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By Jaime Pitt-MacKay Jaime.p@theguardian.co.nz

An 11-year-old girl suffered critical head injuries following a skiing accident on Mt Hutt over the weekend.

Emergency services were called to Mt Hutt on Sunday at around

mid-day following the accident.

“The rescue helicopter was sent to uplift an 11-year-old girl who was skiiing with her family,” GCH Aviation general manager Simon Duncan said.

Duncan said the girl, who is believed to not be local, had sus-

tained critical head injuries along with other multi-trauma injuries after falling down the southern slope of Mt Hutt, and was accompanied to Christchurch Hospital by her mother.

“She was wearing a helmet,” he said.

St John spokesman Gerard Campbell said they transported one person to Christchurch Hospital in a serious condition.

Ski area manager James McKenzie said the family had requested privacy and that he could not offer any more information on the

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incident. Mckenzie said the total number of guests injured on the mountain this season was down on previous years.

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Emerging emphasis on Te Reo

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By Susan Sandys

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“Kia ora koutou,” says teacher Kate White as she walks into a classroom of Year 3 pupils at Ashburton Borough School.

While many of the pupils’ parents may not have a clue what the words mean, the students know what their teacher is saying. It is “Greetings, hello to you all”, and they return the greeting.

Much of the dialogue in the classroom throughout the lesson is in Te Reo, something which is improving at Borough and other Ashburton schools this year with an increased emphasis on the language.

“I think it’s really important to teach a second language, it’s great for our brains and kids’ development. And it’s important that it’s Maori because we are in New Zealand, and Maori is one of our official languages,” White said.

White speaks conversational Maori and Russian, and is fluent in Danish. She said Te Reo is one of the easiest languages to learn.

She comes into classes from Year 3 to Year 8 at the school, delivering a half hour lesson twice per week.

The classroom’s teacher remains for the lesson so they can ensure the words, phrases and waiata taught continue to be used throughout the week.

Principal Hilary Boyce said increased emphasis on Te Reo was occurring across the 12 Mid Can-

Eight-year-old Amaia Paetai-Nipu and fellow pupils are assisted by specialist Te Reo Maori teacher Kate White at Ashburton Borough School.

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School leaders were wanting to pay further attention to the success of their Maori pupils, and recognise Te Reo as one of New Zealand’s official languages.

“If all schools are paying this at-

tention, when pupils get to college they are more likely to take Te Reo as a subject and grow the language.

“The ultimate aim is to grow Te Reo as a natural part of our spoken repertoire,” Boyce said.

Teachers and pupils at the

schools are looking forward to Maori Language Week next week, but any activities will represent a continuation of an emerging cultural emphasis, rather than a one-off celebration.

“Maori language week is every week here,” Boyce said.

From P1 “It is the lowest it has been since we started recording,” he said.

“It is something we do monitor and we actually have a hotspot map which is a grid which highlights in red (where accident hotspots are), and automatically changes.

“There are no real trends and it is spread pretty evenly across the mountain.”

Mckenzie said nationwide skifields generally see four to five injuries per thousand guests on the mountain, with Mt Hutt currently sitting at half that rate.

Mt Hutt is only required to officially investigate accidents involving machinery or equipment owned by the company, but Mckenzie says they do carry out internal investigations when accidents like this occur.

Duncan said the Westpac Rescue Helicopter has only been called to Mt Hutt Skifield six times this ski season.

Later in the day on Sunday at 4.30pm the Westpac rescue helicopter was dispatched to Mt Dobson skifield for an unresponsive 21-year-old male, who had hit in his head during a fall, he was also wearing a helmet which was destroyed by the impact.

Scamming workshop targeted towards volunteers

By Susan Sandys

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Mid Canterbury volunteers will learn first-hand how to stop their clients being scammed when they attend a workshop in Ashburton this week.

ANZ Ashburton branch manager Hayden Marshall will give tips on how to avoid becoming a victim to scamming and phishing.

“Don’t be afraid of technology, just be very cautious,” Marshall said.

Banks nationwide had many a horror story of their clients falling prey to scammers, and there were at least several in Mid Canterbury losing thousands each year.

In some cases the bank was able to get money back for customers, depending on the circumstances.

One of the latest scams doing the rounds was a phone one, where a recorded voice message tells the person answering that their landline and internet will be cut off within 24 hours. To get more information they are instructed to press one, whereupon a real person will pose as someone helping them and gain access to their computer and thus their bank accounts.

ANZ uses sophisticated fraud monitoring systems to help it identify potentially fraudulent activity.

Scams were becoming more sophisticated. It was important people talked to their bank immediately if there were any issues, and also shared concerns with people they trusted.

“Don’t be embarrassed by it because we want to stop it from

happening to someone else,” Marshall said.

Volunteering Mid and South Canterbury is holding the workshop, 10am to 11am at Community House, on Thursday.

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Dairy farmers push the changes

By Linda Clarke

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Dairy farmers’ hands-on environmental efforts have created a wave of change and are helping improve water quality, says a Mid Canterbury farmer leading the national group overseeing change.

Methven dairy farmer Alister Body chairs the Dairy Environment Leaders Group and says 11,000 dairy farmers around the country that are part of a Water Accord have pulled on their gumboots and put time and money into improving their environmental management.

The Sustainable Dairy: Water Accord is a voluntary commitment from the dairy industry that began five years ago and Body said it had contributed to measurable improvements in many waterways.

And more improvements were expected as ecosystems reacted over time to changes on the ground, he said.

A five-year progress report out yesterday said analysis of national river quality trends from 2008 to 2017 showed that for eight out of the nine water quality indicators reported on, more monitored sites were improving than degrading.

The report said 98.3 per cent (or 24,249km) of significant waterways had been fenced off and 10,396 nutrient budgets had been prepared. A regional analysis of compliance showed Northland and Waikato farms were the main offenders; in Canterbury 10 of the 615 farms being monitored (from a total of 1333 in the region) had significant non-compliance.

Tom Mason milks 550 cows on sensitive land near Lincoln and says changes on his farm had included reducing the stocking rate, buying in feed and milking once a day at the start and finish of the season.

“That gives the paddocks a chance to dry out and the grass to grow.”

Mason said the property had a lot of drains, which had been fenced off to exclude stock and planted with carex; a wetland area had also been developed.

He said water that drained off

8.3%

Temuka dairy farmer Andy Palmer has carried out extensive riparian planting on his farm. his farm went through the Ahururi wetlands and lagoon before going into the Halswell River and travelling on to Lake Ellesmere/ Te Waihora.

He is about to commission the use of innovative ClearTech technology that will allow water used to wash down the yard to be treated and recycled, removing the E.coli. It will increase his effluent storage by at least double.

Mason is also looking at constructing a wetland on a separate grazing block to filter run-off. The environment changes have come out of his own pocket.

“It is an expensive exercise, but when we farm in a sensitive area we need to do a bit extra.”

He said in Canterbury the effects of nitrate and phosphorus leaching on water quality was an issue, but other regions had dif-

4000 plants have been established on the farm, and the couple are continuing to add to this every year, with support from Environment Canterbury. The couple have also fenced off all the waterways on their property, and worked with their former sharemilkers who now own a neighbouring dairy farm to plant native species on a coastal wetland bordering their farms.

The wetland is home to Canterbury’s only known population of the native giant kokopu fish.

Palmer said the environmental management requirements in the accord were very much business as usual for farmers.

“We have a Farm Environment Plan now which covers planting, fencing, effluent and nutrient management. With the plan in place we will continue to take

ferent issues.

“I do feel good that farmers around the country have made real progress over the past five years but things keep moving on.

It is not good enough to rest on our laurels. We need to be innovative, try to figure out solutions and try to figure out what is important for the wider community and what you can do better.

“Dairy farmers have done well picking up their game but we need to keep looking forward and that is definitely what we are doing on this farm.”

Temuka dairy farmers Andy Palmer and Sharon Collett have been progressively developing planting on their farm over the past 20 years.

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good care of the environment and waterways on our farm and we are audited on our progress.”

Federated Farmers agreed the report showed there were some good things to celebrate and some things that need further work.

“This is a positive way to head into this spring,” Federated Farmers dairy sector chair Chris Lewis said. “I know most farmers like myself, will be head down, bum up working hard at the moment, but they should take the time to give themselves a pat on the back tonight, after work.

He said anti-farming lobby groups played up out-of-date impressions of the industry and farmers needed to keep talking about the work they were doing and the improvements being achieved.

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Funding ‘still key to road safety’

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elling, but in others there can be engineering issues that can be resolved through straightening, widening or other improvements.”

Falloon said he is contacted regularly by constituents who have concerns about certain roads and intersections.

“I’m contacted pretty regularly about dangerous intersections and stretches of road, usually on the state highway network. Since Transport Minister Phil Twyford is now preventing me from meeting with NZTA I contact them by letter,” he said.

“It slows the whole process down, but in some cases they’ve promised action. When anyone raises issues about a road which the council is responsible for then I let the council know.”

Falloon said the topic of licensing foreign drivers is one that is raised from time to time in a bid to improve safety, but is a difficult idea to implement.

It’s tricky because on the one hand you’ve got Australians who might be here for a couple of days on business who are used to the sort of roads we have, but on the other you could have a tourist who plans to drive for weeks on end who is less familiar with driving on the left side of the road,” he said.

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Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon has continued to raise concerns that roads will become less safe due to less funding for state highways.

“As a country we need to continue to invest in high quality roading, including four lanes between Ashburton and Christchurch which is at present the second most dangerous stretch of highway for fatal crashes and serious accidents,” he said.

“The Waikato Expressway and Tauranga Eastern Link, both busy four-lane roads, are two of the safest stretches of highway in the country despite having higher speed limits of 110km/h.

“I’m really worried that the Government’s decision to pull $5 billion out of the state highway network to instead invest in Auckland rail and cycleway projects will make our local roads less safe.”

Eight people have died on Mid Canterbury roads this year, many of those not on state highways, and Falloon says we need to continue to look at why.

“Where any road or intersection is shown to be more dangerous than others we need to look at why,” he said.

“Sometimes it’ll be how busy it is or the speed people are trav-

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More options for guns buy-back

By Jaime Pitt-MacKay Jaime.p@theguardian.co.nz

As another option for handing in prohibited firearms under the Government buy-back scheme, Police have announced a pilot for the hand-in of firearms at approved licensed dealers which begins this week.

The pilot, being run in the Auckland region, will see Hunting & Fishing Franklin and Gun City Penrose ready to accept prohibited firearms and parts on behalf of New Zealand Police.

“We’ve opened up this option to allow the firearms community to hand in their prohibited firearms and parts in a place many will feel most comfortable with – their local dealer,” Deputy Commissioner, Mike Clement said.

“I want to thank Hunting & Fishing, Gun City and the other approved dealers who have put their hand up to help NZ Police facilitate the buy-back and amnesty.

“We do want people to be aware that going through a dealer will mean a slightly slower end-to-end process, than if they attend a collection event.”

Once firearms have been handed in to dealers, they will

be uplifted by Police who will then contact the owners to discuss the condition of the firearms against the price list.

For safety reasons, Police will be uplifting firearms from dealers on a regular basis,” says Clement.

A booking system will also be in place for the dealers pilot in Auckland which is scheduled to run for two weeks.

The police website has all the information people need to know about handing in their firearms and parts at a dealer.

Most importantly, people need to complete the online notification form before they attend.

Additional approved licensed dealers will be available to accept firearms under the buyback scheme in September, following a review of the pilot and further dealer consultation.

Information about their locations and opening times for buy-back will be available on the Police website.

Currently there is one further buy-back event scheduled in Mid Canterbury, which is to be held at the Rakaia Community Hall on Mackie Street between 10am and 3pm on Saturday, September 28.

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Taxi driver not guilty of indecent assault

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An Auckland taxi driver has been found not guilty of indecently assaulting radio personality Jay-Jay Feeney.

Baljeet Singh, 29, has been on trial in the Auckland District Court on one charge of indecent assault, laid after an alleged incident during the early hours of October 1, 2017.

He had pleaded not guilty, maintaining he never touched Feeney inappropriately.

Singh smiled, hugging his family and lawyer Marie Dyhrberg QC after the verdict – a majority decision – was delivered yesterday.

Feeney was not in court for the verdict.

Two years ago – on the evening of September 30 – Feeney was on Ponsonby Road having dinner with friends and drinking at several popular bars.

She hailed a cab about 1am to return home to her Grey Lynn apartment.

Feeney hopped into Singh’s taxi, sitting in the front seat.

She said she had consumed “a few drinks” and was “intoxicated” but not “really drunk”.

“I wasn’t being silly, I wasn’t falling over or anything like that,” she said in evidence last week.

Feeney told the court that Singh asked her if she was single and told her: “I’ll be your boyfriend, I’ll be your boyfriend” when she revealed she had recently separated from her husband.

Feeney said she told him “no” and claimed he then reached over and stroked her hand.

She told him “no” again but said he persisted with his advances and told her she was

“beautiful” and remarked that she had “really nice breasts”.

Then she said Singh told her: “I touch your breasts, I touch your breasts.”

After arriving at her home, with Singh parking across the road, Feeney said she was anxious to pay and leave.

“I was quite keen to pay and go,” she said. “So I got my Eftpos out.”

“No pay, I touch your breasts.

No pay, I touch your breasts,” Feeney said Singh had told her.

Feeney said she replied: “No, I’m paying.”

It took her “a while to convince him”, she added.

Then, Feeney claimed, Singh allegedly “leaned down and put his hand down into my bra”.

As Feeney left the cab, she claimed the driver followed her across the road.

After returning to her apartment she peered out her window and said she saw Singh “standing in the middle of the road ... staring up”.

The radio host said she felt awful, in shock, and traumatised.

When questioned by police, Singh confirmed Feeney was one of his passengers but denied any wrongdoing whatsoever, the court heard.

Dyhrberg told the jury this week that Feeney was lying.

“One party is truthful, the other party is lying,” Dyhrberg said.

“Jay-Jay Harvey is lying when she says the defendant touched her breast on that evening.

“Can you trust what she says?

The defence says absolutely not.”

The result comes after an earlier jury was unable to decide the case, returning a hung verdict.

Auckland taxi driver Baljeet Singh has been found not guilty of groping one of his passengers, well-known radio host Jay-Jay Feeney.

Foundation farewells long-serving duo With the retirement of two of its members, the Ashburton Community Committee of the Blind Foundation farewelled a duo with more than 50 years of membership (from left) Rona Hayward, 26 years, committee chairman, Dennis Swaney, and Pamela Bird, 27 years.

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Kiwi couple killed in plane crash in Philippines NZME A Kiwi couple at the centre of a medical evacuation have been killed after their plane crashed in the Philippines.

All nine people on board the small medical evacuation plane were killed on Sunday when the aircraft crashed into a resort area south of the Philippine capital and exploded in flames, officials said.

Philippine media reported the names of the victims, including New Zealanders Tom Carr and his wife Erma.

A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said they were aware of the report, but were still trying to confirm it and would make a statement accordingly if the New Zealand consulate was involved.

The light plane crashed into a resort compound in Pansol village in Laguna province near the foothills of Mount Makiling.

Police and rescuers retrieved nine bodies from the wreckage, police said.

Two people on the ground were injured and brought to a hospital.

