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A police officer and members of the public were injured – and at least three people arrested after violent clashes – in Ashburton’s CBD on Saturday night.

According to a police spokeswoman, police responded to reports of groups of people fighting on East Street on Saturday night and early on Sunday morning.

No information about the incident was released on Sunday, but in an emailed statement to media last night police confirmed an officer had been injured in the disorder.

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Police were unable to say how many people were involved in the incident or where on East Street it happened.

They could not say how many police officers attended the incident.

Ashburton police Senior Sergeant Scott Banfield said a constable was hit while attempting to stop an assault.

The alleged offender then fled.

“The constable’s colleagues pursued the offender on foot but were unable to locate him,” Mr Banfield said.

The constable was taken to hospital on Sunday where he received stitches to his face.

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cident, but could not disclose any further details about the injury or how it occurred. She said the officer would remain off duty for a few days while he recovered.

Several members of the public caught up in the incident also required treatment for minor injuries, she said.

Mr Banfield said alcohol appeared to have been a factor in the disorder.

“A Canterbury police dog and handler attended the incident to help disperse the large crowd, and a number of arrests were made,” he said.

Police were unable to say what charges were laid.

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Hedgehog saviour Taranaki police have again spent the early hours of the morning coming to the aid of staggering residents who gave them a prickly welcome. Hawera Sergeant Andrew Russ said he was patrolling the streets at 4am yesterday morning when he happened upon a hedgehog staggering with a plastic cup stuck on its head. “Once I pulled the hedgehog free it then became apparent that it may not have been after the contents of the cup, as there was a snail inside who may have consumed some of the shake and was now being hunted for its shake flavoured aroma,” he said. It wasn’t the first time police had come to the aid of one of their resident hedgehogs. In April 2013, another Hawera officer found a hungry hedgehog stuck in the same type of cup and separated the two, and in November 2014, police in Nelson responded to a similar incident.

Don’t forget to turn out the lights A late-night office romp in Christchurch city centre was caught on camera after the guilty couple forgot to turn the lights off.

The two employees of Marsh Ltd now face losing their jobs over the encounter. Patrons of the Carlton Bar and Eatery were shocked to see the pair get undressed and have sex in the Papanui Road office. Many people took photos and posted them on social media, which have attracted hundreds of likes and comments. The band playing at the Carlton stopped playing and let everyone in the bar watch, some posters said online. “There were about 150 people watching at one point. It was awesome,” one poster said.

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Simon Cowell hypnotised by dog Simon Cowell was left feeling rather “ruff ” after he was hypnotised during a Britain’s Got Talent audition – by a dog. Cowell apparently slumped forward in his judge’s seat and on to his desk after staring into the animal’s eyes. The 55-year-old was holding auditions at Manchester’s Lowry Theatre when he fell under the spell of “Hypnodog”, a black German Spitz called Princess, owned by performer Krystyna Lennon. A spokesman for the show said he had recovered after his episode. “He was fine.”

Hypnodog is a canine stage hypnotist based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, and has performed at universities around the UK, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, music festivals such as the V Festival and at Reading, as well as on cruise ships, at hotels and in casinos, according to its website.

Study offers hope in obesity fight A NZ-led study investigated whether particular signalling pathways in the brain could be blocked to decrease the causes of obesity and Type 2 diabetes.

They used butein to directly stop inflammatory processes in the brain’s hypothalamus caused by a high-fat diet, helping lower blood sugar levels and reduce insulin resistance. The approach was shown to work in obese mice. The researchers say such natural compounds that block inflammation in the brain should be “vigorously investigated” as novel anti-diabetic treatments. The trials by Otago University researchers suggest that butein, derived from plants used in traditional Chinese herbal medicine, can be used to block diet-driven processes in the brain that lead to obesity. The study, led by Dr Alex Tups centred on a part of the brain called the hypothalamus, which is linked to the nervous system and helps regulate many important functions including sleep, heart rate, body temperature, appetite, and body weight.

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No hold music, please New Zealand music legend Neil Finn has criticised the use of his songs for hold music. “I’m ready to fight against the use of my songs for customer service hold music,” the Crowded House and Split Enz star tweeted at the weekend.

He suggested Fur Elise on Casio might be more appropriate because “at least Beethoven is dead”. “Music on hold develops negative association as the customer is having a bad experience.” He added he was okay with supermarkets.

“I suppose I should be happy my songs are being played anywhere.”

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■ ARGYLE PARK

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The future ownership of an 11 acre block of land off Farm Road could be decided in court.

When the Ashburton District Council looked at the possibility of selling a block of bare land that forms part of Argyle Park, it unwittingly revived a legal battle that had been fought more than 40 years earlier between the Ashburton Borough Council and the Argyle family.

Family member Helen Argyle said yesterday she could not talk about ownership of the land on the advice of her solicitor.

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Sell-off plan reignites dispute

By Sue NewmaN

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cil was considering selling the land because there was an historic agreement suggesting if the land was sold, it had to be offered back to the family.

When the council acquired the land in May 1970 from the Argyle Estate, the family had tried to fight the sale through the court system, but had failed, she wrote.

Council commercial manager John Rooney said the acquisition document showed the land had been designated a recreational reserve when it was bought by the council, but that did not automatically mean it would be subject to a buy-back clause. “Not all of council’s land purchases are subject to Section 40 of the Public Works

Act that could include an offer back clause.

“This only applies if it was purchased for a particular purpose and the council no longer requires it for that purpose.”

There would be a number of hoops and hurdles to jump through before any de-acquisition, but if the land was required to be offered back to the original owners, it would be at the current market value, Mr Rooney said.

“It’s not a case of getting it back for what you paid for it, it would be for what it was worth on today’s market.

“Either they’d purchase it at the current market value or it would be sold on the open market; there’d be no discounting.”

No decisions on selling any of the council’s land holdings would be made until after it reviewed its open spaces strategy, he said.

This is the third occasion Mr Rooney can recall the sale of a piece of Argyle Park coming under discussion.

“Council reviews all of its assets from time to time, which ones we need to hold on to and which ones could be put to better use.”

The top section of Argyle Park was leased as a market garden in 1971.

Its sale has been suggested as a way of releasing cash for the development of playing fields around the EA Networks Centre.

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Powhiri a welcome for students, staff old and new

By DaiSy HuDSoN

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Ashburton College principal Grant McMillan addresses staff and students at the college’s powhiri yesterday.

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A bright and sunny morning set the scene for a special occasion at Ashburton College yesterday.

The college held a powhiri to welcome new staff and students into the school, and to mark the beginning of the new school year.

Meanwhile, hundreds of children around the district headed back to school today as the new school year kicked into gear.

All schools will have reopened their doors by the end of this week.

About 260 Year 9 students formally became part of the college during the ceremony, as did the college’s 13 new staff members.

The powhiri has been an important fixture on the college calendar for the past six years.

Ashburton College principal Grant McMillan welcomed the staff and students into “the college whanau” with a mihi.

That was followed by a waiata, or traditional Maori song, and a speech by Head of the Ashburton College Maori department Tipene Phillip.

The ceremony was capped off with a hongi between the new members of the college and current staff and students.

The ceremony was followed by the college’s first full school assembly of the year, where Mr McMillan emphasised the importance of working hard throughout the school year and embracing college life.

He also touched on another college milestone, with the school celebrating its 50th jubilee this year.

Police briefs Ashburton police attended three domestic incidents on Sunday.

A 32-year-old male was arrested for assault at 4.30pm on Friday.

A male was arrested for theft at 2pm on Friday.

Charges over crash An Australian man will appear in the Dunedin District Court this week facing charges relating to a three-vehicle crash near Milford Sound on Sunday. Melbourne man Udit Choudnar, 49,is charged with careless driving causing injury to Julieta Corres and Ludmilla Fernandez on the Milford road on Sunday. He appeared before a registrar in the Queenstown District Court yesterday and was remanded on an intimated guilty plea to appear in Dunedin on Thursday. Included in his bail conditions were not to drive a motor vehicle and to surrender his passport. The woman was flown to Southland Hospital in a serious condition, while her passenger was treated at the scene for minor injuries.

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Pig taken; two injured A pig has been stolen and two seriously injured in an incident at a South Island piggery over the weekend. A neighbour heard loud squealing coming from the Rivernook Piggery, in Grovetown, Blenheim, in the early hours of Saturday morning, police said.

The neighbour reported hearing a diesel vehicle enter the property moments before the squealing began. It was later discovered that one pig was missing, and two pigs seriously injured with cuts to their bodies. It was not clear whether the two injured animals would survive, police said.

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Challenging rescue Police describe the rescue of an American tourist from the Ananui Cave at Charleston on Sunday night as “challenging”. The woman was on a guided tour of the cave, in the Nile River area, when she slipped on the limestone floor. She was among 15 people on the tour.

Search and rescue co-ordinator Sean Judd said some of the caving tour staff, along with caving search and rescue staff and police were involved in the rescue. “All up we had about 25 people involved in the woman’s rescue,” Mr Judd said.

Rescuers had to carry the woman for about 300m. “We had to carry her through some pretty narrow spots and when we came out, the next challenge was some steep stairs, which took us out into the bush, then on to the riverbed.”

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Woman killed in crash A 25-year-old woman has died in a single-vehicle crash in the Tararua District on Sunday. The crash occurred on Mangamaire Rd and a member of the public alerted emergency services around 7.30pm. The woman, who was the sole occupant of the vehicle, was pronounced dead at the scene.

She has been named as Monique Miers, 25, of Palmerston North.

It was still unclear what factors had led to the crash.

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■ MILK PAYOUT PRICE

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Synlait forecast at $4.40 Synlait Milk has followed its competitors, revising down its forecast milk payout by 60 cents a kilogram, to $4.40 for this season.

The milk processing company also announced a corresponding decrease in advance rates paid to farmers.

Synlait chairman Graeme Milne said this revision is the result of several factors at play in the global market, which were causing continued downward pressure on milk prices.

“Low commodity prices are persisting as the global mar-

ket struggles with the current over supply of milk products,” he said.

“We remain confident in previous guidance around our FY2015 performance, although there is no doubt that the world continues to be a volatile place.”

Mr Milne said the company expected to benefit from an increase in infant formula and nutritional sales by the end of the financial year, but this would be offset by rising operational and funding costs.

“The manufacturer of milk powder has a financial year to

July 31. It is maintaining its full year results guidance,” he said.

Synlait expects to update its forecast towards the end of May. It is the latest company to react to 12-months of spiraling milk prices in the face of weakening demand and a solid supply.

Dairy giant Fonterra has clawed back its forecast price to $4.70kg/MS from last season’s record $8.40kg/MS. Westland Milk Products also reduced its forecast to $5-$5.50.

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John Penno said the over-supply in the global dairy market is unlikely to change in the short term, however prices are expected to strengthen again in the medium term as supply and demand rebalances.

He acknowledged the impact the price drop would have the company’s suppliers “It’s shaping up to be a tough year for our suppliers and cash flows will be tight. But they are aware of larger market volatility and many of them have been planning accordingly,” Mr Penno said.

■ MID CANTERBURY SEED CROPS

Nets playing greater role in bid to deter birds

By Michelle NelsoN michelle.n@theguardian.co.nz

The annual battle against birds is under way in the country’s seed bowl.

If left unprotected, birds can take more than half a high value crop in Mid Canterbury, and that’s a risk South Pacific Seeds cannot afford to take, managing director John McKay said.

While early pioneers introduced birds from the “old country” for sentimental reasons, Mr McKay has no such fondness for them.

A team of 12 people is dedicated to protecting vulnerable crops against the flying seed eaters.

Led by Todd Mahon, four teams of three spend about five months of the year putting bird netting on and taking it off again, covering about 600 hectares of hybrid vegetable seeds every year, to keep sparrows and green finches at bay.

“These are high value crops, and in the areas where there are a lot of birds, often where there are a lot of trees or rivers, we cover the crops for the farmers.

Ashburton’s best gardens will be on show on Sunday when a team of horticultural experts decide this year’s winners in the town’s top garden competition.

Twenty home gardeners have entered the event, and given the challenges that have been faced from a hot, dry summer, Ashburton Horticultural Society president Joy Jaine said the number and standard of entries was good.

“We’ve also got some exciting new gardens in this year and some surprising new lawns,” she said.

The judging panel will be led by two experts from Christchurch who will be accompanied by two locals.

Judging takes place on Sunday afternoon, wet or fine.

Ambulance calls Ashburton’s St John Ambulance travelled 3229 kilometres last week attending 100 calls. Of those 35 were urgent. Seventy-one of the callouts were to medical events and 28 to accidents.

Clarification Anna Arrowsmith, a local counsellor would like to clarify a point made in a story that ran on Friday on page 6. She does not believe texting is as effective as face-to-face counselling sessions, she believes it is as effective as one-on-one phone sessions.

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Hundreds of hectares of Mid Canterbury crops are hidden under bird net.

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The teams work every day from early December until the end of April putting netting on and taking it off again.

Some equipment is used to put it on but by and large it’s a heavy, manual task.

“The netting is removed in

front of the harvester, and we have some machines to do that – it’s the same kind of netting used in vineyards and we can use the same machines to take it off,” Mr McKay said.

“After that the netting has to be cleaned, because seedpods

can stick in the net, and we can use it on another variety of crops, so there’s quite a bit of work even after it comes off.

“It can be used for quite a few years, until it breaks down in the sun or gets torn, but we try to look after it.”

■ FUEL PRICES

Fuel price rises ‘a bit on the nose’ The golden run of cheaper petrol could be at an end with prices at the pump increasing for the first time in four months, AA says.

All fuels have increased by 4 cents per litre, which AA PetrolWatch spokesman Mark Stockdale said was “a bit on the nose”.

The blame could be placed on the low New Zealand dollar, which had fallen 5c in the past fortnight to the lowest

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level since September 2010, he said in a statement on the company’s website.

“Commodity prices have also risen for the first time since August, which suggests the long run of reductions are over.”

Margins had now fallen to levels last seen in April last year, which meant fuel companies had passed on all of the commodity price reductions, Mr Stockton said.

“Now the imported cost of

fuel has risen, but it would have been preferable if fuel companies raised prices only 2c at a time – the same rate at which they cut prices – a 4c hike in one go is a bit on the nose.”

After a run of 22 straight price cuts in a row since October, petrol prices had fallen to their lowest levels since May 2010, and diesel to prices not seen since 2009, Mr Stockton said.

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Sheena Thomas said barrel prices had been “trending up” over the past couple of weeks and the company had held off increasing prices as long as possible “So when the barrel was coming down we basically thought that it would be better to pass the savings on quickly, which meant we had to do it in smaller amounts rather than holding the price and cutting it by 4c all at once.”

