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It’s a scorcher Temperatures rose to around 33 degrees in the Ashburton District yesterday and many sought relief from the heat in the waters of Lake Hood and in local swimming pools.

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No relief in sight for coastal farmers

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Groundwater wells in the Pendarves/ Chertsey area continue to fall to record lows as the big dry continues with some farmers needing substantial rainfall before Christmas to avoid running short.

However, MetService meteorologist Georgina Griffiths said latest forecasting showed Mid Canterbury would suffer another dry month during December with no substantial rainfall predicted.

“You will almost certainly get something from the sky but it won’t be much … MetService is forecasting below normal December rainfall for Ashburton (and all of Canterbury).”

December will start warmly, notably so for the South Island, according to MetService. However, the second week turns

unusually cold for the time of the year right across New Zealand with temperatures for the second half of the month likely to continue a touch cooler over the southern South Island, but return to near average for the rest of the country.

Latest ECan data from the middle of November shows that wells in the Pendarves and Chertsey area and some in Seafield are continuing to drop to record lows.

Pendarves sharemilker Will Grayling said his well levels had dropped but it was “not panic stations yet” – although he was well ahead of where he would be normally in terms of their seasonal allocation of water.

“If it starts raining at Christmas, it will be fine. You wouldn’t normally worry about seasonal allocations now but this

morning I was looking up which wells have what allocations. It’s just so early … it’s a long way to the end of the season if we don’t get any rain and some people are concerned about it.”

Seafield dairy farmer Tim Lovett said while his wells had dropped in pressure, it was not that different to other seasons, but if the dry continued “there could be a problem at the other end”.

ECan director of resource planning and consents Don Rule again warned landowners to check their consent conditions and to ensure they used their water wisely.

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Brown cancels tour Down Under US R&B singer Chris Brown’s Australian and New Zealand concerts have been cancelled. Brown’s Australian tour was thrown into doubt in September after protests by GetUp! called for the performer’s visa application to be denied due to his brutal assault of ex-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009. “Mr Brown wishes to express his deepest gratitude to the fans for their support and looks forward to a successful tour in the near future,” a statement from Brown’s promoter posted on Ticketek Australia’s Facebook page said.

“Mr Brown and the promoters both remain positive that the tour will take place in the near future.” Brown’s opponents quickly took to Twitter after the announcement to celebrate the cancellation. “Oh happy day. Chris Brown’s NZ tour has been cancelled.”

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Kylie Jenner will quit showbusiness at 30 Kim Kardashian’s younger sister Kylie Jenner has promised to step away from public life when she reaches the age of 30. The 18-year-old, who is a half-sister to Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian, was thrust into the spotlight as a child as she took part in the family’s reality TV show Keeping Up With The Kardashians. She has since branched out on her own by taking on a number of solo projects, including launching a cosmetics line, and Kylie has now revealed she plans to give up showbusiness as soon as she hits the landmark birthday.

The wig to come off Australian singer Sia will reveal her face publicly for the first time since rocketing to fame. The 39-year-old showed her face during her early career, but in recent years has become known for hiding her face behind elaborate hats and wigs.

In a preview of an interview with Ellen DeGeneres, Sia agreed it was time to ditch the disguise. “You’re beautiful ... Are you going to do it?” DeGeneres asked. “I’ll do it, I’m just working up to it, you know,” Sia replied, coyly brushing her wig. The Chandelier singer said the reason she hides her face is so no one is able to recognise her when she goes out in public. “Well it’s just so that I can go to Target and buy a hose if I want to,” she joked to DeGeneres. “Or if I find I’m in need of a restroom, I can go in the side of the road, no-one would be following me with a camera trying to get a shot.”

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Rebel has no desire to slim down Rebel Wilson has no plans to lose weight, because she’s convinced her body type is what sets her apart from other actresses in Hollywood.

The Pitch Perfect star has no desire to look like anyone else in the business and believes staying true to herself is what has given her career a big boost. “Being unique and different was a really good thing,” she tells Cosmopolitan UK “When I walked into my agent’s office for the first time (in 2009), they looked at me and said, ‘Wow, we have nobody on our books like you’. And they signed me on my second day here (in Hollywood).” “I wouldn’t ever want to compete with what I call the glamours – the really gorgeous people,” she continues. “I’m about the brain, the heart and what’s on the inside. I feel really lucky to be the body type I am.” Wilson goes on to admit she has become more health conscious since moving to Los Angeles in 2010, but she still eats her emotions and battles not to stress about her diet. “I love me some ice cream or dessert, and it comes at times when I’m happy or sad,” she adds. “So when I have an incredibly successful day, I want to celebrate and reward myself with food. If I’ve had a sad or stressful day, food is also comfort.”

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Body found on beach A body found at a Northland beach yesterday is believed to be the man who went missing while crab fishing last month.

A member of the public found the man’s body at Uretiti Beach, about 500m south of Tip Road at 7am.

Police believed it was the 35-year-old man who went missing on November 22.

The man went out in a small inflatable dinghy to set some crab pots.

There was a strong wind blowing offshore and the man’s dinghy was blown out to sea, police said.

They believed the dinghy tipped over and the man fell into the sea.

Members of the missing man’s family have been notified, but police wouldn’t release the name of the man until he was formally identified.

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Checking out the barley at FAR’s Action Day Farmer Trevor Chapman checks out the barley at the Foundation for Arable Research (FAR) Arable Research in Action Day at Chertsey. More than 400 people from all over New Zealand and Australia turned out in the blistering heat yesterday to hear local and international speakers cover topics ranging from managing winter barley to increasing potato yields. The event is FAR’s major South Island Event.

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■ ASHBURTON VOLUNTEER FIRE BRIGADE

Brigade to stay as volunteers

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Despite being one of the busiest brigades in the country the Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade is unlikely to ever become professional.

Ashburton Volunteer Fire Brigade has a high number of call outs but has remained a volunteer brigade due to support from the community.

New Zealand Fire Service fire region manager Steve Turek, who was in Ashburton yesterday for a strategic meeting, said because the volunteer brigade was very

strong they would not look at paying or bringing in paid staff.

“We would not be looking at making any major change.

“There’s no reason to change what’s working very well.”

The only reason a volunteer brigade would become professional would be if it could not function on its own, he said.

A lot of volunteer brigades around the country struggled to have enough members but Ashburton was a large enough town and the brigade was well supported by the community.

When a brigade had problems,

one or two paid staff might be sent in and if issues continued they would consider establishing a paid crew, he said.

Ashburton was probably one of the busiest volunteer brigades in the country because of the hot dry weather in Canterbury but was very well managed, Mr Turek said. “Ashburton has very, very high call rates.”

While Ashburton would continue to be a volunteer brigade, there would be some changes made when a national restructure was put in place in April 2017.

Internal affairs minister Peter

Dunne recently announced an overhaul of fire services in New Zealand which would involve all urban and rural fire agencies merging under a new organisation.

Mid Canterbury would benefit because their urban and rural brigades already had an excellent working relationship, Mr Turek said. “It will only strengthen the service.”

Mr Turek was in Ashburton along with other regional managers for a two-day monthly strategic meeting yesterday and Tuesday.

No relief in sight for coastal farmers From P1 “They also need to make sure they manage their properties within those consent conditions, which will mean they need to stay within their seasonal allocation.”

Mr Rule said not all consents to take water were the same, with some having adaptive management conditions.

“These conditions may mean consent holders will need to reduce their takes as water levels drop.”

Aquifers had not fully recovered since last summer’s dry period, he said.

“And predictions from NIWA are telling us that we are facing an El Nino period this summer, which again means a significant dry period.”

The average December rainfall at Ashburton is 68mm, and the lowest recorded in December is 4mm (in December 2003).

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■ ASHBURTON HOSPITAL

No full time ultrasound service

By Caitlin Porter

tal some sonographer services are still available one day per week.

This includes inpatient ultrasounds, outpatient ultrasounds including abdominal, renal, small body parts and obstetrics and gynaecology assessments.

The outpatient service is generally reserved for patients who genuinely can’t travel to Christchurch, he said.

Late last year the CDHB was recruiting for replacement sonographers at the hospital after Mid Canterbury women became

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Ashburton Hospital’s full time ultrasound service will not be reinstated when the rebuild and refurbishment is completed next year.

Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) team leader of planning and funding Dr Greg Hamilton told the Guardian there was “insufficient volume” to justify a full-time sonographer position in Ashburton.

Currently at Ashburton Hospi-

caught up in a nationwide sonographer shortage. The plan now is to continue having a sonographer available one day per week, Dr Hamilton said.

Due to this limited time frame this means around 10 to 14 scans were performed per week, depending on the complexity of the scan required.

Demand for ultrasounds was taken from across the district health board area and because of this the CDHB, along with many other district health boards, is re-

cruiting for sonographers to work across its radiology service.

The long-term plan is to ensure Canterbury has a sustainable ultrasound service, Dr Hamilton said.

Ashburton Parents’ Centre copresident Rachel Broker said travelling to Christchurch for ultrasounds was no hassle for her.

“It has not been that much of an issue … it’s just one of those things,” she said.

It was almost better than having her scan performed locally as

she was able to choose where she wanted it to have it done, she said.

Ashburton resident Clare Jack however, said the travel was an inconvenience for her and her husband. Having to take half a day or a day off to travel to Christchurch for a pregnancy scan was not only a hassle but resulted in loss of wages if leave was unavailable, she said.

Had she had an option, Mrs Jack said she would have opted to have her ultrasounds performed at Ashburton Hospital.

Big plans for tear drop fern design The Irish creative agency behind the teardrop fern design used to mark the passing of Jonah Lomu wants the image to raise money for the charity linked to the rugby great.

The striking impression now graces tens of thousands of Facebook pages and has even shown up on clothing worn by Lomu’s young sons.

Dublin-based Chemistry’s managing director Ray Sheerin said he wants to see the now famous tribute used to benefit New Zealand’s Kidney Kids, a charity dear to Lomu’s heart.

He suggested the design be printed on a rugby jersey and T-shirt with profits going to the charity.

And he was also keen to see the modified fern used on a commemorative All Black strip if a testimonial match went ahead.

An approach had been made to New Zealand Rugby and adidas to partner in the venture.

Mr Sheerin said it was an opportunity to use the phenomenal goodwill generated internationally and turn it into something meaningful.

“If these things can be sold, given the amount of interest there is globally, and the profits go to Kidney Kids how amazing would that be?”

He said people all over the world had taken the image to their hearts with thousands using it as a tribute on Facebook profiles.

Both the Irish Examiner, which used the image on its front page to mark Lomu’s passing, and the agency had been overwhelmed by people expressing their gratitude. - NZME

Methven foraging group founder Clare Fairless is seeking expertise and local knowledge.

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Members have been waiting for a Canterbury foraging expert to visit them, but he has cancelled.

They are now hoping someone else locally may be able to teach them what to look for, and where to look, and are also interested in suggestions of good places to gather

wild foods. Mrs Fairless is from England originally and spent four years travelling, visiting 46 countries.

Many people around the world gather their foods from wild places surrounding their homes.

Among other things she was shown how to fish for piranha, make lemon tea from leaves and eat potatoes from the root

of the yukka plant.

“There’s a lot of food out there, and more and more people don’t like processed food and can’t afford groceries,” she said.

Anyone who is interested in joining the group or is able to offer expertise can contact Mrs Fairless on pinedalelodgemethven@gmail.com or 0226817816.

Only a handful of pens on offer at Tinwald sale Only a handful of pens were offered at the Tinwald stock sale on Tuesday.

Black-faced lambs in forward condition sold from $56 to $63 and lighter lambs

made $52. Ewes with lambs at foot realised $51 while hoggets and lambs sold from $41.

In the prime section all types of stock eased with pressure on export plants and

the current conditions.

Heavy woolly lambs ranged from $104 to $113, mediums $82 to $95 and lighter woolly lambs from $65 to $76.

Heavy hoggets fetched $90

while mediums fetched between $70 to $80.

Shorn heavier ewes cost $86 to $95, mediums $71 to 83 and lighter lambs $57 to 65.

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In brief Transformer starts fire A failed transformer on a pole caused a grass fire on Dowdings Road, Coldstream, on Tuesday night. Hinds Rural Fire Force chief fire officer Dave Kingsbury said the transformer failed and started leaking coolant which burnt a 10m2 area of grass around a pump shed at 8.15pm. The pole and some grass was damaged but the shed was fine.

Hedge fire Rakaia Rural Fire Force spent 50 minutes at a small hedge fire on McCrorys Road, Dorie, at 11.45am yesterday. Deputy chief fire officer Tyrone Burrowes said he did not know what caused the blaze.

Ambulance calls St John Ashburton attended six medical-related incidents on Monday and 15 on Tuesday.

Hot cars on show Methven Care Trust chairwoman Joanne Suyker (left) and fellow trust representatives Janine Holland (centre) and Sue van den Heuvel size up rocks ready for sale.

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Rhyolite rocks sale a Methven Care Trust fundraiser There has been strong interest in rhyolite rocks being sold as a Methven Care Trust fundraiser, say trust representatives.

The rocks range from small to extra large and are priced from

$50 upwards. The trust is selling them as feature rocks for local gardens, and is offering free delivery in Methven.

Fundraising co-ordinator Sue van den Heuvel said there had

been strong interest, and the deadline for orders had shifted from this Friday to next Friday, which should give people more time to get their orders in.

The landscaping boulders

are sourced from an Alford Forest farm, and sample rocks can be viewed on Methven House’s front lawn.

Methven Care Trust is fundraising for a new rest home.

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Old cars, muscle cars, hot rods and vintage cars, they’ll all be on display on Sunday in the Ashburton Domain. Ashburton car enthusiast Barry Pinnell is staging a display of some of the hottest cars in Canterbury in an event he’s called the Ashburton Hop Run. The car display will be set up from 10.30am to 4pm in the domain’s picnic area off Grigg Street.

Admission will be by gold coin donation with proceeds going to the Cancer Society.

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a recognition that they had paid rates for years and had earned the right to a few concessions, he said.

Ashburton’s EA Networks Centre is one of Swimming for free for people 80 and only two aquatic facilities in the South Isover was a policy that had been in place at land to offer free use to over 80s.

Ashburton’s old community pool and there And the windfalls for seniors doesn’t was every reason to continue the practice stop there with the complex part of a growin the new complex, Mr ing network of pools that Prescott said. also offers significant dis“The number of senior counts to seniors. swimmers we have here is While adults pay $5.50 50 per cent greater than in per swim, the over 65s the old pool. It’s so true, pay $3.50, a 36 per cent if you have the right facilidiscount, one of the largties, then the people will est discounts on offer at come.” council-run community The EA Networks Cenpools. tre also offers seniors Ashburton District concessions on group Council facilities manexercise classes and on ager Steve Prescott said membership and while the seniors’ discount was that was a good deal for normal industry standard clients, it meant that at for pools, although there Steve Prescott times gym facilities and were still some where it classes were stretched to was not used. Timaru’s the limit, he said.

