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MSD charged over Winz shootings A charge has been filed against the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) following the Winz shootings in Ashburton last year.

WorkSafe NZ confirmed yesterday one charge had been laid against MSD over the incident in September, during which two Winz staff were killed and one was seriously injured.

The charge alleges that the Ministry of Social Development failed to take all practicable steps to ensure the safety of its employees while at work.

According to a WorkSafe media release yesterday, the charge, which was laid in the Wellington District Court, follows the conclusion of a WorkSafe investigation that began shortly after the incident.

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Ministry of Social Development chief executive Brendan Boyle said in a statement yesterday that he had been advised that WorkSafe had lodged a charge against the ministry under Section 6 of the Health and Safety Act. “Once we know the full details of the charge, we will fully consider our position,” he said.

Mr Boyle said no further comment would be made as the matter is before the courts.

Following the shootings last year, the ministry commissioned an independent review into its physical security environment.

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found the ministry had taken all practicable steps to ensure the safety of its employees.

The Public Service Association (PSA) said WorkSafe’s announcement showed the importance that must be placed on health and safety in the workplace.

The trial of alleged Winz shooter Russell John Tully, 48, is expected to start on May 11.

Tully has been charged with murdering Ashburton Work and Income frontcounter workers Peggy Noble, 67, and Susan Cleveland, 55, on September 1 last year.

He is also accused of attempting to murder two other Winz staff members – Lindy Louise Curtis, 43, and Kim Elizabeth Adams.

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X Factor apologises It is unclear whether convicted killer Shae Brider has progressed to the next round of X Factor. The X Factor NZ on Sunday night issued an on-air apology for featuring convicted killer Shae Brider’s audition, traumatising the family of his victim. In the show’s opening segment, host Dominic Bowden appeared in a pre-recorded message apologising “unreservedly” for any offence caused. “We acknowledge that Shae’s interview on the show was only one side of the story and did not allow for the victim’s family to tell their side and for that, we at TV3 unreservedly apologise for any hurt or distress that this has caused the family,” Bowden said.

“It was never our intention to cause offence and for that we are truly sorry.”

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Jack’s big catch Jack Todd has hooked plenty of fish, but nothing quite like his latest catch. The 13-year-old Dunedin boy on Saturday set what may be a New Zealand junior record after hauling in a 49.8kg blue shark while fishing from a 5.7m runabout about 5km off Taiaroa Head. What made the feat even more impressive was the lightweight 6kg line Jack used to land the monster. Jack and father Mike Todd were among members of the Tautuku Fishing Club Dunedin and Haast Inc taking part in the New Zealand Sports Fishing Council’s national fishing competition at the weekend.

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Cyrus poses topless for V Miley Cyrus has finally peeled off for a topless photo shoot after teasing fans with skimpy lingerie and pasties.

The provocative pop star often appears in states of undress both on and offstage and now she’s leaving nothing to the imagination in a risque new spread for V magazine. The candid photos were shot by the 22-year-old singer’s friend Cheyne Thomas, and they’ll feature in an upcoming issue of V. In the most recent issue of the arts and style magazine, Miley hid her modesty behind carefully placed bubbles in a bath-themed shoot.

Gaga’s polar plunge Lady Gaga and Vince Vaughn made plunges into the icy waters of Chicago’s Lake Michigan at a fundraiser for the Special Olympics. Special Olympics Chicago President Casey Hogan said yesterday that Gaga did the plunge with more than 4500 other participants.

Hogan says the singer’s appearance was “a very nice surprise”.

Gaga recently announced her engagement to Chicago Fire actor Taylor Kinney. Photos show her and a bare-chested Kinney going into the water together. Vaughn also made the plunge. The native of the Chicago suburb Lake Forest was dressed in his Chicago Blackhawks jersey and jeans. The actor went in up to his knees, then eased himself down backward in the water. Last year comedian Jimmy Fallon jumped in wearing a suit and tie, and helped raise more than $1 million.

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Shatner to miss Nimoy’s funeral William Shatner has been forced to miss his Star Trek co-star Leonard Nimoy’s funeral due to prior commitments. A burial service for the Jewish actor will take place in Los Angeles early Monday (NZ time), but Shatner will not be able to mourn the death of his friend in person as he had already agreed to attend a charity ball in Florida on Sunday and will not have enough time to fly across the US to make the memorial. He took to Twitter to express his disappointment on Saturday, writing, “I feel really awful.

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Orders are flooding into Euan Sparrow’s Ashburton factory but a critical staff shortage is hampering his ability to fill those orders and grow his business.

The NZ Sock Company is one of Ashburton’s success stories, with its business built across the globe, but close to home, when it comes to young people wanting to work in his industry, Mr Sparrow said he’s constantly drawing a blank.

He needs at least 12 more employees, has advertised locally with limited success and is constantly forced onto the international market place. And while that does yield results it

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also involves on-going immigration issues, he said.

“Quite simply, we need to attract young people from Ashburton into our industry and into jobs. We have a training scheme set up through government grants, it’s like an apprenticeship and we’re the catalyst for New Zealand.”

The five-year training course with NZQA credits can also involve study in Italy but in spite of the career path and opportunities offered, Mr Sparrow said he’s getting no takers from Ashburton school leavers.

“We’d take up to four kids if we could get them. We’re fully booked until September with orders. We’re getting orders from all over the world. We’ve

worked hard to get them and now we’re struggling to fill them.”

While the company’s cotton socks are made in China, Mr Sparrow said all merino products were made in Ashburton and that was the way he wanted it to stay.

“We’re in a great place with all the orders, but it’s also pretty frustrating. We’ve invested heavily in R&D and we’re creating huge opportunities here for kids, a huge career path.”

Mr Sparrow is opening his factory doors to students and their parents, hoping the personal approach might secure some much needed trainees.

“Contact us, come through, have a look, this could be a real

opportunity,” he said.

His business is thriving at a time when many manufacturers are struggling because of the high New Zealand dollar.

As both an exporter and importer, Mr Sparrow said the impact of the dollar was, for him, virtually neutral.

Machinery is imported from Italy and with no wool scours operating in New Zealand it is an importer of its own yarn as this is scoured in China and Austria.

The company exports product to 26 countries with the latest new markets added in Denmark and Norway.

On the local front, outdoor gear retailer Kathmandu is its largest customer.

Autumn warmer Summer may officially be over but the warm temperatures are set to stick around, with forecasters predicting average to above averages temperatures for most of the country over autumn.

MetService meteorologist Emma Blades said the start of March was warm for the North Island thanks to a northeasterly flow bringing humid air down from the tropics.

“Day and night time temperatures will remain high, making for some fairly warm evenings,” she said.

A front moving up the South Island yesterday brought rain to Southland, Otago and Canterbury.

However, ahead of the front, temperatures climbed to the high 20s, and in places like Christchurch and here temperatures even reached 30°C. Niwa forecaster Chris Brandolino predicted average to above average temperatures for the country this autumn. - NZME

Driver charged A man has been charged with dangerous driving following a dramatic crash on the Auckland motorway earlier this year. Police said the 47-year-old man would appear in Auckland District Court on Friday. The crash on January 18 saw a truck crash through a barrier on the Southern Motorway and plunge at least 15 metres, before coming to rest on the highway below near Auckland’s Spaghetti Junction. Following the crash the truck’s driver, Brendon Greig from Cambridge, spoke from his hospital bed and said he was relieved to be alive.

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Netherby first school to visit new museum Students from Ashburton’s Netherby School made history yesterday as the first school group to visit Ashburton’s newly opened museum. The room five students were involved in a session with museum educator Ruth Gardiner learning about Maori culture and its impact on life in New Zealand today.

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The tourist driver of a rented people mover that crashed and killed one person has been charged with careless driving causing death. The 39-yearold female Taiwanese visitor was driving with six family members in the car when the crash happened at a stop sign controlled intersection of Jones Rd and Dawsons Rd in Templeton on February 18. The woman has been charged with careless driving causing death and careless driving causing injury. She will appear at Christchurch District Court today.

Police investigations are ongoing.

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■ RAKAIA GOLF CLUB

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Burglars allegedly cut live power lines and hotwired a tractor in two separate attempts to burgle the Rakaia Golf Club.

Offenders allegedly attempted to break into the clubrooms on two separate occasions, less than a week apart.

While nothing was taken in the break-ins, Rakaia police Senior Constable Mike Jackson said damage was done to

a door and window during the attempts.

Mr Jackson said police investigations into the incidents were ongoing.

Rakaia Golf Club president Kelvin Ross said the club had a security system in place, but the offenders managed to evade it.

“They hotwired a tractor and put some strops around the green fees plate, and tried to rip that one out,” he said.

“They then took the top link

off the tractor, stuck it down the green fees safe, and tried to rip the wall out.”

He also believed the offenders were the same ones who had also broken into the Ellesmere Golf Club recently.

Mr Ross said the offenders gained entry to the club on one occasion, but were unable to during their second attempt.

It was not the first time the club had been targeted.

Two years ago, burglars caused $5000 worth of dam-

age and made off with two boxes of beer.

Mr Ross said the club had invested heavily in security systems after the last break-in.

“That’s quite an expense for a small club,” he said.

Security systems at the club would be further upgraded after the latest break-ins, he said.

Mr Ross said members of the club were upset by the break-ins.

“It’s definitely frustrating,” he said.

X Factor gives Luke’s singing career a boost By susan sanDys

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It was three yeses and through to boot camp for Luke Glendining, but that’s where the X Factor fun ended.

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Luke Glendining’s X Factor dreams are over, but his singing career is just beginning.

The 20-year-old Ashburton builder made it to boot camp with three yeses, but was kicked out in the next brutal phase of the competition.

Mr Glendining said boot camp, at Auckland’s Vector Arena, involved performing in a group of eight singers who were potentials for the boys’ category.

Only two in his group made it through to the final group of 12 boys which went to live elimination performances.

The other six, which included Mr Glendining, were sent home. Judges had just put through six from the previous group so had only another six spots to fill from the following three groups, meaning they had to be extremely critical.

“I was disappointed, but it’s not the end of the world, it’s a TV show, it’s nothing to get worried about,” Mr Glendining said yesterday.

Mr Glendining said his appearance at the first live audition resulted in three yeses,

with fourth judge Willy Moon saying no.

“He’s quite hard to please,” Mr Glendining said.

“He wasn’t rude to me, he just said that’s not the kind of thing he was looking for, and he wasn’t sure how he could work with me.”

Mr Glendining believed any perceptions of the judges being arrogant or otherwise were more so due to producers making them play a certain persona when the cameras were on.

“They are given a bit of a persona to make it a bit interesting, off stage they are just normal people you get along with.”

X Factor had opened up new opportunities. Mr Glendining, already a regular on the Ashburton performance scene, met a fellow contestant, a female singer from Christchurch, on the show, and the pair had set up a fourmember band together called Blonde on Blonde. The bluesy rock band members were finding themselves in demand in Christchurch.

“So it’s pretty much every weekend I’m flat out,” he said.

Incidents reported yesterday: -Police attended a domestic incident at 8.45pm on Sunday.

The Rakaia Volunteer Fire Brigade were called to a small stubble fire on Rokeby School Road in Hatfield yesterday at about 12pm.

Century of Care This year marks the 100th year since Red Cross became active in New Zealand communities.

The Century of Care is being commemorated throughout the year, with events taking place across Mid Canterbury. In the Ashburton District there are 97 Red Cross members and 127 volunteers spread across four branches – Ashburton, Methven, Rakaia and Tinwald. Next week from March 9 to March 15 is the Red Cross’ annual appeal week and is one of the first events to kick off the celebrations.

Pedestrians hold key?

Two pedestrians could hold the key for police investigating the death of a 72-year-old Tokoroa man who died when struck by a truck last month. Ioane Pere suffered critical injuries and later died in Waikato Hospital after the crash which occurred on Dalmeny St in Tokoroa at about 9pm on Friday, February 20. The police serious crash unit is investigating and wants to speak to anyone who may have witnessed the crash.

Officers are particularly interested in two pedestrians who were reportedly on the footpath and would have been passed by the truck prior to the collision. - NZME

Woman hit by car A woman struck by a reversing car in a Christchurch supermarket car park yesterday has been rushed to hospital. The woman was struck outside Countdown on Moorhouse Ave shortly after 12.30pm. A St John spokesman confirmed that a woman, aged about 25, was taken to Christchurch Hospital. It was understood her injuries are moderate. A spokesman for the police southern communications centre said officers had attended.

If the driver was found to be at fault, they could be charged, the spokesman said.

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Remains could solve 42-year-old mystery

By Kurt Bayer Human remains found in Aoraki-Mt Cook National Park could solve a 42-year-old mystery, park rangers say.

Canterbury police search and rescuers recovered human remains from the Tasman Glacier area of Aoraki-Mt Cook National Park, only weeks after the discovery of a set of human remains nearby last month.

Two Spanish climbers made the most recent discovery last week.

Department of Conservation (DoC) ranger Shirley Slatter believes the latest remains are probably those of a 19-yearold man from the South Island who went missing after an avalanche near the top of the glacier on September 16, 1973.

Records show he and a 64-year-old companion had been walking from a ski plain to the Tasman Saddle hut when a cornice collapsed above them and swept them away.

Searchers found the older companion but never found the younger man.

“We presume it’s that person, but until police release a name, we can’t say who it is,” Ms Slatter said.

Climbing guides made the first grisly discovery last month, and the remains were retrieved on February 20.

There are 62 bodies still missing in the national park.

Canterbury police rural area commander Inspector David Gaskin said all human remains recovered by police were referred to the coroner to make a determination on the identity and, if possible, the cause of

death. He would not speculate as to the identity of either of the victims.

“The two discoveries are from separate incidents and are unrelated,” Mr Gaskin said.

He said they employed a variety of techniques including DNA testing. It’s understood that DNA has been recovered from both remains.

“We work closely with the families of those missing and hope one day to give them closure when their loved one is recovered and identified,” Mr Gaskin said.

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A strip club has received a slap on the wrist for an ambush marketing stunt during Saturday’s epic Cricket World Cup clash in Auckland. Calendar Girls advertised its wares by flying a plane towing a banner over Eden Park packed with 40,053 fans during Saturday’s Black Caps vs Australia pool match.

The stunt broke the Major Events Management Order put in place ahead of the tournament. Being declared a major event affords the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 certain protections, including the establishment of advertisementfree “clean zones” to protect against ambush marketing attempts. Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) officials were made aware of the strip club’s gimmick and investigated.

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■ PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS

MPs spend big in election campaign

By DaiSy HuDSoN

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Running for parliament is not a cheap exercise.

Just ask Mid Canterbury’s two MPs, who collectively forked out over $38,000 during the last election campaign.

According to election returns, Rangitata MP Jo Goodhew reported spending $20,446.13 on

last year’s campaign - nearly five times as much as Labour Party candidate Steve Gibson, who spent $4326.47.

As for Selwyn MP Amy Adams, last year’s campaign cost her $17,627.01.

That was lower than Labour candidate Gordon John Dickson, who reported spending $18,660.

As well as individual expenditure, the National Party donated $34,417.92 to Ms Goodhew’s campaign, while Ms Adams received $15,000.

Ms Adams also received a $10,000 windfall courtesy of a donation from the D H Catley Trust.

In a recent interview with the Guardian, Ms Goodhew spoke

of how expensive political campaigns were. “It costs you a lot of money in lost income, simply driving around places in rural electorates,” she said.

“Even wearing different clothes to the ones you may have worn in your previous job.”

“You had to think about all those things.”

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electorate chair Mark Oldfield said during the official election campaign, MPs were only allowed to spend up to $25,000.

Mana leader Hone Harawira, who lost Te Tai Tokerau to Labour’s Kelvin Davis, benefited the most from donations - he received $105,000, including $80,000 from the Internet Party.

■ GALLIPOLI CENTENARY

White crosses to mark each life lost in war

By Sue NewmaN

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Relatives of soldiers who served and died in World War One will be remembered in a special way on Anzac Day this year.

To mark the centenary of the start of the Gallipoli campaign, April 25, 1915, white crosses will be planted across New Zealand bearing the name, rank and serial number of each soldier who died during that war.

In Ashburton about 500 of those crosses will be ‘planted’ in Baring Square.

This week Ashburton RSA office manager Patrice Ansell is compiling lists of names of those who died during World War One. These are taken from cenotaphs and war memorials around the

Ashburton District. From next week, descendants will be able to check these lists to find their own family members and they will then have an opportunity to buy a commemorative cross.

Ashburton’s crosses will be part of a national field of crosses that will appear each Anzac Day until 2018.

Ashburton’s Compulsory Military Training veterans have taken on the job of making and painting the crosses.

Across New Zealand, about 40 fields of remembrance will be set up, each containing row upon row of white crosses.

The RSA anticipates that by Armistice Day, November 11, 2018, a cross will be planted for each life lost during the war.

When Anzac Day arrives this year, Ashburton RSA office manager Patrice Ansell will be familiar with the name of every soldier from the Ashburton District who served in World War One. PHOTO DONNA WYLIE 020315-DW-078

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■ FOXTON ASSAULT

Attack on officer ‘appalling’

By Nikki PaPatSoumaS A police officer suffered numerous bite wounds to his head and cuts to his face in an “appalling” unprovoked attack by a man who set his pitbull dog on the officer in Foxton yesterday.

