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■ EA NETWORKS

Power consumers’ windfall

By Sue NewmaN

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Over the past 21 years, Ashburton’s home-grown lines company EA Networks, has given more than $70 million away to the community.

And this year, in spite of working its way through a significant upgrade programme, the company is handing over $4 million to Ashburton power consumers in deferred discounts that will see them looking at their smallest power bill of the year.

EA Networks, returns money to the community each year that appears as a credit on their power account. This year’s discount is equal to approximately five weeks’ worth of lines charges, company general manager Gordon Guthrie said.

Since the electricity company became a co-operatively owned lines company in 1995 it has returned more than $70 million to the community. Some years that return has been as high as $5.2 million.

The discount highlighted the benefits of EA’s co-operative model, Mr Guthrie said.

“As the only co-operatively owned electricity distribution company in New Zealand, we are proud to put profits back into local pockets. This $4 million goes straight back into the local economy, which is what we are all about.”

This is the third year in a row that EA Networks has opted to freeze line charges and it has done this because it understood its customers’ concerns over rising power prices.

Mark and Nicky Milmine, new owners of Ashburton’s The Somerset Grocer.

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Gordon Guthrie “We’re hearing that any relief will make a big difference to people, so we’ve responded by keeping our pricing at the same level,” Mr Guthrie said.

When individual customers received their discount will depend on their retailer, with some processing the funds faster than others.

Given the lines company was working through a significant capital upgrade programme, Mr Guthrie said the discount and price freeze were a good result.

For the next financial year it plans $29 million worth of upgrades, including two new substations in Fairton and Tinwald.

This will be its heaviest ever investment year for upgrade work as the company works to achieve a robust, modern, reliable electricity network.

“Reinvesting in the continued maintenance and upgrade of this network is extremely important for the delivery of electricity that ultimately drives our region’s prosperity,” Mr Guthrie said.

Milmines purchase the Grocer

By Sue NewmaN

Sue.n@theguardian.co.nz

Mark and Nicky Milmine have received the news they’d been hoping for – their bid to buy Ashburton’s The Somerset Grocer had been successful.

Since the Ashburton Trust announced it planned to sell its businesses and become a property owner only, the Milmines knew a big question mark hung over their future.

Both were employed by the trust, Mr Milmine as manager of Speight’s Alehouse and Mrs Milmine at The Somerset Grocer and they knew a change of ownership could see them both out of a job.

Now they’re looking forward to a new future, working together in a business they’ve known since it served its first customer six years ago.

In confirming the sale, trust board chairman Alister Lilley said the board was delighted the business would stay in local hands.

“Nicky has done all the good stuff here and it’s fantastic that they have an opportunity now to take this business to the next level, to step it up because any business needs to be stepped up and reinvented,” Mr Lilley said.

“It’s great for the trust and it’s great for the people of Ashburton that Ashburton owners are taking ownership. They’ll stamp the business with their own DNA.” From the day the trust put their businesses on the market, the Milmines decided they’d be throwing their hat in the ring, either for Speight’s or the grocer.

“We decided for family life this would be the best option. We’re very excited about this opportunity, not only as we can do this together as a family but we’re thrilled to continue to serve the community we love,” Mrs Milmine said.

They’re old hands at working together in the hospitality industry, spending 11 years in Oamaru in the same business before tak-

ing over Tuscany Restaurant and Bar in the earlier Somerset Hotel building 10 years ago.

And that, Mr Milmine said, means they’ll be “joint boss”.

He admits his working life will be quite different after managing a bar and restaurant with a focus on evening hours, but he’s looking forward to making the change and to be working together as a couple again.

“We’re at a great stage of our lives to do this,” he said.

The official changeover from community ownership to family ownership is on April 26 and initially it will be business as usual while the couple take stock and decide how their new business will develop. They’re not ruling out a few changes.

“Watch this space,” Mrs Milmine said.

The trust is in negotiations with potential buyers for the Speight’s Alehouse and the Tinwald Motels and Tavern.

The Hotel Ashburton will be marketed later this month.

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■ ASHBURTON COLLEGE

McMillan takes up new challenge

By RuBy HaRfield

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After seven years on the job, Ashburton College’s principal is heading to new pastures.

The school’s board of trustees announced yesterday that Grant McMillan will be moving to a new position as principal of James Cook High School in Auckland at the beginning of Term 2.

Mr McMillan said while he is sad to be moving on he is leaving the college in a good position for someone else to take over.

“The college is in a really good space and I’m really proud of what we are doing.

“There’s been a huge amount of change while I’ve been at the college.”

He came to Ashburton College as principal seven years ago and believes the time is right for a new challenge.

“I’ve really enjoyed my time at Ashburton College. I’ve learnt a lot but also hope that I’ve contributed a lot.”

James Cook High School is like Ashburton College in some ways being a similar size and having special needs units but there will be new challenges that Mr McMillan is looking forward to facing.

The school has a number of specialist facilities and academies and has strong Maori and Pasifika language programmes. It is also decile one as opposed to Ashburton College’s decile six rating.

“Part of what always motivates me is looking at where I can make a contribution.”

The one thing he will miss most

Ashburton College principal Grant McMillan will be leaving the school at the end of this term. on Tuesday and although principals need to give eight weeks’ notice, the board of trustees of both schools agreed it would be easier if Mr McMillan finished up at the end of the term.

In his address to students and parents, board of trustees chairman Rennie Davidson said Mr

from his time at Ashburton College is the students and staff.

“We’ve got fab young people at the college.”

Mr McMillan will end his time at the college during the school holidays and will begin his new position on May 2.

He formally accepted the job

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McMillan has worked hard to improve the educational outcomes for the college’s students, build a stronger community profile for the school and has overseen a number of building projects to improve facilities for students and staff.

“The board wishes to sincerely

thank Grant for his seven years of hard work and commitment at Ashburton College.”

The recruitment process for a new principal will start soon and an acting principal will be appointed for the time between Mr McMillan’s departure and the new principal commencing.

■ LOCAL BODY ELECTIONS

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Ashburton District councillors have agreed to continue the practice they began in 2004 of

further down the list.

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■ HOLIDAYS ACT

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‘Most workers underpaid’ By siMoN colliNs A long-established payroll company says most of New Zealand’s two million workers have probably been underpaid for annual leave or statutory holidays because of faulty payroll systems.

Matt Gardner, who founded Smoothpay Payroll in Palmerston North in 1995, said the total number affected since the Holidays Act was changed in 2004 “could well be 3 million” allowing for the numbers of people who had entered or left the workforce in that time.

“The majority of the payroll systems used in New Zealand still fail to comply with the Holidays Act,” he said.

He said every employer who had transferred to his company from another payroll system had been calculating holiday pay incorrectly.

“In 20 years plus, we have not seen, as far as I can recall, any data coming from payroll systems that we migrate into our pool doing annual leave correctly,” he said.

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) this week said it had found holiday pay owing to 24,000 employees working for eight employers that it had investigated for holiday pay breaches since 2012.

Average amounts owing ranged from $70 to $1800 per worker.

The most common mistake re-

ported so far has been in calculating pay rates for annual leave.

The Holidays Act requires paying workers either at their current pay rate when they take leave or at the rate of their average weekly earnings over the previous year, whichever is higher.

Many payroll systems simply pay leave at a worker’s standard hourly rate, without averaging actual earnings over the previous year including overtime, extra pay for statutory holidays and non-discretionary bonuses.

Mr Gardner said even salaried workers working standard hours may have been underpaid if they worked on statutory holidays, when the law requires payment for time and a half plus a day off

in lieu if they were normally required to work on the holiday.

“I’ve been banging on about this since the Act changed,” he said.

“I was at an Inland Revenue payroll development seminar in about 2011 or 2012 and had a crack at the other payroll developers. They all just shut me down. They are fully aware that they are not compliant.”

NZ Payroll Practitioners Association chief executive David Jenkins agreed that non-compliant systems were “definitely a time bomb”. But he doubted that the problem affected a majority of workers.

“A large percentage would be compliant,” he said.

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■ FLU VACCINATIONS

Time to get a jab to keep the flu away

By Michelle NelsoN

michelle.n@theguardian.co.nz

Anzco Foods worker Lose Fifita takes up the offer of a free flu jab.

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With winter on the doorstep so too is this season’s influenza outbreak.

Anzco Foods is one of several Mid Canterbury workplaces which prioritises staff health by offering free flu vaccinations each year as part of its Worksafe Homesafe programme.

The company’s health and wellness co-ordinator Jennifer Juntilla said more than 300 employees out of a pool of about 900 had taken up the offer this year.

Ashburton GP spokesperson Mick Tarry said flu vaccinations were already being administered at local medical centres and advised anyone with compromised health to consult with their doctor.

The vaccination is free to everyone over 65 years, pregnant women and others with speci-

fied health conditions.

“These groups should seriously consider vaccination, as should those who have regular contact with a broad spectrum of the public – such as teachers, shop assistants, health workers, regular travellers and the police,” Dr Tarry said.

Dr Tarry said the flu vaccine would protect 60 to 70 per cent of those immunised from contracting the prevalent influenza viruses which are expected to circulate this winter.

About 200,000 New Zealanders contract the flu each year and it is estimated up to 400 will die as a result.

It takes about two weeks to develop immunity after vaccination.

People should contact their GP or nurse to find out whether they are eligible for free vaccination make an appointment to receive their immunisation.

Hotel burgled Police are investigating a burglary at the Hotel Ashburton’s bottle store early yesterday morning.

Ashburton Police senior sergeant Scott Banfield said the breakin occurred at about 5.30am.

Offenders smashed glass to gain entry and got off with cases of beer before taking off on foot.

Investigations were under way at the scene yesterday and CCTV footage was being reviewed.

Anyone with any information, or who saw any suspicious activity in the area at the time, is asked to contact Ashburton Police.

Suppression continues A prominent New Zealander facing indecent assault charges will keep the name suppression protecting his identity until the end of his trial.

The trial is due to begin on Monday. The man has denied the charges against him. There are heavy suppression orders over the case, meaning the man cannot be identified, nor can his alleged victims or their ages. The man is facing 12 charges of indecent assault against two people including two representative charges. The charges, which include allegations of touching the complainants on the breast, buttocks, groin and thigh, are punishable by up to 10 years’ imprisonment.

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Speed shocks police Police are shocked that a motorcyclist sped through a stretch of road that only hours before had claimed the life of a man in a truck crash. Central District Police say officers were still on No.1 Line outside Palmerston North on Thursday dealing with the aftermath of a road accident, in which an elderly man died in a collision with a truck, when a motorbike was clocked doing 132km/h. Police said the rider was pulled over and breath-tested. The officer discovered the motorcyclist had excess breath alcohol. The motorcyclist was issued with a speeding ticket and was due to appear in court on a charge of driving with excess breath alcohol.

Police urged drivers to think about their actions and possible consequences of poor decisions.

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■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COUNCIL

Councillors air concerns on plan

By Sue NewmaN

Sue.n@theguardian.co.nz

Ashburton mayor Angus McKay might be talking it down, but his councillors are concerned that a local government reform package announced last month, could significantly change the shape of local government in the Ashburton District.

In a letter to Mr McKay, local government minister Peseta Sam Lotu-liga outlined the reforms.

These include giving councils

greater flexibility to collaborate in the delivery of services as well as creating new guidelines for establishing Council Controlled Organisations.

It is the inclusion of what Mr Lotu-Liga described as “new, more flexible process for local government re-organisation, including a council-led process,” that has councillors worried.

At Thursday’s council meeting, councillor Rod Beavan said the implications of the bill “scared

the hell” out of him. Stuart Wilson agreed saying he was concerned that the wishes of local communities would be over-ridden.

“The only assurances I can give you is that amalgamations around New Zealand have lately not gone ahead because of the public vote. The government is trying to find other ways to have local democracy but at the same time create more efficiencies,” Mr McKay said.

Ashburton was already work-

ing closely with neighbouring councils in areas such as roading contracts, water management and rural fire services and that indicated it was well down the track in achieving what the minister wanted, he said.

That might be correct, but Ashburton would have to be careful to protect the gains and changes it had already made, councillor Darryl Nelson said.

The new bill will clear the way for councils to transfer functions

from one council to another in an element of re-organisation and it would also clear the way for councils to enter into joint governance arrangements over areas of shared or common interest.

The legislation will be introduced to Parliament mid-year and the public will have an opportunity to make submissions during the select committee process that will follow. Mr Lotu-Ligu expects legislation to be passed by the end of the year.

■ TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP

Trade Minister McClay confident US will sign TPP

By NadiNe Porter

nadine.P@theguardian.co.nz

The Minister of Trade strongly believes the Trans Pacific Partnership will be ratified by the United States before the next President is elected.

Speaking to Business Mid Canterbury on Thursday night Todd McClay said US President Barack Obama had put a lot of effort into the TPP and had been given permission to sign.

“So we have got to assume that he has a process in place.”

Mr McClay said controversial Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton were likely to be ‘more moderate than they currently sounded should they get their party’s nomination as they were appealing to their own voters at present rather than the entire nation.

At a recent rally Trump said the TPP was a horrible trade agreement.

“You have 12 countries – all of whom want to rip our heart out.

You have China, which is not a part of it but wants to be a part of it at a later date. They’re watching every move.”

Trump also complained it was too complicated and that countries like New Zealand had negotiated better than America have.

“Each country knows every word of that document and our people have never even looked at it or read it. We don’t know what the hell it says. We should not do it.”

Hillary Clinton has also said she opposes it.

However, Mr McClay asserted that if America built a wall that locked themselves against the rest of the trading world, it will self-circuit and work against them.

“Actually the rest of the world will build that wall (against the US). I don’t think they’ll do that.”

Mr McClay outlined the benefits of the world’s largest free trade agreement and said tariffs would be eliminated on 95 per cent of New Zealand’s trade with the 12 countries involved bringing savings of $274 million every year.

Opportunities in value added products meant it won’t be just primary industries that benefit from the deal, according to the Trade Minister, although he said the dairy industry stood to receive the greatest benefit from the deal.

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ply chain. “If you want to take a log and turn it into a table you can go out and sell it to 800 million people and no tariff will be placed upon it. Better than that – if you just want to take the right leg of that table you can send it to Vietnam who will bolt it on and they will sell it to everyone else.”

During question time Federated Farmers’ Mid Canterbury president Willy Leferink asked if there was clear regulations on how non-tariff barriers would be dealt with.

Mr McClay responded that non-tariff barriers would be the next big trade win for New Zealand and he expected to make an announcement around that later this year.

Methven Travel owner David Dynes said the TPP was the most exciting agreement he had seen in his lifetime.

“Probably our economies have relied too much on a small number of nations.”

Right - Trade Minister Todd McClay told Business Mid Canterbury that he strongly believes the US will ratify the Trans Pacific Partnership.

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In brief Inquiry into fire The Ministry for Primary Industries has launched an investigation into a large fire at a Waikato piggery, which led to dozens of pigs being killed. The fire at the Hopuhopu piggery, on Great South Rd started shortly before 8am yesterday. A Fire Service spokesman confirmed there were 700 pigs on site. A total of 50 had been killed in the blaze, northern fire communications shift manager Jaron Phillips said. A spokesman for MPI later confirmed they were looking into the circumstances of the blaze and whether or not there were any animal welfare issues.

Yesterday’s blaze is at least the third large fire of its kind at the farm.

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Wheels day a big hit with students

Shot hunter named

Ashburton Christian School’s Riley Strachan got some air time during the school’s wheels day on Thursday. Students got to experience all things wheels within class activities, challenges and dirt biking. They also got to wear mufti and had a sausage sizzle. The day was scheduled for the week before but had to be postponed.

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■ MID CANTERBURY SCHOOLS

Speed signs ‘not effective’

By RuBy HaRfield

Ruby.h@theguaRdian.co.nz

A request to council to install 40km/h road signs outside all Mid Canterbury Schools may not be an effective safety measure, Ashburton District Council roading manager Brian Fauth says.

The Mid Canterbury Principals’ Association has written to council, on behalf of all schools in the area, to ask for the lower limit to help keep students safe.

Mr Fauth said council had been looking into the possibility but enforcing a limit would be nearly impossible.

They could not have police officers sitting outside rural schools waiting to catch people speeding because they are limited in their availability, he said.

Just having signs outside schools, especially in rural areas, would not necessarily be enough to get people to slow down.

“We don’t think the signs would be effective.”

However, council have been in discussions with other districts who have already enforced limits outside their schools about how well the project had worked and had been talking to

The hunter shot dead in the Ruahine Ranges on Thursday was 23-year-old Danny Rion Jordan.

The young man, a soldier stationed at Linton Military Camp, was hunting with two army friends and a dog when he was accidentally shot by a hunter from a separate group, police said. A dog was also shot. Police have spoken to all involved in the shooting yesterday.

A spokeswoman said a decision on what, if any, charges would be laid as a result of the shooting would not be made for some time.

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police about what they could do to help, Mr Fauth said.

“We’ve been checking with local authorities around us as to what they’ve been doing and how effective it’s been.”

They also need to look into the legality of making and enforcing the road signs.

While all this is being considered schools also have a responsibility to make sure they educate students and parents on road safety and speed, he said.

Longbeach School principal Neil Simons said he hoped the limit will be able to become a reality to ensure the safety of all

students in the district.

“As an association we would like to have a 40km/h speed limit outside all schools.”

Longbeach School has a 100km/h speed limit outside their school and it is too fast.

With little children around there is the very easy possibility for something to go wrong, he said.

Chertsey School principal Sean Wansbrough said while it was not so much of a problem for his school because there was a 50km/h speed limit outside but he still supported the proposal.

Air New Zealand was one of many companies around the country playing April Fool’s Day jokes yesterday, but theirs came with a twist – those who participated in the “prank’ ended up with a free trip to Hawaii. The stunt involved a bus travelling around central Auckland during the busy morning peak with “Hawaii” on the front as the final destination.

The bus stopped at several bus stops and people were invited to board the bus to Hawaii. Some curious people jumped on board while there were a number that were cautious and chose not to.

Those that did ended up at a Hawaiian-themed destination in Auckland which initially seemed disappointing – until they received their “Hawaii boarding pass” from an Air New Zealand flight attendant, giving them a free return flight to Honolulu.

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Jonty Ward unloads one of three tractors he will have on display at the Wheat and Wheels Rally this weekend.

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Huge selection of machinery

It was smiles all round when the Far and Wide Tractor Trekkers stopped in at McDonalds restaurant yesterday.

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The Ashburton Vintage Machinery Club’s second Wheat and Wheels Rally will open to the public this morning with a huge selection of old and new machinery on display.

The site on Christys Road was a hive of activity yesterday morning with trucks, tractors and farm machinery lining up for what promises to be one of the largest collections of agricultural equipment to be seen in the district.

Visitors will be able to see just

how far technology has come with harvesting displays involving some of the earliest combines, alongside the world’s biggest and newest.

The event has attracted participants from all over the country and visitors are expected from as far afield as Finland.

Military equipment, classic cars and trucks also feature in the twoday event which kicks off at 10am this morning on Peter Butterick’s property at 580 Christies Road.

Trekkers in town for Wheat and Wheels

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Tractors, children, bears and burgers got together for a worthy cause in Ashburton yesterday when the Far and Wide Tractor Trekkers hauled into town.

Group members began their journeys from various parts of the North Island on Thursday last week bound for the Wheat and Wheels Rally under way in Ashburton this weekend.

The seven tractors crossed on the ferry on Sunday and headed down the West Coast before coming over Arthurs Pass to overnight in Methven on Thursday.

On the journey the trekkers have

been collecting money for the Ronald McDonald House charity, which they handed over to Ashburton’s McDonald’s owner-operator Dave Whalley yesterday.

There were also teddy bears for several children whose families had stayed at Ronald McDonald House during their stay in hospital.

“Every cent we collected went to the charity, we don’t take anything out to cover costs,” organiser Maurice Short said.

Most of the group had taken part in the 2010 South Island Trek for Cancer Kids and jumped at the chance to head south again.

For Mr Short it was a chance to

hit the road with his David Brown 990 – one of 33 tractors in his David Brown stable.

Included in the collection are three tractors which his father bought new. The convoy averages a speed of 25km/h and aims to cover 200km a day.

Mr Short said it was a great way to see the countryside and other than the odd motorist who was reticent to pass the slower moving convoy and three flat tyres the trip had been a “piece of cake”.

The trekkers, who are self-contained with caravans hitched on, will spend the weekend at the rally before hitting the road for home on Monday.

Wakanui students on the job Wakanui School students have been busy helping with the catering for this weekend’s Wheat and Wheels Rally on Christys Road. Pictured yesterday were some Year 6-8 students packing lollies to sell. The school is running two food tents serving tea, coffee, slices, biscuits, sausages, bacon butties and steak sandwiches.

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... and it’s goodbye from Ronnie C British actor and comedian Ronnie Corbett has died at the age of 85, his publicist says.

“Ronnie Corbett CBE, one of the nation’s best-loved entertainers, passed away this morning, surrounded by his loving family,” a statement from his publicist said early yesterday.

“They have asked that their privacy is respected at this very sad time.”

Corbett was best known for his television show The Two Ronnies, co-starring the late Ronnie Barker.

Corbett was a highly versatile comedian who was just as much at home doing stand-up comedy (although usually sitting down) on his own, or sitcom characters, as he was with his famous partner Ronnie B. His long professional association with Barker produced one of the most popular TV programmes of the late 20th century until Barker’s retirement in the mid-1980s, after it had run for 12 series.

The Two Ronnies, which ran from 1971 to 1987, invariably ended with the two saying: “It’s goodnight from me ... and it’s goodnight from him.”

When on his own, Corbett specialised in long, rambling jokes delivered from an outsize armchair with his legs dangling in the air. The punchline came after the

Left – Ronnie Corbett, an English comedy institution.

Below – Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker.

beginning had long been forgotten, so many twists and turns were there in the telling along the way.