CBay currently has just With just six months’ business behind one price for adults of all ages, but is lookit, the complex was now at a point where ing at trialling a seniors’ discount next year. the option of extending both the gym and The higher price seniors paid to swim the court area had to be on the radar, Mr in Timaru meant a drop-off in swimmer Prescott said. numbers among the over 65s whereas in “My view is if we’re extending, we need Ashburton, this is one of the strongest to extend both the courts and the gym. membership categories, Mr Prescott said.

We will need to expand the facility but I’m “We understand that many older people aware there are other pressing needs for don’t have a lot of discretionary money and the ratepayers’ dollars. they’re the people we want to come to the “We can’t just look at this facility in isolapool so they’ll keep fit.” tion.”

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Students’ sporting skills put to test Hundreds of children from schools around Canterbury braved the scorching heat to gather at the Ashburton Domain for the Canterbury Primary Schools’ Athletics Championships yesterday. A number of Ashburton schools took part.

Claudia North, of Mairehau School, in the 10-year-old high jump.

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Input on social services sought

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The social shape of the Ashburton District of tomorrow will be decided by the willingness of people to share their ideas about the services and the support they need, says local organiser of a community response forum, Fleur Mulligan.

The forum, involving community meetings and surveys, is part of a Canterbury-wide project that aims to identify how services can

better meet the needs of families in individual districts. Work has been completed in Kaikoura and Hurunui and is now focusing on Ashburton.

“It’s about gathering residents’ views around social wellbeing and their quality of life and about the issues that we’re facing as a community,” Ms Mulligan said.

Community meetings have been held in Methven and on Tuesday night in Ashburton, and a survey is running on the Ash-

burton District Coucil’s website www.ashburtondc.govt.nz.

The deadline for completing this is tomorrow night.

At Tuesday’s meeting there were many positives raised about living in the Ashburton District, such as a strong economy, a go-ahead community, easy access to facilities, open spaces and a strong community spirit.

Concerns were raised around social isolation for rural people and the elderly, and a perceived

lack of social services, she said.

“Some of those services, however are already here but people may not know about them or they may not know how to access them.”

Information gathered in the community meetings and through the survey will be collated by the Ministry of Social Development’s community response forum team. It will be packaged in a document that will highlight areas of concern and where change

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Chairlift gives access to all pools at centre

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All pools at the EA Networks Centre are now accessible thanks to the addition of a chairlift in the spa pool.

Purchased from America and installed three weeks ago, the lift provides access to the pool for disabled people or people who struggle with stairs.

Centre manager Steve Prescott said the chair was now operational and had been used by many people and feedback was positive.

“It’s great, everyone is happy with it.”

Mr Prescott said the plan was to always have chairlift access to the spa pool but due to the fact it was purchased overseas it took time to arrive.

Operated by a remote control, people can use it on their own or with the assistance of a staff member.

At a cost of $8500, it was a valuable asset, he said.

To access the other pools, water wheelchairs are available.

“We have covered the bases and now everyone has access to all the facilities.”

EA Networks Centre assistant manager Richard Wood and aquatics supervisor Ash McBride try out the new chair lift.

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is needed, and will be available to the community in March.

The success of the forum lay in community involvement, and while it was a ministry initiative, it was very community focused, Ms Mulligan said.

“The point of this is that it’s owned by the community and is based on the ethos that the community is best placed to decide and that means we need to hear as many different voices as possible.”

Woman hit by train A pedestrian has died after being hit by a train in West Auckland.

Emergency services were called to the scene, on Mt Lebanon Lane, near Great North Road, Henderson.

St John spokesman Robbie Walker said a 60-year-old woman had died at the scene.

It was understood she was hit by a train.

Fire Service spokesman Daniel Nicholson said crews rushed to the scene at 3.43pm to assist police and St John.

“We were told it’s a fatality,” he said. “We attended and assisted ambulance and police.”

There were traffic diversions in place on Great North Road.

It was understood the woman was hit at a crossing, which is on Mt Lebanon Lane and next to Rotary Park.

Two trains were stopped at the scene.

In a statement, a police spokeswoman said: “At this stage it is not known how the lady has come to be in the path of the train but it appears the incident has occurred away from the level crossing, approximately 100 metres north.”

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Post in jest today; regret it for life Sue Newman

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ocial media has the power to change lives.

It’s a communication tool that is now a fact of life for most people, but for under-30s, in many cases, it is their life. People no longer live their own lives, they live vicariously through the exploits of others, through their tweets, Facebook posts and minute-by-minute txts, pxts and instagrams.

Life for millions is lived in a social media goldfish bowl.

If there’s one thing designed to make you feel old, to feel on the wrong side of the generation gap, it’s arriving at work, a social outing or a sports event and finding virtually everyone is living life through their phone. Where once it was considered rude to make a phone call while you were with other people, now your phone, tablet, phablet or whatever mobile device of the moment is, is where your life is lived. Your thumb is the busiest part of your body.

The up side of social media is that it keeps people in touch with people, as a communication tool it’s a winner when used wisely.

The downside is that it puts your life out there to the universe. A message, photo or video posted in fun can, in the wrong hands, turn into a blunt instrument that can wreck lives.

An Australian hotel worker found out the hard way when a comment made on Facebook, one probably made in good faith, came back to bite him. His employer saw it, didn’t like what he read and the man was fired. Once written, once you press send, it’s public property, but the consequences are yours.

Inevitably in the future, the prankful posts of youth will come back and bite the career-driven adult of tomorrow.

Not everyone who uses social media is well intentioned. There are millions of stalkers out there, people who rarely post, but who spend hours of their life trolling through other people’s Facebook pages.

They call it keeping in touch with what’s going on in other people’s lives, but the reality is, it’s the same as listening to other people’s conversations, looking in their windows, it’s ill-intentioned snooping.

YOUR VIEW Toot for Tucker Monday night’s Toot for Tucker appeal was the biggest yet with a record number of foodstuffs collected.

Members of the Salvation Army and the Society of St Vincent de Paul would like to express a heartfelt thanks to everyone involved.

Our thanks go to the County Lions for organising the event and sorting the food after, the many organisations and individuals who were involved in collecting the food and last, but not least, the public of Ashburton for supporting this cause through their generous donation of food.

The food collected is divided equally with half going to the Society of St Vincent de Paul’s foodbank and the other half going to the community food bank, administered by the Salvation Army.

Through your generous donations of food and time Christmas will be a much better and more festive time for some of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable members of our community. Once again thank you Ashburton for your efforts and may God bless you.

Judith Lilley (manager Salvation Army) and Evans Chibanguza (Conference President Society of St Vincent de Paul)

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oor old David Cunliffe; single-handedly, it seems – according to the man who followed him into the chair, Andrew Little, he was responsible for Labour’s disastrous performance in the 2014 election.

Since then, the party has badly needed a scapegoat on whom to focus to explain away that crushing defeat. And apparently, David, “is that man”.

Unloved by the caucus when the rank and file first appointed him to succeed the previous, passing leader – was it David Shearer? I think it probably was.

Labour leaders were then coming and going at such a monotonous but regular rate, it’s hard to recall just who left the scene immediately prior to Mr Cunliffe’s getting the nod. A poisoned chalice if ever there was one.

But I can remember David appearing on our screens, obviously thrilled by his accession to the Labour throne.

It was the apogee of everything he had been doing in politics since his early days as a marked “upper and comer”. There he was, at last; to all the world he could be seen to have “upped” and arrived. He was ecstatic.

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oyster. Labour would ride again, the irritatingly-popular John Key squashed beyond recognition.

(Politically only, of course). All would be well – if not a lot better – with that world.

Yet, oh dear, it never happened.

A combination of inner intrigue and his own short-comings – “Sometimes, I’m sorry to have been born a man” – and other similarly less than leadershipinspiring interventions – found him struggling to establish any real momentum in the nation’s psyche and with depressing speed he morphed into that most dreaded of political species, “the lame duck”, if not the completely “dead” variety.

Key triumphed, Cunliffe crashed. He looked to make what would have always been a forlorn comeback, but the remnants of the caucus left standing after the electoral annihilation closed their

thin ranks to ensure that never happened. And now, 14 months on from the worst day in his life, David Cunliffe has suffered the ultimate humiliation of being banished to the furthest back bench there is, from which there can be no possible return. From there, according to guru, friend of the great and sage of the age, Patrick – Paddy to his particularly illustrious chums – Gower, only parliamentary oblivion beckons.

So revenge is sweet and complete. The Labour Party has, indeed, nominated its soughtfor martyr on whom to heap the blame for its painful demise at the polls last year. Having officially announced this assessment by burying Mr Cunliffe in the ordure of lost election promises, Mr Little seems intent on turning the fork in the compost and with faint praise ensuring David’s predicament is as uncomfortable as can be and will continue to be.

However, after a year at the helm himself, Andrew Little is beginning to find out just how difficult it is to de-throne – or even reduce his standing in the polls – John Key who, despite a variety of easily avoided political blunders and own goals, remains stubbornly popular with the electorate-at-large.

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To achieve the prime ministership, Mr Little will have to do more than denigrate his predecessor. What can he and his henchmen offer that Mr Key and his can’t?

Meanwhile, our PM finds himself in the dangerous city of Paris as one of the thousands of delegates to the world conference on that other scourge of our age, climate change.

As this topic seems to generate as much light, heat, anger and potential violence as Isis itself, there could hardly be a worse time and location for such a meeting.

With a mix of fiery protesters and earnest representatives determined to do their best to find a “solution” to the problem, passions are likely to run hot both in and out of the conference hall.

One must hope the gendarmerie is up to the challenge.

Sadly, the prospects for progress on this thorny issue, are extremely limited.

By no means, for example, are all convinced that CO 2 is anything like as dangerous as it is made out to be.

Indeed, in some quarters its “positive” aspects are championed. “Meaningful” agreement is thus still a long way off.

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■ SYRIA

In brief $45b donation Talk about birth announcements: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife say they’ll devote nearly all their wealth — roughly $45 billion — to solving the world’s problems in celebration of their new baby daughter, Max. Zuckerberg’s wife, Priscilla Chan, gave birth to a 7-pound, 8-ounce daughter last week. But the couple didn’t put out the news until yesterday, when Zuckerberg posted it on Facebook, of course.

In the same post, Zuckerberg said he and Chan will, over time, commit 99 per cent of their Facebook stockholdings to such causes as fighting disease, improving education and “building strong communities.”

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IS in Libya

IS militants stone a man accused of violating the extremists’ ban on homosexuality after they threw him from a roof in the city of Homs, Syria.

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IS targets homosexuals Before a crowd of men on a street in the Syrian city of Palmyra, the masked Islamic State group judge read out the sentence against the two men convicted of homosexuality: They would be thrown to their deaths from the roof of the nearby Wael Hotel.

He asked one of the men if he was satisfied with the sentence.

Death, the judge told him, would help cleanse him of his sin.

“I’d prefer it if you shoot me in the head,” 32-year-old Hawas Mallah replied helplessly.

The second man, 21-year-old Mohammed Salameh, pleaded for a chance to repent, promising never to have sex with a man again, according to a witness

among the onlookers that sunny July morning who gave The Associated Press a rare first-hand account.

“Take them and throw them off,” the judge ordered. Other masked extremists tied the men’s hands behind their backs and blindfolded them. They led them to the roof of the fourstorey hotel, according to the witness, who spoke in the Turkish city of Reyhanli on condition he be identified only by his first name, Omar, for fear of reprisals.

Notorious for their gruesome methods of killing, the Islamic State group reserves one of its most brutal for suspected homosexuals.

Videos it has released show

masked militants dangling men over the precipices of buildings by their legs to drop them headfirst or tossing them over the edge.

At least 36 men in Syria and Iraq have been killed by IS militants on charges of sodomy, according to the New York-based OutRight Action International, though its Middle East and North Africa co-ordinator, Hossein Alizadeh, said it was not possible to confirm the sexual orientation of the victims.

The fear of a horrific death among gay men under Islamic State rule is further compounded by their isolation in a deeply conservative society that largely shuns them.

Many Muslims consider homosexuality to be sinful. Gay men are haunted constantly by the possibility that someone, perhaps even a relative, will betray them to the militants — whether to curry favour with IS or simply out of hatred for their sexual orientation. Islamic State group fighters sometimes torture suspected homosexuals to reveal their friends’ names and search their laptops and mobile phones. Even among IS opponents, gays find little sympathy.

Some in the public who might be shocked by other IS atrocities say killings of gays is justified.

Syrian rebel factions have killed or abused gays as well.

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■ UNITED STATES

Chicago mayor fires police chief over shooting Rahm Emanuel sought for months to keep the public from seeing a video that shows a white police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times. Now, a week after the video’s release, the Chicago mayor has fired the police superintendent, created a new task force for police accountability and expanded the use of body cameras.

But Emanuel’s effort to keep the video secret and his long wait to take action at the police department has stirred deep skepticism among those protesting the teen’s death. Many activists are especially incensed by the fact that the video first surfaced during a re-election campaign, when the mayor was seeking African-American votes.

“In our community, every-

Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, (right), speaks about first-degree murder charges against police officer Jason Van Dyke in the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, as Mayor Rahm Emanuel looks on at left. one is saying it (the video) was not released because of the election,’ said Corey Brooks, a

prominent black minister.

Had it emerged earlier, the video “could have buried” Ema-

nuel’s chances for re-election, Columbia Law School professor Bernard E. Harcourt wrote in a New York Times op-ed piece published Monday.

The mayor defended the decision to withhold the video from the public until the investigation was finished.

“You don’t compromise an ongoing investigation,” he said.

“Yet it’s clear you all want and the public deserves that information. They’re two conflicting principles.”

Asked by a reporter if Emanuel thought he would become a distraction himself and would consider resigning, the mayor responded.

“You’ll make that judgment. I think I’m doing my job. And I try to do it every day do it in a professional way.”

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The Islamic State group has between 2000 and 3000 fighters in Libya and has demonstrated its intention to control more territory in the strategically located North African country — but it is only one player among multiple warring factions, United Nations experts said in a report yestersday. The experts monitoring UN sanctions against al-Qaeda and spin-off groups said in the report to the UN Security Council that the Islamic State group is benefiting from its “appeal” and notoriety in Iraq and Syria and poses “an evident short and long-term threat in Libya.”

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Southern India flooded Weeks of torrential rains have forced an airport in southern India to close and have cut off several roads and highways, leaving tens of thousands of people stranded in their homes, government officials said yesterday. Junior Home Minister Kiren Rijiju told reporters that the annual winter monsoon rains in Tamil Nadu state have been the heaviest the region has seen in decades. Army and naval rescue teams have joined several teams of National Disaster Response Force to help evacuate residents stranded in low-lying areas. - AP

General a smuggler An African general who briefly served as the president of Guinea pleaded guilty yesterday to smuggling tens of thousands of dollars in cash into the US. Sekouba Konate, 51, had been scheduled to go on trial yesterday in US District Court in Alexandria on charges of bulk cash smuggling and making false statements.

Instead, he entered a guilty plea that could result in a prison sentence of up to five years when he is sentenced in February.

Prosecutors say Konate tried to sneak more than $64,000 in cash into the US on a 2013 flight from Ethiopia to Dulles International Airport.

