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BY KATIE TODD

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A police officer slain during one of New Zealand’s worst mass murders has been discovered in a grave in Ashburton, much to the curiosity of fellow officers.

Constable Frederick Jordan was shot by Stanley Graham on the West Coast in 1941 and his overgrown headstone was uncovered in Ashburton Cemetery by former police officer Reon Blake of Mayfield last week.

Blake is now hoping to find out how Jordan came to rest in Ashburton and if he has any remaining family in the district.

Jordan was 26 years old when he died during the mass murder near Kowhitirangi, as one of the deranged farmer’s first two victims.

Four police officers had approached Graham about a dispute with his neighbour when he shot and killed them, sparking one of New Zealand’s biggest recorded manhunts. Three civilians also died before Graham was finally located and shot 12 days later.

Blake, who retired from the police force five years ago, said he’d volunteered to clean up Jordan’s grave after a woman in Auckland discovered his whereabouts.

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■ FUEL PRICES

Prices hit an all-time high

By SuSan SandyS

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Fuel remains cheaper than the national price in Ashburton, but has nevertheless hit an alltime high as unleaded climbs over $2.40 per litre at most outlets.

A new 3.5 cents per litre tax came into effect yesterday, raising the national fuel price for 91 unleaded to $2.44 per litre.

Ashburton’s cheapest fuel is at the self-serve NPD in the industrial park, where it is 232.9 cents per litre, eleven cents per litre cheaper than the national price.

Ashburton’s town centre stations of BP, Mobil, Caltex and Z yesterday were advertising 240.9 cents, up from the 236.9 cents they had last week.

The newly-introduced tax is part of the government’s plans to raise the excise duty on petrol by 10.5 cents a litre over the next two years, thereby funding increased investment in public transport, safety upgrades, walking and cycling projects and regional roads.

It comes after fuel prices hit an all-time high in May of $2.30 per litre in many areas of New Zealand, driven by rising international oil prices and a falling Kiwi dollar.

Opposition leader Simon Bridges said the new tax extended the increases to 38 cents per litre since the Labour-led

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government came into power.

“Meaning it now costs Kiwis an extra $20 each time they fill up their cars,” Bridges said.

“This is just the latest blow to wage earners and businesses

struggling to deal with the already high petrol costs.”

National would “get rid of the regional fuel tax, fund regional roading projects right around the country, find a more cost

effective solution to Auckland’s tram, get Government spending under control, drive down the costs Kiwi families are facing and make sure they keep more of what they earn”, he said.

Fallen police officer all but forgotten From P1 Gwyneth McDonald, whose own father was killed on duty, recently launched Project Gravestone to ensure fallen police officers are honoured around the country.

She had been locating police graves around the country and recruiting nearby volunteers – including current and former

Big changes in the wind for tenancy agreements

serving police members like Blake – to tidy them up in time for Police Remembrance Day on September 29.

Blake saw a post from McDonald on Facebook and decided to lend a hand on Friday morning.

He said it seemed as if Jordan’s grave had not been tended to in years.

“It was a real mission to clean it up. It was quite overgrown ... probably took most of the morning.”

Interestingly, the headstone features a small plaque with his name and date of death – but no mention of his family, nor having been killed in the course of duty, Blake said.

He has left a small remem-

brance pin at the headstone and contacted Ashburton police about the discovery.

He hopes serving members of the police might go and have a look. a The headstone is located at plot 36, row 188.

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There are big changes coming in the rental sector of the real estate industry that will make life easier for tenants but will close loopholes for tenants.

The government is proposing a package of rental law changes to the Residential Tenancies Act 1986 and those proposed changes are now out for consultation.

If passed, they are unlikely to come into law until 2020, but if they stand as proposed, they’ll have a significant impact on the rental sector, says Ashburton real estate company owner Trevor Hurley.

The changes were part of what was becoming on-going change for landlords and would come hot on the heels of new requirements around insulation and healthy homes.

The proposals in housing minister Phil Twyford’s discussion paper are about increasing security for tenants.

One of the drivers for change is the increasing number of people who rent rather than buy a home and the likelihood of an increasing number being renters for life.

Issues up for consultation are: Changing the ability of landlords to terminate tenancies from 42 days to 90 days, substituting the ability for landlords to terminate tenancies for any reasons with specific and justifiable criteria, limiting rent increases to once a year, better equipping tenants and landlords to reach agreement about pets and minor alterations to the home.

Hurley anticipates the introduction of those new rules will be gradual but anticipates some could be in place as early as the end of this year.

The consultation period ends on October 21.

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American feline takes on the Russians and British

By Sue NewmaN

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There’s a new man in Mary Hefford’s life and not even husband Paul is complaining; he’s well used to sharing his home with Russian and British men, but they’ve now been joined by an American.

And it’s the American, fivemonth-old kitten, Blazer Spark That Passion, who is creating a stir, who has won the Hefford family’s hearts.

He’s one of a kind in New Zealand, an entire American shorthair, and his future lies in starting his own dynasty on Kiwi soil.

Hefford has been a nationally recognised breeder of British and Russian shorthair cats for many years. She’s won her share of top awards in the show ring and after you’ve achieved the best of the best, a super supreme award, you start looking for new challenges, she said.

Some people might look for a new hobby in a new field. Not Hefford, she’s opted to introduce a third breed

to her cattery, and her new guy, Sparky for short, arrived from Australia last week, making him the first entire of his breed to call New Zealand home.

The American shorthair has everything to recommend it, Hefford said. They have longevity, good health and good looks and a sweet personality. Add to that a coat that is minimal shedding and come in a range of colours, and they’re close to the perfect cat.

“I’ve always loved the black-silver tabbies. When I first saw them I couldn’t take my eyes off them and my guy is a classic.”

The arrival of the American doesn’t mean Hefford will be winding down breeding and showing her Russian and British cats.

“After 16 years of breeding, I’ve worked too hard to abandon them, but it’s nice to have something around that’s not blue,” she said.

Sparky will make his show bench debut in Christch-

urch next month and Hefford’s loyalties will be tested as she’ll have her British and Russian kittens of the same age in his class.

He’ll face an additional challenge, however, as he’s needed dispensation to show as the breed has yet to be officially registered in New Zealand.

His appearance on the show bench is likely to generate considerable interest and it’s likely to produce a few challenges for judges who may not have seen the breed before, Hefford said.

The American shorthair originated from cats that were brought from Europe to North America by early settlers. Their job in life was to hunt the ship’s rats; a job they carried on, on land, in their new country.

Hunting won’t figure in Sparky’s future however, he’s destined for better things. He won’t be alone for long as two wives are on order and will arrive from Melbourne next year.

Left – Cat breeder Mary Hefford with the latest member of her feline family, Blazer Spark That Passion, New Zealand’s first entire American shorthair.

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■ FIREARMS POLICY

Forum chance to air views on guns

By Katie todd

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Mid Cantabrians will be among the first to have their say on firearms policies when a series of forums are held across the country this month.

National Party Police spokesman Chris Bishop is inviting local, licensed firearm holders to meet with him next Tuesday evening and have their views heard, while the coalition government is re-

viewing the Arms Act. Labour, NZ First and the Greens last month voted against an amendment bill that Bishop had put forward that would have given police more powers over gangs with firearms.

A disappointed Bishop said in a statement that the vast majority of Kiwi hunters, farmers and recreational shooters do the right thing, but criminal gang members have no respect for the law, so police

need expanded powers to be able to deal with them.

“The Bill would have ensured that no unnecessary restrictions would have been placed on other law-abiding firearms holders,” he said.

MP for Rangitata Andrew Falloon said in the 12 months the Ardern-Peters Government have been in office they have made some worrying decisions about where they plan to take the fire-

arms policy, and the process they will go through.

A recent example was Environment Minister Eugenie Sage’s announcement to cull around 17,500 tahr in the South Island.

“She’s made that decision after little or no consultation with recreational hunters or our local tourism industry who benefit hugely from taking hunters into the high country, with each bull tahr worth $14,000,” he said.

“Culling 17,500 tahr will have a huge impact on that industry.”

Now that Police Minister Stuart Nash is reviewing the Arms Act, and has thrown out National’s draft legislation, Falloon said it is crucial that whatever he brings in in its place doesn’t target legitimate firearms users like hunters and farmers.

The forum will be held at Hotel Ashburton from 6.30pm next Tuesday.

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■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COURT

In brief

Judgement error costly A 19-year-old Tinwald man will spend the next four years paying for a $10,000 street lamp post he hit while driving drunk.

Daniel Fritz Overweel was driving with 774mcg when he lost control of his car on Huntingdon Avenue at Lake Hood on July 12.

He appeared for sentence in the Ashburton District Court yesterday on charges of drink driving and careless use.

Overweel has also taken out a $7000 personal loan to buy a car for his mother, whose car he was driving at the time of the crash.

The street lamp post is the property of the Ashburton District Council, who will receive $40 a week from Overweel until the cost of the repair work is reached.

Defence counsel Gretchen Hart said Overweel, a builder’s apprentice, regretted his actions.

“It was a severe error of judgement as a result of drinking,” she said.

“He really does regret this and thinks it is a huge wake-up call. He says his friends have been quite well educated on the dangers of this too. He says he will never again drive after drinking.”

Judge Joanna Maze said Overweel seemed a normally responsible young man and had taken his responsibilities seriously after the crash.

He had already paid $400 to the council.

She convicted him on both charges and disqualified him from driving for six months. She also ordered him to pay $9250 to the council, the balance of the reparation for the lamp post.

Others to appear before Judge Maze: Andrew Flannagan, 19, of Ashburton, was fined $600, ordered to pay court costs of $130 and disqualified from driving for six months after admitting a charge of drink driving.

Flannagan blew 690mcg when he was stopped by police on Baker Street on September 3.

The officers had spotted him speeding on Alford Forest Road.

Judge Maze had a warning for Stephen Les-

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lie Tait after taking his licence for 12 months: “If you drink and drive again, you might well face a jail sentence or sentence of electronic monitoring.”

Tait had admitted drink driving in Ashburton on September 9. It was his third drink driving charge.

Police said Tait blew 512mcg and said he was on his way to collect a car from Methven.

Judge Maze disqualified him from driving for a year, fined him $800 and ordered him to pay court costs of $130.

She said while it was his third conviction, the previous two were 20 years earlier in 1998.

ship at a Christchurch boarding school, was fined $100, ordered to pay $130 court costs and disqualified from driving for six months after admitting drink driving in Ashburton.

Eketone-Whitu blew 536mcg when stopped by police on West Street after complaints about his driving by other motorists on September 14.

His lawyer Gretchen Hart said he was a student in no position to pay a fine and had been on work experience before driving to Ashburton on the evening he was apprehended.

She said it had caused him to think hard about his future and the effect a conviction could have on his career.

Aaron James Forde, 20, of Rakaia, was fined $400, ordered to pay court costs of $130 and disqualified from driving for six months after admitting a charge of drink driving.

Ford blew 541mcg after officers pulled him over on East Street in the early hours of September 16. He said he was dropping friends back into town.

Louise Kate Egan, 32, was fined $800 and disqualified from driving for eight months for a drink-drive incident in June.

The Omarama woman blew 1391mcg after being stopped on West Street. She had been drinking wine with a friend in Christchurch and was swerving while texting.

Judge Maze said she could not impose an alcohol interlock sentence as Egan lived more than 70km from an interlock service provider, nor could she impose community work or supervision as Egan lived on a remote high country station.

The judge noted Egan had changed her life, giving up alcohol and taking up running.

Egan must apply for a zero alcohol licence if she wants to drive again.

Victor Douglas Lamb, 70, admitted a charge of driving with excess breath alcohol in Methven on August 24.

Police said he blew 578mcg when stopped at 6.30pm.

Lamb’s lawyer Paul Bradford said the Methven man had been driving for decades without incident but on this occasion had consumed four beers before driving home.

Judge Maze said the drink driving was an aberration and fined him $400, plus $130 court costs and disqualified him from driving for six months.

Regemond Richard Jacob Keil, 18, admitted drink driving on Walnut Avenue on August 25. The Tinwald man blew 744mcg when stopped by police about 1am.

Judge Maze said Keil had come very close to being sentenced to an alcohol interlock device.

She fined him $600 and disqualified him from driving for six months.

Roy Kelly, 22, of Ireland is packing his bag to return home after being caught drunk driving in Ashburton at the weekend.

Kelly, who had been in New Zealand driving tractors for a month, was stopped by police around 3.20am on September 30 and breathtested. He blew 729mcg.

Duty lawyer Roz Burnside said he was resigned to the fact he would lose his job and had no alternative but to return home.

Judge Maze fined Kelly $500, ordered him to pay $130 court costs and disqualified him from driving for six months.

“It has cost you your job and brought about the end of your time in New Zealand,” she said.

Te Aho Graham Alex Eketone-Whitu, 17, an Ashburton student on a sporting scholar-

A warrant was issued for the arrest of Tony-Lee Nathan Burger-Sewell. Burger Sewell, 25, was previously living at a Mayfield address and due in court yesterday to face charges of receiving a stolen car, driving while disqualified, possession of drug utensils and receiving five new stolen smartphones.

Matthew James Roxburgh, 31, was convicted and disqualified from driving for six months on a charge of careless use causing injury.

The sports coach drove through a give way sign on Middle Road and hit another vehicle, injuring an 84-year-old man.

He said he was unfamiliar with the layout of the area and driven through the intersection without realising it was controlled by a traffic sign.

After a restorative justice conference between the parties, Roxburgh completed odd jobs for elderly driver of the car he hit and did gardening. He had also made an emotional harm payment.

Defence counsel Marilyn Gilchrist said Roxburgh was a very remorseful person who had taken matters into his own hands to make things up to the victim.

Judge Maze said the elderly victim had suffered ongoing physical consequences as a result of the accident, but restorative justice had had a positive outcome.

“You have been able to help the victim directly with some physical labour.”

Theft of over $100,000 admitted An Ashburton woman has admitted the theft of over $100,000.

The woman, who has temporary name suppression, appeared in the Ashburton District Court yesterday where her lawyer Marilyn Gilchrist said she admitted a charge of theft by a person in a special relationship.

The woman, in her fifties, was remanded on bail for sentence on December 3.

Gilchrist asked for the summary of facts not to be read, as some aspects were in dispute.

