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Road sense ‘common-sense’

By Linda Clarke

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Mid Canterbury school principals say they have no hard and fast rules about youngsters walking to school alone, but they teach road safety and expect parents to do the same.

A coroner investigating the death of a six-year-old Gisborne girl has said she should not have gone to and from school unaccompanied by an adult.

Carla Neems was run over by a rubbish truck in 2017 as she moved in front of the truck into her driveway; the driver, who had stopped to pick up refuse, did not see her.

The coroner said had Carla been with an adult, she would likely still be alive.

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Allenton School principal Bruce Tilby said road safety was important for the school as it was bordered by busy Allens Road and Harrison Street. Pedestrian crossings, manned before and after school, allowed students and family members to cross safely.

The school also had a successful walking bus, which relied on volunteers to escort a group of children as they walked to school.

He said not many students walked to school alone. Juniors, especially, were often accompanied by parents or caregivers. Many were dropped off at the school by car.

The school did not specify when students could walk unaccompanied but

relied on parents to assess their child’s road safety awareness and make a decision. “I would say most of our Allenton parents are road safety conscious and I talk about it a lot in the newsletters.

“There are always some who have no road sense at all.

“Children are unpredictable on the road.”

Hampstead School principal Peter Melrose said many of his students were transported to school, rather than walking.

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Thursday, August 1, 2019

Winter blast while you slept

By Linda Clarke

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Skiers were smiling, farmers less so, after a winter blast deposited 35cm of snow on Mt Hutt Skifield on Tuesday night and around 70mm of rain around Methven.

By contrast, around 6mm of rain fell in Ashburton town on Tuesday night and the town was buffeted by winds, with a maximum gust of 77.8km/h at 3.10am.

Methven farmer Craige Mackenzie tipped 72mm out of his rain gauge yesterday morning.

He said it was a large rainfall that had created run-off, leaving water in pools and gullies around his cropping farm. Winter wheat and ryegrass crops planted in autumn were well established with good cover, and not affected.

“There’s no physical damage because they were in early. And it was predicted, we made sure we didn’t apply any fertiliser.”

Jeanette Maxwell, who farms at the base of Mt Hutt, said her farm had a combination of 64mm and a couple of centimetres of snow, which made for a crunchy start underfoot yesterday.

Stock were sheltering under trees, as they usually did in such weather.

On Mt Hutt, staff were busy preparing the skifield for a cracker day today.

About 35cm fell on Tuesday night and more yesterday morning; strong southerlies eased during the day.

Ski area manager James McKenzie said there were big drifts on the access road and visibility was poor. Storm troopers spent most of the day getting the mountain ready for an influx of skiers today, clearing the road, grooming trails and undertaking avalanche control work.

“It was pretty windy up there but the snow came in a little wet so that means a better chance of it sticking to the underlying snow better. We were going along quite nicely with a metre base on the main trail.

This just makes things even better.”

The skifield has a host of other events planned this month, including a White Out street rail jam outside the Blue Pub in Methven on August 10 and a moon ski on August 16.

For the White Out, snow will be trucked to the site and rails set up in front of the pub; qualifying events will run during the day with the six best riders featuring in a night-time final. The moon ski is a party on the mountain with the summit six chairlift spinning until 11pm, along with fireworks, live music and entertainment.

The Ashburton District Council reported flooding on several roads around Methven, Pudding Hill and Mt Somers, and closed Barkers Road. Sections of Ashbur-

Above – While there was no snow, Methven did receive significant rainfall which caused surface flooding around the township.

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Right – Mt Hutt Station provided the perfect spot for a look at the fresh snow on Mt Hutt.

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ton Gorge Road, Arundel Rakaia Gorge Road, Back Track, Line Road and Thompsons Track were affected.

Service delivery group manager Neil McCann said council was keeping an eye on Methven Chertsey Road for possible closure as well.

Residents were advised to stay informed on weather-related warning and closure alerts by texting their postcode to 4196, following the council Facebook page (@ AshburtonDC), or by visiting the council website.

EA Networks said the storm had resulted in a couple of outages on Tuesday night

because of bark on lines. Just a handful of individual on-property faults were reported.

Further afield, mountain passes were closed by snow but reopened around noon, with crews working hard to clear the highways.

With lower temperatures over the next few days, drivers were warned to be aware of ice and slow down.

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Looking for the boys of ’69

By Sue Newman

Left – The search is on for members of the 1969 Ashburton College First XV rugby side.

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The celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first steps taken by man on the moon prompted ex-Ashburton College student Garry Hampton to start thinking about half century celebrations that were closer to home.

He realised that 1969 also marked his final year at college and dug out the school’s magazine of that year. Flicking through the pages started him thinking about fellow students who had been close mates, many of whom he had lost touch with.

Many of those mates were fellow members of the school’s First XV and when he looked at the end of year photo of the team, Hampton said he realised how many of those students he had lost touch with.

“You drag out an old photo, you look at it and wonder and I realised I didn’t know what a lot of those guys had got up to, where they were now,” he said.

Hampton managed to track

down some of the team and enlisted the help of a local, Colin Morgan, to find others, but said he’s still looking for around eight

players from the past.

“I am keen to organise a reunion of the team, probably over Christchurch Show weekend

this year, but of course tracking them down will be the challenge.”

His own rugby career didn’t end with his school days, and Hampton was active for many years as a touch rugby coach and referee and only stopped playing golden oldies rugby eight years ago.

He’s hoping to have a reunion dinner in Christchurch for team members and their wives and partners and is keen to hear from anyone who has contact details for the team of 1969 members.

Hampton can be contacted at garry@hot.co.nz or gazzanna@ hotmail.com

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Joint tourism deal comes to an end

By Sue Newman

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A tourism deal that bound marketing of the Ashburton and Timaru districts together has ended, but that end won’t see either district disadvantaged, Experience Mid Canterbury manager Bruce Moffat said.

Three years ago Experience Mid Canterbury signed a contract to become the marketing arm of Timaru District, but with a new strategy on board, the Timaru District Council is keen to go it alone.

“They’ve essentially decided not to go down the track of traditional tourism and they want to focus their efforts around marketing their stadia, their sports centres.”

Timaru had at least four superb stadia and there was a

good market in using these to attract increasing numbers of national events, he said.

When the joint marketing deal was signed, Moffat said there would be synergies in one organisation marketing neighbouring districts, and that while the official agreement had ended, there would still remain an element of cross boundary promotion.

The exit from Timaru was well planned and this year’s Experience Mid Canterbury business plan and budget had been prepared knowing this revenue and work stream would go.

“It was disappointing to lose the contract but I get where they’re heading. They’re lucky to have all of these event facilities. They’re chasing events and that’s positive for Timaru, but

it’s positive for us as well as people will be travelling through Ashburton to get there.”

Moffat said he did not see any threats to the Ashburton District from the new Timaru tourism strategy because of its strong focus on attracting big events.

He also does not see the need for Ashburton to invest the time and money in preparing a similar document.

Several years ago – at considerable expense – a similar document was prepared for the Ashburton District but often a one page ‘road map’ served equally as well, he said.

Timaru’s tourism budget for 2019-20 is about $350,000 and the delivery of the draft strategy will come within that.

The draft strategy calls on the council to consolidate all event

planning into a single centrally run event calendar and appoint a visitor promotions specialist with the district council.

It also proposes establishing a tourism sector group to “strengthen collaboration and sector leadership”.

It identifies Timaru’s challenges as including a lack of effective sector collaboration and leadership, a lack of sector planning and strategic direction across the district and a “continued inability to collaborate, build meaningful partnerships and to provide strong leadership”.

The strategy also suggested that there was a need to work with CBD business owners, sector representatives and council to develop and implement an optimisation plan.

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Road sense ‘commonsense’ From P1 “That’s a sign of the times maybe, a reaction to time-pressured homes, safety of the child and increased traffic in the mornings.”

He said the school ran information and reminders on safe practices, including getting to school safely.

Longbeach School principal Neil Simons, who is on a district road safety committee, said parents should talk about road safety with their children whether they arrived at school by car, bus, walked, biked or scootered.

He said road safety awareness was individual for each child and parents needed to make decisions accordingly. Schools also played their part by including road safety education as part of their curriculum.

“It’s about common-sense and education.”

Mid Canterbury principals have been lobbying for reduced speed zones of 40km/h around their schools during term time.

Simons said motorists also needed to remember it was law for them to slow to 20km/h when passing a stationary school bus.

That didn’t always happen outside his school.

The coroner investigating Carla’s death said a cautious adult would have crossed the street with the youngster behind the truck or would have waited until the truck moved off.

“Whatever the circumstances, the best way to keep a young child safe is for a responsible adult to be with them.”

The coroner also recommended that the refuse company Waste Management investigate the retrofitting of audio proximity alarms to its nationwide fleet.

Carla might have been spotted at the front of the truck by such an alarm.

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Fundraising at new stage for Methven Care Trust Methven Care Trust trustee Colin Lill (left) and chairwoman Jo Suyker are excited to be launching the trust’s latest fundraising project, that of building a house.

The four-bedroom home with two bathrooms and a double garage is timed for completion by the end of this year.

Lill said it had been fantastic to have companies come on board with the trust’s project and help give it momentum, including Stonewood Homes which was building it, Country By Design’s Joan McLean for interior decoration, and Maree Firth at The Professionals who would assist with the sale.

“It shows how committed we are to the final goal, by having a project of this size,” Lill said.

Suyker said the location in Camrose Estates, parallel to Main Street was ideal, as it was a

Rawlinson nominated Sitting councillor, Dianne Rawlinson became the third name to go into the hat for this year’s local government elections when her nomination was received on Tuesday. Rawlinson will stand for the Ashburton ward.

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high profile site, meaning it was good publicity for the fundraising project.

The trust has already raised

more than $1.1 million towards its goal of replacing the town’s community-run rest home with a modern facility on gifted land.

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Restaurant demo countdown

By Sue Newman

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that will be kept for future use will include the historic board table and chairs.

Dining options at the MSA won’t be running to steak and roasts until the new restaurant opens at the end of 2020, but there will be pared-back meal options available in the bar, McDonnell said.

During the demolition and re-

build, the club’s boardroom and McDonnell’s office will relocate to a vacant area at the Havelock Street end of the building, previously used by the TAB. “We were pretty annoyed when we lost the TAB but now it’s become part of our new puzzle.”

Pool and billiard players, however, will be without their dedicated playing space for more

Mid Canterbury primary school teachers will be talking about anxiety, emotions and eczema in their next professional development session on September 18. The Mana Ake learning session will include presentations about how to support children with mild to moderate anxiety, how to help children manage and understand their emotions and how teachers can make a difference for students with eczema.

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Come September, Ashburton’s MSA restaurant will be off the list of the town’s dining options.

The chartered club has major renovation plans on its drawing board that will see the Burnett Street section of its headquarters demolished. And that demolition will see the restaurant, boardroom, manager’s office and billiard room become rubble.

It’s a project that’s been a long time in the making manager Simon McDonnell said, and while there’ll be a bit of short term inconvenience, the rebuild will see the club with facilities that will take it well into the future.

The final meals will be served in the second level restaurant on Sunday, September 1 and the strip out, ahead of demolition, will begin the next day. The closure was timed to coincide with the end of the restaurant lease.

Not a lot of the restaurant’s fittings will be retained, but items

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than a year.

While two pool tables will be relocated into the bar area, these will be simply for social games rather than competition matches. When the new building is completed, the billiard room will reopen in a dedicated space on the second level, McDonnell said.

“Yes, it’s a bit of a nuisance for them, but they can see the longterm benefits.”

He expects demolition work will be completed around mid-October and anticipates the new building will be ready for use with enough time to ensure all operating bugs in the new, ground level restaurant are out of the system before the 2020 Christmas rush.

The new dining area will be in three zones with a total seating capacity of 200.

While the public office will remain in its current site, from September 1, access to all facilities in the MSA will be from Havelock Street only.

Convicted child sex offender Peter Ellis has been granted leave to take his nearly 30-year fight to clear his name to the Supreme Court. The approved ground of appeal was whether a miscarriage of justice occurred, New Zealand’s highest court said.

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Decision disappoints “Six months for a life.” It was a widely-echoed sentiment in Wellington District Court yesterday morning, a bitter pill to swallow for the loved ones of a young man killed by a woman driving the wrong way on the motorway.

Kathleen Valda Grey, 72 received a six-month community detention sentence with a curfew of 7pm7am for killing 25-year-old Samuel Jackson-Seligman Lemaire. She was also disqualified from driving for 18 months.

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Anti Hong Kong rally Pro-Beijing students at the University of Auckland are planning an anti-Hong Kong counter-rally in response to recent protests by students against a controversial proposed extradition bill in Hong Kong. In a WeChat post in Chinese script, pro-bill supporters were asked to attend a planning meeting at the university’s library – but told not to bring any weapons. Students were urged not to make personal attacks.

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Ashburton players come second The long trip to Riwaka was worthwhile for two local bridge players who came away with a second place finish at the Top of the South bridge event over the weekend. John Fechney and Sue Rosevear finished second in the open pairs. They averaged 59.35 per cent over the two days of play to finish just 2.32 per cent behind the winning pair of Tony Oberdries and Maurice Carter from Marlborough. North Island visitors Tony Foidl from Waikato and Ant Hopkins from Auckland were third on 56.22 per cent.

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Work is under way to turn Coes Ford back into a popular swimming site as part of a long-term plan to make the Selwyn-Waikirikiri River swimmable.

Swimmable Selwyn is part of the Canterbury Water Management Strategy that sees councils around the province working with Environment Canterbury to manage and improve the region’s water.

As part of Swimmable Selwyn, the Selwyn Waihora water zone committee has set up a working group looking into sources of water quality decline, aiming to deliver certainty for the farming community, and recreation and water quality gains for everyone.

The group has identified Coes Ford as a priority, with a plan for fencing, planting and reducing contaminants agreed, which aims to increase the water quality at the

ford and upstream.

Zone committee co-chairs Megan Hands and Les Wanhall said the work is a response to the strong message from the community that the river needed to be better looked after and the importance of Coes Ford as a swimming spot.

The fencing and planting project has seen landowners, community groups and schools working together to increase the distance of fences from the river and increase planting on the riverbanks, including lower bank plantings.

Already this year about 300 plants have been planted on a farm in the Silverstream catchment above Coes Ford by a team of volunteers from Dairy NZ, the Selwyn Waihora Zone Committee, Waiora Forest Landscapes and Environment Canterbury.

The planting will protect natural springs and improve the water quality.

Coffee cartel looking to open here Boutique Christchurch-based cafe group Black & White Coffee Cartel, part-owned by former All Black captain Reuben Thorne, is looking to expand to Ashburton.

The group has 13 existing sites in Christchurch, Rangiora, Rolleston and Queenstown (Frankton), and has appointed Savills to exclusively manage site acquisition, leasing and operator negotiations for at least another 15 new cafes in the South Island.

Savills leasing broker Toby Nicholls, who is handling Black & White’s expansion with business brokerage colleague Norman Engel, says opportunities are being offered to operators looking to join the cartel and open their own boutique cafe-roasteries.

Five sites have opened in the past 18 months and three more are under construction in Christchurch. Black & White is also looking for operators in Dunedin, with several potential sites being considered. In addition, operators are being sought for cafes in centres such as Ashburton, Oamaru and Timaru, Nicholls said.

“This is a really exciting group to be part of. Black & White don’t follow the traditional cafe franchise model – the key difference is that all operators roast their own beans on-site, which puts a key part of the supply chain under their control.”

With beans making up anywhere from a third to half the cost of running a cafe, this is a significant benefit to operators

of Black & White cafe-roasteries, says Engel. “The boutique roastery model has proven to be a strong attraction to operators so far, as there are few opportunities to enter the market as a dedicated coffee roaster.

“Black & White’s model is the only one of its kind in New Zealand and one of only a few in the world where the roaster as a separate entity is cut out of the supply chain, reducing the cost of the beans for operators and directing more profit to them.”

No specific roasting experience is necessary other than a passion for great coffee, Nicholls said.

“Black & White sells its operators a roasting kitset and provides full training and ongoing support in using the equipment, which is deliberately selected to be an easily-manageable size and capacity.”

Black & White also encourages operators to stamp their own mark on their premises with individually-designed fitouts, he said.

“A key part of the Black & White ethos is that each cafe should have an independent, boutique feel, in contrast to the cookie-cutter interiors of the big franchise chains.”

Black & White Coffee Cartel was founded by Bink Bowler, who runs the group alongside two co-directors and shareholders: brother Luke Bowler and former All Black captain Reuben Thorne.

The first café under the Black & White brand, on Victoria Street in Christchurch, opened in early 2015.

Black & White Coffee Cartel’s first cafe in Victoria Street, Christchurch, opened in early 2015. The company wants to come to Ashburton.

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Bill battle set to be long one NZME Politicians fiercely opposed to a bill legalising assisted dying say they’ll be putting forward “amendments on amendments” as a prolonged and messy battle begins in Parliament.

Act Leader David Seymour’s End of Life Choice Bill was set to return to the House yesterday and MPs are set to debate a raft of changes proposed since it passed its second reading, in June.

Seymour is expecting the committee of the whole house stage to take about four months, but it could stretch well into next year if critics get their way.

Hours before the debate was due to begin yesterday, a group of staunch National Party opponents laid out their strategy.

They’ve previously promised to lodge 120 amendments for debate.

“I would imagine it could quite easily go beyond that,” National MP Maggie Barry said yesterday.

“Because you can make amendments on amendments.”

But the group deny they’re just stalling.