Ronald Balfour Corbett was born in Edinburgh on December 4, 1930. He was educated at the James Gillespie School and the Royal High School, Edinburgh.

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Best jokes Some of Ronnie Corbett’s best jokes: ■ “French wine growers fear that this year’s vintage may be entirely spoiled due to the grape treaders’ sit-in.”

■ “A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston by-pass. Motorists are asked to be on the look-out for 16 hardened criminals.”

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“We will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.”

“All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my right hand.”

“This is a message for seven honeymoon couples in a hotel in Peebles: Breakfast was served three days ago.”

“A man was marooned on a desert island. One day a beautiful woman arrives in a wetsuit. ‘When did you last have a smoke?’ she asks. ‘Five years ago.’ So she gets out a cigar and he smokes it. She unzips her wetsuit a bit and says, ‘When did you last have a drink?’ He said, ‘Five years

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ago.’ So she gets out a bottle of Scotch and he has a drink.

Then she unzips her wetsuit a bit more and says, ‘And when was the last time you played around?’ He looks at her in amazement and says: ‘You’re not telling me you’ve got a set of golf clubs in there?’”

“There was a fire at the main Inland Revenue office in London today, but it was put out before any serious good was done.”

“A juggernaut of onions has shed its load all over the M1.

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TRIBUTES FROM STARS Russell Crowe led the tributes to late star Ronnie Corbett.

Following the tragic news that the legendary comedian had passed away surrounded by his “loving family”, celebrities from all fields were quick to offer their condolences and share their memories of the diminutive star.

Gladiator star Russell used one of Corbett’s most famous catchphrases in his tribute, writing on Twitter.com: “And it’s good night from Ronnie Corbett. Thanks for all the laughs mate.”

Fawlty Towers star John Cleese also paid tribute to his “mentor” in an emotional post: “Just heard about Ronnie C. So sad.

“He had the best timing I’ve ever watched. He was a great, kind mentor and a wonderfully witty companion.”

Flight of the Conchords star Jemaine Clement cited his favourite Corbett joke in his condolence message, writing: “Aw man. RIP Ronnie Corbett.

Favourite joke: sign on fortune teller’s caravan ‘closed due to unforeseen circumstances’.”

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Ken and Miriam Cutforth, packing up and moving on after bringing the world of bed and breakfast to Rakaia.

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wenty-three years ago it was cold, run down and desperately in need of love, but thanks to a couple who dared to dream, St Ita’s Convent in Rakaia is today a thriving business.

For Miriam and Ken Cutforth, buying St Ita’s was a leap of faith and more. They were ready for change, happy to leave their lives in Auckland behind and wanting new challenges. With St Ita’s they bought those challenges and more, Ken said.

The school closed in 1985 and since then the two remaining nuns had rattled around in what had been their home and their workplace. The old school and convent, however, was as far from a welcoming B&B as it was possible to get.

For Miriam and Ken, the move south was about being closer to her father. That was the upside; the downside was the risk of staking their life’s savings on turning an old convent into a bed and breakfast in a town that, apart from two pubs, didn’t really do accommodation.

Industrial linoleum floors were ripped up, fireplaces restored, carpets laid and ceilings replaced.

Gradually the institutional feeling disappeared, replaced by warmth and welcome.

“We tried to restore it in keeping with its history, but we did a few things that made it more practical. We’ve invested a lot in this place. It was a big punt.

We had to start a business from

It takes courage to risk your future on a dream, but that’s what Miriam and Ken Cutforth did 23 years ago when they headed south from Auckland to set up a bed and breakfast business in Rakaia. They talk to reporter Sue Newman about creating a new life in small-town New Zealand. scratch at a time when there was no internet, so we just had to put a sign up at the gate and wait,” Ken said.

So with no income and neverending work on the old building, it meant a steady erosion of their capital. Someone had to go out to earn a living, to bring in urgentlyneeded cash.

A job came up in the Lincoln library and with years of work as a librarian behind her, fate dictated it was Miriam. Ken’s excuse was that he had all the heavy work to do on the house.

A few years down the track Miriam decided she hadn’t moved south to do what she’d been doing in Auckland and they swapped roles. She stayed home as B&B host while Ken took up a job as CEO of Mid Canterbury Rugby.

As a new business testing new waters, St Ita’s was slow to grow and while Miriam and Ken believed their trade would come from the skiing and fishing markets, they soon realised that skiers went to Methven and fishermen often camped out on the river.

Business came from a different

direction.

“We started to get the Queen’s Street cockies and from local businesses with people coming into the area,” Ken said.

Most stays are one nighters and often they find they’re first cab off the rank for people leaving Christchurch Airport.

They’ve never been tempted to cook an evening meal for their guests, they push that business to the village’s two hotels, saying it’s good to share the benefits of visitors around. They say, however, that they do a seriously good breakfast.

St Ita’s is not large – four bedrooms and initially they shared that space with their guests. After a few years they took the plunge and converted their loft into their own private sanctuary. Having that self-contained unit upstairs was sanity and probably one of the reasons they were able to remain in the business for so long.

Surprisingly running a bed and breakfast has never become a tie; with planning they’ve been able to put up the closed signs, lock the doors and head out of town.

Over the years, their business

has grown and Rakaia itself has grown and changed, Ken said.

“When we arrived there were very few employment opportunities and a lot of rentals were taken up by people who had escaped Christchurch and who would sit around all day. It’s totally changed. There’s all sorts of jobs available now, lots of work and lots of businesses,” he said Deciding to sell has been a decision made slowly, but with a significant birthday just under his belt Ken admits 70 is a good age to make new decisions and move into the next stage in life.

“We want to enjoy our retirement while we can, we want to continue tramping and doing all the things we love. Our girls are both in Auckland and there are grandchildren too. The timing is good.”

A bonus in selling is that their much-loved B&B stays in local hands, with Gavin and Sue Rowlands taking over as mine hosts.

“They’re the right age, they’ve got the energy and they’ll take this place to the next level,” Miriam said.

For them the changes will come

in making a new life in a place that hasn’t been home for more than 20 years – and from moving in as short-term flatmates with one of their daughters.

For Ken, leaving St Ita’s also means he’ll be signing off as an Ashburton District councillor. He came to council in a by-election partway through the last council term after Peter Reveley resigned.

While he’s moving to Auckland at the beginning of April, he still intends to make it back down to council meetings, at least until the end of June after the annual plan is put to bed.

Reflecting on his five years around the council table, Ken says at the very time he’s leaving he’s also feeling he’s getting to grips with the issues, the personalities and what are often the frustrations of the job.

“Sometimes I think I’m a part of the B team because I’m on the wrong side of decisions. This term though it seems to have been a bit more collaborative,” he said.

He won’t consider standing for council in Auckland; Miriam would shoot him if he ever suggested it, he said.

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NZ melanoma stats

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ew Zealand has overtaken Australia to now have the highest rate of invasive melanoma, which skin cancer experts say should act as a “wakeup call” for the Government to spend more money on prevention initiatives.

A study by Queensland researchers has found that Kiwi melanoma rates have almost doubled over the past three decades – from about 26 cases per 100,000 people in 1982 to about 50 cases per 100,000 people in 2011.

Researchers from QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane found that while Australia’s melanoma rates have been declining since 2005, New Zealand’s rates are still increasing and are not expected to start falling until about 2017.

The study, funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia and published in The Journal of Investigative Dermatology, compared the rates of invasive melanoma – the deadliest form of skin cancer – in populations across Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, and the Caucasian population of the United States, from 1982 to 2011.

While study head Professor David Whiteman said that Kiwis have become more sun smart, more prevention work could be done,

A recent study showing that New Zealand has overtaken Australia to now have the highest rate of invasive melanoma should be a wakeup call for the New Zealand Government, says University of Otago Associate Professor Tony Reeder. NZME’s Kurt Bayer reports. and for many older New Zealanders the damage has already been done.

“As New Zealand’s population ages, the number of melanomas diagnosed will continue to increase,” he said.

“While it’s good news that average melanoma rates in New Zealand should start to fall soon, the fact that the actual number of cases will keep rising is bad news.”

Associate Professor Tony Reeder of the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at the University of Otago, says that for more than a decade New Zealand has lacked high-level commitment to, and adequate investment in, skin cancer prevention.

“Despite growing evidence that skin cancer prevention initiatives can help avoid melanoma and save lives, governments have not been willing to adequately fund

HOW CAN I BE SUNSMART? Being SunSmart is about protecting skin and eyes from damaging UV radiation.

From September to April when outdoors: Slip into a long-sleeved shirt and into the shade.

Generally, fabrics with a tighter weave and darker colours will give you greater protection from the sun.

Some clothing is sold with a

UV radiation Protection Factor (UPF) rating.

Clothing with a UPF of 50+ offers superior protection and could be an ideal choice for outdoor workers.

Slop on plenty of broadspectrum (filters both UVA and UVB rays) sunscreen with a Sun Protection Factor (SPF) of at least 30.

Apply sunscreen at least 20

minutes before going outdoors and reapply every two hours. Reapply more frequently if sweating or swimming.

Slap on a hat with a wide-brim or a cap with flaps.

This will help reduce the risk of sunburn to your face, ears and neck. These are the most common places where we get sunburned.

Wrap on a pair of close-fitting

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them,” he said.

“Our politicians dropped the ball and unless there is increased funding and a high-level commitment, more New Zealanders than Australians will continue to develop potentially preventable skin cancers.”

He criticised the Government for failing to ban commercial cosmetic sunbed services in New Zealand, in contrast with Australia which has “acted decisively to protect its population” by implementing a comprehensive sunbed ban.

Dr Ben Tallon, speaking on behalf of Melanoma New Zealand and MelNet, a network of professionals working together to reduce the incidence and impact of melanoma in New Zealand, says the Government needs to “get serious” about preventing skin cancer, with a serious commitment to funding prevention strategies.

“The study found that, while Australia’s melanoma rates have been declining since 2005, our rates are still increasing and are not expected to start falling until about 2017. The Government is now facing big health bills as increasing numbers of people develop invasive melanoma,” he said.

“This study should be a wakeup call. Skin cancer prevention initiatives are highly cost-effective and an important public health investment.

“It’s an investment the New Zealand Government must make.”

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The spud king: A farmer who rather than Hard work and an eye for opportunity are behind the growth of Methven agribusiness icon Alan Pye. Susan Sandys reports.

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n the midst of the Methven area’s productive landscape, there sits a compact modern home which looks like any other.

But inside this home lives the astute business mind of Alan Pye, the Timaru-born agribusiness icon who, with a wealth of $200 million, sits at 64th on the country’s rich list.

Such wealth conjures up images of a life of luxury, but Mr Pye himself comes across as utilitarian as the landscape and home which surrounds him. A large office desk is the primary piece of furniture in his tidy lounge room, which flows off an equally tidy kitchen-family room.

It is from this humble base, on a Highfield crop farm, that the South Canterbury spud king manages a farming empire stretching across

lands both near and far.

Alan left school when he was 15, and started working on the family farm at Temuka. He is the son of the late Charles (Chub) Pye, a former mayor of Temuka.

At the age of 16, Alan bought a small square baler and went contracting. On the weekends he worked for a local farmer picking potatoes, who instead of paying him, gave him seed to grow his own crops.

Throughout his teens, Alan doubled the land he leased to grow potatoes each year, expanding from the initial two acres he began with.

It was just as well he was standing on his own two feet, as within a couple of years it became evident the family farm he had worked hard on, along with his three sis-

ters, would not be there for Mr Pye to operate.

Chub sold the farm when Alan was 18, as he and Alan’s mother Francie decided to retire to Temuka.

It was a move Alan was not impressed with, but while the sale of the property may have been a setback for many, it made him all the more determined to succeed.

By the time he was 20 he was leasing eight acres to grow potatoes and had worked out that by installing irrigation he could double his yield.

Irrigation was courtesy of a creek flowing past. Just about no-one else was irrigating at the time, but Alan decided to put a pump in with 20 pipes to carry water in order to undertake two waterings per season.

Above – Alan Pye has come from humble beginnings.

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By the age of 21, Alan had made enough money to buy a 68-acre block of land near the Orari River mouth and has ever since expanded by taking every opportunity presented to him, including buying and selling farms, doing more buying than selling along the way.

“I don’t believe in selling much,” he said.

He married at the age of 23 to Dianna Reith, the mother of his five children Mark, Leanne, Leighton, Dean and Bernice.

Alan’s knack for spotting and seizing opportunities is reflected in his family heritage.

His great grandfather Charles Pye helped out as a child on the family farm in his home country of England. He had a longing to go to sea and became a cabin boy on a sailing ship at a young age. He saw

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likes to buy things sell them many parts of the world, but his travels were brought to a sudden halt in New Zealand when he was 20.

Chub described in a booklet what happened. It was in the spring of 1865 when Charles was on the barque Gazehound at Oamaru when a storm tore it from its moorings. Some sailors drowned, but Charles was among those who were rescued and housed in Oamaru.

Charles got a swag together and started off for a new life. He lived off the land and slept under the stars as he made his way north through bush and rough country.

His first job in New Zealand was threshing oats with a flail at Coldstream Station, on the north side of the Rangitata River mouth.

After a couple of years he bought

a wagon and some bullocks and started out carting wool and grain to markets, and timber to farms and towns. He succeeded in business, and later farming, and had 11 children.

It was this eye for opportunity that served Alan well in the 1980s’ rural downturn. While the harsh economic conditions combined with drought crippled many a farmer, Alan was in the fortunate position of being able to benefit from opposite economic conditions in England. He had received a Nuffield scholarship, enabling him to travel to the country in 1982.

“That’s when I learned they were bringing in quotas,” he said.

He bought a farm, his first dairy farm, in Cornwall, in anticipation of receiving a milk quota. Prime Minister Maggie Thatcher had

given away quotas for other types of agriculture, but not yet for dairy farms. He ended up being right on the money with his prediction and received a milk quota about a month after purchasing the property.

Alan remembers vividly the contrast between New Zealand’s political and farming scene, compared to that in England. It was the era of Roger Douglas and David Lange and interest rates were soaring to over 20 per cent.

They were moving fast the other way in England, seeming to have fallen lower every time Alan disembarked his plane on his regular visits to the country. It made extending his British farming investment easier, and he later sold off the farmland, its houses and quota separately, receiving about $NZ1.5

million for the latter.

“Margaret Thatcher did a good job for farmers in England, as opposed to Douglas and Lange who had little respect for farmers, they wanted New Zealand to be the Switzerland of the south,” he said.

Alan’s farming interests today stretch across New Zealand and Australia. He directs farming operations in Canterbury where he owns several properties under the Highfield group and holds interests jointly with sons Mark and Leighton. They include food producer Zarella Holdings, one of the major producers and suppliers of fresh produce in Australia.

It grows, packs, processes, wholesales and distributes potatoes, carrots, onions and pumpkins throughout Australia, and has an expanding export business.

Alan last year notched up a $100 million sale of his Dairy Holdings shares at a time when dairying was at its height.

While it could be seen as a case of fortuitous timing, Alan said he never expected the payout to fall as low as it has.

He is still involved in developing dairy farms and is converting a farm on the other side of the Rakaia River. He remains confident milksolid prices will improve.

“Everyone is talking doom and gloom but it will pick up and it will be a lot better.”

And Alan is still the farmer who likes to buy things more than sell them, and despite being a richlister, he does not think he is rich at all.

“I haven’t really got lots of money, it’s all tied up in assets.”

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Local rowers were put through their paces at Lake Hood on Thursday evening ahead of the Maadi Cup.

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It’s the jewel in the crown of high school rowing, and this year’s Maadi Cup is expecting to be as hotly contested as ever.

More than 2000 of the country’s finest student rowers will take to Lake Ruataniwha next week from more than 1500 crews.

Ashburton College have 11 students in action and will be

confident following some distinguished displays at the South Island Secondary Schools’ regatta at Ruataniwha last month, where Veronica Wall was again the local contingent’s standout performer.

Wall picked up a gold medal in the girls’ under-16 single sculls and also placed first in the girls’ under-17 single sculls.

The 16-year-old then climbed the age groups to snatch another

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gold in the girls’ under-18 single sculls with another fine performance.

She was more than 10 seconds quicker than second placed Hayley Kettings of Queen’s High School and almost 20 seconds faster than Avonside Girls’ High School’s Kendal Everest in third spot.

Wall then teamed up with Grace Wilson, Fran Connelly-Whyte,

Lara Biggs and Emma Jansen to add another gold in the girls’ under-18 coxed quad sculls.

Biggs and Jansen also medalled in the girls’ under-15 coxed quad sculls, taking out a silver with Emma Stagg, Katie Dolan and Mollie Gibson to round off an exceptional regatta for College.

Ashburton Rowing Club president Justin Wall said he has confidence in the College rowers ahead

of the Maadi Cup, but insisted there will be a higher level of competition.

“Coming out of the South Island Secondary Schools’ Championships we’d like to think we can get top- ten finishes,” he said.

“And I’d like to think we’d be favourites in some events.”

The Maadi Cup will begin at 8am on Monday and conclude on Sunday.

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■ GOLF

Birdies elusive for Ko

By Wynne Gray

Ashburton College student Ashlee Strawbridge has been given a late call-up to the New Zealand under-16 girls’ basketball squad.

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■ BASKETBALL

Perseverance pays off

By James Ford

James.F@TheGuardian.co.nz

Ashlee Strawbridge’s hopes of being selected to the New Zealand under-16 girls’ basketball squad looked to have been dashed when disaster struck in January.

Strawbridge strained her medial collateral ligament (MCL) on the second day of the Basketball New Zealand trials at Auckland’s Rangitoto College.

“I slipped in to the end of the wall and injured my knee.

“It took me out for the whole rest of it,” she said.

Strawbridge remained in the North Island for the remainder of the trial, confined to the stands and unable to influence the game she loves.

But her hard work and perseverance paid off earlier this week.

The 14-year-old received the call she had been longing for on

Wednesday evening from New Zealand under-16 girls’ coach Angela Perrott-Hunt.

With her knee fully healed, the Ashburton College student was asked to take the place of another injured power forward, and Strawbridge’s reaction was to be expected.

“I was really excited.

“I screamed, I was smiling all night and I couldn’t sleep,” she said.

Strawbridge, who trains with her College team three times each week and also plays in a summer development league in Christchurch, will now head to Auckland on April 18.

The basketball starlet will trial for a place in either the New Zealand under-16 team, or the New Zealand A side, but, regardless of which she is selected for, will be jetting across the Tasman to represent her country in June.

Lydia Ko battled her putter for much of her opening round 70 to start the ANA Inspiration major in California yesterday.

The teenage world No 1 birdied the last hole to be three shots adrift of early leader Ai Miyazato who was five under par around the Mission Hills country club course.

“My putting wasn’t very good,” Ko said.

“I gave myself a few good looks for birdies. There were some I put on the right line then it was a foot short or just short.”

Ko called it a solid start and hoped to sort out her speed on the greens for her afternoon tee time in the second round.

She was pleased not to be hounded with questions about record streaks as she was a year ago when she was challenging Annika Sorenstam’s consecutive run of sub-par rounds.

Ko ended 2015 with her debut major title in the Evian Championship and the ANA was the first of five majors the players would challenge this season.

“I’ve just got to have fun and that is the big key for me in any event, just enjoy to it.

“Sometimes I am going to have average days and those days I just laugh it off and go hey there’s another round it’s not the end of the world.”

Ko was one under after nine and repeated that on her second nine after a mixed collection of three birdies and two bogeys.

Other players nibbling at the lead are Catriona Matthew, LeeAnne Pace and Shiho Oyama who all shot four under par rounds of 68.

Defending champion Brittany Lincicome and the 2014 champion Levi Thompson have yet to tee off in their afternoon pairing.

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King James moves up the all-time scoring list LeBron James scored 24 points to move into 12th place on the NBA’s career scoring list as the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Brooklyn Nets 107-87 yesterday.

James passed Dominique Wilkins with a three-point play

in the first quarter. The fourtime MVP, who didn’t play in the fourth quarter, has 26,689 career points.

Kevin Love added 19 points for Cleveland (53-22), which leads Toronto by 2 1/2 games for the

top seed in the Eastern Conference.

Meanwhile Nikola Mirotic scored 28 points and Jimmy Butler added 21 to lead the Chicago Bulls past the Houston Rockets.

In a pivotal game for two teams fighting for the final playoff spots in their conferences, the Bulls were fuelled by a strong fourth quarter in which they outscored the Rockets 3220.

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Lydia Ko: Still in touch.

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■ TRIATHLON

An epic ride With Rio on the horizon, Methven triathlete Braden Currie reflects on his quest to gain qualification to the New Zealand Olympic triathlon team in an unprecedentedly short time frame.

I

t’s been 11 days since I raced Gisborne Oceania Champs.

That was my first opportunity to race ITU Olympic Distance Triathlon, I thought at the time it would probably be my last chance as well.

So I ended Gisborne feeling stoked that I had raced my own race and shown that I have enough talent to warrant at least trying to go down this path, but I was still gutted as I felt that it wasn’t a true representation of what I felt I was capable of. But at the same time, I also came to the ugly conclusion that I am not good enough to compete against the world’s best.

I started down this line as I didn’t want to have any regrets later on. I didn’t want to look back and think, I wonder if I might have been good enough to race triathlon.

After this race I realised that I was a long way off the pace.

To take four plus minutes off your run time over 10km is pretty tough and that is what I would need to do to be in medal contention at the Olympic Games.

I felt that on a good day and after having a bit of recovery and a solid few weeks training I could bridge the gap by a couple of minutes and maybe bring my 10km split down to 32 minutes, but the reality is that this is a very common number for elite triathletes globally and I was just going to be another 32 minute athlete.

I’m not sure if I could do more than that, and it’s likely now I won’t find the answer to that.

If I had started a year ago, then maybe I would have the answer.