Crown prosecutor Andrew McRae said the

parts in dispute related to the amount of money at issue but it was between $134,000 and $120,000.

The summary was not read in court.

The woman is charged that between 2015 and 2017 she used a bank account of another person to commit theft.

The charge carries a maximum penalty of seven years in jail.

Judge Joanna Maze referred the case for restorative justice and asked for pre-sentence reports with all penalty options to be before the court on December 3.

Correction An article printed in Monday’s Guardian incorrectly stated that Terrace Downs competed in an inter-rest home bowls tournament at McNally stadium. It was Terrace View who competed.

Community clinic Labour List MP based in Rangitata Jo Luxton will hold her first community clinic in Ashburton tomorrow. With her out-ofParliament office based in Timaru, Luxton expects the clinics will be useful for Mid Cantabrians seeking a direct line of communication with government over any issues of concern to them. Luxton said no appointment was necessary for the clinics, and she aims to have 10-minute windows available for people. She said she planned to make the clinics a regular occurrence in the town, timing in with when Parliament is in recess.

The inaugural clinic will be held 10am to 11.30am at Community House, Ashburton.

Rodeo proceeds Proceeds from this year’s Methven Rodeo will be donated to those working in the field of suicide prevention. The annual rodeo will be held on October 21 and the organising committee is in full swing preparing for the day, which will feature some of the country’s top bull riders as well as bronco riders and calf ropers. The rodeo previously supported the Methven Care Trust over two years with $15,000 and has chosen to support suicide prevention with proceeds of the 2018 rodeo. Around 300 professional and amateur riders are expected at the Methven Rodeo and it will follow the Winchester Rodeo the day before.

Bodies recovered The Police Dive Squad has recovered the bodies of the woman and child who died following a tractor incident in Waihemo, Northern Otago on Sunday. Nadine Tomlinson, 33, and her three-year-old son, Angus, died on their family farm around 5pm. A police spokesperson said Tomlinson was driving a tractor with a trailer attached when she lost control and crashed into a reservoir.

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Rolling strikes planned The primary teachers’ union has voted for rolling regional strikes in November, after rejecting a proposed two-day national strike.

NZ Educational Institute (NZEI), president Lynda Stuart said the union’s national executive had decided to recommend rolling one-day strikes in the week between November 12 and 16, starting in Auckland on the Monday and ending in Wellington on the Friday.

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Eviction notices Court bailiffs have posted eviction notices at a $2 million St Heliers rental property where illegal occupiers are refusing to move out.

A Ministry of Justice spokesman confirmed that the eviction notices were issued yesterday. A tenant at Auckland landlord Nina Zhao’s property unlawfully sublet her four-bedroom house to four different families, each occupying a different room.

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■ COMMUNITY TRUST OF MID AND SOUTH CANTERBURY

Celebrating 30 years of donations

By Sue NewmaN

Sue.n@theguardian.co.nz

Over the past year, the Community Trust of Mid and South Canterbury gave away $1.482 million in donations and over the past 30 years had given $28 million in community donations.

At the trust’s annual meeting and 30th anniversary celebrations in Ashburton last week, chairman David Forman said last year’s donations totalled 236 and were spread across many organisations.

Major recipients were Mid and South Canterbury schools, kindergartens and early learning centres, the Sustainable South Canterbury Trust and Bone Marrow Cancer Trust.

Major beneficiaries in the Ashburton District last year were the Ashburton Rowing Club, $50,000, Ashburon Menz Shed, $44,000, Allenton Sports Club, $40,000 and Safer Ashburton, $34,000.

A third payment of $50,000 was made to the YMCA to assist in the delivery of its resiliency progamme to secondary school students. This sees the trust donate $150,000 over three years.

The trust was born out of the breakup of the South Canterbury

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Ashburton’s Kapa Haka group, winners at the recent South Canterbury Flava festival, performing at last week’s Community Trust of Mid and South Canterbury annual meeting.

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Savings Bank and today had $55 million under management.

The many hundreds of people involved in the organisations that had been given donations over

those 30 years, were the unsung heroes of their communities, Forman said.

“They represent everything that’s good about those com-

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munities. They make their communities and they’re the blood, sweat and tears of those communities.”

While it gave more than $1.48

million away for the year, slightly up on 2017 donations, the year itself was not a good one revenuewise, for the trust, accountant Paul Wolffenbuttle said.

The return from its investment portfolio under performed compared to market return, with investment operations revenue at $1.56 million, well down on the 2017 figure of $5.37 million. That gave a return of 2.7 per cent compared to 10 per cent in the previous year. The average return over the previous five years, however, was 8 per cent.

While the trust’s revenue and expenses were similar to the previous year when a surplus of $3.437 million was recorded, the significant fall in investment income saw it end the year to March 31 with a $427,000 loss.

Over the years the trust has built up a general reserve fund against years when investment returns are low. It picks up the shortfall from this fund to ensure donations remain at the same level each year.

To balance its books, the deficit was met from the inflation reserve fund.

The trust’s total equity is now $56.638 million.

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■ ART EXHIBITION

Trio the result of fortunate timing

By SuSan SandyS

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Trio is a new art exhibition in Methven bringing together three long-time Mid Canterbury artists.

However, it is an exhibition that may not have gone ahead at all if it was not for some good luck and fortunate timing.

The exhibition was initially being planned as the annual artistic showing from Staveley painters Jen Dearborn and Susie Millichamp.

However, Dearborn had a family upheaval as her father became unwell and then passed away, so bowed out of her exhibition commitments.

That is when Methven artist Sal Withell was able to step in to fill the gaps on the gallery walls.

She got her paintbrushes out and furiously began preparing, but then herself had to bow out when she suffered a health issue earlier this year.

As it turned out her recovery was much better than anticipated, and at the same time, Dearborn was getting back on track.

So the exhibition that may never have been, all of a sudden turned into a three-artist one, and the trio could not be happier.

There were about 80 people at the opening at the Mt Hutt Memorial Hall Methven on Sunday afternoon, and some of the works have already sold. The exhibition will run for seven weeks.

Withell said creating art had been a big part of her recovery, and the exhibition had given her a goal to strive towards.

“I decided I would do my best by starting to draw, I just drew on some navy blue linen with white charcoal,” Withell said.

The three artists have used a wide variety of mediums between them, including watercolour, oil, acrylic, charcoal and monoprints.

Mid Canterbury artists (from left) Sal Withell, Jen Dearborn and Susie Millichamp were thrilled with a large turnout to Trio.

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Meet the team Over the next few weeks we will introduce a member of the Guardian team each day, from our family to yours.

Time at the Guardian Just over eight years Where are you from?

I’m from the country most known for its gourmet food, wine and fashion, France.

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What’s your back story, where do you hail from, your working career?

I spent the first 25 years of my life studying, the last five years studying law at University, which I enjoy very much, and then practised for a while.

As I enjoy travelling, I lived in Ireland for a couple of years and then another year in Australia before calling New Zealand home.

What exciting experiences have you enjoyed while working in your role?

A lot, however the latest exciting and thrilling experience I had while working here was the NZ Community Newspapers Association Awards evening I went to with Desme. That night, we won eight awards and it felt magical. It was such a buzz and a reward for what we do every day here. What an incredible night!

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Away from work, what do you like to do in your spare time?

Reading – some friends have given me the nickname of Bookworm. Cricket – I love that game! I also love catching up with my friends, having a nice dinner, a few drinks or going to events with them.

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I think I would like to be working in the human resources department of a business. Something to do with the law. In a dream world, I’d be writing books and being a book editor.

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Grave puzzle deserves some answers I

t’s a somewhat mysterious case at the moment, but surely someone out there in the district will have the answers as to how Constable Frederick Jordan came to rest in the Ashburton Cemetery.

Today’s front page story certainly piqued the interest of many in the Guardian newsroom yesterday and with no immediate answers coming forward from initial enquiries, the hope is that those who brought the story to light will be able to get the answers they need.

It’s by pure chance that the story even unfolded and had it not been for the honourable work of

a few people who initially found it and then Reon Blake who went to tidy it up – it may have been an even longer time before it was discovered.

Constable Jordan holds a part in New Zealand police history as one of the officers slain during the murderous rampage of West

Coast farmer Stanley Graham in 1941.

Jordan, who was aged 26 when he was killed, along with Sergeant William Cooper, 43, Constable Percy Campbell Tulloch, 35, and Constable Edward Mark Best, 42, all became victims of Graham, who shot several people after refusing to hand over his firearms.

By the end of the largest manhunt in New Zealand history, seven people, including Graham, had died. Another of his victims died 17 months later from gunshot wounds.

It’s a hugely unique scenario, and that it would seem from

initial searches anyway, that there are very few people, if any, around the district who know much about how Jordan came to be in Ashburton.

However, there is bound to be people out there in our community still who remember Jordan from his time in Ashburton and will be able to help Blake with his search for answers around how the slain officer’s grave became left so unkempt.

Let’s hope we can get the answers for those who are keen to know them.

What this particular story highlights though is the huge amount of information that is currently

missing from public knowledge.

It is almost certain that there are hundreds of stories of people from within our district who are a part of New Zealand history, but no one is aware of it.

And it takes random acts of kindness like that of Blake who offered to go and clean up the headstone and surrounding area of Jordan’s grave, that we generally stumble across them.

That we have a fallen officer laying in rest in our district is of huge significance and it should become a focal point on a day like Police Remembrance Day which was officially held last week.

body inside. (Fossett’s remains were discovered in late October 2008.)

Five years ago: A jury in Los Angeles cleared a concert promoter of negligence, rejecting a lawsuit brought

by Michael Jackson’s mother claiming AEG Live had been negligent in hiring Conrad Murray, the doctor who killed the pop star with an overdose of a hospital anesthetic.

One year ago: Hours after the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, President Donald Trump condemned the Las Vegas shooting that left 58 dead as an “act of pure evil”.

Rock superstar Tom Petty died at a Los Angeles hospital at the

age of 66, a day after suffering cardiac arrest at his home in Malibu, California. The trial of Ahmed Abu Khattala, described as the mastermind of the 2012 attacks on a US outpost in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead, got under way in Washington. (Khattala would be convicted of terrorism-related charges and sentenced to 22 years in prison.)

Today’s birthdays: Country singer-musician Leon Rausch (Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys) is 91. Movie critic Rex Reed is 80. Singer-songwriter Don McLean is 73. Cajun/country singer Jo-el Sonnier is 72. Actor Avery Brooks is 70. Fashion designer Donna Karan is 70.

Photographer Annie Leibovitz is 69. Rock musician Mike Rutherford (Genesis, Mike & the Mechanics) is 68. Singer-actor Sting is 67. Actress Robin Riker is 66. Actress Lorraine Bracco is 64. Country musician Greg Jennings (Restless Heart) is 64.

Rock singer Phil Oakey (The Human League) is 63. Rhythmand-blues singer Freddie Jackson is 62. Singer-producer Robbie Nevil is 60. Retro-soul singer James Hunter is 56.

Former NFL quarterback Mark Rypien is 56. Rock musician Bud Gaugh (Sublime, Eyes Adrift) is 51. Folk-country singer Gillian Welch is 51. Country singer Kelly Willis is 50. Actor Joey Slotnick is 50. Rhythm-and-

blues singer Dion Allen (Az Yet) is 48. Singer Tiffany is 47. Rock singer Lene Nystrom is 45. Actor Efren Ramirez is 45. Rhythmand-blues singer LaTocha Scott (Xscape) is 45. Gospel singer Mandisa is 42. Actress Brianna Brown is 39. Rock musician Mike Rodden (Hinder) is 36.

Actor Christopher Larkin is 31.

Rock singer Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes) is 30. Actress Samantha Barks is 28. Actress Elizabeth McLaughlin is 25.

Thought for today: “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

— Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian political and spiritual leader (born this date in 1869, died 1948).

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Tuesday, October 2, the 275th day of 2018. There are 90 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On Oct. 2, 1944, German troops crushed the two-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which a quarter of a million people had been killed.

On this date: In 1780, British spy John Andre was hanged in Tappan, New York, during the Revolutionary War. In 1941, during World War Two, German armies launched an allout drive against Moscow; Soviet forces succeeded in holding onto their capital.

In 1950, the comic strip Peanuts, created by Charles M. Schulz, was syndicated to seven newspapers.

In 1970, one of two chartered twinengine planes flying the Wichita State University football team to Utah crashed into a mountain near Silver Plume, Colorado, killing 31 of the 40 people on board.

In 1984, Richard W. Miller became the first FBI agent to be arrested and charged with espionage.

(Miller was tried three times; he was sentenced to 20 years in prison, but was released after nine years.)

In 1985, actor Rock Hudson, 59, died at his home in Beverly Hills, California, after battling Aids.

In 2002, the Washington, DC-area sniper attacks began, setting off a frantic manhunt lasting three weeks. (John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo were finally arrested for killing 10 people and wounding three others; Muhammad was executed in 2009; Malvo was sentenced to life in prison.)

In 2006, an armed milk truck driver took a group of girls hostage in an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa., killing five of them and wounding five others before committing suicide.

Ten years ago: More than a year after millionaire adventure Steve Fossett vanished on a solo flight over California’s rugged Sierra Nevada, searchers found the wreckage of his plane but no

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Farmers don’t mind paying extra to give the shearing industry a boost, but want guarantees that the extra money is going to the intended recipient.

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an we have some transparency around price increases for shearing?

At the New Zealand Shearing Contractors Association AGM in May it was signalled shearing costs were set to rise.

The amount of the rise was indicated to be in the vicinity of 25 per cent.

The reason for this rise was to attract and retain staff. The wool harvesting industry is finding it increasingly difficult to get shearers and shed hands, which this year saw gangs throughout New Zealand struggle to get shearing done. This led to issues with flystrike and management.

Federated Farmers recognises staffing is a genuine concern for the industry and grudgingly accepted increased pay should help to attract and retain staff in the industry.

I say grudgingly, because in the crossbred industry which represents approximately 95 per cent of our national flock, the costs associated with growing wool aren’t recovered when the

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wool is sold – and shearing costs represent the largest cost.

However, as the workforce has a high percentage of older staff, unless something is done to attract new people, the current situation will reach a crisis level in a couple of years. Coupled with that we will likely see animal welfare issues with sheep escalate.