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Bodies dumped Police in Colombia’s capital have recovered the remains of four women whose bodies were dumped near a pilgrimage site that is one of the city’s mostemblematic tourist spots. Police announced the grisly discovery yesterday and said a homeless man has confessed to murdering the women. The suspect has been dubbed the Monster of Monserrate.

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Riding against violence The United Nations General Assembly declared November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, with a white ribbon as its iconic symbol.

A group of White Ribbon Riders came and visited our school on this day. They spoke to us about the different types of bullying – verbal, physical and cyber-bullying and what forms this took. A couple of the riders shared their stories with us. They taught our students the bikers’ haka and everyone really enjoyed this experience. Afterwards all students got the opportunity to look at the bikes and speak to the riders.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS ■ ■ ■ ■

December 10: Lip sync at school 7pm. Tickets available at office.

December 11: Reports go home.

December 14: Year 8 formal.

December 15: Fun day.

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December 16: Final assembly 1pm in the AIS Hall – Last day of school for 2015.

January 29, 2016: Interviews for returning students and new Year 7 students.

February 1: First day of term.

Well done team

Kapa haka extravaganza On November 19 a large kapa haka group, accompanied by Mrs Stephens-Tahuri and Miss van Vliet, attended the annual Mid Canterbury Cultural Festival to perform.

This event was held at the Ashburton College Auditorium.

The students gave a fantastic display which reflected all the hard work that they have put in during the year.

On November 24 approximately 50 of our students participated in the Canterbury Intermediate Schools’ Athletics event held at the Ashburton Domain.

Year 8 girls Adele Burgess 2nd – discus Jessica Milne 3rd – 100m Year 8 boys Lochie Deuart 2nd – 100m Jacob Gray 3rd – 1500m Oliver Phillips 3rd – 100m Kotiti Patea 3rd – 60m Year 8 boys’ relay – 1st – Phoenix Andrew, Tau Te Are Daniel, Lochie Deuart, Oliver Phillips Year 7 boys Caleb Ward 2nd – Long Jump Bailey Matthews 3rd – High Jump Congratulations to the above students for their placings and well done to everyone who participated and represented our school.

Athletic results The Ashburton Intermediate Athletics Day was held at McLean Park recently.

Class and house relay results: Class shuttle relay 50m Year 7 7/1, 1; 7/5, 2; 7/4, 3.

Year 8 8/1, 1; 8/2, 2; 8/5, 3.

House 4x100m relay Year 7 girls Green, 1; Yellow, 2; Red, 3.

Year 7 boys Green, 1; Blue, 2; Yellow, 3.

Year 8 girls Red, 1; Yellow, 2; Green, 3.

Year 8 boys Yellow, 1; Green, 2; Blue, 3.

Ali Baba and the Bongo Bandits On November 5 we held our very own musical production – Ali Baba and the Bongo Bandits.

A lot of time and hard work went into this production which was spectacular.

We certainly have a lot of very talented young people at our school.

The cast gave three performances on the one day, the first

to the school in the morning, the second to senior citizens in the afternoon followed by afternoon tea and the final performance to parents and members of the public in the evening.

A production of this kind involves a lot of people to make it the success it was. Thank you to everyone who took part and helped in any way.

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Merinos on the move in downtown Queenstown Hundreds of merinos will take to the streets in downtown Queenstown in the second annual Running of the Wools in February.

The event forms part of the New Zealand Rural Games and will feature a new sheep-friendly course.

The merinos will leave pens on Camp Street near the police station, run past the Village Green and then turn left down Beach Street all the way to their mustering point at Earnslaw Park.

Event manager Steve Hollander said the new simpler course avoids the twists and turns of the previous one.

“Merinos are more intelligent than you think, but even so we felt we made things a bit challenging for them last time,” he said.

The games will take place in Queenstown on Saturday, February 5-6.

Right – Running of the Wools set to storm Queenstown.

Frozen embryos a hidden treasure chest Mid Canterbury farmers could help meet the demand for high value hybrid milking ewes with the discovery of embryos frozen in time since the 1990s.

Original importer of the pure east friesian bloodline Dr Jock Allison retained the unique gene pool which a new genetic improvement programme will utilise to ramp up milking sheep numbers.

The initiative is driven by the establishment of Maui Milk, a joint venture partnership between

New Zealand farming and Chinese marketing interests.

Despite strong demand for sheep milk, industry growth prospects have been limited by the numbers of specialised milking ewes. The lid has now been lifted by the breeding of pure east friesian rams of known dairy pedigree from Europe.

Mated over maternal breeds such as poll dorset, coopworth or highlander, the result is known as first cross (F1) hybrid with milking

ability, constitution and hybrid vigour. Similar ewes have formed the basis of the flock of 3000 milked by the Waituhi Kuratau Trust, the Maui Milk joint venture partner farming near Lake Taupo.

Interest in small ruminant (sheep and goat) dairying has boomed in recent years as farmers look for diversification, higher value product, stable payout and a livestock farming option that can exist under tightening environmental regulations.

Kiwi Maui Milk partners Peter Gatley and Jake Chardon came across Dr Allison at a dairy sheep conference earlier this year.

They were surprised to discover that 1700 east friesian embryos still existed in their pure form, untouched in liquid nitrogen for more than 15 years. A deal was done on the spot and, within weeks, the entire stock was surgically implanted in recipient ewes at Awapai in Hawke’s Bay, owned

by Simon Beamish, one of the Ris-

sington Breedline founding partners.

The females resulting from the embryo programme will be milked in 2016, providing valuable data on the comparative performance of the pure strain under local conditions and the top performers will be selected as embryo donors.

Rams from various bloodlines will be retained for progeny testing, and the remainder will generate up to 10,000 crossbred milking ewes in their first year.

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Kiwi farmers caught out by farm machinery scams farmer, who paid a deposit and transport costs for a tractor advertised online, only to find the listing was a scam.

“There have been numerous reports of online scams regarding tractors and farm machinery internationally and there has been

Offshore farm machinery scams are catching out Kiwi farmers, the Tractor and Machinery Association warns.

TAMA president Mark Hamilton-Manns said the organisation was aware of a number of incidents, including a South Island

at least one case of a New Zealand farmer being defrauded in this way,” Mr Hamilton-Manns said.

It’s not only scams causing problems.

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Aussie arm to build $141m plant

BY FIONA ROTHERHAM Fonterra Co-operative Group’s Australian unit will invest $141 million in building a new cheese plant at its Stanhope factory in Victoria after its former one was destroyed by fire a year ago.

The dairy co-operative said the cost of the new cheese plant would be partly met by its insurance payout from the fire for damage and loss of business, the $A74 million it got from the sale of its 9 per cent stake in Australia’s Bega Cheese in October, and other smaller recent divestments across the Tasman.

It’s also received an undisclosed amount of financial assistance from the Victorian government through its Regional Jobs and Infrastructure Fund. The state government’s website said infrastructure grants under the fund are capped at $A500,000.

Fonterra Oceania managing director Judith Swales said the new plant would not increase the cooperative’s debt levels.

The dairy exporter reduced

capital expenditure this financial year to return debt levels to a debt to equity ratio of between 40 to 45 per cent after spending $2.4 billion in the past three years on more stainless steel to cope with extra milk volumes and its Beingmate stake.

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plant will help Fonterra deliver on its multi-hub strategy which involves Australia focusing on manufacturing nutritionals, whey and cheese.

It will provide whey to its Darnum and Dennington plants which make infant formula.

“We are focusing on areas

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tion after the fire was one of the main contributors to the underperforming Fonterra Australia reporting a $106 million drop in revenue to $1.56 billion in the 2015 financial year though the co-operative expects to return to profit this financial year.

Swales said investing in the new

where we can win in a highly competitive market and that means optimising our product mix and investing in higher valueadd products that will deliver the best returns for our farmer shareholders,” she said.

The new plant will be able to produce 45,000 tonnes of cheeses each year including parmesan, gouda and mozzarella, up from 15,000 tonnes at the old plant.

Swales said the new plant will require significant growth in the local milk pool by 2020.

State agricultural minister Jaala Pulford says Fonterra’s investment demonstrated its confidence in the future of Australian dairy.

Construction of the new plant will begin next year, and is expected to be completed in 2017.

Fonterra Australia recently opened it’s $A31 million fresh milk plant at Cobden which followed it securing a 10-year deal with Woolworths to supply up to 100 million litres of milk annually for its Select own-brand fresh milk.

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The Inland Revenue Department is looking at the tax treatment of and the use of related party loans funding local subsidiaries as part of a global clamp-down on tax avoidance.

Acting deputy commissioner of policy and strategy David Carrigan told Parliament’s finance and expenditure select committee that New Zealand’s thin capitalisation and transfer pricing rules for foreign companies are “robust,” but it is looking into two areas where it can tighten up for potential avoidance.

One area is the use of hybrid instruments, where companies

juggle debt and equity between jurisdictions to claim deductions in one country while not paying tax in another.

“Those are instruments where the clever tax planners essentially ensure the flow coming out of the country is deductible and when it reaches the other country it’s non-assessible,” Carrigan said.

“They do that through the different rules that different countries have for debt and equity, and we we are thinking very seriously about whether we need to change our rules to combat that sort of situation.”

IRD has successfully pursued companies using mandatory and optional convertible notes, which

the courts ruled constituted tax avoidance, leading to a string of settlements with the tax department after a test case involving Australian firm, Alesco, settled on the eve of appeal hearings in February.

Carrigan said the other area IRD is looking at is related party debt, where a foreign company uses debt to capitalise a New Zealand subsidiary, meaning interest deductions paid to the parent are deductible.

“We have thin capitalisation rules that protect us to some extent but the question is do we need any more rules to protect against that,” he said.

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Professional director Rob Campbell says governance should be “banished from directors’ vocabularies” and that boards need to become more hands-on and work more closely with company management.

The former trade unionist, who chairs NZX-listed Summerset Group, Tourism Holdings and Precinct Holdings, as well as P2P lender Harmoney, and who sits on the numerous boards of NZX-listed, private and non-profit entities, spoke yesterday at a Future Auckland Leaders alumni dialogue session on leadership in governance.

“Be a director, not a governor,”

Campbell told attendees. “We hear a great deal about governance these days. Everyone seems to have an opinion about good and bad governance. I see that NZX has made a further contribution on the topic today. My view is that seeing the function of a board as governance is seldom useful even in a very big business.

The cynic in me wonders whether ‘good governance’ is simply what we observe before something significant goes wrong, and ‘bad governance’ is what we comment on afterwards.”

“In my view once a board sees itself as governing it has distanced itself from the value creation process,” said Campbell.

“Have you ever heard of a high performing, value adding team that responded to or was driven by governance? Try words and concepts like leadership and , guidance and you might get a whole lot closer to adding value.”

Campbell questioned whether a board and board members could meet their legal obligations to the company if they took a governance approach.

“Any director who has considered the depth and hands-on nature of their obligations in respect of health and safety or issuance of new securities will find it very hard to maintain the distinction between governance and management.”

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To do this Father Christmas needs a little helper who will spend the day with him on Tuesday, December 15, calling on our Christmas stores collecting gifts which will be given to the local Salvation Army, who will then distribute the gifts to families in Mid Canterbury.

Our Santa’s Little Helper will be photographed visiting local stores during the day with Santa and we will publish these photographs on Thursday, December 17, in the Ashburton Guardian.

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here’s at least two very good reasons for headlining the i3 today.

First up, with all the concerns about, and clear evidence of what’s likely to happen if we can’t reduce the contributors to climate change/global warming, the i3 has the practical ability to operate in a totally green manner, without using fossil fuel or causing pollution!

Secondly, it’s one of the 10 finalists for the New Zealand Car of the Year, the winner of which will be announced next week.

But why would I want one, you may well ask.

And that’s a very good question because it’s unashamedly been designed as a city car.

And, to date, Mid Canterbury ownership of even hybrid cars like the Prius and Camry is minimal.

Even less so for the electric/petrol Holden Volt or Nissan’s pure electric Leaf.

Seems there’s a variety of reasons why out there, including the initial extra cost, concerns about the cost of eventual battery replacement, range anxiety and limited or zero towing capacity.

Some of these questions this radical-looking, $83,500 BMW 5-door hatch can partially answer.

It operates as a purely electric car, which means that staying within the batteries’ range of up to 150km, there’s as mentioned, zero fossil fuel use, plus zero emissions.

That’s even so when making full use of the electric motor’s immediate 250Nm of torque, when from standstill it has a seamless surge of pulling power, and will for at least the first 50 metres, leave most cars, and possibly even super-bikes lagging behind!

This surge continues, enabling it to reach 100km/h in just 7.9 seconds, and it keeps on, so is a speedy open road overtaker and climbs impressively.

You hardly need to use the brakes, even down-hill, because as soon as you take your foot of the accelerator the generators act as brakes while recharging the 360 volt-22kWh lithium ion battery.

This requires a slightly different driving method but was easy to adapt to.

The i3’s interesting-looking, four-metre long, four-seater body is all lightweight carbon fibre.

It sits on top of an aluminium chassis which houses the battery pack, the rear-mounted electric motor and range-extending, two-cylinder, 647cc, petrol generator.

The latter, if and when needed, recharges the batteries on the move.

So despite the car’s compact footprint, the cabin with its large windscreen, minimalist, recycled plastic design look, sweeping wooden dash insert (BMW say its sustainable eucalyptus) and flat floor is quite spacious.

Even though there’s some familiar BMW controls, it’s definitely different, especially with its separate, easy to learn and use, multifunction screens.

Standard gear includes climate control, auto headlights/wipers, cruise control with emergency braking, push button start, heated leather seats, rear view camera, park-assist, sat nav and 19-inch alloys.

The options list includes larger alloy wheels and a driving assist package with radar cruise control with lane departure, forward collision pedestrian warnings etc.

There’s a great view forward and definitely usable space for four adults.

Mind you getting into the rear is like the car, different. For the rear doors have likewise hinges and can’t be opened unless the large front doors are.

Luggage space is limited to a small, soft bagonly compartment where the charging cable resides.

Using this cable, with its standard 3-pin plug the battery pack can be recharged within 6-8

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hours, or an even quicker 3-6 hours if one buys BMW’s $2165 optional high-voltage wall box.

If you want to conserve battery power when driving, the petrol generator can be activated manually, otherwise it automatically kicks in a timely manner before you run out of battery power.

After the electric motor’s silence, you do notice it.

The steering is light with a great turning circle and the suspension soaked up all but serious, unavoidable bumps.

It’s possible the i3’s narrow, low rolling resistant tyres may not provide a lot of grip in the wet, but I found it to be a tidy, predictable handler in the conditions driven.

FINALE While it’s expensive, this clever, very usable, smooth, silent and quick i3 provides the opportunity to both make a statement and physically do something about climate change/global warming!

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The new Audi R18 celebrated its world premiere on the occasion of the Audi Sport Finale at the Audi Training Center Munich on Saturday.

In the DTM, Audi has opted for continuity with an unchanged driver line-up.

In GT racing, the new Audi R8 LMS is facing its first full racing season.

For the 2016 Audi Sport TT Cup, 125 candidates have applied for the 20 available entries.

Audi Sport has fundamentally re-designed the Audi R18 for the 2016 season.

