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Heartbreaking arrival in Australia By Susan Sandys
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Ashburton’s Natalie Hinton watched a water-bombing jet plane fly overhead as she talked to the Guardian from Australia yesterday. “A spot fire got about 700 metres from our house,” the mum-of-four said as she talked about how she has been one of the lucky ones so far this season. Unlike hundreds of others, she has not lost her house, which is in the Taree area in New South Wales. She and partner Ryan Lamb lived there for 10 years before moving to Lamb’s hometown of Ashburton in October. Fire came close to the house on the bushy outskirts of the city in November. Today the charred landscape remains a fire risk with dried burned vegetation being highly flammable. “There’s still fires burning around here,” she said from her mother’s house in Taree as the water-bombing jet flew overhead. Hinton and three of her children are visiting their Australian family members over New Year, and she said arriving there this week had been heart-breaking. “I cried coming up the highway, it didn’t look like home,” she said. Hinton was grateful the tenants in her house had so far remained safe, although had had to evacuate three times. “The people renting the house I was more worried about, the house you can replace,”
Australian bushfire nightmares are continuing for Natalia Hinton and her family, pictured at their Ashburton home in November. PHOTO SUSAN SANDYS 121119-SS-0037 she said. Meanwhile, the New Zealand Government announced it is sending more personnel across the Tasman to help fight the fires. Twenty firefighters, a strike team leader and a liaison officer will leave on January 8. Whether any Mid Cantabrians will be among the contingent is yet to be determined, however, the Guardian understands
no approach has been made to Ashburton Fire and Emergency New Zealand at this early stage. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said a formal request for further assistance was made earlier this week and the extra personnel would help with front-line firefighting on two five-day rotations. Since late October 2019, 157 New Zealand-
ers have been deployed to assist, including Mid Cantabrians Tim Clark, John Ferguson and Dean Carr. “The devastation caused by these fires is taking a substantial toll on our Australian neighbours and we will continue to do what we can to assist as they deal with this extremely dynamic, dangerous and ongoing situation,” Ardern said. Meanwhile, Mid Canterbury farmers and others have the opportunity to offer free accommodation to Australian farmers affected by the fires through a new initiative established by two North Islanders. Nathan Addis, who works in marketing and events in Auckland, and Mark Warren, a Hawke’s Bay farmer, have set up the Facebook page – NZ Farmers Offer Free Accommodation To Aussie Farmers From Bush Fire Zones. Addis said yesterday after just 12 hours of the page’s operation he had offers of accommodation from more than 20 people throughout the country, and he urged any Mid Cantabrians who could help to get in touch with him via the page. He and Warren were compiling offers prior to approaching the appropriate organisation in Australia which could help them get in touch with needy farmers. He believed many farmers would be coping with the aftermath for many months to come, and to have a holiday in New Zealand could be very beneficial for them.
Racing industry rallying behind Ricky May Sunday Australasia’s harness racing community is rallying behind prominent Methven driver Ricky May who was left in a serious condition after a medical incident during a race at Omakau on Thursday. One of Mid Canterbury’s favourite sporting sons, May, who was driving top-class pacer A G’s White Socks in the Central Otago Trotting Cup, collapsed before being dislodged from his race sulky, and lay prone on the track. The quick actions of his fellow drivers and trainers are believed to have been crucial in keeping May alive. Two drivers were quickly at his side to perform CPR which revived him. A specialist cardiac nurse and an off-duty paramedic were quickly on the scene and played a vital part in tending to May. Race-goers and others also assisted. May was subsequently taken by helicopter to Dunedin Hospital about 5.30pm. The crowd of about 5000 was left in shock by the incident. Many stood and cheered as
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“The quick actions of the horse people, race-goers and race-day staff may have saved Ricky’s life,’’ he said. May was driving for Canterbury trainers Greg and Nina Hope. Greg Hope described May as a highly respected and popular driver. “Everybody in the industry is behind him and his family and all we can hope for is the best for him.” Hope said May appeared to be fit and healthy before the race. “Before he got in the cart he was 100 per cent right – at no stage did he look crook.” May is one of the most popular and successful harness racing drivers in New Zealand. Nearly 400 racegoers had bought $10 tickets in a public betting syndicate known as the Punters’ Club run at Thursday’s meeting. When dividends were offered to ticket holders after yesterday’s racing ended, a large number of people opted to donate their funds to St John.
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Keeping youth on the right side of the law For the past 15 years youth aid officer Rob Hooper has been dealing with all the youth of Ashburton, working to set them back on the right track and avoid his colleagues having to deal with them in the future. Reporter Jaime PittMacKay caught up with him about the role.
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Youth aid officer Rob Hooper has spent the past 15 years working with the youth of Ashburton. PHOTO JAIME PITT-MACKAY 191219-JPM-0008
ong gone are the days of the old bobby giving a truanting student or shoplifting youngster a boot up the backside and a ride back home, the focus for Ashburton youth aid officer Rob Hooper is now on working with the youth and their family to find the cause of the behaviour and nip it in the bud before it develops further. The approach includes more than police, and encompasses a whole range of organisations in the town, and it is working. “Since I’ve been doing this, from the stats I’ve kept, I’d say the numbers are decreasing, and that’s thanks to all the organisations in the town working,” he said. Hooper regularly works with organisations like Safer Mid Canterbury, He Waka Tapu and with teachers and counsellors at the district’s high schools. The focus is on early intervention to ensure that the kids have the right skills to be able to make the right choices going forward. While some kids still fall through the cracks and end up ‘graduating’ to the district court, it is not something Hooper views as a failure. “If there are any that graduate to the district court it’s not something I necessarily view as a failure, hopefully we’ve been able to give them the skills to make the right choice and get out of that,” he said. “Unfortunately in some circumstances there are just some people who battle to break free from the criminal justice system. “It is one of those situations where we might not necessarily be winning the fight, but we are definitely in it.” Hooper is into his 33rd year as a police officer, initially working in Hamilton for five years. He
worked on the front line in Ashburton for 13 years before taking up the youth aid role. “It wasn’t something I aimed for but I always thought I had a good affinity with the kids,” he said. “I cut my teeth in Hamilton and that was just where I ended up with my posting out of college, and I was lucky enough to get the youth aid officer job here.” Hooper said he was fortunate the job had come up as it was a role where people tended to stick around for extended periods of time as he has. The role has not changed much in the time he has been doing it, but what is influencing the choices of young people has, with the rise of social media and reality television painting pictures of an unrealistic way of life. Hooper said reality television shows like Geordie Shore show a very different way of living involving excess alcohol consumption and debaucherous behaviour that creates unrealistic ideas about life. “It just isn’t real,” he said. “It is a real challenge for youth, it is a real challenge for everyone. “Instead of looking at the positives of their lives everyone is looking at the unrealistic lives of others.” While youth aid is the title of the role, it also includes work around care and protection of youth, with it often playing out that if there is an issue around care and protection of a child in the family scene, it can lead to the child getting in trouble with the youth justice side of Hooper’s work. Hooper is in regular contact with youth aid officers from Timaru and Christchurch about how things are going in their patch and about the ever-changing police policy for dealing with youth.
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Motorcycle legend’s bike in Methven It’s not every day that you get to have a Kiwi icon in your care, but Alan and Sandra have been lucky enough to do just that. At the town’s recent Hot Rod and Classic Car Show in Methven, the couple paraded a 1928 Indian Short Frame Scout. The Indian is today Methven-based, and considered of great importance nationally as it is the first bike owned by New Zealand motorcycle legend John Britten. “It’s amazing when you think it was a bike similar to this that Burt Munro modified to set the land speed record,” Alan said. And the story behind how the bike came to make its home in Methven is just as amazing. In the 1960s Britten was holidaying with family in Southland. The 13-year-old and
Belonging to a club gives members the opportunity to immerse themselves in a culture of like-minded people, and this has certainly been the case for Alan and Sandra Weir at the Americar Rod and Custom Club of Ashburton. Heather Mackenzie reports.
Alan Weir and his 1981 CT Chevrolet pickup he imported from America. Inset: The 1928 Indian Scout, once owned by motorcycle legend John Britten. his school mate Bruce Garrick were out exploring when they happened upon the Indian, discarded and rusting in a ditch somewhere near Gore. Even at such a young age Britten’s love of motorbikes was evident, so it was a foregone conclusion that he and Garrick would set about restoring it to its former glory. Britten went on to work with bikes for the rest of his life, eventually creating the uniquely Kiwi bike the Britten V1000, complete with a Southern Cross shadowed into the paintwork. He held on to the restored Indian until 1975 when he gave it to Garrick, knowing he would take good care of it. At the time Garrick was working as a helicopter pilot in Methven and that is how the much loved bike came to Mid Canterbury the first time. Sadly in 1996 Garrick was killed in a helicopter crash near the Rakaia Gorge. Some years later the little bike with a big history was spotted for sale in Christchurch by Japanese resident and motorbike collector Hiroshi Kondo, who didn’t hesitate to purchase it. Fate stepped in when Kondo purchased the bike, as he too had a strong connection with Methven. A keen skier, Kondo returns each winter to ski and teach at Mt Hutt. That being the case, it made sense for the bike to be left safely tucked up, just down the road at Spring Lynne Motorcycles. Spring Lynne is run by fellow local John McKay, who has a collection of vintage motorcycles at the service, repair and sales shop. It’s a fitting tribute to Garrick’s memory that the bike he and Britten found all those years ago still remains in his home town. Alan said Kondo understood the local significance of the bike. “He has assured us that it will never be taken out of Methven,” he said. “I have never ridden it, but Hiroshi likes to take it out for a spin when he is back in town,” he added. Alan said he felt honoured to be able to take the bike out for the day, on the back of his restored Chevrolet truck, and he was grateful to both McKay and Kondo for the privilege.
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lan and Sandra Weir joined the Americar Rod and Custom Club in Ashburton just over one year ago, and they are loving it. While the club name references American rods and custom cars, vehicles of special interest can be admitted at the club’s discretion. Their first meeting got off to an amusing start. Running a bit late, the meeting had already started when Alan and Sandra got to the Maronan Road clubrooms. When the couple walked in everybody stopped talking. All eyes on him, Weir blurted out: “We want to join your club”. “So you like gardening do yuh?” came the reply. After a slight pause they realised it was a joke. The Weirs have not been late to a meeting since. “We were made to feel very welcome right from the start. Everyone is so friendly and helpful,” Weir said. The club holds a myriad of events throughout the year, everything from local shows to trips around the country, to smaller day drives called shed runs. “Being farmers we live on the job, so it is nice to be able to get away for a day or a weekend every so often.” Weir comes from a line of car and machinery enthusiasts. His father Bill has an extensive collection of vintage International tractors and Chevrolet cars dating from the 1960s and 1970s. Continuing in the Chev-owning family tradition, Weir is currently completing the finishing touches on a restoration of a 1981 CT Chevrolet pickup truck he imported from America. The sea-blue left-hand drive pickup with chrome mags and low-profile tyres is looking a treat, but like all good things it has taken a while to get there. In 1995 his father was in America looking for vehicles to add to his own collection, when he came across the pickup in a wrecker’s yard. It was in a pretty sorry state, but as an experienced collector, Bill could see past the bland brown paintwork, rumpled hood and dysfunctional motor. He knew the truck had definite potential and that his son Alan was looking for something just like it, so into the New Zealand-bound container it went. Alan and Sandra owned a dairy farm on the West Coast at the time, so the truck restoration was put on hold for 10 years until they returned to Canterbury. Once back on this side of the Southern Alps, the overhaul began in earnest. The Chev is now sporting a brand new motor, new transmission, flash upholstery and a spiffy new paint job. Not to be out done in the pickup stakes, Sandra also has a left-hand drive GMC truck that she has driven for years. Until recently that is. “Alan was horrified when I went out and bought myself a little Suzuki Swift. ‘You’re not driving that to any car shows’,” he said.
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Dave Strong has been involved with scouts for the past 40 years and was this month recognised with a life membership for the Mania-o-roto zone. He catches up with Guardian reporter Jaime Pitt-Mackay.
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Dave Strong was presented with the silver tui award in 2015 in recognition for his services to scouting. PHOTO JAIME PITT-MACKAY 181219-JPM-0001
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hat started out as a simple question on the back of a potato harvester 40-odd years ago has turned into an extended period of service to the local scouting community. Dave Strong’s 40-year stint with the scouts was recently recognised with a life membership for the Mania-o-roto zone. Strong has attended 13 nation jamborees, countless hikes and bike trips and has seen hundreds of local kids work their way through the scouting ranks and gain vital life skills. “I was working up in the West Melton area on a spud digger with a friend and he asked if I would like to come along and have a look at the scouts,” he said. Strong’s kids have long moved on from their time in scouts, but he has stuck around. “I just really enjoy the company of the kids and they help to keep me young,”
he said. Those kids remember Strong as well, with him often getting stopped in the street by former scouts asking how things are going, or even now dealing with children of scouts he has worked with in years gone by. His time with the scouts has taken him all over country, meeting a wide range of people and even visiting other countries. He has attended 13 New Zealand scout jamborees and two international gatherings, which were in Perth, Australia and Malaysia. Four of the New Zealand jamborees he has attended have been at Mystery Creek, while the others have been held everywhere from Fiordland to Greytown. While he has not had the chance to meet Chief Scout Bear Grylls, he has met a number of governor-generals at jamborees. “There was a time where I helped a female governor-general into her safety
harness before she took a zipline across the Waikato River,” he said. Being part of scouts got Strong involved with many activities he might not have done previously, including long distance kayaking trips around Banks Peninsula. While the need for volunteers is big within scouts, Strong said that has been a reality for the organisation for a long time. “You could go back to the minute books from meetings 50 years ago and there would be mention of needing leaders and extra volunteers, it is just how it is,” he said. Strong said parents getting involved for a minimum of three years while their child was involved with scouts could be a massive boost, but that volunteers are not limited to parents. “If you are a grandparent in your 50s there is no reason you can’t be doing the outdoor activities with them,” he said.
Activities the scouts do has remained varied, which is key for kids, Strong said. “Sometimes you find kids get pushed into one sport like hockey or soccer and that might not be their talent area,” he said. “Kids have got to give different things a go.” Strong also believes the life skills that kids pick up through scouts are important, especially if there was ever a major natural disaster. “At some point that Alpine Fault is going to go and we don’t know what is going to happen so it is good for kids to have a few life skills about cooking over an open fire and using the garden as a toilet,” he said. Strong was recognised nationally with a silver tui award in 2015 for his services to scouting, and while he has stepped down as associate zone leader for Mania-o-roto, he is sure he will quickly find another role within scouts to happily take up.
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New Zealand’s darkest day On March 15, 2019, New Zealand changed forever as a terrorist attack was carried out at two mosques in Christchurch, shattering New Zealand’s innocence. Guardian reporter Jaime Pitt-MacKay looks back at the stories that unfolded and the impact of that day around Mid Canterbury.
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or most people March 15 was just another Friday in the daily grind. In Ashburton it was the same as any other day, until news began to break online that there had been gunshots heard in Christchurch near a mosque. It would later unfold that a gunman had attacked two mosques, killing 51 people. Three residents or former residents of the district were killed in the attack, including restaurateur Imran Khan, dairy farm worker Kamel Darwish and doctor Amjad Hamid. Darwish was excited about visiting the Masjid Al Noor in Christchurch for Friday prayers when he left his workplace at Hinds on that day. But that was to be the last time his employer and colleagues saw the father of three. Aged in his late 30s, Darwish was among those shot dead at the Deans Avenue mosque. He was a popular employee, admired by his co-workers for his diligence. Forty-six-year-old restaurateur Khan, whose namesake is a celebrity cricketer and former Pakistani president, was among those
Flowers and cards with messages of support were left outside the Ashburton Masjid for weeks as the wider community rallied around the small Mid Canterbury Muslim community. PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN
gunned down at the Linwood mosque. Khan was well regarded in the
Staff members from the Ashburton Hospital gathered at the vigil held at the Ashburton Domain following the attack to remember former colleague Dr Amjad Hamid who was killed in the attack. PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN
wider Ashburton community as he got to know many through his warm personality at Indian Minar on East Street and Nando’s on Burnett Street. Khan established Indian Minar restaurant in 2007, and it was Mid Canterbury’s first Indian restaurant. Hamid was a consultant in cardiorespiratory integrated specialist services at Canterbury District Health Board for 20 years, and worked at Ashburton Hospital, with colleagues describing him as “a special man”. Memorials and vigils were held across the district in the days and weeks following the attack, including to the largest at the Ashburton Domain Oval. The vigil, which was organised by the Ashburton District Council along with other community leaders, was as perfect as it could be. The exact right amount of respect, remembrance, prayers and love being shared as a community struggling to come to terms with
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the tragedy on our own doorstep lent their shoulders and support to the strong local Muslim community. Men, women and children of all ages, ethnicities, occupations and backgrounds attended the event in their hundreds. Flowers, balloons and cards were left outside the Ashburton Masjid, the town’s place of Muslim worship, while armed police stood guard just around the corner. On the day of the attack police sirens filled the air for hours following the attack as police from around Canterbury poured into the district and onwards to Christchurch. In the evenings following the attack the sound of the Police Eagle helicopter could be heard over Ashburton as police used the helicopter to assist with regular police work in the district while it was tasked to Christchurch following an increase to the terror threat level.
