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Bieber parties on stage at hip hop gig Justin Bieber hasn’t exactly been putting his feet up during his whirlwind visit to New Zealand. The 21-year-old Canadian popstar took to the stage on Thursday night – at a gig of his own and later at hip hop duo Rae Sremmurd’s show at Auckland venue The Studio. A video posted on promoter Paint it Gold’s Facebook page shows Bieber sharing a stage with Rae Sremmurd and performing his latest chart-topping single What Do You Mean? Other videos on social media have him dancing on stage, swigging from what appears to be a bottle of spirits – at one point pouring alcohol on to the stage.

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Blunt shocked by backlash British actress Emily Blunt was “astonished” by the backlash she received after making a joke about her US citizenship. The Devil Wears Prada star was sworn in as an American in August and she later made a gag about her new status in a TV interview. During an appearance on US talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live!, she joked about a political debate between Republican presidential hopefuls, including Donald Trump. “I became an American citizen recently,” said Blunt. “And that night, we watched the Republican debate and I thought, ‘This was a terrible mistake.

What have I done?’ ” The comment sparked outrage online and among rightwing pundits, who heavily criticised the Brit over the gag. She subsequently issued an apology, saying, “It was so not the intention to hurt anybody or cause any offence so I really apologise to those that I caused offence (to). It was just an offhand joke...” Blunt has now opened up about the controversy, revealing she was shocked by the vitriol aimed at her over what she thought was a harmless joke.

Sandra Bullock adopts baby girl It’s been a big week for actor Sandra Bullock – her boyfriend moved in and she adopted a baby girl. The 51-year-old Gravity star began dating photographer Bryan Randall in January after she hired him to take photos at her son’s fifth birthday party.

Randall moved into Bullock’s Los Angeles Home this week, according to US Weekly. RadarOnline.com reports that Bullock recently finalised the adoption of a baby girl, five years after she adopted son Louis in New Orleans. After the October 29 release of her latest film Our Brand is Crisis, Bullock has no movies on her plate, according to IMDB, allowing her time to bond with her baby.

Potter fans are freeing Dobby Harry Potter fans visiting the Warner Bros Studio in London are leaving their clothes beside an enclosed statue of Dobby the house elf in a effort to free him.

In the Harry Potter books, house elves are enslaved and can only be freed if their master gives them clothes. Hogwarts Logic tweeted a photo of three socks that had been left beside the glass-enclosed Dobby statue. Harry Potter author JK Rowling retweeted the post to her 5.63 million followers.

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Lydon warned of cancer risk Punk icon John Lydon has been warned he is at risk of skin cancer after revealing he removes his own moles using a nail file and vinegar. The Sex Pistols star regularly carries out the gruesome procedure by scratching the raised skin away with an emery board and then “burning” it with acidic cider vinegar. But leading skincare experts have warned he is risking his own health because the moles are not being checked for signs of cancer. The selfremoval process also leaves him prone to infection and hideous scarring.

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■ FATAL CRASHES

■ WEATHER WARNING

Ashburton leads stats

Canty urged to brace for strong winds

By Daisy HuDson

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The Ashburton District had more fatal car crashes than anywhere else in the South Island last year, prompting calls for Mid Cantabrians to take more care on the road.

According to New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) figures there were six fatal crashes in the district last year, tying Ashburton with Southland for the most of any district in the South Island.

There were also 53 crashes resulting in injuries in the Ashburton District, affecting 75 people.

Waikato held the unenviable record for the most fatal crashes in the country, with 15 deadly accidents on the district’s roads.

While police say the spike in serious Ashburton crashes was a matter of a chance, it was still important to improve driving behaviour on the district’s roads.

Mid/South Canterbury area commander inspector Dave Gaskin said police were doing whatever they could to prevent road fatalities.

“Unfortunately sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t,” he said.

“Enforcement is only one aspect that contributes to the lowering of the road toll.”

Other factors were education and engineering, which had

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seen some positive changes, he said.

There has also been good progress in terms of the average road speed.

“The average road speed is dropping all the time,” he said.

“We’re still getting some people travelling too fast, but they are the abnormal rather than the normal.”

However there were still issues in rural areas, with drink driving being of particular concern.

“Alcohol is a real problem,

we’re still catching too many people drink driving,” Mr Gaskin said.

The number of people caught under the new lower limit had been very small, which showed that while people were thinking more about drinking before they drove, there were still too many recidivist drink drivers, he said.

AA Canterbury/West Coast District chairperson John Skevington said while the high number of fatal crashes was a coincidence, it was important

for Mid Canterbury motorists to stay focused behind the wheel.

Two people have been killed on Mid Canterbury roads so far this year.

Terry Henry Munday, of Tinwald, died when his car failed to take a moderate bend on Grahams Road in July, while David John Tayles, also of Tinwald, was killed when the truck he was driving plunged into a riverbed on Maronan Road last month.

■ OREGON SHOOTING

Kiwi caught up in Oregon shooting The young Kiwi caught up in yesterday’s Oregon college shooting has been praised for warning others about what was happening.

Jaylen Gerrand, was at the US college when the lone gunmen opened fire, killing 10 and injuring seven.

The former Westlake Boys High School student had only been in the US for two weeks when his scholarship dream turned into a nightmare.

Mr Gerrand, who was at Umpqua Community College on a basketball scholarship, said he was waiting outside a class and described a “rush of things” before people started running.

He said he ran until he got out of the campus. A man he was running next to was shot.

He has been praised for getting a message out, warning others about what was happening.

His basketball coach in Oregon, Daniel Leeworthy, said the young man was the first of the team to text him when the shootings began, to warn others to get off campus.

He said his actions were heroic.

While he’s uninjured, his former coach, Jeff Green, said Gerrand was pretty shaken up.

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“He ran past three others that were shot dead, so it was horrifying, horrific.

“So he saw four people dead.

He’s totally distressed, totally distressed. He just wants to come home right now. It’s a huge, huge tragedy.”

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Gale force winds are set to hit Canterbury tomorrow, prompting warnings to stay indoors and refrain from lighting outdoor fires.

The severe weather warning encompasses all of Canterbury but the MetService has forecast blasts of up to 160km/h will hit in the foothills areas and in exposed places.

Winds are expected to be of a similar strength to the windstorm which hit Mid Canterbury in September 2013, causing widespread damage, bringing down trees, lifting roofs and making travel hazardous.

Civil Defence emergency management duty officer James Thompson said people should not light outdoor fires at any stage of the weekend, as embers could be fanned to life in strong winds, causing a fire hazard.

Any fire lit during the past week should be thoroughly extinguished and re-checked at a later time to ensure it is out.

Outdoor furniture, rubbish bins and other loose items should be secured.

Civil Defence recommends staying indoors and avoiding travel where possible.

Due to likely power outages people should also stock up on emergency supplies.

The severe weather event is likely to hit Mid Canterbury tomorrow afternoon and die out overnight.

Check the MetService website for updates on www.metservice. com/warnings/severe-weather-warnings or listen to your local radio station.

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■ FONTERRA SALARY

Grumblings ‘to do with timing’

BY NADINE PORTER

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The ongoing debate and derision surrounding the Fonterra bosses’ salary and suggested wage freeze needs to be put into perspective, according to a local Federated Farmers dairy spokesperson.

Mid Canterbury dairy vicechairman Chris Ford said CEO Theo Spierings’ offer of a wage freeze was “very considerate” and said when you compared his pay to the other large companies it was not significant.

Figures from 2014 showed ANZ CEO David Hisco earned the highest salary at $4.26 million, with Spierings second on

$4.18 million and intense pressure to Fletcher Building perform, he said.

CEO Mark Adamson “And who else are in third place at $3.73 they going to get million. to do it for half the Mr Ford believed price?” the grumbling surMr Ford said the rounding Spierings real question should pay were more to do be why 17 staff earn with the timing of the $1 million or more announcement of his each year.

Theo Spierings 18 per cent increase at Many of Spierings’ the same time as the farmer suppliers will pay-out slump - and subsequent lose money this season with the leaking of his request to have average total package salary his salary level frozen. value for a dairy farm assistant “But would farmers really being less than 1 per cent of his be moaning if it was a $7 pay- salary at $42,774. out?”

Even the top earners in Mid The Fonterra boss was under Canterbury outside farming

can only expect to earn up to 5 per cent of the dairy mogul’s income with Ashburton District Council CEO Andrew Dalziel expected to earn around $252,000 per year and some local solicitors at $200,000 plus.

Dairy leadership have been quick to support Spierings’ salary with Federated Farmers dairy industry group chairman Andrew Hoggard saying it was “probably appropriate” when you considered the size of Fonterra, although he did have further questions surrounding how much of the salary was based on a risk component and how much was based on key performance indicators.

■ GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Powerful nations ‘abusing their power’

BY CLAIRE TREVETT Prime Minister John Key has accused the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council of abusing their power and protecting their privileged positions, sidelining the elected members on that council.

Mr Key delivered New Zealand’s statement to the General Assembly in New York yesterday after a week dominated by a stand-off between Russia and the US over Syria and criticism of the Security Council for failing to deal with Syria.

He said New Zealand fought hard for a seat on the Security Council last year because it believed the UN was the only body able to resolve the world’s most pressing issues.

However, real action was too often blocked by internal divisions on the council.

“Since we have been on the

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council we have found it as hard as many of you warned.

The council’s agenda is lengthy and contentious. The dynamics within it are difficult.”

Mr Key saved his harshest criticism for the five permanent members - Russia, the US, China, France and the UK. “The permanent members have become used to exercising power and are protective of their privileged position.

They presume to control the council’s agenda and to deter-

mine its processes.” He said that made it difficult for the 10 elected members. There were also structural problems.

“The challenge for a small elected member to have its voice heard and its views taken into account is considerable. That the five permanent members of the council have the veto creates extraordinary power imbalance.”

That was worsened by the practice of the permanent members pre-negotiating out-

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Mr Key said that was why New Zealand supported the proposal for the veto power to be restricted in cases of mass atrocities and genocides - a proposal that is also supported by France and the UK. Mr Key said the failure to deal with Syria was evidence of the dysfunction on the council.

“It is time for the council to step up. It’s time for members to set aside their vested interests and historical alliances in order to stop the violence and end the suffering.”

While the council sat on its hands, thousands were dying and millions were displaced.

“We cannot afford to let the council go from an institution with failings to a failed institution. There must be a political solution to the conflict in Syria.

And it must come soon.”

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In brief Appeal for info Ashburton police are still appealing for information after a young boy was allegedly offered sweets by a man at the EA Networks Centre swimming pool. Police have confirmed they are investigating an incident in which a young girl allegedly witnessed a man approach a younger boy, aged about five years old, in the pool area and offer him sweets between 2-3pm on Sunday. Sergeant Janine Bowden said yesterday that no new witnesses to the alleged incident had come forward.

Anyone who has any information that may be of assistance should call Ashburton Police Station on 3078400.

Toddler injured A Waikato toddler suffered a serious head injury after falling out of a car on Thursday. Waikato police Senior Sergeant Andrew O’Reilly said the 19-monthold was unrestrained when he somehow fell out of the vehicle in the driveway of a Matuku Road property, near Morrinsville, about 5.45pm. The serious crash unit was investigating.

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Missing hunter found A hunter missing in “difficult terrain” near Wellington has been found in good health. Concerns were raised for Timothy Cleghorn when he did not return home from a hunting trip on Wednesday night. Ten teams of rescuers from Wellington, Manawatu, Horowhenua and the Wairarapa searched for Mr Cleghorn and his dog in the Akatarawa Saddle through to the Waikanae Valley.

The 28-year-old was found yesterday “safe and well”, according to a statement issued by police.

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Cannabis stash found Police have found a stash of 500 cannabis plants yesterday in a massive indoor dope-growing operation. Inspector Naila Hassan said police searched warehouse accommodation on Wordsworth Street, Cambridge. “This led to the discovery of a large commercial indoor cannabis growing operation in which over 500 plants were recovered,” Ms Hassan said.

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■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COUNCIL

Keep your trees trimmed The Ashburton District Council is on the warpath, tracking down property owners who let their trees and shrubs hang over footpaths.

Rain, sunshine and warm weather have kick-started spring growth and council assets management engineer Geoff Rhodes says property owners need to check their street frontages to ensure anyone using the footpath can do so without dodging overhanging trees.

Vegetation needs to be 2.5 metres above the footpath and trimmed back to property boundaries.

Foliage hanging over footpaths was

also an impediment to council contractors working on footpath renewals, he said.

A list of the footpaths up for renewal work this summer is on the council’s website.

It is a requirement to keep trees and shrubs trimmed and if this is not done, the council will write to a property owner requesting the work is done, Mr Rhodes said.

‘If nothing is done then, the council is able to cut back the foliage and charge for the cost involved,” he said.

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■ HEALTH

Investigation into leaked medical info

Company looks to solve accommodation woes

By Sue NewmaN

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An Ashburton business is hoping to break new ground when it comes to solving staff accommodation problems by establishing an employee accommodation block alongside its retail operation.

Farmers Corner has become one of Ashburton’s quiet success stories, operating from a rural B zone property off Longbeach Road.

Its success, however, means increasing staff numbers and with that a constant struggle to find accommodation from Ashburton’s small letting pool.

The business has applied for resource consent to establish employee accommodation alongside its retail business.

This will accommodate up to 18 people. On-site meals will be provided.

Planner David Harford has prepared a resource consent application for the company and believes it is one that will test the waters for what is likely to be similar applications in the future.

“These guys have struggled in the past to find accommodation and now they’re wanting to do something about it.

They’re looking to the future,” he said.

As well as providing staff with accommodation, the businesses owners want to provide staff with language teaching opportunities as part of the accommodation deal.

The consent application requires immediate neighbours to be consulted and Mr Harford said this process had started with some support for the venture being generated.

Because the application was

the first of its kind in a rural B zone, Mr Harford said it came with some ‘interesting’ planning aspects.

Last year Farmers Corner applied for consent to extend its retail and restaurant complex, adding 64 square metres over two levels to be used for packing, storage and as office space.

The Ashburton District Council’s planning team recommended the application be declined, Mr Harford said, but when it went to a hearing, the panel signed it off.

“I feel the council put its mark in the sand on that one on rural development but I believe this sort of thing is something that should be approved if you want to look forward and look to development in the district in the future,” he said.

The resource consent appli-

cation has been publicly notified and submissions can be made until November 2.

Council environmental services group manager Jane Donaldson said the council’s district plan spelled out the activities that could and could not take place in a rural B zone.

For the applicant it might seem logical to provide accommodation alongside his business but the council’s belief was that good rural land should not be taken over for commercial activities, she said.

If the application goes to a hearing, it will be before an independent commissioner.

Farmers Corner established its business on Longbeach Road 11 years ago, moving from its home of about 20 years on the corner of East and Havelock streets.

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A Ministry of Health email blunder has spilled private medical information of more than 24,000 Kiwis.

Officials are investigating how a spreadsheet of National Health Index (NHI) numbers, containing the birth and death dates of 24,092 people, was emailed to around 950 pharmacists on Thursday morning.

The email was supposed to be sent internally.

Security on NHI numbers is extremely high, with access restricted to health professionals and agencies governed by the Health Information Privacy Code.

Access to the data, which also includes gender and location details, is comprehensively logged and subject to a signed agreement, with the system recording details each time an NHI is looked at - including which NHI, who looked at it, when and what they did with it. An audit programme monitors whether access was justified and whether it was used for legitimate purposes.

In a statement, information director Graeme Osborne said the ministry “understands that the public rightly expects that any health information, even information which has been protected, should be held secure”.

The ministry has apologised for the mistake, saying any unintended release of information - even if it is coded and to a group of health professionals - is unacceptable.

“The information related to 24,092 individuals who had passed away in the six months from January this year,” a spokesman said.

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■ EXPERIENCE MID CANTERBURY

Big plans for local tourism

BY SUE NEWMAN

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Don’t underestimate the power of tourism to add valuable dollars to the Ashburton District’s economy, says Experience Mid Canterbury’s new chief executive Bruce Moffat.

The district’s tourism spend now tops $120 million each year and growing that amount means it is important to capitalise on every opportunity possible to increase the number of overnight stays in the district, Mr Moffat said.

He comes to the chief executive’s role with a strong tourism background, most recently as national sales manager Pacific region for Virgin Australia.

With one week down, Mr Moffat said he’s looking forward to getting out on the ground and meeting tourism operators.

He’s passionate about the possibilities the Ashburton District offers as a place to stay and explore.

“This area has so much to of-

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fer. My job is to make sure the local New Zealand community and the global community knows that too,” he said.

With China Air flying into

Christchurch from December, Mr Moffat said the district was well positioned to capitalise on the growth in the number of Chinese tourists those flights

would bring. “But it’s really important we understand how to look after these Chinese tourists, how to give them a really great experience of our area,” he said.

The Ashburton District had a real advantage in being the first district with wide open spaces those tourists would see after travelling for hours on a plane, he said.

He has a suite of ideas he plans to introduce to ensure the district grows the flow of tourism dollars.

These include better and more interactive signage and the use of an interactive app that alerts tourists to special places to stop, explore and photograph while they are in the district.

Building itineraries, possibly around agri-tourism, is also high on his list. He sees this as the district’s ace card when it comes to creating a total visitor experience.

“We’ve got some unique properties here, we’re not just

centralised on a mountain. In my ideal world we’d bring in tourists from the international market to see how successful we are at agriculture, offering them really good hospitality options such as luxury barn style accommodation on significant land and giving them an onfarm experience.”

Creating unique itineraries that packaged scenery, experiences and accommodation was another way to capture more tourist time in the district, Mr Moffat said.

Experience Mid Canterbury is funded by the Ashburton District Council and Mr Moffat wants ratepayers to not only see they are getting value for their money he also wants them to become passionate advocates for the district.

“We’re not using ratepayers’ money for the hell of it, it’s about utilising that money to get the greatest number of people possible to come and play in our playground.”

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■ AGE CONCERN ASHBURTON

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Positive Ageing expo

By Caitlin Porter

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Age Concern Ashburton is in the throes of planning its first ever expo.

The local group plans to hold a Positive Ageing expo in March, and is now in the process of rallying local organisations.

Age Concern Ashburton president Trish Small said the indoor event has been in the works for around about a year.

“We had been contemplating the reality of doing it but it has taken a wee while to get the logistics in place,” Mrs Small said.

“But now it is all go.”

The local group decided to host its own expo due to the success of the annual expos held by Age Concern Canterbury in Christchurch, Mrs Small said.

“We feel that it is so well received in Christchurch and it’s an opportunity for people to come together at the one venue and see what is actually on offer.”

The expo will include all sorts of services from financial representatives to health and wellbeing professionals and local community groups.

Not only is it an opportunity for over 65s to see what is on offer in the district, families of elderly people or those who want to plan ahead for their retirement are more than welcome to attend, Mrs Small said.

The expo is set to take place on March 3 at the Ashburton Racecourse. For more information people can contact Age Concern Ashburton.

Police are still working to identify a body found at a Waiheke Island reserve on Thursday. Auckland City Police launched an investigation after a member of the public found the body while walking near Ocean View Road about 2pm. Officers were investigating, but no further details have been released. It was unknown whether the body belongs to a male or female or how long it might have been there.