“With our new Audi R18, we’re setting a clear signal: Audi continues to put the pedal to the metal in motorsport, deliberately relying on TDI – the world’s most successful automotive efficiency technology – at Le Mans,” says Head of Audi Motorsport, Dr Wolfgang Ullrich.

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he wait is over for some of the 550-plus New Zealand customers who have pre- ordered a new Mustang with the arrival of the first shipment from the USA. “It’s New Zealand automotive history in the making,” said Corey Holter, managing director, Ford New Zealand.

“These are the very first, factorybuilt in the USA, right-hand drive Ford Mustangs in the country.

“Safe to say, we are as excited as the customers who will be taking delivery over the next week or so!”

“The magic of the Ford Mustang is its universal appeal,” Holter said.

“The Mustang is everything we love about cars – it embodies driving excitement, fun and the freedom of the open road.

“Ford says the Mustang is the heart and soul of the Ford Motor Company but I’d go one further and say it’s the heart and soul of motoring.”

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The overwhelming choice among the pre-orders remains the Mustang GT Fastback version with the six-speed automatic GT 5.0-litre V8.

In New Zealand, it makes up approximately 58 per cent of the first orders.

Around the world, Race Red has been the clear front-runner and up until very recently the most popular Mustang colour choice here as well.

However, Magnetic has now overtaken the lead as the top colour choice for Kiwis with Race Red now a close second.

Convertibles make up 15 per cent of total orders.

Manual transmissions were also 15 per cent of the orders.

Visually, the all new Mustang is unmistakable in its clean-sheet design.

It has kept its classic shape, with a long sculpted bonnet and short rear deck, but with contemporary changes.

MUSTANG FACTS The Mustang was premiered on April 17, 1964 at New York’s World Fair and 22,000 were sold within the first day of its release. Within two years, more than one million had been sold.

The first Mustang off the assembly line, a convertible, was sold (by mistake) to an airplane pilot. He drove it about 10,000 miles and then traded it back to Ford. It’s now in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn.

Independent Rear Suspension (now on the 2015 Mustangs) was actually considered for performance versions way back in the ‘60s.

The original Mustang I Prototype was supposedly named after the P-51 Mustang airplane, but Lee Iacocca apparently says it was named after the horse itself, not the airplane.

The Mustang has appeared in more than 500 films and has its own star on Hollywood Boulevard.

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Test yourself with the Guardian’s weekday quiz

Yesterday’s top 5 stories on guardianonline.co.nz:

1 – The current Baron Ashburton is the...? a. Fifth Baron b. Sixth Baron c. Seventh Baron 2 – Which of these is a toxic gas often emitted by motor vehicles? a. Carbon monoxide b. Carbon dioxide c. Nitrogen oxide 3 – Who wrote the poem Macavity: The Mystery Cat? a. Ted Hughes b. E. E. Cummings c. T. S. Eliot 4 – Edward III introduced the Order of the Garter in which year? a. 1250 b. 1350 c. 1450 5 – Wally Hammond was famous in which sport? a. Boxing b. Soccer c. Cricket 6 – Who is the Prime Minister of Canada? a. Paul Martin b. Justin Trudeau c. Stephen Harper 7 – Which of the following is a brand of paint? a. Delux b. Watteau c. Valspar 8 – Which university has won University Challenge most times? a. Canterbury b. Auckland c. Otago

1. Arms installed – finally 2. Ashburton District Court, Dec. 1 3. ‘No abuse here’ 4. MasterChef shares past, aspirations 5. Santa Parade ready to roll

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Club news Thursday, December 3, 2015

www.guardianonline.co.nz Ashburton Horticultural Society There was a good turnout of members at the final meeting where we enjoyed a Christmas pot luck tea. A minute’s silence was observed for the late Dick Bennett and our sympathies go out to Margaret and all the family.

A good number of Christmas posies were brought along and President Joy Jaine has taken these round to some of our elderly ex-members. Thanks to all those who have helped this year.

Entries are now being sought for the Garden Competition to be held February 14. Speaker was Roger Bray who gave an interesting presentation on bee-keeping and honey production. We learned about the important role bees have to play in the agricultural sector and the types of honey they produce in different regions and habitats. We were also reminded about the anti-bacterial qualities of honey especially Manuka.

Next meeting is January 25 at 7.30pm speaker will be Peter Clarke on Garden Maintenance. Visitors and new members are always welcome.

Raffles were won by Ngaire Griffiths & Jeff Jaine. Table show results: Joy Jaine 6 firsts, 1 second, 5 thirds, Maureen Randall 6, 1, 1, Pat Tarbotton 5, 3, 1, Graham Gunn 5, 3, 1, Surrey Lamont 3, 4, 1, Dorothy Broome 3, 1, 1, Jeff Jaine 1, 1, 1, Norman McDowell 1, 0, 0, Rosemary Case 0, 1, 0, Ngaire Griffiths 0, 1, 0, Spencer Cornwall 0, 0, 1. Premier award – Maureen Randall, 3 stems peonies.

There was also a very special display by Brian Glassey of clematis blooms.

Ashburton MSA Petanque Club The Ashburton/Woolston challenge was played at Ashburton on November 1, with Ashburton winning the Trophy by 2 points. We will hold this for six months.

Our highest scorer was Irene Herron with 65 points, which is the maximum amount of points that can be achieved in this type of tournament.

Second highest scorer was Stephen Kyle with 61 points Third highest scorer was Rosemary McLayghlin with 51 points.

The PNZ National Doubles were held in Auckland and Richard Browne, Ashburton, and Bruno Falco, Christchurch came 3rd in this event, and were the highest scoring team in the South Island.

Richard Browne has been selected to play in the Trans-Tasman team which will play in Alexandra next year. A great achievement.

The Chartered Club tournament was held in Timaru on November 7/8 and 9 with 7 players from Ashburton taking part in various events.

Results: Triples. Silver medals in the championship were awarded to:- Beverley Attewell, Jonathan Crum, and Marion Harrison.

Doubles. Bronze medals in the Plate were awarded to: Betty King and Marion

Harrison. Singles. Medals were awarded in the Bowl to: Gold, Mick Little. Silver Marion Harrison. Bronze Jonathan Crum. This event will be hosted next year in Ashburton.

SI Senior Doubles were held in Alexandra November 14-15 with two of our members participating.

Rewa and Stephen Kyle finished second in the Bowl.

Ashburton Woodworkers Bryan Ching welcomed 23 members to the November meeting, mentioned our Christmas dinner next month at the R.S.A. and a picnic, barbeque sometime in January at the clubroom grounds.

May 21 the club will host the NAW South Island Funday. Bryan then introduced Eddie from the Timaru club who was the demonstrator for the evening.

Show and Tell: Kevin Challis a rhododendron vase.

David Ford a very large hollow form kauri vase. Well done.

Ian Harding three pierced silver birch goblets.

Les Mattingley a small bowl, his first in our clubrooms.

Dave Busby a footed walnut bowl and a decorated acacia bowl.

Geoff Brown three bowls in assorted woods and an example of what was hidden inside a block of walnut which contained two large steel bolts.

Ken Neal carved figure of an old man attempting to fish.

John Howe a magnificent table in white pine with a curved drawer.

Wim Melchers two spalted oak bowls.

Eddie White then gave us a demonstration on turning captive rings for a rattle.

Using a large selection of homemade tools from old screwdrivers, concrete nails, and specially shaped to this particular project.

He emphasised the need to choose a dense cutting timber for this project and non-poisonous. He showed us how to use his special tool to form the rings, then sanding them before made the final cut before freeing them. He made five such rings on this example. Eddie had several other examples of rattles, ear rings of different weights and sizes.

Cavendish Club Library Circle Pip Mason who is closely involved with The Nurses Memorial Chapel at Christchurch Hospital spoke to us about this beautiful and significant Heritage building built in 1927 as a memorial to New Zealand nurses killed when the troopship Marquette was torpedoed on October 23, 1915 and to three Christchurch nurses who died as victims of the 1918 influenza epidemic. The chapel is believed to be the only chapel in the world specifically built to honour nurses killed in war.

After speaking of the chapel’s history, its functions in the community and its future Pip showed us a DVD which enabled us to see just how lovely this building and its surrounding gardens are.

The chapel has not been used since the 2011 earthquakes – its precious contents are stored at the Airforce Museum at Wigram. Repairs and restoration are hoped to commence 2016-2017.

Music Circle On Friday November 20 the Music Club was in the very capable hands of Mrs Thomas who decided to make Christmas her theme for the afternoon. Members of the music club each gave short readings about the meaning of Christmas and the feeling of love and joy people share at this time of year and hopefully for the whole year.

Andre Rieu’s wonderful Christmas DVD was played and what a joy this was, thank you June for a delightful afternoon that was enjoyed by us all.

Ashburton Men’s Probus Club Meetings second Tuesday of month, Seniors Centre 206 Cameron St, 9.30 am. Phone Dennis, 308 0140 or ashmensprobus@gmail.com Dennis opened the meeting and welcomed several visitors.

Member Jim Lawton gave an informative impromptu explanation of the word “horsepower”. The term was devised by a Scottish engineer James Watt in the late 18th century to compare the power a horse with that of steam engine pulling coal out of pit mines. This is still the basis of power measurement for cars and other engines.

Member Rodger Herriott gave an interesting presentation on comprehensive tour which he and his wife took to the Western USA earlier this year.

The itinerary commenced in Los Angeles and visited Lake Havasu, the Grand Canyon National Park, Lake Powell, the Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks, Las Vegas, Yosemite National Park and terminated with time in San Francisco.

The irrigation system in the Central valley of California is the largest of its kind in the USA and showed what water can do with first class soils.

The Grand Canyon national park is visited by up to five million tourists each year. It was a remarkable experience enhanced by a helicopter visit.

The large Lake Powell formed by the 700ft Hoover dam and the associated Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks were memorable for the unique panoramas of massive scale. The city of Las Vegas is like no other with its recreated “Eiffel Tower”, “canals of Venice” with the singing gondoliers and numerous casinos.

Ashburton County Lions At the November tea meeting of the Ashburton County Lions club members got to share the experiences of Lilian Wakelin on her recent trip to India to attend a wedding.

The bridegroom had worked for Alan and Lilian on their Mid Canterbury farm for 2 ½ years. It was interesting to see the elaborate ceremonies and clothing and to develop some understanding of

the cultural aspects of the lives of one of many nationalities that are increasingly becoming part of our Mid-Canterbury society.

Lilian also spoke about and showed photos from the rest of their tour which include a river boat trip, visiting a tea plantation, a school and the Taj Mahal.

A report was received on the very successful Garden Ramble, an enjoyable day for all.

The funds raised are to be donated to the local Heart Foundation. A special thank you went to Sheila and Michael Shearer for allowing us to use their beautiful garden and to the hard working organising committee. Final organisation was put in place for the annual Toot for Tucker street collection which has now been held and was again an outstanding success. Thanks to the hundreds of helpers who turned out on Monday night not only to help collect the food from around the town but also those who stayed on to help sort and pack it all.

Ashburton Golf Club Well, hopefully everyone who attended the presentation night enjoyed themselves.

Michelle and the boys put on a wonderful meal, Dee and Wendy kept us well watered, and we even had a visit from the big man in red. Though I didn’t think Santa suited a Yorkshire accent.

In last Saturdays game Sharon managed to ignore all of Paddys advice for the full round and they posted a great score of nett 65 to pick up the Smallbone Trophy, closely followed by Heather Robertson and Phil Kerr.

This Saturday we have the Hotel Ashburton Super Liquor Christmas Salvers,individual stableford game with $500 worth of Christmas cheer to pick up.

We have also incorporated the First Tee tournament into the game, this is a wonderful charity who help under privileged kids learn sportsmanship and discipline by getting them into golf.

We have two four-day passes for the NZ Men’s Open, that will be drawn out and given to a lucky player on Saturday, and also everyone goes into the draw, for all clubs involved, to win a holiday in Queenstown and tickets to the Open.

The cost for entry on Saturday is $8, with five of that going straight to the Charity.

Please come on down and support us, 12pm meet 12,30 start.

AGM Thursday at 7pm. Sunday 13th first round qualifier for the Property Brokers Shootout.

Ashburton Hearing Assn Russell Anstiss welcomed 72 members and especially welcomed Russell Simes, Southern Regional President, representing our Association on the National Board. This Christmas Dinner continues to be a popular event and members enjoyed a feast, both in food and conviviality.

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Christmas found time to drop in amidst all his other duties. This year he was in good form and liberally distributed kisses along with Christmas gifts. He was very lucky a beautiful elf helped out as well.

Allenton Bowling Club Results of Progressive Pairs November 14 Leads: 1st Des Thomas 2nd Lester Tarbotton/Millie Foggo Skips: 1st. Ken McLaren 2nd. Trev Johnson November 21 Leads: 1st. Brian Marsden, 2nd. Lester Tarbotton/Doug Thorn Skips: 1st. Maurice Reid 2nd. Fred McCormick November 28 Leads: 1st Lester Tarbotton 2nd. Maureen Knox Skips: 1st Trev Johnson 2nd. Bob Holdom A very successful Show Day Open 4’s were held on November 15 for the Nan Chatterton Trophy Sponsored by The Trust Ashburton. Winners were: 1st B Mayson, R Kane, N Atkinson & J Drayton 2nd. D Bruce, J Bruce, T Johnson & B Molloy 3rd. R Gutberlet, G Crack & M Quinn, 4th. B Holdom S Holdom J Kingsbury & S Doig. It was a very good day with a lot of fun and enjoyment had by all ending with a BBQ. The Ladies Charene Trophy was held on Friday. Inside to the warm for the raffles, sales table and results. The winners on the day were the Methven Team of J Thomas, R Heads, W Carter, & D Callaghan. Despite the weather we all had a great day. Thank you to ‘our boys’ in the kitchen and everyone for making it a successful day.

Just a reminder more entries are required for the Anama Tray Aussie Pairs on December 19 and Evening Pairs commencing on January 5. Please get your names into Barry Molloy ASAP. Keep those Championship games up and be aware of what dates you need to complete them by.

RSA Women’s Section President Colleen Hands welcomed members on November 26. There was quite a good attendance. Apologies were received. The RSA song was sung unaccompanied – good singing. Also Happy Birthday to those celebrating.

Sympathy was extended to anyone who has sadly lost a loved one. Sick member were wished a speedy recovery. Christmas Dinner on Monday December 7.

Please be seated by 5.30pm.

Meal to be served at 6pm. The list for names will be in the office until December 3. Cost $20. But Trip: date now Wednesday February 10 due to the Mondayising of Waitangi Day. Cost $10 plus lunch at Waimate. List will be in the office from Wednesday January 27. The speakers Mr & Mrs Kingsbury were introduced. In 1968 they started a planned holiday by train.

Then onto the Ferry. Graphic details were given of their experiences on the Wahine and following its sinking. The Kingsbury’s were thanked for giving up time to share their story.

Raffles were won by Betty Breakwell and Pat Cannan

WOMEN’S INSTITUTE REPORTS Chertsey-Pendarves As it was the day of the Geraldine Fete, our meeting was held at Adrienne Lambie’s residence at 4pm. Janice Allen welcomed a smaller than usual attendance and visiting buddy, Margaret Cullimore.