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The highs and lows of a year in council life W
hat a difference a year makes ... and never more so than when that year is one in local government. We started 2019 with one mayor at the helm and ended the year with another. Two councillors and the mayor lost their seats in the October local body elections, an electoral error cost one councillor his seat, two others retired and four new people joined the team. The test of how that new team fares will come as the months tick by in 2020, but two months in, they’re looking to be exactly that, a team of equals.
Reporter Sue Newman takes a look back at the way 2019 panned out for the Ashburton District The big ticket Council, the highs, things the lows and the In terms of achievements 2019 was a big box ticking exercise, a events that made a progression or sign-off on many that had been in the mix signficant impact on projects for a year or more and stuttering progress on others. our community. After years of procrastination,
delays, planning and re-planning, Ashburton’s new civic centre and library project gained real traction. It almost got the green light in 2016 but a halt was called to allow the council team elected that year to have some input. And they did, effectively putting the project on hold while they revisited issues and options. This year, however, the project found its feet, plans were drawn up, options along with price tags, were put out for community consultation. People were keen to have
their say, but that say came with one huge surprise – for possibly the first time ever, people wanted the council to spend more money than planned. Give us the best, go for gold, they said. Clearly ratepayers had been bitten too often in the past when a big ticket project was delivered at a cut price budget. The district’s art gallery and museum are well-loved and well-used but the building they’re housed in has had never-ending issues in terms of its construction. Years down the track they’re still on the way to resolution involving legal action and a mountain of cash. And then there’s the EA Networks Centre. It’s the facility everyone has loved from day one, but again costs were cut, services pared back. Heavy user demand means additions, alterations and expensive additions will continue to be made to ensure it’s fit for purpose. Some of those were signed off in 2019, others continue to be delayed. That won’t happen with the new civic centre and library. Community demand will see more than $50 million spent on the complex to create a facility that is likely to be one of the best in New Zealand. The project’s a goer. Contracts are being let, the site is cleared and all that remains is for work to start. A huge achievement in a project with a life that dates back decades. Staying with central Ashburton, plans to redevelop, revitalise, breathe new life into the town centre gained a bit of momentum
last year. Plans have been signed off and while work is yet to start, the project is so far down the track now that a start must be just weeks, rather than months into the new year. It hasn’t been without its drama though. Something as simple as the East Street fountain had the power to almost derail the project. It wasn’t included in the new plan an no one spotted the omission when plans went out for public comment. The fountain was simply assumed by planners and councillors to be on the removal list, and by residents to be staying, but no one really talked about it – until it was included, post removal, as a new feature in the Ashburton Domain. And then the community erupted. That fountain, people said, was not to be removed. Take the information centre building but don’t take the fountain and that required a bit of a rethink, regroup and a juggle of the completed plan. How it all comes out in the wash, the new year will tell. In terms of big ticket items, the new wastewater pipe that will be buried deep beneath the Ashburton River has to rate. It’s not as sexy as a town redesign or a new library, but in terms of importance it’s probably number one. Get this one wrong and we’d earn ourselves a starring role as the town with the worst environmental disaster of the year. It’s like all roading, water or waste water projects – high on cost, critical in importance but scoring
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The feel good things As much as we love new things and new facilities, there were a few things that happened during 2019, some that came with little cost, that had the real feel good factor about them. In terms of our growth as a community with a heart, putting our hand up to become a refugee resettlement town has to be right up there. And we have to thank our previous mayor Donna Favel for that. She saw the opportunity, pushed for councillor support and did the donkey work. And in June we’ll welcome our first Afghani refugees on their journey to become New Zealanders. Our Allens Road Chinese Village had a history making moment in 2019 when it became one of just a handful of post 1900 sites to be declared a site of historic importance. Having Heritage New Zealand status has put the village on the map. Yes, there a tonne of work still to be done, but its’ new status means that work will be done, that it will be preserved and that some of the costs won’t have to be borne locally. Climate change isn’t exciting, but it’s real. The council could ignore the need to plan for a different climatic future or it could be proactive. It chose the latter course of action and became one of the country’s leaders among local authorities in developing its own plan. Having that plan won’t change anything but it will mean we’re thinking about what might come and what that might mean for our district – good and bad. We also had unexpected cash windfalls – a $7.5 million loan for Methven’s Opuke thermal pools project and a $94,000 grant to the council for a business case study on the second Ashburton River bridge. Hopefully there’ll be more to come. In terms of its own housekeeping the council has been doing its best to up its communication with residents. It’s now livestreaming its council meetings, hoping this will lead to greater community engagement in council business.
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The Allen’s Road Chinese Village was declared a site of historical importance.
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It might have been a year of achievements, but there are still plenty of things that have been on the council’s to-do list for a few years. And we don’t seem to be getting any closer to knocking
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A new-look council was sworn-in following October’s election. (John Falloon absent). PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN
them off. To be fair, the delays in most are way outside the council’s control, but they’re all important and they all need to be kept on the inner circle of its radar. Perhaps, not surprisingly, a fair chunk of them have everything to do with the NZ Transport Agency. Lights at Walnut Avenue’s intersections with East and West streets have been on the list for years. They just keep getting pushed back, presumably in the hope that we’ll give up nagging. We won’t. Clearly no one in charge of NZTA’s projects has tried to negotiate the West Street intersection in particular for a while. Just about any hour of the day there are queues snaking in all directions. If it wasn’t so serious, improvements to the Tinwald corridor would be something of a bad joke. There have been plans, plans abandoned, business cases, accidents, meetings, but to no avail. State Highway One through Tinwald remains a raceway where motorists dodge with death every time they attempt to move from
a side road into the streams of traffic. And then there’s the relocation of the town centre rail head. No one loves our town centre railway line but we’re clearly stuck with that, but on every level the clash between shunting trains and vehicles would be eased if the rail head moved out to its natural home, the North East Business Estate. The council’s been on this case for years, but it seems Kiwi Rail doesn’t want to know – or pay.
Looking ahead This year is likely to be a bright year on the council’s calendar. There’s plenty of projects that will get under way during the year, projects that will make a huge difference to our quality of life. The council’s in a decent position fiscally, it’s debt levels are low, it’s asset stocks high. And, even though we might complain, our rates are modest by national standards. We’ve a lot to be grateful for, living in our own little slice of Godzone.
Plans to remove the East Street water fountain drew criticism and the decision was eventually overturned. PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN
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November2019 At the end of each year, Guardian staff choose the best of the year’s photos to share with you all and reminisce.
The Pork Pullers (from left) Emma Sharpin, Annabell Askin and Catherine Sharpin celebrated their win at last year’s New Zealand Agricultural Show. The three former Lowcliffe School pupils celebrated an annual get-together with some friendly competition, winning Best Commercial Boar and Champion Boar, with their entry, named Stephen Porking. PHOTO HEATHER CHALMERS 141119-HC-001
Thunder, lightning and hail caused havoc and sent Mid Cantabrians running for cover, and turned roads white at Westerfield. The electrical storm which swept through shortly after midday cut off power to hundreds of rural households. PHOTO SUPPLIED
Anna Johnson’s dream of opening her own gym in her hometown came true when Methven’s Garage Gym opened its doors. PHOTO HEATHER MACKENZIE
Ashburton Contracting Limited’s Aaron Gairns, glass artist Tash Sim and Laser Electrical manager Brent Christie are proud of the town’s newly-renovated fountain, alongside 12-year-old Ben Ciron. ACL oversaw the official turning on of the water feature outside the town library at the State Highway One-Havelock Street intersection. PHOTO SUSAN SANDYS 311019-SS-0144
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Clearing food from Toot for Tucker at the Ashburton Racecourse on Tuesday were (from left) Jan Stewart, Mike Allwright and Jackie Ryan. Organisers of last year’s event were thrilled with the nearly 400 banana boxes of non-perishable food donated to fill Ashburton’s foodbanks. PHOTO JAIME PITT-MACKAY 191119-JPM-0002
Emily Everest, 11, (left) and Katey Foot, 10, had fun at the Ashburton A&P Show. The theme for the show was Seeds of Mid Canterbury. PHOTO HEATHER MACKENZIE 021119-HM-0282
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Ashburton Christian School Year 7 pupils will be able to complete their secondary education at the school if they so choose after the school was granted permission to extend to Year 13. The school has been granted an increase from 120 to 250 pupils as of 2020, and up to 345 pupils as of 2023. PHOTO SUSAN SANDYS 211119-SS-0020
Whitebaiters Donna Harvey (left) and Duncan Lye were at the Ashburton River mouth, aiming to fill their nets with the sought-after delicacy. PHOTO SUSAN SANDYS 291119-SS-0008
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The protection of our apostrophe I
n 2001 retired English journalist John Richards set up the Apostrophe Protection Society. This was “in order to protect the correct use of this currently much-abused punctuation mark”, according to the society’s website mission statement. For 18 years Richards, and his worldwide supporters, did just that, they stood up for the little defenceless dash whenever they saw a need, which was far more often than they could have ever hoped. Together, group members waged war against many a written injustice, from signs shouting “Tomato’s For Sale” and “Menu’s Printed Here”, to comments
such as “Its not fair” and “Your welcome”. However, like any war there are casualties. Eighteen years of fighting the good fight took its toll on the 96-year-old Richards. Admitting defeat in December last year, Richards added the following to his home page, “I have decided to close the Apostrophe Protection Society … Ignorance
and laziness present in modern times have won.” Modern times. Interesting that he included those words in his farewell statement. We tend to think that all things modern have to be an improvement on the old. Are modern times good or are we all going too fast? Is living life at a pace so hectic, that we don’t have the time to rescue ill-placed apostrophes, a good thing? Is the demise of the Apostrophe Protection Society yet another symptom of gadget-driven, notime-to-notice-the-small-stuff world we live in? Gadgets play a vital role in our modern times and we need them. How reporters ever managed be-
fore mobile phones were invented, is a mystery known only to those who did. Remember the first mobile phones? Despite their enormity and weight they were only good for making calls and given very few people owned them, who were you going to call anyway? Now modern phones are smaller, a lot more glamorous, and can do just about everything apart from cook your dinner – given time I am sure a new and improved Siri will be capable of that too. “New and improved” is an interesting catch phrase often shouted at us from ads. When you think about it, it doesn’t make sense. How is it possible for something
to be both new and improved at the same time? But have all these gizmos taken over a little too much? I read an article this morning entitled How to stop smart devices from spying on you. The writer’s advice included turning your voice-activated device towards the wall so it could not film or record your private conversations, conversations that will be recorded and held somewhere in cyberspace indefinitely. Given that information, maybe a few misplaced apostrophes are the least of our worries. So let’s go through life just that little bit slower, changing mistakes when we see them, and protecting our privacy in these modern times.
a side track in Chase, Maryland. In 1999, Europe’s new currency, the euro, got off to a strong start on its first trading day, rising against the dollar on world currency markets. In 2002, Sgt 1st Class Nathan Ross Chapman, a US Army Special Forces soldier, was killed by small-arms fire during an ambush in eastern Afghanistan; he was the first American military death from enemy fire in the war against terrorism. In 2006, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a significant stroke; his official powers were transferred to his deputy, Ehud Olmert. (Sharon remained in a coma until his death in January 2014.)
In 2018, The Dow Jones Industrial Average burst through the 25,000 mark, closing at 25,075.13 just five weeks after its first close above 24,000. Ten years ago: Dubai opened the world’s tallest skyscraper, and in a surprise move renamed the 2717-foot gleaming glass-andmetal tower Burj Khalifa in a nod to the leader of neighbouring Abu Dhabi, the oil-rich sheikdom that had come to its financial rescue. Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only person recognised by the Japanese government as a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, died at age 93 in Nagasaki. Five years ago: North Korea criticised the United States for
slapping sanctions on Pyongyang officials and organisations for a cyber attack on Sony Pictures. One year ago: Five teenage girls died from inhaling carbon monoxide after a fire broke out next to a locked “escape room” in Poland. Today’s birthdays: Actress Barbara Rush is 93. Opera singer Grace Bumbry is 83. Actress Dyan Cannon is 81. Country singer Kathy Forester is 65. Actress Ann Magnuson is 64. Rock musician Bernard Sumner is 64. Country singer Patty Loveless is 63. Actor Julian Sands is 62. Rock singer Michael Stipe is 60. Actor Patrick Cassidy is 58. Actor Dave Foley is 57. Actress Dot Jones is 56. Actor Rick Hearst is 55. Singer-musician
Cait O’Riordan is 55. Actress Julia Ormond is 55. Country singer Deana Carter is 54. Rock musician Benjamin Darvill is 53. Actor Josh Stamberg is 50. Actor Jeremy Licht is 49. Actor Damon Gupton is 47. Actress-singer Jill Marie Jones is 45. Actress D’Arcy Carden is 40. Alt-country singer Justin Townes Earle is 38. Christian rock singer Spencer Chamberlain is 37. Actress Lenora Crichlow is 35. Comedian-actress Charlyne Yi is 34. Actress-singer Coco Jones is 22. Thought for today: “The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.” — T.S. Eliot, Americanborn English poet (born in 1888, died this date in 1965). - AP
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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Saturday, January 4, the fourth day of 2020. There are 362 days left in the year. Today’s highlight in history: On January 4, 1964, Pope Paul VI began a visit to the Holy Land, the first papal pilgrimage of its kind. On this date: In 1809, Louis Braille, inventor of the Braille raised-dot reading system for the blind, was born in Coupvray, France. In 1861, Alabama seized a federal arsenal at Mount Vernon near Mobile. In 1869, Pursued by Māori and colonial troops to Ngātapa, an old hilltop pā inland from Poverty Bay, Te Kooti narrowly avoided capture after a three-day siege. Many of those with him were captured and executed the following day. In 1904, the US Supreme Court, in Gonzalez v. Williams, ruled that Puerto Ricans were not aliens and could enter the United States freely; however, the court stopped short of declaring them citizens. (Puerto Ricans received US citizenship in March 1917.) In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, called for legislation to provide assistance for the jobless, elderly, impoverished children and the handicapped. In 1958, Sir Edmund Hillary’s New Zealand team became the first to reach the South Pole overland since Robert Falcon Scott in 1912, and the first to do so in motor vehicles. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered his State of the Union address in which he outlined the goals of his “Great Society”. In 1974, President Richard Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee. In 1987, 16 people were killed when an Amtrak train bound from Washington, DC, to Boston collided with Conrail locomotives that had crossed into its path from
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he years have turned. 2019 has given way, albeit reluctantly, to 2020. One feels 2019 might have liked another month or two to distract from the long-term disasters it has brought with it. How keen, I wonder, is 2020 to take up the blackened baton. There’s no escaping the mosque massacres and the violent deaths on volcanic White Island, the former a human-inspired atrocity, the latter – a, perhaps, avoidable – act of God. Whatever else has occurred during the year that has just left us, those two events will always mark it out as one of the darker 12-month periods in our ongoing story. From the sacred to the mundane, the politics of Aotearoa, New Zealand have remained humdrum, and, perhaps, quite a bit less than gripping. But then it has been the second year of a parliamentary term when the government of the day realises some of the grand pledges of the last manifesto remain undone and scramble to justify promises often made in the euphoria of anticipated victory. Certainly, PM Jacinda Ardern’s commitment to “ending child poverty”, which she trumpeted in the run-up – was that
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another of her “nuclear moments”? – to the 2017 election, needs more work, while all the “affordable” houses with which the nation was to be blessed, proved a wildly ambitious and oversold “policy”, with which the constantly caught napping Phil Twyford will, for ever, be associated. But then it was an obviously, overly-ambitious promise, in the first place, the ramifications of which had never been thought through. Anyway, what is meant by “affordable”? Is there a reliable definition of that concept. It would certainly help if there were. And all the while the rickety coalition presided over the on-going fortunes of the nation. PM Jacinda had to spend valuable time reproving errant ministers, not least the grumpy/ straight-up rude, Winston, Shane Jones, whose arrogant prognostications were a continuing blot on our political land-
scape throughout the year, the less than adequate performance of the aforementioned Twyford and a number of other of her colleagues on whose supposed ability she could not rely. Now, it is rumoured, a recent poll – despite the coalition collywobbles, as outlined above – suggests National have gone backwards by three percentage points while Labour has risen by the same number, with Green and NZ First each on eight per cent and Act bringing up the rear on 2 per cent. Those are significant – not to say, surprising – figures, which may have given National a nasty shock. However, Simon (Bridges) seems not to have been fazed by them – perhaps his perspiring advisers have kept them from him so as not to spoil his holiday plans – as he was about to take his wife and three young children on a cruise round the Pacific. That hardly compares with Australian PM, Scott Morrison, caught sunning himself on the beaches of Hawaii while back home bush fires were causing heart-breaking havoc and death, but Bridges would surely wish to be kept in the loop while out of the country. Even the traditional silly
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season is not averse to throwing up a political twist while our be-togged politicos are lovingly building sandcastles for their littlies. Dark horse tip for election 2020: the Act Party. As I noted in a recent article, David Seymour, via his End of Life Bill as well as his consistent support for freedom of expression and other good causes, seems to have established a degree of credibility not before seen in the country at large. National might even find itself relying on him. So, another election year dawns, a time of great activity amongst political junkies like me. I look forward to bringing you penetrating comment on all the up-and-down turns between now and about September. In the meantime, warm wishes for 2020 from all operatives at the paper. We do our best to ensure you read it first in The Guardian! The views, opinions, positions or strategies expressed by the author and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, positions or strategies of the Ashburton Guardian Co Ltd or any employee thereof.