Adding these concerns up we made it clear that if the lion’s share of the increase went to staff then we could live with it, but how can we be sure that these rises are being passed on to the staff?

We can’t, but we want those in the industry to be aware of the rises and to let us know if they are not seeing a substantial dif-

ference in their pay packets.

If you are not seeing the promised increases in your final pay, then let us know – Federated Farmers’ representatives are very easy to find and we have a 0800 phone line and website with emails you can access. There’s also nothing stopping farmers asking for itemised accounts so we encourage them to do so.

What we’re receiving for our product makes it hard to find fat in our budgets to pay more for shearing contractors. This has got to be taken in the context that when times are good for farmers’ service people increase their charges but fail to bring them down when our pay-outs are small.

We do accept though that if the packages for shearing are not attractive we will see a decrease in people wanting to learn the trade. We do support a fair wage for a fair job.

But when we are told services are getting expensive to pay for wages we expect to see the money go to those workers.

With the increased costs the expectation is there will be a more professional standard of behaviour shown by shearing gangs. I hear that there are still shearers who treat the shed hands poorly and there is an issue with recreational drug use in the industry.

I do encourage people to get involved with the work safety programme Tahi Ngatahi – an educational programme for the shearing industry and it is a good check for health and safety.

Most shearing gangs I’ve dealt with treat each other and the animals well but there are issues with some of them.

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Farmers feeling the pain of rising fuel costs at least have the consolation that meat and milk prices are at acceptable levels.

Pump prices nationally reached $2.44 for 91, and $1.80-plus for diesel after fuel companies raised their prices again. Ashburton motorists have been buying slightly cheaper fuel because of competition, but still at record prices.

Farmers have also had to dig deeper into their pockets despite receiving discounts for buying bulk fuel for farm tanks.

Of some comfort to them is that sheep and beef prices have remained high and the milk price has resisted further drops partly because of the lower dollar. The currency shift is among reasons for higher fuel prices.

Federated Farmers’ Mid Canterbury president Mike Salvesen said he got fuel delivered the other day and in his invoice it was a bit of a shock to find it had cost him $2.40 a litre.

He said petrol was used for motorbikes and small machinery on the farm and, like other farmers, he was a large diesel user for other machinery.

Farmers would also bear higher transportation costs for the carting of stock and other services, he said.

“As a truck driver pointed out, the only thing not delivered by a truck driver is a baby.’’

While fuel costs were overshadowed by bigger items such as farmers paying for increased regulation costs, they were adding to overall costs, he said.

Salvesen said local and national government was contributing to the price hike by placing more taxes on fuel, even though this was hurting people on the tightest budgets who could least afford the

increases.

He said fuel users were also subsidising the electric car movement as its owners did not pay as much fuel tax or road user charges and that would become more of an issue as more people shifted to them.

Electric vehicle technology still had a long way to go before it became a viable option on farms.

Salvesen said the lower dollar was contributing to higher fuel prices as was geo-political reasons such as the United States president Donald Trump and Iran supply situation.

Trump had threatened to pull the US out of an Iran nuclear deal and Iran threatened to shut the world’s busiest seaway for oil exports with analysts expecting this

would send crude prices higher.

Meanwhile, the limiting of oil production by Saudi Arabia and Russia had reduced supply.

Salvesen said while it was a pain having to pay for higher fuel prices, farmers tended to get more for their produce when there was a lower dollar. For people outside of trading there was not this advantage, he said.

Sheep and beef farmers were enjoying good prices and the milk price might have been lowered more than the 25 cents cut lately to bring the forecast to $6.75/ kgMS without a lower dollar, he said.

The Government’s increased excise of 3.5 cents per litre each year for the next two years began on October 1.

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BY GUY TRAFFORD Irrigation is again at the forefront of farmer news.

The decision to can the South Canterbury Hunter Downs irrigation scheme has come as a great disappointment to those who have been working to try and get the project over the line.

The main reason given for the decision is the lack of farmer uptake.

Now that dairy farming is no longer seen as the automatic default option for intensified land use, finding other options with similar economic outputs is proving difficult to justify the high cost.

Four million dollars has been sunk into the project to date.

Although, the news that the Progressive Enterprises group (Countdown supermarkets) are looking to source bread grains from within New Zealand, rather than import from Australia as has been the case, is welcome news to arable farmers and an overdue decision.

This is an example of when Country of Origin labelling may be starting to drive supermarket behaviour as a response to what consumers desire.

Farmers north of the Rakaia are also getting concerned at their irrigators sitting idle as the land is getting drier by the week.

The Central Plains Scheme appears to be having some start-up issues which is delaying the flow of water.

Little rain is on the horizon and with Niwa predicting a drier summer farmers will be anxious.

The last of the milk companies’ payouts was released last week with Tatua after holding back 52 cents for retentions still paying out $8.10.

This is the highest payout of all the companies and compares to Fonterra’s $6.79 (with the 10-cent dividend).

Tatua’s best year was the 2013-14 season when they paid $9. At that time, Fonterra was able to come close with a total of $8.50.

Earlier last week Westland announced their final payout at $6.12 with a 5c retention meaning farmers got $6.07/ kgMS. While this is the lowest payout of the milk companies it is still an 89-cent turnaround from last year and makes Westland the biggest improver of the milk companies which may provide a little comfort to suppliers.

Milk volumes processed are down by 2.9 per cent but the joint venture announced back in January with Southern Pasture did not come into place until the current 201819 season and so the seasonal vagaries affected WMP as it did other processors.

The forecasted payout for the current season has been revised to $6.50 to $6.90 down on earlier projections due to the drop in international butter prices.

If WMP can achieve this they will have, finally, brought themselves into line with other milk processors, assuming they achieve their targets. The review of their financial structures continues with shareholders due to be updated at the annual meeting on December 5.

Some interesting approaches are being used in the EU to encourage farmers to adopt more sustainable practices. The latest heard is of banks, notably Rabobank

the Dutch based co-op, offering lower interest rates to farmers who move into a more sustainable space.

Back to the local politics, Leonie Guiney appears to be a tiger for punishment and has thrown her hat into the ring to be elected on to the Fonterra board again.

Guiney was elected to Fonterra’s board in 2014 but failed to get re-elected last year.

A strong critic of some of the Fonterra investment decisions, particularly around the Beingmate investment, she was subsequently involved in a legal battle with the company, supposedly around leaking boardroom information, which was settled out of court about six weeks ago.

Given this background, if indeed, she can get back on the board there would be a strong advocate for more transparency coming out of the co-op.

Bringing up the fifth name to go in the hat along with the previously announced board nominated persons is John Nicholls, the director/owner of Rylib Group, a Canterbury company with six farms. There are only three vacancies for board positions.

Sheep With not a lot of last season’s livestock left to come into the processors and with limited time left for finishing with tooth eruption coming there is less need to hold the price at existing high levels.

Especially when some processors are saying that the lamb price is well over what the market can sustain and they are making losses at the current payout levels.

This trend is becoming apparent through the saleyards also with last season’s lamb numbers fading along with prices.

There have been limited sales of ewes and lambs at foot with prices ranging from $71 to $120 all counted.

Wool Last week’s Christchurch wool sale took a turn down.

The concerning aspect was it was the finer end that took the biggest hit.

Up to this point this has been the stronger end of the market.

China is reputably showing less interest, showing the high dependence New Zealand wool has on their involvement.

Beef A similar story to sheep can be applied to beef with volumes through the yards down and schedules slipping again.

Manufacturing beef has taken the biggest hit, especially in the North Island, but the South is not immune from the effects.

Venison No change to the venison market at this stage.

Dairy The US monitored Oceania price has mostly dropped again indicating that the next GDT may also fall. However, butter had a small lift which will please Westland no doubt.

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Local market prices … u GRAINS ($/tonne, delivered Canterbury) free price Wheat, milling,12.5%p 433 420 Wheat, feed 430 415 Barley, feed 420 400

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Spotlight on NZ banks after report The Australian Royal Commission’s interim report into the financial services sector will form part of Financial Markets Authority and the Reserve Bank’s review of local banks’ conduct and culture, a spokesperson said.

The FMA and Reserve Bank are completing a review of banks’ conduct and culture and will publish their report early next month.

Australia’s four big banks – Commonwealth Bank of Australia, ANZ, Westpac and National Australia Bank – as well as insurers and financial advisers, have been under the spotlight since March, when the first in a series of court examinations kicked off.

In New Zealand, the Reserve Bank has completed 11 on-site monitoring visits with the banks, conducted about 400 interviews, received more than 1000 documents and visited 13 towns and cities since June.

“We will be considering the Australian Royal Commission’s in-

Kenneth Hayne terim report as part of our review,” the spokesperson said.

The Reserve Bank’s review into life insurers is ongoing, with a re-

port due by the end of the year.

Australia’s long-running inquiry into its financial industry painted a less than flattering picture of the sector.

Commissioner Kenneth Hayne said in the interim report on Friday that wrongdoing was too often driven by greed or “the pursuit of short-term profit at the expense of basic standards of honesty”.

“The banks have gone to the edge of what is permitted, and too often beyond that limit, in pursuit of profit,” the report said.

Since public hearings began in March, the Royal Commission unearthed a string of scandals, including wealth advisers charging dead people for services, instances of lying to regulators about misconduct, and loan officers accepting bribes.

The report slammed the banks’ culture, conduct, compliance, and remuneration practices and criticised regulators for taking a timid approach.

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Kirk in for $13m payday

By Chris KeaLL Ex-All Black captain David Kirk’s Bailador Investments will sell a portion of its shares worth around $A12.4 million ($13m) in Straker Translations’ IPO. The Auckland translation software company’s prospectus, released yesterday, confirms details of its Australian Stock Exchange listing that were leaked last week.

Straker will sell 12.2 million new shares and 1.9m existing shares at $A1.51 to raise $A21.2m in a listing that will value the company at around $A79.4m.

Kirk’s Bailador will sell 823,000 shares, reducing its holding from 20 per cent to 14 per cent.

But founders Grant and Merryl Straker are keeping the faith, selling none of their shares in the listing. The couple (the second largest shareholders after Bailador) will see their holding diluted from 18 per cent to 14 per cent in the float, however.

The listing is expected on October 22.

Proceeds from the listing are earmarked for sales, marketing, product development and takeovers. Grant Straker co-founded Straker Translations with his

wife Merryn in 1999, after earlier spending six years in the British Army as a paratrooper before moving into sales. Its software uses artificial intelligence software for language translation – but also humans to refine the results, which the chief executive says gives it the edge over free solutions such as Google Translate.

The startup gained momentum in 2015 when Bailador invested $A4.5m (on its website, the investment company brags it has made a 300 per cent return).

The prospectus reveals Straker has raised a total of $22.5m over the past three years. The funds have gone toward acquiring translation companies in the US, Ireland, Spain and Germany.

Today, Straker has 120 staff and 8400 customers worldwide and 88 per cent of its revenue from outside Australasia.

IPO documents also confirm Straker would have broken into profit this year, had it not been for listing costs.

Straker forecasts revenue will rise 38 per cent to $23.5m in the year to March 31, 2019, with a net loss of $2.5m (vs a net loss of $1.5m last year).

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9,327.27

–23.8

–0.25%

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6,148.74 –10.08 –0.16%

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10,154.64 –20.38 –0.2%

p Rises 41 q Falls 63 Top 5 NZX gainers Company

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+7.55% +4.92% +4.76% +4.35% +3.15%

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–4.63% –4.09% –4.08% –3.76% –3.70%

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Source: interest.co.nz

p Gold

1,187.25

London – $US/ounce

+1.85

+0.16%

q Silver London – $US/ounce

14.30

–0.12

–0.80%

q Copper London – $US/tonne

6,180.0

–42.0

–0.68%

NZ DOLLAR

Source: BNZ As at 4pm October 1, 2018

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Landlord left with $42k repair bill

By Ben Leahy An Auckland landlord facing a $42,000 bill to repair a damaged rental property has questioned whether it’s worth being a property investor under new tenantfriendly Government laws.

The woman, who didn’t release her name, posted about her experiences on social media over the weekend, saying she recently gave her long-time tenant 90 days’ notice to vacate from the home after he got behind with his rent.

But when he finally moved out, the landlord discovered he had left behind walls covered in graffiti and mountains of trash.

She was forced to hire five skip bins to take away the trash and told it would cost $42,000 to fix up her home.

It has led her to question whether renting out properties was worth the time and effort.

“With the changes Mr Twyford proposes, it makes this seasoned investor question if it’s still worth it,” she wrote on the Property Investors Chat Group NZ. It comes after the Herald last week revealed how Auckland landlord Nina Zhao found illegal tenants subletting in her $2 million St Helier’s home, only to be

told it could take weeks to evict them.

Zhao, 34, said she had originally rented her four-bedroom home as a rental to one tenant, who then sublet it to four other families who left it in a state “like a rubbish dump”.

The landlord facing the $42,000 repair bill for the recently damaged property told media outlet Stuff that her former tenant had run a business from the property, which included a 4300 square metre shed and attached flat.

He had been renting the property since 2007 and was paying $540 a week.

However, he began “to go a little strange” after his relationship broke up and got behind on the rent.

It was only after he moved out at the end of August that the woman noticed the huge mess.

The property had been under the supervision of a “well known real estate company”, which did three-monthly inspections.

The landlord was also told insurance would not cover the repair costs.

She said she had been a landlord for 30 years but questioned whether investors had enough protections from bad tenants.

“I like to think I’m a good landlord,” she told Stuff. ”[But] what sort of person does that?

“They have no right to go and deface a person’s property like that and expect me to pick up the pieces.”

She said she would go to the Tenancy Tribunal but didn’t expect to be able to recover any costs from the tenant.

“My thought is that as a group we collectively need better protection for when things do go wrong and when tenants go rogue.

“The government of the day is proposing reforms, but I don’t see anything in there that helps me, the property owner.

“The person who worked hard and saved to buy the property and carries full financial responsibility for it.”

She said the worst tenants should be named on a register so they don’t move on to new properties without future landlords knowing about their history.

“I’m not sure about the property manager’s role here, but where there is negligence for a service offered and charged for, there may need to be some recourse there also,” she said.

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Emotional health paramount

Rescuers evacuate an earthquake survivor from a severely damaged house following earthquakes and tsunami in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia on Sunday.