The officer had been called to the Foxton Winz office after reports a 40-yearold man had been acting angrily and causing issues about 11.30am.

Police said the man became aggressive as he was approached by the officer, who then pepper sprayed the man and his dog.

However, the pepper spray was ineffective, and the man allegedly punched the officer and set his dog on him.

The officer suffered moderate to serious injuries to his entire body during the attack. He had since received medical treatment.

Acting Manawatu area commander Detective Inspector Chris Bensemann said the officer had a cut around the top of his left eye and “numerous bite marks” across the top of his head.

He said he was appalled by the incident.

“Imagine being on the ground and you have a pitbull working its way up your

body and then biting you around the head area.

“There is not many things more that I could think of that would be as frightening as that,” he said.

“I think it’s appalling.”

Photographs taken after the incident showed there “was blood everywhere”, he said.

Mr Bensemann said police officers across the country were called to these incidents every day.

But what happened to the officer was “unexpected, unprovoked and without reason”.

“He basically arrived and he was just confronted by this person who was standing beside his vehicle.”

New Zealand Police Association president Greg O’Connor said he was concerned by the number of police officers who had been assaulted in recent weeks.

“What we find most frustrating is we will hear politicians and the police administration say the number of assaults on police are going down.

“The general assaults are going down, or the minor assaults, but serious assaults have gone up by 30 per cent since 2009.”

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Man missing in Whakatane

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Robert Bennett

The family of an Ashburton man who went missing in Whakatane are appealing for information after he failed to show up at work two weeks ago.

Robert Bennett, 27, was reported missing after he failed to show up at work on February 17.

According to Bay of Plenty police, concerned family mem-

bers and workmates have not heard from him since.

A Facebook post by a member of Mr Bennett’s extended family said there were concerns about his safety for medical reasons.

According to the post, Mr Bennett, a former employee of Guardian Print in Ashburton, was working at The Beacon as a colour co-ordinator.

He had spent a couple of nights at the YMCA before

Fruit fly population ‘localised’ A total of 10 Queensland fruit flies have now been caught in central Auckland.

In a statement released yesterday, the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) said two more fruit flies had been found since Friday, but officials remained confident they were dealing with a localised population that could be eradicated.

It said DNA testing on all the flies to date showed genetic similarity, which meant it was most likely a localised population.

Meanwhile, MPI officers worked closely with Cricket World Cup organ-

isers to mitigate any potential risks associated with Saturday’s Cricket World Cup game between the Black Caps and Australia at Eden Park.

Eden Park is within the controlled area which meant those who attended Saturday’s match were able to take fruit and vegetables into the stadium, but were unable to take any out.

An established population of the Queensland fruit fly could devastate the country’s lucrative horticulture industry and result in restrictions on our international exports.

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moving into a new flat, but had not been heard from since.

A Whakatane police spokeswoman said on Sunday police had no new information about Mr Bennett’s whereabouts, and investigations were ongoing.

Mr Bennett is described as being of slim build and being about 6ft tall.

Anyone who knows where he is, or who has seen him, is urged to contact their nearest police station.

Our domain to remain free By sue newman

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Domains, gardens and parks might be money-making ventures for many local authorities but holding private functions in public places remains free in the Ashburton District.

Weddings, funerals, family celebrations, they’re welcome in the district’s parks, all the Ashburton District Council asks is that you let them know what’s happening, where and when.

And the Ashburton Domain in particular is a popular place for people tying the knot and occasionally for funeral celebrations, said open spaces manager David Askin.

“We don’t charge fees, all we ask is you let us know and we’ll write a letter for you confirming that you’re holding your event and that you’re able to be on a particular site,” he said.

Rather than trying to make money from private events in its public places, the council goes out of its way to encourage these.

“We offer a key for people to open the main gates so they can bring bridal cars into the domain, we’ll put out some chairs and we’ve built a pergola and pathways in the rose gardens for weddings,” Mr Askin said.

The domain has hosted two weddings over the past month and while funeral services are less frequent, the odd request is received for these.

As a location for photographers, the domain is well used, but again that comes free of charge, he said.

Unlike Ashburton, many local authorities are using weddings in their parks as a good source of revenue, with the Christchurch City Council already charging $70 and planning to lift this fee to $150. Auckland charges $188 and Wellington $120.

Mr Askin said he has no intention of bringing in a pay-to-use regime, believing the district’s parks are there to be used and enjoyed.

Marriage celebrant Carol Gunn is familiar with all the best spots in the domain for weddings. While the rose garden is well used, she often recommends an area dubbed “the dell” off Park Street because it is more private.

“You do get people walking past but I’ve never had anyone be a nuisance at a wedding in a public place,” she said.

While weddings were popular in the domain, Mrs Gunn said she had yet to hold a funeral service there, but the public nature of the gardens might not appeal to everyone, she said.

“I believe the domain is an under-utilised gem – and there’s no cost.”

In brief Revenge costly A company has been told to “shove that down ya cake hole” after being forced to pay a humiliated former employee more than $168,000 for its “revenge” driven response to a rude cake.

The Human Rights Review Tribunal has ordered Hawke’s Bay’s NZ Credit Union Baywide (NZCU) to pay former employee Karen Hammond for a breach of privacy which caused “severe” humiliation, loss of dignity, injury to feelings and harm to her future career prospects.

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Crash charges A truck driver has been charged with careless driving causing death five months after a Taiwanese cyclist died in a Christchurch crash.

The 50-year-old man will appear at Christchurch District Court on Monday. The fatal accident happened on Waterloo Rd in Hornby on September 29 last year.

Taiwanese tourist Ming-Chih Hsieh, 33, was dead at the scene. Police say investigations are ongoing.

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Meth lab busted Northland police have busted a methamphetamine lab they say was capable of making large quantities of the Class A drug.

Police found methamphetamine – or P as it is also known – worth about $350,000 when they raided a house near Kaikohe early Sunday morning and arrested two people with links to the Rebels motorcycle gang. The lab was active at the time and police arrested a 34-yearold man and a 22-year-old woman.

While police were at the address another man, 38, turned up and was arrested and charged with unlawful possession of a firearm and possession of utensils for methamphetamine.

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Six times over limit A woman caught driving drunk was allegedly more than six-and-ahalf times over the breath alcohol limit. The 30-year-old woman’s driving raised “extreme concerns” by a member of the public who followed her through Richmond, near Nelson, about 6pm on Friday.

She allegedly drove over a traffic island, mounted a kerb onto a footpath, and was slumping at the wheel. The witness phoned police and followed the woman to her Richmond home. The woman gave a reading of 1690 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath – more than six times the legal limit of 250mcg. The woman, who was the only one in the car, was charged with driving with excess breath/ blood alcohol and will appear in court later this month.

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Pick axe raises alarm An ACC employee caused some panic after they brought a pick axe into their office in Wellington.

Central Communications Inspector Marty Parker said police were called to the building on Molesworth Street about 9am yesterday. “The good old panic alarm went off and obviously we treated it seriously at that stage.”

However, he said officers at the scene had a chat with the person involved and realised they posed no threat.

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By GaBrielle Dunlevy

File photos of Australian drug traffickers Myuran Sukumaran (left) and Andrew Chan, whose execution date draws closer.

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are 50 people from our generation who die each day because of drugs,” he said, as quoted by news website detik.com.

“That’s why we have to be strict. Do you all agree that drug dealers must be executed?”

The students replied in unison: “Agree!”

Mr Joko told reporters: “Don’t let anyone try to intervene in our sovereign law. About the executions of drug offenders, this is our sovereign law.”

The president has been contacted by leaders of various countries, including Australia, France, the Netherlands and Brazil, over the hardline drugs policy.

But Mr Joko says no number of representations from foreign governments on behalf of their death row citizens will stop him carrying out the executions.

His friend and political ally, Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, known better as Ahok, has revealed he has

encouraged the president to abolish the death penalty, and he believes he is considering alternative views on the matter.

The special mobile brigade police on Friday rehearsed the transport of the men under heavy security to Bali’s airport, where the military could then fly them to Nusakambangan, an island off central Java.

Meanwhile one of the Bali Nine drug mules sentenced to life in jail says he’s lost hope under Indonesia’s drugs policy and believes it would be more humane to execute him now, rather than let him die in jail.

Martin Stephens was one of the couriers caught in the 2005 heroin smuggling plot that has Chan and Sukumaran now days away from execution.

In a letter to The Australian newspaper, Stephens says Mr Joko’s decision to refuse the pair clemency, despite their great strides in rehabilitation, makes him wonder what hope there is for freedom or redemption for other drug offenders, like himself.

“It is more humane to just take me out the back and shoot me like Andrew and Myuran,” he wrote.

- AAP

■ JAPAN

Ebola drug tests offer ‘hope’, says Toda By natsuko Fukue The Japanese company behind an experimental ebola treatment says it offers new hope for thousands of people infected with the deadly virus in west Africa, but acknowledges it is “not a miracle drug”.

In their first comments to media since the release of early clinical trials last week, executives from Fujifilm’s drug unit Toyama Chemical said the results were a “good first step” that could lead to larger and better-designed trials.

Avigan - approved for use in Japan as an influenza treatment - was somewhat effective at saving the lives of ebola patients if given early in the illness, but not later, according to the results presented to a US conference.

“They were better than my expectations,” Fujifilm director Yuzo Toda said in an interview at the company’s office in Tokyo.

“Taking this medicine as early as possible (means) the mor-

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Indonesia’s president has repeated his conviction that executing drug offenders is important for the country’s national sovereignty, as Bali authorities prepare to move Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran to their execution place this week.

A meeting is in progress on Bali, where chief prosecutor Momock Bambang Samiarso says authorities are discussing plans to move the Bali Nine pair out of Kerobokan jail within days.

“It’s confirmed, this week,” he told reporters. “(The island) is all ready.”

The timeframe for moving the men has shifted several times however, as Indonesia prepares to execute 10 drug offenders the most it has ever executed at one time.

Meanwhile, President Joko Widodo has been getting support for the policy from an audience of high school students.

The students from a Central Java school linked to the military visited the presidential palace in Jakarta on Monday, where he warned them of the dangers of drugs.

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tality rate can be significantly reduced.

“That sends a very strong message to the patient.”

Testing began late last year, led by INSERM, the French Institute of Health and Medical Research, and is being funded by the European Commission.

The ongoing clinical trial in hard-hit Guinea is testing the drug on patients with Ebola, which causes severe vomiting, diarrhoea and sometimes fatal bleeding.

Results from only 80 people are available so far.

They show that among those who received the drug early in their illness, 15 per cent died.

However, among those who received it when their viral load was high, 93 per cent died, according to the preliminary results presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Seattle, Washington.

There are no drugs on the market to treat ebola, which has ravaged west Africa and killed 9177 of the nearly 23,000 peo-

Anzac troops needed Australian and New Zealand troops are needed to help train Iraqi soldiers trying to oust Islamic State forces out of their country, a defence analyst says. Retired Major General Jim Molan said Iraqi forces aided by coalition air power had halted the IS advance. But at some stage, a counter-offensive had to start and Iraq needed to generate a force big enough to push IS out of Iraq. Major General Molan, chief of coalition operations in Iraq in 2004-05, said an Iraqi force of up to 10 brigades - a total of 25,000 troops - would be needed and they would need to be trained.

- AAP

Corruption highlighted At least 16 Chinese major generals have been taken for questioning over corruption cases involving their former superiors, the South China Morning Post reports. Most were secretaries or relatives of former commanders and other senior officers, two sources close to the People’s Liberation Army told the Hong Kong-based newspaper. A retired colonel was quoted as saying the group included the son of former vicechairman of the Central Military Commission Guo Boxiong, and the former secretary to late General Zhang Wannian. It was unclear whether the major generals were suspected of graft themselves, or helping investigations into their superiors, the report said.

- DPA

Live baiting review The Queensland government will conduct an independent review of the state’s greyhound industry following revelations about widespread live-baiting. Racing Minister Bill Byrne says the $3 million review, to be fully funded by the racing industry, would be headed by barrister Alan McSporran SC. He said the review, to take about three months, would determine how misconduct that led to the suspension of trainers allegedly involved in live-baiting occurred without earlier detection.

- AAP

Homeless man shot Los Angeles police officers have fatally shot a homeless man in an incident that was caught on video and posted online. The graphic video, which was posted on Facebook, shows a violent altercation between a man and several officers in LA’s Skid Row area near downtown. The circumstances around the shooting were not immediately clear but the video appears to show a man flailing at officers as they try to subdue him. A voice yelling “Drop the gun!” can be heard before several shots ring out and several onlookers cry out in alarm. - AFP British International Development Secretary Justine Greening washes her hands with chlorinated water during her ebola virus fact finding visit to Sierra Leone last week.

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ple infected since late 2013.

Clinical trials of other experimental drugs are under way but are at an earlier stage.

Toda and his colleagues acknowledged the drug’s apparent limitations, but said any positive results could help spread the word among the worst-hit communities and con-

vince more patients to sign up for clinical trials.

“We didn’t expect it would work for all patients, or be a miracle drug, but this is a very good first step,” said Hiroshi Kitaguchi, general manager of the business development unit at Toyama Chemical, which developed Avigan.

- AFP

Indian wins prize An Indian television preacher who called the 9/11 attacks an “inside job” has received one of Saudi Arabia’s most prestigious prizes, for “service to Islam”. Zakir Naik, president of the Islamic Research Foundation in India, was one of five recipients of the King Faisal International Prize from Saudi Arabia’s King Salman during a ceremony at a luxury Riyadh hotel. Naik founded the Peace TV channel.

- AFP

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OUR VIEW

Hold please on plain tobacco packaging Stu Oldham

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plain packaging law for tobacco products should stay on hold until the Government can be sure it will not prompt a costly and drawn out battle in international courts.

The Plain Packaging Amendment Bill was supported by the health select committee last year but its progress has been delayed pending the outcome of challenges against a similar law in Australia.

And it might have sat quietly on the shelf had it not been for Ireland voting for plain packaging over the weekend, and news that England should pass similar legislation this month.

Bill supporters have seized on the latest developments to say New Zealand is slipping behind international efforts and letting big tobacco slow things down.

Theirs is an easy and emotive argument summed up by Maori Party co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell, who warned still-more waiting will mean more people will die or get sick from smoking-related illnesses.

Fair enough. Smoking is harmful, an emotional and financial burden on families and an expensive health and productivity issue for the state. Anything that minimises its impact should be tried.

Australian research suggests plain packaging across the ditch cut the prevalence of smoking among many groups, with one New Zealand public health expert calling it a virtual “vaccine”.

But it did not immunise the Australian government from challenges at the World Trade Organisation and a United Nations arbitration court, where it has spent a lot of money asserting its sovereignty.

The WTO’s decision is likely next year. Whatever happens, it will set a precedent that will affect laws passed here. So it makes sense to wait.

Granted, it gives countless New Zealanders another year to buy branded tobacco products – but they will have to ignore the gruesome photographs and dire health warnings already printed on tobacco packets, to get their fix of something frequent publicity says can kill.

YOUR VIEW Rates rises Shame on you all councillors representing Ashburton. Your rates increases have already been astronomical in the last 16 years now your Long Term Plan is no better.

Most wage earners get a 2 per cent increase a year and your increase has been around 5 or 6 per cent in that time. Don’t you realise the people you are hurting most are the renters, because every time you and insurance companies etc increase your lot, the greedy landlords pass the buck on to the renters.

Just like the greedy landlords in Christchurch after earthquakes, you’re no better.

What’s next on your list? Let me think – a new building for councillors, the one you are in is too small.

Now at what cost, you ask.

Improvise please.

Martin Laffey

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POLL RESULT Yesterday’s result Q: Did you celebrate Children’s Day yesterday?

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Gwynne Dyer

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very time I call (my mother),” said Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov recently, “she gives me a talking-to: ‘When will you stop being rude about Putin? He’ll kill you’.”

Now Nemtsov is dead: four bullets in the back as he was walking home in Moscow with his girlfriend on Friday night.

The protest march against Putin and the war in Ukraine that he was planning to lead yesterday became a memorial march instead.

So, two questions. Did President Vladimir Putin order the assassination? And if he didn’t, then who did, and why?

It took accurate intelligence to know where Nemtsov would be on Friday night, and serious organisation and planning to carry out the killing in such a heavily policed area just down from Red Square.

That points to members of the military or security forces, though not necessarily to ones who were acting on official orders. Because this murder did not serve Putin’s purposes.

Neither Nemtsov nor any other opposition leader posed any threat to Putin’s power.

Thanks to his seizure of Crimea and his military intervention in eastern Ukraine, Putin is currently enjoying an 85 per cent approval rating with the Russian public.

Why risk upsetting this happy relationship with the first murder of a senior political figure in more than a decade?

It’s much more likely that the killing was carried out by serving or former soldiers or intelligence officers who took it upon themselves to eliminate an “anti-patriotic” politician who condemned “Putin’s War” in Ukraine.

In the superheated atmosphere of nationalist paranoia that currently prevails in Russia, such people could easily imagine that they were doing just what Putin secretly wanted.

As for the West, it has already concluded that Putin is an expansionist warlord who

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Editor, PO Box 77 People carry a banner reading ‘bullets for everyone of us, heroes never die!’ as they march in memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov who was gunned down near the Kremlin, with St. Basil Cathedral in the background, in Moscow, Russia.

can only be contained by sanctions and threats. It may even take a new Cold War to stop him.