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Babidge back at helm of a2 Milk By Jamie Gray NZME
It’s back to the future for a2 Milk. Geoff Babidge, who is largely credited with turning the nearly insolvent alternative milk company into today’s multi billion dollar operation, is back in the hot seat following the sudden departure of Jayne Hrdlicka, who stepped down in early December after less than 18 months in the job. Babidge, who had a successful run at A2 from 2010 to 2018, very nearly didn’t get the top job. Metlifecare founder Cliff Cook came to the rescue of a struggling a2 Milk with a capital injection in its early days. Babidge – who was then with Australia’s Freedom Foods – called Cook out of the blue one day. “Hello, I’m Geoff Babidge. I know a little bit about dairy. I can help your business in Australia,” was Babidge’s account of the conversation. “Cliff was extremely dismissive,” Babidge said. “Cliff actually said his business was going very well and that he did not need Australians to assist him.” As Cook recalls, Babidge was telling him “how wonderful he
was and how he could make our product work”. A “fair bit of pestering” followed before Cook relented. The business became a joint venture. In 2010, the Australian joint venture was fully merged into the a2 Milk Corp. “From day one I believed in the a2 concept,” Babidge says. “It represented an outstanding potential commercial opportunity with first mover advantage.” 2019 was bumpy one for a2 Milk, which has a market capitalisation of $11.2 billion but which employs just over 200 people. The company commercialises intellectual property relating to A1 protein-free milk that is sold under the a2 and a2 MILK brands, as well as the milk and related products like infant formula. It maintains its a1 beta-free protein can benefit those who have trouble digesting standard milk. Shares in a2 Milk slumped to $14.00 after the news that Hrdlicka would step down. They have since fully recovered, and now trade well over $15.00 a share. In stepping down, Hrdlicka, a former executive of cut price airline Jetstar, said the a2 Milk job
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Geoff Babidge is back in charge of a2 Milk after the sudden departure of Jayne Hrdlicka. would have involved much more travel than she had anticipated. Investors have taken heart from the general direction of a2 Milk, but questions remain over the departure of Hrdlicka, who by some estimates will leave with $13 to $20 million for her stint. Hrdlicka was paid $2.2m in
2018, the same year that she controversially sold a tranche of shares netting $4.3m. She sold a further 146,000 shares last month to meet tax obligations and has 93,000 “transition” shares worth $1.4m remaining. Despite reporting a hefty lift in
its annual net profit for 2018/19, a2 Milk’s share price took a big hit in August when it transpired that the company would spend more money on future growth. In announcing Hrdlicka’s departure, chairman David Hearn was at pains to say the strategy had not changed. Still, Hrdlicka’s sudden departure has left many scratching their heads. With the return of Babidge, it was “back to the future kind of stuff,” Harbour Asset Management portfolio manager Shane Solly said. Harbour Asset, which has a stake in a2 Milk, had confidence in Babidge’s ability to keep driving the business along, he said. Craigs Investment Partners head of private wealth research, Mark Lister, said the negativity surrounding Hrdlicka’s departure would soon blow over. He still favours the stock and its strategy. “I still like it. It (Hrdlicka’s departure) has obviously been terribly managed and that reflects badly on the board,” he said. “It’s been a bit of a shambles but I am inclined to still stick with it,” he said.
Market set for quieter 2020 By Paul McBeth NZME
New Zealand’s stock market isn’t expected to repeat the stonking returns of 2019, but low interest rates and a benign economic environment should be enough to keep things ticking over this year. The S&P/NZX50 Index notched up a 30.4 per cent gain in 2019, its biggest since the measure was launched in 2003, due largely to central banks cutting interest rates and some mulling the introduction of more unorthodox responses to maintain growth. Limited returns in fixed interest securities encouraged investors to take on equity risk and the likes of New Zealand’s market – where there’s a strong cohort of utilities and property investors paying reliable dividends – were alluring to international and local investors alike. Local economists are leaning towards another rate cut in 2020, but investors don’t see that lighting a fire under the NZX50, which had just 11 members in negative territory last year. Two notched up single-digit gains and the other 37 gave investors a double-digit return in 2019. Shane Solly, a portfolio manager at Harbour Asset Management, said the lower interest rates were the key catalyst for equity markets with the wider macro-economic environment top of mind for investors. Solly expects investors to focus more closely on the fundamentals for companies and their earnings, which should lead to a broader range of outcomes among firms. Cheap money will continue to make good quality listed companies attractive takeover targets. Metlifecare is the latest firm in the spotlight after its board and major shareholders backed a $1.5 billion offer from Swedish buy-out firm EQT. It will
likely follow Abano Healthcare out the door if shareholders agree that their money can be put to better use elsewhere. However, merger and acquisition activity isn’t all one-way traffic with listed company balance sheets strong enough to go hunting for acquisitions. Infratil bought half of Vodafone in 2019, NZME is still trying to buy rival Stuff, and Chorus has said it’s open to buying mobile network assets if they came up. New listings have been more problematic for the stock market operator in recent years, although it’s not alone in facing that problem, with the number of initial public offerings globally down a fifth in 2019. NZX has remained steadfastly optimistic about the pipeline and chief executive Mark Peterson has urged patience for the global conditions to become more favourable for IPOs. While local companies often remain wary about going public, demand among investors is strong. Hawke’s Bay Regional Council’s partial privatisation of Napier Port was well overbid, and those investors were well-rewarded with the shares closing out 2019 at $4.16, well up on the $2.60 sale price. Even speculative medicinal cannabis firm Cannasouth ended the year in the black at 60 cents, above its 50 cent sale price and recovering from an inauspicious start in June. In theory, there should be plenty of candidates for new listings. Private equity firms have been holding on to companies longer than normal with the likes of Hirepool and Burger King NZ among those looking long in the tooth for owners Next Capital and Blackstone respectively. Chris Timms, an investment adviser at Craigs Investment Partners, said successful listings such as Napier Port were needed to encourage
more IPO activity and while private equity firms held a pipeline of opportunities, people were “pretty cautious that they’re not priced to absolute perfection”. “How do you price those so investors can feel comfortable taking them up?” Meanwhile, new and younger investors have been introduced to the local market with strong uptake of micro-investment platform Sharesies and the introduction of two new rivals. And a new licensing regime requiring investment advisers to put their clients’ interests first and ditching clunky and confusing designations may empower advisers to dial back what’s seen as an overly cautious approach. If that pans out, it could see a recovery in investor appetite for some of the market’s smaller stocks that have struggled to attract liquidity without coverage from the major research houses. Harking back to the focus on fundamentals, a tailwind has emerged supporting some of the smaller stocks as the likes of Blis Technologies and Wellington Drive Technologies finally reached profitability. They both listed in 2001 and have spent almost 20 years as penny dreadfuls. And with the growing importance of KiwiSaver funds — they now have about $6.7 billion invested in the local share market — the investment community will keep a close watch on the government’s decision on whether it will change the mandates of the default funds and their $9.5 billion of funds under management. Even without the risks that will undoubtedly arise from elections in the US and at home there will be plenty going on in capital markets this year.
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Weather to impact on fires AP Navy ships plucked hundreds of people from beaches and tens of thousands were urged to flee yesterday before hot weather and strong winds in the forecast worsen Australia’s already-devastating wildfires. More than 200 fires were burning, and warnings of extreme danger to come today set in motion one of the largest evacuations in Australian history. Thousands have already fled at-risk coastal areas, creating traffic gridlock in places, and firefighters escorted convoys of evacuees as fires threatened to close roads. Victoria Premier Daniel Andrew declared a disaster across much of the eastern part of the state, allowing the government to order evacuations in an area with as many as 140,000 permanent residents and tens of thousands more vacationers. South Australia state’s Country Fire Service chief officer Mark Jones said the weather conditions were cause for concern because some fires were still burning or smouldering. “The ignition sources are already there,” he said. “There are millions of sparks out there ready to go if they break containment lines.” The early and devastating start to Australia’s summer wildfires has made this season the worst on record. About 5 million hectares of land have burned, at least 19 people have been killed, and more than 1400 homes have been destroyed. This week, at least 448 homes have been destroyed on the New South Wales southern coast and dozens were burned
A massive smoke plume rises from wildfires burning in East Gippsland, Victoria. PHOTO AP in Victoria. Ten deaths have been confirmed in the two states this week, and Victoria authorities also say 28 people are missing. Fires are also burning in Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania. The navy was evacuating hundreds from the Victorian coastal town of Mallacoota, which has been cut off for days by wildfires, forcing as many
as 4000 residents and tourists to shelter on beaches. Landing craft ferried people to the HMAS Choules offshore. Choules Commander Scott Houlihan said 963 people had signed up for evacuation by sea and more had been airlifted to safety. A state of emergency was in place in New South Wales and a total fire ban.
State Rural Fire Service deputy commissioner Rob Rogers said strong winds and high temperatures today will make the fire danger worse in many areas and urged those who can flee to do so. “We know people have got a little bit of fire fatigue. They’ve been dealing with this now for months,” Rogers said. “But we need people to stay focused. Tomorrow (Saturday) is not the day to drop your guard. Take it seriously. If you’re in those areas where we put those maps out, do not be there.” Prime Minister Scott Morrison visited the township of Bairnsdale in Victoria and received a warmer welcome than a day earlier in New South Wales Morrison cut short a visit to the town of Cobargo when locals yelled at him, made obscene gestures and called him an “idiot” and worse, criticising him for the lack of equipment to deal with the fires in town. In a radio interview Friday, Morrison said he understood the anger of people affected by the fires. “People are angry and people are raw and people are upset,” he said. “Whether they are angry with me or they are angry about the situation, all I know is they are hurting and it’s my job to be there to try and offer some comfort and support.” Smoke from the wildfires has choked air quality and turned daytime skies to near night-time darkness in the worst-hit areas. It’s also blown across the Tasman Sea into New Zealand, where skies are hazy and glaciers have turned a deep caramel brown.
Iran general killed in airport airstrike AP Gen Qassim Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, was killed in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport Friday, Iraqi television and three Iraqi officials said. The strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilisation Forces, or PMF, the officials said. Their deaths are a potential turning point in the Middle East and are expected to draw severe retaliation from Iran and the forces it backs in the Middle East against Israel and American interests. The PMF blamed the United States for an attack at Baghdad International Airport Friday. There was no immediate comment from the US or Iran. A senior Iraqi politician and a high-level security official confirmed to the Associated Press that Soleimani and al-Muhandis were among those killed in the attack. Two militia leaders loyal to Iran also confirmed the
Iran’s Gen Qassim Soleimani. PHOTO AP deaths, including an official with the Kataeb Hezbollah, which was involved in the attack on the US Embassy this week. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said al-Muhandis had arrived to the airport in a convoy to receive Soleimani whose plane had arrived from either Lebanon or Syria. The airstrike occurred as soon as he descended from the plane to be greeted by al-Muhandis and his companions, killing them all. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject and because they were not authorised to give official statements. Earlier Friday, an official with
an Iran-backed paramilitary force said that seven people were killed by a missile fired at Baghdad International Airport, blaming the United States. The official with the group known as the Popular Mobilisation Forces said the dead included its airport protocol officer, identifying him as Mohammed Reda. A security official confirmed that seven people were killed in the attack on the airport, describing it as an airstrike. Earlier, Iraq’s Security Media Cell, which releases information regarding Iraqi security, said Katyusha rockets landed near the airport’s cargo hall, killing several people and setting two cars on fire. It was not immediately clear who fired the missile or rockets or who was targeted. There was no immediate comment from the US. The attack came amid tensions with the United States after a New Year’s Eve attack by Iranbacked militias on the US Embassy in Baghdad. The two-day embassy attack which ended Wednesday prompted President
Donald Trump to order about 750 US soldiers deployed to the Middle East. The breach at the embassy followed US airstrikes on Sunday that killed 25 fighters of the Iran-backed militia in Iraq, the Kataeb Hezbollah. The US military said the strikes were in retaliation for last week’s killing of an American contractor in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base that the US blamed on the militia. US officials have suggested they were prepared to engage in further retaliatory attacks in Iraq. “The game has changed,” Defence Secretary Mark Esper said Thursday. He said the Iraqi government has fallen short of its obligation to defend its American partner in the attack on the US embassy. The developments also represent a major downturn in IraqUS relations that could further undermine US influence in the region and American troops in Iraq and weaken Washington’s hand in its pressure campaign against Iran.
Jackman mourns mentor Hugh Jackman is mourning the death of his acting teacher and mentor Lisle Jones. The 51-year-old actor has paid a touching tribute to his “dear friend” on Wednesday after he passed away last week at 89 years old. He shared a photo of the two of them on Instagram and wrote alongside: “Last week I lost a dear friend and certainly one of the single biggest influences on me as an actor both on stage and off. Lisle Jones. I feel tremendous gratitude toward him as a teacher and mentor. His deep love for the craft of acting was palpable, his generosity unmatched. Lisle will be greatly missed.”
Boyega’s comment criticised John Boyega is facing criticism following a sexualised comment he made on social media about Daisy Ridley’s Star Wars character. On New Year’s Eve, the British actor uploaded a video of himself dancing on Instagram to which a fan commented: “My boy after realising Kylo died so he can date Rey.” Boyega responded positively to the comment about his character Finn potentially hooking up with Rey. “It’s not about who she kisses about who eventually lays the pipe. You are a genius,” he said. Despite Boyega jokingly trying to justify his comments, one fan called the actor a misogynist.
Facinelli engaged Wedding bells are on the horizon for Peter Facinelli. The Twilight star is engaged to his girlfriend, Lily Anne Harrison, 30. Facinelli, 46, proposed to the actress during their trip to Mazatlan, Mexico. The actor proposed on the beach during a romantic dinner and was joined by his three daughters – Luca, 22, Lola, 17, and Fiona, 7 – whom he shares with ex-wife Jennie Garth. Harrison’s parents were also in attendance. Following their engagement, Facinelli took to Instagram to share photos of their unforgettable night. “A magical night with this incredible woman,” he captioned.
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Tiger still prowling Tiger Woods has inspired new hope. Brooks Koepka is the No. 1 player in the world. A new year brings a sense of familiarity, except for the details. Woods went into 2019 having won again after five long years, but he still had yet to win a major. He took care of that at the Masters, and now it’s a question of whether he can catch the 18 majors won by Jack Nicklaus, the gold standard in golf. Koepka is the first player since Woods in 2009-10 to start consecutive years at No. 1 in the world ranking. How much longer he keeps it depends on when he plays, with a knee injury that has kept him out since October. Their performances are among five topics of conversations going into 2020.
Tiger’s encore With all the trauma and drama involving Woods, what made his Masters victory so appealing was that a younger generation only saw him win majors on video, and an older generation of fans had reason to believe they might never see it again. The rest of the year was a dud, and then Woods had minor surgery on his left knee to clean out cartilage. His knee was strong enough to play, but not to practice or squat to read putts. After the surgery, he played for the first time in 10 weeks and won the Zozo Championship in Japan for his record-tying 82nd victory. Then, he played even better by going 3-0 as the playing captain
of the US team in the Presidents Cup. All that did was build hope for Augusta National and beyond. Is the pursuit of Nicklaus back in play? Woods turned 44 this week. When he gets to the Masters, only six players older than Woods will have won a major – Lee Trevino, Hale Irwin, Jerry Barber, Nicklaus, Old Tom Morris and Julius Boros. No-one that age has won more than two majors. Woods needs three. As the last decade has shown, it’s not wise to bet against him.
Koepka’s challenge Brooks Koepka has a chance to join one of the most exclusive lists in golf as he tries to win a major championship for the fourth consecutive year. Only four other players have done that. Tiger Woods won majors in four straight years on two occasions – 1999 through 2002, and 2005 through 2008. The others were Tom Watson (1980-83), Jack Nicklaus (1970-73) and Walter Hagen (1924-27). But first, he has to play. Koepka hasn’t played a 72-hole event since the Tour Championship. He missed the cut in Las Vegas and then hurt his knee in Korea. He is eager to return. He will not return too early. And it’s too early to say when that might be. But the measure is in April at the Masters and the three months that follow when it comes to chasing history.