Our demonstrator was Kathy McKimmie who displayed both paintings by herself and jewellery for sale under the label of “Forever Florence.” Kathy’s mother and grandmother both painted and Kathy has had tuition in Christchurch. Kathy started this hobby business 10 years ago and sells at outlets in town. Janice Allen thanked Kathy and presented a gift.

Fairton Eight members were welcomed to the meeting with one apology received.

Minutes from the October’s meeting were read and confirmed as was the bank balance. Our December meeting will be on the third and it was decided to have a luncheon at Mayfield, a nice way to start celebrating Christmas.

With the A&P Show behind us for another year, Fairton sends congratulations to Tinwald and Westpark WI’s for taking first place in the Bay and Tray com-

petitions, also to the second and third place-getters. We were placed third in the Bay with a special mention for handcraft. Well done, Val. No luck with the Tray however, but we were very happy with our points.

Hinds Our President Rosa Bennett welcomed 14 members to our November meeting and opened with the Singing of the Ode and reciting of the Aspirations. She then read a poem entitled, “Our Flag” which was very apt because of the voting of the New Zealand flag at the moment. Rosa then read a story called, “birthday Cake” from the November/ December Home and Country.

Rosa thanked those who had played bowls – our team came third which was a great effort, also those who helped to sell the institute raffle. . We were reminded that it is our turn to take posies to the hospital the week of 29th January 2016 and our turn for Meals on Wheels will be first week in February. Ruth brought greetings from our past Associate member, Colleen Closey who has now transferred to Alexandra Institute. The National

theme for next year will be “Nurturing the Nation.” The members sang Happy Birthday to Kathryn and Ruth who then received a gift from the Birthday Box. Thought for the day was: “be patient with faults of others. They have to be patient with yours.”

Ruth then gave us an account of her trip to England and Scotland. The first reason for the visit was to support her grandson who is in the St Andrews College Pipe Band. The band was attending the World Pipe Band competitions where St Andrews came 5th out of a total of 42 juvenile bands, 55,000 people attended these competitions from all around the world. Ruth and Chris then went on a nine day tour of England and Scotland the highlight being attending the Edinburgh Tattoo and climbing the 360 steps of the Salisbury cathedral to see the beautiful views. Next they attended the Dorset Steam Fair which was a great experience. Ruth was thanked with a gift of fruit.

Netherby President Pauline Palmer welcomed 26 members and one visitor to our Novem-

ber meeting and together we recited the Aspirations. She thanked the members for their contribution towards the Bay and Tray competitions at the recent A & P Show; also those who are helping with the raffle selling which is going well.

Our Golden Threads were read by Jean Jones who chose a motivating item from the Home and Country magazine.

We received an invitation from the Seniors Centre Charitable Trust to attend their Christmas Luncheon and Patsy Huggins and Adrienne Hodson will attend.

The Roll Call requesting biscuits for the Cancer Society produced 32 mostly home-baked cookies and they were delivered following the meeting. A good effort from a small group.

Birthday greetings were celebrated by five of our ladies. In the competitions the Moylan Trophy was won by Joan Campbell and the Northchurch Trophy

by Wendy Petrie who also won the monthly raffle.

Our Speaker for the day was our own member Elaine Busby who joined 58 members of the Red Hatters Society on a nine-day Island cruise in late April.

Their shop was the P & O “Pacific Pearl” departing from Auckland. She enjoyed the life on-board commenting on the quality of the restaurants, music, entertainments, craft classes etc. Elaine also enjoyed some pampering available at the beauty Spa. She found the Islanders were very friendly people and she also formed new friendships among the group on-board.

This concluded a very entertaining afternoon and we are looking forward to our Pot-Luck Christmas dinner in December.

Tinwald President Joy Keen opened our meeting with a warm welcome. Aspirations were recited and one apology received.

The motto: “A hug is a great gift, one size fits all,” and the Roll Call, donations to Chomondely Home, had an excellent response. Judy, Colleen Cockburn and Jan did us proud attaining first for our Bay, and fourth for the Tray. Our members will be selling raffles on the 10th December and the 28th for Federation.

The Link Letter was read by Jan our correspondent. Talented Judy showed us how to make gift boxes.

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M3 Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club’s meeting at Addington Raceway today. NZ Meeting number: 3. Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12.

Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12.

1 12.02pm (NZT) SUPER PETS MAIDEN HEAT 1 C0q, 520m 1 35447 Havana Stogie nwtd H & .....................Taylor 2 3 Ultra Action nwtd S & ......................B Evans 3 28565 Jon Snow Lives nwtd ...................C Roberts 4 83451 Opawa Leigh nwtd L & ....................... Wales 5 Another Zircon nwtd ...............J T McInerney 6 67572 Nariti nwtd .................................R Blackburn 7 54664 Tamara May nwtd ............................ M Grant 8 42 Ekali nwtd J & .................................D Fahey 9 44666 Al’s Roadie nwtd ........................... I Fensom 10 8 King Simba nwtd ..........................M Roberts 2 12.20pm SUPER PETS MAIDEN HEAT 2 C0q, 520m 1 45x Opawa Jemaine nwtd J & ...............D Fahey 2 Krista Barista nwtd ........................... B Dann 3 743 Belfast Barry nwtd H & ........................Taylor 4 22224 Cronos nwtd ..............................R Blackburn 5 85732 Culvie Den nwtd H & ...........................Taylor 6 53 Jinja Heart nwtd J & ........................D Fahey 7 78 Another Ranger nwtd .............J T McInerney 8 28528 Coldrum nwtd ............................ M Robinson 9 74 Cawbourne Eden nwtd.................C Roberts

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Christchurch dogs Today at Addington raceway 10 7677 Jimmy Nail nwtd .....................M K Dempsey

3 12.38pm THURSDAY PLACE PICK DASH C0, 295m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

66368 Hyde Baxter nwtd...................J T McInerney 6663 Royal Bash nwtd .............................. B Dann 45528 Wheres Candy nwtd...............M K Dempsey 86774 Chile Mustard nwtd ......................A Waretini 23x76 Pacific Vibe nwtd ....................J T McInerney 85 Cawbourne Hint nwtd...................C Roberts 57252 Devilskin nwtd ........................J T McInerney 47787 Private Agenda nwtd ..................... I Fensom 88x5 Feral Coaster nwtd .......................M A Butler 678x6 Another Way nwtd ..................J T McInerney 4 12.56pm GARDEN CITY CHEM-DRY SPRINT C0, 295m 1 God Particle nwtd................................A Lee 2 75476 Kablitz nwtd.................................. K Cassidy 3 7868x Gordons My Mate nwtd ............ A Botherway 4 87582 Another Casino nwtd..............J T McInerney 5 848 Belfast Smarty nwtd H & .....................Taylor 6 Just Wong nwtd ......................J T McInerney 7 62F83 Cairnella nwtd ................................ H Cairns 8 1 Redline Action nwtd J & ..................D Fahey 9 88656 Homebush Kayla nwtd ...........J T McInerney 10 58778 Dallas Baxter nwtd .................J T McInerney 5 1.14pm HAMPDEN TAVERN STAKES C2, 520m 1 372x5 Opawa Rob 30.42 L & ........................ Wales

2 43446 Nina Baxter 30.53 ..................J T McInerney 3 47646 Know Attempt 30.20.......................G Cleeve 4 44572 Lagoon Belle 30.55 ......................C Roberts 5 47212 Black Sails 30.66 H & .........................Taylor 6 67877 Jewel Eagle 30.42 S & ....................B Evans 7 37661 In The Boot 30.88 S & .....................B Evans 8 23721 Elwood Sensation 30.88 ...........R Blackburn 6 1.31pm ANGLER ARMS TAVERN DASH C0, 295m 1 7 Idol Georgie nwtd .............................. J Rush 2 43322 Go McIndoe nwtd ......................R Blackburn 3 8882F Promises Maid nwtd..................... K Cassidy 4 53 Cosmoholic nwtd.......................... L Waretini 5 87635 Ella Baxter nwtd .....................J T McInerney 6 77655 Homebush Minion nwtd .........J T McInerney 7 66584 Another Jet nwtd ....................J T McInerney 8 Reality nwtd ..................................... B Dann 9 48467 Kelly’s Boy nwtd ............................... S Whall 10 48886 Nicky McBell nwtd ..................J T McInerney 7 1.49pm CHRISTCHURCH CASINO STAKES C2, 520m 1 31322 Run Zola 30.51 H & ............................Taylor 2 21163 Opawa Kevin 30.79 J & ...................D Fahey 3 36775 Zipping Sonny nwtd ...............J T McInerney 4 88768 Kinloch Action 30.72 S & ................B Evans 5 15446 Opawa Kendal 30.38 L & ................... Wales 6 55613 Solstice 30.57 .................................. B Dann

7 58788 Cawbourne Miami 30.18 ..............C Roberts 8 57377 Lagoon Mytye 30.29 ....................C Roberts 8 2.06pm LIVALMOL SPRINT HEAT 1 C2q, 295m 1 65664 Butterbean 17.20 M & .....................P Binnie 2 57352 Raincheck 17.56 .............................J Tanner 3 61673 Winne Willow 17.76...........................M J Hill 4 86581 Slingo 17.75 .............................. M Robinson 5 81125 Harsesis 17.56 ..........................R Blackburn 6 76777 Know Favours 17.21 ......................G Cleeve 7 44524 Increasing 17.33 ............................. M Grant 8 55376 El Grand Shadow 17.51 S & ...........B Evans 9 34238 Hyperparadise 17.60 S & ................B Evans 9 2.26pm LIVALMOL SPRINT HEAT 2 C2q, 295m 1 87x44 On The Level 17.35 ......................C Roberts 2 58638 Business Review 17.44 .............R Blackburn 3 46125 Sketchy Steve 17.35 ....................... M Grant 4 75367 Brooke Davis 17.25 ...................... L Waretini 5 54841 Go Tommo 17.10 M & .......................Jopson 6 74571 Goldstar Bomber 17.35 S & ............B Evans 7 x1452 Monaco Denver nwtd M & .....................J Hill 8 28x53 Cronk Went Plonk 17.37 ................. D Voyce 9 34238 Hyperparadise 17.60 S & ................B Evans 10 2.42pm LIVALMOL SPRINT HEAT 3 C2q, 295m 1 37877 Sleeper Agent 17.16 .................A Bradshaw 2 26177 Know Fault 17.24 ...........................G Cleeve 3 14178 Ebony Fancy 17.33 ......................... M Grant

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22877 Homebush Zippy 17.37 ..........J T McInerney 45522 Jinja Loch 17.30 .........................H Wanhalla 46253 Expect Delay 17.61 ......................... M Grant 468x8 Noble Fantasy 17.30 S & ................B Evans 32251 Car Bootle 17.42 ....................... M Robinson 34238 Hyperparadise 17.60 S & ................B Evans 11 3.00pm LIVALMOL SPRINT HEAT 4 C2q, 295m 1 45113 Believe 17.55 ................................... B Dann 2 31851 Culvie Godfather 17.47 H & ................Taylor 3 56168 Bellwave 17.20 ................................J Tanner 4 27668 Rob’s Mate nwtd ...............................M J Hill 5 76331 Kingman 17.39 ................................ M Grant 6 28676 Voreda 17.39 ............................. M Robinson 7 23151 Fliberty Jiberty 17.50 ..........................A Lee 8 62133 Ohoka Coby 17.13 ....................... L Waretini 9 34238 Hyperparadise 17.60 S & ................B Evans 12 3.16pm LIVALMOL SPRINT HEAT 5 C2q, 295m 1 33748 Glenn Is Goodesy 17.20 ................. M Grant 2 16468 Know Salute 17.29 .........................G Cleeve 3 8x874 Sprinkles 17.23 ......................J T McInerney 4 61312 Opawa Crusade nwtd L & .................. Wales 5 78677 Birchbrook nwtd ............................R Adcock 6 45516 That’s A Wrap 17.45 H &.....................Taylor 7 x2314 Cherry Crusher 17.57 .......................M J Hill 8 74186 Maudie’s Babe 17.30 C & .................. Fagan 9 34238 Hyperparadise 17.60 S & ................B Evans

18 90x0x Call Doubt h (7) 58.5 4.35pm REVITAL FERTILISERS RATING 65 1400 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 318x7 Street Wars td (12) 60 ................G Cooksley 2 84x52 Willbeokay tdh (6) 59.5 ............... R Hannam 3 316x6 Runway tmh (7) 59 ......................... J Parkes 4 96064 Let Me Think dm (2) 58 ....... M Dravitzki (a1) 5 0391 Our Drahma Queen td (4) 58 .....M Cameron 6 1x608 Secretary Miss d (10) 58 .................S Collett 7 50x00 Tronic Rose (1) 58...................S McKay (a2) 8 8646x Maestro d (5) 58............................M McNab 9 6x065 Caught Behind (3) 56.5 ........... D Turner (a1) 10 17x88 Empire Lass th (8) 56.................L Hemi (a2) 11 58x66 Habitude h (9) 55.5 .........................R Myers 12 78x40 Handlemewithcare m (11) 55.5 7 5.10pm FASTTRACK INSURANCE MAIDEN $7000, MDN, 1600m 1 09x96 Bocelli (1) 58.5 ............................... J Parkes 2 90 Majestic Strider h (9) 58.5 ..........L Hemi (a2) 3 6x46 The Hassler (6) 57 ............................L Innes 4 Gypsy Verse h (13) 57 ....................J Riddell 5 820x2 Kechika (7) 56.5 ............................O Bosson

6 92 Echezeaux (2) 56.5 ....................M Cameron 7 46620 Sakura h (10) 56.5 ...................... C Dell (a1) 8 7. Indecent Proposal h (8) 56.5 9 8x880 Roseaday h (14) 56.5.......... M Dravitzki (a1) 10 x0344 Poetic Affair (12) 55.........................R Myers 11 494 Downton Abbey (4) 55 ..................M McNab 12 84 Maytra Dee (11) 55 ....................G Cooksley 13 06476 Morse Code (5) 55 ..........................S Collett 14 5 Dynamite Lucy h (3) 55 ............... R Hannam 8 5.45pm FIRST NATIONAL MILLS & GIBBON RATING 65 1800 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1800m 1 15x54 Da Shindig (7) 60 ............................R Myers 2 x80x1 Bordeaux (8) 59.5 ......................M Cameron 3 4470x Andaluci (10) 59 ............................O Bosson 4 99082 King Nero tdmh (2) 59......... M Dravitzki (a1) 5 49x03 Shezastunna tdh (9) 58.5............... J Parkes 6 050x1 Heistheone tdh (3) 58.5 ..................J Riddell 7 3x334 Meritaggio b (1) 58 ........................D Bradley 8 170x4 Sir Sava (4) 57.5 ........................G Cooksley 9 1x609 Effectav h (6) 57 ......................S McKay (a2) 10 150x7 Queenoftheamazon (11) 56 ..........M McNab 11 070x9 Ocean Bound (5) 55.5................. R Hannam

Taranaki gallops Today at New Plymouth raceway

Taranaki Racing Club’s meeting at New Plymouth today.