“It is not filibustering. Filibustering is where you put in useless time-wasting things. This is genuinely reflecting the genuine concerns of the vulnerable,” Barry said.

“For the thousands of people who came before the select committee their issues have not yet been debated by the whole of the house.”

The justice select committee heard a record 39,000 submissions, but was unable to come up with major changes to the legislation and Barry, its deputy chair, in April described it as unworkable.

Among the many changes the opponents now want to make are: increasing the age of eligibility for assisted dying from 18 to 25, tightening competency requirements and including more references towards cultural values.

Meanwhile, Seymour has proposed his own list of changes in a

bid to secure some much-needed votes.

The legislation originally allowed the terminally ill or those with “grievous and irremediable” conditions to legally request assisted dying, with clearance from two doctors.

Seymour’s most significant proposal removes the “grievous and irremediable” part, limiting the bill to just those with six months to live, in order to win the Green Party’s vote.

Its members were concerned about implications the original wording could have on the vulnerable groups, such as the disabled community.

Barry said that change was meaningless.

“It doesn’t make any difference, because no one understands it,” she said.

Seymour says he is taking comfort in a few strategic advantages.

Parliament’s rules mean his amendments will be heard first and changes cannot contradict each other, meaning plenty could be ruled out of order.

However, the biggest obstacle to his bill may come from NZ First.

Its MPs are demanding a public referendum be a requirement of the legislation and last week put forward a supplementary order paper to that effect.

They will vote “no” on the bill if the referendum isn’t accepted by the House.

Seymour has been trying to rally support for a referendum but it is not yet clear if he has the numbers.

The plebiscite will be among the last changes debated, meaning a large number of MPs are waiting to see the final bill before deciding.

None of the National MPs fronting media yesterday would put their backing behind the version of the referendum NZ First had put forward.

Without NZ First’s nine votes, Seymour cannot afford to lose even a single net “yes” from the second reading.

The first debate in the stage was to begin yesterday.

The police cordon in Massey, Auckland where a woman was stabbed to death.

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Eight minutes to find alleged killer

By Anna Leask NZME

It took just eight minutes for police to apprehend a man after he allegedly breached a protection order and stabbed his ex-partner to death in a West Auckland street on Monday.

Details of the apprehension will not be released by police as the man is now before the courts on a murder charge.

But they confirmed yesterday that from the time of the first 111 call to the time the man was taken into custody just eight minutes passed.

The woman was allegedly stabbed multiple times on Westgate Drive in Massey just after 8.30am on Monday.

Several members of the public tried to intervene and administer CPR but she died at the scene as her attacker fled in a vehicle.

He was captured by police nearby after another member of the public rammed his car into the alleged offender’s and stopped him escaping.

Alongside the murder charge, the man is also accused of

breaching a protection order that was in place to keep him away from the woman.

He was granted interim name suppression when he appeared in the Waitakere District Court yesterday.

This means the victim can not be named.

Police are still in the process of notifying her next of kin of her violent death.

It is understood many of her family live outside New Zealand.

Detectives investigating the alleged murder are appealing for witnesses to come forward.

They have spoken to a number of people who were at the scene or close to it – but are calling on anyone who may have been in the area and hold dashcam footage to contact them as they try to build a clearer picture of what happened.

They would not be drawn on where the victim and alleged offender had been before the incident, or how they came to be in contact on Westgate Drive.

It is understood she may have been waiting at a bus stop when

her ex-partner confronted her.

A man who lives in the area said he was eating breakfast and recalled looking out to see a woman at a bus stop, pacing the footpath as if she was running late.

There was a look in her eyes that made him distinctly remember her.

He said she was alone and looked “desperate’’.

“She kept looking up and down [the street],” he told media.

As she paced the footpath, on Westgate Drive in Massey, West Auckland, he got the impression she was running late or had missed her bus.

It was just after 8am and he guessed she was probably waiting for a bus due to stop there about 8.20am.

He vaguely remembered her wearing a coat and pants.

Bunches of flowers have been laid near the spot where the woman died.

People from all parts of the community – young and old and from different backgrounds – stopped to pay their respects.

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‘PM deeply involved’ NZME The Government is meeting with Ihumatao occupation leader Pania Newton as it seeks to bring an end to a land dispute that threatens to become this era’s Bastion Point.

Maori Development Minister Nanaia Mahuta entered a confidential meeting with Newton yesterday in Auckland, a spokesman said.

The dispute over the housing development planned on the 33ha site in Mangere, South Auckland, has erupted since those occupying the land – regarded as sacred to mana whenua – were served eviction notices last week.

Yesterday’s meeting comes after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Friday a halt to the Fletcher housing development while all parties worked together to find a solution.

A spokesman for Mahuta would not comment on any details of the meeting, but said they were “delicate negotiations and the Prime Minister has been deeply involved”.

It will be the first official meeting between the Government and those leading the occupation.

Since last Tuesday the movement has swelled, with thousands of supporters pouring in from across the country.

While the focus has been on the disputed land at Ihumatao, sacred to Maori but where majority for-

eign-owned Fletcher Residential wants to build a major housing development, for many attendees the kaupapa represents the wider issues of Maori land rights.

The protests are being led by Newton and her cousins with the group SOUL (Save Our Unique Landscape) who have been pushing for the land, purchased by Fletcher in 2016, to be returned to iwi.

But Te Warena Taua, who chairs local iwi Te Kawerau a Maki and nearby Makaurau Marae, backs the development, which would see a quarter of the disputed land returned to mana whenua, and houses set aside for their people.

He had previously unsuccessfully challenged the process in court, and told the Herald in November last year the deal reached with Fletcher was the best the iwi could get.

However, Newton said the deal was not good enough, and has called on the Government to intervene and purchase the land and turn it into a public reserve.

In February Fletcher said it would be open to selling for the right offer.

Ardern had previously said the matter was for mana whenua, and stepping in would override the process, but on Friday, after meeting with local iwi, Fletchers, and the Auckland Council, announced a halt to building work while all parties worked together to find a solution.

Pania Newton, Ihumatao.

Since then there has been no update from any party on a way forward to settling the dispute.

The Government has said buying the land and returning it to mana whenua could open up previous settlements that had excluded private land.

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Maori lawyer Moana Jackson said that would not be the case.

“That argument is a red herring.

In other places where private land has been excluded from any settlement it has been because there was no willing seller. Fletcher has indicated it would be willing to

sell for the right offer.

“The Crown created the injustice by confiscating the land [in 1863]. That confiscation created the complexities we have in the current situation. Therefore the Crown should act honourably and justly, and return the land.”

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Murupara reeling after tragic forestry NZME Family and friends of the four men killed in Monday morning’s horror forestry crash are sharing their shock and despair at the senseless loss in a rural Bay of Plenty forest.

The four men, from Murupara, were killed after the van they were in and a truck collided on a remote forestry road, that left just one survivor.

Bay of Plenty road policing manager Inspector Brent Crowe said the vehicles collided at the intersection of Bonisch and Parapara Rds at 6.35am.

All four who died were Timberlands forestry workers and volunteer firefighters.

Another young man was in a stable condition in a ward at Waikato Hospital yesterday.

Friends and family are gathering at Painoaiho Marae near Murupara in preparation for the burial later in the week.

They did not want to speak to the Rotorua Daily Post yesterday saying it was too raw.

There was a steady flow of cars driving on to the marae yesterday morning, with about 70

Left – The scene of a fatal crash in the Kaingaroa Forest between a logging truck and a van. PHOTO ROTORUA DAILY POST

vehicles lined up.

Inside the whare kai, tables had already been set up and the kitchen was busy as friends and family helped serve food.

Outside small groups were sitting and standing together. Those gathering were mostly wearing black.

The mood was sombre and quiet, despite the number of people at the scene.

Murupara’s Pem Bird confirmed

the four “beautiful young lives” were taken from the town.

But news of their sudden deaths has quickly spread on social media.

One relative wrote she was sad to hear of the passing of her cousin, who had been there for her in her “darkest days”.

“The parties, the huis, the laughs and tears will always be cemented on my manawa. Just to think I was just with you last week,

partying at your new whare in Murus and your last words to me were, ‘Laters my cuz’. Never did I think that those words would be your last words to me.”

Another person wrote: “Fly high Cuzzies till we meet again”, prompting shocked responses from others, with one writing, “omg wtf not another tragic mass death accident. wot a waste.”

Others wrote, “Love yous cuzzins, still can’t believe it”,

“Waaaaaaat”, “Is this from that accident in Kaingaroa?” and “Condolences to the ... whanau at this sad time”.

Many of those who are grieving are simply changing their profile picture to that of a lit candle on a black background with a red heart, while others have written “Kia Kaha Murupara” on it, too.

Timberlands chief executive Robert Green said on Tuesday his company was co-operating with police.

“We can confirm that the people involved work for a contractor to Timberlands as valued members of our wider forestry team.

“Like everyone else in the area, we are shocked and saddened by what has happened. We pass on our condolences to the families, whanau and everyone affected by this.”

The country’s road toll, as at yesterday, sat at 211 deaths compared to 220 at the same time last year.

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OUR VIEW

Should a child walk to school alone?

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emories of happy times walking to school with a few of my classmates came flooding back yesterday in the wake of a coroner’s suggestion that it was unacceptable that a six-year-old was allowed to walk to and from school without adult supervision.

The comments came in the wake of the death of Gisborne six-year-old, Carla Neems who was hit by a waste management truck outside her house while making her way home from school.

It’s a truly tragic situation – an even more horrific one if you think about it from your own perspective if you have children. But it’s a topic which seems to have polarised the nation over the past 24 hours.

School principals, parents,

childcare professionals and members of the general public have all had their say on the matter and many have questioned the need for the coroner at the head of the inquest to make such a brash suggestion which basically laid fault at the hands of Carla’s parents, who were doing what thousands of other parents do five days a week.

I’m sure most of us can remember being left to our own

devices when it came to getting to school each day. We’d bike, we’d run, we’d walk – but the message from home was always the same, that we had to respect roads and driveways and be alert of what was happening around us at all times.

So, why all of a sudden the big dramatic suggestion that parents allowing children to make their own way to school is unacceptable?

Had this tragic situation unfolded in the middle of a busy main road where there is a huge flow of traffic and children shouldn’t be walking unattended, then it would be completely understandable.

But this circumstance was a world apart from that.

Carla lived 450 metres from her school, walked home with

older children for three quarters of the journey and was sadly hit just metres from her own home.

Is that any different to a child playing in their own driveway or front lawn and running out onto the road?

Logic would suggest not.

It’s a truly tragic and heart-breaking set of circumstances, and one you would never wish upon any child or their parents but the fear of this country becoming a cotton wool society is very real.

The role of a coroner is to investigate a death and provide a detailed summary of the various factors that led to that particular death. They will also sometimes offer suggestions that need to be considered and in this case the suggestion sent a rather clear message.

Whether or not it’s the right one or not, is a matter for debate.

I’m more than happy to stand here and say I don’t agree with the comments, their intended context or their nature and, as a parent, to hear a professional say that it was effectively my fault my child had been hit by a vehicle when reality would suggest it was a pure tragedy, would be destroying.

There are a lot of lessons that we could all take from this situation.

We can look at the way that our youth are being educated in road safety and getting to and from school each day and help to guide them on the safest possible way for that to happen.

Surely that’s the better path to take forward here.

In 2013, defying the United States, Russia granted Edward Snowden temporary asylum, allowing the National Security Agency leaker to slip out of the Moscow airport where he had been holed up for weeks.

Ten years ago: A fierce storm caused an outdoor stage at the Big Valley Jamboree in Camrose, Alberta, Canada, to collapse, killing one person and injuring dozens of others. A gunman opened fired at a gay youth centre in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing two people.

Five years ago: President Barack

Obama, in a televised news conference, said that the United States had tortured al-Qaida detainees captured after 9/11, adding, “We did some things that were contrary to our values.”

Congress approved a $225 million package to replenish Israel’s missile defence system known as Iron Dome.

One year ago: The remains of dozens of presumed casualties of the Korean War were returned to US soil; in an emotional ceremony in Hawaii, military members carried 55 boxes draped with American flags off

two military transport planes.

Today’s birthdays: Singer Ramblin’ Jack Elliott is 88. Actor Giancarlo Giannini is 77. Blues singer-musician Robert Cray is 66. Singer Michael Penn is 61. Rock singer Joe Elliott is 60. Rock singer-musician Suzi Gardner is 59. Rapper Chuck D is 59. Actor Jesse Borrego is 57. Actor Demian Bichir is 56. Rapper Coolio is 56. Actor John Carroll Lynch is 56. Rock singer Adam Duritz is 55. Movie director Sam Mendes is 54.

Country singer George Ducas is 53. Country musician Charlie

Kelley is 51. Actress Jennifer Gareis is 49. Actor Charles Malik Whitfield is 47. Actress Tempestt Bledsoe is 46. Actor Jason Momoa is 40. Actress Honeysuckle Weeks is 40. Singer Ashley Parker Angel is 38.

Actress Taylor Fry is 38. Actor Elijah Kelley is 33. Actor James Francis Kelly is 30. Actress Ella Wahlestedt is 21.

Thought for today: “As scarce as truth is, the supply is always greater than the demand.” – Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw), American author (18181885).

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Thursday, August 1, the 213th day of 2019. There are 152 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On August 1, 1944, an uprising broke out in Warsaw, Poland, against Nazi occupation; the revolt lasted two months before collapsing.

On this date: In 1714, Britain’s Queen Anne died at age 49; she was succeeded by George I. In 1907, the US Army Signal Corps established an aeronautical division, the forerunner of the US Air Force.

In 1914, Germany declared war on Russia at the onset of World War One. In 1936, the Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.

In 1957, the United States and Canada announced they had agreed to create the North American Air Defence Command.

In 1966, Charles Joseph Whitman, 25, went on an armed rampage at the University of Texas in Austin that killed 14 people, most of whom were shot by Whitman while he was perched in the clock tower of the main campus building.

In 1973, the movie American Graffiti, directed by George Lucas, first opened.

In 1981, the rock music video channel MTV made its debut.

In 1987, Te reo Māori was recognised as an official language in New Zealand.

In 1992, New Zealander Lorraine Moller ran the race of her life to place third in the marathon at the Barcelona Olympics.

In 1994, Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirmed they’d been secretly married 11 weeks earlier.

In 2007, the eight-lane Interstate 35W bridge, a major Minneapolis artery, collapsed into the Mississippi River during evening rush hour, killing 13 people.

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Restoring fairness for family carers S

ome of the hardest work anyone does is to care for a family member who is sick or has disabilities.

It is rewarding and fulfilling, but I know it can also be physically draining and emotionally exhausting – sometimes all at once.

Until now, people doing this work have not been paid fairly, or properly acknowledged for their effort and sacrifice. Until now, people who care for their partners or children with high, or very high needs, sometimes received no support from the government.

This month we changed that.

From 2020, parents and partners will be paid for caring for their family members with those needs.

Pay rates for family carers will also increase from the current minimum wage to between $20.50 and $25.50.

This government is restoring fairness and dignity for those who do the crucial work of caring

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full-time for a loved one.

There are currently about 650 people being paid to care for family members in New Zealand, and these changes will allow an estimated 640 more to receive support.

As part of restoring justice for family carers, the Government is also repealing the law – introduced under urgency by the previous government – that denies families the right to contest breaches of their human rights relating to family care policies.

I’d like to acknowledge the families and whanau in Mid Canterbury who provide care for their loved ones with disabilities.

Your work is important and challenging, and the burden of the

previous government’s discriminatory policy only added to that challenge.

I know first-hand how much this will help so many families, as it would have helped my own, as my dear sister was born with Down Syndrome.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said this announcement showed the concerns of families with disabled members had been heard “loud and clear”.

Disability commissioner Paula Tesoriero said, “These changes reflect that the government has been listening to whanau, disabled people’s advocates and the Human Rights Commission’s concerns about this legislation and policy.”

This announcement is the first step towards a kinder and more compassionate system.

But we know there is more to do.

We have heard from families about the need to remove the requirement for an employment relationship between a disabled

person and their family member.

That’s why we’re currently considering options that do not place unreasonable expectations on disabled people, their family or whanau.

I’m proud that as a country we have a strong sense of fairness and equity.

It is wrong that people caring for a family member should receive less than other carers.

This is yet another example of how Jacinda Ardern’s government is taking a more compassionate approach.

We can’t fix all the long-term problems we inherited overnight, but we are making good progress – and we’ve only just begun.

Jo Luxton is a Labour list MP. The views, opinions, positions or strategies expressed by the author and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions or strategies of the Ashburton Guardian Co Ltd or any employee thereof.

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ASEAN ministers meet AP Southeast Asian foreign ministers opened their annual meeting yesterday with a call from host Thailand for deeper integration to expand trade and bolster prosperity in the region amid rising global challenges.

The meeting takes place in the shadows of rising security tension on the Korean Peninsula, China’s aggressive territorial claims in the South China Sea and the US-China trade war.

ASEAN, seeking to boost its own voice as a global player, also plays host to a series of foreign ministers from key strategic and dialogue partners, including US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Thailand Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai told colleagues in the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations they must be “more agile” amid increasing nationalism globally.

“We must recognise that looking inward and being myopic is not our option and nev-

‘Two max’ says Prince Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). er will be,” he said in his opening speech.

“Amidst a great turmoil, we must be more outward and forward looking than ever before.”

He warned the road ahead “could be treacherous” but said greater co-operation among ASEAN members and outside partners could help sustain long-term growth.