Philippines media listed the victims as Captain Jesus Hernandez (pilot), First Officer Lino Cruz Jr, physician Garret Garcia, nurse Kirk Eoin Badilla, nurse Yamato Togawa, Ryx Gil Laput, Raymond Bulacja, patient Tom Carr and his wife Erma.

The Kiwi couple, who have been married for 23 years, were

Rescuers look at the site where a plane crashed in Laguna, south of Manila, in the Philippines. from Ruakaka in Northland and are believed to have three children.

They have been in the Philippines for about six months visiting family.

Images from social media show them celebrating birthdays and a graduation, visiting sick loved ones in a hospital and enjoying time at the beach, shopping malls, temples and family gatherings.

It’s understood their eldest child is still in New Zealand and the couple were due to return home later this month.

Eric Apolonio, a spokesman of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, said the light plane

was on a medical evacuation flight from southern Dipolog city in Zamboanga del Norte province and disappeared from radar for unknown reasons as it flew over Laguna, about 60 kilometres south of the capital.

The plane was supposed to land in Manila.

The nine on board the plane included two pilots, two nurses, a doctor, a patient, the patient’s wife and two other people, police said.

Videos posted online by witnesses showed flames and black smoke billowing from the private resort compound in Pansol, a district popular for its hot springs and swimming pools.

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Dorian hits Bahamas NZME With peak winds of 295km/h, Hurricane Dorian is the strongest storm on record to strike the Bahamas, and it threatens to bring hurricane-force winds, coastal flooding and other impacts to the east coast of Florida and Southeastern US. Dorian ranks as tied for the second-strongest storm (as judged by its maximum sustained winds) recorded in the Atlantic Ocean, behind Hurricane Allen of 1980, and it tied with the 1935 Labour Day Hurricane for the title of the strongest Atlantic hurricane at landfall.

As the storm closes in on Florida’s east coast, the National Hurricane Center has posted hurricane and storm surge warnings for some areas.

Although the centre of Dorian, containing its extreme Category 5 winds, may remain offshore, its forecast track so close to the coast necessitated the warnings.

“A small deviation to the left of the track could bring the intense core of the hurricane its dangerous winds closer to or onto the Florida coast,” the Hurricane Center wrote in its evening discussion yesterday.

A “catastrophic” scenario is unfolding in the northwestern Bahamas, where the storm’s eyewall, the ring of destructive winds around the centre, struck on Sunday.

The Hurricane Center reported that the storm is “heading with all its fury toward Grand Bahama.”

“This is a life-threatening situation.

“Residents there should take immediate shelter.

“Do not venture into the eye if it passes over your location,” the Hurricane Center warned.

Specifically, the storm is unleashing wind gusts over 354km/h, along with storm surge flooding of 5m to 7m above normal tide levels.

“These hazards will cause

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A ‘catastrophic’ scenario is unfolding in the northwestern Bahamas. extreme destruction in the affected areas and will continue for several hours,” the NHC stated.

The storm is moving slowly toward Florida and the Southeastern United States, but its exact track remains somewhat uncertain, with computer models forecasting a move slightly closer to the coast early Sunday.

Florida may miss the full fury of this severe hurricane, but hazards are still possible.

Coastal Georgia and the Carolinas also are at risk.

“Life-threatening storm surge and dangerous hurricane-force winds are still possible along portions of the Florida east coast by the mid-

dle part of this week,” the Hurricane Center wrote.

Even while the majority of all the computer models predict that Dorian will remain just off the Florida coast, the National Hurricane Center is urging residents not to let their guard down and to continue preparing for an “extremely dangerous” hurricane and that landfall can still not be ruled out.

The storm’s peak winds are 285km/h, and Dorian has maintained Category 4 and Category 5 intensity for an unusually long period.

Storms that are this powerful typically tend to undergo cycles that weaken their highend winds for a time, but Do-

rian has avoided this dynamic.

Over the northern Bahamas, the storm’s core of devastating wind and torrential rain may sit for at least 24 hours as steering currents in the atmosphere collapse, causing Dorian to meander slowly, if not stall outright, for a time.

This forecast scenario could bring catastrophic wind damage, dump more than 600mm of rain, and cause a storm surge, which is the storm-driven rise in water above normally dry land at the coast of at least 5.5m to 7m above normal.

In short, this is a storm that, depending on its exact track, could reshape these locations for decades.

The Chase goes global Popular quiz show The Chase is going global in a new spin-off show but local brainboxes will have to wait to see if they’ll have a chance to take on the show’s famed Chasers. The show is titled Are You Smarter Than a Chaser? and is said to twist the show’s format by having contestants battle against not just the famous Chasers but also against children and A.I robots. While the show has not yet been confirmed The Sun is reporting it as having been commissioned. “Anne and The Chasers will be travelling across the world to prove that they can outsmart every living being — and robots.”

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Government death squad admits atrocities NZME The day Malick Jatta confessed to shooting one of Gambia’s best-known journalists, he wore the camouflage uniform of the armed forces and said the kill order came right from the former president.

The testimony was streamed live, and tens of thousands watched.

“I’m sorry,” he said.

Then he hung his head.

Gambia, a nation of two million people on the West African coast, is in the midst of a highly public truth and reconciliation

commission established to investigate atrocities committed during the 22-year reign of Yahya Jammeh, a leader who created a culture of fear and misinformation so deep that many still take care to call him a gentleman.

Two years after Jammeh lost an election and fled, investigators are holding what some experts have hailed as the most accessible truth commission in history.

Officials have been methodically interviewing both killers and victims, eliciting testimony into the deaths and disap-

pearances of hundreds of people.

Central to their effort is a live feed that sends that testimony through YouTube, Facebook, television and radio – directly into phones and homes around the country.

In Gambia, an overwhelmingly young and quickly urbanising nation that now has one of the highest rates of mobile phone use in all of Africa, listeners stretch from the capital, Banjul, into the countryside and abroad to the diaspora.

Many have been devastated

by the testimony; others doubt its veracity.

But for all the excitement about the stream, some Gambians are questioning whether simply hearing the truth will be enough to deliver justice.

It’s unclear if the commission will lead to trial or prison for perpetrators.

For Baba Hydara, the son of Deyda Hydara, the murdered journalist, the confessions have brought only hollow relief.

“They say that it helps with closure,” he said.

“That’s a lie.”

Tanya back on deck At her publicist’s office on Music Row, Tanya Tucker was fielding questions from reporters and posing for photos wearing pink hair and a blue, wide-brimmed hat while a documentary crew followed her around. The 60-year-old singer proudly mentioned to a photographer that she recently showed Tim McGraw she could still do the splits. With her first album of new songs in 17 years, While I’m Livin’, Tucker is in the spotlight again. And while being rebellious is part of her DNA, this time she’s ready to make nice. “I’m not 20 any more. It’s obvious. But I’m just trying to do what’s expected of me, and that’s never usually my case,” Tucker said.

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OUR VIEW

When numbers look good but then not so good W e’ve shouted from the rooftops at the top of our lungs about our incredibly low unemployment rates here in the Ashburton District, we’ve encouraged people to come into our little corner of the world and fill the spaces we have available.

Yet data released last week might suggest that we need to be looking a little closer to home to fill some of these gaping holes we have in the workforce with a slightly alarming figure emerging, hidden among the roses.

Infometrics data released last week show that our unemployment rate in 2018 sat around 1.9 per cent, far better than the national average of 4.6 per cent – but the problem, for this

district anyway, might be figures around those aged between 15-24.

Our current figures for the seasonally adjusted rate of young people aged 15-24 years who were not in employment, education, or training sat at 11.9 per cent, slightly higher than the national average of 11.7 per cent.

It might not seem like much, but it’s still enough to raise a

couple of alarm bells.

There needs to be pathways, avenues in which our younger generation can get their lives started once they get out of the schooling system – and in a perfect world, those numbers would be showing a lot better results than they are.

It’s been a pretty quick turnaround for this district too, which is probably the most alarming aspect.

In 2014 our NEET rate, as it is known, sat at around nine per cent, well below the national average which was around the same point it is now, but over the past four or five years it’s gradually grown and peaked to the point where we now sit above the magical line.

So much emphasis is placed on ensuring that youngsters, of all shapes, sizes and variations of life, are given the best possible opportunity to further their lives – but can we put our hands on our hearts and say that it’s working?

Statistics show that perhaps we can’t.

That’s not a knock on all those organisations who do so much in our community to try and help people find employment, education or training, but more a tale of a system that is perhaps lagging a little bit behind.

With so many jobs available around the district, perhaps there are opportunities there.

On-the-job training and opportunities seem rare in the

current climate with employers looking more for the tried and true employee who can step into the job and operate straight away.

A mindset change and a willingness to grow and foster new talent within the workplace could play a big role in bringing the number down, but that’s a big commitment to make.

There’s no real golden egg here unfortunately.

It’s going to require a lot of people to take a gamble and have a crack without really knowing if it’s going to come off or not to see the number of our younger generation currently not in employment, education or training reduced.

Who’s up for the challenge?

nine photographers and a press motorcyclist, and concluding the accident was caused by an inebriated driver.

In 2003, Paul Hill, a former minister who said he murdered an abortion doctor and his bodyguard to save the lives of unborn babies, was executed in Florida by injection, becoming the first person put to death in the United States for antiabortion violence.

In 2005, President George W. Bush ordered more than 7000 active duty forces to the Gulf Coast as his administration intensified efforts to rescue Katrina survivors and send aid to the

hurricane-ravaged region in the face of criticism it did not act quickly enough.

Ten years ago: A private funeral service was held in Glendale, California, for pop superstar Michael Jackson, whose body was entombed in a mausoleum more than two months after his death.

Five years ago: President Barack Obama, during a visit to Estonia, harshly condemned Russian aggression in Ukraine as a threat to peace. President Obama also said the United States would not be intimidated by Islamic State militants after the beheading of American journalist Steven

Sotloff.

One year ago: A court in Myanmar sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison on charges of illegal possession of official documents, a ruling that was met with international condemnation.

(The two were freed as part of a mass presidential pardon in May 2019.)

Today’s birthdays: Actress Pauline Collins is 79. Rock singer-musician Al Jardine is 77. Actress Valerie Perrine is 76.

Rock musician Donald Brewer is 71. Rock guitarist Steve Jones is 64. Actor Steve Schirripa is 62.

Actor Holt McCallany is 55. Rock

singer-musician Todd Lewis is 54. Actor Costas Mandylor is 54. Actor Charlie Sheen is 54.

Singer Jennifer Paige is 46.

Dance-rock musician Redfoo is 44. Actress Ashley Jones is 43.

Actress Nichole Hiltz is 41. Actor Joel Johnstone is 41. Actor Nick Wechsler is 41. Rock musician Tomo Milicevic is 40. Actress Christine Woods is 36. Actor Garrett Hedlund is 35. Hip-hop singer August Alsina is 27.

Thought for today: “In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.” — Pauline Kael, American movie critic (19192001).

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Tuesday, September 3, the 246th day of 2019.

There are 119 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On Sept. 3, 1943, Allied forces invaded Italy during World War Two, the same day Italian officials signed a secret armistice with the Allies.

On this date: In 1783, representatives of the United States and Britain signed the Treaty of Paris, which officially ended the Revolutionary War. In 1939, Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declared war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland; in a radio address, Britain’s King George VI said, “With God’s help, we shall prevail”. The same day, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the British liner SS Athenia some 250 miles off the Irish coast, killing more than 100 out of the 1400 or so people on board.

In 1958, pioneering heart surgeon Brian Barratt-Boyes performed the first open-heart surgery in New Zealand. The procedure, at Green Lane Hospital in Auckland, was carried out on an 11-year-old girl with a hole in her heart.

In 1976, America’s Viking 2 lander touched down on Mars to take the first close-up, colour photographs of the red planet’s surface.

In 1978, Pope John Paul I was installed as the 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.

In 1994, China and Russia proclaimed an end to any lingering hostilities, pledging they would no longer target nuclear missiles or use force against each other.

In 1995, the online auction site eBay was founded in San Jose, California, by Pierre Omidyar under the name AuctionWeb. In 1999, a French judge closed a two-year inquiry into the car crash that killed Princess Diana, dismissing all charges against

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Crunching numbers on real cost of zero carbon and ETS T

he risks to the viability of farming businesses with the Zero Carbon Bill and emissions trading scheme (ETS) are being grossly under-played.

It’s time farmers and farming leaders got out their calculators and crunched the numbers based on the likely costs some years down the track.

I did, and it’s frightening.

At present we’re being told that the liability is only 1 cent per kilogram of milksolids and 3 cents per kilogram of lamb.

We’re brushing it off as relatively minor but we’re being lulled into a false sense of security because those costs are on the basis of $25 a tonne for carbon and a 95 per cent free allocation under the ETS. The Zero Carbon Bill is still going through the select committee process.

Once it’s law, in possibly amended form, we’ll have a commission working to five-yearly carbon budgets and the market setting the carbon price.

The 95 per cent free allocation for agriculture under the ETS only runs as long as the coalition agreement with NZ First lasts. After that, all bets are off.

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Any future allocation rates will only require a majority decision of the Cabinet of whatever government holds the reins.

Agriculture’s total ETS liability can be met by the public/ Crown, by farmers or some mix of the two.

The public purse is always under pressure/subject to politicking so I’m quite sure the New Zealand taxpayer is not going to continue to subsidise a free allocation for my production in the long term.

So, with no free allocation under the ETS the liability for the 8500 lambs my farm finishes each year, with carbon priced at $25 a tonne, is $120,000 – or 60 cents per kilogram of meat.

But here’s another certainty.

The carbon price won’t stay at $25 a tonne.

The Productivity Commission’s report of April 2018

stated the carbon price may well have to increase to $250 a tonne for the ETS to be truly effective.

There has also been published comments by investors in the forestry sector that they are making their land purchase decisions on the basis of future carbon prices of up to $250 a tonne.

At $250/t, the cost to my business under the ETS is $1.2 million or $6 per kilogram of lamb.

Given lamb returns are around $6/kg in summer, even as high as $7.60/kg just now, clearly I’m not going to be in business very long with that level of climate change liabilities.

And here’s the problem we all face. Who is going to invest in a farming business with a potential liability at the whim of Cabinet of between 60 cents and $6 per kilogram of meat, that may or may not be subsidised by the taxpayer?

What bank is going to lend on a farming business without doing a sensitivity analysis on how vulnerable that business is to a change in the carbon price or a change in ETS allocation?

The figures are no better for a dairy farm.

The costs are being portrayed at 1 cent per kilogram of milk product, which is actually a total obligation in the ETS of 20 cents per kg at $25 a tonne. At $250 a tonne of carbon, it’s $2 per kg of milksolids.

That puts every dairy farmer in New Zealand out of business.

Just as important as all of this, is that farmers can forget about catchment loads, nutrient and water allocations, the new Freshwater National Policy Statement and all the rest of it.

What this climate change legislation does is give government a mechanism to put a sinking lid on the profitability and viability of agriculture in New Zealand because they can simply turn the carbon dial up and blow us out of business.

It’s time for farmers – and New Zealand – to wake up.

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National grasps Super nettle. How much will it sting?

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t seems the days of stern denial of any intention to tamper with the availability age of National Super at sixty-five, are coming to an end.

Most of us recall the defiant words of Super Key who stood, nobly, on the poop deck of good ship National – similar, in some ways, to Leonardo DiCaprio’s last stand at the bow of the unsinkable, RMS Titanic – defying the waves of controversy, which threatened to overwhelm him, as he insisted the sixty-five qualifying age was both desirable and, in particular, sustainable.