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

1 1.40pm (NZT) TONY EPPLETT SIGNWRITING MAIDEN 3YO $7000, MDN 3YO, 1100m 1 72x The Neon Icon h (1) 57.5 ................J Riddell 2 Mongolian Empire (10) 57.5..........O Bosson 3 782x Gaelic Beauty h (9) 55.5 ...............M McNab 4 4 Ballerine (8) 55.5...............................L Innes 5 Art Deco h (3) 55.5 ..................... R Hannam 6 Nightsong (2) 55.5 ..........................R Myers 7 Andarta h (11) 55.5 ............. M Dravitzki (a1) 8 Light Em Up h (7) 55.5 ................... J Parkes 9 36x97 Miss Percynallity h (5) 55.5 .....S McKay (a2) 10 Red Poppy (6) 55.5 ....................M Cameron 11 7x7 Zaburn (4) 55.5 ...............................S Collett 2 2.15pm WEST END BOWLING CLUB MAIDEN $7000, MDN, 1100m 1 524x Perservere h (10) 58.5 ....................J Riddell 2 x3774 Londonderry Air h (2) 58.5 .. M Dravitzki (a1) 3 47x Marquateer h (11) 58.5 ...........S McKay (a2) 4 Brother One (6) 58.5 ..................L Hemi (a2)

M9 Waikato Greyhound Racing Club’s meeting at Cambridge Raceway today. NZ Meeting number: 9. Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11. Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 5, 6 and 7; 9, 10 and 11.

1 4.46pm (NZT) HAUTAPU VETERINARY CLINIC SPRINT C1, 375m 1 28518 Jetsun Desire nwtd ......................K Williams 2 23226 Coruba Rage 21.61........................ G Farrell 3 38764 Trinity Flight nwtd .............................T Agent 4 14257 Don’t Muzzle Me nwtd................B Goldsack 5 61475 Preoccupied nwtd .............................J Black 6 71675 Deceptive Lad 21.73 ..................M Mathews 7 45722 Agent Schrader nwtd ........................B Craik 8 88585 English Honey nwtd R & N O’ ............Regan 9 88887 Cool Foot Luke nwtd .......................... J Foot 10 44778 What’s Up Watto 21.53 W & ............T Steele 2 5.06pm PALAMOUNTAINS NUTRITION SPRINT C2, 375m 1 67314 You Betcha Noddy 21.73 R & N O’.....Regan 2 42231 Shinzigzag nwtd .........................B Goldsack 3 66518 Atomic Lass 21.34 ........................... S Clark 4 82631 Bigtime Moola nwtd U &........................Bliek 5 11222 My Fantasy 21.06............................ K Walsh 6 7542F Jinja Luca nwtd W &........................T Steele 7 112F2 Kimetto nwtd ...............................L Laagland

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5 Touch ‘N Go (4) 58.5 .......................R Myers 6 4x Bigsie (3) 57 ..................................O Bosson 7 x400x Etoile D’Ange h (1) 56.5 ................. J Parkes 8 x9800 Bellontherocks (5) 56.5 ........... D Turner (a1) 9 7x Chilli Milli h (7) 56.5.......................M McNab 10 Red Poppy (8) 55 .......................M Cameron 11 7x7 Zaburn (9) 55 3 2.50pm TIMBERCO MAIDEN $7000, MDN, 1200m 1 6300x All Charm (6) 58.5 ...................S McKay (a2) 2 758x Hold The Phone (5) 58.5 ...............O Bosson 3 38933 Western h (7) 57 .............................R Myers 4 345x5 Glamazon (4) 56.5 ..............A Schwerin (a3) 5 64035 She’s A Rock h (1) 56.5 .............. R Hannam 6 6298x Lyric’s Way (2) 56.5 ....................L Hemi (a2) 7 093x8 Miss Bondi h (3) 56.5 ..................... J Parkes 8 What Now My Love h (8) 56.5...........L Innes 4 3.25pm NULOOK ALUMINIUM & DOORS RATING 65 1200 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1200m 1 154x Point Percy db (8) 60..................M Cameron 2 62240 Whatwedo dm (1) 60...............S McKay (a2) 3 x8x25 Devil’s Harmony d (2) 58.................S Collett 4 868x1 Ellies Empress th (5) 57.5 ........... R Hannam

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00x54 I’m Bronson (3) 57.5 .....................O Bosson 0x972 Repulse Bay d (6) 57 ....................M McNab 00565 Itsalright tdmh (7) 57 ..................L Hemi (a2) 625x1 Celtic Cross tdh (4) 56 ....................R Myers 5 4.00pm TARANAKI WINNERS CIRCLE MAIDEN $7000, MDN, 1400m 1 50x28 First Of A Kind (5) 58.5 ..............G Cooksley 2 36x4 Master Wong h (6) 58.5 ..................J Riddell 3 Marcellus (15) 58.5 .........................S Collett 4 5x09 Mr Davinci (4) 58.5 5 52 Neverstopdreaming h (9) 57 ...S McKay (a2) 6 23x25 Malibu Miss bh (17) 56.5 ..... M Dravitzki (a1) 7 Fun ‘N’ Games (3) 56.5 ..............L Hemi (a2) 8 7 Furstenberg h (8) 56.5 ....................R Myers 9 500x It’s Magic (13) 56.5...................... C Dell (a1) 10 5x053 Ledbury h (12) 55........................... J Parkes 11 358 Beach Beauty (11) 55 ...................M McNab 12 4 Sewreel (1) 55...............................O Bosson 13 06 Spritz (10) 55 .............................M Cameron 14 Dogmatic h (16) 55 ..................... R Hannam 15 58x89 Peter’s Finger 56.5 ....................... Scratched 16 47009 Brecon Beau (14) 58.5 17 6x8x0 Dix Sept (2) 56.5 -

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Waikato dogs Today at Cambridge raceway 8 51313 I’m Joe Black 21.86.......................... S Clark 9 12234 Mr. Jules 21.45 .................................T Agent 10 27737 Zulu Mercedes 21.48 .......................M Black 3 5.26pm AFFORDABLE PET ACCESSORIES SPRINT C1, 375m 1 87754 Skyler White 21.50 ............................B Craik 2 114 Mi Tensile 20.88 .............................. K Walsh 3 88x74 Lochinvar Belle nwtd ..................D Schofield 4 35246 Tepirita Amber nwtd R & N O’ ............Regan 5 32x18 Bee Lichter nwtd .............................. S Clark 6 27727 Our Sambo 21.48......................... M J Lozell 7 44537 Wild Falcon 21.59 .........................K Herbert 8 57656 Contemporaneous 21.61 R & N O’.....Regan 9 88776 French Curves nwtd M &.................. J Smith 10 25588 Procrastination 21.76 U & .....................Bliek 4 5.55pm FOND FOODS LTD SPRINT C1, 375m 1 77335 Mockingjay 21.30 ..............................B Craik 2 77724 Sonic Attack nwtd ........................ M J Lozell 3 81458 Comet Foot 21.73 .............................. J Foot 4 42888 Opawa Uno 21.28 W & ...................T Steele 5 36485 Atomic Rush 21.65........................K Herbert 6 65211 Our Swift Buddy nwtd ...................... S Clark 7 26575 Lord De Air 21.79 U & ...........................Bliek 8 46536 Lockett In Eddie 21.76 R & N O’ ........Regan 9 67666 It’s The Dream 21.45 B & ................... Steele

10 86568 Wairio Dee Jay 21.37 ........................J Black

5 6.26pm WAIHOU ENGINEERING LTD SPRINT C3,

375m 1 64341 Boston Strike 21.48..........................T Agent 2 82276 Ez Feretti 21.37 ............................... L Martin 3 43556 Little Dreams 21.16 ........................ G Farrell 4 67378 Miss Universe nwtd R & N O’ .............Regan 5 24463 Rocky Boy 21.15 ...............................B Craik 6 32F66 Macjam 21.17 ............................D Schofield 7 56113 Sacred Can You 21.28 R & N O’ ........Regan 8 12125 Espirito 21.33 ....................................C Hore 6 6.57pm GENERAL ENGRAVERS $30K GUARANTEED TRIPLE TRIO C3, 375m 1 76267 Kissen Run 21.06 M & ..................... J Smith 2 85778 Rasso 21.08 ......................................B Craik 3 41336 Gumbalanya 21.25 .........................P Henley 4 4x737 California King 21.38.........................B Craik 5 45723 Rockin’ Fancy 21.26 ...................D Schofield 6 55155 Mr. Mumbles 21.39 R & N O’..............Regan 7 88843 Very Chilly 21.55 ........................M Mathews 8 14352 Sandor Glegane 21.23 .................... T Green 7 7.27pm WAIHOU ENGINEERING LTD STAKES C2, 457m 1 54366 Teemaria 26.03 ......................... A Lawrence 2 45153 Dylans A Villain 25.75 .......................C Hore

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76153 Lucky Collect 25.91....................D Schofield 13128 Go Andwyn nwtd .............................. S Clark 86647 Ninjago 25.76 ................................... S Clark 74131 Acamas 26.11 ........................... A Lawrence 37521 Bohaba Girl nwtd ............................ T Green 31344 Cool Marlow 25.61 .......................... T Green 54678 Thrilling Carter 25.34 U & .................Cottam 8 8.01pm COME HAVE A PUNT @ BOP TAB THIS SUMMER SPRINT C4, 375m 1 14673 Kerry Lane nwtd .........................B Goldsack 2 17581 Jack Rob 21.31 .............................. G Farrell 3 73218 Opawa Sam nwtd B & ........................ Steele 4 72213 Irish Blue 21.12 W & .......................T Steele 5 73678 Boris nwtd ..................................B Goldsack 6 18354 Armistice Day 21.25 ....................... I George 7 35836 Rotovegas Rara 21.15 .................R McPhee 8 72142 Hallo Star 21.33 ................................B Bond 9 45875 Premier Osti 21.35 ............................C Hore 10 76577 Umaga Rama 21.41 B & .................... Steele 9 8.31pm VEHICLE & TYRE SERVICES SPRINT C5, 375m 1 65116 Timmy Trumpet 20.96 ..................... K Walsh 2 4F411 Pay Da Trail 20.80 ........................... K Walsh 3 11147 Chris’s Pride 21.09 ..................... W Toomath 4 58111 Good Return 21.11 ....................D Schofield

15837 Speed Lorde 21.04 ...........................B Craik 73235 Rampion nwtd ...................................C Hore 32144 Stylish Fancy 21.44 ....................D Schofield 17716 Vintage Osti 21.16 ............................C Hore 10 9.05pm THE CLUBHOUSE SPORTS BAR STAKES C4, 457m 1 41286 Black Dude 25.62...................... A Lawrence 2 22115 New Look 25.78 .........................D Schofield 3 27631 Multicam Lad 25.97....................D Schofield 4 67264 Ruby Murray nwtd ...........................P Green 5 37215 Got Air 25.77 ................................... T Green 6 63645 Jesse Pinkman 25.76........................B Craik 7 63717 Solarian 25.83 ...................................S Ross 8 45778 Talkin Fancy 25.78 .....................D Schofield 9 53468 Jazzboy Jack 25.35 ................... A Lawrence 11 9.36pm WAIHOU ENGINEERING LTD STAKES C1, 457m 1 27464 Ramah Reason 26.24 ................ G Pomeroy 2 23544 Bigtime Dasher 26.04 U & ....................Bliek 3 26421 Global Conquest nwtd W & .............T Steele 4 52656 Forever Iris nwtd ...............................S Ross 5 34687 Zalia nwtd W & ................................T Steele 6 53645 Spinel nwtd .......................................S Ross 7 34588 April’s My Mum nwtd ....................... T Green 8 31548 Winsome Dan 25.85 ..................D Schofield

2 37555 Tina Brydon (2) fr .............F Schumacher (J) 3 218x1 Bronze Over (3) fr ..........................J I Dickie 4 7517 Stunning Shadow (4) fr ..................... A Veint 5 73149 Vinland fr ...................................... Scratched 6 613 Designer Arden (5) fr ............Shane Butcher 7 45627 Ideal Quest (6) fr .......................... D Butcher 8 364x4 Major Classic (7) fr .................. B Butcher (J) 9 66x2x Blinding Light (21) fr ......................T Mitchell 10 10x21 Real Torque (22) fr ..........................M Jones 11 54421 Lola Jones (23) fr ...................... J Abernethy 12 P1852 Spare Change (24) fr ....................P Butcher 7 8.45pm WAIKATO MASTER PLUMBERS HANDICAP PACE $7500, 4yo+ c2 & faster discrhcp pace, stand, 2700m 1 8660x Prince Tudor (1) fr ..................M Johnson (J) 2 96781 Waipipi Falcon (2) fr ............... K Marshall (J) 3 57140 Stars And Sound (1) 10 .................S Phelan 4 05423 Brydon Delight (2) 10 ................... B Mangos 5 3x465 Idealistic (3) 10..........................D Alexander 6 574x4 Major Change (4) 10 .................... D Butcher 7 67270 Cullies Delight (U1) 10 ..................T Mitchell 8 4528x Sea MC (1) 20...............................P Butcher 9 53518 Hudy Haxwell (2) 20................. M McKendry

10 71024 Ambro Courage (3) 20 ................A Donnelly 9.20pm DUX MOBILE PACE $6000, 4yo+ c1, c2 & others with cond. mob. pace, mobile, 2700m 1 23555 Big Bad John (1) fr ....................... D Butcher 2 22258 Shardon’s Sheralee (2) fr ..............T Mitchell 3 64974 Platinum Poker (3) fr ................. J Abernethy 4 27770 Soul Man (4) fr .............................T Williams 5 00336 Pure Christian (5) fr................M Johnson (J) 6 x8697 Art Angel (6) fr ...................... S Cruickshank 7 67580 Yankee Brandy (7) fr .................... C Webber 8 3404x Sage Creek (8) fr ................. D Ferguson (J) 9 9.51pm MERRY XMAS FROM WAIKATO MASTER PLUMBERS MBL PACE $5500, 3yo+ c,g&e c0 mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 78858 Diamond Supreme (1) fr .............A Donnelly 2 73577 Mr Wunderbar (2) fr...................... B Mangos 3 2 Will Desire (3) fr ........................... D Butcher 4 Aw Sam (4) fr .....................M Blakemore (J) 5 4736 Grinning Punter (5) fr ................... C Webber 6 45006 Maldini (6) fr ................................... G Martin 7 Summer Dreams (7) fr ..................P Butcher 8 70x Frankie Yale (8) fr ..................Shane Butcher 9 09x Raschker (21) fr ............................T Mitchell

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Waikato harness Today at Cambridge raceway

Harness Racing Waikato’s meeting at Cambridge Raceway today. NZ Meeting number: 5. Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9. Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9.