“It is a difficult balancing act, but overcoming fear and distrust among ourselves, and between us and other powers will make ASEAN an integral part of sustainable global peace and prosperity that could lift all

boats,” he said.

The struggle for influence between the US and China has put ASEAN in a tight spot.

ASEAN leaders at their summit meeting in June adopted an Indo-Pacific engagement framework that sought to find a middle ground and keep on the good side of both Washington and Beijing.

Beijing’s attempts to project its influence globally through its Belt and Road Initiative, an ambitious development programme of major infrastructure projects, while Washington is promoting its own vision

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strategy for a Free and Open Indo-Pacific, which Beijing regards as directed against it.

ASEAN’s concerns about China are sharpest in the South China Sea, where Beijing uses a projection of force to maintain a territorial claim over a huge area, with parts overlapping claims by ASEAN members Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei.

Defusing tension on the Korean Peninsula was expected to be a big concern at the 27-member regional security forum ASEAN is also hosting this week.

Prince Harry says he and his wife Meghan will have no more than two children because of concerns for the environment.

In an interview with primatologist Jane Goodall for British Vogue, Harry said becoming a father in May had changed his perspective. He said “I view it differently now, without question. But I’ve always wanted to try and ensure that, even before having a child and hoping to have children.” When Goodall added “Not too many,” Harry said: “two, maximum.” Harry interviewed Goodall for the September issue of British Vogue, which was guestedited by Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.

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Roadside bomb claims at least 32 lives AP A roadside bomb tore through a bus in western Afghanistan yesterday, killing at least 32 people, including women and children, a provincial official said.

Mohibullah Mohib, spokesman for the police chief in Farah province, said 15 others were wounded with most in critical condition, indicating the death toll could rise.

The bus was travelling on a main highway between the western city of Herat and the southern city of Kandahar.

No one immediately claimed

responsibility, but Taliban insurgents operate in the region and frequently use roadside bombs to target government officials and security forces.

The Taliban have kept up a steady tempo of attacks even as they have held several rounds of peace talks with the United States aimed at ending the 18-year war.

The attack came a day after the UN mission in Afghanistan released a report saying that most civilian deaths in the first half of the year were caused

by Afghan forces and their international allies. The report apparently referred to civilians

killed during Afghan and US military operations against insurgents.

The UN report said 403 civilians were killed by Afghan forces in the first six months of the year and another 314 by international forces, a total of 717.

That’s compared to 531 killed by the Taliban, an Islamic State affiliate and other militants during the same period. It said 300 of those killed by militants were directly targeted.

The UN said the leading cause of civilian deaths and injuries was “ground engagements,” which caused one in three casualties. Roadside

bombs were a close second, accounting for 28 per cent.

Afghanistan is one of the most heavily mined countries in the world – a legacy of decades of war.

The Taliban, who effectively control half the country, have been meeting with US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad since late last year.

They appear to be closing in on an agreement whereby American forces would withdraw from Afghanistan in return for guarantees that it would not be used as a launchpad for international terror attacks.

Ramsay gets hands dirty For his latest TV show, famed chef Gordon Ramsay has definitely left the comforting familiarity of his kitchens. On Uncharted, Ramsay visits global destinations to explore flavours far from routine. He eats guinea pig in Peru, fishes for eel with his bare hands to make a Maori dish in New Zealand and forages for hearts of palm in Morocco. “It’s a million miles away from my high-end, three-star Michelin kitchen,” he says of the show airing on the National Geographic Channel. After spending a week learning about the ingredients, Ramsay ends each hour-long show with a cooking competition, pitting himself against a local chef.

■■UNITED STATES

Ten-year-old faces assault charge after throwing ball NZME A 10-year-old Michigan boy faces an aggravated assault charge after injuring a classmate at the end of a schoolyard game, a charge that prosecutors believe they have enough evidence to support.

The 10-year-old allegedly threw a ball at a 9-year-old classmate, “intentionally hitting the 9-year-old with force causing an injury,” Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor Maria Miller said in a telephone interview.

The toss caused a concussion along with facial abrasions, prosecutors allege. Juvenile

Court Referee Nicholas Bobak will preside over a pretrial hearing for the case Thursday in Michigan’s 3rd Circuit.

The children were playing a game known as “tips” at Ruth Eriksson Elementary School in Canton, Michigan, on April 29.

In the game, players throw a ball into the air, jump up to catch it and throw it again before touching the ground.

Prosecutors allege that after the game, the 10-year-old threw a ball at the 9-year-old with malicious intent.

In an interview with Detroit ABC affiliate WXYZ, the injured child’s mother said her son suffered a black eye and bruised

nose. A medical evaluation later found a concussion.

The mother said her son has a medical condition that makes blows to the head very dangerous.

She said he had previously been hit twice in the face with a ball during the school year before the April 29 instance.

She reported the matter to police, who referred it to prosecutors.

“This case was looked at and the evidence showed that the child intentionally threw the ball with force when he acted,” Miller said.

“That is the allegation, that it was not during the course of

play, it was not accidental.”

The Washington Post is not naming either child involved, because they are juveniles.

A Facebook fundraiser for a legal-defence fund for the 10-year-old has raised more than $14,000 in seven days.

The child’s mother had set a goal of $4000 on the online effort.

The 10-year-old was suspended from school for one day after the game, according to WXYZ. And then last Wednesday, his mother got a call from the juvenile court system.

“I couldn’t believe it,” the woman told the station.

Epilepsy cause of death Disney star Cameron Boyce’s cause of death was “sudden unexpected death in epilepsy,” according to a medical examiner-coroner. Boyce, who was born on May 28, 1999, was found unresponsive in his home on July 8. He was pronounced dead at the scene and an initial autopsy was performed the same day. The medical examiner/coroner determined Boyce’s cause of death following additional testing. The manner of his death was certified as “natural,” per the office’s summary. “He passed away in his sleep due to a seizure which was a result of an ongoing medical condition for which he was being treated,” a family spokesperson said.

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Bull calves finding homes, slowly

By Heather Chalmers

Left - M. bovis has made the sale of bull calves not impossible, but certainly tougher.

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Mid Canterbury bull calves are finding buyers, but sales are harder because of the region’s association with cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis.

Mid Canterbury PGG Wrightson dairy representative Victor Schikker said prices for four-dayold bull calves in the district were $70 to $90. Prices varied even within Canterbury and were always dearer in the North Island.

Prices were “possibly” lower in Mid Canterbury, because of the stigma of M. bovis, he said.

After being reared to 100kg locally, either by dairy farmers or specialist rearers, the calves are then sold to beef finishers throughout the country, with many being sold to the North Island. This was because Canterbury calves were still price competitive, despite the additional cost of cartage, Schikker said.

“We sell calves into Hawkes Bay, but it’s got to compete in price with sourcing calves from Waikato.

“The buyers are trying to get them as cheap as possible and the rearers are trying to get as much as possible. We try and find a happy balance.”

Canterbury contracts for 100kg bull calves were $460 to $500, depending on the timing of delivery, with a premium for early calves supplied in October.

While North Island buyers were

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still sourcing bull beef from Mid Canterbury for finishing, sales were harder work because of M. bovis, Schikker said.

“One of our big orders pulled out, because the perception is that Mid Canterbury is crawling with M. bovis.

“Mid Canterbury has a high incidence of M. bovis, but it doesn’t mean we are crawling with it.

“We are in a safer position now compared with last year, as we know where the cases are.”

In early July, the Ministry for Primary Industries said the Ashburton District had 26 confirmed M. bovis properties, of which five were still under restrictions, out of a national total of about 180. Twenty-five properties in the region were under a Notice

Beef’s bad rap based on poor science NZME Beef has been getting a bad rap – blamed for everything from increased cancer to greenhouse gas emissions by environmental and commercial influencers.

Prof Frederic Leroy, Professor of Food Science and biotechnology at Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, said meat had effectively become a scapegoat for commercial and environmental advocates, much of which was based on bad science.

Speaking at the red meat sector conference this week in Christchurch, Prof Leroy said the industry as a whole had a responsibility to change the narrative.

“The anti-meat lobby has gained traction in Europe and elsewhere over the past few years. It’s led to calls for a sin tax on meat or even meat eaters being banned from restaurants, by high level policy-makers.”

Prof Leroy said one of the major issues is that advocates had linked a reduction in CO² gas emissions directly to meat intake.

“The impression is that you as an individual can reduce emissions simply by eating less red meat. And on top of which it’s better for you. Unfortunately, this entire chain of proof is not based on scientific method and has been corrupted by vested interests and commercial priorities,” he said.

“Eating meat is a very small slice of the problem as variance to diet doesn’t have much of an impact. The average person emits around 12t CO² per year. Switching to a vegan diet would save around 0.81t CO²

with flexitarians a bit less at 0.31t CO². So exclusive plant-based nutrition would represent a decrease of between 1-6 per cent in carbon emissions.”

He said media played a part in promoting negative stereotypes, promoting research suggesting that in Western countries, beef consumption needed to fall dramatically and be replaced by plants such as beans and pulses.

“The elephant in the room is fossil fuels.

Global tourism accounts for 8 per cent of overall carbon emissions, mobile phones around 14 per cent and cement production around 7 per cent. They aren’t receiving much attention.

“We obviously need to face up to the challenge of feeding the world with nutrient-dense food, but there remained an important place for beef and other ruminant meats.

“New Zealand producers will need to get their act together based on science and telling the story of biodiversity.”

There is also a need for more pride in what we produce.

“These are fantastic products and [the] public should feel that. The whole idea of alternative product burgers is that they aren’t aimed at vegans who represent a very small part of the market. They are aimed at larger public and getting us to a point where meat and meat imitations are interchangeable. Meat is more than a beef patty – it is part of our cultural heritage and centre of our humanity.”

of Direction restricting livestock movements and 80 under active surveillance.

Schikker said that normally at this time he was crying out for bull calves, but this year he had more than he could find rearers for.

While some big calf rearers were still operating, he knew of one that had stopped after being

confirmed with M. bovis.

To minimise their risk, rearers were sourcing bigger lines of calves from a limited number of dairy farms, or possibly only one source.

“I still hope to contract as many 100kg calves as I usually do, but it is harder to find buyers.

“MPI’s catch-cry is that it is business as usual.

“Bull beef farmers still need livestock to maintain their operation. You try and reduce the risk as much as possible and farmers need to do due diligence regarding where stock comes from,” Schikker said.

Lagmhor dairy farmers Rob and Janet Mangin rear some of their bull calves every year. For about 15 years they have supplied a Central Otago grazier with 60 100kg calves delivered in early to mid-November.

“If we can sell calves rather than bobbying them it is good,” Rob Mangin said. “They have to be the right markings and breed.”

The grazier bought Friesian and Friesian-Hereford cross calves.

The Mangins, who milk 650 cows, have had a busy start to calving, with 15 to 20 cows calving a day. “It’s quite a big job for the next six weeks.”

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Business confidence slumps

By Liam Dann NZME

Business confidence has slumped in the latest ANZ Business Outlook as global economic slowdown concerns add to domestic worries about tougher credit conditions and lower profits.

Confidence fell six points to net -44 per cent in the July survey.

The more important indicator of real economic performance – firms’ views of their own activity – fell three points to +5 per cent, the lowest read since August last year.

Other activity indicators were also weaker.

“Most ANZ Business Outlook activity indicators fell in July to weak levels. The main theme this month was a sharp deterioration in sentiment in the construction sector across a wide range of indicators,” said ANZ senior economist, Miles Workman.

“Residential construction intentions fell back into negative territory. Employment intentions and profitability expectations for the construction sector plummeted to the lowest since 2009.”

Employment intentions fell

from 0 to a net 6 per cent of firms expecting to cut jobs, he said.

Investment intentions fell three points to be flat.

Capacity utilisation, which has one of the most reliable correla-

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modity prices and interest rates at record lows, the headwinds of a global slowdown and credit and cost constraints appear to be winning out.

“With the inflation outlook not

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tions in the survey to annual GDP growth, fell five points to 0, its lowest read since 2009.

“The outlook for the economy is deteriorating,” Workman said.

“Despite generally good com-

consistent with the target midpoint we expect two more OCR cuts this year, helping the economy to find its feet once more.”

Profit expectations fell three points to a net 16 per cent expecting profitability to decline.

A net 42 per cent of firms expect it to be tougher to get credit, down 2 points to a fresh record low since the series began in 2009.

“Construction indicators look a bit worse for wear,” Workman said.

A net 33 per cent of firms in the construction sector are intending to cut jobs.

The construction sector currently employs 240,000 people, some 9 per cent of total employment, making it a meaningful driver of broader employment trends.

“The outlook for the broader labour market is also deteriorating: although the construction sector is far more negative than the rest, employment intentions are now negative in every sector, ” he said.

“The services sector was the last domino to fall; the net -1 per cent this month is the lowest since late 2009.”

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By Sam Hurley NZME

A dairy scientist self-dubbed the “father of colostrum” is claiming a miscarriage of justice after being found guilty and jailed for fraudulently using customer funds.

Trevor James Lock was imprisoned for six years in 2017 on 20 total dishonesty charges.

He was arrested in Morrinsville in December 2015 after an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into his activities with companies Nubiotics and Nu-brands.

Nubiotics marketed a range of colostrum-based cosmetics, active manuka honey and infant formula accompanied by impressive-sounding health and scientific claims.

Through the companies, Lock entered into a number of contracts to supply dairy and honey products, but he then used customer deposits from contracts to fund personal or other business expenses before failing to deliver on the deals.

Yesterday, at a hearing in Auckland, Lock asked the Court of Appeal for a retrial.

The Waikato man, who now has long grey hair and wears glasses, appeared via video link from prison as his counsel Mark Ryan said his client “wanted to give evidence on his own behalf at trial”.

Ryan, who is the third lawyer to represent Lock, criticised his client’s trial lawyer Jeremy Bioletti.

He said Bioletti’s handling of the case resulted in an “unfair trial”.

“Mr Bioletti did not have one written record of any communications at all with Mr Lock,” Ryan said.

Lock also wants to call witnesses in his own defence if granted a retrial.

Trevor Lock in 2004.

“As a person charged he is entitled to the right to present a defence ... he has been deprived the fundamental right in the Bill of Rights to a fair trial,” Ryan said.

One of the Court of Appeal judges, Justice Forrie Miller, said the panel would have to consider what evidence the potential witnesses would give.

Some of the defence witnesses were categorised as character witnesses, while one was also dead, the court heard.

Ryan said it may be that Lock “goes to trial, gives evidence – he might be convicted – but at least he’d had a fair trial”.

The Court of Appeal judges reserved their decision on the appeal of convictions and sentence.

After Lock’s sentencing, SFO director Julie Read said he showed “callous disregard for the consequences of his actions”.

“Mr Lock deceived his customers and their agents,” she said.

“He caused significant financial and reputational loss to his victims and in many cases personal suf-

fering. By his deception, Mr Lock risked the reputation of an important New Zealand industry.”

Creditors of Nubiotics had complained to the SFO over repeated claims by Lock that large offshore orders – notably from China, India and Russia – were imminent and would settle the outstanding debts.

Nubiotics, however, entered receivership and liquidation in 2014 after falling behind on payments to boutique lender Waikawau Finance.

In company literature, Lock was described as having a masters degree in biotechnology and bio-engineering from the University of Waikato and was formerly employed by Anchor as a nutraceuticals development manager.

Herald investigations also revealed a similar Lock company, Functional Nutraceuticals, collapsed in 2011.

Liquidator reports said the company was established in 2001 to export colostrum, but had later supplied manuka honey and oil to markets in China and Russia.

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TEST YOURSELF Test yourself with the Guardian’s weekday quiz 1 – Where is the Clyde River? a. Central Otago b. Ashburton Lakes area c. Marlborough 2 – Chamoy Thipyaso of Thailand was sentenced to how many years in prison in 1989? a. 633 b. 17,089 c. 141,078 3 – How many people are there in the New Zealand band six60? a. Four b. Five c. Six 4 – In what year was Sydney Harbour Bridge opened? a. 1932 b. 1939 c. 1944 5 – Australia’s Hunter Valley is in? a. South Australia b. New South Wales c. Queensland 6 – Kakariki is a type of New Zealand...? a. Bird b. Tree c. Cloak 7 – Which horoscope sign relates to a Roman weapon? a. Sagittarius b. Scorpio c. Libra 8 – Woolston is a suburb in which city? a. Christchurch b. Dunedin c. Nelson

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2 9 3 8 5 8 3 6 Dale While some of the Ashburton Photographic Society members take their photographs during overseas travel, member Abbott, has joined our club after moving from the United States, so his backyard is larger than ours! The Coleman 9 1 5Glacier 4 is located on the west side of Mt Baker in Washington State and it is accessible via a 6km hike to Heliotrope Ridge. The photo was taken in October, 2018, during a hike with his cousin John Hanley. This panorama shot earned Dale an acceptance 6 3in our landscape competition.

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extreme from the weekend before, with a warm, sunny, still afternoon enjoyed.

We are grateful to our time keepers Gordon Clinton and Debra Curtain, marshal Johnny McGrath and course co-ordinator Ian Broadbelt, without them our event wouldn’t be possible.

Afternoon tea was hosted at the McGraths’ home and enjoyed by all.

Until next time, keep moving everyone.

A meeting was held recently. Neighbourhood Support New Zealand have advised of a new logo which was launched at conference.

It had been a busy month, especially with advertising of the new software feature Gets Ready. There are now 4933 households registered, so it was decided to give a gift basket prize to the 5000th household to register.

There will be a stall on Boulevard Day, also at the village which is planned for the A&P Show.

