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Fire engulfs house A house fire on Allens Road was well ablaze when firefighters arrived yesterday afternoon.

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Big surge in job seekers

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The number of people out of work in the Ashburton District has hit a modern day high at the end of last year with 383 registered unemployed.

An increase of 20 per cent over the previous December, it is the most significant jump in job seeker numbers for many years and outstrips the national rise of 5.2 per cent. For the first time in years, Ashburton’s unemployment numbers have risen at a rate well above most of New Zealand.

And that is showing through in the number of people on the books of Ashburton employment agencies says Agstaff consultant Blair O’Donnell.

The number of locals on the agency’s books is about 10 per cent up on last year, he said.

“The numbers are not huge, but they’re still quite a bit on the scale for Ashburton.”

With the second chain at Silver Fern Farms plant not starting this season, there was an influx of ex-works staff looking for jobs, O’Donnell said.

To date, with harvest related jobs most had been able to pick up casual work, but once the harvest was wrapped up employment might not be so easy to find, he said.

“We’ve been lucky, we’ve picked up some good clients this year so we’ve had more jobs and the work has flowed in but we never know what’s happening around the corner.”

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Fire engulfs Allenton home scene, chief fire officer Allan Burgess said.

He was unable to confirm whether anyone was in the flats when the blaze started but said all occupants had been accounted for.

The fire had taken hold in the ceiling and smoke was coming through the roof tiles of the adjourning flat, creating a challenge for firefighters.

Allens Road was blocked off from the Elizabeth Street intersection to clear the way for firefighters, however several vehicles as well as a large police presence were at the scene.

A large crowd had gathered on the street to watch the event unfold.

Burgess said it was too early to determine what had caused the blaze to start, however a fire investigator had visited the scene yesterday.

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Firefighters scrambled to control a house fire on Allens Road in Ashburton last night.

Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade was alerted to the blaze in a semidetached Housing New Zealand flat at about 4.45pm.

Neighbours reported seeing flames sheeting up the side of the property, and hearing a fire alarm in the flat going off intermittently beforehand.

Another person said a man ran from the house then return to collect a television set. The man then kicked in the door of the adjoining unit to let two dogs out, the witness said.

The property was fully engaged when firefighters arrived at the

Poultry remains found in recycling

Big surge in jobseekers From page 1 While the ex-freezing workers might not be earning the same money they were earning at the meat works, the seasonal jobs were at least providing them with a ‘half-way decent wage’ to take home at the end of the week, O’Donnell said.

Ashburton’s job seeker numbers have been trending upwards for the last few years. In the 2013 December quarter, 297 people were on registered and looking for work, with 309 in 2014 and 317 in 2015.

The 20 per cent jump to 383 this year, however, was the largest for many years.

Sole parent beneficiaries have remained steady over the past three December quarters at 305, while supported living (invalids benefit) numbers are declining. In December they had dropped to 339. Total beneficiary numbers in December were 1106.

A Pendarves resident’s concerns about poultry remains in a local recycle bin have been backed up by the Ashburton District Council.

The man discovered what appeared to the remains of a red laying hen amidst other contamination in a bin of otherwise clean glass when he visited the Pendarves recycling depot yesterday morning.

ADC waste recovery manager Craig Goodwin said recovering the glass would involve manually

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removing the offensive material, creating an “unnecessary and disgusting job”.

“It’s really disappointing to see good clean recyclable glass contaminated in this way,” he said.

“In severe cases, the entire load has to be discarded and sent to landfill. It’s really unfair on those great people who do take the care and time to recycle properly.

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Split library, civic centre costs high

By Sue Newman

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An additional $3 million could be added to the cost of Ashburton’s new administration centre and library if the project is split over two sites.

Plans have been developed for the two buildings to be co-located, with four possible sites shortlisted from a long list of options.

Two rounds of public consultation have been held and councillors were set to vote on their preferred option on February 23.

However, an 11th-hour call has been made by several newlyelected Ashburton District councillors for a relook at the project that could see the library and administration centre built on two separate sites.

Going down that path, however, would come with a high price tag, says council business support manager Paul Brake.

From the outset the council had opted for the combined model because of the significant space savings through shared facilities, he said.

Well over $100,000 has already been invested in the project through the site identification and public consultation process.

Consultants Opus architecture prepared an interim report for the two rounds of community consultation. In both the interim and final report it tagged land in Baring Square east as its preferred option.

Other sites in the mix are the current civic centre site on Baring Square West, Eastfield on Cass Street and the Balmoral Hall site, also on Cass Street.

Revisiting the split site option would come with a cost of at least $20,000 for another consultation process and if this became the final choice there would be a significantly higher build and ongoing operating costs, Brake said.

Two buildings would mean additional space would be needed in each building and at an estimate of $4000 per square metre, the extra cost could be around $1.6 million for each, Brake said.

Currently the council was spending around $100,000 per year on electricity for the administration centre and library; colocation would provide savings in this area along with ongoing maintenance costs. Car parking, landscaping, security, building consent costs, design costs and project management costs would also be higher with two builds.

The council has the option of selling surplus land when the project is completed and this option would be reduced if two sites were used, he said.

If councillors wanted to go down this path the benefits of two sites as opposed to one would need to be identified and those options would then need to be part of another round of community consultation, Brake said.

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The Ashburton Kidney Society will be offering demonstrations at Monday’s Multicultural Bite to raise awareness.

With the support of St John, they will be offering free blood pressure checks and have professionals on hand to discuss health issues and answer any questions from members of the public.

Ashburton woman Liz Carrick will also be demonstrating the use of the dialysis machine she uses in a bid to warn and educate people about the realities of kidney health.

The society committee member, who is on the transplant list, expressed the need to educate people of all ages of the importance their kidneys play.

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to promote and increase donor rates nationwide. “We are one of the lowest in the world for donor rates,” Carrick said.

“We’re also asking families to sit down and have a conversation and discussion if they do or don’t want their organs donated.”

They will be at the festival all day with Carrick on dialysis from 10.30am. People who have donated kidneys, and people who have had transplants, will also be around to discuss their story with the public.

“We would love as many people as possible to pop in and say hi, and any concerns they have, they can come and talk to us,” she said.

“We thought Multi Cultural Bite was good because a lot of people are around the town and our main focus is prevention.”

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“This is the reality of what it looks like and people are curious about what it means. It will be my first time in a public setting on dialysis.”

Carrick said they offer the free blood pressure tests through the Ashburton Kidney Society every year with St John professionals offering to provide the service.

“If you have high blood pressure, it can put stress on your kidneys, and it’s a good tell-tale sign for all kinds of diseases,” she said.

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September election New Zealand’s economy will be at the heart of the 2017 general election, Prime Minister Bill English said after revealing the country will go to the polls on September 23.

English has also left the door open to working with New Zealand First after the election, while saying it was unlikely prospect because of the party’s “inward-looking” views.

Announcing the date at a press conference in the Beehive this afternoon, English said the economy “will always be the central issue” in an election.

If the election could be summed up in a word, it would be “growth”, he said.

He downplayed the prospect of immigration taking centrestage in the election campaign, despite new data showing another record net gain in migrants in the past year. Forecasted slowdowns in migrants would mean immigration would not be a major issue, he said.

Labour leader Andrew Little, on the other hand, said the election would be fought on

housing affordability, access to healthcare and quality education, safer communities and a stronger economy.

“We’re well prepared, our teams are in place, our plans are well advanced and we’ll be working hard to convince New Zealanders we can help give them a fair shot at the Kiwi Dream.”

English said National would be “taking nothing for granted” because MMP elections were always close.

His party would continue to work with Act, United Future and the Maori Party in any postelection deals.

New Zealand First was “unlikely partner” because of its protectionist views, English said, but he was open to negotiations “depending on the makeup of Parliament”.

The election date was chosen because it was almost exactly three years after the 2014 election, on September 20.

Another unmentioned factor is that it falls between All Black tests on September 16 and September 30.

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Japanese drummers Takumi will be back in town for this year’s Multi Cultural Bite festival on Monday.

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Multicultural entertainment at bite fest Japanese taiko group Takumi will again add its distinct beat to the line-up of entertainers set to perform at the Multi Cultural Bite festival on Monday.

The energetic crew of drummers has held a regular spot at the festival for several years and never fails to draw a crowd.

Radius is also back for this year’s

festival. Scottish born guitarist Harry Harrison and Justine S will bring the stage to life with their unique blend of soulful melodies and grooves.

Cuban and Filipino dance groups will add their own cultural flair, along with youngsters from the Fa’apasifika Playgroup.

Crowd pleaser Sarah Heney will

open the entertainment line-up, and Ashburton local lass Ocean Waitokia will also take the stage during the multi cultural food fest.

Meanwhile, further along the street the Waitangi on East market will also be in full swing from 10am, offering a diverse range of arts, crafts, clothing and bric-abrac.

Building under way Name yet to

By Susan Sandys

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A restaurant and tapas bar is to be opened in a new building on West Street, Ashburton, later this year.

Construction of the new singlestory commercial premises, at the site of the former historic Rabobank building, is on track to be completed

by July.

Owner Don Williamson said his main tenant was a Mid Canterbury Construction at the site of a new restaurant on State couple, and they were planning to open the restaurant and tapas bar by Highway 1 in Ashburton is on track.

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The business would occupy just under two thirds of the building. It was the only confirmed tenant for the premises at this stage, and he was seeking another one or two tenants.

Tapas are a wide variety of Spanishstyle snacks, and have evolved into an entire sophisticated cuisine, popular with restaurant patrons worldwide.

Dining out is becoming a growing Kiwi tradition. Statistics New Zealand released data this week showing spending on eating out at restaurants has increased almost 57 per cent in the last decade.

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No further details have emerged about a man whose body was found on State Highway 1 near Ashburton on Tuesday afternoon.

Police and St John were notified that a body had been found in the treeline on the side of the road, near the intersection of State Highway 1 and Northpark Road, at about 4.20pm.

The man’s name had not been released yesterday. Police were not treating the death as suspicious.

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■■AUCKLAND HIGH COURT

Accused pleads guilty Jaden Lee Stroobant yesterday pleaded guilty to murdering West Auckland woman Cunxiu Tian in her family home.

Stroobant, 19, had been set to go on trial in the High Court at Auckland yesterday charged with murdering and sexually violating the 69-year-old.

He earlier pleaded not guilty to the charges, but yesterday he admitted the three counts.

Stroobant murdered Tian in the home where she lived with her daughter and son-in-law on Glenvil Lane in Te Atatu on January 15 last year.

Tian was alone at the house when Stroobant killed her.

Her daughter found her dead several hours later.

Justice Graham Lang convicted Stroobant on all three counts, and issued a three-strike warning.

Stroobant stood in the dock looking away from Justice Lang, twiddling his thumbs. He was

flanked by two security guards.

Details of the sexual offending have been suppressed but may be revealed at sentencing.

Justice Lang will decide at sentencing whether the details stay suppressed or if they can be published.

The Crown will seek preventive detention for Stroobant and cited public safety issues.

Stroobant was supported in court by family members. As he left the dock a woman believed to be his mother put her hand up to the glass, and he put his hand against it. They spoke softly to each other as he was led out the door to the cells.

Stroobant was silent during the hearing, uttering just three words - a guilty plea to each charge.

The victim’s family were not in court.

Stroobant will be sentenced on March 13.

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Climber makes own way to safety A Welsh climber who set off a personal locator beacon on Aoraki Mt Cook early yesterday morning made his own way to safety.

Maritime New Zealand spokesman Mark Dittmer said the Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand received the alert at 12.50 this morning from the Darwin Glacier. But bad weather prevented rescuers going to him.

“The beacon wasn’t registered [in New Zealand] - it was a UK

coded personal locator, and we’ve worked out it belongs to a Welshman,” Dittmer said.

He said the climber had told Aoraki Mt Cook DOC staff his climbing intentions and left on January 28.

He was planning to return on February 5 after spending four days at Darwin Glacier.

However, Dittmer said the weather around New Zealand’s highest mountain was “really bad”.

The 30-year-old climber set off the beacon after experiencing a “rough night” and becoming mildly hypothermic. He has since made his way to Tasman Saddle Hut and contacted the search team via radio.

The search team was able to get to him and concluded his health was okay. The climber said he will make his own way back, and may continue on his journey.

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Gunman’s ex jailed Man Haron Monis’ former partner has been sentenced to at least 33 years in jail for the disturbing, frenzied murder of the Lindt Cafe gunman’s ex-wife.

Amirah Droudis was in November found guilty of stabbing the 30-year-old woman 18 times, dousing her in petrol and setting her alight at a Werrington block of flats in Sydney’s west in 2013.

In delivering his verdict at the judgealone trial in November, Justice Peter Johnson said the “hot-blooded and frenzied” attack had been orchestrated by Monis after a bitter family dispute.

Droudis, 37, appeared calm as the sentence of 44 years, non-parole 33 years, was handed down in the NSW Supreme Court at Darlinghust yesterday.

Justice Johnson said Droudis’ moral culpability in the murder was high and that she had numerous chances to back out of the attack.

He said the pair had a very unusual relationship and accepted evidence she suffered emotional and physical abuse at the hands of Monis, whom he described as an “evil man”.

“His personality was marked by ... a grandiose sense of self-importance, a lack of empathy and a demonstrated capacity for exploitative behaviour and deceitful

Amirah Droudis conduct,” Justice Johnson said yesterday.

“He exploited what life in Australia offered him.”

The Crown had submitted the murder fell close to, if not in the worst case category and pointed out Droudis’ lack of remorse.

It submitted a jail sentence for the term of her natural life should be considered and that there was no evidence Droudis had rejected her former boyfriend’s extreme views.

Defence barrister Mark Ierace SC claimed the “spell” Monis had over Droudis had been broken and she had every reason to return to law-abiding life.

Justice Johnson said it was hard to understand why she had kept her Muslim faith, if she had departed from Monis’ views.

But he found she had fair prospects of rehabilitation and should not be jailed for the rest of her life.

The 10-week trial heard Monis had approached members of the Rebel motorcycle gang to carry out the murder but was not taken seriously.

Justice Johnson said Droudis had long supported Monis’ extreme actions and appeared in videos celebrating the Holocaust, September 11 and the Bali bombings.

She also helped him send letters to the family of at least one deceased Australian soldier, he said.

Outside court, a friend of the victim smiled and said she was “overjoyed” with the result, despite expecting a life sentence.

With time already served in custody, Droudis will be eligible for parole in December 2047.

- AAP

Johnny Depp

Depp’s money woes Johnny Depp’s former business managers have countersued the actor claiming his lavish lifestyle that cost more than $2 million a month to maintain caused his recent financial troubles and that the star ignored their repeated warnings. The countersuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by The Management Group comes about two weeks after Depp sued the company alleging it grossly mismanaged his earnings. The lawsuit said Depp paid more than $75 million to buy and maintain 14 homes, including a French chateau and a chain of islands in the Bahamas. Depp was repeatedly warned by the company that his spending was out of control but ignored his former advisors’ advice to control his spending, the lawsuit said.