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Prime Minister John Key has hinted at some frustration with former MP Mike Sabin for failing to tell National about the personal issues that led to his resignation prior to the election, saying Mr Sabin had almost been appointed as a minister and news of his issues had come as “a shock”. Northland voters will go back to the polls for a by-election on March 28 after Mr Sabin resigned last week, citing family and personal issues. That came a month after reports he was being investigated by police.

Mr Key said the first he knew of any problems Mr Sabin faced was in early December, when his chief of staff told him. It is understood Mr Sabin’s issue arose prior to the election.

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Poachers located Environmental activist group Sea Shepherd says it has intercepted two of the illegal poaching vessels which outran New Zealand’s navy in Antarctic waters last month.

The HMNZS Wellington spent two weeks pursuing three vessels – the Songhua, Kunlun and Yongding – which were illegally fishing in the Southern Ocean. The standoff ended when the navy was unable to board the foreign-flagged ships and began running low on fuel.

Sea Shepherd said its ship the Sam Simon intercepted both the Yongding and the Kunlun inside Australian waters yesterday, with prohibited fishing gear on deck.

Sam Simon captain Sid Chakravarty radioed the vessels, ordering them out of the region.

The Yongding then turned directly toward the Sam Simon, missing a collision by 10 metres, the group said. “This is the second instance in the last month that both the Yongding and the Kunlun have been found in Australian waters,” Mr Chakravarty said.

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■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COUNCIL

Planning for a population rise in next 18 years

BY SUE NEWMAN

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When it comes to planning for the future, the Ashburton District is among a small group of local authorities looking at a population increase over the next 18 years.

A discussion document on local government funding shows that more than two-thirds of New Zealand’s 84 local authorities will have a lower population in 2031 than they did in 2013. And that, mayor Angus McKay said, makes it very difficult for any council to plan and carry out new work.

Falling numbers meant a falling rating base and that meant the cost of big ticket infrastructural work would be hard to meet.

In many ways that was a double-edged sword for some local authorities as they may have been unable to afford maintenance work in the preceding years, Mr McKay said.

“This is the reason it’s very important for a council to look out 10 years and to say we have to look at putting money into things like tourism and new initiatives. If you stop doing this then you’ll go backwards; you have to keep revising and refreshing.”

Ashburton was fortunate, not only in having a growing population but in having earlier councils that had invested in maintaining services and upgrading these as required; some councils that hadn’t were now having a cash crisis as they struggled to fund essential work, he said.

“You have to keep chipping away at maintaining services because no one sees

anything wrong until it comes bubbling up on to the street or they run out of water.”

The funding review has been initiated by Local Government New Zealand, with the organisation’s president Laurence Yule saying it was designed to stimulate discussion around funding opportunities and constraints. It identifies key pressures that impact on councils and make the cost of doing business more expensive and that influence the sustainability of the current funding system.

This for most councils, is a mix of rates, grants from Government agencies, interest on investments and loans.

It also looks at the option for cash strapped councils of having a higher level of user-pay apply to council services.

Ashburton already had a strong element of this, Mr McKay said, with targeted rates for many services, user-pay rubbish collection and water meters to measure consumption in some parts of the district.

The document also identifies areas where populations will have a disproportionately high number of people aged 65 and over by 2013. Ashburton, along with the rest of Canterbury falls into the 20 to 30 per cent bracket. Timaru, Mackenzie and Waitaki are likely to have more than 30 per cent of their population aged 65 and over.

The cost of running the Ashburton District is anticipated to increase more than 35 per cent over the next seven years, with rates making an increasingly significant contribution to the total amount.

■ MID CANTERBURY BIG DRY

January the driest for 17 years

BY SUSAN SANDYS

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Drought-like conditions are confirmed for Mid Canterbury by January rainfall data from Niwa’s Ashburton Domain weather station.

Niwa is expected to release its official national climate summary for the month today, but domain records obtained by the Guardian yesterday show 2015 recorded the driest January for 17 years.

There was just 17.8 millimetres of rainfall for the month. This compares to 14.9 millimetres in 1998.

This year it was the eighth driest January since records began in 1910, with 1939 having recorded the driest of all, with just 7.9 millimetres of rain. Previous dry Januaries include 1960 with 15.6 millimetres of rain, 1985 with 15.2 millimetres, 1982 with 11.5 millimetres,

1987 with 11.4 millimetres and 1992 with 15.5 millimetres.

Hot weather has continued into early February, and Ashburton reached a high of 32.8 degrees Celsius on Sunday, the hottest temperature in the country for the day.

Like everyone else, council parks and open spaces manager David Askin is hoping for rain.

“February will be interesting,” he said, adding that was when dry conditions traditionally could really set in.

He said plants in the domain were coping with the heat and dry conditions with an irrigation system in use, although some of the newer plantings were struggling.

“We have been out with water carts watering trees that don’t have irrigation,” Mr Askin said.

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■ ASHBURTON SOCIETY OF ARTS

Summer art show kicks off About 30 people attended an opening function for the Ashburton Society of Arts summer show on Friday.

Sixteen society members are displaying and selling their work at the show, being held at the society’s Short Street Studio.

Award-wining painter Mehrdad Tahan of Christchurch is the guest artist and has works for sale ranging up to about $4000.

Convenor Ngaio McKee said yesterday it was the first time one of the society’s

annual shows at the studio had opened with an opening function, and it had been a success.

Jewellery and painted ornaments, created by two of the artists, sold well, she said.

“No paintings as yet, but a lot of interest,” Mrs McKee added.

The summer show will be open 10am to 3pm Saturdays and Sundays, and at other times when the sign is out, or by appointment by phoning Mrs McKee on 308-4533.

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Rolleston fire A grass fire that closed a state highway at Rolleston and forced residents of one home to be evacuated has been brought under control. The blaze, which closed State Highway 1, 6km north of Rolleston between Robertsons Rd and Waterholes Rd, spread to around 10ha, the Fire Service said.

Firefighters used three helicopters, seven fire trucks and eight tankers to bring the fire under control, Fire Service Canterbury area commander Dave Berry said.

They spent more than two hours battling the blaze, which was called in around 1pm. It was now contained, and firefighters were in the dampening down stage.

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Taking over a newly created position would be a challenge for anyone, but it’s a challenge Ashburton College’s new executive officer is ready to embrace.

The executive officer position is a new role that oversees a number of departments including finances, administration, and health and safety.

Charlie Kelland had his first day on the job last week, and he was looking forward to a busy and exciting year ahead.

With a background in business and finance, Mr Kelland is well suited to the role, which he described as ensuring the “mechanics” of the college were working.

He also wanted to ensure the college’s students, including his three children, were able to work to the best of their ability.

“If it’s good for the students, let’s do it,” he said.

“If there’s no benefit for the kids, let’s just drop it.”

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New Ashburton College executive officer Charlie Kelland is looking forward to tackling his new role.

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He is also well versed in the ins and outs of the education system, having served on the board of Allenton School for

seven years.

For Mr Kelland, the job’s biggest drawcard was the challenge.

“I like the variety, and getting to work with such a wide range of committed people,” he said.

Hokitika is on tenterhooks with a life-changing $6.5 million winning Lotto ticket still not claimed by yesterday. Gary Lee, of Hokitika New World where the ticket was sold, said scores of ticket holders had called in to check their tickets, just in case. However, as of yesterday morning the West Coast’s potentially newest multi-millionaire was still to come forward. “At this stage we have had no word that the ticket has been claimed and we have had no one in to claim it,” Mr Lee said.

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Execution date looms

By GaBrielle Dunlevy

Thailand’s junta is tightening security after two homemade pipe bombs detonated near a Bangkok shopping mall, the first major disruption to an uneasy peace imposed under martial law since last May’s coup. Authorities declined to speculate whether the small bombs - which caused minor injuries to two passers-by when they exploded near the downtown Paragon mall on Sunday evening - were linked to the nation’s turbulent politics.

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The four surviving original Magna Carta copies will go on display together for the first time as Britain celebrates the document’s 800th anniversary. Considered the cornerstone of liberty, modern democracy, justice and the rule of law, the 1215 English charter forms the basis for legal systems around the world, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the US constitution.

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All talk but no peace

Australian death-row prisoners Myuran Sukumaran, right and Andrew Chan, left.

Sukumaran, 33, exhausted their avenues for appeal when President Joko Widodo refused them clemency.

But he promised not to interfere with the court process.

“We hope the courts will see with clear vision how dangerous narcotics are to our nation,” he said.

“I will not influence that.”

Mr Prasetyo said planning was under way for the executions: “We’re just waiting for the right time.”

The Netherlands and Brazil recalled their ambassadors from Jakarta after their citizens

on death row were denied mercy for drug offences and were executed last month.

Australia has not ruled out the same action if the Bali Nine ringleaders are executed.

Mr Joko yesterday met Indonesia’s ambassadors at a gathering in Jakarta, where he told them to explain to their respective countries that the death penalty was part of Indonesia’s law.

Ambassador to Australia, Najib Riphat Kesoema, was himself was recalled from Canberra in 2013 over the spying scandal.

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He says Australians have to accept the executions “because this is law enforcement in Indonesia”.

“I don’t think there will be some difficulties in our diplomatic relations because the foundation of the relations is so good,” he told reporters.

He had received more than 100 letters from all levels of society in Australia concerning the coming executions.

On the other hand, he had seen reports of polling that found 52 per cent of Australians supported the executions.

- AAP

Journalist freed after 400 days in Egyptian jail The Greste family spent 400 days fighting for their son’s freedom. In the end it came so fast it made their heads spin.

But exactly when the Al Jazeera journalist will be back on Australian soil remains unclear, as his family closes ranks around him to protect his mental health.

They say he’ll need time in his safe haven of Cyprus, to digest the fact he’s finally free after more than a year in an Egyptian jail.

He was jailed after being accused of spreading false news and supporting the banned Islamist movement of deposed president Mohamed Morsi.

His euphoric family have spoken of their guarded hope when the rumour mill went

Security stepped up

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■ INDONESIA

Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan are in the next group of Indonesian prisoners to be executed despite fresh legal efforts to save them.

Attorney-General HM Prasetyo, who last week said Australians were among the foreign drug offenders in line for execution, confirmed yesterday that the plans were going ahead.

Asked if Chan and Sukumaran were on the list for the next round, he told reporters: “Yes, included in the next round”.

Their application for a second judicial review, accepted by the courts on Friday, included handwritten pleas from the men, and accounts of their rehabilitation behind bars at Bali’s Kerobokan jail.

Mr Prasetyo said that didn’t constitute new evidence.

“From what I’ve heard, the new evidence, or what’s being called new evidence, submitted, is not actually new,” he told reporters.

“It’s about current developments.

“The meaning of new evidence is evidence from before the sentencing, which would make the sentence different.

“What was submitted was something that happened after the sentencing.”

As far as the attorney-general is concerned, Chan, 31, and

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into overdrive at the weekend, with their sources in Egypt and in Australia telling them Peter could soon walk free.

Within hours it had happened, and by early yesterday, Australian time, he was in Cyprus, with his brother Michael by his side.

Australian diplomats on the ground in Cairo, who had worked so tirelessly for Peter’s freedom, whisked him straight from prison and onto a plane bound for the safety of the Mediterranean island country.

And that’s where he’ll stay for as long as he needs to.

“I think he’ll recover well but he needs that space,” his ecstatic mother Lois Greste told reporters yesterday. “(He’ll come back) when he’s ready to come back. And not before.”

Lois Greste speaks to the media at a press conference yesAP PHOTO terday.

Lois, father Juris, and brother Andrew laughed and at times blinked back tears as they spoke of the extraordinary international campaign to free Peter and two of his Al Jazeera colleagues following their arrest in December 2013.

They said Peter wanted to thank everyday Australians, journalists world wide, and leaders including US President Barack Obama for fighting to free him from his seven-year jail term.

There was special thanks too for Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, but the highest praise was reserved for diplomats, particularly those on the ground in Cairo, who did the leg work.

“While we’re in knighthood mode, I would commend them and recommend them for a collective knighthood, one and all,” Juris told reporters.

The family’s euphoria has been tempered by the fact Peter’s colleagues - Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy and producer Baher Mohamed - remain locked up on charges described as politically motivated.

- AAP

After 13 months of fighting and failed ceasefires, a new deal to end South Sudan’s war is likely to mean return to the climate that precipitated the carnage. The latest peace proposal drafted in Addis Ababa by regional bloc IGAD would leave Salva Kiir as president and re-install rebel leader Riek Machar as his deputy.

It’s a position the latter held until July 2013 when his sacking planted the seed of the violence that erupted five months later. Kiir and Machar agreed a new ceasefire late yesterday but failed to reach agreement on the power-sharing deal to end a conflict that has left tens of thousands dead.

- AFP

Race-fixing ring A suspected harness race fixing ring in regional Victoria involved relatively small amounts of money, police believe, possibly in a bid to escape detection. Five men attached to the harness racing industry were arrested early yesterday as police swooped on properties in Mildura. The men are being questioned about races during ten months leading up to December 2014, including two allegedly fixed races in Mildura. “At this time it is believed that this is an isolated matter, relevant to the geographical area of Mildura and surrounds,” said Victoria Police Superintendent Peter Brigham.

- AAP

Ukraine arms report NATO and the US appear to be considering sending defensive weapons to forces fighting proRussian separatists in Ukraine, according to The New York Times.

Though President Barack Obama has not yet decided whether to dispatch “lethal assistance”, his administration is reviewing the issue after a surge in fighting between Kiev and Kremlin-backed rebels, the paper says. NATO’s military commander General Philip Breedlove now supports providing defensive weapons and Secretary of State John Kerry is open to fresh talks on the subject, it says.

The United States has accused Russia of conducting a proxy war in Ukraine but has so far ruled out arms deliveries to Kiev.

- AFP

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OUR VIEW

Exciting, uncertain future for education Stu Oldham

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he excitement and uncertainty felt by the hundreds of children who started their first full year at school must surely be echoed by the schools they have joined.

This year promises to be an eventful – even future-setting – one for the district’s primary schools, which will continue to tackle the challenges that affected them last year.

Setting aside the almost inevitable issues associated with their payroll – the Novopay debacle just kept giving into Christmas – schools have some sizeable issues to meet.

For yet another year, most Mid Canterbury primary schools are juggling resources to manage ballooning rolls.

Last year, some schools held classes in libraries and administration blocks. This year, many have embarked on building programmes to provide more space.

This up-front response to the changing face of primary education in the district is just one of the responses that much of the district will consider to meet stellar roll growth.

This year, schools will also have to work with the Ministry of Education as policy makers come up with a way to smooth roll growth and target further school investment.