“Not on my watch”, said the resolute, subsequently knighted, PM, Sir John. “I shall resign rather than agree to any change.”

And, though, he was never actually put to the test, I’ve no doubt, he meant it.

Similarly, the present incumbent of the office on the ninth floor of the Beehive, Jacinda Ardern, has shown no sign of intending to intervene in an issue of such significance to Kiwis of all ages, whichever the rung on

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EYE ON POLITICS

which they stand, currently, on thesuperannuation ladder.

It has always been a handsoff issue, with all involved, not least the old growler himself, NZ First’s very own, Winston Peters.

However, the up-to-now untouchability of this subject is clearly becoming less so. Paul Goldsmith, National financial spokesman is, apparently fearlessly, stating what he sees as the obvious, namely, this country can no longer afford such a generous pension system.

He points out how much longer people are living, as health care and development increases and improves.

From 2037, therefore, the new Super age of qualification would

be sixty-seven, with contributions rising in instalments after that. Citizens relatively recently established in this country would have to wait 20 rather than 10 years to become eligible.

The proportion of life on Super on that scale would be 25 per cent, slightly longer than experienced by today’s sixty-five year-olds. These, and other alterations to the system will save $4 billion annually, once in place in 2040, according to Goldsmith, leader Simon Bridges and other National luminaries.

In other words, a highly beneficial move towards the upgrading of all sorts of other social and high-tech agencies of the future would then be possible.

However, sixty-five, as the year of accession to NZ Super, is deeply embedded in the nation’s psyche, thus any attempt to lengthen the wait for it being a political gamble of significant proportions. With an election pending in just over 12 months, National will need to do some

ultra persuasive electioneering to convince the electorate the change proposed would be very much to its advantage, if not immediately.

While other parties will be accused of heads in the sand over the issue, as National will so accuse them, the endless refusal to face facts over super and its increasing unaffordability has to be challenged.

Government generosity on the present scale has to be paid for and there are other vital causes which call for financial assistance.

Despite the continued anti-change, cantankerous bleating of Winston Peters, someone has to take the sting of grasping the super nettle, and soon.

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■■MYCOPLASMA BOVIS

Waiting times reduce for bovis Changes to the way MPI tests for mycoplasma bovis will reduce the amount of time that many Mid Canterbury farms spend under active surveillance or a notice of direction.

Federated Farmers Mid Canterbury president David Clark said reducing the stress associated with indecision or not knowing the outcome of testing was a positive step in the battle against the cattle disease.

“Taking that indecision out can only be positive, but there is still a lot of work to be done,” he said.

MPI said yesterday that of the 26 confirmed cases in the Ashburton District, 25 had been cleared after culling and disinfection. Another 27 farms are under a notice of direction restricting movement and 52 are under active surveillance.

“It’s looking positive at the moment, but the numbers have been moving around quite a bit.

“Spring milk testing will start to paint a better picture of where we are heading, but on the face of it, it looks positive. But there has been a lot of pain in the farming community and some families in particular, with hard work, stress and angst.

“A lot of hard work has been done and there is still a lot to do.

We have to continue to hope for a positive outcome to justify all the pain.”

The M. bovis programme is making changes to on-farm sampling protocols and how it interprets results from ELISA testing of blood samples. The changes will reduce the amount of time that many farms spend under active surveillance and notice of directions in the future.

“This is a positive step forward

Changes to the mycoplasma bovis testing programme will reduce waiting times for some farmers.

PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN in reducing the impact on farmers from sampling and testing for M. bovis,” MPI’s chief science adviser Dr John Roche said. “Our scientists have analysed the results from hundreds of thousands of samples. From that, they have refined our sampling criteria to effectively halve the number of

rounds of sampling and testing required for many farms, while ensuring we still correctly identify infected management groups.”

The changes mean that, where possible, blood samples will be collected from more cattle each time a property is visited, but for many farmers only one round of

sampling and testing will be required if the management-level results from the first round are negative. It is important to keep in mind that more testing might be required in the future if other risk events are found.

Most farms under active surveillance will only have to mus-

ter animals for one round of sampling, which will reduce the impact of on-farming testing on their operations.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand technical policy manager Chris Houston said many beef farmers would have to wait half as long to have an all-clear and get back to their business as usual.

“It could mean a reduction of up to five weeks of waiting for farmers to get a result, which is a great step forward.”

DairyNZ’s biosecurity policy adviser Nita Harding said it was a positive change for many dairy farmers having to undergo onfarm sampling.

“These changes will reduce the impact of on-farm sampling for many dairy farmers under active surveillance and for most farms with detected bulk tank milk test results.

“The majority of these farms are not infected, and these developments in the testing mean we will be able to determine their disease status faster, and with less disruption to their farming activities.”

The programme is also changing the way it interprets ELISA results for blood samples, based on expert analysis of the hundreds of thousands of samples tested to date. The threshold for designating an individual animal as a ‘reactor’ will increase (to a seropositivity ratio threshold of 90 per cent or greater).

Correspondingly, the percentage of reactors per management group required for a round to be determined positive will decrease (to a cut-off point of 3 per cent).

There will no longer be suspicious rounds, only positive or negative.

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MARKET REPORT Most would believe that dairying has its fair share of problems on the farm.

Water quality, carbon emissions and welfare issues are rolled out on an almost daily basis as reasons to “get rid of dairying” and there are certainly good reasons to improve the status of all the above.

The latest broadside has, yet again, come from Dr Mike Joy, aided by journalist David Larsen.

Published as an opinion piece in the New York Times, it has drawn widespread criticism from almost everyone in New Zealand.

Even the mainstream media seem to think Joy has gone too far this time.

On a positive side, having read the article, it is fairly lightweight and I suspect most Americans, regardless of the rights and wrongs of the article, will have moved on very quickly.

Those readers who are concerned about the environment have far greater fires to fight than worry about what is happening in a corner out of sight.

With Trump denying climate change and seemingly not to support the G7 in their attempts to help and pressure Brazil to limit damage to the Amazon, New Zealand’s situation must appear, except to the most committed, a minor sideshow.

Probably the most Joy and Larsen have got out of their exercise is highlighting their names in New Zealand, however, this time not so favourably.

The unfortunate aspect of their style of journalism is that it leaves no room for a balanced discussion.

Rolling off loose facts presents a very lop-sided view of an industry which is working hard to catch-up and mitigate past damage.

The fact that since the peak numbers of 2014 dairy cow numbers have fallen by 260,000 (2018) and limits on N leaching have been imposed along with limits on irrigation and so forth were overlooked by Joy and co.

These aren’t providing a perfect response by any means, but they are moving environmental impacts in the right direction.

If Mike Joy and others got their way and removed every last cow from New Zealand, impacts on waterways would still be measurable for some time as the soil reservoir has built up quite a store for years ahead, regardless of what actions are taken today.

What we do know is that dairying brings in $14.4 billion in exports and nothing else can do that.

It is perhaps pertinent to note, in a similar time-frame to the 260,000 dairy cow reduction, there was an increase in individual vehicles in New Zealand of around 700,000 with a corresponding increase in GHGs of around 743kts, while all of agriculture reduced over the same period by 410kts. While Lotto still keep advertising V8 vehicles for Father’s Day prizes, it makes you realise as a nation we have quite a mind shift to go through on this whole debate yet.

Perhaps what is more concerning than what is being written in the NYT is the news that there is a race on to develop a laboratory-based cheese.

While the potential manufacturers haven’t cracked this nut yet, it does sound as though they are getting close.

It is almost a given, as with meat and wool a long time ago, a non-natural version is only a matter of time before milk has a lab-based competitor.

We can probably also assume in matters of taste it will be very competitive with the natural product and also be cheaper to produce with less “environmental problems”.

What remains to be seen is whether it can replicate the positive natural attributes that mammal milk has.

To date, natural milk has stood head and shoulders above plant-based competitors,

to the point where it is illegal to raise children under four on a vegan diet.

However, when a product is produced that can be turned into cheeses and other milk-based products then the threat starts to become a bit more real.

New Zealand dairy and meat products have been able to show that they compete favourably against their plant-based counter-parts on carbon footprints, nutrition and even (in several cases) water usage.

How the new wave of synthetic products compare remains to be seen. One thing we do know is that there are “no free lunches” in producing anything, that defies the (current) laws of physics.

Probably the greater question is how the consumer views these products.

If, as some are saying, they will largely end up in the commodity ingredients space then the public may not necessarily know and purchase based upon price.

The challenge to our processors is to make sure the consumers who purchase New Zealand products do understand where their products come from.

Assuming New Zealand, these can be made with lower water, carbon emissions, higher nutrition attributes and produced ethically then we should be able to compete. However, specifically when it comes to dairying from our largest processor, there does appear to be an element of head-in-the-sand mentality.

The back-to-basics approach has the risk of leaving Fonterra further and further behind these new-age competitors.

Part of this is understandably due to the tight financial straits it has got itself into, but dairy farmers may pay, yet again, in the future if Fonterra cannot somehow get its head above the parapets and start promoting the positive attributes its products have.

Being stuck as a commodity producer will eventually end in tears.

Markets Sheep It looks as though the schedule may be close to hitting its peak as there was only very minor movement this week.

The Brexit fiasco will not be making exporters’ jobs any easier trying to predict what the UK and EU markets will be like leading into Christmas.

This apparent uncertainty is flowing through to the saleyards with prices there also seemingly at their peak and starting to soften, at least until some new signals start to flow through.

Wool China’s slow-down has certainly made an impact upon the wool trade, with only the coarser end holding on to previous values.

Cattle Cattle prices are firmer than the sheep, especially in saleyards. Perhaps the relatively mild winter around the country has meant there is more feed available for the time of year and buyers are a little more bullish in purchasing.

Schedules moved very little, however, and until the Trump/China impasse is behind us, uncertainty reigns there as well.

This is likely to be having a negative effect upon the opportunities in China which the African swine fever has made available.

Dairy The main news for dairy farmers is the increasing slide of Fonterra shares which must be hurting farmers’ equity.

Along with lower land prices, not a good recipe to take to the banks when discussing lending requirements.

Venison Little change.

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Farm gate price watch …

for the latest prices, visit www.interest.co.nz/rural September 2, 2019 current price range Saleyard prices … u LAMB ($/head) weighted average Store 117 -131 Prime 165 -226 u HEIFER (c/kg) 250-350 kgs Lwt Store 240 -321 u STEER (c/kg) 481-580 Lwt Prime 292 -316 This week Processor prices … u LAMB ($) including 1kg woolly pelt 15.5 kg YM SI 123.03 17.5 kg YX SI 138.91 19.0 kg YX SI 150.81 21.0 kg YX SI 166.69 Local trade (c/kg) SI 820 (16-22kg) u MUTTON ($) including 0.5kg pelt 21.0 kg MX1 SI 118.00 u BEEF (c/kg) P2 steer SI 543.0 (270-295kg) P Cow SI 414 (170-195kg) M2 Bull SI 495 (296-320kg) Local trade P2 SI 590 (180-280kg) u VENISON ($/hd) gross AP Hind 50kg SI 446 AP Stag 60kg SI 542 AP Stag 80kg SI 722

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Auction prices … u SI WOOL indicator prices (c/kg, clean) Mid mic (23.1-31.5) 1,024 1,191 Fine Xbrd (31.6-35.0) 424 517 Coarse Xbred >35 mic 309 307 Merino 1,895 2,121

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Source: WSI, NZMerino 1,245 1,557 727 429 540 302 345 352 280 2,340 2,980 1,588

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Local market prices … u GRAINS ($/tonne, delivered Canterbury) free price Wheat, milling,12.5%p 423 420 Wheat, feed 423 420 Barley, feed 410 400

International market prices … u LOGS indicator prices, $/tonne 43 Forest index July-19 125.00 125.00 132.00

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u DAIRY (NZ$/tonne) Butter Skimmilk powder Wholemilk powder Cheese - cheddar

6,957 3,084 4,475 5,716

Fonterra milk price Fonterra dividend Fonterra share price

6,595 4,139 5,070 6,397

7,708 3,711 4,801 6,197

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Fonterra shareholder goes to FMA

By Andrea Fox NZME

Fonterra’s biggest shareholder Colin Armer says he’s taken his long-simmering worries about the company’s books to the Financial Markets Authority because he’s angry.

He’s angry on behalf of the dairy co-operative’s 10,000-odd shareholders, who he says have had $4 billion wiped off their balance sheets in recent years.

He’s angry with the “inept” Fonterra Shareholders’ Council, which should have held the company, its directors and “out of control” management to account.

And he’s angry at auditor PwC, which he’s told the FMA, has “badly let down” shareholders.

Armer said he decided to make the complaint to the FMA following a recent “private” meeting with Fonterra chairman John Monaghan and chief executive Miles Hurrell.

The former Fonterra director is scathing about the shareholder representative council, which costs farmer-shareholders more than $3 million a year to run. He said it hadn’t monitored Fonterra’s performance, capability, leadership and succession as it should.

Colin Armer Armer said the council is “conflicted”.

He said he’s “regularly” raised his concerns about how Fonterra’s assets have been valued and audited with current council chairman Duncan Coull, but “they’ve been dismissed from what I can see”.

Armer’s complaint to the markets enforcer follows last month’s announcement by Fonterra that it anticipates having to make writedowns on assets and accounting adjustments totalling $820m-$860m for FY19 and may declare a loss of $590m-$695m when it reports on September 12.

“They’re cleaning house right now. Why not one, two, three, four years ago?”

Armer said because of the “silence” of council leaders and Fonterra Shareholders Fund chairman John Shewan – Armer is also a FSF unit holder – “as the largest shareholder I felt I had to do something”.

He claimed the council leadership was conflicted because “too many are eyeing a place on Fonterra’s board of directors in future”, noting chairman John Monaghan and his predecessor, the late John Wilson, were former councillors.

cision.

“The auditors make judgements every year based on interactions they have with the business and the carrying value of assets based on forward-looking projections of discounted cashflow. That is the discussion we have.

“We don’t make a decision on the carrying value of those assets.

It’s not our role.”

Coull laughed at Armer’s claim the council was conflicted.

“We haven’t been overseas for a couple of years. They have in the past through induction, better to understand the Fonterra business which has been a legacy for 17 to 18 years.

“I would strongly refute the claim regarding councillors eyeing directorships. That argument is quite flawed. It is not the board of Fonterra that elects councillors to the board, it’s the Fonterra shareholders themselves.”

On Armer’s claim the council leadership was “inept”, Coull said it wasn’t for him to respond to.

“That’s Mr Armer’s opinion.

It’s not for me to explain. And it wouldn’t be right for me to comment – let’s see what the FMA has to say. Why would I want to get in the way of that process?”

“They’re too busy dealing with the small stuff in the bowels of the business and being courted by the company, especially with overseas trips looking at markets which I think is stupid.”

Council chairman Duncan Coull, who is stepping down at the November annual meeting, vigorously rejected Armer’s criticisms and claims.

He was not aware of Armer’s complaint to the FMA. Coull said Armer had emailed him after FY18 annual results with concerns around the audit process.

“The council as part of its monitoring function meets with the auditors as we will be doing in two weeks’ time. We do that annually – post the annual results.”

Did he act on Armer’s concerns last year?

“Any concerns haven’t been dismissed. We have a process we go through every year to understand key audit matters. The council doesn’t have a role to speak to auditors throughout the year.”