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■ AUSTRALIA

Google launches new health search tool People can now trust that Dr Google is providing them with reliable information.

Google search results will now show accurate information, fact checked by a panel of doctors and the Mayo Clinic, for over 900 commonly searched for health conditions.

The new “health cards” feature, launched by the internet giant yesterday, will include an outline of the condition, symptoms, diagnosis, and prevalence according to age at the top of search results.

For some conditions you’ll also see highquality illustrations from licensed medical

illustrators. With one in 20 online searches related to health, Google says they want to empower their users.

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has welcomed the new Google health tool but has issued caution.

Tony Bartone from the AMA says anything that improves or supports a patient’s health literacy is a good thing.

“What this has done has improved the quality and accuracy of the information people will get when they do the very frequent health searches because up until now the results of the searches were in-

discriminate in terms of their veracity and reliability.”

But the information should not be used to form a diagnosis, warned Dr Bartone.

“It is information – it is not knowledge. It is essentially to aid a person’s understanding around a certain condition,” he said.

“A diagnosis is based upon taking a history, an examination and knowing the past medical history of that patient and a management plan is formulated on all those inputs,” said Dr Bartone.

Any health concerns should be discussed with a GP. - AAP

■ UNITED STATES

Jury convicts man in bomb plot A federal jury convicted a man yesterday of a plot to detonate a nail-filled backpack bomb on a Florida Keys beach that prosecutors said was inspired by the Islamic State extremist group.

Court records show the jury in Key West convicted Harlem Suarez, 25, of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and providing material support to a terrorist organization after a seven-day trial. Suarez faces a maximum of life in prison at sentencing set for April 18.

Suarez, whose family emigrated from Cuba, came to the FBI’s attention through Facebook posts praising the Islamic State group and containing extremist rhetoric, according to an FBI affidavit.

“By intending to place an explosive device on a public beach, Harlem Suarez posed a grave threat to the residents and visitors of Key West,” said Miami US Attorney Wifredo Ferrer in a news release. “Let this case serve as an example to others that the US attorney’s office and our law

enforcement partners stand as a united front against all domestic threats.”

According to a criminal complaint, Suarez told an FBI informant he wanted to make a bomb, bury it on a Key West beach and detonate it.

He was arrested in 2015 after taking possession of an inert explosive device provided by an FBI informant, it added. Suarez had given the informant some bomb supplies, including two boxes of galvanised nails, the backpack and a cellphone to be used as a detonator, the complaint said.

“I can go to the beach at the night time, put the thing in the sand, cover it up, so the next day I just call and the thing is gonna, is gonna make, a real hard noise from nowhere,” Suarez told an FBI source in a recorded call, according to the complaint.

The FBI said Suarez also sought to make an Islamic State recruitment video using a script he wrote himself. It eventually was made under FBI surveillance at a motel in Homestead, according to the complaint,

with Suarez dressed in a black tactical vest, black shirt, mask and yellow-and-black scarf.

Taking the stand in his defence, Suarez insisted he was only playing along with men he met online, local media reported.

His attorney, Richard Della Fera, told jurors Suarez was no terrorist and that he had been goaded along by the FBI informant.

Earlier, the attorney said Suarez had become obsessed with news reports about the Islamic State. There was no indication Suarez ever made actual contact with Islamic State members overseas, according to the FBI, but several of his Facebook posts expressed solidarity with them.

In one post, the FBI said Suarez wrote, “Be a warrior, learn how to cut your enemies head and then burn down the body learn how to be the new future of the world Caliphate” – a reference the Islamic State goal of building a regional fundamentalist entity.

- AP

Pacemaker for ferret A ferret is recovering after being fitted with a pacemaker during a rare surgery at Kansas State University. The fouryear-old ferret, named Zelda, is owned

by Carl Hobi of Olathe, who took her to the Veterinary Health Centre in Manhattan, Kansas, after Christmas.

Zelda had a third-degree block in her heart, which caused a low heartbeat and a lack of energy. The university said tests determined Zelda was a good candidate for a pacemaker, although it had to be special ordered because of her veins’ small size. The university says Zelda was released two days after the surgery and should enjoy a normal ferret lifespan, which the school’s veterinary college says generally is about 10 years.

- AP

Helen Lasichanh and Pharrell Williams

Triplets for Pharrell Pharrell Williams and his wife, Helen Lasichanh, have welcomed triplets.

Williams’ publicist says that “the family is happy and healthy”. She didn’t say where or when the babies were born or their genders. The babies join 8-yearold big brother Rocket. The 43-year-old Williams married Lasichanh, a model, in 2013. It’s shaping up to be a busy year for Williams. He served as a producer on Hidden Figures, which has been nominated for Best Picture at next month’s Academy Awards.

- AP

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■■UNITED STATES

Iraqi man released An Iraqi man has been released by federal authorities after his overnight detention at DallasFort Worth International Airport prompted a legal aid group to file a challenge in federal court.

The man, Labeeb Issa, was released after being held some 15 hours at the airport. According to the court challenge, Issa worked for the US military as a driver – a job that brought threats and eventually a 2016 attack that left him confined to a wheelchair with a broken pelvis.

A friend of Issa’s, a former translator for the US Army in Iraq, had already come to the US on a special visa. He helped Issa complete an application for a Special Immigrant Visa in January, after showing he had been threatened after working with the military.

Early this week, Issa boarded a plane from Baghdad headed for Qatar then Dallas, special visa in hand.

Peter Schulte, among more than 100 attorneys offering free legal services to those detained at the airport, said there was no excuse to hold Issa so long because he earlier had been granted the visa and was presumably vetted at the time.

“This is not somebody new who’s flying in that the government has no idea who they are,” he said.

Schulte and the other attorneys have established a so-called war room at a hotel at the airport and also have tables outside airport customs with signs offering free legal services. They began working with detained travellers last weekend following President Donald Trump’s executive order

Refugee deal confirmed

Protestors at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport demonstrate against President Donald Trump’s travel ban.

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Issa was detained in Qatar by authorities citing Trump’s order, but was able to show his visa was in order.

His translator friend had planned to be waiting. More than eight hours after Issa was detained, that friend contacted attorneys saying Issa had never arrived.

The attorneys filed an emergency petition on his behalf yesterday in federal court in Dallas when Issa was still being detained.

Schulte said it’s understandable that the screening of overseas travellers can take hours. But he says any detention longer than four hours should be considered unlawful.

Schulte said Issa’s release, and the release of others by US Customs and Border Protection, are

happening only after legal challenges are filed on their behalf.

“We are moving forward in that we’re going to have attorneys at the airport pretty much 24-7 until a federal court orders the executive order or parts of the order unconstitutional,” he said.

It appears more than a dozen people were detained at the airport on Monday and others were detained on Tuesday, Schulte said. But the actual number is unclear because he and other lawyers must rely on family members or airline passengers who notice travellers being pulled aside.

The US Department of Homeland Security did not return messages yesterday seeking a response to the assertion.

Trump has defended his order, saying on Twitter that, “Only 109 people out of 325,000 were detained and held for questioning”.

- AP

US President Donald Trump’s spokesman has confirmed the asylum seeker deal with Australia will go ahead, but the refugees would have to clear “extreme vetting” before they are allowed to enter the States.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced after his weekend phone call with Mr Trump that the president had agreed to honour the deal.

This was despite the agreement originally being struck by former President Barack Obama and last week Mr Trump placing a temporary ban on refugees being admitted to the US and other strict US border measures targeting seven countries including Iran, Iraq and Syria. Sean Spicer said the deal specifically deals with 1250 people.

“Part of the deal is they have to be vetted in the same manner that we are doing now.

There will be extreme vetting applied to all of them,” he said.

“The president, in accordance with that deal to honour what had been agreed upon by the US government, and ensuring that vetting will take place in the same manner that we are doing it now, it will go forward.”

The refugees are being held on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island and Nauru.

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Court told Harris an ‘opportunistic groper’ Rolf Harris was an opportunistic groper of girls and young women “under the noses of other people who were nearby”, a London court has been told by a prosecuting lawyer.

The defence lawyer for the 86-year-old entertainer countered that statement by accusing women who lodged complaints against him of lying and fabricating their claims, inferring they were after monetary compensation.

Harris is on trial at Southwark Crown Court on six charges of indecent assault and one of sexual assault against women and girls between 1971 and 2004 when they were aged between 12 and 42 .

Prosecuting lawyer Jonathan Rees in his closing remarks told the jury of seven women and five men that the prosecution case against Harris was that it was “in his nature” to indecently assault young females.

He said that in six of the cases Harris “took the opportunity to

Rolf Harris have a quick grope of them under the noses of other people who were nearby” and he had been good at getting away with it.

Mr Rees said five of the women had told family or friends of their claims against Harris years before the entertainer’s first trial in 2014 when he was jailed on similar charges.

He said that put paid to sug-

gestions they had made up their claims in the hopes of gaining financial gain.

Harris, wearing a dark suit and tie, sat in a glass booth in the courtroom listening attentively through earphones to the closing remarks by the prosecution and defence.

Mr Rees urged the jury to take into account the entertainer’s 12 previous indecent assault convictions as evidence of his “appetite” for such offending that was “part of his make-up” .

He said the similarity of the groping allegations from seven women who had come forward independently was “a telling case that they are all true”.

Defence lawyer Stephen Vullo told the jury that big gaps in the complainants’ evidence showed they were lying and the evidence of witnesses had been “contaminated” by their contact with the complainants beforehand.

He noted that four of the seven complainants had kept photographs and autographs record-

ing their meetings with Harris despite their claims he had assaulted them and they could no longer stand him.

The seven cases against Harris include the alleged groping of a blind and disabled woman at a hospital and four cases of groping girls aged 12 to 16 at public venues, including the BBC Television Centre.

Mr Rees admitted that the blind woman’s evidence that Harris squeezed her breasts before a recording session was not backed up by a man who was working in the room at the time off the alleged assault.

That man did not recall the woman showing any distress or her claim that they had discussed afterwards whether she should call the police to complain.

Mr Vullo said her evidence was false.

“If you didn’t know that false allegations are made in cases like this then now you do,” he told the jury.

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In brief Snow kills 47 At least 47 people have died in the last three weeks because of the severe cold and heavy snowfall in northern Afghanistan’s Jowzjan province, an official says. Access to health centres was limited as roads were closed off because of the snowfall, Rahmatullah Hashir, district governor of Darzab said.

“Ten women gave birth to dead babies as they had no access to health facilities in past few weeks,” said Hashir, adding that two other children were killed by an avalanche while travelling from one village to another.

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Bhavita Patel

Sixth victim named Bhavita Patel has been named as the sixth victim of the Bourke St killings, with her family saying they are broken by her death. Ms Patel, 33, a financial consultant, died on Monday night after her family decided to turn off her life support after the January 20 attack, that killed five others, including two children. “My parents and I are broken. But we all appreciate the love we’re getting from people,” her brother Mitesh said yesterday.

Mr Patel said the family was distraught with grief. Dimitrious Gargasoulas has been charged with five counts of murder and is now expected to be charged with Ms Patel’s murder as well. - AAP

Rare skin disease Doctors in Bangladesh have diagnosed a 10-year-old girl with a rare skin disease known as the ‘tree man’ illness at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where a man was admitted with the same condition a year ago. According to Samanta Lal Sen, director of the hospital’s plastic surgery and burns unit, the girl was admitted at the weekend and was being examined for epidermodysplasia verruciformis (EV), a debilitating disease also known as the ‘tree man’ illness. The girl’s family said she began developing the warts at the age of two and had until now only been treated on a superficial level.

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Starvation death A coroner says a 5-month-old Pennsylvania girl starved to death in her bassinet after her parents died of drug overdoses.

The Cambria County coroner’s office said autopsy and toxicology reports confirmed that Summer Chambers died of dehydration and starvation in the home in Kernville, about 60 miles east of Pittsburgh, a few days before Christmas. Coroner Jeff Lees called the case “heart-wrenching” and ruled the infant’s death homicide due to parental neglect. Lees says toxicology tests indicate that 27-year-old Jaron Chambers and 19-year-old Chelsea Cordaro died of acute fentanyl overdoses.

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Facebook versus facts Sue Newman

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acebook might be a great way for friends and family to keep in touch, but it’s probably the most widely used and abused method of communication since telephone party lines.

If you’re over 50 and lived in the country you’ll remember the party line. If you wanted to snoop in on your neighbour’s life, the party line was a Godsend. Listening in was as simple as picking up your phone.

Facebook is just a party line magnified. For millions of users it’s become their bible. What’s posted on there is their gospel.

Its words are their truth.

Often what’s posted is drivel, trivia, gossip and speculation.

Clearly there are many, many addicts who spend a good part of every day and night logged on, following, posting and living vicariously.

It doesn’t take much to start a string of comments on Facebook; the on-line warriors are hanging there waiting for something to catch their attention so they too can share their thoughts – often peppered with spelling and grammar that would choke an English teacher – with the world.

So what does it matter if that’s how many, many people spend their day? It doesn’t, as long as they stick to the inane. Where it all goes wrong is when keyboard warriors start sharing their thoughts and opinions on situations that involve other people.

The truth has no part in their dialogue.

On Tuesday police and ambulance crews were parked up on State Highway One. Within minutes a post appeared asking what the emergency was about. A mere second or so later the speculation started and it continued, rolling through the night until a tale was woven about what had happened, how and why.

It reached the pinnacle of on-line bad taste when posters started offering footage and images of an event that was deeply personal and deeply distressing to the friends and family of the person involved.

As a forum Facebook is out of control.

You can find anyone, see anyone and say anything about anyone in the Facebook world.

And they can say the same about you.

What’s posted becomes fact; after all, if you saw it on Facebook, it must be true.

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■■CONSUMER SURVEY

Healthcare top worry

ure jumped to 36 per cent among renters.”

Renters were also more likely to be cutting back on essentials such as power bills. Fifty per cent had reduced spending on essential services in the past 12 months, compared with the average of 34

per cent.

According to the survey, income had an influence on whether consumers rented or owned their own home but also on how they coped with everyday expenses.

Just over a third of consumers felt they were able to live “com-

fortably” on their household income. But among those earning more than $150,000, 76 per cent were comfortable.

Middle-income earners were less likely to feel like they were comfortably off.

“Among consumers earning

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Business claims from November’s Kaikoura earthquake have hit $900 million.

Heineken-owned DB buys Tuatara Heineken-owned DB Breweries, which owns bars and liquor brands including Tui, Monteiths and Redwood Cider, has bought Kapiti boutique brewer Tuatara Brewing Co for an undisclosed sum.

The local unit of the Dutch beer giant will keep the founding Vasta family involved in the brewing and logistics of Tuatara, and continue to produce beer from the craft brewer’s Kapiti and Wellington sites, it said in a statement.