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She recently chose not to perform on Saturday Night Live due to ‘emotional reasons’ ostensibly caused by ex-boyfriend Mac Miller dying of a drug overdose earlier this month. And Ariana Grande also provided some insight in to her state of mind via a conversation with fans on Twitter. The 25-year-old revealed that while she does want to return to touring, she’s not quite ready. In response to one fan, @betteroffnjh, Ariana was quite frank, answering ‘i kno. but i miss u. i’m antsy. can’t sit still. i wanna tour now. yesterday i jus wanted to sit home forever but today i wanna do shows and see u. i am working on it. i’ll keep ya posted.’

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Mass burials begin A mass burial of earthquake and tsunami victims was being prepared in a hard-hit city yesterday as the need for heavy equipment to dig for survivors of the disaster that struck a central Indonesian island three days ago grows desperate.

The toll of more than 800 dead is largely from the city of Palu and is expected to rise as areas cut off by the damage are reached.

The magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck at dusk Friday and spawned a tsunami said to have been as high as 6m in places.

The grave being dug in Palu for 300 victims will be 10m by 100m in size and can be enlarged if needed, said Willem Rampangilei, chief of Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency.

“This must be done as soon as possible for health and religious reasons,” he said.

Indonesia is majority Muslim, and religious custom calls for burials soon after death, typically within one day.

Military and commercial aircraft were delivering some aid and supplies to the region.

But there was a desperate need for heavy equipment to reach possible survivors buried in collapsed buildings, including an eight-storey hotel in Palu where voices were heard in the rubble.

A 25-year-old woman was found alive Sunday evening in the ruins of the Roa-Roa Hotel, according to the National Search and Rescue Agency, which released photos of the her lying on a stretcher cov-

ered in a blanket.

At least 832 people were confirmed dead as of Sunday evening, Indonesia’s disaster agency said, with nearly all of those from Palu.

The regencies of Donggala, Sigi and Parigi Moutong – with a combined population of 1.2 million – had yet to be fully assessed.

“The death toll is believed to be still increasing, since many bodies were still under the wreckage, while many have not been reached,” said disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.

The cries from beneath the Roa-Roa Hotel, which appeared to have toppled over with its walls splintered like pickup sticks, went silent by Sunday afternoon.

Officials had estimated about 50 people could be inside.

“We are trying our best.

“Time is so important here to save people,” said Muhammad Syaugi, head of the national search and rescue team.

“Heavy equipment is on the way.”

Metro TV showed about a dozen rescuers in orange jumpsuits climbing over debris with a stretcher carrying the body of a victim from the modest business hotel.

Other rescuers worked to free a 15-year-old girl trapped under concrete in her house in Palu after it collapsed on her family during the earthquake.

Unable to move her legs under the rubble, Nurul Istikharah was trapped beside her dead mother and niece.

Rescuers also tried to control water from a leaking pipe, fearing she would drown.

Istikharah was unconscious during part of the effort to free her, but rescuers kept talking to her to try to keep her awake.

Others offered her food and water.

Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo toured Palu on Sunday and said rescuers were having difficulty reaching victims because of a shortage of heavy equipment.

“There are many challenges,” Jokowi said.

“We have to do many things soon, but conditions do not allow us to do so.”

He said authorities were deploying more heavy machinery so emergency workers can help recover more victims.

The stricken areas also needed medical supplies, fuel, fresh water and experts.

It was the latest natural disaster to hit Indonesia, which is frequently struck by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis because of its location on the Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin.

In December 2004, a massive magnitude 9.1 earthquake off Sumatra island in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries.

More recently, a powerful quake on the island of Lombok killed 505 people in August.

In Donggala, the site closest to the earthquake’s epicentre, aerial footage on Metro TV showed the sugary blond sands of beaches swept out to

sea, along with some buildings.

Some buildings in the town were severely damaged, with plywood walls shredded and chunks of concrete scattered on the pavement. Much of the damage, however, appeared limited to the waterfront.

Palu, which has more than 380,000 people, was strewn with debris from the earthquake and tsunami.

A heavily damaged mosque was half submerged and a shopping mall was reduced to a crumpled hulk. A large bridge with yellow arches had collapsed.

The city is built around a narrow bay that apparently magnified the force of the tsunami as the waves raced into the tight inlet.

Nugroho, the disaster agency spokesman, said waves were reported as high as 6m in some places.

Looters hit a badly damaged shopping mall, apparently unconcerned for their safety amid ongoing aftershocks and the structure’s questionable stability.

In one devastated area in Palu, residents said dozens of people could still be buried in their homes.

“The ground rose up like a spine and suddenly fell. Many people were trapped and buried under collapsed houses. I could do nothing to help,” resident Nur Indah said, crying.

“In the evening, some of them turned on their cellphones just to give a sign that they were there. But the lights were off later and the next day.”

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White House honours The phone call telling Cher she was a Kennedy Centre honoree was certainly welcome – but she admits she wanted to get it earlier. The Grammy, Emmy and Oscar winner acknowledged she’d long hoped for that call. She said she “wanted to get it so badly” during the Obama administration. Now she will, at age 72, during the Trump administration, which might make for an awkward gathering. A regular at anti-Trump rallies and marches, Cher ranks among the most outspoken celebrities against the US president.

Frost new ambassador A day at the races for Sam Frost was once just a picnic blanket with friends but now the Home and Away star’s experience is more glitz and glamour. The former radio presenter and Bachelorette has been announced as the ambassador for The Everest, the world’s richest horse race on turf, at Randwick on October 13.

“Now they’re all knocking on my door going can I please be your plus one” she said at Randwick on Saturday. “I love it because I get to share it with my girlfriends. You get to dress up, have a champagne and everyone is always in a good mood.”

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The stories of local women

BY KATHLEEN STRINGER

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un in conjunction with our Suffrage 125 exhibition Women Power: Freedom For Change, we are exploring stories of just a few of our earlier women who made a change or impact in our community. Over the next few weeks we will be sharing some of these with you.

Our poster advertising our exhibition features Jamie Phillip a young woman who is a local firefighter. She is pictured opposite a smart young lady with her bicycle.

This woman is Holly Breach. Holly and her mother Betsy encapsulate how difficult it would have been for women, before the introduction of social welfare in New Zealand.

Betsy and Holly Breach The mother of our cyclist, Holly Breach, was Betsy Anne Pearson, who married William Henry Breach at Leeston in 1877. Betsy was only 17. She came to Rakaia with three small children and helped her husband establish a bakery business. Betsy and William had four more children before William became ill and had to spend three months in Christchurch Hospital. Not only did this mean the bakery business had to close, but at that time medical care was not free, so the family incurred quite a sizeable debt.

Although her family in Leeston assisted her with food, Betsy had to feed and clothe her family on her own. She paid for her groceries by making men’s shirts and selling them at the local store. It was a very difficult time, as there was no benefit or social support.

However, William recovered and they established a combined butchery/bakery business in Rakaia. This business went bankrupt, it is said that it was largely due to Betsy giving food to the poor of the district – possibly remembering her own difficulties in the past.

The family moved to a small farmlet, fittingly perhaps this farm was called Te Aroha (love).

Here the family sold milk, butter and eggs.

Cecilia Adams in Essays on Pioneer Women, says that in times of water shortage, the couple’s 10 children had to carry water for the cows from the river some distance away.

William again became unwell and Betsy was faced with the

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This time, she decided to take on nursing support.

Untrained, but used to nursing her husband, she went to people’s homes to provide rudimentary care and even acted as a midwife for many of the local women. In all weathers and at all hours, Betsy would either walk or cycle, sometimes long distances, to those who needed help.

So proficient was she, that it was suggested that she establish her own nursing home.

The Breach’s family home was enlarged and developed into a small nursing hospital. This assisted the local doctors greatly.

At this time there was no hospital between Ashburton and Christchurch, so having a depot in Rakaia reduced the time they would have to spend visiting several patients at different locations.

Betsy continued in this role until she was 72.

Betsy was a very kind and giving woman. Not only caring for her sickly husband, who died in 1917, and her own children, she also helped many people, even

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fostering five other children – including a set of twins. Two of her daughters were widowed with children, so they came home to be nurtured – a very full house.

During the war Betsy was heavily involved with the Red Cross and offered support to soldiers

when they returned home.

She was a devout Anglican and fittingly there is a memorial plaque recalling her 62 years of service to the Rakaia church. Betsy Anne died in 1941 aged 81.

Holly Alma Breach, the sixth child of William and Betsy was

born in 1886, presumably in December hence her name. She was educated in Rakaia and married Bertram Sinclair in 1905. The couple had five children before Bertram died, aged 37, in 1918. In 1937 Holly remarried Frederick Peterson, but was buried with her first husband when she died in 1963.

Honouring the Fallen The Ashburton Museum, with the assistance of the Rotary Club of Ashburton Plains, has erected in front of the museum one of the original Ferriman flagpoles, and on the centennial of the death of each Ashburton soldier will fly a replica flag. This week the Ashburton Museum honours: October 4: George William POWELL. October 5: Frank LANGDON. October 6: Francis HYLAND. October 8: Sydney Frederick BREACH, Mark DAVIDSON, James DESMOND, Leslie Donald Melville DICKSON, Frank FORSYTH, Alexander Pat(t)erson HARVEY, James Alexander LOWE, John Thomas MANGIN, John McRAE, William PROCTOR, William WATT.

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RESULTS ■ Bowls Hampstead Bowling September 30 Friday Half Day Triples - proudly sponsored by the Devon Tavern 1st: R. Harrison, J. Kingsbury, D. Thorne 3 wins, 14 ends 30 points; 2nd Place M. Quinn, W. Watson, J. Drayton 3 wins, 12 ends 35 points, 3rd Place A. Crawford, B. White, S. Doig 2 1/2 wins, 11 ends 32 points.

October 1 Walls Cup results 1st Place B. White, S. Holdom, B. Harrison, F. McNight 4 wins, 25 ends, 57 points, 2nd Place M. Smallridge, P. Collins, D. Hickman, G Clark 4 wins, 25 ends, 41 points; 3rd Place C Youngman, S. Keith, S. Whyte, J. Drayton 3 wins, 1 draw, 28 ends.

■ Bridge Ashburton Bridge Club September 24 Individual & Walker Trophies N/S 1st Bruce Leighton & Wendy Parr, 2nd Dee Murdoch & Linda Osborne, 3rd David Robins & Pauline Scott E /W 1st Kate White & Catherine Robins, 2nd Fiona Williamson & Ruth Logan, 3rd Noel Baker & Maryke Blignault September 25 Hazlemere Trophy N/S 1st John Shearer & Bev Turton , 2nd Melva Stowell & Mary Buckland, 3rd Pauline Fergus & Jan de Jong E/W 1st Trish Small & John McDonald, 2nd Kay Robb & Trish Downward, 3rd Leigh Wackrow & Audrey Rooney September 26 Valetta Trophy N/S 1st Perry Jowers & Sue Rosevear, 2nd= Mary Buckland & Trish Small, 2nd= Rosemary McLaughlin & Judith Edmond E/W 1st John Fechney & David Sewell, 2nd= Kay Robb & Johnny Wright, 2nd= Rewa Kyle & Trish Downward September 27 Presidents Trophy N/S 1st Lois Rose & Trevor Coulter, 2nd Martin de Jong & Trish Downward, 3rd David Sewell & John McDonald E/W 1st= Trish Small & Val Palmer, 1st= Sue Rosevear & Kay Robb, 3rd Audrey Rooney & Edna Segers

■ Football English Premier League English Premier League results and standings.

Cardiff City 1 (Murphy 60) Burnley 2 (J Gudmundsson 51, Vokes 70), Chelsea 1 (E Hazard 25) Liverpool 1 (Sturridge 89), Huddersfield Town 0 Tottenham Hotspur 2 (Kane 25, 34pen), Newcastle United 0 Leicester City 2 (Vardy 30 pen, Maguire 73), Wolves 2 (Cavaleiro 79, Castro 87), Southampton 0 Arsenal 2 (Cathcart 81 og, Ozil 83), Watford 0 Manchester City 2 (Sterling 29, Aguero 65), Brighton & Hove Albion 0 Everton 3 (G Sigurdsson 56, 89, Tosun 66), Fulham 0, West Ham 3 (Anderson 5, Lindelof 43 og, Arnautovic 74) Manchester United 1 (Rashford 71).

Standings P W D L F A Pts Manchester City 7 6 1 0 21 3 19 Liverpool 7 6 1 0 15 3 19 Chelsea 7 5 2 0 15 5 17 Tottenham Hotspur 7 5 0 2 14 7 15 Arsenal 7 5 0 2 14 9 15 Watford 7 4 1 2 11 8 13 Leicester City 7 4 0 3 13 10 12 Wolves 7 3 3 1 8 6 12 Bournemouth 6 3 1 2 10 11 10 Manchester United 7 3 1 3 10 12 10 Everton 7 2 3 2 11 11 9

DRAWS ■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club October 6 The Captains vs Presidents match play games will take place along with round 14 of the RMF Cup. Starting Times: Morning 8am; Afternoon report at 12.00 for a 12.30pm start (summer start time). Nine hole golfers report at 1.00 for a 1.30pm start.

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Results from the GP Russia yesterday (53 laps): 1. Lewis Hamilton (ENG/MER) 1hr 27min 25.181sec 2. Valtteri Bottas (FIN/MER) +2.545 3. Sebastian Vettel (GER/FER) 7.487 4. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN/FER) 16.543 5. Max Verstappen (NED/RBR) 31.016 6. Daniel Ricciardo (AUS/RBR) 1min 20.451 7. Charles Leclerc (MON/SAU) 1min 38.390 8. Kevin Magnussen (DEN/HAA) 1 lap 9. Esteban Ocon (FRA/RAC) 1 lap 10. Sergio Perez (MEX/RAC) 1 lap 11. Romain Grosjean (FRA/HAA) 1 lap 12. Nico Hulkenberg (GER/REN) 1 lap 13. Marcus Ericsson (SWE/SAU) 1 lap 14. Fernando Alonso (ESP/MCL) 1 lap 15. Lance Stroll (CAN/WIL) 1 lap 16. Stoffel Vandoorne (BEL/MCL) 2 laps 17. Carlos Sainz Jr (ESP/REN) 2 laps 18. Sergey Sirotkin (RUS/WIL) 2 laps Not classified: Brendon Hartley (NZL/STR) 48 laps Pierre Gasly (FRA/STR) 48 laps

■ Golf Ashburton County Ladies Vets September 21 Mystery Bus Trip - Greendale Stroke Round -18 Hole Players 1st Marilyn Walker 65 on C/b from Maree Moore 65; Sue Graham 69: Sue Gutsell 70on C/B from Di Bell 70 Two’s: Sue Graham Putting - 18 Hole Players: Judy Webb 29: Vicki Moore 30 & Mary Lou Watson 30 9 Hole Players – Stroke: Shirley Young & Judith Smith 37

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Ashburton Golf Club September 29 Pro Shop modified Stableford Best Scores; Men- Greg Fleming 48pts (8222=60nett), Women - Kay Fox 40pts.