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Haka ditched The American College Football side that made headlines this week for adopting the haka made famous by the All Blacks has decided to abandon the pregame ritual. A spokesman for Arizona Athletics said yesterday that the Arizona Wildcats would no longer be performing the haka before games. A video of the American football side performing Ngati Toa’s “Ka Mate” haka before a game against UCLA recently was picked up in New Zealand and international media earlier this week. The Arizona Wildcats, as well as a number of other sports teams including Brigham Young University (BYU) and the University of Hawaii, have been performing a haka before kick-off for a number of years.

- NZME Paul and Helen Sankey were among a group of collectors who hit the streets yesterday for Age Concern Awareness week.

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HOW MUCH DOES THE AVERAGE PERSON EARN? According to Census 2013 data the median income for people aged 15 years and over within the Ashburton District is $32,900. This compares with a median income of $28,500 for all of New Zealand.

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LIVING LONGER People these days are living longer. According to Statistics New Zealand cohort life tables a 65-year-old man can expect to live until they are 86 and a 65-year-old woman until they are 88. In the future, people will probably live even longer.

Men reaching 65 in 2031 can expect to live until they are 88 and women until they are 90.

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WhAT’S ASHBURTON’S OVER 65 POPULATION? Within the Ashburton District 16.7 per cent of people are aged 65 years and over, compared with 14.3 per cent of the total New Zealand population.

Few people have enough money for retirement According to a survey undertaken by the Colmar Brunton Panel earlier this year, only one in 10 retirees aged over 50 believe they currently have enough savings or investments to tide them over throughout their retirement.

The survey stated that most non-retirees had some savings or investments, while low-income households were much less

likely than others to have them.

Heartland Seniors Finance representative Andrew Wilson explained around 80 per cent of New Zealanders aged over 65 own their own home, most of them mortgage-free. However, their median income is just $20,000 with many depending largely on superannuation.

As a result, the key is to either start

planning early or – for those retiring now – look into something like a Home Equity Loan which allows retirees to live in their homes more comfortably. The Commission for Financial Capability’s general manager of investor education David Boyle is encouraging Kiwis to plan early if possible.

People in their 20s, 30s and 40s should be saving and investing now, he said.

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NZ’s gender pay gap widens . . . again The gap between women’s and men’s median incomes has widened to the biggest gap since 2008.

Women’s median pay rose by only 50c in the past year, from $20.73 an hour in June last year to $21.23 an hour this year, while the male median rose by

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$1.07 from $23 to $24.07 an hour.

The gap of 11.8 per cent is the widest in Statistics NZ’s annual income survey since June 2008, when it was 12.5 per cent.

The gap narrowed dramatically to just 9.3 per cent at the worst point in the recent reces-

sion in 2012, when ironically more low-paid women losing their jobs raised the median income of those women still in paid work.

But as more low-paid women have been pulled back into paid work as the economy has recovered, the gender pay gap

has widened again. Maori and Pacific median pay rates for men, and Maori pay rates for women, have also dropped as a proportion of male European pay rates for the same reason, as the recovery generates more low-paid jobs.

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Two times a winner A Gisborne woman stood dumbstruck with tears rolling down her cheeks when she heard she had won Lotto’s Big Wednesday not once, but twice - a total of nearly $175,000.

Three of the 209 winning Big Wednesday tickets, worth $87,272 each, were sold in Gisborne. One was sold from the Ideal Store in Wainui Road and two from Elgin Four Square. It was the final Big Wednesday draw, with 209 lucky players from around the country splitting the $15 million jackpot.

Elgin Four Square owner Virinder Kumar described the woman winning with two separate tickets as being “like a miracle”. - NZME

Can you belieb it?

An Auckland student has fooled international sites by dressing up as Justin Bieber. AUT student Alice Houghton decided to dress up her flatmate Nikora Price as Bieber in order to fool fans waiting for the singer at the Langham Hotel in Auckland on Wednesday night. “I was like, why don’t we just dress you up as Justin Bieber? I’ll take a photo, I’ll post it online, and we’ll just see what happens,” she said.

The image was retweeted 77 times and picked up by international entertainment sites Bieber Mania Brasil and Bhaskar TV, who reported the image as being of Bieber in Auckland.

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Man’s body found The body of missing Mosgiel man Bruce Jenkins was found yesterday near Milton. Search and rescue volunteers found the body in a semi-remote location. There were no suspicious circumstances, Dunedin police said. Mr Jenkins, 50, was reported missing on Thursday after leaving his home in Mosgiel about 9.30am and failing to arrive at work in Milton. - NZME

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General practitioner Jane Burrell has one big goal, to see a compulsory training programme established in New Zealand for new GPs. Currently the ex-Ashburton woman said, a graduate doctor can simply hang up a shingle or buy into a practice and set themselves up as a general practitioner.

“And that’s one of my big bugbears, there is no requirement to be GP trained.”

She elected to undertake GP specific training when she graduated and believes similar training should be a pre-requisite for any doctor wanting to enter general practice.

Today she works in Palmerston North as a trainer for new GPs, a job that this year earned her a prestigious Distinguished Fellowship of the Royal New Zealand College of general practitioners. Only a handful of fellowships are awarded each year.

She’s passionate about education and believes it should be a requirement not only for new graduates but should also be a regular re-

quirement for practising GPs. “It’s about trying to make doctors reflect and see where they need to upskill,” she said.

And it’s not just the clinical aspect of the job that she believes is important for new doctors, acquiring communication skills and an understanding of patients as people is equally as important, she said.

“My goal is to have all GPs vocationally trained. With our programme it’s good because you can mould them into being patient centred in their care rather than hospital centred.”

While Dr Burrell’s goal is to have GPs vocationally trained, she admits that’s unlikely because it could be a deterrent factor when it came to recruiting staff for hard-to-fill rural practices where overseas doctors often filled gaps.

“I see the dilemma, but you would think they’d need more training for rural doctors rather than less. We try to send as many trained GPs rurally as we can but we’re struggling to get numbers. Unfortunately general practice does not appeal to many as there’s not as much mon-

ey in it as in hospitals. They spend so long in hospitals during training they get brainwashed. General practice then becomes a lifestyle decision.”

While she spends just one day a week in a general practice, Dr Burrell spent many years of her career working the front line.

She’s worked in Wanaka and then for several years in Dunedin, buying into the Mornington practice in 2006. She later moved to Upper Hutt where she worked as a locum as well as in education before moving to Feilding.

She also works with medical practices to achieve quality accreditation.

Becoming a member of the elite group of Distinguished Fellows of the RNZCGP often comes, as it did in Dr Burrell’s case by “being dobbed in by her peers”. Her award recognises her contribution to the college and to medical education teaching as well as to general practice.

She was a student at Laghmor School and Ashburton College before studying at Otago University.

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Wellington – A city with Guardian reporter Michelle Nelson visited Wellington recently, to confront the gruesome reality of World War One, dine out in style and create new memories.

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ugust 4: “Are you alright?” Mum asked my father.

“No I’m not,” he replied and then he was gone – just like that.

In the days and weeks that followed we all struggled to understand how that happened; how could someone larger than life, order a red wine and die in a country pub?

Mum and I had tickets to fly to Wellington, with the intention of visiting the World War One exhibition at Te Papa, prior to dad’s sudden departure.

We decided to press on with our plans; it would be good to do something different, something with no memories of dad attached to it.

I booked an apartment suite at the eclectic Museum Art Hotel and off we went.

It’s at least eight years since I’d been to the capital and it didn’t disappoint. It was great to be back in a city with a heart – while evidence of the rebuild can now be seen in Christchurch, the city centre remains a bit of an eyesore. The aptly-named Museum Art Hotel offered us all the distraction we needed.

Until July the hotel was owned by prominent Wellington businessman Chris Parkin, who sold to ASX-listed Amalgamated Holdings for $28.5 million. It will soon be rebranded as QT in line with the company’s upmarket hotel chain.

The hotel was famously moved across the road to make way for the Te Papa Museum upgrade in 1993, saving it from the wrecking ball.

Mr Parkin had the building shifted 80 metres east and 40m south across Cable Street on railway tracks over two weekends, in a $2.4 million engineering project.

Above New Zealand paid dearly with human lives.

Above left: Nurse Lottie Le Gallais reads of her fiancé’s death.

Left: Private Jack Dunn, sentenced to death for falling asleep at his post, awaits news of his reprieve.

Over the years he has amassed an extraordinary collection of artwork, which has remained on display in the hotel, along with several limited-edition MV Augusta motorcycles. Mr Parkin has remained on site as art curator.

Our fully-equipped apartment was luxurious and quiet. After a freshly-brewed coffee we set out to see the sights, stopping first for lunch at a suitably dark and slightly grungy Asian fusion restaurant.

I really hanker for decent Asian food and the pork dump-

lings and fragrant roast duck with orange sauce didn’t disappoint.

After an hour or so spent window shopping we hit out for Te Papa, for our first look at Gallipoli: The Scale of our War. The exhibition opened in April, to mark the centenary of World War One and was staged in conjunction with Weta Workshop.

From the moment you step through the door you are immersed in the sounds, sights and grim reality of war.

Scaled by 2.4 times, the exhibition tells the stories of eight

Kiwi soldiers and a nurse.

The Weta team spent in excess of 24,000 hours creating the figures and capturing the backdrop to their war years.

The attention to detail is breath-taking, the models so real that despite their impossible size you expect them to move.

Fabrics were woven and leather stressed to create authentic outsize uniforms, a huge can of bully beef crawls with flies, the battle wounds vivid.

Each expression tells its own story – fear, determination, hopelessness, despair and grief

etched on faces from long ago.

As well as the figures, cuttingedge technology has been used to capture other wartime experiences, including 3D maps and film, miniatures, models, dioramas and interactive displays.

Visitors were strangely silent as they moved through the exhibition.

We found Gordon and Robin Harper, brothers who hailed from Carew and fought side-byside in Gallipoli then in the Sinai Desert, where Gordon lost his life.

Also on display is the German

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Above right: Lieutenant Colonel Percival Fenwick, one of the first doctors on shore at Gallipoli.

Right: Private Rikihana Carkeek engaged in battle.

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Maxim machine-gun the brothers captured from the Turks and took home at the end of the war.

The harsh realities of war are hammered home. Not only were the servicemen engaged in battle, they lived on bully beef and hard biscuits in primitive conditions, infested with lice and suffering frequent bouts of dysentery, surrounded by the bodies of the dead. Lottie Le Gallais’ story was particularly moving. A nurse on the Maheno hospital ship, Lottie sits on a crate weeping as she reads of the death of her fiancé before the siren sounds a

warning of incoming wounded.

With no time to grieve she is called back on duty.

We returned to the museum twice more over the course of the weekend, visiting the famous (and hideous) giant squid and revisiting the war exhibit.

We met up with mum’s cousin Dee for lunch on Saturday – a delicious Yum Char, before making a nostalgic visit to Kirkcaldie & Stains historic department store, established in 1863.

The dapper doorman in a top hat and tails brings to mind a bygone era, when the store was

in its heyday. Unfortunately the business will close in January and, with it, a tangible slice of the city’s history.

On Saturday night we dined in style at the highly-acclaimed Hippotamus restaurant, housed in the Museum Art Hotel.

We chose executive chef Laurent Loudeac’s French-inspired six plat degustation menu and ate at a table overlooking the Wellington waterfront.

The food was divine, the service fabulous. It’s an expensive experience, but one which everyone should enjoy at least once.

We made our way to the National War Memorial on Sunday morning for an even more sobering perspective of the Great War and left asking ourselves what part of it was great? – walking through the exhibition along a timeline strewn with the bodies of young men and civilians left to rot in the mud.

The plight of civilian populations was particularly confronting – as New Zealanders we certainly suffered huge casualties in the war, but were largely able to go about our daily lives unhampered.

Not so in Europe where millions of people were left homeless and destitute.

Next on the programme was a drive-by tour of Weta Workshops which takes up much of the Miramar business district, before popping into art deco elegance for lunch at CoCo at the Roxy – a delicious quinoa salad and a seriously good coffee.

The Roxy Cinema opened in 2011 following a $6 million rebuild, reclaiming its former purpose. It was built to house the Capitol Theatre in the late 1920s but morphed into a shopping mall in the 1960s.

The cinema complex has received international acclaim for its authentic art deco design and fabulous artwork. Once again Weta Workshop talent was on show – don’t visit the Roxy without a couple of hours up your sleeve – even the restrooms are opulent.

The only downside to our weekend was the Wellington airport – the gateway to the country’s capital city is a disgrace.

The work of the Weta team once again dominated – this time in Lord of the Rings territory, giant eagles fly overhead carrying good guys of some variety off to fight some bad guys – orcs if my memory serves me correctly. Gollum also swims high above while Smaug glares from his cave.

So that part’s great! But no lift, no-one at the help kiosk, no signs and no way to get mother and luggage down the impossibly steep stairs to some obscure gate.

Just finding Gate 18 was a mission! Forty minutes later I finally baled up a checkout worker on the Air New Zealand counter – by now I was breathing fire and making like Smaug myself. With a startled young woman in tow I retrieved mum from underneath Gollum, where I had parked her, and we were ushered through the corridors of the staff administration area into a lift.

I have a suggestion for management – install lifts and signs before you purchase another bloody orc, dwarf or troll!

For the record the Gate 18 boarding area is about the size of the average family living room – with two flights departing, one from a mysterious Gate 18A and one arriving – it was the stuff of a sardine can. And so much for security – no bag checks, no x-rays, no questions, nothing – just a whole mob of confused and angry people milling around trying to work out which of the Gate 18s they were to board through.

Much as we had loved our sojourn to the city, we were more than pleased to be out of the airport and heading for home.

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Youngsters around the Ashburton District haven’t been idle during the first week of the spring school holidays.

They’ve been packing out school holiday activity programmes in Methven and in Ashburton.

Guardian photographers Amanda Konyn and Tetsuro Mitomo checked them out.

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Four-year-old Lily Woods and Lucy Boldy, seven were among a group of Ashburton children who, this week, were visited by a very special mouse. Geronimo Stilton, editor of the Rodent’s Gazette, adventurer and star of a best-selling series of children’s books, stopped off at the Ashburton Library to entertain youngsters as part of the library’s holiday programme.

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Nahteshiya Watene, 12, makes a flying leap of faith during Wednesday’s session of the Methven Holiday Programme.

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Ten-year-old Ben Millington executes a perfect back-flip during “Wacky Wednesday” activities earlier this week.

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Kyle Watkins, 10, tests his foosball skills at the Base Holiday Programme yesterday.

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Getting ready to bake biscuits at the Base Holiday Programme are (from left) Kane McDonald, 10, Kyrah Thomas, 9, and Ethan Thomas, 8.

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Strongest warning yet for horror summer El Nino

BY JAMIE MORTON

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ew Zealand yesterday received the strongest warning yet that it’s gazing down the barrel of the worst El Nino summer since the calamitous 1997/98 event that cost the hundreds of millions of dollars.

The latest climate outlook, released by the National Institute of Water and Atmosphere (Niwa) yesterday afternoon, reported it was now “virtually certain” – a 99 per cent chance – that El Nino conditions would continue over the next three months.

By many measures, the current event was tracking close to the 1997/98 El Nino – the strongest since 1950 – and was expected to intensify further over the next three months.

In New Zealand, the oceandriven system typically brings cooler, wetter conditions, bringing higher rainfall to regions that are normally wet and often drought to areas that are usually dry.

Farmers in the western, wetter parts of the country often faced significant damage to pastures from too much rainfall and it was also harder for stock to thrive in the constant wet.

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The 1997/98 El Nino:

Is generally regarded as one of the worst El Nino-Southern Oscillation events in history, causing widespread drought, flooding and other natural disasters around the world.

In New Zealand, it was much drier than normal in the east from July 1997 onwards, with drought areas particularly pronounced from the Bay of

Those in the east, faced with dry conditions, needed to consider food availability for stock.

The severe drought caused by the 1997/98 El Nino was later estimated by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research to have caused a loss to agriculture of $618 million – or close to 1 per cent – to GDP. Over the next three months, Niwa said, above normal pressure was forecast to the north and west of New Zealand, while below normal pressure was expected to the east and south of the country.

This circulation pattern was likely to be accompanied by anomalous southwesterly wind flows – a signature of El Nino

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Plenty down to Canterbury over the following summer.

In late April 1998, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry estimated the likely cost of the drought on farm gate returns would be $256 million for the year ending June 30 1998, and $169 million for the following year, giving a total of $425 million.

Given the impact on

conditions.

Based on what happened in three biggest El Nino events since 1950 – 1972/73, 1982/83 and 1997/98 – the elevated risk for drought for parts of New Zealand was anticipated later during summer, in particular for eastern parts of both islands as well as northern areas of the North Island.

Niwa forecaster Chris Brandolino said El Nino systems accounted for around a quarter of climate and rainfall variability, “but when you get into these really intense El Ninos, they really tend to be in a class of their own”.

“Because of that, we looked at the top three intense El Ninos

downstream value-added agricultural production, the likely total cost to the country was likely to be in excess of $1 billion.

since 1950 and they provided a much more profound impact in terms of rainfall deficit.”

Federated Farmers vice president Anders Crofoot said the situation had increasingly become a hot topic among farmers.

Farmers were already looking at their options to prepare themselves, such as cutting stock numbers and, in some cases, putting summer crops in.

Mr Crofoot expected a severe El Nino would be particularly tough for dairy farmers who had already been hit by a low payout.

“A lot of them have already taken the opportunity to reduce their herd numbers, although the price of beef is still quite good, so they might not be tak-

ing too much of a hit if they cull their poorer producers.”

Meanwhile, temperatures between now and December were about equally likely to be near average or below average for the whole of the country, while cold snaps and frosts can still be expected from time to time in spring in some parts.

Rainfall was about equally likely to be in the near normal or below normal ranges in the north and east of the North Island and about equally likely to be in the near normal or below normal ranges in the north of the South Island.

Near normal rainfall was the most likely outcome for the west of the North Island, while seasonal rainfall in the west of the South Island was about equally likely to be in the near normal or above normal ranges.

Soil moisture levels were most likely to be near normal or below normal in the north and east of North Island, and equally likely to be near normal or below normal in the east of the South Island.

In the western regions of both islands, as well as the north of the South Island, soil moisture levels were most likely to be in the near normal range.

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Carpal tunnel syndrome might have ended her hairdressing career, but for Sam Ward it led to a career in St John as an emergency technician.

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t’s New Year’s Eve and, while most are enjoying festivities, a young Ashburton mum is sitting in an ambulance with her brother observing his career as an intensive care paramedic.

On this night she expected the odd drunk who had met with trouble, but that was not the case – there were only minor call-outs, yet she felt fulfilled by the help her brother was able to dispense to those in need.

By the time Curt had finished his shift, 32-year-old Sam began to think seriously about joining St John.

A hairdresser since the age of 19, she was forced to consider a career change when carpal tunnel developed in her wrists.

The syndrome derives from an irritation of the median nerve in the wrist that leads to numbness, tingling, pain and weakness in the hand.

It typically affects the thumb, index and middle fingers and can often be particularly troublesome at night. Repetitive

Better known for her snipping skills, Sam Ward is about to exchange tin foil and perm solution for bandages and saline solution. Nadine Porter caught up with the inspiring mum on her lifealtering career change. movement causes the syndrome – in Sam’s case, the actions required to be a hairdresser.

At first the keen sports fan and coach considered sport as her next move, but the ambulance shift she shared with her brother changed all that.

Sam says she had never considered it as a career prior to New Year’s Eve, even though her brother had a long history with all things medical, having been a St John Cadet since the age of eight, before further training after his high school years.