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Ashburton Golf Club Well my week in Aussie turned into a week and a day, so due to fog in Christchurch I missed the club champs qualifying round 4 last Saturday. I could feel a net 64 or 65 brewing up as well.

Oh well will have to try in round 5.

Ron Carlson and Jordy Bird led the way well, both shooting net 68s, well done to both lads who could well be major forces in the intermediate grade. Other good scores were Phil Kerr, Robbie Bell, Jason Overend and young Wilson, all shooting net 70s.

Round 5 the final round is on August 24, this is when the top 16 of each grade will be seeded by their best two rounds, then the knockout rounds start on September 7 running for four consecutive weeks with the final on Sunday, September 29.

Remember if you can’t make every week or just don’t want to be in the matchplay, please let Matt know, and he can take you out of the mix.

This Saturday we have round 1 of the Brandon Cup, this is a three round stableford cup over the next three weeks, with all three scores counting.

Sponsors note, the RMF Cup is in full swing after round 6 young Wilson is setting the pace, but with the next four weeks all being counters and 48 points on offer over the month, anything can happen. Thanks again to all the great gang down at Russell Moon and Fail.

Great news from the Aorangi board, is that The Brandon Course has picked up the hosting rights for the 2021 Interprovincial Men’s National Champs. This is going to be a massive week for the club, the town and the Aorangi district, but first there is going to be a lot of work to get everything in great order for the eyes of the golfing elite to be on our wonderful course.

We are going to need lots of volunteer hours over the next two years, doing many jobs. If you think you would like to be part of this please give Bruce or myself a shout, or you may have your shoulder tapped.

One thing is certain, the only way this can be a great success, is for the whole club to get on board and embrace this wonderful opportunity. See you around the course. Good golfing

Hinds Women’s Institute On Wednesday, June 26, the Hinds WI met in the Hinds Community Centre for a meeting and Mini Show which was to replace the monthly competitions.

President Rosa opened the meeting, welcomed members and a new local resident, June; and also Judy Vaughan and Mavis Wilkins, the latter receiving a bouquet of flowers and congratulations on being awarded with her Gold Service Badge at the recent Annual General Meeting of the NZ Federation held in Taupo.

A report on this function was also provided. Business included entries for the forthcoming Cup Day and Quiz co, discussion on revitalising the Link Letters to members in WIs in the United Kingdom.

Ashburton Woodworkers President Bruce Ferriman welcomed 16 members, to our July meeting.

Bruce mentioned that the façade had been fixed to the roof of the clubrooms, in keeping with the other buildings in the complex.

He also encouraged members to add their names to a raffle selling list.

Adriaan Slooten from the Timaru Woodworkers Club was introduced as our guest demonstrator.

Show and Tell John Millichamp: Two totara bowls.

Kevin Challis: a walnut bowl with a ceramic bowl.

Merv Peck: Two totara bowls.

Hinds for many years has had letter exchange with links in the UK. With finance and correspondence dealt with, members then had a look at a lovely lot of entries.

Winner of the Douglas Vase. Betty Wilson. Flowers. Winner of Thimble, Valmai McKenzie for craft. Winner of the Brass Vase, Rosa Bennett for vegetables. Winner of Teale Cup, Ruth Sheppard for cooking. Most Points and most entries were won by Valmai McKenzie.

The roll call was soup or baking for the elderly, alone in the district, a good response to this was seen.

Birthday greetings were extended to Betty Wilson and Jenny Sinclair and a gift was offered from the basket.

July saw Hinds WI members celebrate their birthday by joining with fellow members and friends to a lovely luncheon at the Speights restaurant.

The Birthday cake was cut by Rona McConnell and Rosa Bennett.

Hinds WI has a turn at Meals on Wheels in August and names of helpers were recorded.

RSA Women’s Section President Colleen Hands welcomed members on Thursday July 25. Apologies were received. With Hope McIntosh playing piano the RSA song was sung. No birthdays this month. Sympathy was given to anyone who has sadly lost a loved one. Sick members were wished a speedy recovery.

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John Smart: totara bowl.

Adriaan Slooten: wet turned oak bowl and several wet turned walnut platters.

Paul Trott: totara bowl, showing great improvement.

Gary Maxey: brought along a magnificent mah-jong box, using spalted maple, dark oak and several other different woods.

Adriaan Slooten then demonstrated turning thin platters of different sizes and thinness using wet wood and wet sanding.

Mounting a crotch piece of wet walnut on the lathe he proceeded to turn the outside from the centre to the outside bark side then with a spigot formed to Also it will be bring and buy day. Baking and produce needed for stall please.

No competitions in August.

The speaker, Jo Metcalf, was introduced.

Jo is from Memory Funerals. The talk was really informative with lots of questions asked and comments made. Jo was thanked for giving up time to talk to members.

Fruit raffle was won by Ayleen Beatty.

Competition: Sandwich plate: 1st Marilyn Coley, 2nd Kelly-Rose Blackburn, 3rd Pat Cannan.

Catherine and Joan were hostesses and served afternoon tea to end a really interesting afternoon.

Run and Walk Ashburton The rain and chilly temperature on Saturday, July 20 did not dampen the enthusiasm of the nine members who joined for a hosted walk and run from Bill and Janet Hood’s home starting from Carters Terrace.

We had experienced considerable rainfall with the Ashburton River bank to bank.

Despite this we ventured down the south side river track, negotiating the sizable puddles and enjoyed a brisk walk. A few had left ahead of the others so they would make it to the Lake and back.

One runner opted for the streets around Tinwald heading towards the lake and back whilst the other had a mix of road and trail.

Distances varied with everyone content

hold into a chuck when reversed.

Holding the gouge firmly onto the tool rest he commenced to remove more wood until he formed a thin platter.

As wet sanding causes no dust it is a more pleasant system.

Once you start turning a wet piece of wood you have to finish the project straight away as the wood you remove causes the tension in the wood to change.

You can discover upon returning to an almost complete platter that it has warped so much that it’s become fancy firewood.

Thanks Adriaan for an interesting and challenging demonstration. on their return and appreciated the warm cuppa and afternoon tea which followed.

A healthy turn out for the 3km handicapped Larkin Pace and Strong Walk allowed good competition amongst competitors which was held at Argyle Park on Saturday, July 27. A one-kilometre loop was set for the 13 walkers and nine runners with a staggered start in place.

Barbara Taylor was the first walker across the line in a time of 23:48 and Mike O’Callaghan the first runner across the line in 22:54.

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Meeting July 23 Our speaker for July was Professor Robin Palmer from Canterbury University speaking on Does the brain Lie? The promise and perils of Forensic Analysis as a lie detection tool.

Robin is a Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Legal studies. He was born in South Africa and has worked internationally as a consultant for various UN organisations. He has an extensive background as a barrister.

Robin became involved in his current project in South Africa 30 years ago and now the project is based in Canterbury University.

The history of testing for lies has developed from torture to probability assessments, fingerprints, lie detectors and DNA. Testing in this current programme is being done using EEGs of the brain to detect increased blood flow in the cortex of the brain in response to images and words. The brainwave response is different if the information requested is known to the subject, than if the information is unknown. The brain has a record of what the person has experienced and significant events will stick in the mind forever. The results of such investigations would then be handed to police to investigate.

In 2001 the Ohio Supreme Court, USA, was the first to accept brainwave analysis as evidence but it was not the deciding factor in the verdict of innocent.

Robin gave some New Zealand case examples of how this new technique may have exonerated a person who has been found guilty of a crime. The project has good support from the New Zealand Law foundation.

The next testing will be done on prisoners. There are however many outstanding issues to resolve e.g. ethical, procedural, legal, cultural and testing of children.

The large audience was very appreciative of Robin’s talk and he was thanked for his time and expertise.

Next month a series of three talks on space will begin, the first being held on August 27 with Peter Datlin from Rocket Lab NZ. September 3 Ian Griffin on Aurora Chasing in New Zealand and September 24 Alistair Perkins on A Layman’s guide to the Universe.

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SPORTS DRAWS AND RESULTS RESULTS ■■ Golf Mayfield Golf Club July 30 Ladies Division

Ruapuna Rosebowl Round 2 Christine Ross beat Jan Clucas; Club Champs Round 2 Margaret Read beat Jan Early Best Nett 1st Sanae Hydes 75, 2nd Lal Mulligan 76; Marilyn Cross 2nd shot 2 and 11 Jan Clucas 0-29, Sue Graham 30+; Sims Bakery nearest Pin No. 5 Christine Ross; Mr Man’s Bakery nearest Pin No. 14 Lal Mulligan

Tinwald Golf Club July 30 - Ladies Division Medal Silver: Christine Kinita 75, Bronze 1: June Bruhns 72, Bronze 2: Barb Cochrane 75 Stableford Barb Cochrane 40 c/b, Mara Kennedy 40, Colleen Linney 37.

9 Hole Competition – Putting Judith Smith 14, Carol Shanks 15 c/b,

Maureen Colville 15.

Nearest the Pin: Murray Young Property Broker (2nd Shot) #2 Karen Young, Sims Bakery #6 Mara Kennedy, Mac & Maggie # Not Struck, Outdoor Adventure (2nd Shot) #16 Judith Smith.

DRAWS

■■ Golf Tinwald Golf Club August 6 Ladies Division LGU 1st Lloyd Trophy – 9 holes LGU 2 J’s Cup stroke and putting Starters: B. Harris T. O’Connell Cards: B. Cochrane V. Prendergast Draw steward: J. Bruhns

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United masters extend win streak Mid Canterbury United Football Club’s masters team picked up a 4-1 over Timaru’s West End AFC Men’s C team at the Ashburton Domain at the weekend. It was the latest in a string of wins for the Masters side this season, helping them to wrap up the South Canterbury Football division three title. They now have a week off before heading into a cup knock-out competition for clubs in divisions one to three.

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Cricket ‘holy grail’ a $40k score NZME Out-of-work Christchurch sports fan James Sanders hit pay dirt after discovering a bat owned by Sir Donald Bradman in an auction.

Cricket’s greatest ever player, and one of the most famous sportsmen anywhere, never played in New Zealand.

But in what will probably remain an enduring mystery, one of his bats with links to the most infamous sports series in history, has turned into a goldmine for Sanders.

The bat was advertised as Bradman-signed, but turned out to be much more than that, and could even have been used in the extraordinary Bodyline contest.

Sanders won’t confirm what he paid for it at an antique auction

“somewhere in the South Island”.

The Herald understands he parted with just a few hundred dollars for an item that might fetch up to $40,000 at an Australian sport memorabilia auction this month.

Sanders was the only bidder for the bat, which came from a deceased estate.

It has Bradman’s signature in the so-called ownership position, near the top at the back, and is signed by 16 English players including captain Douglas Jardine, architect of the controversial bodyline bowling tactic.

Sanders told the Herald: “Before the auction I was excited – all I knew is that it was a Bradman signed bat and I thought I’ll go and have a crack at it. It was a William Sykes (brand) bat, his bat of

choice. I knew it was something special but I got really excited when I got it home and realised he had owned it.

“That elevated it from being pretty cool. The greatest cricketer of the 20th century, the biggest event in the history of cricket, that’s the Holy Grail right there.

“I certainly didn’t have a hit with it. I just put it in the corner of my bedroom for safekeeping.”

Bradman gear raises major excitement in the sports memorabilia market, and the location of about 20 of his bats is known.

Melbourne auctioneer Charles Leski – a Bradman specialist – auctioned the Australian legend’s first test bat for $145,000.

He said the latest bat was a stunning find, because it was such a surprise.

■■BOXING

Peres to defend her WBO title NZME New Zealand’s reigning WBO light heavyweight world champion Geovana Perez will make the first defence of her title against Canada’s Claire Hafner on Friday, October 4 at Sky City in Auckland.

The hard-hitting Canadian is ranked the No. 2 female heavyweight on the planet by respected independent website Boxrec – and will drop down a division to contest the WBO strap.

“This is a massive challenge for me but it is one I am 100 per cent ready for,” Peres said. “It was an incredible experience to win a world title but it won’t mean much if I can’t defend it. I’m determined to make sure this fight is just another step on the road to even bigger and better things.”

Peres marked the fight announcement

by conducting a training session on the Auckland Sky Tower’s SkyWalk. After a nervous start she was soon into the swing of things, hitting the pads with trainer Terrence Batchelor on a narrow strip of causeway over 100m in the air.

“I have to say it was terrifying, but I did what what I had to do,” said Peres, who conquered a long standing fear of heights in the process.

“In the ring I am in my element. Out there I wasn’t. I was pretty scared actually.

But I faced a really huge fear that I had and that for sure will help me in the ring – because I will fear no-one.”

Hafner, who fights out of Ontario, Canada, is coming off an impressive victory over veteran American Carlette Ewell in North Carolina in June. Ewell was comfortably out-pointed by Hafner over eight rounds.

ly disappointed, we thought we had a good case but you always take the risk when you go in and fight the charge to get it downgraded.

“We thought it was worthwhile but it didn’t turn out that way. But it’s happened. Karl [Lawton] comes into the frame and we will get on with it.”

It leaves Chanel Harris-Tavita as the likely back up option to Lawton, though Jazz Tevaga and Kodi Nikorima could also spend some time at dummy half.

Like Warriors captain Roger Tuivasa-Sheck, Kearney was reluctant to dwell too much on the controversial Eels clash last Saturday, with all four match officials being stood down after a string of mistakes.

NRL head of football Graeme Annesley is coming to Auckland on Friday to address the club’s concerns about recent events and will meet with CEO Cameron George and football manager Brian Smith but Kearney is only looking forward.

“I can’t sit on the frustration and disappointment for too long,” said Kearney. “That’s not my job to do that. I’m here to coach the footy team and move on as quickly as possible.

“And that’s the point I made to the team. Put yourselves in the opposition shoes this week.

Do you think they will be feeling sorry for us? Absolutely not. And we can’t either.”

Patrick Herbert (hamstring) is in line to return next week, though David Fusitu’a (hamstring) is at least two weeks away. And the prognosis is uncertain for Tohu Harris, who may not play again this year as he comes back from surgery on a stress fracture in his foot.

“There’s a possibility [he won’t play again this season],” said Kearney. “We need to see how he pulls up at the back end of round 22. He goes back to see a specialist in and around that time. It’s a wait and see.”

Warriors coach Stephen Kearney is calling for a review of the NRL judiciary system, in the wake of the Issac Luke’s three game suspension on Tuesday night.

The Auckland club was unsuccessful in their attempts to have Luke’s charge downgraded, with the Kiwis hooker found guilty of a grade two dangerous throw.

That means Luke is ruled out until round 24, when the Warriors face the Rabbitohs in Auckland.

It’s led to accusations of inconsistency from the match review committee and the judiciary, as Manly and NSW Origin lock Jake Trbojevic is free to play this week, despite the ugly incident with Melbourne’s Jahrome Hughes, which resembled a spear tackle from the 1970s.

Several coaches across the NRL have had issues with the constantly changing interpretations of foul play, and Kearney added his voice to that chorus yesterday.

While emphasising that he is completely focused on Friday’s game against the Raiders, Kearney said there are things to fix in the current system.

“That is probably not a conversation for today,” said Kearney. “[But] what has been highlighted, not only over the last week but over the season, [is that there] needs to be some kind of review, [a] process where we make the system better for everyone. Ricky [Stuart] made a pretty strong point about it also.”

On Tuesday night the Warriors contested the gravity of Luke’s tackle, arguing that it should have been assessed as a grade one dangerous throw, but the judiciary panel took just nine minutes to dismiss their argument, after lawyers for both sides had put their cases.

“It says that it was pretty quick,” said Kearney. “[I’m] fair-

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Top seed chasing the perfect birthday present Ashburton squash player Lee Barker is hoping to have more than one reason to celebrate this weekend.

He’s got his eyes set on a win in his home club’s annual squash tournament, and if it happens, it will be the perfect way to mark his 36th birthday.

Barker is a member at the Ashburton Squash Club, and this weekend the club is hosting its annual Ashburton Open tournament.

With a number of Squash Midlands club titles and the Midlands Open title already to his name this season, it’s not surprising that Barker heads into the tournament ranked as the number one seed in the open men’s grade.

But the club’s other big winner from the Midlands Open – Katrina Palmer, who won the open women’s title – will not feature in the draw this weekend, as she is away.

So the player to beat in the women’s draw is top seed Grace Hymers from Christchurch.

Both Barker and Hymers lead a very strong open grade group of players which tournament organ-

isers expect to put on a fantastic show of play over the course of the weekend.

“We’ve got 68 entries, which we are really pleased about,” Nick Swift said.

“We can’t really hold any more than 72, so we usually cap it. We’ve got eight groups of eight and then a round robin being played for the bottom four,” he said.

Play begins tomorrow night around 5.30pm and will finish up at 9pm.

Players will then return on Saturday for an 8.30am start with the women’s final set to be played around 6.30pm and the men’s final immediately after approximately 7.15pm to 7.30pm.

Swift said the public were more than welcome to come along and watch some high level squash.

Right – Lee Barker (right) will be the men’s top seed in the Ashburton Squash Open this weekend while Katrina Palmer, who would have been a leading contender in the women’s title, won’t be in action.

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Southbridge claim Coleman Shield

By Jonathan Leask jonathan@selwynapp.nz

The hands of captain Luke Palmer helped saved the day for Southbridge as they held on to beat Darfield 16-12 in the Coleman Shield final at Prebbleton on Saturday.

Up 16-12 inside the final five minutes, Darfield’s seasoned veteran Scott McIlroy forced his way over the try line looking to put his side ahead for a maiden Coleman Shield victory.