But unfortunately the timing didn’t work out and I asked too much of Tri NZ to give me a start this time a year ago when coming into New Plymouth World Cup 2015.

I have no regrets about this process, I know I have become a better athlete mentally and physically.

The challenges that this style of racing has made me face should set me up well for the future.

I relate it to my first season racing in China and Mongolia four years ago. When you just feel so far out of your comfort zone and you really are on a fine balancing point of giving up and failing completely or you find some strength somewhere even though it’s been beaten out of you and you keep going.

The lifeline was thrown out to me again within a few hours of finishing Gis-

“

I won’t be able to hide behind anyone for this race, so I better leave it all out there

borne. Tri NZ decided I earned another chance and gave me a spot at New Plymouth.

I was prepared for this to be my last race, as I had already been informed that I didn’t have a chance of getting a start at Gold Coast World Series. Post Gold Coast there are only two other World Series events on offer, Cape Town on April 23 and Tokyo on May 16.

I had already decided that I couldn’t financially make it to Cape Town as I would have had to choose it over the Asia Pacific XTERRA Championships on the same day in Aussie.

This is one of the races that makes my career possible and I didn’t feel I could let that go.

Tokyo was a possibility, but I thought by that time, being everyone’s last chance that I would have been fighting it out with several others who had enough Olympic points to get a start.

So Sally (Braden’s wife and manager) being Sally, made a phone call and spelt it out, that it was Gold Coast or more than likely the writing was on the wall.

I didn’t think there was a chance of this, but a day later I was given a start.

It’s been a bit of a rollercoaster since then. I got sick, felt like crap and didn’t feel like I wanted to race anything. But I slowly climbed my way out of the dark black hole that I seem to find myself in once a year, and started to feel the love and started to get some perspective.

My gut feeling was that I should drop New Plymouth as I was still sick and didn’t think I had a chance of recovering well enough to have a blinder there, so we decided that I should just put it all out there and give everything to the Gold Coast World Series Race.

I know once I get there I will be excited but it still seems pretty daunting right now to race against the Brownlee brothers, Mola and the other 70 of the world’s best triathletes. But day by day I seem to get a little bit back and feel a little bit better and I have the faith that everything has unfolded exactly as it should have and that this is how it will either end, or how it will begin.

I am incredibly grateful to have had this opportunity. A lot of it was on our own backs, but we have had the support of sponsors, friends, other athletes and Tri NZ. Red Bull have made many of my dreams possible over the years and they really backed me

and believed that I could pull this off. It was pretty powerful to have a company that have so many incredible athletes, believe that I was capable of being an Olympic triathlete.

Subaru, Specialized, Flight Centre Sports and Events, Rhino Rack NZ and 2XU were also behind me 100 per cent and I know this is not easy, when someone goes from doing well in their given sport to changing sports and getting arguably smashed every weekend.

It’s been an epic ride and I can’t thank these guys enough.

And there is still one more to go, and who knows what might happen. My hope is that I feel on form in 10 days’ time and that I am able to have a race that represents my potential at this point in time, and that this might be good enough to prove to myself that I have what it takes to take this journey one step further.

Sally won’t have to worry about updating Gold Coast on social media as this one is live.

I think it’s the only race I have ever raced with complete live coverage. I won’t be able to hide behind anyone for this race, so I better leave it all out there.

Thanks everyone for all your support and I hope I can do NZ proud this time.

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■ RUGBY

Top-of-the-table clash

By GreGor Paul It’s early to be thinking about Super Rugby finalists and yet hard not to with the Chiefs playing the Brumbies this weekend.

Even just six weeks into the season, the game in Canberra today feels like it carries greater significance than most.

The Chiefs playing the Brumbies in Hamilton on August 6 ... it has to be a possibility.

There’s something about both teams that projects this sense of superiority – that they have the players, coaching calibre and resilience to be playing as well in July as they are now.

The Chiefs especially have found an edge and flow to their game which looks sustainable.

Their strategy of using Aaron Cruden and Damian McKenzie wherever they feel like it has given them decisive option taking at critical times.

Charlie Ngatai has matured into the best second-five in New Zealand and with halfbacks Brad Weber and Tawera Kerr-Barlow, they have the ability to adapt their game to any circumstance.

The forwards have shown themselves capable of fronting at the set piece and tackled ball and able to find a way to hang in there no matter what.

They have character and their

Damian McKenzie: Star performer for the Chiefs. victories in recent weeks have shown they also have the depth to weather even the most extreme injury crises.

As good as they have been so far, the Chiefs have the capacity

to get better and even when they don’t play well, they know how to dig out tight wins.

Much of that comes from the wisdom within their coaching group which understands the

need to plan, prepare, adapt strategically and rest and rotate players.

The Brumbies are much the same.

They have an equally adept and insightful coaching group and a forward pack that is challenging the widely held perception that Australian forwards can’t scrummage.

They have a deadly rolling maul, the ball-winning genius of David Pocock, the composure and defensive prowess of Matt Toomua and the power of Tevita Kuridrani which gives them weapons all over the field.

What happens in Canberra will be telling.

Can the Chiefs diffuse the influence of Pocock and Scott Fardy?

Can the Brumbies close down Cruden and McKenzie and push Ngatai into dead ends?

Can the Chiefs find a means to legally stop the Brumbies’ go-to option of driving at the lineout and how will their aspiring All Black hookers acquit themselves against Wallabies captain Stephen Moore? The answers will reveal plenty about the mental toughness and strategic intelligence of both teams.

Much will be learned about their respective abilities to deal with pressure and execute a wellrehearsed plan.

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Lions a big hurdle for touring Crusaders The title race in Super Rugby will do nothing if not intensify in the sixth round this weekend as the teams leave the first third of the regular season behind.

In one of the round’s influential matches, the Johannesburgbased Lions, who are third behind the Stormers and Sharks in South Africa, host the Crusaders, who are nipping at the heels of the leaders in Australasia.

“We are right on our toes in preparation for this game,” Crusaders assistant coach Brad Mooar said. “They shape as potentially being the strongest South African team in the competition.”

The winner of today’s ChiefsBrumbies match in Canberra may end the round in first place and stake a claim to being title favourites, though that distinction is also in the sights of defending champion the Highlanders who hosted the Western Force in Dunedin last night.

The Stormers lead the South African group and share with the Highlanders the second rung on the overall ladder, though their threat to first place is made latent by their sixth round bye.

One team will probably emerge from the weekend matches as a clear front-runner as each of the leading teams have cleared some of the more testing phases of the season.

The Chiefs have won in South

Africa, Argentina and New Zealand over the last three weeks and if they can win in Australia today, while still lacking as many as 12 frontline players through injury, they will have to be marked as title favorites.

Few teams from the Australasian group, which they lead by one point from the Highlanders and two points from the Brumbies, are likely to match the Chiefs’ achievement of a clean sheet from matches in South Africa and Argentina.

For the Chiefs, the worst of the season is already over.

From now on, they face away matches only against the Brumbies, New South Wales Waratahs and Queensland Reds in Australia and against fellow New Zealand teams.

The Brumbies have also put a South African tour behind them, losing their first match to the Stormers but winning their second against the Cheetahs to return to Canberra with a four-win, one-loss record.

They have matches remaining in New Zealand against the Highlanders and Auckland-based Blues but will otherwise see out the season with matches in Australia.

The Highlanders have won in Australia in each of the last two rounds, beating the Waratahs and the Rebels to extend their

Ryan Crotty winning streak to four matches.

The Highlanders still have their South African and South American excursion to come: they will play the Kings in Port Elizabeth in round 15 and the Jaguares in Buenos Aires a week later before hosting the Chiefs in the final round of the regular season.

That draw seems extremely favourable: the Kings are the weakest of the South African teams and the Jaguares are likely to be worn down by travel and injuries by the late stages of the regular season.

The Stormers won in Buenos Aires last week, ticking an important box and cementing first place in the South African group, two points ahead of the Sharks who also have a bye this week.

They have still to play the

Sunwolves in Tokyo, then face a late-season trip to Australia with winnable matches against the Melbourne Rebels and Force.

“The Chiefs are playing an amazing brand of rugby at the moment and hopefully we can keep up with that,” Brumbies center Matt Toomua said.

“It was nice to get away with the team (in South Africa) but now we’re back at home in our comfort zone and ready to get stuck in.”

Argentina’s Jaguares are already beginning to show the effects of one of the tournament’s most onerous travel schedules and have made nine changes for today’s match against the Blues in Auckland.

Scrumhalf Martin Landajo will take over the captaincy from Agustin Creevy.

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CRUSADERS David Havili, Johnny McNicholl, Kieron Fonotia, Ryan Crotty, Nemani Nadolo, Richie Mo’unga, Andy Ellis, Kieran Read (captain), Matt Todd, Jimmy Tupou, Scott Barrett, Luke Romano, Owen Franks, Codie Taylor, Wyatt Crockett. Reserves: Ben Funnell, Joe Moody, Mike Alaalatoa, Sam Whitelock, Jordan Taufua, Mitchell Drummond, Ben Volavola, Sean Wainui.

Injury fears allayed Fears that Wallabies and NSW Waratahs star Kurtley Beale could be sidelined for up to six weeks have been allayed by an encouraging update on his elbow injury. Beale has been ruled of tomorrow’s Super Rugby derby with the Melbourne Rebels at Allianz Stadium but coach Daryl Gibson is hopeful the star back will return for the next game in a fortnight after initially fearing much worse. It was thought Beale may have dislocated his elbow during a training mishap on Tuesday.

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First game for Francis Five games into the season, Blues coach Tana Umaga is still searching for his best backline. Midfielder Piers Francis is the latest to be given an opportunity as Umaga attempts to find the right formula to capitalise on the chances his team are making but can’t seem to finish off. Francis, named at second-five despite a lack of recent game time – he has played 100 minutes of club rugby over the past fortnight – is seen, alongside centre Rene Ranger, as the right man to add voice and organisation against the Jaguares at North Harbour Stadium today. It will be the 25-year-old Englishman’s first Super Rugby match.

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Pisi heading to Bristol Fledgling Super Rugby team the Sunwolves were dealt a big blow with news their Samoan flyhalf Tusi Pisi will leave Japan to join English club Bristol at the end of the season. Pisi, who had also played for Japan Top League side Suntory Sungoliath, was one of the few foreign internationals signed by the Sunwolves for their debut Super Rugby campaign, which has begun with four defeats. The 33-year-old, who has featured in 28 Tests for his country, has also played in New Zealand with the Hurricanes and Crusaders and in France with Toulon and was keen for a new challenge.

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Frosty fastest Reigning V8 Supercars champion Mark Winterbottom is the fastest man around the Symmons Plains circuit. The Prodrive Racing driver’s lap of 51.4225 seconds was good enough to beat the field around the windy Tasmanian track.

In a confidence boost for the team, Winterbottom’s teammate Cam Waters was second, followed by Jamie Whincup. The entire field finished within a second of each other.

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Azarenka into final In-form Victoria Azarenka has battled past an ailing but determined second seed Angelique Kerber 6-2 7-5 to set up a Miami Open final showdown against Svetlana Kuznetsova. The 13thseeded Belarusian gained revenge for a quarter-final loss to the German at the Australian Open, her only defeat of the season.

However she had to fight tooth and nail to earn it in a 94-minute tussle. Next up for the 26-yearold is Kuznetsova in the final, after the Russian held off a strong challenge from Switzerland’s Timea Bacsinszky 7-5 6-3 in searing afternoon heat.

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In brief Bullets target Pledger New Zealand centre Alex Pledger could be on the Brisbane Bullets’ radar. It is understood by The Courier-Mail that Pledger along with Boomers trio Adam Gibson, Brock Motum and Cameron Bairstow will be among the top targets for the returning Bullets franchise.

Pledger is a four-time champion with the New Zealand Breakers, winning three consecutive titles under current Boomers head coach Andrej Lemanis between 2011 and 2013. Departing Breakers manager Richard Clarke will also be part of the Brisbane set up next season.

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Behaviour unacceptable

Peter Trembath has taken on the head coaching role at Allenton Senior B for the 2016 season.

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■ RUGBY

Numbers up at Allenton

By James Ford

James.F@TheGuardian.co.nz

For the first time in recent memory, Allenton have players to spare and it’s brought a renewed sense of confidence to the club.

Peter Trembath will be at the helm this season and the 48-year-old believes his newlook Allenton side can go far beyond last season’s forgettable performances.

“We’ve had more players come in.

“We’d been struggling for a couple of years, numbers were very light,” he said.

New recruits have bolstered Trembath’s forward pack, with prop Koro Tangaroa bringing plenty of power to the front row, while some valuable stalwarts have returned.

“We’re rebuilding.

“It’s not easy, but we’ve got some exciting young players like Koro, he’s huge, exciting,” he said.

“We’d been struggling for props and we’ve got a few more this year and having that size is good.”

Trembath, who played for Allenton until a neck injury restricted him to the sidelines 25 years ago, has taken positives from his side’s preseason performances – a 12-12 stalemate against Geraldine and a 54-17 loss against Christchurch Colts.

“It’s been awesome, we’ve got a whole new game plan and if they stick to their guns they’ll be alright,” he said.

Returning Sam Lovett will skipper the side this season, taking on the responsibility from Paul Casey, while the likes of former

Mid Canterbury A-squad player Casey Moore will bring depth to the backs.

“Casey Moore and the Lovett boys, Sam and Stu, they’re huge at flanker.

“Sam will captain the side and Casey is vice-captain,” said Trembath.

“The Lovett boys have a lot of energy, they rip in to it and Paul Casey at halfback, he’s a good player.”

Allenton will kick off their Michael Duff Memorial Trophy campaign against Collegiate today, and Trembath is expecting a challenging outing.

“They’ll be strong and tough, they’ve got good backs as well,” he said.

“But I’m not worried about them, I’m worried about us.

“I think we’ve got the power in the forwards this year, we’ll be dominant up front.”

With the days of last-minute calls to ensure they have 15 on the paddock seemingly behind them, Trembath insisted the players will have to earn their jersey this season.

“We only had 13 players last year.

“We were ringing guys asking if they wanted to sling some boots on, we want to keep the new guys here now,” he said.

“They’ve got to earn their stripes.

“It’s good having the numbers because it brings competition and if they think they’re just going to get a game every week they’re dreaming, you’ve got to come to trainings.”

■ RUGBY LEAGUE

Tuivasa-Sheck up for Roosters challenge By roBert Lowe The banter has started ahead of a red-letter NRL match for Roger Tuivasa-Sheck.

A headline signing for the Warriors, the star fullback will face his former club, the Sydney Roosters, for the first time on Sunday.

Tuivasa-Sheck says there’s been a bit of friendly chat with some ex-teammates.

“I’ve just been talking with Dylan Napa, just saying if I don’t step him, he won’t hit me, so that’s our deal there,” he said.

“We’re always supporting each other, but at game time, out of re-

spect, we’re just going to go hard out and play 100 per cent.”

Tuivasa-Sheck says he’s excited at getting to meet the Roosters as early as round five.

But he’s also aiming to block out who the opponents are when kick-off comes around in Gosford.

“I’ll look across the field and see a lot of my friends and the other boys that I learnt off and got my success through,” he said.

“But I’m with a new team now and I’m proud I’m a Warrior, and I’ll go over there and put on my best performance for my new club.”

Roger Tuivasa-Sheck Tuivasa-Sheck’s departure has left a hole at the Roosters, minor premiers for the third successive season last year, but who are bot-

tom of the table with an 0-4 record.

In 2015, the 22-year-old 11Test Kiwi broke the NRL record for metres run in a season with more then 5000m.

He has reached 200m or more in each of the first four rounds of 2016 for a competition-leading total of 854m.

“I wasn’t too happy with the way I started off the season, but I’m getting there,” he said.

“Our combos are coming together. I’m just happy to see that some of our stuff works.

“If we keep at it, we can improve more.”

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Warriors coach Andrew McFadden has described Issac Luke’s prickly demeanor while talking to media on Thursday as “unacceptable behaviour” and expressed his disappointment with the No9’s early season form while staunchly defending his commitment to the club.

Luke was in no mood to answer questions over his below par performances and could only muster two one-word denials when asked

by Radio Sport’s veteran league reporter Allen McLaughlin if injury or attitude were factors in his lack of involvement on attack.

McFadden was disappointed with Luke’s abrasive attitude and admitted the club’s marquee signing had arrived at the club in poor condition.

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Sharks line up Tigers Boosted by the return of skipper and chief enforcer Paul Gallen, Cronulla have flagged their intentions to smash Wests Tigers off the park at Campbelltown Stadium today. Coach Shane Flanagan says Gallen is a certainty to play after overcoming the knee injury which sidelined him from the last three NRL rounds. Gallen was close to making a comeback in Monday’s 14-6 win over Melbourne which has given Flanagan and his troops a blueprint to work off for the rest of the year.

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Seeking perfection The last kick by Anthony Milford may have been a gem. But Wayne Bennett is still seeking perfection from the boot of his halves, admitting Brisbane’s kicking options were a “nightmare” upon his return to the NRL club. Milford will go down in folklore as the man who slotted the golden point 40m field goal that sunk North Queensland in last round’s epic grand final re-match.

However, Bennett has demanded more from the boot of Milford and halves partner Ben Hunt this year as he tries to fix the one glaring chink in their armour.

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Souths win a thriller South Sydney have snuck home on the back of a try double to Cameron McInnes for a 16-12 win over Manly at Brookvale Oval on Thursday night. In an entertaining match to open the NRL’s fifth round, Souths totally dominated the opening exchanges to jump out to a 16-0 lead, before finishing off the game with their defence against a resurgent Sea Eagles.

The Sea Eagles enjoyed the best of field position for the final 20 minutes but couldn’t land the killer blow.

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In brief Hatton appealing North Shore paddler Teneale Hatton is taking her fight for Olympic selection to the Sports Tribunal. Hatton was overlooked for selection in the canoe sprint team for Rio, with reigning Olympic champion Lisa Carrington earning the nod in both the K1 200m and 500m events, while the selectors opted for the established group of Jaimee Lovett, Caitlin Ryan, Aimee Fisher and Kayla Imrie in the K4.

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Back on the bike BMX rider Sarah Walker has clicked off a few sedate laps of the carpark as she heads towards what she hopes will be an all-clear verdict on her broken arm. She was back on the pedals yesterday for the first time since breaking her arm five weeks ago and putting some uncertainty around her World Championship and Olympic dreams. “I was pretty nervous but also very excited, I was 99 per cent sure it would be okay,” Walker said.

- NZME Superstar in action: Sophie Pascoe in the Women’s 50m LC Backstroke Para, during Session 1 of the Swimming New Zealand 2016 NZ Open Championships, held at Sir Owen G Glenn National Aquatic Centre in Auckland this week.

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■ SWIMMING

Snyders stamps Rio claims

BY DANA JOHANNSEN Good things have come in threes for Glenn Snyders this week.

The US-based swimmer completed the full trifecta of breaststroke titles at the national championships this week, and capped off his meet by joining a select group of New Zealand swimmers in qualifying for his third Olympic Games.

Dean Kent and Helen Norfolk are the only two Kiwi swimmers to have attended three Olympics.

Come August in Rio, Snyders and Lauren Boyle will add their names to the list.

The weight of the achievement was not lost on Snyders, who returned from his training base in California to compete in this week’s nationals.

“I think it shows my determination and perseverance over the past 15 years.

“I made my first team in 2005 and basically haven’t missed a team since, so it is something very special,” he said.

Earlier in the evening session Matt Stanley added a second event to his Olympic programme when he blitzed the qualifying standard in the 400m free.

The other big swim saw twotime Paralympian Sophie Pascoe produce the first world record swim in the newly-opened National Aquatic Centre on Auckland’s North Shore.

Pascoe blitzed her own 100m butterfly world record by over a second to add to her healthy collection of titles from the week.

Pascoe’s time of 1:02.60 would have placed her sixth in the ablebodied final earlier in the week.

Having been chasing a time in the low 1:03 range, Pascoe said her time was a pleasant surprise.

“I think it just goes to show how determined I was to have a good nationals.

“Everyone is wanting to make a statement at this time of year and prove to their competitors they are on form, so for me to do that tonight is amazing,” said Pascoe.

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■ OPINION

Shortage of silverware from our cricketers S o we lost.

Again.

Both men’s and women’s teams, both favoured to give the title a very good nudge, both bundled out in the semi-finals.

Does that mean we really are the chokers of world cricket?

It is true there’s very little silverware in the cabinet – was that Champions Trophy win really 16 years ago? – but this is T20, a whole new ball game.

Anything can happen in any game; a cameo couple of overs by a batsman or a bowler can wildly change a match’s fortune, as we’ve seen several times over this tournament.

Supreme case in point is Ben Stokes’ bowling in the semi-final.

The Christchurch-born fastmedium paceman was nowhere near England’s best, but the figures say he took three wickets, which is game-winning mate-

rial right there.

Trouble is, each of those three wicket-taking balls were atrocious, and should have been dispatched way, way over the rope.

You would think Warner, de Villiers, Kohli or Gayle would have smashed them out of the park with glee.

But such is the nature and different pressures of T20, and in the cauldron of a semi-final our middle order fellas meekly surrendered instead of belting out a support role for the top order, who with 15, 32, 46 and 28 had laid enough of a platform for them to perform.

England won because two batsmen turned up on the day, and clouted our much-vaunted spin attack all over the park.

It’s too easy to say leaving Boult and Southee, proven top-level performers, out of

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every match was a big mistake; the powers that be selected what they thought was the best line-up for each occasion, but it would have been nice to see if they could have made a difference.

Perhaps not, if it’s your day it’s your day in this form of the game, and if you don’t capitalise on your best bits (Guptill didn’t fire, and while Munro is billed as Brendon McCullum’s replacement, he has to score 80s instead of 40s to take on that mantle) then you’re going to lose the big ones.

And that’s what we keep doing.