Paranoia, alas, is a communicable disease.

The Western narrative that seeks to explain how we have reached a point where the United States is contemplating supplying heavy weapons to Ukraine to kill Russian troops has several large omissions.

The first is that the revolution on the Maidan in Kiev last winter did not remove a dictator. It forced a legitimately elected Ukrainian president out of office only a year before the next elections were due.

Putin initially accepted that outcome (with the elections

moved up to only one month in the future).

Quite possibly because he thought Yanukovych’s proMoscow supporters in the east might boost him back into the presidency again.

That same thought may also be why the revolutionaries in Kiev broke the deal and insisted on Yanukovych’s immediate removal from power. It was only then that Putin concluded that he was faced with a Western plot to whisk Ukraine into NATO and create a strategic and political threat on Russia’s southern frontier.

There was no such plot: NATO has not the slightest desire to assume responsibility for the defence of Ukraine. But

there was a great deal of open Western rejoicing at Russia’s discomfiture, and Putin lost his customary cool and responded with the annexation of Crimea and then the encouragement of pro-Russian rebels in southeastern Ukraine.

Putin is dangerous because he is both paranoid and increasingly isolated. (His circle of advisers has dwindled to a handful of hawks.) But he is not planning to conquer even Ukraine, let alone the rest of the former Soviet empire, and he almost certainly did not order Nemtsov’s death.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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■ FORSYTH BARR STADIUM

Ex-Ashburtonian takes Dunedin stadium role A former Ashburton woman has taken charge of the company that manages Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin.

Ashburton-born lawyer Raewyn Lovett, 54, is the new chairwoman of Dunedin Venues Management Ltd. Arriving in Dunedin from Auckland, she said she was taking over an organisation that appeared to be turning a corner, helped by a recent stadium review and the company’s ‘’very energetic’’ chief executive, Terry Davies.

Ms Lovett’s appointment as chairwoman came two months after she was named as one of two new DVML board members in December. She has previously been deputy chairwoman of Quotable Value Ltd and chair-

woman of the Netball New Zealand board, the High Performance Advisory Group and Auckland Sport.

DVML manages the stadium, the Dunedin Centre, including the Town Hall and Glenroy Auditorium, and the Porters’ Lounge at the Dunedin Railway Station.

Ms Lovett said she also came with a ‘’thick skin’’ and was prepared for the high profile and public criticism that sometimes came with her new role, although she hoped to prove the stadium’s worth in time.

“You get the sense, looking at it, that it’s found a level - we’re now looking a lot more to the future, rather than worrying about things that have happened in the past.”

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BY SUZE METHERELL PayPal has ceased processing payments for Mega, the file storage and encryption firm looking to join the New Zealand stock market via a reverse listing of TRS Investments, amid claims it is not a legitimate cloud storage service.

NetNames, a US group with funding from the Motion Pictures Association of America, wrote a report claiming Mega’s services were not legitimate or legally compliant, which was in turn used by US senator Patrick Leahy to pressure Visa and Mastercard to stop processing users’ payments for the Auckland-based service, Mega said in a statement. PayPal, the online payment system, was in turn pressured by the credit card companies to cease payments as well.

“PayPal has apologised for this situation and confirmed that Mega management are upstanding and acting in good faith,” the company said in a statement to the NZX. “PayPal acknowledged that the business is legitimate, but advised that a key concern was that Mega has a unique model with its end-toend encryption which leads to ‘unknowability of what is on the platform’.”

In letters to Ajaypal Banga, chief executive of Mastercard, and Charles Scharf, Visa’s chief executive, Senator Leahy, who chairs the committee on the judiciary, said NetNames found “cyberlockers”, essentially cloud-services like Mega which

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offer end-to-end user encryption and cannot access a user’s stored files, “exist to unlawfully store and disseminate infringing files around the world”.

“A consumer wondering whether a site is offering lawful access to copyrighted content may easily trust the cyberlocker’s legitimacy if world-respected payment processors service the site,” Leahy said. He asked Visa and Mastercard to both “swiftly review the complaints against those cyberlockers and to ensure that payment processing services offered by Mastercard (and Visa) to those sites, or any others dedicated to infringing activity, cease.”

Mega was launched by internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom in 2013 to replace his Megaupload empire, which was frozen after his high profile arrest at the behest of the US federal government. He has since stepped

back from the firm to fight his extradition and to bankroll the Internet Party, which failed to gain seats in Parliament at last year’s general election.

Earlier this year TRS, which is controlled by interests associated with Australian investor Paul Choiselat, extended its deadline for the Mega reverse listing until March 31 from January 31.

Under the deal, TRS would acquire Mega for $210 million by issuing 700 million shares at 30 cents apiece to Mega shareholders, after undertaking a 148 for 1 consolidation. Mega shareholders would then own 99 per cent of TRS, which would change its name to Mega.

The cloud-storage firm said it is in talks with undisclosed alternative payment providers to replace PayPal which should be resolved by March and won’t further delay Mega’s planned reverse listing plans. Until it has a new payment service it will not enforce users’ storage limits or suspend any accounts for non-payment, extending subscriptions by two months free of charge, it said.

The company claims it now has 15 million registered customers across 200 countries, up from 7 million customers when the TRS reverse listing was announced last year.

Some 18.8 per cent of Mega’s shares had been frozen by a restraining order over the assets of Auckland businessman William Yan. Shares of shell company TRS last traded at four-tenths of a cent.

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RURAL WOMEN REPORTS Mid Canterbury RWNZ Provincial president’s message: Welcome to the New Year and trust the year delivers benefits beyond the difficult commencement to 2015.

Mid Canterbury Rural Women N.Z. is calling for applications for their 2015 tertiary scholarship. It is our organisation’s desire to contribute to further education within the community.

With student debt increasing and fees rising, our annual scholarship offers the opportunity to alleviate some of this pressure. It is offered to a person with a home base within the boundaries of Mid Canterbury with $2500 to be allocated.

Scholarship details are available from Pauline 303-6397.

Planning is well in hand for our Rural Women Team for the Cancer Society Relay for Life Event at the Ashburton showgrounds on March 28-29. It is a requirement for us to have people on the track at all times.

Members’ families and friends are welcome to join with us and I am confident we can accord you some grand hospitality from our base site to acknowledge your support. This is, in some small way, an opportunity for us to remember and support those affected by this disease.

Take care on these hot dry days, as we know we are another day closer to the rain.

Sandra Curd Provincial president

It was great to see so many ladies attending some returning each year but others attending for the first time meeting people of a similar age group living in our wider Winchmore district.

We encourage and would welcome some of these young women to come along and enjoy further monthly activities of our Rural Women branch.

Anama The importance of dialling 111 in an emergency was stressed by St John officer Chantelle Heaven when she addressed Anama Rural Women at their February meeting in Mayfield. Chantelle demonstrated the use of the Automatic External Defibrillator (AED).

This device is being placed in schools, business places, community halls and places where people gather. For example, ASB banks are installing these machines in all their branches for use if anyone should suffer a cardiac arrest.

By dialling 111 helpers at an emergency can get a wide range of help and assurance. Diane Milne thanked Chantelle for demonstrating the AED and also the technique used in CPR. Best wishes for health and messages of sympathy and congratulations were sent to former members living in Greymouth and Wanaka.

Special congratulations were extended to member Valmai Ludemann and husband Ernie on the celebration of their 70th wedding anniversary.

Members were reminded of the Link meeting at Tinwald on March 12, the speaker a person who had spent time in Afghanistan.

Christchurch earthquake amputee Stacey Herbert has appealed for help to travel to America for artificial limbs to be fitted. Anama Rural women have responded with a donation of $200.

Lynnford Neroli Davies

Winchmore Recently, on a wonderful warm summer evening, 72 ladies gathered at the Winchmore Hall for the annual Ladies after 5 Dinner.

Our special speaker for the event was Neroli Davies, a young woman who has experienced more in her lifetime so far than most of us will ever achieve.

Neroli was brought up from the age of five on Mt Arrowsmith high country station, which she told us has one of the highest altitude homesteads in New Zealand.

In this age of wrapping our children in cotton wool we were amazed at some of the adventures and activities she undertook solo at a very young age.

From managing the station at the age of 24 years to now managing a business that provides beauty treatments is a radical change of occupation.

She and her husband still farm their property Gawler Downs and her family farm Mesopotamia Station and on occasions she is still able to indulge her passion of being involved with some adventures in the high country.

Those attending enjoyed a lovely meal provided by a group from a church in Ashburton along with refreshments provided by Winchmore Branch.

Members of our branch had the opportunity to meet with Gilbert Murdoch and hear all about the happenings at Lake Hood.

It was surprising to many as to what had neen established since they last visited. The children’s playground has been built by the local residences; a pump park is nearing completion.

A viewing platform is planned in the new area and the new road is nearly completed, which will bring more sections on to the market.

Water will be pumped from Ashburton. When the final plans are in place the public will be truly amazed with what Lake Hood has to offer.

Our members also had the opportunity to visit Elaine’s garden at Grahams Road, although we have experienced the driest summer for many years it was indeed a pleasure to see the garden looking so beautiful; the roses, lilies and shrubs were a delight to see.

Members were reminded of the Relay for Life in March, Provincial will be putting in a team and, if the last event was anything to go by, this will be an event not to be missed.

Helpers will be required to operate the stand at the South Island Field Day at Kirwee, March 25-27.

Our next meeting will be on March 12 at 9.30am in the Tinwald hall, this will be our international meeting, our country of study is Afghanistan.

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X LAMB ($/head) weighted average Store 55 - 56 Prime 96 - 97 X HEIFER (c/kg) 250-350 kgs Lwt Store 148 - 223 X STEER (c/kg) 481-580 Lwt Prime 230 - 261 last week

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X LAMB ($) including 1kg woolly pelt 15.5 kg YM SI 73.89 76.48 17.5 kg YX SI 82.78 85.69 19.0 kg YX SI 89.95 93.12 21.0 kg YX SI 98.85 102.35 Local trade (c/kg) SI 520 510 (16-22kg) X MUTTON ($) including 0.5kg pelt 21.0 kg MX1 SI 53.77 57.34 X BEEF (c/kg) P2 steer SI 450 467 (270-295kg) M Cow SI 315 343 (170-195kg) M2 Bull SI 428 457 (296-320kg) Local trade P2 SI 470 490 (180-280kg) X VENISON ($/hd) gross AP Hind 50kg SI 307 308 AP Stag 60kg SI 375 376 AP Stag 80kg SI 468 469 Auction prices …

X SI WOOL indicator prices (c/kg, clean) Mid mic (23.1-31.5) 796 796 Fine Xbrd (31.6-35.0) 557 540 Coarse Xbred >35 mic 496 493 Lambs 651 642

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X GRAINS ($/tonne, delivered Canterbury) free price Wheat, milling,12.5%p 410 415 415 Wheat, feed 380 385 400 Barley, feed 370 370 405

Source: Midlands Grain 421 452 410 404 445 380 399 445 370

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X LOGS indicator prices, $/tonne Forest index Feb - 15 101.96 98.83 98.17

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Source: PF Olsen 110.28 84.83

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5,675 5,975 6,125 6,245

5,675 5,975 6,125 6,245

Fonterra milk price Fonterra dividend Fonterra share price

5,112 3,585 4,249 4,913

4,679 3,248 3,366 4,982

3,687 3,115 3,242 4,894

2014/15 f'cast $4.70 2014/15 f'cast $0.25 to $0.35 NZX FGG $5.95

2013/14 final $8.40** 2013/14 0.10 * before retentions

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■ PEST ERADICATION

Dairy industry invests in ZIP system

By Suze Metherell New Zealand’s dairy industry has committed $5 million over two years to the fight against stoats, rats and possums, which destroy native flora and fauna, and can carry bovine tuberculosis.

The Zero Invasive Predators scheme, or ZIP, formed after a $10 million injection from philanthropic fund NEXT Foundation, and a further commitment of $5 million from the Department of Conservation. The funds will be used to develop the Wellington-based conservationist’s barrier system, which aims to prevent the reintroduction of pests in cleared zones, without using fences.

New Zealand’s major dairy companies, including Fonterra Co-operative, Westland Milk Products, Open Country, Synlait and Tatua, have contributed to the programme, which is trialling its system on the 400-hectare Bottle Rock peninsula in the Marlborough Sounds. The dairy industry wants to eradicate possums because of the TB threat to dairy herds.

“Right now we have 23 infected herds on the West Coast. Whilst that number doesn’t sound large it is 80 per cent of the infected dairy herds in New Zealand sitting on the West Coast,” Westland Milk chief executive Rod Quin said.

Westland Milk has committed $500,000 to the venture.

“For the farmers that are im-

Westland Milk chief executive Rod Quin.

pacted it is a materially difficult position to be in, they need now to become TB free, and in some cases that will take many years and enormous amount of resources to help them. It’s financially crippling for some of those farmers and they need a lot of support.”

Infected cows are still able to produce milk, because pasteurisation makes it fit for human consumption, Mr Quin said, but any threat to New Zealand’s “clean green” brand was taken very seriously by the industry. While the chemical 1080 works at killing the pests, it was controversial and didn’t stop pests returning, something the ZIP scheme intends to stop.

The project got off the ground after funding from NEXT, the government’s conservation agency, and philanthropists Sam and Gareth

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Morgan. After clearing an area, typically a peninsula, ZIP sets up a barrier which either traps or detects pests reinvading and notifies remote conservationists, rather than needing a labour force to patrol traps.

The project first cleared 40 hectares of Putanui Point in the Pelorus Sounds in three months and has kept it pest free for the past 18 months, Al Bramley ZIP chief executive said. The initial success gave the impetus to seek funding and trial it on a larger scale.

“We can irradicate areas using it so let’s do it using standard techniques and let’s work on this new stuff,” Mr Bramley said. “It’s creating a barrier in the landscape which holds, that isn’t a fence and then being able to detect very low numbers of rats or possums that are arriving into that landscape.”

ZIP has ambitions to make

New Zealand pest free, using less labour-intensive conservation with the ability to remotely monitor the barrier. The “chew-node” is one innovation, where a peanut butter filled container is chewed on by rats, causing the antennae to wobble, and sending a signal back to ZIP that a rat is in the area.

“Once we’ve got that information how do we treat it – well we might fly a drone there, treat the area and then fly back again,” Mr Bramley said. “The next step might be can we put an aerial sensor that maybe can fly that landscape and tell us if anything has arrived, or can we sample water of the streams where they hit the coast and look at what the DNA is and see if there is a rat in that catchment.”

The scalability is what appealed to the NEXT foundation when it looked at funding ZIP, chairman Chris Liddell said. The foundation, set up by benefactors Annette and Neal Plowman, plans to spend $100 million over the next 10 years on environmental and educational programmes.

“ZIP will generate the intellectual property, but then we will make it free for anyone in New Zealand,” Mr Liddell said. “Going beyond New Zealand we could generate some funds from it, if it is valuable enough, and then reinvest that money in New Zealand. But the idea is not to make any money out of the solution, anything that we do we will reinvest in further research and development.”

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Mid Canty

Matt Bell is the second grand finalist to be named in this year’s Young Farmer Contest, leading a trio of Mid Cantabrians into the prize money at the Aorangi regional finals in Oamaru on Saturday.

Representing the Hinds Young Farmers Club, the 28-year-old contract-milker went home with a prize pack worth over $10,000 including cash, scholarships and products and services.

On the back of his third placing in the 2013 grand final Mr Bell is determined to take out top honours in his final bid to become the Young Farmer Contest grand champion.

Second place went to 29-yearold livestock contractor, Sam Bryan, of the Foothills Young Farmers Club. He took home $2900 worth of prizes. He also took out top prize in the AGMARDT Agri-Business Challenge and the Silver Fern Farms Agri-Sport Challenge.

Third place went to Pendarves Young Farmers Club member Athol New. Mr New also won both the Lincoln University Agri-Growth Challenge and the Ravensdown Agri-Skills Challenge.

The Aorangi Regional Final was held in conjunction with the North Otago A&P Show where a large, knowledgeable crowd watched the strong group of contestants display the best of their farming knowledge and skills. The eight contestants were put through their paces in a variety of challenging modules touching on all aspects of farming.

Mr Bell will head off to Taupo in July, where he will battle it out for the champion’s title and more than $270,000 in prizes.

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MARKET REPORT Dairy The relentless drought rolls on with only the Canterbury foothills benefiting from recent rain, but the plains and high country are still desperately dry.

As the Opuha Dam stops offering irrigation water, more plans are being revealed to store unutilised water from the Rangitata Diversion Scheme into ponds on the north side of this alpine river.

Farmers have heeded the call, and are busy cultivating and sowing into the dry soils ready for any autumn rains, and palm kernel extract demand has increased rapidly as managers look for solutions to fill the feed supply gaps created by these irrigation restrictions.

Figures are now starting to emerge of the downward fall in production, with Oceania Dairy reporting a 9 per cent drop for February, and Fonterra closing the Studholme plant for maintenance and processing their milk at other bigger plants.

Fonterra maintained the $4.70 payout forecast in their latest update, as demand out of China remains weak, but lower global supply is still predicted to stimulate prices next year.

Dairy companies have announced they are investing $5 million into developing better predator control technologies, as they look to prevent feral pests contaminating farmed animals with tuberculosis.