No price was disclosed, though

cornerstone shareholder Rangatira Investments valued its 36 percent stake at $3.6 million as at September 30, implying the entire business was worth $10 million at the time. Rangatira’s share of losses from Tuatara was $134,000 in the six months ended September 30.

Rangatira invested $3.1 million for its Tuatara stake in 2013, saying at the time that the brewer was a growth company in a growth sector and capable of developing a global presence.

Tuatara national sales manager Blair Harley said DB offers the resources to expand the Kapiti brewer’s domestic and international consumers. The local brewer produced 2 million litres of beer in 2016, twice the volume when Rangatira bought in.

The DB acquisition is the latest in a string of major brewers buying smaller boutique operators in a market where craft beer sales are on the rise, even as overall liquor consumption is down.

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Business quake claims top $900m Business claims have gone past the $900 million-mark from the Kaikoura earthquake in November.

Two-thirds of the claims have been in Wellington region, followed by Upper South Island at 25 per cent, Canterbury at 8 per cent and the rest from other North Island claims after the 7.3-magnitude shake on November 14.

Private insurers have received these claims from businesses, but the Insurance Council says it is early days and the figure may change.

“Indications are that there are more than 2500 commercial material damage and business interruption claims worth more than $900 million,” chief executive Tim Grafton said.

However, the council says it is too early to indicate the value of residential claims.

Homeowners have until February 14 to claim for any damage.

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$40,001 to $60,000, just under a quarter were living comfortably.

In the $60,001 to $80,000 income bracket, 41 per cent were comfortable but the majority were either just getting by or finding it difficult to make ends meet,” Kawale said.

Income also influenced how consumers saw the economy.

High-income earners were more likely to have a rosy view of the economy, according to the survey.

Of those earning more than $150,000, 71 per cent believed the econonmy was in good shape, compared with 54 per cent on average.

Older consumers were also more likely to look favourably at the economy, with nearly twothirds saying it was in good shape.

“Consumers in this age group were significantly more likely to own their own home mortgagefree and be coping well with dayto-day living costs,” Kawale said.

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Healthcare costs are consumers’ biggest worry, and just half have confidence in the healthcare system, according to a recent survey.

Consumer’s latest survey focuses on the cost of living, and 68 per cent of respondents said they were most worried about healthcare. Home ownership costs were close behind on 66 per cent.

Concern about water quality at beaches and rivers was also a pressing issue for 66 per cent, highlighted in a recent New Zealand Herald investigation.

Renters said worries about owning a home were their biggest concern, together with worry about their level of savings and investments.

Consumer head of market research Vaibhav Kawale said renters are also feeling day-to-day financial pressures.

“Twenty-four per cent of consumers in our survey were finding it difficult to get by on their household income. But that fig-

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■■YOUNG FARMER OF THE YEAR

Tractor for top farmer For the first time in 19 years, a tractor will be part of the prize package for the winner of the FMG Young Farmer of the Year.

New Holland has announced it is joining the contest family and will be giving away a Boomer 25 tractor at the grand final in the Manawatu in July.

The tractor is part of a $270,000 total prize package, making the contest one of the richest competitions in New Zealand – befitting its iconic status.

The last time a tractor was given away was in 1998 when Waikato dairy farmer Steve Hines won the grand final in Invercargill.

Before that, tractors were a small component of the prize package in the early 1980s.

Contest chairperson Dean Rabbidge said he was ecstatic to have New Holland as a sponsor and particularly happy to have a tractor as part of the prize package for the winner of New Zealand’s most prestigious agricultural contest.

“Although prizes are not why competitors enter the contest, it is fantastic to see our main agricultural companies recognising what an incredibly important and progressive event the FMG Young Farmer of the Year is,” he said.

New Holland operations manager Brett Stiven was excited to see the partnership begin.

“At New Holland we have been thinking about how we can en-

FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final convenor Paul Olsen receives his new New Holland tractor. New Holland has just become the newest sponsor of the FMG Young Farmer of the Year.

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“We care about the future and

sustainability of New Zealand farming and we see our upcoming generation of future farmers as the backbone to our industry.

“When the opportunity came up to partner with New Zealand Young Farmers, it was a no-

brainer and aligned 100 per cent with the New Holland Future Farmers campaign.

“I am excited for New Holland to work closely with the organisation, roll up our sleeves and make it happen.”

■■FONTERRA

Fonterra director steps down due to ill health Fonterra director Michael Spaans has stepped down from the Fonterra board because of ill health.

Fonterra chairman John Wilson said Spaans’ tireless contribution to the New Zealand dairy industry has been significant both inside and outside the

Fonterra boardroom. “Michael, a dairy farmer, came up through the ranks, spending time on the New Zealand Dairy Group Shareholder Council and then the Fonterra Shareholders’ Council before building his governance experience outside the industry,” Wilson said.

“As a result, his insights and experience are invaluable, particularly on Fonterra’s Milk Price Panel, Audit and Finance Committee and the Co-operative Relations Committee.”

Fonterra said that it has agreed with Spaans that, when he is given a clean bill of health, he

should consider standing again for the Fonterra Board.

Fonterra has appointed Ian Farrelly as a director to fill the vacancy created with Spaans stepping down.

Farrelly spent nine years as a Fonterra director until retiring in December last year.

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Workers sought to help farms recover Ashburton-based Agstaff has been contracted by the government to work with Federated Farmers to find skilled workers to help Kaikoura farms recover from November’s big quake.

While plenty of volunteers have offered to help, experienced workers are needed for more technical jobs.

Farmers who need labour assistance can call 0800 FARMING and be matched to skilled workers and volunteers.

Agstaff project manager Trina Moore said the response from volunteers had been amazing and people could still offer their help.

“However as we move further into the recovery phase, we require experienced workers for the more technical jobs like fencing, dairy and water reticulation.”

Moore said the recruitment company was delighted to be able to use its expertise to help the recovery and was looking for skilled workers who wanted to work on a casual basis on specialist jobs that would help affected farms be up and running again.

Agstaff will oversee and organise worker health and safety inductions and training, establish contracts to reflect current industry rates, co-ordinate travel to the site and reimburse some costs to volunteers.

The initiative is funded by the government through the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI), Federated Farmers, and Agstaff and will run for the next four months or until all funds are exhausted.

The 0800 FARMING (327 646) number is managed by Federated Farmers and is the first point of contact for farmers seeking to register their needs and for volunteers and skilled workers to register their interest.

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■■FONTERRA

Fonterra dips toe into Brazil market Fonterra milk harvested from Mid Canterbury cows is helping make mozzarella cheese eaten in the pizza capital of the world.

Sao Paulo, in Brazil, has 6000 pizzerias and close to a million pizzas are consumed every day. Fonterra’s extra stretch Individual Quick Frozen (IQF) has just entered the market there.

The high quality cheese, made at Clandeboye, is being sold to Sao Paulo’s oldest and most traditional pizzeria, Cantina Casteloes. Founded in 1924, Cantina Castelões is known for its pizzas and still sells the popular pizza that bears its name Castelões – mozzarella, tomato sauce and spicy Calabresa sausage – which is copied by other pizzerias.

Fonterra’s Foodservice Manager Brazil Hugo Melo says this is a small but significant step into a new market for mozzarella, but the potential is huge.

“We’re working closely with Cantina Castelões because we believe our specially patented mozzarella is a superior product with great taste and extra stretch appeal and will save them time, money, labour costs and reduce wastage,” Melo said.

IQF mozzarella is made from pure New Zealand milk using world-leading technology developed at the Fonterra Research and Development Centre in Palmerston North. It has features that binds the topping to the base, provides colour and texture and extra stretch – a key part of the pizza experience. It’s snap frozen at peak maturity to capture freshness and its authentic taste and pre-shredded for ease of use.

Fonterra Global director food service Grant Watson says IQF mozzarella is the jewel in the co-operative’s food service crown.

“It’s a fantastic and popular product in our other markets and demand for it continues to grow,” Watson said.

Fonterra recently announced it was

Fonterra’s food service manager Brazil, Hugo Melo (right), with Cantina Casteloes owner Fabio Donato.

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building a new $240 million plant to help meet growing demand – the single largest food service investment in New Zealand’s dairy industry history. It will allow it to double the co-operative’s capacity to produce its revolutionary mozzarella, which is made from milk in one day instead of the usual two to three months taken by conventional mozzarella processes. It’ll come on stream in September 2018.

Once complete, it will make Fonterra’s Clandeboye site the largest producer of natural mozzarella in the Southern Hemisphere.

The IQF mozzarella is the result of patented technology developed by the Fonterra Research and Development Centre, and supported by a partnership programme between the Ministry of Primary Industries, Fonterra and DairyNZ. Casteloes’ Fabio Donato said the new mozzarella was a breakthrough in the market.

“We don’t have anything compared to its milky flavour and fantastic yield in Brazil.”

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Emma Foy said there were many reasons for not attending the 2017 Paracycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles.

Paracyclists to skip worlds Dargaville’s Emma Foy and the rest of New Zealand’s paracyclists will not be competing at the 2017 Paracycling Track World Championships.

In a post on her and Laura Thompson’s Facebook page, Foy said there were a variety of reasons for not attending the meet in Los Angeles. “It is disappointing to learn only seven weeks out, without any prior indication, that a 2017 Paracycling Track World Championship will be held in March this year,” the post read.

“Without time to organise personnel, training and budget for such a campaign, athletes and countries will be unable to attend thus decreasing the value of the event and titles won.”

Foy also cited the current political climate in the United States with Donald Trump’s controversial presidency as other reasons for not attending.

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... you can’t mount a successful high-performance campaign with only seven weeks of preparation

feel a world event in Los Angeles is not truly a ‘world’ event. Needless to say I won’t be going,” the post said.

New Zealand will not be sending any paracyclists over to the World Championships next month.

Paralympics New Zealand communications manager Melissa Dawson said that the limited time given to prepare for a world competition ultimately made the decision for them.

“The International Cycling Un-

ion (UCI) came out with all the dates for all competitions last year and the Los Angeles meet was not included,” she said.

“Seven weeks before this event they came out with all the dates and information. With that in mind while planning high-performance events, we couldn’t send anyone to this event at all.

“There will be numerous events leading into the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics for our athletes to gain qualification and there will also potentially be opportunities to

gain Commonwealth Games entry.”

There is controversy surrounding Trump’s recent executive order which severely restricts immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries, suspends all refugee admission for 120 days, and bars all Syrian refugees indefinitely.

Dawson said this did not sway their decision to not go either way. “The Trump factor didn’t come into it. It isn’t relevant to our decision to not go at all,” she said.

“At the end of the day, you can’t mount a successful high-performance campaign with only seven weeks of preparation.

Foy is coming off a successful Paralympic campaign, securing a silver medal in the women’s B 3000m individual pursuit and a bronze in the road cycling women’s race with her partner Laura – NZME Thompson.

Derren Witcombe offers a familiar face in the Northland rugby setup as he steps into the head coach role for the 2017 Mitre 10 Cup campaign.

Northland Rugby CEO Alistair McGinn announced Witcombe as coach for the new season with the hopes that they can improve on their 2016 campaign, where they only registered one win.

Familiar to many in Northland, Witcombe previously coached the Taniwha in 2013 and 2014 following two years as assistant coach.

In 2014 he guided the team to a semifinal in the then ITM Cup Championship.

Witcombe is looking forward to the tests of coaching Northland.

“I am very grateful of having the opportunity to coach the Northland team again, and I am excited about the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead,” he said.

McGinn said it was an easy decision to bring back Witcombe.

“We wanted him to return the ‘mighty’ to the Taniwha. He was the outstanding candidate out of the 26 applicants and he was a huge success in his last tenure,” he said.

“Derren will bring a defined edge and experience at Mitre 10 Cup level. He will work very well with the assistant coach Dale McLeod.”

McGinn said the expectations on Witcombe are gaining a semifinal berth and bringing back an exciting running rugby game plan.

As a player Witcombe achieved at the highest levels. He is All Black number 1053, playing five test matches. He also played 53 games for the Blues, 30 for Auckland in the NPC and 20 for Northland.

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Names on board for the Glassey It has been full on with plenty of tournaments, championships, Pairs February 16 please. Murray reps plus club activities as well. Grey in house has been played Congratulations to our girls who January 26.

To those not too well, we wish won the Canterbury 7’s and are away to Auckland to compete in you a speedy recovery and to those in hospital we hope your the NZ 7’s.

Singles: Sandra Keith, Pairs: Ser- stay is a short one. Good bowling ena Mathews & Noeline all until next time.

Woods, Fours: Shirley Doig, Wen- Ashburton Golf Club dy Watson, Sandra Holdem and Well we have got our 19 finalRosemary Bennett. Good luck for ists and this Sunday we have the Auckland - the Club is very proud amazing spectacle that is the of you. We have had success in Property Brokers Shoot out final. many other events and everyone At 10am on Sunday the 19th has bowled with merit especially ranked qualifier, which, barring the Whinhams and Clarky. any late pull outs will be, Bevan Progressive Pairs January 7 Wilson, will have the eyes of the Leads: 1st Peter Gibson, 2nd Des golfing world on him as he atThomas Skips: 1st Allan McIn- tempts to hit a beautiful 3 metre tosh, 2nd Barry Molloy; January 28 draw 220 metre drive down the Leads: 1st Ken McLaren, 2nd Des first. 18 others will follow, and off Thomas we go. After about 45 minutes the Skips: 1st Neil Sharp- first hole will be completed and lin, 2nd John Bruce. Congratula- someone will have the lonely walk tions to winners at their particular back after falling at the first fence. event. Championships are al- Who will follow in the shoes of most completed Ladies only have other great golfers like Gordy Clinone game to go and that is Thurs- ton, Chris Lovelock, Kenny Clucas day night. Men as well have been and Phil Kerr and be the unlucky busy and games should be com- golfer? Who knows? The others pleted by this week. The club has carry on, and one by one they get been busy entertaining various eliminated, until we have 2 people Business’s over the festive season fighting it out on the 18th. One and they have been enjoyed by all. player will walk away with a year’s Thanks to Wendy and her team full subscription thanks to our for organising these functions. A great friends at Property Brokers. business team’s competition is to Who will it be? Smart money is start this Friday so if you can get saying Bev Chinn, perennial top 3 a team of 4 together and want to player, Bri Hawksby, only previous join please contact Richard Kane winner in the field, or Charlie Alour Club Captain and give it a go. exander, club legend. My call, afOn a sad note we send our sym- ter seeing this player play recently, pathy and condolences to Ant I am going for the second female McGirr and family in their loss of winner, little Miss steady Wendy Dianne we are thinking of you all.

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Good golfing!

Mens Ch 4’s have been completed and winners Charlie Leech, Jo Ryk, Doug Kinvig and John Smart defeated Roger Gutberlet, Murray Anderson, Mike Quinn and Colin Arnst.