On the day of the second and most devastating earthquake, Curt was in Auckland, but was flown back to help deal with the tragedy.

“I thought I could never do

it because of some of the stuff my brother told me about, but when you are face to face with it, you realise it’s a job and you can be separated from it.”

But with three primary school children, retraining and fitting in work, coaching and studying was a big ask.

With block courses towards her National Diploma in Ambulance Practice in May and August and a final one due in October, in between ambulance driving, being a first responder and basic management courses since the start of the year, there hasn’t been a lot of down time.

Add to that the fitness training Sam has undertaken in order to compete in the Coast to Coast this year and you have one highly-motivated mum.

It’s clear that she has enjoyed the journey towards becoming an emergency technician with St John and says the respect received by ambulance officers is “really great”.

“It’s quite intriguing to be that important person on the scene.”

St John and the work it does was incredibly important, she said. “They’re not only saving lives but giving people direction to get the right sort of help as well.”

As of yet Sam hasn’t had to deal with anything overly traumatic, but said she didn’t think that would upset her when she did.

“You learn to leave it behind because it’s work. You still definitely care about your patients,

but you emotionally detach yourself a little bit.”

While she will miss her hairdressing clients and the rapport she has built up with them, Sam is excited about the future.

She hopes to move to Christchurch once she has fully qualified and eventually wants to train to become a paramedic – the next step up the ambulance officer ladder.

In the meantime, she will continue juggling a job, training and family life happily knowing that she has turned what could have been a career-ending carpal tunnel injury, into a positive new beginning.

Her message is simple.

“You have to challenge yourself over and over again,” she says, “or you’ll get bored.”

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In brief Queen with Tut? Egypt hopes it can soon announce the “discovery of the century” in Tutankhamun’s tomb - the burial place of Queen Nefertiti.

British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves is in Cairo to probe his theory that Nefertiti is buried in a hidden room adjacent to the tomb of Tutankhamun, the son of pharaoh Akhenaten. Damati believes such a tomb could contain Akhenaten’s wife Kiya or his daughter Merytaten. But both men hope that sophisticated radar equipment will reveal the existence of another funerary chamber in the heart of Tutankhamun’s tomb.

The final resting place of the boy king, who died in 1324 BC after just nine years on the throne, was discovered by another British Egyptologist, Howard Carter, in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor in southern Egypt.

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Two dead in shooting Community members gather for a candlelight vigil for those killed in a shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon.

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Gunman shoots 10 The gunman who went on a shooting rampage at a US college ordered students to stand up if they were Christian and then shot them.

“They would stand up and he said, ‘Good, because you’re a Christian, you’re going to see God in just about one second’,” the father of one of the wounded students said.

Stacy Boylan said his daughter Ana played dead when the gunman ordered her to stand up as she lay on the floor.

Ten people died and seven were wounded before Chris Harper Mercer, 26, died in a shootout with police at the Umpqua Community College in Oregon.

Mercer opened fire in a classroom at the college in rural Roseburg, and moved to other rooms methodically gunning down his victims, witnesses

said. Student Cassandra Welding was in a classroom when she heard 35 to 40 shots coming from an adjacent room.

She saw a fellow student shot after opening the classroom door to check what was happening.

“Then we locked the doors, turned off the lights and ... we were all pretty much in panic mode and called 911 (emergency services) and our parents and (said) ‘I love yous’ because we didn’t know what would happen, if those were our last words.”

Hanlin said police were alerted to the shooting at 10.38am and rushed to the site where two officers cornered the gunman and exchanged fire with him. He was later confirmed dead.

Authorities said investigators were examining social media

postings thought to belong to the shooter. Several reports said he may have shared his intentions online beforehand.

Other reports said police recovered three handguns and an assault rifle at the scene along with a mobile phone that presumably belonged to the shooter, who wore a bulletproof vest.

Hanlin confirmed that authorities had identified the gunman, but declined to release his name.

“You will never hear me mention his name,” Hanlin said. “I will not give him the credit he probably sought prior to this horrific and cowardly act.”

A candlelight vigil was held for the victims in Roseburg, a close-knit logging community with many locals among the 3300 students at the college.

Police meanwhile sealed off the gunman’s apartment in

Winchester, located some five miles north of Roseburg, and interviewed neighbours and relative, CNN reported.

Meanwhile, three people have died and at least one more is seriously injured in a second mass-shooting in the US yesterday.

The Levy County Sherrif ’s Office, in Florida, has told a local news station three people have died and one person has been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries.

WCJB TV reporter Alex Browning reported the shooting happened outside the Inglis Town Hall.

The man thought to be behind the shooting was among the dead, he said.

“Deputies say the man they say was the shooter is dead, self-inflicted gunshot wound.”

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Hungary rolls out anti-migrant razor wire Hungary was yesterday attaching razor wire to a fence erected at its border with Croatia, in a possible prelude to sealing the frontier to thousands of migrants.

Hungarian soldiers, wearing thick leather gloves, were unrolling the wire and attaching it at ground level to the fence near the Beremend crossing point in Hungary’s south, reporters said.

Next to the road where people cross, there were two metal gates two metres high and three

metres high on wheels that can be rolled into place and block entry at any point.

Hungary last month sealed its border with Serbia, cutting off the main entry point for tens of thousands of migrants travelling up through the western Balkans trying to make it to northern Europe.

This diverted the flow of migrants, mostly from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and other hotspots, into Croatia. But Zagreb has since been transporting them to the Hungarian bor-

der, and Hungary takes them to the Austrian frontier. At Beremend, Hungarian authorities have also set up a “transit zone” made up of 25 dark blue containers lined up next to the two-lane road that runs from Croatia to Hungary.

Another fence, about two metres away, forms a path to the “transit zone” where Hungarian authorities plan to examine and likely reject, rights groups say - requests for asylum once it is operational.

About 200 kilometres north-

west of Beremend, at the border post of Letenye, a similar transit zone of 28 containers has been put in place.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban last week said he aimed to close the border with Croatia but that he would discuss the move with UN chief Ban Ki-moon at this week’s UN General Assembly in New York. A Hungarian government spokesman, Zoltan Kovacs, said that “the border issue” would be discussed at a cabinet meeting today.

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A witness to a fatal double shooting in Sydney’s west says a man was yelling and wielding a gun outside NSW Police headquarters moments before he heard shots and saw a man lying on the ground. Real estate agent Edwin Almeida says he heard shots and saw a man in a black gown pacing and waving a gun outside the police centre in Parramatta yesterday. Mr Almeida said his frightened staff ran into their office and heard three to four gun shots.

He said afterwards he could see two bodies under sheets lying in the street.

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Murderer executed The US state of Virginia has executed multiple murderer Alfredo Prieto, rejecting last minute court appeals from lawyers for the Salvadoran man. Prison officials said in a statement that Prieto, who was put to death by lethal injection, was pronounced dead at 9.17pm on Thursday. Prieto had been convicted of or linked to nine separate killings across the United States. His lawyers had filed a lawsuit seeking to temporarily postpone his execution over objections to the protocol of drugs used, but courts rejected their appeals.

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11 dead in plane crash A C-130 military transport plane has crashed in eastern Afghanistan, killing 11 people, including six US soldiers. Though it was not immediately clear what caused the crash, it comes as Afghan forces - backed by NATO special forces and US air support - pushed into the centre of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan to flush out Taliban insurgents who held the provincial capital for three days. The C-130 crash left six US soldiers and five civilian contractors dead, US Army Colonel Brian Tribus said.

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Officers attacked A Victorian maximum security prison is in lockdown after four prison officers were seriously assaulted. Three of the officers from Barwon Prison were taken to hospital for treatment on Thursday afternoon, but the extent of their injuries is not clear. Police were called to the prison and are investigating cause of the violence.

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In brief A new challenge Given the man and the moment that brought an end to the Breakers’ last campaign, much will be expected of Charles Jackson. But the defending champions’ new import, tasked with filling the shoes of grand final hero Ekene Ibekwe, would still be on the streets of Sacramento if he were unable to overcome challenges. Coach Dean Vickerman initially assumed the power forward would exceed the club’s price range. Jackson is expected to improve as the season progresses, adjusting to the NBL, to life as a professional basketballer, and to his new home at the bottom of the world.

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Tessa McCann is playing premier grade tennis for Elmwood and is hoping to qualify for the Showdown Australian Individual and Teams Nationals in Melbourne in December.

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Holding her own in premier grade

By James Ford

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At 14 years old, Tessa McCann has made the step up to premier grade tennis at a young age, but the St Margaret’s College student is taking the challenge of rubbing shoulders with the region’s finest in her stride.

McCann is playing for Elmwood Tennis Club, and is the younger of two Mid Canter-

bury female players competing at premier level in Canterbury.

The tennis starlet is holding her own in the grade, and believes the higher standard of play is helping her improve her game.

“I think I’ve handled the transition well.

“I feel like it’s helped me improve leaps and bounds, and

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Daylight saving sees the return of sunset tennis

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Sunset Doubles tennis has returned and Serve ‘n’ Volley have topped the division one points table with a dominant 6-0 drubbing of Double Faults.

Heineken Openers sit in second place following a con-

vincing 5-1 win over Carrfields, while AFC downed Fairton Turkeys 4-2 and Coasters edged out Cates Grain and Seed.

In the ladies division, B Team are sitting at the points table’s summit after a dominant 6-0 win over Wanna Bees.

Right: Sue Letham’s B Team are at the top of the points table in the ladies division, following a comprehensive 6-0 win over the Wanna Bees.

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playing better people is making me a better player,” she said.

McCann is currently preparing for the annual TNZ Junior Masters Top Eight Finals over Labour Weekend at Wilding Park in Christchurch.

The junior tournament is an invitation event and brings together the country’s top six ranked age-group players with two wild card entries.

It will form part of the selection process for the December Showdown Australian Individual and Teams Nationals for under 12s and under 14s in Melbourne.

McCann said that she hopes to qualify for the tournament across the Tasman, and dreams of one day winning Wimbledon like her tennis idol Novak Djokovic.

Hawthorn played a will-he or won’t-he game with forward Jack Gunston in the lead-up to today’s grand final but the man himself says he’s known he would be playing all week. Both Gunston and Ryan Schoenmakers revealed yesterday they had known of their inclusion in the grand final 22 for several days.

Gunston, 23, dismissed any speculation he would be going into the match underdone.

“It’s 100 per cent, absolutely 100 per cent,” he said at the grand final parade. “I wasn’t close to missing at all, I was ready to go from Monday once I started running.”

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Hooker under radar One day out from weigh-in and two days away from the biggest fight of his career, Daniel ‘the Hangman’ Hooker is relaxed and in peak physical shape heading into his bout with Yair Rodriguez on UFC 192 in Texas, tomorrow. Hooker and trainer Eugene Bareman arrived five days ago to help acclimatise and leave nothing to chance through the final week of preparation. US media largely ignored Hooker, but the Kiwi is comfortable slipping below the radar and confident he can topple the highly regarded hometown boy. - NZME

Aussies scrap tour Australia have postponed their two-Test tour of Bangladesh amid terrorism fears. Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said that an independent security assessment confirmed the “risk of terrorism in Bangladesh targeting Australian nationals”.

“We have decided that, regrettably, we have no alternative but to postpone the tour,” Sutherland said.

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Keane blasts Gunners Former Manchester United captain Roy Keane has accused Arsenal of being “weak” and “soft” ahead of his old club’s visit to the Emirates Stadium tomorrow. Keane was distinctly unimpressed with Arsenal’s lacklustre performance in their 3-2 defeat against Greek side Olympiakos in the Champions League on Tuesday. The result leaves the Gunners in danger of elimination from the Champions League.

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‘Minnows’ chasing SI glory

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They may be underdogs, but the Mid Canterbury 12th grade football team have prepared well for the Gavin Roberts South Island Junior Football tournament in Blenheim next week.

Mid Canterbury have been training twice weekly for the last month and once weekly for three weeks prior.

Coach Neil Simons said he is pleased with his side’s improvement, and is hoping to cause some upsets.

Mid Canterbury recently had a pre-season hitout in Timaru and took a 3-0 win over South Canterbury, but fell to 6-0 and 2-0 losses to Selwyn and Canterbury respectively.

Mid Canterbury will kick off the competition on Thursday against Canterbury Red. “It’ll be tough, we’re the smallest region.

“We’re definitely improving a lot but we’re the minnows,” said Simons.

“If we can be competitive and get a few wins then I’ll be ecstatic.”

Right: Parker Bradford and his team-mates ran through some drills at Argyle Park on Thursday evening in preparation for the Blenheim tournament next week.

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Walls Cup kicks off busy week for bowlers

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Hampstead Bowling Club will host the Walls Cup today and club president Malcolm Behrns is expecting strong competition from the 16 teams participating.

The Walls Cup will kick off a busy week for bowls with the South Island Chartered Clubs’ Ladies Fours Championships beginning on Monday.

The tournament will see 48 teams, made up of 192 players, compete at Allenton, MSA Ashburton and Hampstead bowing greens.

Hampstead Bowling Club president Malcolm Behrns, (left) is expecting good competition when the Walls Cup action begins today.

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It’s being widely billed as Wayne Bennett versus Johnathan Thurston, the supercoach pitting his wits against the guile of the master playmaker. But both know neither hold the key to Sunday’s historic allQueensland NRL grand final between Brisbane and North Queensland.

“The forwards will determine who wins the game,” Bennett said as he plots a seventh premiership with the Broncos in his first season back at Red Hill.

“Whoever does the job best will allow the halves to play. The halves can’t play if the forwards don’t lay the groundwork. The Cowboys and the Broncos are in the same boat.”

Thurston modestly credited his “middle men” after collecting his record fourth Dally M on Monday and is banking on Test props Matt Scott and James Tamou getting the better of Brisbane’s reluctant - but effective - front-rowers Sam Thaiday and Adam Blair at ANZ Stadium.

Telling statistics indicate it will be an intriguing battle up front as the Broncos look to deny the Cowboys their maiden premiership in their own quest for grand final glory for the first time since 2006.

Scott and Tamou average 126 metres and 136 metres respectively in 2015 against far more modest figures from Blair (81m) and Thaiday’s 93m.

If Scott and Tamou are allowed to continue in that vein, they will likely set the platform for a famous Cowboys victory.

Brisbane great Gorden Tallis has no doubt Sunday’s showdown will be won in the engine room. Tallis is tipping the Cowboys in a thriller, chiefly because he believes it’s impossible to nullify Thurston’s impact.

“You can’t shut the great players down. What you’ve got to do is limit their opportunities,” he said. “If he’s given opportunities like against Melbourne, he will make them pay. You can make him have what we call a quiet game, but he’ll still be the best player in their team.

“But, no, you can’t shut him down.”

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Hammers’ set-up suits rugby nomad

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chance meeting in an Ashburton coffee shop with Mid Canterbury assistant coach Grant Polson in July led to Tama Tuirirangi dusting off his boots and joining the Hammers’ Heartland campaign.

Tuirirangi had been retired for eight months, but the opportunity to play in a Ranfurly Shield challenge against Hawke’s Bay proved too attractive of an offer to turn down.

Tuirirangi’s career has been a journeyed one, spanning across the Tasman and back to play for the Reds, Hurricanes and Chiefs at Super Rugby level, Manawatu, Wellington, Taranaki and Otago in the ITM Cup and now for Mid Canterbury in the Heartland Championship.

The former New Zealand under-21 player said he is enjoying his time with the Hammers, and described the Heartland experience as ‘refreshing’.

“I’ve quite enjoyed the grassroots rugby, it’s why we all played at the start, so it’s a full circle really, and it’s reminded me why I started playing in the first place,” he said.

Tuirirangi’s ITM Cup career came to an end with Otago when the aches and pains of the game became more prominent.

The stalwart prop moved on to coaching an under 16s team in Hong Kong for six months, before returning to New Zealand in March.

“I realised when I was playing for Otago, I had about three surgeries in 18 months.

“I realised that maybe my body wasn’t up for it, I think the coaches gave me a little hint but I already knew,” he said.

Despite plenty of miles on the clock, Tuirirangi looks fit - weighing in at just over 100kg - and believes his leaner frame has played an integral role in his longevity.

Mid Canterbury v Horowhenua Kapiti, Ashburton Showgrounds, 2pm.

“When I was playing professionally I was roughly over 120kg, and at Otago I was around 114kg,” he said.

“The older I’ve got, I’ve had to lose weight because I just can’t keep that weight at that pace, and the fitter I am the easier it is.

“I probably should have been like this in my earlier days.”

Tuirirangi said he is enjoying the passion of the game in the South Island, and has been impressed by the structure of Mid Canterbury rugby.

“Rugby’s definitely more passionate down here than it is up in the North Island.

“I realised that when I moved to Otago and played my first season down there, and coming up here I didn’t expect any different,” he said.

With the Hammers gunning for their seventh win in as many weeks against Horowhenua Kapiti today and a semifinal berth all but guaranteed, Tuirirangi is confident that his side can achieve an unprecedented third successive Meads Cup triumph.

“We could easily do it, but we’re still not happy.

“Although we haven’t lost a game yet, a lot of us believe we still haven’t played to our ability,” he said.

Although in the twilight of his career, the 37-year-old is not thinking too much about retirement, or about what level he will be involved in the game when he eventually hangs his boots up, but is certain that he will take a well-earned rest.

“I enjoyed coaching.

“I probably enjoyed coaching more at kid’s level, but, as a professional for a job, not at the moment.

“I wouldn’t mind taking a year or two off.

“I’ve been doing this since I was 19 years of age.

“Once I do decide to retire, and when that will be I don’t know, never say never.”

TEAMS FOR TODAY’S CLASH Mid Canterbury: Mark Andrew, Jackson Donlan, Tama Tuirirangi, Eric Duff, Adaam Ross, Scott Vessey, Jon Dampney, Tevita Ula, Will Mackenzie, Murray Williams, Seta Koroitamana, Nete Caucau, Fa’aitu Tuamoheloa, Ashton Tuck, Andrew Letham.

Replacements: James Annabell, Adam Williamson, Logan Bonnington, Sam Watt, Mavae Tomasi, Gideon Lambrechts, Matt Thatcher.

Horowhenua Kapiti: Ha’amea Ulu-ki Ahio, David McErlean, Scott Cameron, Ryan Shelford, Tipu Luke, Aaron Lahmert, Antony Fox, Jim Morgan, Declan Hay, Brandyn Laursen, David Thompson, Manaia Osborne, Luke Harvey, Teegan Minkley, Michael Tambour, Mario Nau, James Tennant, Josh Shaw, Louie Tovo, Aaron Taiapa, Jack Taulapapa, Mason PakauWallace.

Tama Tuirirangi is enjoying his first season of Heartland Championship rugby with Mid make it three Meads Cups in a row.

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Revenge not our motivation - Cheika

By Joe Barton

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ustralia no longer face a do-or-die outcome in their Rugby World Cup clash with England - but it’s close enough.

Wales’ failure to secure a bonus point in their 23-13 win over Fiji - much like the Wallabies in their opening fixture - means Michael Cheika’s men will almost certainly get a second bite at the apple regardless of the outcome at Twickenham tomorrow morning.

The Wallabies, though, can’t afford a blowout loss.

As it stands, Australia sit on nine competition points - four behind Pool A leaders Wales.

With four points for a win, one dished out for a loss by seven points or fewer and another bonus point on offer for scoring four or more tries, the Wallabies control their own destiny.

Should the Wallabies lose to England by seven points or fewer, they would still progress to the quarter-finals with a victory over Wales - as long as the Welsh don’t pick up two bonus points in defeat.