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Unfortunately lamb schedules continue to fall with demand for frozen product weak and falling in the UK, and the lack of Chinese interest keeping prices

falling. The port dispute in the US and subsequent shipping delays has caused problems for chilled product as well, with one company reporting they had to freeze down one consignment and take the significant cost on the chin.

Returns out of the UK are behind a year ago, and with their rising production starting in June, exporters report little hope of price lifts.

The lamb processing tallies are 1 million ahead of last year and growing, and analysts are suggesting a shortfall could arise in late autumn early winter from this early kill.

Wool The South Island wool auction produced steady prices for crossbred fleece and lambs wools, but clearances fell to 84 per cent on an unchanged currency.

Beef The port strike is now settled with an intervention by Government officials, but the backlog of cargo and ships is predicted to take eight weeks to clear.

Big supplies of manufacturing beef from NZ and Australia and a cow kill that is 50 per cent ahead of last year, has weakened the market, and schedule prices for bulls and cows fell again this week.

Exporters, however, are still positive about future prospects for beef, with the US domestic prices still high, rain in Australia encouraging restocking, and global beef producing herd numbers, lowest for years.

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Boil until tender. While the potatoes are cooking, prepare the dressing by combining the cider vinegar, second measure of oil, brown sugar and Dijon mustard.

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■ ASHBURTON MUSEUM

American clock partly made in Ashburton

By Kathleen Stringer

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he museum has a large collection of time pieces, from tiny pocket watches to enormous grandfather clocks, and the plain and functional to pieces of great craftsmanship.

Many of the items have been donated as they are outdated or too large for modern homes.

Many are generic, but some have a definite local connection and so are extra special.

One such example is this wall mounted “eight-day” clock (right) made by Ansonia – a name synonymous with clocks.

The company, based largely in Connecticut, began in 1850 and in its heyday was responsible for over 440 different models.

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ple moved to Lyttelton and then Christchurch.

In 1876 he was declared bankrupt but recovered by 1879.

In 1880 he arrived in Ashburton – setting up business next door to the Prospect Building in East Street.

He became bankrupt the same year.

James must have recovered from this setback as when he died in 1883 he left his estate to his wife Amelia.

James and Amelia had six children, one of whom married Andrew Topping.

Amelia was living with the Toppings when she died in 1921. Both Amelia and James are buried in the Ashburton Cemetery and James is featured

Its local connection makes it one of significance

Sadly it went into receivership in 1929 and its assets were sold to a Russian company.

While Ansonia manufactured clocks, it also provided the inner mechanisms to jewellers and other craftspeople who produced the cases. This is possibly what occurred in this situation.

While the workings are American, the case was manufactured by local jeweller James Parker.

Parker was born in 1835 and established a jewellery and watchmaking business in Tasmania. When his partner died he married his widow – Amelia Walbourne – in 1857.

Although we don’t know that much about him, it is easy to get the impression that he didn’t have a good head for business.

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on our portrait wall in the newly-opened Curator’s Gallery.

While not the fanciest clock we have in the collection, its local connection makes it one of significance.

At the back of the clock is a label stating it was made by the Ansonia Brass and Copper Company. This dates the clock as being made from 1869.

Anson Phelps, the company’s founder originally was a metal importer operating under the name of Ansonia Brass Company – clocks were a sideline he developed due to his access to brass and other materials.

However, as we know from James’ brief timeline, we can be sure he produced the case between 1880 and, at the latest, 1886.

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RESULTS ■ Basketball NBA results CHICAGO BULLS 86 L.A. Clippers 96, HOUSTON ROCKETS 105 Cleveland Cavaliers 103 OT, SACRAMENTO KINGS 99 Portland Trail Blazers 110, LA LAKERS 101 Oklahoma City Thunder 108, DENVER NUGGETS 92 New Orleans Pelicans 99, BOSTON CELTICS 101 Golden State Warriors 106, INDIANA PACERS 94 Philadelphia 76ers 74, ORLANDO MAGIC 83 Charlotte Hornets 98.

■ Bridge Ashburton Bridge Club February 27 Monday Evening – B and C Ladder N/S 1 A van Dyk and B Leighton, 2 D Wilkinson and L Leadley, 3 M Oakley and S Young E/W 1 N Smith and M Hanrahan 2 A Gilbert and G Branthwaite, 3 G and N Baker Tuesday Evening – A Ladder N/S 1 T Downward and M Buckland, 2 M Stowell and P Fergus, 3 S Rosevear and J Fechney. E/W 1 A Wright and E Taylor, 2 M Moore and A Maude, 3= M Holmes and L Baker and P Downward and V Ferrier Wednesday Afternoon – Valetta Trophy: 1 M Stowell and S Rosevear, 2 J Wright and K Robb, 3 R Brownlie and A Maude, 4 A van Dyk and J Irwin Thursday Evening – Mary Mulligan Trophy N/S 1 A Blain and R Phillips, 2 M Stowell and B Smith, 3 Johann de Jong and John Shearer.

E/W 1 L Wackrow and A Maude, 2 T Downward and V Ferrier, 3 A Gray and Paul Fergus

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Calder Stewart, McDonalds, Tinwald Supervalue February 27 Friday night Velodrome Racing Trainer Wheels W/W. 1st. Henry Pottinger 13pts. 2nd Holly Douglas 7pts. 2nd.= Jackson Hulme 7pts. 3rd. Ella Hudson 6pts. B. Grade W/W. 1st Brooke Wylie 13pts. 2nd.

Harrison Russell 10pts. 3rd Josh Bellow 5pts.

4th Zac Bartlett 3pts. 5th Mitchell Veix 2pts.

C. Grade W/W. 1st. William Samuels 11pts.

2nd Sharlotte Russell 9pts. 3rd Isacc Barbosa 8pts. 4th Tyler Bartlett 5pts.

D. Grade W/W. 1st Callum Kingsbury 8pts.

1st = Emma Lowry 8pts. 2nd Juliet Kingsbury 6pts. 3rd Lachie Lansdown 5pts. 4th =Briar Clark & Penny Marriott 3pts. D. Grade Group 2. 1st Sarah Bradley 11pts. 2nd Finn Viex 7pts.

3rd Phillip Soshnikov & Abby Samuels 6pts.

4th James Wood 3pts. E. Grade W/W. 1st Fleur Kingsbury 10pts. 2nd. Edward Pottinger 9pts. 3rd Riley Stevens 8pts. 4th Tegan Marriott & Dennis Soshnikov 2pts. 5th. Jamie Paine & Ollie Jackways 1pt. F. Grade W/W. 1st Ryan Jackson 11pts. 2nd. Alex Samuels 9pts.

3rd Cooper Hulme & James Lansdown 6pts.

Open Track Bikes. 1st Brad Hudson 12pts.

2nd. Shona Proctor 9pts. 3rd Ben Sutton 7pts. 4th Gene Shurrock 5pts.

B Grade & U17. 1st Peter Restieaux 11pts. 2nd Bella Roulston 10pts. 3rd Caitlin Titheridge 6pts. 4th Ryan Jackson 3pts. 4th Luke Skinner 3pts. C. Grade U17. 1st Ethan Titheridge 13pts. 2nd Madison Clark 9pts. 3rd Maddie Lowry 8pts.

Mid Canty Social Wheelers February 28, 14km Out and Home 1st Tony Adams CT.29m 20.23s. HT. Go. Rt. 29m 20.23s. 2nd. Brad Hudson Ct. 32m 03.73s. HT. 10.35m. RT. 21m 28.73s F/T. 3rd.

Ross Templeton CT. 32m 04.99s. HT. 10.10m.

RT. 21m 54.99s. 2f/t. 4th Caitlin Titheridge CT. 32m 05.65s. HT. 9.30m. RT. 22m 35.65s. 4f/t.

5th Dean Rattray CT. 32m 06.52s. HT. 9.30m.

RT. 22m 36.52s. 6th. Bruce McClelland CT. 32m 09.64s. HT. 10.10m. RT. 21m 59.64s 3f/t.

7th Brian Ellis CT. 32m 25.68s. HT. 8.15m RT. 24m 10.68s. 8th Luke Skinner CT. 33m 02.45s.

HT. 7.00m. RT. 26m 02.45s. 9th Emma Hudson CT. 33m 02.87s. HT. 8m.15m. RT. 24m 47.87s. 10th Andy Skinner CT. 33m 10.81s. HT. 7.00m. RT. 26m 10.81s. 11th Janette Hooper CT. 33m 21.15s. HT. 8.15m. RT. 25m 06.15s.

12th Brent Hudson CT. 33m 21.54s. HT. 8.15m.

RT. 25m 06.54s. 13th. Don Sutton CT. 33m 23.32s. HT. 9.30m. RT. 23m 53.32s. 14th. Bella Roulston CT. 33m 52.54s. HT. 8.15m. RT. 25m 37.54s. 15th. Rachell Russell CT. 33m 53.11s.

HT. 7.00m. RT. 26m 53.11s. 16th. Harry Chatterton CT. 35m 15.10s. HT. Go. RT. 35m 15.10s.

■ Football English Premier League Arsenal 2 (Giroud 39, Rosicky 89) Everton 0, Liverpool 2 (Henderson 11, Philippe Coutinho 75) Manchester City 1 (Dzeko 25), West Bromwich Albion 1 (Berahino 2) Southamp-

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Standings P W D L F A Pts Chelsea 26 18 6 2 56 22 60 Manchester City 27 16 7 4 57 27 55 Arsenal 27 15 6 6 51 29 51 Manchester United 27 14 8 5 46 26 50 Liverpool 27 14 6 7 40 30 48 Southampton 27 14 4 9 38 20 46 Tottenham Hotspur 26 13 5 8 41 36 44 Swansea 27 11 7 9 31 34 40 West Ham 27 10 9 8 39 33 39 Stoke City 27 11 6 10 31 34 39 Newcastle United 27 9 8 10 32 42 35 Crystal Palace 27 7 9 11 31 38 30 West Brom Albion 27 7 9 11 25 34 30 Everton 27 6 10 11 33 39 28 Hull City 27 6 8 13 25 36 26 Sunderland 27 4 13 10 22 38 25 QPR 26 6 4 16 27 45 22 Burnley 27 4 10 13 25 45 22 Aston Villa 27 5 7 15 13 37 22 Leicester City 26 4 6 16 24 42 18

■ Golf Aorangi SC Women’s Golf February 23, Silver Pennant North Zone Round 3, Geraldine 5 Pleasant Point 5, Tinwald/Ashburton 7 Ashburton 3, Mayfield 8 St Andrews/Timaru 2 Round 4 Mayfield 5 Tinw/Ash 5, Gld 8 St And/Tu 2, Ash 2 PlPt 8 South Zone held at Lower Waitaki Round 3, Tokarahi 8 Waimate 2, Temuka 7 Gleniti 3, North Otago Bye Round 4 Tok 7 Nth Otago3, Tka 10 Wte 0 , Gleniti Bye Points after 4 rounds North Zone Gld 31 Mayfield 25 Tin/Ash 20 Pl Pt 21 St And/Tu 13 Ash 10 South Zone Tok 22 Tka 19 Nth Otago 18 Wte 13 Gleniti 8

Ashburton Golf Club February 27 Top Team: Hit & Miss 97.5 – Rhonda Gallagher, Kaye Donaldson, Jo Van Noord, Craig Goodwin Ladies: Periwinkles 91, Mayfield Magic 87 Men: Gabites Sloggers 89, Probians 88.5, Smokin Tees & Strokin 3’s 85.5 – by lot Mixed: Milkaware 91, Vintage Wine 85Top lady: Kaye Donaldson 34 - Top Lady and Top Man from Hit & Miss Top man: Craig Goodwin 34 Nearest Pins: Templeton Motors – Barry Bluett; Paul May Motors – Di Engelbrecht; Mac & Maggies – Brent MacGregor; BP Ashburton – Corey Geddes.Gabites Lucky Player – Steve Thomas, BP Lucky Player –Jan Clucas Twos: Murray Cook, Kaye Donaldson, Evan Waters, Murray Anderson

Ashburton Golf Club February 28 Best score of the day and 10pts for the RMF Cup was Pieter vanVollenhoven 77-14 = 63 and 45pts. Other winning scores were: Phillip Kerr 40; Hugh MacLenaghen and Grahan Taylor 39; Peter Pratt, Chris Lovelock, Mark Douglas, John Dudley and Brent MacGregor 38pts on c/b from many.

Nearest Pins: Robbies: Mal Trewavas, Braided Rivers: Rhonda Gallagher, Rothburys Insurance: Andrew Tindall, Netherby Meats: Maxine Carter, Charming Thai Restaurant (Longest Putt #9) Gary McConnoche Twos: Andrew Tindall, Mark Douglas, Murray Moorhead and Phillip Kerr.

Nett Eagles # 1; Birdy Jackpot # 12 March 1: The second round of the White Trophy and first round of the plate were held on Sunday. Winners in the Trophy section were Jenni & Geoff Kean, Heather Robertson & Paddy Bradford. There are still two matches to be completed before 15 March. In the Plate the winners were Jan Guildford & Mike Holmes, Judith & Garry McKeown, Leigh & Murray Wackrow, Fiona & Jeff Williamson.

Top score in the Nett competition held on the day was Jenni & Geoff Kean with a 65 nett.

Mayfield Golf Club February 19, 9 Hole division Handicap and Putting Men 1st J Greenslade 51:18:33,2nd R Thompson 55:18:37. Ladies 1st T Gallagher 54:19:35, 2nd J Schmack 63:28:35 c/b Putting – 1st R Thompson 15, 2nd T Gallagher 15 c/b, Nearest Pins: Greg Sim Builders and Excavators 2nd Shot No 2 – J Greenslade, Mayfield Transport Ltd No. 5 – J Schmack February 26 9 Hole Division, Stroke and Stableford Stroke - Ladies 1st T Gallagher 56:18:38, 2nd J Schmack 68:29:39. Stableford – Ladies 1st J Schmack 16, 2nd T Gallagher 16 c/b Men – 1st R Thompson 51:17:34 and 20 stbf,

Jordy McGillen, 7, sends the ball back over the net during the Hot Shots Mini Tennis session last night at the Ashburton Trust Tennis Centre. The learning course is held in term one and four each year to introduce youngsters to the basic skills and create the future interclub players.

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2nd E Graham 49:13:36 and 18 stbf Nearest the Pins – Greg Sim Builders and Excavators 2nd Shot No. 2 – R Thompson, Mayfield Transport No. 5 – J Greenslade February 28, Men’s Division Skibo: Winner Ali McLeod 81-17-64 I Beach nett 66, T Kingsbury 69, S King, M Keir, F Tasker, A Dixon, J Allan 70 Nearest Pins: Aon Insurance No T Kingsbury, John McAuliffe Bayleys No11 A McLeod Marilyn Cross Property Brokers No 5; S Cross. ANZ Bank: S Cross. ATS 9 & 18 W Blair; Nett Eagle Not Struck. Twos: J Sim, S Cross, T Kingsbury. Ashvegas player of the day Ali McLeod

Methven Golf Club February 25, Ladies Section LGU Silver: Jenny Senior 81-12-69, Hiromi Ikehata 94-17-77. Bronze A: Ruth Smith 84-23-61, Pam Watson 88-20-68, Helen Fahey 89-2069, Sally Jones 93-23-70. Bronze B: Barbara Duffy 101-34-67, Bev Owen 108-39-69, Sandra Marr 101-31-70, Denise Hood 102-32-70, Judy Molloy 98-28-70 Tuis Trophy Ruth Smith 48 stb, Pam Watson 43stb, Barbara Duffy 42 stb. Cinema Paradiso Best Nett Ruth Smith 61. Currie Button Ruth Smith .

Nearest The Pins: No 4 Silver Supervalue: Hiromi Ikehata, No 6 Bronze A Topnotch: Pam Watson, No 13 Open Methven Pharmacy: Jenny Senior, No 17 Bronze B second shot Methven Travel: Naomi Fairfull, No 6 Saturday Ladies Arabica: Sally Jones 2’s & Nett Eagles: Ellen Kemp, Bev Isherwood, Sally Jones, Jenny Senior x 2, Hiromi Ikehata, Barbara Duffy, Sandra Marr x 2 February 28 2nd round Rodger Harris Memorial Trophy, Stableford aggregate.

Senior: Craig J Middleton 41; Intermediate: Bernard Walsh 43; Junior A: Mark Gorman 42; Junior B: Peter Kemp 44 Other Good Scores: Bob Fairfull 42,Phil Lalor 39,Frank Sandys 39,Ian Lucas 38, Ross Breach 37,Mike Gray 36,Jim Rooney 36, Russell Currie 36, Graham Gunn 36, Michael Kemp 35, Bruce Dickson 35.

Twos: Craig J Middleton. Topnotch Four Square Supermarket – Best Nett: Peter Kemp 64 by lot. Aqua Japanese - 2nd Nett: Bernard Walsh 64. Methven Travel - Best Gross: Graham Gunn by lot.