Coull said once the auditors had signed off on Fonterra’s books the council’s role was to understand what the auditors had looked at and how they arrived at their de-

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More trouble for Spark Sport

By Chris Keall NZME

Just three weeks out from the Rugby World Cup, Spark Sport continues to wobble.

After glitches during the first two rounds of the English Premier League, Spark Sport kept a clean sheet last weekend.

But on Sunday morning, there was more grief for some users.

Spark Sport acknowledged through its Twitter account that “We’d like to let our customers know that we are aware of an issue with the live stream for Newcastle United V Watford.”

A stream of angry comments followed the post. Subscriber Marc Butler posted, “Spark [is] in over its head.”

And there was also trouble with Manchester United-Southhampton match, with subscriber Levi Barrow posting, “Coverage of the MUFC game cut out several times and for minutes at a time. Worse still, I logged in on my phone to

see if it worked on there and despite closing the app, logging out, logging out on laptop, refreshing page.”

The person managing Spark Sport’s Twitter account replied, “Sorry about that, Levi, I experienced it myself.”

The highlight packages for the eight games played on Sunday morning were late, then when they did arrive they had no audio.

Subscriber Paul Le Compte complained about lack of commentary on highlights clips, saying it ruined his Father’s Day viewing with his sons. Spark Sport apologised and said it was “an issue with the source”.

There was also an elevated number of general complaints.

The weekend also saw Spark Sport purposefully remove one stream from its Motorsport section: the F2 race at the Belgium Grand Prix that saw driver Anthoine Hubert tragically killed in a horrific crash.

Spark Sport has yet to supply

detailed comment to the Herald, but a spokeswoman did note that the games that streamed yesterday morning (NZ time) had no problems.

Going into the weekend, there was good news and bad news, with Spark Sport head Jeff Latch saying the service would return to full-blooded video in time for the World Cup (having earlier chopped back from 30 frames per second to 60fps, drawing complaints from some fans).

But Latch also has to concede that Spark Sport would not be ready for LG smart TVs in time for the RWC and the All Blacks’ squad announcement again highlighted the service’s delay, which is now officially pegged at 20 to 40 seconds behind the live action.

One subscriber was particularly incensed by the LG failure, emailing the Herald that he had spent $4500 on a new LG TV on Spark’s earlier assurance that LG smart TVs would get the Spark Sport app in time for the Rugby World Cup.

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TEST YOURSELF Test yourself with the Guardian’s weekday quiz 1 - What does a rotten egg do when lowered into a bowl of water? a. It sinks b. It floats c. It turns paler in colour 2 - In what year was GST first introduced to New Zealand? a. 1984 b. 1986 c. 1988 3 - The ancient kingdom of Sheba was located in which part of the world? a. The Arabian Peninsula b. Central Asia c. Southern Africa 4 - A torr is a unit of measurement for what? a. Speed b. Pressure c. Weight 5 - On a Spanish tapas menu, what food is referred to as gambas? a. Prawns b. Ham c. Cheese 6 - In the Bible, which sense does Saul lose on the road to Damascus? a. Hearing b. Sight c. Smell 7 - Denmark’s Tomas Bjorn is a leading competitor in which sport? a. Golf b. Darts c. Swimming 8 - Tanning is a process used in the treatment of which material? a. Wood b. Metal c. Leather

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Mount Somers’ letters

By Kathleen Stringer

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mong the staff at Ashburton Museum are many volunteers who undertake various roles. Some act as receptionists, welcoming and assisting visitors with our popular programmes, activities and research enquiries.

Others help care for collections. A few transcribe records to provide access to fragile or interesting items that would otherwise become damaged by use.

Transcribing or indexing can be a thankless task and one that some people loathe. It takes a special person to embark on a project that may last months or years. Not only is the project long, it is often slow, as the contents may be hard to understand, the writing hard to decipher and the actual item difficult to work with due to size, weight or fragility.

One large project has recently been completed by a museum volunteer after 18 months of hard work. It is the first correspondence book for the Mount Somers Road Board, a large book with all the board’s incoming correspondence pasted on to its pages.

This in itself poses some problems, as we often can’t know the full story related to a letter as we only have one half of the conversation.

Sometimes there may be a handwritten note inserted by the secretary of the board providing an insight into what they said.

Frustratingly, many of the incoming letters simply state that the author agrees to what was said in a letter sent to them.

Being inwards correspondence the letters are all in different handwriting. In most records, such as minutes, reports and so forth, there are few people writing the entries, so even if the handwriting is hard to read at first a reader can soon get to know the style and easily decipher it.

In the road board book, each incoming letter had a new style and sometimes there was creative spelling to deal with.

The letters date from 1880 to 1914 and number 1051. It is one of the largest letter books in the Ashburton Museum collection.

In the book, there are memos, flyers and letters, both from official organisations such as the government and other boards, as well as local people.

One thing noticeable when looking at the book, is the number of women who wrote the letters for their husbands. Were these women the literate partner in the relationship, or was the husband just too busy to write a letter?

The range of literacy in the letters is also interesting. Some were beautifully written, while others were barely a scrawl of phonetically spelled words.

This means that one of the most important reasons for transcribing this letter book is the detail and insight it gives into everyday people of our district.

It is also a useful source for

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1 – A map from the Ashburton County territorial series made in 1963, with boundaries hand drawn to match the Road Boards in 1877. Mount Somers, as seen on this map, is a very large area in the district at the time.

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2 – A map from 1963, showing the Ashburton County Road Board’s boundaries in 1901.

3 – Mount Somers station, where many people would have travelled to and then would have been able to use the roads to get around the Mount Somers area.

4 – This photo, taken in 1881, shows the cottage where the Mount Somers Road Board worked from. Mary Cooksen and Bob the horse are standing out the front.

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The road boards The history of road boards in our area is interesting. The first road board in this district was the Ashburton board, which was constituted in 1864.

The second board was Mount Somers. Essentially the top half of the district was governed by this board. By the time our letter book was begun, the area managed by Mount Somers had reduced, due to more road boards being established, however, it still contained a fair chunk of the

area, including all the lakes. It bordered Methven and included Anama. So the geographic range is quite large.

The topic of the letters is also varied. Some letters could be written today – people discussing roads or lack of them, enquiring about rates, or requests for

services and facilities.

As the name implies, originally road boards focused on roading and infrastructure, but soon it became a body that dealt with all manner of things, including charitable aid.

Some road boards had houses that the government assisted with erecting for immigrants to the area, so in the letter book there are also applications for those houses.

There are also a number of petitions for works to be carried out in specific areas, which were signed by landowners, which is a great snapshot of who was living where at any time.

Other people also advised of land transactions to ensure they weren’t paying rates on property they no longer owned.

With this important piece of knowledge about our district transcribed, the letters show a variety of information about a busy community that is rich in detail and fascinating.

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RESULTS ■■ Bowls Allenton Winter Bowls August 31 7th Round Aussie Pairs 1st Greg & Ashley Harrison 3 wins, 15 ends & 35 points, 2nd L. & J. Mills 3 wins, 15 ends & 26 points, 3rd B. White & S. Holdom 3 wins, 14 ends & 31 points, Aggregate winners were B. Mayson & M. Foggo September 1 Carpet Trophy A very successful winter bowls season concluded with Allenton members playing the rest for the Carpet Trophy which was won by the Allenton members.

The winning combinations on the day were: 1st with 3 wins N. Sharplin & M. Foggo, 2nd with 2 & 1/2 wins G. Clark & P. Quinn, 3rd with 2 wins B. White & M. Knox

■■ Bridge Ashburton Bridge Club August 26 Irwin Trophy N/S 1st Jill Wilce & Joyce Johnson, 2nd Gladys Baker & George Brown, 3rd Averil Leckey & Jackie Chisnall E/W 1st Jan McClelland & Anne Gilbert, 2nd Colin Clemens & Maryke Blignault, 3rd Mary Bruce & Mervyn Jones August 27 A Ladder N/S 1st Maureen Kolkman & Audrey Rooney, 2nd Leigh Wackrow & Mike Holdaway, 3rd Pat Jordan & Judith Edmond. E/W 1st Bill Kolkman & Jim Rooney, 2nd Mary Buckland & Trish Downward, 3rd Beth McIlraith & Carolyn King August 28 Brabant Trophy: 1st Trish Downward & Rosemary McLaughlin, 2nd Rewa Kyle & Sue Rosevear, 3rd Melva Stowell & Johnny Wright August 29 Eileen Willoughby Trophy Trophy N/S 1st Linda Baker & Jim Rooney, 2nd Annette Blain & Rona Brownlie, 3rd Mary Buckland & David Sewell. E/W 1st Pauline & Paul Fergus, 2nd Kay Robb & John Fechney, 3rd Sue Rosevear & Pat Jordan Plate N/S 1st Alan Sim & Trish Downward, 2nd Gladys Baker & Kate White, 3rd Pauline Scott & Perry Jowers E/W 1st Anne Gilbert & Bev Blair, 2nd = Val Palmer & Johnny Wright and Jan McClelland & Graham Gilbert Saturday – August 31st, Ashburton Pairs Morning Section A, N/S 1st Shirley Harris & Paul Fergus, 2nd Perry Jowers & Joyce Johnson, 3rd Harsha Sirisena & Julia Thomas. E/W 1st Sue Solomons & Craig Shannahan, 2nd Margaret Fraser & Helen Bremner, 3rd Bev Macaulay & John Irwin Section B N/S 1st Craig J Clark & Lin Clark, 2nd Wayne Pierce & Jennifer Pierce, 3rd Angela Spence & Gavin Spence E/W 1st Janine Havis & Debbie Seddon-Sewell, 2nd Thelma Boyce & Marianne Murray, 3rd Richard Bray & Margaret Burridge Afternoon Section A, N/S 1st Jan Stupples & Shirley Lattimore, 2nd Mike Bunce & Jean Rath, 3rd Bev Turton & Rona Brownlie E/W 1st Audrey & Jim Rooney, 2nd Mike Holdaway & Leigh Wackrow, 3rd Viv Hurst & Linda White Section B, N/S 1st Janine Havis & Debbie Seddon-Sewell, 2nd Angela & Gavin Spence, 3rd Caren Hampton & Mark Hyde E/W 1st Pam Taylor & Karen Walker, 2nd Jennifer Pierce & Wayne Pierce, 3rd Richard Bray & Margaret Burridge

■■ Cycling Mid Canterbury Social Wheelers August 31 Winter Series, 33 riders.

1st Riley Strachan CT.31.16. HT. Go. RT. 31m

DRAWS ■■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club September 7 The first round of the Club Championships Match Play will be held, for those not in the match play a stableford round will be held.

The match play draw is: Tee #1

16s. 2nd Nigel Chatterton CT. 31.55. HT. 4m.

RT. 27m 55s. 3rd Andy Skinner CT. 31.56.

HT. 4m. RT. 27m 56s. 4th Don Sutton CT. 31.57. HT. 4m. RT. 27m 57s. 5th Lucy Kirwan RT.31.58. HT. 4m. RT. 27m 58s. 6th Brian Ellis CT. 31.58. HT. 4m. RT. 27m 58s.7th Debbie Skinner CT.31.59. HT.Go. RT. 31m 59s.

8th John Uden CT.33.02. HT. 7.20m. RT. 25m 42s. 9th Roger Wilson CT. 33.02. HT. 7.20m. RT. 25m 42s. 10th Ross Templeton CT. 33.03. HT. 6.40m. RT. 26m 23s. 11th Don Morrison CT. 33.03. HT. 6.40m. RT. 26m 23s.

12th Martin HJyde CT. 33.03. HT. 6.40m. RT. 26m 23s. 13th Larry Neill CT. 33.03. HT. 6.40m. RT. 26m 23s. 14th Pam Harcourt CT. 33.04. HT.6.40m. RT. 26m 24s. 15th Nick Grijns CT.33. 04. HT. 7.20m. RT. 25m 44s. 16th Doug Coley CT.33.05. HT.6.40m.

RT. 26m 25s.17th John Delore CT. 33.05.

HT.4m. RT. 29m 05s. 18th Allan Johns CT. 33.05. HT. 1.20m. RT. 31m 45s. 19th Merv Grewer CT.33.16. HT. Go. RT. 33m 16s. 20th Ron Kennedy CT.33.18. HT.1.20m. RT. 31m 58s. 21st Liz Wylie CT.33.34. HT. 1.20m. RT. 32m 14s. 22nd Mike Hansen CT.34.14. HT. 10.20m. RT. 23m 54s. F/T. 23rd Michael Gallagher CT.34.14. HT. 10.20m. RT. 23m 54s. 2f/t. 24th Simon Chapman CT.34.15.

HT. 9.20m. RT.24m 55s. 25th Paul Summerfield CT.34.15. HT. 9.20m. RT. 24m 55s.

26th. Richard Kirwan CT.34.16. HT. 9.20m.

RT. 24m 56s. 27th Steve Caldwell CT.34.17.

HT. 10.20m. RT.23m 57s. 3f/t. 28th. Kristine Marriott CT.34.18. HT. 1020m. RT. 23m 58s.

4f/t. 29th Michelle Knight CT.34.18. HT. 9.20m. RT.24m 58s. 30th Matt Marshall CT.34.18. HT. 9.20m. RT. 24m 58s. 31st.

Colin Teahan CT.34.20. HT.6.40m. RT.27m 40s. 32nd Brent Hudson CT.35.46. HT.4m.

RT.31m 46s. 33rd Tony Adams CT.38.08. HT. 4m. RT. 34m 08s.

■■ Golf Ashburton Golf Club August 29 Ashburton 9 Hole Golf Winners of the Stroke Round were: Dick Hansen 34, Antony White 34, Helen Argyle 35 Smith & Church Gobbler - Kath Read August 31 The winning team in the Irish Stableford match for the Don Houghton Memorial Trophy on c/b was: Mike Holmes, Peter MacAulay, Ivan Blain and Murray Moorehead on 97 pts. Other winning teams: George Brown, Paul Greer, Nick Ralston and Chris Ralston 97; Royce Jamieson, Peter Paul and David Morrison 97; Bev Chinn, Wendy Bruce and Tufuga Sa 95 on c/b.

Twos: Adrian Hopwood, Peter Morrison, Sean Strange, Mary Lou Watson, Sharon Bradford, Terry Molloy, Hamish Niles, Barry Jury and Wendy Bruce (2).

Nearest the Pins: #4 Terry Molloy, #8 Barbara Williams, #12 Sharon Bradford, #14 Ian Rive.

Longest Drives: Women Sharon Bradford; Men Lucas McGee. Nine Hole The Harvey Bakehouse player of the day was Wendy Hopwood with 23pts. Other winning scores were: Laurence Hanrahan 20, Robynne Nicol 17, Peter Woods 19 and Peter Wright 19.