A heavier loss to England would require the Wallabies to either secure a four-try bonus-point victory or one by greater than seven points against Wales.

England still face certain elimination and the indignity of being the first World Cup hosts being knocked out in the pool stages - should they lose to Australia.

“It’s such a momentous occasion, to play with the Poms in a World Cup at their home and at the home of rugby ... it’s something you dream about,” five-eighth Bernard Foley said.

“We’re really looking forward to the occasion and getting the enjoyment out of the experience as well as how much of a tough battle it’s going to be.

“There’s plenty (riding on it) and that’s the exciting thing about it.”

England have had the wood on the Australians at recent World Cups, winning the 2003 tournament with a Jonny Wilkinson extra-time field goal over the Wallabies before causing a major boilover to defeat them in the quarter-finals four years later.

But Cheika insists the chance to exact revenge for those losses isn’t weighing heavily on the Wallabies.

“It’s the wrong reason to be playing.

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England have to win to stay in contention and coach Stuart Lancaster said it would be “a huge match”. “We want everyone behind us so we can get the result we all want,” he said.

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France bowl Canucks France have put in a strong second half to remain perfect in Rugby World Cup 2015 with a 41-18 win against Canada in their Pool D match yesterday.

Veteran Pascal Pape got the all-important fourth try and the bonus point that puts France in pole position to reach the last eight. There is still a mathematical chance France could miss out, if they lose to Ireland and Italy win their final two games heavily, leaving all three teams on 14 points with points differential being the decider factor. - AP

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to do it yourself,” Cheika said.

“Anything we are doing here is for us, not to do anything to anyone else.

“Those external motivations like that, that you talk about and is often said - they last for two minutes on the field.

“When you are going to go through 80 minutes of warfare, or our version of it, you need bigger motivations than that, as those motivations can go away in a heartbeat as soon as one thing goes wrong.

“Our motivations have to be from deep inside.”

Cheika has opted for the rugged Ben McCalman over the dynamic Sean McMahon as back-row bench cover in the only change to Australia’s match-day 23 from their tournament-opening victory over Fiji.

McCalman comes in for the injured Will Skelton, while playmaker Quade Cooper has missed out on a bench spot.

Foley is prepared for the likelihood it will all come down to him in the vital game. In selecting Foley ahead of Cooper, coach Michael Cheika has sided with goalkicking over all-out attack.

And for good reason because, when it comes to the crunch, the difference-maker in big games is so often penalty goals and conversions - with the odd drop goal thrown in for good measure.

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TEAMS FOR ENGLAND/AUSTRALIA Australia: Israel Folau, Adam Ashley-Cooper, Tevita Kuridrani, Matt Giteau, Rob Horne, Bernard Foley, Will Genia, David Pocock, Michael Hooper, Scott Fardy, Rob Simmons, Kane Douglas, Sekope Kepu, Stephen Moore (capt), Scott Sio. Reserves: Tatafu Polota-Nau, James Slipper, Greg Holmes, Dean Mumm, Ben McCalman, Nick Phipps, Matt Toomua, Kurtley Beale.

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England: Mike Brown, Anthony Watson, Jonathan Joseph, Brad Barritt, Jonny May, Owen Farrell, Ben Youngs, Ben Morgan, Chris Robshaw (capt), Tom Wood; Geoff Parling, Joe Launchbury, Dan Cole, Tom Youngs, Joe Marler.

Reserves: Rob Webber, Mako Vunipola, Kieran Brookes, George Kruis, Nick Easter, Richard Wigglesworth, George Ford, Sam Burgess.

Wales coach Warren Gatland said he would attempt to remain neutral when Pool A rivals Australia and England battle out another crunch match in the “group of death” tomorrow. Gatland’s side has three wins from their opening three games. “If we’re being entirely selfish about our own destiny and making the quarter-finals, Australia can do us a big favour,” acknowledged Gatland, the New Zealander who has been in charge of Wales since 2007.

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Luck of the Irish?

Ireland have never reached a Rugby World Cup semi-final but former captain Keith Wood believes they can win the trophy if they beat France in their final pool match. The Irish look set to to enter their October 11 showdown with France undefeated.

Barring huge upsets, the loser of the contest will get a fearsome quarter-final clash with New Zealand who are storming to first place in Pool C. Wood who bowed out of Test rugby with a 2003 quarter-final loss to France - said the Irish under coach Joe Schmidt have the quality to make a big impact on the tournament.

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Lock listening in Canadian lock Jamie Cudmore was busted cheekily trying to eavesdrop on a French huddle during their pool D clash yesterday. With the French on attack and setting up for a lineout move, Cudmore looked to move into the huddle to listen in on the play. He was quickly shoved aside by French prop Rabah Slimani. Luckily for Cudmore it didn’t warrant a yellow card, something he is known for having been sent to the bin six times in 38 tests.

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Mid Canterbury under-16 player Joshua Ree looks for an opening against Southland in Methven yesterday.

The inclement Waikato weather nearly put paid to the very slim Steelers’ Premiership semi-finals contention last night. But they will be happy to have dispatched their Chiefs 30-9 cousins with some skilful footy in conditions that patently did not suit their style of play.

Counties Manukau needed a bonus point win to keep some heat on defending champions Taranaki. That was always going to be a big ask in the slippery conditions, but they did it, scoring four in the second spell, the last one to Frank Halai right at the death.

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Late tries disastrous for U18s

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Mid Canterbury under 18 and under 16 representative teams have kicked off their respective South Island tournaments with losses.

The under 18s were downed 32-25 by Canterbury Cavaliers in Kaiapoi, and will face Canterbury Country today.

Coach Dave Macleod said his under 18 side performed well,

but could not find a way back in to the tie after conceding two late tries.

“We were in the hunt most of the game.

“We were ahead 25-18 with about 10 minutes to go but they scored two quick tries,” he said.

“We were a bit hard done by to be honest, we played really well and were hard on attack at the end, but just couldn’t get it over the line.”

The under 16s South Island tournament is being played in Methven, but Mid Canterbury could not take advantage of the familiar surroundings and fell to a 40-22 loss to Southland.

Jock Cockburn’s team led the southerners 22-16 at the interval, but Southland took advantage of a strong wind in the second half to keep Mid Canterbury scoreless.

The under 16s will face Otago

Country today in their second match of the tournament.

“We played well in the first half and had lots of front foot ball.

“We just dropped off a few tackles in the second half and backed off the intensity a bit,” said Cockburn.

“There were 12 points that came from soft tries and obviously they had the wind behind them which cost us.”

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Peak performance at just the right time

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here’s so much going on in the sporting world right now it’s seriously hard to keep up.

Today the mighty Hammers will make it seven from seven when they take on Horowhenua Kapiti at the showgrounds, building nicely up to peak performances when they really matter, and that’s in the next few weeks.

Our big brothers the red and blacks take on Crusader stablemates Tasman in a blockbuster today, but that’s nowhere near the top of the attention tree right now either.

Across the ditch the annual frenzy is in full swing for NRL grand final action, and it’s fascinating to note that as well as the finalists both being from ‘up north’, almost every other age grade champion team is from Queensland; a massive shift in power base for that game.

After the Broncos and Cowboys had met in the first preliminary final, one or two wise watchers suggested that here were the grand finalists, and so it has proved.

Will Johnathan Thurston’s brilliance be enough to counter Ben Hunt’s?

Will Jason Taumalolo spoil Justin Hodges’ leaving party?

Will Supercoach Wayne Bennett achieve the almost unbelievable, scoring his eighth championship in his first year back where he belongs, with the Broncs?

All will be revealed tomorrow night, but that’s not the biggest show in town either.

It’s all happening half a world away, and with some spectacular highlights already (having George Ayoub as a TMO person is NOT one of those highlights) it’s hard to imagine that the delirious joy of the Japanese as they knocked over the Saffas, or the Welsh victory over the Poms can be equalled - but there’s always hope!

There’s one glaring thing that every team is aiming for in this tournament - accuracy.

In goalkicking, just refer to the England-Wales rugby showcase - 100 per cent from both kickers.

A quick glance at history

of that edition of the tournament.

Never mind that Graham Henry reviewed the tape at length and found about 50 Steve Devereux penalisable infringements, the MY SHOUT inimitable Mr Barnes missed all of them (and that forward reveals that finals depend pretty pass) and the rest, as they say, is history. much on your kicker being on The All Blacks will have song, so that’s a given. presumably put 60 (or perhaps DC simply cannot get injured 80 if they get everything right) - our other kickers don’t have against Georgia this morning, anywhere near his stats. but more importantly they will The other area of accuracy is have moved closer to getting at the breakdown. things right for whoever they In theory, you tell all your might face in the quarters. players to behave themselves, And that brings up another and don’t touch the ball if thing, despite all the drama they’re not supposed to. about who will get out of Pool But you just can’t do that, it’s just not possible for 15 testoster- A alive, and who they might face one-fired blokes in the heat of a later on - it really doesn’t matter.

If you’re going to win the vital rugby match to not transbig prize, then you have to beat gress, usually about five or six people. times for each side in each half.

To rest your campaign on Oh, wait, of course that’s not hoping somebody doesn’t make quite correct. it through to the final sounds In 2007 the French side played a perfect within-the-laws remarkably defeatist, and most assuredly that’s not the attitude half of rugby in Cardiff, with everybody’s mate Wayne Barnes that currently reigns in the All in charge, to knock the ABs out Blacks coaching camp.

The Black Sticks are likely to have a heavier emphasis than usual on goalscoring when they play India in their fourgame series starting in Nelson on Tuesday. Coach Colin Batch has been concerned at a failure to fully capitalise on opportunities, and with the Oceania Cup clash with Australia coming up - when Olympic qualification will be at stake he’s keen to see a sharpening in front of goal.

- NZME

Beckham bungles it Italian media have ridiculed the latest in a long line of gaffes

by David Beckham after the former England star said he wanted to see AC Milan win the Champions League this season.

AC Milan, along with city rivals Inter, failed to qualify for any European competition this season and so are not involved in the Champions League or its poorer cousin, the Europa League. Beckham, 40, reportedly made the blunder at the opening of a new Adidas store in Dubai, where he was asked who he would like to win the competition this season. - AFP

Revenge for Serena Venus Williams has earned the chance to avenge her sister Serena’s seismic defeat at the US Open after subduing Briton Johanna Konta to reach the Wuhan Open semi-finals.

The seven-time grand slam winner survived a three-set examination by qualifier Konta on Thursday to set up a meeting with Roberta Vinci, Serena Williams’ shock conqueror in New York. - AFP

Button stays put Former world champion Jenson Button is to stay on at McLaren for next season, ending speculation of pending retirement from Formula One racing. “McLaren-Honda is happy to confirm that Jenson Button will race for the team in 2016,” team chief Ron Dennis announced. “Jenson and I have been discussing his plans in private for the past few weeks, and the fact that our talks have led to today’s announcement is very pleasing to both of us and will delight and motivate all at McLarenHonda.”

- AFP

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Fijians rue tough schedule Fiji head into their final World Cup Pool A game winless and left ruing a punishing schedule in which they have had to play three of the world’s top six teams in 13 days.

The Pacific Islanders went down 23-13 to Wales at Cardiff ’s Millennium Stadium yesterday morning in a battling display that showcased their dynamic counter-attacking and burgeoning set-piece promise.

In fact they destroyed the Welsh scrum several times during the game.

After defeats by Australia (2813) and England (35-11), coach John McKee said the results were a credit to his players given the tough draw.

The Fijians notably denied the Wallabies and the Welsh winning bonus points.

“To play England, Australia and Wales in 13 days is a very, very tough task for any team in world rugby,” McKee said.

“It’s an absolute credit to this squad and all the players we’ve got, the support team and

Wales captain Sam Warburton comes in for some serious attention during yesterday’s win over Fiji.

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coaching staff how we’ve stood up and been so competitive.”

There was even a word of comfort from Wales captain

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Sam Warburton, whose own side suffered from fatigue after their five-day turnaround from the 28-25 victory over England.

“I do really feel for other tier-two nations who have to go through those turnarounds, it was extremely tough, especially at this level,” Warburton said.

McKee added: “To go so close, although frustrating, I cannot fault our team for the work and effort.

“It’s pretty frustrating for me with no points on the table.

“We knew when we were coming here what a difficult pool we were coming into, but we had high expectations.

“We have a talented group of players and we work really, really hard to get where we are.”

McKee was as phlegmatic as ever when quizzed about the punishing draw handed to Fiji.

“We can’t change the schedule.

“We knew what it was and that’s what it is,” the Kiwi coach said.

Fiji wrap up their campaign against Uruguay, a team also without a win, at Milton Keynes on Tuesday.

- AFP

2015

Duncan Weir will have the heavy responsibility of directing play for Scotland in their crucial Rugby World Cup Pool B match with South Africa in Newcastle tomorrow morning.

The 24-year-old has been named at fly-half because first choice Finn Russell has not recovered from a knock suffered in the 39-16 win over the US last Sunday.

- AFP

Pisi back for Samoa Tusi Pisi can close in on the Samoan test points record after being restored to the team for a key World Cup game against Japan tomorrow.

The 33-year-old - who was dropped to the bench for the loss to South Africa - needs 17 points to overhaul Earl Va’a (174) as Samoa’s highestscoring test player.

- AFP

Cliche city Ireland assistant coach Les Kiss reached for the great book of rugby cliches in describing the threat posed by Romania ahead of the pool D showdown.

“Our intention is to play with ball in hand but if we don’t look after ball in the breakdown they can hurt you,” Kiss said.

“They are very robust, very tenacious. We must make sure we don’t put the horse before the cart.”

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funded build-up of working capital after weaker lamb demand led to a “significant” build up of inventory, a poor financial result from the sheep business because of lower demand and high farm gate costs and a strong kiwi dollar.

While net debt reached $386 million by September 30, 2013, SFF and its lenders were more rattled by the seasonal peak debt, which blew out to $550 million in early 2014, making them “increasingly alert to the financial risk the company was exposed to”.

As a result SFF embarked on a strategic review that ultimately led to the Shanghai Maling offer, but Grant Samuel notes that the company was making progress in strengthening its balance sheet. Net debt fell to $287 million in 2014 and was forecast drop further to $148 million in the 2015 year and to just $88.7 million by September 2016, although the seasonal peak would still reach $333 million that year.

Earnings before interest and tax are forecast to rise to $71 million in 2016 from a forecast $39.9 million in 2015. Gearing

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that “the time frame to arrange alternative debt finance, in light of the pending expiration of the current facility on 31 October, became too tight”.

The advisory firm says the capital investment from Shangai Maling “is excess to the current requirements of the company”.

The deal proposed by Shanghai Maling and unanimously supported by the SFF board also allows the co-operative and its members to be looked after as their interest in the meat company shrinks to 50 per cent.

The total deal actually values the business at $311 million plus $7 million to meet the co-operative’s directors’ fees and governance costs into the future, $50 million available for distribution and $7 million estimated transaction costs.

The banking syndicate, which is led by Westpac Banking Corp, last month agreed to provide SFF with transitional banking facilities that will tide the company over until the Shanghai Maling deal settles.

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Silver Fern Farms ran out of time to consider alternatives to a 50-50 joint venture with Shanghai Maling Aquarius, because of the looming deadline for its debt facility with a banking syndicate and the risk that lenders would withdraw support and tip the meat company into receivership if the deal wasn’t consummated, according to independent NZ corporate advisory group Grant Samuel.

The independent appraisal of Shanghai Maling’s $261 million investment proposal concludes that the terms and conditions are fair and the per-share value of $2.84 falls within Grant Samuel’s valuation range of $2.56 to $3.03.

Yet the report also indicates the banks ran out of patience with SFF, having set a target for the meat company to reduce debt by more than $100 million through the introduction of new capital. Debt jumped in 2012 with the cost of rebuilding SFF’s Te Aroha plant, the debt-

would shrink to 18 per cent in 2016 from 55 per cent in 2013.

“As a result of an improved financial performance and other strategic initiatives, SFF has achieved a degree of deleveraging over the last two years and it is arguable that given time it will be able to achieve a more conservative capital structure without the need for new capital,” Grant Samuel said.

The risk of adverse circumstances such as receivership or liquidation if lenders withdrew their support meant the Shanghai Maling proposal was reasonable on these grounds alone, Grant Samuel said. The Chinese deal would achieve recapitalisation, remove uncertainty, create new opportunities for growth and “is strongly supported by the board of SFF and the banking syndicate”, it said.

An alternative funding proposal from a group of New Zealand agribusiness companies to underwrite a rights issue for between $40 million and $50 million was rejected by SFF’s bankers and Grant Samuel notes

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Criminals need tighter controls Stu Oldham

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hillip Smith’s lawyer says he should be congratulated for exposing just how easy it is for dangerous criminals to escape custody and escape New Zealand.

Certainly he should. And may his congratulations continue to take the form of a custodial sentence with increasingly fewer holes to wriggle through.

The Government inquiry into the convicted paedophile’s escape to Brazil last year found a chain of shortcomings and failings that need to be fixed.

It was frankly astounding to learn law enforcement agencies do not have “reasonably open access” to data held by other agencies to stop crims at the border.

Smith secured his passport and left without fear of agencies sharing biometric information, fingerprints, photographs, citizenship data and NZTA files.

Granted, he assumed another identity – he secured his passport under his birth name – but the silos between agencies meant his rouse was not picked up.

The Government has accepted most of the recommendations and is prepared to enact, frankly, long-overdue laws to ensure high-risk offenders can be tracked.

Allowing agencies to have real-time access to each other’s databases is high on the list, but so too is establishing how this will affect a criminal’s right to privacy.

Yes, you read that right: data sharing to track criminals will have to be undertaken with regard to the same right of privacy no doubt available to their victims.

Removing passports from high-risk offenders – yes, they can still hold them – will also be explored, but there are early concerns about the effect on human rights.

Yes, you read that right, too: the Government may have to defend cancelling passports on the basis a criminal who breached someone else’s rights has rights of their own.

Phillip Smith disregarded others’ rights when he offended and when he absconded. If he exposed anything, it is that high-risk criminals must be tightly controlled.

YOUR VIEW Gym OMG, reading in [a recent] Guardian that the council may have to close down what sounds like a happy gym company because neighbours are complaining of “noise” and too many cars parked outside the premises.

For goodness sake council get your head out of the sand, as I’m sure with this woman having a family [the gym] would not be going all hours of the night.

What is the difference [does it make] having visitors all day with cars parked in the area anyway and for noise controlling “music” noise late at night, early morning when people have to get up to face a day’s work.

Well Monique you could do it as a charity cause and the charity begins at home.

I do not know this woman or gym, but I do like the idea of

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getting people active.

Are we not told that Kiwis don’t exercise enough?

Good luck Monique.

Ex-Ashburton citizen K. Taylor

John Key It is high time for a vote of “no confidence” in John Key (in the Prime Minister’s of NZ Office) to be initiated, in the light of his record of apathetic neglect of those in greatest need in New Zealand.

To date we have: ■ His initiation and endorsement of the huge $5 million expense involved in the changing of the NZ flag and ignoring the needs of 260,000 NZ children in poverty.

■ His multimillion endorsement of Pandas into NZ – again belittling needs of all those families and children

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in real need – this time it includes refugees from war- stricken Syrian countries.

■ His wilful obscuring consequences of the TPP he is pushing for.

■ An enquiry into a number of the many charitable institutions in NZ show they gather little or no support from, or through, this man and his political party cohorts.