Closest to the Pins: Arabica Cafe No 4: Phil Johnson; Hunters Wines No 6: Dayle Lucas; Ski Time No 13: Craig J Middleton; The Green Parrot No 17: Ross Breach; Dubliner 2nd Shot No 14: Les Topping Next Week: Medal Round, 1st round Callaghan trophy

Tinwald Golf Club February 26, Twilight Stroke - alternate tees 0-6: Mark Argyle 31, John Smitheram 32, Michael Thomas 32, Pete Trembath 33, Brent Smith 33 b/l. 7-10: Mitch VanderKrogt 29, Tim Stoddart 30, Craig Meyrick 31, Ray Wards 31, Gordon Smith 31, James Ev-

ans 31, Kieron Gray 32, Brent Green 32. 11 plus: Bryce Prendergast 30, Selwyn Munro 31, Dale Thomas 32 b/l. Non-handicap; Stu Scammell 32. Women 0-14: Linda McClea 31 b/l, Joyce VanderHeide 31, Elizabeth Collins 32 b/l. 15 plus: Sue Gutsell 34 b/l, Verna Hampton 34. Bayley’s nearest the pin; # 2 Steve Kennedy. # 16 Steve Moorhead. Radio Hokonui longest drive; Kirsty McAuliffe.

Two’s: Kevin Bishop February 28, Stableford Leading scores in the 2nd round of the Doug Gray Trophy stableford competition. Senior; Michael Thomas 42, Kevin Greenaway 38, Wayne Lloyd 38, Brent Smith 38. Intermediate; Phillip Roulston 47, Wayne Mellish 41, Kieron Gray 41, Justin Smith 41, Bruce Collins 40. Junior; Des Green 41, Dave Allan 38, Selwyn Munro 37 b/l. Women; (Stroke), Jacqui Beardsley 66, Leen Bell 70. Nearest the pin: Tinwald Liqourland # 2; Neil Rayner.

Gluyas Ford # 6; Bob MacGregor. Bedrock Bar and Stonegrill # 12; Brent Kirdy. Ideal Electrical Supplies # 16; Michael Thomas.

Two’s: Brent Green, Bob MacGregor, Brent Smith, Justin Smith, Paul Hefford. Net Eagle; # 6 not struck.

■ Rugby Super Rugby Round 3 HIGHLANDERS 20 (Waisake Naholo try Marty Banks 4, Hayden Parker pens) bt QUEENSLAND REDS 13 (Jake Schatz try James O’Connor con 2 pens) at Forsyth Barr Stadium. Referee: Glen Jackson.

HURRICANES 42 (Mark Abbott, Cory Jane, James Marshall, Julian Savea, Victor Vito tries Beauden Barrett 2, Marshall 2 cons Barrett 3 pens) bt FORCE 13 (Mitch Scott try Luke Burton con Burton, Zack Holmes pens) at nib Stadium. Referee: Marius van der Westhuizen. Crowd: 14,670.

CHEETAHS 25 (Cornal Hendricks 2, Sarel Pretorius tries Joe Pietersen 2 cons 2 pens) bt BLUES 24 (Luke Braid, Charlie Faumuina, Jerome Kaino tries Ihaia West 3 cons pen) at Vodacom Park. Referee: Rohan Hoffman.

CHIEFS 40 (James Lowe, Tom Marshall, Charlie Ngatai, Augustine Pulu, Sonny Bill Williams tries Aaron Cruden 3 cons 3 pens) bt CRUSADERS 16 (Andrew Ellis try Colin Slade con 3 pens) at Waikato Stadium. Referee: Mike Fraser. Crowd: 18,166.

BRUMBIES 20 (Jarrad Butler, Tevita Kuridrani tries Christian Leali’ifano 2 cons 2 pens) bt REBELS 15 (Mike Harris 5 pens) at AAMI Park. Referee: Steve R. Walsh.

BULLS 43 (Francois Hougaard, Jan Serfontein, Pierre Spies, Deon Stegmann tries Handre Pollard 3, Tian Schoeman cons Pollard 4, Schoeman pens) bt SHARKS 35 (Ryan Kankowski, Cobus Reinach tries Patrick Lambie 2 cons 7 pens) at Loftus Versfeld. Referee: Jaco van Heerden.

Bye-NSW Waratahs NZ Conference P W D L PF PA PD BP Pts Hurricanes 3 3 0 0 81 34 47 1 13 Chiefs 3 3 0 0 82 51 31 1 13 Highlanders 2 1 0 1 40 39 1 1 5

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■ Shooting Rifle Shooting February 28 and March 1 Otago Championships, and second stage of South Island Championships at Oamaru range. A grade, Allan White 345.29, Chris Kershaw 343.30, Ken Chittock 342.31, Bevan Mehrtens 342.31, John Miller 331.29. B grade, Robbie Gilchrist 333.17. C grade, David Taylor 332.19, John Fleming 329.23, Kathryn Lange 327.19, Coby Snowden 325.26, Bruce Plant 318.16, Murray Cook 318.16, Hans Brienesse 303.6. F Class, Stuart Amos 413, Les Grimsey 410, Joey Meldrum 408, Chris Brown 402. FTR Class, Sharon Grimsey 399, Darren Swaney 397, Daniel Alexander 370, Brian Graystone 366.

Ashburton shooters in South Island Championships Final, Coby Snowden, Ladies Shield, John Snowden, Long Ranges Cup, (900 and 1000 yds at Blenheim), Stuart Amos, F Class, and John Fleming, C grade.

■ Squash Ashburton Squash Club Results from the inaugural 20/20 tournament held at the club’s courts on Sunday: A Grade - 1st Pete Summerfield; 2nd Lee Barker; 3rd Tim Stoddart; B Grade - 1st Dean Harrison; 2nd Ash Flannery; 3rd Matt Speedy; C Grade - 1st Mike Redwood; 2nd Nick Swift; 3rd Nathan Bartlett D Grade - 1st Michael Burton; 2nd Mitchell Stoddart; 3rd Julie Smith; E Grade - 1st Mitchell McLaughlin; 2nd Steve Devereux; 3rd Scott Van den Bemd; F Grade - 1st Greg Jopson; 2nd Terry Hutchinson; 3rd Campbell Bedward; G Grade - 1st Sam Woolf; 2nd Catherine Wells; 3rd Mitchell Woolf Junior Grade - 1st Tom Lambie; 2nd Henry Hobbs; 3rd Leigh Harrison

Celtic Squash Club Results from last week’s round of the Celtic Squash Club’s summer league competition: Chrissie Stratford beat Nik Millichamp 3-1, Gary Casy beat Cath Blacklow 3-1, Pat Summerfield lost to Jock O’Connor 2-3.

Rob Beale lost to Devin Francis 1-2, Angela Harris lost to Robbie Kok 1-3, Rachel Jemmett beat Chauntel Kentish 5-0, Phil Rushton drew with Marie Kennedy 2-2, Mick Hooper beat Billy Nolan 2-1.

Ben Kruger drew with Brendon Adam 2-2, Adam Clement drew with Jock O’Connor 2-2, Jess McCloy lost to Steve Devereux 1-2, Chauntel Kentish beat Charlotte Smith 3-0, Paul Cousins lost to Sam Harrison 1-2, Mark O’Grady lost to Scott van den Bemd 0-3, Nigel Tiffen lost to Terry Hutchinson 1-3.

Billy Nolan lost to Chris O’Reilly 1-2, Steve Devereux lost to Suzanne Nijjar 1-2, Marie Kennedy drew with Di Ness 2-2, Ron Carlson lost to Craig Campbell 1-3.

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■ CRICKET

Highlights hiding blemishes

By Dylan Cleaver After the euphoria, the coldeyed analysis.

New Zealand will almost certainly top Pool A after their nerve-shredding win against Australia, but it’s what they do in the next couple of weeks, against minnows Afghanistan and slightly bigger fish Bangladesh, that will determine their readiness for potentially three knockout games against tough opposition.

Truth is, New Zealand’s batting is in a bit of a mess.

Take Brendon McCullum and Kane Williamson out of the equation and you’re left with a line-up whose confidence seems to be eroding by the game.

Between them they have scored 356 of New Zealand’s 754 runs to date. That’s 47.21 per cent of their team’s runs.

Mike Hesson and his staff must know that is not sustainable, particularly given McCullum’s modus operandi.

Even given his supernatural hand-speed and locked-in eye, the chances of him going through the tournament without failing is unlikely.

There is some grim reading on a number of fronts.

Between them, six of New Zealand’s top eight have mustered 355, one run less than Williamson and McCullum.

Extras (42), have contributed more to New Zealand’s aggregate than Taylor and Vettori combined, though the latter has had only two bats.

There has been only one 50+ score among them, that being Anderson’s powerful 75 against Sri Lanka on the first day of the tournament.

Some of this is beyond Hesson’s control.

Three times in succession the

DRAWS ■ Bowls

Bowls Mid Canterbury v Ellesmere March 10 Report by 9.30am - $12 per person Senior: Linda Boyd, Maureen Sullivan, Raiona Isherwood, Diane Vanderweg.

Rosemary Bennett, Diana King, Melva Middleton, Noeline Woods.

Lorrel Chaney, Heather Goodall, Wendy Suttie, Ollie Collins.

Wendy Watson, Rachel Davies, Sandra Holdom, Cait Bassett Over 70’s: Val Bell, Helen Boag, Noreen Smith, Mary Stone.

Faye McKnight, Leonie Spargo, Joyce Thomas, Rosemarie O’Sullivan.

Junior: Judie Ryk, Pip Kiddey, Michelle Foster, Rose Johnston.

Dawn Bruce, Jill Harris, Anne Reid, Carol Wilson.

Liquorland sponsored Open Triples March 7, 9.30 start The following skips have entered teams.

M Anderson, G. Eder, R. Gutberlet. D. Muir, R. Herriott, B. Holdom, C. Leech, A. MacKenzie,

opposition have batted first and made paltry totals, meaning that even if New Zealand’s order were all in the form of their lives, there wasn’t a lot of runs to share around.

This goes for time in the middle, too.

Ronchi, an important freescoring cog at No 7, has faced the equivalent of six overs; Vettori, one spot lower in the order, just seven balls.

Taylor has faced 8.1 overs and Elliott 11 overs worth of deliveries.

It is difficult to get a true gauge of form with such a small sample size.

Of the rest, only Anderson and Guptill will feel like they have had any significant time

in the middle, and of those two only the former, batting at No 6, will feel like he has made a solid contribution.

Winning, however, tends to cloud these sorts of issues, but the brains trust will be acutely aware that they need their batsmen, particularly the vitally important Taylor, to be feeling better about their games heading into the quarter-finals.

This is going to make selection for the game against Afghanistan far more important than it would normally appear.

All the talk is that the dirttrackers - Tom Latham, Kyle Mills, Mitchell McClenaghan and Nathan McCullum - will get a run, and certainly on the

bowling side that would make some sense.

But can they actually afford to play Latham?

The gaps between games now are so big, that it would be a risk to rest your in-form players, because there’s a danger you play them out of form due to inactivity - the game against Bangladesh, where they will surely revert to their best XI, is not until March 13, and then there is another eight-day gap until the Caketin quarter-final.

If you played Latham at No 5 instead of Elliott, who had been in great pre-World Cup form but met a good ‘un first up against Mitchell Starc, you’re potentially robbing the Wellingtonian of his best chance to get into the tournament.

Guptill might have been vulnerable pre-tournament, but he showed enough patches of form to convince selectors he was the best foil for McCullum.

Again, it would be unwise to rob him of the chance of a confidence boost and time in the middle against the minnows.

It might be that McCullum’s bruised forearm provides them with the perfect excuse to get Latham into the team, but as mentioned before, that comes with its own risks around that nebulous idea - momentum.

All those permutations aside, one thing should be certain.

With the bowlers in great form and the batsmen struggling, this might be the most crucial toss of the tournament: New Zealand need to call correctly and take first use of what is normally a benign McLean Park surface. * We’ll ignore the tail because if you’re relying on runs from Nos 9-11 in 50-over cricket, your problems are insurmountable.

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12.42, G Rennie, D Gill, R Wards, D Green 12.48, R Harris, A Pierce, T Reynolds, E Tulip No 13 Tee: 12.30, O Everest, R Bruce, D Allan, C Whiting Starters; am B Collins, pm s Anderson, S Kennedy. Cards; C Hart

thers to umpire.

Senior Mixed 1:00- D2 Bedrock Panthers v ADSC Renegades, Hampstead to umpire.

Senior Mixed 3:00- D3 ADSC Rebels v Nosh Café Hampstead Hawks, Renegades to umpire. Rustys Bye.

■ Softball

■ Tennis

Mid Canterbury Softball

Mid Canty Junior Tennis

March 7 T Ball 9:00 - T2 Allenton Strikers v BNZ Rakaia Rangers, T3 Hampstead Gold v Borough Bashers, T4 Hampstead Catchers v Tinwald Dolphins, T5 Longbeach Stars v Wakanui Wackers. Hampstead Pitchers Bye Little League U11 9:00- D2 Elite Panthers v Pearsons Rakaia Red Sox, Hampstead to umpire. D3 ADSC Cubs v Quigleys Contracting Black Sox, Rustys to umpire. Metalcorp Hampstead All Stars Bye. T Ball 10:15- T3 Allenton Tigers v Wakanui Wrecking Balls, T4 Allenton Blue Jays v Longbeach Strikers, T5 Hampstead Blue v Hampstead Strikers, T6 Hampstead Fielders v Netherby Nomads, T2 Borough Black v JFM Rakaia Royals.

Little League U13 10:15- D2 Fairfield Juniors v ADSC Cardinals, Rebels to umpire. D3 Rookie Panthers v Resolve Tax Rakaia Ravens, Renegades to umpire. D4 Rakaia Bridgestone Battlers v ADSC Tigers, Pan-

Round 13 March 7 All games to start at 9am sharp B Grade - played at ATTC Duty Team Rakaia Blue Tinwald Red v Hampstead; Rakaia Blue v Wakanui Southern Stars; Methven Green v Tinwald Purple; Methven Bronze v Tinwald Orange.

Junior A: Hinds Southern Smash v Hampstead at Hinds; Dorie A v Allenton at Dorie.

Junior B: Allenton v Methven Silver at Allenton; Hampstead v Methven Red at Hampstead; Tinwald v Longbeach/Willowby Southern Strikers at Hinds.

Junior C: When results from last weekend are finalised draw will be completed. Please refer to Mid Canterbury Tennis website for updated draw.

Please phone any defaults through to Mid Canterbury Junior Tennis 308 3020 as soon as possible.

Martin Guptill: One of many New Zealand batsmen who need to lift their game.

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■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club March 6: The Property Brokers sponsored Tournament will be held. This will be individual stableford open to men and women. Entry fee $5. Start Time: Morning 8.00am; Afternoon Report at 11.30 for a 12.00pm start.

Saturday Starters: Morning tba; Afternoon Match Committee. Results Match Committee

Tinwald Golf Club March 7: 3rd round of the Doug Gray Trophy.

Morning players will have a clubhouse draw for an 8am start. Players are asked to report 15 minutes prior to tee off times.

No 1 Tee: 12.30, R Feutz, C Hart, A Barrie, A Pawsey 12.36, T Clarke, B Collins, N Rayner, W Eddington 12.42, S Kennedy, S Anderson, P Marshall, J Evans No 10 Tee: 12.30, J Beardsley, E Collins, W Stevenson, 12.36, S Newman, S Lane, J VanderHeide, M Whiting

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In brief Tactix crash to a loss Mystics shooter Cathrine Latu bounced back from a recent health battle to lift her side to a composed win over the Tactix in Christchurch last night. After giving the Tactix a seven-goal head start in the opening spell, the Mystics slowly went about grinding down the home side, producing a strong second half to claim a 59-53 lead to top the New Zealand conference after the opening round.

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Rhodes has final say Having carried the bridesmaid tag for the better part of the season Geoff Rhodes finally broke the drought with a hard fought victory in Tinwald Cycling Club’s 60km handicap around the Blackbridge block on Sunday. Rhodes and his co-markers found the front of the race at the 50km mark and worked solidly to keep the chasing groups at bay. Having had a number of podium finishes but never a win, Rhodes then kicked clear in the sprint to the line to see off a game challenge from Dave Shurrock and finally stand on the top of the podium. Pam Harcourt stormed into third getting the nod over her husband John who secured fourth.

Michael Templeton secured fastest time honours riding the course in 80.44.

Auks, Cantabs all square Leaders Auckland are in an even stevens contest with Canterbury at the halfway point in their Plunket Shield clash at Colin Maiden Park. The sixth round of games had staggered starts, so while Northern Districts have gone to the top of the table after beating Central Districts on their final day yesterday, Auckland have to produce two days of strong, assertive cricket to regain the initiative. Canterbury established a 46-run first innings lead, making 340 yesterday, on the back of a second first-class hundred in the season by Henry Nicholls. Auckland start today at 29 for none, trailing by 17 runs overall. Meanwhile Northern enjoyed a 43-run win over CD at Whangarei’s Cobham Oval.

Rain cut the second day short in Queenstown, where Wellington are 70 for one in their second innings after three days, holding an overall lead of 116.

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Waiting game for Titans The immediate playing future of the Gold Coast Titans embroiled in the NRL cocaine scandal is still up in the air with club CEO Graham Annesley saying they are still waiting on key information about the charges. Annesley told AAP the club was yet to see a summary of the police brief on the case. “Until we get the information that we are after we are no closer to a decision,” Annesley said. “There are police documents that we need to see before we are in a position to make a decision. You can’t make decisions without information.”

Asked if he hoped players would be reinstated before their NRL round one clash against Wests Tigers on Saturday night, Annesley said: “I am hopeful of getting the matter resolved as quickly as possible.”