The White Ferns were off the pace for their entire run chase against the Windies girls, but again, in keeping with the bizarre nature of this game, they still had a chance in the last over.

Despite the ability to hit over, or even to, the fence having mysteriously deserted them, their opposition seemed intent on keeping them in the game.

Suddenly the Windies’ fielding was horrible, pinpoint throws became ‘girlie’ lobs, there were two no-balls and easy runouts were missed – all in the first four balls.

It looked as if they collectively had a huge bet that the game would go down to the last two balls.

But somehow they staggered over the line, and the Ferns joined the Caps in the ‘what if’ column - again.

Alonso ruled out McLaren’s Fernando Alonso failed a medical and was ruled out of the Bahrain Grand Prix yesterday with the after-effects of a huge crash in Australia, paving the way for Belgian reserve Stoffel Vandoorne to make his Formula One debut.

The governing International Automobile Federation said in a statement that it had been decided the Spaniard could not take part in Monday’s race after an examination at the Sakhir circuit.

- AP

Hoy racing Le Mans Six-times Olympic cycling gold medallist Chris Hoy is gearing up for his biggest thrill on four wheels after announcing his entry with Nissan in this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours sportscar race. The 40-yearold Scot will drive a Nissan-powered Ligier in the second tier LMP2 category at the French endurance classic in June. “In motorsports terms it’s everything. The 24 Hours of Le Mans is the pinnacle for me. It’s what I’ve been working for over the past three years,” said Britain’s most successful Olympian.

- Reuters

Banned for biting A French forward for English club Leeds has been banned for eight matches for biting an opponent during a game in the secondtier League Championship. The English Football Association said Souleymane Doukara was given the long ban because of the “seriousness and both unusual and violent nature of the misconduct.”

Doukara had denied a charge of violent conduct. The incident occurred during Leeds’ match against Fulham at Elland Road on February 23.

- Reuters

Spurs still in it Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino insists seven teams still have a chance to win the Premier League this season, dismissing suggestions the title battle has become a two-horse race between his side and Leicester City. Spurs, who visit Liverpool overnight, are five points behind Claudio Ranieri’s Foxes who lead the way with seven games remaining. - AP

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■ CRICKET

Windies crash Indians’ party

Collegiate’s Eddie Galbraith, Elaine Vallender, Gretchen Ross, Charlie Quinlan and Jackson and Eleanor Ross with the $1000 cheque donated to Ashburton St John on Tuesday.

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Collegiate funds go to good causes

By James Ford

James.F@TheGuardian.co.nz

St John and the Glenmark Rugby Club have received generous donations from the Collegiate Rugby Club following last year’s successful fundraiser.

Collegiate raised more than $10,000, with around 380 people attending an evening that

featured guest speakers and an auction at the Ashburton Racecourse in December.

Boxer Shane Cameron, former rugby coach and All Blacks skipper Buck Shelford, netball coach Tania Dearn and sports management identity Phil Kingsley Jones entertained the audience.

Among the auction items was an All Blacks jersey signed by Richie McCaw, which saw fierce bidding, particularly between two punters, ultimately fetching a price of $3000.

A $1000 cheque was presented to Ashburton St John on Tuesday and $250 donated to Glenmark following last Sep-

tember’s blaze that destroyed the 90-year-old club rooms.

Collegiate’s Jarrod Ross said it was important to give back to St John and support a fellow rugby club in a time of need.

“St John do such a wonderful job for the rugby community, so we thought we’d donate to them,” he said.

Lendl Simmons hit an unbeaten 82 off 51 balls as West Indies recorded a convincing seven-wicket victory against favourite India in the second semi-final of the World Twenty20 tournament yesterday.

Simmons, who joined up with West Indies only after Andre Fletcher was injured in the last group match, was twice caught off no-balls but smacked seven fours and five sixes to guide his team to 196-3 in 19.4 overs.

India had relied on Virat Kohli’s unbeaten 92 off 47 balls - his third unbeaten half century in the tournament – to score 192-2 but Simmons and Johnson Charles (52) took up the charge in a disciplined run-chase after Chris Gayle was dismissed in the second over.

West Indies, which won the 2012 tournament, will now take on England in the final at Kolkata on Sunday.

Simmons showed his experience of playing for Mumbai Indians in the IPL at Wankhede Stadium by sharing 97 runs with Charles and then a splendid 80 off just 39 balls with Andre Russell, who remained unbeaten on 43.

Kohli dismissed Charles off his first delivery to make it 116-2 in the 14th over but Russell continued to dominate the Indian bowling to the disappointment of 32,000 home fans, mostly wearing the Indian blue shirts.

“We knew it was going to be a massive step, against a very good India team, but we knew halfway they were 10 runs short,” said captain Darren Sammy, who won his fifth successive toss in the tournament and opted to field.

“Everyone said Chris (Gayle) is under pressure but I said it, we have 15 match-winners and today Charles, Simmons and Russell took that responsibility.” - AP

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White Ferns bundled out of T20

Rachel Priest is comprehensively bowled in the T20 semi-final loss to the West Indies yesterday.

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The West Indies have shocked tournament favourites New Zealand to book their spot in Sunday’s women’s World Twenty20 final and face four-time winners Australia.

Skipper Stefanie Taylor led from the front for her side, taking three wickets and scoring 25 as the Windies defended a score of 6-143 as the White Ferns finished at 8-137 in Mumbai.

The Kiwis entered the match unbeaten after the group stages and looked well on course for victory after Sara McGlashan (38) and Amy Satterthwaite (24) put on 59 for the fourth wicket.

However, the pair fell in successive balls from Taylor in the 17th over and New Zealand’s lower order were unable to guide their team to victory.

West Indies opener Britney

Cooper smashed a superb 61 off 48 balls after New Zealand skipper Suzie Bates won the toss and elected to field.

The tall Cooper smashed five fours and two sixes both off consecutive deliveries from Leigh Kasperek to lend momentum to the West Indies innings.

Cooper and Taylor put on 60 for the second wicket after opener Hayley Matthews had fallen for 16 in the third over.

The West Indies were sailing at 1-78 but the dismissal of Taylor in the 12th over triggered a meltdown that saw New Zealand concede just 65 runs and claim five wickets in the final eight overs.

Seamer Sophie Devine starred in the collapse with 4-22 runs, with Morna Nielsen taking 1-14.

New Zealand raced to 1-43 in re-

ply before losing key batters Bates (12) and Devine (22), in the seventh over.

Taylor was unable to conceal her delight at reaching the final.

“We’ve been waiting for this for a long time and it really feels great to have made the final,” she said.

“I do think we can win it if we are consistent enough. We can definitely pull it off.”

Bates said her team was simply beaten by the better side on the day.

“Credit to the West Indies for the way they came out hitting with the bat and Cooper’s innings was amazing,” she said.

“It has been an outstanding tournament for us, but we were on the wrong side of a very good performance by the West Indies today.”

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In brief

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Stable spread far and wide Andrew Forsman admits he will have to have his wits about him just to keep up with stable runners at four venues today.

Forsman, who trains in partnership with Murray Baker at Cambridge, will monitor gallopers competing at Awapuni, Riccarton, Ellerslie and Randwick, most of which are going into their races with strong chances.

In Sydney, Turn Me Loose tackles the Gr.1 $A3 million Doncaster Mile, again clashing with glamour mare Winx.

“The team in Sydney are happy with him.

“He’s not very well off at the weights compared to some of the others but he wasn’t in the Emirates Stakes in the spring either and he still won that, so we’ll just have to wait and hope,” Forsman said.

“He’s capable of winning on his day but it’s just whether things go his way.

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“He’s got an awkward draw so he’ll need to work across without overdoing it, which was his undoing the other day, but getting back up to 1600m helps.

“Winx is obviously very special.

“She went to another level in the George Ryder and if she repeats her run that day, she’s going to be very hard to beat again.”

At Awapuni, the BakerForsman pair contesting the Gr.1 Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes are impressive last-start Trentham winner Luna Rossa and Saracino, who finished second on debut in the Gr.3 Taranaki 2yo Stakes and was a meritorious last-start fifth in the Gr.1 Diamond Stakes at Ellerslie.

“It was never really on the radar for Luna Rossa but the race we did have in mind for her [the Listed Champagne Stakes] wasn’t till May 7 at Riccarton,” Forsman said.

“That was a long way off and

she came through the Trentham race well and it’s a decent chance of a crack at black-type for a filly.

“It’s an even field and she’s in with a chance.

“We thought at $21, Saracino was over the odds, considering he was only two lengths off winning a Group One at just his second start.

“The barrier draw is against him but he’s a high-class horse and it will come down to the run he gets as to how he goes.”

Forsman expects Maygrove to figure in the finish of the Gr.2 Kamada Park Awapuni Gold Cup (2000m) but warned he might be one run off his peak, which should coincide with next month’s Gr.3 Hawke’s Bay Gold Cup (2200m) at Hastings.

Last-start maiden winner Twilight Rebel is on trial for a tilt at the Listed Warstep Stakes (2000m) at Riccarton on April 23 when she tackles the Gr.3 Hig-

gins Concrete Manawatu Classic, while Rating 75 entry Lady Kalimara rounds out the stable representation at Awapuni.

At Ellerslie, in-form mare Nailed It looks for her third straight win, while impressive trial winner Onstage makes her debut in the Ginde 2yo (1300m).

At Riccarton, Group One performer Charmont tackles the Gr.3 Valachi Downs South Island Breeders’ Stakes (1600m) after dashing home for a smart second-up win at Trentham earlier this month.

“That was her back to her best.

“While it was only her second win, she’s always been thereabouts in some pretty good fields.

“They are all good mares in Saturday’s race and she brings different formlines so it’s hard to assess her but we’re expecting her to measure up pretty well,” Forsman said.

- NZME

Monbet sale falls over One of the richest deals in New Zealand trotting history has fallen through, meaning freak trotter Monbet will be staying put. The four-year-old was under offer this week for huge money, understood to be well over $500,000, but the sale has not gone through. Trainer Greg Hope, who owns the majority share in Monbet with his wife Nina, confirmed the gelding was for sale but he did not pass the pre-sale veterinary examination to the satisfaction of his proposed new owners. “Sure, the money would have been great but we are happy to be hanging on to him.” - HRNZ

Keeping top company New Zealand-breds Rising Romance and Werther have been selected to run in the Gr.1 Audemars Piquet QEII Cup at Sha Tin on April 24.

They are among a world class invitational line-up that will also feature the dual Group One Japanese winner Lovely Day and the premier European duo of Highland Reel and Dariyan. Rising Romance will attempt to better the third placed effort of her Kiwi-bred stablemate Criterion 12 months ago.

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Manawatu gallops Today at Awapuni Raceway

Manawatu RC Venue: Awapuni Meeting Date: 2 Apr 2016 NZ Meeting number: 4 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9 1 12.53pm FASTTRACK INSURANCE/HONG KONG JC TROPHY R85 $30,000, Rating 85 Benchmark, 1600m 1 41221 Postboy 60 ................................... Scratched 2 75x44 Loves The Show (7) 59 .................M McNab 3 15120 China Star tdh (4) 57.5................ R Hannam 4 61285 Diamantine td (9) 57.5 ................ C Johnson 5 253x8 Shezgorgeous m (5) 57.5 .............. J Parkes 6 17447 Kolonel Kev tdh (8) 57 .....................J Riddell 7 55442 Zorrali tm (3) 55 ..........................C Lammas 8 57814 Wiggle tdmh (2) 54.5....................... S Spratt 9 70793 On The Hill (6) 54 ..............R Goldsbury (a2) 10 86231 Wait A Sec d (1) 54 .......................L Allpress 2 1.28 KEVIN O’CONNOR & ASSOCIATES PREMIER R65 1600 $30,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 42125 Bullspur (10) 60..................................M Hills 2 32342 Chop Suey b (6) 60 .....................C Lammas 3 2263x King Of Rock (2) 59.5 .......R Goldsbury (a2) 4 20913 Thane t (7) 59.5 .................. M Dravitzki (a1) 5 52x21 Captain Lincoln h (11) 59 ................J Riddell 6 09262 Porotene Magnum (5) 58.5 ...........L Allpress 7 5x7L2 Angelica Rox (3) 57.5..................... J Parkes 8 83044 Keep Us Happy d (9) 56.............L Hemi (a2) 9 09768 Abbey Road h (12) 56 ................. R Hannam 10 806x4 Caulfield d (1) 56......................... C Johnson 11 42785 Kingofplatinum h (4) 56 .................D Bradley 12 26456 Kalinga h (8) 55.............................M Tanaka 3 2.03pm THE OAKS STUD 3YO PREMIER SW+P 1200 $30,000, 3YO SW+P, 1200m 1 86513 Platinum Express tdh (6) 57.5..... R Hannam 2 63212 Eprouvez (3) 57.5...................... M D Plessis 3 41682 Flying Quest tdh (5) 57.5 ...........M Cameron 4 713. Steppenwolf (2) 57.5 .......................J Riddell 5 x137x The Czar dh (9) 57.5 ...................... J Parkes 6 6x481 Eight Points d (7) 56.5...................M McNab

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7 Freddy Lad (1) 56..........................D Bradley 8 21292 Volks Lightning (4) 55.5..............M Coleman 9 21867 Precision Miss (8) 55.5 .................L Allpress 4 2.38 HIGGINS MANAWATU CLASSIC 3Y0 $70,000, 3YO SW, 2000m 1 9F421 The Justice League 56.5.............. Scratched 2 21231 Beefeater th (17) 56.5 ....................H Tinsley 3 57212 Five To Midnight tmh (3) 56.5 ........D Bradley 4 41642 In Another Life (15) 56.5 ............. C Johnson 5 31510 Ringmaster (13) 56.5 .................M Coleman 6 68236 Midnight Flyer (7) 56.5 ................ R Hannam 7 94321 Boxachocolates h (10) 56.5 ..........L Allpress 8 2120 Humidor (11) 56.5 ..................... M D Plessis 9 23421 Johnny Lincoln h (1) 56.5................J Riddell 10 72186 Rock On bh (8) 56.5........................ S Spratt 11 10923 Maritimo (9) 54.5 ............................ J Parkes 12 42139 All In Vogue (2) 54.5...........................M Hills 13 11 Romantic Maid (5) 54.5.................M McNab 14 1x61 Estimate (6) 54.5.........................C Lammas 15 70421 Twilight Rebel d (14) 54.5 ..........M Cameron 16 23210 Piece Of Kate (16) 54.5 ...............L Hemi (a) 17 68222 All The Raaj (12) 56.5 18 02293 Zbeauty b (4) 54.5 Emergencies: All The Raaj, Zbeauty 5 3.13pm RICOH PREMIER RATING 75 1400 $30,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1400m 1 006x5 Brave Kat dm (13) 60 ..................... J Parkes 2 358x0 Southern Icon d (7) 60 .......................M Hills 3 33145 Wheeler Fortune d (8) 58 .......... M D Plessis 4 16807 Castup dh (6) 57 ............................. S Spratt 5 0563x Maitre Du Jeu tdmh (2) 57 ..............J Riddell 6 75110 Catalina De Lago tdbh (3) 56.5 ..M Coleman 7 52443 Endure t (9) 56.5 ...........................L Allpress 8 x126x Sonsy d (4) 56...............................M McNab 9 02106 Platinum Balos tdh (12) 55.5.........D Bradley 10 34331 Slimline tmh (11) 55.5 .......R Goldsbury (a2) 11 27217 Miss Daisy d (5) 55 ............. M Dravitzki (a1)

12 74610 La Adelita tdh (10) 54.5.................M Tanaka 13 90x33 Steel Rose (1) 54.5 ..................... C Johnson 6 3.48pm COURTESY FORD MANAWATU SIRES’ PRODUCE STAKES $225,000, 2YO SW, 1400m 1 111 Heroic Valour (2) 56.5 .....................J Riddell 2 212 Wyndspelle (6) 56.5 .................. M D Plessis 3 25 Saracino (10) 56.5 ......................... J Parkes 4 7163 Leading Role h (3) 56.5 .............. C Johnson 5 41 My Paisann (1) 56.5 ...................M Coleman 6 71446 Just You h (4) 56.5....................... R Hannam 7 2 Sicario b (12) 56.5..........................H Tinsley 8 21373 O’Rachael (11) 54.5 ........................ S Spratt 9 421. Gold Rush (9) 54.5.......................... C Grylls 10 11x26 Sassy ‘N’ Smart (5) 54.5 ............M Cameron 11 51 Karavali h (8) 54.5 .........................M McNab 12 2351 Luna Rossa (7) 54.5 .....................L Allpress 13 25 Shenandoah 54.5......................... Scratched 7 4.23pm FAIRDALE/GOODWOOD STUDS FLYING OPEN HANDICAP $50,000, OPN HCP, 1400m 1 20133 Scapolo dmb (4) 61.........................J Riddell 2 11141 Overtheriver td (9) 59 .....................H Tinsley 3 90109 Nashville tdm (6) 56.5 ........... M Dravitzki (a) 4 71121 Seize The Moment d (10) 55.5......M McNab 5 280x0 Perfect Start tm (1) 53 .................C Lammas 6 004x0 Designated Driver m (5) 53 ......... R Hannam 7 54685 Miss Foxwood d (7) 53 ...............M Coleman 8 21146 Mabeel d (12) 53 ............................. S Spratt 9 07448 Better Keeper d (2) 53...................L Allpress 10 x1212 Snapshot db (13) 53 ....................... C Grylls 11 978x6 Britt Ekland d (8) 53 ...........................M Hills 12 30920 Cassie Anne dm (11) 53 ........... M D Plessis 13 16143 Miss Benci tdh (3) 53 ...................L Hemi (a) 8 5.00 KAMADA PARK AWAPUNI GOLD CUP $100,000, OPN-SW&P, 2000m 1 00x22 Maygrove td (9) 57 .....................M Cameron 2 06662 Just The Tip t (4) 56 ...........................M Hills 3 36530 Benzini d (3) 55.5 ..........................L Allpress

2 14256 Trojan Warrior 59.5....................... Scratched 3 33601 Jacksstar tmh (4) 57.5.................C Lammas 4 08851 Keilib t (17) 57.5 ............................M McNab 5 11632 Balham d (10) 57 ...................... M D Plessis 6 13511 Stylish Attack (2) 56.5 ................M Coleman 7 09073 Nothing Trivial d (6) 56.5 ...............M Tanaka 8 x0661 O’Ceirins Whisper d (1) 56.5 .........L Allpress 9 24x10 Cool Hand Duke d (9) 56 ............... J Parkes 10 00142 Heistheone d (15) 56 .................. C Johnson 11 05712 Lady Kalimara d (11) 55.............M Cameron 12 44612 Texas Yellow Rose (3) 55 .................K Smith 13 73382 King Nero m (16) 55............ M Dravitzki (a1) 14 43147 Hot Spot th (12) 54.5..................L Hemi (a2) 15 51710 Jonquil dh (14) 54.5 .................. D Hirini (a3) 16 04525 Irish Chat d (8) 54 .........................D Bradley Masa Tanaka will be aboard Savaria 17 16635 Victoryshallbemine dm (13) 54 ....... C Grylls in the $100,000 Kamada Park Awa- 18 71530 Porotene Diva 54 ......................... Scratched 19 41491 Let’s tmh (7) 54 ..................... H Andrew (a4) puni Gold Cup at Awapuni today 20 24237 Savarhys t (18) 54.5 4 24349 Authentic Paddy tdmh (12) 55..... R Hannam 21 10774 Douro (5) 55 5 84247 Silverdale tm (2) 55 .......................D Bradley Emergencies: Victoryshallbemine, Porotene Diva, Let’s, Sa6 23926 King Kamada h (15) 55 ................... C Grylls varhys, Douro 7 10046 King Krovanh td (1) 55 .......... M Dravitzki (a) Blinkers on: Chop Suey (R2), Rock On (R4), Just You, Si8 65185 Guess What d (10) 55 ................. C Johnson cario (R6), Savaria (R8) Blinkers off: On The Hill (R1), King 9 73406 Breaking Dawn (14) 55 ......................L Tiley Of Rock (R2), The Czar (R3) Winkers on: King Of Rock (R2) 10 01711 Nymph Monte t (6) 55 ................M Coleman Winkers off: Rock On (R4) Pacifiers on: In Another Life (R4) 11 38931 Sanasar (13) 55 ..........................C Lammas SELECTIONS 12 91123 Heavens Keep tbh (11) 55 ............. J Parkes 13 73225 Kairanga Lad t (8) 55 ....................M McNab Race 1: Zorrali, Kolonel Kev, Shezgorgeous, Diamantine 14 71856 Savaria th (17) 54.5.......................M Tanaka Race 2: Bullspur, Angelica Rox, Captain Lincoln, Thane Race 3: Volks Lightning, Steppenwolf, Flying Quest, Eprouvez 15 20125 Thee Auld Floozie (16) 53.5 16 32211 Chenille d (5) 53........................ M D Plessis Race 4: Romantic Maid, Humidor, Beefeater, Maritimo 17 14256 Trojan Warrior db (7) 55 .................. S Spratt Race 5: Endure, Sonsy, Wheeler Fortune, Maitre Du Jeu Emergency: Trojan Warrior Race 6: Leading Role, Sassy ‘N’ Smart, Luna Rossa 9 5.40pm CAFE CUBA PREMIER RATING 75 2100 Race 7: Seize The Moment, Mabeel, Scapolo, Miss Foxwood $30,000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 2100m Race 8: Authentic Paddy, Chenille, Savaria, Benzini 1 475x6 Bachelor Zeel 60 .......................... Scratched Race 9: Heistheone, Lady Kalimara, Jacksstar, Stylish Attack