Such arrogant, irresponsible, immorality is not truly representative of really decent New Zealanders’ attitudes.

John Key’s attitudes, personal wealth, attention-seeking, selfcentredness have dominated for long enough and, as New Zealand citizens, we need to put a stop to the trends John Key follows – and misleads in.

In strongly-felt concern.

H. J. Hoskin Whanganui

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President of the regional government of Catalonia, Artur Mas, says he will unilaterally declarate Catalonia independent in the next 18 months.

Catalonia votes for independence (maybe) “

We would have preferred a referendum like in Quebec and Scotland but the only course left to us was to organise these elections,” said Artur Mas, president of the regional government of Catalonia. So, he said, the election that was held recently in Spain’s richest province should be seen as a referendum on independence – and he won it.

It was not a big win: the proindependence parties needed 68 seats for a majority in the 135-seat regional parliament, and they got 72. But it was a win nevertheless and Mas says he will unilaterally declarate Catalonia independent in the next 18 months on the strength of this vote.

Catalonia could certainly make it as an independent country: it’s about the same size as Switzerland, with about the same population (7.5 million).

But there is some doubt about whether a majority of Catalonia’s voters would actually vote “yes” if there were a real referendum. The pro-independence parties got a majority of the seats, but they only won

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48.7 per cent of the votes.

Mas’ parliamentary majority is therefore a flimsy basis for such a momentous decision as breaking up Spain, but he is going ahead anyway. He says that he will immediately start building the institutions of an independent state – a diplomatic service, central bank, tax authority and armed forces – and declare independence unilaterally 18 months from now.

This will create a serious confrontation with Madrid in much less than 18 months, because creating such separate institutions is against Spanish law. But Mas argues that he has to go ahead without a referendum, since the Spanish government refuses to authorise a referendum on the grounds that the constitution does not allow regions to make unilateral decisions on sovereignty.

In fact, Madrid’s intransigence gives the separatist leader an excuse to proceed without a referendum that he might well lose. Not only did Mas not get 50 per cent of the popular vote in the election. He cannot even assume that all of the 48.7 per cent of voters who backed the pro-independence parties would actually vote yes in a referendum: some traditional left-wing voters will have supported those parties for other reasons.

The arguments for independence, pro or con, often focus on the economy, but it’s very unlikely that an independent Catalonia would experience either an economic disaster or an economic bonanza. Independence is basically an emotional issue, not an economic one – and for Catalan nationalists, the emotions are very strong.

The problem is that ethnic Catalans are barely half the population. Catalonia’s relative prosperity attracted huge numbers of Spanish immigrants in the latter half of the 20th century and 46 per cent of the people in Catalonia now speak

Spanish as their first language (although 96 per cent claim to speak both languages).

It’s very hard to win an independence referendum when almost half the population does not share the emotions that drive the cause, so the separatists’ best hope is to go for independence without one. That is going to make things very messy in Catalonia and even violence is not to be excluded.

Nor is the forthcoming national election in Spain likely to change Madrid’s fierce resistance to Catalan independence: all the major Spanish parties oppose it except the new Podemos Party, which at least supports Catalonia’s right to hold a referendum on it. But then, that may just be tactical thinking. Letting Artur Mas hold a referendum would not necessarily be doing him a favour.

London-based independent Canadian journalist, Gwynne Dyer, is a syndicated columnist and military historian

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10.00am - 3.00pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Ashburton Airport, Seafield Rd. 10.30am - 3.30pm ASHBURTON EMBROIDERERS GUILD. Stitch and chat all day together. Senior Centre, Cameron Street.

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1.15pm GOLF CROQUET DOUBLES WAIREKA. Golf Croquet Doubles, Waireka Croquet, Philip St. 5.00pm ASHBURTON MASTERS SWIMMERS SOCIAL EVENINGS. A social group for Masters swimming. E A Network Centre Pool, River Terrace.

6.00pm HOLY NAME PARISH. Mass, Holy Name Church, Havelock Street.

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9.30am ASHBURTON METHODIST PARISH. Service and worship with Rev Tevita Taufalele.

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9.30am ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Morning worship - World communion Sunday led by Rev John Coutts, all welcome. 65 Oxford Street.

10.00am ASHBURTON MODEL AERO CLUB. Radio controlled aeroplane flying, weather permitting. Lovetts Road, off Maronan Road.

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7.00pm VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

7.00pm ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Evening Worship with Rev David Brown in the Sinclair Centre, Cnr Havelock and Park Street.

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6.00pm ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women circuit training in hall. 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

7.30pm CATHOLIC WOMENS LEAGUE. Euchre . Holy Name Parish Hall, Winter Street.

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9.00am - 12.00pm CRAFT MARKET. Good variety of crafts, West Street Car Park.

9.30am ST ANDREWS ANGLICAN CHURCH TINWALD. Community garden working bee and fellowship, each Saturday, weather 8.00am ASHBURTON MASTER SWIMMERS. Adult swimming, over the age of 20. EA Networks Centre ,Pool, River Terrace.

8.00am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street.

8.30am HOLY SPIRIT CHURCH. Mass, Holy Spirit Church, Thomson St, Tinwald.

9.00am ST PETER’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy communion. Harrison Street.

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10.00am ASHBURTON COUNTY VETERANS GOLF. 6.00am Members will play an Irish Stableford. Drawn ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Real women teams. Mayfield Golf Club. circuit training in hall, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

12noon - 1.30pm 10.00am BAPTIST CHURCH FREE LUNCH. METHVEN HERITAGE CENTRE. Every 2nd and 4th Monday, entry of Cass New Zealand and Agriculture Encounter, Street. Cnr Cass and Havelock Streets. interactive fun for all ages. Main S, Methven.

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Physiotherapy Vacancy Part-Time Position Ashburton Physiotherapy (private clinic) is looking to employ a dynamic part-time NZ registered physiotherapist with a current practising certificate to work with our team of five part-time physiotherapists and a massage therapist.

Actual hours are negotiable to suit the successful applicant.

Services offered in our clinic include: • Manual therapy • Sports rehab • Chronic injury management • Hand therapy • Acupuncture • Post-operative rehabilitation • Vestibular & balance recovery • McKenzie Method of Diagnosis • Women’s Health & Continence • Falls Prevention Programme • Massage If you are interested in discussing the position further please contact Jane Eaton (Clinic Owner) email: jane@ashphysio.co.nz or phone the clinic 03 308 3838 Ashford Village, 415 West Street, Ashburton Phone 03 308 3838 - Fax 03 308 3837 www.ashphysio.co.nz

General Farm Worker Position available on 500ha mixed cropping/ livestock property 7kms west of Rakaia in Mid Canterbury.

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Gym Instructor Permanent Part Time

NZ Operations Manager - Christchurch based Seed Force is part of a world leading seed group and is recognised as a leader in Australasia in bringing the best genetics to market along with technologies that optimise farm productivity and profitability. The company was formed early in 2006 and is operating within the domestic seed markets of both New Zealand and Australia.

In New Zealand, the company has its commercial headquarters in Christchurch, where there are mixing, distribution and dispatch capabilities with territory managers throughout rural New Zealand. We’re a seed company with a difference.

We are looking a NZ Operations Manager with significant industry experience under your belt. In this newly formed role, you will direct, coordinate and motivate our operations team delivering product to customers and exceeding expectations. It’s a small team and you will need to roll up your sleeves and muck-in at times.

You will be an expert in operations strategy, setting and managing budgets, forecasts and inventory, fixed asset and staff management, targets and performance. In this role, supplier management and relationships with growers is key, and you understand the importance of these relationships. Empathy with farming is a real advantage.

If you like a challenge, want to work for a game-changing seed company and be well rewarded for your efforts, we want to hear from you.

Go to www.seedforce.co.nz to download the full job description. Please send your cv with a letter of application to: Melanie McEwan (melaniemcewan@seedforce.co.nz).

Applications close 16.10.15.

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Applicant has to be fully experienced in the operation of high horsepower tractors and able to carry out all primary cultivations, including ploughing to a very high standard.

Are you passionate about health and fitness and enjoy helping others to reach their goals? We’re looking for a part time Gym Instructor to join the EA Networks Centre team. You’ll need to be enthusiastic, able to relate with a wide range of people and provide sound health and fitness advice. Full on the job training will be provided so previous experience is not essential, but passion for people, health and fitness is a must.

Lifeguards Do you enjoy keeping fit and are you keen to be part of the team at the EA Networks Centre? We’re looking for lifeguards to work evenings, weekends and over the summer. You’ll need to be 16 or older, able to swim 200m in 4 – 6 minutes, be willing to obtain or hold a First Aid Certificate and a Pool Lifeguard Practicing Certificate (self-taught through a workbook) which is valid for two years. You will work in a first-class facility under the backdrop of the Southern Alps, with a variety of duties including supervising aquatic activities, assisting with events and the opportunity to work in the gym, stadium and customer service.

To find out more about these positions and learn more about what the Ashburton District Council has to offer, see our website.

Applications close 5 October 2015.

Experience in the operation of high density balers also essential.

Applicant also required to assist with on farm irrigation duties when required as well as the feeding and care of 1800 dairy cows during the winter period.

Required qualifications include Safe use of Pesticides PA1 and PA2, ATV Handing Certificate, Health and Safety Certificate for the use of Telehandlers and Certificate for the Safe use of Veterinary Medecine.

On farm accommodation available.

Please reply to: billdavey@xtra.co.nz

Truck & Combine Driver wanted Applicant must have: Class 5 Truck licence Experience in operating combines Contact Will on 027 449 1796

We’ve built a reputation of being solid and reliable, just like the buildings we construct.

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Part-Time Truck Driver Class 4 license a must start ASAP, in Methven.

Registered Nurse Ward 6 Ashburton Hospital

The Assessment, Treatment and Rehabilitation Ward 6, are looking for an experienced Registered Nurse to join their dedicated team.

In this rewarding position, you will be working with a team dedicated to encouraging and returning your patients back to independence. We have a permanent part-time role working 24 hours per week and on a rotating roster.

Apply online today, or to find out more information, please contact Kathryn Clark, Recruitment Specialist, kathryn.clark@cdhb.health.nz

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Farmhand

Full time, permanent position on dairy farm in Westerfield We are looking for a hard-working, motivated and reliable person to join our team.

The basis of this position is to provide support for our dairy team during busy periods, and assist with the day-to-day running of our support block.

Key tasks include: • dry/young stock maintenance and care adhering to animal health plan • break fencing • tractor work including cultivation • silage wagon loading and operation • manual straw feeding • milking and wash-down • administering animal health treatments • weed control • fencing repairs & maintenance • maintenance of all farm vehicles, implements and machinery Milking experience is essential, machinery or mechanical experience is preferred.

Career Opportunities

Driver - Ashburton We currently have a vacancy for a Full-time Driver based in Ashburton where you will be required to deliver concrete to our valued customers.

You will need to be well organised, and be able to demonstrate a positive and proactive approach to both our internal and external customers.

Knowledge of the area would be an advantage.

0800 274 287 0800 ASHBURTON

www.ashburtondc.govt.nz/careers

Candidates must hold a clean Class 4 Driving Licence.

Applications to graham.o’connor@firth.co.nz Or call 03 3088840 for more details

A willingness to learn, as well as a good attitude, work ethic and punctuality are vital. We actively encourage job progression, and will provide further training through Primary Ito. Full drivers licence, New Zealand work visa and at least one referee are essential when applying for this position.

To apply, please email CV and cover letter to:

rushforddairynz@gmail.com For more information call: Howard 027 555 2654 Applications close October 11, 2015

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Qualified Domestic, Commercial and Industrial Electrician A position has become available at our electrical division of Pivotal Irrigation Ltd for a hard-working, self motivated and enthusiastic electrician to work with a locally owned and operated Irrigation/Electrical Company. The Company provides domestic, commercial and industrial electrical installations, repairs and maintenance in the Mid and South Canterbury area and stretching to North Otago with our new Irrigation branch in Oamaru.

To be successful in this role we require the following: • NZ electrical registration with current practising licence • Full NZ drivers licence • The ability to work unsupervised • The ability to work within a team environment • Willing to work overtime (when necessary) • Willing to work on an “on call” roster • Mechanical aptitude • Motor control system knowledge (Soft starters and VSD’s) • Automation experience is advantageous • The ability to fault find with distribution and control circuits with minimal documentation • Excellent communication skills • A positive and enthusiastic attitude and someone who is looking forward to a new challenge with opportunities for growth and skill development Our electrical work is diverse and the range of client’s needs (service and project) is such that a day’s work load can change at short notice. Consistently great customer service is our main focus and what we expect our team to deliver. We have a strong focus on health and safety. Clients range from rural lifestyle owners, farmers and the agricultural industry, homeowners, businesses and commercial operations.

The successful candidate will be rewarded with a competitive salary package, opportunities for growth and a secure working environment.

Applicants for this position should have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa.

We pride ourselves in having a talented team and will support your further development by providing a variety of learning opportunities.

If you’re keen to join a great team, get in touch!

Please send a covering letter and C.V by email to admin@pivotalirrigation.co.nz or by post to Pivotal Irrigation Ltd, PO Box 111, Temuka 7948

WE ARE

100% MADE OF NEW ZEALAND Process Workers Needed • Ashburton Location • Mid Canterbury Silver Fern Farms is looking for seasonal staff for the 2015-16 processing season at our Fairton Plant, Ashburton.

We offer a great team environment, the money’s good, and you’ll be working with a proud team of people in a progressive food processing company.

So if you enjoy working as part of a team, have a ‘can do’ attitude, keen to learn, not afraid of a bit of hard work, and are a New Zealand Citizen/Resident, or hold an open valid work permit, then we want to hear from you.

Just remember that Silver Fern Farms is working hard to maintain a drug and alcohol free workplace.

Pre-employment drug testing is mandatory.

To apply call into the Fairton Plant Main Office, Office Rd Fairton, RD 2 Ashburton to complete an application form or email francis.renner@silverfernfarms.co.nz Alternatively apply online at careers.silverfernfarms.co.nz

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Managing Electrician Domestic, Commercial and Industrial Electrical Services A Senior Management position has become available at the electrical division of Pivotal Irrigation Ltd for a highly skilled, experienced and proactive electrician to join a growing and diverse company.

Leadership and entrepreneurial skills are sought and will be rewarded with a competitive salary and a share of the profits.

The company provides domestic, commercial and industrial electrical installations, repairs and maintenance in the Mid and South Canterbury Area and stretching to North Otago with our branch in Oamaru.

Your duties and responsibilities will include but are not limited to: • Plan, organize and execute field service schedules. Manage/oversee the efficient deployment of Field Electricians, Apprentices, Equipment and Assets.

• Coordinate, instruct and lead technical and non-technical personnel in timely electrical field repairs, installations and maintenance (preventative and corrective) of both service contract and non-service contract clients across all sectors within your territory. This includes residential, commercial, government, health care and industrial sites, parts and machinery.

• Assist the General Manager & Operations Manager to deliver companywide performance targets that enable the company to achieve its vision and goals.

Qualifications • NZ Trade certification • Current electrical practicing licence • Current New Zealand Driving Licence • A Business and/or Management certificate, diploma or degree is an advantage however not a requirement.

Experience • A minimum of three years post registration electrical field service experience • A minimum of two years operations experience running a team of field service electricians/technicians • Experience in managing account customers, ad-hoc retail customers, quotes and sales projects and suppliers.

• Experience with PLC’s and automation programmes • Experience in leading and motivating teams Our electrical work is diverse and the range of client’s needs (service and project) is such that a day’s work plan can change at short notice. Consistently great customer service is our main focus and what we expect our team to deliver. We have a strong focus on staff development and on health and safety.

Applicants for this position should have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa.

We pride ourselves in having a talented team and will support your further development by providing a variety of learning opportunities.

If you are interested and keen to join a great team get in touch.

Please send a covering letter and C.V by email to admin@pivotalirrigation.co.nz or by post to Pivotal Irrigation Ltd, PO Box 111, Temuka 7948

SHOP ASSISTANT Monday to Friday Full Time WasteBusters Trust is a non-profit organization.

If you would like to be a part of a small local team whose goals are to reduce, recycle and make a difference to our community, then we would like to hear from you.

We are searching for the following: Position: Full time shop assistant - Monday to Friday Skills: • Cash handling • Good communication a must • Physically fit as some lifting would be required • Keen and eager to learn • Willing to work as part of a team • Care and pride in their job Responsibilities: • Maintaining the shop and stock • Weighbridge - training to be included • Communicating with yard staff when required Applications close 4.00pm Friday, October 10.

We look forward to hearing from you.

www.silverfernfarms.com

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Send your Cover Letter and CV to: accounts@wastebusters.co.nz

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SPREADER DRIVER Ellesmere Transport is a locally owned family business with depots in Leeston, Dunsandel and Little River, we offer a wide variety of services including Fertiliser application, Bulk Cartage, Ready Mix Concrete, Stock Cartage and General Freight. Ellesmere Transport run a modern fleet of vehicles.

We are currently looking to employ a quality operator with a minimum class 4 licence to operate a Mercedes 4x4 spreader. This position would be based at our Dunsandel Depot.

All spreaders are fitted with GPS and Precision Tracking.

If you are a motivated operator and can demonstrate outstanding personal and customer management skills, we want to talk to you.

While experience would be preferred, training and licence assistance can be provided to the right candidate.

Please contact Murray 03 325 4039 or 027 432 7690.

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Administration Assistant

Andrew Quigley Contracting is a successful agricultural contracting company with an enviable reputation for providing high-quality service to our clients.

We are currently looking for an enthusiastic and professional administrator to join our team. The purpose of this role is to provide a seamless and efficient administration support.

You will need to be able to meet deadlines and enjoy the challenge of multitasking effectively.

Do you enjoy working within a small team where flexibility and willingness to move across a multitude of tasks is the norm?

Applicants should have the following attributes: -

Good written and verbal communication Customer focussed, professional and friendly phone manner Ability to multi-task and prioritise your workload Excellent time management skills A team player with a willing “can-do” attitude Attention to detail and accuracy Organised and methodical, with a flair for administration Computer literate

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The ability to juggle your workload in the busy times and be proactive when it’s quieter while maintaining a positive attitude and a professional manner is essential to your success.

The key responsibilities for this role are: Reception duties Accounts payable Assist with HR administration Marketing, including event organisation

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If you are interested in finding out more about the role, please apply with a covering letter and a copy of your CV, to:

niki@quigleycontracting.co.nz

Applications to close Friday, October 16, 2015. All applicants must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand.

TRADES, SERVICES

RURAL TRADING POST

LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES • Bark • Oamaru stone • Rocks • Organic compost • Sand • Screened soil • Home deliveries available

Plus much more FREE loan trailer available!

From a shovel load to a trailer load.

Dobson Street West Ph: 307 8302 Hours: Mon-Fri: 7.30am - 5pm Sat: 7.30am - 12 noon

TRADES, SERVICES

HOME handyman available.

Minor repairs, painting etc. Ph 027-677-1952.

PLUMBER / DRAIN LAYER Peter Young 03 3077 582 / 027 2800 889. Bathroom and kitchen renovations, hot water cylinder replacements, repairs.

PLANTS, PRODUCE

SITUATIONS WANTED

WANTED - 3 days work per week. Mid October to early January. Class 5 license.

Tractor and Ag experience.

Physically fit, mature and disciplined. Seaun 027 762 7824.