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In brief Sisters finish triathlon Mid Canterbury students competed in the South Island Secondary Schools’ triathlon and duathlon championships in Oamaru at the weekend. The Elliott sisters, Aimee and Courtney, from Mount Hutt College both had the courage to take on the waters of Oamaru Harbour and compete in the triathlon.

Courtney finished strongly to take fifth place in the junior girls’ division, while Aimee ended up a commendable fourth in the intermediate girls’ race. Ashburton College’s Matthew Clough was third in the intermediate boys’ race. In the duathlon event, Josh Sheridan was first in the junior boys’ while Brea Roderick took out the junior girls’ race. Sam Cuttle and Alex Roderick were first in the junior boys’ teams section.

Diggler cancelled Bike Methven was forced to cancel their annual Diggler Downhill mountain bike race on Sunday.

The club’s Mt Hutt Bike Park is currently overrun by loggers and the progress of their work affected the running of the race.

In a statement the club said “unfortunately due to the progress of logging, and the loss of the use of the area at the bottom of Diggler due to it becoming a skid site, we have been forced to cancel the race”. Several of the club’s trails they had spent a lot of man hours on, moulding them out of the landscape, have been erased by the logging operation. Once the logging is finished the club plans to redesign their trail network.

Touch team just misses Mount Hutt College sent four teams to the Aoraki Secondary Schools’ Touch tournament in Oamaru on Sunday. Of the two senior boys’ teams, the ‘black’ team narrowly missed qualifying for the South Island Championships finishing third behind Timaru Boys’ High School and St Kevin’s College. The under 15 boys were second to Roncalli. The senior girls were fifth after draws with St Kevin’s College and Waitaki Girls’ College.

Ashburton College did not enter this year.

Irish still hopeful Robbie Henshaw’s first Test try kept alive Ireland’s Grand Slam hopes as the defending Six Nations champions beat England 19-9 at Lansdowne Road for a national record-equalling 10th success in a row. The 21-year-old man-of-thematch’s second-half try - allied to 14 points by Jonathan Sexton - ended a run of four successive defeats to the English, whose own hopes of the Grand Slam disappeared. Ireland now have a chance of retaining the title for the first time since 1948/49.

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‘Tahs target O’Connor The NSW Waratahs have wasted no time identifying James O’Connor as the Queensland Reds’ dangerman in Saturday night’s Super Rugby derby in Brisbane.

O’Connor is just one match into his return to Australian rugby, but the reigning Super champions are already on guard as they chase maximum points in a must-win early-round encounter at Suncorp Stadium.

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Rakaia’s Brian Hanrahan picks his line during the Mid Canterbury Champion of Champion bowls tournament at the Allenton Bowling Club on Sunday.

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■ BOWLS

Champions on the greens

By Jonathan Leask

Jonathan.l@theguardian.co.nz

The second instalment of the Champion of Champions bowling series had the top quartets in the county fight for the fours titles at the Allenton Bowling Club on Sunday.

The respective fours champions from all the clubs assembled to play for the higher honour of being the best in the district, and the Methven club again enjoyed a good day on the greens claiming the women’s

and junior men’s titles, after winning three of the four triples titles last month.

Allenton won the men’s title with the quartet of Graham Clarke, Rowan Tonks, Bruce White and Graeme Bishop beating Rakaia’s Guy Cornelius, John Cromie, Brian Hanrahan and Michael McGuire 23-12.

It was closer in the women’s final where Methven’s Maureen Sullivan, Raiona Isherwood, Melva Middleton and Mary Stone got the better of

the Ashburton MSA four of Robyn Parkin, Shirley Taylor, Wendy Petrie and Marg Watson.

Methven’s junior trio of Rob Fensom, Jim Lattimore and Bruce Redmond, who were members of the club’s victorious four in the Canterbury junior fours and junior champion of champions triples winners, were joined by Ivan Syme to take out the junior fours 23-9 over Allenton.

The third of the Champi-

on of Champions series is on March 22 at the Ashburton Bowling Club before the pairs conclude the series a week later on March 29 in Methven.

However, this weekend the ‘big four’ interclub cups go on the line.

The women’s premier and prestige fours trophies are to be played at Methven while the men’s Challenge Cup will take place at Hampstead, with the Gala Cup at the Ashburton MSA.

■ RUGBY

Numbers not looking good for the Crusaders

By DanieL RichaRDson What has happened to the Crusaders?

They’re traditionally slow starters in Super Rugby but losses to the Rebels and the Chiefs - with an unconvincing win over the Highlanders mixed in - may have some alarm bells ringing in Christchurch.

Todd Blackadder’s side have conceded a competition-worst nine tries, alongside the Force, and three of them have come from when the opposition has begun with the ball in their own half.

What that says is their defensive systems may not be insync to cope with a team on the counter-attack, or they’ve been the victim of individual brilliance.

If this trend continues then that’s a genuine concern.

Given the Crusaders make their tackles at an acceptable 89 per cent success rate, one thinks that it’s been freakish tries rather than poor systems which have let them down.

Luckily for the Crusaders, they have a bye this week.

Meanwhile, somebody’s zero will have to go when the win-

less Blues and Lions square off in Albany on Saturday. The Lions average a competition-low four clean breaks per game, while the Blues - despite their poor results - are at the top of the bill with nine breaks per game, alongside the Waratahs.

The Lions also miss the least tackles (10) per game. Resolute defence will meet the linebreaking ability of the Blues.

Something will have to give.

Loose forward Jerome Kaino, who made his 100th Super Rugby appearance during the weekend, has been at the forefront of the clean breaks.

The veteran has made 21 carries this season at an average of 6.1m per carry.

Point of note: Has anyone seen how hard the Hurricanes are hitting rucks? Their forwards are playing with true intent and hooker Dane Coles said the fire had been lit by new assistant coach John Plumtree.

“He’s definitely asked a lot more of our forwards, just to be a bit more physical and I think the boys are responding well,” Coles said.

It’s certainly working for the ‘Canes who can cool their jets with a bye this week. - NZME

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Franklin Trotting Club Inc Venue: Alexandra Park Meeting Date: 03 Mar 2015 NZ Meeting number: 5 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 2.02pm (NZT) GARRARDS HORSE AND HOUND TROT $7000, 3yo+ c0 trot, stand, 2200m 1 2x824 La Maitre Dix (1) fr .................. T Macfarlane 2 48043 Wings On Fire (2) fr ......................R Bowker 3 Toasted (3) fr .................................T Mitchell 4 Majestic One (4) fr ....................S Abernethy 5 14Dx Paramount Dream (5) fr ...............J W Dickie 6 45348 Winsome Luck (6) fr ......................Z Butcher 7 30 Grey Stoke (7) fr............................S Lawson 8 0 Alta Venetia (8) fr ..................... M McKendry 9 4 Yankee Doodle Dandy (9) fr ............... J Cole 10 24509 Knead The Dough (10) fr ..................L Hollis 11 0P0x6 Not About The Money fr ............... Scratched 12 28097 Springfield Hugh fr ....................... Scratched 13 38005 Shay Scott (U1) fr........................J Stormont 14 99 Glory Stride (U2) fr 15 60856 The Keystone Kid (U3) fr.....................T Hall 16 57682 Sir Henry Castleton (U4) fr........... D Butcher 17 PPDx0 Scarrymcleary (U5) fr ....................J I Dickie Em: Alta Venetia, Springfield Hugh, Glory Stride 2 2.32pm L C PURDON INTERNATIONAL MOBILE PACE $7000, 3yo+, c0 with cond. mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 70705 Tiger Tamer (1) fr ..........................T Mitchell 2 6x070 Supreme Brigade (2) fr ............. J Abernethy 3 88000 Alcaesar (3) fr ......................... T Macfarlane 4 90908 Comets Dream (4) fr .......... J MacKinnon (J) 5 44084 Joanednobettor (5) fr .....................J I Dickie 6 66326 Star Elect (6) fr ............................. D Butcher 7 00998 Brydon Jet (7) fr .............................S Phelan 8 87439 Forever An Angel (8) fr ......................L Hollis 9 72402 Khloe (21) fr ............................. M McKendry 10 x0533 Atomic Blonde (22) fr ....................Z Butcher 11 06 River Valley Mist (23) fr ......... S Cruickshank 12 60070 Blue Bird (24) fr ............................ W Fausett

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13 47 Blue Allan (25) fr .......................S Abernethy 14 7640P Aquickone (U1) fr ...............................S Reid Emergency: Alcaesar 3 3.08pm TONY & ANNE PARKER TROT $7500, 4yo+ c1 trot, stand, 2200m 1 04302 Kawarau Spur (1) fr ..................... R Brosnan 2 01x05 Yogi Johnson (2) fr ..........................M Wallis 3 27497 Amy’s Invasion (3) fr......................S Lawson 4 22688 Cyclone Lucky Seven fr ............... Scratched 5 47844 Burt Munro (4) fr ............................S Branch 6 10960 Spud Murphy (5) fr .........................S Phelan 7 83690 Star Monarch (6) fr ....................... D Butcher 8 78933 Ma Cille (U1) fr ......................... M McKendry 9 19780 Sunova (U2) fr ................................T Herlihy 10 02312 Mighty Sunny (U3) fr ..................P Ferguson 11 00x40 Mob Star (U4) fr ..........................J Stormont 4 3.44pm EIF INTERNATIONAL LTD MOBILE PACE $7000, 3yo+, c0 with cond. mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 88000 Alcaesar (1) fr ......................... T Macfarlane 2 37054 Tullow (2) fr....................................S Lawson 3 Px70 Charlie Harper (3) fr ................. M McKendry 4 24273 G J Seelstar (4) fr........................ I Brownlee 5 8x70 Mr Wunderbar (5) fr......................... S Argue 6 25302 Trial By Jury (6) fr ..........................T Mitchell 7 0x632 The Tracker (7) fr ........................P Ferguson 8 59x Kingston (8) fr .............................. W Fausett 9 3634x Sirius Star (21) fr ................................S Reid 10 8x085 Sky Art (22) fr................................Z Butcher 11 In Full Flight (23) fr .........................J I Dickie 12 53384 Living Blue Chip (24) fr .............S Abernethy 13 58x07 General Tim (25) fr ...................... S Kane (J) 14 50300 R J Bopper (U1) fr ....................... R Brosnan Emergency: Alcaesar 5 4.20pm PEGASUS SPUR HANDICAP TROT $7500, 4yo+ c2 to c5 +claimer discrhcp trot, stand, 2700m 1 40689 Easy Empress (1) fr .................. J Abernethy 2 60x95 Ginger Bertha (2) fr ..................... R Brosnan 3 20007 Itsnowornever (U1) fr .....................T Herlihy

4 76009 Alexandra Leaving (U2) fr ........ M McKendry 5 21801 Our Super Ram (1) 10 ..............S Abernethy 6 69904 Tommiray (2) 10 ............................Z Butcher 7 91314 Jagermeister (3) 10 .....................A Donnelly 8 24743 Moment Of Truth (U1) 10 ..............T Mitchell 9 16085 Sundon’s Mountain (U2) 10 ........J Stormont 10 56210 The Scruff (U1) 20 ....................... D Butcher 6 4.56pm CADUCEUS CLUB FILLIES & MARES MBL PACE $7500, c1 with cond. mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 33641 Spare Change (1) fr ......................T Mitchell 2 80047 Nicole Vaidisova (2) fr ............... J Abernethy 3 40947 Riverboat Sue (3) fr ...................S Abernethy 4 37219 Bubbaloobah (4) fr ........................Z Butcher 5 0x089 Murphy Brown (5) fr .......................T Herlihy 6 10707 Grinfromwithin (6) fr .......................M Collins 7 21574 Christy Maguire (7) fr 8 31451 Mischief Maker (8) fr ...................J Stormont 9 09298 Lyn’s Delight (21) fr .................. M McKendry 10 44266 Stars And Sound (22) fr ............... D Butcher 11 04778 Idealistic (23) fr .........................D Alexander Zac Butcher drives Brydon De12 73000 Extreme Carat (24) fr ......... J MacKinnon (J) 13 06805 Charming Desire (25) fr .............. I Brownlee light in the Franklin Country Cup 14 37720 Vengeance (U1) fr ........................... S Argue Pace at Alexandra Park today.

7 5.31pm HEWES METALS FRANKLIN COUNTRY 4yo+ c2 to c4 +claimer mob. pace, mobile, 2200m CUP HANDICAP PACE $10,000, 4yo+ c2 & faster 1 79997 Chokullen (1) fr .............................B Hackett +claimer discrhcp pace, stand, 3200m 2 17998 Hudy Haxwell fr ............................ Scratched 1 68751 Westburn Courage (U1) fr ..........P Ferguson 3 59176 Ambro Courage (2) fr ............... M McKendry 2 18633 Brydon Delight (1) 10 ....................Z Butcher 4 591P6 Saucy El (3) fr .............................. D Butcher 3 75874 Imajollywally (2) 10 ...................S Abernethy 5 13949 Sea MC (4) fr ................................S Butcher 4 04818 Lisdelight (3) 10 ............................T Mitchell 6 66100 Leroy Brogden (5) fr ....................A Donnelly 5 123P6 Sweet Art (1) 20 .............................S Phelan 7 00275 Viewfield Apache (6) fr ..................Z Butcher 6 67562 Simply Stunning (2) 20............ T Macfarlane 8 15834 Our Southern Man (7) fr ............ J Abernethy 7 x0067 Major Ouch (1) 30 ..................... J Abernethy 9 3x514 Snooki (21) fr .................................T Herlihy 8 87375 River Polka (2) 30 ..........................T Herlihy 9 609x9 Randalstown (3) 30 .............................T Hall 10 10993 Pureora Paree (22) fr .............. B Butcher (J) 10 01008 Macs Creation (1) 40 ......... J MacKinnon (J) 9 6.25pm MCGOWAN RACING STABLES MBL PACE 11 61011 Ideal Success (2) 40 ...................A Donnelly $7500, 4yo+ c1 to c2 +claimers mob. pace, 2200m 8 5.57pm TAB PUKEKOHE MOBILE PACE $7500, 1 66973 Waipipi Falcon (1) fr .................. J Abernethy

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79709 Darjeeling Bromac (2) fr .............. I Brownlee 67108 Young Colin (3) fr ..........................Z Butcher 06099 Russian Alsu (4) fr .........................M Collins x2430 No Apachemee (5) fr...................J Stormont 81095 Flanyattice (6) fr .............................T Herlihy 75667 Cullies Delight (7) fr ......................T Mitchell 38186 Atomic Jet (8) fr........................ M McKendry 82035 Lisa’s Lawyer (21) fr ..................S Abernethy 51446 Bute Mach (22) fr ......................... D Butcher 15826 Elliot Daniel (23) fr ........................S Lawson 00998 Smiling Tact (24) fr .....................A Matthews x1008 Tina Brydon (25) fr ...........F Schumacher (J) 10 6.50pm FLAIR EQUINE NASAL STRIPS MOBILE PACE $7500, 3yo+ c1 mob. pace, mobile, 2200m 1 41371 Arms Of An Angel (1) fr.............S Abernethy 2 21574 Christy Maguire (2) fr ............... M McKendry 3 x1142 Major Classic (3) fr ....................... D Butcher 4 17 Rub Of The Green (4) fr .................T Herlihy 5 31562 Monterey Jack fr........................... Scratched 6 74252 Walk Of Fame (5) fr ................. T Macfarlane 7 36100 I Am The One (6) fr ........................J I Dickie 8 17x24 Shedontloveme (7) fr..................P Ferguson 9 09058 Classy Ambition (21) fr............ B Butcher (J) 10 31952 Slysu (22) fr.................................J Stormont 11 1x Cambio fr ..................................... Scratched 12 0x073 Art Pleaser (U1) fr ..............M Blakemore (J) Pacifiers on : Glory Stride (R1) Pacifiers off : Aquickone (R2) SELECTIONS Race 1: Paramount Dream, Shay Scott, Scarrymcleary Race 2: Atomic Blonde, Joanednobettor, Forever An Angel Race 3: Mob Star, Yogi Johnson, Kawarau Spur, Mighty Sunny Race 4: Sirius Star, Tullow, Sky Art, Trial By Jury Race 5: Moment Of Truth, Jagermeister, Sundon’s Mountain Race 6: Stars And Sound, Spare Change, Mischief Maker Race 7: River Polka, Ideal Success, Sweet Art, Simply Stunning Race 8: Snooki, Sea MC, Ambro Courage Race 9: Elliot Daniel, No Apachemee, Atomic Jet Race 10: Shedontloveme, Walk Of Fame, Major Classic