By the end of last year, it was clear that school area zoning would have to be discussed as a stop-valve to difficult-to-manage, cross district enrolments.

Eight state primary schools have enrolment zones, while ten do not. Some principals support zoning but others are worried how zoning might affect funding to teach out-of-zone pupils.

As zoning talk grows, there are also suggestions zones will affect the property market and that some sought-after school areas will become sought-after bubbles for real estate.

If this happens, the ministry’s decisions about education delivery would have a bearing on what happens outside the classroom.

It follows that school boards will want to involve their communities as soon as they can.

The excitement and uncertainty of this year may be far-reaching.

YOUR VIEW Water supply In reference to the letter about the use of the town water supply in Methven (Methven water, January 29), Bubble and Squeak Car and Dog Wash does not rely on town supply water for its operation.

We truck water in for use at the site so people can be assured that they are reducing their own use of town water while water restrictions are in place.

Bubble and Squeak Car and Dog Wash owner-operator John Harmer

Rakaia sports centre On the Guardian Facebook page, readers discussed whether the Ashburton District Council should help fund the proposed Rakaia sports centre: I think Rakaia people do help themselves and a lot of others in Ashburton by paying our rates yet receiving little in

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return. No footpaths on every street, having to push your pram on the road is not ideal a pothole that appears on the roundabout every two weeks (never fixed properly) rubbish, recycling collection although volunteers try hard the bags are useless and rip.

So perhaps it is time to say ‘what about us’? Surrounding areas have enjoyed the rewards of Rakaia people for years when we pay our rates, maybe now it is our turn to see something positive from all the rates we pay.

- Kathryn Fleming Definitely yes! Would be put to much better use than that art gallery that’s for sure. Get your family to spend the day at our sports centre and then 10 minutes in your art gallery and tell me which one they would prefer – a ‘day out’ in Rakaia or the 10 minute walk through the art building with nothing in it.

Ask yourself Ashburtonians.

by David Fletcher

- Tania Robinson “A township of under 1000 people, its most obvious feature is a large fibreglass salmon.” Nice ideal, but who is going to utilise it?

I’m not to fussed with our civic “guardians” spending our future ratings in the here ’n’ now at the rate that they have escalated to over the last two or three councils, when much of the county’s infrastructure needs current attention and expansion for the future . . . not yet Rakaia, maybe a more pressing project in your wonderful town would be more apt?

- Mike Kettley Ashburton and Methven have had their turns now it’s Rakaia’s.

- William Fleming I live in Rakaia and we don’t need anything that big it’d just be a waste of time like the art gallery in Ashburton.

The only sport played in Rakaia week in and out on the fields is rugby.

Hockey and netball are all played in Ashburton, squash have their own excellent facilities.

They just need to forget about this ridiculous setup and build a bigger rugby club rooms and gym!

- Kody Nordqvist Yes, we don’t get anything else out here, you should see the quality of our roads.

- Catherine Robinson Yep why not then Hinds can have a new one too, Methven will need one as well I hope they don’t leave Mt Somers and Mayfield out of big ticket items as us rate payers don’t mind chucking our cash around. If Rakaia want one that bad and need it for their large number of sporting teams then do the fundraising and build it.

- Kevin Urquhart

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Irrigation – a common good

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POLL RESULT Yesterday’s result Q: Can new Labour leader Andrew Little challenge John Key at the next election?

No 68%

Andrew Hoggard

Yes 32%

FROM THE FARM

W

ater storage for agriculture is becoming a defining issue of our times. In my last column I advocated for capturing rainfall and how farmers are very keen on doing more of it. Not all commentators are that keen though.

One common refrain is “that those socialist bludging farmers want us to pay for it”, and indeed in many of their articles they will refer to government investment. So, is it right that government should invest in such infrastructure that will have potentially large benefits to private individuals?

But before we get to that point with any discussions around water storage or irrigation projects, the environmental discussion should take place first before the business case for government investment is made.

By that I mean that the affected communities in those particular catchments need to decide what are the attributes they want of their waterways under the National Objectives Framework for Freshwater Management. This will then set out what nitrogen leaching limits will apply to farmland, as well as any limitations that may apply to farming practices with the need to control sediment and phosphorous levels in the waterways.

Once that is worked through, then you are able to have the discussion on more irrigation simply as a business proposition.

If you look at irrigation infrastructure, and the case for government investment, it comes down to whether or not you believe this infrastructure is the same as other infrastructure, such as roads, power generation and distribution, telecommunications, urban water supplies, and sewerage systems, to name a few.

A segment of this diverse infrastructure is now privately owned. But it came into being as 100 per cent government owned, and one would ques-

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Is it right that government should invest in such infrastructure that will have potentially large benefits to private individuals such as the recreational benefits the North Otago and South Canterbury region gain from the Waitaki Hydroelectric Scheme?

tion would it have come into place without that government assistance.

If we look at roads for example, whilst the people who may live on a certain road get the majority of the benefit from that road, the rest of the country benefits through having the ability of people being able to get to their jobs, and be productive, purchase goods and services, and for those goods and services to move about the country. Without a decent roading network this country would be hamstrung economically.

This is why with road funding there is a contribution from ratepayers, through roading rates for their local roads, but also taxpayers directly through fuel taxes, and also the general fund.

Do we call the 20 families who may live in a particular street in any New Zealand town a pack of bludgers because they didn’t directly pay for that street they live on? Of course not, because otherwise nothing would get built in this country.

For proper planning you don’t just leave this up to individuals to do willy nilly. It needs some central planning

and impetus to get these things moving.

Another example is High Speed Broadband. The government is investing plenty of money into that. Again there are benefits to the country as a whole from having faster internet speeds.

Plenty of people will get individual benefits from this, and some people may not get any at all, but the country as a whole will benefit.

So I believe the same is the case with irrigation. You only have to look at many of the case examples that are already out there of the economic benefits to districts where irrigation has resulted in more productivity for farmers, which has then translated to more business in those rural towns.

This then flows through to more business in the head offices in the cities. We are a small country and we are all very much interconnected.

Poor traffic in Auckland results in delays for getting my products to the ports for export, creates costs for Fonterra’s head office and so on.

By improving transportation in Auckland, there is some benefit to me on the farm, and the reverse is just as true.

With any of this you need good economic analysis to properly determine what the benefit to the country will be from any scheme, and then correctly apportion the benefits to the individual and the community as a whole, both regionally and nationally. This will give clear guidance as to how much each beneficiary should contribute.

But it is also not just a case of looking solely at numbers when determining the benefits.

When in 1928 they started building the dams for what became the Waitaki Hydroelectric Scheme did their equations include the immense recreational benefits that the North Otago and South Canterbury region gets from those lakes?

We in New Zealand can be a little short-sighted in our timeframes for looking for payback from this infrastructure.

If we build it right, then much of this could be with us for many hundreds of years.

The payback may not just be in our lifetimes but in that of future generations.

Andrew Hoggard is Federated Farmers Dairy Industry Group chairperson

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■ NZ DOLLAR

Dollar may continue to fall The New Zealand dollar, which fell to a four-year low after the Reserve Bank last week dropped its tightening bias and opened the door to possible rate cuts, may continue its decline this week.

The kiwi may trade between 70 US cents and 74.90 cents, according to a BusinessDesk survey of 12 currency traders and strategists. Seven expect the currency to gain, while two say it may rise and three bet it will remain broadly unchanged.

It was recently trading at 72.64 US cents.

The New Zealand dollar fell sharply last week after Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler said future interest rate moves could be up or down, removing his previous bias for higher rates. Some traders are now betting that the next move will be a cut and this sentiment could be strengthened should the Reserve Bank of Australia

lower interest rates. Traders are currently pricing in a 69 per cent chance of an Australian cut this week, according to the Overnight Swap Curve.

“Heading into the early part of the week, it looks to me as

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Fonterra misses deadline

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market analyst at CMC Markets in Sydney yesterday. “There may be some spillover effect into the kiwi. We might just see people beginning to wonder if the RBNZ might ultimately move to an easing bias as well if global

■ NEW ZEALAND CHEESE

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Source: NZX

though we may just see some ongoing momentum from the big declines we saw last week and that may be added to if we see the Reserve Bank of Australia cut interest rates tomorrow,” said Ric Spooner, chief

pressures continue.”

Still, CMC’s Spooner said the kiwi is unlikely to decline at the same pace as last week as traders are wary of pushing the US dollar too high given the impact a strengthening greenback has on US exports.

Those traders expecting the kiwi to rise or remain neutral this week pointed to a Relative Strength Index reading of 23.

An RSI reading approaching 30 signals an asset may be oversold, according to the technical momentum indicator.

This week, traders will be eyeing governor Wheeler’s speech to the Canterbury Employers Chamber of Commerce in Christchurch tomorrow for further clues on the outlook for monetary policy. Some economists are expecting Wheeler to announce further rules to dampen a bubbling housing market amid concerns it could be flamed by lower interest rates. – NZME

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Fonterra said the failure of its United States operation to apply in time for licences to import New Zealand cheese into the US in 2015 would have limited financial impact on the cooperative.

“Due to human error, a deadline was missed which meant

that Fonterra (USA) failed to apply in time for licences to import New Zealand cheese into the USA in 2015,” Fonterra’s director global ingredients, Kelvin Wickham, said.

Fonterra said it had reached commercial arrangements with other New Zealand cheese licence holders to ensure that it would meet its planned New

Zealand cheese orders in the US. “The financial impact is limited and our 2015 sales will not be impacted,” Wickham said.

The United States is not a strategic market for Fonterra, with the co-operative selling just 20 per cent of its allowable quota there, a spokesman said.

– NZME

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Kathmandu shares slump

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Kathmandu Holdings stock slumped 19 per cent to a twoand-a-half year low after the outdoor goods retailer said Christmas and January trading lagged behind expectations, resulting in a first-half loss.

The loss was $1 million to $2 million in the 26 weeks ended January 25, compared with a profit of $11.4 million in the same period a year earlier, the Christchurch-based company said in a statement. First-half sales rose 6.9 per cent to $179.2 million.

The company’s shares slid 39 cents to $1.62, the lowest level since August 2012. The stock was the worst performer on the NZX 50 benchmark index yesterday.

Kathmandu’s earnings failed to meet its expectations during the first half of its financial year after it discounted prices to clear out excess stock, particularly in Australia, which hurt margins. Sales of summer and nontechnical clothing didn’t meet forecasts across Christmas and January while in New Zealand, sales of cold weather clothing declined after Christmas during an extended period of dry and warm weather.

“It’s clearly worse than the market expected,” said Matt Goodson, who holds the stock among the more than $700 million in equities he helps manage at Salt Funds Management. “It is critical that they have strong Easter and winter sales.”

Kathmandu generates about 60 per cent of its sales in the

second half of its financial year and some 70 per cent of its full year profit. Before yesterday’s announcement, the company was expected to report a 17 per cent decline in full-year profit to $35 million, according to analysts polled by Reuters.

Those estimates are now likely to be downgraded, said Salt’s Goodson. Investors will be watching to see if the decline in margins is temporary or permanent, he said.

Kathmandu’s profit warning may have caught some investors off guard because trading has been mixed across retailers during the period, Goodson said. “It has clearly come as a disappointment to the market given that trading across the retail space hasn’t been uniformly poor.”

– NZME

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The big dry: NZ at risk

By Jamie morton

Rain forecast for this week is unlikely to offset a soil-parching big dry that has put much of the country at serious fire risk and begun to hurt farmers in hotspot areas.

On Sunday, farmers and fire officials welcomed long-awaited rain throughout most of New Zealand – but doubted it would bring any meaningful relief to those places that had received little of their normal levels this season.

What has been one of the driest summers yet has led Federated Farmers to predict official drought declarations are “on the cards”.

The National Institute of Water Atmosphere (Niwa) has described nearly all of the North Island and much of the South Island as a “hot spot” where soil conditions are much drier than normal.

Only sustained rainfall over an extended period would bring the arid areas back to normal.

In Auckland, the city’s water storage level on Sunday was at 71 per cent – 10 per cent less than the average for this time of year – but no restrictions have been introduced.

While rain forecast in coming days for central and western parts of the North Island could prove enough, it would likely fall well short of what is needed in other hot spots.

National Rural Fire Authority executive Gary Lockyer said fire-danger conditions remained severe in parts of the Waikato, the Central North Island, Canterbury and Otago.

After a week that saw 15 vegetation fires – including one that scorched more than 330ha of tussock and forest near Arthur’s Pass before nearly 50 firefighters could put it out – the risk of scrub fires was considered extreme across a large swathe of the South Island, as well as pockets of the North Island’s east coast.

The weekend rain might have brought some respite to busy fire crews, Mr Lockyer said, “but all in all, there won’t be a lot of change”.

“We are now heading into February, and the situation is already reasonably serious, because by now we normally would have seen some easing of conditions in some regions.

“Fire danger levels are widespread right across the country, and apart from the West Coast and Southland, there’s no one region that’s good.”

Federated Farmers adverse events spokeswoman Katie Milne also wasn’t aware of any volumes at the weekend large enough to bring relief to struggling farms. “You really do need quite a lot and over a nice long period for it to absorb. If you just get a cloud burst, it basically runs off because the ground is like concrete.”

Although no droughts have been officially declared anywhere, Federated Farmers is this week opening a hotline for struggling farmers to buy feed.

In hard-hit North Canterbury last week, some farmers were unable to sell excess stock and were forced to take them home, where there was little to feed them.

It could take weeks before the stock could be off-loaded to the works, Ms Milne said, which was a “pretty harrowing” situation for farmers.

“We are at a point now where it could start to get quite ugly. We don’t want to have any animal welfare issues, so that’s where people have to make good decisions early.”

Those finding it especially tough this summer were farmers burdened with extra infrastructure costs after switching to dairy, or those exhausting their irrigation water takes.

Banks were aware of the situation and had been accommodating to financially stretched farmers, Ms Milne said.

The Ministry for Primary Industries, responsible for declaring droughts, had been closely monitoring the dry conditions since December and was in regular contact with rural support trusts and industry groups.

The unusually warmer weather is expected to last through to April, while soil moisture levels were likely to be either near or below normal levels in the North Island and west of the South Island.

Victoria University climate scientist Dr James Renwick said unusually dry summers would become more common under the long-term effects of climate change.

“The likelihood of getting a summer like this should at least double by the end of the century.”

– NZME

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Hemp proposal rejection ‘frustrating’

By Michelle NelsoN michelle.n@theguardian.co.nz

A proposal to allow hemp seed to be sold as food has been rejected by a trans-Tasman regulatory body, hindering opportunities for a multi-million dollar industry in Mid Canterbury.

Last week New Zealand and Australia Food Ministers Forum voted against allowing the sale of hemp seed for human consumption, despite a positive recommendation from Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ).