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winning them. The 29 players who won majors over the last 10 years were the most in any decade. Any list starts much younger, and three players might be suited to break through for their first major this year. Jon Rahm is No. 3 in the world with three victories worldwide in each of his three full years as a pro. He has three top 5s in majors, but has yet to face serious pressure in the final hour on Sunday. Xander Schauffele is winning big tournaments and has challenged in majors each of the last two years, as runner-up at the Masters in 2019 and the British Open at Carnoustie the year before. Patrick Cantlay was among those who had a share of the lead late Sunday at the Masters until a bogey-bogey-par finish. He’s missed only one cut in the 12 majors he has played, three of them as an amateur. All three go into the year among the top 10 in the world.
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Tokyo Olympics The world ranking after the US Open determines who qualifies for the Olympics in Tokyo. Unlike the return at Rio in 2016, don’t expect as many players to skip for reasons ranging from security to mosquitoes. Tiger Woods, lukewarm about a gold medal when golf in the Olympics first was mentioned two decades ago, wants a shot at it. He currently holds down the No. 4 spot for the Americans and would be helped by his limited
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schedule. Justin Thomas has said he might consider adding a tournament to his schedule if necessary to make it to Tokyo. Expect strong competition from Britain, too, with Rio gold medallist Justin Rose (No. 8), Tommy Fleetwood (No. 10) and Paul Casey (No. 15) very much in the mix. Britain had two players in Rio. Breakthrough major Gone are the days when it was easy to identify the best player without a major because more are
Struggling Spieth Go back to Jordan Spieth winning the 2017 British Open at Royal Birkdale. He was four days shy of turning 24. He had three majors among his 14 wins worldwide, one short of the career Grand Slam, and he was No. 2 in the world. He hasn’t won since then. Spieth sorted out putting problems that held him back and has dropped to No. 44 in the world. He has missed the Tour Championship each of the last two years. This is an important year for him to at least stay relevant.
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Liverpool’s Sadio Mane, scores his side’s second goal during the English Premier League match between Liverpool and Sheffield United at Anfield Stadium yesterday. PHOTO AP
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Liverpool extend big lead Mohamed Salah scored one goal and set up the other yesterday as Liverpool extended their unbeaten Premier League run to a full year with a 2-0 victory over Sheffield United to restore its 13-point lead. Salah opened the scoring in the fourth minute by finishing off a quick attack and then exchanged passes with Sadio Mane to set up his team-mate for the second goal in the 64th. Liverpool hasn’t lost a league game in 364 days since a defeat to Manchester City that proved cru-
cial in last year’s title race, when Jürgen Klopp’s team finished a point back in second place. But a first league title in 30 years is starting to look inevitable for Liverpool this year, after 19 wins from 20 games so far. Leicester is 13 points back in second place, but Liverpool also have a game in hand on their rivals. Its next league game is at Tottenham on January 11. The opening goal yesterday came after Virgil Van Dijk lifted a ball forward full-back Andrew
Robertson crossed for Salah to sidefoot home his 44th goal in his last 51 matches at Anfield. He nearly scored another but goalkeeper Dean Henderson reacted quickly to tip over his first-time half-volley from Jordan Henderson’s low ball. Both teams seemed to have tired legs from the busy festive period and Liverpool struggled to create quality chances until Mane netted the second after the Senegal interational charged forward and received a return pass from Salah.
His intial shot was saved by Henderson but he followed up to blast the ball into an open net. With the game well and truly in the bag Klopp even had the luxury of handing 16-year-old Harvey Elliott his English Premier League debut for the club – although it came so late he did not touch the ball. The only negative for Liverpool was Naby Keita sustaining a groin injury during the warm-up, reducing Klopp’s options further for Sunday’s home FA Cup derby against Everton.
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Classic may unearth a new court star One of the pleasures of attending the international tennis tournaments in Auckland each summer is the chance to see a star of the future, sometimes the very near future. Crowds at last year’s ASB Women’s Classic were captivated by a delightful Canadian teenager of Romanian heritage, Bianca Andreescu, who upset Caroline Wozniacki and Venus Williams to reach the final. In September she won the US Open. When this year’s classic starts on Monday, Wozniacki and the woman who has won the tournament the past two years, Julia Goerges will be there. Those names represent the appeal of the Auckland Tennis’ premier event, the mix of veterans with players on the verge of breaking out, and touring profes-
sionals who start their schedule in Auckland every year because the tournament director, Karl Budge, works hard to ensure it works for them. He competes with several other cities in Australia that hold preparatory tournaments for the Australian Open in Melbourne. He cannot match all of them with money for the appearance fees big names receive, so he makes it his business to make sure they enjoy their time in Auckland as well as getting what they need in their build-up for Melbourne. The acceptances he can announce year after year attest to his efforts. This year he has enticed Serena Williams to return, hoping no doubt Auckland fans will forgive and forget her previous visit, in 2017, when she left in a huff after
an early round loss, declaring the conditions the worst she had experienced. It had been a windy day. Forgiven or not, she is a drawcard. At least Williams did not handle that defeat badly, unlike the previous year’s final in her home grand slam when she and the New York crowd behaved disgracefully. She no longer dominates as much as she did and might no longer carry the same expectations of herself. She has been a great champion and could win spectators’ hearts next week. Courtside seats are another of the pleasures of Auckland, for the spectators at least. If the players find the clink of glass and rattle of cutlery distracting as they power into a shot, they seldom let on. And what power they produce.
From every seat in a stadium, top quality tennis is a revelation compared to watching it on television. The camera cannot convey how hard players hit and how fast they have to react. Not so many years ago this was a feature only of the men’s game but these days the women too hit very hard. Some players squeal with the effort, which is easier to understand courtside. The following week Auckland will host the men’s tour. It has not had a budding champion here since the teenager Rafael Nadal more than a decade ago. That is because Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic have dominated the game ever since. Men’s tennis is overdue for a new star. Maybe we will see him first in Auckland. It has happened before.
Equestrian Sports New Zealand high performance eventing manager Graeme Thom is buoyed to see new combinations stepping up into the new 2020 squads. “Our most recent squad lists seem stark with the absences of (Sir) Mark (Todd) and Blyth (Tait) but it is very encouraging to have a number of new names and faces meeting the standards of our top groups,” he said. The High Performance Squad comprises three riders with seven horses between them in Clarke Johnstone aboard Balmoral Sensation, Jonelle Price with both Classic Moet and Faerie Dianimo, and world No.2 Tim Price with Ascona M, Bango, Ringwood Sky Boy and Xavier Faer. “It is equally comforting that they will be dipping into a pool with many seasoned and well-accomplished veterans to provide invaluable guidance,” says Thom. “In such an important year, and soon a start to another exciting quadrennial, this group of talented athletes and horses is testimony to a strong programme across both hemispheres.” He felt it was also telling of the quality of those behind the riders. “It is recognition of the invaluable support that our committed and generous horse owners provide. “We must also thank High Performance Sport New Zealand for their ongoing investment in our team and its culture.” There have been six additions to the High Performance Futures Squad with Tim Price aboard Wesko and Falco, Jonelle Price and Grovine de Reve, Clarke Johnstone and Aces High, Samantha Lissington and Ricker Ridge Sooty GNZ, James Avery aboard One of a Kind and New Zealand-based Monica Oakley with Acrobat. The new combinations join Amanda Pottinger on Just Kidding, Caroline Powell and On the Brash, Dan Jocelyn aboard Blackthorne Cruise, Jesse Campbell on Cleveland, and Madison Crowe with Waitangi Pinterest. Three new combinations have been added to the High Performance Potential Squad in Donna Edwards-Smith, Diane Gilder and Bruce Haskell, who join Bundy Philpott, Emily Cammock, Ginny Thompson, Joe Myer, Matthew Grayling, Nick Brooks and Renee Faulkner.
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Hunt eyes new opportunities Former Crusader Mitchell Hunt reflects on a stellar 2019, and eyes new opportunities this season with the Highlanders. He talks to Mark Quinlivan.
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aving just finished his second day of pre-season training, Highlander Mitchell Hunt conceded the body was a bit worse for wear. In a new location, surrounded by fresh faces, the 24-year-old is ready to take on the next phase of his career. It seems crazy one would talk about a 24-year-old beginning the “next phase” of their career when most at that age are just getting their foot in the door. For Hunt, his professional CV already consists of three Super Rugby titles with the Crusaders, a Mitre 10 Cup title with Tasman and a World Rugby under-20 title with the Baby Blacks. “When you step back and think about it – it does fly by pretty quick,” said Hunt. “I do think about [the success], and I’ve been in some awesome teams, surrounded by some awesome guys and I’ve had a pretty awesome journey so far.” 2019 was a year to remember for Hunt. He won a third Super Rugby title in a row with the Crusaders and experienced an unbeaten season with Tasman in the Mitre 10 Cup. “That was special,” Hunt said of the Mitre 10 Cup triumph. “I was in the last of that Tasman era where we had the likes of Shane Christie and Marty Banks; the likes of those guys – when they were in their final year at Tazzy [sic], a lot of those guys and the guys just before them really built Tasman up to [the] success.” Now, he’s ready to commence the biggest challenge of his career in Dunedin – one he’s very much looking forward to. The reason for his career shift was simple in the end; game time, or lack thereof. As successful as they were, four years at the Crusaders only saw him earn him 43 caps, of which the majority came off the bench. Had it not been for All Blacks first-five Richie Mo’unga’s mortgage on the Crusaders’ No.10, things could have been very different. Either way, Hunt knew he always had to stay ready during his tenure in Christchurch. In 2017, he kicked a penalty with time expired to edge the Crusaders past the Reds in Brisbane – a game he started in the No.10 jersey due to a Mo’unga injury. It was later that season when his big moment came – one so special it would ultimately earn him a Halberg Award. Hunt wrote himself into southern derby folklore with a 40m drop goal to see the Crusaders past the Highlanders in the dying stages of a tense afternoon affair in Christchurch. “There have been times where I’ve been chucked in the deep end and I’ve been able to execute my game,” said Hunt. “I would honestly say that’s the best thing [you can do]; understand your role,
Above - After four years with the Crusaders, Mitchell Hunt is ready to make his mark in the Highlanders.
whether you’re starting or your not starting.” Hunt joins a new-look Highlanders side sprinkled with fresh talent for the 2020 season. “A lot of those older-head guys have gone now. There’s really only a couple of those older, experienced guys left in the group,” says Hunt, referring to the likes of Aaron Smith and Liam Coltman, who the side has retained. The Highlanders lacked experience and playmaking options last season, two areas where coach Aaron Mauger knew Hunt could make an impact. “It is tough leaving a Crusader environment that’s had so much success. But for me, the thing I was missing was the game time and the time on the field,” said Hunt. “It’s a challenge I look forward to and I hope that it does work out, and I hope that I do get some more time on the field.” A potential positional shift to fullback would also benefit Hunt in that respect. Josh Ioane is likely to be the favourite to take the No.10 jersey, but with veteran Ben Smith moving on – the No.15 jersey is there for the taking. “I have played a bit there before; my first year with Tasman in the Mitre 10 Cup was at fullback. “It’s not that different to 10 these days really – a lot of it is similar skill set stuff.” Highlanders coach Mauger – a former Crusaders great – also played a part in Hunt’s decision to make the move south. “There were a lot of different connections there and I could see the similarities to [former Tasman coach] Leon [MacDonald] in the way that he spoke about the game and I really enjoy that,” said Hunt. He [Mauger] did play a big part in my decision.” As the season gets underway early in the new year, Hunt is all about taking things as they come.” “I’m just trying to learn at the moment; learn my team-mates.”
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November 2019 At the end of each year, Guardian staff choose the best of the year’s photos to share with you all and reminisce.
Above –Ryan Richan (right) makes a desperate dive in an attempt to avoid being run out in the Year 7/8 cricket tournament at the Ashburton Domain Oval. Above left – Cameron McCracken was able to down rising New Zealand tennis start Diego Quispe-Kim. Left – Sam Lambie looked to get the ball past the batsmen in the Mid Canterbury Under 15’s defeat at the hands of Canterbury Country. Below – Hundreds of people took to the Longbeach Estate for the annual Longbeach Coastal Challenge.
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If you’re on your way past the Ashburton Trust Event Centre this week, keep an ear out for the hard-working vocal chords of 149 Mid Canterbury Summer Singing School (MCSSS) students. The group launched into a week of practice yesterday before they bring a musical theatre production to the stage on Friday and Saturday. It’s the biggest production yet for the MCSSS, which has been operating each January for 18 years and is musically helmed by Ashburton singing tutor Jo Castelow. “We now have people from all over, from as far as Timaru and Christchurch, and each time brings a new mix of voices,” said Castelow. Some singers have been involved in the week-long course for more than 10 years, she said,
while more than half of this year’s junior group are newcomers. The group range in age from 9 to 21 years and includes members of NAZDA and first-year university students. This year’s production is themed Time Travellers and will cover musical theatre and tunes from across the ages – from My Fair Lady and Bing Crosby to recent hits like Hamilton and Moana, along with everything in between, Castelow said. “Among the juniors everyone knows the songs from Moana, but they find that they love singing the older ones just as much,” she said. And not only does the theme provide something for everyone in the audience, she said, but gives the young singers the opportunity to learn about various musicals. The group received their music a month ago, and auditioned for solo positions on unSunday. They are currently un dergoing two days of musical
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A number of older buildings around the Ashburton District will shortly be sporting signs that spell out how they rank against new building standards. As part of the on-going drive to ensure all buildings will be earthquake safe, the Ashburton District Council will be sending signs to owners of buildings built prior to 1976 and will be asking them to display those signs prominently on the outside of their property. The public notification is part of the council’s drive to ensure every older building has been inspected by engineers and that where required, strengthen-
ing work is either carried out or planned in the future. It’s been a long process getting to this point, council building services manager Michael Wong said, but the placard templates had now arrived and these would be sent to property owners over the next month. The placards would serve a two fold purpose – making the public aware of a building’s compliance level and encouraging owners to carry out necessary strengthening work. Wong anticipates there will be about 150 sent out in February to owners of non-compliant buildings. “These are the building’s we’ve
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Ski town turns into trail town Mission Mt Somers 10km race winner Steve Anderson heads for finish line in hot race day conditions. Te Araroa walkers are on the rise, By SuSan SandyS
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practice, before director Alice Sollis steps in to help with the actions from Wednesday onwards.
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already assessed. Then we’ll do another desk top review and pick up the ones we may have missed and we’ll work with them,” he said. Buildings that have not been assessed will be given the lowest rating until an assessment is done, Wong said. There had been a proposal to change the rules so the cut-off date for engineering assessment would have moved forward to cover all buildings built before 2004 and that would have seen hundreds of buildings around the district bearing stickers, he said. The consultation process ensured there was no date change
and that dramatically reduced the number of buildings coming into the net locally. If a building is required to have THE a placard displayed it will contain information on the percentage it complies with building standards and the year with which it will need to be strengthened to come up to code, Wong said. Older buildings that have been assessed and found to be up to strength or that have already been strengthened will not need to display placards. Details on the placard-bearing buildings will be held on a public register with the Ministry of Building and this is accessible to anyone.
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Honesty boxes targeted From P1 Near Methven, Lucy Raisbeck’s free range egg stall was also burgled on Sunday night. While taking out the bins yesterday morning, she said she noticed that the security camera had been taken and the padlock had been cut off from her honesty box. All money had been cleared from the box before the theft, but Raisbeck said she was still gutted to discover the break-in, which she presumes is the work of people “who don’t care about other people”. However, with new security methods for Raisbeck and an ultra-secure honesty box for Billie, both stalls are continuing to operate.
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benefiting the summer tourism industry in Methven. Many who do the 3000-kilometre trail, which runs the length of New Zealand, end up in the ski town, as it is a natural resting point near the uncrossable Rakaia River. Methven i-SITE consultant Lyndsay Agnew said December to February was peak season for trail walkers, and she was assisting about half a dozen per week. “Most of them are doing the whole trail or the whole South Island, depending on how much time they have got,” she said. “They are really interesting people, you have to be a certain breed to want to go and walk 3000 kilometres.” They mostly came from Europe and North America, and walked north to south, hitch-hiking into Methven from above Lake Coleridge. They generally stayed in the campground or backpacker lodges in Methven. “It’s nice to have them here and they spread the word when they go back,” she said. Walkers rejoin the trail on Blackford Road in the Rakaia Gorge, and Methven Travel provides transport on the “empty” section of its school bus run, and operates an on-demand shuttle service in school holidays. The Te Araroa section through Mid Canterbury goes from here to the Hakatere Heron Road, taking a public access easement over Glenariffe Station, then crossing the 60,000-hectare Hakatere Conservation Park. Among those undertaking Te Araroa is American Clayton Beckett. His trail name is Chef, he has a travel blog at chefspecial5.com and is from Connecticut. The 26-year-old is walking the South Island section, south to north, and was in Methven at the weekend. He said he ended up staying two nights instead of one at Snow Denn Lodge because he needed the rest, and the fact it of-
New version of your App available now Update through your App store After a couple of days rest in Methven, the Te Araroa trail beckons once again for American hiker Clayton Beckett.