Avocado Lettuce Broccoli Carrots 1kg Leeks

WORK wanted by mother of two, prefer school hours or nights, prefer 20 hours a week or more. Anything considered honest, reliable hard working, excellent references. Please phone Nicole 307 6429 or 027 758 9199.

OPEN 7 DAYS

FREE silage tyres. Delivered to your farm. Phone 03 347 9354.

TREE and shrub yard sale. from 9am - 1pm. 119 Maronan Road, Ashburton (no Eftpos).

Fresh Fruit & Vege

MEETINGS, EVENTS

LOST, FOUND

MOTORING

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Full Time person to assist in the delivery of Civil Construction Projects Competitive Wages / Salary Exciting and Varied Work

This is a well-established Contractor in the Ashburton Area with over 25+ Years in the Civil and Farm Contracting Industry, specialising in Sub Divisions, Various Earthworks and Site works Projects, Driveways, Roading and Drainage You will need to have experience within the Civil Construction environment, be able to read plans and set out levels to work to.

Take Pride in your work and report to the Construction Manager, you will also be responsible for the adherence of all Health and Safety Policies and Procedures on site.

LOST

WHEEL alignments at great prices. Maximise the life of your tyres with an alignment from Neumanns Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills Street. Phone 308-6737.

Ashburton Fanciers Society Poultry Auction

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION

October 11, 2015 Sports Hall, Tancred Street West, Ashburton Viewing: 11am Start: 12.30pm Fertile eggs for hatching.

Day old chicks unsexed selected purebreds $5.00 each.

Poultry, bantams, ducks, cavies.

AKAROA - CHARMING, spacious holiday home, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, all electric heating. Sky, all mod cons, short walk to village.

Phone Brian 307-8000 or 308-6180.

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If you have the relevant experience as noted above and are interested in pursuing this exciting role, please contact: Stuart on 0274 350 963 or (03) 307 7065 or Email office.stc@xtra.co.nz

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Would person who picked it up please hand in to Ashburton Police.

Reward offered.

LIVESTOCK, PETS BUYER of unwanted animals. Cattle, bobby calves, horse and all farm animals.

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ALLENTON. Tidy three bedroom home available now. Log burner and heat pump, Spa bath & shower.

Close to schools and shops.

No garage. Available now.

References and photo ID essential, Asking $340 per week Phone B&N Properties 027 442 2058.

ALLENTON. Tidy three bedroom home, master with ensuite, close to hospital, schools and shops, double garage, good sized section.

Available October 18.

References and photo ID essential, asking $370 per week. Phone B&N Properties 027 442 2058.

Road The Green Grocer Main SouthTinwald

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ALLENTON. Tidy two bedroom home, single garage, close to schools.

308-1095 References and photo ID essential, available October 10. Asking $300 per week.

HIRE Phone B&N Properties 027 GENERAL hire.

Lawn- 442 2058. mowers, chainsaws, concrete breakers, trailers, and more. AVAILABLE now. Very tidy All your DIY / contracting three bedroom home in work, Call and see U-Hire Hinds, Log burner, new Ashburton. 588 East Street. kitchen, large section, in town Open Mon-Fri 7.30 - 5.30pm; centre on main road.

Sat 7.30am - 5.00pm; Sunday References and photo ID 8am - 12.30pm. – Ph: 308 essential, Asking $300 per 8061 A/h: 308 7460 week. Phone B&N Properties 027 442 2058. www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz

GARAGE SALES

CENTRE of town near Countdown.

Tidy three bedroom home, well insulated, open plan living with modern kitchen. Single garage. Available October 2.

References and photo ID essential, asking $350 per week. Phone B&N Properties 027 442 2058.

211 SMITHFIELD Road.

Saturday, October 3, 9am to 12.30pm. Quality goods at bargain prices. Antiques, furniture, curtains, bedding, small handbasin suitable for toilet, kitchenware (ideal for flatters), clothing and much more. Milton Road end of FOR RENT: Two bedroom Smithfield Road. unit, attached garage and storeroom. New carpet, heat FOR SALE pump. Private and enclosed FIREWOOD - Green old man yard. $265pw. Ph 027 480 pine $140 per 3 cubic meters, 5662. split and delivered. Ph 303 6280, Tim Boyd, Elite HOUSE to rent - Large Firewood Ltd. farmhouse near Mt Somers.

FIREWOOD - Green Oregon Three bedrooms plus office, and old man pine $140, blue large sheltered garden with pool, good gum and Macrocarpa $160. swimming All 3.6m³. Split and delivered. condition. $350 per week.

Ph Shane James Firewood Phone 0274 532 087.

303 7063.

NEAR new three bedroom SCOOTER’S - new and townhouse on Princes St. secondhand three and four Dishwasher, range-hood etc. wheel electric scooters and Attached double garage, fully wheel chairs. Call Fred fenced section. Close to Reddecliffe at Electric shops. Available November 8.

Mobility Ashburton today. References and photo ID essential, asking $400 per Phone 308-3602 week. Phone B&N Properties SCREENED soil for sale. 027 442 2058.

Lake Hood area, $30 metre includes GST. Very clean. WANTED to rent: three Phone 027 436 0860 or 302 bedroom house in Allenton 6902. area, double garage, log burner, no pets, nonGuardian Classifieds smokers, long term. Ph 027 442 2281.

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PUBLIC NOTICES

FOR SALE

We currently have funds available to distribute in grants for the following purposes in the Canterbury area: • Research, treatment, provision of equipment in relation to, and the education and training of skilled persons relative to, the disease of cancer.

• Research, development, education for, training and expansion of, the science and practice of agriculture.

• The needs of young people who suffer physical or mental disabilities or have less chance in life than their peers.

Applications close at 5pm, Friday, October 23, 2015. For further information and application forms, please contact: The Secretary Mackenzie Charitable Foundation C/- Croys Ltd Level 2, 161 Burnett Street PO Box 582 Ashburton 7740 Phone 03 308 8353 Email: mcf@croys.co.nz www.mcf.org.nz

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VERMICOMPOST

Join us for an Encounter with Jesus Christ Sundays@10.00am Including Children’s Church Everyone is welcome.

See you at Cnr Cass & Cameron Sts Ph 308 7610 or 308 7062

Nutrient Rich Organic Soil Conditioner “For sustained growth and yield”

Made up of WORM CASTINGS and DECOMPOSED ORGANIC MATTER The natural and comprehensive alternative to chemical or artificial fertilisers.

Jubilee Christian Fellowship

20 litre bags $12 each incl GST Bulk $48 per scoop (approx. 1/3 m³) incl GST Truckloads $250 per tonne excl GST.

10am Every Sunday All welcome

Ashburton Meat Processors Ltd, 170 Bridge Street, ASHBURTON Phone 03 308 2019

Scissor Lift Hire Change of Ownership Effective October 1, 2015 Gerry and Sue Power wish to advise that they have sold the business trading as Steel Tech Access to Simon and Anna Woolley and will continue to trade as Steel Tech Access from the existing address; 40 South Street Ashburton.

Contact phone numbers: 027 280 8155 and 0800 808 155 are unchanged. www.scissorlift.co.nz Email: info@scissorlift.co.nz Gerry and Sue would like to thank clients for their ongoing support over the last 10 plus years and we are sure that Simon and Anna will endeavour to provide outstanding service to all existing and new clients.

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Bill Irwin’s new book out now!

MEETINGS, EVENTS

ASHBURTON MUSICAL CLUB Invites you to a

Public Concert Saturday, October 10 at 7.30pm

Cnr Cass & Havelock Sts Phone 308 5409 www.ashburtonbaptist.co.nz

10am Morning Service

Speaker: Kevin Kleinschmidt Creche available Refreshments to follow 6.00pm House of Prayer ALL VERY WELCOME

Sinclair Centre - Park Street, Ashburton

Announcement of the $700 Scholarship winner

Packed with beautiful Mid Canterbury photography, this book is the ideal present for birthdays and Christmas. The perfect gift for your loved ones, easy to mail!

Available at local bookstores and iSites in Mid Canterbury.

Adults $5 - Students and members free Supper will be served

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL TINWALD. Very tidy four bedroom home plus office, modern kitchen. Log burner, double garage, good sized section. Available October 19.

References and photo ID essential, asking $380 per week. Phone B&N Properties 027 442 2058.

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT CINDY, kiwi, attractive, late 30’s, size 8. Phone calls only 027 363 7916.

MISS Eva, attractive and busty, friendly. Straight and clean. No texting, no blocked calls will be answered. Phone 021 044 0698.

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Church Services

Sales between 9.00am and 12 noon, Monday to Friday

STEEL TECH ACCESS

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Assembly Of God Sunday Meeting 10.00am Hakatere Marae SH1, Fairton You are welcome Enquiries Phone 308-8699

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SEXY Asian, sweet, classy, friendly lady, size 8 , busty 38DD. Full service. Great massage. Phone 021 062 1918.

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24/7 Appraisals 308 6173

206 Cameron Street Pastors Jim & Ida Heath Ph 308 7511

Evangelical Presbyterian Church 10.30am Worship

For more info, please visit billirwinarts.com

ADULT ENTERTAINMENT

You will hear of wars and rumours of wars. See that you be not troubled.

Every Sunday 63 Princes Street All Welcome

Minister: Rev David Bayne Ph 307 7355

Got something to sell?

Having a garage sale?

Call the Guardian today for your advertising requirements.

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Call Jonny to tend to all your rural electrical needs . . ElectraServe, for everything electrical 24/7 Breakdown Service Dairy Effluent Irrigation Generators

Industrial Commercial Residential

the ElectraServe guarantee

Blair Watson, General Manager personally guarantees ElectraServe’s tradesmen’s workmanship. If you are not 100% satisfied with the quality of the work, ElectraServe will put it right . . . every time, or your money back.

a 166 moore street ashburton p 03 308 9008 e service@electraserve.co.nz w www.electraserve.co.nz

Weekend Services

DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency

Saturday, and Sunday doctor and emergency details - please telephone the Methven Medical Centre, ph 302 8105.

both evenings. org.nz for more information.

Methven Pharmacy, 101 Main Street, Methven MENTAL HEALTH will be open Saturday, from 9am - 1pm.

Call free on 0800 222 955. Ask for the Crisis Team.

HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS SAFE CARE - 24 hr Rape and Sexual ASHBURTON HOSPITAL Assault Crisis Support. Ph: 03 364 8791 WARD 1 - DAILY, 10 - 11.30am & 2 - 7.30pm.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP WARD 6 - (including Assessment, Treatment & 24 hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 Rehabilitation Unit) - OPEN VISITING. 846) - Direct dials to a volunteer.

MATERNITY WARD - DAILY, 10am - 8pm.

Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am -Husbands and patient’s own children may visit 2pm - outside of these hours leave a message. the patient from: 7am - 10pm.

ALCOHOL DRUG HELP LINE TUARANGI HOME (Cameron St) - DAILY, Call us free on (0800 787 797).

-unrestricted visiting.

Lines open 10am - 10pm seven days.

ASHBURTON REST HOMES LIFELINE - Toll-Free: 0800 353 353 COLDSTREAM HOUSE, CAMERON COURTS and PRINCES COURT all have DAILY, OMMUNITY ERVICES unrestricted visiting.

Ashburton Hospital DOES NOT

EMERGENCY DENTIST

MEDICAL SERVICES

HML Home care Medical Limited - Ring 0800 700 155 for FREE 24hr Health Advice.

DUTY DOCTORS

This service is for emergency medical care only. Please remember your Community Services Card.

Allenton Medical Centre, Harrison Street, will be the duty practice for Saturday until 8am Monday. They will hold surgery from 10am -12noon and from 6pm - 7pm both days. No appointment necessary. Surgery phone 308 9139.

METHVEN & RAKAIA AREA

provide an accident and emergency service.

Except in cases of emergency persons requiring medical attention must consult their own or the duty general practitioner. Persons subsequently requiring treatment at Ashburton Hospital must have a general practitioners note of referral.

PHARMACIES

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If you do not have or cannot contact your regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 for the name of the rostered weekend dentist in Christchurch. Hours 9am-5pm, Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays.

HELPLINE SERVICES

Wises Pharmacy, Countdown Complex, East ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Street, will be open from 9am - 1pm Saturday, Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) or 027 from 10am - 1pm Sunday, and from 6pm - 8pm 857 2133 or visit www.alcoholics-anonymous.

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ART GALLERY

327 West Street, phone 308 1133.

Open Daily: 10am – 4pm Wed: 10am – 7pm

ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192.

Saturday: 10am - 1pm, Sunday 1pm - 4pm

ASHBURTON MUSEUM

327 West Street, Asburton. Ph 307 7890. Open weekdays 10am - 4pm, weekends 1pm - 4pm.

Research facilities weekday afternoons.

20 River Terrace - Phone 03 308 4020 WEEKEND HOURS: Sat & Sun 7am - 7pm.

Public Holidays 10am - 5pm.

MAIL CLOSING TIMES

ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE FAST POST: Mon - Fri 6pm STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm POST DELIVERY CENTRES Allenton & Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm Methven & Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm

INFORMATION CENTRES

ASHBURTON - Sat 10am until 2pm.

Sun CLOSED. Public holidays from 10am until 2pm. Phone 308-1050.

METHVEN - Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays 10am until 3pm.

Phone 302-8955 or methven@i-site.org

BUS DEPARTURES

Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service.

Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802.

BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm.

Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.

ANIMAL SERVICES

hour service.

MID CANTERBURY SPCA

WEEKEND EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER: All enquiries - Inspector John Keeley: 308 4432 or 0274 342 646

MID CANTERBURY ANIMAL SHELTER - Contact (cats) Tracey 021 1356

969 or (dogs) Dawn 021 828 350

VETERINARIANS

CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, West Street Clinic, West Street, Ashburton.

Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Ivan Koo. VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Cnr East St & Smithfield Rd, Ashburton.

Saturday clinic 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Large: Jen Hubbard, Matt Wong.

Small: Ref Vet Ent. ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 0276 838 000, 149 Cameron St, Ashburton: Duty vet: Ben Hallenstein. Full emergency service all weekend.

VET ENT RIVERSIDE - PH 03 308 2321, 1 Smallbone Dr, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. 24-hour Emergencies: Large: Neroli Wall, Tammy Wilson. Small: Nina Field.

DOG, STOCK & NOISE CONTROL Vet Ent and Vet Life now operate a joint after-

EA NETWORKS CENTRE - POOLS Ashburton District Council 03-307-7700 - 24

hours small animal emergency service. To use this service please phone your vet as usual.

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6am Te Karere 3 2 6:30 Country Calendar 3 0 7am Rural Delivery 7:30 Infomercials 9am Tagata Pasifika 9:30 Come Dine With Me PGR 3 0 Noon Cook Me The Money 1pm New Zealand With Nadia Lim 0 1:30 Kiwi Living 3 0 2:30 Situation Critical PGR 0 3pm Rapid Response PGR 3 0 3:30 SCU – Serious Crash Unit PGR 3 0 4pm Piha Rescue 3 0 4:30 Tales From Northumberland With Robson Green 0 5pm Monster Fish 0 6pm One News 0

6am Sooty 0 6:10 Wiki The Kiwi 3 0 6:15 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West 3 6:40 Paw Patrol 3 0 7:05 The Jungle Bunch – To The Rescue! 0 7:15 F Thunderbirds Are Go 3 0 7:45 Pokemon XY 0 8:10 Transformers Robots In Disguise 0 8:35 Beware The Batman 3 0 9:05 Breadwinners 0 9:35 Lab Rats 0 10am 2Kaha PGR 10:30 Regular Show PGR 3 0 10:40 Black-Ish PGR 0 2:05 Pretty Little Liars 3 0 3pm Galavant PGR 0 3:30 The Neighbors 3 0 4pm The Amazing Race 3 0 5pm America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 5:30 Joey 3 0 6pm Wipeout 0

6am Charles Stanley 6:30 Gone Fishin’ 3 7am Outdoors With Geoff 3 7:30 Infomercials 9:30 The Nation 10:30 Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Home Cooking PGR 3 0 11am Survivor – Caramoan 3 11:55 The Real Housewives Of New Jersey PGR 3 12:55 The Block New Zealand – Villa Wars (Starting Today) 3 0 1:55 The Block New Zealand – Villa Wars PGR 3 0 3pm MasterChef New Zealand 30 4pm F MasterChef New Zealand 3 5pm Gone Fishin’ 5:30 The Simpsons 3 0 6pm 3 News

7pm Country Calendar 0 7:30 Outback Truckers PGR 0 8pm L Lotto 8:05 Outback Truckers PGR Continued. 0 8:30 Coronation Street PGR Reality hits home for Leanne; Brian finds himself sinking to a new low; Grace turns on Faye. 0 9:30 F Mr Selfridge PGR 0 10:30 Last Tango In Halifax AO 3 0

7pm M Pirates Of The Caribbean – Dead Man’s Chest PGR 2006 Adventure.

Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley.

0 10pm M Murder By Numbers AO 2002 Thriller. When a woman’s body is found in a ditch in the woods, a detective is assigned to the case along with her new partner. Sandra Bullock, Ben Chaplin, Ryan Gosling. 0

7pm M The Croods PGR 2013 Animated. The first modern family goes on a journey across a landscape filled with fantastic creatures, fun surprises, and a new world of adventure. Voices of Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds. 0 8:50 M The Patriot AO 3 2000 War Drama. Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson. 0

7pm The Block New Zealand – Villa Wars 3 Encore. 0 8:05 The Block New Zealand – Villa Wars PGR 3 Encore. 0 9:10 World’s Craziest…

Weddings PGR 3 10:10 South Park AO 3 10:40 Entertainment Tonight Weekend PGR 3

12:45 The Doctor Blake Mysteries AO 3 0 1:50 Emmerdale PGR 3 Nicola is shocked to see Jimmy back at Mill Cottage. 0 2:50 L Football – English Premier League Norwich v Leicester City.

From Carrow Road in Norwich.

5am Emmerdale PGR 3 0

12:25 M Orphan AO 2009 Thriller. Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman. 0 2:40 M Love Happens AO 2009 Romance. 0 4:30 Regular Show PGR 3 0 4:45 Anger Management PGR 3 5:05 2Kaha PGR 3 5:30 It Is Written 3

11:55 Blue Bloods AO Danny investigates the murder of a college student who may have been dealing drugs; Jamie re-examines his life after a meeting with a former law-school friend. 0 12:50 Hannibal AO 3 1:45 Infomercials 5am Hillsong 5:30 Charles Stanley

11:35 90210 PGR 3 When Naomi and Max work together for a charity football game, sparks begin to fly again; Navid encourages Liam to continue underground fighting.

12:20 Infomercials

CHOICE TV 6am Better Homes And Gardens 7:30 Candice Tells All 8am Carter Can 8:30 The Get Growing Roadshow 9am Atlantic Edge 9:30 Destination Flavour Down Under 10am Michela’s Classic Italian 10:30 Buying Alaska 11am House Crashers 11:30 Auction Kings Noon The 100 Day Bach 12:30 The Get Growing Roadshow 1pm Gardeners’ World 1:30 Better Homes And Gardens 3pm American Restoration 3:30 Kitchen Crashers 4pm The Apartment 5pm 10 Years Younger UK 6pm Travels With The Bondi Vet 6:30 Young Vets 7:30 Natural World – Empire Of The Desert Ants Natural World visits the Arizona desert, where a new honey ant queen wages an intense battle for survival as she attempts to build and defend her empire.