Other good scores: Women - Rhonda Gallagher 36, Marilyn Walker 33. Men- Paul Greer, Terry O’Reilly and Murray Wackrow 42pts; Brendon Davidson, Phill Kerr and Peter Morgan 41pts, John Power 40pts; Gary Cross, Paul May and Tom Blacklow 39pts.

Twos: Kay Fox, Grant Hastie, Peter Morrison, Lucas McGee(#5), Sam Clarke, Tom Blacklow, Steve Richards, John Power and Robbie Bell Nearest The Pins: #4 Steve Richards, #8 Terry O’Reilly, #12 Ron Carlson, #14 John Power.

Longest Drives on #18: Women-Barbara Williams, Men-Paul May Nine Hole Top score in the pairs stableford round was 65pts to Muriel Morgan and Tonee Hurley.

Other winning scores: Oliver and Sam Prince 44, Peter Woods and Murray Lister 34.

September 30 Club Championships Women: Silver-Pauline Bell defeated Sharon Bradford; Bronze - Jenny Stoddart defeated Liz Cabout; Bronze II- Leigh Wackrow defeated Heather Robertson at the 20th hole.

Men: Senior-Jordan Green defeated Robbie Bell; Intermediate - Chris Lovelock defeated Tim Newton; Junior A-Dave Hewitt defeated Matt Tait; Junior B- Wilson Hii defeated Peter Bain; Nine Holes- Sam Prince defeated Mike Smith.

Plate Competition Women: Silver-Sally Lemon defeated Alison MacGregor; Bronze I-Shirley Elliott defeated Bev Turton; BronzeII- Eleanor Sullivan defeated Jenny Williams.

Men: Senior -Jeff Hewitt defeated Paddy Bradford; Intermediate -Sam Clarke defeated Gaby Jansen; Junior A: Perry Hunt defeated Shane Beavan; Junior B- Robert Pawsey defeated Jamie Stone.

Mayfield Golf Club September 26 Mid-Week Stableford Competition Ladies: Marilyn Cross 34 Stableford points, Christine Ross 33, Juliet McLeod 32.

Mens: Wayne Vessey 38 Stableford points Bill Allan 36, Steve Schmack 36, Jack Allan 36, Harley Davies 35, Charlie Rapsey 35.

Nearest the Pin: Harley Davies Two’s Jack Allan September 29 African Stableford Winners: Ian Beach and Alan Sim by lot 77 from Roger Lake and Wayne Vessey 77, Sharon Marsh and Arnold Rushton 71 Nigel Ormrod and Murray Keir 71

■ Rugby Mid Canterbury Rugby Draw October 6, 2018 Heartland Buller v Agstaff Mid Canterbury, Westport, 1:00 pm 4th – 6th October ACL Under 16 Mid Canterbury Under 16 Tournament, Nelson 5th – 7th October ACL Under 18 Mid Canterbury Under 18 Tournament, Kaiapoi

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Results from the Superbike World Championship yesterday: Race 1: 1. Jonathan Rea (GBR/Kawasaki) 34:16:36 2. Chaz Davies (GBR/Ducati) +1.804 3. Michael van der Mark (NED/Yamaha) 3.552 4. Tom Sykes (GBR/Kawasaki) 4.879 5. Marco Melandri (ITA/Ducati) 6.505 6. Lorenzo Savadori (ITA/Aprilia) 11.477 7. Alex Lowes (GBR/Yamaha) 15.077 8. Xavi Fores (ESP/Ducati) 17.339 9. Leon Camier (GBR/Honda) 17.655 10. Loris Baz (FRA/BMW) 22.725 Overall Standings 1. Jonathan Rea (GBR) 470 2. Chaz Davies (GBR) 335 3. Michael van der Mark (NED) 309 4. Tom Sykes (GBR) 273 5. Marco Melandri (ITA) 250 6. Alex Lowes (GBR) 213 7. Xavi Fores (ESP) 194 8. Eugene Laverty (IRL) 134 9. Lorenzo Savadori (ITA) 125 10. Toprak Razgatlioglu (TUR) 120

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain on his way to winning the Russian Formula One Grand Prix at the Sochi Autodrom circuit in Sochi, Russia, yesterday.

PHOTO AP Nearest Pins: No 2 Aon Insurance Jeff McNeilly, No 11 Jon McAuliffe Bayleys Don Lake, No 5 Marilyn Cross Property Brokers Charlie Rapsey, No 14 ANZ Bank Jason Smith 9&18 second shot: Ali McLeod Twos: Jason Smith Kallara Texels Player of the Day: Arnold Rushton 105/37/68 Mayfield Golf Club 9 Holes Best Gross & Putting: 1st Jill Ludemann 5619-37 15, 2nd John Greenslade 57-18-39 16 Best Nett 1st Bernie Morrison 58-22-36 c/b Jo Cook 57-21-36, c/b Tessa Gallagher 57-21-36 Greg Sim Building & Excavating No 2: Tessa Gallagher, Mayfield Transport No 5: Wendy Sim

Methven Golf Club September 26 Ladies Division Three Clubs and a Putter Jenny Senior 90-18-72, Ellen Kemp 100-2773, Sharon Burrell-Smith 107-34-73 Nearest the Pins #17 Silver Methven Foursquare Jenny Senior, #4 Bronze A Methven Travel Ruth Smith, #6 Bronze B Methven Pharmacy Marg Kelk, #13 Open Aribica Jenny Senior, #14(2nd shot) Supervalue Roz Grant, #6 Sat Ladies Cinema Paradiso Ellen Kemp Two’s and Nett Eagles: Robyn Maw. Marg Kelk September 29 Men’s Division Stableford Round Senior: Ben Rutter 83-11-72 35, Intermediate: Simon Wareing 85-13-72 35, Junior A: Jim Lattimore 90-21-69 38 by lot, Junior B: Peter Kemp 94-24-70 37 Other Good Scores: 38 Jim Rooney, 37 Roger Callaghan, 36 Mick Hodgson, 34 Piers Rolton, Phil Elliott, Neil McArther, Mark Gorman Two’s: Peter Kemp, Jim Lattimore.

Dubliner Best Nett: Jim Lattimore 69, Methven Foursquare Second Best Nett: Jim Rooney 70 By Lot, Methven Travel Best Gross: Grant Hargraves 81 Closest to the Pin-Aqua Japanese Restaurant No 4: Gary Foy, Hunters Wine No

6: Keith Middleton, Ski Time No 13: Peter Kemp, Green Parrot No 17: Daniel Burgess, Cinema Paradiso 2nd shot No 14: Neil McArther

Tinwald Golf Club September 29 Stroke Grade winners in the stroke round: Senior -12; Ryan Ford net 69 c/b. Intermediate 13-18; Andrew Barrie 68, Kieron Gray 71, Chris Bell 72 b/l.

Junior 19 plus; Kerry Whiting 70 c/b Richard Hewson 70, Dave Cockburn 71, Nic Wilson 72 b/l.

Nearest the pin: Tinwald Liquorland # 2; Christine Kinita. Gluyas Ford # 6; Randall Feutz. Bedrock Bar and Stonegrill # 12; Struan Scott. Ace Auto Electrical # 16; Cameron Miller.

G & R Seeds 2nd shot # 11; Graham Mills Two’s; Simon Ross, Chris Bell, Alan Anderson, Cameron Miller. Net eagle; # 4 Dave Cockburn.

Ryder Cup Results from the Ryder Cup at Le Golf National, Paris, France.Overall: EUROPE 17.5 bt USA 10.5.

Sunday Singles Justin Thomas (USA) bt Rory McIlroy (EUR) 1 up.

Brooks Koepka (USA) sq Paul Casey (EUR).

Webb Simpson (USA) bt Justin Rose (EUR) 3-2.

Jon Rahm (EUR) bt Tiger Woods (USA) 2-1.

Tony Finau (USA) bt Tommy Fleetwood (EUR) 6-4. Ian Poulter (EUR) bt Dustin Johnson (USA) 2 up.

Thorbjorn Olsesn (EUR) bt Jordan Spieth (USA) 5-4. Sergio Garcia (EUR) bt Rickie Fowler (USA) 2-1.

Francesco Molinari (EUR) bt Phil Mickelson (USA) 4-2 (clincher). Patrick Reed (USA) bt Tyrrell Hatton (EUR) 3-2.

Henrik Stenson (EUR) bt Bubba Watson (USA) 5-4. Alex Noren (EUR) bt Bryson DeChambeau (USA) 1 up.

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■ Pigeon racing Ashburton Pigeon Club This week we had 2 races from Masterton, for the first race 6 flyers sent 76 birds. The winning bird flew the 458 kms in 5 hours, 31 minutes and 50 seconds 1st M Davidson 1380.597, 2nd L Davidson 1372.052, 3rd M Davidson 1371.710, 4th B&G Kirwan 1359.287, 5th L Davidson 1354.942, 6th T Drummond 1347.752, 7th B&G Kirwan 1337.187, 8th N Martin 1334.372, 9th N Martin 1333.538, 10th D Lensley 1326.903, 11th T Drummond 1317.448, 12th D Lensley 1249.648 Our second race was for our Pairs Cup, 6 flyers sent 12 birds The team velocitys are as follows: 1st L Davidson 1333.707, 2nd N Martin 1320.183, 3rd M Davidson 1257.442

■ Run & Walk Run and Walk Ashburton September 29 Gilbert Walk 3km Trophy Winner on handicap - Barbara Taylor; Fastest Time – Noel Batty Noel Batty 20:27; Marie Batty 21:01; Bill Hood 21:38; Lynda Bayne 22:09; Barbara Taylor 22:14; Janet Hood 23:47; Karen Hodgson 24:32; Colin Philips 25:14; Marie McGrath 30:06; Rhonda Bunting 30:06.

Albert McIntosh Run 3km Trophy Winner on handicap – Steve Skilling; Fastest Time – Angel Spooner 12:24 Angel Spooner 12:24; Joe Ford 12:25; Ian Broadbelt 12:26; Steve Skilling 12:28; Toresa Hooper 13:15; Kerry Clough 14:13; Eamon Hooper 17:42; Mike O’Callaghan 21:55

■ Rugby Mid Canterbury Rugby Results 29th September 2018 Heartland Agstaff Mid Canterbury 56 East Coast 7 ACL Mid Canterbury Under 18 Metro Red 67 Mid Canterbury 7 ACL Mid Canterbury Under 16 Mid Canterbury 60 West Coast 12 Hanan Tournament Under 14 ACL Mid Canterbury Under 14 Mid Canterbury 17 South Canterbury 38 Mid Canterbury 10 North Otago 36 2018 Hanan Shield Winners – South Canterbury

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In brief Jose on thin ice Manchester United staff believe Jose Mourinho could be sacked by the end of this week. United produced a woeful display as they lost 3-1 at West Ham on Saturday to record their worst start in 29 years which leaves them nine points off the top of the Premier League table. Players and staff were openly discussing the prospect of Mourinho losing his job as they made the journey back to Manchester. Former United defender Rio Ferdinand said: “I think there are some big decisions to be made now.

Decisions on the manager, the squad, how they are going to take this club forward. There has to be improvements.”

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Must-win for Spurs Tottenham defender Danny Rose has labelled tomorrow’s Champions League clash with Barcelona at Wembley a must-win game. The Londoners’ tails are up again after Saturday’s 2-0 victory at Huddersfield made it three straight wins in all competitions. But Rose agreed his side can ill-afford successive Champions League defeats after they conceded two late goals in Milan to lose 2-1 in last month’s Group B opener. “It’s a massive game,” said Rose. “We have to win.

We’re fully aware of that. We’re all bitterly disappointed from how the Milan game finished and no mistake, we have to win on Wednesday.”- PA

Rangers stunned

Mitch Brookland was among those hitting the road in the opening races of the Tinwald Cycling Club’s season on Sunday.

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■ CYCLING

Hudson takes top honours Brad Hudson took out the win in the Tinwald Cycling Club’s opening race of the summer season on Sunday.

The club kicked off its season of road racing with graded scratch races around its Christys Road block, with more than 50 riders taking to the starting line.

A and B grade riders contested a 35km race while C and D graders covered 26km, and it was Hudson who had the final say in a charge to the line to claim the A grade honours, seeing off a chal-

lenge from Tony Ward and Shane Brookland.

Hudson covered the distance in a time of 52.23 minutes.

The B grade spoils went to Mark Summerfield, who timed his final effort to perfection, with Paul Macfie charging into second place with the ever-improving Don Sutton securing third place.

Summerfield’s riding time was 56.02 minutes.

Gary Weston showed his sprinting prowess taking victory in C grade in a time of 44.16

minutes, while Gene Shurrock kicked his season off with a solid second place ride, and Don Morrison got up for third in a tight finish.

D grade also came down to a bunch sprint with Brian Ellis showing a clean set of heels to take the win from the fast-finishing Lucy Kirwan and Emma Hudson.

With national schools racing on over the weekend a small but enthusiastic field of juniors went to the line.

Mitch Brookland secured A grade honours, riding the 18km in 36.32 minutes, while Zoe Spillane rode a strong 9km race to take the B grade spoils in a time of 18.37 minutes.

Zac Brookland put in a great effort to take second place.

Meanwhile, Janette Hooper secured the victory in division 2 from Debbie Skinner, riding the 18km in 36.22 minutes.

Next week the club will contest a 32km handicap event around the Wakanui Beach block.