Auckland dogs Tomorrow at Manukau Raceway

Auckland Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Manukau Sta- 2 33538 Scott No Show nwtd B & .................... Steele dium Meeting Date: 03 Apr 2016 NZ Meeting number: 3 65537 Uno Marcus nwtd B & ........................ Steele 3 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 4 45436 Scott Tied Up nwtd ...........................T Agent 11; 12 and 13 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 5 2 Fabrelee nwtd ...................................S Ross 11, 12 and 13 6 3 Fantastic Ricki nwtd ...................D Schofield 7 64356 Bit Ruby nwtd R & .......................N O’Regan 1 2.34pm STITCHES UPHOLSTERY SERIES HEAT 1 8 1 Jump Up 18.52............................. H Mullane C4q, 318m 9 58446 Take Action nwtd .........................B Littlejohn 1 53252 Exponential Lily 18.44 ......................L Ahern 2 84284 Festival Miss 18.36 .................... G Pomeroy 10 67657 Semi Automatic nwtd R & ...........N O’Regan 3 11118 Pat Not Plait nwtd...........................P Henley 4 3.27 DELI’S SPORTS BAR CLENDON INN SPRINT 4 67155 Semantics nwtd R &....................N O’Regan C1/2, 318m 1 55545 Rasso 18.33 ......................................B Craik 5 17271 Cyclone Lusi 18.62 U & ....................Cottam 2 78674 Jinja Fantasy 18.62 W & .................T Steele 6 11877 Lucky Man nwtd ................................B Craik 3 65284 Rotovegas Sparky 18.55 ..............R McPhee 7 15475 Good Return 18.36 ....................D Schofield 4 41678 Mockingjay 18.54 ..............................B Craik 8 46762 Talkin Fancy 18.59 .....................D Schofield 5 15711 Kit And Caboodle 18.52 .............D Schofield 9 24758 Zipping Steve 18.41 ...................D Schofield 6 68317 Gully Flaherty 18.67 G & ................ J Clarke 10 75566 Skyler White 18.60 ............................B Craik 2 2.52pm STITCHES UPHOLSTERY SERIES HEAT 2 7 17787 Miss Universe 18.44 R &.............N O’Regan 8 26632 Our Jack Attack 18.62 .................. M J Lozell C4q, 318m 9 75678 Trident 18.72 B & ............................... Steele 1 63571 Baymax 18.50 ...................................B Craik 2 65413 Tongariro 18.55 G & ........................ J Clarke 10 x5678 Knocka Sloy 18.92 G & .....................M Hunt 3 x8xF2 Aniu nwtd ....................................... G Farrell 5 3.45pm GREYHOUNDS AS PETS SPRINT C1, 318m 1 68476 Zulu Mercedes 18.69 .......................M Black 4 42383 Fresco Star 18.55........................B Littlejohn 2 4F348 Tepirita Amber 18.58 R & ............N O’Regan 5 36448 Thrilling Galaxy 18.49 U & ................Cottam 3 14264 Ekali nwtd....................................... G Farrell 6 67138 Rockin’ Fancy 18.57 ...................D Schofield 4 67373 Snapchat 18.30 .................................B Craik 7 31246 Atoonga Air 18.45 ........................... T Green 5 33788 Wobourn Abbey 18.64 ....................P Green 8 x6258 Mia Zorra 18.55................................ S Clark 6 14 Nadzeya nwtd ..................................L Ahern 9 24758 Zipping Steve 18.41 ...................D Schofield 7 32328 Vee Veery Lovely nwtd G & ............. J Clarke 10 75566 Skyler White 18.60 ............................B Craik 3 3.09pm TROPHIES PLUS SERIES FINAL C0f, 318m 8 36753 Asta 18.75 .....................................A Cleaver 9 35677 Kapai Lana 18.87 U & ...........................Bliek 1 5 Mr. Fuss Pot nwtd........................B Littlejohn

7 67786 Zalia 30.85 W &...............................T Steele 8 45457 Jinja Mia nwtd W &..........................T Steele 9 64857 Plenty Of Time nwtd R & .............N O’Regan 1 38248 More Salt Needed 18.69 R & ......N O’Regan 2 41346 Agent Schrader 18.56 .......................B Craik 9 4.55 JACK’S WHOLESALE MEATS SPRINT C5, 318m 1 41471 Umaga Rama 18.61 B & .................... Steele 3 87x67 Multi Chaser 18.50 .......................... T Green 2 67137 Up High 18.47 ................................ P Lowen 4 x2111 Zafonic Sound 18.48 ..................D Schofield 3 36751 Britney Star 18.50 U & ..........................Bliek 5 75654 Looks All Good 18.41 W & ..............T Steele 4 31128 Yeboah 18.05 ................................... S Clark 6 82146 Winsome Dan nwtd ....................D Schofield 5 52121 Whisper Magic 18.47 ......................P Green 7 25585 Drury 18.41 ...................................A Cleaver 6 11211 Nangar Star 18.05......................D Schofield 8 66513 Lady Jane 18.72 B &.......................... Steele 7 78328 Made Time 18.31 ..............................B Bond 9 75678 Trident 18.72 B & ............................... Steele 8 12211 Subic Bay 17.99 ...............................L Ahern 10 77x68 Wild Falcon 18.74 .........................K Herbert 7 4.20pm MTA GIFT VOUCHERS SPRINT C3, 318m Emergencies: 9 31237 Speed Lorde 18.30 ...........................B Craik 1 43465 Sometime Soon 18.49 ......................B Craik 2 514x4 Nippo 18.57..................................... L Martin 10 43536 Sharella nwtd ....................................B Craik 3 26665 Sacred Can You 18.54 R & .........N O’Regan 10 5.15pm PLASTERBOARD LTD STKS C3/4, 527m 1 75615 Yap’s Me Mum 30.26 ..................D Schofield 4 17313 Simply Yeti 18.56 ............................. T Green 2 77156 Who Dat Boy 30.51 ...................... H Mullane 5 41252 Calamity Free 18.35 ...................D Schofield 3 44353 Mr. Mumbles 30.94 R &...............N O’Regan 6 45318 Red Rascal 18.66 R & ................N O’Regan 4 52125 Jinjaless 30.78 W &.........................T Steele 7 26183 Need Magic 18.54 ...........................P Green 5 48417 Grader Jack nwtd .............................T Agent 8 42231 Spotted Flyer 18.61 M & .................. J Smith 6 87811 Cawbourne Wales 30.57 ..............R McPhee Emergencies: 7 17534 Let’s Go Lettie 30.25 .................... H Mullane 9 75566 Skyler White 18.60 ............................B Craik 8 2x121 Ready Made Size nwtd ....................L Ahern 10 16887 Little Rascal 18.38 R & ...............N O’Regan 8 4.36 CAROL’S TAB MANUREWA STAKES C1, 527m 9 17574 Stinger 30.61................................... K Walsh 1 76685 What That Does 30.55 .................... T Green 11 5.37pm LOCHINVAR MARLOW SPRINT C1, 318m 1 54682 Lord De Air 18.52 .............................M Black 2 85132 Thrilling Cassie nwtd ....................... K Walsh 2 455x5 Jack McCoy nwtd ...........................P Henley 3 88675 Wee Ping Wawa nwtd ...................... S Clark 3 78653 Jump On It 18.75 ......................... H Mullane 4 53585 Contemporaneous nwtd R & .......N O’Regan 4 434Px Caballe nwtd ................................K Williams 5 61466 Calypso Star nwtd ........................... K Walsh 5 87637 Lure Me In nwtd ........................... M J Lozell 6 48856 Golfing Buddy nwtd R & ..............N O’Regan 10 87658 Stainless Knocka nwtd U & ...................Bliek

6 4.03pm DOGZONE SPRINT C1/2, 318m

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63722 Gully Yappa nwtd G & ..................... J Clarke 38576 Queen Star 18.83........................... I George 88878 Botany Hot Shot 18.59 ....................P Green 32477 Cookie Monster 18.63 .......................B Craik 46748 Just About Ready nwtd ....................M Black 12 5.52pm GREYHOUND FUNCTION SERIES FINAL C1f, 527m 1 63343 Bill Rush 30.74 ............................. H Mullane 2 24431 April’s My Mum 30.57...................... T Green 3 72434 Podium Bonus 31.36 W & ...............T Steele 4 72722 Lovely Rita nwtd .........................D Schofield 5 26431 Ruby Murray 30.49..........................P Green 6 67653 Lochinvar Maine 31.30 ...............D Schofield 7 52144 Mean As Mena nwtd ........................ S Clark 8 42162 Roman Action 30.91 ...................B Littlejohn Emergencies: 9 53585 Contemporaneous nwtd R & .......N O’Regan 10 73285 Scott Some Ticka nwtd B &................ Steele 13 6.16pm AGRC REWARDS SPRINT C1, 318m 1 32322 Prairie Kachina 18.45........................B Craik 2 56434 Skinny Ankles nwtd ........................ P Lowen 3 37432 Diva Pose 18.89 M & ....................... J Smith 4 77424 Screaming Skull 18.82 ..................H R Scott 5 83468 Jetsun Storm 18.80 ........................G Wilson 6 65775 You Betcha Noddy 18.88 R &......N O’Regan 7 F7445 Le Roi nwtd B & ................................. Steele 8 58653 Vee Veery Good nwtd G & .............. J Clarke 9 65576 Botany Bev 18.63 ............................P Green 10 38758 Tepirita Avedon nwtd R & ............N O’Regan LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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■ HAWAIKI CABLE

Trans-Pacific cable a reality

BY SOPHIE BOOT Construction has begun on a new trans-Pacific high-speed internet cable linking New Zealand to Australia and the United States.

Hawaiki Cable announced its contract with TE SubCom, the company building the 14,000 kilometre cable, had come into force.

The cable will deliver more than 30 terabits per second of capacity, is expected to be finished by mid-2018 and will provide competition long-sought by some telecommunications users for the Southern Cross cable, which is part-owned by Spark NZ. The cable will link New Zea-

land with Sydney, Oregon and Hawaii, with options to expand it to South Pacific islands.

The government committed $65 million over 25 years to secure the cable in July 2014, following the failure of Pacific Fibre, which shut up shop in 2012 when it failed to attract the $400 million it needed to fund its cable project, leaving Southern Cross Cable the only international cable network operating in New Zealand.

The project is headed by Remi Galasso, a former Alcatel-Lucent executive who founded Noumeabased telecommunications infrastructure company Intelia in 2005, investor and philanthropist Eoin Edgar and Malcolm Dick,

■ OPINION

Selwyn Sloan and Michael Coleman MONEY MATTERS

of their investment capital across the main asset classes).

This will have a material influence on the return an investor receives and the risk taken to achieve that return.

Once an investor’s preferred asset allocation has been determined, the most suitable specific individual securities can be researched and recommended.

It may well mean that an investor who previously had a cash bias could be better served by owning a mix of short-term

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■ WOOL SALES

NZ wool prices slip at auction as higher Kiwi dollar dents demand New Zealand wool prices slipped at this week’s auction as a higher New Zealand dollar made the fibre less attractive to overseas buyers.

Coarse crossbred wool declined to $5.53 per kilogram at Thursday’s North Island auction from $5.69/kg at last week’s South Island auction, according to AgriHQ. Lamb wool slid to $6.15/kg from $6.41/kg last week.

The New Zealand dollar has strengthened over the past week, pushing above 69 US cents and hitting its highest level in nine months, as traders pulled back their expectations for further interest rate hikes in the US, damping demand for the greenback.

That’s made New Zealand wool exports more expensive for overseas buyers, given most commodity purchases are made in US dollars.

“All wool types generally

dropped, with some significant price reductions made to poorer quality wool,” said AgriHQ analyst Shaye Lee. “The main driver of the drop was a decline in buying power of major trading currencies against NZ dollars, putting downward pressure in local prices.”

Limited competition between buyers meant just 86 percent of the 8,661 bales offered at auction were sold, Lee said.

Wool is New Zealand’s 14th largest commodity export. - NZME

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Sell price

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1.4m 1.9m 94.11 487.0 744.1 2.1m 484.1 2.3m 788.5 46.27 2.0m 1.5m 278.3 183.7 2.1m 1.2m 328.7 315.1 135.6 769.0 16.58 4.2m 179.7 377.6 1.3m 246.7 221.8 1.3m 104.3 51.56 591.2 181.3 408.9 268.1 308.4 3.0m 2.4m 3.8m 149.4 202.6 317.5 85.87 1.1m 792.7 189.3 213.4 79.97 103.3 64.34 2.6m

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Are low interest rates curbing your retirement plans? he Reserve Bank of New Zealand has dropped interest rates again and has signalled another potential cut later this year.

As a result, more and more investors are approaching us wanting to know just what to do with cash available for investment.

They are looking ultimately to protect their capital and generate a return which exceeds current cash rates. Investors requiring a regular income to help maintain their lifestyle are particularly frustrated.

So what are the options? Firstly we work with investors with regard to their appetite for investment risk, investment timeframe, income requirements and future capital needs.

Following this analysis, we then agree the most appropriate asset allocation with them (the spread

who co-founded telecommunications firm CallPlus, which was sold a year ago for $250 million to Australia’s M2 Group.

“The lack of an alternative cable system connecting Australia, New Zealand, and the US has long been a concern of mine, so I am delighted to be part of this project,” Dick said.

“Having built telco businesses in both Australia and New Zealand in the past, I am very aware of the need to provide competition by being independent of the incumbent operators. This increased level of competition and capacity should make data caps a thing of the past.”

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q S&P/NZX 50 Gross

6,708.02 –44.41 –0.66%

S&P/NZX 20 index q

4,770.4

–38.68

–0.8%

q S&P/NZX All Gross

7,228.58 –40.46 –0.56%

p Rises 55 q Falls 55

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4,999.4

–83.4

–1.64%

At close of trading on Apr 1, 2016

q Dow Jones Indust.

17,685.1

–31.6

–0.18%

At close of trading on Mar 31, 2016

q FTSE 100 index

6,174.9

–28.3

–0.46%

At close of trading on Mar 31, 2016

q Nikkei 225 index

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Australia 0.9161 0.8857 Canada 0.918 0.8842 China 4.7423 4.1626 Euro 0.6225 0.5956 Fiji 1.4728 1.3575 Great Britain 0.4908 0.4737 Japan 79.34 76.02 Samoa 1.8337 1.6054 South Africa 10.3757 10.0007 Thailand 24.63 23.48 United States 0.7056 0.6804

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The challenges of teens en masse Sue Newman

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he life of a school principal is not an easy one, but the life of a principal of a large secondary school must be one of the toughest in the education sector.

Ask anyone who has raised or is raising teenagers and they’ll say that it’s a bit like living on a rollercoaster. Young adults who can be amiable, generous, good company and reasonably polite can in the blink of an eye become moody creatures with appalling attitudes and outrageous opinions.

Most of us are fortunate in that we may only have two or three of those in our house at any one time and eventually, finally, they grow up and become the wonderful people they were always on track to become.

For a secondary school principal, however, life is an endless churn of teen angst. With a campus of up to 1000 young adults between the ages of 13 and 18 turmoil is the norm.

To most outside the teaching world, it’s almost impossible to understand how principals and their teaching staff can do what they do, day after sometimes totally unrewarding day. They deserve a humanitarian medal.

It takes a special person to teach in a secondary school and an extra-special person to become a principal.

Our two secondary schools have been well served over the years by principals who have, largely, been long stayers, but people move on. And while that might be positive for them, it signals massive change and uncertainty in a school community.

And so it will be at Ashburton College next term. Grant McMillan, who has led the college for seven years, has decided to up stakes and head to Auckland for new challenges.

Over those seven years he’s provided a guiding hand in the lives of thousands of youngsters as they’ve moved from childhood to adulthood. For some, he will have had an impact and involvement that has been life changing.

In term two the college will enter a new era. Its board will face the challenge of finding a new leader and because a principal is very much who a school becomes, the school community will need to adjust to a new person with a new style and a new way of doing things.

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wo-hundred kilometres south of the South Island of New Zealand, weathered by westerlies and surrounded by swell, a jagged jaw of rock thrusts its teeth out of the sea.

Adorned with beds of golden kelp and heralded by the honking vowels of the sooty shearwater, these are The Snares/Tini Heke.

The name The Snares dates back to 1791, when Captain Vancouver sailed past on board the HMS Discovery. Upon making out their jagged form in the otherwise wide open ocean, he declared them to be a shipping hazard, likely to ensnare unsuspecting vessels.

These days the islands do ensnare visitors, but for different reasons – the abundant birdlife is sure to capture the imagination.

Approaching The Snares group/Tini Heke, the atmosphere on deck was electric.

Under a bright blue sky, we enjoyed sightings of snares penguins, bulmers albatross and a host of cape petrels.

The Southern Ocean is a twitcher’s paradise and even those who don’t list bird watching as a passion before embark-

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ing on a ship often find that a fascination with all things ornithological rubs off on them, albatross by soaring albatross.

From the majestic span of the royal, to the gentle charcoal gradient around the eye of the light mantled sooty and the finely grooved plates of the bullers mollymawk’s bill, each of these tubenosed birds is host to a range of surprisingly beautiful details.

The Snares are also home to the endemic snares penguin (above). With their thick red bills and extravagant yellow crests, these are the hipsters of the penguin world.

They may not boast embossed leather satchels, but they do commute, travelling between the surrounding marine feeding grounds and the nesting areas atop the islands.

Cruising by the 45 degree bare rock slope that is known as the “penguin slide” was a highlight of the site; I was most impressed at the way the little birds could scramble up such a steep cliff to rest their nests in the trees far above.

Penguins in trees are not the most remarkable thing about this island group, however – it is the only group never to have been

touched by rats, mice, or any other introduced predators.

That means that – unlike in mainland New Zealand – the birds have nothing to fear once they come ashore. In an effort to keep the islands in this condition, landings are not permitted.

If the weather co-operates, however, zodiac tours of the rocky coastline reveal sea caves, the odd playful fur seal, and towering cliffs topped with nesting albatross.

The Snares may only cover 340ha, but the islands – and the birds that call them home – certainly leave a lasting impression.

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■ INDIA

Overpass collapse kills 22 Using saws, small cranes and their bare hands, rescuers searched for survivors yesterday under the crumbled concrete and twisted steel left when an overpass collapsed onto a crowded Kolkata neighbourhood, killing at least 22 people, police said.

With more than half the debris cleared by Friday morning, some 67 people have been pulled out alive, Kolkata police Sgt. P. Chakraborty said. But more people were still feared trapped. It was not clear how many people were missing.

Smashed yellow taxis, a crushed truck, destroyed rickshaws and the bloody legs of trapped people jutted from the fallen girders and concrete.

The overpass spanned nearly the width of the street and was designed to ease traffic through the densely crowded Bara Bazaar neighbourhood in the capital of the east Indian state of West Bengal. About 100 metres of the overpass fell, while other sections remained standing.

“I heard an explosion, a solid one,” said resident Rabindra Kumar Gupta, who had been home eating lunch when the overpass crashed down without warning. “My apartment shook. The whole building shook. When I looked outside, there was a lot of smoke.”

Another resident, Yogesh Sharma, described a “huge crashing sound” when the overpass came down as he was sitting at a roadside tea stand

Petrol heads and car enthusiasts have gotten their first glimpse at the all-new Top Gear. The first trailer for the new season, now hosted by Chris Evans and former Friends star Matt LeBlanc, shows the pair racing around in a range of glossy, slick and extremely fast automobiles. LeBlanc can be heard yelling, “Suspense! Suspense!” as he races what is thought to be an Ariel Nomad across the desert. German race car driver and the only female presenter on the show Sabine Schmitz is forced to pull her high-powered vehicle over for after Evans becomes queasy. “Go out, go out!” Schmitz says in a panic as Evans starts to vomit onto the race track. She then asks “why is it red?”, a look of disgust on her face. Unfazed, Evans simply replies: Strawberries.” This is the first season after the departure of former hosts Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond. Joining Evans and LeBlanc throughout the new season will be a range of other presenters including Schmitz, Formula 1 commentator Eddie Jordan and Rory Reid.

Locals and rescue workers clear the rubble of a partially collapsed overpass in Kolkata.

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with friends.

“I left my cup of tea and ran,” said Sharma, 23. “I was crying at the spot.”

Crowds waited anxiously near the rescue area to see if neighbours and friends had survived. The intersection had been a place where street vendors and service workers regularly plied their trades “There used to be a tailor who sat here on this corner.

We wonder about him. A cigarettes and tobacco vendor — we knew everyone who used to stay around this crossing,” resident Pankaj Jhunjhunwala

said. “Until this rubbish is removed, we can’t say for sure where they are or how this happened.”

Police said 39 of the more than 70 people rushed to hospitals were still being treated.

At least 22 people were killed.

With army troops and personnel from the National Disaster Response Force joining the effort, police said they expected the rescue and cleanup to be completed by the end of the day.

Huge cranes and other equipment were brought to the site to begin clearing the

rubble. Workers also used cutting torches to break up the slabs.

The operation was a “very, very challenging task,” said O.P. Singh, chief of the disaster response force. Rescuers also used dogs and special cameras to find people who were trapped, he said.

“The area was very, very crowded. Motorised rickshaws, taxis ... there was a lot of traffic,” one witness said.

The contract for the overpass was signed in 2007 and it was expected to be completed in two years.

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■ THE HAGUE

UN court acquits Serb nationalist Seselj In a rare courtroom victory for a Serb defendant, a UN war crimes tribunal yesterday acquitted ultra-nationalist politician Vojislav Seselj of atrocities and pronounced him a free man.

The decision inflamed simmering tensions in the Balkans, sparking joy in Serbia and horror and deep anger in Bosnia and Croatia.

Prosecutors had charged Seselj, 61, with crimes including persecution, murder and torture and had demanded a 28-year sentence for his support of Serb paramilitaries during the region’s bitter, bloody wars in the early 1990s.

But in a majority decision, the three-judge panel said there was insufficient evidence linking the politician himself to the crimes. A dissenting opinion shredded that logic, providing grist for possible future appeals.