8:30 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy 9:30 Toy Hunter 10pm NZ Hunter Adventures PGR 10:30 American Restoration 11pm The Apartment

SUNDAY

Midnight 10 Years Younger UK 1am 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy 2am Young Vets 3am Mad Dogs AO 4am NZ Hunter Adventures PGR 4:30 Kitchen Crashers 5am Toy Hunter 5:30 American Restoration

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Sticky TV 3 8:30 Sidekick 3 8:55 Beyblade – Metal Fury 3 Teen heroes fight an organisation vying for world domination.

9:20 Power Rangers – Megaforce 3 9:45 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:30 Infomercials 4:30 Pukana 2 5pm Mr Young 3 5:30 Smokefree Rockquest 2015 6pm iCarly 3 6:30 It Only Hurts When I Laugh 3

PRIME

SKY SPORT 1

6am Home Shopping 11:25 Rugby League – NRL Fulltime Highlights from the finals of the NRL Telstra Premiership.

11:55 The Crowd Goes Wild Omnibus 3 12:25 Rugby – ITM Cup Waikato v Counties Manukau.

2:30 L Horse Racing – Livamol Classic From Hastings.

3pm Hot Bench 3 Judge Judy and other judges exchange debate before reaching a verdict.

3:25 Rugby – World Cup New Zealand v Georgia.

5:30 Prime News 6pm Rugby – World Cup (Highlights) Day 11 of the 2015 Rugby World Cup. 6:35 Storage Wars – Texas 3

6am Rugby – World Cup (Highlights) Day 10.

6:30 Rugby – World Cup (Highlights) All Blacks v Argentina.

7am Rugby – World Cup (Highlights) All Blacks v Namibia.

7:30 L Rugby – World Cup All Blacks v Georgia.

10:30 Rugby – World Cup (Replay) All Blacks v Georgia.

1:30 Rugby – World Cup Press Conference – All Blacks v Georgia.

2pm Rugby – World Cup (Highlights) All Blacks v Georgia.

2:30 L Rugby – ITM Cup Tasman v Canterbury.

4:30 Rugby – World Cup (Highlights) Day 10.

5pm Rugby – World Cup (Highlights) All Blacks v Georgia.

5:30 L Rugby – ITM Cup Manawatu v Taranaki.

7:30 L Rugby – ITM Cup 7pm Storage Wars – Texas 3 Auckland v Northland. From 7:30 The Brokenwood Mysteries Eden Park.

AO 3 9:30 Roof Top Rugby Jeff Wilson 9:30 A Very British Murder AO and guests talk about rugby, 10:30 Rugby – World Cup from New Zealand House in Highlights 3 London.

10pm Rugby – World Cup (Replay) All Blacks v Georgia. From Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

11:05 60 Minutes PGR 3 Current affairs from New Zealand and around the world.

12:05 Home Shopping

MAORI TV

Midnight Rugby – World Cup 12:30 Rugby – World Cup (Highlights) 1am Rugby – World Cup (Highlights) 1:30 Roof Top Rugby 2:15 L Rugby – World Cup Samoa v Japan. 4:30 L Rugby – World Cup South Africa v Scotland.

SKY SPORT 2

6am Rugby – ITM Cup (Highlights) Waikato v Counties Manukau.

6:30 Rugby – ITM Cup (Highlights) Wellington v Hawke’s Bay. 7am Rugby League – Super League (Highlights) Semi-final One. Wigan Warriors v Huddersfield Giants.

7:30 L Rugby League – Super League Semi-final Two. Leeds The Patriot Rhinos v St Helens.

10:30 Cricket – International 8:50pm on TV3 (Replay) India v South Africa – First T20.

THE BOX DISCOVERY MOVIES PREMIERE MOVIES GREATS 2pm Golf Central An in-depth 6am Auction Kings PG 6am The Simpsons Super 7:45 Defiance MVL 2008 Drama.

7:10 Transformers – Age Of analysis and breaking news on Saturday PG 6:30 Mythbusters PG Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber.

Extinction MVL 2014 Action. everything that is happening in the 8:05 The Simpsons PG 7:30 Mythbusters PG 8:30 ET 10am The Longest Yard MVLS 2005 world of golf.

Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz.

8:30 Last Man Standing PG Fishing Escapes PG 9:30 River Comedy. Adam Sandler, Chris Rock.

9:50 The Mystery Cruise M 2013 2:30 L Rugby – Jock 8:55 Modern Family PGL Monsters PG 10:30 John Eales 11:50 Man On A Ledge MVL 2012 Crime. Gail O’Grady.

Hobbs Memorial National U19 9:20 Survivor Marathon PG Reveals 11:30 John Eales Thriller. Sam Worthington.

11:15 Bad Johnson 16LS Tournament 12:45 Alaska Off-Road Warriors PGL Reveals – Life After Sport PG 1:30 XXX MV 2002 Action. Vin Diesel, 2014 Comedy. Cam Gigandet.

7:30 Rugby – World Cup 1:35 Shearing Gang PG 12:30 Treasure Quest – Snake 12:40 Paranormal Activity – The Samuel L Jackson, Marton Csokas.

(Replay) All Blacks v Georgia. From 2pm Smashed Palace ML Island M 1:30 Naked And Afraid 3:30 13 Going On 30 PGS 2004 Marked Ones 16VLC 2014 Horror.

Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

2:25 Hardcore Pawn PGL XL M 2:30 Aeroplane Repo PG Comedy. Jennifer Garner.

2:20 Transformers – Age Of 9:30 UFC Countdown Behind the 2:50 Wild West Alaska M 3:30 Deadliest Catch PG 5:10 The Frighteners MV 1996 Extinction MVL 2014 Action.

3:40 Law And Order – LA MV scenes as some of the sport’s best 4:30 Auction Hunters PG Comedy Thriller. Michael J Fox. Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz.

4:30 The Simpsons Super 5pm Auction Hunters PG athletes prepare for their title fights 7pm Austin Powers – 5pm Pawn 16VL 2013 Thriller.

Saturday PG 5:30 What On Earth? PG at UFC 191.

International Man Of Mystery M Ray Liotta, Nikki Reed.

7pm The Simpsons PG 6:30 River Monsters PG 10:25 Rugby League – Super 1997 Comedy.

Michael Myers.

6:30 Million Dollar Arm PGL 2014 7:30 Last Man Standing PG 7:30 Treehouse Masters PG League (Replay) Semi-final Two. 8:30 Die Hard MVL 1988 Action.

8pm Modern Family PGL 8:30 Flipping Ships – Yukon Delta Drama. Jon Hamm.

Leeds Rhinos v St Helens.

Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman.

8:30 22 Jump Street MVLSC 2014 8:30 Hardcore Pawn PGL PG 9:30 Treasure Quest – Snake SUNDAY 10:45 Team America – World Comedy.

Jonah Hill.

9pm Counting Cars PG Island M 10:30 Auction Hunters Police 16VLS 2004 Animated Action. 12:25 L Football – 10:25 The Hunger Games – 9:30 Alaska Off-Road Warriors PGL PG 11pm Untamed China With Mockingjay: Part 1 MV 2014 Championship League 10:30 Shearing Gang PG SUNDAY Nigel Marven PG Adventure. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Wolverhampton v Huddersfield.

11pm Smashed Palace ML 12:25 13 Going On 30 PGS 2004 SUNDAY Hutcherson.

From Molineux Stadium.

11:30 Chosen MVL Comedy. Jennifer Garner.

Midnight Aeroplane Repo PG 2:45 L Rugby League – Super 2am Die Hard MVL 1988 Action.

SUNDAY SUNDAY 1am Alaska – The Last League Qualifying Final – Bradford 4:10 Austin Powers – 12:25 Devil’s Due 16VLC 2014 12:25 Raw MC 3:10 Chosen MVL Frontier M 2am Auction Kings v Wakefield.

International Man Of Mystery M Horror. 1:55 Pawn 16VL 2013 4am Last Man Standing PG PG 2:30 Bering Sea Gold PG 5am The F1 Show In depth Thriller. 3:20 The Mystery Cruise M 1997 Comedy. Michael Myers.

3:30 Auction Kings PG 4:25 Modern Family PGL interviews with drivers and a wrap 2013 Crime. 4:45 22 Jump Street 5:40 The Frighteners MV 1996 4am Bering Sea Gold PG 4:50 Hardcore Pawn PGL Comedy Thriller. Michael J Fox. MVLSC 2014 Comedy.

5am Mythbusters PG 5:15 Survivor Marathon PG of the week’s action.

6:30 Pukoro 3 2 7am Dora Matatoa 3 2 7:30 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 32 8am Patapatai 3 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am The Fit Club 3 9:30 Kai Time On The Road 3 10am Toku Reo 3 2 2pm The Big Hit 3 2:30 Homai Te Pakipaki 3 3:30 Pacific Games 2015 3 5:30 Te Kaea 2

6pm Taniwha Rau 3 7pm Street Dance Nationals 2015 7:30 M A Monster In Paris PGR 2011 Animated. In Paris, in 1910, a monster lives in a garden and loves a singer. Voices of Matthieu Chedid, Vanessa Paradis, Gad Elmaleh.

9:30 M Pan’s Labyrinth AO 2006 Drama Fantasy War. Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López.

The Croods 11:40 Te Kaea 3 2 7pm on TV3 12:10 Closedown

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PRIME

SKY SPORT 1

6am Fishtronaut 0 6:25 Art Attack 3 0 6:50 Henry Hugglemonster 3 0 7:10 Fish Hooks 3 0 7:35 Kung Fu Panda 3 0 8am What Now Ronnie is in Pukekohe meeting local legends and making a mess; in the studio, Beau Monga performs; what happened when Gem met Hugh Jackman.

10am ANT Farm 0 10:25 F The Bachelorette PGR 11:10 Best Time Ever With Neil Patrick Harris 3 0 Noon Shortland Street Omnibus PGR 0 2:30 Selfie PGR 0 3pm Home And Away Omnibus 0 5:25 Hart Of Dixie 3 0 6:25 M Monsters’ University 2013 Animated. Voices of Mike Wazowski, James P Sullivan. 0 8:30 M Star Trek – Into The 7pm Sunday 0 Darkness AO 2013 Sci-fi.

8pm Topp Country Lynda and When a ruthless mastermind Jools Topp visit some of the declares a one-man war on biggest and most impressive the Federation, Captain Kirk, backyards in the country. 0 Spock, and the crew of the 8:30 Winter AO Eve is called before USS Enterprise set out to stop Professional Standards, where him. Benedict Cumberbatch, she becomes convinced there Chris Pine. 0 is a leak in the task force. 0 9:30 Ordinary Lies AO 0 10:40 Secrets And Lies AO 3 0

6am Life TV 6:30 Brian Houston 7am Charles Stanley 8am Universal Church Of The Kingdom Of God 8:30 Turning Point 9am Three60 9:30 Re-Think 10am The Nation 0 11am Prison Families PGR 3 0 11:25 Family Secret 3 0 11:55 Crime Exposed PGR 3 0 12:25 Storage Hunters PGR 3 12:50 Hamish And Andy’s Gap Year – South America PGR 3 0 2pm Motorsport – Hydroplanes 2:30 Motorsport – WTCC (Highlights) 3pm Motorsport – NHRA 4pm Motorsport – MotoGP 5pm Big Angry Fish 6pm 3 News

6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am Strawberry Shortcake – Berry Bitty Advent 3 7:25 Care Bears – Welcome To Care-a-Lot 3 7:45 Ready, Steady, Wiggles 3 7:55 Moerathon 3 0 8:55 Chuggington Badge Quest 3 9am Rugrats 3 9:25 Sticky TV Omnibus Noon Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Barney And Friends 3 3:25 Infomercials 4:25 Pukana 2 4:55 M Big Miracle PGR 3 2012 Biography Drama Romance. John Krasinski, Drew Barrymore.

6am Religious Programming 10:30 Sport Box The best of the past week’s sports from New Zealand and around the world.

Noon Death In Paradise PGR 3 After DI Richard Poole is murdered at his university reunion party, his replacement, DI Humphrey Goodman, must earn his new colleagues’ respect by solving a sensitive and challenging case.

1:05 Mayday PGR 3 2pm Storage Wars – New York 3 2:30 Mainfreight Rugby 3:30 Deal Or No Deal 3 4pm Great British Food Revival 3 4:30 Rugby Nation 5:30 Prime News 6pm Rugby – World Cup (Highlights) Day 12.

6:35 Storage Wars – Texas 3

7pm The Block NZ – Villa Wars PGR 0 8:30 N Grand Designs New Zealand PGR 0 9:30 N Satisfaction AO Disillusioned by his seemingly perfect life, Neil has a moment of clarity and, wanting to share his epiphany with his wife, he discovers her in bed with another man. 0 10:30 Odyssey AO 0

7pm Glee PGR 3 8pm Community PGR 3 8:30 M Picture This PGR 2008 Comedy. Ashley Tisdale, Kevin Pollak, Shenae Grimes-Beech.

10:25 F Parks And Recreation PGR 10:55 Entertainment Tonight Weekend PGR

7pm Storage Wars 8:30 Rugby Nation Highlights 7:30 Doctor Who PGR and analysis of the latest 8:30 The Brokenwood Mysteries rugby action.

PGR When a cast member 9:30 The Cup Runneth Over of The Brokenwood Theatre (Delayed) Hosted by Sean Society collapses and dies on Maloney, a look at the stage, DSS Mike Shepherd tournament from a different doubts the initial assumption angle, picking up all the that it was of natural causes. characters and colour that 10:30 Rugby – World Cup London has to offer.

(Highlights) Day 12.

10pm Rugby – World Cup (Replay) South Africa v Scotland. From St James Park in Newcastle.

11:40 Q+A 3 0 12:45 Attitude 3 0 1:15 Emmerdale PGR 3 0 2:30 L Football – NFL New York Jets v Miami Dolphins.

From Wembley Stadium in London.

5:30 Infomercials

11:25 M It’s Kind Of A Funny Story AO 3 2011 Comedy Drama.

1:30 Infomercials 5:30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong TV 3

11:50 Infomercials

11:05 Psych PGR Shawn and Gus join two college students in the woods, who are filming a documentary about Bigfoot.

12:05 Vegas AO 3 1:05 Home Shopping

6am Rural Delivery 3 6:25 Fishy Business 0 6:50 Sunday 3 0 7:35 Tagata Pasifika 8am Praise Be 8:30 Attitude 0 9am Q+A 0 10am Waka Huia 10:30 Marae 2 11am Neighbourhood 3 0 11:30 Fair Go 3 0 Noon River Monsters PGR 0 1pm The Life And Times Of Temuera Morrison 3 0 1:30 Radar Across The Pacific 3 0 2pm Building The Dream 0 3pm The Incredible Mr Goodwin PGR 0 4pm Off Their Rockers UK 0 4:30 Paul O’Grady For The Love Of Dogs 3 0 5pm N Operation Maneater With Mark Evans 0 6pm One News 0

CHOICE TV 6am Travels With The Bondi Vet 6:30 Through The Bible With Les Feldick 7am Natural World – Empire Of The Desert Ants 8am Toy Hunter 8:30 The Apartment 9:30 10 Years Younger UK 10:30 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy 11:30 Young Vets 12:30 Kitchen Crashers 1pm Travels With The Bondi Vet 1:30 Natural World – Empire Of The Desert Ants 2:30 Brand New House On A Budget 3:30 Better Homes And Gardens 5pm Cheese Slices 5:30 Sarah Beeny’s How To Sell Your Home 6pm Garage Gold 6:30 The Living Room 7:30 Penn And Teller – Fool Us PGR 8:30 M Song For Marion AO 2012 Comedy. A shy, grumpy 72-year-old gets more than he bargains for when he joins an unconventional choir.

Terence Stamp, Vanessa Redgrave.

10:30 Sarah Beeny’s How To Sell Your Home 11pm Garage Gold 11:30 Moses Jones

MONDAY

12:30 M Song For Marion AO 2012 Comedy. Terence Stamp, Vanessa Redgrave.

2:30 Buying The Bayou 3am Brand New House On A Budget 4am Better Homes And Gardens 5:30 Cheese Slices

11:10 Constantine AO 0 12:10 M The Crazies AO 2010 Horror. Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell. 2:05 The Walking Dead AO 3 0 2:50 Infomercials 3:25 Jeremy Kyle AO 3 4:15 It Is Written 3 4:45 Hart Of Dixie 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

MAORI TV 10am Korero Mai 3 2 11am Native Affairs 3 Noon Korero Mai 3 2 2pm Whanau Living PGR 3 2:30 Code PGR 3 3:30 The Rugby Show – French Top 14 Brive v Stade Francais.

5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Waka Huia 6:30 Paepae 7pm The Laughing Samoans 7:30 M Everest PGR 1998 Documentary. In the spring of 1996, an international team of climbers

THE BOX

Midnight Rugby – World Cup (Highlights) Day 12. 12:30 Rugby – World Cup (Highlights) Day 10.

1am Roof Top Rugby 1:30 Rugby – World Cup (Highlights) Day 12.

2:15 L Rugby – World Cup Argentina v Tonga. 4:30 L Rugby – World Cup Ireland v Italy.

SKY SPORT 2 ascended Mt Everest. The group faced many challenges, including avalanches, lack of oxygen, and a deadly blizzard.

8:30 M Drive AO 2011 Crime.

A Hollywood stunt performer, who moonlights as a getaway driver, discovers a contract has been put on him after a robbery went wrong.

Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan.

10:20 Te Kaea 3 2 10:50 Iti Pounamu AO Whakatiki.

11:20 Closedown

DISCOVERY

8:35 Chosen MVL 9:25 The Simpsons Super Sunday PG A marathon of Simpson’s episodes.

11:55 Raw MC 2:40 WWE Main Event MC 3:40 SmackDown! MC 5:25 Shearing Gang PG 5:50 Smashed Palace ML 6:15 Counting Cars PG 6:40 Alaska Off-Road Warriors PGL 7:30 Covert Affairs MV After returning from a mission in Sri Lanka with Ben, Annie is assigned as the new handler for a professional tennis player from Estonia who is considered a CIA asset.

8:30 Texas Rising 16VLSC 9:30 Hawaii Five-0 MV 10:30 Cleaners MVLS 11:20 Covert Affairs MV

6am Auction Kings PG Declaration of Independence; Concession Wagon. 6:30 Mythbusters PG 7:30 Mythbusters PG Battle of the Sexes – Round 2. 8:30 Naked And Afraid M 9:30 Flipping Ships – Yukon Delta PG 10:30 John Eales Reveals Life After Sport PG 11:30 River Monsters PG Alaska’s Cold Water Killer. 12:30 Brothers In Blood – The Lions Of Sabi Sand M 2:30 River Monsters PG Africa’s Deadliest. 3:30 Dual Survival M 4:30 Treasure Quest – Snake Island M 5:30 Naked And Afraid XL M 6:30 Deadliest Catch PG 7:30 Flying Miners PG 8:30 Extreme Drug Smuggling M 9:30 Alaskan Bush People M 10:30 Flipping Ships – Yukon Delta PG 11:30 What On Earth? PG

12:15 SmackDown! MC 2:05 Cleaners MVLS 2:55 Texas Rising 16VLSC 3:45 Hawaii Five-0 MV 4:45 Counting Cars PG 5:10 Covert Affairs MV

12:30 Mythbusters PG 1:30 Bering Sea Gold PG 2:30 Auction Kings PG 3am Deadliest Catch PG 4am Dirty Jobs PG 5am Dual Survival M

MONDAY

6:45 Rugby – World Cup (Highlights) All Blacks v Georgia.