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fered a Hikers’ Special made it all the more attractive. “My feet were pretty banged up, so I decided to hang out for just one more day,” Beckett said. He flew into Auckland in midDecember, and had his cellphone stolen in his first two days. He flew to Queenstown and shuttled to the southern end of Te Araroa at Bluff, and walked 555 kilometres north to Twizel over the next fortnight, staying in high country huts and his tent. With last week’s storm system forecast he decided to skip the next section and he
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hitchhiked to Methven, and left at the weekend aiming to hitch to north of Lake Coleridge to resume the trail. Beckett said the trail to date had had many river crossings, and some mountainous terrain, as well as farm tracks and dirt roads. Besides the road walks, which he did not like as they lacked the wilderness appeal of true trail walking, and a lack of markers in some areas, he was enjoying the scenery and meeting lots of people. Of the few fellow hikers he had met, most were walking north to
south. “A lot of Kiwis don’t even know about the trail,” Beckett said. He was not worried about being without a cellphone. “If you don’t have service it’s not going to help you and you are not going to get that in the mountains,” he said. He was confident enough from previous trail walking in Chile and America not to worry about an emergency locator beacon. In the 12 months to July last year, 550 people walked the full length from Cape Reinga to Bluff,
compared to 350 in 201 and 210 the year before. Te Araroa Trust chairma vid McGregor said the trail, takes five months to com and officially opened in 201 attracting people from all w life. “From students and youn ple taking a gap year to r and workers taking an ext holiday. “It’s a great way to conne New Zealand and to really know the landscapes, peop climate,” McGregor said.
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Into the crystal ball By Dylan Cleaver
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o we come to that point in the year, of the decade even, when we must talk about that most elusive of subjects: the future. It’s scary. Look around you. The place is run by ultra-conservative white men who have suckled the teat of good fortune their entire lives yet don’t mind telling the rest of you that all your problems can be solved by rolling up your sleeves and putting in a decent shift. And that’s just rugby we’re talking about. Trying to predict what the future will hold when, to paraphrase Welsh songbird Bonnie Tyler, we’re living in a powderkeg and giving off sparks, is fraught but one thing we can be certain of is that big change will continue in the way we watch sport. Sports broadcasters and fans are now operating in an increasingly fragmented, complex market where global sporting entities like the NBA and energy-drink giants such as Red Bull are operating like broadcasters. If you know what this market will look like in 2030, then you’re doing a lot better than the people who 10 years ago thought they knew what the first day of 2020 would look like. It’s astounding to think that on January 1, 2010, Sky had virtually killed off all its competition. The company’s share price was sitting at around $4 and its market darling status was affirmed in the first half of the decade as it climbed well above $6 in 2014. It held a lock on the country’s biggest sports and held many of the smaller ones to ransom. It could. The terrestrial networks had taken themselves out of the game. Sky had all the production capacity, all the technology and a country seemingly wedded to sport and the exotic-sounding satellite technology. What could go wrong? Even the most future-focused people within Sky’s Panorama Rd compound obviously couldn’t foresee the pace of digital change, and perhaps not even the change at all. Now Sky’s share price sits at 73c and it has competition from New Zealand’s deep-pocketed telco Spark, which has already scooped up a Rugby World Cup and the rights to screen cricket in New Zealand. Sky is not lying down, having gone on a spending spree itself to shore up existing relationships – most notably New Zealand Rugby, who took an equity stake in the company for good measure – and buying high-profile naming rights for an increasingly unloved utility stadium and a low-achieving football team. (It also pulled off a marketing
and PR heist by convincing 50 sports that $10 million over three years and the promise of YouTube streaming was worth signing away their rights for, but that’s a story for a different day). The question Sky and Spark and anybody else with Videolicious who wants to join the party should be asking is: Are they buying into myth or reality? Is live sport truly the last appointment-viewing vertical, or has that ship sailed too? Perhaps football can provide the answer. It’s a field Sky CEO Martin Stewart knows well, having been part of the Sky UK team that secured deals for the Premier League and Champions League. He would have surely taken note of a fiery recent speech by Yousef Al-Obaidly, CEO of BeIN Media Group, which has spent an estimated US$15 billion on sports rights. “The glorious media rights bubble is about to burst and while most people here think they’ve got their house in order, the truth is that our industry is completely unprepared,” Al-Obaidly said, citing pirate streamers as the biggest issue. “The endless growth of sports rights is over. “Not only that, but in certain cases, rights values are going to drop off a cliff, and the very economic model of our industry is going to be re-written. “We now live in a world where exclusive broadcast rights are, effectively, wholly non-exclusive.” His is just one voice – and there are plenty of others who will tell you that the value of sports broadcasting rights will continue to increase – but if it is a prescient one, then it effectively means that the architecture that holds up professional sport is made of sand, not concrete.
Sky TV CEO Martin Stewart is well aware of how the system works. A recent column on high-volume website football365.com highlighted the issue, asking whether the days of paywall football were coming to an end. “Across the decade audience numbers for live football behind a paywall have remained stubbornly unimpressive for the most popular sport in the country,” the author wrote. “Sky broadcast 128 games in 2018-19; 112 of them did not attract two million people to watch for three consecutive minutes or more. “BT Sport’s peak audience is 1.7 million, but more typically orbits the 500,000 mark.
“Illegal streaming has become a way of life. “The vast majority of football lovers still will not pay to watch football on TV, just as at the start of the decade.” What if illegal streaming was just one thread in this delicate fabric that is being pulled? Anecdotally, the biggest problem with pay TV drop-off is the very essence of the model itself. When live sport went behind a paywall, it meant instant riches but also a vastly smaller audience. We now have generations of kids who have barely watched a rugby test, let alone the lower
Spark Sport has won the rights to show international cricket at home.
levels. The same applies to cricket and all major sports that have eschewed free-to-air. This has had massive trickle-down effects for the sports that even the fattest cheques from broadcast partners can no longer conceal. The cost of not having sports heroes and high-achievers widely accessible has been high. The evidence of this was Spark Sport securing cricket: it wasn’t the platform that attracted cricket bosses as much as it was the free-to-air component of the deal. Many wrote off Spark Sport after a poor 30-minute period in the Rugby World Cup opener against South Africa, but it recovered well. Its ambition appears undimmed. No question it is under pressure to create critical mass based around cricket and Formula One, with (at this stage) a grab bag of American sport. It also needs to find local production partners. Sky is under pressure too, probably more so, particularly around technology and pricing (and holding on to production talent in what could be a suddenly buoyant freelance market), but it does have the ace-in-the-hole in rugby. So we start the decade with two players scrapping over an incredibly complex market: a market that becomes trickier to predict and much harder to value by the day. We, the sporting public, will probably be ultimately better off for it, but you wouldn’t want to say that with any certainty.
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Pinched continues winning run Progressive mare Pinched made a winning return to the track yesterday, but not before causing her trainer Ross McCarroll plenty of concern down the long Te Aroha straight. The victory made it three wins from three starts for the Pins fouryear-old who had been off the scene since scoring impressively over 1300m at New Plymouth back in March. Fitted for her campaign opener with a soft win over 800m at the Cambridge trials back in November, Pinched showed plenty of gate speed to sit handy to the pace throughout the rating 72 1200m contest.
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5 33542 Listen Easy (4) fr............................B Orange 6 x0703 Majestic Rollon (5) fr......................R Jenkins 7 4x28 Galleons Future (6) fr.................E Barron (J) 8 4 Abadabado (7) fr............................R Holmes 9 7 Brandy And Dry (8) fr............... N Williamson 10 6893 Random Spur (9) fr................. J Morrison (J) 11 x2021 Simone De Beauvoir fr.................. Scratched 12 x0007 Dora Explorer (10) fr................ L McCormick 13 0 Luck O’ The Irish (11) fr.................. K Barclay 14 20800 Kiwi Heir (U1) fr...........................C Ferguson Emergencies: Bev K’s One, Dora Explorer 4 2.03 FASTTRACK/GRAND TAVERN/DANIEL BATH MOBILE PACE $8000, non-winners mr40 to mr45., mobile, 2180m 1 75080 Bub’s VC (1) fr................................ A Armour 2 4699x Rakabeach (2) fr.......................B Williamson 3 x0P00 Shadow Dancer (3) fr............... L McCormick 4 04778 Mack Sheer (4) fr........................... B Barclay 5 85990 Magnetic Chime (5) fr........................A Beck 6 98x90 A Rocknroll Maid (6) fr............. M Williamson 7 80849 Top Pocket Chance (7) fr............R McIlwrick 8 25850 Woman In Charge (21) fr......... N Williamson 9 37264 Clifton Jessie (22) fr.......................... A Milne 5 2.38pm REMARKABLES ORCHARD/NEW WORLD ALEX MBL PACE $10,000, non-winners 3yo+ mr46 to mr50., mobile, 2180m 1 0 Peroni (1) fr.............................. N Williamson 2 80364 Yuko (2) fr................................K Newman (J) 3 0 Ideal Robyn (3) fr........................C Ferguson 4 000 Edge Sheeran (4) fr.......................R Holmes 5 77 Truehawk (5) fr......................... L McCormick 6 4968x Honour Before Glory (6) fr.............B Orange 7 Stratofortress (7) fr......................... B Barclay
8 Love On The Rocks (21) fr............. K Barclay 9 225x8 Duty Bound (22) fr............................R Swain 6 3.10 VAN DER VOORT FAMILY/HARLIWICH HOLDINGS MBL PACE $10,000, non-winners 3yo+ f&m., mobile, 2180m 1 6227 Delightful GNP (1) fr.......................B Orange 2 64538 Better Thana Missus (2) fr.............. B Barclay 3 4 Weren’t Watching (3) fr............ N Williamson 4 3744 Rakarippa (4) fr............................... P Hunter 5 6700 Wicked Witch (5) fr................... L McCormick 6 87070 Shezdawon (6) fr.......................B Williamson 7 53054 Major Menace (7) fr....................M Hurrell (J) 8 La Rocca (21) fr................................ A Milne 9 00699 Nicole fr......................................... Scratched 10 x5475 Tad Lucas (22) fr............................ A Armour 11 7 Hot N Gold (23) fr...........................R Holmes 7 3.47pm MARSH’S HONEY/MAINLAND MINERALS SOUTHLAND PACE $9000, 4yo+ r40-r55 jun.d, stand, 2700m 1 24378 Toby O’Gara (1) fr.....................C Faithful (J) 2 63305 Wolf West (2) fr.....................S Tomlinson (J) 3 84877 Donegal Gilbert fr.......................... Scratched 4 01606 Vintage Beach (3) fr..............K Tomlinson (J) 5 12807 Standout (4) fr......................... J Morrison (J) 6 x3325 Myrcella (5) fr......................... J Campbell (J) 7 24517 Allaboutjoy (6) fr.........................M Hurrell (J) 8 42890 Holy Havoc (7) fr........................E Barron (J) 9 87718 Off The Edge (8) fr.................B Laughton (J) 8 4.22pm BEARING REPLACEMENTS MOBILE PACE $10,000, 3yo+ r50-r59., mobile, 2180m 1 x7645 Bunter’s Dream (1) fr....................... P Hunter 2 09913 Coolhand Easton (2) fr............. M Williamson 3 281xP Olive Cook (3) fr...................... J Morrison (J)
4 80071 She’s A Dagg (4) fr............................S Ottley 5 32271 Delight (5) fr...................................B Orange 6 x8216 Ronnie Pickering (6) fr................... B Barclay 7 59823 Ivana Legacy (7) fr......................... A Armour 8 22265 Just Wondering (21) fr.......................... J Hay 9 47291 Burnham Boy (22) fr.........................M Jones 10 x1714 Bella Sara (23) fr............................ K Barclay 11 x1253 Dachy (24) fr............................ N Williamson 12 7715x Ideal Gal (25) fr..........................M Hurrell (J) 9 4.55 PETERS GENETICS ROXBURGH CUP HANDICAP PACE $15,000, 3yo+ r60-r90 stand, 2700m 1 53333 Nota Bene Denario (1) fr................ B Barclay 2 110x0 Chuckles (2) fr................................ K Barclay 3 53324 Triroyale Brigade (3) fr............. N Williamson 4 45563 Enchantee (4) fr.............................B Orange 5 22131 The Guild (5) fr..................................... J Hay 6 19741 Sweet Loress (6) fr...............................K Butt 7 x7247 Parama (7) fr......................................A Beck 8 21066 Ideal Draw (U1) fr.................... J Morrison (J) 9 94859 Sagwitch (1) 10M.......................M Hurrell (J) 10 21112 Spirit Of St Louis (1) 20M......... M Williamson 11 13140 Robyns Playboy (1) 30M.............C Ferguson 10 5.30pm KEA WAI BUILDING LTD TROT $9000, r40-r53, stand, 2700m 1 57640 The Night Sweats (1) fr................. B Norman 2 57970 Zoned Scarlett (2) fr..................B Williamson 3 38778 Cuddly Trouble (3) fr....................C Ferguson 4 08356 Emma Frost (4) fr..................... M Williamson 5 x5078 Global Flight (5) fr..........................R Jenkins 6 19900 Sunnivue Phileah (6) fr.......... J Campbell (J) 7 x3279 Moniburns (7) fr..............................B Orange 8 08174 Ayutthaya (8) fr.................................. A Milne 9 217 Hawaiian Hula (9) fr................. N Williamson
10 10867 Tweedledee (10) fr...........................M Jones 11 44243 Lisa Marie P (11) fr.................... C Purvis (J) 12 65815 Time In A Bottle (U1) fr.........K Tomlinson (J) 13 67266 Sage Trouble (U2) fr...........................A Beck 11 6.02 ROXBURGH COMBINED SPONSORS MOBILE PACE $7000, r40-r49., mobile, 2180m 1 27617 Touche (1) fr.....................................M Jones 2 45024 Jacks N Jazz (2) fr................... M Williamson 3 2070x Carlo Gambino (3) fr....................B McLellan 4 03625 Rosinupthebow (4) fr..................M Hurrell (J) 5 86076 Annie Fitz (5) fr.....................S Tomlinson (J) 6 02981 Rafa Novak (6) fr..................... J Morrison (J) 7 16472 Swift Robyn (7) fr........................C Ferguson 8 09047 Star Paige (21) fr..................................K Butt 9 93887 Ideal Asset (22) fr..................... N Williamson 10 37413 Bettors Highlight fr........................ Scratched 11 8470x Groomsman (23) fr.....................E Barron (J) SELECTIONS
EGG CUP $11,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 2100m 1 x0960 Final Suggestion tdh (7) 62.5.T Newman (a3) 2 x0387 Mercy Hill t (2) 59............................ A Calder 3 24100 Red Dynamo th (5) 59......................S Collett 4 x3195 Roc Wheeler h (3) 57.5...............M Cameron 5 27929 Uabasso (4) 54...........................M Coleman 6 52218 Reflection td (1) 54..................J Fawcett (a1) 7 68470 Single Moment td (6) 54................... S Spratt 7 3.59pm HIREPOOL $10,000, MDN, 2100m 1 52226 Piggy Malone (10) 58.5 2 52477 Charred 58.5................................. Scratched 3 209x5 Dangerman (3) 58.5....................M Cameron 4 8x562 Prince Solari (7) 58.5....................... R Oliver 5 44834 Way South (4) 58.5......................... A Calder 6 0x055 Heza Big Hope (12) 58.5 7 0740 Ying Resolute (9) 58.5.....................S Collett 8 0x766 Hvar (5) 58.5 -
9 00097 Manavgat (8) 58.5.......................M Coleman 10 53422 Clever Approach b (6) 57...................L Innes 11 20275 Leitrim Lad (11) 57........................... S Spratt 12 8x636 Miss Tavi (1) 56.5...................... D Danis (a2) 13 54 Shelob h (2) 56.5.................................C Dell 14 009 Portugal (13) 56.5 Blinkers on: Hvar (R2), Red Dynamo (R6), Way South, Heza Big Hope, Hvar, Manavgat (R7) Blinkers off: Amazing Az (R5) SELECTIONS
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4 08550 Kamanda Lincoln h (13) 60..............J Riddell 5 22325 Johnny Lincoln tmh (3) 59............ R Hannam 6 51802 Humble Pie tdm (4) 58.5..................R Myers 7 36005 De Koning (5) 58......................... L Satherley 8 05821 Don’t Know Jakk th (11) 57.5.......... J Parkes 9 12390 Casino El Jay tdh (12) 55.5.............. C Grylls 10 19140 Deuce Coupe tdm (2) 55.5..S Weatherley (a) 11 64041 Red River Rock t (7) 55.5......... K Asano (a2) 12 x0019 Regal Rock (8) 55.5...........................L Hemi 13 x3563 Akela Belle dh (9) 54....................T Thornton 14 x6868 Top Ofthe Straight h (14) 54 Blinkers on: Shakespeare, Power ‘n’ Passion SELECTIONS
Race 1: Fanny Hill, Rebel Kibbybones, Justamollyarcher Race 2: Rah De Rah, Koromiko Eyre, Romanite Race 3: Richard The Third, Majestic Rollon Race 4: Rakabeach, Clifton Jessie, Woman In Charge Race 5: Yuko, Duty Bound, Stratofortress, Love On The Rocks Race 6: Delightful GNP, Weren’t Watching, Better Thana Missus Race 7: Standout, Vintage Beach, Wolf West Race 8: Burnham Boy, Delight, Dachy, Just Wondering Race 9: Spirit Of St Louis, Enchantee, Robyns Playboy Race 10: Hawaiian Hula, Tweedledee, Lisa Marie P Race 11: Jacks N Jazz, Swift Robyn, Rosinupthebow LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down
Whangarei gallops Today at Ruakaka Raceway
Whangarei RC Venue: Ruakaka Meeting Date: 04 Jan 2020 NZ Meeting number: 2 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 5, 6 and 7 1 12.27pm NZB INSURANCE PEARL SERIES RACE $10,000, MDN F&M, 1200m 1 34x55 Shipshape (5) 57.5...........................S Collett 2 8x House Of Cards (3) 57.5.................. S Spratt 3 Super Swish (4) 57.5.........................L Innes 4 8x62 Regal Duchess h (7) 56..........J Fawcett (a1) 5 36 Sils Maria (6) 56.............................. A Calder 6 079x Madam Pompom (1) 56..............M Cameron 7 The Twinkling (2) 56....................M Coleman 2 1.02pm VALE DAVID REID $10,000, MDN, 1600m 1 83 Coruba Jak (5) 58.5.........................R Smyth 2 0x766 Hvar (6) 58.5 3 896 On The Rivet h (2) 57..................M Cameron 4 x6806 Patsys Lad (1) 57........................M Coleman
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“It was a good tough win,” he said. “The leader had a good kick on the corner and left me a little flat-footed but to her credit I always felt like the winner. “It was a good effort and I think up to 1400m and even a mile, that’s when you will see the best of her. “She’s kept her unbeaten record and she is going forward in the right way.” Bred and part owned by McCarroll, Pinched is the second foal of his handy mare Stole who won six times and finished second in the Gr.2 Matriarch Stakes (2000m) at Flemington.