NZ Grain and Seed Trade Association general manager Thomas Chin said the decision was “very, very frustrating”.

“It’s not the result we wanted from a farmer’s perspective, and for the opportunity to diversify the crop types and rise to the government’s challenge to double exports,” Mr Chin said.

“It was a chance to champion New Zealand products to the world I would have thought.”

Industrial hemp has been commercially grown in New Zealand since 2006, but under current legislation only the oil can be sold. Australia has banned the sale of all hemp products.

Thomas Chin

To be financially viable, farmers need to find markets for the seed, which has been touted as a super food. Mr Chin said there was huge international demand for hemp seed products.

He said there was still obvious confusion about the plant’s relationship to cannabis sativa, but unlike its distant cousin, industrial hemp has no psychoactive properties.

The forum noted that FSANZ found foods derived from the seeds of the low tetrahydrocannabinol hemp varieties used in industrial production, did not present any safety concerns.

However, several concerns

were raised, including law enforcement issues, particularly from a policing perspective in relation to roadside drug testing in Australia and the possibility of sending mixed messages about the safety of cannabis.

Hemp is grown extensively in Canada and the US, and they have overcome its relationship to cannabis, both in terms of law enforcement and public perception, Mr Chin said.

He likened the growing of industrial hemp to the production of medicinal poppies in Tasmania – with an export earn in excess of $A1 billion.

The New Zealand Government has the ability to override the decision, but whether it does so or not is a wait-and-see matter, he said.

The forum agreed that further work would be undertaken promptly to consider law enforcement, roadside drug testing and marketing concerns in consultation with relevant ministers.

“It’s all tied up in red tape at the moment, which is really disappointing. The industry is ready to go but our hands are tied,” Mr Chin said.

■ MID CANTERBURY HARVEST

Pea harvests good, As the Mid Canterbury garden pea harvest winds up, growers are reporting good yields despite the hot, dry summer.

Federated Farmers Mid Canterbury arable spokesperson Joanne Burke said Heinz Watties’ harvested the 22 hectares of Ashton Process (garden peas) on the Rakaia property she farms with her husband last week. “The yields are down slightly on last year, but they are still reasonable,” Mrs Burke said.

“The dry winds were very trying on the plants and our irrigation couldn’t keep up, it would have been good to have a bit more rain in the mix to keep the yields up.”

In addition to being a highvalue crop, peas fit well into crop rotation schedules, and offer another choice for arable farming under irrigation, Mrs Burke said.

“Peas fit in very well as a short rotation crop midsummer,” she said.

“We will be following it with a small seed crop so the timing is great.

“Of course we need dry weather for the grain harvest, but on the other hand we need a bit of moisture too – we could do with 25mm of rain to establish winter feed and seed crops now. The soils are very dry.”

While irrigated crops held up relatively well, the dryland harvest has been compromised, with reports of some winter barley crops down four tonne a

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“Irrigated crops yields are varied depending on individual irrigator ability; however, farmers will be seeing the effects of the dry weather regardless, with burn off corners at the very least.

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off in parts of Mid Canterbury and winter feed crops could certainly do with some rain to assist growth,” she said.

“The dry spell is in contrast to damp conditions which made autumn sowing of crops so difficult. We had

a tough time getting crops in, a lot went in late or were reverted to spring sown and the dry weather since then hasn’t helped those crops.

“The dry and heated weather is causing the wheat to mature too quickly and will be having a negative impact

on yields.” While rain is definitely on the wishlist, arable farmers also need good weather for harvesting,” Mrs Burke said.

“We are concentrating on getting the best quality and yields as possible, to offset a feed crisis.”

Dairy More rain last week in areas of the NI and some in the south, but the central South Island continues to be baked with temperatures in the 30s.

Some rain relief is predicted for this week, but nobody is suggesting it will be a drought breaker, and many believe the dry could continue for at least another month.

Some farmers in South Canterbury are now on OAD, 16-hour milking, or drying off poorer producing cows, as they make the hard decisions in the face of feed shortages and low prices.

Dairy advisers suggest the break even cost for feeding supplements for production is 25c/kg dm and many are unable to purchase feed for this value.

The weather is reflecting in milk flows, with Fonterra readjusting predicted volumes 3.3 per cent downwards, after present collection levels are 6 per cent lower than last year.

Analysts predict this could have a positive effect on price, as the market digests the influence of lower production, and the next few auctions could show future direction.

The theme of feeding as much grass as possible into cows to lower the cost of milk production is again being highlighted, this time by a NZ sharemilker in an address to an Irish Dairy forum.

Lamb More lamb schedule price falls, as processors report weak demand outside the Easter chilled programs, which will be well filled in the next two weeks.

The big difference between this year and last in the lamb markets is lack of demand from key customers in China and the Middle East.

The Chinese are still working through their considerable stocks

and the low oil price has dampened the spend from oil producing countries.

The early ewe fairs in the Canterbury region have been better than some expected, with some quality animals returning better prices than last year.

Wool In the two island wool auction prices lifted, boosted by a weakened NZ$ against the US and GBP, and stronger demand for crossbred fleece and lambs wool.

The small amount of Merino wools offered again failed to meet many sellers’ expectations, but overall nearly 94 per cent of the offering met the market.

Beef Beef schedules again fell, as exporters report tight chilled space and a labour wharf dispute in the US has hampered the flow of product onto the market, and extra processing volumes due to the dry, has caused buyers to be cautious in their buying arrangements.

The big falls in the NZ currency against the US has been helpful to keep our product price competitive, and reports that significant rains in Australia could start restocking in that country will ease supply on to the global market.

Deer Venison schedules unexpectedly lifted slightly this week, as prices for frozen product have improved, and more of the product is being diversified away from Europe.

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1 – The most popular name for girls born in NZ in 2014 was…? a. Emily b. Olivia c. Charlotte 2 – How many Olympic swimming medals have been won

by Michael Phelps? a. 17 b. 19 c. 22 3 – Which of the following is not a ‘pulse’? a. A measurement of speed b. A kind of plant c. A heartbeat 4 – Which London landmark is closest to the Houses of Parliament? a. Trafalgar Square b. St Paul’s Cathedral c. The Tower of London 5 – Who has recently been reported as dating Rihanna? a. Tom Cruise b. Zac Efron c. Leonardo di Caprio 6 – Who is the Mayor of Wellington? a. Dave Cull b. Grant Robertson c. Celia Wade-Brown 7 – Which country is home to the world’s oldest yacht club? a. Ireland b. South Korea c. Australia 8 – Where is Maungaturoto? a. Southland b. Northland c. Waikato

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School design aimed at improving health

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his image of Eiffelton School taken in 1935 reminds me of the infants’ room at my primary school.

While the rest of the primers had regular-shaped buildings, the new entrants were housed in a large building very similar to this.

The older children had banks of windows, but we tiny scholars had a whole wall which was glazed and could be opened out to let the sun in.

It shows how times have changed.

These airy sun-filled rooms were certainly a vast improvement on the dark rooms with small high windows that let in some light but prevented bored students being distracted by the outside.

The 1930s and '40s saw a movement in school design to improve the health and wellbeing of students.

Low windows, and plenty of them, allowed air to circulate, reducing the incidence of colds and other transmittable maladies. Sunshine, rich in vitamins such as A and D, was also increased with buildings such as this.

I can recall after lunch our teacher would roll back the walls and we would bask in the bright sunshine.

Occasionally, we would even take our desks out and have lessons al fresco.

The day the school opened its open-air classrooms, the head of the Oamaru Hospital Board at the time, a paediatrician, was most supportive of young skin being exposed to fresh air and unfiltered sunlight.

He hoped that soon other students could receive the same benefits.

Today, of course, while the sun still gives some positives, we know of its negative aspects.

Compare this room from Eiffelton School (above) to an older school building at Lauriston (right). Both had good points from a health point of view.

Children are told to be sun smart and slip, slop and slap.

Schools now are more likely to have sun shades and dark rooms rather than the rooms depicted in this image.

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January 31, Saturday rollovers 1st Roy Keeling, Chas Rooke and Clarrie Brake 3 wins 10 ends 18 points; 2nd Trevor Watson, Jeff Withington and John McLay 2 wins 10 ends 21 points.

Carr, Mike Holmes and Catherine Bell 71 on c/b from 6 others.

Best score in the RMF Cup was 66, worth 15points.

Nearest Pins: Robbies: Hugh McLenaghen, Braided Rivers: Bruce Day, Rothburys Insurance: Paul Greer, Netherby Meats: Hamish Niles, Charming Thai Restaurant (Longest Putt #9) Laurie Thomas Twos: Hugh McLenaghen. Pieter van Vollenhoven, Hamish Niles, Bruce Leighton, David Fisher and Bruce Day(2).

Nett Eagles # 17; Birdy Jackpot # 17 February 1 - AM Bruce Cup Joint winners were: Wendy & Eric Parr and Sheryl Reid & Peter Pratt with nett 66.

Other good scores were Mary Lou Watson & Tim Newton 68.5; Adrian Hopwood & Jenni Mitchell 69.

Twos: Fiona & Jeff Williamson

MSA Half Day Triples

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RESULTS ■ Basketball NBA results Collated NBA results yesterday (home team in CAPS): BOSTON CELTICS 75 Miami Heat 83 NEW YORK KNICKS 94 L.A. Lakers 80

■ Bowls Ashburton Bowling Club

January 30, 2015. sponsored by Skip2it Flooring Xtra.

1st A. Mackenzie, N. Mackenzie, W. Lee 3w 18e 46p.

2nd B. Harrison, J. Bennett, B. Holdom 3w 15e 17p.

3rd D. Muir, B. Harper, M. Grice 2.5w 14e 15p.

■ Cycling Mid Canterbury Social Wheelers January 31 14 Starters 1st Nathan Tew CT. 26m 43.43s. HT. 6.40m.

RT. 20m 03.43s. F/T.; 2nd. Brad Hudson CT. 26m 43.76s HT. 6.40m. RT. 20m 03.67s 2 f/t.; 3rd Emma Hudson CT. 26m 59.34s. HT. Go. RT. 26m 59.34s. 4th Brent Hudson CT. 26m 59.66s. HT. Go. RT. 26m 59.66s. 5th Ben Sutton CT. 28m 03.08s, HT. 5.15m. RT. 22m 48.08s. 3 f/t. 6th Mark Smitheram CT. 28m 06.62s. HT. 5.15m. RT. 22m 51.62s 4 f/t. 7th James Skinner CT. 28m 07.15s. HT. 4.10m. RT. 23m 57.15s. 8th Dave Shurrock 28m 07.77s.

HT. 4.10m. RT. 23m 57.77s. 9th Jamie Smitheram CT. 28m 14.06s. HT. 4.10m. RT. 24m 04.06s. 10th Tonee Hurley CT. 28m 15.32s.

HT. 4.10m. RT. 24m 05.32s. 11th Kevin Hurley CT. 28m 15.85s. HT. 4.10m. RT. 24m 05.85s.

12th Luke Skinner CT. 28m 35.60s. HT. 1.40m.

RT. 26m 55.60s. 13th Andy Skinner CT. 29m 28.46s. HT. 1.40m. RT. 27m 58.46s. 14th Bruce McClelland CT. 29m 38.16s. HT. 5.15m. RT. 24m 23.16s.

■ Football English Premier League Southampton 0 Swansea 1 (Shelvey 83) Send-offs: (Bertrand 89 - Southampton); Arsenal 5 (Giroud 8, Ozil 56, Walcott 63, Cazorla 75 pen, Bellerin 90+2) Aston Villa 0; Chelsea 1 (Remy 41) Manchester City 1 (Silva 45); Sunderland 2 (Wickham 20, Defoe 34) Burnley 0; Manchester United 3 (van Persie 27, Falcao 32, Morgan 44 og) Leicester City 1 (Wasilewski 80); Crystal Palace 0 Everton 1 (Lukaku 2); Stoke City 3 (Walters 21, 34, 90+2) QPR 1 (N Kranjcar 36); West Bromwich Albion 0 Tottenham Hotspur 3 (Eriksen 6, Kane 15, 64pen); Liverpool 2 (Sterling 51, Sturridge 80) West Ham 0; Hull City 0 Newcastle United 3 (Cabella 40, Ameobi 50, Gouffran 78).

Standings P W D L F A Pts Chelsea 23 16 5 2 52 20 53 Manchester City 23 14 6 3 46 23 48 Manchester United 23 12 7 4 39 22 43 Southampton 23 13 3 7 37 17 42 Arsenal 23 12 6 5 44 25 42 Tottenham Hotspur 23 12 4 7 35 30 40 Liverpool 23 11 5 7 33 27 38 West Ham 23 10 6 7 35 27 36 Swansea 23 9 6 8 27 30 33 Stoke City 23 9 5 9 26 28 32 Newcastle United 23 8 6 9 29 35 30 Everton 23 6 8 9 31 34 26 Crystal Palace 23 5 8 10 25 34 23 Sunderland 23 4 11 8 21 33 23 West Bromwich Albion23 5 7 11 20 32 22 Aston Villa 23 5 7 11 11 30 22 Burnley 23 4 8 11 21 38 20 Hull City 23 4 7 12 20 33 19 QPR 23 5 4 14 24 42 19 Leicester City 23 4 5 14 21 37 17

■ Golf

Ashburton Golf Club January 31 Medal Round Winners were: Senior David Fisher 80 -11 = 69; Intermediate Hugh McLenaghen 79 – 13 = 66; Junior Chris Robertson 92 – 26 = 66.

Other winning scores were; George Brown and Bruce Day 68; Laurie Thomas and Bryan Donaldson 69; Dave Hewitt, Don Houghton and Neil MacDonald 70; Vince

www.guardianonline.co.nz 2-6; J. Adam beat O. Bubb 6-5; I. Carr lost to E. Lawn 0-6; Z. Stock beat I. ConnellyWhyte 4-6.

DRAWS ■ Bowls Mid Canterbury Green Keepers Triples

January 28 Nine hole Stableford Twilight Golf Allister McLeod 23 stableford points; Steve King 22; Sam Schmack 21; Shane Edwards 19; Roger Lake 19; Frazer Tasker 19; Steve Cross 18; Ian Beach 18; John Greenslade 18; Alison Vesey 18; Richard Spicer 18; Mark Greenslade 18. Nearest the Pin No 5. Steve Cross; Two’s Steve Cross.

February 8 9.30am start - $18.00 per team Hampstead – Headquarters Diane Gutberlet, Jo Ryk, Gene Pagey, David Muir, Hinds 3, Don Duff, Malcolm Behrns, Mike Skilling, John Rasmussen, John Smart, Graham Clarke, Peter Whinham, Noeline MacKenzie, Melva Middleton.