7:15 Roof Top Rugby 7:45 L Rugby – World Cup England v Australia.

10am Rugby – World Cup (Replay) Samoa v Japan.

Noon Roof Top Rugby 12:30 Rugby – World Cup (Highlights) All Blacks v Georgia.

1pm Rugby – World Cup (Highlights) Day 10.

1:30 Roof Top Rugby 2pm Rugby – World Cup (Highlights) Day 12.

2:30 L Rugby – ITM Cup Southland v Hawke’s Bay. 4:30 L Rugby – ITM Cup Bay of Plenty v Wellington.

6:30 Rugby – World Cup (Replay) England v Australia.

MONDAY

6am Fox Sports News The latest sports news and previews of sporting action still to come.

7:30 Aussie Rules – AFL (Replay) Grand Final – Hawthorn v West Coast Eagles.

11am Rugby League – Super

Monsters' University 6:25pm on TV2

MOVIES PREMIERE 6:35 Million Dollar Arm PGL 2014 Drama. Jon Hamm.

8:40 The Hunger Games – Mockingjay: Part 1 MV 2014 Adventure. Jennifer Lawrence.

10:40 Pawn 16VL 2013 Thriller.

Ray Liotta, Nikki Reed.

12:05 Devil’s Due 16VLC 2014 Horror. Allison Miller, Zach Gilford.

1:35 22 Jump Street MVLSC 2014 Comedy. Jonah Hill.

3:25 The Hobbit – The Desolation Of Smaug MV 2013 Adventure.

Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen.

6:05 The Hobbit – The Battle Of The Five Armies MV 2015 Adventure.

Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman.

8:30 Into The Storm MC 2014 Thriller. Richard Armitage.

10:05 Prisoners 16VLC 2013 Crime.

Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal.

It’s Kind of a Funny Story 11:25pm on TV3

1pm Sunday Footy Show A review

MOVIES GREATS 7:30 Die Hard MVL 1988 Action.

Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman.

9:40 Austin Powers – International Man Of Mystery M 1997 Comedy. Michael Myers.

11:10 The Frighteners MV 1996 Comedy Thriller. Michael J Fox. 1pm Team America – World Police 16VLS 2004 Animated Action.

2:40 Live Free Or Die Hard MVL 2007 Action. Bruce Willis.

4:50 How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days PGL 2003 Romantic Comedy.

Matthew McConaughey.

6:45 The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3 16VL 2009 Crime. Denzel Washington.

8:30 Road Trip 16LSC 2000 Adventure Comedy. Breckin Meyer.

10:05 Insomnia MVL 2002 Crime.

Al Pacino, Hilary Swank.

MONDAY

Midnight Live Free Or Die Hard MVL 2007 Action. Bruce Willis.

12:35 The Hobbit – The Desolation 2:05 How To Lose A Guy In 10 Of Smaug MV 2013 Adventure.

Days PGL 2003 Romantic Comedy.

Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen.

4am The Taking Of Pelham 1 2 3 3:15 Prisoners 16VLC 2013 Crime.

16VL 2009 Crime. Denzel Washington.

5:45 The Making Of Godzilla PG 2014 5:45 Insomnia MVL 2002 Crime.

MONDAY

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

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League (Replay) Qualifying Final. and preview of all the weekend NRL league games.

3pm L Rugby League – Holden Cup Grand Final – Panthers v Sea Eagles.

5:30 L Rugby League – State League Grand Final – Newcastle v Ipswich.

8pm Rugby League – Super League (Highlights) Qualifying Final – Bradford v Wakefield.

8:30 L Rugby League – NRL Grand Final – Broncos v Cowboys.

MONDAY 12:15 Rugby Nation Highlights and analysis of the latest rugby action.

1:10 L Motorsport – British Superbike Championship Silverstone Grand Prix.

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Family Notices 38 Ashburton Guardian DEATHS BUTTERICK, Kenneth Fergusson (Ken) – (Formerly of Bainton Fields, Wakanui) Passed away peacefully on October 1, 2015 at Ashburton, with his loving family at his side. In his 86 year. Dearly loved husband and soul mate of Janet.

Loved and respected father and father in law of Fergus and Debra, Robert, and Stuart. Supportive, treasures grandad of Victoria, Alice, and Gemma.

“Now at rest.”

Messages to Butterick family, P O Box 472, Ashburton 7740. In lieu of flowers donations to Ashburton St John would be appreciated and may be left at the service. Our sincere thank you to the staff at Christchurch and Ashburton Hospitals. A heartfelt thank you to the thoughtful and compassionate team at Hospital.

A Rosebank celebration of Ken’s life will be held at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Havelock Street, Ashburton on MONDAY, October 5, at 11.30am. Followed by private family interment.

Paterson’s Funeral Services FDANZ Ashburton Ph 307 7433

BUTTERICK, Ken – Loved son in law of the late Henry and Lavinia (Veni) Doak. Loved brother in law of John and Joy and Kathryn and Merv Green. Much loved uncle of Andrew, Jane and Nigel, Scott and Nikki, Mark and Sarah, Kurt and Penny and great uncle of Grace, Jack, Harrison and Margo.

JOHNSON, Beverley Anne, (Bev) – Peacefully on October 2, 2015 at Ashburton Hospital.

Dearly treasured wife of the late Lex and cherished mum of Averil, Ian, Brenda, and Allan. Devoted mother in law of Ross Smart, the late Michael Rosa, Darren Humphries, Karen, and Sharon. Adored nana of all her grandchildren and nana Bev of all her great grandchildren. A service for Bev will be held at our Chapel Cnr East and Cox Streets, Ashburton on WEDNESDAY, October 7, commencing at 2.00pm. Followed by private cremation at the Ashburton Crematorium.

REID, Bronwyn Mary (nee Crean) – Taken from us too soon.

Loving daughter of Kevin and Doreen Crean, cherished sister of Tony and Jeanette, Bryan and Jo, Jacqui and Greg, Murray and Denise, Wayne and Louise, and playful aunty of Bradley, Mel and Drew, Glen, Matt and Lindsay, James, Craig, Irene, Josh, Tessa and Charlotte.

We will miss your love, smile, laughter and gentle heart.

“RIP. May you soar free with the angels.”

REID, Bronwyn Mary – Loved daughter-in-law of Carol and Brien Halpin, sister-in-law of Robert and Leisa Jamieson, and Grant and Ben Halpin, aunt of William, Isla and Eden Jamieson.

REID, Bronwyn Mary – “Bronwyn, you always welcomed me into your home, and I know that you made Aaron and Casey very happy.

We will all miss you, always.”

Granddad Jess.

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SUDGEN, Susan Jennifer – John, Sharon, Andrea and Richard, and their families, sincerely thank everyone who supported us in the recent loss of Susan, a dearly loved wife, mother and MID CANTERBURY grandmother. We would like FUNERAL SERVICES Paterson’s Funeral Services to thank those of you who FDANZ Ashburton sent flowers, cards, and food.

Galbraith’s provide choice!

Ph 307 7433 was very much We have a team of highly respected, professional funeral directors and This Galbraith’s celebrants. We offer you complete funeral care including pre-arrangement, appreciated. To those who and your choice of venue, funeral celebrants and catering. provide choice!

Sue’s farewell, We believe that every life is unique and every person’s funeral needs to attended reflect their individuality - ask us how we can be of assistance to you and REID, Bronwyn Mary thank you all for doing so.

Call us on your family. (nee Crean) – Please accept this as a Call us on 308 3980 On September 30, 2015, aor call in and 308 visit 3980 our new premises atpersonal acknowledgement. bolt from the blue, in the early or 246 callHavelock in andStreet visit morning at home, aged 48 years. Dearly loved wife of our new premises at FUNERAL Eion McKinnon Aaron, and loving mother Rob ofCope-Williams FURNISHERS 246 Havelock Casey. Messages may be MASTER addressed to The Family of Street MONUMENTAL MASON the late Bronwyn Reid c/- PO Box 39001, ChristchurchOfficial Opening 18 Feb - 9am til 4pm E.B. CARTER LTD 8545. Flowers respectfully IN MEMORIAM For all your memorial declined. The funeral service CHANEY, Phebe Lesney – requirements for Bronwyn will be held in 20/06/1927 - 01/10/2014 New headstones and designs our Westpark Chapel, 467 “We thought of you with love Renovations, Wairakei Road, Burnside, today but that is nothing new.

Additional inscriptions, Christchurch, on MONDAY, We thought of you yesterday Cleaning and Concrete work and days before that too.

October 5 at 2.00pm. Private Carried out by qualified We think of you in silence as cremation thereafter. tradesmen. we often speak your name.

Lamb & Hayward Ltd 620 East Street Ashburton All we have is memories FDANZ Ph/Fax 308 5369 and your picture in a frame.

Phone 359-9018 or 0274 357 974 Your memory is our www.lambandhayward.co.nz ebcarter@xtra.co.nz keepsake with which NZMMMA Member we'll never part.

God hasWorsfold you in His keeping, today for a free quote REID, Bronwyn Mary – Call Luke We have you in our hearts.” Guardian Classifieds “We miss you so much Ken, Philippa and their and I cry every day.

7900 0274 199 or 307 307 1381 respective 508 loving families.

Random pruning; Throwing soft toys email: luke@perfectpolish.co.nz at each other, 10 Mothers’ Days; Your happy smile.

Goodbye darling mother, Call the Guardian today for and partner. your advertising requirements.

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MIDDLETON, Carl Francis – Heather, Robyn, Jason, Piper and Cooper and Greg and Angela would like to thank all relatives, friends and Please note all late death neighbours for the many notices or notices sent cards, flowers, phone calls, outside ordinary office hours baking, visits and letters of must be emailed to: sympathy received following deathnotices@theguardian.co.nz their recent sad loss of a to ensure publication. wonderful husband, dad and During office hours notices grandad. Special thanks to Clare, Barry and Dot who may also be sent to: classifieds@theguardian.co.nz were with us when Carl passed away. To the many Any queries who helped out with the horse please contact sale on the day of Carl’s 0800 passing, we are forever ASHBURTON grateful. Thank you to the (0800-274-287). medical staff especially Dr Bernie Fitzharris and Dr Chris Porter who treated Carl with respect and dignity. Thanks to everyone who attended the funeral service and kindly donated to the Cancer Society. Thank you to Rev. Canterbury owned, Mike Keith for the beautiful service and to those who locally operated spoke at the funeral. To Paterson’s Funeral Services, Patersons you for your guidance Funeral Services thank and support throughout this and Ashburton difficult time. We will miss our loved husband, dad Crematorium Ltd much and grandad very much.

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Selwyn Whitecliffs (NIWA) at 2:10 pm, yesterday

Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 2:00 pm, yesterday 139.3 no data

Nth Ashburton Sth Ashburton at 12:15 pm, yesterday

8.92

Rangitata Klondyke at 2:00 pm, yesterday

52.0

Waitaki Kurow at 12:40 pm, yesterday

216.6

Source: Environment Canterbury

Canterbury Readings

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Forecasts for today

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Palmerston North showers

Showers clearing in the morning and becoming fine. SW dying out, N developing.

Fine with strengthening northwesterlies.

overnight max low

Fine, with high cloud at times.

Wind at 1000m: SW 40 km/h, changing to NW gale 65 km/h in exposed places.

Wind at 2000m: SW 60 km/h, rising to severe gale 110 km/h in the afternoon.

Rain setting in about the divide, with heavy falls, and scattered rain developing further east. Snow lowering to 1200 metres.

Wind at 1000m: Severe gale W 120 km/h, easing to gale 70 km/h at night.

Wind at 2000m: Severe gale W 140 km/h, easing to gale 80 km/h at night.

MONDAY

Saturday, 3 October 2015

A series of fronts spread across New Zealand from the west. On Monday, a ridge of high pressure moves onto the North Island, while westerlies persist over the South Island. Another front moves onto the South Island on Wednesday, and westerlies spread onto the North orth Island.

Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 19.3 20.2 Max to 4pm 1.9 Minimum -2.4 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.0 16hr to 4pm October to date 0.0 Avg Oct to date 4 2015 to date 482.8 517 Avg year to date Wind km/h N 20 At 4pm Strongest gust N 50 Time of gust 2:49pm

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to 4pm yesterday

Methven

Christchurch Airport

Timaru Airport

16.0 17.7 6.6 –

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0.0 0.0 3 378.8 491

0.0 2.6 3 294.0 374

N 30 – –

NW 28 NW 48 3:38pm

SE 11 S 20 3:06pm

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Puzzles Saturday, October 3, 2015

www.guardianonline.co.nz CRYPTIC

ACROSS 1. Setting up of a company to put rats out (5-2) 6. Is down to make a duff stroke at golf (5) 9. Maurice would get entangled in his music (5) 10. A bacterium that may come with broken rib (7) 11. Finger the list of contents (5) 12. Cast having full enjoyment of pleasure (5) 13. Lovable as I am, Abel got upset (7) 15. The emotional tone of a section of melody (6) 16. Bird coming out of tree around end of Spring (5) 18. Notions that could be set aside (5) 20. Turn out always on the first Tuesday (5) 21. Doris’s native order to an architect (5) 22. Use half of them as a game manoeuvre (6) 25. A layer of rust mat might acquire (7) 26. Fish prepared by tutor (5) 27. The credit one gives me for felony (5) 28. Could be in air of Spanish peninsula (7) 29. He refuses to conform with lion in revolt (5) 30. It is multiplied by a broadsheet daily (5)

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YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across 1. Basic 4. Servant 8. Clarification 10. Natal 11. Ring 12. Dish 16. Crepe 17. Interlacement 19. Narwhal 20. Timed Down 1. Backwardation 2. Spa 3. Client 4. Shifty 5. Really 6. Animosity 7. Tenderhearted 9. Conductor 13. Scorch 14. Recall 15. Cement 18. Elm QUICK Across 1. Misconstrue 8. Replica 9. Saggy 10. Near 11. Cortège 12. Ash 13. Drub 15. Eddy 17. Mud 19. Sunrise 20. Fall 23. Balsa 24. Decline 25. Thereabouts Down 1. Marine 2. Sepia 3. Omit 4. Search 5. Reserved 6. Egghead 7. Geyser 12. Abdicate 14. Ringlet 16. Isobar 17. Meddle 18. Pliers 21. Adieu 22. Scab

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7. Duel with Aunt may move in 31. Flag officers newly commissioned in the US Navy (7) waves (8) 8. Vixen’s mate may baffle one (3) DOWN 1. He feels for one, so how could 14. Legal documents wielded by musicians and surgeons (11) he miss party out? (11) 2. Dye it’s clear children will use 17. Revolving gate used until rest pass through it (9) (6) 19. Trading centre in Rome I’m 3. They sort out the difficulties up to redesigning (8) that bother the gunmen (7-8) 23. Pearl necklace one may find 4. Liked better to be given in train (6) promotion (9) 5. Be of service to one in turning 24. Favourite pursuit of a small falcon (5) lava over (5) 6. Black boxes for fipple flutes put 27. Bed available in a cottage hospital (3) below stairs (6,9)

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QUICK ACROSS 1. Praises (8) 7. Push (5) 8. Onesie (9) 9. Knock lightly (3) 10. Malevolent (4) 11. Ascends (6) 13. Did housework thoroughly (6-7) 15. Admirer (6) 16. Gets older (4) 18. Yes (3) 20. Immediately (9) 21. Forward (5) 22. Amicable (8)

DOWN 1. Passageway (5) 2. First in order or importance (7) 3. Mountain range (4) 4. Traitor (6-7) 5. Expenses (5) 6. React (7) 7. Stutter (7) 12. Bland (7) 13. Avoid nervously (3,4) 14. Cancelled out (7) 15. Cut off (5) 17. Timidly (5) 19. Comfort (4)

GARFIELD

3/10 ALL PUZZLES © THE PUZZLE COMPANY

SUDOKU Fill the grid so that every column, every row and 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9.

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YOUR STARS ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): You are pleasant company in a world that’s been hostile to some of your friends.

Can you blame them? You’ll continue to build the good will through the weekend.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Find out what the other person needs, and you’re halfway there. Help them get that need fulfilled, and you’re golden. The reciprocity will be fun.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): You cater to the person you’re with. That’s why you can be so different with one person from how you are with another. Your favourite brings out your best qualities. You like who you are around this person.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): It’s a good thing that your sense of what is possible is all out of whack. If you knew better, you wouldn’t even try for that madlofty goal. Maybe the only targets worth shooting for are the impossible ones.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): While trying to connect with others, many focus so intently on being their personal best that they forget that the most attractive quality a person can have is the ability to make the other person feel attractive.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Routines give you control, which leads to a sense of calm. For some reason, that seems to bother the universe these days, and things will be disrupted, forcing you to find your calm in a deeper place inside yourself.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): You’re a thought-leader whether or not you realise it and want to be. No pressure, but it means a lot of people are going to listen to, follow and copy you.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): It’s a day of illusions.

The smoke and mirrors will divert your attention long enough for life to pull off a trick or two. There will be real magic, too!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): You can’t help but think ahead, and hold your hands out to catch what might fall. You’re earning someone’s trust by doing what comes naturally to you.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): The best part about the silliness you encounter today is that it’s genuine, organic and likely to uncontrollably escalate into laughter. This is what friendship bonds are made of.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): A lot has changed. The way you communicate is different, as are your hobbies, interests and social outlets. Your ability to make other people feel valued and important remains the same.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Your heart speaks a language that sometimes even you cannot understand. All will not be revealed in time, but at least you’re the type who thrives on mystery.

SATURDAY 3RD OCTOBER 35 Suffolk Street, Ashburton

10:00 - 10:30am

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16 Bridge Street, Ashburton

10:30 - 11:00am

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32 Russell Avenue, Ashburton

10:30 - 11:00am

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2/83 Cox Street, Ashburton

11:00 - 11:30am

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271 Cameron Street, Ashburton

11:00 - 11:30am

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10 Allison Street, Ashburton

11:15 - 11:45am

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15 Westpark Close, Ashburton

11:15 - 11:45am

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106 Chalmers Avenue, Ashburton

12:00 - 12:30pm

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10 Maple Lane, Ashburton

12:00 - 12:30pm

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8 Manse Place, Ashburton

12:45 - 1:15pm

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120a Thomson Street, Tinwald

1:30 - 2:00pm

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29 Chalmers Avenue, Ashburton

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SUNDAY 20TH SEPTEMBER

18 Rolleston Street, Rakaia

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271 Cameron Street, Ashburton Brick Is Best

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Ashburton 2/83 Cox Street * Well presented two bedroom unit. * Sunny living with private secure courtyard. * Large single garage with auto door. * Well maintained and easy walk to shops.

Offers Over $215,000 Open Home Sat 11:00am - 11:30am rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20899

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Ashburton 10 Allison Street * 3 Bedrooms * 2 Bathrooms (2 WC) * Open plan kitchen/dining * Polished floors * Sloping section with many fruit trees

Offers Over $320,000 Open Home Sat 11:15am - 11:45am rwashburton.co.nz/AHB20891

Ashburton 29 Chalmers Avenue

Rakaia 18 Rolleston Street

For Sale $299,000 Open Home Sat 2:00pm - 2:30pm

For Sale $281,000 Open Home Sun 12:30pm - 1:00pm

* 3 Bedrooms * Compliant fire * Roughcast * New Carpet

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* Tidy renovated 3 bedroom home * Open plan kitchen, dining and living * Heat pump * 6x6 Versatile Garage * 1/4 acre that can be subdivided

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