On Jan 25 in Allenton evening pairs Graham Taylor and Colin Arnst were 2nd. with 3 wins 17 ends and 31 points, Well done.

The Aussie Pairs, a very popular event, was held Jan 26 and members were placed 3rd and 4th. Well done to the Gutberlet couple and the Ryk couple. It was a pity that one person forgot they were down to play and we couldn’t find an extra lady and gent to make up the teams. This made a tricky job for the committee to determine winners with 3 byes to contend with.

Ashburton MSA Petanque Club The Ashburton Petanque Club have had players taking part in two tournaments so far this year.

The first at Papanui where 11 members played and 9 of them being successful in getting placings.

The second one was at Ascot and Rewa Kyle (Ashburton) and Brian Westerbeek (Christchurch) winning the championship.

Jonathan Crum (Ashburton) and Nicolas Xavier (Christchurch) were runners up. Three others won minor prizes.

At present we are planning a Play Petanque and picnic in the

park day on Sunday 12 February at 1.30. This will be played on the shingle path by the West Street carpark where we started playing five years ago.

We would welcome anyone who wants to come and join us.

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January 31 McIntosh Evening Pairs sponsored by Heartland Bank, Patersons Funeral Services & South Island Seed Dressing & Storage Ltd.

1st P. Whinham & B. Harper 3 wins, 18 ends & 40 points, 2nd R. Bennett & J. May 3 wins, 17 ends & 34 points, 3rd W. Watson & R. Johnston 3 wins, 16 ends & 28 points, 4th R. & S. Holdom 2 wins, 14 ends & 28 points, 5th W. Lloyd & M. Williams 2 wins, 14 ends & 22 points.

Ashburton Bowling Club January 28 Saturday roll overs 1st Tony and Annette Blain 2 wins 6 ends 17 points, 2nd Lois Connell, Chas Rooke and Bruce Ching 2 wins 8 ends 13 points.

■■Golf Ashburton County Veterans Golf Association Heartland Championship. Round 1.

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Pat Molloy, 2nd= with 43 were: Bill Mason, Brian McIsaac, Bob Collins and John Christy, 6th= with 41 were: Tony McAndrew, Bruce Leighton, Brian Winchester and Arnold Rushton, 10th= with 40 were: Neil Collins, Gavin Santy, Peter Kiddey, Bill Hetrick, Bruce Morrison and Ian Beach.

Twos: Dave Fisher and George Cartney.

Tinwald Golf Club January 31 Gwen Forbes Salver Lyn Bird 69, Madeleine Smith 72, Mara Kennedy 73, Diane Lowe 74, Carol Shanks 75, Barb Cochrane 75.

Nearest the pin; Murray Young Property Broker #2 Jo Peacock, Sims Bakery #6 Mara Kennedy, Mac & Maggie #12 Sue Newman, Outdoor Adventure #16 Diana Wellman.

Two’s; Mara Kennedy.

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CLUB NEWS REPORTS Winning women Ashburton’s Noel Lowe brought this photo into the Guardian offices to share with readers.

The Hinds Ladies’ Senior Hockey team had their picture taken as the winners of the senior competition in 1930.

Lowe said it had been in the family for many years and featured both his aunts, B. Watson and J. Watson, who he said both went on to marry ‘Lowes’.

He noted many of the names are still around locally today, with a number still popping up in Mid Canterbury sporting codes.

Ashburton MSA Travel Section The Ashburton MSA Travel Section is planning a trip to Erewhon Station at the end of March or early April. Any member of the

MSA is welcome to join us on this trip.

While you are up there you will have the opportunity to pay the extra and go for a horse and cart ride to see more of the scenery, and it is certainly well worth

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Keep an eye on the notice board at the club for more information.

Ashburton Woodworkers Merv Peck, President, welcomed the eighteen members to the first meeting of the year, with the theme of health and safety Show and Tell table: Ian Harding a hollow formed vase, and several necklaces made from left over bits of wood.

Geoff Brown coloured walnut vase, a matugouri vase, and three small bowls.

Dave Busby 4 ash platters, an elm bowl, yew vase, and a small plywood vase.

George Spencer a kauri platter.

Les Mattingley 3 yoyos and a wine glass holder to fit snugly around the neck of a wine bottle.

Roger Scammell segmented chopping boards.

Wim Melchers several coasters with a Perspex insert and an oak trivet.

With the emphases on health and safely, tutor Ken Neale, demonstrated the procedure to operate a band saw, how to replace a saw blade, to adjust the blade guides. The use of the planner by using a push stick the keeping as much of the cutting blades covered. Next the saw bench also using a push stick for ripping and cross cutting, finally the drop saw.

The critical thing to remember is to keep blades sharp. Club members then had an opportunity to show the demonstrator that they could safely use the electric tools explained. Thanks Ken for the demonstration.

Bowls Mid Canterbury Sub Centre On a superbly sunny day at the

Hampstead Bowling Club 12 teams joined the competition for the Sub Centre Triples title.

Congratulations to Rosemary Bennett (s), Pete Whinham and Graeme Clarke – this year’s Sub Centre Triples Champions.

After 4 qualifying rounds the top 4 teams were found: With 4 wins each – Graeme Bishop (s), Sandra Keith, Jill May; and Rosemary Bennett (s), Pete Whinham, Graeme Clarke. With 3 wins – Roger Gutberlet (s), Diane Gutberlet, Michael QuinnWith 2 wins and +20 points differential – Bruce White (s), Rowan Tonks, Noeline Woods Semi Finals Results:R Gutberlet 14 beat G Bishop 6P Whinham 13 beat B White 6 Final Result:P Whinham 13 beat R Gutberlet 10 Our thanks to our very gracious hosts – Hampstead Bowling Club – for a wonderful day, great food, excellent greens and lots of fantastic bowls, much fun and laughter.

Methven Bowls For The Doug Hood, a new cup kindly donated by Grant Hood.

1st Pete Whinham, Murray Smallridge, Barry Molloy and Valmai Whinham, 2nd Graham Clarke, Rowan Tonks, Ian Kay and John Drayton, 3rd Mike Skilling, Jarrod Davies, Gary Hodson and Win Watts.

Congratulations everyone and we thank our sponsors Whitefox and Jones, Rainer Irrigation and plains Irrigation

Waireka Croquet Club Club News January Must be Wednesday. The weather has a happy knack of raining on our favourite croquet day and has all season – disappointing but not

fatal as we still manage to enjoy ourselves.

2017 started with a rush – the Open and Windsor Richards Association Tournament was held at Waireka on January 7/8 with a great representation from six clubs making for some good competition.

Graeme Sinclair from Aorangi was the winner of the Open with Jenny Macnab Awamoa/Gardens runner up.

Dulcie Pierre from Waireka scored a fine win in the Windsor Richards from up and coming David Bown Aorangi. Congratulations to all contestants and especially the winners.

The 88th association tournament was held at Aorangi commencing on January 21.

Unfortunately the inclement weather forced the cancellation of the Singles on the Sunday but the Doubles went ahead Monday with success from the Allenton pairing of Barbara Field and Lois Alexander who secured a win in the Open, while Raylene Phillips Waireka and Bob Wickenden Awamoa/Gardens, teamed up for the 10 to 24 section which they also won. Once again congratulations to all.

The last weekend of January nine Waireka golf croquet players participated in the annual South Canterbury Golf Croquet Doubles tournament enjoying a great weekend with perfect weather and convivial company. Audrey Leath and Bill Allnut finished third being beaten by a narrow margin for the top prizes.

Congratulations all.

Competing in the tournaments is worthwhile – many new friends are met and made.

Tuivasa-Sheck new Warriors captain

By Angelo Risso Warriors fullback Roger TuivasaSheck will take over from Ryan Hoffman as team captain in 2017.

Tuivasa-Sheck, 23, joined the club at the start of 2016 and made seven appearances before injuring his ACL and missing the remainder of the season.

He will skip this weekend’s Nines tournament but is likely to make his competitive return against Newcastle in round one on March 5.

The Kiwis No.1 will serve as the Warriors’ 11th captain since their 1995 inception.

“He is a true professional in the way he goes about all he does,

providing a wonderful example for players to follow,” coach Stephen Kearney said.

Kearney also announced the signing of Kiwis and Storm utility Tohu Harris from 2018, joining the club on a four-year deal.

Meanwhile, the king of the Auckland Nines will tone down his participation in this year’s event in the hope of securing an even greater title – king of the NRL. Shaun Johnson has been an ever-present fixture in the two-day Nines tournament since its 2014 inception, guiding the Warriors to last year’s final.

But the 26-year-old says he’ll be taking a more backseat role in this

weekend’s tournament as he focuses on pushing his side towards 2017 NRL glory.

The Warriors have not played in a finals series since 2011, when Johnson broke on to the scene as a zippy 20-year-old and drove the side to the grand final.

Last year the side set themselves up for a finals berth with some excellent mid-year football, but threw it away by losing their last four games to finish 10th.

The collapse convinced Warriors chief Jim Doyle to demote coach Andrew McFadden to assistant and bring in ex-Kiwis mentor Kearney.

“Definitely my minutes are going to be reduced this time

around, I probably haven’t helped that in the past, I’m so competitive and want to be out there,” Johnson said.

“Had a good crack at it last year but took a knock which had a bit of an effect on how my NRL season went.”

The knock in question, a thigh injury sustained in the final against Parramatta, gave Johnson plenty of troubles in 2016 despite playing all 24 games.

He delivered 10 tries and 18 assists, but also made a club-high 22 errors and struggled to showcase his trademark running game.

It also prevented him from stamping his mark on the end-ofyear Four Nations tournament, as

Johnson’s Kiwis were trumped in the final against Australia.

Having taken an extended offseason, travelling his mother’s birth nation Laos, Johnson admitted the idea of skipping the Nines altogether crossed his mind.

But he felt obliged to take part, given the tournament’s importance to Kiwi rugby league and young Warriors players graduating to the elite level.

“It’s so hard because I dreamed of them having a tournament here like this,” Johnson said.

“This is such a key moment in rugby league and growing the sport in NZ, so every time this rolls around, I want to be there.”

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Summer league football kicks off in Mid Canty Luciano Drudi sends his shot towards goalkeeper Oskar McLauchlan in the first round of games after the holiday break in the Mid Canterbury Football summer league competition. The social competition returned last Thursday and will be running through until March 2. Teams of seven play on smaller than normal fields with games kicking off at six and seven o’clock.

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Templeton keeps on rolling Michael Templeton’s stellar season continued on Sunday, taking victory and fastest time honours in Tinwald Cycling Club’s 50km handicap event at Rakaia.

With the field having to contend with a gutsy nor west wind on the outward leg to Highbank, scratchman Templeton and his co-markers cut into the lead of the front bunches finding the front of the race inside the final 10km on the fast homeward leg.

In the kick to the line Templeton was too strong securing the win and lifting the John Cleary Memorial and Les Lisle Cups.

Christchurch visitor Brent Spencer charged into second place with Tony Ward claiming the final podium position.

Brad Hudson, Nathan Tew,

and Rob Hooper rounded out the top six.

Templeton covered the distance in 79.32.

The juniors contested an 18km handicap event.

Hayden Jefferson proved too strong for his co-markers riding off the front on the way home to secure a good win, lifting the Butcher Cup and taking the fastest time spoils.

Caitlin Titheridge continues to impress with a solid second place, seeing off the challenge of her brother Ethan in the charge to the line.

Brian Ellis battled the elements to take the division 2 honours.

Next week the Club will contest a graded scratch around the Wakanui Beach block.

Left – Michael Templeton in action.

All Blacks great Richie McCaw says there is nothing between the All Blacks and England and couldn’t pick a winner between the two sides if they were playing this year.

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, the two-time Rugby World Cup winner who retired in 2015, says the gap between the Northern and Southern hemispheres has closed since the last World Cup. In the 2015 tournament, the All Blacks, Australia, South Africa and Argentina made up the final four with hosts England failing to get out of pool play. But under new coach Eddie Jones, England have surged to number two in the world rankings, winning 14 tests in a row.

It’s now at a point where McCaw couldn’t pick a winner if the All Blacks were facing England, a match which won’t take place until at least the end of 2018.

“I really don’t know,” McCaw said. “There is very little between the teams. It is a pity they are not playing each other for so long.”

McCaw told the British newspaper the results at the end of last year proved the gap had closed in very quick time between the two hemispheres.

“I think the autumn really showed that there’s nothing between the north and south any more,” McCaw said. “ “You look at South Africa losing to Italy, Wales and England, the Aussies losing to England, New Zealand to Ireland. I actually thought there was very little between the teams before, but that reinforced that.”

McCaw said he was pleased he didn’t experience the All Blacks shock loss to Ireland in Chicago, their first ever defeat to the Irish.

“In a real selfish way I was relieved I wasn’t out there at the final whistle because that would not have been enjoyable in any way,” McCaw said. “Some of the skill and tries that the All Blacks have produced have been a step up from what I was involved in, but Ireland managed to stop those moments and made it tight. When they got one or two chances, they were nailing them.”

If England go through the Six Nations unbeaten they will break the All Blacks’ recent tier one record of 18 test wins on the trot.

McCaw is predicting the defending champions will make it all the way to the final match against Ireland on March 18.

“I would be surprised if it didn’t come down to that game. It will be really tough for the English if they get to that point with their record intact. There will be a lot of pressure on them and the Irish would love to knock them over. Wouldn’t that be an amazing day?” – NZME

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Above – The infamous underarm bowl.

Inset – Martin Snedden.

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Martin Snedden relives ‘under-arm’ drama on anniversary On a day in 1981 when the eyes of the world concentrated one one of cricket’s most notorious acts, another travesty has all but slipped through history’s cracks.

February 1 will always be remembered as the anniversary of the infamous under-arm bowl, where Australian captain Greg Chappell instructed younger brother Trevor to roll the last ball of a thrilling one-dayer along the Melbourne Cricket Ground deck to prevent an unlikely winning six.

But early that day, the older Chappell had also been the benefactor of some dubious umpiring that saw him survive a perfectly legitimate catch by New Zealand fielder Martin Snedden.

“That is one of the best catches I ever seen in my life,” gushed former Aussie captain Richie Benaud in his Fox Sports TV commentary.

“There is no question in my mind that that was a great catch - clearly caught above the ground, a su-

perb catch.”

The match officials didn’t see it the same way and Chappell obviously wasn’t in a charitable mood that day.

Snedden, who has since gone on to become one of New Zealand’s outstanding sport administrators, recounted the occasion to Radio Sport’s Martin Devlin.

“That summer, there was a Toyota car up for the best catch,” he rued. “But because it wasn’t a catch, according to two Australia umpires, we didn’t win a car.

“At that time of my life, I was a student in Dunedin and may not have been that keen to give up a car. “[The umpires] said to [NZ captain] Geoff Howarth they were watching the batsmen running between wickets and tapping down to make sure they made their ground at each end.”

Snedden, then 22 and very much a rookie in the national

team, chuckles as he remembers confronting one of the game’s legends mid-pitch.