Ashburton Roger Gutberlet, Gavin Eder, Bob Harrison, Hinds 1, Hinds 2, Faye McKnight,Graham Taylor, John Argyle, Bob Holdom, Wendy Blackwell, Alex Crawford, Helen Boag, John Withell, Colin Dennis.

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January 29, Twilight, Par 0-6: Steve Anderson 4 up b/l, Wayne Lloyd 4 up, Adam Marshall 4 up, Bill Mason 3 up, Brent Smith 3 up b/l. 7-10: Brent Green 7 up, Craig Meyrick 3 up, Bones 3 up, Pete Summerfield 3 up, Paul Lane 3 up, Johnny Moore 3 up, Kevin Bishop 2 up. 11 plus: Les Hunter, Geoff Soal 2 up, Roger Bruce 1 up. Women 0-14: Val Prendergast 2 up b/l, Barb Harris 2 up, Pam McAndrew 1 up. 15 plus: Maree Moore 3 up b/l, Shirley Young 3 up, Karen Young 3 up, Jenny Kean 3 up. Bayley’s nearest the pin; # 2 Brendan Hurley. # 16 Mark Banks. Radio Hokonui longest drive; Leen Bell. Twos: Wayne Lloyd, Brent Kirdy, Greg Hubbard, Mark Banks, Pete Summerfield, Josh Smith, Ben Stoddart.

January 31, Par Leading scores in the 1st round of the Doherty Trophy par competition. Senior; Chris Hart 5 up c/b, Ray Kirdy 5 up, Shane Moore 3 up, Gordon Rennie 3 up b/l. Intermediate; Wayne Mellish 6 up, Andrew Hill 5 up, Andrew Barrie 5 up, Bob MacGregor 5 up. Junior; John Harris 8 up, Pete Nolan 7 up, Dave Horrell 5 up, Bruce Collins 4 up.

Women (LGU stroke); Sue Newman net 67, Jacqui Beardsley 68. Nearest the pin: Tinwald Liqourland # 2; Josh Smith. Gluyas Ford # 6; Ryan Ford. Bedrock Bar and Stonegrill # 12; Andrew Hill. Ideal Electrical Supplies # 16; Kevin Bishop. Two’s: Dave Busch, Kevin Bishop, Andrew Hill, Eddie Tulip, John Smitheram, Brent Smith, Gordon Rennie, Ray Kirdy, Justin Smith. Eagle # 14 Steve Kennedy. Net Eagle; # 13 not stuck.

Dubai Desert Classic Final round scores from European Tour event, the Dubai Desert Classic yesterday (par-72).

266: Rory McIlroy (NIR) 66 64 66 70 269: Alexander Noren (SWE) 68 67 69 65 272: Stephen Gallacher (SCO) 66 67 70 69 273: Andy Sullivan (ENG) 65 68 70 70, Martin Kaymer (GER) 67 69 73 64, Gary Stal (FRA) 69 69 67 68, Bernd Wiesberger (AUT) 64 69 70 70, Morten Madsen (DEN) 71 63 66 73 274: Thomas Aiken (RSA) 68 71 66 69, Graeme McDowell (NIR) 67 65 72 70, Lee Westwood (ENG) 65 68 69 72, Robert Rock (ENG) 68 67 69 70

■ Shooting Ashburton District Rifle Club Club day 7 shots at 300 500 and 600 yards February 1 John Snowden 35.5, 35.3, 35.3, 105.11, Coby Snowden 34.3, 35.3, 34.4, 103.10, John Miller 33.4, 34.4, 32, 99.6, John Fleming 32, 34.2, 31.1, 97.3, Brian Hawksby 30, 34.1, 33.1, 97.2, Murray Cook 22, 32.2, 29.3, 83, Charlie Ledbrook 34.3.

Field Class, Harvey Westland 39, 39, 37, 115, Darren Swaney 38, 37, 39, 114, Chris Brown 39, 38, 30, 107, Daniel Alexander 34, 37, 34, 105, Brian Graystone 36, 34, 33, 103.

■ Tennis Mid Canterbury Tennis Twilight, January 28 Division 1: Famous Grouse 16 v Tridents 17, ACA’s Hackers 16 v Misfits 17, Balls of Steel 15 v What’s the Score 18, High Raters 14 v

February 4 Over 80’s teams to be played at Hinds are as follows: A. Gowan, M. Houston, B. Hunt - T. Johnson, M. Jones, R. Devereux G. Crack, M. Stone, M. Cabout - A. Smith, R. Keeling, L. Tarbotton T. Watson, U. Crack, B. Boothroyd - A. McKenzie, B. Brossell, G. Tappen H. Weir, H. Kemp, B. Wade - A. McIntosh, D. Prendergast, M. Richardson

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Sun shines on the triples Hinds bowler Heidi Wilkins rolls up during the Mid Canterbury Triples championship at the Ashburton Bowling Club on Sunday. After a delayed start for the rain the mercury soared for the round robin tournament, which had the trio of Brent Mayson, Craig Carter and Ivan Syme come out on top.

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5 Shades 19, Property Brokers 14 v Electric Donkey Bottom Biters 19, Spare Parts 16 v Council Crew 17.

Division 2: Rob’s Mates 18 v The Young and the Restless 15, Bubba Downs 20 v Team Alpha Sandrey 13, The Racqueteers 16 v Baseline Bandits 17.

January 31, A Reserve Lowcliffe lost to Hinds/Longbeach 5 matches to 1: A. Keir & K. Fowler lost to R. McNulty & H. Stock 2-6, 2-6; L. Wall & R. Harris lost to C. Elvines & O. McKeown 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 0-1 (4-10); A. Keir beat R. McNulty 6-2, 6-2; K. Fowler lost to O. McKeown 1-6, 1-6; L. Wall lost to C. Elvines 1-6, 2-6; R. Harris lost to H. Stock 5-7, 4-6.

Hampstead lost to Allenton Green 5 matches to 1: T. McCaw & L. Schikker lost to N. Thomassen & M. Looij 6-1, 5-7, 0-1 (5-10); L. Potts & V. Barbu lost to R. Twamley & J. Leslie 2-6, 0-6; T. McCaw lost to N. Thomassen 2-6, 4-6; L. Potts beat M. Looij 6-2, 6-2; L. Schikker lost to R. Twamley 1-6, 3-6; V. Barbu lost to J. Leslie 0-6,. 0-6.

Allenton Blue beat Methven 7 sets to 6: T. Leonard & T. Kelland lost to J. Hill & I. Talbot 4-6, 2-6; M. Ness & H. Dargue beat L. Muckle & S. Kemp 6-0, 6-1; T. Leonard lost to J. Hill 6-3, 3-6, 0-1 (9-11); M. Ness beat I. Talbot 6-0, 6-2; H. Dargue beat L. Muckle 6-1, 6-0; T. Kelland lost to S. Kemp 3-6, 1-6.

Junior A Dorie A beat Hampstead 5 sets to 1: L. Pye & C. Sloper lost to T. Wilson & T. Lee 6-7 (5-7); J. Jackways & F. Pye beat J. Aschen & Z. Aschen 6-3; L. Pye beat T. Wilson 9-6; J. Jackways beat T. Lee 9-8 (8-6); C. Sloper beat J. Aschen 9-1; F. Pye beat Z. Aschen 9-4.

Hinds Southern Smash lost to Allenton 4 matches to 2: L. Slee & R. Watt lost to A. Brownlee & T. McIntyre 5-7; A. McKeown & L. Adam lost to T. Donnelly & K. Danielson 5-7; L. Slee lost to A. Brownlee 9-4; R. Watt lost to T. McIntyre 4-9; A. McKeown lost to

T. Donnelly 6-9; L. Adam beat K. Danielson 9-2.

Junior B Methven Red beat Longbeach/Willowby Southern Strikers 6 matches to 0: B. Roderick & V. Talbot beat E. Keating & H. Wallis 6-4; A. Roderick & J. McDonald beat S. Scott & J. Keating 6-0; B. Roderick beat E. Keating 6-2; A. Roderick beat S. Scott 6-0; V. Talbot beat H. Wallis 6-5; J. McDonald beat J. Keating 6-4.

Hampstead beat Allenton 28 games to 22: T. Feutz & L. Prendergast beat J. Bryning & H. Preston 6-3; A. Spicer & E. Trumper lost to C. Donnelly & G. Prestonn 5-6; T. Feutz beat J. Bryning 6-0; L. Prendergast beat H. Preston 6-1; A. Spicer lost to C. Donnelly 4-6; E. Trumper lost to G. Preston 1-6.

Methven Silver beat Tinwald 5 matches to 1 A. Ikenaga & C. Holmes lost to B. Tawatao & S. Trumper 4-6; G. Holdsworth & J. Lamond beat J. Hunter & J. Brady 6-4; A. Ikenaga beat B. Tawatao 6-4; C. Holmes beat S. Trumper 6-4; G. Holdsworth beat J. Hunter 6-5; J. Lamond beat J. Brady 6-2.

Junior C Methven Black beat Allenton Maroon 6 matches to 0: H. Simpson & M. Farrell beat D. Stevenson & K. Harrison 6-2; S. Fulton & E. McSweeney beat J. Parsons & W. Copland 6-3; H. Simpson beat D. Stevenson 6-0; M. Farrell beat J. Parsons 6-3; S. Fulton beat W. Copland 6-1; E. McSweeney beat K. Harrison 6-2.

Rakaia lost to Allenton 6 matches to 0: T. Scott & M. Helem lost to L. Moore & B. Norton 2-6; J. Kilday & C. Kilday lost to E. Gray & R. Gray 0-6; T. Scott lost to L. Moore 0-6; M. Helem lost to B. Norton 0-6; J. Kilday lost to E. Gray 0-6; C. Kilday lost to R. Gray 1-6.

Wakalong Wolves lost to Hampstead Gold 5 matches to 1: W. Wilson & J. Adam lost to T. Connelly-Whyte & O. Bubb 3-6; I. Carr & Z. Stock lost to E. Lawn & I. Connelly-Whyte 2-6; W. Wilson lost to T. Connelly-Whyte

February 5 Ladies 4’s -12.30pm start. Mufti or Fancy Dress.

Entries; D Gutberlet, L Connell, M Eder, H Boag, N McKenzie, G Hawkins, N Woods, R Bennett, W Watson, W Blackwell, J Smith, G Baker, T Molloy, Hinds.

Convenor: Mavis Wilkins phone 3037129

■ Cricket Mid Canterbury Senior Cricket February 7 Murihead Rosebowl, Round 1 PWL Methven V Lauriston @ Methven Domain; Lauriston B v Tinwald Tavern Coldstream @ Lauriston Oval; Laser Electrical Technical Stags v Robbies Allenton @ Technical 1

■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club February 7 This is a mixed day with a Stableford round being played for the Gordon Blacklow Memorial Trophy Starting Time: Morning 8.00am; Afternoon Report at 11.30 for an 12.00 start.

Saturday Starters: Morning tba; Afternoon Paddy Bradford and Charlie Alexander Results Match Committee

■ Softball Mid Canterbury Softball February 7T Ball 9:00: T5 Allenton Strikers v Hampstead Pitchers, T6 Allenton Giants v Hampstead Catchers, T2 Hampstead Gold v Longbeach Stars, T3 Borough Bashers v Wakanui Wackers, T4 Mighty Red Midgets v BNZ Rakaia Rangers, Tinwald Dolphins Bye. T Ball 10:00: T4 Allenton Tigers v Allenton Blue Jays, T5 Hampstead Blue v Hampstead Fielders, T6 Hampstead Strikers v Borough Black, T2 Netherby Nomads v Longbeach Strikers, T3 Wakanui Wrecking Balls v JFM Rakaia Royals.

Little League 9:00: D2 Elite Panthers v Quigley Contracting Tinwald Black Sox, Hampstead to umpire. D3 ADSC Cubs v Metalcorp Hampstead All Stars, Panthers to umpire. Pearsons Rakaia Red Sox BYE. Little League 10:00: D2 ADSC Cardinals v Rookie Panthers, Rebels to umpire. D3 Fairfield Juniors v Rakaia Bridgestone Battlers, Rustys to umpire. D4 Resolve Tax Rakaia Ravens v Rakaia Bridgestone Battlers, Renegades to umpire.

Seniors 1:00: D2 ADSC Rebels v ADSC Rustys, Renegades to umpire.

Seniors 3:00: D3 ADSC Renegades v Nosh Hampstead Hawks, Rustys to umpire. Bedrock Panthers BYE.

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In brief Record will have to wait Jack Bobridge’s next potential cycling hour world record attempt will come after the Rio Olympics and certainly not in the next week.

Scot Graeme Obree, who set the hour record twice during the 1990s, has urged the Australian to back up quickly with another attempt. Bobridge rode 51.3km on Saturday night in Melbourne, falling short of the 51.852 world mark that Austrian Matthias Brandle set last October.

- AAP

Cadel aiming high

The Cycling New Zealand track team for the world championships after the announcement at the Avantidrome yesterday.

PHOTO DIANNE MANSON

■ CYCLING

Ellis off to world champs

By Jonathan Leask

Jonathan.l@theguardian.co.nz

With a weather-eye fixed on the 2016 Rio Olympics, Hinds cyclist Lauren Ellis was confirmed to contest the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Paris later this month.

Cycling New Zealand named their 18-strong squad for the world championship meet yesterday following the New Zealand Track Championships at the weekend.

The women’s endurance squad remains unchanged after encouraging performances at the opening two world cups, currently ranked third in the Olympic nations rankings.

Racquel Sheath, 20, will contest the omnium while Rushlee Buchanan, Georgia Williams, Jaime Nielsen and Ellis will compete in the team pursuit.

Steph McKenzie, with four titles at the national championships, got the nod as the key sprinter with Katie Schofield included as the best starter in the team sprint, while London Olympian Natasha Hansen, who only returned to the squad late last year, will be a potential contender in the future.

The jewel in the crown is the men’s sprint with all five current high performance squad riders included with Matt Archibald and Simon van Velthooven to provide cover for the world champion trio of Sam Webster, Ethan Mitchell and Eddie Dawkins.

As well as the tried and tested, the selectors included newcomers Alex Frame, 21, and Regan Gough 19, following strong performances at the nationals.

Dylan Kennett, 21, earned a

recall after missing the recent World Cup series, following his eye-catching displays at the national championships.

Cycling New Zealand high performance director Mark Elliott said the clear focus is looking ahead to the 2016 Rio Olympics.

“We have been tracking the progress of our developing riders in light of where we believe they can be in 18 months’ time,” Elliott said.