Rangers suffered another bout of away-day blues as Dolly Menga’s strike consigned Steven Gerrard’s disjointed side to a 1-0 defeat at Livingston. The Ibrox side were looking to record their first win on the road since February’s 4-1 triumph at St Johnstone, but Gary Holt’s team inflicted just Gerrard’s second defeat in 18 games as manager to leave his side eight points adrift of runaway Scottish Premiership leaders Hearts. They now drop down to sixth spot. - PA

Renshaw ruled out Australia have suffered an injury scare ahead of their two-test series against Pakistan, with opener Matthew Renshaw invalided out of the four-day tour match in Dubai after a fielding mishap. Renshaw was crouching at short leg to spinner Nathan Lyon when a full-blooded pull shot from Abid Ali slammed into the side of his helmet. The ball rebounded to captain and keeper Tim Paine, who completed the dismissal, though the sixth of Lyon’s eight wickets was hardly cause for celebration.

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■ MOTOR RACING

Hamilton charges towards another championship Valtteri Bottas has moved aside to let Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton win the Russian Grand Prix and surge 50 points clear in the Formula One championship with five races remaining.

The victory yesterday was a landmark 70th for the Briton, who’s well on his way to a fifth Formula One title and is now 21 wins behind the record of 91

held by seven times champion German driver Michael Schumacher.

Hamilton’s closest rival Sebastian Vettel finished third for Ferrari with Bottas, who led from pole position but was told to let Hamilton through after 25 of the 53 laps, securing the Mercedes one-two.

Australia’s Daniel Ricciardo fin-

ished sixth, one place behind Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen who celebrated his 21st birthday in style by moving from the back to the front before dropping back to fifth after finally pitting with 10 laps to go.

Mercedes remain unbeaten in Russia after their fifth win in Sochi since the Olympic Park circuit first appeared on the calendar in 2014.

Hamilton has now won eight races this season.

The Briton, who pulled off an impressive overtake on Vettel for fourth after he dropped behind the German at the pitstops, stayed in the car for some time after he parked up at the finish.

He then went over to thank Bottas and commiserate.

At the podium ceremonies, with

Russian president Vladimir Putin doing the honours, Hamilton manoeuvred the Finn onto the top step alongside him.

“It’s actually quite a difficult day,” explained Hamilton.

“He was a real gentleman to let me by.

“Usually I’d be elated but I can understand how difficult it was for Valtteri.”

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In brief Inglis new skipper Greg Inglis is the new Australian rugby league team captain and he will lead a new-look team in tests against New Zealand and Tonga in Auckland this month. Inglis has been named by coach Mal Meninga to succeed long-time skipper Cameron Smith and he will lead a 19man squad missing no fewer than nine members of last year’s World Cup winning team. The squad also includes four debutants in fullback James Tedesco, centre Latrell Mitchell, hooker Damien Cook and utility Tyrone Peachey.

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Slater deserved more An unimpressed Cameron Smith says Billy Slater deserved more respect from fans after they booed the retiring Melbourne great throughout the NRL grand final at ANZ Stadium. Smith cut a forlorn figure after the Storm’s 21-6 loss to Sydney Roosters but still bristled when the fans’ treatment of Slater was brought up, agreeing it was disrespectful. Slater, 35, is considered the game’s greatest fullback but he is clearly not the most popular after controversially escaping a shoulder charge ban to draw the curtain on his 16 season career in the grand final.

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Plaudits for Cronk

Allenton four prevail in 2018 Walls Cup Malcolm Behrns from the Hampstead Bowling Club sends a bowl down his home green during the Walls Cup open fours bowls tournament on Saturday. The winning four on the day was Bruce White, Sandra Holdom, Bob Harrison and Fay McKnight from the Allenton Bowling Club.

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Cooper Cronk has shown no weight is too heavy for his busted shoulder. The Sydney Roosters’ decision to gamble on the injured halfback paid off after he helped steer the side to a 21-6 grand final win over former club Melbourne.

Luke Keary and James Tedesco set up all three Roosters’ tries, But it was the brave performance of Cronk that will overshadow the final game of champion Storm fullback Billy Slater and go down in rugby league history. It was later revealed Cronk played with a fractured shoulder blade.

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■ RUGBY LEAGUE

Keary ‘man possessed’ in final

By Scott Bailey Sydney Roosters coach Trent Robinson described Luke Keary best as “a man possessed”.

How, with the rugby league world crumbling around him and everyone writing the the tri-colours off, the 26-year-old looked a Clive Churchill Medal winner more than a week out from kickoff.

Sunday night’s grand final should have been Keary’s toughest test. With his halfback Cooper Cronk barely able to use his left arm due to a broken scapula, Keary was forced into a role he hadn’t played all year.

In the biggest game of the season, against Melbourne – the best team of the modern era.

But instead of flunking, Keary fired.

So much so, he not only guided the Roosters’ to a 21-6 win and a premiership, but he was also an obvious choice for man-of-thematch honours.

Luke Keary was a champion for the Roosters.

“His performance was big on Sunday morning (after Cronk was injured against South Sydney),” Robinson said.

“Luke got his head on straight away.

“Honestly he was a man possessed from Monday onwards about, ‘we’re going to do this. I’m going to do it this way’.

“He was ready for when Cooper played, but he wasn’t going:

‘Coops are you going to play?

“He won that Clive Churchill medal sometime on Sunday night in his own head, that’s when he won it.”

Keary’s increased workload told the story.

Playing on both sides of the ruck, he had 71 touches – the most in any game he’s played in Roosters’ colours.

He also kicked 18 times, easily his most of the season and fourand-a-half times his average of four per game for the rest of the year.

And he was still almost faultless in attack, but for a late intercept that allowed Josh Addo-Carr to run 90 metres to score.

Keary set up the Roosters’ first with a loopy cut-out ball for winger Daniel Tupou on the tricolours’ ever-dangerous left edge, before icing the win with a field goal 11 minutes from time.

“He owned it and he played the game of his life tonight,” Cronk said.

“It was all set up for him, I was basically going to run a decoy on the other side of the field and he ran with it.

“He was outstanding.

“He was tough, he had a high skill set, and he just wanted it so much.

“He didn’t hesitate.

“He saw something and he went for it.”

Meanwhile, Keary claimed at no point during the week had he felt the weight of pressure sitting upon his shoulders.

“I knew the situation and we’d worked so hard to get there,” he said.

“We got all the way to this week and you don’t shit yourself because one bloke got hurt.

“You go out and get the job done.

“I knew if he wasn’t there, what I had to do.

“And if he was there, what I had to do.

“His presence was underestimated tonight.”

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Ashburton sort out their club champions The Ashburton Golf Club’s club champions for 2018 were found on Sunday.

Both the senior men’s and women’s silver finals were repeats of last year’s finals, with Robbie Bell and Jordan Green squaring off for the men and

Pauline Bell and Sharon Bradford for the women, with Green defending his 2017 title and Bell adding yet another title to her extensive collection.

In the men’s intermediate section Chris Lovelock was crowned the

champion at the end of the 36-hole finals day, while Dave Hewitt won the junior A title.

The men’s junior B final was arguably one of the most intriguing of the day with 15-year-old Wilson Hii up

against 86-year-old Peter Bain, and it was youth which came out on top in the end with Hii taking it out.

The other women’s titles went the way of Jenny Stoddart (bronze I) and Leigh Wackrow (bronze II).

■ GOLF

Molinari Europe’s Cup hero

BY DOUG FERGUSON

A jubilant Francesco Molinari holds the Ryder Cup aloft.

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Europe waited two long years for that one moment when the Ryder Cup was back in their hands.

Exactly when it happened yesterday was unclear, making it all the better.

At roughly the same time, in two singles matches on two greens at Le Golf National separated by 150 yards of water, Francesco Molinari and Sergio Garcia each made par to secure at least a half-point, either one giving Europe the 14 points needed to win the Ryder Cup back from the Americans.

As the celebration was just getting started, Molinari capped off the first 5-0 week at the Ryder Cup for a European.

Three of those points came at the expense of Tiger Woods, who left France without contributing a point.

Molinari won his singles match against Phil Mickelson, officially putting the winning point on the board for Europe and putting Mickelson in the record book for the most losses – 22 – in Ryder Cup history.

Then, Garcia won his match to set the record for the most career points in Ryder Cup history.

It was like that all week.

Europe produced stars old and new with a team that was as strong as ever.

“We got it right this week,” European captain Thomas Bjorn said.

“We never, ever looked toward their team about what they were about. We were about us as a team and what we do.

“Everything that this Ryder Cup was is what I

think the Ryder Cup should be about for a European team.”

Mostly, it’s about winning.

The final shot came from Alex Noren, who made a 40-foot birdie putt to win the match.

That made it 17-10 – the biggest Ryder Cup rout in 12 years. Europe now have won nine of the last 12. The Americans remain winless away from home since 1993.

And there wasn’t much US captain Jim Furyk could do about it.

“They played some great golf this week, and I take my cap off,” Furyk said.

“Thomas was a better captain and their team outplayed us. And there’s nothing else more you can say. They deserved to win.”

Molinari was just as good on his own as he was with Tommy Fleetwood, and the best year of his golfing life somehow got better.

Just over two months ago, he was posing with that silver claret jug at the British Open as Italy’s first major champion. This felt just as sweet because it was a trophy he shared with a team.

“This team has been incredible from the start,” Molinari said. “We were determined to do the job. Nothing was going to stop us. And you saw it on the course.”

“Let’s be honest – the European side played some exquisite golf,” Mickelson said.

The same couldn’t be said for Mickelson or Woods, two giants of their generation, both with losing records in the Ryder Cup. But this was more about the Europeans as a team, and they were tougher than ever on a course they knew well.

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■ LIVAMOL CLASSIC

In brief

Danzdanzdance on target Chris Gibbs is keeping an eye on the Hawke’s Bay weather reports leading up to his stable’s twopronged attack on the Gr.1 Livamol Classic (2040m) on Saturday.

Gibbs and his Ruakaka training partner, Michelle Bradley, have Danzdanzdance and Hello It’s Me set for the $250,000 feature and another four stable representatives bound for the premier meeting, including Gr.3 Red Badge Spring Sprint (1400m) candidate Vinevale.

Gibbs is confident both Danzdanzdance, a Group One placegetter, and Hello It’s Me, a Group Two winner, are ready to acquit themselves well in the Livamol Classic, but would like to see some easing of the ground for both charges.

“A little bit of rain would help both horses,” he said.

“They’re very well and I’m not worried about their lack of recent racing going into it.

“It’s been a roll of the dice with Hello It’s Me to see if she would make the field and she’s in at this

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Southland Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Ascot Park Raceway Meeting Date: 02 Oct 2018 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11; 12 and 13 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 11, 12 and 13 1 12.12pm (NZT) WWW.SOUTHLANDGREYHOUNDS. CO.NZ C0, 457m 1 86777 Jay Grim nwtd .................................R Wales 2 33546 Melting World nwtd.........................J Guthrie 3 Opawa Hop nwtd.............................R Wales 4 22665 Guilty Rogue nwtd..........................J Guthrie 5 25851 Nuclear Jewel nwtd ......................C Roberts 6 Opawa Hunter nwtd ........................R Wales 7 67357 Black Bobby nwtd.......................... B Conner 8 78768 Opawa Pauline nwtd .......................R Wales 2 12.30pm ADDED ENERGY STAKES C1, 457m 1 x2866 Andrea’s Magic nwtd .....................R Adcock 2 53843 Shift The Blame 25.94...............J McInerney 3 11341 Opawa Viking nwtd J & ...................D Fahey 4 28822 Bashful Buffy nwtd ....................J McInerney 5 34658 Elland Road nwtd ......................J McInerney 6 56823 Southern Honey 26.33 ................R Hamilton 7 74F53 Goldstar Charger nwtd S & .............B Evans 8 53417 Bruiser’s Day 26.37 ....................... B Conner 9 76774 Luciastar 26.03 .........................J McInerney 10 67667 Dig Dig Dig 26.95 ...........................J Jopson 3 12.47 CONGRATULATIONS SCARY CANARY C1, 457m 1 67163 Forbury Flyer 26.52 ...................J McInerney 2 82512 Go Gunna nwtd ...............................R Wales 3 18632 Jax Jewel nwtd .............................C Roberts 4 52768 Glass Harpoon 27.08 .....................J Guthrie 5 21712 Galifianakis 26.26 .............................B Eade 6 26354 Chunk nwtd ...............................J McInerney

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Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Addington Raceway Meeting Date: 02 Oct 2018 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 3.42pm THE FITZ SPORTS BAR DASH C1, 295m 1 43476 Homebush Tasha 17.59 ............J McInerney 2 x8688 Unfettered 17.51 .........................B Freeman 3 57848 Goldstar Auburn nwtd S &...............B Evans 4 74885 Batty Who 17.73 M & .......................... Smith 5 46332 Venetia 17.46 ............................... K Cassidy 6 81283 Okuku Terra 17.59...........................R Casey 7 64712 Right On Time 17.54 .................R Blackburn 8 72264 Mr Black Magic nwtd S & ................B Evans 9 86858 Rockin’ Robyn 17.46 ....................... M Grant 10 26886 Fiery Jemma 17.83 .......................... B Dann 2 4.02pm ADDINGTON EVENTS CENTRE DASH C1, 295m 1 66444 Homebush Indi 17.55 ................J McInerney 2 32451 High Violet 17.40 .......................R Blackburn 3 45557 Dapper Danny 17.56 ................... J McMillan 4 78756 Lord Protector 17.41 ........................ B Dann 5 41516 Coming Of Love 17.57 .................... M Grant 6 7811 Bender Truth 17.37....................A Bradshaw 7 85484 Goldstar Dodge nwtd S & ...............B Evans 8 42257 Gordy Junior 17.51 ........................J Jopson 9 86858 Rockin’ Robyn 17.46 ....................... M Grant 10 58768 Jingili Jill 17.55 M & ............................ Smith 3 4.18pm I PAVE CONCRETE SPRINT C1, 295m 1 3F623 Holly Grace 17.92 ........................... M Grant 2 77536 Paringi Pam 17.43 M & ....................... Smith 3 74217 Call Me Dolly 17.63 .................. A Botherway

Danzdanzdance will be ridden by Danielle Johnson on Saturday.

stage and only quite a few late entries could stop her getting a start.