Otago dogs

Today at Forbury Park Raceway

Otago Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Forbury Park 1 24474 Premier Prince nwtd.....................C Roberts Raceway Meeting Date: 03 Mar 2015 NZ Meeting num- 2 36547 Know Luck nwtd .............................G Cleeve ber: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 3 62355 Susan Jewel nwtd ........................C Roberts 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 4 38624 Tepirita Mega nwtd ....................R Blackburn 9; 10, 11 and 12 5 2 La Kinks nwtd.................................. M Grant Jinja Fantasy nwtd J & ....................D Fahey 1 2.23pm OTAGO FIRST4 MAIDEN SPRINT C0, 310m 6 7 221 Willis nwtd .....................................R Adcock 1 8633 Big Ben nwtd .............................J McInerney 8 35533 Cawbourne Kenny nwtd ...............C Roberts 2 22 Another Jamie nwtd ..................J McInerney 9 24565 Hip Hop Sofia nwtd ...................A Bradshaw 3 66425 Butterfly Terra nwtd C & ..................... Fagan 4 26635 Wooly Whatsit nwtd...........................J Dunn 10 45567 Em Cee Dee nwtd .......................D Kingston 5 F5441 Know Struggle nwtd .......................G Cleeve 4 3.17pm BAGLEY DRIVER LICENSING STKS C1, 545m 6 66821 Rick’s Treasure nwtd C & ................... Fagan 1 35424 Goldstar Junior 32.76 S & ...............B Evans 7 73247 Jamaican Archie nwtd M & ...............Jopson 2 715 Maybe What nwtd ........................... M Grant 8 56264 Smash Who nwtd ........................R Hamilton 3 82632 Tracey nwtd ................................D Stapleton 9 1 Mojo Burst nwtd .............................. M Grant 4 17532 Subterfuge 33.54 ...............................J Allen 10 Get Ready Freddy nwtd ............A Bradshaw 5 73325 Goldstar Rosie nwtd S & .................B Evans 2 2.41pm ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER SPRINT C1, 310m 6 51283 Bound To Erupt nwtd ....................... M Grant 1 43623 Know Laughing nwtd......................G Cleeve 7 57523 Hyperparadise 33.00 S & ................B Evans 2 11131 Backchat Harry nwtd .................A Bradshaw 8 76x22 Miss Valley Inn nwtd .....................C Roberts 3 6115 Know Salute nwtd ..........................G Cleeve 9 32644 Know Clown nwtd...........................G Cleeve 4 45812 Wrinkles nwtd............................J McInerney 10 42864 Archi Bale nwtd .........................J McInerney 5 88623 Goldstar Magic nwtd S & ................B Evans 6 24423 Token Ray nwtd L & ........................... Wales 5 3.35pm SPRINT FEATURE C1, 310m 1 26236 Gossip Queen nwtd ..................A Bradshaw 7 86318 Shakayla Rose nwtd ....................C Roberts 2 57723 Opawa Venus nwtd L & ...................... Wales 8 32523 Token Jump 18.91 L & ....................... Wales 3 57716 Rattlesnake Jake nwtd ..............R Blackburn 9 13232 Adjudicator nwtd ...............................J Dunn 4 64676 Castle Eden nwtd M & ..........................J Hill 10 53337 Opawa Natty nwtd L & ....................... Wales 5 21126 Token Muscles nwtd L & .................... Wales 3 2.59pm WWW.GREYHOUNDSASPETS.ORG.NZ 6 31244 Boltin Archie nwtd M & ......................Jopson C0, 545m 7 77337 Luminary nwtd...........................R Blackburn

8 41432 Know Cheers nwtd .........................G Cleeve 9 71736 Pukeko Warrior 19.11.....................B Healey 10 5F287 Lil Danny Rascal nwtd M & ...............Jopson 6 3.53pm BROCKLEBANKS DRY CLEANERS C2, 310m 1 51413 Glenn Is Goodesy 18.91 ................. M Grant 2 16143 Wheelchair Norm nwtd..............J McInerney 3 85x22 Eckles 18.52 .....................................J Dunn 4 56437 Homebush Bruno 18.81 ............J McInerney 5 56862 Smash Easy 18.78 .......................... M Grant 6 24317 Goldstar Mario nwtd S & .................B Evans 7 76x17 Cherry Crusher 18.79 M & ....................J Hill 8 13721 Fancy Kiwi nwtd .......................... B I Conner 9 21646 Corporate Image nwtd ..............R Blackburn 10 57174 Millie’s Boy 18.52 ........................R Hamilton 7 4.11pm ST KILDA VET CENTRE SPRINT C3, 310m 1 56777 Goldstar Chumlee 18.48 S & ..........B Evans 2 31861 Lots Of Beersies 18.93 ............... B I Conner 3 17231 Norman Jewel nwtd .....................C Roberts 4 76663 Mary Marlow nwtd ........................... M Grant 5 68321 Flying Swan 18.63 ....................J McInerney 6 35854 Opawa Opal nwtd L & ........................ Wales 7 21172 Hello Blondie 18.81 .......................R Adcock 8 48134 Jasper Haka nwtd .....................J McInerney Emergencies: 9 34355 Chaimbo 18.71..........................J McInerney 10 83838 Unreliable Andy nwtd ................A Bradshaw 8 4.29pm GREEN ISLAND BARBER STKS C2, 545m 1 77x11 Expect Delay nwtd .......................... M Grant 2 11311 Jemima Tee 33.64 .........................R Adcock

3 73721 Noggin 32.74......................................J Allen 4 57881 Homebush Coral nwtd...............J McInerney 5 15233 Bruiser Bale nwtd ......................J McInerney 6 45571 Speedy Swede 32.83 L & .................. Wales 7 37418 Zulu Chanel 32.79........................C Roberts 8 57143 Elwood Sensation 33.44 ...........R Blackburn 9 61447 Opawa Bro 32.73 L & ......................... Wales 10 66177 Homebush Ninja nwtd ...............J McInerney 9 4.47pm OTAGO DAILY TIMES STAKES C4/5, 545m 1 21211 Robbie 32.43.................................R Adcock 2 24355 Botany Blake 32.40 ...................J McInerney 3 86258 Elephant Gunn nwtd .....................R Adcock 4 53552 Botany Kevin 32.33 ...................J McInerney 5 33426 Soumillon 32.61 ................................J Dunn 6 46318 Cawbourne War 32.47 .................C Roberts 7 36338 Stolen Money 32.64 .......................G Cleeve 8 22523 Opawa Amy 32.61 L & ....................... Wales Emergencies: 9 61432 What I Like 32.78 ......................J McInerney 10 61255 Lena Allen nwtd ........................J McInerney 10 5.05pm RACING SERIES GRADUATION FINAL NZRSf, 545m 1 4F113 Can’t Catch Tim 32.87 ..................R Adcock 2 75624 Flip Flippa nwtd L & ........................... Wales 3 55744 Opawa Kendal nwtd L &..................... Wales 4 24234 Pukeko Prowler 32.86 ....................B Healey 5 23236 Runaway Taxi nwtd M & ....................Jopson 6 62531 Wears The Gold nwtd...................C Roberts 7 54574 Botany Seaton 32.49 ................J McInerney

9.30am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Stretching exercises and Tai Chi maintenance, Social Hall, Havelock Street.

9.45am “GOLF CROQUET’ WAIREKA. Golf Croquet singles. Philip Street.

10.00am NEWCOMERS. Social group coffee morning, All welcome. Nosh Cafe in the Ashford

Village, West Street.

10.00am METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter.

11.00am M.S.A. TAI CHI. Class for beginners. M.S.A. Social Hall, Havelock Street.

12.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON JUSTICE OF THE PEACE ASSOCIATION (INC).

Document or service from a JP, open every Tuesday. Community House, 122 Tancred Street. (rear of Westpac Bank).

1.00pm - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future, Seafield Road.

1.30pm M.S.A. PETANQUE CLUB. For new and regular players. M.S.A. Sports Grounds, Racecourse Road.

6.00pm ASHBURTON ATHLETICS. 5Km run, jog or walk. Weekly from January 13 - March 31. Ashburton Domain Walnut Avenue, opposite the end of Creek Road.

7.30pm - 9.30pm MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON CLUB. Night section club night, new players welcomed, racquets available. Sports Hall, Tancred Street.

Second time around Op- shop. Cnr Cass and Havelock Street.

6.00am 10.00am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Real women circuit training in hall. 48 Ash Wednesday Holy Communion, Park Allen’s Road, Allenton.

Street.

9.00am 10.45am M.S.A. GARDEN SECTION. Christchurch visit with lunch at Woolston M.S.A. TAI CHI. Seated exercises suitable for people with Club. Bus departs Hotel Ashburton limited mobility. Social hall, Havelock St. carpark at 9am.

11.00am 9.00am - 11.00am MID CANTERBURY LADIES PROBUS HAKATERE MARAE HEALTH CLINIC. Open today at Hakatere Marae, Fairton, CLUB. Movie, The Second best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Regent Cinema, Wills St. State H/W 1.

11.30am 9.30am - 1.30 pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH.

Midweek service and lunch. 48 Allens Rd. 1.00pm - 3.00pm ST ANDREWS ANGLICAN CHRUCH. Pre-loved clothing sale, bargains and cuppa. St Andrews Anglican church hall, cnr Thomson and Jane Street, Tinwald.

1.00pm - 4.00pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. New rooms open for research. Ground floor Heritage Centre, West Street.

1.15pm “GOLF CROQUET” WAIREKA. Doubles, drawn partners. Waireka, Philip St. 1.30pm ASHBURTON HERB SOCIETY.

Monthly meeting at members home and garden. 41 Davis Crescent.

1.30pm ALLENTON CROQUET CLUB. Association and Golf Croquet. Allenton Sports Club, Cavendish Street.

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.

7.00pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH.

Real women walking group. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

7.00pm GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Sequence dancing. Pipe Band Hall, Creek Road.

7.00pm - 9.30pm MID CANTERBURY LINE DANCERS. Learn to line dance 7pm, beginner/ intermediate (8pm-9pm). Annette (instructor) phone 307-7138a/h. Tinwald Hall, Graham Street.

7.30pm ASHBURTON SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE CLUB. Dancing, music, fitness and fun. Buffalo Hall, Cox Street.

8 11341 Opawa Diesel 32.74 J &..................D Fahey 9 35225 Botany Richie 32.97 ..................J McInerney 10 58865 Cover To Cover 32.74.................D Stapleton 11 5.23pm BROCKLEBANKS DRY CLEANERS C4, 310m 1 16314 Botany Win 18.60 ......................J McInerney 2 34344 Wee Terra 18.54 C & .......................... Fagan 3 12411 Homebush Paige nwtd ..............J McInerney 4 46863 Whitey’s Gone 18.74 .................J McInerney 5 78583 Porky Pig nwtd ..........................A Bradshaw 6 85226 Question Bale nwtd ...................J McInerney 7 64663 Opawa Idol nwtd L & .......................... Wales 8 62813 Homebush Zane 18.98 .............J McInerney Emergencies: 9 55345 Business Affair nwtd..........................J Dunn 10 87884 Cracking Chain nwtd S & ................B Evans 12 5.41pm RACING AGAIN TUESDAY 24TH MARCH C5, 310m 1 18728 Stirling Dann 18.63 C & ..................... Fagan 2 15218 Homebush Chopper 18.54 ........J McInerney 3 48816 Star Dreamer 18.61 C & .................... Fagan 4 78871 Sandi Claws 18.42 ............................S Keen 5 25114 Cawbourne Buttsy 18.73..............C Roberts 6 12818 Another Colt 18.63 ....................J McInerney 7 18622 Homebush Kelso 18.31 .............J McInerney 8 27836 Homebush Ariel 18.71 ..............J McInerney 9 x4254 Abound 18.60................................R Adcock 10 73777 On The Level nwtd .......................C Roberts LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

Daily Events Tuesday 9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Walking group, meet at the Church, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH GOODWILL SHOP. Pre-loved clothing. Tinwald Methodist Church, Cnr Main Road and Jane Street, Tinwald.

Wednesday

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SITUATIONS VACANT

PUBLIC NOTICES

Gardener Required

Small Seed Industry Would you like a change?

Do you want an exciting opportunity to be part of a small team with responsibility and advancement?

Westham Industries Ltd, in Wakanui are looking for the right person to run one of the seed lines in their seed store.

All modern equipment, Cimbria cleaning machine, Hyster forklifts.

The work is either 25kg or bulk bags, and predominantly ryegrass and clover, no grain.

Experience is preferred but training and ongoing qualifications are encouraged.

You will need to be enthusiastic, have good time management skills, be fit and in good health.

What will we do?

We will pay you well, we will provide a good working environment, modern lunch room with full kitchen.

Lochlea requires the services of another gardener to cope with our expanding village gardens.

Public Notice

The person we are seeking must be capable of manual work and be able to drive light machinery.

Work would consist of preparing new lawns and installing irrigation as well as garden and lawn maintenance. Knowledge of horticulture would be an advantage.

– Provisional Local Alcohol Policy

Ashburton District Council publicly notifies its provisional Local Alcohol Policy (LAP).

Please apply with CV & referees to: Project Manager Lochlea Lifestyle Resort 25/25 Charlesworth Drive Ashburton Ph 03 307 9080 Email: tony@lochlearesort.co.nz

The provisional LAP is available on our website, from the Council office or the public library.

Any appeal must be made to the Alcohol Regulatory and Licensing Authority (ARLA) within 30 days of this public notification of the provisional policy (by 3 April 2015).

Only people who submitted on the draft LAP during October and November 2013 can appeal against the provisional LAP (except for the Police and Medical Officers of Health, who have a statutory right to appeal).

We will provide an opportunity of advancement and training in the industry.

If this sounds like something you may be interested in, send an application with your cv to: admin@westham.co.nz

Appeals on any part of the provisional LAP can only be made on the grounds that the policy is unreasonable in light of the objectives of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012.

Mon-Fri 8am-5.30pm Sat 10am – 1pm

0800 LASER 4 U (0800 527 374) www.laserelectrical.co.nz

Appeals should be sent to the secretary of the ARLA: The Secretary Alcohol Regulatory and Licensing Authority Tribunals Unit Private Bag 32001 Featherston Street Wellington 6146

PUBLIC NOTICES

Impounded Stock

A copy of the appeal must also be sent to the Ashburton District Council: Provisional Local Alcohol Policy Ashburton District Council PO Box 94 Ashburton 7740 Email: info@adc.govt.nz

An Ashburton District Council Animal Control Officer has impounded three horses under the Impounding Act 1955. The horses were found and impounded on State Highway 1.

If the horses are not claimed within seven days of Sunday 1 March 2015, it will become the property of the Ashburton District Council.

The Ministry of Justice website www.justice.govt.nz has further information on appeal requirements. www.ashburtondc.govt.nz

For more information contact Ashburton District Council, Animal Control Officer on 03 307 7700.

NOTICE OF MEETINGS

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MARCH 2015

TRADES, SERVICES

PLANTS, PRODUCE

CERAMIC tiles - tile quality guaranteed - Tile Warehouse selection available at Redmonds Furnishing and Flooring, Burnett Street.

$2 WEEK B.Bosc Pears 1kg 3 pack Pepper Rock or Watermelon Royal Gala 1kg Celery

$2 bag $2 bag $2 ea $2 bag $2 ea

Specials available from 3/03 - 10/03

OPEN 7 DAYS Road The Green Grocer Main SouthTinwald

Fresh Fruit & Vege

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The Cancer Society's Relay for Life Mid Canterbury

Enter Your Team Now

Register your team online at www.relayforlife.org.nz

or at Property Brokers (217 West St.)

Ashburton Showgrounds March 28 - 29, 2015

RELAY RELAY FOR LIFE

Celebrate, Remember,

Cancer Society

Whakanui, Maumaharatia,

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Fight Back!

Tu Atu!

RURAL TRADING POST

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

RAFFLES Mid Canterbury Tennis Mixed Masters Raffle Results 1st - Dennis Taylor 2nd - Gilliain Shierlaw 3rd - Gilliain Shierlaw 4th - Nellie Frame

Further to the meetings advertised for March, notice is given that the Regional Water Management Committee meeting scheduled for Tuesday, 24 March 2015 will now meet at the Ashburton District Council Chambers, 5 Baring Square West, Ashburton from 1.30-6.00pm.

Members of the public are welcome to attend.

Bill Bayfield CHIEF EXECUTIVE

Ashburton ROCK ‘N’ ROLL CLUB A.G.M. Sunday, March 15, 2015 at 5.30pm Ashburton Club and MSA. All members welcome.

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ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

CINDY, Kiwi, 38, size 6, attractive, busty, long hair.

GFE. Phone calls only. 027 448 7011.

LULU - cute and cuddly, attractive and busty. Specials, let all your dreams come true.

Phone 021 0233 9259 (no texting).

NEW to town. Pretty Asian, size 8, sexy, busty 14D. Friendly lady. Phone Tanya 021 153 9919. NZG.

Looking for a builder with a little more experience?  Housing  Commercial  Farm

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Lots of love, Mum, Dad and Tāne. xxxxxxx Birthday Greetings are free for those aged 12 and under only. Free birthday greetings must be received at least two working days before date of insertion otherwise there is no guarantee that it will appear on the day requested. Photos will be available at our level 3 office for collection after notice has appeared in the paper.

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www.guardianonline.co.nz CRYPTIC ACROSS 1. Such helpful criticism as may apply to the builder (12) 8. Idleness seen when engaged fighting, but separated (8) 9. Deck can be taken fore and aft (4) 11. Hysterical-sounding creature in any he might have scattered (5) 12. Metal-worker nightwatchman used for brew-up, perhaps (7) 13. Feature one is soundly acquainted with (4) 15. It may give one directions if one is at sea (4) 19. Ministerial case (7) 20. It is a crime to get involved in popular song (5) 22. Rainbow can be quite an eyeful (4) 23. First-class salmon used in Leonardo’s work (4,4) 24. Building workers tackle JPs: see the difference? (12)

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QUICK ACROSS 1. Present (4) 8. Unwillingness (10) 9. Unapproachable subject (2-2,4) 10. Signal (4) 12. Decoration (6) 14. Of recent (6) 15. Safety cushion (6) 17. Selected (6) 18. Coin (4) 19. Sturdy, dependable type (8) 21. Omissions (10) 22. Quick look (4)

DOWN 2. Prevent from moving (10) 3. Group of three (4) 4. Grammatical term for two or more (6) 5. Scribble (6) 6. High-pitched voice (8) 7. Blood vessel (4) 11. Basic principle of action (6,4) 13. Hard-luck tale (3,5) 16. Idle talk (6) 17. Ballroom dance (3-3) 18. Become blocked (4) 20. Small tuft or lock (4)

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ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 20) Forget asking what the coming year will hold and focus on what excites you. Don’t just dare to believe anything is possible, make it happen.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 21) An emotional response to home matters may clash with a need to keep your head in the game professionally, but it’s about balance.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUNE 22) Where in the past you may have given up if you came up against roadblocks, you’ll find the strength from within today to push through.