Mayfield Golf Club August 27 Ladies Division L. G. U.5th Putting. 5th Handicap .Grade 0-29 Judy Webb 95-19-76, Grade 20-29 Sharon Duthie106-29-77 Anne Maree Blair 107-27-80 Grade 30+Juliet Mc Leod 111-3576, Ruth Keeley 116-38-78. Putting Judy Webb 26, Juliet McLeod 27 Joan Stocker 29. Marilyn Cross 2ND Shot 2&11 Grade 0-29 Judy Webb, Grade 30+ Sue Graham, Two’s No 2 Sue Graham. Sims Bakery No 5 Nearest the Pin Not Struck, Mr Manns Bakery & Cafe. No 14 Nearest the Pin Betty Wilson August 29 9 Hole Golf 8th Handicap & Putting Putting: 1st Jill Ludemann 13, 2nd Eddie 11.52 Tom Blacklow v Peter Morrison, Brent MacGregor v Ryan Stoddart 12.00, Paul May v Terry Kingsbury, Hiro Kekada v Tufuga Sa, 12.08 Hamish Niles v Barry Jury, Paddy Bradford v Robbie Bell, 12.15 Greig Sparrow v Peter Walker, Adrian Hopwood v Brendan Davidson.

Tee #10 11.45 James McFarlane v Nick Ralston, Daren Peace v Wilson Hii, 11.52 Kevin Smith v Dave Hewitt, Ken Clucas v John Richards, 12.00 Chris Robertson v Stewart Dunlop, Perry Hunt v Alan White, 12.08 Jason Overend v David Morrison, Sean

Tuesday, September 3, 2019 Graham 16 Handicap: Eddie Graham 52-16-36 Jacinta Schmack 58-20-38 Greg Sim Building & Excavating No 2: Jill Ludemann, Mayfield Transport No 5: Cate Hogan- Wright

Methven Golf Club August 23 9 hole, Stroke and Stableford Alister Goodwin 47-16-31 20 Stablefords; Graham Campion 53-20-33, 20; Adrienne Goodwin 59-24-35, 19; PGG Wrightson Best Player Alister Goodwin; Methven Travel Second Shot Graham Campion August 30, Stroke and putting Mike Markillie 49-17-32 17 putts; Graham Campion 56-20-36, 17; Karen Currie 15 Putts, Alister Goodwin 15.

PGG Wrightson Best Player Mike Markillie.

Club Champs Ladies: Round 1 Adrienne Goodwin beat Annette Maw, Karen Currie beat Hiromi Ikehata; Round 2 Adrienne Goodwin beat Karen Currie, Trish Pedofsky beat Angela Simonett, Final Adrienne Goodwin Beat Trish Pedofsky Men’s: Round 1 Alister Goodwin beat Kevin Thompson, Graham Campion beat John Barwell, Final Graham Campion beat Alister Goodwin.

August 24 Men’s Division 2nd Round Club champs.

Senior: Andrew Lock 85-12-73. Intermediate: Paddy Helmore 82-14-68. Junior A: Mark Gorman 85-18-67. Junior B: Gavin Santy 95-25-70 Other Good Scores: 71 Simon Wareing, Andrew McNeir.72 Stuart Wilson, John McGettigan, Russell Currie. 73 Barry Mathews, Rod Carson. 74 Frank Sandys, Alister Maxwell, Andrew Whylie, Wilf Lock.

Two’s: James Anderson, Phil Johnson, M Youngman, Wilf Lock.

Dubliner Best Nett: Mark Gorman 67. Methven Foursquare Second Best Nett: Paddy Helmore 68. Methven Travel Best Gross: Alister Maxwell 81.

Closest to the Pin-Aqua Japanese Restaurant No 4: Grant Hargraves. Hunters Wine No 6: Greame Gunn. Ski Time No 13: Wilf Lock. Green Parrot No 17: Frank Sandys.

Cinema Paradiso 2nd shot No 14: Mick Hodgson.

Next Week September 7: Semi Finals Club Champs, First Round flights…Tee Times 12pm Junior A & Intermediate. 12.07pm Senior & Junior B. Flights 12.14pm August 28 Ladies Division Match Play Bronze A: Jan Lane beat Jane Helmore, Ellen Kemp beat Ruth Smith; Bronze B: Bev Isherwood beat Nola Hydes, Heather Middleton beat Gail Limbrick Stroke Round: Wendy Wareing 110-36-74 C/B, Ruth Smith 95-21-74 C/B, Jenny Senior 89-15-74 Aqua Japanese Restaurant Best Nett of the Day: Wendy Wareing 74 Nearest the Pins: #6 Open Cinema Paradiso Sharryn Bree, #17 Open Methven Foursquare Dennise Hood, #4 Br B 2nd shot&Open Methven Travel Bev Isherwood, #13 Open Methven Pharmacy Jan Lane, #14 Saturday Girls Supervalue Gayle O’Duffy, #13 Saturday Girls Arabica Gayle O’Duffy Two’s and Nett Eagles: Bev Isherwood.

Dennise Hood. Wendy Wareing.

Rakaia Golf Club August 28 Ladies Division Stroke Round Bev Sutherland 105 – 33 – 72, Val Sisson 106 – 29 – 75 9 Hole Players Stroke Round Val Bell 52 – 19 – 33 Railway Hotel 2nd Shot No 3 Jo Johnson, Rakaia Seed Cleaning 2nd Shot No 6 Marion Wederell, Val Bell, Nearest the Pin No 8 Marion Wederell, Chertsey Spraying 2nd Shot No 15 Marion Wederell, S. Quinn 2nd Shot No 17 Teresa Booker Strange v Matt Tait, 12.15 Sam Clarke v Jordan Bird, Chris Ralston v Ron Carlson, 12.22 Ian Rive v Brayden Wood, Chris Lovelock v Paul Morrison Byes: Jeff Hewitt, Blair Franklin, John Fechney and Jeff Williamson.

Junior B Match Play starts on 14 September.

Starting Times: Morning start at 8.00am; Afternoon report at 11.30.

Nine hole golfers report at 12.30 for a 1pm start.

Tinwald Golf Club August 31 Stroke Leading scores in the stroke round. Doug Osborn 65, Nigel Heney 66 (65 plus1), Johnny Gray 67, Wayne Mellish 69, Lindsay Jackson 71 b/l. Women; Jacqui Beardsley 72, Sally Lane 73 b/l. Nearest the pin: Tinwald Liquorland # 2; Linda McClea. Gluyas Ford # 6; Adam Wilson. House of Travel # 12; Cameron Miller. Ace Auto Electrical # 16; Nick Wilson. G & R Seeds 2nd shot # 11; John Smitheram. Two’s; Wayne Ross, Tony Sheppard, Nigel Heney, Adam Wilson, Nick Wilson. Net Eagle; # 16 not struck.

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■■CRICKET

Black Caps overcome Sri Lanka

■■ Pigeon racing

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Ashburton Pigeon Club

They were put under pressure by Sri Lanka’s batsmen, then needed a mighty fightback to overcome their bowlers.

The rain, of course, had to make an appearance as well.

But, after all of that, the Black Caps’ Twenty20 World Cup buildup is under way – with a win.

It was a win that looked extremely unlikely at 39-3 in the eighth over, with a chase of 175 on the docket, but a superb 79run partnership off just 38 balls between Ross Taylor and Colin de Grandhomme put them in with a chance, and Daryl Mitchell and Mitchell Santner saw them home, claiming a five-wicket win with three balls to spare.

In some ways, the topsy-turvy encounter was a fitting start to a series that has an experimental feel to it, in a format that can be hellaciously random at the best of times.

The Black Caps had rested Kane Williamson and Trent Boult, and they will be joined in heading home by Lockie Ferguson, who fractured his thumb on the eve of the game.

Ferguson’s contributions were missed as Sri Lanka racked up an excellent score, led by Kusal Mendis, who produced his best T20 innings with 79 from 53.

He took a liking to Seth Rance early and showed little problems scoring off de Grandhomme, but the Black Caps managed to peg back the hosts in the middle overs.

New Zealand’s top order failed.

Colin Munro got a trademark Lasith Malinga inswinger first ball and saw his middle stump removed from the ground, Guptill holed out in the deep for 11, and Tim Seifert was awfully scratchy, mustering just 15 from 21 balls.

That left a massive task for de Grandhomme and Taylor, who initially rebuilt the innings, requiring 113 runs off the last 10 overs. Somehow, they were unflustered and summarily swatted 17, 18 and 17 off the following three overs.

Santner came in and tonked Udana over long-on to turn a tricky equation of 26 off 14 balls into a manageable 20 off 13 Mitchell sent a glorious straight drive for six which ensured the Black Caps would be starting the series in style.

Second race of the season from Kaikoura.

T. Drummond 1st Velocity 1307.36, E. Westgarth 2nd Velocity 1305.99, M. Davidson 3rd Velocity 1304.30, L. Davidson 4th Velocity 1302.08, N. Marton 5th Velocity 1299.29

■■ Run and Walk Run and Walk Ashburton August 31 Club Champs, held at the Ashburton Industrial Park Walkers – 6.24km Rob Beale 41:30 (Fastest Time); Dave Strong 42.46; Peter Larkin 45.40; Robert Moffitt 47.10 (1st man on handicap); Marie Batty 49.08 (1st woman home); Noel Batty 49.10; Barbara Taylor 49.15; Lori Rusbatch 50.32; Janet Hood 51.27; Colin Phillips 55.02 Runners 2.08km U5 – 1st Addison Page 20:18; U6 – 1st Jamie Hooper 19:19; U10 – 1st Stacey Hayes 10:30: U12 – 1st Jack Hooper 11:25; U13 – 1st Stacey Hooper 11:26; Masters: Kathryn Page 20:18.

Runners 4.16km U14 – 1st Angel Spooner 18:51; Runners 6.24km - Senior Women: Ashlea Mulligan 26:37 (1st home & 1st on handicap); Masters: Tam Grant 28:46; Toresa Hooper 29:14; Alison Conway 33:06; Runners 6.24km – Veteran Men: Merv Gilbert 34:00; Mike O’Callaghan 49:15; Kenny Johnston 50:08.

Runners 8.32km – Senior Men: Shaun Clark 33:27 (1st man home); Masters: Jeremy Hayes 33:57; Joe Ford 34:50; Brian Goodes 36:36; Ian Broadbelt 39:45 (1st man on handicap); Eamon Hooper 53:05.

■■ Rugby Mid Canterbury Rugby August 31 Heartland Week 2 East Coast 15 v Agstaff Mid Canterbury 22 Mid Canterbury A North Otago 26 v Agstaff Mid Canterbury A 34 ACL Mid Canterbury Under 18 Mid Canterbury 20 v South Canterbury 19 ACL Mid Canterbury Under 16 Mid Canterbury v South Canterbury ACL Mid Canterbury under 14.5 Buller 37 v Mid Canterbury 34 ACL Mid Canterbury Under 13 Buller 13 v Mid Canterbury 95

■■ Shooting Fullbore Shoot September 1 Ashburton District Rifle Club, at 600 yards.

TR, Allan White 49.2, 50.8, 99.10, John Miller 46.3, 49.6, 95.6, John Snowden 48.2, 47.4, 95.6, John Fleming 45.3, 49.3, 94.6, Brian Hawksby 45.1, 46.3, 91.4, Coby Snowden 43.0, 44.1, 48.1, Mike Chui 45.1, 39.0, 84.1.

FTR, Murray Cook 53.1, 60.5, 113.6, Brian Graystone 53.0, 57.2, 110.2.

FO, Lou Donaggio 52.1, 57.1, 109.2, Bob McDonald 54.1, 55.0, 109.1, Jeremy Scarlet 49.3, 50.0, 99.0, Larry Mantell 45.0, 34.0, 79.0.

■■ Rugby Mid Canterbury Rugby September 7 Heartland Week 2 West Coast v Agstaff Mid Canterbury, 2:30pm, Greymouth Mid Canterbury A Agstaff Mid Canterbury A v North Otago, Hinds, 1;00pm, Josh Rooney, Toby Scannell, Jock Heke (Pete McKnight Host) ACL Mid Canterbury Under 18 Canterbury Metro v Mid Canterbury, Burn-

side Park, 1:00pm ACL Mid Canterbury Under 16 Mid Canterbury v South Canterbury, Geraldine, 1:00pm Under 16 Cant Country U16 v Noth Otago U16, Hinds 1:00pm Kalifa Faalogo ACL Mid Canterbury under 14.5 Mid Canterbury v West Coast, John Sturgeon Park1, 12:00pm ACL Mid Canterbury Under 13 Mid Canterbury v West Coast, John Sturgeon Park2, 12:00pm

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■■ GOLF

Giving golf a good shot

By Erin Tasker

erin.t@theguardian.co.nz

A festival of golf on Sunday which was all about introducing new people to the sport is being hailed a huge success.

Ashburton Golf Club pro Matt Davis said the festival attracted around 45 people, including a number of kids and their parents or grandparents, and that’s exactly what the day was all about.

The festival gave people a chance to learn some of the vital parts of any golf game, like chipping and putting, and ended with club members taking some of the potential new players out for a few holes on the actual course.

“A lot of them really enjoyed it and we ended up signing a few up for the junior team golf,” Davis said.

The Festival of Golf was the latest in a string of initiatives to try and attract new people to the sport.

Another was team golf, a new concept aimed at primary school aged kids, which was launched in Mid Canterbury last year, and it is set to return to the Ashburton Golf Club again in November.

Davis said team golf saw teams of four or five kids play a few holes over a couple of hours, once a week.

It was about having fun and learning at the same time.

Family team golf, a similar concept but aimed at families, was another concept that was last summer introduced to Ashburton with some success, and Davis has also been busy this year taking his golf programme into more and more schools.

All up, it meant that more young people in Mid Canterbury were being given the opportunity to give golf a go, and that’s a good thing, Davis said.

He said the Festival of Golf would be an annual feature on the Ash- Testing her chipping skills during Sunday’s Futures Festival of Golf at the Ashburton Golf Club was Hayley Smith. burton Golf Club calendar.

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■■MOTOR RACING

Dead battery costs Dixon championship chance AP Kiwi driver Scott Dixon lost all chance, and Josef Newgarden tightened his grip on the IndyCar championship with a trouble-free run at Portland International Raceway and a victory by teammate Will Power yesterday.

Power won for the second time in three races, and the victory was critical because it prevented any of Newgarden’s title contenders from taking the top spot on the podium.

Newgarden started with a 38-point lead in the standings, finished fifth and now takes his bid for a second title in three years to the September 22 season finale to Laguna Seca in California.

“I am happy for Will, I wanted Will to win the race,” Newgarden said.

“If we weren’t going to win it, then he’s the guy to win and take the points away from somebody else.”

Power understood the task for Team Penske and Chevrolet, and understood he had to prevent Alexander Rossi and five-time and reigning series champion Scott Dixon from winning at Portland and closing in on Newgarden’s points lead.

Rossi finished third, but still trails Newgarden by 41 points, while Dixon was in control of the race early until his battery died and is now a longshot to win the title.

“Just so stoked get to victory lane, helps the team, keeps the other guys from getting points,” Power said.

Less than thrilled was Rossi, who believed Portland was the

place to pounce after Newgarden had a poor qualifying effort.

It put Newgarden in 13th at the start and in the thick of the chaos that began with a multi-car crash in the opening turn.

Newgarden, realising he must only stay out of trouble in two races to win the title, remained calm and avoided the carnage.

“I was in the wrong place, I can tell you that,” he said.

“I saw someone come barrelling at me, so I just tried to stop and go around.

“When you start that far back, you run the risk of being part of something like that.”

Even after dropping to the back of the field, he still managed to drive his way toward the front and finish just two spots behind Rossi.

While it’s still a matchup of a pair of American drivers racing

A disappointed Scott Dixon. for the title at Laguna Seca, Rossi knows he must win the finale and hope Newgarden has a disastrous race to win the championship.