“Danzdanzdance has been set for this race.

“That’s why we didn’t bother with any of the other two legs

(Tarzino Trophy and Windsor Park Plate). This has been her target.”

Danzdanzdance, a four-yearold daughter of Mastercraftsman, has had just the one lead-up race and that was a winning one on

Christmas comes early Former Kiwi trotter Father Christmas just keeps getting better for Brent Lilley. The eight-year-old posted his fourth and best win from just 12 Aussie runs – he’s been placed six times as well – when he made light work of a 10m handicap to thrash his rivals in the Group 3 Kilmore Trotters’ Cup last Thursday night. Lilley flexed his muscle with five runners in the race and also snared third spot with Kyvalley Barney.

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her home track on September 1 over 1400m.

“She’s a real good worker and I’m very happy with her,” Gibbs said.

“There’s not much of her and we’re just taking it one step at a time.”

Danzdanzdance has had just eight starts and recorded two wins and three placings with her stake earnings of $172,963 being boosted by her third in the Gr.1 Vodafone New Zealand Derby (2400m) and her second the start before in the Gr.2 Avondale Guineas (2100m).

On the strength of those efforts she was taken to Sydney for a tilt at the Gr.1 ATC Oaks (2400m), in which she finished a creditable sixth after a first-up fifth in the Gr.1 Vinery Stud Stakes (2000m).

“She’s grown up a lot through the Aussie trip,” Gibbs said.

Danzdanzdance will be ridden this weekend by Danielle Johnson, who was aboard her for the first time in the recent Ruakaka win.

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Lane suspended Damian Lane has been suspended following an adjourned inquiry from the Moir Stakes at Moonee Valley. Lane rode the favourite Nature Strip in the Group One sprint on Friday night and Racing Victoria stewards suspended him on a careless riding charge for seven meetings when the hearing was held at Caulfield on Sunday.

He deferred the suspension to begin after the Turnbull Stakes meeting at Flemington next Saturday and he returns for the Caulfield Guineas meeting on October 13. Kevin Forrester was also suspended out of the Moir Stakes, copping a 10-meeting ban for careless riding on Jungle Edge.

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Southland dogs Today at Ascot Park Raceway

5 36722 Tricode Boy 23.13 ......................... B Conner 7 45446 Gotcha Rocky nwtd ...................J McInerney 5 43214 He’s All Power nwtd J & ..................D Fahey 6 84277 Homebush Razor nwtd..............J McInerney 8 75555 Awesome Annie nwtd.................... B Conner 6 57265 Kia Tere nwtd S &............................B Evans 7 16785 Homebush Carl nwtd ................J McInerney Emergencies: 7 41822 Invincible Sue nwtd .......................R Adcock 8 85886 Nippa Joy nwtd..........................J McInerney 9 67667 Dig Dig Dig 26.95 ...........................J Jopson 8 85536 Cosmic Stu nwtd .......................J McInerney 9 56887 Black Dan 22.68........................J McInerney 10 76774 Luciastar 26.03 .........................J McInerney 9 75547 Dave’s Dot 26.15 .......................J McInerney 10 758x8 Paris Global nwtd ......................J McInerney 4 1.07pm HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRENDON BURKE C3, 7 1.57pm GREYHOUNDSASPETS.ORG.NZ C2, 390m 390m 1 66441 Homebush Sloan 22.50 ............J McInerney 10 2.50pm MR WHIPPY SOUTHLAND C1, 390m 1 74156 Reign Of Fire nwtd ....................J McInerney 1 61417 Mulberry Minx nwtd .......................R Adcock 2 88221 Homebush Maycee 22.64 .........J McInerney 2 62126 Homebush Mikey nwtd ..............J McInerney 2 16888 Gotcha Zena 23.57 ...................J McInerney 3 11845 Tee An’ Cee 22.50 ......................... B Conner 3 53677 Homebush Cherico 22.76 .........J McInerney 3 45278 NippaOfSambucca 22.59 ..........J McInerney 4 67143 Sass ‘Em Up nwtd ..........................J Jopson 4 8454F Sly Bet nwtd ...................................J Jopson 4 72673 Mitcham Faye 23.02 ..................J McInerney 5 22486 Lonely Baxter 23.05 ..................J McInerney 5 46658 Koputai nwtd ..................................J Guthrie 5 25157 Shanly Star 22.72 .....................J McInerney 6 41737 Zipping Jen 22.65 ......................... B Conner 6 54876 Pip Baxter nwtd .........................J McInerney 6 15111 It’s A Joke 22.60........................J McInerney 7 75471 Homebush Austin 22.87 ............J McInerney 7 34535 Darlek Ian nwtd .........................J McInerney 7 27752 Debbie Baxter 22.57 .................J McInerney 8 25551 Smash Lilly nwtd ............................J Jopson 8 74783 Chasing Great nwtd ..........................S Keen 8 61462 Half Silver Fern 22.74 ...............J McInerney 9 67158 Valyrian Steel 22.82 ..................J McInerney 9 758x8 Paris Global nwtd ......................J McInerney 9 63887 Princely Gold 22.49...................J McInerney 10 72487 Homebush Miles 22.44 .............J McInerney 10 54876 Nippa Martino 22.66 .................J McInerney 8 2.15pm SOUTHLAND OTAGO PHOTO FINISH C4, 390m 10 848F8 Dream Stone Jade 23.09 ..................S Keen 5 1.22pm TOP CLASS RUN C5, 457m 1 32614 Cosmic Marty 22.96 ..................J McInerney 11 3.07 FIND US ON TWITTER@SGRCINFO C2, 457m 1 57661 Raylene nwtd ................................R Adcock 1 14882 Think Tank nwtd ........................J McInerney 2 34314 Barellen Panther nwtd ..................C Roberts 2 87516 Zipping Ripley 26.14 ..................... B Conner 2 11113 Dyna Elwyn 25.65 ........................C Roberts 3 41464 Tubby Kevie 23.15 ..........................J Jopson 3 75162 Archie’s Ranger nwtd .....................J Jopson 3 11721 Opawa Jumper 26.30 ......................R Wales 4 31758 Homebush Skip 22.76...............J McInerney 4 47583 Chasing Fame nwtd ..........................S Keen 4 13235 Avenger Bale 25.77......................C Roberts 5 68523 Sozin’s Blue 22.68 ....................J McInerney 5 66216 Sozin’s Emperor 26.35 ..............J McInerney 5 12345 Ohoka Alex nwtd ...........................R Adcock 6 66426 Disclaimer 22.63 ...........................R Adcock 6 4128T Cawbourne Taber nwtd ................C Roberts 6 43352 Southern Lights 25.84 .................R Hamilton 7 12678 Flaming Sambuca 22.52 ...........J McInerney 7 34882 Zefside nwtd..............................J McInerney 7 41125 Dirk Bale 25.85 ............................C Roberts 8 32738 Another Message 22.81 .................J Jopson 8 64441 Storming Mack 26.13 .................... B Conner 8 74741 Must Be Rusty 25.87.................J McInerney 9 55564 Cosmic Jase 22.90 ...................J McInerney 9 67587 Chief Doug nwtd .......................J McInerney 9 12175 Opawa Lawsey 25.87......................R Wales 10 65778 Cosmic Ruben 22.55 ................J McInerney 6 1.40pm TONI@BODYAUDITSOUTH PH 021657001 9 2.32 CONGRATULATIONS PAT & KEN KILSBY 60TH 10 87885 Homebush Boden 26.94 ...........J McInerney 12 3.25 BODYAUDITSOUTH@GMAIL.COM C1, 390m C3/4, 457m WEDDING AN C1, 390m 1 16876 Springheel Jack 23.26....................J Guthrie 1 52154 Dream Hard nwtd .......................... B Conner 1 12185 Malaga Molly 26.46 ...................J McInerney 2 33223 Avalanch City 22.81 ..................J McInerney 2 52634 Mick The Mower nwtd ...............J McInerney 2 12175 Opawa Lawsey 25.87......................R Wales 3 68255 Pretty Keen nwtd ...............................S Keen 3 33634 Cosmic Ryder 22.97 .................J McInerney 3 31724 Ketchikan Blue 26.03 ........................B Eade 4 31466 Norton Baxter nwtd ...................J McInerney 4 68773 Homebush Izzy nwtd .................J McInerney 4 23247 Opawa Brad 26.43 ..........................C Steele

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67637 Bigtime Kendall nwtd...................R Hamilton 76886 Gotcha Aussie nwtd ..................J McInerney 87418 Nikko Baxter nwtd .....................J McInerney 6x836 Homebush Clint nwtd ................J McInerney 848F8 Dream Stone Jade 23.09 ..................S Keen 87878 Sacred Opera nwtd ........................J Guthrie 13 3.49 RACING AGAIN 16TH OCTOBER C1, 390m 1 17848 Joe Bonanza 22.89 ...................J McInerney 2 14665 Astro Tipple nwtd ...................D J MacMillan 3 66558 Tartan Watch 23.51 ........................J Guthrie 4 1853 Homebush Tesan nwtd ..............J McInerney 5 4468P Homebush Pete 23.05 ..............J McInerney 6 66424 Shoe Fly nwtd ................................J Jopson 7 8x458 Hardaway Chief nwtd ................J McInerney 8 63162 Jinja Spirit 23.19 .......................J McInerney 9 56887 Black Dan 22.68........................J McInerney 10 87878 Sacred Opera nwtd ........................J Guthrie SELECTIONS

Race 1: Opawa Hop, Black Bobby, Nuclear Jewel, Melting World Race 2: Opawa Viking, Andrea’s Magic, Bruiser’s Day, Southern Honey Race 3: Galifianakis, Forbury Flyer, Jax Jewel, Gotcha Rocky Race 4: Debbie Baxter, Half Silver Fern, NippaOfSambucca Race 5: Dyna Elwyn, Dirk Bale, Must Be Rusty, Opawa Jumper Race 6: Opawa Lawsey, Ketchikan Blue, Opawa Brad Race 7: Tee An’ Cee, Homebush Sloan, Smash Lilly Race 8: Disclaimer, Sozin’s Blue, Tubby Kevie, Barellen Panther Race 9: Tricode Boy, Avalanch City, Springheel Jack, Black Dan Race 10: Darlek Ian, Sly Bet, Homebush Mikey, Chasing Great Race 11: Cawbourne Taber, Zipping Ripley, Zefside, Archie’s Ranger Race 12: Dream Hard, Mick The Mower, Bigtime Kendall Race 13: Joe Bonanza, Shoe Fly, Astro Tipple, Black Dan LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

Christchurch dogs Today at Addington Raceway

4 617 Our Dazzel nwtd J & .......................D Fahey DASH C1, 295m 1 23516 Goldstar Avalon 17.65 S & ..............B Evans 5 23563 Goldstar Bryton 17.76 S & ..............B Evans 2 86753 Ketchikan Kim 17.66 .........................J Dunn 6 43335 Chop Shop 17.32 ......................J McInerney 3 84286 El Happy Jack 17.89 ......................J Jopson 7 47862 Okuku Mistress 17.85 .....................R Casey 4 75687 Goldstar Spotty 17.52 S & ..............B Evans 8 65335 Verbena 17.52 .............................. K Cassidy 5 43523 Okuku Billy 17.49 ............................R Casey 9 86858 Rockin’ Robyn 17.46 ....................... M Grant 6 48454 Jinja Cody 17.41 .......................J McInerney 10 8x858 Chat Ya Later nwtd S & ...................B Evans 7 36231 Neelix 17.34 ..............................R Blackburn 4 4.37pm GLENBYRE TAVERN STAKES C1, 520m 8 55824 Smash Rock 17.75.......................... M Grant 1 65545 Opawa Henry 30.65 ........................R Wales 9 86858 Rockin’ Robyn 17.46 ....................... M Grant 2 12416 Tianyu 30.73 J & .............................D Fahey 3 56536 Know Talent 30.78..........................G Cleeve 10 26886 Fiery Jemma 17.83 .......................... B Dann 4 x6161 Gazza’s Girl 30.44 J & ....................D Fahey 7 5.29pm ISLINGTON TAVERN SPRINT C1, 295m 1 4x674 Rion King 17.45 .............................. M Grant 5 32143 Goldstar Sydney 31.11 S &.............B Evans 2 88845 Goldstar Bindi 17.57 S &.................B Evans 6 52255 Know Potential 30.71 .....................G Cleeve 3 1F322 Hands Of Steel nwtd .....................R Adcock 7 25543 Go Belle 30.96 ................................R Wales 4 82377 Little Lozza 17.93 ......................J McInerney 8 64547 Goldstar Chief 30.85 S & ................B Evans 5 84443 Snickerdoodle 17.42 ........................ B Dann 9 77728 Goldstar Hurley 31.11 .................. L Waretini 6 68654 Matariki nwtd ....................................A Joyce 10 488x8 Velvet Girl 30.55 ..........................D Kingston 5 4.54pm GARRARD’S HORSE AND HOUND SPRINT 7 12887 Homebush Shea 17.58 .............J McInerney 8 33127 Opawa Pam nwtd ............................R Wales C1, 295m 9 86858 Rockin’ Robyn 17.46 ....................... M Grant 1 52662 Nardango nwtd J & .........................D Fahey 2 57321 Bombinate 17.88 .............................. B Dann 10 8x858 Chat Ya Later nwtd S & ...................B Evans 3 47855 Goldstar Hemi nwtd S &..................B Evans 8 5.47pm KOLORFUL KANVAS STAKES C1, 520m 1 41134 Goldstar Captain 30.71 S & ............B Evans 4 73487 Jinno Gino 17.51 ......................... J McMillan 2 1 Jinja Murphy 31.06 J & ...................D Fahey 5 37565 Leanne’s Way 17.72 .......................J Jopson 3 13x66 Sefton Force 31.00..........................R Wales 6 73745 Homebush Fued 17.42 .............J McInerney 4 38425 Double Speed nwtd.......................R Adcock 7 45767 Goldstar Tasman 18.19 S & ............B Evans 5 74367 Opawa Lara 30.64 J & ....................D Fahey 8 83622 Cannonball Bolt 17.49.....................R Casey 6 17623 Long Live Love nwtd ....................... M Grant 9 86858 Rockin’ Robyn 17.46 ....................... M Grant 7 66334 Know Leave 30.73 .........................G Cleeve 10 58768 Jingili Jill 17.55 M & ............................ Smith 6 5.12 MURRAY WIGLEY@RAY WHITE PH 021480250 8 65582 Gorm The Great nwtd .................D Kingston