But as McIlroy fought his way over, Palmer swooped in and got his hands under the ball to deny the try.

The same hands would then hoist the Coleman Shield on high as Southbridge held on for the four-point win, handing Darfield a third straight finals defeat in another chapter to the club’s 113year wait to win the shield.

“It was pretty tense times but pretty proud of the lads, they just found a way to win,” Palmer said.

“That last 10 minutes we played like our season was on the line like it was, and they wanted it that much we found a way.”

Southbridge landed the first major blow in the physical contest when Emerson Sooaemalelagi finished off a attacking surge in the 11th minute.

The usually reliable Shannon Donald pushed the conversion wide for it to remain 5-0.

The sides traded missed shots at goal and after 25 minutes there were players across the park needing a sip from the magic water bottle in a bruising encounter played at a decent speed.

Southbridge lifted another Coleman Shield on Saturday.

A surging counterattack from Brent Dalley had Darfield hot on attack and a few phases after went wide for Sheldon Reed to score.

Sean Cartson was unable to convert from out wide and the scores were locked at 5-all after 26 minutes.

For the remainder of the first half it was a battle at halfway with no further scoring action.

The second half momentum was with Southbridge. They found an overlap down the left and the switched back to the right for flanker Sam Hesselewood to

stumble through a gap to score.

Donald was again astray with the conversion but shortly after Southbridge was back on the hunt again.

The third penalty in the passage of play had Darfield opt for a tap which had rampaging Scott McIlroy crash over – with his brother Blair driving him over – for the try.

Carston made no mistake with the conversion and Darfield were in front 12-10 with 20 minutes to go as Scott McIlroy left the field after splitting his head open in the act of scoring the try.

The lead would last three min-

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utes with Donald landing his first kick of the afternoon to put Southbridge ahead 13-12.

Darfield again made a mistake from the kick-off, this time it didn’t go 10 metres.

With his head bandaged, Scott McIlroy returned to the fray looking to lift his side, but Darfield conceded a ruck penalty soon after for Donald to extend the lead to four with nine minutes left to play.

Finals are often remembered for moments but are won by a series of moments.

On Saturday, Southbridge came

up with two big moments in the dying stages.

The first was the 77th minute when a desperate Darfield were hot on attack and Blair McIlroy forced his way across the line but was unable to ground the ball after the hands of desperate Palmer intervened.

From the ensuing scrum Darfield launched another raid, and as Scott McIlroy looked to repeat his try scoring heroics from the week before with another charging run close to the line, but he was instead held up – literally off the ground momentarily – and Southbridge wrapped up the ball to force a turnover.

The referee announced 90 seconds were left as the scrum packed down and Donald managed to get the clearing kick away, under duress from Dalley, just outside their 22m line.

Then came another crucial moment – an agonising one for Darfield.

The last throw of the dice proved to be the lineout throw that wasn’t straight.

A scrum was packed, the clock struck 80 and Southbridge booted the ball into touch to celebrate a third title in four years.

Among the jubilation from Southbridge was despair from Darfield as they had fallen short of finally getting their hands on the Coleman Shield for a third straight year.

Darfield were close, the width of a hand, but It was a matter of some big moments being won by Southbridge that had them hold on for the 16-12 win.

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More culling still to do – Hansen NZME All Blacks Head Coach Steve Hansen says it will be hard for the five players dropped from the Rugby Championship squad yesterday to make the Rugby World Cup later this year but the door will remain open.

The All Blacks named a 34-man squad for the two Bledisloe Cup test matches in Perth and Auckland next month. Five players have been omitted from the initial squad of 39 players named at the start of the Rugby Championship: Shannon Frizell, Dalton Papalii, Josh Ioane, Asafo Aumua and Karl Tu’inukuafe.

It will hurt their chances of making the 31-man Rugby World Cup squad to be named next month as they will need to impress at Mitre 10 Cup level to make their way back into the squad.

Hansen said they could still make it to Japan.

“They can jump back in the mix but it’s obviously getting harder because we’re trying to narrow it down. We’ve got two big games coming up, then we’ll reflect and get it down to 31,” Hansen said.

“They’ll take the opportunities they get through Mitre 10 Cup and play particularly well. Might be injuries. There’s a number of things that could arise.”

Hansen said Atu Moli got the nod ahead of Tu’inukuafe.

“It’s not that he’s [Tu’inukuafe] done anything wrong. We’ve said that we want mobile ball playing props who can also do their core roles. We’re still pretty keen on Atu and I guess there’s only room for six [props] there and at the World Cup we can only take five

that’s exciting.

“The last time the All Blacks played in Perth was way back in 1992 (against a Western Australia side) but this will be an historic first test for us in the city, so we’re also looking forward to catching up with our fans over there.”

Hansen further added that first five-eighth Ioane had also been invited to assemble with the squad to continue his development.

Meanwhile, Nepo Laulala and Sonny Bill Williams will both play for Counties Manukau in a pre-Mitre 10 Cup season game on Saturday. Laulala will then join the squad in Perth, while Williams will stay and play Counties Manukau’s Mitre 10 Cup season opener on Saturday August 10, before joining the squad in Auckland for the second Bledisloe Cup test week.

The squad is as follows:

Shannon Frizell, who was dropped from the All Blacks squad yesterday, is tackled by South Africa’s Herschel Jantjies during their Rugby Championship match at Westpac Stadium in Wellington on July 27. so we’ve still got some culling to do.”

Before the culling and the World Cup squad announcement, expected at the end of August, the All Blacks face two Bledisloe Cup tests.

“Bledisloe Cup tests are always

massive tests. We know that the Wallabies will be confident after their win over Argentina and desperate to win this first match, so we’re looking forward to getting to Perth and getting into our test preparation,” Hansen said.

“The Bledisloe Cup is the sec-

ond most important trophy for us, after the Rugby World Cup, and we’re really looking forward to the next two tests coming up.

Two weeks together will give us solid preparation towards growing our game understanding and getting our execution honed, so

Forwards: Hookers: Dane Coles, Liam Coltman and Codie Taylor.

Props: Owen Franks, Nepo Laulala, Joe Moody, Atu Moli, Angus Ta’avao and Ofa Tuungafasi.

Locks: Scott Barrett, Jackson Hemopo, Patrick Tuipulotu and Samuel Whitelock.

Loose forwards: Sam Cane, Vaea Fifita, Luke Jacobson, Kieran Read, Ardie Savea and Matt Todd.

Backs: Halfbacks: TJ Perenara, Aaron Smith and Brad Weber.

First five-eighths: Beauden Barrett and Richie Mo’unga.

Midfielders: Jack Goodhue, Ngani Laumape, Anton Lienert-Brown and Sonny Bill Williams.

Utility backs: Braydon Ennor and Jordie Barrett.

Outside backs: George Bridge, Rieko Ioane, Sevu Reece and Ben Smith.

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Breakers confirm new coach; sign ex-NBA guard

By Christopher Reive NZME

The New Zealand Breakers will welcome NBA experience back into their squad for the upcoming Australian basketball league season, adding American Scotty Hopson to the roster.

The well-travelled swingman joins the Breakers on the next stop in his career which has so far seen him play for the Dallas Mavericks and Cleveland Cavaliers, as well as spend plenty of time in Europe and China.

He joins the club from Hapoel Holon in Israel, following head coach Dan Shamir to the Auckland-based club.

Having been reported to take over the lead role with the Breakers, Shamir was confirmed as Kevin Braswell’s replacement on Wednesday morning.

The Auckland-based franchise will be under the microscope this season as they get American phenom RJ Hampton ready for the 2020 NBA

draft and have elected to bring in a coach with experience outside of the Australian league to take the reins.

Shamir has been coaching in Europe since 2001, after serving for a year under Rick Pitino at the University of Kentucky in 1999. In that time, he established himself as one of the top coaches in Israel and was named the Israeli Premier League Coach of the Year in 2018.

The 44-year-old joins the Breakers after four years at Hapoel Holon, ending his 19-year stint in the Israeli league during which he spent time between seven teams as an assistant and head coach.

He has won three Israeli Cups as head coach, including the 2018 trophy with Hapoel Holon, and also netted two EuroLeague titles as an assistant coach with Macabi Tel Aviv (2004 and 2005).

Shamir will be tasked with turning around a Breakers

team who struggled through the 2018-19 ANBL season, with a limited offensive and an inconsistent defensive structure.

He has also brought in rising New Zealand coaching star Zico Coronel as an assistant. Arguably the country’s top coach, Coronel guided the unfancied Hawke’s Bay Hawks through to the NZNBL Grand Final. His simplistic but effective offensive approach paid dividends for the Hawks, who ranked among the league leaders in most offensive categories.

Breakers owner Matt Walsh was delighted Shamir has accepted the position.

“Dan brings with him experience coaching at the highest levels and knowledge of best practices for top-level basketball organisations and his experience is already being felt throughout the organisation.”

Southland Sharks forward Tom Vodanovich has also joined the team as a fully contracted player.

Former NBA guard Scotty Hopson has signed for the Breakers basketball team.

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Vale, champion trotter Stent HRNZ Former champion trotter Stent has died prematurely.

The million-dollar earner, rising 11, had been enjoying a new life as a riding horse in Timaru.

“He had a paddock accident yesterday and, unfortunately, the only humane thing to do was put him down,” said his breeder and owner, Trevor Casey.

“The lady that had him was most upset when she rung to tell me.

“It’s a real shame but unfortunately that’s what can happen with livestock.”

Stent had a storied career under the tutelage of Colin and Julie DeFilippi, though one that was cut short through injury.

“He certainly was a talent, though I don’t think we ever really saw the best of him,” said Casey.

“He could have gone a lot further had he not broken down when he did.”

Stent suffered a leg injury as a seven-year-old and then after nearly two years away from the track returned for one final run at the start of last season before the same injury reoccurred.

His watershed year came in the 2014-15 season, when he won Trotter of the Year in both Australia and New Zealand.

He recorded seven Group One wins that term, including the Rowe Cup, Great South-

Multiple Group One winning trotter, Stent has died.

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ern Star, New Zealand Trotting Championship and New Zealand Trotting Free For All. For Casey, winning the twomile Rowe Cup at Alexandra Cup was a personal highlight amongst his 30 wins.

“Winning the Rowe Cup was a special moment after people said he couldn’t stay.

“The Great Southern Star was another great win; he won that really well.

“He was just head and shoulders above them that year – he really was just playing with them.”

Casey is immensely grateful

for all the time and effort the DeFilippis put in to Stent and said they would be keenly feeling his loss as well.

“He will always be remembered as a big part of all our lives for a long time.

“Colin and Julie did such a fantastic job.”

And while the unforgettable ride of owning champion pacer Lazarus is probably at the forefront of Casey’s racing memories, he has very personal reasons for being enamored with Stent, a horse he bred.

“Yes, I’ve had Lazarus, but Stent still holds a special place

in my heart.

“In fact, he is named after a stent that was put in my heart ten years ago.”

Casey is still breeding out of Stent’s dam, Belle Galleon, and his half-sister, Arya.

“And I’m racing his full brother, Lone Star Lad.” Casey has quite an elite band of trotting broodmares at his Christchurch property, but it’s a group of 21 other mares that have him excited for the coming breeding season.

They are all in foal to his former star pacer, Sky Major, who he brought home from North America last Spring to stand at Wai Eyre Farm.

“I’m backing him. I advertised for mares and got offered about 50, so I picked out the best ones and put them all in foal.

“So, there will be a few going through the sale ring in the next few years, and I’ll try a few myself.

“The first ones are due in August and that’s a really exciting time for us.”

As for Lazarus, Casey says it is unlikely he will be breeding any mares to him in his first season at stud, in New South Wales.

“Unfortunately, I won’t be as all my pacing mares can’t go to him.

“They’re either from his family or by Bettor’s Delight and Christian Cullen.

“So, I guess I’ll be looking at the sales instead.”

Te Akau Racing stars step out at Hamilton NZME It was a busy day for Jamie Richards and his Matamata-based team at Te Rapa earlier this week, with the Te Akau Racing trainer lining up 48 triallists at the Hamilton track.

“We had quite a few horses at Te Rapa getting ready to kick off in the new season,” Richards said.

“Some have trialled once before and there were quite a few having their first quiet day back out.”

One of those horses having their second hit-out was exciting

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galloper Te Akau Shark, who took out his 900m heat effortlessly by half a length.

“He lengthened well and he is coming up nicely, we are pretty pleased with him,” Richards said.

“He and Melody Belle will both more than likely go to the Foxbridge [Group 2, 1200m], that’s where they will kick-off their campaigns.”

Melody Belle finished fifth in her 900m heat and while Richards did expect a better performance from the multiple Group 1 winner, he is not concerned heading into her first assignment.

“I thought her trial was okay,” he said. “She just got stuck down in the worst of the ground with not really a lot of room.

“I thought she might have trialled just a little better, but I am not concerned. She is a racehorse and she will know it’s business on the 17th [of August] when she gets the blinkers back on.”

Meanwhile, in the first heat of the day, Group 1 winners Sword of Osman and Avantage, along with Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) winner Probabeel, had their first hit-outs for a new campaign.

“Sword of Osman trialled par-

ticularly well. He is a free-going type of horse, he got up on the speed and kept up a gallop [to finish fourth].

“Probabeel and Avantage, they got back off bad barriers and just stayed in behind them and weren’t asked to do too much today.

All three of them are coming up nicely.

“They will all trial again at Avondale in a couple of weeks and then we will map out a programme for them. Hopefully Probabeel and Avantage could both be seen in Australia at some stage.”

Australians warm to Williamson team HRNZ Australian punters expect Kiwi trainer Phil Williamson to steal the show at Australia’s biggest trotting meeting on Sunday.

Williamson’s exciting pair Ultimate Stride and Liberty Stride dominate opening betting markets in their respective Group 1 assignments.

Ultimate Stride, who looked so good winning his only Aussie run, is a $2.10 favourite in the $50,000 Group 1 Volstead Redwood Classic for baby trotters.

Ultimate Stride has barrier nine – two-out on the back row – in the standing start feature.

And filly Liberty Stride, who stunned locals with a monstrous first Aussie wins, is $2.15 against the boys after drawing gate four in the $75,000 Group 1 Haras Des Trotteurs Victoria Trotters’ Derby.

Williamson has booked former Kiwi driver Anthony Butt for both races.

Butt replaced Chris Alford on Ultimate Stride as Alford is committed to his own family runner, Dreamee, from gate six.

Ultimate Stride’s main danger looks to be local Powerkeg, who he did beat easily last outing.

In the Derby, another Kiwi Kratos from the John and Josh Dickie barn is a clear $3.60 second elect despite the back row (gate 10).

The other highlight of the massive day is the return to racing of Inter Dominion trotting champion Tornado Valley in a free-forall (race seven).

Tornado Valley missed a planned return race a couple weeks back with a minor setback.

Despite being first-up for almost five months and drawing the back row (gate nine), Tornado Valley is still a $1.90 favourite.

Main dangers will be fellow Inter Dominion finalists Big Jack Hammer (gate six, $3.50) and Save Our Pennys (gate seven, $6).