“After so many proceedings in which innocent Serbs were given draconian punishments, this time two honest judges showed they valued honor more than political pressure,” Seselj declared at a

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A UN war crimes tribunal has acquitted ultra-nationalist politician Vojislav Seselj of atrocities and pronounced him a free man. no remorse whatsoever.” press conference at his SerbiMost of the people indicted an Radical Party headquarters and convicted by the court in Belgrade. have been Serbs as the interOthers heatedly disagreed. national community blamed “This is a defeat of The them for most of the war’s Hague tribunal,” Croatian worst atrocities, including the Prime Minister Tihomir deadly siege of Sarajevo and Oreskovic said in Vukovar, an 1995 massacre of 8000 Museastern Croatian town delim men in Srebrenica. stroyed by Serbian troops, Seselj, who repeatedly including Seselj’s paramilitarbranded the International ies, during the war for indeCriminal Tribunal for the Forpendence in the 1990s. “I am mer Yugoslavia an anti-Serb in Vukovar today, and we all court, was not in The Hague know that this man has done for the ruling. He was allowed evil to this town. He showed

to return home in late 2014 on compassionate grounds due to ill health.

Once home, the firebrand ultra-nationalist, who once said he would like to gouge out the eyes of rival Croats with a rusty spoon, rekindled a political career that was put on hold when he surrendered to the tribunal in 2003.

Now he could become a key political powerbroker after Serbia’s April 24 general election. With a surge in pro-Russian and right-wing sentiments ahead of the vote, Seselj’s Serbian Radical Party has a good chance to return to parliament after missing out two years ago.

Seselj has campaigned on the platform that Serbia must never enter the 28-nation European Union or Nato and should forge closer ties with Moscow.

He has burned EU, Nato and Croatian flags during pre-election rallies, and said he would join a coalition government with the incumbent populists, his former allies, only if they give up their goal of EU accession.

- AP

Oscar buzz builds over NZ film Nearly two years since its world premiere in Auckland, award-winning NZ film The Dark Horse has made its US theatrical debut amid Oscar buzz. The powerful tale of bipolar chess champion Genesis Potini, played by Cliff Curtis, premiered in Los Angeles with Kiwis including Temuera Morrison and Rena Owen in attendance, and Oscar-winning director James Cameron playing host.

“The thing about New Zealand filmmakers is they never have much money and it’s a small country with only four million people, yet they consistently punch far above their weight class,” part-time New Zealand resident Cameron told a packed crowd at The Theatre at Ace Hotel. “Per capita they produce more world-class filmmakers in New Zealand than I think any other country.

Kimbra out of Bowie tribute A pair of star-studded New York tribute concerts to legend David Bowie were marred as Kiwi singer Kimbra and hip-hop group The Roots abruptly pulled out. Kimbra hasn’t said why she is no longer performing, but the show would have been a major boost to her US profile, with big names like The Flaming Lips and the Pixies also on the bill.

The last Kiwi to pay tribute to Bowie was Lorde’s acclaimed performance at The Brit Awards. The Roots’ main member, Questlove, went into more detail about the fracas, accusing unnamed other performers of jealously guarding their equipment.

“I’ve never been so insecure or petty as to deny a fellow musician use of ANY of my equipment,” he wrote on Instagram, adding: “It angers me when the same courtesy is not reciprocated.

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Airstrikes hit east of Damascus, kill 23 Airstrikes hit near a school and a hospital east of the Syrian capital of Damascus, killing at least 23 people in one of the deadliest incidents involving civilians since a partial ceasefire came into effect in the war-torn country more than a month ago, proopposition activists said.

British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond, meanwhile, scoffed at Syrian President Bashar Assad’s remarks offering a national unity government with some members of the opposition. Instead, Britain’s top diplomat said a transitional government with full powers was the only way forward in Syria.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the ccasualties near the capital were caused by a series of airstrikes that struck the rebel-held town of Deir al-Asafir, which lies east of Damascus in an area known as Eastern Ghouta. Four children and a civil defence worker were among the victims, the Observatory said. The Local Co-ordination Committees, another opposition activist group, put the death toll from the airstrikes at 17.

The civil defence, also known in opposition-held parts of Syria as the White Helmets, confirmed that one of their volunteers, Mo-

Syrian President Bashar Assad said Syria needs a national unity government that would secure the transition to a new constitution. hammad Ghourani, died while carrying out his duty.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the airstrikes.

The government says al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, the Nusra Front, operates in the eastern suburbs of Damascus. The militant group and its rival, the Islamic State group, are both excluded from a ceasefire that has been in place in Syria for a month.

The Syrian opposition says the government of President Bashar Assad has been targeting civilians despite the truce.

The Syrian National Coalition,

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an opposition group, denounced the “massacre” in Deir al-Asafir, saying it threatened to derail the ceasefire and peace talks that are scheduled to resume in Geneva in two weeks.

“This crime is the latest in a series of actions that aim to consecrate ongoing violations of the cease-fire,” the SNC said in a statement.

The Observatory says around 2700 families live in Deir alAsafir. Government troops have been trying to encircle the town for weeks. There was no immediate reaction from the Syrian government, which rarely com-

ments on security issues.

The talks in Geneva are meant to start a political process for transition in Syria away from Assad. In comments made in an interview with Russia’s state news agency Sputnik, however, Assad rejected a key opposition demand for a transitional ruling body with full powers, which major powers agreed on at a Geneva conference in June 2012.

He proposed instead a national unity government that comprises government loyalists and members of the opposition.

Assad also said he is ready to hold a snap presidential election if the people call for it. But the proposal was quickly shot down by the opposition, which said sharing power with Assad is absolutely out of the question.

Hammond, on a visit to Beirut, said Assad’s offer was not enough.

“Bashar Assad talks about a unity government, by which he means bringing one or two hand-picked regime friendly oppositionists into minor posts in the government. That is not sufficient,” Hammond told reporters. “There has to be change of direction in Syria ... and it has to be a government that is not, or at least in the future will not be led

by Bashar Assad.”

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Trooper, suspect die in US, China join over N Korea bus station shooting A gunman fatally shot a Virginia state trooper yesterday at a busy bus terminal in the capital city of Richmond before he was shot dead by two other troopers, police said.

Two civilians were also shot but were expected to recover.

Trooper Chad Dermyer, 37, died after being shot multiple times, according to Virginia State Police Superintendent Col. Steven Flaherty. State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said the civilians’ injuries were not lifethreatening.

A small army of law enforcement officers in tactical gear and dozens of cruisers and emergency response vehicles flooded

to the station, located in an area that includes a minor league baseball stadium and a variety of commercial establishments and restaurants.

Najee Wilson, 18, of Newark, New Jersey, said his bus was pulling up to the station when he heard three gunshots and saw people running out of the building.

“We heard a lot of people screaming,” Wilson said. “It definitely was a scary experience.”

Wilson, who was en route to Atlanta, was among about 200 travellers waiting to board buses at a staging area set up a few blocks from the bus station after the shooting.

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In the face of mounting threats from North Korea, President Barack Obama yesterday urged closer security ties among its chief allies in Asia and increased cooperation with strategic rival China to discourage Pyongyang from further advances in nuclear weapons.

As world leaders gathered for a nuclear security summit, Obama first met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-hye. Together, they warned North Korea would face even tougher sanctions and more isolation if provokes again with nuclear and missile tests.

Then Obama met Chinese President Xi Jinping and both called for North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons. China also

agreed to implement in full the latest economic restrictions imposed by the UN Security Council against Pyongyang.

More than 50 governments and international organisations are attending the two-day summit on preventing nuclear terrorism — the last in a series of global meetings Obama has championed on the issue. The risk posed by the Islamic State group tops this year’s agenda but concerns about North Korea are also commanding focus.

“Of great importance to both of us is North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, which threatens the security and stability of the region. President Xi and I are both committed to the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula,” Obama said. - AP

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In brief Vast corruption probe Monaco’s government says it is helping British authorities investigate a “vast corruption scandal” implicating an unspecified number of international oil companies, the tiny European principality said in a statement released yesterday. The statement said several executives of the Monaco-based company UNAOIL had been questioned over the past few days and that their homes and headquarters had been searched following an urgent request from Britain’s Serious Fraud Office. - AP

Georgia execution A man who was convicted of fatally beating another man to death after a night of drinking and drug use in 1994 was put to death yesterday in Georgia. Joshua Bishop, 41, received an injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson, and Warden Bruce Chatman announced his time of death as 9.27pm. Bishop was convicted in the June 1994 killing of Leverett Morrison in Milledgeville.

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Trump stumbling The Wisconsin presidential primary on Tuesday is emerging as a crucial lifeline for Republicans desperate to stop Donald Trump’s march to their party’s nomination.

One of his worst weeks of the 2016 campaign is colliding with a state already skeptical of his brash brand of politics. A big loss for Trump in Wisconsin would greatly reduce his chances of securing the delegates he needs to clinch the Republican nomination before next July’s national convention. It could also offer new hope to rival Ted Cruz and outside groups that see Trump as a threat to the future of the Republican Party.

- AP

Syrians forcibly returned Amnesty International says Turkey has forcibly returned hundreds of Syrian refugees to their homeland since mid-January. It said this practice exposes “fatal flaws” in an agreement between Turk and the European Union. The organisation says its research on the TurkishSyrian border suggests that around 100 Syrians – who often have not registered in Turkey - are expelled from Turkey each day.

Advocacy groups are concerned that the deal, which aims to stem the flow of illegal migrants and goes into effect April 4, threatens the rights of asylum seekers, and they question whether Turkey is a safe country for them.

- AP

Body in backyard

■ SOUTH AFRICA

Court orders president Zuma to pay back state South Africa’s constitutional court has ordered President Jacob Zuma to pay back some of the $US16 million of state money spent upgrading his private home, a stinging rebuke that hits the scandal-plagued leader financially and politically.

The unanimous ruling by the 11-judge court, a central pillar of the democracy established at the end of apartheid, said Zuma had failed to “uphold, defend and re-

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spect” the constitution by ignoring the Public Protector’s findings on his sprawling rural residence at Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal.

In 2014, the constitutionally mandated anti-corruption watchdog identified a swimming pool, cattle enclosure, chicken run, amphitheatre and visitor centre as non-security items that Zuma must pay for.

Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng gave the Treasury 60 days in

which to determine their “reasonable cost”, after which Zuma would have a further 45 days to pay.

Besides hurting Zuma, the ruling was a vindication for Public Protector Thuli Madonsela, a quietly spoken but steely lawyer described by Mogoeng as “the embodiment of the Biblical David” fighting against the Goliath of state corruption.

The uncompromising nature

of his verdict – Mogoeng said it carried a “profound lesson” for South Africa’s young democracy – piles more pressure on Zuma, whose second term in office is due to end in 2019.

In a final, departing insult, he was ordered to pay costs.

Opposition leader Mmusi Maimane said Zuma should be removed from office and said he would table a parliamentary motion to have him impeached. - AP

A man whose body was found in the backyard of a home south of Brisbane may have been dead for days, police say. The man, believed to be in his late 20s, was discovered at the Meadowbrook home in Logan on Thursday evening by a visitor. Police are treating the death as suspicious and say the resident of the home knew the deceased but didn’t appear to know there was a body in the yard. A police spokeswoman said it appeared the man had been dead for some length of time before he was discovered. Police are awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine the cause of death.

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Admin/Optical Assistant Ashburton Eyecare is a primary eyecare facility catering for the visual and eye health needs of local clients.

A position is being created for an administrator/optical assistant to play an integral part in making this happen.

Your duties will include: • Patient meet and greet • Phone enquiries and appointments • Sales • Maintaining patient and other records • CDHB contract admin • Spectacle repairs, adjustments and glazing • Frame selections and measurements To be successful in this role you will have a bright and bubbly nature with an ability to work sensitively with clients. Ideally you will have strong interpersonal skills. You will be well organised with excellent attention to detail. You will also need to have good computer skills with an ability to learn new computer systems.

This position will be 30+ hours per week.

Keen to hear more about this pivotal role?

Send CV by Monday, April 11, 2016 to Tinneke, at:

Ashburton Eyecare 139 Walnut Ave Ashburton 7700

DUTY MANAGER/CHEF Dandin’s Carinderia Buffet, The Filipino Cuisine is looking for a full time Duty Manager.

The right candidate must have: • Minimum 1 year experience • Current General Manager certificate & LCQ Training • Experience in cooking Filipino food

Sales Consultant

Electrician Ashburton ANZCO Foods Limited is one of New Zealand’s largest exporters employing over 3,000 staff worldwide. A dynamic, multinational group of companies, our core purpose is to procure, process and market New Zealand beef and lamb products to the world.

We have a permanent role available at our Canterbury plant near Ashburton. This is a fast paced and busy role that will require excellent organisational abilities, enthusiasm for the processing environment and the ability to think logically and remain calm under pressure. To succeed you will have proven computer skills, knowledge of monitoring and auditing systems for compliance and considerable understanding of the Health & Safety requirements for a processing environment. In addition this role requires: • NZ Electrical registration with a current practicing certificate • proven knowledge and experience with electrical systems and electronics in a manufacturing or food processing industry (ideally 5 years plus) • ability to diagnose problems associated with electrical and process control • working knowledge of mechanical systems.

We are committed to supporting and developing our people and we offer a competitive remuneration package. If you have the skills and motivation to succeed in this role, and would like to be part of the exciting future of our company then we want to hear from you.

Applications close 6 April 2016.

Apply online now at

careers.anzcofoods.com

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CARPENTERS WANTED CARPENTERS WANTED FIXED TERM FIXED Our clients are committed to TERM the dairy industry and are continuing to develop!

Our clients are committed to the dairy industry and arehave continuing to develop!

We now an opening for an experienced carpenter to join our dynamic team on a for 12 week fixed term We now have an opening an experienced contract based in Rangitata commencing early carpenter to join our dynamic team onMay. a 12 This role would suit someone who enjoys concrete and week fixed term contract based in Rangitata concrete placing and has an eye for detail. Some digger commencing early May. driving could be required.

This role would suit someone who enjoys If thisand sounds like you,placing please either concrete concrete and contact has an eye Nigel Hodges on 0274 270 557 or for detail. email nigel@ruralbuilding.co.nz Some digger driving could be required.

If this sounds like you, please either contact: Nigel Hodges on 0274 270 557 or email: nigel@ruralbuilding.co.nz

Guardian Situations Vacant Ph 03 308 9936 or 0274 323 258

For over 135 years, the Ashburton Guardian has been market leaders in the specialist field of delivering news to Mid Canterbury.

We require a motivated, results driven sales professional who will achieve sales, whilst securing new business opportunities.

You will be selling into our daily newspaper, farming publications, exciting monthly lifestyle magazine YOU and also digital platform.

We are looking for a team player with a competitive spirit, driven by achieving results and targets. This role will be based between Christchurch and Ashburton.

The key skills for this position include: • Sales experience and drive is vital, along with a high degree of professionalism • Confident in making outbound sales calls and closing a sale • Hunting, building and maintaining valuable customer relationships • Experienced in building new relationship channels.

• Enjoy a career opportunity and lifestyle that is flexible and allows you to work around your customers’ needs • Good planning and organising abilities • Professional phone manner and a high level of professional presentation • Focused on meeting and exceeding targets • Have an excellent command of the English language • Great computer skills In return we will provide: • Full time position • Attractive base salary + OTES’s (circa $60k - $80k pa) • Great and enthusiastic business culture • Social Club

Please send your CV and cover letter to:

164 Burnett Street, Ashburton.

0800 274 287 0800 ASHBURTON

You are?

Then we have the perfect role for you!

If you think you have what it takes to excel, join us on this exciting adventure!

patricio.dandin@yahoo.com or ring 0221 728 862 / 03 307 2403 for more information.

Newton Apiaries

Are you ambitious, driven, and looking to succeed in a sales role?

You will be reaching for the stars in this role.

Please send your CV via email to:

requires a beekeeper for the coming season You will need to: • be physically fit • be reliable • have a drivers licence • have beekeeping experience or bee keen to learn Contact: Derek 03 303 0730 or newtond@xtra.co.nz

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The right candidate must be able to work weekdays and public holidays. Filipino language skills will be an advantage.

For all subscriber enquiries, missed delivery, new subscriptions, temporary stops, call our subscriber hotline

Ashburton Guardian

307 7900

Desme Daniels General Manager PO Box 77, Ashburton 7740 Or Email desme@theguardian.co.nz Applications close Thursday, April 7, 2016

Classifieds 34 Ashburton Guardian TRADES, SERVICES

LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES • Bark • Oamaru stone • Rocks • Organic compost • Sand • Screened soil • Home deliveries available

REAL ESTATE

PLANTS, PRODUCE

OPEN HOME 18 Charlesworth Drive, Allenton Lochlea Estate

Plus much more FREE loan trailer available!

From a shovel load to a trailer load.

Dobson Street West Ph: 307 8302 Hours: Mon-Fri: 7.30am - 5pm Sat: 7.30am - 12 noon

WANTED

WANTED shed or covered storage for large motorhome.

In or around Ashburton. Long term preferred. Phone 0274 324 716.

TRADES, SERVICES

COMPUTER PROBLEMS ??

For prompt reliable service contact Kelvin Boult, KJB Systems Ltd, 4 Ascot Place, Ashburton. Phone 308 8989.

30 years local service. Same day service if possible.

SUPERGOLD Discount card welcomed.

HOME handyman available.

Minor repairs, painting etc. Ph 027-677-1952.

RURAL TRADING POST

AMSOIL SYNTHETIC LUBRICANTS - All oils, greases, fuel additives, filters, antifreeze, car polish, V & L cleaner, tyre cleaner, rust bust, rain clear, engine cleaner and more. Call local distributor. Veehof phone 302 2911.

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FOR SALE

Peastraw - $6 Lucerne Hay - $12 Meadow Hay - $10

Rye Grass Straw - $8 Barley Straw - $7

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Pick up 15 Bryant St during office hours, Saturday mornings by appointment.

* three bedroom plus ensuite

Free delivery within Town Boundary for orders over $200.

* open plan living * new build

Contact number 0800 QUIGLEY

* quality fittings

No EFTPOS - CASH ONLY

* top Allenton location

Open homes: Saturday, April 2 and Sunday, April 3 between 1.00pm and 2.00pm

PUBLIC NOTICES

PUBLIC NOTICES

Lions Club of Ashburton Pakeke

Contact: 027 272 7837 or 03 302 6887 Buyer enquiry range $605,000 - $620,000

Guardian Motoring

307 7900

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• Research, treatment, provision of equipment in relation to, and the education and training of skilled persons relative to, the disease of cancer.

• Research, development, education for, training and expansion of, the science and practice of agriculture.

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

Applications close at 5pm, Friday, April 22, 2016.

For further information and application forms, please contact: The Secretary Mackenzie Charitable Foundation C/- Croys Ltd Level 2, 161 Burnett Street PO Box 582 Ashburton 7740 Phone 03 308 8353 Email: mcf@croys.co.nz www.mcf.org.nz

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Classifieds www.guardianonline.co.nz PLANTS, PRODUCE

MOTORING

Whole Pumpkin Royal Gala 1kg Pears 1kg Potatoes 10kg

YOUR OFF-ROAD DRIVER TRAINING SPECIALISTS 4WD on & off-road

Fresh Fruit & Vege

LIVESTOCK, PETS

www.drivingforce.nz

308-1095

HOLIDAY

Trailride Mayfield

MEETINGS, EVENTS SCVCC 31ST ANNUAL SWAP MEET Winchester Domain, SH1 Saturday, April 2, 2016 Gates open 7.30am Car Display and something for everyone.

Site bookings Michelle Munro Ph 03 686 4824 or Email:scvccswapmeet @hotmail.com www.southcanterbury vintagecarclub.co.nz No Dogs Allowed.

Birthday Greetings

Weekend Services

MEDICAL SERVICES

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

DUTY DOCTORS

For all urgent medical calls phone 0800 700 155 at any time. IN EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY PHONE 111.

This service is for emergency medical care only. Please bring your Community Services Card. All non New Zealanders should bring their passport with them, New Zealanders should bring some form of ID. Moore Street Medical Centre, Moore Street. Will be the duty doctor for Saturday until 8am Sunday.

They will hold surgery from 10am to 12 noon and from 6pm to 7pm. No appointment necessary.

Surgery phone 308 3066.

Ashburton Health First, Havelock Street. Will be the duty doctor for Sunday until 8am Monday.

They will hold surgery from 9am to 12 noon and from 2pm to 5pm. No appointment necessary.

Surgery phone 308 1956.

METHVEN & RAKAIA AREA

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

Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT

provide an accident and emergency service.

Except in cases of emergency, persons requiring medical attention must consult their own or the

Ashburton Kindergarten Association Annual General Meeting 2016 Tuesday, April 5 7.00pm at Hampstead Kindergarten, 44 Cambridge St, Ash All welcome Barbara Kirk Association Manager

Guardian Situations Vacant

duty general practitioner. Persons subsequently requiring treatment at Ashburton Hospital must have a general practitioners note of referral.

PHARMACIES

ASHBURTON HOSPITAL WARD 1 - DAILY, 10 - 11.30am & 2 - 7.30pm.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

WARD 6 - (including Assessment, Treatment & Rehabilitation Unit) - OPEN VISITING. MATERNITY WARD - DAILY, 10am - 8pm.

-Husbands and patient’s own children may visit the patient from: 7am - 10pm.

TUARANGI HOME (Cameron St) - DAILY, -unrestricted visiting.

ASHBURTON REST HOMES

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or 027 857 2133 or visit www.alcoholics-anonymous. org.nz for more information.

If you do not have or cannot contact your regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 for the name of the rostered weekend dentist in Christchurch. Hours 9am-5pm, Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays.

HELPLINE SERVICES

63 Princes Street All welcome Rev. David Bayne Ph 307 7355

Physiotherapist Paul Annear

Jubilee Christian Fellowship

Injury Management Available at 256 Moore Street.