“So I walk into the middle, and go up to Greg Chappell and say ‘Greg, I caught the ball’ ... one of the great cricketers of all time.

“He didn’t take too much notice. It wasn’t his job, it was the umpire’s job.

“Funny thing was, when Chappell got out for 90, Bruce Edgar took a very, very similar catch out on the deep mid-wicket boundary and Chappell just walked off.”

Of course, this piece of drama would soon be overshadowed by the match climax, which Snedden credits for putting cricket in the New Zealand public eye for the first time.

“Cricket went from being a middle-of-the-road sport to absolutely taking off,” he recalled.

“The under-arm match was at the end of a very long tour of Australia, it was the first time we’d ever

played in coloured uniforms with white ball under lights - all the razzmatazz.

“It really caught the imagination of the New Zealand public, because I think it was also the first time matches were being televised back into New Zealand.”

Snedden, nowadays a New Zealand Cricket board member, also recalls the atmosphere at Eden Park, when the two sides met again the following summer. “[Eden Park] was absolutely and utterly sold out,” he told Devlin.

“They had no idea what the capacity was for cricket, so they just kept selling tickets, because people were buying them.

“It was a really hot day and, as the match goes on, people are climbing over the fences and sitting inside the boundary ropes.

Gradually, the boundaries, which were already small at Eden Park, were getting smaller and smaller.

“Greg Chappell comes out to

bat, the crowd boos the hell out of him and some fella jumps off the terraces with a bowling ball and bowls it along the ground ... funny as.

“Anyway, Greg is archvillain #1, but three hours later, he walks off with 100 and the people give him a standing ovation. It was magnificent.”

Snedden insists there was no bad blood between the two teams after the under-arm incident and describes Greg Chappell, in particular, as “a bloody good guy”.

Still, he has found his part in that whole affair a very useful joker card in his various roles over the years.

“It’s one of the greatest things to have in your back pocket when you’re dealing with Australians,” said the 2011 Rugby World Cup and former NZ Cricket chief executive.

“They have no answer to it.”

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Fightin’ talk from Davis Cup team New Zealand are underdogs but are talking tough heading into an enormously challenging Asia/Oceania group one Davis Cup tie in India.

Doubles specialist Artem Sitak accepts the Kiwis face a sizeable task to win the first-round tie against an Indian side who have had their measure in the past five meetings.

The 33rd-ranked New Zealand-

ers must overcome foreign conditions in Pune, where 19th-ranked India hasn’t hosted a tie for more than 43 years.

It is the last tie in charge for the home side’s long-serving captain Anand Amritraj and, quite possibly, of accomplished doubles player Leander Paes.

Taking out the emotional element, India have raw numbers on their side.

Singles players Saketh Myneni (199th) and Ramkumar Ramanathan (276th) are ranked well ahead of visiting counterparts Finn Tearney and Rubin Statham, who are both in the 400s.

“Rankings don’t mean much often,” Sitak said at the tie launch.

“It’s going to be a battle and you never know about it in the Davis Cup. Every match will be close,” Statham is the most capped New

Zealand Davis Cup player of all time and has forged a sound record for his country.

Another ace up New Zealand’s sleeve is in doubles, where Sitak and world No.38 Michael Venus are both ranked higher than whatever combination the hosts field.

Kiwi non-playing captain Alistair Hunt says his players have enjoyed an uneventful week’s preparation, having adjusted to the medium

paced, high- bouncing surface.

He predicts matches to stretch beyond three sets.

“I think it will be good for both teams and make for a pretty physical tie,” he said.

“The heat hasn’t been a factor.”

New Zealand beat India in their first three Davis Cup meetings, all in the 1970s, but India have dominated since grabbing victory in 2002.

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Gore gallops Today at Gore Raceway

Fields for Gore Racing Club meeting at Gore tomorrow.

NZ Meeting number: 6. Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8. Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8.

RACE 1 1.07pm (NZT) AON INSURANCE BROKERS R75 HANDICAP, $8000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 1200m 1 65569 Fantamo t (2) 59.............. K Kalychurun (a2) 2 51271 Fascinate td (6) 58 ........................ C Barnes 3 8x315 Accidental Offside tdh (4) 57.5 4 0216x Gold’nguru dm (5) 57.5 ............. S Muniandy 5 56789 A Beautiful Knight (3) 56.5 ........R Yatim (a3) 6 252x1 Celtic Cross d (1) 56 ......................S Wynne RACE 2 1.42pm PETERS GENETICS & GRANT FARMING PARTNERSHIP MDN, $7000, MDN, 1335m 1 03503 Kruger Rand h (9) 58.5 ........... G Jogoo (a1) 2 0x850 My Plan (7) 58.5..........................L Callaway 3 090x Brillante Rosso (5) 58.5 ..........R Cuneen (a) 4 080x8 Drumroyal (4) 58.5 .......... K Kalychurun (a2) 5 5x0x0 Nasa (8) 58.5 ................................ C Barnes 6 Sir Ed (6) 58.5 ..........................D Bothamley 7 970x7 Twizel Guru (3) 58.5 .................. S Muniandy

M9 Fields for Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club meeting at Addington Raceway today. NZ Meeting number: 9. Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12. Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 RACE 1, 4.29pm (NZT) THE FITZ SPORTS BAR STAKES, C3, 520m 1 61751 Know Neglect 30.42 .......................G Cleeve 2 18867 Tamara May 30.26 .......................... M Grant 3 41174 Botany Alan 30.46..................J T McInerney 4 54561 Lektra Concord 30.49 ....................G Cleeve 5 41787 Opawa Tracy 30.29 L & ...................... Wales 6 63178 Raewyn 30.43 H & ..............................Taylor 7 87228 Frosty Action 30.26 S & ..................B Evans 8 46652 Chippa Lata 29.92.....................R Blackburn RACE 2, 4.49pm CAROL’S TAB CLENDON INN SPRINT, C4, 295m 1 38638 Roadworks 17.16 ............................ M Grant 2 32221 Breaking Mad 17.30 ........................ M Grant 3 44331 Homebush Rufus 17.34 .........J T McInerney 4 31125 Know Scrutiny 17.29 ......................G Cleeve 5 37661 Magic Mike 17.16 .........................C Roberts 6 14648 Cawbourne Craig 17.33 ...............C Roberts 7 88113 Rand 17.19 M & ................................Jopson 8 87258 Opawa Crystal 17.25 L & ................... Wales 9 4658x Mr. Marine 17.47 ...........................R Adcock 10 57857 Chokehold 17.27 M & .......................Jopson RACE 3, 5.07pm ACTIVE ELECTRICAL CHRISTCHURCH STAKES, C4, 520m

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8 7x746 Haka Star h (2) 56.5.....................T Moseley 9 x8878 Go Apache h (1) 56........................S Wynne RACE 3 2.17pm NZB INSURANCE PEARL SERIES RACE R65, $12,000, Rating 65 Benchmark Fillies and Mares*, 1335m 1 64278 Flying Sardine b (9) 59..............R Yatim (a3) 2 63019 Over Take t (5) 59............ K Kalychurun (a2) 3 25897 Queen Serene b (3) 59 ..................S Wynne 4 410x6 Suggestive Loox (4) 58.5 ............L Callaway 5 84058 Knutquacker h (2) 58....................T Moseley 6 06499 Eagle Magic td (7) 57.5 .......... S Wahab (a4) 7 49379 Brahma Queen td (6) 56.5 ............M Tanaka 8 000x7 Crystalight m (1) 56.................R Cuneen (a) 9 708x0 Polly’s Sister td (8) 56 ............. G Jogoo (a1) RACE 4 2.52pm WHITE ROBE LODGE / JOHN BRICK MEMORIAL MAIDEN, $7000, MDN 2YO&UP, 1100m 1 20 Little Bossing (7) 58 .................. S Muniandy 2 Get Rythm (4) 58 ........................L Callaway 3 Machinegun Kellie (5) 58 .............T Moseley 4 Nomen Ludi h (3) 58 ......................S Wynne

5 7x500 The Likely Lad (1) 58 ....................M Tanaka 6 523. Leila Eve (10) 56.5 .......... K Kalychurun (a2) 7 90540 Young Ursula (9) 56.5 ...............R Yatim (a3) 8 0x5x Ladybird (2) 56.5 .................R Beeharry (a4) 9 Lil Miss Swiss (6) 56 .............. S Wahab (a4) 10 067 Rosie Jane (8) 56 .................... G Jogoo (a1) RACE 5 3.27pm LOGAN EQUINE / HENDERSON LIVESTOCK MAIDEN, $7000, MDN, 2000m 1 20x90 Limousine (3) 58.5 .......... K Kalychurun (a2) 2 x5453 Silver Spier (5) 56.5 .....................T Moseley 3 23749 Perceptive (8) 56.5 ................. S Wahab (a4) 4 45064 Madam De Soir (9) 56.5..........R Cuneen (a) 5 9x640 The Style (7) 56.5 ..........................S Wynne 6 04650 Red Tempest (2) 56.5..........R Beeharry (a4) 7 00x00 Fly The Flag (1) 56.5 .................R Yatim (a3) 8 65066 Misty Trella (4) 56.5 ................ W Papier (a4) 9 x3098 Satin Jitterbug (6) 56.5 ..................M Tanaka RACE 6 4.05pm RURAL BUSINESS SOLUTIONS GORE R75 HANDICAP, $8000, Rating 75 Benchmark, 2000m

1 x3875 Oor Wullie tdm (1) 62.5 ............D Bothamley 2 61122 Thought That tdbh (4) 60 3 x3851 Belle Boy tdm (2) 58.5..... K Kalychurun (a2) 4 05567 Take Fire d (9) 57 5 34225 Waylay tb (8) 56.5 ..................... S Muniandy 6 73216 Ablaze (5) 56 ........................... G Jogoo (a1) 7 7x120 Satin Guru (6) 56 .......................... C Barnes 8 71331 What A Deeza (3) 54 9 40x40 I’llbeyourplatinum t (7) 54 .............T Moseley RACE 7 4.42pm HOKONUI SUZUKI R65 HANDICAP, $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2000m 1 12272 He Ain’t Heavy tdm (10) 60 .........L Callaway 2 x5314 Smokem Up tdbh (12) 58.5 ............S Wynne 3 x1775 Indiana Pearl m (11) 58............. S Muniandy 4 48166 Consolidate tdh (4) 57 5 x0073 Peter Parker tdm (7) 57 ... K Kalychurun (a2) 6 68240 Zah Champ m (2) 57 .............. S Wahab (a4) 7 4x006 Franconi (5) 56.5 .....................R Cuneen (a) 8 9x457 The Believer t (8) 56.....................T Moseley 9 68227 Lady Lindauer m (6) 55 ................. C Barnes

10 00854 Shezatoucha 55 ........................... Scratched 11 19569 Tapilize (3) 55 ................................M Tanaka 12 70006 Weapon Of Choice (1) 55 .........R Yatim (a3) 13 00955 Asoma 54.5 .................................. Scratched 14 08500 Wild Wings (9) 54.5 RACE 8 5.17pm A B LIME / TED WINSLOE MEMORIAL R65 HANDICAP, $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 44223 Flicka Of Gold d (3) 60 .............. S Muniandy 2 74207 King Pin (6) 57.5 ..................... G Jogoo (a1) 3 5x003 Robin Charles (8) 57 ...............R Cuneen (a) 4 8x100 Tiger Claws (2) 57 .....................R Yatim (a3) 5 7x795 Darci Glitter d (9) 56........ K Kalychurun (a2) 6 52404 All Dressed Up tdm (5) 55.5.........T Moseley 7 6900x Baranoo (7) 55.5 .................... S Wahab (a4) 8 87x96 Rajiv d (1) 55..................................S Wynne 9 86408 The Gore Harpoon h (4) 55........... C Barnes Blinkers on: Drumroyal (R2), Franconi (R7), Tiger Claws, The Gore Harpoon (R8); Blinkers off : Leila Eve (R4), Tapilize (R7); Winkers on : Brahma Queen (R3), Rosie Jane (R4)

1 75118 Fair Pippa 30.73 J &........................D Fahey 2 11521 Opawa Timo 30.21 J & ....................D Fahey 3 13378 Opawa Jimbo 30.41 L & ..................... Wales 4 7x111 Min Ho 30.11 J & ............................D Fahey 5 12532 Odin Slayer 30.66 ..................... A Bradshaw 6 32534 Hard Questions 30.43 ....................G Cleeve 7 13444 Albie Punter 30.05 J & ....................D Fahey 8 15x2 Opawa Plum 30.77 L & ...................... Wales 9 65547 Opawa Penny 30.77 L & .................... Wales 10 66646 Charlie Runkel nwtd ..........................J Dunn RACE 9, 7.30pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO CANTERBURY FUTURITY HEAT 4, R/Aq, 520m 1 56343 Know Hassle nwtd .........................G Cleeve 2 15364 Opawa Racer 30.26 J & ..................D Fahey 3 31121 Vikings nwtd J &..............................D Fahey 4 24634 Opawa Waihemo 30.59 L & ............... Wales 5 16888 Mischief Managed 30.65 ........... A Bradshaw 6 21143 Opawa Kim 30.41 L & ........................ Wales 7 21351 Gentleman Tim 30.18 J & ...............D Fahey 8 61311 Mazu 30.35 J & ...............................D Fahey 9 65547 Opawa Penny 30.77 L & .................... Wales 10 66646 Charlie Runkel nwtd ..........................J Dunn RACE 10, 7.52pm STEVE ANNGOW DRAPES & BLINDS PH 0272719588 DASH, C5, 295m 1 54217 Smash That 17.21 ........................... M Grant 2 14537 Terra Mondo 17.30 C & ...................... Fagan 3 52721 Speedy Return 17.14 H & ...................Taylor 4 31155 Homebush Kelso 17.04 ..........J T McInerney 5 15143 Ohoka Billy 17.08 ......................... L Waretini

6 36322 Puma Pants 17.02..................J T McInerney 7 53214 Fliberty Jiberty 17.25 ....................... B Dann 8 68761 Carnegie Hall 17.07 ........................ M Grant 9 87176 Another Belle 17.25 M & ...................Jopson 10 8376x Born To Boom nwtd ...........................J Dunn RACE 11, 8.22pm MAC DEVELOPMENTS STAKES, C4/5, 520m 1 35641 Helena Allen 30.06.......................C Roberts 2 74248 Jessie Surfs 30.35 .......................C Roberts 3 14444 With Pride 30.15 .............................. B Dann 4 26312 Shift The Blame 30.50............J T McInerney 5 57257 Opawa Norris 30.33 J & ..................D Fahey 6 24127 Letron James 30.48 .....................C Roberts 7 65136 Boston Billy 30.40 H & ........................Taylor 8 14811 Zipping Marlisa 30.03.........................C Weir 9 66252 Kava Blu 29.99 J &..........................D Fahey 10 46463 Know Jinx 30.08.............................G Cleeve RACE 12, 8.52pm PROTEXIN SPRINT, C5, 295m 1 55121 Opawa Binge 17.41 L & ..................... Wales 2 15834 Jinja Brian 17.15 ..........................A Waretini 3 36173 Burn Early 17.09 H & ..........................Taylor 4 17711 Serious Torque 17.24 ...................... M Grant 5 51111 Swimming Goat 16.79........................C Weir 6 77217 Magic Wizard 17.33 S &..................B Evans 7 14326 Wow Madonna 17.19 M & ...............P Binnie 8 16583 Homebush Sloan 17.53 .........J T McInerney 9 14278 God Particle 17.27 ..............................A Lee 10 8376x Born To Boom nwtd ...........................J Dunn