“That does not mean we have shut the door on other riders, but given the current form of some young riders, these world championships present the ideal opportunity to transition them with a clear focus on Rio.” The team have a further week of training at the Avantidrome before flying to Paris next Monday ahead of the championships on February18-22.

TRACK TEAM The team is: Men’s Endurance: Pieter Bulling (Invercargill), Alex Frame (Christchurch), Aaron Gate (Auckland), Regan Gough (Waipukurau), Dylan Kennett (Waimate), Marc Ryan (Timaru).

Women’s Endurance: Rushlee Buchanan (Te Awamutu), Lauren Ellis (Hinds), Jaime Nielsen (Cambridge), Racquel Sheath (Cambridge), Georgia Williams (Timaru).

Men’s Sprint: Matt Archibald (Invercargill), Eddie Dawkins (Invercargill), Ethan Mitchell (Auckland), Simon van Velthooven (Feilding), Sam Webster (Auckland).

Women’s Sprint: Stephanie McKenzie (Invercargill), Katie Schofield (Otago).

Podium finish in Cycle Classic for Christie

By Jonathan Leask

Jonathan.l@theguardian.co.nz

Ashburton rider Jason Christie finished runner-up to his teammate, Auckland’s Taylor Gunman, in the New Zealand Cycle Classic.

Gunman survived a crash on the final stage to win the five day tour of the central North Island.

The Avanti rider was among

10 riders to crash in wet road conditions on the Pahiatua Track near Palmerston North but he recovered, helped by his cohorts, to claim his first UCI tour title.

Gunman won by six seconds from Christie, with Avanti also comfortably winning the team honours, with New Zealand national team rider Dion Smith third, more than a minute be-

hind Gunman. Christie collected the second stage win to hold the yellow jersey, was second on stage three but was forced to give up the yellow jersey to Gunman on stage four.

Gunman claimed a one second advantage by finishing third and over a minute ahead of the fifth placed Christie on Saturday.

The 164km final stage from

Palmerston North to Pahiatua and back was won by Australian Joshua Prete, who pipped NZ team rider James Oram by a second in a thrilling uphill finish.

The peloton, featuring Gunman, was 16 seconds back with Christie a further five seconds behind to finish second overall.

Christie was also third in the sprint classification.

Cadel Evans and his old friend Simon Clarke are divided on how high the Great Ocean Rd Race should aim. Sunday’s inaugural edition of the race, named after Evans, was a spectacular cycling success. It attracted big crowds despite the wind and rain, with the conditions and the tough course ensuring an unpredictable result. Belgian Gianni Meersman won the sprint finish ahead of Clarke, while Evans was fifth.

Evans was one of the key people behind the creation of the race and he is adamant that it should aim for WorldTour status. - AAP

Goal-fest for Gunners Olivier Giroud, Mesut Ozil and Santi Cazorla have sparkled as Arsenal closed on the Premier League’s top four by crushing goal-shy Aston Villa 5-0 at the Emirates Stadium. It was a fifth consecutive win in all competitions for Arsene Wenger’s men and took them level on points with fourthplace Southampton, who saw Ryan Bertrand sent off in a 1-0 loss at home to Swansea City.

- AFP

Barca forced to fight Barcelona moved back to within a point of La Liga leaders Real Madrid as they twice came from behind to beat Villarreal 3-2 in a thrilling encounter yesterday.

Madrid loanee Denis Cheryshev put Villarreal ahead against the run of play after half an hour only for the in-form Neymar to level just before the break. A crazy fourminute spell early in the secondhalf then yielded three goals as Luciano Vietto put Villarreal back in front, but Rafinha quickly equalised before Lionel Messi struck a memorable winner from the edge of the box.

- AFP

Celtic into cup final Celtic cruised into the Scottish League Cup final with a comfortable 2-0 victory over rivals Rangers in the first Old Firm derby in nearly three years. It wasn’t the record rout that many predicted before the match, but it was an entirely uneven contest with the Scottish Premiership leaders lauding it over their city rivals to claim victory in the 400th competitive outing of one of the world’s fiercest rivalries.

Leigh Griffiths headed home the opener after just 10 minutes and Kris Commons, one of four Celtic players in the starting 11 who had featured in the fixture previously, rifled home a second in the 31st minute as the Hoops threatened to run riot. Celtic will now face Dundee United in the final on March 15 while Rangers will refocus their attention on trying to catch Hearts in the race for the Scottish Championship.

- AFP

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■ SUPERBOWL

Wall grabs gold

Patriots win a thriller

By Jonathan Leask

Jonathan.l@theguardian.co.nz

Veronica Wall collected the lone medal at the South Island Club Championship Regatta at Lake Ruataniwha at the weekend. Wall won gold in the girls’ under 16 singles racing under the Ashburton Rowing Club banner, also combining with her mother Charlotte Cox in the club double sculls to finish seventh in the A final.

Ashburton College crews progressed to 10 A finals and five B finals in flat water conditions but they could only finish as high as fourth.

Wall and Jordyn Kell were fourth in the girls’ under 16 double sculls while Matt Beveridge was fourth in the men’s under 19 single scull.

The men’s under 19 coxed quad sculls of Beveridge, Matt Rae, Benji Barry, Mark Tait and cox Maddie Evans were fifth, as were the women’s under 19 coxed four of Georgia Lysaght, Grace Wilson, Sarah Hazelhurst, Fran Connally-White and Evans.

Mayfield’s junior New Zealand representatives, Emma Dyke and Renee Olley, combined to collect silver in the open coxless four, while Dyke also won silver in the open coxless pair.

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By ReBecca BRyan Tom Brady and the New England Patriots have rallied to defeat Seattle 28-24 in Super Bowl 49, denying the Seahawks a second consecutive NFL championship in dramatic fashion.

With their fourth Super Bowl triumph, and first in a decade, the Patriots reconfirmed their status as the league’s dominant team of the past 15 years while Brady cemented his legacy as one of the NFL’s greatest quarterbacks.

“It has been a long journey,” said Brady, whose team recovered from a lacklustre start to the season and dealt all week with suggestions they purposely under-inflated footballs used in a playoff win over Indianapolis.

“It’s just a great win,” Brady said.

“We left it all on the field.”

The Patriots rallied from a 24-14 third-quarter deficit, with Brady’s three-yard touch-

down pass to Julian Edelman putting them ahead with 2:02 remaining.

Rookie Malcolm Butler’s goal-line interception of a pass

by Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson with 20 seconds remaining preserved the victory in a title showdown that lived up to its billing as a clash of titans.

Brady threw two of his four touchdown passes in the fourth quarter to rally the Pats against the most feared defensive unit in the league.

Brady joined his boyhood idol Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw as the only quarterbacks with four Super Bowl wins, having also led New England to the title in 2001, 2003 and 2004.

He set the record for most career Super Bowl touchdown passes, taking his tally to 13 to surpass the 11 of Montana, and matched Montana with his third Super Bowl Most Valuable Player award.

put the Seahawks in Patriots territory.

Then Jermaine Kearse came up with a stunning catch as he fell to the turf, corralling a ball that had appeared to have been certainly deflected out of his reach.

That put Seattle on the 5-yard line.

Lynch was stopped just short of the goal line on the enusing play, but the Seahawks didn’t go to him on the next play.

Instead, Wilson attempted a short pass to Ricardo Lockette that Butler seized to end Seattle’s hopes.

“I just guessed and went and made a play,” said Butler.

“It’s crazy man.”

Added Seahawks coach Pete Carroll: “It’s a miraculous play that kid made to get in front of that route.

“I hate that we have to live with that because we did everything right to win the football game,” Carroll added.

- AFP

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady celebrates with actor Mark Wahlberg after the NFL Super Bowl XLIX yesterday.

AP PHOTO

The Seahawks looked like they might pull off another miracle in the waning moments.

Wilson hit Marshawn Lynch with a 31-yard pass to

Christchurch dogs Today at Addington raceway

2 72277 Long Stockings 31.37 ............... A Bradshaw Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Addington 4 68746 Massage Only nwtd ....................D Kingston 3 52122 Bruiser Bale 30.70 ....................J McInerney Raceway Meeting Date: 03 Feb 2015 NZ Meeting num- 5 16785 Nicksta 17.77 ............................J McInerney 4 84455 Speedy Swede nwtd L & .................... Wales ber: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 6 77562 Hyperparadise nwtd S & ................. B Evans 5 22337 Kinloch Silver 30.69 S &.................. B Evans 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 7 68257 My Foolish Heart 17.52 ....................A Joyce 6 54644 Archie’s Comet 30.76 M & ................Jopson 10, 11 and 12 8 42535 Kenny’s Comet 17.56 M &................... Smith 7 13268 Protonic Pedro 31.08 ....................... B Dann 9 76478 McJopson 17.29 S & .......................

B Evans 1 12.12pm SUPER PETS SPRINT HEAT 1 C1q, 295m 8 58438 Homebush Ninja 30.79 .............J McInerney 10 48588 Our Charlotte 17.68 ...................H Anderton 1 47853 Otto Baxter nwtd .......................J McInerney 2 75355 Ohoka Too Soon nwtd .................. L Waretini 4 1.05pm SHIRLEY VET CLINIC STAKES HT 1 C1q, 520m 9 58448 Toddy’s A Flyer nwtd ....................C Roberts 1 87733 Gold Vipa 31.00 S &........................ B Evans 10 78738 Opawa Rapid 30.54 L & ..................... Wales 3 57675 Tony’s Choice 17.54 ...................D Stapleton 2 45517 Darcy Brasco 31.20 .....................S Hindson 7 2.01pm SUPER PETS SPRINT HEAT 5 C1q, 295m 4 567x4 Cawbourne Monaro nwtd M & ............ Smith 1 85477 Culvie Boy 17.38 H & ..........................Taylor 3 35476 Botany Liz 30.84 .......................J McInerney 5 18884 Gorilla On Drums 17.31 ...................A Joyce 2 584x8 Supreme Shelleen nwtd ............J McInerney 4 151 Briseur De Reves 30.66 ............ A Bradshaw 6 27761 May May Last 17.22 ..........................J Dunn 3 42813 Pagani 17.49 .....................................J Dunn 5 64764 Big John Canon 30.79 ...........M K Dempsey 7 31428 Giganaire 17.45 S &........................ B Evans 4 87287 Bluey Ruffero 17.60 M & ..................... Smith 6 25847 Peyton Sawyer nwtd..................... L Waretini 8 14141 Adrenalin Kick 17.50 H & ....................Taylor 5 36566 Bizarro 17.59 S & ............................ B Evans 7 66666 Blushing Belle 30.63 L & .................... Wales 9 76478 McJopson 17.29 S & ....................... B Evans 6 41238 Codie Brea nwtd .......................J McInerney 8 2736F Plutonium nwtd H & ............................Taylor 10 8787x Keramus Girl 17.63 ........................G Cleeve 7 84614 Fanta’s Fever 17.43..........................A Joyce 9 58448 Toddy’s A Flyer nwtd ....................C Roberts 2 12.29pm SUPER PETS SPRINT HEAT 2 C1q, 295m 8 21525 Business Review 17.44 ..............D Stapleton 1 55736 Slingo 17.75 .............................. M Robinson 10 75788 Homebush Coral 30.85 .............J McInerney 9 47658 Dusty Rider nwtd....................M K Dempsey 2 55618 Brooke Davis 17.49 ...................... L Waretini 5 1.23pm SUPER PETS SPRINT HEAT 4 C1q, 295m 10 88777 Leigh Serene 17.71.......................... B Dann 1 78486 Vincent Gallo 17.67....................D Stapleton 3 78581 Botany John 17.72 ....................J McInerney 2 21F17 Royal Apache 17.43 S & ................. B Evans 8 2.21pm SHIRLEY VET CLINIC STAKES HT 3 C1q, 520m 4 78456 Churchill Chaser 17.47 .................... B Dann 1 35764 Archi Bale nwtd .........................J McInerney 3 51583 Mop Head 17.76 ........................ D T Barnes 5 F5272 Rockwood Archie 17.58 .............D Stapleton 2 27556 Opawa Gavin 30.92 L & ..................... Wales 4 64716 Wheelchair Norm 17.52 ............J McInerney 6 45576 Goldstar Bomber 17.49 S & ............ B Evans 3 52764 Black Sails nwtd H & ...........................Taylor 5 68x38 Go Timmee 17.63 ..........................G Cleeve 7 88646 Home Truth 17.32...........................G Cleeve 4 48x85 Know Taste 30.85...........................G Cleeve 6 78748 Ohoka Strika 17.49 ...................... L Waretini 8 15 Cosmic Chelsea 17.99 M & ............P Binnie 5 45877 Court The Belle 31.46 L &.................. Wales 7 88884 Opawa Goodie 17.54 L & ................... Wales 9 76478 McJopson 17.29 S & ....................... B Evans 6 15 Arbre Chene nwtd M &....................P Binnie 8 212 Tina 17.49 H & ....................................Taylor 10 46688 Budgie Right 17.63 H & ......................Taylor 3 12.47pm SUPER PETS SPRINT HEAT 3 C1q, 295m 9 47658 Dusty Rider nwtd....................M K Dempsey 7 62357 Goldstar Rosie 30.75 S & ............... B Evans 8 31167 Lagoon Victory nwtd ....................C Roberts 10 18488 Goldstar Frankie 17.49 S & .............