1 5.41pm (NZT) LASER PLUMBING HAMILTON EAST AMAT DRVRS MBL PACE $5500, 4yo+ c1 to c3 +claimer mob. pace, mobile, 1700m 1 24413 Kashin (1) fr ................................... T Thorby 2 24303 Shards Phoenix (2) fr .................... K Judson 3 54500 Viewfield Apache (3) fr .......Stephen Butcher 4 78132 Speak Up (4) fr..................................S Wigg 5 04623 With A Vengeance fr .................... Scratched 6 59389 Sikora (5) fr .....................................O Gillies 7 86326 Imajollywally (6) fr .........................S Yoakley 8 37191 Our Southern Man (7) fr ...... J Kriechbaumer 9 37399 Miss Lara (21) fr ...............................J Darby 10 678x7 Easy For Cullen (22) fr ...............M Northcott 2 6.11pm MASTERLINK HANDICAP TROT $7500, 5yo+ c2 & faster discrhcp trot, stand, 2700m 1 45071 Donny Wood (1) fr ......................P Ferguson 2 02221 Ma Cille (2) fr .......................... B Butcher (J) 3 608x1 Sarah Lindenny (3) fr ............. K Marshall (J) 4 4173x Hot Chocolate Tart (1) 10 ..............N Chilcott

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86276 Ella’s Speed (2) 10 .........................J I Dickie 16x08 Monseigneur (1) 20 ..........F Schumacher (J) 06116 Mokosun (U1) 20 ......................... D Butcher 96291 Chosen Path (U1) 30 .....................S Phelan 3 6.41pm MICO HAMILTON MOBILE PACE $5500, 3yo+ c,g&e c0 mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 0x255 Max Phactor (1) fr .........................P Butcher 2 64848 Art Of Gold (2) fr ............................J I Dickie 3 744 Bute Boy (3) fr .............................. D Butcher 4 x7960 Rev The Chev (4) fr ................ K Marshall (J) 5 7265x Real Lucky (5) fr ........................... B Mangos 6 79x98 Eldolar (6) fr ............................ T Macfarlane 7 0x Sabrage (7) fr ................................T Mitchell 8 687 Diamond Prince (8) fr ............Shane Butcher 4 7.12pm HYDROWFLOW HANDICAP TROT $5500, 4yo+ c0 to c1 spechcp trot, stand, 2200m 1 One Night Stand fr ....................... Scratched 2 67 Primus Inter Pares fr .................... Scratched 3 266x4 First Vintage (1) fr .........................T Mitchell 4 8 George (U1) fr ......................... T Macfarlane 5 74655 Jimmys Girl (1) 30 ............F Schumacher (J) 6 x5473 Gael Ludlow (2) 30............... D Ferguson (J) 7 27451 Reine Des Gitans (3) 30 .............. D Butcher

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30683 Thanks Shane (U1) 30 ...............P Ferguson 54248 Il Pirata (U2) 30 ..............................S Phelan 1908x Madam Springfield (U3) 30 .... K Marshall (J) 53735 Loki Brogden (U4) 30 ....................N Chilcott 902x2 Mighty Sunny (U5) 30 ..................M Teaz (J) 5 7.41pm CAMBRIDGE ROCK GAS F&M MOBILE PACE $5500, 3yo+ f&m c0 mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 943 Norvic Ruby (1) fr ........................J Stormont 2 8L00x Eilean Shona (2) fr .......................M Teaz (J) 3 9 Yquem (3) fr ................................. B Mangos 4 44 Emancipation (4) fr......................... M Burley 5 4x655 Moulin Bromac (5) fr .....................N Chilcott 6 Watch Emily Fly (6) fr ............Shane Butcher 7 567x Vivacious Madonna (7) fr ............. D Butcher 8 Neon Sky (8) fr ..............................T Mitchell 9 Wileimina (21) fr ........................D Alexander 10 Real Good (22) fr .................... T Macfarlane 11 Hug Me Squeeze Me (23) fr..........P Butcher 12 Genociate (24) fr .................... K Marshall (J) 13 90798 Emerson Margaret (25) fr........ B Butcher (J) 6 8.16pm PLUMBING WORLD MOBILE PACE $6000, 3yo+ c1, c2 with cond. mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 71x28 Crocket’s Cullen (1) fr................... B Mangos

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In brief

■ BASKETBALL

Losing streak over The Philadelphia 76ers’ historic NBA losing streak is over with former Australian national coach Brett Brown’s team beating the Los Angeles Lakers 103-91.

One more defeat for the 76ers - 0-18 heading into the match - would have given them sole possession of the record for the worst start to a season in NBA history. They had already set a record for the longest losing streak in the history of the NBA, with 28 defeats stretching over last season and the current campaign. But a 23-point haul from forward Robert Covington laid the foundation for a deserved victory yesterday as Bryant and the Lakers tumbled to 2-15.

- AAP

Tiger recovers

Cathleen Anderson, Eimear Gray and Megan O’Brien were chosen from their performances at the under 13 tournament in Invercargill.

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Ballers set for Aussie adventure

By James Ford

James.F@TheGuardian.co.nz

Mid Canterbury basketballers Cathleen Anderson and Eimear Gray will be jetting across the Tasman to compete at the Australian Country Cup in Albury, Victoria next month, while their team-mate Megan O’Brien is on

standby for a call-up.

The three girls’ skills were recognised by Tall Ferns coach Kennedy Kereama at Invercargill’s South Island under 13 tournament in October, and they are now busy fundraising to reach the $3400 target to cover the trip.

The girls will join up with the

New Zealand under 14 squad and attend a five-day training camp before splitting into teams to compete against all of the Australian State sides.

Basketball Mid Canterbury president Wayne Rodgers said the girls’ skills will improve amongst some stiff competition and under

a high-level of coaching.

“This is where players are recognised as future national players,” he said.

“They’ll come back with more experience and will be exposed to a much higher level of coaching.”

Anderson and Gray will be in Australia from January 6-17.

Tiger Woods admits he has no date for his return from back surgery, revealing he had yet to hit a ball since undergoing two operations to alleviate pain from a pinched nerve. Woods, speaking at the Hero World Challenge at Albany Golf Club in the Bahamas which benefits his foundation, said he was frustrated by the inability to set a date for his return.

“Therein lies the tough question and tough answer,” Woods said.

“I don’t have an answer for that. ... There is no timetable.” Woods underwent microdiscectomy surgery to remove a fragment that was pinching a nerve.

- AAP

Khawaja on track Injured Australian batsman Usman Khawaja hopes to stake a Boxing Day Test claim in the Big Bash League. Khawaja says he is on track to recover from a hamstring injury in time for the second Test in Melbourne against the West Indies.

He broke down in the field during the second Test against New Zealand in Perth last month. The left-hander said he did not expect to slot straight into the Test XI and believed he had to press his claims via the BBL for Sydney Thunder.

■ CRICKET

Parker on a high

Metro provides tough primary contest

Joseph Parker’s confidence is at an all-time high with the unbeaten Kiwi heavyweight saying he is capable of beating new world champion Tyson Fury and former champion Wladimir Klitschko. Ahead of his bout against American brawler Daniel The Mountain Martz at the Fight for Life in Hamilton on Saturday, Parker’s camp believe there is not a fighter in the world the 23-yearold couldn’t handle. “If I train hard and have a great training camp and I’m as prepared as I can be, I can take any heavyweight in the world,” said Parker.

- AAP

By James Ford

James.F@TheGuardian.co.nz

Mid Canterbury’s primary cricket team fell to a first innings loss to Christchurch Metro at the Ashburton Domain on Sunday.

The home side won the toss and elected to bowl, putting Metro in to bat first and a well-organised bowling and fielding perfor-

mance by Mid Canterbury held the visitors to 207 after 58 overs.

In reply, Mid Canterbury could only muster 57 runs, all out in the 26th over, following a fine spell of spin bowling by Nick Cook, while Angus Jemmett (12) and Harry McMillan (10 not out) were the home side’s best with the bat.

Cook played the role of chief

destroyer, taking 4 for 20 from his eight overs in an exceptional display and Zac May took 2 for 15 off 5 overs.

Metro enforced the follow-on and put Mid Canterbury in to bat for the second innings. This time, Mid Canterbury’s top order were defiant, particularly with Metro seeking the outright win.

Mid Canterbury batted for the required 26 overs for the loss of three wickets. Jemmett and Liam Sullivan were the pick of the top order, with a fine showing of concentration in a defensive display.

The primary side will next be in action against old enemy South Canterbury at the Ashburton Domain this Sunday.

Runs in vain as Year 9s fail to take wickets

By James Ford

James.F@TheGuardian.co.nz

Ashburton College’s Year 9 cricket XI fell to a 10 wicket loss to Timaru Boys’ High School in their rescheduled tie on Monday.

In a perfect day for cricket at Quarry Road Park in Timaru, College skipper Thom Graham elected to bat first after winning the toss, but the pace bowlers troubled the early batsmen and wickets tumbled quickly.

Opener Kaleb Finn was run out

on nought, before fellow opener Liam Reilly was caught in slips by Lewis Tinkler off a rising delivery from George Copland for a solitary run.

A further two wickets fell when Bradley Phillips hit a cut shot straight to point to be caught

by Tinkler off Benjamin Ward’s bowling, and Oscar Schluter was caught at mid-on by Marshall Bell as Ward took his second wicket of the innings.

Graham was aggressive to the

new bowlers and quickly went to 20 before mistiming a cover drive and gave another catching opportunity.

At 30 for 5, things looked perilous for Ashburton College, but Tom Middleton and Bryden Smith played sensibly and tentatively increased their attacking shots.

The duo produced a fine performance, amassing an unbroken partnership of 211 and at the end of the allotted 40 overs, Mid-

dleton was on 68 and Smith 117.

As College returned to the field, hopes were high of moving forward to the Canterbury draw, but Timaru Boys’ had other ideas The artificial wicket continued to favour the batsmen, and openers Williams Sharp and Zane Meyer made the most of it.

Sharp posted 92 off 132 balls while Meyer stormed his way to 98 off 101 deliveries, propelling the hosts passed their target with three overs to spare.

Bouchard back The Hobart International has scored a glamorous drawcard with former world No.5 Eugenie Bouchard to play the January 10-16 event as she attempts to get her injury-hit tennis career back on track. The 21-year-old Canadian will contest the Hobart tournament for the first time in the lead up to the Australian Open, looking to bounce back from a 2015 season marred by an off-court fall.

Bouchard showed her enormous potential when she reached her first grand slam final at the Australian Open at age 19. - AAP

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■ MOTOR RACING

In brief

Motoring trio lap up Munro challenge

Ref hit by ball Australian umpire John Ward is in a stable condition after being struck in the head by the ball while officiating in a domestic cricket match in India. Ward was felled by a powerful shot from Punjab’s Brainder Sran on the opening day of the Ranji Trophy clash against Tamil Nadu in Dindigul on yesterday. Ward was rushed to a nearby medical centre and then transferred to a hospital. Dindigul District Cricket Association secretary N Venkataraman refuted reports that Ward had been knocked unconscious. “After he got hit he fell to the ground, but he stood up and walked up to the ambulance by himself,” Venkataraman said.

- AAP

Andrew Rudd, Jaren Cox and Dean Watson (left to right) were among the thousands of motorcycle fans who made their way south last weekend to compete in the famous Burt Munro Challenge.

Competing for the second year in a row, Rudd collected a haul of trophies and sashes.

Entering in the hill climb, beach race and the Formula III teretonga on his Honda F450, Rudd won the 250 class beach race and came second in the teretonga.

The hill climb and street race also went well for the Ashburton lad, who managed fourth in both races.

It was also a successful weekend for Watson who picked up third place in the pre-89 junior teretonga race on his Honda 350 and achieved seventh overall when he raced his Kawaskai 350 Ninja in the Formula 3 class.

Pleased with the outcome, Watson said most bikes in the race had 50 horsepower capability while his only had 30.

He also entered the pre-89 junior teretonga race where he placed third.

Cox entered in the hill climb, beach race, street race and teretonga racing on his Honda F450 and, while he didn’t place, he said it was a lot of fun.

Classy men’s field The men’s ASB Classic will feature nine players inside the world’s top 30 for one of its deepest fields yet.

Organisers confirmed the full lineup for the renamed tournament, adding another couple of top 20 players to the previously announced Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (world No 10) and John Isner (11).

Kevin Anderson (12) will return to Auckland after his semifinal appearance in 2015, having gone on to enjoy a career-best year.

Benoit Paire (19) will be the fourth top 20 player on show, with the flamboyant Frenchman having had a resurgent year in 2015.

Italian Fabio Fognini (21) will bring further flair to the field in his first appearance back in Auckland since 2011, while Croatian Ivo Karlovic (23) will at 36 make his first Auckland appearance, one of four new comers (alongside Vasek Pospisil, Aljaz Bedene and Victor Estrella Burgos).

- NZH

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Lucky red socks

McCullum out, Simmons called up Another West Indies gun will feature in the Big Bash League this summer rather than the national team after replacing New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum at the Brisbane Heat.

Big-hitting batsman Lendl Simmons has been recruited by the Heat after McCullum withdrew from this season’s BBL - the first of his three-year deal - due to international commitments.

Simmons was second-highest run-scorer in this year’s Indian Premier League behind David Warner, helping the Mumbai Indians claim the IPL T20 title.

The nephew of Windies coach Phil Simmons will be available for all of Brisbane’s BBL games.

Simmons will be another Windies gun to line up in the BBL along with the likes of Dwayne Bravo, Darren Sammy and Chris

Gayle while the lowly-ranked tourists battle world No 2 Australia in a three-Test series starting on December 10.

A member of the Windies’ 2012 T20 World Cup winning side, Simmons is currently playing in the Bangladesh Premier League.

“Having coached against him in the IPL and played against him in the Caribbean Premier League, I know he is a match-winner,”

Heat coach Daniel Vettori said.

Even ex-Kiwi captain Vettori could not get former teammate McCullum over the line for the upcoming BBL season.

“In the end, his commitment to the Black Caps is the priority at this time and we accept that,” Vettori said.

“The fans will naturally be disappointed, and we certainly acknowledge that feeling.”

- AAP

■ DRUG FREE SPORT

Twilight footy?

Drugs cheat used to get message across Drug Free Sport NZ admit it’s a risk, but have used a drugs cheat to warn New Zealand athletes about the perils of drug use.

Tyler Hamilton, who is a former team-mate of Lance Armstrong and who won gold in the individual time trial at the Athens Olympics (he later returned his medal after admitting he had been a drugs cheat), filmed the videos when in the country earlier this year.

The three videos include a direct message to athletes, a message to the parents of athletes, and top tips for staying clean.

In 1995 Kiwis embraced Sir Peter Blake’s “lucky red socks” as a symbol of support for Kiwi yachties taking on the world.

Twenty years on and the young sailors competing in New Zealand’s largest youth sailing regatta were not even born during the time of the “lucky red socks”. The 2015 Sir Peter Blake Torbay Regatta sponsored by Volvo Cars is being held this weekend at Torbay Sailing Club on Auckland’s North Shore.

This year’s 14th edition of the regatta will see over 400 young Kiwi sailors given a pair of red socks in remembrance of Sir Peter and as a reminder of the heritage of their sport.

- NZH

Hamilton appeals to sportspeople to “do the right thing” so that they can “look in the mirror and know that they’ve done their best and done it clean”.

He hopes New Zealand athletes will learn from his career which saw him reach great heights and then unbearable lows once he was uncovered as a doper.

