 4 minutes.

Bad fishing

Rise 7:17 am Set 5:55 pm

Bad

Bad fishing

Set 12:12 am Rise 10:49 am

Set 1:10 am Rise 11:26 am

23 Aug 7:33 am

30 Aug 6:37 am

First quarter

Full moon

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Rise 7:15 am Set 5:56 pm

Bad

Bad fishing

Set 2:08 am Rise 12:10 pm

Last quarter

5 Sep

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21 18 7 17 19 15 22 25 13 13 26 23 25 17 13

9:56 pm

14 14 14 14 12 12 14 12 13 13 11 13 13

Palmerston North fine Wellington

fine

Nelson

fine

Blenheim

fine

Greymouth

fine

Christchurch

fine

Timaru

fine

Queenstown

fine

Dunedin

fine

Invercargill

fine

River Levels

9 4 4 4 8 3 2 4 -1 -1 2 3 4

cumecs

3.90

Selwyn Whitecliffs (NIWA) at 3:10 pm, yesterday

Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 3:00 pm, yesterday 149.1 Nth Ashburton at 3:00 pm, yesterday

7.68

Sth Ashburton at 12:00 pm, yesterday

12.9

Rangitata Klondyke at 3:05 pm, yesterday

65.9

Waitaki Kurow at 12:40 pm, yesterday

385.0

Source: Environment Canterbury

Canterbury Readings

Monday

29 31 18 24 32 20 29 32 25 25 30 34 34 30 25

overnight max low

Auckland

Forecasts for today

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Tides, Sun, Moon and Fishing m am 3 3

NZ Today

TUESDAY

Rise 7:19 am Set 5:54 pm

Deadline 2pm prior publication day

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TODAY

TUESDAY

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hail

Fine with morning frosts. Wind at 1000m: Light. Wind at 2000m: Light.

High cloud and a few spots of rain with northerlies. Scattered showers later with a southwest change.

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snow

Canterbury High Country

MONDAY

Wanted

rain

Saturday, 22 August 2015

A high over the country retreats to the North Island tomorrow, as a front approaches the far south. The front moves north over New Zealand on Monday and Tuesday, followed by another high on Wednesday.

mainly isolated cloudy drizzle drizzle few showers fine showers clearing showers

Fine with morning frosts. Northerly breezes.

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TOMORROW

Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 11.7 11.9 Max to 4pm -3.4 Minimum -8.4 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.0 16hr to 4pm August to date 58.8 Avg Aug to date 41 2015 to date 416.8 442 Avg year to date Wind km/h E 13 At 4pm Strongest gust NE 24 Time of gust 3:09pm

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CORNWALL, Leslie – Pauline, Alan, Murray, Judith and families sincerely thank everyone for their expressions of sympathy, cards and messages. Thank you to all those who attended Les’ service. Special thanks to the staff at Terrace View Retirement Village and Dr Penny Holdaway. Please accept this as a personal acknowledgement.

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NEWTON, Anthony John “Ant” – 15/01/1955 - 16/07/2015 Sue and Katie Newton would like to thank everyone who came along to Ant’s funeral to join with us in celebrating his life. We have been humbled by how many attended and made us so proud by how many lives Ant had touched. A huge thank you for the flowers, baking and visiting our home to share stories and memories of Ant. To family and friends who specially flew in from far away parts of New Zealand and overseas. Help and support from Selwyn and Ashburton Police and The Department of Corrections has been very much appreciated with your compassion and invaluable help. To our friends and family who have been there for us and never left our sides we thank you and are sure Ant would be thrilled that we have been so well looked after. We miss our special and much loved husband and dad very much. There are so many to thank personally so please accept this as a personal acknowledgement.

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Eion McKinnon Rob Cope-Williams KELL, Eric James – On August 21, 2015. Peacefully at Ashburton Hospital. Aged 82 years. Dearly loved husband ofOﬃcial Opening 18 Feb - 9am til 4pm Noma. Loved father and IN MEMORIAM father in law of Suzanne, Craig and Debbie, Bruce and Deborah, Adrian and Juliet and Sara and Simon. Loved PRICE, Elsie Winifred – granddad of all his In memory of a wonderful grandchildren and great mum and nana who left us 1 grandchildren. Messages to year ago today. Kell Family, P O Box 472, “Sadly missed Ashburton 7740. Funeral and thought of every day. details to follow. Always remembered Paterson’s Funeral Services with love.” FDANZ Ashburton Ally and Ronnie and family Celebrant