Rossi was runner-up to Dixon in last year’s title race.

“It’s disappointing. We are on the podium from (starting) sev-

enth and Josef was at the back at the beginning, and it’s just tough,” Rossi said.

“He’s just always coming through. It’s hard when you have a good day and it’s just not good enough.”

All the contenders might have had to contend with Dixon, who had command of the race when his car powered down during a routine stop.

His crew had to push him to his stall and replace the battery, and Dixon went from leader to three laps off the pace in a moment.

His title hopes – he was fourth among the four drivers mathematically eligible to win the championship – dashed.

Power moved into the lead after Dixon’s issue and withstood a restart with four laps remaining for the victory.

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■■TOURNAMENT TIME

A big week for school sport

Coaches Cup under way Hamish O’Reilly looks to move the ball up the turf during his Ashburton College second XI’s first game of the Coaches Cup secondary schools’ hockey tournament in Ashburton yesterday. O’Reilly’s side won 4-3 in their first game against Waitaki Boys’ High School. The tournament is made up of 15 teams from around the South Island.

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■■TENNIS

Stunning scenes at Flushing Meadow NZME Roger Federer’s hopes of another US Open title have been given a massive boost after defending champion and No. 1 seed Novak Djokovic bowed out yesterday.

Djokovic’s title defence ended abruptly when he stopped playing during his fourthround match against Stan Wawrinka because of pain in his left shoulder.

Djokovic was trailing 6-4, 7-5, 2-1 and being thoroughly outplayed when he retired from the match in Arthur Ashe Stadium, shaking his head as he walked over to the chair umpire to say he was conceding.

“It’s never the way you want to finish the match,” said Wawrinka, who will face No. 5 seed Daniil Medvedev in the quarter-finals.

“I feel sorry for Novak.”

It promises to make Federer’s path to a highly sought after first US Open final against Rafael Nadal much easier after the Swiss star was scheduled to meet Djokovic in the semis.

A fiery Federer has his groove back and he proved it by destroying David Goffin to advance to his 13th US Open quarter-final.

After surprisingly dropping the opening set in his first two rounds, the Swiss cruised through his second-straight easy victory by belting Goffin 6-2 6-2 6-0 in less than 90 minutes, to set up a meeting with Grigor Dimitrov.

Make it through that, and he won’t have to play Djokovic, who had won 36 of his past 37 Grand Slam matches, and four of the last five major titles, in one of the most dominant

Novak Djokovic takes the long walk back to the dressing room. stretches this sport has seen.

But he began complaining about his left shoulder during a second-round victory, when he repeatedly got massaged by a trainer during changeovers.

Djokovic won his next match, looking good, and declared himself mostly pain-free, although he refused to disclose any details of the injury or what type of treatment he had received.

His bid for a fourth US Open championship and 17th Slam trophy all suddenly dissipated at the conclusion of what for him amounted to a listless and ineffective effort.

Against Wawrinka, a three-time major

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champion himself, Djokovic never quite had the usual verve on his shots or range on his formidable service returns.

He was out of sorts on all manner of shots, accumulating 30 unforced errors and only 12 winners through the first two sets.

He managed to lead 3-0 and 4-1 in the second set, but that was just about all he had in him. When that set ended, Djokovic had a trainer on for a massage, but soon thereafter, his title defence was over.

Djokovic entered the night 19-5 against Wawrinka across their careers. This, though, was their first meeting since the 2016 US Open final, won by Wawrinka.

Ashburton College’s A netball team got their South Island secondary school tournament campaign off to the perfect start yesterday.

Playing in Nelson, they took on Marlborough Girls’ High School in their opening match of section H in the tournament’s A grade, and did their top 16 hopes a big favour by comfortably taking out the game 41-29.

They then took on Nayland College in their second game yesterday afternoon and won 35-31, putting them in a strong position heading into their next game against last year’s runners-up, Southland Girls’ High School, at 11am this morning.

Yesterday, the Southland side lost to Marlborough Girls’ High School 35-23, meaning Ashburton College finished day one on top in their section.

If they can pick up the victory spoils this morning they will remain at the top heading into cross-section play.

In the netball tournament’s B grade, Mount Hutt College didn’t fare so well in their opening game against Verdon College, going down 48-21, and in game two against Kaikoura High School they again lost, 37-24.

The tournament is one of many being held around the country this week, as part of secondary schools’ tournament week.

In Dunedin, the Ashburton College junior girls’ basketball team started their Junior Secondary Schools Premiership Zone 4 tournament on Saturday with a 57-46 loss to Middleton Grange, despite getting off to a strong start and leading at the end of the first quarter.

On Sunday they took on Kaiapoi High School and picked up their first win, 81-68, before taking on Otago Girls’ High School later in the day.

In that game they started well but tired in the second quarter, and although they launched a comeback late in the second half they fell short, 72-56.

In Invercargill, the Ashburton College boys’ first XI hockey side started their Johnson Cup campaign with a nil-all draw in their pool B match against Nelson College, while at the Jenny McDonald tournament in Cromwell the Ashburton College girls’ hockey first XI were due to take on a South Canterbury Rural Combined team late yesterday afternoon in their opening game of tournament week.

In Timaru, playing at the Gary Sowden Tournament, the Ashburton College girls’ first XI football team started their tournament with a 6-0 win over Papanui High School.

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The New Zealand boat crew, including Ashburton’s Emma Dyke (second from left), reacts after winning the Women’s Eight final at the World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim, Austria, yesterday.

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■■ROWING

GOLDEN GIRLS

By Niall Anderson

metres, but New Zealand utterly dominated the final quarter, roaring past Australia and rowing away for a victory by nearly three seconds.

Also timing their race perfectly was the pairing of Donoghue and Loe, who claimed their third consecutive world championship medal.

The 2017 world champions finished second last year, but added

middle of the race and as we managed to hold our own and push towards the finish.

“That was always the plan.

“I never tried to look out the boat so I had to assume everyone was behind me.

“This title will be great for our confidence.

“We’ll look to keep improving towards the Olympics but I believe we’re in a good position.”

New Zealand’s women rowers have shone once again at the world championships, capping off an impressive regatta with two gold medals and a silver yesterday in Austria.

Brooke Donoghue and Olivia Loe triumphed in the women’s double sculls, before the women’s eight claimed an exceptional victory, making it four gold medals for female Kiwi crews after the women’s pair and lightweight women’s double stood atop the podium the day before.

Emma Twigg added a silver medal in the singles sculls, to go with the silver claimed by the men’s pair of Thomas Murray and Michael Brake.

The haul of gold medals will be a boon to Rowing New Zealand after their struggles last year where they failed to claim a single gold.

Four golds is the most New Zealand have claimed at a world championships since 2015, while the return by women’s crews, in particular, is their best in world championship history, nar- Brooke Donoghue and Olivia Loe on the podium. rowly edging the four golds and one bronze claimed in 2014.

Twigg experienced the oppoa second gold to their resumes by Grace Prendergast and Kerri picking through the field with ex- site emotions, charging out to a Gowler will be travelling home pertise. lead in her singles sculls final bewith two gold medals, after the Traditionally slower starters, fore being reeled in. successful women’s pair combi- the duo were fifth through 500 The 2014 world champion had nation backed up their success metres and third at the halfway set up a two-second advantage as members of the eight, who mark, and eventually won com- at the halfway mark, but Ireclaimed world championship fortably by 1.4 seconds over the land’s Sanita Puspure overcame glory for the first time. fast-finishing Romanian crew. a slow start out of the blocks to They had to hunt down a Loe said they executed their halve that lead by the 1500 metre fast-starting Australian crew to plan to perfection. mark, and eventually peg back a do so, with their trans-Tasman “That was all a bit of a blur. flagging Twigg to win by 3.4 secrivals leading for the first 1500 “We really took control in the onds.

However, considering Twigg only returned to the sport this season, she had more than enough reasons to smile.

“I knew it was going to be a real tough one out there.

“I know Sanita has some form, so I just had to be brave.

“I came up a little short today, but this being my comeback season after two years away, it has been a great season.”

The news was gloomier for the men’s eight, who finished sixth in their final and missed out on qualification for the Tokyo Olympics by 0.5 of a second.

There are two final qualifying spots available in the last-chance qualification regatta in Lucerne in May, but it is uncertain whether Rowing New Zealand will send boats to Switzerland.

Also uncertain is the future makeup of the crew, with the boat’s star names – Hamish Bond and Mahe Drysdale – potentially set to eye other opportunities, especially after New Zealand qualified a boat for the singles sculls.

Robbie Manson came from last at the halfway stage and fourth with 500 metres to go, unleashing a powerful sprint to win his B final and qualify the boat for Tokyo.

Whether it will be Manson sitting in the boat remains to be seen, with his poor performance in Austria likely to lead to challengers for his spot in the New Zealand trials next year.

John Storey and Chris Harris also qualified a boat for the Olympics in the men’s doubles sculls, taking New Zealand’s tally to nine boats heading to Tokyo.

■■BASKETBALL

Tall Blacks fall into a big hole NZME Five and a half miserable minutes have consigned the Tall Blacks to an opening 102-94 defeat at the Basketball World Cup – and severely dented their hopes of making the second round.

Leading Brazil 56-50 midway through the third quarter of their biggest game in five years, things were looking up for the Tall Blacks.

Their rapid pace was tiring the old Brazilian legs, Corey Webster had hit five three-pointers in the previous quarter, and Brazil’s players with NBA experience – all seven of them – were struggling to find purchase against the Tall Blacks’ improved depth, missing 11 straight shots.

Then everything changed.

In the space of 330 seconds, Brazil swung the entire game. From a 56-50 deficit, they charged into a 78-62 lead going into the final period – a 28-6 run that the Tall Blacks had no answer for as the South Americans claimed victory.

New Zealand’s fast tempo which had proved so successful suddenly led to rash shots, while the small defensive lapses that had been present in the first half intensified as Brazil knocked down six threes, all the while the Tall Blacks saw shot after shot clang off iron.

Webster’s five second-quarter triples proved to be the only threes he’d make, and while his solid offensive performance was complemented by Isaac Fotu (17 points), Shea Ili (16 points, six assists) and Rob Loe (11 points, 10 rebounds), they could never quite climb out of their third-quarter hole.

They’ll likely need to win both of their remaining games, but might need a repeat of 2014, where they advanced thanks to the points differential tiebreaker.

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■■DANZDANZDANCE

Trans-Tasman feature on the cards NZME The connections of Danzdanzdance have a couple of Australian options to consider in a team talk later this week as stablemate Hello It’s Me prepares to represent the Ruakaka stable in the second leg of the Hawke’s Bay Group One Triple Crown.

Both horses have been nominated for the Gr.1 Windsor Park Plate (1600m) at Hastings on September 21, but trainers Chris Gibbs and Michelle Bradley never intended running Danzdanzdance in the feature.

“The only reason she was nominated was in case the wheels fell off in her preparation and we had to have a back-up plan,” Gibbs said.

“But as it’s worked out she got to the Tarzino and I was very pleased with her run.”

Having her first start since last autumn, Danzdanzdance fin-

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Otago Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Forbury Park Raceway Meeting Date: 03 Sep 2019 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11; 12 and 13; 14 and 15 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12; 13, 14 and 15 1 12.02pm WWW.GREYHOUNDSASPETS.ORG.NZ C0, 310m 1 2832 Alexia nwtd......................................D J Lane 2 2 Homebush Monkey nwtd............J McInerney 3 72844 Kowloon Lights nwtd.......................J Guthrie 4 7x373 Starr Blueblood nwtd..................J McInerney 5 54774 Take A Hint nwtd........................J McInerney 6 488 Punters Kirsty nwtd.......................... R Wales 7 27873 Sideline Sally nwtd.....................J McInerney 8 64667 Homebush Jennia nwtd.............J McInerney 9 5676 Homebush George nwtd............J McInerney 10 8 Pukeko Magic nwtd.........................B Healey 2 12.19pm OTAGO EARLY QUADDIE SPRINT C0, 310m 1 6 Homebush Fairy nwtd................J McInerney 2 3281 Homebush Aimee nwtd..............J McInerney 3 32457 Citizen Zagreb nwtd...................J McInerney 4 5241 Souffle Sue nwtd........................J McInerney 5 57852 Lakota Scout nwtd.......................... H Cairns 6 32875 Dusty’s Ink nwtd..............................B Healey 7 85362 Homebush Liz nwtd...................J McInerney 8 65746 Southern Max nwtd......................R Hamilton 9 6x564 Eric Blueblood nwtd...................J McInerney 10 66887 Homebush Maxi nwtd................J McInerney 3 12.35 BROCKLEBANKS DRY CLEANERS STAKES C0, 545m 1 64468 Impressive High nwtd.................J McInerney 2 86 My Pablo nwtd.................................. R Wales 3 56862 Lakota Micco nwtd.......................... H Cairns 4 3445F Goldstar Vale nwtd S &.................... B Evans 5 88745 My Emmett nwtd..............................R Wales 6 Go Kiki nwtd.....................................R Wales 7 23264 Our Cook nwtd J &...........................D Fahey 8 78587 Homebush Fonzie nwtd.............J McInerney 4 12.53 OTAGO MAIDEN BITCHES SPRINT C0, 310m

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Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Venue Addington Raceway Meeting Date: 03 Sep 2019 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 3.06pm THE FITZ SPORTS BAR SPRINT C1, 295m 1 22234 Homebush Scorpio 17.38..........J McInerney 2 65785 Little Lottie 17.47 M &.......................... Smith 3 55271 Just William 17.68 M &.....................P Binnie 4 58466 Smash Out 17.71............................. M Grant 5 56161 Don’t Cry Joni nwtd..............................A Lee 6 66775 Opal Nora nwtd..........................J McInerney 7 26445 Know Dollars 17.51.........................G Cleeve 8 52467 Okuku Terra 17.59............................R Casey 9 65767 Dagny 17.38 J M.............................. McCook 10 77884 Goldstar Power 17.49 S &................ B Evans 2 3.22 A2C ASPHALT 2 CONCRETE PH 0800222583 DASH C1, 295m 1 2764F Vasterbottenost 17.47..........................A Lee 2 17615 Homebush Reed nwtd...............J McInerney 3 87654 Venetia 17.46................................ K Cassidy 4 56452 Just Izzy 17.35.................................. B Dann 5 33687 Little Lozza 17.93.......................J McInerney 6 33243 Twizel Storm 17.55........................... M Grant 7 3468x Epic Boom 17.47 J M....................... McCook 8 42865 Miss Dupre 17.33..........................D Roberts 9 67558 Goldstar Charger nwtd S &.............. B Evans 10 27568 Rum Gin Mixer 17.37........................A Joyce 3 3.40 SWIMMING GOAT@STUD STAKES C0, 520m 1 88823 Our Bonnie nwtd.............................. R Wales 2 572 Gracias Maestro nwtd...................... M Grant 3 7543 Billy Ray nwtd.............................N Wanhalla 4 32x41 Haidee Bale 30.59........................D Roberts

ished fifth, two and three-quarter lengths behind Melody Belle, in the Gr.1 Tarzino Trophy (1400m) at Hastings on Saturday when ridden by Lisa Allpress.

“We experimented with the tongue tie and she settled beautifully and breathed well,” Gibbs said.

“Lisa was happy with how she came back to her when she restrained her.

“Lisa let her roll right through the line and she was up with Melody Belle when pulling up.