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Roxburgh Trotting Club at Roxburgh Raceway Meeting Date: 04 Jan 2020 NZ Meeting number: 7 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 5, 6 and 7; 9, 10 and 11 1 12.18pm RITCHIE MCDONALD & VAL WHYTE MEMORIAL HCP TROT $10,000, r54-r80 discrhcp, stand, 2700m 1 44919 Spotlight The Valley (1) fr...............B Orange 2 12132 Fanny Hill (1) 10M.................... M Williamson 3 13232 Rebel Kibbybones (U1) 10M................ J Hay 4 33x63 Full Noise (1) 20M.......................... B Barclay 5 77330 Justamollyarcher (2) 20M...............R Jenkins 2 12.53pm RD PETROLEUM AMATEUR DRIVERS MOBILE PACE $6000, 4yo+ r40-r55, up-r69 +claimers., mobile, 2180m 1 75447 Shindal (1) fr...................................... A Veint 2 99007 Koromiko Eyre (2) fr...........................M Love 3 97909 Xmas Bay (3) fr............................M Stratford 4 22245 Glacier Coaster fr.......................... Scratched 5 43056 Senorita Margarita (4) fr.................. C Negus 6 79776 Royal Jester (5) fr.............................N Munro 7 91358 Rah De Rah (6) fr....................... G Anderson 8 67495 Gabby’s Star (21) fr................... G Sinnamon 9 80792 Pat Campbell (22) fr...........................C Wigg 10 50800 Russian Express (23) fr.....................A Edge 11 31294 Romanite (24) fr.................................S Wigg 3 1.28 MACCA LODGE/MCINTYRE FLANNERY TAIT/ REDPATHS TROT $10,000, non-winners 3yo+, stand, 2180m 1 824x2 Richard The Third (1) fr.................. B Barclay 2 67466 Tommy Tiddler (2) fr............... J Campbell (J) 3 900x0 Mainland Pat (3) fr.....................B Williamson 4 09x05 Bev K’s One fr............................... Scratched
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and that put us back a month,” he said. “She’s got a bit of guts and there’s no doubt about that as she was beaten and was only going to run fourth. “I think she actually ended up winning quite reasonably although it was close on the line. “I personally think she needs to go a bit further but I’ll wait to see what Sam says. “I’ve been having a bad run and I thought here we go here’s another one but she got the job done.” Weatherley belayed any fears that the mare might have been beaten as he felt she had the situation under control throughout.
Rider Sam Weatherley asked for a serious effort shortly after straightening for the run home but the tanks looked to be running on empty as Pinched laboured to get on terms with pacemaker Showboat, who looked set to record an all-the-way victory. Pinched slowly warmed to her task and drove hard in the final 100m to thrust her head in front of a brave Showboat with Bevan Street close up in third. McCarroll cut a relieved figure after the race, admitting he thought his charge was only battling in the run home. “I’ve had a frustrating time with her as she has had a bruised heel
5 54 Shelob 56.5................................... Scratched 6 76 Cash Me Ousside (4) 56.5 7 Sassego 56.5................................ Scratched 8 9x644 Sympathique h (3) 55.......................S Collett 9 0 One Missile (7) 55 10 08x87 Tennessee Rock (8) 55.................... S Spratt 3 1.37pm FELL ENGINEERING $10,000, MDN, 1400m 1 8x34D Lord Polonius h (4) 58.5..............M Cameron 2 22x46 Here Comes Faffy (1) 58.5...................C Dell 3 Son Of Bielski (7) 57........................ S Spratt 4 James Barrie (8) 57...........................L Innes 5 4 Melusina (5) 56.5.............................S Collett 6 76 Cash Me Ousside (3) 56.5........ D Danis (a2) 7 000x O’Susana (6) 56.5 8 Sassego h (2) 56.5..................J Fawcett (a1) 9 5x4x5 Vistock b (9) 55 4 2.12pm KAMO CLUB $10,000, MDN 3YO, 1400m
1 74x33 Make Time (1) 57.5.......................... S Spratt 2 Son Of Bielski (7) 57.5 3 James Barrie (8) 57.5.................M Cameron 4 0 Lincoln Springs (2) 57.5.....................L Innes 5 73425 Zakalicious (5) 55.5.....................M Coleman 6 53 Qiji Olympia (6) 55.5........................S Collett 7 9x644 Sympathique h (4) 55.5 8 079x Madam Pompom (3) 55.5 5 2.47pm TRIGG CONSTRUCTION $11,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 1400m 1 166Px Tommyra m (6) 59.5................J Fawcett (a1) 2 3246x Amazing Az tbh (4) 59..........T Newman (a3) 3 84585 Bruegel td (5) 59.........................M Coleman 4 109x4 O’Guy td (3) 57.5............................. S Spratt 5 21664 Boogie Easy tdh (2) 54....................S Collett 6 9x1 Sacred Lae th (1) 54...................M Cameron 6 3.24pm THE WHANGARIPO VALLEY FREE RANGE
Race 1: Regal Duchess, Sils Maria, Shipshape, The Twinkling Race 2: Sympathique, Coruba Jak, On The Rivet, Tennessee Rock Race 3: Lord Polonius, Melusina, Vistock, Here Comes Faffy Race 4: Zakalicious, Make Time, Qiji Olympia, Sympathique Race 5: Boogie Easy, Bruegel, Amazing Az, Sacred Lae Race 6: Red Dynamo, Mercy Hill, Roc Wheeler, Uabasso Race 7: Clever Approach, Piggy Malone, Leitrim Lad, Miss Tavi
Marton gallops Today at Awapuni Raceway
Marton JC Venue: Awapuni Meeting Date: 04 Jan 2020 NZ Meeting number: 6 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 12.10pm (NZT) NORWOOD 1200 $30,000, Rating 82 Benchmark, 1200m 1 16276 Malambo dm (2) 59.5.........................R Elliot 2 x4613 Princess Rihanna d (5) 57... T Yanagida (a2) 3 39383 Sweepstake tdh (4) 57.................... J Parkes 4 x2495 Vinnie’s Volley (6) 54...........S Weatherley (a) 5 1131x Euka Lady td (1) 54..........................R Myers 6 x1424 Stumpy db (3) 54...........................L Allpress 2 12.45pm SUPERIOR CHUNKY 1400 $40,000, OPN HCP, 1400m 1 8x0x0 Chocante d (6) 60..........................J Waddell 2 32210 The Mitigator d (4) 59.5................... S McKay 3 0360x Shadow Fox td (5) 54.5................ R Hannam 4 61561 Pop Star Princess (2) 53............. L Satherley 5 26161 Malo Bik t (1) 53...................... T Taiaroa (a3) 6 x2142 Lady Rudolph db (3) 53 7 49900 Brother One dm (7) 53...................L Allpress 3 1.20 SOUTHERN RANGITIKEI VETERINARY SER-
VICES 1400 $25,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 1400m 1 1x611 Credit Manager td (8) 60......... T Taiaroa (a3) 2 51623 Saignon dm (1) 59.5..........................R Elliot 3 0x212 Wild Seas (2) 58.............................. C Grylls 4 0236x Blue On Black dh (5) 58...............T Thornton 5 x6705 The Rippa tdh (6) 58.................... R Hannam 6 x2142 Lady Rudolph db (4) 57.5................R Myers 7 49025 Miss Contessa tdh (7) 57.5.. C O’Beirne (a2) 8 77028 Prosecco tdmh (3) 56..........S Weatherley (a) 9 795x2 Ozil th (9) 56................................... J Parkes 4 1.55pm PROPERTY BROKERS 3YO 1400 $25,000, 3YO SW+P, 1400m 1 x422x Probabeel (5) 57.5.........................O Bosson 2 331 Kick Start th (9) 57.5......................H Andrew 3 31949 Shakespeare (2) 57.5....................J Waddell 4 14147 Belle Plaisir mh (7) 56.5.................. J Parkes 5 x2063 Trifolium (4) 56.5............................L Allpress 6 x3618 Cinzento (3) 55.5................S Weatherley (a) 7 0x214 Kellys Inspiration h (1) 55.5.......... R Hannam 8 22196 Power ‘n’ Passion dh (8) 55.5.C O’Beirne (a2) 9 85145 Queen Kamada th (6) 55.5..........T Thornton
5 2.30 CENTRAL ITM 1600 $30,000, Rating 82 Bench-
mark, 1600m 1 14333 Hartley dm (4) 59.5............................R Elliot 2 45846 Cavallo Veloce t (2) 58.................... S McKay 3 0x116 Portland Jimmy t (3) 58................... J Parkes 4 x2321 Weaponry d (8) 58.........................O Bosson 5 42914 Lincoln Raider dbh (5) 57.5..............J Riddell 6 26161 Malo Bik td (6) 57 7 9P132 Keep It Savvy tmh (1) 54.5........... R Hannam 8 5x635 Skarloey m (7) 54.5........................L Allpress 6 3.05pm SPREADING RURAL BULK 1600 $22,500, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1600m 1 49184 Leaf m (3) 59....................................J Riddell 2 4x517 Shady Grey (6) 58.5.......................J Waddell 3 x2386 Spondulix tdm (5) 58.5..................... C Grylls 4 82522 Du’blues tmh (2) 58................S Macnab (a2) 5 7x726 Original Gangster th (7) 58.......... R Hannam 6 088x2 Powerball (4) 58...............................R Myers 7 54435 Ritzy Sparkle dh (10) 56.5.............L Allpress 8 77605 Rock With Choux tmh (8) 56.5.....T Thornton 9 1870x Lady Verawood d (9) 55.................. S McKay
7 3.40pm JAPAC HOMES FASTTRACK $5K MARTON
CUP $55,000, OPN HCP, 2200m 1 21213 Beauden t (7) 59................................R Elliot 2 0x407 Darscape Princess t (2) 55............. J Parkes 3 5x908 Sampson tdm (3) 55...........S Weatherley (a) 4 72109 Toms tdm (4) 53........................... R Hannam 5 62680 Sylvester tm (8) 53...................... L Satherley 6 00974 Jacksstar tmh (9) 53....................T Thornton 7 71113 Dezella tm (10) 53............................R Myers 8 00240 Bronsteel t (1) 53...........................D Bradley 9 24111 Cead Mile Failte td (11) 53.............L Allpress 10 63750 Balham 53..................................... Scratched 11 x9343 Soleseifei (5) 53......................... K Asano (a) 12 47623 Nitro Ted m (6) 53..............................L Hemi 13 08230 Myrtle tmh (12) 53.................. C O’Beirne (a) 8 4.15pm EVAN DIX MEMORIAL $25,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 2200m 1 96111 Proletariat tdh (1) 61.5...........S Macnab (a2) 2 65588 Korakonui td (6) 60.........................J Waddell 3 3x116 Bonny Ezra t (10) 60......................L Allpress
Race 1: Princess Rihanna, Stumpy, Malambo, Sweepstake Race 2: Lady Rudolph, Pop Star Princess, Malo Bik, Shadow Fox Race 3: Credit Manager, Lady Rudolph, Wild Seas, Saignon Race 4: Probabeel, Kick Start, Cinzento, Power ‘n’ Passion Race 5: Lincoln Raider, Hartley, Weaponry, Skarloey Race 6: Du’blues, Ritzy Sparkle, Shady Grey, Spondulix Race 7: Beauden, Jacksstar, Darscape Princess, Toms Race 8: Proletariat, Bonny Ezra, Regal Rock, Red River Rock
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Saturday, January 4, 2020
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Patient approach for promising 3YO Trainer Gary Vile will launch a two-pronged attack on today’s Property Brokers 3YO 1400 on his home turf at Awapuni but is the first to admit he may well be running for only the minor money. Lightly-raced three-year-olds Kick Start and Power ‘n’ Passion bring good form into the age group
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the talented Mascarpone at Trentham with Vile believing he has the ability to compete at the top level. “We’ve been a little bit behind the eight ball with him (Kick Start) as we were getting him ready to sell but that fell through,” Vile said.