7 9x0x Straka (7) fr ............................ J Morrison (J) 8 47 Particular (8) fr .........................C Faithful (J) 9 3P090 All Bling (21) fr ............................. S McNally 10 P1 San Fermin (22) fr .................R McIlwrick (J) 11 86423 Don’t Pass I’m Fast (23) fr...........A Suddaby 12 0x Reddington (24) fr ..........................T Chmiel 13 70 Cullens Joy fr ............................... Scratched 14 Allonblack (25) fr ........................C Ferguson 15 86937 Living Glory (26) fr .................. C D Thornley 16 7456 Tuscany Miss (27) fr ........................... R May Emergencies: Reddington, Cullens Joy Race 8 8.40pm FORBURY SPORTS BAR TROT $6250, 3yo+ c1 trot, stand, 2200m 1 12555 Armori (1) fr .................................... G McLay 2 x8804 Evander D Go (2) fr ........................N Burton 3 45056 Motu Great Sensation (3) fr ............... R May 4 09x05 Springfield Eyre (4) fr ....................... D Dunn 5 5D1x0 Its Elvis (5) fr .................................B Orange 6 53750 Missie Castleton (6) fr .................. S McNally 7 09595 Sheza Trendy Monarch (7) fr... M Williamson 8 24535 King Kone (8) fr .....................G Crawford (J) 9 3x180 Jeddy R Ya Ready (9) fr ...........B Williamson 10 00000 Wandering Star (10) fr...................... A Lowe 11 44730 Gorilla Playboy (11) fr ....................C McKay 12 83431 Holly Trouble (12) fr ................ J Morrison (J) 13 601 Smokey Mac (U1) fr ...................... B Barclay 14 0700x Scarlett Lane (U2) fr....................A Suddaby Race 9 9.10pm THANK YOU ST JOHNS AMBULANCE MOBILE PACE $7250, 4yo+ c3 to c6 mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 14256 Mighty Flying Deal (1) fr ................ B Barclay 2 03130 Christopher Banner (2) fr ................... R May 3 78147 Ultimate Fella (3) fr....................... S McNally 4 12344 Sovereign Banner (4) fr .................... D Dunn

5 9x002 Highview Freddy (5) fr ............. M Williamson 6 75860 Machie Mach fr ............................ Scratched 7 58088 Stunin Dude (6) fr..........................B Orange 8 74497 Tangos Delight (7) fr........................J W Cox Race 10 9.40pm THANK YOU GRAEME MEE AND MCCANN MOBILE PACE $6250, 3yo+ c1 mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 04018 Laytons Crusader (1) fr ..................T Chmiel 2 55229 Sauchiehall (2) fr ..................... C D Thornley 3 53004 Quick Nick (3) fr .................... J Campbell (J) 4 201 Santanna’s Rocket (4) fr................ B Barclay 5 44571 Novak (5) fr ........................................ R May 6 97434 Nova Time (6) fr ............................B Orange 7 60212 Delishka (7) fr.......................... M Williamson 8 66146 First Son (8) fr ......................S Tomlinson (J) 9 27993 Chief Kapai (21) fr ....................B Williamson 10 2104x Hopes And Dreams (22) fr ............... D Dunn 11 09041 Willedu (23) fr..................................J W Cox 12 03560 Bonnie Medley (24) fr .................C Ferguson 13 34329 Hunter Bromac (25) fr ............... M Purvis (J) Race 11 10.09pm WELCOME LISA BUTLER MOBILE PACE $6750, 4yo+ c2, c3 with cond. mob. pace, mobile, 2700m 1 44640 Stoney Eyre fr .............................. Scratched 2 11805 Veneto (1) fr ............................. J Kennett (J) 3 33147 Just Say Go (2) fr .......................... K Barclay 4 43403 American Spirit (3) fr .....................B Orange 5 01653 Eja Patron (4) fr ....................... M Williamson 6 15856 Spirit Of Chronos (5) fr .............B Williamson 7 90009 Earthbound (6) fr.............................J W Cox 8 0845P Here We Go Again (7) fr ......... C D Thornley 9 80500 Highview Illusion (21) fr .................... D Dunn Pacifiers off : Balius (R2), Don’t Look Back, Mokosun (R5), Smokey Mac (R8)

5 82515 Fantastic Ava 21.43....................D Schofield 6 56814 Cawbourne Mezza 21.30 .............M Roberts 7 77378 Cawbourne Cooks nwtd J &................D Bell 8 53556 Kirkham Coby nwtd ......................M Roberts 9 43477 Hallo Star 21.33 ................................B Bond 10 586x8 Happy Wife nwtd ............................... D Hunt RACE 8, 2.09pm HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARK HASLAM STAKES C1, 457m 1 23374 Bold Sassy nwtd ........................D Schofield 2 12425 Westworld nwtd .................................B Craik 3 14783 Gravity Falls nwtd ......................... H Mullane 4 18661 Mid Collison 26.35 .......................... T Green 5 55122 Iolaus nwtd ........................................S Ross 6 61562 Rising Hawke nwtd G H & ....... PC Ferguson 7 87277 Estee 26.24 ............................... A Lawrence 8 44425 Golden Ivy 25.59 W & .....................T Steele 9 36244 Bouncie Al nwtd .............................. T Green 10 86767 Teefonic 25.99 ........................... A Lawrence RACE 9, 2.27pm HAUTAPU VETERINARY CLINIC SPRINT C2/3, 375m 1 61578 Sandor Glegane 21.23 .................... T Green 2 23347 Dr. Robbie 20.96 ...............................C Hore 3 73F83 Shot Gun Harry 21.40 .................. H Mullane 4 34178 Gee Thunder nwtd .......................R K Roper 5 31111 Clockwise Rap 21.35 ......................P Green 6 38747 Kirkham Webby 21.44 ..................M Roberts 7 68553 Raging Demon 21.79 U & .....................Bliek

8 41354 Bruce Banner 21.37 ..................... H Mullane 9 17526 Pat Not Plait 21.76 .........................P Henley 10 17885 Tuff Star nwtd U & .............................Cottam RACE 10, 2.44pm PALAMOUNTAINS NUTRITION STAKES C3, 457m 1 11765 Flying Merkel nwtd ........................... S Clark 2 36527 Thrilling Riot 26.09 U & .....................Cottam 3 45232 Olivia 25.79 ............................... A Lawrence 4 48621 Jinja Roman 25.88 W & ..................T Steele 5 47522 Ace Bale nwtd ..............................M Roberts 6 21341 Thrilling Hettie nwtd ........................ K Walsh 7 56372 Southern Blue nwtd...........................C Hore 8 14312 Soaring Hawke nwtd G H & .... PC Ferguson 9 23442 Rubeus Hagrid 25.85 ....................... S Clark 10 31568 Scott The Looks nwtd U &.................Cottam RACE 11, 3.02pm HAPPY BIRTHDAY PETER HENLEY STAKES C2, 457m 1 48654 Cawbourne Owen nwtd................M Roberts 2 74775 Zimmer Frame nwtd U & .......................Bliek 3 13358 Moochi 26.28 ............................ A Lawrence 4 53573 Cool Marlow 25.61 ..................... G Pomeroy 5 24758 Multicam Ranger 25.95 ..............D Schofield 6 52652 Cawbourne Gunna nwtd ..............M Roberts 7 16654 Opawa Harry 26.05 B & ..................... Steele 8 18757 Crying In Vegas 25.85 ...................... S Clark 9 47766 Go Andwyn nwtd .............................. S Clark

Christchurch dogs Today at Addington Raceway 1 78588 Goldstar Po 30.18 M & ......................Jopson 2 75133 Majestic Action 30.00 J &................D Fahey 3 63733 Know Style 30.26 ...........................G Cleeve 4 51427 Allen Hadrian 30.54 .....................C Roberts 5 76887 Homebush Howard 30.22 ......J T McInerney 6 12356 Jon Snow Lives 30.40 ..................C Roberts 7 42266 Replica Yella 30.48 .......................... M Grant 8 17352 He’s All Power nwtd J & ..................D Fahey 9 66252 Kava Blu 29.99 J &..........................D Fahey 10 46463 Know Jinx 30.08.............................G Cleeve RACE 4, 5.23pm I PAVE CONCRETE DASH C4, 295m 1 18673 Cabarita 17.25 ................................ M Grant 2 175F1 Barcia Express 17.27 ...................... M Grant 3 56173 Deman Blue Blood 17.43 .......J T McInerney 4 85477 Homebush Scribe 17.36 ........J T McInerney 5 21857 Believe 17.10 ................................... B Dann 6 22233 Harkonen Bale 17.08 ...................C Roberts 7 38466 My First Litter 17.07 .....................C Roberts 8 31634 Hilton Open 17.47 .....................A Bradshaw 9 4658x Mr. Marine 17.47 ...........................R Adcock 10 57857 Chokehold 17.27 M & .......................Jopson RACE 5, 5.44pm THURSDAY PLACE PICK DISTANCE C2d, 645m 1 84667 Mystic Action 38.14 S & ..................B Evans 2 F3141 Know Worth 38.03..........................G Cleeve 3 4x445 Long Stockings 38.23 ............... A Bradshaw 4 35444 Arcane Sabre nwtd M & ....................Jopson 5 363F5 Goldstar Dallas 39.00 S &...............B Evans 6 45432 Goldstar Jagger 38.62 S &..............B Evans

7 67217 Goldstar Coco 38.60 S & ................B Evans 8 13212 Can’t Catch Tim 38.04 ..................R Adcock 9 44755 Know Answer nwtd.........................G Cleeve RACE 6, 6.11pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO CANTERBURY FUTURITY HEAT 1, R/Aq, 520m 1 36287 Amino Trouble 30.68 ................. A Bradshaw 2 37627 Smokey Action 30.36 S & ...............B Evans 3 36133 Opawa Anthony 30.02 L & ................. Wales 4 2F241 Opawa Cheviot 30.20 J & ...............D Fahey 5 32222 Opawa Pam nwtd L & ........................ Wales 6 3415 Opawa Sophie 30.68 J & ................D Fahey 7 47131 Mandy Junior 30.09 J & ..................D Fahey 8 31216 Draxler 30.32 J & ............................D Fahey 9 65547 Opawa Penny 30.77 L & .................... Wales 10 66646 Charlie Runkel nwtd ..........................J Dunn RACE 7, 6.36pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO CANTERBURY FUTURITY HEAT 2, R/Aq, 520m 1 4315 Sader Nation nwtd .........................G Cleeve 2 1x131 Fab Action 30.70 S & ......................B Evans 3 55155 Opawa Brad 30.30 J & ....................D Fahey 4 33125 Kiwi Breeze 30.54 J & .....................D Fahey 5 35143 Translator nwtd J & .........................D Fahey 6 48755 Nozzno Fear 30.37.................... A Bradshaw 7 51211 Opawa Sheldon 30.58 J & ..............D Fahey 8 33612 Opawa Millie nwtd L &........................ Wales 9 65547 Opawa Penny 30.77 L & .................... Wales 10 66646 Charlie Runkel nwtd ..........................J Dunn RACE 8, 7.03pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO CANTERBURY FUTURITY HEAT 3, R/Aq, 520m

Forbury Park harness Today at Forbury Park

Fields for Forbury Park Trotting Club Inc at Forbury Park today. NZ Meeting number: 7. Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11. Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 5, 6 and 7; 9, 10 and 11.

RACE 1 5.32pm (NZT) JUST ESSENCE CATERING TROT, $6000, 2yo+ c0 trot, stand, 2200m 1 89076 Janucci Girl (1) fr...................R McIlwrick (J) 2 63670 Here We Are (2) fr .................. J Morrison (J) 3 3P583 Majestic Peak (3) fr .......................... D Dunn 4 Superfast Maggie (4) fr ...............A Suddaby 5 677x2 Matai Katie (5) fr .............................. A Milne 6 35570 Pegasus Hanover (6) fr ................. B Barclay 7 40947 Madaboy (7) fr ...............................C Buchan 8 95482 Prince George (8) fr ................ L McCormick 9 29P64 Imperial Whiz (U1) fr ........................ A Clark 10 90480 Regal Assassin (U2) fr .............B Williamson 11 x0000 Roaming (U3) fr ............................. G Shand RACE 2 5.59pm THANK YOU STARTING CREW MOBILE PACE, $6250, 3yo+ c1 mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 35000 Shards Halo (1) fr......................... S McNally 2 77368 Wobbegong (2) fr ..........................B Orange 3 67700 Balius (3) fr...........................S Tomlinson (J) 4 46880 Ask Me Art (4) fr .............................M House 5 9800x Arthur Lowe (5) fr ...........................K Larsen 6 76067 Alexy (6) fr .................................D O’Connell 7 05750 The Kaik (7) fr .................................. D Dunn 8 09086 Fern Fever (8) fr .......................B Williamson 9 70967 Pat’s Legacy (21) fr ........................H Hunter 10 x0000 Jackalack Sue (22) fr ......................J W Cox 11 50998 Flushing Meadows (23) fr .................A Beck 12 8890P Fiery Ferret (24) fr ................... M Williamson 13 70x86 Stunnin VC (25) fr .................R McIlwrick (J) RACE 3 6.25pm ESSENCE OF SUMMER PACE, $6000, 3yo+ c0 pace, stand, 2200m

M3 Fields for Waikato Greyhound Racing Club meeting at Cambridge Raceway today. NZ Meeting number: 3.

Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11.

Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 5, 6 and 7; 9, 10 and 11.