B Evans 1 16723 Corporate Image 17.64 .............R Blackburn 2 21F53 Verbatim nwtd .................................. B Dann 6 1.42pm SHIRLEY VET CLINIC STAKES HT 2 C1q, 520m Emergencies: 9 58448 Toddy’s A Flyer nwtd ....................C Roberts 1 86785 Earn Me Some 30.45 .................D Stapleton 3 82334 Know Laughing 17.46 ....................G Cleeve

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2568x Too Much Rebel 17.82 ................. A Waretini 4F658 Goldstar Magic 17.59 S & ............... B Evans 47658 Dusty Rider nwtd....................M K Dempsey 1 56524 Cec Divine 17.49............................G Cleeve x688x Go Nola 17.55 ................................G Cleeve 2 27386 Homebush Spike 17.45 .............J McInerney 3 16435 Goldstar Mario 17.42 S &................ B Evans 12 3.38pm SUPER PETS SPRINT HEAT 8 C1q, 295m 1 45856 Ohoka Faith 17.52........................ L Waretini 4 7775F Lil Danny Rascal 17.66 M &..............Jopson 2 56723 John Dory 17.45........................J McInerney 5 17386 Hayley James 17.69..................... L Waretini 3 36773 Luminary 17.58 .........................R Blackburn 6 74477 Smoking Marley 17.38 .............. A Bradshaw 4 31356 Struggle Is Real 17.67 H & .................Taylor 7 317x1 Aiden Baxter 17.12 ...................J McInerney 5 37357 Summer Love 17.53 .........................A Joyce 8 78676 Opawa Romeo nwtd.........................A Joyce 6 56746 Memphis Girl 17.73 S & .................. B Evans Emergencies: 7 8x765 Wandy Destiny 17.54 .....................G Cleeve 9 47658 Dusty Rider nwtd....................M K Dempsey 8 67748 Sally West 17.70 ....................M K Dempsey 10 76687 Jewel Apache 17.57 S & ................. B Evans 10 3.01pm SHIRLEY VET STAKES HEAT 4 C1q, 520m Emergencies: 9 76478 McJopson 17.29 S & ....................... B Evans 1 34253 Know Clown 30.80 .........................G Cleeve 2 77243 Homebush Gru nwtd .................J McInerney 10 47868 Charles Fredrick 17.31 ..............J McInerney 3 64454 Ohoka Frenchi 30.69.................... L Waretini SELECTIONS 4 411 Gossip Queen nwtd .................. A Bradshaw Race 1: May May Last, Adrenalin Kick, Gorilla On Drums 5 21187 Zulu Chanel 30.60........................C Roberts Race 2: Brooke Davis, Cosmic Chelsea, Rockwood Archie 6 47533 Opawa Natty 30.85 L & ...................... Wales Race 3: Corporate Image, Know Laughing, Verbatim, Nicksta 7 26324 Goldstar Junior 30.66 S & ............... B Evans Race 4: Briseur De Reves, Gold Vipa, Plutonium, Botany Liz 8 65211 Jinja Loch 30.67 J &........................D Fahey Race 5: Tina, Royal Apache, Wheelchair Norm, Go Timmee 9 58448 Toddy’s A Flyer nwtd ....................C Roberts Race 6: Bruiser Bale, Earn Me Some, Kinloch Silver 10 36887 Come On Dolly 30.98.............M K Dempsey Race 7: Pagani, Business Review, Codie Brea, Culvie Boy 8: Lagoon Victory, Archi Bale, Black Sails, Arbre Chene 11 3.18pm SUPER PETS SPRINT HEAT 7 C1q, 295m Race 1 32F34 Hareeba Time 17.88 ..................D Stapleton Race 9: Aiden Baxter, Cec Divine, Goldstar Mario 2 83712 Boston Billy 18.03 H & ........................Taylor Race 10: Jinja Loch, Goldstar Junior, Gossip Queen 3 35456 Eyes On Lulu 17.68 M & ..................... Smith Race 11: Adjudicator, Boston Billy, Hareeba Time, Cue Power 4 63343 Cue Power 17.80 ............................. B Dann Race 12: John Dory, Luminary, Wandy Destiny, Ohoka Faith 5 27534 Homebush Fine 17.65 ...............J McInerney LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd 6 12 Adjudicator 17.65 ..............................J Dunn - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track 10 76587 Quattro nwtd ............................. M Robinson

9 2.41pm SUPER PETS SPRINT HEAT 6 C1q, 295m

7 8 9 10

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Today at Forbury Park Raceway

Otago Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Forbury Park Race- 3 53852 Wairio Dee Jay nwtd ................... B I Conner 1 38175 Subterfuge 33.54 ...............................J Allen 9 54541 Know Jealousy 18.33 .....................G Cleeve way Meeting Date: 03 Feb 2015 NZ Meeting number: 10 4 57724 Know Luck nwtd .............................G Cleeve 2 66834 Memory Lapse nwtd..................J McInerney 10 7554x Lynny Southcombe 18.50 .........J McInerney Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 5 3 17 Cawbourne Gable nwtd .....................C Weir 9 2.31pm BRAMWELL SCAFFOLDING STKS C4/5, 545m 4 Opawa Rocket nwtd J & ..................D Fahey 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 6 4 54445 Cawbourne Cruze nwtd .................. M Grant 32 Know Worth nwtd ...........................G Cleeve 1 71551 Cover To Cover 32.74.................D Stapleton 11 and 12 5 24767 Starburst Benny nwtd ...................... M Grant 7 4 Opawa Amber nwtd L & ..................... Wales 2 53511 Botany Blake 32.40 ...................J McInerney 6 54622 Pukeko Thunder 32.80 ...................C Healey 8 3 Opawa Grunter nwtd L & ...................

Wales 1 12.02pm OTAGO FIRST 4 MAIDEN SPRINT C0, 310m 3 32641 Thrilling Marty 32.93 ................... B I Conner 7 57467 Mega Volt 34.09 .............................. M Grant 9 57 Eug The Scrooge nwtd.................C Roberts 1 21 Cawbourne Peejay nwtd ....................C Weir 4 24221 Know Danger 32.44 .......................G Cleeve 8 6x768 Girl Magic nwtd M & ..........................Jopson 2 x3321 Bita Banta nwtd M & .........................Jopson 10 66x Opawa Extreme nwtd L & .................. Wales 5 24873 Stolen Money 32.64 .......................G Cleeve 3 332 Know Lapse nwtd...........................G Cleeve 4 12.56pm BAGLEY DRIVER LICENSING SPRINT C1, 310m 9 56615 Sailors Collar nwtd .........................J Guthrie 6 51127 Cawbourne Philip 32.41 ............J McInerney 10 53636 Moon And Sea 34.08 .........................J Allen 4 433 Know Cheers nwtd .........................G Cleeve 1 13143 Lots Of Beersies nwtd ................. B I Conner 7 61125 Botany Kevin 32.33 ...................J McInerney 5 58476 Master At Arms nwtd......................J Guthrie 2 61251 Bound To Erupt nwtd ....................... M Grant 7 1.51pm SPEEDPRINT SHOP SPRINT C2, 310m 8 45733 Opawa Amy 32.61 L & ....................... Wales 6 88627 Homebush Button nwtd .............J McInerney 1 788x8 Zulu Deb 19.40 M & ..........................Jopson 3 84886 Opawa Lucky nwtd L & ...................... Wales 9 58744 Thumb Print Tony 33.11 ............J McInerney 7 45567 Da Last Chook nwtd.................... B I Conner 2 47634 Batiatus nwtd .............................D Stapleton 10 85167 Botany Seaton 32.49 ................J McInerney 4 24713 Monaco Denver 18.67 M & ...................J Hill 8 57656 Smash Who nwtd ........................R Hamilton 3 31454 Matty Hooky 18.81 ....................J McInerney 10 2.51pm GREEN ISLAND BARBER STKS C2, 545m 5 66618 Homebush Hansome nwtd ........J McInerney 9 57737 Homebush Naki nwtd ................J McInerney 4 23368 Phat Pants nwtd M &.........................Jopson 6 56775 Glenn Is Goodesy nwtd................... M Grant 1 42341 Thrilling Hunt nwtd ...................... B I Conner 10 6F644 Boltin Archie nwtd M & ......................Jopson 5 x7285 Another Groom 18.95 ...............J McInerney 7 5F118 Homebush Slinky nwtd .............J McInerney 2 76763 Opawa Stella nwtd L & ....................... Wales 2 12.20pm WWW.GREYHOUNDSASPETS.ORG.NZ 8 5317 Scary Canary nwtd .......................K M Eade 6 47251 Norman Jewel nwtd .....................C Roberts 3 53411 Waimak Dave nwtd ...................J McInerney 7 11285 Homebush Flyte nwtd ...............J McInerney 9 68848 Ozarks Daughter 19.19 ..................J Guthrie C1, 310m 4 83418 Chill Out Ralph 32.31 L & .................. Wales 8 52642 Yaldhurst Edward 18.88 ............J McInerney 1 78856 Cabarita 19.15 ................................ M Grant 10 86168 Business Boss 18.71 ........................S Keen 5 38111 Lagoon Twist nwtd........................C Roberts 9 53838 Petra Haka 19.03 ......................J McInerney 2 65x13 Fancy Kiwi nwtd .......................... B I Conner 5 1.14pm ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER SPRINT C2, 310m 6 17123 Homebush Howard nwtd ...........J McInerney 3 56212 Opawa Venus nwtd L & ...................... 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Mid Canterbury made it back-toback Browning Shield tennis victories at Lincoln at the weekend.

Having not held the trophy for 33 years, a combined Mid Canterbury-West Coast side successfully defended the shield against their three Canterbury country rivals.

Mid Canterbury, featuring two West Coast doubles specialists, had to see off a strong challenge from North Canterbury first up that had the two sides tied on

matches 12-12, and sets 23-23 but the defending champions came out on top 191-189 on games.

They then outscored Malvern 15-9 and Ellesmere 14-10 to lift the shield.

Mid Canterbury number one Neil McCann and number six Flynn Ness were unbeaten in the men’s singles while Neil and his daughter Tessa McCann also going 3-0 in the mixed doubles.

Rebecca Robinson was unbeaten in the women’s singles but only played two of the three matches, with Ashleigh Leonard,

Tessa McCann and Sophie Ness also winning two of their three singles matches.

Leonard and McCann also combined for two wins in the doubles as did Jane Brosnahan and Jo Taylor.

Rhys Cromie and Aidan Mitchell also had two wins in the men’s singles.

The win was Mid Canterbury’s 17th since the shield was first played for in the summer of 1936-37 tied with Ellesmere, while Malvern have the most wins with 23.

One hurdle left for Djokovic

By Darren WaLton Blissfully content off the court and dominant on it, Novak Djokovic is stopping to smell the roses before shifting his focus to the one big title still eluding him.

No sooner had Djokovic’s name been engraved for a modern-day record fifth time on the Australian Open trophy on Sunday night was the Serbian juggernaut asked if he’d trade any of his Melbourne Park majors for just one French equivalent.

“Don’t ask me this here, please,” Djokovic said as he cradled the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup. “No, I strongly believe everything happens for a reason in life.

“I try not to waste my energy thinking, ‘what if, what if ?’

“For a reason I’ve been playing so well here and winning five titles, and for a reason I haven’t won the French Open yet.

“I’ll keep pushing and keep working and keep believing I can

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make it, at least once, until my career ends.”

Right now, though, Djokovic is preferring to savour the moment.

He craves to bask in the glory of not only eclipsing the four titles Roger Federer and Andre Agassi each earned in Melbourne but also of winning his eighth career major in total - and first since the birth of he and wife Jelena’s first child, son Stefan in October.

“It has deeper meaning, more intrinsic value now to my life because I’m a father and a husband,” Djokovic said.

“It’s the first grand slam title that I won as a father and a husband. I just feel very, very proud of it.”

The world No.1 promised to keep delivering for them and said his expanding family had given him a new perspective and drive.

“I try to stay on the right path and committed to this sport in every possible way that I have

had in the last couple of years and try to use this prime time of my career really where I’m playing and feeling the best at 27,” Djokovic said.

“This is why I play the sport, to win big titles and to put myself in a position to play also for the people around me.

“I know how much sacrifice they put in in my own career, and I try to thank them and not take anything for granted.

“As my life progresses, there are circumstances, situations, events that define these beautiful moments.

“Getting married and becoming a father in the last six months was definitely something that gave me a new energy, something that I never felt before.

“People mention Roland Garros, yes, this is one of my main priories.

“It is the only grand slam I haven’t won.

“I do dream about it, there’s no question about it.”

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January 13 - March 31. Ashburton 10.00am Domain Walnut Avenue, opposite the METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. end of Creek Road.

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11.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Mid-week service led by Frank Tasker.

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1.30pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Association and Golf Croquet.

Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish St. 1.30pm ASHBURTON HERB SOCIETY. Monthly meeting with visit to Trotts Garden, 371 Racecourse Road.

1.30pm M.S.A. GARDEN SECTION. Domain walk with David Askin. Meet Hotel Ashburton car park. Please note change from programme.

6.00pm M.S.A. PETANQUE CLUB. Welcomes regular and new players.

M.S.A. Sports grounds, Racecourse Road.

7.00pm ASHBURTON UKUKELE GROUP. Beginners and new members welcome. St Paul’s Church hall, Oxford Street.

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6am Breakfast 9am Infomercials 9:30 There’s No Taste Like Home Gino d’Acampo travels to Alderley Edge in Cheshire.

10:30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 30 11:30 Infomercials Noon One News 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR Lisa tries to hide her anxiety; Alicia warns Lelya about playing games; Edna must forgive herself. 0 1:30 Coronation Street PGR 3 0 2pm House Husbands PGR 3 0 3pm Four Rooms 3:55 Te Karere 2 0 4:25 The Chase 0 5:25 Millionaire – Hot Seat 0 6pm One News 0

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TV THREE 6am 3 News – Firstline 8:30 Infomercials 10:30 Rachael Ray Debra Messing and Rachael take part in a grape-stomping competition.

11:30 Last Man Standing 3 Noon 3 News 12:30 Baggage PGR 1pm The Bold And The Beautiful PGR 1:30 Dr Phil PGR (Part 2) 2:30 F The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills PGR 3:30 Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals 30 4pm Entertainment Tonight 4:30 The Simpsons 3 0 5pm The Simpsons 3 0 5:30 F Beauty And The Geek Australia 3 6pm 3 News

7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 MasterChef Australia The contestants must cook one of Heston’s dishes with no recipe, keeping up with Heston as he cooks the dish in front of them, so that they finish cooking at the same time. 0 8:45 Person Of Interest AO 0 9:45 Fat Tony And Co AO 0 10:40 One News 0

6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Little Monstar 3 0 6:35 Jungle Junction 3 0 6:55 The Amazing World Of Gumball 3 0 7:25 The Penguins Of Madagascar 3 0 7:50 The 7D 0 8:15 Jake And The Neverland Pirates 3 0 8:40 Dinosaur Train 3 0 8:50 Fireman Sam 3 0 9am Infomercials 11am Neighbours 3 0 11:30 8 Simple Rules 3 0 Noon Shortland Street PGR 3 0 12:30 Make It Or Break It 3 0 1:30 Duck Dynasty PGR 3 0 2pm Extreme Makeover – Home Edition 3 0 3pm Mike And Molly PGR 3 0 3:27 Angry Birds Toons 3 0 3:30 Get Ace 0 4pm Win Lose Or Draw 0 4:30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 0 5:30 My Wife And Kids 3 0 6pm Friends 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0 7pm Shortland Street PGR 0 7:30 M The Karate Kid PGR 2010 Drama. Work pressure causes a single mother to move to China with her son.