“We just want to see how she pulls up and how much toll the trip has taken on her before confirming plans. I don’t think it will have worried her. Once I’m happy with her, I’ll talk over Australian plans with her owners.

“It will be their call.”

Danzdanzdance has had two trips to Sydney with the best result being a third in the Gr.1 Ranvet Stakes and Gibbs said Sydney has

again come into consideration.

“Melbourne was the original preference, but the way the weather is in Sydney it is worth looking at maybe going there first,” Gibbs said.

“We know she can handle the wet. We’ll probably be guided by the weather.”

If Danzdanzdance does return to Sydney her likely first mission will be the Gr.1 Colgate Optic White Stakes (1600m) at Randwick on September 21.

“If it keeps raining in Sydney she could stay on longer,” Gibbs said. “There are races two weeks apart that she could run in.

“It would be nice to get a win under her belt and it doesn’t have to be a Group One. “If she goes to Melbourne there’s the Stocks Stakes at Moonee Valley at the end of the month. The Makybe Diva Stakes (Gr.1, 1600m) is in a fortnight at Flemington, but it comes up too soon.

Opie Bosson and Danzdanzdance

“As for the Cox Plate, she would have to be really flying and winning well to consider that.”

While Danzdanzdance was taking on the big guns in the Tarzino Trophy, stablemate Hello It’s Me faced a softer option on her home course and the manner in which she won the open 1200m confirmed her trip to the Windsor Park Plate.

“Her work had been super and really we’ve never had her as good as we have her now,” Gibbs said.

“She’s always had foot problems, but there’s no sign of those now. She’s a late-maturing type who is coming right.”

The five-year-old daughter of Darci Brahma has won five of her 13 starts.

She was tried at the Hawke’s Bay Spring Carnival last year when seventh in the Gr.1 Livamol Classic (2040m) after which she finished third in the Gr.3 OMF Stakes (2000m) at Ellerslie.

“If she runs well in the Windsor Park Plate she will go on for the Livamol Classic,” Gibbs said.

“But I won’t bring her right back home between times. I’ll leave her at Matamata and she’ll probably stay with Glenn Old and Reece Cole will ride her work.

“It won’t be as taxing on her as coming all the way back here and back to Hastings again.”

Otago dogs

Today at Forbury Park Raceway 1 75523 Homebush Yuri nwtd..................J McInerney 2 68F31 Our Olive nwtd.................................R Wales 3 78545 Homebush Maree nwtd..............J McInerney 4 54362 Sonja nwtd......................................D J Lane 5 47863 Three Gold Stars nwtd....................C Healey 6 3 Southern Angel nwtd...................R Hamilton 7 75332 Dreaming Abbie nwtd...................G Kingston 8 24536 Sefton Double nwtd.......................... R Wales Emergencies: 9 5241 Souffle Sue nwtd........................J McInerney 10 72844 Kowloon Lights nwtd.......................J Guthrie 5 1.10pm PETER SINTON PLUMBING SPRINT C1/2, 310m 1 44441 Goldstar Jay Jay 18.60 S &.............. B Evans 2 44426 Cosmic Jase 18.43....................J McInerney 3 34483 Doomsday nwtd............................M B Fuller 4 12241 My Girl Sofia 18.62.........................B Healey 5 18751 Eyrewell Bentley nwtd..................... H Cairns 6 86634 Homebush Rehaina 18.78.........J McInerney 7 43322 Goldstar Galaxie 18.93 S &............. B Evans 8 23527 Homebush Tesan 18.69.............J McInerney 9 17851 Mitcham Trudy nwtd...................J McInerney 10 78487 Homebush Maycee 18.55..........J McInerney 6 1.27 GREEN ISLAND BARBER STAKES C1, 545m 1 5128 Know Crime nwtd............................G Cleeve 2 77814 Mega Dream nwtd..........................R Adcock 3 6F774 Opawa Al 32.90...............................R Wales 4 56422 Lakota Kohana nwtd....................... H Cairns 5 67844 Mick The Mower 33.31...............J McInerney 6 62345 Homebush Carl nwtd.................J McInerney 7 46664 Chunk 32.86...............................J McInerney 8 65154 Lakota Tonka nwtd.......................... H Cairns 9 56482 Opawa Lara 32.88............................R Wales 10 13558 Trajan nwtd.................................J McInerney 7 1.45pm FORBURY RESTRICTED AGE SPRINT R/A, 310m 1 11878 Punch On Rex 18.86..................J McInerney 2 64286 Amuri Magic 18.64.....................J McInerney 3 77546 Homebush Velma 18.52.............J McInerney

4 85663 Ezra Blueblood 18.75.................J McInerney 5 67878 Punch On Woody 18.84.............J McInerney 6 32131 Homebush Sayer 18.56.............J McInerney 7 57868 Punch On Buzz nwtd.................J McInerney 8 3342F Elton Blueblood nwtd.................J McInerney 8 2.02 BRIAN BAGLEY DRIVER LICENSING SPRINT C2/3, 310m 1 66232 Justin Ryan 18.51 S &..................... B Evans 2 77865 Homebush Finn 18.56................J McInerney 3 68552 Bashful Buffy 19.19....................J McInerney 4 15746 Homebush Hundy 18.57............J McInerney 5 87767 Reign Of Fire 18.37....................J McInerney 6 72317 Goldstar Whitey nwtd S &................ B Evans 7 28525 Mitcham Reado 18.52................J McInerney 8 27175 Punch On Jessie 18.58..............J McInerney 9 17851 Mitcham Trudy nwtd...................J McInerney 9 2.20pm ALL FENCING SOLUTIONS STAKES C1/2, 545m 1 82834 Homebush Hotshot nwtd............J McInerney 2 25425 Goldstar Alaska 33.38 S &............... B Evans 3 13274 Punters Bolt nwtd............................. R Wales 4 21216 Mighty Muscle nwtd J &...................D Fahey 5 64415 Miss Nina nwtd..............................M B Fuller 6 31321 Opawa Silver 32.52.......................... R Wales 7 87544 Know Leave 32.83..........................G Cleeve 8 36448 Shift The Blame 32.60................J McInerney Emergencies: 9 12558 Opawa Roy nwtd.............................. R Wales 10 61357 Smash McDougal nwtd................D Kingston 10 2.38pm DAVE ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER SPRINT C1/2, 310m 1 58245 Goldstar Marvely nwtd S &.............. B Evans 2 46243 Citizen Aguero nwtd...................J McInerney 3 26651 Mr Black Magic nwtd.......................J M Lane 4 66651 Goldstar Avalon nwtd S &................ B Evans 5 77621 Homebush Pierce 18.66............J McInerney 6 63461 C’Mon Benny Boy 18.63.................J Guthrie 7 43151 Lucky Scar 19.00............................. R Wales 8 17734 Nippa Enough 19.18..................J McInerney

9 17851 Mitcham Trudy nwtd...................J McInerney 10 68487 Pukeko Rustler 19.04......................B Healey 11 2.56pm DELTA ENGINEERING SPRINT C4/5, 310m 1 43521 Magic Jess Lass 18.40...................C Healey 2 21152 Opawa Lacy 18.37 J &.....................D Fahey 3 76611 Chasing Fame 18.27.....................M B Fuller 4 35211 Goldstar Trooper 18.41 S &.............. B Evans 5 671F5 Princely Gold 18.31....................J McInerney 6 25514 Goldstar Diesel 18.91 S &................ B Evans 7 78226 Eyrewell Turbo nwtd........................ H Cairns 8 11245 Goldstar Dodge 18.72 S &............... B Evans 9 55324 Disobedience 18.79 S &.................. B Evans 10 18526 Kalonga 19.08 S &...........................B Evans 12 3.14 OGRC LATE QUADDIE STAKES C3/4, 545m 1 F7428 Know Pudding 32.76.......................G Cleeve 2 56565 Kia Tere nwtd S &............................. B Evans 3 44143 Goldstar Sydney 32.54 S &.............. B Evans 4 2332F Know Denying 32.73.......................G Cleeve 5 41524 Know Conclusion 32.66..................G Cleeve 6 116x7 Know State 32.49............................G Cleeve 7 15615 Go Brat 32.34 J &............................D Fahey 8 61711 Famous Lee 32.84 S &.................... B Evans 9 34164 Know Equal 32.82...........................G Cleeve 10 38466 Cosmic Stu 32.65.......................J McInerney 13 3.31pm FORBURY NOVICE SPRINT C1, 310m 1 24212 Goldstar Willa nwtd S &................... B Evans 2 26853 Machine Gunn nwtd.......................R Adcock 3 74135 Homebush Jordie 18.89.............J McInerney 4 312 Impressive Flash nwtd...............J McInerney 5 56614 Homebush Keasha nwtd............J McInerney 6 17615 Homebush Reed 18.84..............J McInerney 7 27742 Brut Magic 19.27.............................C Healey 8 515 Ringside Rusty nwtd.......................B Healey 9 31285 Homebush Liam nwtd................J McInerney 10 41268 Sozin’s Melody nwtd..................J McInerney 14 3.49pm ST KILDA VETERINARY CENTRE SPRINT C1, 310m 1 55517 Homebush Vassy nwtd...............J McInerney 2 11547 Pretty Keen 19.03..............................S Keen

3 15654 Mitcham Doug 19.07..................J McInerney 4 37682 Sozin’s Symphony 18.92............J McInerney 5 86733 Gracie Lee nwtd.........................J McInerney 6 48x38 Coming Of Love nwtd..... M P Hamilton-Dyett 7 66332 Homebush Comet 18.69............J McInerney 8 85226 Lucy Lingers 18.81.....................J McInerney Emergencies: 9 7x258 Poppy Rocket nwtd.......................M B Fuller 10 44386 Melting World 19.31........................J Guthrie 15 4.06pm RACING AGAIN TUESDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER C1, 310m 1 25457 Blazing Banjo 18.72...................J McInerney 2 43647 Smokey Dodger 18.94.............. P Hammond 3 55644 Jealous Much 18.80...................J McInerney 4 17674 Eyrewell Tango nwtd....................... H Cairns 5 28672 Nikko Baxter 18.71.....................J McInerney 6 38443 Avalanch City 18.80...................J McInerney 7 55277 Baldrick 19.36............................J McInerney 8 78243 Homebush Miles 18.46..............J McInerney 9 41268 Sozin’s Melody nwtd..................J McInerney 10 37368 Koputai 18.73..................................J Guthrie SELECTIONS

10 77884 Goldstar Power 17.49 S &................ B Evans 9 5.28pm KAISA EARTHWORKS PH 0272073323 STAKES C1, 520m 1 68375 Jay Shirley 31.20.............................. R Wales 2 4x743 Isavana 30.67 J &............................D Fahey 3 56667 Sefton Jill 30.73...............................R Wales 4 37215 Goldstar Wynter nwtd S &................ B Evans 5 61357 Smash McDougal 30.95...............D Kingston 6 22211 Go Vegas 30.25 J &.........................D Fahey 7 66342 Shermo Bale 30.57.......................C Roberts 8 316 Creme Brulee 30.66...................... L Waretini Emergencies: 9 76577 Homebush Izzy nwtd..................J McInerney 10 58667 Black Dan nwtd..........................J McInerney 10 5.48pm ISLINGTON TAVERN STAKES C1, 520m 1 66271 Opawa Tab 30.66.............................R Wales 2 21483 Goldstar Yankee 30.54 S &.............. B Evans 3 53342 Ohoka Carsen 30.88..................... L Waretini 4 11725 Born Tasha 30.65.............................R Wales 5 13 Kea Viking 30.52 J &........................D Fahey 6 61328 Opawa Delight 30.56....................... R Wales 7 28866 Umbridge Bale 30.20....................C Roberts 8 88753 High Sparrow nwtd..................... A Bradshaw 9 76577 Homebush Izzy nwtd..................J McInerney 10 67888 Sly Rose 30.96 J M.......................... McCook 11 6.08 GARRARD’S HORSE AND HOUND SPRINT C1, 295m 1 74876 Homebush Flynn 17.30..............J McInerney 2 63422 Smash Over 17.44........................... M Grant 3 47374 Goldstar Hurley nwtd.................... L Waretini 4 33316 Go Mufasa 17.16.............................R Wales 5 25836 Cosmic Richie 17.30..................J McInerney

6 14316 Maybe Right 17.59...............................A Lee 7 658x5 Punch On Scooby nwtd.............J McInerney 8 63332 Jingili Jill 17.55 M &............................. Smith Emergencies: 9 65767 Dagny 17.38 J M.............................. McCook 10 77884 Goldstar Power 17.49 S &................ B Evans 12 6.26pm LIVAMOL DASH C1, 295m 1 62623 Andrea Said 18.14 J M.................... McCook 2 17523 Homebush Alexei 17.41.............J McInerney 3 3x17F Yanira Bale 17.81..........................C Roberts 4 78547 Know Legend nwtd.........................G Cleeve 5 66572 Snickerdoodle 17.42......................... B Dann 6 85382 Goldstar Tasman 17.68 S &............. B Evans 7 61856 Regal George 17.71...................J McInerney 8 14537 Caramel Rose 17.52.................. M Dempsey 9 46487 Cold Affair 17.48........................... L Waretini 10 27568 Rum Gin Mixer 17.37........................A Joyce SELECTIONS

Race 1: Alexia, Punters Kirsty, Starr Blueblood, Kowloon Lights Race 2: Souffle Sue, Dusty’s Ink, Citizen Zagreb, Homebush Liz Race 3: My Pablo, Go Kiki, Lakota Micco, Impressive High Race 4: Sonja, Our Olive, Dreaming Abbie, Sefton Double Race 5: Goldstar Jay Jay, Homebush Rehaina, Cosmic Jase Race 6: Know Crime, Mega Dream, Opawa Al, Opawa Lara Race 7: Ezra Blueblood, Homebush Sayer, Punch On Rex Race 8: Bashful Buffy, Reign Of Fire, Mitcham Trudy Race 9: Mighty Muscle, Goldstar Alaska, Homebush Hotshot Race 10: Goldstar Marvely, C’Mon Benny Boy, Goldstar Avalon Race 11: Magic Jess Lass, Goldstar Trooper, Eyrewell Turbo Race 12: Go Brat, Goldstar Sydney, Know Conclusion Race 13: Ringside Rusty, Impressive Flash, Brut Magic Race 14: Sozin’s Symphony, Lucy Lingers, Poppy Rocket Race 15: Homebush Miles, Nikko Baxter, Jealous Much LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