10am Every Sunday

Mondays and Thursdays Phone 307 0560

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

CINDY, kiwi, attractive, long hair, size 8, busty. Lots of fun.

Phone calls only, private 027 363 7916.

SAVANNAH, bubbly mature lady would suit mature gentleman. Genuine calls only, no texting, please.

Available 24/7.

Phone 021 044 0698.

All welcome

Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Cnr Cass & Havelock Sts Lord delivers him out of Phone 308 5409 them all. www.ashburtonbaptist.co.nz 206 Cameron Street 10am Pastors Jim & Ida Heath Ph 308 7511

Morning Service Speaker: Bob Ritchie

Life 2 da Max (Kids Church)

Creche available Refreshments to follow 6pm House of Prayer ALL VERY WELCOME

Have you lost your way in Life?

Join us this Sunday to discover HOPE for 2016.

Including Children’s church

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

See you at cnr Cass & Cameron St’s

PRIVATE board available in a three bedroom house with owner. Must be mature.

Phone 027 308 9518.

Sundays @10.00am Everyone is welcome Ph 308 7610 or 308 7062

THREE bedroom house with two bedrooms available to rent in Tinwald. Contact 027 928 0882 or 027 433 5766 for viewing.

Got something to sell?

Having a garage sale?

307 7900

Call the Guardian today for your advertising requirements.

307 7900

weekday afternoons.

EA NETWORKS CENTRE - POOLS 20 River Terrace - Phone 03 308 4020 WEEKEND HOURS: Sat & Sun 7am - 7pm.

Public Holidays 10am - 5pm.

MAIL CLOSING TIMES

ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP POST DELIVERY CENTRES 24 hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 Allenton & Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm 846) - Direct dials to a volunteer.

Methven & Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS 2pm - outside of these hours leave a message. Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm ALCOHOL DRUG HELP LINE Call us free on (0800 787 797).

Lines open 10am - 10pm seven days.

LIFELINE - Toll-Free: 0800 353 353

COMMUNITY SERVICES

COLDSTREAM HOUSE, CAMERON COURTS ART GALLERY and PRINCES COURT all have DAILY, 327 West Street, phone 308 1133. unrestricted visiting.

Open Daily: 10am – 4pm Wed: 10am – 7pm

EMERGENCY DENTIST

10.30am Worship Every Sunday

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

Wises Pharmacy, Countdown Complex, East MENTAL HEALTH - Call free on 0800 Street, will be open from 9am - 1pm Saturday, 222 955. Ask for the Crisis Team. from 10am - 1pm Sunday and from 6pm - 8pm both evenings.

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

HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS

Close to Town & Medical Centre

BUSINESS NOTICES

Or call 027 274 1580

MOTORCYCLES

Six month lease

Contact by phone or text: Marty 027 8294 555

Heavy Vehicles

WHEEL alignments at great FOR SALE - Hereford x ACCOMMODATION Sunday, April 10 prices. Maximise the life calves. Well grown, very AKAROA CHARMING, quiet.

Also Belted Galloway 9.30 start of your tyres with an alignment from Neumanns calves. C10. Phone 302 spacious holiday home, 3 Easy main loop bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, all Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills 6055. electric heating.

Sky, all mod Kids and Enduro Loop Street. Phone 308-6737. cons, short walk to village.

LET OR LEASE Signposted from Phone Brian 307-8000 or OFFICE available for rent.

LIVESTOCK, PETS Mayfield.

Parking, 24 hour access, 308-6180.

BUYER of unwanted nightly security. Minutes from Phone 0274 328 457 WANAKA Pines Resort animals. Cattle, bobby calves, CBD. Ph 021 554 570. available April 15-22. Sleeps horse and all farm animals.

We also sell pet food. Call STORAGE units available. 7. $950.00 per week. Phone FOR SALE Nick’s Pet Food 0272 101 Various sizes. Rainbow 027 660 6023.

CONVENTIONAL bales 621, A/H 03 348 9439.

Storage. Ph 307 0401.

HIRE peastraw for sale. Weed free GENERAL hire.

Lawn- - $6 per bale delivered. mowers, chainsaws, concrete Phone 027 390 0002. breakers, trailers, and more.

All your DIY / party hire, call FIREWOOD - dry old man and see Ashburton U-Hire. pine $200, semi $170, semi 588 East Street. Open Mon- blue gum $200, dry blue gum Summer Stoddart Fri 7.00 - 6.00pm; Sat 7.30am $250, dry poplar $150 per Happy 1st Birthday - 5.00pm; Sunday 8am - 3.6m³. Phone Shane James 5.00pm. – Ph: 308 8061 Firewood 303 7063. for Sunday. www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz SCOOTER’S - new and Have a great day missy secondhand three and four moo, love Dad, Mum, GRAZING wheel electric scooters and WINTER grazing Overdale - wheel chairs. Call Fred Braxton and Kase. kale / grass and silage and Reddecliffe at Electric Birthday Greetings are free for those aged 12 and good yards. Phone 027 284 Mobility Ashburton today. under only. Free birthday greetings must be received 0377.

Phone 308-3602 at least two working days before date of insertion otherwise there is no guarantee that it will appear on the day requested. Photos will be available at our level 3 office for collection after notice has appeared in the paper.

Church Services

$260 per week

Quads / LUV’s

Specials available from 30/03 - 5/04

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Two bed flat

$2.79 ea $1.49 bag $1.99 bag $7.99 bag

OPEN 7 DAYS

LET OR LEASE

TO LET

Red Grapes $3.99 kg

MOTORING

Ashburton Guardian

Saturday, April 2, 2016

ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192.

Saturday: 10am - 1pm, Sunday 1pm - 4pm

ASHBURTON MUSEUM

327 West Street, Asburton. Ph 307 7890.

Weekends 1pm - 4pm. Research facilities

Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700 - 24 hour service.

MID CANTERBURY SPCA

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

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

969 or (dogs) Dawn 021 828 350

VETERINARIANS

ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 0276 838 111, 149 Cameron St, Ashburton: Duty vet: Jo Hallenstein. Full emergency service all weekend.

VET ENT RIVERSIDE - PH 03 308 2321, INFORMATION CENTRES 1 Smallbone Dr, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am ASHBURTON - Sat 10am until 2pm.

- 12 noon. 24-hour Emergencies: Large: Andrew Sun CLOSED. Public holidays from 10am until Robinson. Small: Gabbie Muschamp.

2pm. Phone 308-1050.

CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, METHVEN - Saturday, Sunday and Public West Street Clinic, West Street, Ashburton.

Holidays 10am until 3pm.

Phone 302-8955 or isite@midcanterburynz.com Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Steve Williams.

BUS DEPARTURES VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

Cnr East St & Smithfield Rd, Ashburton.

Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm. emergencies: Large: Matt Hart. Small: Ref Vet Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

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ANIMAL SERVICES

Vet Ent and Vet Life now operate a joint after-

small animal emergency service. To use DOG, STOCK & NOISE CONTROL hours this service please phone your vet as usual.

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6am Te Karere 3 2 6:30 Country Calendar A young family live life at a high pace on their Gisborne stud farm. 0 7am Rural Delivery 0 7:30 Infomercials 9am Tagata Pasifika 9:30 The Game Chef 0 10am Come Dine With Me PGR Noon Saturday Kitchen 1pm Gino’s Italian Escape 2pm Kiwi Living 3 0 3pm Border Security PGR 3 0 3:30 Along For The Ride 3 0 4pm River Monsters With Jeremy Wade 0 5pm Robson Green’s Ultimate Catch 0 6pm One News 0

6am Tiki Tour 3 0 6:25 Wiki The Kiwi 3 0 6:35 Miles From Tomorrowland 3 0 7am The Amazing World Of Gumball 3 0 7:25 Randy Cunningham – 9th Grade Ninja 3 0 7:50 Pokemon XY 3 0 8:15 Hulk And The Agents Of Smash 0 8:45 The Barefoot Bandits 0 9:10 Clarence 0 9:35 Mighty Med 10:05 Fresh 10:35 Step By Step 0 11:05 Full House 0 11:35 F Young And Hungry PGR 0 12:05 The Fosters PGR 1:05 Pretty Little Liars PGR 0 2:05 The Flash PGR 0 3:05 Supergirl 0 4:05 Ant And Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway 0 5:30 Bear Grylls – Survival School 0 6pm N Betty White’s Off Their Rockers 0 6:30 The Middle 0 7pm Country Calendar – Tribute 7pm M Spider-Man 2 Special 0 PGR 2004 Action. Tobey 7:30 N Posh Pawn PGR 0 Maguire, Kirsten Dunst. 0 8pm L Lotto The Lotto draw.

9:35 M The Man 8:05 Posh Pawn PGR 0 AO 2005 Action. A special 8:35 Coronation Street PGR 0 agent is out to get the man 10:35 M Mandela – Long who killed his partner, but Walk To Freedom a case of mistaken identity AO 2013 Biography. leads him to a salesman with Idris Elba, Naomie Harris. 0 too many questions and a knack of getting in his way.

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1:20 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 NB: Daylight Saving Ends Clocks go back one hour, 3:00am becomes 2:00am. 3:10 Neighbourhood 0 3:40 Infomercials 4:15 L Football – English Premier League Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur.

CHOICE TV 6am Better Homes And Gardens 7:30 Reno v Relocate 8am Love Nature – Monkey Thieves 8:30 Wildlife SOS 9am Shark Man 9:30 Luke Nguyen’s France 10am Paul And Nick’s Big American Food Trip 10:30 Location, Location, Location 11:30 Auction Kings Noon George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 1pm Gardeners’ World 1:30 Better Homes And Gardens 3pm The Liquidator 3:30 Buying The Bayou 4pm Kirstie’s Handmade Showdown 5pm Hugh’s Three Good Things 5:30 Poh And Co 6pm Getaway 6:30 Polar Bear Town 7:30 Antiques Roadshow Detectives 8pm Travel Man 8:30 Lost Kingdoms Of Central America 9:40 Backroad Bounty 10:40 Xtreme Endurance – Race To The Pole 11:30 Getaway

11:10 M Gimme Shelter AO 2013 Drama. Vanessa Hudgens.

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6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Sticky TV 8:25 Oh No! It’s An Alien Invasion 3 8:50 Beyblade – Shogun Steel 3 9:15 Power Rangers – Dino Charge 9:40 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Infomercials 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm Drake And Josh 3 As punishment for using fake IDs, the boys must enter a ’Steered Straight’ programme, but things take a turn for the worse.

5:30 Mr Young 3 6pm Victorious 3 6:30 Life’s Funniest Moments 3 7pm Bullseye 3 0 8pm The Biggest Loser Australia 3 9:50 Hounds AO (Starting Today) 3 A shiftless lawyer inherits a half-sister, half a house, and an alcoholic dog trainer after his father dies suddenly at the dog track.

10:20 Just Shoot Me! PGR 3 0 10:45 Baggage AO 3

6am Home Shopping Noon Rugby League – NRL Fulltime (Highlights) Round four of the NRL Premiership.

12:30 The Crowd Goes Wild Omnibus 3 2:30 Scandimania PGR 3 First on Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Scandinavian trip is Sweden, where he is caught up in elk hunting, sitcom sets, a summer crayfish party, and ABBA excitement. 0 3:30 Big Spring Clean 3 4pm River Cottage To The Core (Starting Today) 3 Hugh FearnleyWhittingstall looks back to see how successful his mission to get people to ‘fruit-ify’ their meals has been.

5pm Addicted To Fishing 3 5:30 Prime News 6pm Animal Heroes 3

12:35 Blue Bloods AO Danny must investigate an old childhood friend who is connected to a mafia family.

1:30 Infomercials 5am Hillsong 5:30 Charles Stanley

11:10 Infomercials

11:45 Home Shopping

4:30 Get Your Fish On PGR 3 5pm Moko Aotearoa 3 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Waka Huia 3 6:30 M Crocodile Dundee II PGR 1988 Action Adventure.

Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski.

8:30 M The World’s Fastest Indian AO 2005 Biopic.

Anthony Hopkins, Iain Rea, Tessa Mitchell.

10:50 Te Kaea 3 2 11:20 Closedown

6am Netball – ANZ Championships (Highlights) Queensland Firebirds v Mainland Tactix. 6:30 Netball – ANZ Championships (Highlights) Northern Mystics v Southern Steel.

7am Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Titans v Broncos.

7:30 L Rugby League – Super League Wigan Warriors v We Bought a Zoo Father Brown Warrington Wolves. 10:30 Friday Night With Matty Johns 7pm on TV3 7:30pm on Prime 11:30 Swimming – New Zealand Open Championships (Highlights) MOVIES PREMIERE MOVIES GREATS Day Five. Noon Sport News NZ 7:40 Making Of The Mummy – 6:30 The Making Of Godzilla PG 12:30 Sports UK News 6:50 Blended MLS 2014 Comedy.

Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor 1pm Motorsport – Toyota Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore.

PG 2008 7:55 Terminator Championship Toyota Finance 86 8:50 Edge Of Tomorrow MVL 2014 Salvation MV 2009 Action.

Championship – Round Six. Action. Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt.

9:50 Little Nicky MS 2000 Comedy. 2pm Rugby League – NRL 10:40 The Making Of Godzilla 11:20 Philadelphia PGC 1993 (Highlights) Titans v Broncos.

PG 10:55 Bad Blood 16VLSC 2013 Drama. 1:25 Shaun Of The 2:30 L Rugby League – Drama. Abigail Breslin, Sean Bean.

Dead MVLC 2004 Horror Comedy.

Holden Cup Storm U20 v Knights 12:25 Lucy 16V 2014 Action.

3pm Mercury Rising MVL 1998 U20.

Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman. Action Thriller. 4:50 The Whole 4:30 L Rugby League – NRL 1:55 Pixels PGVLS 2015 Comedy.

Ten Yards MVS 2004 Comedy Thriller. Storm v Knights.

Adam Sandler, Kevin James. 3:40 A 6:30 Friday Night Lights PG 2004 7pm L Rugby League – NRL Most Violent Year MVLC 2015 Action Action. 8:30 Mission – Impossible Tigers v Sharks.

Crime Drama. 5:45 Transformers – MV 1996 Action. An American agent, 9:30 L Rugby League – NRL Age Of Extinction MVL 2014 Action. under false suspicion of disloyalty, Cowboys v Dragons. From 1300 8:30 Black Sea MVL 2014 Thriller. must discover and expose the Smiles Stadium.

10:25 Godzilla MV 2014 Action. real spy without the help of his SUNDAY SUNDAY organisation.

Midnight L Football – League 12:25 Stag 16LS 1997 Drama.

10:25 District 9 16VL 2009 Sci-fi.

Championship Brighton v Burnley.

1:50 A Most Violent Year MVLC SUNDAY 2:45 L Rugby League – UK 2015 Action Crime Drama. NB: 12:15 Hope Springs AO 2003 Super League Wakefield Wildcats Daylight Saving Ends Clocks go Comedy Romance. 1:45 The v Salford Red Devils. NB: Daylight back one hour, 3:00am becomes Whole Ten Yards MVS 2004 Comedy Saving Ends Clocks go back one 2:00am. 2:55 Transformers Thriller. NB: Daylight Saving Ends hour, 3:00am becomes 2:00am.

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Widnes Vikings.

7pm Storage Wars 7:30 Father Brown PGR When Lady Felicia finds a stripped and injured man stuck up a tree, Sid is implicated.

Can Father Brown prove his innocence, or has Sid gone too far this time?

8:30 Partners In Crime PGR 0 9:45 Rugby – Super Rugby (Delayed) Blues v Jaguares.

MAORI TV 6:30 Pukoro 2 7am SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 2 7:30 Tribe 8am Matika 3 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Playlist 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Cam’s Kai 3 10:30 Paki Vault 3 11am Kawe Korero – Reporters 1:30 The Big Hit 3 2pm Rugby – French Top 14 2:30 Friday Night Lights PGR 3:30 Te Po Mekemeke 3 4pm Whawhai

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6am Parking Wars PGL 6:25 Whose Line Is It Anyway? US PG 6:50 Pawn Stars PG 7:15 Lizard Lick Towing PG 7:40 Criminal Intent MV 8:30 Survivor – Redemption Island Marathon PG 11:50 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG A marathon of Simpson’s episodes. 2:20 Parking Wars PGL 3:10 Law And Order – UK MV 4pm By Any Means ML 4:55 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG 7:30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? US PG 8pm Pawn Stars PG 8:30 N Lizard Lick Towing PG 9pm Call Of The SUNDAY Wildman PG 9:30 Combat Dealers Midnight Hugh’s Three PG 10:30 RBT MC 10:55 Crash Good Things 12:30 Poh And Investigation Unit M 11:20 RAW Co 1am Kirstie’s Handmade Showdown 2am Polar Bear MC SUNDAY Town NB: Daylight Saving Ends 1:45 Combat Dealers PG NB: Clocks go back one hour, 3:00am Daylight Saving Ends 2:05 The becomes 2:00am. 2am Love Woodsmen PG 2:40 Whose Line Nature – Lion Tree 3am Antiques Is It Anyway? PG 3:05 Pawn Roadshow Detectives 3:30 Travel Stars PG 3:30 N Lizard Lick Man 4am Backroad Bounty Towing PG 3:55 Call Of The 5am Buying The Bayou 5:30 The Wildman PG 4:20 By Any Means Liquidator ML 5:10 Parking Wars PGL

SKY SPORT 1

6am Charles Stanley 6:30 Gone Fishin’ 3 7am Outdoors With Geoff 3 7:30 Infomercials 9:30 The Nation An in-depth weekly local current affairs show.

10:30 Baggage PGR 3 11am F Million Dollar Listing NY PGR Previously unseen footage from season three.

Noon The Real Housewives Of New Jersey PGR 3 1pm Come Dine With Me New Zealand PGR 3 0 1:30 Lip Sync Battle PGR 3 0 2pm The Bachelor New Zealand PGR 3 0 3pm The Bachelor New Zealand PGR 3 4pm Grand Designs Australia 3 0 5pm Gone Fishin’ 5:30 The Goldbergs 3 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm M We Bought A Zoo PGR 3 2011 Drama.

Based on a true story about a single father who decides his family needs a fresh start, so he and his two children move to a zoo. Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson. 0 9:25 M Australia AO 3 2008 Adventure.

Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman. 0

8am The Golf Fix 9am Golf – Feherty 10am Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Gold Coast Titans v Brisbane Broncos.

10am The F1 Show 11am Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Lions v Crusaders. 1pm Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Highlanders v Force. 1:30 Rugby League – Super League (Highlights) Wakefield Wildcats v Salford Red Devils. 2pm Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Lions v Crusaders.

2:30 Sports UK News 3pm Rugby League – Super League (Replay) Wakefield Wildcats v Salford Red Devils. 5pm Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Lions v Crusaders.

5:30 L Rugby – Blues Secondary Schools Invitational 10s 6:35 World Rugby 7pm L Rugby – Super Rugby Blues v Jaguares.

From QBE Stadium.

9:40 L Rugby – Super Rugby Brumbies v Chiefs.

From GIO Stadium, Canberra.

11:45 Random Rugby

Midnight Football – A-League (High-lights) 12:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 1am Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) 2am Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) NB: Daylight Saving Ends 2:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 3am L Rugby – Super Rugby 5:10 L Rugby – Super Rugby

SKY SPORT 2

DISCOVERY 6am Destroyed In Seconds PG 6:30 Mythbusters PG Seesaw Saga.

7:30 Mythbusters PG 8:30 ET Fishing Escapes PG 9:25 Alaskan Bush People M 10:20 Naked And Afraid M 11:15 Treehouse Masters PG 12:10 Gold Rush PG 1:05 Naked And Afraid PopUp Edition M 2pm Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman PG 2:55 Alien Mysteries PG 3:50 Railroad Australia PG 4:45 Alaskan Bush People M 5:40 Chaos Caught On Camera M 6:05 Chaos Caught On Camera M 6:35 Gold Rush PG 7:30 Treehouse Masters PG 8:30 Restoration Wild PG 9:30 Railroad Australia PG 10:30 Auction Hunters PG 11pm Man Made Marvels PG

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Midnight Naked And Afraid M 1am Zombie Sharks M 2am Dukes Of Haggle PG 2:30 Railroad Australia PG 3:30 Dirty Jobs PG 4:30 Dukes Of Haggle PG 5am Mythbusters PG

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6:30 The Fishing Show 0 7:15 Sunday 0 7:35 Tagata Pasifika 8am Praise Be 8:30 Attitude 0 9am Q+A 0 10am Waka Huia 10:30 Marae PGR 2 11am Neighbourhood 0 11:35 Fair Go 3 0 Noon Nature’s Great Events 0 12:55 SPCA Rescue 0 1:25 Coasters 0 1:55 George Clarke – Restoration Man 3 0 2:55 Alex Polizzi’s Secret Italy PGR 3 0 3:55 Piha Rescue 0 4:25 Fishy Business 0 4:55 N The Supervet Series in which hardto-cure pets receive cutting-edge care from Noel Fitzpatrick, the Bionic Vet, and his veterinary team. 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Sunday 0 7:30 Our First Home With two weeks to go, the Roughan family begins a large amount of work that threatens a relationship; the Pearce family deals with the budget. 0 8:30 Blindspot AO 0 10:20 N The Widower PGR 0

6am Tiki Tour 3 0 6:25 Sofia The First 3 0 6:50 The Octonauts 3 0 7:10 The Tom And Jerry Show 3 0 7:35 Get Ace 3 0 8am What Now It is World Party Day on What Now, with performers, acts, magicians, balloons, and games, and Phone and Away makes a come back.