He played a critical role in helping Armstrong to three of his seven Tour de France titles, which were later stripped, and then blowing the whistle on drug taking in cycling and helping expose Armstrong as arguably the

biggest drug cheat in sporting history.

Hamilton was banned in 2009 for eight years after failing another drug test following his original two-year ban in 2004.

“I wish that when I was a young athlete someone had taken me aside and warned me about the crossroads ahead,” Hamilton says in the videos.

“This is your warning. Hopefully, some of the mistakes I made can help you make the right choice.”

Drug Free Sport NZ chief executive Graeme Steel says using

a reformed doper to speak to athletes about competing clean is a risk, but believes Hamilton’s message is a powerful one.

“Tyler understands where athletes are coming from,” Steel said. “He understands what drives them and he understands the pressure they’re under to succeed. He made some devastatingly poor choices in his desire to succeed and it’s our hope that New Zealand athletes will learn from his story, think carefully about the decisions they make, and then choose to compete clean.”

- NZH

Kevin Sheedy has urged the AFL to be brave and at least trial a twilight grand final. Inspired by the success of the pink ball day-night Test match in Adelaide, Sheedy - the driving force behind the Anzac Day and Dreamtime at the ‘G blockbusters, and next season’s Country game - says the league could reap huge benefits from the bold move. “If they want to vote, I’d put my feet and my hands in the air to have a twilight grand final,” Sheedy said. “Have a look at it because at least then you’ve had a look. We’ve done over a hundred years of (day) grand finals and we won’t look at something different.

“It might be pretty good - it might be better ... we don’t know unless you actually try.”

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No 1 Tee 8.00, K Bonnington, L Jackson, A Barrie, D Rush; 8.06, S Munro, P Ranson, G Hortin, W Ross; 8.42, C Bonnington, K McAuliffe, J McAuliffe, V Hampton; 12.30, D Busch, P Hefford, W Scott, P Summerfield; 12.36, A Pierce, B Collins, T Clarke, Clarrie Whiting; 12.42, G Rennie, R Harris, R Simms, A Pawsey; 12.48, A Moore, A Millar, Des Green, M Fechney; 12.54, E Jackson, O Everest, G Cartney, R Goodman No 13 Tee 8.00, L Bell, L McClea, P Smith, M Smith; 8.06, B Harris, M Kennedy, H Argyle, C

Thursday, December 3, 2015 Shanks; 12.30, S Lane, M Pawsey, D Bell, B MacGregor; 12.36, E Collins, J Beardsley, V Prendergast, C Linney; 12.42, J Peacock, S Gutsell, J VanderHeide, M Moore; 12.48, V Cartney, B Kirdy, J Bruhns, I Divers; 12.54, D Wellman, B Jackson.

No 7 Tee 8.00, C Johnstone, D Horrell, B Anstey, N King; 12.30, S Kennedy, S Kircher, R Thompson, R Bruce; 12.36, Cawte Whiting, C Hart, P Marshall, R Hewson; 12.42, R Kirdy, M Banks, P Keir, K Bishop; 12.48, B Kirdy, D Allan, Sake, D Osborn.

Starters am B Collins pm, L Jackson, K Bonnington Cards Committee.

RESULTS ■ Bowls Hampstead Bowling Club November 30

Ladies Rosebowl Cup results Sponsored by Ashburton Canvas 1st Place: Wendy Watson 3 wins, Janet Kingsbury 17 ends, Shirley Doig 29 points, Rose Johnston.

2nd Place: D Gutberlet 3 wins, D King 16 ends, G Crack 39 points G Kelly 3rd Place Raylene Heads 2 wins, Melva Middleton 15 ends, Win Breach 33 points, Wendy Blackwell.

■ Golf Tinwald Golf Club December 1, Women’s Division Stroke Shona Vucetich 69, Lynn Bird 71 c/b, Marilyn Bennett 71, Mara Kennedy 72, Pam McAndrew 74 c/b Two’s: Trish Clarke. Nearest Pin No 6 Maree Moore; No 12 Trish Clarke 9 Holes Stroke Nancy Costin 36, Madge Sherriff 37 c/b, Rosie O’Brien 37.

Rural Women host the Enterprising Rural Women Awards to recognise rural businesses being run by women. A very high calibre of finalists attended and addressed the award ceremony at the recent Rural Women NZ National Conference.

Such compassion, commitment, and professionalism these women all showed, together with supporting their families.

How great it was that seven members from Mid Canterbury attending Conference were present to congratulate supreme winner - Joanne Taylor of Latitude magazine. Joanne has been recognised for her Canterbury-focussed magazine about the real people and places within our region. Nine years on from the initial 56 page magazine four times a year to now a 192 page magazine six times a year plus the addition of two bridal magazines as well, this business continues to grow offering an interesting read.

Wendy McGowan was successful in retaining her position as National President.

Region 2 Councillor Kerry Maw’s contribution to the National Council was recognised with a National Members of Honour Award.

The festive season is upon us and together with a busy rural sector and managing through tough times, there is additional potential burden placed on women, their families and animal welfare. Take the time to enjoy your Christmas with family and friends.

Winchmore On a very warm and sunny day 30 plus members, partners and friends gathered for the annual bus trip.

This year our organisers put our trip away into the professional hands of David and Gay Beckley. Our trip was chosen to show us what is happening with the rebuild in and around the centre city along with a look at the much damaged New Brighton area, it was so sad to see just empty tar

seal streets and long grasses where people lived their lives in their homes until five years ago.

We stopped briefly at the Arts Centre where much progress has been made in the restoration of these wonderful old university buildings.

A highlight of the trip was a visit to the restored Knox Presbyterian Church which stood like a skeleton for a long time after the earthquakes but this year on February 1, 2015 was opened after a marvellous restoration project.

Our guide Liz told us how they had achieved the restoration with much fundraising and this is still ongoing. Damaged markings to pews and the alter table have not been repaired on purpose so that it will always be a reminder of what happened to Knox.

Our next meeting will be December 16, our Christmas Morning Tea meeting at Lucille’s where members are asked to bring wrapped to exchange” a piece of unwanted bling.”

Anama The fascinating Foothills area was the venue for the Anama Rural Women’s November meeting. Although well-known to many members there is still so much history to explore and places to enjoy in places like the Springburn Museum, the Staveley store and the Awa Awa Rata Reserve in McLennan’s Bush.

First stop was the old Springburn School, moved from its original site to Staveley, where a group of enthusiasts have updated its geological and historical collections to an orderly and wide ranging display.

School rolls from Staveley, Springburn, Alford Forest and Bushside Schools as well as records of land holders made interesting reading for those members whose forebears had lived in the district.

The Anzac Day memorial, the giant wagon wheels outside and the stone fence erected after a Minerals to Art event were only a few of the items pointed out by

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museum member Warren Jowett.

December meeting is a potluck meal on December 18.

Seafield Seafield Rural Women met at St Pauls Lounge with 7 members in attendance for the November Meeting.

Motto for the Month is – Life without friendship is like the sky without sun.

All the business was dealt with and two members have been very busy knitting.

Margaret has knitted four more rugs for the Cancer Children’s Ward at Christchurch Public Hospital and Kerry has knitted 100 beanies for the Ashburton Maternity Ward. Members were thanked for doing Meals on Wheels last month.

We discussed what we would be doing for the Link Meeting.

We closed the meeting and Kerry then spoke on her fabulous trip she had in Rome recently.

It was only a short stay but she packed a lot into it and the photos were lovely of all the beautiful building and their lovely painting that was on the walls and ceilings. Kerry was thanked with a fruit tray then we had a social time before heading home again.

Lynnford Fifteen members met at the home of Judith Cameron on 5th November Judith’s daughter Caroline O’Brien spoke to us about the role Pharmacies play in the community and now the pharmaceutical Budget is spent. After a very interesting talk Caroline was thanked and presented with flowers.

Thanks were expressed to members who had helped with Meals on Wheels, the Hinds and District Lions Club catering and the stand at the Ashburton A&P Show.

Bev will be our delegate at the National Conference being held in Nelson.

Our next meeting December 3, meet at Joan’s Johnstone Street Tinwald, at 10am, our Christmas meeting will be a mystery trip.

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

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

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

Please send your CV and cover letter to:

Desme Daniels General Manager PO Box 77, Ashburton 7740 Or Email desme@theguardian.co.nz Applications close Monday, December 14, 2015

Daily Events Thursday

Sale of Pre loved clothing. Tinwald Methodist New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Church, cnr Archibald and Jane St. Encounter, interactive fun for all ages. Main 9.30am Street, Methven.

9.30am - 12.30pm M.S.A. TAI CHI. ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY INC. 10am Beginners refresher and learning. Social Hall, Open Thursday and Saturday mornings ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Havelock Street. www.toylibrary.ashburtononline.co.nz/ Fit Kidz, 48 Allens Road.

9.30am - 11.30am Methodist Church Hall, Baring Square East. 10am - 11am MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON CLUB. GRANDPARENTS RAISING Daytime section, great exercise, new players 9.30am - 1.30pm ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. GRANDCHILDREN TRUST. welcome, rackets available. EA Networks Op shop closed until Mid-January 2016.Cnr Coffee/Support group on every Thursday.

Centre Stadium. River Terrace.

Cass Street and Havelock Street.

Presbyterian Support Rooms, Tancred St. 9.30am - 12.30pm 10am 10.30am ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. RAKAIA REAL WOMEN. GOODWILL SHOP.

Real women circuit training in the hall, 1st time free. St Andrews Church, Bridge St Rakaia.

10.45am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Stretching exercises for all abilities. Social Hall, Havelock Street.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of may aircraft from past to the future. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

1.30pm M.S.A. PETANQUE CLUB.

Club Day, new members very welcome.

M.S.A. Sports Grounds, 117 Racecourse Road.

2pm R.S.A. WOMENS SECTION. Afternoon social at the R.S.A. Cox Street.

2pm - 3.30pm WAIREKA CROQUET CLUB. Learn to play Association Croquet. Waireka Croquet Club, Philip Street.

7pm ASHBURTON R.S.A. DARTS SECTION. Section night, all welcome. Doris Linton Lounge, R.S.A. Cox Street.

Friday

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research . Ground floor, Heritage Centre, West Street.

9.30am - 11.30am ST ANDREWS ANGLICAN CHURCH. 6am Drop in for a cuppa, clothing sale. St ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Andrews Anglican Church, Cnr Thomson Real women circuit training in hall. 48 Allens and Jane Street, Tinwald.

Road, Allenton.

10am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand Alpine and Agriculture Encounter. Main Street, Methven.

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YOUR STARS ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): You used to listen to your adviser and act on all you learned. This person will come to you for advice. Don’t be surprised. Good teachers are students. Good students are teachers.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Though you’re adept at sensing the needs and feelings of others, somehow it’s difficult for you to connect with your own. Pisces can help.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Don’t miss the magic by focusing too far into the future. Every day is unique and special in its own way, but today features one of the more memorable moments you’ve had in a while.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): There are distances between even the closest of friends that will never be bridged, but you never know when you’ll be able to close another gap.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Pets have much to teach their owners about patience, loyalty and playfulness. You’ll be inspired by the animal kingdom — and you’ll feel in better touch with your inner animal as well.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Your cosmic gift of the day is enhanced powers of visualisation. See yourself completing tasks you know will contribute to your success. While you’re at it, you may as well see yourself having an easy time of it!

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Your soul lights up when exposed to beauty. Art, nature, the best of humanity — if it resonates with the stuff of life, you feel more alive just observing it.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): Everyone fits in somewhere. You suspect it’s harder for you because of your uncommon talents and unusual interests — you might be right. Luckily you have the Internet to help you look for your tribe.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): As long as you don’t allow yourself to be distracted by people who are negatively focused, you’ll naturally gravitate to fine roads and fair weather.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): There’s an art to sensing the right quantity for things. You possess keen judgment and will know how much to use and when to stop. This will help in everything.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): In every endeavour there is a point of diminishing returns. You may have already passed it but you keep going. Either you enjoy the process too much to stop, or you’re still not convinced the yield has been tapped.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): It will be easier than you think to tame the chaos. There are but one or two elements that are out of balance and once you eliminate or offset them the rest will be cake.

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Golfers (back, from left) Hilary Lovett, Catherine Knight, Sharon Bradford, (front) Jessica Shearer, Jenny Kellahan and Ginny Bolderston make up the Aorangi team.

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Aorangi hoping to utilise home advantage

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Aorangi team captain Jenny Kellahan is hoping a strong blend of youth and experience will be the catalyst for some upsets at the upcoming Toro Women’s Interprovincial Golf Tournament at Ashburton Golf Club.

The Aorangi side comprises of Catherine Knight (Ashburton), Ginny Bolderston (Geraldine), Sharon Bradford (Ashburton), Kellahan (Geraldine), Jessica Shearer (Pleasant Point) and reserve Hilary Lovett (Ashburton).

The team’s youngest member, 14-year-old Shearer, will make her

first appearance, while stalwart Knight has played in at least 16 interprovincials.

Aorangi will face some tough competition, locking horns on day one with powerhouses Auckland, who have won the tournament for the past four years, and Canterbury on day two.

Kellahan said her Aorangi team will be distant underdogs, but hopes home advantage will come in to play against some of the “big guns”.

“We’ve certainly got a good combination of ability and experience, but with some of the team being on higher handicaps, the compe-

tition will be very hard,” she said.

“Match play is all on the day and we will go out every round aiming to play to our ability.”

The tournament will run from December 8-12. Aorangi is also drawn to play Southland, Waikato, Tasman and Hawke’s Bay/Poverty Bay.

Football Ferns felled 5-1 by Brazil The New Zealand women’s football side had visions of claiming an unprecedented double over Brazil going into yesterday’s second international but those ambitions were ruined in a second-half onslaught.

Four days after beating the world’s seventh-ranked side 1-0, the Football Ferns were thrashed 5-1 at the Arena Pantanal in Cuiaba. They actually led 1-0 at half-

time thanks to a well-taken strike

by Sarah Gregorious in the 31st minute, even though they came under considerable pressure, but couldn’t contain a free-flowing Brazil in the second half.

Coach Tony Readings said Brazil showed the kind of quality they are capable of and the Football Ferns had to scramble well to limit the damage.

“Definitely Brazil found more

than one gear, probably an extra couple of gears, and that was basically from the outset,” he said.

“They had a much bigger crowd and they were pretty vocal and I think it inspired them to play that little bit quicker and they were pressing us very intensely for the whole of that opening period and we found it hard to adjust to the pace of the game.”

It’s something they will hope to

improve over the next 10 months ahead of the Olympics.

The Football Ferns, who are ranked 16 in the world – their equal highest ranking – should easily qualify for Rio at next month’s Olympic qualifying series against Papua New Guinea.

They have achieved some excellent results over recent years, but have failed to deliver in major tournaments and it hasn’t

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matched their ambitions.

“They were just too good in the second half,” Readings added.

“It’s something we’ve got to learn from. We’ve got to be better.

We’ve got to keep the ball better.

We’ve got to be able to be a little more composed when we win the ball because that’s always been our strength when we’ve had good results – like the one three days ago.

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