expecting her to be running on strongly on Saturday. “Kick Start won very well on Boxing Day and he has thrived as well so he should also go a good race.” Proisir gelding Kick Start broke maidens over 1200m on Boxing Day after finishing third behind
futures ahead of them but we’re taking on a pretty special filly so I’m not that confident,” Vile said. “Power ‘n’ Passion will have blinkers for the first time, as she wouldn’t take the gaps that well at her last start. “She worked up nicely during the week with them on and I’m
Waikato harness Tomorrow at Cambridge Raceway
Waikato Bay Of Plenty Harness Inc Venue: Cambridge Meeting Date: 05 Jan 2020 NZ Meeting number: 5 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 8, 9 and 10 1 2.09pm MOVENPICK@CAMBRIDGE RACEWAY MBL PACE $7000, r40-r52., mobile, 2200m 1 x4837 Banner Of Art (1) fr......................J Brownlee 2 92934 Clifton Flutter (2) fr............................ A Temu 3 x4732 Veneto (3) fr 4 68589 M T Pockets (4) fr...............................S Wigg 5 66546 Maria Kirilenko (5) fr............. J Kriechbaumer 6 80451 A Better Dancer (6) fr.........................C Wigg 7 x4362 The Batmobile (7) fr...........................W Rich 8 21996 Tempo Rose (8) fr 2 2.44 DUNSTAN HORSE FEEDS TROT $8000, r40r48,r54 w/c, stand, 2700m 1 35286 The Last Gamble (1) fr 2 87052 Still Eyre (2) fr.......................... T Macfarlane 3 00016 Aldebaran Bonny (3) fr...................T Mitchell 4 60454 Danke (4) fr..................................... G Martin 5 14552 Presidential Jewel (5) fr................... M White 6 64606 Pretorius (6) fr 7 60472 The Rev (U1) fr............................. D Butcher 8 00x90 Topnotch Titan (U2) fr................ J Abernethy 9 08x97 Rave Nation (U3) fr....................S Abernethy 10 70064 Keystone Cavalier (U4) fr.. F Schumacher (J) 11 06415 Natty Pagger (U5) fr.................. T Hanara (J) 3 3.19pm PRINTECH MOBILE PACE $8000, non-win-
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1400m contest but are up against star filly Probabeel, who will be making her much anticipated return to racing following an Australian spring campaign that saw her finish second in the Gr.1 Flight Stakes (1600m) at her last start. “Both of my horses are lovely types and I think they have good
ners 3yo+., mobile, 2200m 1 489x3 Carse O Fern Tom (1) fr................... M White 2 45095 Super Actor (2) fr.........................A Poutama 3 3 Hawthornden Hunk (3) fr.............P Ferguson 4 59 Richmond Tiger (4) fr.................S Abernethy 5 7x Norvic Alpha (5) fr......................S McCaffrey 6 223x5 Sampan (6) fr............................ T Hanara (J) 7 x4542 Hughie Junior (7) fr.........................J I Dickie 8 66 Fleeting Major (8) fr...................... K Marshall 9 86826 Comedy Act (21) fr............F Schumacher (J) 10 060 Rough And Ready (22) fr 11 25367 Reckon Im Smart (23) fr................ D Butcher 4 3.54pm DOWNBYTHESEASIDE JUNIOR DRIVERS MOBILE PACE $8000, 4yo+ r40-r60. jun.d, 1700m 1 07827 Benjamin Button (1) fr................K Bublitz (J) 2 03197 Kolovos (2) fr............................. N Delany (J) 3 6949x Madame Connoistre (3) fr........... C Smith (J) 4 10873 Peter Forsberg (4) fr................. J Cowden (J) 5 x8242 Dina Brown (5) fr....................... T Hanara (J) 6 1x545 Shandelier (6) fr.................... D Ferguson (J) 7 43433 Spirit Of Anzac (7) fr.............. L Whittaker (J) 8 22606 Gladamare (8) fr 9 31324 Sabreur (21) fr......................... A Harrison (J) 10 6x902 J Bee (22) fr 11 1Px65 Catch The Dream (23) fr 5 4.29pm IRT YOUR HORSE OUR PASSION HANDICAP TROT $8500, r51-r68 spechcp, stand, 2700m 1 84937 Safrakova (1) fr...................................L Chin
2 54381 Flying Taine (2) fr...........................N Chilcott 3 80956 Fira (3) fr.........................................S Phelan 4 000D1 Our Spitfire (U1) fr..............T Mitchell 5 88917 Aoraki (1) 10M..................F Schumacher (J) 6 24007 Thatgirltrouble (2) 10M............Z Meredith (J) 7 32141 Tears Of Joy (3) 10M 8 07423 Superfast Ninja (4) 10M...............A Poutama 9 71312 Lukyanova (1) 20M...................... K Marshall 10 65x65 Need Luck (U1) 30M......................B Butcher 11 14x08 Delson (U2) 30M................... D Ferguson (J) 6 5.04pm FARRIER SUPPLIES MOBILE PACE $8000, non-winners 3yo+ f&m., mobile, 2200m 1 Sky Full Of Stars (1) fr.............. M McKendry 2 4x908 Ruby Baby (2) fr.........................S Abernethy 3 x5053 Miss Shuga (3) fr......................... T Cameron 4 32842 Yankee Dancer (4) fr......................B Butcher 5 627 Smoken Shazza (5) fr 6 77360 Manhattan Sunshine (6) fr......... J Abernethy 7 00 Mozzarella (7) fr.............................T Mitchell 8 03904 Dametoro (8) fr.............................. D Butcher 9 00954 Arya Famous (21) fr.....................A Poutama 7 5.36pm HANLEY FORMULA MOBILE PACE $8000, r40-r48., mobile, 2200m 1 06663 Major Blink (1) fr.......................... J Robinson 2 00065 Drum Withers (2) fr................... M McKendry 3 58930 Turkish Trousers (3) fr................K Bublitz (J) 4 34846 Olivia Rachel (4) fr.........................B Butcher 5 02004 Quick As Fire (5) fr...........................O Gillies
6 8x023 Cool And Calculating (6) fr............... M White 7 9x000 McDaknife (7) fr...........................A Poutama 8 x0006 Mighty Monica (8) fr...................... D Butcher 9 00x89 Sarabi (21) fr........................... A Harrison (J) 10 84205 Lady Santanna (22) fr...................R Fensom 11 000x7 Itsthefinalcountdown (23) fr.......... K Marshall 8 6.06pm FRIDAY NIGHT LADIES NIGHT FEB 21 MOBILE PACE $8500, 3yo+ r58-r66., mobile, 2200m 1 26155 Im A Denny Too (1) fr.................. T Cameron 2 4434x Mach Little Soaky (2) fr.................... M White 3 19095 Armed Reactor (3) fr 4 62416 Pembrook Charlie (4) fr.....F Schumacher (J) 5 51414 Bugalugs (5) fr............................P Ferguson 6 13113 Ace Strike (6) fr..............................B Butcher 7 77466 About Turn (7) fr 8 66622 Young Conqueror (8) fr...................S Phelan 9 1x677 Afortunado (21) fr....................... J Abernethy 10 91057 Comic Book Hero (22) fr....... D Ferguson (J) 11 35x06 Racketeers Boy (23) fr.................. D Butcher 9 6.36 GRASS TRACK MEETING@ROTORUA JAN 26 MBL PACE $8000, 3yo+ r49-r56., mobile, 2200m 1 55795 Cowgirls N Angels (1) fr......... L Whittaker (J) 2 44219 Bettor Get It On (2) fr...................A Poutama 3 6x902 J Bee (3) fr 4 3177x Eagle Watch (4) fr............................ M White 5 24362 Lynton Creek (5) fr 6 50217 Sarandon (6) fr....................................S Quill 7 x2013 Classey Robin (7) fr................... J Abernethy
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1 Waiheke Warrior (8) fr.....................S Phelan
10 7.07pm SEE YOU FLYING MILE NIGHT - JAN 10TH TROT $8000, non-winners 3yo+, stand, 2200m 1 50956 Reign (1) fr................................ M McKendry 2 76 Expensive Crumpet (2) fr.............. D Butcher 3 93752 Buller Whitebait (3) fr..................P Ferguson 4 P Skee King (4) fr.................F Schumacher (J) 5 457 Cepheus (5) fr............................ J Abernethy 6 64743 Majestic Harry (6) fr...........................M Teaz 7 6057x Paris Under Siege (U1) fr...............T Mitchell 8 7P839 Battle Commander (U2) fr..............Z Butcher 9 80P Empress Of The Sun (U3) fr............O Gillies
Pacifiers off: Itsthefinalcountdown (R7)
SELECTIONS
Race 1: M T Pockets, Tempo Rose, Veneto, Clifton Flutter Race 2: Natty Pagger, Aldebaran Bonny, Pretorius Race 3: Carse O Fern Tom, Hawthornden Hunk, Sampan Race 4: Dina Brown, Spirit Of Anzac, Shandelier Race 5: Lukyanova, Tears Of Joy, Need Luck, Delson Race 6: Smoken Shazza, Yankee Dancer, Miss Shuga Race 7: Olivia Rachel, Cool And Calculating, Major Blink Race 8: Young Conqueror, Im A Denny Too, Afortunado Race 9: Eagle Watch, Cowgirls N Angels, Classey Robin Race 10: Battle Commander, Buller Whitebait, Majestic Harry LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down
Greymouth gallops
Tomorrow at Omoto Raceway
Greymouth JC Venue: Omoto Meeting Date: 5 Jan 2020 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9 1 12.07pm OMOTO SUPPORTERS CLUB MAIDEN 1500 $10,000, MDN, 1500m 1 47385 Oceans Away (4) 58.5......................J Laking 2 78409 Bogatyr (2) 58.5..............................S Wynne 3 Uncle Mac (1) 58.5.......................K Kwo (a3) 4 7x039 Tormund (6) 57.............................L Callaway 5 Ragnal (3) 57.........................S Macnab (a2) 6 00x20 Iwonderwai (11) 56.5....................K Williams 7 x6500 June Rose (7) 56.5.......................K Mudhoo 8 97090 Ataahualuvthedream (9) 56.5 9 00x90 Nicole Ashley (10) 56.5 10 6x02 Super Tap (5) 55................... R Mudhoo (a2) 11 8x089 My Excuse (8) 55..........................T Moseley 2 12.42pm FRANK MCLAUGHLIN MEMORIAL MAIDEN 1500 $10,000, MDN, 1500m 1 46653 Secret Runner (7) 58.5...................S Wynne 2 0x05 Blue Dann (8) 58.5.......................K Kwo (a3) 3 77x6x Eagle Fifty (4) 58.5............................ D Hirini 4 0 Magie Noire (1) 57........................K Mudhoo 5 00 Wolowitz (10) 57....................S Macnab (a2) 6 560x3 Barzellar (9) 56.5................... S Toolooa (a3) 7 550x0 Te Mokopuna (2) 56.5...................T Moseley 8 640x0 Elva (5) 56.5.......................... R Mudhoo (a2)
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Auckland Greyhound Racing Club Venue Manukau Stadium Meeting Date: 05 Jan 2020 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 11; 12 and 13 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 11, 12 and 13 1 1.26pm WELCOME TO THE MANUKAU SPORTSBOWL SPRINT C0, 318m 1 Get Me Home nwtd U &.....................Cottam 2 664 Loudred nwtd.............................. M Prangley 3 Medusa Who nwtd...................... M Prangley 4 8662F Firecracker nwtd A &........................Williams 5 F8766 Bill Barnacle nwtd A &.....................Williams 6 58648 Forego nwtd................................ G Pomeroy 7 Rod’s Girl nwtd U &............................Cottam 8 53223 Riccitelli nwtd....................................M Black 9 866Fx Zero Spirit nwtd A &.........................Williams 10 55787 Cambodian King nwtd R &...........N O’Regan 2 1.43 SPEEDMAPS@FORMPRO RATINGS STAKES C0, 527m 1 42 Dobby Who nwtd......................... M Prangley 2 x52x5 Birds Fly High nwtd.........................P Henley 3 53585 Xena Poppy nwtd R &..........................L Udy 4 7 Thea Who nwtd........................... M Prangley 5 77566 Indi Shae nwtd................................ S O’Neill 6 234 Kapai Chris nwtd W &......................T Steele 7 66237 Fear The Fur nwtd........................... S O’Neill 8 77 Kapai Stewie nwtd W &....................T Steele 9 8 Little Mermaid nwtd W &..................T Steele 10 5x7x8 Ostapenko nwtd.............................. L A Hunt 3 2.01pm MAYHOUNDS RACING RETIREMENT PROJECT SPRINT C1, 318m 1 68718 Mr Felix 19.01...................................M Black
9 Magical Mystery (3) 56.5.................J Laking 10 453 Our Stilettos (11) 55.....................L Callaway 11 5x It’s Gucci (6) 55 3 1.17 GREYMOUTH BUSINESSES MAIDEN SPRINT $10,000, MDN 2YO&UP, 1100m 1 30063 The Buffer (8) 57.5.......................L Callaway 2 0077x Arctic Lady (10) 57........................K Mudhoo 3 97090 Ataahualuvthedream (3) 57..........T Moseley 4 0x789 Expressive (2) 57............................S Wynne 5 Goodthingstaketime (1) 57...............J Laking 6 Magical Mystery (6) 57.. K Chowdhoory (a2) 7 9x00x Shanlane (7) 57................................ D Hirini 8 08x90 Space Cadet (4) 57................ S Toolooa (a3) 9 004 Bright Flash (5) 55.5 10 5 Top Ghia (9) 55.5...................S Macnab (a2) 4 1.52pm CON RICHARDS MEMORIAL $11,000, Rating 72 Benchmark, 1100m 1 082x8 Middagurd m (6) 59............... R Mudhoo (a2) 2 3046x Nakyama m (5) 58.5.............. S Toolooa (a3) 3 10616 Times Time mb (1) 57.5.K Chowdhoory (a2) 4 87363 Mediterranean Star (2) 57.5............S Wynne 5 11383 Hazelnut m (3) 56.5.....................K Kwo (a3) 6 10x59 Bruzo (4) 56............................T Comignaghi 5 2.27pm GREYMOUTH STAR 1100 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1100m 1 32100 Keep The Cash (6) 57.5...............L Callaway
2 33846 Ricky Baker (3) 57.5........................J Laking 3 10788 Way Above (10) 57.5..............S Macnab (a2) 4 26247 Promising m (11) 57.....................K Kwo (a3) 5 0x586 Our Prom King (1) 57............ R Mudhoo (a2) 6 1789x Bellarosina (7) 55.5 7 190x9 Colette (12) 55.5 8 x2390 Fascino Lass 55.5......................... Scratched 9 8246x Whitney m (4) 55.5........................T Moseley 10 x0900 Lady Davone (2) 54 11 6468x Kate The Great (9) 54.....................S Wynne 12 87363 Mediterranean Star (13) 60 13 50300 Abbey Kay (5) 55 14 090x9 Ripnroll m (8) 56 6 3.04pm JACK CURRAGH MEMORIAL $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 2000m 1 17269 Carnaby tm (1) 59.........................T Moseley 2 0x084 Producer (3) 58................................A Balloo 3 14463 Heaven Knows m (9) 57.5.............K Williams 4 40421 Too Ferlaxed (7) 57.5 5 x5096 Shocktillyoudrop (8) 57..................... D Hirini 6 39543 Katiem Marie td (4) 56.5........S Macnab (a2) 7 77560 Our Boy Baz (5) 56......................K Kwo (a3) 8 80896 Em Kay Pops m (2) 54..................K Mudhoo 9 x009x Tavistella (6) 54...................... S Toolooa (a3) 7 3.37pm RECREATION HOTEL GREYMOUTH CUP $25,000, OPN HCP, 2000m
1 14012 Kaharau td (7) 60.................. R Mudhoo (a2) 2 95076 Overtheriver tdm (3) 58.5.................. D Hirini 3 06446 Lochan Ora dm (9) 54.5...............K Kwo (a3) 4 57270 Shadow King dm (1) 54.........S Macnab (a2) 5 52336 Pamir (2) 54..................................T Moseley 6 9x923 Bully Boy m (5) 54...........................S Wynne 7 94155 Top Laurels (8) 54.......... K Chowdhoory (a2) 8 90030 Savapak 54................................... Scratched 9 00070 Francis Drake (6) 54.....................K Mudhoo 10 2268x Locally Sauced dm (4) 54............ C Johnson 8 4.12pm GREG DALY REAL ESTATE 1500 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1500m 1 755x4 Repo Sun m (15) 60.........................J Laking 2 14534 Billy Mav b (6) 59...................S Macnab (a2) 3 77204 Full Fury b (7) 58.5........ K Chowdhoory (a2) 4 72451 Plushenko (5) 58.5....................... C Johnson 5 14744 Shanpark m (2) 58.5......................... D Hirini 6 83736 Zah Wanted td (11) 56.5....... R Mudhoo (a2) 7 090x9 Ripnroll m (13) 56 8 050x5 Moreira (9) 55.5...........................K Kwo (a3) 9 50300 Abbey Kay (8) 55..........................K Williams 10 89095 Garment m (14) 55................ S Toolooa (a3) 11 04300 Veuve Clicquot (10) 54.5...............K Mudhoo 12 26566 Boyslightup m (3) 54...............T Comignaghi 13 709P5 Madam Makfi (1) 54 14 09347 Admiral Rous (12) 55.5 -
15 77560 Our Boy Baz (4) 55 9 4.47pm VERNON & VAZEY 1500 $12,000, Rating 82 Benchmark, 1500m 1 12230 The Bumper m (1) 60..... K Chowdhoory (a2) 2 255x4 Showpin m (7) 59.5.................T Comignaghi 3 244x5 Tabard m (5) 59.5..........................T Moseley 4 41440 What’s Up Alf m (6) 56.................K Kwo (a3) 5 566x7 Dreaming Easy m (8) 55...............K Mudhoo 6 40x33 Forged m (10) 55.................. R Mudhoo (a2) 7 94155 Top Laurels d (3) 55......................K Williams 8 52550 Tuilana dm (2) 54......................... C Johnson 9 4x5x3 Two Thirty tm (4) 54........................S Wynne 10 4851x Onefortheditch m (9) 54.........S Macnab (a2) Blinkers on: Ataahualuvthedream (R1), Ataahualuvthedream (R3), Bruzo (R4), Ripnroll (R5), Ripnroll, Veuve Clicquot (R8) Blinkers off: Ricky Baker (R5), Lochan Ora (R7) SELECTIONS
Race 1: Super Tap, Tormund, Bogatyr, Oceans Away, Ragnal Race 2: Our Stilettos, Secret Runner, Elva, Barzellar, Eagle Fifty Race 3: The Buffer, Bright Flash, Expressive, Arctic Lady Race 4: Mediterranean Star, Middagurd, Bruzo, Hazelnut Race 5: Ricky Baker, Promising, Way Above, Keep The Cash Race 6: Too Ferlaxed, Producer, Katiem Marie, Carnaby Race 7: Bully Boy, Kaharau, Overtheriver, Locally Sauced Race 8: Repo Sun, Shanpark, Boyslightup, Veuve Clicquot Race 9: Showpin, Forged, Tabard, Two Thirty, Top Laurels
Auckland dogs Tomorrow at Manukau Stadium 2 33523 Bigtime Gal nwtd R &...................N O’Regan 3 86635 Smash Out nwtd R &...........................L Udy 4 58158 Tango Miss 18.73............................. T Green 5 535F4 Jinja Lad nwtd...............................R McPhee 6 36254 Star Secret 19.14 A &......................Williams 7 87x76 Mighty Mezz 18.87 R &................N O’Regan 8 73741 Botany Rifles 19.00..........................P Green 9 85868 Bigtime Minnie nwtd A &..................Williams 10 33747 Tamantha 19.04.................................B Bond 4 2.18 PUMP & ENGINEERING SERVICES LTD STAKES C1, 527m 1 67222 Jinja Nice 31.08.................................E Potts 2 43866 Just Maddie nwtd..............................M Black 3 23654 Botany Esmay nwtd.........................P Green 4 55383 Ginny Weasley nwtd...........................E Potts 5 57574 Amy Amy 30.47............................... G Farrell 6 34437 Opawa Delight nwtd...........................B Craik 7 34335 Little Apple 31.03 W &......................T Steele 8 x4663 Boyka nwtd..................................... G Farrell 9 67485 Jinja Babe 31.03..............................P Green 10 63476 Talkabout Sophie 30.95....................M Black 5 2.36pm FOLLOW AUCKLAND GRC ON FACEBOOK SPRINT C1/2, 318m 1 61455 Kuridrani 18.65..................................M Black 2 74112 Billy Bullet 18.68................................H Scott 3 23677 Choo Choo 18.65............................ G Farrell 4 8F178 Big Time Rose 18.86 A &.................Williams 5 43757 Over Indulgence nwtd.....................P Henley 6 45323 Digger Ace nwtd U &..........................Cottam 7 75741 Ford Man 18.90 R &.............................L Udy 8 14827 Dignity Dented nwtd......................... T Green