10am Jessie 0 10:25 The Voice 3 0 Noon Shortland Street Omnibus PGR 0 2:35 N The Family Tools PGR 3pm Home And Away Omnibus 0 6pm N The Cul De Sac Greta Gregory, KJ Apa. 0 6:30 The Middle 0

6am Life TV 6:30 Brian Houston 7am Charles Stanley 8am Universal Church Of The Kingdom Of God 8:30 Turning Point 9am Mayday – The Passenger Who Landed A Plane 3 0 9:55 The Nation 0 10:50 Missing Pieces PGR 3 0 11:15 Arranged PGR Noon Entertainment Tonight Weekend 1pm Motorsport – Australian Carrera Cup Round Seven, Bathurst.

1:30 Motorsport – NHRA Round Three.

2:30 Motorsport – D1NZ Part Two. 3pm Motorsport – TR86 Round Six, Taupo.

4pm Motorsport – Monster Jam #3 5pm Ice Road Truckers 3 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm 7pm Si And Gary’s Now That’s 7pm The Simpsons 0 Funny! PGR 0 7:30 The Late, Late Show 7:30 The Hunt PGR 0 Carpool Karaoke Special. 0 8:30 The Night Manager AO 0 8:30 M Sex Tape AO 2014 9:30 N Live At The Apollo Comedy. Jason Segel, AO Dara O’Briain introduces Cameron Diaz. 0 ventriloquist Nina Conti, and 10:20 Filthy Rich AO 3 Brady comedian Danny Bhoy. 0 discovers John sr may have 10:30 M Ungodly Acts more hidden secrets; Grace PGR 2015 Drama. Brant reveals her true feelings to Daugherty, Megan Park.

Kennedy; Joe makes a play for power that lands him in bed with a new temptress. 0

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Strawberry Shortcake 3 7:25 Wonder Pets 3 7:50 Ready, Steady, Wiggles 3 8am Tree Fu Tom 3 8:45 Julius Jr 3 9:10 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom 3 9:30 Sticky TV Omnibus Noon Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Infomercials 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 6pm Victorious 3 6:30 M Doctor Dolittle 3 3 2005 Family Adventure. Kyla Pratt, Kristen Wilson, Walker Howard. 0 8:30 M Save The Last Dance AO 3 2001 Drama. When her mother dies, an aspiring ballerina goes to live with her father in Chicago, and it seems her dreams have been thwarted. Julia Stiles, Sean Patrick Thomas.

10:45 Entertainment Tonight Weekend The biggest entertainment stories of the last week.

6am Religious Programming 10:30 Sport Box The best of the past week’s sports from New Zealand and around the world.

Noon Mythbusters PGR 3 The MythBusters investigate the truth of common idioms.

1:05 Shearing Gang PGR 3 Peter Lyon’s schedule is threatened when ace shearer Mouse O’Neil uses the Lake Hawea shear to practice for a shearing challenge in Australia, and slows everyone down.

1:35 MasterChef Junior USA 3 2:30 Idris Elba – King Of Speed PGR 3 3:30 Danger Beach 3 4pm Deal Or No Deal 4:30 Rugby Nation 5:30 Prime News 6pm Life 3

11:20 Q+A 3 Local political-affairs programme. 0 12:30 Attitude 3 0 1am Emmerdale PGR 3 0 3am Marae PGR Maori current affairs show. 2 3:30 Infomercials

12:25 Infomercials 12:20 Arrow 3 0 1:15 Embarrassing Bodies Down 5:30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong TV 3 Under AO 3 0 2:15 NY ER PGR 3 2:45 Infomercials 3:20 Jeremy Kyle PGR 3 4:15 It Is Written 3 4:45 Switched At Birth 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

11:40 Infomercials

11:30 Top Gear USA PGR 3 Adam, Tanner, and Rut face the challenge of creating the perfect convertible for Alaska, and construct home-made vehicles tough enough to survive in America’s 49th state.

12:30 Home Shopping

CHOICE TV 6am Love Nature – Monkey Thieves 6:30 Through The Bible With Les Feldick 7am Lost Kingdoms Of Central America 8am Buying The Bayou 8:30 Getaway 9am The Liquidator 9:30 Hugh’s Three Good Things 10am Poh And Co 10:30 Kirstie’s Handmade Showdown 11:30 Polar Bear Town 12:30 Antiques Roadshow Detectives 1pm Travel Man 1:30 Backroad Bounty 2:30 Jonathan Phang’s Gourmet Trains 3:30 From Ireland To Sydney By Any Means 4:30 Poh’s Kitchen Lends A Hand 5pm Beyond River Cottage 5:30 Far Flung With Gary Mehigan 6:30 The Living Room 7:30 American Pickers Mike and Frank spot a White Castle burger shop on an Ohio farmer’s front lawn, and discover his collection of vintage buildings and vehicles.

8:30 M Into The Wild AO 2007 Drama. Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt.

11:30 The Time Of Our Lives AO

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12:30 M Last Chance Harvey PGR 2009 Drama. Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson. 0 2:30 From Ireland To Sydney By Any Means 3:30 Poh’s Kitchen Lends A Hand 4am American Pickers 5am Far Flung With Gary Mehigan

7:15 Small Blacks TV 7:30 Random Rugby 7:45 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Blues v Jaguares. 8:15 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) Brumbies v Chiefs. 8:45 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Round Five – Saturday.

9:15 ICC Cricket 360 9:45 Rugby League – Super League (Replay) Catalans Dragons v Widnes Vikings. 11:45 Small Blacks TV Noon Rugby – Blues Secondary Schools Invitational 10s (Replay) 1pm Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 1:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 2pm L Netball – ANZ Championship Swifts v Vixens. 4pm Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 4:30 Golf World 5pm Golf Central 6pm L Rugby – Super Rugby Waratahs v Rebels.

7pm Storage Wars PGR 8:05 World Rugby A show 7:30 Antiques Roadshow 0 reflecting on the best of 8:30 Decades In Colour Local rugby union around the documentary series that world. travels through three decades 8:30 Rugby Nation Highlights of change in New Zealand’s and analysis of the latest history. 0 rugby action.

9:35 Elementary AO Watson 9:30 Football – Arsenal TV reacts when her stepfather Arsenal v Watford. From the writes a crime novel without Emirates Stadium. her knowledge, based on her work with Holmes.

10:35 Limitless PGR 3

MAORI TV 10am Game Of Bros 10:30 Media Take 3 11am Native Affairs 3 11:30 Marae Kai Masters 12:30 Play PGR 1:30 Waka Ama Sprint Nationals 2:30 Poitukohu – Nga Kura Tuarua (Highlights) 3:30 Rugby – French Top 14 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Nga Tangata Taumata Rau PGR 7pm The Laughing Samoans

THE BOX 6am Survivor – Redemption Island Marathon PG 9:20 The Simpsons Super Sunday PG A marathon of Simpson’s episodes.

11:50 RBT MC 12:15 RAW MC 3pm Main Event MV 3:55 Smackdown MV 5:35 RBT MC 6pm Crash Investigation Unit M 6:25 Call Of The Wildman PG 6:50 Combat Dealers PG 7:40 Covert Affairs MV When Annie’s mission in Russia goes awry, Auggie, Joan, and Arthur work with an old friend to bring her home safely.

8:30 Bosch MVL 9:25 Bosch MVL 10:20 Da Vinci’s Demons 18VLS 11:20 Covert Affairs MV

MONDAY

12:10 Smackdown MV 1:50 Main Event MV 2:40 Da Vinci’s Demons 18VLS 3:30 Bosch MVL 4:20 Bosch MVL 5:10 Covert Affairs MV

12:30 Fox Sports News 1am L Cricket – ICC World Twenty20 Final – West Indies v England. 5am Motorsport – V8 Supercars Championship (Highlights) Tasmania Supersprint – Race Five. 5:30 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Eels v Panthers.

SKY SPORT 2 6am Fox Sports News 7:30 Motorsport – Formula 1 (Replay) Qualifying.

9am Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) Blues v Jaguares. From QBE Stadium.

11am Sport News NZ For all the latest sports news from New Zealand and around the world.

11:30 Rugby League – NRL Filthy Rich (Highlights) Round Five – Saturday.

10:20pm on TV2 Noon Rugby League – Super League (Highlights) Catalans MOVIES PREMIERE MOVIES GREATS Dragons v Widnes Vikings.

6:05 Friday Night Lights PGC 7:10 Pixels PGVLS 2015 12:30 Sports UK News 2004 Action. Billy Bob Thornton, Comedy. Adam Sandler, 1pm Sport News NZ Derek Luke. 8am Hope Springs AO 1:30 L Rugby League – NSW Kevin James. 8:55 Black Sea 2003 Comedy Romance. Colin Firth, Cup Wyong v Canterbury. From Mt MVL 2014 Thriller. Jude Law, Heather Graham, Minnie Driver.

Scoot McNairy. 10:50 Godzilla Smart Stadium.

9:30 District 9 16VL 2009 Sci-fi.

MV 2014 Action. Bryan Cranston, 3:30 L Rugby League – NRL Sharlto Copley, William Allen Young.

Elizabeth Olsen. 12:50 Stag 16LS Roosters v Warriors. From Central 11:20 The Whole Ten Yards MVS 1997 Drama. Mario Van Peebles, 2004 Comedy Thriller. 1pm Mission Coast Stadium.

Andrew McCarthy, Kevin Dillon.

5:50 The After Match Awen – Impossible MV 1996 Action.

2:15 Transformers – Age Of Guttenbeil and guests discuss the An American agent, under false Extinction MVL 2014 Action. suspicion of disloyalty, must discover big issues in rugby league.

Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz.

4:55 The Cobbler MV 2014 Comedy. and expose the real spy without the 6:30 L Paris Marathon help of his organisation. 2:50 How 9:30 Rugby – Blues School Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi.

6:35 Devil’s Knot MVLC 2014 Crime. To Lose A Guy In 10 Days PGL 2003 Invitational 10s (Replay) Romantic Comedy. 4:45 Tin Cup Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon.

10:30 Rugby – Super Rugby AO 1996 Comedy Drama. 7pm The (Highlights) Brumbies v Chiefs.

8:30 Spy 16VLS 2015 Comedy.

Happening MV 2008 Drama.

Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne.

11pm Fox Sports News The 8:30 The Hangover AO 2009 10:35 Into The Grizzly Maze 16VL latest sports news and previews of Comedy. 10:15 Kiss The Girls 2015 Horror. James Marsden. sporting action still to come.

18VL 1997 Crime Thriller.

MONDAY 11:30 Sunday Footy Show 12:10 The Opposite Sex 16LS 2014 MONDAY MONDAY Comedy. Mena Suvari, Geoff Stults.

12:10 How To Lose A Guy In 10 1:30 Football – Chelsea TV Aston 1:45 Devil’s Knot MVLC 2014 Crime. Days PGL 2003 Romantic Comedy.

Villa v Chelsea. From Villa Park.

Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon.

2:05 Tin Cup ML 1996 Comedy 4:30 L Motorsport – Nascar 3:40 Spy 16VLS 2015 Comedy.

Drama. 4:20 The Happening MV Sprint Cup Series STP 500. From 5:40 Into The Grizzly Maze 16VL 2008 Drama. 5:50 The Hangover 2015 Horror. Billy Bob Thornton.

AO 2009 Comedy.

Martinsville Speedway.

7:30 Rugby League – NRL (Highlights) Roosters v Eagles.

8:30 M Frost/Nixon AO 2008 Drama. The true story of the interview between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with a name to make. Frank Langhella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon.

Our First Home 10:50 Te Kaea 3 2 7:30pm on TV One 11:20 Closedown

DISCOVERY 6am Destroyed In Seconds PG Episode 55. 6:30 Mythbusters PG Curving Bullets. 7:30 Mythbusters PG Star Wars – The Myths Strike Back. 8:30 Gold Rush PG Goldzilla Gold. 9:25 Treehouse Masters PG Rustic English Re-Tree-T. 10:20 Restoration Wild PG 11:15 Naked And Afraid M 12:10 Bear’s Wild Weekend M 1:05 Inside The Vatican’s Vault PG 2pm Treehouse Masters PG 2:55 Treehouse Masters PG 3:50 Treehouse Masters PG 4:45 Treehouse Masters PG 5:40 Railroad Australia PG 6:35 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 7:30 Tutankhamun M 8:30 Mythbusters PG 9:30 Mythbusters PG 10:30 Mythbusters PG

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12:30 Mythbusters PG 1:25 Mythbusters PG 2:20 Mythbusters PG 3:15 Mythbusters PG 4:10 Mythbusters PG 5:05 Mythbusters PG

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Family Notices 38 Ashburton Guardian DEATHS

WALSH, William George, (Bill) – On March 31, 2016. Passed away peacefully with his family, at Ashburton, aged 84 years. Dearly loved husband of the late Rita. Most kind, loving, gentle father and father in law of Kay and Bruce Whelan, Murray and Jude, Athlyn and Wayne Dowthwaite and Jo and Gordon Cawte. Adored “Poppy” of Hamish, Ross, and Stephen; Anna, and Dean; Hannah, and Lucy; Amy, Brooke, and Angel Kenallie; and “Poppa Billy” of Zara, Quinn, Eden, Maddie, and Cooper; Kingston, and Henae; Jonty, and Tanner.

Messages to the Walsh family P O Box 472, Ashburton 7740. Donations to Ashburton St John would be appreciated and may be left at the service. A service to celebrate Bill’s life will be held at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Havelock Street, Ashburton on TUESDAY, April 5, commencing at 2.00pm. Followed by private cremation at the Ashburton Crematorium.

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EMERSON, Eleanor Marguerite – Susan, Julie, Robyn, Mark and families would like to MCINTYRE, James (Jim) – sincerely thank all those who Three years ago on April 3 supported us in so many you passed away. ways in the loss of a much “It doesn’t take a special day loved mother, mother-in-law to bring you to our minds and nana. To the staff of for days without a thought of Coldstream Rest Home and you are very hard to find.” to Dr Penny Holdaway, your Our much loved husband, loving support and care you father, father-in-law and gave to our mum will always grandad. be remembered. To all those who attended her funeral, especially those who had to DEATHS travel, and those who donated to the cancer society we thank you. We would also like to acknowledge the Salvation Army ladies, Lois Ranson and all those who assisted with making her Canterbury owned, service so special. Please locally operated accept this as our personal acknowledgement of our Patersons thanks to you all.

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ACROSS 1. A fight in which cuffs were exchanged with the French (7) 6. Result from university seen as being different (5) 9. Photocopy showing curlyhaired cat backing into another animal (5) 10. Right now, it’s a gift (7) 11. It is not made right among terrorists (5) 12. Flower I have made between runs (5) 13. What’s over the side perhaps one is about to regret (7) 15. Silly smile miser may adopt about a penny (6) 16. The greater part one gets in isn’t dry (5) 18. Mock the way one may eat it (5) 20. An additional player in a crowd scene (5) 21. Little Tom has two knuckles as opposed to three (5) 22. Nothing could anger a mandarin (6) 25. Choose to cut down on what may break new ground (7) 26. A tenth of it is included in article (5) 27. One not working, as opposed to the chanter (5) 28. Cat returns to hat that’s sensitive to touch (7) 29. The way one goes far out, even when contained (5) 30. Where to water a substance flower arrangers use (5)

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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across 1. Drama 4. Flotsam 8. Crossed swords 10. Malar 11. Nark 12. Form 16. Expel 17. Incarceration 19. Narwhal 20. Spear Down 1. Documentation 2. Ado 3. Assume 4. Fiddle 5. Onward 6. Survivors 7. Master-mariner 9. Streetcar 13. Search 14. Appeal 15. Always 18. Ice QUICK Across 6. Bearer 7. Remove 10. Enthuse 11. Erect 12. Tire 13. Coven 16. Passé 17. Daub 20. Droop 21. Startle 22. Depart 23. Alumni Down 1. Absentminded 2. Capture 3. Debut 4. Referee 5. Foxed 8. Eat humble pie 9. Repossess 14. Rampart 15. Pastime 18. Soppy 19. Early

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ACROSS 1. Temporary (11) 8. Habitual (7) 9. Simpleton (5) 10. Think over, ponder (4) 11. Rowers (7) 12. In favour (3) 13. None (4) 15. Orderly (4) 17. Perceive (3) 19. Highest (7) 20. Reverberate (4) 23. Tolerate (5) 24. Wilted (7) 25. Title (11)

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YOUR STARS ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Sometimes you’re tempted to slack on the “personal excellence” thing, but this isn’t just about you. You’ve had a profound impact on another person whether or not you realise it.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Something has shaken your confidence, but this is not who you really are. Get back to that hardiness that’s so you. Do the things that prove you’re strong, in control and capable of whatever life throws at you.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): You thought you were stuck, but now you realise that you’ve been stumbling around perfectly good exit doors and windows. Today you might turn the knob.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): Once in a while you may get lucky, but for the most part the same rules apply to you and everyone else in the carnival of life: You can’t take the ride if you didn’t buy the ticket.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): You’ve been too selfsacrificing. Make your own wishes a priority, if only for the experiment of it. You could learn that loved ones are less supportive than you’d hoped. But it could also be the thing that makes your weekend great.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): The job at hand is not beneath you, though you may want to give it another title. What you call things is very important, because it changes your attitude about what they are.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): More options aren’t necessarily better. An overwhelming environment may make you feel closed and small. If that’s the case, scratch it off and keep moving until you find the environment that inspires you.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): Fun starts with your preferences. Life doesn’t have to fit your wish list to be a blast, but one or two standout features that light up your heart will make you smile.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Attention spans aren’t what they used to be. Communicating in quantity isn’t the answer. Communicate with fewer, more specific and effective words.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Comparison takes all the fun out of the game. Maybe it’s a war and you’re dead serious about using the right attack. In that case, compare and contrast to your heart’s content.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Your praise goes straight to the hearts and minds of the praised. If you’re a leader, you’ll get astounding results by focusing on what your followers are doing right.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Maybe what you’re doing is just a hobby at this point, but it’s going to lead to something different. You’ll have responsibilities and possibly a paycheque that goes along with it. Enjoy these carefree times.

OPEN HOMES

SATURDAY 2ND APRIL 19 Coniston Drive, Ashburton

10:00 - 10:30am

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61 Eton Street, Ashburton

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30 Grey Street, Ashburton

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39 Queens Drive, Ashburton

10:15 - 10:45am

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26 Suffolk Street, Ashburton

10:15 - 10:30am

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16 Kerr Street, Ashburton

10:45 - 11:15am

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19 Russell Avenue, Ashburton

11:30 - 12:00pm

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26 Mitchell Place, Ashburton

11:45 - 12:15pm

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2 Avalon Grove, Ashburton

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11 Glassey Drive, Ashburton

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22 Buchanan Place, Ashburton

12:30 - 1:00pm

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5 Manse Place, Ashburton

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12 Jane Street, Tinwald

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30 Catherwood Avenue, Ashburton

1:30 - 2:00pm

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81 Harland Street, Tinwald

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127 Cameron Street, Ashburton

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147 Kermode Street, Ashburton

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38 Winslow Westerfield Road, Ashburton

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27 Grey Street, Ashburton

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12 Hanrahan Street, Ashburton

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3 Thomson Street, Tinwald

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87 Belt Road, Ashburton

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Ray White knows how to get you the best price for your property!

108 Smithfield Road, Ashburton

* 3.39 Ha subdividable * Zoned Residential D * Underground water main for irrigation and stock water from new well * Great shelter provided by mature trees For Sale Offers over $760,000 (+ GST if any) Open Home Sunday 12:00 - 12:30pm rwashburton.co.nz/ AHB2103

39 Queens Drive, Ashburton - 4 Bedroom PLUS hobby room - Sun-filled kitchen/dining & lounge - Double garage with internal access - Bathroom, shower room & 2WC - Sheltered courtyard, secure grounds For sale Offers over $395,000 Open Home Saturday 10:15 - 10:45am rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21155

147 Kermode Street, Ashburton Family friendly & impressive

* Deadline sale with offer invited in the vicinity of $398,000 * 3 Bedrooms (with build in storage) * 1 bathroom * Separate laundry * Family lounge area * Open plan kitchen,dining, living * Extremely well heated with diesel radiators & complaint log fire * PVC double glazing throughout * New roof * Large family orientated section with fabulous garaging/workshop

30 Grey Street, Ashburton

30 Catherwood Avenue

Deadline Sale closing 2pm, 6 April 2016 Open Home Saturday 10:00 - 10:30am

Open Home Saturday 1:30 - 2:00pm

- Between the Avenues - Corner Section Fully Fenced - Bungalow with Two Bedrooms could be three - A Project as it needs work

What a thrill to absorb everything this 1997 home has to offer. 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, office, open plan kitchen/ dining and living flowing to outdoor dining. Separate laundry, double garage with internal access and a strengthened mezzanine floor above offers storage space. * Deadline sale closing 4pm,15 April 2016

Open Home Sunday 10:30am - 11:00am rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21134 Kim Miller 027 236 8627 Mid Canterbury Real Estate Limited LICENSED (REAA 2008)

3 Thomson Street, Tinwald * * * *

Spacious kitchen dining living with separate lounge 4 bedrooms Master with ensuite and walk in robe 6 car garaging

For Sale $499,000 Open Home Sunday 12:00 - 12:30pm

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rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21163

55 Grayburn Road, Ashburton

12 Jane Street, Ashburton

110 Rolleston Street, Rakaia

For Sale $345,000

Deadline Sale closing 4pm, 21 April 2016

Open Home Sunday 1:15 - 1:45pm

Open Home Sunday 1:15 - 1:45pm

* Lifestyle zoned with septic tank and bore water * 4 bedrooms + office * Huge master suite with walk in robe & ensuite * Open plan kitchen, dining, living area * Separate living For Sale $859,000 Open Home Sunday 1:00 - 1:30pm rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21168

- Three double bedrooms - Double Garage - Short walk to Tinwald Primary School - Open plan kitchen/dining and living

rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21153

rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21167

Three bedroom brick family home.

Double garage & totally separate two bedroom low maintenance Granny Flat - Dual Income or extended family living.

Close proximity to shops, schools and transport

rwashburton.co.nz/AHB21169