Waikato harness Today at Cambridge

Waikato Bay Of Plenty Harness Inc Venue: Cambridge Meeting Date: 01 August, 2019 NZ Meeting number: 5 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 5.21pm (NZT) AUGUST 30TH FRIDAY NIGHTS UNDER THE LIGHTS TROT $7500, non-winners, stand, 2200m 1 4144x Splitting Image (1) fr....................... P Ferguson 2 0x Duchess Of Cambridge fr.................Scratched 3 73457 Mackerelli (2) fr............................... A Poutama 4 Mount Aspiring (3) fr......................J Abernethy 5 7x0Px Keystone Cavalier (U1) fr..... F Schumacher (J) 6 5369x Te Kouka Sun Rise (U2) fr.............. M Nicholas 7 436x0 Highland Queen (U3) fr........................ R Close 8 9 Our Spitfire (U4) fr..............................T Mitchell 9 85 Griffins Hall (U5) fr.................... D Ferguson (J) 2 5.47pm WOODLANDS STUD MOBILE PACE $7500, non-winners f&m., mobile, 2200m 1 57367 Molly Dooker (1) fr.............................D Butcher 2 737 Changed (2) fr....................................T Mitchell 3 x08x4 Signseeldeliver (3) fr....................B Butcher (J) 4 x4827 Hey Good Lookin (4) fr................... P Ferguson 5 3x5x9 Arden’s Silhouette (5) fr....................B Mangos 6 7860x Whatchagot (6) fr..........................N Delany (J) 7 0940x Arya Famous (7) fr.......................... A Poutama 8 62373 Sea Change (8) fr............................. Z Butcher

9 47976 Demideal (U1) fr...................................M White 3 6.12pm MATANGI THUNDER ENTERTAINMENT TROT $8000, r40-r50,r53 w/c, stand, 2200m 1 75847 Danke (1) fr.........................................G Martin 2 51623 Burt Munro (2) fr............................ P Ferguson 3 4x538 Sir Henry Castleton (3) fr............A Harrison (J) 4 82534 Aoraki (4) fr.......................... F Schumacher (J) 5 0600x Breaking Bad (5) fr............................ Z Butcher 6 08408 Celtic Thunder (6) fr........................... S Phelan 7 06x14 Pretorius (7) fr..................................... D Moore 8 6860x Harry H (8) fr..................................... N Chilcott 9 000D6 Littlebitoflove (U1) fr...........J Abernethy 10 1x20 Kimkar Dash (U2) fr.............................. D Balle 11 33629 Little Bro (U3) fr.................................B Mangos 4 6.37pm HAMILTON SOUND & LIGHTING MOBILE PACE $7500, non-winners 3yo+., mobile, 2200m 1 Hampton Banner (1) fr......................D Butcher 2 Im A Denny Too (2) fr........................ Z Butcher 3 Super Actor (3) fr..........................M McKendry 4 2 Carse O Fern Cully (4) fr......................M White 5 36 Ocean Beach (5) fr......................... P Ferguson 6 64765 Sabreur (6) fr.....................................B Mangos 7 0455x Red Atom (7) fr............................... A Poutama 8 5576x Suidelike Major (8) fr............................. D Balle 9 7x850 Comedy Act (21) fr............... F Schumacher (J)

10 Captain Max (22) fr......................B Butcher (J) 11 4024x New Frontier (23) fr......................... J Stormont 5 7.02pm FARMLANDS CAMBRIDGE MOBILE PACE $8000, 4yo+ r40-r59. jun.d, mobile, 2700m 1 64365 Runcle (1) fr....................................A Drake (J) 2 53224 Ruby Rose (2) fr............................T Hanara (J) 3 54x53 Hit The Sky (3) fr....................... D Ferguson (J) 4 42122 Sole Ambition (4) fr.......................N Delany (J) 5 16Fx6 Flying Steps (5) fr........................A Harrison (J) 6 1029x Park Avenue (6) fr...........................C Smith (J) 7 62366 Notorious (7) fr...........................L Whittaker (J) 8 66458 Count Landeck (8) fr............ F Schumacher (J) 6 7.27pm FOSTERS ENGINEERING MOBILE PACE $8000, 3yo+ r45-r55., mobile, 2200m 1 35317 Drum Withers (1) fr.......................... A Poutama 2 99803 Charlotte Royal (2) fr...................... P Ferguson 3 23014 Sir Tiger (3) fr....................................D Butcher 4 63047 Vanhalem (4) fr................................. Z Butcher 5 52848 Westar Sam (5) fr.........................B Butcher (J) 6 57967 Red Magic (6) fr...............................K Marshall 7 76782 Ally Mae fr.........................................Scratched 8 04628 Spare Change (7) fr............. F Schumacher (J) 9 1 Matai Geordie (21) fr....................... J Stormont 10 7757x Willedu (22) fr................................N Delany (J) 7 7.53pm DUNSTAN HORSE FEEDS HCP TROT $8500,

r52-r68 discrhcp, stand, 2200m 1 18340 Fira fr.................................................Scratched 2 14349 Capelli (1) fr.................................B Butcher (J) 3 69546 Magnafique (2) fr.............................T Cameron 4 55360 Luck Of The Moment (3) fr............. P Ferguson 5 57614 Caroline Wozniacki (4) fr................J Abernethy 6 68P2x Majestic Stride (U1) fr.......... F Schumacher (J) 7 97200 As Free As Air (U2) fr...........................M White 8 25100 Astound (U3) fr..................................... R Close 9 72318 Takenoprisoners (U4) fr.................. A Poutama 10 80089 One Over Da Skye (U1) 10M............ Z Butcher 11 88856 Lovely Bundy (U2) 10M................... J Stormont 12 5501P Grey Stoke (U3) 10M.......................K Marshall 13 11215 Such Fun (U1) 20M...........................D Butcher 8 8.18pm SEPT 5TH FAULTY TOWERS AT THE RACES MOBILE PACE $8000, r40-r42,r49 w/c., mobile, 2200m 1 62631 Ale Ale Kai (1) fr................................D Butcher 2 70983 Jingles Bromac (2) fr....................B Butcher (J) 3 57566 Beaudiene Emerald (3) fr............A Harrison (J) 4 00007 Lady Santanna (4) fr........................ R Fensom 5 72508 Better Than Most (5) fr...................... Z Butcher 6 25737 Carrera Sky (6) fr.......................L Whittaker (J) 7 91957 Au Revoir (7) fr...................................... D Balle 8 48362 Allonblack (8) fr................................. N Chilcott 9 55867 Turkish Trousers (21) fr.......................K Bublitz

10 65665 Bold Ruler (22) fr..............................K Marshall Pacifiers off : One Over Da Skye (R7) LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down SELECTIONS: Race 1: Splitting Image, Highland Queen, Mount Aspiring, Griffins Hall, Our Spitfire Race 2: Changed, Sea Change, Molly Dooker, Hey Good Lookin, Demideal Race 3: Kimkar Dash, Aoraki, Sir Henry Castleton, Harry H, Pretorius Race 4: Hampton Banner, Ocean Beach, Carse O Fern Cully, New Frontier, Red Atom Race 5: Sole Ambition, Flying Steps, Hit The Sky, Ruby Rose, Park Avenue Race 6: Sir Tiger, Westar Sam, Matai Geordie, Drum Withers, Charlotte Royal Race 7: As Free As Air, Takenoprisoners, Such Fun, Capelli, Magnafique Race 8: Ale Ale Kai, Jingles Bromac, Allonblack, Carrera

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M9 Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Addington Raceway Meeting Date: 01 August 2019 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 3.56pm (NZT) THE FITZ SPORTS BAR DASH C2, 295m 1 71721 Major Storm 17.59....................... C Roberts 2 48884 Homebush Comet 17.55..........J McInerney 3 25581 Homebush Flynn 17.30............J McInerney 4 21123 Smash Achiever 17.16....................M Grant 5 72157 Jax Jewel 17.74........................... D Roberts 6 26557 Homebush Boden 17.46...........J McInerney 7 23116 Amuri Magic 17.59...................J McInerney 8 55137 Punch On Rex nwtd.................J McInerney 2 4.15pm HAPPY HORSE’S BIRTHDAY STAKES C2, 520m 1 42223 It’s A Trick 30.13 J &....................... D Fahey 2 x1382 Dream Kay 30.29........................... R Wales 3 87273 Cosmic Stu 30.52.....................J McInerney 4 38158 Midnight Maggie nwtd S &.............. B Evans 5 34521 Goldstar Alaska 31.07 S &............. B Evans 6 61727 Goldstar Chief 30.83 S &................ B Evans 7 4x125 Ester 30.33..................................... R Wales 8 23428 Umbridge Bale 30.20.................. C Roberts 9 28734 Famous Lee nwtd S &.................... B Evans 10 8F455 Opawa Lara 30.10.......................... R Wales 3 4.32pm SWIMMING GOAT @ STUD DASH C3, 295m 1 68778 Homebush Hundy nwtd............J McInerney 2 21275 Cawbourne Cruz nwtd................. D Roberts 3 15278 Nikko Baxter 17.32...................J McInerney

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Christchurch dogs Today at Addington Raceway

4 16677 Ma Chere 17.31........................ A Bradshaw 5 2354x Smash Gator 17.39.........................M Grant 6 52672 Cosmic Jase 17.42...................J McInerney 7 34635 Goldstar Galaxie 17.40 S &............ B Evans 8 58423 Come A Guster 17.30......................M Grant 4 4.51pm CLARKSON’S SIGN STUDIO SPRINT C3, 295m 1 67868 Homebush Tesan 17.28............J McInerney 2 88613 Know Scrutiny 17.24.....................G Cleeve 3 57278 Kalonga 17.36 S &......................... B Evans 4 82775 Goldstar Spotty 17.31 S &.............. B Evans 5 87886 Debbie Baxter 17.11.................J McInerney 6 54541 Billy Frost 17.44...............................M Grant 7 42353 Kiwi Gunn 17.22........................... R Adcock 8 131x1 Punch On Buzz 17.37..............J McInerney 5 5.12pm THURSDAY PLACE PICK DASH C3, 295m 1 66277 Punch On Jessie nwtd..............J McInerney 2 62122 Ohoka Clare 17.17.......................L Waretini 3 66354 Cathy Maree 17.17..........................M Grant 4 72683 Shaw Winner 17.52 J M................. McCook 5 87848 Mitcham Quinn 17.15............... A Bradshaw 6 88358 Cash A Roo 17.27 S &................... B Evans 7 67723 Homebush Boots 17.41............J McInerney 8 17674 Homebush Velma 17.46...........J McInerney 6 5.37pm GLENBYRE TAVERN SPRINT C3, 295m 1 65466 Mitcham Reado 17.24..............J McInerney 2 42118 Mulberry Minx 17.34.................... K Cassidy 3 64445 Call Me Joe 17.40................... A Botherway 4 67818 Sozin’s Blue 17.26....................J McInerney 5 48534 King Kali 17.19................................M Grant 6 47264 Homebush Finn 17.21..............J McInerney 7 65822 Goldstar Dodge 17.26 S &............. B Evans

8 87F56 Know Hassle 17.29.......................G Cleeve 7 6.02pm CAROL’S TAB CLENDON INN DASH C4, 295m 1 71643 Dyna Kushida 17.00.................... C Roberts 2 28323 Smash Attack 17.22........................M Grant 3 11313 Colbert 17.37............................ R Blackburn 4 64258 High Dreamer 17.24........................M Grant 5 12724 Hear This 17.30...............................M Grant 6 72425 Nozzno Fear 17.10................... A Bradshaw 7 58733 Know Sweat 17.26........................G Cleeve 8 86381 Bashful Buffy 17.17..................J McInerney 9 27185 Bender Truth 17.11................... A Bradshaw 10 54766 Elodea 17.39............................ R Blackburn 8 6.28pm ACTIVE ELECTRICAL CHRISTCHURCH SPRINT C5, 295m 1 61287 Nippa Martino 17.22.................J McInerney 2 64285 Goldstar Trooper 17.01 S &............ B Evans 3 34735 Wildebeest 17.20...................... A Bradshaw 4 11141 Sheza Rippa 16.91 J &................... D Fahey 5 43251 Inside Affair 17.16............................ J Dunn 6 11616 Fleur Dior 17.27........................ R Blackburn 7 13153 Busy Rocca 17.29...........................M Grant 8 45214 Jinja Ellie 17.25...............................A Joyce 9 25527 Cawbourne Britty 17.22............... C Roberts 10 66781 Flora Dora 17.06.......................... R Adcock 9 6.53pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO STAKES C3, 520m 1 88274 Know Equal 30.45.........................G Cleeve 2 44451 Replica Casino 30.37....................B Pringle 3 14517 Know Leave 30.71.........................G Cleeve 4 53183 Know Conclusion 30.31.................G Cleeve 5 33522 Know Denying 30.37.....................G Cleeve

6 31771 Sefton Joy 30.38............................ R Wales 7 35167 Cosmic Ruben 30.45................J McInerney 8 13532 Perfect Result 30.15..................... R Adcock 10 7.18pm I PAVE CONCRETE STAKES C4/5, 520m 1 47343 Egomaniacal 30.08...................... D Roberts 2 62272 Sailor Allen 30.07........................ C Roberts 3 Box Vacant 3 4 51211 Go Glow 30.07 J &......................... D Fahey 5 23284 Start The Show 30.26................... R Adcock 6 Box Vacant 6 7 76631 Dyna Monty 29.94....................... C Roberts 8 55176 Kia Tere 30.48 S &.......................... B Evans 11 7.43pm KAIKANUI TAVERN SPRINT C5, 295m 1 14732 Beck Eleven 17.41........................L Waretini 2 47366 Mohican Run 17.13.................. A Bradshaw 3 73435 Ezra Blueblood 17.33...............J McInerney 4 23516 Neelix 17.29............................. R Blackburn 5 18416 Ketchikan Kim 17.25........................ J Dunn 6 21857 Princely Gold 17.15..................J McInerney 7 21122 Our Dazzel 17.00........................... R Wales 8 22258 Disobedience 17.19 S &................. B Evans 9 25527 Cawbourne Britty 17.22............... C Roberts 10 66781 Flora Dora 17.06.......................... R Adcock 12 8.08pm PROTEXIN DASH C4, 295m 1 85382 Smash Damage 17.17.....................M Grant 2 17451 Golden Bay 17.13 J M.................... McCook 3 62251 Smash Grenade 17.38....................M Grant 4 31318 Dyna Lenny 17.17....................... C Roberts 5 34312 Broken Penniless 17.40.................G Cleeve 6 13588 Reign Of Fire 17.36..................J McInerney 7 37434 Loco Lola 17.18........................ A Bradshaw 8 53224 Treville 17.27............................ R Blackburn

9 27185 Bender Truth 17.11................... A Bradshaw 10 55655 Goldstar Major 17.26 S &............... B Evans LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

7 67x63 Da Jin Shan tm (6) 54......................S Collett 8 0x008 Madam Makfi (5) 54...............M Hudson (a3) 9 03689 Dragon Dancer h (1) 54....... C O’Beirne (a3) 8 4.09pm NEXT MEETING SATURDAY OCTOBER 12TH 2100 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2100m 1 x8436 Nitro Ted tdmh (9) 59.5.......... H Schofer (a3) 2 1x425 Brassy Boy tdmb (1) 59..................L Allpress 3 103 Finding Nemo m (5) 58.5.................R Myers 4 16343 Ave Maria b (2) 57..............................R Elliot 5 08x79 Handyman (3) 57................... H Andrew (a1) 6 35685 He’s Ric h (11) 57....................... L Satherley 7 25141 Gagarin tdm (13) 56.5............C McLean (a4) 8 0x079 Top Ofthe Straight (7) 56.5........... R Hannam 9 950x0 Red Rascal tmh (10) 55.5.... C O’Beirne (a3) 10 x606P Toodaloo tm (12) 55..............T Newman (a3) 11 x6949 Wonder Lass (6) 54.........................S Collett 12 80797 Dowry Duty m (8) 54................... Z Moki (a2) 13 06x70 Em Kay Pops m (4) 54...........M Hudson (a3) Blinkers on : Oceans Away, Breath Of Fire (R3), Eight Mile (R4), Malibu Magic (R6), Em Kay Pops (R8) Blinkers off : Sweet Surprize (R1), Supablue (R4), Top Ofthe Straight, Toodaloo (R8) Winkers on : Supablue (R4) Winkers off : Breath Of Fire (R3), Phyllthepower (R4) LEGEND: Runner Form b - Beaten favourite at last start c - Won at this distance on this course d - Won at this distance on another course h - Home track m - Won in heavy going t - Won at track X - Spell of three months Race Information

hcp - handicap mdn - maiden nmw - no metropolitan wins opn - open r80 - rating 3yo - nominated age 3yo & up - nominated age and up 3yo f - nominated age and type 3 & 4yos - combined age groups c&g - colts and geldings cg&e - colts, geldings and entires e&g - entires and geldings f&m - fillies and mares hwt - high weight sw - set weight swp - set weights and penalties spa - set weights, penalties and allowances wfa - weight for age wlt - welter weight wfp - weight for age with penalties and allowances SELECTIONS: Race 1: Brian Boru, Country Bumpkin, Mr Jimmy Pocket, Reflection, Master Black Jack Race 2: Yeah Right, Classclown, Handsome Blue, Sienna Grace, Princess Jenni Race 3: Trendy Belt, Chosen Peak, Minnie Mouse, Midnight Countess, Oceans Away Race 4: Rio Star, Retzena, Billy Mav, One Way Street, Great North Road Race 5: Beckidboo, Manolo, Tavis Court, Cheeky Azz, Floral Belt Race 6: Double Act, Reflection, Smooth Cognac, She’s Got The Look, Nod Race 7: Foiling, Big Ben, Call Doubt, Happy Star, Ruffy Rahtwo Race 8: Finding Nemo, Brassy Boy, Nitro Ted, Ave Maria, Top Ofthe Straight

5 25563 Waiterimu Ripper 25.94 R &............... L Udy 6 74427 Trevor Gibbs 25.60 W &.................. T Steele 7 85368 Pat Tama 25.59................................S Clark 8 63631 Raging Demon 25.49 R &.................. L Udy LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

SELECTIONS: Race 1: Smash Achiever, Major Storm, Amuri Magic, Homebush Flynn, Jax Jewel Race 2: It’s A Trick, Dream Kay, Ester, Goldstar Alaska, Umbridge Bale Race 3: Come A Guster, Cawbourne Cruz, Ma Chere, Homebush Hundy, Smash Gator Race 4: Punch On Buzz, Know Scrutiny, Kiwi Gunn, Debbie Baxter, Billy Frost Race 5: Ohoka Clare, Mitcham Quinn, Homebush Boots, Homebush Velma, Punch On Jessie Race 6: Mitcham Reado, Call Me Joe, Goldstar Dodge, King Kali, Mulberry Minx Race 7: Colbert, Smash Attack, Bashful Buffy, Dyna Kushida, Hear This Race 8: Sheza Rippa, Goldstar Trooper, Busy Rocca, Wildebeest, Inside Affair Race 9: Perfect Result, Know Denying, Sefton Joy, Know Equal, Replica Casino Race 10: Go Glow, Sailor Allen, Egomaniacal, Dyna Monty, Start The Show Race 11: Our Dazzel, Beck Eleven, Mohican Run, Ketchikan Kim, Neelix Race 12: Golden Bay, Loco Lola, Smash Damage, Treville, Bender Truth