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ACROSS 1. It signifies things that were not home-produced (7) 6. Malaysian dish, for example, includes tantalum (5) 9. Distinguishing feature of painting returns to sex appeal (5) 10. Japanese dish of minced steak in tea (7) 11. Make me run around with a cow’s paunch (5) 12. Times of it printed on such paper? (5) 13. Would he have swum Hellespont had he known of the boat club? (7) 15. Lizard again making u-turn (6) 16. Compassion may be shown by such a card (5) 18. Ground plaster goes around bend (5) 20. A drinker of port around start of evening (5) 21. For instance, set out to expel it from the body (5) 22. A lump that might undo life, if cut out (6) 25. Being the vendor of single laptop, perhaps (7) 26. In a hotel I hustled one who argued with Job (5) 27. Noble land in area covered by police (5) 28. l’Arc-en-ciel depicted by Academician in East London (7) 29. The standard may be bald in America (5)

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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across 1. Worse 4. Modicum 8. Extravagances 10. Elect 11. Grab 12. Pave 16. Exits 17. Life-preserver 19. Welders 20. Pawns Down 1. Weeping-willow 2. Rot 3. Erased 4. Moaned 5. Dearth 6. Cockroach 7. Misadventures 9. Beautiful 13. People 14. Sinews 15. Asleep 18. Vow QUICK Across 1. Equilibrium 8. Thinner 9. Twice 10. Rung 11. Averted 12. Oil 13. Pomp 15. Aunt 17. Gag 19. Outcome 20. Sour 23. Brave 24. Dialect 25. Deteriorate Down 1. Entire 2. Union 3. Lend 4. Burial 5. In the bag 6. Moisten 7. Steady 12. Opponent 14. Outward 16. Bobbed 17. Gender 18. Writhe 21. Omega 22. Halo

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7. Fictional means of travelling between now and then (4,4) 8. A longing to spend it in Tokyo? (3) 14. Road that has a bearing on one’s desired route (11) 17. One might rue arrest of financial officer (9) 19. Duly send out for it all at once (8) 23. Ape Edward, an English historian (6) 24. He first left the boat as it was shabby and dirty (5) 27. Health comes with such vilification in one’s eye (3)

QUICK ACROSS 1. Large retail store (8) 7. Faint (5) 8. Unconventional (9) 9. Go wrong (3) 10. Slow run (4) 11. Make worse (6) 13. Glib (6-7) 15. Pinnacle (6) 16. Urgent request (4) 18. Exceed (3) 20. Famous (9) 21. Multitude (5) 22. If things were fair (2,6)

DOWN 1. Choose (5) 2. Small flute (7) 3. Fulminate (4) 4. Without interruption (13) 5. Might (5) 6. Weaponless (7) 7. Thin, underweight (7) 12. Trip (7) 13. Vague, lacking detail (7) 14. Let loose (7) 15. Reject (5) 17. Bottomless void (5) 19. Opposed to (4)

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YOUR STARS ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Those who lack a supportive relationship with their own minds will seek constant external validation. Is it your job to provide this? If you take it on it will be an exhausting job. TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): What about when the conversation flattens like a rug? Instead of marching across it to the door, you’ll try to zap it with your magic and offer the others a carpet ride. GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): There are some things you have to do just to prove to yourself that you can. They’re not posted on your social media. They’re between you and you and whoever is close enough to you to know. CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): You’ll be more fun at the party if the party in question is not yours. Sure, you’re the ideal host. That’s why you should give it a break and go relax in someone else’s care. Bonus: You’ll get inspired. LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): You hate to see anyone bored, even the dog. With the sun just moments away from leaving your sign, seize this opportunity to entertain anyone and everyone. The spotlight loves you. VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Flaws can be strengths, too, so don’t be too quick to discount them as useless. Often flaws are the very things you should build on to create success. Embrace your nature. LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): The omens suggest you hide your displeasure and withhold your opinion for now. Also, vent the steam in private. You’ll gain power through emotional control and strategy. SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): Being in a selective mood, you are unlikely to fall for just any interesting offer that comes along. You have rules that qualify your rules. This selectiveness can’t play well every day, but today it works for you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): You make your way through this day like making your way through a concert crowd — not by pushing and pulling, but by courteously moving through spaces. CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): The road to victory is a labyrinth. You’re good at mazes and puzzles of all kinds. Think of this afternoon’s social discourse as part of the game it is. AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): You still need a better platform from which to shine. Dream and scheme. What would your fantasy project be? It’s a night for brainstorming with friends. PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Extenuating circumstances of late have caused you to slip on a few matters that are important to your health and well-being. It’s now time to get back to taking good care of yourself.

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An amazing opportunity presents itself here with this large family home coming to the market TO BE SOLD. The owners have invested a considerable amount on upgrading this lovely home.

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