In his new home, the boy embraces kung fu, taught to him by a master. Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan. 0 10:25 Mr T’s World’s Craziest Fools 3 0 10:55 F 2 Broke Girls PGR 3 0

11:10 The Operatives After spotting illegal miners from the sky, the team uses a military helicopter to rappel into the rainforest. 0 12:10 Born To Kill AO 0 1:10 Te Karere 3 2 0 1:45 Infomercials 5:05 Faith In Action 5:35 Te Karere 3 2 0

11:25 Scandal – The Secret Is Out AO 12:20 Embarrassing Bodies – From The Clinic 3 0 1:20 Infomercials 2:20 Grey’s Anatomy PGR 3 0 3:10 Switched At Birth PGR 3 0 4am Happily Divorced AO 3 4:20 Shake It Up 3 0 4:45 Gary Unmarried PGR 3 0 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

11pm The Good Wife AO Alicia manages the fallout when her corporate CEO client’s insensitive statements to the press threaten the fate of a multi-billion-dollar merger.

11:55 Infomercials 5am Infomercials

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PRIME

SKY SPORT 1

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Fanboy And Chum Chum 3 7:25 The Legend Of Korra 3 7:50 Fairly Odd Parents 8:15 Chuggington 3 8:25 Ready, Steady, Wiggles 3 8:40 Peppa Pig 3 8:50 Bob The Builder 3 9am Thomas And Friends 3 9:10 Ella The Elephant 3 9:30 Julius Jr 3 9:55 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Ready, Steady, Wiggles 3 3:10 Humf 3 3:20 Lalaloopsy 3 3:40 Max Steel 3 4:10 Beyraiderz – Shogun 3 4:35 Punk’d PGR 5:05 It Only Hurts When I Laugh 3 5:30 The Nanny 3 0 6pm Futurama 3 0 6:30 How I Met Your Mother 3 0 7pm The Simpsons PGR 3 0 7:30 Family Guy PGR After Brian undergoes cosmetic surgery, he faces a new career, leading to trouble with Quagmire.

8pm Family Guy PGR 3 8:30 M American Pie AO 3 1999 Comedy.

Jason Biggs, Shannon Elizabeth, Chris Klein. 0 10:30 Witches Of East End AO 3

6am Football – Arsenal TV (Replay) Arsenal v Aston Villa.

From Emirates Stadium, London.

9am Football – A-League (Highlights) Brisbane Roar v Wellington Phoenix. From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane Roar.

9:30 Football League Show 10am The Fishing Show 10:30 Basketball – NBL (Replay) New Zealand Breakers v Perth Wildcats.

12:30 Cricket – International TriSeries (Highlights) Final.

1pm The Cricket Show 1:30 L Cricket – International Blackcaps v Pakistan – Second OneDay International.

5:35 The Cricket Show 6:05 L Cricket – International Blackcaps v Pakistan – Second OneDay International.

7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 10pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 N Secret Life Of Dogs An irreverent daily sports and 8:30 Elementary AO entertainment show.

9:30 Sleepy Hollow AO 10:30 Cricket – Ford Trophy After the events of their (Highlights) Final – standoff with Moloch, Auckland Aces v Ichabod and Abbie encounter Central Stags.

11pm Cricket – International an angel they believe can Tri-Series (Highlights) help them.

10:30 The Tonight Show Starring 11:30 Cricket – International (Highlights) Jimmy Fallon

11:25 Entertainment Tonight 11:50 Infomercials

11:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 Midnight Cricket – International (Highlights) Blackcaps v Pakistan – Second One-Day International. From McLean Park, Napier.

12:30 Home Shopping 2am The Crowd Goes Wild 3 2:30 Home Shopping

6:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 7am Deal Or No Deal 3 7:30 Home Shopping Noon The Doctors PGR 3 12:50 The Test PGR 3 1:45 Antiques Roadshow 3 Fiona Bruce and the experts return to the Scarborough Spa Pavilion, where objects include a silver reliquary found on a building site, and a paperweight from Winston Churchill’s desk.

3pm Whose Line Is It Anyway?

UK 3 3:30 The Late Show With David Letterman 4:30 Hot Bench 5pm Deal Or No Deal 5:30 Prime News 6pm The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 3

MAORI TV

6am Benny Hinn 6:30 Ray Mears’ Northern Wilderness 7:30 Grand Tours Of Scotland 8am Baggage Battles 8:30 The Flying Winemaker 9am Cook The Books 9:30 Design Star 10:30 Dear Genevieve 11am Buying Alaska 11:30 Buy It, Fix It, Sell It Noon Micky Flanagan’s Detour De France 1pm Mekong River With Sue Perkins 2pm Ray Mears’ Northern Wilderness 3pm Grand Tours Of Scotland 3:30 Baggage Battles 4pm The Hairy Bikers’ Best Of British 5pm Better Homes And Gardens 6:30 Buying The Bayou 7pm Treasure King 7:30 Double Your House For Half The Money Property developer Sarah Beeny helps people achieve their property dreams without breaking the bank.

8:30 My Dream Home Brothers Jonathan and Drew Scott are determined to help couples find, buy and transform extreme fixer-uppers into the ultimate dream home.

9:30 Nick Knowles’ Original Features 10:30 Treasure King 11pm Better Homes And Gardens

6:30 Pukoro 3 2 7am Miharo 3 2 7:30 Pukana 3 2 8am Toi Whakaari 3 2 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Tatai Hono 3 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Korero Mai 3 2 11am Toku Reo 3 2 Noon Korero Mai 3 2 1pm Toku Reo 3 2 2pm Ako 3 3pm Kai Time On The Road 3 3:30 Pukoro 3 2 4pm Miharo 3 2 4:30 Pukana 3 2 5pm Toi Whakaari 3 2

12:30 Benny Hinn 1am Grand Tours Of Scotland 1:30 Baggage Battles 2am The Hairy Bikers’ Best Of British 3am Buying The Bayou 3:30 Auction 4am Double Your House For Half The Money 5am My Dream Home

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7pm Campbell Live 7:30 The Block – Glasshouse PGR There are seven days of renovating left as the teams start on the last five rooms in apartment six. 0 8:30 NCIS AO A naval lieutenant is murdered on his way to a private meeting with the President. 0 9:30 NCIS – LA AO 0 10:30 3 News

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THE BOX 6am Law And Order MV 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 Hardcore Pawn PG 7:40 Modern Family PGL 8:05 Ax Men ML 8:55 Criminal Minds 16VS 9:45 SVU MV 10:35 CSI – New York MV 11:25 Pawn Stars PG 11:50 Shearing Gang PG 12:15 CSI MV 1:05 Whose Line Is It Anyway? PG 1:30 Criminal Minds 16VS 2:20 Law And Order MV 3:10 Ax Men ML 4pm Modern Family PGL 4:30 The Simpsons PG 5pm Hardcore Pawn PG 5:30 Criminal Minds 16VS 6:30 The Simpsons PG 7pm Hardcore Pawn PG 7:30 CSI – New York MV 8:30 Elementary MV 9:30 Played 16VLSC 10:30 SVU MV 11:30 CSI – New York MV 12:30 Ax Men ML 1:20 Modern Family PGL 1:45 Law And Order MV 2:35 SVU MV 3:25 Elementary MV 4:15 Played 16VLSC 5:05 Lizard Lick Towing MVL 5:35 Whose Line Is It Anyway? PG

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Midnight The Cricket Show 12:30 Fox Sports News 1am The Crowd Goes Wild 1:30 Cricket – Ford Trophy (Highlights) 2am Cricket – International Tri-Series (Highlights) 2:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3am Rugby League – NRL Auckland Nines (Highlights) 4:30 Rugby League – NRL Auckland Nines (Highlights)

SKY SPORT 2 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 2 6:30 Ako 3 7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 #Hakanation PGR 3 8pm Re-Think 8:30 Ringers Lord Of The Fans PGR 3 10:20 The Festival AO 3 10:50 Tagata Pasifika 11:20 Te Kaea 3 2 11:50 Closedown

DISCOVERY 6am Auction Kings PG Shrunken Head; Martin Luther King Letter.

6:30 Deadliest Catch PG 7:30 Yukon Men M New Blood. 8:30 MythBusters PG Shooting Fish in a Barrel. 9:30 MythBusters PG 10:30 You Have Been Warned Again M Craziest Drivers. 11:30 Dates From Hell M Blood-Red Carpet.

Noon Dates From Hell M Blood Lust. 12:30 Stalked – Someone’s Watching M The Bogeyman. 1pm Stalked – Someone’s Watching M Campaign of Terror. 1:30 Who The (Bleep) Did I Marry? M 2pm Who The (Bleep) Did I Marry? M Darkness, Deception, DNA. 2:30 Yukon Men M Mother v Nature. 3:30 Auction Hunters PG 4:30 Deadliest Catch PG 5:30 MythBusters PG 6:30 Alaska – The Last Frontier M 7:30 Auction Hunters PG 8:30 Survive That!

M 9:30 Commandos M 10:30 Alaskan Bush People M 11:30 Tabloid M

WEDNESDAY

12:30 Redrum M 1am Redrum M 1:30 True Crime With Aphrodite Jones M 2:30 Auction Kings PG 3am Deadliest Catch PG 4am Man v Wild PG 5am Dirty Jobs PG

Seven Sharp

7pm on TV One

MOVIES PREMIERE 6:40 Three Weeks, Three Kids PGC 2011 Family. Anna Chlumsky, Warren Christie. 8:10 The Making Of Oblivion PG 8:35 Freaky Deaky 16VLS 2012 Comedy. Billy Burke, Christian Slater. 10:10 Chasing Mavericks PGL 2012 Drama.

Gerard Butler, Jonny Weston.

12:05 The Lords Of Salem 16VLS 2012 Horror. Sheri Moon Zombie, Bruce Davison. 1:45 Three Weeks, Three Kids PGC 2011 Family.

Anna Chlumsky, Warren Christie.

3:15 This Is The End 16VLS 2013 Comedy. James Franco, Jonah Hill.

5pm A Common Man MVL 2013 Thriller. Ben Kingsley, Ben Cross.

6:25 Oblivion MVS 2013 Sci-fi.

Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman.

8:30 The Internship MLS 2013 Comedy. Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson. 10:30 Filth 18VLS 2013 Crime. James McAvoy, Jamie Bell.

WEDNESDAY

12:10 Revenge For Jolly 16VLS 2012 Comedy. Brian Petsos, Kristen Wiig.

1:35 A Common Man MVL 2013 Thriller. Ben Kingsley, Ben Cross.

3am Filth 18VLS 2013 Crime.

4:50 Revenge For Jolly 16VLS 2012 Comedy.

Sleepy Hollow

9:30pm on Prime

MOVIES GREATS 7:45 The Making Of Fast And Furious 6 PG 2013 Featurette.

Dwayne Johnson, Vin Diesel. 8am Bring It On MS 2000 Drama.

Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku. 9:40 Sanctum MVL 2011 Action.

Richard Roxburgh, Rhys Wakefield.

11:30 The Waterboy ML 1998 Comedy. Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Fairuza Balk. 1pm The Upside Of Anger MLS 2005 Drama.

Joan Allen, Kevin Costner. 2:55 Mean Machine MVL 2002 Comedy.

Vinnie Jones, David Kelly. 4:35 The Legend Of Zorro MV 2005 Action.

Antonio Banderas, Catherine ZetaJones. 6:45 Closer 16LS 2004 Drama. Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Clive Owen, Natalie Portman. 8:30 Underworld – Rise Of The Lycans 16V 2009 Action. Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy. 10:05 You Don’t Mess With The Zohan MLS 2008 Comedy.

Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider. 11:55 Spider-Man 3 MV 2007 Action.

Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst.

WEDNESDAY

2:10 Mean Machine MVL 2002 Comedy. 3:50 Closer 16LS 2004 Drama. 5:35 You Don’t Mess With The Zohan MLS 2008 Comedy.

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6am The Cricket Show 6:30 Cricket – International TriSeries (Highlights) Final. Teams TBC. 7am Cricket – Ford Trophy (Highlights) Final – Auckland Aces v Central Stags.

7:30 Motorcycling – Northwest 200 (Highlights) 8:30 Rugby League – NRL Auckland Nines (Highlights) Day One. From Eden Park, Auckland.

10am Rugby League – NRL Auckland Nines (Highlights) Day Two. From Eden Park, Auckland.

11:30 Football – A-League (Replay) Brisbane Roar v Wellington Phoenix. From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.

1:30 Football League Show 2pm The Fishing Show 2:30 Football – Chelsea TV (Replay) Chelsea v Manchester City.

From Stamford Bridge, London.

5:30 Football – A-League (Replay) Brisbane Roar v Wellington Phoenix.

From Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.

7:30 UFC Now 8:30 Fight Night Kevin Mitchell V Daniel Estrada.

10:30 Football League Show 11pm Fox Sports News 11:30 The Fishing Show

WEDNESDAY

Midnight The Crowd Goes Wild 12:30 Tennis – Australian Open (Replay) Day 14 – Men’s Final. From Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne.

3am Tennis – Australian Open (Replay) Match of the Day – Women’s Final. From Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne.

5:30 Cricket – Ford Trophy (Highlights) Final – Auckland Aces v Central Stags.

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Bailey O’Donnell and Michael Gallagher sit on the front of a chase group in the Tinwald Cycling Club’s 48km out and back at Rakaia on Sunday.

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Opele takes prestigious prize

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Kevin Opele came home strong to win the John Cleary Memorial Cup in the Tinwald Cycling Club’s 48km out and back at Rakaia on Sunday.

Opele produced a big finish to deny David Sullivan in the final 10 metres for the win on a hot day on the road.

Riding from the front Sullivan was on his own out in front for three-quarters of the race, only

to be hauled in within reach of the finish line.

Opele and Ross Templeton broke clear of the chasing bunch and while Opele powered ahead to take the win, Templeton did enough to keep the

bunch at bay to hang on to third place.

Hot on the heels of Templeton, Brad Hudson clocked the fastest time from Darryl Kircher and Sam Letham third as he backed up from the win last

week with another strong ride.

In the juniors Maddie Lowry took the win from Maddison Clark.

Next week the club returns to the Wakanui block for a graded scratch race.

Tietjens names four newbies for Wellington Sevens

BY DANIEL RICHARDSON New Zealand sevens coach Gordon Tietjens has no fear around giving young players an opportunity to perform under the

spotlight of the home crowd in Wellington and this weekend’s tournament will be no different.

The long-time national mentor has named four potential debutants - Dylan Collier, Rieko Io-

Brady joins the Super Bowl icons P18

ane, Jack Goodhue and Beaudein Waaka - in his 12-man squad as they look to defend their Wellington title, starting Friday.

The likes of Victor Vito and Declan O’Donnell shot to the

minds of the New Zealand rugby public after their exploits in the capital in years gone by and that opportunity is now in front of the latest crop of rookies.

“It’s always good having new

and exciting youngsters coming into the side,” Tietjens said.

New Zealand need to finish inside the top four this season to ensure they automatically qualify for the Rio Olympics.- NZME

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