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Egmont Racing Club Venue: Hawera Meeting Date: 01 August 2019 NZ Meeting number: 4 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 12.02pm (NZT) CHILLCO MDN $10,000, MDN, 2100m 1 54x52 Country Bumpkin (7) 58.5......M Hudson (a3) 2 0522 Brian Boru (1) 58.5..........................S Collett 3 8x454 Mr Jimmy Pocket (2) 58.5...... H Andrew (a1) 4 07576 Master Black Jack h (9) 58.5............D Turner 5 99x0x Lucquide (10) 58.5....................... R Hannam 6 x5049 Mrs Twinkletoes (6) 56.5...........B Ansell (a4) 7 78x65 Reflection (4) 56.5.......... A Goindasamy (a3) 8 090 Go Victoria (5) 56.5.................... D Hirini (a1) 9 60x60 Maggie Tee (8) 56.5......................... M Singh 10 009 Sweet Surprize (3) 56.5.....................R Elliot 2 12.37pm LOWE SCHOLLUM JONES / FASTTRACK INSURANCE 2100 $10,000, MDN, 2100m 1 8x22 Classclown (4) 58.5.......................L Allpress 2 75532 Yeah Right (9) 58.5...................... R Hannam 3 0x927 Handsome Blue (6) 58.5............ D Hirini (a1) 4 00 El Senor h (7) 58.5........................... A Jones 5 0x77 Here’s Trouble (1) 58.5................ Z Moki (a2) 6 x0949 Princess Jenni h (2) 56.5..................J Baillie 7 6x006 In Dreamland (3) 56.5.......... C O’Beirne (a3) 8 9x0 Just Rosie (8) 56.5................. H Andrew (a1) 9 x0090 Sienna Grace (5) 56.5.................. C Johnson 3 1.12pm WEIR BUSES MDN $10,000, MDN, 1200m 1 66 Oceans Away (4) 58.5.................. R Hannam 2 7x322 Trendy Belt (8) 56.5................ H Andrew (a1) 3 49x32 Chosen Peak (2) 56.5........................R Elliot 4 99952 Midnight Countess (9) 56.5....M Hudson (a3) 5 3 Minnie Mouse h (1) 56.5.............. C Johnson

M3 Waikato Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Cambridge Raceway Meeting Date: 01 August 2019 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 12.11pm (NZT) WGRC WELCOMES YOU TO THE 2019-2020 SEASON C0, 375m 1 Forego nwtd M &..............................J Smith 2 33222 Sovereign Pride nwtd.......................S Ross 3 Thrilling Bruce nwtd........................ K Walsh 4 Little Teegs nwtd........................A Lawrence 5 758 Ford Man nwtd R &............................ L Udy 6 52543 Big Time Prickle nwtd A &.............. Williams 7 88454 Mad Jack nwtd............................... T Green 8 4342 Tango Miss nwtd............................. T Green 9 React Respond nwtd...................... R Roper 10 57468 Xena Poppy nwtd R &........................ L Udy 2 12.28pm HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAROLYN HENLEY C3/4, 375m 1 51778 Bigtime Jacob 21.24.................... H Mullane 2 11664 Odnoc Ankie nwtd..................... P Ferguson 3 45556 Guru’s Choice nwtd A &................. Williams 4 28587 Chitina Tin nwtd.............................. P Green 5 71456 Go All Lin nwtd...............................S O’Neill 6 14646 Nangar Dream 21.16......................G Farrell 7 33877 Typical 21.25....................................S Ross 8 43445 Fancy Fox 21.21............................C Henley 9 22874 Barossa 21.38...........................A Lawrence 10 82258 It’s A Stroll 21.46 U &.......................Cottam 3 12.46pm FARMLANDS COPRICE SPRINT C1, 375m 1 88375 Talkabout Ziggy nwtd..........................D Ray 2 25252 Jinja Ted nwtd..................................S Lozell 3 14457 In Focus 21.66 P &........................J Cleaver

6 57064 Sheezanicegirl h (7) 56.5..... C O’Beirne (a3) 7 759 Breath Of Fire h (5) 56.5............. L Satherley 8 797x0 Thatz Daisy (3) 56.5...............C McLean (a4) 9 Capital Gains (6) 56.........................R Myers 4 1.47pm HEATHER D YAXLEY MARTINEZ MDN $10,000, MDN, 1400m 1 42362 Rio Star (8) 58.5........................... R Hannam 2 5573x Billy Mav (5) 58.5.............................R Myers 3 9x3 Retzena b (15) 58.5.......................L Allpress 4 7468 Jaw Gee (3) 58.5................... H Andrew (a1) 5 0x503 Great North Road (1) 56.5......C Burdan (a3) 6 53803 One Way Street (6) 56.5..................S Collett 7 755x4 Jayperno (10) 56.5....................B Ansell (a4) 8 05448 Eight Mile h (2) 56.5..........................J Baillie 9 0050x Supablue h (4) 56.5............. C O’Beirne (a3) 10 505x7 Youllbefine h (9) 56.5................... C Johnson 11 Eureka Rising (14) 56.5................... A Jones 12 Fire Dancer (7) 56.5....... A Goindasamy (a3) 13 8x87x Phyllthepower (13) 56.5...................D Turner 14 46 Nogolf Etikit (12) 54...........................R Elliot 15 08x90 Carazzi (16) 56.5 16 0 Beaudacea h (11) 56.5 Emergencies: Carazzi, Beaudacea 5 2.22pm SANDFORD BROTHERS 1400 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 x3125 Manolo dm (5) 59.5..........................D Turner 2 2212 Tavis Court dbh (15) 59.5...............L Allpress 3 2516 Cheeky Azz mh (4) 58.5...... C O’Beirne (a3) 4 x8560 Merlot dm (16) 58...................C McLean (a4) 5 0x020 Toro Rosso dh (10) 58.....................R Myers 6 5x215 Beckidboo b (14) 56.5.... A Goindasamy (a3) 7 28854 Floral Belt d (3) 56.5.............. H Andrew (a1)

8 0x881 Mariota dm (8) 56.5...............T Newman (a3) 9 x8249 Belle Tem (11) 56...............................R Elliot 10 x8168 Its A Kinda Magic dm (6) 55.5...... C Johnson 11 4766x Sky Hi Rahtwo dm (9) 55.5.......B Ansell (a4) 12 0x703 Sheriffs Daughter (13) 55.................S Collett 13 07987 Bella Padoza h (1) 54.................. L Satherley 14 x0835 Destiny One tdmh (2) 54.........C Burdan (a3) 15 04770 Brother One dmh (7) 55 16 03689 Dragon Dancer dh (12) 55 Emergencies: Brother One, Dragon Dancer 6 2.57pm ECOLAB MDN $10,000, MDN, 1600m 1 x5692 Double Act (10) 58.5.................... C Johnson 2 x45x0 Mammoth Mountain (2) 58.5............ M Singh 3 858 Kilronan (3) 58.5................................R Elliot 4 068x2 She’s Got The Look (1) 56.5............R Myers 5 00742 Smooth Cognac (12) 56.5..............L Allpress 6 03x04 Nod (11) 56.5...................................S Collett 7 x0040 Chasing The Crown h (6) 56.5.....C O’Beirne (a3) 8 78x65 Reflection (4) 56.5 9 90506 Tintero (5) 56.5 10 0 Beaudacea h (7) 56.5.................. R Hannam 11 9x076 Malibu Magic (9) 56.5.... A Goindasamy (a3) 12 Zena Belle (8) 56.5................ H Andrew (a1) 7 3.34pm TARANAKI STEELFORMERS 1600 $11,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 1600m 1 79x49 Call Doubt dm (3) 59.................B Ansell (a4) 2 85511 Happy Star dm (9) 58.5..................L Allpress 3 x0921 Big Ben dmh (2) 58...................... C Johnson 4 03440 Granite Ridge m (7) 57.......... H Andrew (a1) 5 0x432 Ruffy Rahtwo dm (4) 57...................R Myers 6 08265 Foiling tdm (8) 55......................... R Hannam

Waikato dogs Today at Cambridge Raceway 4 25F27 Shozip Boomer 21.35..................... T Patton 5 48211 Grey Way 21.72..........................G Pomeroy 6 18646 Jinja Jake 21.62 W &...................... T Steele 7 35744 Thrilling Arnold 21.48.....................S Codlin 8 43314 Kapai Tahi 21.56 R &.......................... L Udy 9 86876 Bigtime Jasper nwtd A &................ Williams 10 75788 Bigtime Claws nwtd A &................. Williams 4 1.03pm VETORA CAMBRIDGE SPRINT C3, 375m 1 12235 C’est L’Amour 21.44.........................B Craik 2 34627 Bigtime Hunter 22.08................... H Mullane 3 27316 Opawa Big 21.44............................G Farrell 4 32421 Bigtime Zack nwtd....................... H Mullane 5 26718 Cry Lonely 21.40.............................S Lozell 6 13737 Sheyna 21.17..................................S Lozell 7 12282 Kelly’s Girl 21.30.........................G Pomeroy 8 43246 Over Indulgence nwtd................... P Henley 9 82258 It’s A Stroll 21.46 U &.......................Cottam 10 22874 Barossa 21.38...........................A Lawrence 5 1.21pm MAYHOUNDS RACING RETIREMENT PROJECT SPRINT C1, 375m 1 18721 Wedgwood Warrior nwtd M &...........J Smith 2 63885 Grouch Pawset 21.57..................... P Green 3 86356 Double Change nwtd U &.................Cottam 4 72264 Opawa Kong nwtd..........................G Farrell 5 34563 Banjo Hope nwtd A &..................... Williams 6 41548 On Demand nwtd............................M Black 7 12362 Looby’s Story 21.74...................A Lawrence 8 76787 Tilly’s Silly 21.55 R &.......................... L Udy 9 54688 Finkle Foot Hero 21.52.......................D Ray 10 x1786 Stellar Babe 22.10 P &..................J Cleaver 6 1.38pm FARMLANDS VIRKON STAKES C1/2, 457m 1 68358 Bigtime Wayno 26.15 A &............... Williams 2 24718 Smoochie 25.85........................A Lawrence

3 5F476 Salvarotti 25.75................................B Craik 4 177 Dignity Dented nwtd....................... T Green 5 25245 Flying Dewy nwtd R &........................ L Udy 6 14172 Zoro 25.85.................................A Lawrence 7 52744 Talkabout Sophie nwtd....................M Black 8 81121 Billy’s Bake nwtd............................. P Green 9 36888 Bigtime Ollie nwtd...................... M Prangley 7 1.56pm THE CLUBHOUSE SPORTS BAR SPRINT C1, 375m 1 23344 Fancy nwtd.................................. H Mullane 2 78578 Snoopy’s Bro nwtd..............................D Ray 3 68368 Decision nwtd...................................S Clark 4 66474 Just Maddie 21.72...........................M Black 5 31588 Secret Babe nwtd....................... J T Pruden 6 52632 Tribal Conquest nwtd R &................... L Udy 7 37743 Jinja Liv 21.44 U &...........................Cottam 8 73226 Platinum Tears 21.49...................... R Roper 9 x1786 Stellar Babe 22.10 P &..................J Cleaver 10 86876 Bigtime Jasper nwtd A &................ Williams 8 2.12pm YVETTE BODIAM PHOTOGRAPHY SPRINT C2, 375m 1 37118 Bigtime Luna nwtd......................S J Phillips 2 81122 Go Home Harry 21.58......................S Clark 3 44213 Native Scout 21.58......................... P Green 4 62258 Elouera Mist 21.33.................... P Ferguson 5 84122 El Narco 21.67................................ P Green 6 22111 Sophia Noir 21.42......................A Lawrence 7 85152 Yella Ella 21.54 R &............................ L Udy 8 56748 Botany Esmay 21.58...................... P Green 9 88x88 Bigtime Kiowa nwtd A &................. Williams 10 18684 Bigtime Jason nwtd..................... H Mullane 9 2.31pm SUPERIOR CHUNKY DOG ROLLS SPRINT C5, 375m 1 67414 Your Valentine 21.40.........................B Craik

2 22134 Classy Impact 21.13....................... T Green 3 321x6 Taking Aim nwtd............................ P Henley 4 21314 Athenais 21.19.................................S Ross 5 74186 Keysile nwtd.............................. P Ferguson 6 16131 Sparta 20.81................................... K Walsh 7 21122 Suspicious Minds 20.89...................B Craik 8 36154 Opawa Viking nwtd.........................S Codlin 10 2.48pm MIKE STENT DECORATORS LTD STAKES C1, 457m 1 23383 Cawbourne Palmer nwtd U &...........Cottam 2 16422 Tuff’s My Mum 25.93........................S Ross 3 4628x Massimo Osti nwtd.................... P Ferguson 4 21111 Enjoy The Perks 26.13.................. P Henley 5 27166 Jinja Nice nwtd................................. E Potts 6 13233 Stefano 25.83............................A Lawrence 7 15x11 Thrilling Winter 25.61..................... K Walsh 8 87283 Bold Diesel 25.85........................... T Green 9 36888 Bigtime Ollie nwtd...................... M Prangley 11 3.06pm AFFORDABLE PET ACCESSORIES SPRINT C4, 375m 1 41774 Too The Nail 20.89........................... E Potts 2 27323 Thrilling Billy 20.96.................... P Ferguson 3 24242 Paddy’s Passion 21.49................... T Green 4 x5717 Zipping Gabby 21.32................. P Ferguson 5 34783 See Eye Be 21.04....................... H Mullane 6 17365 Stay Rich 21.52 M &.........................J Smith 7 12758 Mobility Scooter 21.20.....................M Black 8 87275 Botany Wayne 21.24...................... P Green 12 3.24pm GARRARDS HORSE & HOUND SERIES FINAL C3f, 457m 1 22846 Dig Dig Dig nwtd.............................S O’Neill 2 12741 Pam Arising nwtd...........................S O’Neill 3 83823 Billy Bright 26.10....................... P Ferguson 4 21571 Thrilling Uma 25.79........................ K Walsh

SELECTIONS: Race 1: Thrilling Bruce, Sovereign Pride, Little Teegs, Forego, Tango Miss Race 2: Fancy Fox, Typical, Odnoc Ankie, Chitina Tin, Nangar Dream Race 3: Grey Way, Jinja Ted, Jinja Jake, In Focus, Kapai Tahi Race 4: C’est L’Amour, Cry Lonely, Kelly’s Girl, Sheyna, Over Indulgence Race 5: Wedgwood Warrior, Looby’s Story, On Demand, Grouch Pawset, Opawa Kong Race 6: Billy’s Bake, Zoro, Smoochie, Bigtime Wayno, Salvarotti Race 7: Tribal Conquest, Platinum Tears, Fancy, Decision, Secret Babe Race 8: Sophia Noir, Go Home Harry, Native Scout, Elouera Mist, Botany Esmay Race 9: Sparta, Suspicious Minds, Your Valentine, Opawa Viking, Classy Impact Race 10: Thrilling Winter, Stefano, Enjoy The Perks, Massimo Osti, Tuff’s My Mum Race 11: Too The Nail, See Eye Be, Paddy’s Passion, Mobility Scooter, Thrilling Billy Race 12: Billy Bright, Trevor Gibbs, Raging Demon, Pat Tama, Waiterimu Ripper

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Under pressure

By Patrick McKendry NZME

With the All Blacks squad cut from 39 to 34 for the Bledisloe Cup tests, and three more players to be culled for the World Cup squad, there is now more pressure than ever on Sonny Bill Williams to prove he deserves to be one of the four midfielders heading to Japan.

The big second-five did well to get through just under 60 minutes against a swarming Springbok defence in Wellington given his lack of recent game time and now the spotlight will be on what he can do for Counties-Manukau over the next fortnight.

He will be required to show a little more than mere durability because midfield rival Ngani Laumape is likely to get a big opportunity to impress in the first test against the Wallabies in Perth a week on Saturday, with Williams coming back into the frame for the second test a week later at Eden Park.

It’s clear the make-up of the midfield remains the most difficult World Cup decision for the selectors and it appears almost certain that it will be a contest between Williams and Laumape for that fourth spot to Japan.

Jack Goodhue and Anton Lienert-Brown are almost certain to be named and Ryan Crotty probably would have heard his name read out before for the warm-up test against Tonga in Hamilton on September 7, for which he will be available. The final squad will be announced late next month.

Crotty, who is recovering from a broken thumb, got positive news from a scan this week, as did his Crusaders teammate Scott Barrett, who is recovering from a broken bone in his hand and could be available to play in Perth – a massive boost for coach Steve Hansen following Brodie Retallick’s

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Sonny Bill Williams . . . under presssure to perform dislocated shoulder.

For 33-year-old Williams, who will play a pre-season game for Counties-Manukau in Katikati on Saturday and the round one match against Taranaki a week later, the pressure from defenders will be less than what he encountered last weekend, but the attention from the All Black selectors won’t be.

“We’ve got a lot of respect for Sonny’s playing ability, obviously,” Hansen said.

“He’s played 52 tests for the All Blacks, so we know he can play at this level. The unfortunate thing is he hasn’t played much.

“We wanted to see him on Saturday being able to cope with the rigors of test football, which he did, so that’s a big tick. But to judge him at the highest level when he’s had no football is not fair.

“What we’ve asked him to do is play a couple of games for Counties which will give him three games in three weeks and then look to see what we’re going to do in Auckland. If he was to play there that would be four games in four weeks.

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August 1 & 2, 2019 9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Open Thursday and Saturday mornings for toy hire. Victoria Street, The Triangle.

9.30am - 4pm ASHBURTON MENZSHED. Come and join fellow sheddies for some fun and fellowship make/fix something in our new workshops. 8 William Street.

10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main Street, Methven.

10am - 4pm HOSPICE MID CANTERBURY OP SHOP. Quality clothing and homewares.

Donations welcome. 71 Tancred Street.

10am - 4pm ST JOHN SHOP. Opportunity shop open daily, donations welcome. 129 Tancred Street.

10.15am MSA TAI CHI. Beginners refresher and learning of Tai Chi for arthritis. MSA Social Hall, Havelock Street (not school holidays).