RACE 1, 12.04pm (NZT) BOX 1 GOLD SPRINT C0, 375m 1 6x323 Lover Boy nwtd .......................... W Toomath 2 37477 Transzeus nwtd ............................... T Green 3 34357 Electric Lotto nwtd G H & ........ PC Ferguson 4 44682 Conquest Girl nwtd W & ..................T Steele 5 32322 Strike Lotto nwtd G H & .......... PC Ferguson 6 x6536 My Friend Mike nwtd .................. W Toomath 7 3x664 Nahimana nwtd .......................... W Toomath 8 Beautiful Boy nwtd ............................B Craik 9 7784 Was Just Saying nwtd U & ....................Bliek 10 7455 Camara nwtd.....................................C Hore RACE 2, 12.22pm THE CLUBHOUSE SPORTS BAR SPRINT C1, 375m 1 64437 Fantastic Zoe 21.37 ...................D Schofield 2 1163 Shortcut Pluto 21.68 W &................T Steele 3 73728 Willi Gas It 21.64 ........................ G Pomeroy 4 36355 Miss Bunnythorpe nwtd U &..............Cottam 5 33474 Dipsy Lala 21.31 U & ........................Cottam 6 56228 Fancy Gas nwtd M & ........................ J Smith 7 63535 Off The Grid 21.70 W &...................T Steele 8 64742 Skyler White 21.50 ............................B Craik 9 66F46 Typhoon Ted nwtd ............................ S Clark

1 0x2 Thaboyz Toy (1) fr ............................ D Dunn 2 73977 Matai Jetstar (2) fr ............................ A Milne 3 35320 Silver Dale (3) fr ...................... M Williamson 4 00x00 Yankyola (4) fr ..........................B Williamson 5 08P79 Okains Bay (5) fr ........................C Ferguson 6 0x727 Ask Yourself (6) fr ..........................B Orange 7 0x9L9 Benz Buy (7) fr ....................T Chmiel 8 57060 Nadia Bay (8) fr ...........................T McMillan 9 64366 Celebrity Easton (9) fr ...........R McIlwrick (J) 10 06396 Canardly Remember (10) fr ...........H Hunter 11 80563 Mustang Bullitt (11) fr ............. J Morrison (J) 12 5825 Fear Rockn (12) fr ................... C D Thornley 13 09076 Rainy River (13) fr ..................... C McDowell RACE 4 6.52pm THANK YOU CRASH CREW MOBILE PACE, $6000, 3yo+ c0 mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 0 Go Getta (1) fr .......................R McIlwrick (J) 2 00 Bring Back Buck (2) fr ...................... A Milne 3 00x97 Pure Grit (3) fr ....................... J Campbell (J) 4 Quartz (4) fr ................................B McLellan 5 6x Snap It Up (5) fr ................................. R May 6 x6635 Blazer S (6) fr ................................ B Barclay 7 8550 Like Ya More (7) fr ................... L McCormick 8 49 Playboy Prince (8) fr..........................A Beck 9 0x Reddington (21) fr ..........................T Chmiel 10 20x76 Miss Stella (22) fr ..........................B Orange 11 69x04 Thinking Smart (23) fr ............. M Williamson 12 P08x0 Pay Me Jimmy (24) fr ......................J W Cox 13 02548 Beaudiene Gambler (25) fr .... J Morrison (J) 14 6 Johnny Machintosh (26) fr .............K Larsen 15 70 Cullens Joy fr ............................... Scratched 16 77x25 Lanikai (27) fr ................................... D Dunn Emergencies: Reddington, Cullens Joy RACE 5 7.17pm FORBURY PARK BISTRO HANDICAP TROT, $6750, 5yo+ c2 to c6 discrhcp trot, stand,

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In brief Filly misses sale Rick Williams reckons there’s a better than even chance that Seachange’s yearling daughter will show the family ability on the racetrack. The Oaks Stud manager was forced to withdraw the filly from the premier sale at Karaka due to a bout of colic, but he has let farm owner and breeder Dick Karreman know it could be a silver lining scenario. “She’s okay now and she’ll go home today (yesterday) and I said to Dick that it’s destiny – she’ll probably turn out to be a champion!” Williams said. The Darci Brahma filly would have been the third foal of Seachange, a seven-time Group One winner, to have gone through the Karaka ring. The only one to race has been Divan, who sold for $500,000 in 2013 and he has subsequently won three times in Victoria from Robert Hickmott’s stable.

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Champion Kiwi pacer, Smolda, will start favourite in Saturday night’s Hunter Cup in Australia.

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All set to Smolda Not even a back-row draw will stop star Kiwi stayer Smolda from starting favourite to successfully defend his Hunter Cup crown.

An early gasp went through the big crowd at the Caduceus Club barrier draw event – held at the famous Melboune Cricket Ground – when Smolda snared gate nine, two-out on the back row.

At that stage there were still lots of front row draws left and Smolda’s main rival, Lennytheshark, didn’t have a barrier.

Trainer David Aiken’s moments of optimism ended in disappointment when Lennytheshark drew the worst remaining barrier – the worst possible in the race – outside the back row (gate 13).

Smolda’s barrier nine suddenly looked a lot better.

“You’d rather have the front (row), but he’s picked-up well after being a little flat following the Ballarat Cup win. I’m really happy with him,” trainer-driver Mark Purdon.

“He’s racing in fantastic form and he’s such a great stayer.”

If the emergency Adam Cartwright (gate one) doesn’t gain a start, Smolda will trail out quick beginner Allblack Stride (gate two).

It will be a big shock if Smolda doesn’t settle well in front of Lennytheshark in the early stages, which gives him an advantage.

The Aussie TAB installed Smolda and Lennytheshark $3.20 equal favourites straight after the draw, but punters quickly

smashed Smolda into $2.30 while Lennytheshark eased to $3.50. “I’d have loved a better draw, but I am extremely happy with the horse, His work last Saturday was fantastic and it should be a strong staying test, which suits him,” Aiken said about Lennytheshark.

The other Kiwi in the race, Barry Purdon’s Hug The Wind, drew poorly in gate 11 and is an $18 shot.

Meanwhile, Speeding Spur, who wasn’t going to defend his Great Southern Star title, is now an odds-on favourite.

A slashing first-up run at Alexandra Park combined with an ideal draw saw him installed Speeding Spur a $1.80 favourite for Saturday night’s $300,000 Group 1 feature at Melton.

Gone are the heats and final, but also gone is the one-mile trip.

The Great Souithern Star is now a one-off 2760m staying test.

Barrier five certainly helps Speeding Spur’s prospects, but whether he should be as short as $1.80 is a big question.

He does have a couple of noted speedsters drawn inside him in Maori Time (three) and WA raider Cardigan Boko (four).

The draw wasn’t as kind to last week’s Group 1 Dullard Cup winner Sunny Ruby, who will start from outside the back row (gate 13) with David Butcher aboard.

The other runners with Kiwi flavour are Tim Butt’s Daryl Boko (gate nine) and Quite A Moment (gate 11), who is in the care of Lance Juistice.

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Massive sprint purse Sydney will host the richest sprint race on turf in the world with the first A$10 million The Everest set to be held during the spring carnival.

The inaugural running of the 1200-metre weight-for-age contest will be at Randwick on October 14.

There will be 12 slots for the race open to local and international horses at a cost of $A600,000 each.

Final hurrah for winner Abidewithme will make her final race day appearance in the Gr.1 Herbie Dyke Stakes at Te Rapa on February 11. In foal to Tavistock, the Stephen Autridge and Jamie Richards-trained mare bounced back to form with a solid last-start performance at Trentham to finish third in the group one Thorndon Mile. The Redoute’s Choice mare has won nine races, including two at group two level and she is also a two-time group one placegetter.

Living legend

Trainer apprehensive over rider change Tommy Beckett isn’t sure what he’s going to get from Miss Three Stars at Wingatui on Saturday.

The Ascot Park trainer is more than happy with the mare’s condition ahead of the Gr.3 White Robe Lodge Handicap, but a forced change of jockey has him nervous.

Miss Three Stars’ regular partner Samantha Wynne has opted for the Michael and Matthew Pitman-trained Son Of Maher and Group Onewinning rider Racha Cuneen has been booked as her replacement.

Top sprinter Chatauqua is set to resume in the Gr.2 Rubiton Stakes on Saturday week.

The John, Michael and Wayne Hawkes-trained sprinter made an appearance at this week’s Rosehill trials, where he finished third in his heat, ahead of his return. “He gave me the feel he’s back,” rider Dwayne Dunn said. “His attitude’s back to what it was, he looks fantastic.”

While Beckett doesn’t doubt Cuneen’s talents in the saddle, it’s more than a matter of ability when it comes to getting the best out of Miss Three Stars.

“It all depends on the mare – she only really runs for Sam and she’s won eight races on her so I’m not very happy about it,” he said.

Miss Three Stars hasn’t raced since she finished out of the money in the Gr.3 New Zealand Cup, a defeat Beckett has shouldered the blame for.

“I sprinted her up before that and it got her too toey

and she pulled and reefed in the race,” he said.

“I was going to carry on with her, but sometimes the paddock can level them out.

She’s coming up well now and doing everything right.

“A bit of rain to take the jar out of the ground would help her as well.”

Safely through Saturday, Beckett has eyes for a feature race hat-trick.

“She’ll be going to the Riverton Cup again – it would be nice to win three of those in a row,” Beckett said.

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Tommy Beckett

Champion harness racing trainer, Mark Purdon was declared a Living Legend at an event in Australia this week ahead of Saturday night’s big night of racing in Melbourne where Purdon will be a major player.

Purdon becomes the third member of his family to be awarded the title, alongside his father, Roy and brother Barry. “To come up here and be awarded this and have my up there alongside Dad (Roy) and Barry, who have also been awarded it, is really special,” Purdon said. “It means a lot to me.

Coming to Australia, especially Melbourne, for the big races has been such a big part of my career.

“It’s an incredible thrill to get this.”

Purdon was surrounded by some of his major owners and friends and thanked them all.

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VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Today’s cosmic gift is talent for storytelling. Creative people will be drawn to your tales. This is could be the start of a community. Listen as well as you present and you’re golden.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): No one is fully formed. You see the potential in others, and you will also have excellent ideas about how to direct it. Those are best shared exclusively with those who ask for help.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): Team efforts don’t always have to be equal so much as mutually satisfactory.

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AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): You are chasing an object of affection that is chasing another, and this is how love makes the world go around. Did you notice that you’re also being chased?

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Should you push and drive your team, or should you lift and support them? Both ways are valid and needed at different times. Test the waters. Get a better reading of the situation and the group.

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SIMMONDS, Fiona Anne HEAL, Jan – (nee Murdoch) – February 2, 2015 Passed away peacefully in As I sit here in silence Canberra on January 28, And walk down memory lane aged 56 surrounded by I know that my tomorrow’s will family. Much loved little sister never be the same. of Gilbert, Sue, Russell, But as the sun comes Rose, Geoff, Chris and up in the morning Leonie. Treasured aunty to And I look up to the sky, Nicholas, Anna, Mike, Amy, it’s then I know Simon, Cherie, Tim, Tania, mum that you will Charlotte, Scott, Georgie, always be by my side.

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6am Breakfast The Breakfast team presents news, interviews, weather, and information.

9am The Ellen DeGeneres Show With special guests Michael Keaton and Ken Jeong. 0 10am Tipping Point Quiz show in which four players take on an extraordinary machine, hoping to win its jackpot.

11am The Chase A quiz show where contestants must stay one step ahead. 0 Noon 1 News At Midday 0 12:30 Emmerdale 0 1pm Coronation Street PGR 3 0 2pm Kiwi Living 0 2:55 Tipping Point 3:55 Te Karere 2 4:25 Millionaire Hot Seat 0 5pm The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm Pound Pups To Dog Stars 0 7:30 N George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 0 8:30 Blindspot AO 0 9:30 Walliams And Friend 0 10:05 N Insert Name Here 10:40 1 News Tonight 0

11:10 Upper Middle Bogan AO 0 11:45 A Night At The Classic AO 0 12:15 F Bear Grylls – Mission Survive AO 0 1:15 Te Karere 3 2 1:40 Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 32

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6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Sesame Street 0 6:55 Little Monstar 3 0 7am The Jungle Bunch To The Rescue! 3 0 7:25 Transformers – Robots In Disguise 3 0 7:50 Breadwinners 3 0 8:15 Jake And The Neverland Pirates 3 0 8:40 Miles From Tomorrowland 3 0 9am Infomercials 10:30 Neighbours 3 0 11am Step

By Step 3 0 11:30 Shortland Street 3 0 Noon The Ellen DeGeneres Show 0 1pm Bachelor In Paradise 3 0 2pm Judge Rinder PGR 3pm America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 3:30 The Jungle Bunch To The Rescue! 3 0 3:40 Kickin’ It 0 4:05 KC Undercover 3 0 4:35 My Wife And Kids 3 0 5pm Friends 3 0 5:30 The Simpsons 3 0 6pm The Big Bang Theory 0 6:30 Neighbours 0

6am The Best Of Paul Henry 8am Rachael Ray 9am The Café 10am Infomercials 11:25 Celebrity Family Feud 3 0 Noon Dr Phil PGR 1pm M Assumed Killer PGR 2013 Thriller. Casper Van Dien, Barbie Castro, Armand Assante.

2:55 Baggage PGR 3 3:20 Sticky TV 3:25 The Moe Show 0 3:30 Sticky TV 4pm Entertainment Tonight 4:25 Wipeout 0 5:25 Celebrity Family Feud Jude Dobson and family compete against Mary Lambie and family. 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

7pm Shortland Street 0 7:30 Booze Patrol – Drug Special PGR 0 8:30 M Reign Of Fire AO 2002 Action Fantasy.

A brood of fire-breathing dragons emerges from the earth and begins setting fire to everything, establishing dominance over the planet. 0 10:30 Two And A Half Men PGR 3 0 11pm Ten 7 Summer 11:30 Hell’s Kitchen 12:25 Agent X AO 3 1:20 Shortland Street 3 0 1:45 Infomercials 2:50 The Good Witch 3 0 3:35 The Real 3 4:20 America’s Funniest Home Videos 0 4:45 Baby Daddy 3 0 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

7pm The Best Of Jono And Ben PGR 0 7:30 Road Madness PGR 3 8pm Territory Cops PGR 3 8:30 M Fast Five AO 3 2011 Action Thriller. Dominic Toretto and his crew of street racers plan a robbery to buy their freedom while in the sights of a powerful Brazilian drug lord and a dangerous federal agent. 0 11pm NewsHub Late Mix of news, entertainment and pop culture.

11:30 Golf World Summer Season 12:05 The Good Wife AO 3 Alicia prepares for a key interview that could have a strong impact on the outcome of the race for State’s Attorney.

1am Infomercials

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BRAVO 10am Million Dollar Listing 3 10:55 Hoarders 3 11:45 Snapped PGR 3 12:40 Vanderpump Rules 1:35 The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills 3 2:30 Vanderpump Rules 3 3:30 Flipping Out 3 4:30 Dance Moms 5:30 Hoarders 3 6:30 Million Dollar Listing 3 7:30 Snapped – Killer Couples PGR 3 A Texan community is affected by a series of revenge killings.

8:30 Snapped – Killer Couples A couple’s lives become exciting when they enter the world of rough sex and snuff films; they just need some victims to make their dreams come true.

9:30 N Hoarders A family face losing their home if they cannot bring it up to code; a man’s health is at risk due to his wife’s hoarding of Christmas decor.

10:30 Hoarders 3 11:25 Snapped PGR 3 12:20 Infomercials 3

PRIME

11:30 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon PGR A celebrity chat show.

12:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

1am Cricket – International (HLS) Blackcaps v Australia.

1:30 Closedown

11:30 Closedown

MOVIES GREATS

12:15 Shipping Wars PG 12:40 Container Wars PG 1:05 The Amazing Race PG 1:55 Criminal Minds MV 2:45 CSI MV 3:30 The Simpsons PG 3:55 American Grit PG 4:45 Banshee 18VLSC 5:35 The Carbonaro Effect PG

1:35 The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford MVS 2007 Drama.

Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard. 4:10 The Making Of Sex And The City 2 PG 4:25 Bring It On MS 2000 Comedy.

12:25 The Night Before 16LSC 2015 Comedy.

Colin Egglesfield, Drew Fuller.

1:50 Wrecker 16VLS 2015 Horror. Anna Hutchison, Andrea Whitburn. 3:15 Pixels PGVLS 2015 Comedy.

5am Gods Of Egypt MV 2016 Action.

Friday

ChOICE

6:30 Pukoro 3 2 7am SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 3 2 7:30 Pukana 2 8am Miharo 2 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am 2Kaha PGR 3 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Korero Mai 3 2 11am Toku Reo 3 2 Noon Korero Mai 3 2 1pm Toku Reo 3 2 2pm Opaki 3 2:30 Ako 3 2 3pm Whaikorero PGR 3 3:30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 4pm Iwi Anthems 3 4:30 Ka Tu Ka Korero Series in which Kingi Biddle helps participants overcome their fear of public speaking.

5pm Kapa Haka Regionals 3 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Pukoro 3 2 6:20 Huhu 6:30 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 32 7pm Playlist 7:30 Cam’s Kai 3 8pm Whanau Living 3 8:30 Kairakau 9pm The GC PGR 9:30 Billy T James AO 3 10pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 10:30 Te Kauta 3 10:30 Te Kaea 3 2

6:50 To Rome With Love MLS 2012 Romantic Comedy.

Woody Allen, Penélope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg. 8:40 I Love You, Man 16LS 2009 Comedy.

Paul Rudd, Jason Segal, Rashida Jones. 10:25 Close Up – Robin Williams PG 10:55 28 Days ML 2000 Comedy. Viggo Mortensen, Sandra Bullock. 12:40 Sex And The City 2 MLS 2010 Comedy. Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon. 3:05 Bring It On MS 2000 Comedy.

4:45 We Own The Night 16VL 2007 Crime. Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix. 6:40 You, Me And Dupree MLS 2006 Comedy. Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson, Matt Dillon.

8:30 Limitless MVLS 2011 Thriller. A writer discovers a top-secret drug that gives him superhuman abilities.

Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro.

10:20 Austin Powers – International Man Of Mystery M 1997 Comedy. Michael Myers, Elizabeth Hurley.

11:50 Clash Of The Titans MV 2010 Action.

Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson.

Friday

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6am The Fairly Odd Parents 6:25 Kid v Kat 6:50 The Penguins Of Madagascar 7:15 Bella And The Bulldogs 7:40 Henry Danger 8:05 Avatar – The Last Airbender 8:30 Sanjay And Craig 8:55 Million Dollar Minute 3 9:20 Wheel Of Fortune 3 9:45 Jeopardy 3 10:10 The Doctors PGR 11:05 Hot Bench 11:35 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 12:05 Bondi Rescue PGR 3 12:30 F Partners In Crime PGR 3 0 1:35 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon PGR 3 2:35 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 3:05 Escape To The Country 3 4pm Antiques Roadshow 0 5pm Million Dollar Minute 5:30 Prime News 6pm Wheel Of Fortune 6:30 Jeopardy 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 MacGyver PGR With only a driver’s licence and hand sanitiser, MacGyver must save the life of a man with information about an impending terrorist attack. 0 8:30 Bull AO 0 9:30 Madam Secretary AO 0 10:30 NCIS – New Orleans AO 0

6:20 Child 44 16VLC 2015 Drama. Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman. 8:35 American Ultra 16VLC 2014 Comedy.

Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart.

10:10 Mississippi Grind MLS 2015 Drama. Ryan Reynolds, Fast Five Ben Mendelsohn. Noon The Bell Witch Haunting 16 2013 8:30pm on Three Horror. Andrew Hellenthal, Cat Alter. 1:30 Child 44 16VLC ThE BOx 2015 Drama. Tom Hardy, 6am CSI MV 6:50 Criminal Gary Oldman. 3:45 American Intent MV 7:40 The Amazing Ultra 16VLC 2014 Comedy.

Race PG 8:30 Shipping Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart.

Wars PG 8:55 The 5:20 Wrecker 16VLS 2015 Simpsons PG 9:20 Criminal Horror. Anna Hutchison, Minds MV 10:10 NCIS Andrea Whitburn. 6:45 Pixels MV 11am NCIS – New PGVLS 2015 Comedy.

Orleans MV 11:55 Reckless Adam Sandler, Kevin James.

MV 12:50 Container Wars 8:30 Gods Of Egypt MV 2016 PG 1:15 Criminal Intent Action Adventure. Mortal MV 2:10 CSI MV 3:05 The hero Bek teams with the god Carbonaro Effect PG Horus against Set, the god of 3:35 Shipping Wars PG darkness, who has usurped 4:05 The Amazing Race PG Egypt’s throne, turning the 5pm The Simpsons PG once peaceful and prosperous 5:30 Criminal Intent MV country into chaos and 6:30 The Carbonaro Effect PG conflict. Brenton Thwaites, 7pm Container Wars PG Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, 7:30 NCIS MV Gerard Butler.

8:30 American Grit PG 10:40 No Escape 16VLC 9:30 Banshee 18VLSC 2015 Thriller. Owen Wilson, 10:30 Criminal Minds MV Pierce Brosnan.

11:25 NCIS MV Friday

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SKY SPORT 1 6am The Crowd Goes Wild 6:30 Golf – US PGA Tour Farmer Insurance Open – Round Four. 7am Cricket – T20 Big Bash League Final – Perth Scorchers v Sydney Sixers. 7:30 Cricket – International India v England – Third T20. 11am Cricket – International Blackcaps v Australia – First ODI. 1pm Cricket – International India v England – Third T20. 1:30 L Cricket – International Blackcaps v Australia – Second ODI. 5:35 Cricket – T20 Big Bash League Final – Perth Scorchers v Sydney Sixers.

6:05 L Cricket – International Blackcaps v Australia – Second ODI. 10pm Cricket – International India v England – Third T20. 10:30 Cricket – T20 Big Bash League Final – Perth Scorchers v Sydney Sixers. 11pm The Cricket Show 11:30 Cricket – International Blackcaps v Australia – Second ODI.

Friday

Midnight The Crowd Goes Wild 12:30 Tennis – Australian Open Women’s Singles – Final.

3am The Crowd Goes Wild 3:30 World Sailing Show 4am Inside The PGA Tour 4:30 Cricket – International Blackcaps v Australia – Second ODI. 5am Cricket – International India v England – Third T20. 5:30 Cricket – T20 Big Bash League

0 Closed captions; 3 Repeat; 2 Maori Language; HLS Highlights; RPL Replay; DLY Delayed. CLASSIFICATIONS: 16/18 Approved for persons 16/18 years or over; AO Adults only; C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audiences; PG/PGR Parental guidance recommended for young viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. Local Radio: NewsTalk ZB 873AM/98.1FM FM Classic Hits ZEFM 92.5; Port FM Local 94.9, 98.9 and 106.1

6am Benny Hinn 6:30 Shoreline Detectives 7:30 Polar Bear Town 8:30 American Restoration 9:30 Aussie Barbecue Heroes 10:30 The French Collection 11:30 American Restoration Noon Special Forces – Ultimate Hell Week 1pm Shoreline Detectives 2pm Crossing The Ditch 3pm The Cook And The Chef 3:30 Martin Clunes And A Lion Called Mugie 4:30 Poh And Co Series featuring cook, artist, and lover of life, Poh Ling Yeow.

5pm Poh’s Kitchen Lends A Hand Poh helps Operation Flinders, a wilderness therapy programme that helps transform the lives of young people at risk.

5:30 Great British Garden Revival 6:30 Find It, Fix It, Flog It 7:30 Tiny House Nation Renovation experts travel across America to show off ingenious small spaces and the inventive people who live in them.

8:30 River Cottage To The Core 9:30 Trashformers 10:30 Find It, Fix It, Flog It

11:30 Poh And Co Series featuring cook, artist, and lover of life, Poh Ling Yeow.

Midnight Poh’s Kitchen Lends A Hand 12:30 Benny Hinn 1am Micky Flanagan’s Detour De France 2am Martin Clunes And A Lion Called Mugie 3am Great British Garden Revival 4am Trashformers 5am River Cottage To The Core

SKY SPORT 2 6am Tennis – Australian Open (HLS) Day 13.

7am Tennis – Australian Open (HLS) Day 14.

8am Football – A-League Highlights Show 8:30 Football – A League (HLS) Adelaide United v Wellington Phoenix. 9am Football League Show 9:30 Football – NZ Premiership (RPL) Waitakere United v Eastern Suburbs. 11:30 NZ Football Weekly Noon Fight Night 2pm Basketball – NBL Championship (HLS) Sydney Kings v New Zealand Breakers.

2:30 Sky Sports News UK 3pm Tennis – Australian Open (RPL) Men’s Singles – Final. 5:30 Fishing Show 6:30 Football – A-League Highlights Show 7pm World Sailing Show 7:30 Tennis – Australian Open (HLS) Day 14.

8:30 UFC Now 9:30 L UFC Non-PPV Shevchenko v Pena.

From Pepsi Center in Denver Colorado.

11:30 Football – Premiership Highlights Show Week Eight.

Friday

Midnight Cricket – International Blackcaps v Australia – Second ODI. 2am Fishing Show 3am Basketball – NBL Championship (RPL) Illawarra Hawks v Adelaide 36ers.

5am Basketball – NBL Championship (RPL) Perth Wildcats v Melbourne United.

2Feb17

DISCOVERY 6am Auction Hunters 6:30 Deadliest Catch PG A Slap in the Face or a Kick in the Butt. 7:30 How Do They Do It? PG 8am Auction Hunters PG Allen’s Ruff Day. 8:30 MythBusters PG Bubble Trouble. 9:25 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 10:20 Alaska – The Last Frontier M Under the Knife. 11:15 Deadly Sins M 12:10 Most Evil M 1:05 Blood Relatives M 2pm How It’s Made PG 2:25 How It’s Made PG 2:55 How Do They Do It? PG 3:20 Auction Hunters PG Hula Moola. 3:50 Deadliest Catch PG 4:45 Megatrains PG New Zealand – The Milk Train.

5:40 MythBusters PG Blow Your Own Sail.

6:35 Gold Rush Special PG The Gambler.

7:30 Gold Rush PG Frankenstein Machinery.

Having left the Klondike, the Hoffman crew returns to dismantle Monster Red and take it to Oregon.

8:30 Megatrains PG Australia – Transcontinental Train.

9:30 Railroad Australia PG 10:30 Deadliest Catch PG The Ultimatum.

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24 Ashburton Guardian

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Thursday, February 2, 2017

Sport Erakovic downed Marina Erakovic has suffered her third successive first-round loss of the 2017 WTA season. The New Zealand No.1, who has drawn a string of difficult opponents, went down 6-3 6-2 to French third seed Caroline Garcia at the Taiwan Open in Taipei City.

World 110th-ranked Erakovic won two qualifying matches in straight sets but had few answers to the world No.25. Erakovic suffered early exits at the ASB Classic in Auckland and the Australian Open in Melbourne in January. On both occasions she lost to seventh-seeded opponents.

– NZN

Adams outshone

Black Caps captain Kane Williamson.

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Brownlie to open for Black Caps

BY ANDREW ALDERSON Dean Brownlie looks set to renew his oneday international cricket career for New Zealand in the second Chappell-Hadlee series match at Napier today, unless forecast rain intervenes.

In contrast, Australian wicketkeeper and stand-in captain Matthew Wade is out of the tour with an ongoing back injury.

Brownlie, sporting a beard to rival WG Grace, was the focus of applause and handshakes in a team circle at practice. He then worked on his slips catching alongside Ross Taylor in the cordon.

The 32-year-old last played an ODI in December 2014 against Pakistan, but has loomed on the periphery of the side for some time.

Brownlie averages 25.37 at a strike rate of 74 from nine ODI innings, but that increases to 34.25 at 79 in the four innings he has

opened. He has excelled opening for Northern Districts in this season’s Ford Trophy, scoring 203 runs from five innings at an average of 50.75 and strike rate of 70.

Brownlie replaces Martin Guptill, who rested his left hamstring twinge.

Guptill’s innings of 61 from 73 balls proved a key building block in New Zealand’s opening six-run win at Eden Park and his batting has been pivotal in recent Chappell-Hadlee contests, averaging 62 from his last seven innings against Australia with a strike rate of 101 and no score less than 31.

Opening with Brownlie and Tom Latham maintains the balance of the side.

Kane Williamson, Ross Taylor and Neil Broom are expected to stay at Nos 3, 4 and 5 with Colin Munro, Jimmy Neesham and Mitchell Santner providing all-rounder cover at Nos 6, 7, and 8. Tim Southee, Lockie Ferguson and Trent Boult should round out the XI.

Paracyclists to skip world championships

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The only potential query with that ensemble came when Neesham and Matt Henry stayed at McLean Park to practise outfield catches yesterday, while Tom Blundell worked on his keeping. All others, including all-rounder Colin de Grandhomme, went to the Nelson Park nets after a fiercely contested warm-up of football-volleyball.

Of their opponents, Wade was listed to captain Australia in the three-match series, following the withdrawals of Steve Smith and David Warner.

He failed a pre-match fitness test in Auckland on Monday, having tweaked his back at training the day prior. The touring party was confident he would recover from back spasms for the second match, but he was restricted to walking laps at the venue while Peter Handscomb worked on his glovework with assistant coach Brad Haddin.

Later in the day, it was announced that Wade would return to Australia.

– NZME

Snedden relives the ‘under-arm’

A strong performance by Steven Adams has been outshone yesterday, with the San Antonio Spurs claiming a 108-94 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder. Adams posted 16 points, 12 rebounds, two assists, and a steal and block apiece, shooting 7/13 from the field and 2/4 from the free-throw line in 34 minutes of action. The Kiwi centre continues to be the second most productive player on the Thunder roster, and is taking on extra responsibility with back-up big man Enes Kanter ruled out for at least a month after fracturing his forearm.

– NZME

Murphy’s new ride V8 star-turned rally driver Greg Murphy got his first opportunity to drive his brand new Holden Barina AP4 rally car at Hampton Downs yesterday (above). The 44-yearold four-time Bathurst winner will contest this year’s New Zealand Rally Championship in a purpose-built Holden Barina that was unveiled with a blast around the skid pan in front of assembled media yesterday. – NZME

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