Christchurch dogs Today at Addington raceway 5 Punters Delight nwtd........................ R Wales 6 73434 Ain’t He Lucky nwtd.................... N Wanhalla 7 32T Hustle Ace nwtd.......................... N Wanhalla 8 722 Trevor Wilks nwtd........................N Wanhalla 9 x4687 Opawa Pauline nwtd........................ R Wales 10 7686 My Snuggles nwtd............................ R Wales 4 3.58pm KAIKANUI TAVERN STAKES C1, 520m 1 47756 Goldstar Flora 31.15 S &................. B Evans 2 43873 Born Ellie 30.92...............................R Wales 3 15x54 Aussie Muscle nwtd J &...................D Fahey 4 76676 Tikao Jackie nwtd M &......................... Smith 5 57241 Go Punter Go nwtd.......................... R Wales 6 32142 Opawa Mason 30.46........................ R Wales 7 42865 Jealous Affair 30.61...................... L Waretini 8 2131 Darla Bale 30.42...........................C Roberts 9 76577 Homebush Izzy nwtd..................J McInerney 10 67888 Sly Rose 30.96 J M.......................... McCook 5 4.20pm ADDINGTON EVENTS CENTRE STAKES C1, 520m 1 42211 Opawa Toddy 30.44 J &...................D Fahey 2 67543 Goldstar Scooby 30.65 S &.............. B Evans 3 63433 Barrel Runner nwtd.................... A Bradshaw 4 34328 Little Secret 30.44......................... L Waretini 5 65227 Go Ladybird nwtd............................. R Wales 6 2163 King Toliman nwtd.........................C Roberts 7 28752 Vik Vikkers nwtd J M........................ McCook 8 11354 My Giovanni 30.99........................... R Wales 9 76577 Homebush Izzy nwtd..................J McInerney 10 58667 Black Dan nwtd..........................J McInerney 6 4.38 BEACH CAFE & WINE BAR SPRINT C1, 295m 1 71244 Opa’s Mate 17.71.............................R Casey 2 85827 Sozin’s Delight 17.57.................J McInerney

3 245x3 Dyna Quark nwtd..........................C Roberts 4 66818 Smash Story 17.86.......................... M Grant 5 3152 Gadzooks 17.44................................ B Dann 6 21646 Big Cod 17.73 J M........................... McCook 7 788x7 Homebush Diego nwtd...............J McInerney 8 84473 Tonkawa 17.62 M &.............................. Smith 9 67558 Goldstar Charger nwtd S &.............. B Evans 10 27568 Rum Gin Mixer 17.37........................A Joyce 7 4.55pm DURASTEEL STRUCTURES PH 033796195 SPRINT C1, 295m 1 86468 Sozin’s Onyx 17.88....................J McInerney 2 44326 Every Minute 17.51..............................A Lee 3 86556 Smash Surprise 17.49..................... M Grant 4 55255 Know Approval 17.28......................G Cleeve 5 41341 Freya Beauchamp 17.53................... B Dann 6 65234 Whose He 17.44...............................A Joyce 7 57536 Homebush Rapper nwtd............J McInerney 8 12152 Ohoka Lacey 17.67....................... L Waretini Emergencies: 9 65767 Dagny 17.38 J M.............................. McCook 10 77884 Goldstar Power 17.49 S &................ B Evans 8 5.11pm DAVE ROBBIE PHOTOGRAPHER DASH C1, 295m 1 44655 Ineffable 17.40.................................. B Dann 2 65463 Jinja Cream Fizz 17.27.....................A Joyce 3 53645 Sly Bet nwtd J M.............................. McCook 4 87436 Homebush Boden 17.46............J McInerney 5 48487 Cathy Maree 17.17.......................... M Grant 6 1112 Super Over Drama 17.23 S &.......... B Evans 7 62525 Batty Who 17.73 M &........................... Smith 8 43666 Yi Feng 17.28.............................J McInerney 9 46487 Cold Affair 17.48........................... L Waretini

Race 1: Don’t Cry Joni, Just William, Okuku Terra, Know Dollars Race 2: Just Izzy, Vasterbottenost, Miss Dupre, Homebush Reed Race 3: Haidee Bale, Trevor Wilks, Gracias Maestro, Punters Delight Race 4: Darla Bale, Opawa Mason, Go Punter Go Race 5: Opawa Toddy, Barrel Runner, Goldstar Scooby Race 6: Dyna Quark, Gadzooks, Sozin’s Delight, Tonkawa Race 7: Freya Beauchamp, Know Approval, Smash Surprise Race 8: Super Over Drama, Yi Feng, Ineffable, Homebush Boden Race 9: Go Vegas, Isavana, Creme Brulee, Goldstar Wynter Race 10: Kea Viking, Born Tasha, Opawa Delight, Opawa Tab Race 11: Go Mufasa, Jingili Jill, Cosmic Richie, Homebush Flynn Race 12: Homebush Alexei, Snickerdoodle, Caramel Rose LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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Your Stars ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): You want people to behave in a certain way, though you may not be aware of your own expectations until there’s been a violation. The violation sheds light on social dynamics and enhances self-knowledge.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): It may feel like the opinions people are coming up with about politics, economics and life in general all serve as a source of self-entertainment. You have a choice about what to tune into.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): If you speak less, the mental energy builds up. Then, when you do decide to express yourself, there’s greater thought behind what you’re saying. This is why you’ll be profound today.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): If you love something enough, it doesn’t matter how well it works out on a practical level. You could be bad at it, or good. You will bear the awkward moments and love the learning curves.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): The way you give love makes people feel free. So it’s all the more special to you knowing that with all the responsibilities and options and distractions of the world, someone still chooses to be with you.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): You’ll cycle through an entire plan. The list, then there’s a preparation period in which things are assembled and executed. Lastly, there’s cooperation and tenacity involved. You’ll have plenty of both.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): It will be better to accept that anything can happen than to spend much of today’s energy envisioning and predicting.

The stars warn against placing focus away from the main action of this day.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): You want to be challenged, especially intellectually, and that’s why you’re drawn to intellectual sparring partners – contrarians who will force you to sharpen your arguments.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Knowing something is good for you doesn’t really make you like it any better. This is why children resist vegetables. It takes time to become fond of the things that best nourish you.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Some of the time needs to go unfilled. Without silence, there’s no music.

The most invigorating music is the one with the most rests. Beats per minute cannot be measured without spaces per minute.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): When you were a child, you didn’t feel particularly young and beautiful, but you were. There’s something similar going on today. Know that your experience of this time will change retrospectively and relax.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): The money and goods available to you will impact your success, but not as you might expect. More won’t be better. It’s not your resources but your resourcefulness that matters.

ACROSS 2. Something that grows like a fruit and alcohol drink (5) 5. The university members starting graduation now around (4) 7. It will fall and drop, as a flower (4) 8. Dry times which should be surrounded by doctors (8) 9. May be cross, gen being given out by legislative assembly (8) 11. The bit that may come away (4) 12. Eye science is myth all go for, hoop being changed (13) 15. A lover is forsaken by one such bird (4) 17. An alloy for cannon meant lug had to be moved about (8) 19. Direct the Spanish from an abandoned ship (8) 21. From a distance call it a shower of missiles (4) 22. Work doggedly at making goals, following a loss (4) 23. Is this the limit reached by one doing the rounds? (5) DOWN 1. Fowl accommodation given the chop, one might put it (3-4) 2. Ply one’s needle in three ways (3) 3. A high feature removing the top of Golden Gate, say (5) 4. It will come into bloom with grog on the nose (7) 5. Stop one saying a one-liner (3) 6. Dilute Adam’s ale (5) 10. Become older in years, and thrive (3,2) 11. It beats the seeds from leguminous plants (5) 13. How to ruin 5, having a row (7) 14. One’s seriousness is what exerts its pull (7) 16. Spoke in it, to change direction (5) 18. Jotted down how well-known it was (5) 20. Work unit that is therefore incomplete (3) 21. Sort of fever hit by one on going to bed (3)

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DEATHS

DEATHS CHRISTIAN, Jonothan (formerly Bloomfield) – Aged 72 years. On August, 22, 2019, Jonothan quietly slipped away to his home in Glory. Fondly remembered by the Fisher family.

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SHAW, Ngaio Mavis – Patersons On September 1, 2019, Funeral Services passed away peacefully at Rosebank Resthome, and Ashburton Ashburton with her family by Crematorium Ltd her side. Aged 85 years.

Dearly loved and devoted Office and Chapel wife of the late Owen. Much Corner East & Cox loved mother and mother-inStreets, Ashburton law of Christine and Vince, and David, and Janet. Dearly loved Grandma of Bridget, Theresa and Steven and IN MEMORIAM great Grandma of Amy, Holly, and Riley.

May she rest in peace.

Messages to the Shaw family, PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740.

Special thanks to the staff at Rosebank for their love and care of Ngaio. A celebration JOHNSON, Aileen Janet – 03-09-2018 of Ngaio’s life will be held at our Chapel, cnr East and Cox It's hard to believe a year has passed since we lost our streets, Ashburton on FRIDAY, September 6, dearest wife, Mum, Nana, sister and friend. commencing at 10.30am.

We miss you every day Followed by interment at the Ashburton New Lawn and keep you in our hearts.

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The late Angus, Angela, Paul and Sandra, Maryann and Greg, Sam, Emily and Ruby, Peter, Michael and John and Marie.

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BUTTERICK, Gilbert Warren – 28-06-1943 – 01-09-2019 On Father’s Day, Gilbert passed away peacefully at home, surrounded with love.

Amazing Dad and father-inlaw of Darryl and Lyn, Fiona, Michael and Rachel, Shane and Anna, Aaron and Jane.

Loved Grandad and mate to Jack, Annabel, Emma, Charlotte, Penny, Pippa, Rafferty, Eli, Silva, Zea, and Lewis. Loved son of the late Rex and Thelma, brother and brother-in-law of Jenette and the late Graeme Storrier and loved uncle of the late Duncan, and Trudi and great uncle of Soraya, and Mace. In lieu of flowers donations to the Cancer Society would be greatly appreciated and may be left at the service. A celebration of Gilbert’s life will be held at his home, 159 Wilkins Road, Tinwald on THURSDAY, September 5, commencing at 2.30pm.

Followed by private cremation at the Ashburton Crematorium.

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BRAVO 10am Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles PGR 3 11am Snapped 3 Noon Bachelor In Paradise PGR 3 1:30 Millionaire Matchmaker AO 3 2:30 Masters Of Flip 3 3:30 The People’s Court 4:35 Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles PGR 3 Josh and Matt Altman land a mansion in Bradbury Estates; Madison faces structural problems and mould to sell a friend’s house; the Britons host a party at their new high-rise penthouse listing.

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8:35 Bachelor Australia PGR 9:45 License To Kill 10:45 Snapped AO 3 11:40 I Killed My BFF AO 3 12:25 Infomercials

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7am Elvis Goes There – Ryan Coogler MC 2019 Documentary. 8am 211 16VL 2018 Action. Nicolas Cage, Sophie Skelton. 9:25 My Blind Brother 16LSC 2016 Comedy. Adam Scott, Jenny Slate. 10:50 The Grey’s Anatomy Children Act ML 2018 9:30pm on TVNZ 2 Drama. Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci. 12:35 Three SKY 5 Billboards Outside Ebbing, 6am Jeopardy! PG Missouri 16VLSC 2017 Drama.

6:25 Wheel Of Fortune Frances McDormand, PG 6:50 The Simpsons PG Woody Harrelson. 2:30 Elvis 7:15 Hot Set M 8:05 Border Goes There – Ryan Coogler Security – Canada’s Frontline MC 2019 Documentary.

M 8:30 Ice Road Truckers 3:30 211 16VL 2018 Action.

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PG 9:40 NCIS – LA MV 4:55 Looking Glass 16VLS 10:25 SVU MV 11:10 Hot 2017 Thriller. Nicolas Cage, Set M Noon Raw Live MVC Robin Tunney. 6:40 Sharon 3:05 NCIS – LA MV 4pm The 1 2 3 MSC 2018 Comedy.

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PG 5pm Wheel Of Fortune 8pm Life Of The Party PG 5:30 Lizard Lick Towing MSC 2018 Comedy. A soonPG 6pm Ice Road Truckers to-be-divorced housewife PG 7pm Border Security attempts to change her – Canada’s Frontline M life by going back to 7:30 NCIS – LA MV 8:30 Truck college. Melissa McCarthy, Night In America PGL Gabriel Bateman.

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2:50 The Campaign 16VLS 2012 Comedy. Will Ferrell.

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6:15 Here Comes The Boom MVL 2012 Action Comedy.

Kevin James, Salma Hayek.

8pm Legend 18VL 2015 Biography Crime. Identicaltwin gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray terrorise London during the 1960s. Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Taron Egerton.

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Rider Strong, Jordan Ladd.

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10am Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (RPL) Waikato v Auckland.

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4pm Rugby – French Top 14 (RPL) Racing 92 v Castre.

6pm Rugby – Mitre 10 Cup (HLS) Canterbury v Southland.

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24 Ashburton Guardian

Hamish helps team to 4-3 win

Title chances all over

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MCUFC do the double

A hugely successful season for Mid Canterbury United was capped off by a big win in front of a delighted home crowd on Saturday.

The club’s first team took on the side that had been their biggest rivals all season – the Halswell United 1964s – in the Mainland Football division one cup final at the Ashburton Domain on Saturday and came away with a 5-1 win to claim the cup title, to add to the league title they’d wrapped up a couple of weeks earlier.

And coach Marty Fitzgerald – who was also the side’s goalkeeper – was over the moon.

For him, the game was his last hurrah.

He announced after the match that this season was his last for the top side, and he was happy to be going out on a high.

It may have been a big win in the end, but as was the case every time the two sides squared off this season, it was a tense game, with

Mid Canterbury United’s Luke Martin is caught in a contest for possession with a Halswell United 1964s player during his side’s big win on Saturday.

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the visitors attacking relentlessly for periods early in the match.

But Mid Canterbury United were up to the task, with the defensive duo of Matt Boote and Steve Carr putting in a strong performance and keeping Halswell’s striker at bay.

Up the other end, Luke Martin continued his top form this season, opening the scoring in the 28th minute, and his side continued to attack and control possession.

But they also conceded a large number of penalties, giving Halswell easy attacking options.

Halswell had a clear chance to score but keeper Fitzgerald closed down the angle, forcing the striker wide, and shortly after Halswell chipped the keeper, but he managed to get a fingertip to it and forced it onto the post, with Jack Dudley clearing it.

Luck soon went Halswell’s way though, when a crossed ball in from the left resulted in an own goal.

At half-time Fitzgerald felt his players were playing the better football, but he urged them to step up their intensity and move the ball with more vigour.

His call was quickly answered by a solid finish from Martin in the game’s 47th minute, while Luciano Drudi added another in the 56th minute, having already hit the post on more than one occasion.

Mid Canterbury kept applying pressure and saw off a late surge from Halswell, before Jamie Smitheram scored in the 88th minute followed by captain Eddie Kettle, who finished a well taken penalty in the 90th minute, to wrap the game and the title up.

After the game Fitzgerald thanked his squad for producing an amazing game and an outstanding season obtaining both titles – a feat that had not been achieved for 20 years for Mid Canterbury United.

He also made special mention of a couple of other players who, like him, are departing.

Matt Boote at centre back, and Bernie Martin, who had been with the squad since their days playing in division five, are also calling time.

Fitzgerald said although his side’s achievements this season had resulted in a promotion invitation, they didn’t know yet whether they’d make the move up a grade or not.

Mid Canterbury United’s second side were also in a cup final on Saturday, taking on the Universities AFC Yellow Jackets in the

division five cup final, but they lost 3-0.

Methven FC were also meant to be playing in the division three cup final against the Western AFC Generals on Saturday, but the Christchurch-based side were unable to field a team for the match at the Methven Domain.

Methven FC offered to play the game in Christchurch, but they still couldn’t rustle up a team and had to default, handing the title to Methven FC without a ball being kicked.

It is now the second year running that Methven FC had won both the league and the cup, meaning they have now earned promotion to division two.

In division six action on Saturday, Methven FC’s Reserves side travelled to Christchurch and beat the Halswell United Globetrotters 9-2.

Emma Dyke’s rowing eight take out world title

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