10.30am ASHBURTON EMBROIDERERS GROUP. Bring your stitching and meet a friendly group. Seniors Centre, Cameron Street.

10.45am MSA TAI CHI. Stretching exercises for all abilities. MSA Social Hall, Havelock Street (not school holidays).

11am AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern 308 6817. Holy Spirit Church. Thomson Street, Tinwald.

1pm ASHBURTON MSA PETANQUE SECTION. Club day, new players welcome.

Boules supplied. 115 Racecourse Road, Ashburton.

1pm AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern 308 6817. St Peters Church, Allenton.

1pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Mahjong. Newcomers welcome. $4.

Tuition available for new players.

Waireka Croquet Club. The domain, Philip Street.

1pm AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern 308 6817. Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox Street.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display.

Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1.30pm ASHBURTON SENIORNET. Q and A, computer housekeeping and maintenance. Tips and advice for everyone. $2. MSA lounge, Havelock Street.

7.30pm GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Old time/sequence dancing. Learn to dance. everyone welcome. Allenton Scout Den, Melrose Road.

10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main Street, Methven.

10am - 4pm HOSPICE MID CANTERBURY OP SHOP.

Quality clothing and homewares.

Donations welcome. 71 Tancred Street.

10am - 4pm ST JOHN SHOP. Opportunity shop open daily, donations welcome. 129 Tancred Street.

10.30am - 11.30am WALKING NETBALL.

$2. EA Networks Centre, River Terrace.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display.

Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome.

Ashburton Heritage Centre, West Street. Closed most public holidays.

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Cryptic crossword

Thursday, August 1, 2019

Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

Your Stars ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): The accuracy with which you say a person’s name and recall the details of an event or accomplishment will be crucial to the success of a conversation. Practice first to be safe.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Maybe it’s not your job to get everyone on the same wavelength, but if you miss that part, your job won’t go smoothly.

Listen to find out where people are then build a bridge to where you need them to be.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Every environment has a tone.

To perpetuate and maintain the tone is an act of respect. Some tones need or deserve to be reset, but for the most part today’s social interaction requires only matching.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): There’s so much that can be lost – keys and friends, concentration. The magnitude of losable things is what makes that which you haven’t and can’t seem to lose so wonderfully yours. Appreciate.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Resentment takes up energetic space. It creates a blockage. New opportunity opens up to you just as soon as you lose your resentment over that old thing that, for whatever reason, just didn’t happen.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): The legendary New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra said, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” With great enthusiasm, you’ll somehow manage to advance several trajectories at once today.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Physical and emotional space is the theme. People are different in their requirements of this. Assume nothing, and lightly test boundaries the way you might check an electric fence to see if it’s on.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): You have no interest in simply being active. What does it matter unless you’re also productive? Efficiency matters, and you’ll point out the wastes of time and energy to make a better plan.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Some breeds of horse can pull three times their weight. You’ve a kinship with the centaur today, as you’ll be given much more work than the others.

That’s probably because you can handle it.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): introductions are important, whether you’re introducing yourself or others. People learn how to consider one another through social cues. Getting this right will set off a nice chain of events.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): It would be easy to obsess with the extremes of the situation. Rigid perspectives jut out, defining the edges of what’s acceptable. Over time, they get worn.

They soften, crumble and recess.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Take your time. No decision is a decision, possibly the best one. This is especially applicable to financial matters.

Avoid recurring commitments. Things will be different tomorrow.

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Wind at 2000m: W gale 70 km/h, rising to gale 85 km/h morning then changing severe gale S 100 km/h evening.

SATURDAY Cloud gradually increasing. Rain developing about the divide later, with scattered falls further E. Winds turning W and rising to gale or severe gale in exposed places.

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HOUSTON, Margaret Anne Please note all late death (nee Baker) – notices or notices sent On Friday, July 26, 2019. outside ordinary office Peacefully at Rosebank Resthome, Ashburton. Dearly hours must be emailed to: loved wife of the late Bill. deathnotices@theguardian.co.nz to ensure publication.

Loved mother and mother-inlaw of Alison and Wayne To place a notice during Vessey, Beverley and Stuart office hours please contact Sutherland, Pamela and Mark us on 03 307 7900 for more Watson (Oamaru), Linda and information.

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Samuel, Todd, Jesse, and Jack; and their partners.

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Loved great Nana to her sixteen great grandchildren.

FUNERAL Messages to the Houston family, 11 Bowen Street, Canterbury owned, FURNISHERS Rakaia 7710. A special locally operated MASTER thanks to the staff of MONUMENTAL MASON Rosebank for their wonderful Patersons of Margaret. At Funeral Services E.B. CARTER LTD care Margaret’s request a private For all your memorial and Ashburton service has been held. requirements

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BRAVO SKY 5 12:05 Landline 16LSC 6am Jeopardy! PG 10am Mom’s A Medium 3 2017 Comedy. Jenny Slate, 10:30 Million-Dollar Listing 6:25 Wheel Of Fortune Jay Duplass. 1:40 The PG 6:50 The Simpsons LA 3 Guernsey Literary And PG 7:15 Mountain Men Potato-Peel Pie Society 11:30 Snapped PGR 3 PG 8:05 The Force MC MC 2018 Drama. Lily James, 12:25 Bachelorette Australia 8:30 Ice Road Truckers Glen Powell. 3:40 Welcome PG 9:15 Lizard Lick PGR 3 To Acapulco 16VLC 2019 Towing MVL 9:40 NCIS 1:30 Millionaire – LA MV 10:25 SVU MV Action. Michael Kingsbaker, Matchmaker AO 3 11:10 Mountain Men William Baldwin. 5:10 Battle 2:30 Undercover Boss 3 PG Noon Jeopardy! PG Of Dunkirk – From Disaster 3:30 The People’s Court 3 12:25 Wheel Of Fortune To Triumph MVC 2018 PG 12:50 Helicopter ER 4:30 Dance Moms 3 Documentary.

6:25 Tully MLS 5:30 Four Weddings USA 3 M 1:40 Surveillance 2018 Comedy. 8pm Mortal Dashcam PGV 2:05 The 6:30 The People’s Court Engines MVC 2018 Action.

Force MC 2:30 NCIS – LA 7:30 Dance Moms Hundreds of years after MV 3:15 Mountain Men With Brady gone, Abby PG 4pm The Simpsons civilisation was destroyed, a PG 4:30 Jeopardy! PG challenges the girls to prove young woman emerges as 5pm Wheel Of Fortune PG the only one who can stop they can win on their own; 5:30 Lizard Lick Towing PG London, which is now a Lilly is given an unprecedented 6pm Ice Road Truckers PG ultimatum.

7pm The Force MC 7:30 NCIS predator city on wheels.

10:10 To Hell And Back – 8:30 Below Deck – – LA MV 8:30 Hawaii Five-0 The Kane Hodder Story MVC 16V 9:30 NCIS – Los Angeles Mediterranean AO 2018 Documentary.

MV 10:30 SVU MV 11:20 Ice With Anastasia filling the role Road Truckers PG Friday of temporary chef, and lead Friday Midnight A Deadly Affair deckhand Travis helping as her 12:10 Mountain Men PG MVC 2017 Thriller. 1:30 Battle sous chef, the crew continues 12:55 Wheel Of Fortune PG Of Dunkirk – From Disaster to work short-staffed in each 1:20 Jeopardy! PG 1:40 The To Triumph MVC 2018 Force MC 2:10 NCIS – Los department.

Documentary. 2:45 Mortal Angeles MV 2:55 Hawaii 9:30 Body Fixers PGR 3 Engines MVC 2018 Action.

Five-0 16V 3:40 SVU MV 10:35 Snapped PGR 3 4:50 To Hell And Back – The 4:25 Lizard Lick Towing PG 11:30 #killerpost AO 3 4:50 NCIS – LA MV 5:35 The Kane Hodder Story MVC 2018 12:20 Infomercials 3 Simpsons PG Documentary.

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6:30 Takoha 3 6:40 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 3 2 7:10 Kia Mau 3 7:20 E Kori 7:25 E Ki E Ki 7:30 Haati Paati 3 7:40 Huhu 3 7:50 Huritua 3 8am Pukana 3 2 8:50 Paia 3 9am Te Ao – Maori News 3 9:30 Piri’s Tiki Tour PGR 3 10am Tangaroa With Pio 3 10:30 Hip Hop International – New Zealand Nationals 3 11am Nga Tangata Taumata Rau 3 Noon Matau PGR 3 12:30 The Laughing Samoans 1pm Toa – Toa O Aotearoa PGR 3 1:30 On The Ladder 3 2pm Opaki 3 2:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 3pm Takoha 3 3:10 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 3 2 3:40 Kia Mau 3 3:50 E Kori 3 3:55 E Ki E Ki 4pm Haati Paati 3 4:10 Huhu 3 4:20 Huritua 3 4:30 Our Songs 3 5pm Polyfest Kapa Haka 5:30 Senior Kapa Haka Regionals 3 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News

6am Tiny House World 6:30 Nigella Bites 7am How To Cook Like Heston 7:30 Jelly Jamm 8am Bondi Vet 9am Guiding Alaska 9:30 Location, Location, Location 10:30 Slow Train Through Africa 11:30 Walking The Nile 12:30 The Great Interior Design Challenge 1:30 Cold Water Cowboys 2:30 Location, Location, Location 3:30 Into The Wild – India 4:30 The Hairy Bikers’ Comfort Food The Hairy Bikers cook some of their favourite comfort food.

5:30 Mysteries At The Museum 6:30 American Pickers

7pm Whanau Living 3 7:30 Kai With Anne Thorp 3 8pm Aroha Bridge 8:30 Sidewalk Karaoke PGR 3 9pm The Koi Boys AO 9:30 The Ring Inz AO 3 10pm The Hui – Kaupeka Wha 10:30 Te Ao – Maori News 3

7:30 Jade Fever 8:30 Discovering Bill Murray.

Celebration of the lives of the stars, reliving their best motion-picture moments and exploring the personalities behind the names.

9:30 Paranormal Survivor AO 10:30 American Pickers

11pm Senior Kapa Haka Regionals 3 Ngati Rangiwewehi – Te Arawa.

11:30 Closedown

11:30 Mysteries At The Museum 12:30 Tiny House World 1am The Hairy Bikers’ Comfort Food 2am Tribal Bootcamp 3am Into The Wild – India 4am Paranormal Survivor AO 5am Mysteries At The Museum

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SKY SPORT 2

6am Rugby – Australia v All Blacks 2000 (RPL) TriNations. 8am Rugby – The Championship (RPL) All Blacks v South Africa. 10am Rugby – The Championship (RPL) Australia v Argentina.

Noon Rugby Nation 1pm The Breakdown 2pm Rugby – The Championship (HLS) All Blacks v South Africa. 2:30 Rugby – Pacific Nations Cup (HLS) Round One. 3:30 Rugby – First XV (RPL) St Bede’s College v Shirley Boys. 5pm Rugby – The Championship (HLS) All Blacks v South Africa. 5:30 Rugby – The Championship (HLS) Australia v Argentina. 6pm The Breakdown 7pm Grassroots Rugby 8pm First XV Rugby Revision 8:30 Kick-Off 9pm Rugby – The Championship (HLS) All Blacks v South Africa.

9:30 Rugby – The Championship (HLS) Australia v Argentina. 10pm Grassroots Rugby 11pm First XV Rugby Revision 11:30 Kick-Off

9am Cricket – World Cup (HLS) Final – England v Blackcaps.

9:55 Cricket – World Cup Breakfast Show 11am Cricket – T20 Blast (HLS) Surrey v Kent.

11:30 Cricket – T20 Blast (HLS) Essex v Gloucestershire.

Noon Women’s Cricket – England v Australia (HLS) Third T20.

12:30 Cricket – England v Ireland (HLS) 1pm Cricket – T20 Blast (HLS) Surrey v Kent.

1:30 Women’s Cricket – England v Australia (HLS) First T20.

2pm Cricket – Global T20 (HLS) Montreal v Edmonton.

2:30 Women’s Cricket – England v Australia (RPL) Third T20.

6pm Cricket – Global T20 (HLS) Montreal v Edmonton.

6:30 Cricket – T20 Blast (HLS) Surrey v Kent.

7pm Women’s Cricket – England v Australia (HLS) Third T20.

From The Bristol County Ground, Bristol.

7:30 Cricket – World Friday Cup (HLS) Final – England v Midnight Greats Of Blackcaps.

Super Rugby Christian Friday 8:25 Cricket – World Cup Cullen.

1am Rugby 1:15 The Book Of Eli 16VL 2010 Breakfast Show Nation 2am Rugby – The Action. Denzel Washington, Championship (HLS) All Blacks 9:30 L Cricket – The Gary Oldman. 3:10 Johnny Ashes England v Australia – v South Africa. 2:30 Rugby English Reborn PGVL 2011 First Test, Day One. – The Championship Comedy. Rowan Atkinson.

From Edgbaston, Birmingham.

(HLS) Australia v Argentina.

4:50 The Insider ML 1999 12:35 L Cricket – The 3am Grassroots Rugby Drama. Russell Crowe, 4am First XV Rugby Revision Ashes England v Australia – Al Pacino, Diane Venora, 4:30 Kick-Off 5am Greats Of First Test, Day One. Super Rugby Christian Cullen. From Edgbaston, Birmingham.

Christopher Plummer.

7:40 The World’s End MVLS 9:30 Kick-Ass 2 16VLS 2013 Action. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloe Moretz. 11:10 The Hobbit – The Desolation Of Smaug MV 2013 Adventure.

Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen.

1:50 The Book Of Eli 16VL 2010 Action. Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman. 3:45 Johnny English Reborn PGVL 2011 Comedy. Rowan Atkinson.

5:25 The Insider ML 1999 Drama. Russell Crowe, Al Pacino, Diane Venora, Christopher Plummer.

8pm Scream 16VL 1996 Horror. A year after the murder of her mother, a teenaged girl is terrorised by a new killer who targets her and her friends by using horror films. Neve Campbell, Drew Barrymore, Rose McGowan, David Arquette.

9:55 Bruce Almighty ML 2003 Comedy. Jim Carrey, Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Aniston.

11:35 Step Up 4 – Miami Heat PGVL 2012 Drama.

Kathryn McCormick, Ryan Guzman.

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DISCOVERY 6:35 How It’s Made PG 7:05 How It’s Made PG 7:30 The World’s Deadliest Weather Caught On Camera PG 8:20 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Far Out. 9:10 Deadliest Catch PG Shifting Stack. 10am Aussie Salvage Squad PG Family And Friendship. 10:50 Outback Pilots PG 11:40 Web Of Lies M Fatal Friendship.

12:30 Murder Comes To Town M Mr and Mrs Fantastic.

1:20 Murder Calls M Death at the Door. 2:10 How It’s Made PG 2:35 How It’s Made PG 3pm How Do They Do It? PG 3:25 How Do They Do It? PG 3:50 Gold Rush PG 4:45 Fast ‘n’ Loud PG Mashed.

5:40 Outback Pilots PG 6:35 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 7:30 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 8:30 Gold Rush – White Water PG When Bears Attack.

9:25 Aussie Salvage Squad PG Family And Friendship.

10:15 Deadliest Catch PG Shifting Stack.

11:05 Naked And Afraid M 11:55 The World’s Deadliest Weather Caught On Camera PG

Friday

12:45 Murder Calls M 1:35 How Do They Do It? PG 2am How Do They Do It? PG 2:25 Bering Sea Gold PG 3:15 Finding Escobar’s Millions PG 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 How It’s Made PG 5:20 How Do They Do It? PG 5:45 Gold Rush PG

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Olivia McLennan and her United A team-mates will be keen to get back to winning tonight against Celtic A.

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Finals netball closing in

By Erin Tasker

erin.t@theguardian.co.nz

A week on from their first loss of the season, United A will be keen to hit the netball court and get that winning feeling back tonight.

But, when it comes to Mid Canterbury Netball’s championship round, nothing is easy and no result can be taken from granted.

United A’s opposition tonight is a defending champion Celtic A side which, after getting the speed wobbles at the tail end of

round two, looks to well and truly be back in the running to be a contender to take another title.

The business end of the season is not that far away now. Teams have just two games left to state their cases for a top four finish, and by the end of tonight’s games there’s likely to be one team definitely out of the running.

The top of the table is a tight affair – College A are unbeaten in the championship round so far and top the standings, while three teams – Hampstead A,

United A and Celtic A – have won two from three.

But down the other end, Methven A and Mt Somers are yet to record a win in the third and final round. That will change tonight, though, barring a draw.

Methven A and Mt Somers are set to play each other in the 6.30pm round, and whichever team comes out on top could give themselves a fighting chance of making the top four.

But with United A awaiting Methven A in the final round,

and Hampstead A awaiting Mt Somers, a top four finish could still be a long shot.

Hampstead A, after starting the championship round with a rare win over Celtic A, are the side with arguably the toughest ask in front of them this week though.

Tonight they’re up against College A, a side that’s just got better and better as the season’s gone on, to be where they are now – the team to beat a couple of weeks out from finals.

College A – who last won the

premier grade title in 2010 – will tonight look to maintain their spot at the top-of-the-table with a win over Hampstead A in the other premier one game of the 6.30pm round.

That will be followed at 7.30pm by what’s likely to be a cracker of a clash between United A and Celtic A. In premier two action tonight, Southern A play College B, while Methven B play Hampstead B, and Celtic B and Celtic C square off in the other game.

All Blacks squad pared back with more cuts to come

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