9 77728 Goldstar Hurley 31.11 .................. L Waretini 10 54777 Know Courtesy 30.89.....................G Cleeve 9 6.06pm FLAIR STAKES C1, 520m 1 42155 Little Secret 30.61 ........................ L Waretini 2 74165 Goldstar Renee 30.74 S & ..............B Evans 3 36762 Eyrewell Bentley 31.04................... H Cairns 4 14253 Born Quick 30.66 ............................R Wales 5 12164 Know Threat 30.62 .........................G Cleeve 6 66441 Zara Petal 30.80..............................R Wales 7 563PF Galway Gal nwtd S & ......................B Evans 8 23111 Mr. Matt 30.30 J & ...........................D Fahey 9 648x4 Kay Bomb 30.47.............................G Cleeve 10 48855 Tikao Jackie nwtd M & ........................ Smith 10 6.25pm SPRINGSTON HOTEL STAKES C1, 520m 1 42327 Know Equal 30.66 ..........................G Cleeve 2 35211 Eye Star 30.64 ................................R Wales 3 85152 Goldstar Whitey 31.16 S & ..............B Evans 4 78454 Smash Rebel 30.58 ........................ M Grant 5 13632 Miss Nina 30.92 ............................R Adcock 6 17334 Opawa Hilary 30.32 J & ..................D Fahey 7 13427 Goldstar Trooper nwtd S & ..............B Evans 8 141 Busy Flash 30.60 J & ......................D Fahey 9 648x4 Kay Bomb 30.47.............................G Cleeve 10 837x7 Sly Rose 30.96................................R Wales 11 6.41pm DAVE ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER SPRINT C1, 295m 1 38553 Fiery Fagan 17.29 ...........................R Casey 2 68383 Goldstar Tu Puc 17.50....................J Jopson 3 52774 Goldstar Galaxie 17.66 S & ............B Evans 4 23552 Rum Gin Mixer 17.37 .......................A Joyce 5 72664 Platonic Affair 17.47 ..................... L Waretini

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34585 Homebush Jasper nwtd ............J McInerney 52646 Just James 17.43 .......................H Anderton 71F52 Business Ethics 17.37.......................J Dunn 86858 Rockin’ Robyn 17.46 ....................... M Grant 26886 Fiery Jemma 17.83 .......................... B Dann 12 6.59pm LIVAMOL DASH C1, 295m 1 31588 Homebush Flynn nwtd ..............J McInerney 2 54867 Mertz 17.49 ...............................J McInerney 3 78483 Sparkling Terra 17.12 ......................R Casey 4 82475 Distinctive Miss 17.50 ......................A Joyce 5 52656 Super Stevie 17.36.........................J Jopson 6 47476 Ohoka Tess nwtd..........................A Waretini 7 1F156 Astrid 17.56 .......................................J Dunn 8 77743 Goldstar Diesel 17.46 S &...............B Evans 9 86858 Rockin’ Robyn 17.46 ....................... M Grant 10 8x858 Chat Ya Later nwtd S & ...................B Evans SELECTIONS

Race 1: Right On Time, Venetia, Okuku Terra, Goldstar Auburn Race 2: Bender Truth, High Violet, Homebush Indi, Goldstar Dodge Race 3: Our Dazzel, Chop Shop, Paringi Pam, Call Me Dolly Race 4: Tianyu, Know Potential, Go Belle, Know Talent Race 5: Nardango, Bombinate, Homebush Fued, Goldstar Hemi Race 6: Neelix, Ketchikan Kim, Okuku Billy, Jinja Cody Race 7: Hands Of Steel, Rion King, Snickerdoodle, Opawa Pam Race 8: Goldstar Captain, Jinja Murphy, Opawa Lara, Sefton Force Race 9: Mr. Matt, Born Quick, Know Threat, Zara Petal Race 10: Busy Flash, Eye Star, Know Equal, Miss Nina Race 11: Business Ethics, Rum Gin Mixer, Platonic Affair Race 12: Super Stevie, Astrid, Goldstar Diesel, Homebush Flynn LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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Thanks to all those who supported our raffle.

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only too well after two stunning great deal from that – much of it performances this year at Eden to do with trusting himself and the Park where he tore up the French players around him on the biggest and the Wallabies – but we saw that stage – and his response was exMo’unga can be a similar threat in tremely impressive. the front line, and there is an air of The question now is how will added solidity at the back with Bar- Hansen treat his backline bench rett there. make-up for this Sunday’s test ACCOMMODATION, At Estadio Jose Amalfitani, against the Springboks in PretoHEALTH & BEAUTY Mo’unga went on five runs with the ria?

SHELLY, Health massage. RENTAL ball for a distance of 41m.

Hansen will probably be inclined 9am to 9pm. Chinese girl, TWO bedroom flat, heat He beat two defenders, laid on to go for McKenzie, but what a Ashburton. Phone 022 684 pump, two garages, rear courtyard. $265 per week.

1692. one try assist for Anton Lienert- great vote of confidence it would Immediate possession Brown with a cute kick through be, and a potential nod to the fuavailable. Close to hospital.

A DULT TRADES, SERVICES near the posts, and made six out of ture, should he go for Mo’unga inPhone Joe 021 324 529. six tackles. stead, because another impressive CERAMIC tiles - tile quality ENTERTAINMENT guaranteed - Tile Warehouse YOYO – Asian lady, sexy It was a performance reminis- performance would make Hansselection available at body, size 10, 36DD, busty, cent of so much of his form for the en’s November selections for two massage, Redmonds Furnishing and professional Crusaders over the past couple of highly anticipated tests very interexcellent service, in/out calls.

Flooring, Burnett Street. years during which time they won esting indeed.

- NZME Phone 021 046 4314. two Super Rugby titles.

He displayed confidence and calmness as well as fast feet, vision and a surprising 1pm amount of power.

Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main TUESDAY Mo’unga had a difficult AGE CONCERN, SAYGO EXERCISES. Street, Methven.

9.30am evening three weeks earlier RAKAIA - Gentle exercises for muscle 10am - 3pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. against the Pumas in Nelson strength and balance in a friendly AGE CONCERN, 206 CLUB. Walking group meets outside church. 48 – the occasion of his first test Fun filled days for over 60 years, for more supportive environment. Presbyterian Allens Road, Allenton. start.

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METHVENGentle exercises for muscle something in our new workshop. 8 6pm strength and balance in a friendly William Street.

INTEGRATIVE YOGA. supportive environment. All Saints 9.45am Weekly yoga classes. Senior Centre, Church, 1 Chapman Street, Methven.

Your opportunity to tell Mid Canterbury WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Cameron Street. of your next event or meeting 12pm 3pm Golf Croquet singles and 1.15pm Graded 7pm - 9pm JUSTICE OF THE PEACE SIGNING singles, Waireka, Philip Street.

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The 22 minutes Richie Mo’unga had on the field against Argentina may be more significant than he could imagine in terms of his potential role for the All Blacks over the next couple of years.

Mo’unga was so effective at firstfive in Buenos Aires after Beauden Barrett replaced Ben Smith at fullback that he must suddenly come into the reckoning as an impact player off the reserves bench.

Previously he had been regarded as a starting specialist, a talented and composed player who could set the agenda at the start of a test but who probably couldn’t provide a great deal of impact otherwise.

But Damian McKenzie’s absence from the bench after flying home due to a family bereavement, and Mo’unga’s form from it, has opened up another gamebreaking opportunity for the All Blacks, placed another ace in Steve Hansen’s hand, if you like, and 12 months out from the World Cup that added X-factor cannot be underestimated.

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WEDNESDAY 6am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Bettys circuit training in hall, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Steady As You Go Exercise group. Meet at 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

9.30am AGE CONCERN, SAYGO EXERCISES. ALLENTON - Gentle exercises for muscle strength and balance in a friendly supportive environment. St David’s Church, Allenton.

9.30am- 1.30pm ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH OP SHOP. Op Shop open, clothing donations welcome. Ashburton Baptist Church.

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1.15pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Golf Croquet doubles. Philip Street.

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Cryptic crossword

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): Your mind can be your ally or your enemy. Choosing helpful thoughts is the habit to cultivate. Don’t expect such thoughts to come naturally. Write them out. Repeat them. It’s forced, but it will work.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): There are no free passes for what you want to experience. You’ll be glad for this. Hard work forces you to confront and ultimately develop a better connection with your core character.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): There’s something you don’t want to do, and yet you really must. So do it first. This will improve the overall quality of your day. Otherwise you’ll spend the whole day cosied up to a nagging feeling.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): People don’t learn with their arms crossed. Learning is a posture. It’s a receptive way of being. The learning mind is open and curious, willing to do the things that reinforce the assimilation of knowledge.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): You’re capable of deep selfreflection but timing is key. For the most part, you’ll keep it light and do what you need to today. Tonight, you’ll choose your moment and go deeper into your own motivations.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Any feeling you have of being constricted will go away once you reduce your spending. Lower the expenses so you can show a profit, minimise your stress, and have the freedom you’ve longed for.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): The path to success will be built from long strings of kept promises.

Of course, the easiest way to keep your promises is to make promises that are easy to, and maybe even a pleasure to, keep.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): Neatness will make a difference in your work. It won’t make it inherently better, but it will make it more user-friendly, which will lead to more people making use of it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): You’ve been drawn to both virtue and vice, and sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference. But down deep you know who is good for you and who isn’t.

Stick with the people who are good for you.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Not long ago it was you who needed guidance. Now you’re the one giving it to others. You’ll do this with great patience, thoroughness and heart.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): You’re a bit of an impresario today, creating a “show” and selling tickets.

On a deeper level, what you’re doing is helping others see what’s extraordinary about that ordinary thing that’s been there all along.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): The story we tell looking backward already has an ending. All we have to do is connect the dots in a way that leads up to it. The present has no ending. The story is up for grabs.

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FORD, Adrian – At Radius Millstream Ashburton, surrounded by his family, on September 30, 2018. Cherished, deeply loved and devoted husband of the late Elaine. Dearly loved father and father-in-law Canterbury owned, locally operated of Antony and Kathryn, Gary and Penny and Chris and Patersons Raechel. Devoted and greatly Funeral Services respected Grandad of Tom, Jack, Roy, Milly, Angus, and Ashburton Oliver, Emma and Harrison.

Messages to Ford family, PO Crematorium Ltd Box 472, Ashburton 7740. In Office and Chapel lieu of flowers donations to The Ashburton Cancer Corner East & Cox Society would be appreciated Streets, Ashburton and may be left at the service. The family wish to acknowledge with sincere thanks and gratitude the care For all subscriber and support given by the enquiries, missed nursing staff at Radius deliveries, new Millstream and Glenis, from Nurse Maude, Christchurch. subscriptions, temporary A celebration of Adrian’s life stops – text, call or email: will be held at our Chapel, cnr Text East and Cox Streets, Ashburton on THURSDAY, 021 271 3399 October 4 commencing at Phone 1.30pm. Followed by private cremation at the Ashburton 0800 274 287 Crematorium.

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Brethren of Erewhon Lodge 200 are called upon to attend the Funeral Service of the late Wor. Bro. Eric Jones at St Stephen’s Anglican Church, Park Street, Ashburton on WEDNESDAY, October 3, commencing at 1.00pm. Brethren of sister Lodges are invited to attend.

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Sarah Jane Morris, Dylan Bruce.

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Kevin Sizemore, Cerina Vincent.

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10:10 An Inconvenient Sequel – Truth To Power PG 2017 Documentary. Al Gore, Barack Obama, Donald Trump.

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Kevin Sizemore, Cerina Vincent.

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Gerard Butler, Willem Dafoe.

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Simon Pegg, Martin Freeman.

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Two former All Blacks – Jock Ross (left) and Tiny Hill – took time for a cuppa and a catch up at half-time in Saturday’s game between Mid Canterbury and East Coast.

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When Mid Canterbury hosted East Coast in a Heartland Championship rugby match on Saturday, two formidable All Blacks from bygone eras were up in the stands keeping a close eye on proceedings.

Mid Canterbury rugby centurion and former All Black Jock Ross and one of New Zealand’s oldest living former All Blacks Tiny Hill were spotted chewing the fat over a cup of tea and a slice of loaf at half-time.

It wasn’t such an unusual a sight though as it turned out, with Hill

– despite never having actually played for, coached or had any direct involvement with Mid Canterbury Rugby – one of the Hammers’ biggest fans.

Hill, 91, lives in Rolleston and he made the trip down to Ashburton with a friend for the majority of Mid Canterbury’s home games.

As Mid Canterbury rugby’s president and the local face presenting Mid Canterbury home games on television’s Mainfreight Rugby, Ross could also be found at most Mid Canterbury games.

Ross said the pair went way back.

Hill – a potent lock or loose forward in his day – was an All Black from 1955 to 1959 and went on to become an All Blacks selector in Ross’ playing days.

“He really is an absolute icon of the game.

“I think there’s only one other All Black older than him, I think he’s the second oldest living All Black and he’s as tough as teats,” Ross said.

“Tiny is probably the patriarch of New Zealand rugby and he is a wonderful guy to talk to.

“He doesn’t move too fast these days, but he’s got a lot of stories.”

As for their take on Saturday’s

game, Ross said it wasn’t one of the better games they’d watched Mid Canterbury play, despite the 56-7 winning margin.

Ross’ son, Adaam, a former national age group rugby representative was in the East Coast side on Saturday.

He lives in Whangarei now and was one of the side’s loan players.

East Coast didn’t have the best record in Heartland rugby, more often than not found down the bottom of the table, but the side had a lot of heart and a never give up attitude.

“They are up against it.

“There’s only about 5000 people

living on the Coast and resources are a bit low, but having said that if they had two or three good players added to them they’d do well,” Ross said.

In 2011, East Coast proved that theory, when they did manage to pick up some pretty handy players including former Super Rugby and Maori All Blacks player Rua Tipoki, and the side produced its best season by a country mile.

East Coast made the Meads Cup final that year but lost to Wanganui.

The following year East Coast beat Wanganui in the Meads Cup final.

Bell, Green add to their Ashburton title collections

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