CANCER (JUNE 22 – JULY 24) With the Moon in your income sector, a nose for money and support from professional forces you turn financial tension into motivation.

LEO (JULY 24 – AUG 23) There is a push today to ensure you not only have balance between your personal and relationship needs, but authenticity on both fronts.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 23) As busy work forces try to distract you, Jupiter is simply urging you to stand your ground, knowing you need time to hear yourself think.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 23) Today’s social and serendipitous lunar vibes are likely to trigger Eureka moments and hunches that can put you in the right place at the right time.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 24) With life only getting busier from this point, pay attention to any work/life balance reminders that are coming to a head, treating them as gifts.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 24 – DEC 21) Your excuses are being challenged, with a sense of wanderlust, curiosity and adventure in the air that is not going to take ‘no’ for an answer.

CAPRICORN (DEC 21 – JAN 20) With a smart head for money and your financial instincts sharp, you’re able to turn financial tension into resolve and determination.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 19) Keeping a cool head and communication lines open in the face of personal and/or relationship tension turns a problem into an opportunity.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 21) At a time when new doors are opening on the income front and you have a chance of breaking through glass ceilings, trust what your gut is telling you.

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Family Notices 22 Ashburton Guardian DEATHS KELLY, Allan Ronald – Passed peacefully on February 27, 2015. Dearly loved husband and best friend of Jenny for 55 years.

Loved brother and brother-inlaw of Grahame and Margaret Kelly; loved uncle of Wayne, Michael and Sean.

“Gone but will be remembered.”

PAGE, June Aroha – Passed away peacefully, in her 81st year, at Parklands Hospital on March 1, 2015.

Dearly loved mother of Philippa, and much loved Nana of Sarah. Former wife of Bruce Page (deceased).

Much loved sister and sisterin-law of Winnie and Ron (deceased) Chapman, Sadie (deceased) and Len Chambers, Alma and Bill Lay (both deceased), Shirley and Charlie (deceased) Cullimore, Ivan (deceased) and Pat Penrose, Audrey and Malcolm Bruce. Much loved Auntie of all her nieces and nephews.

“REST IN PEACE JUNE” Our grateful thanks to all the staff and management of Parklands Hospital for their care and kindness to June over the years. Messages may be addressed to ‘The family of June Page’, C/o 19 London Street, Richmond, Christchurch 8013. At Junes request a private cremation has been held.

John Rhind Funeral Directors F.D.A.N.Z. 379 9920

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WALSH, Brian Douglas – Please note all late death Peacefully on March 1, 2015.

Brian fought a courageous notices or notices sent outside ordinary office hours battle with cancer. Aged 74 must be emailed to: years. Dearly loved husband of Valmai. Much loved father deathnotices@theguardian.co.nz to ensure publication. and father-in-law of Graeme and Erna, Carolyn and Mike, During office hours notices Kelvin and Vicki. Specially may also be sent to: loved pop and Great pop to classifieds@theguardian.co.nz all his grandchildren and Any queries great grandchildren. A well please contact loved uncle to all his nieces 0800 and nephews. A loved friend ASHBURTON to all of Valmai’s family.

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Loved brother of Bill and Rita (deceased), and Robin and Joy, Donations to the Cancer FUNERAL Society would be appreciated and may be made at the FURNISHERS service. A service to MASTER celebrate Brian’s life will be MONUMENTAL MASON held at Northbrook Chapel, E.B. CARTER LTD Spark Lane (off Northbrook For all your memorial Rd), Rangiora on requirements THURSDAY, March 5 at New headstones and designs 10.30am. Private cremation Renovations, thereafter.

WALSH, Brian Douglas – Treasured “Unk” and best friend to Murray and Jude, Anna and Russ, Dean and Divina. We have special memories of an amazing man loved and missed so much.

“Rest in Peace Cob.”

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6am Breakfast 9am Good Morning 10am Whanau Living Chef Lou Bentley shares a healthy dinner-party menu; Meg talks about caring for trees; Beez has a family workout; Maihi has design with tamariki in mind.

10:30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 30 11:30 Coach Trip PGR 0 Noon One News 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR Belle is nervous before her first day back at school. 0 1:30 Coronation Street PGR 3 0 2pm Come Dine With Me Couples 3pm Dickinson’s Real Deal 3:55 Te Karere 2 0 4:25 The Chase 0 5:25 Millionaire – Hot Seat 0 6pm One News 0 7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 Our First Home The families must finish their spaces, but the Schreuders have to change their plans. 0 8:35 Person Of Interest AO Reese volunteers as an NYPD Police Academy instructor to keep an eye on a talented officer whose actions make him question her motives. 0 9:30 Fat Tony And Co 0 10:30 One News Tonight 0

6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 3 0 6:55 My Little Pony 0 7:20 Back At The Barnyard 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 Home And Away 3 0 Noon Shortland Street 0 12:30 Jeremy Kyle 1:35 Judge Rinder 2:35 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 0 3:30 Numb Chucks 0 4pm Shake It Up 3 4:30 The 4:30 Show 5pm America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 5:30 Home And Away 0 6pm The New Adventures Of Old Christine 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0 7pm Shortland Street 0 7:30 Motorway Patrol A game of hide and seek goes wrong for a motorist; it is love at first sight for two stranded women; an unlicenced driver gets back on his bike. 0 8pm RBT 0 8:30 How To Get Away With Murder AO 0 9:30 Grey’s Anatomy AO 0 10:30 Revenge AO 0

6am 3 News – Firstline 8:30 Infomercials 10:30 Rachael Ray Russell Brand answers viewer questions, and tells Rachael about his new books.

11:30 ’Til Death PGR 3 Noon 3 News 12:30 Baggage AO Game show hosted by Jerry Springer.

1pm The Bold And The Beautiful PGR 1:30 Dr Phil AO 2:30 The Real Housewives Of New Jersey PGR 3:25 Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals 30 3:55 Entertainment Tonight 4:25 Million Dollar Minute 4:55 The Block – Fans v Favourites 6pm 3 News

11pm F The Operatives The Operatives track illegal shark-finning vessels to Cocos Island, but after 63 hours at sea, a few of them lose the plot. 0 Midnight F Born To Kill AO 3 0 1am Te Karere 3 2 0 1:35 Infomercials 5:05 Faith In Action 5:35 Te Karere 3 2 0

11:30 Scandal AO 12:25 Embarrassing Bodies – From The Clinic 3 0 1:25 Infomercials 2:25 Scandal AO 3 0 3:15 Army Wives AO 3 0 4am Regular Show PGR 3 0 4:10 Zeke And Luther 3 0 4:40 The 4:30 Show 3 0 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

11pm The Good Wife AO Cary’s pre-trial service officer interviews his colleagues to determine whether or not he should be released from prison.

11:55 Infomercials 5am Infomercials

CHOICE TV 6am Benny Hinn 6:30 Empire 7:30 Grand Tours Of Scotland 8am Toy Hunter 8:30 The Flying Winemaker 9am Rachel Allen’s Everyday Kitchen 9:30 House Wreck Rescue 10:30 Lonely Planet – 1000 Ultimate Experiences 11am Buying Alaska 11:30 Traders And Collectors Noon Explore 1pm Empire 2:30 Travel Wild 3pm Catch And Cook – US 3:30 Barter Kings 4pm NZ Food Culture 4:30 Trish’s Paris Kitchen 5pm Better Homes And Gardens 6:30 Buying The Bayou 7pm American Restoration 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’s Original Features Nick Knowles delves into the history of homes across the UK. 10:30 American Restoration 11pm Better Homes And Gardens

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12:30 Benny Hinn 1am Grand Tours Of Scotland 1:30 Toy Hunter 2am NZ Food Culture 2:30 Trish’s Paris Kitchen 3am Buying The Bayou 4am Double Your House For Half The Money 5am My Dream Home

7pm Campbell Live 7:30 The X Factor New Zealand The remaining contestants perform in the hopes of heading to Judges Retreats.

8:30 NCIS AO 0 9:30 NCIS – LA AO When Sam is arrested for murdering a woman, Callen and Granger work to clear his name. 0 10:30 3 News

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6:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 7am Deal Or No Deal 3 7:30 Home Shopping Noon The Doctors PGR 1pm The Test PGR 3 2pm Big, Bigger, Biggest 3 The Arctic’s biggest icebreaking ship, the oil tanker Timofey Guzhenko.

3pm Jamie At Home 3 Jamie Oliver cooks at home with simple, accessible ingredients, including fruit and vegetables grown in his kitchen garden.

3:30 The Late Show With David Letterman 4:30 Hot Bench Judge Judy and other judges exchange debate before reaching a verdict.

5pm Deal Or No Deal 5:30 Prime News 6pm The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 3 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 7:30 Earthflight 3 8:30 Elementary PGR A bored Sherlock forces his investigative services onto Watson, who is trying to find a missing woman, the only clue being the smell of nutmeg at the site of her disappearance.

9:30 Sleepy Hollow AO 10:30 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

6am Sailing – Volvo Ocean Race 6:30 Sea Master Sailing 7am Motorsport – Nascar Sprint Cup Series (Highlights) 8am Basketball – NBL (Replay) 10am Netball – ANZ Championship (Replay) 11:30 Netball Zone Noon Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 12:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 1pm Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 1:30 Rugby – Super Rugby (Highlights) 2pm Netball Zone 2:30 Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) 3pm Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) 3:30 Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) 4pm Netball – ANZ Championship (Highlights) 4:30 College Netball (Replay) 5:30 Cycling – Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Elite (Highlights) 6pm Sky Sport Select 6:30 Cycling – Women’s Tour Of New Zealand (Highlights) 7:30 UFC Now 8:30 Fight Night 10:30 The Crowd Goes Wild An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

11:15 Entertainment Tonight 11:40 Infomercials

11:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

Midnight Home Shopping 1:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 An irreverent daily sports and entertainment show.

2am Home Shopping

11pm Fox Sports News 11:30 Football – A-League (Highlights) Midnight The Crowd Goes Wild 12:30 Motorsport – Nascar Xfinity (Highlights) 1:30 Sky Sport Select 2am Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay) 4am Rugby – Super Rugby (Replay)

SKY SPORT 2 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 2 6:30 Ako 3 7pm Te Kaea 3 2 7:30 Toi Whakaari 8pm N Kaitiaki Wars Observational series following the efforts of people who are trying to make New Zealand a better, cleaner and fairer place. 8:30 M Bhutto AO 2010 Documentary.

10:30 The Festival PGR 3 11pm Tagata Pasifika 11:30 Te Kaea 3 2 Midnight Closedown

DISCOVERY

6am Magic Of Science PG Death Lift. 6:30 Deadliest Catch PG 7:30 Aeroplane Repo PG We’ve Got an Emergency Situation. 8:30 MythBusters PG Coffin Punch. 9:30 MythBusters PG 10:30 You Have Been Warned Again M Weirdest Science. 11:30 Poisoned Passions M 12:30 Stalked – Someone’s Watching M 1:30 Who The (Bleep) Did I Marry? M You’ve Got Jail. 2pm Who The (Bleep) Did I Marry? M The Face of Death. 2:30 Aeroplane Repo PG Armed and Airborne. 3:30 Auction Hunters PG 4pm Auction Hunters PG 4:30 Deadliest Catch PG Valhalla. 5:30 MythBusters PG End with a Bang.

6:30 Alaska – The Last Frontier M Greener Pastures. 7:30 World’s Biggest Ship PG 8:30 Survive That! M No-Sleep Nightmare. 9:30 Ebola Exposed M 10:30 Alaskan WEDNESDAY Bush People M 11:30 Tabloid M 12:30 The Amazing Race PG Bad Reputation. WEDNESDAY 1:20 Modern Family PGL 1:45 12:30 Redrum M Collecting Law And Order MV 2:35 SVU MV Enemies. 1am Redrum M 1:30 3:25 Elementary MV 4:15 Biker True Crime With Aphrodite Jones Battleground Phoenix PGL 5:05 M 2:30 Magic Of Science PG 3am Duck Commander ML 5:35 Whose Deadliest Catch PG 4am Ice Cold Gold PG 5am Dirty Jobs PG Line Is It Anyway? PG 6am Law And Order MV 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 Hardcore Pawn PGL 7:40 Modern Family PGL 8:05 The Amazing Race PG 8:55 CSI MV 9:45 SVU MV 10:35 CSI – New York MV 11:25 RBT MC 11:50 Fire Scene Investigation M 12:15 CSI MV 1:05 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

PG 1:30 CSI MV 2:20 Law And Order MV 3:10 The Amazing Race PG 4pm Modern Family PGL 4:30 The Simpsons PG 5pm Hardcore Pawn PGL 5:30 CSI MV 6:30 The Simpsons PG 7pm Hardcore Pawn PGL 7:30 CSI – New York MV 8:30 Biker Battleground Phoenix PGL 9:30 Elementary MV 10:30 SVU MV 11:30 CSI – New York MV

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6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Sticky TV 3 7:30 Beyblade – Shogun Steel 3 7:55 Danny Phantom 8:20 Chuggington 3 0 8:30 Ready, Steady, Wiggles 3 8:40 Peppa Pig 3 8:50 Bob The Builder 3 9am Thomas And Friends 3 9:10 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom 3 9:25 The Moe Show 3 0 9:35 Julius Jr 3 9:55 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Sticky TV 4:35 Punk’d PGR 5pm It Only Hurts When I Laugh 5:30 The Nanny 3 0 6pm Futurama 3 0 6:30 How I Met Your Mother 3 7pm The Simpsons PGR 3 0 7:30 Family Guy PGR 8pm Family Guy PGR 3 Stewie will stop at nothing to get back his beloved teddy bear after it is recalled.

8:30 M Epic Movie AO 3 2006 Comedy. A satire of films that are large in scope, reputation and popularity. Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Jennifer Coolidge. 0 10:20 Witches Of East End AO 3

MAORI TV 6:30 Pukoro 3 2 7am Miharo 3 2 7:30 Pukana 3 2 8am Toi Whakaari 3 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Tatai Hono 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 Korero Mai 3 2 3pm Kai Time On The Road 3 3:30 Pukoro 3 2 4pm Miharo 3 2 4:30 Pukana 3 2 5pm Toi Whakaari 5:30 Te Kaea 2

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MOVIES PREMIERE 7:05 The Two Faces Of January MVL 2014 Thriller. Kirsten Dunst, Viggo Mortensen. 8:40 Inappropriate Comedy 16LS 2013 Comedy. Adrien Brody, Rob Schneider. 10:05 The Haunting Of Bryan Becket ML 2010 Thriller. Tim Daly, Tom Arnold. 11:35 The Best Man Holiday MLS 2013 Comedy.

Taye Diggs, Terrence Howard. 1:40 Housebound MVLC 2014 Horror.

Morgana O’Reilly, Rima Te Wiata.

3:35 The Two Faces Of January MVL 2014 Thriller. Kirsten Dunst, Viggo Mortensen. 5:10 A Beginner’s Guide To Endings MLS 2012 Comedy. Harvey Keitel, Scott Caan. 6:45 Side Effects MVLS 2013 Thriller. Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum. 8:30 21 And Over 16VLS 2013 Comedy.

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Tom Lambie gets into position to play a winning backhand shot during a match at the Ashburton Squash Club’s 20/20 tournament on Sunday.

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Innovative tournament a winner The Ashburton Squash Club came up with an inventive idea for a mid-summer tournament on Sunday, one which did not clash with the usual Friday night activities and normal Saturday sporting events.

The brains trust of the club went the way of many other sports in playing a reduced version of their game, and the end

result was a complete tournament, but squeezed into one day by having 20 minute games, strictly controlled by the clock.

Each player still had three games on the day (still with time to recover), and with a scoring system that simply kept the score running until time ran out, many players had to adapt to a completely new mindset on court.

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The idea proved a winner, and the Harrison Street clubrooms were buzzing with activity, with a barbecue producing food all day for players between their matches.

There were also some other unique prizes on offer, such as the highest points scorer in all grades.

On the court Pete Summer-

field once again demonstrated his ability to adapt to any form of the game, taking out the A grade in a high-energy final against Lee Barker.

Dean Harrison was too good for Ash Flannery in the B grade, Mike Redwood and Nick Swift fought out a close one in the C grade with Redwood prevailing, Michael Burton beat Mitchell

Stoddart to take the D grade, Mitchell McLauchlan beat Steve Devereux for E grade honours, Greg Jopson was too good for Terry Hutchinson in the F grade and Sam Woolf beat Catherine Wells in the G grade.

Tom Lambie was the best junior at the tournament, beating Henry Hobbs in their final.

Full results page 16.

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