9 26658 It’s Pawsible 18.61...........................P Green 10 78687 Wairoa Angel 19.22..................... M Prangley 6 2.53 LAST ONE STANDING 26 JANUARY SPRINT C1/2, 318m 1 66615 Guru’s Choice 18.71 A &.................Williams 2 5x546 Nexus 18.60.................................... G Farrell 3 88132 Fancy 19.00................................ M Prangley 4 44242 Express Emporium 18.72 W &.........T Steele 5 8x214 Tribal Conquest 18.80 R &...................L Udy 6 7857x Ma Chere nwtd................................ S O’Neill 7 21844 Bigtime Champ 19.01 A &................Williams 8 44434 Bigtime Jacob 18.70..........................B Craik 9 26658 It’s Pawsible 18.61...........................P Green 10 85757 Tilly’s Silly 18.95 R &............................L Udy 7 3.12 STITCHES UPHOLSTERY SPRINT C1, 318m 1 65837 Rion King nwtd R &..............................L Udy 2 14245 Pliskova 18.78................................... S Clark 3 73575 Smalltime Johnny 19.02 A &............Williams 4 25F43 Just Nia 18.89...................................M Black 5 16244 Noise Maker 18.70...........................P Green 6 x6841 Magic Eight Ball 18.96 R &..........N O’Regan 7 63264 Big Time Ricky nwtd A &..................Williams 8 47172 My Bro Bobby 18.80..................... H Mullane 9 77545 Not Shackley nwtd W &....................T Steele 10 45867 Bigtime Kiowa nwtd A &...................Williams 8 3.28pm $15,000 GUARANTEED PICK6 STAKES C2, 527m 1 62312 Opawa Big 30.91............................ G Farrell 2 75188 Monsoon Malabar 30.93 U &.............Cottam 3 17366 Bigtime Dean nwtd A &....................Williams 4 14247 Enjoy The Perks nwtd.....................P Henley
5 54145 Little Moo 30.50 U &..........................Cottam 6 34111 Bigtime Zack 30.88............................B Craik 7 22511 Jinja Jay 30.85 W &.........................T Steele 8 12464 Opawa Nemo 30.96 W &.................T Steele 9 21566 Kai Nan 30.79................................. G Farrell 9 3.46 HEWLETT ELECTRICAL SPRINT C3/4, 318m 1 1F454 Your Valentine 18.57..........................B Craik 2 16366 Prerogative 18.73 U &........................Cottam 3 26723 Zugzwang 18.54............................. S O’Neill 4 27165 Podium Phobia 18.81.........................B Craik 5 87146 Manila Bala 18.24 R &.................N O’Regan 6 85532 Thank You Next 18.63........................B Craik 7 73384 Alex Attack 18.38 U &........................Cottam 8 54281 Bigtime Hearty 18.61.........................B Craik 9 87878 Raptor Attack nwtd.......................... S O’Neill 10 45484 Pat Tama 18.70................................. S Clark 10 4.03 SPORTSBOWL FUNCTION CENTRE SPRINT C3, 318m 1 37222 Guru Secret 18.61 A &.....................Williams 2 11558 Gain Capital 18.53.............................B Craik 3 37764 C’est L’Amour 18.67...........................B Craik 4 15853 Big Time Rusty 18.92 A &................Williams 5 18637 Luke Skywalker 19.07..................... L A Hunt 6 63887 Audrette 18.45...................................B Bond 7 21155 Stay Rich 18.55 M &......................... J Smith 8 17131 Mad Jack 18.51................................ T Green 9 45484 Pat Tama 18.70................................. S Clark 10 87878 Raptor Attack nwtd.......................... S O’Neill 11 4.22pm QUALIFIED PET SERVICES SPRINT C5, 318m 1 12325 Does He Exist 18.53........................R Roper
2 51881 Kelly’s Girl 18.44......................... G Pomeroy 3 11154 Last Star 18.56.............................. D R Laing 4 64613 Electric Dancer 18.48 W &...............T Steele 5 56311 Native Scout 18.66...........................P Green 6 21112 Carbon Tiger 18.45 W &..................T Steele 7 18514 Cosmic Meteor 18.56.................... D R Laing 8 21135 Ti Amo 18.53......................................B Craik 9 12287 Ashen 18.42.......................................B Bond 12 4.38pm MT WELLINGTON TAB STKS C3/4, 527m 1 36621 Jinja Bailey 30.36 U &........................Cottam 2 18551 Happy Medium 30.69 R &............N O’Regan 3 33553 Spring Mechanic 31.15 R &.................L Udy 4 56671 Puzzle Tin 31.03 W &.......................T Steele 5 22238 Charlow 31.01 R &.......................N O’Regan 6 72354 Go Angel 30.70............................... G Farrell 7 25122 Our Hemi nwtd U &............................Cottam 8 46747 Crackling Gal 30.49 U &....................Cottam 9 87478 Frosty Blaze 30.57........................... T Green 13 4.56 JACK’S WHOLESALE MEATS C1, 318m 1 67443 Smash Burton 19.12 R &.....................L Udy 2 86637 Bigtime Mike nwtd A &.....................Williams 3 37248 Coober Pedy 18.99 R &...............N O’Regan 4 57354 Hi Ho Tonto nwtd..............................P Green 5 55132 My Snuggles nwtd........................... G Farrell 6 47342 Small Boy nwtd A &.........................Williams 7 18525 Paddy Fast 18.86 M &....................... J Smith 8 28156 Bailey And Cream 18.96 R &...............L Udy 9 74766 Agbeze 18.98....................................M Black 10 31486 Fall Gracefully nwtd..................... M Prangley 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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Good sports helping out fire funds
Miami Heat forward Derrick Jones Jr. (5) dunks over Toronto Raptors forward Serge Ibaka (9) during the second half of an NBA basketball game yesterday in Miami. The Heat won 84-76. PHOTO AP
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Top defence burns Raptors Bam Adebayo had 15 points and 14 rebounds, and the Miami Heat put together their best defensive performance of the season in an 84-76 victory over the Toronto Raptors yesterday. Tyler Herro and Goran Dragic each scored 13 points for Miami, which is now 2-0 against the Raptors this season and improved to 9-0 after a loss. The Heat and Milwaukee are the only teams to not lose consecutive games this season. Derrick Jones Jr. scored 10 points and Jimmy Butler finished with eight points, 12 rebounds and seven assists for Miami. Serge Ibaka had 19 points and 10 rebounds for Toronto. Kyle Lowry scored 15 points, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson added 13 and OG Anunoby had 12 points and 12 rebounds. The Raptors shot only 31.5 per cent and were 6 for 42 from 3-point range. That came after Miami had a long practice on Wednesday, upset with how their defence was awful the night before in a loss to Washington. There was a pregame tribute and moment of silence for former NBA Commissioner David Stern, who died on Wednesday at the age of 77. Both the Raptors and the Heat were born under Stern’s leadership of the league.
“There probably is some serendipity to this game, to have the expansion of the league ... it’s a byproduct of his leadership and vision,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. Miami set a season-best for points allowed by a huge margin; the previous Heat low in that department this season was 94 against New Orleans on November 16. Anunoby was fouled on a 3-point try with 1:21 left in the third, making all three free throws to tie the game at 60. It was Toronto’s second time cashing in on such a foul in the game, after Lowry went 3 for 3 in that situation late in the first quarter. But the Heat went on a 17-5 run in the fourth and held Toronto to 16 points in the final 12 minutes. This was the 510th game of the NBA season, and only the fifth where neither team scored more than 20 points in the first quarter. And with Miami taking a 63-60 lead into the fourth, it became only the second game this season with teams at those totals – the other was Charlotte leading Chicago 59-50 after 36 minutes on December 13. Meanwhile, Devonte’ Graham hit a 3-pointer with 26 seconds left to break a tie and cap Char-
lotte’s late rally in the Hornets’ 109-106 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers. Graham’s shot from the top of the key gave Charlotte a 106-103 lead. The Hornets came back from a nine-point deficit with five minutes to play to end a six-game losing streak, helped by a controversial call. Graham hit two free throws with 9.7 seconds left for a 108103 lead. After Cedi Osman’s 3-pointer made it 108-106, the Hornets’ Dwyane Bacon’s pass from under the basket went out of bounds. Although it appeared that the ball wasn’t touched by a Cleveland player, the officials ruled Charlotte maintained possession despite protests by Cavaliers coach John Beilien and his players. Terry Rozier hit a foul shot with 3.6 seconds left and Collin Sexton’s 3-pointer from just inside halfcourt bounced off the rim. Rozier led the Hornets with 30 points. Graham had 16 – all in the second half. Cleveland led 100-91 with 5:31 to play before Charlotte rallied. Sexton scored 21 points, and Kevin Love had 18 for Cleveland. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 25 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder overcame 30 points by DeMar DeRozan to beat the Spurs 109-103 yesterday, snapping a
nine-game skid in San Antonio. Chris Paul had 10 of his 16 points in the final quarter to help Oklahoma City win their fourth straight. The Thunder won the battle between the current seventh and eighth seeds in the Western Conference, extending their lead over the Spurs to four games. Oklahoma City had five players score at least 13 points, including 19 from Dennis Schroder. LaMarcus Aldridge added 22 points for San Antonio. Aldridge finished 4 for 4 on 3-pointers two games after setting a career-high with five 3-pointers. The Spurs shot just 37 per cent from the field in the third quarter but maintained a 76-74 lead. Oklahoma City opened the final period on an 18-9 run to wrest control from San Antonio, which had led by 14 points in the first half. Paul was 5 for 7 in the final period. The Spurs attempted 10 3-pointers in the first quarter, with Aldridge making his first two attempts and DeRozan and Trey Lyles each hitting their opening attempt. San Antonio finished 13 for 31 on 3-pointers. Gilgeous-Alexander rallied the Thunder with two 3-pointers in the third quarter before they completed the comeback early in the fourth.
Top American NBA prospect LeMelo Ball says he will donate some of the salary he receives from the National Basketball League’s Illawarra Hawks to victims of the wildfires devastating eastern Australia. Ball, tipped to be chosen in the first round of the NBA draft this year, said he will donate one month of his salary, an amount that was not disclosed. “It’s sad to see what is happening on the south coast of Australia,” Ball said yesterday. “People have lost their homes and everything they own. “My parents taught me to help out wherever I can, so this is my way of helping out.” In the two most populous states of New South Wales and Victoria, 18 people have died and 28 are missing and more than 1500 homes or buildings have been destroyed in the continuing fires. Conditions are expected to worsen over the weekend. Ball joins a number of other athletes in Australia who have said they will pledge money to the fire charities. Nick Kyrgios, who is playing for Australia at the ATP Cup team tennis event, said he would donate 250 Australian dollars for each ace he hits during the tournament and at the Australian Open later this month. Fellow Australian team-mates Alex de Minaur and John Millman also said they would contribute, as did former US Open women’s singles champion Sam Stosur. The ATP Cup itself will also donate $100 per ace. Cricketers Chris Lynn and Glenn Maxwell, who play in the domestic Twenty20 league, both pledged 250 Australian dollars for each boundary-clearing six they hit in the competition. “It is special to see so many athletes from various sports getting in behind the real heroes who are fighting to save lives and properties around our country,” Lynn tweeted. Australia’s test cricketers will also auction off signed shirts from the Melbourne Cricket Ground test against New Zealand.
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Refugee Settlement Service Team Leader/Social Worker As part of the Government’s decision to increase the annual refugee quota it identified Ashburton as one of five new settlement locations. Contract funding was made available for the development of a new Refugee Settlement Service for Ashburton. Safer Mid Canterbury was successful in its bid to develop and run this service for Ashburton. The first step in developing the service is the recruitment of a Team Leader for the Refugee Settlement Support Service. This is an exciting opportunity to develop and guide this service overseeing a team of four staff and working directly with refugees as they embark on their new life settling into a new country and community. Key elements of the role include: team leadership and supervision, inter-agency working and collaboration; project planning and delivery; project reporting and direct support for refugee families. The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience: » Qualified/registered social worker » Experienced in team leadership/supervising others » An ability to work effectively with stakeholders and groups » Skills and attributes in the areas of community leadership, facilitation and project development/oversight » Knowledge of and interest in culturally diverse communities » Past experience working with refugees would be an advantage
40 HB aside with cup removers 620 cows. Farm is located in Wakanui, Ashburton. G.Carlos 027 368 4084.
WANTED CHINA, Aynsley orchard gold or Royal Worcester, fruit pattern. Phone Tom 027 390 0225.
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This is a permanent full time position with some flexibility required around when the hours will be worked. In return we offer a supportive and flexible family friendly work environment. We would like the employee to live in the Ashburton District. If this sounds like you then we would love to hear from you. To apply please go to our website to download an application form and view the position description. Please follow all instructions on the form. Please call us on 03 308 1395 if you require further information. www.saferashburton.org.nz/careers/
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WHEEL alignments at great prices. Maximise the life of your tyres with an alignment from Neumanns Tyre Services Ltd, 197 Wills Street. Phone 308 6737.
GENERAL hire. Lawnmowers, chainsaws, concrete breakers, trailers, and more. All your DIY / party hire, call and see Ashburton U-Hire. 588 East Street. Open MonFri 7.00am - 6pm; Sat 7.30am - 5pm; Sunday 8.30am 12.30pm - Phone 308 8061 www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz
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SUNDAY 8.30am HOLY SPIRIT CHURCH. Mass, Holy Spirit Church, Thomson Street, Tinwald. 9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Worship and communion service led by Rev Henry Mbambo. 48 Allens Road, Allenton. 9.30am ASHBURTON METHODIST CHURCH. Combined morning worship led by Rev Johanna Warren at Hakatere Parish, 65 Oxford Street. 10am
MONDAY 9.30am for 10am start ASHBURTON VETERANS GOLF. First event for 2020 year, new members welcome. Facebook. Ashburton County Veterans Golf Association. Rakaia Golf Club.
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9am - 12pm CRAFT MARKET. Woodwork, jewellery, Rawleighs products etc. West Street, car park. 10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL.
NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main Street, Methven. 10am - 12pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome.
Heritage Centre, West Street. Closed most public holidays. 10am - 4pm ASHBURTON MUSEUM. The Topp Twins interactive exhibition celebrating NZ’s comedy duo. West Street, Ashburton.
10.30am - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display. Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.
HAKATERE PRESBYTERIAN PARISH. Combined morning worship led by Rev Johanna Warren, all welcome. 65 Oxford Street. 10am ST ANDREW’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Thomson Street. 10am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion, Park Street. 10am ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Combined service at Hakatere Presbyterian Parish, all welcome, 65 Oxford Street. No service at St Andrew’s.
10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and Hall of Memories. 160 Main Street, Methven. 10am ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. Morning service, all welcome. 67 Cass Street. 10am - 4pm ASHBURTON MUSEUM. The Topp Twins interactive exhibition celebrating NZ’s comedy duo and The Great Santa Hunt around the museum, plus hands on activities for kids free. West Street Ashburton. 10.30am VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH.
Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street (Tinwald School hall). 10.30am GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Worshipping God and transforming lives. 63 Princes Street, Netherby. 11am - 4pm THE PLAINS RAILWAY AND HISTORICAL MUSEUM COMPLEX. Museum village displays open. Railcar rides, inflatable fun, food and beverages. Facebook, The Plains Railway and Historical Museum. 12 Maronan Road, Tinwald. 11am - 4pm RAILWAY AND PRESERVATION SOCIETY PLAINS MUSEUM.
All crafts welcome, bring a friend, your craft and lunch. Cost $2. 12 Maronan Road, Tinwald. 1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display. Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road. 7pm VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word. 131 Thomson Street (Tinwald School hall).
10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main Street, Methven. 10am - 4pm ASHBURTON MUSEUM.
The Topp Twins interactive exhibition celebrating NZ’s comedy West Street Ashburton. 12 noon BAPTIST CHURCH FREE LUNCH. Weekly lunch, available at Baptist Church, Cass Street.
1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of over 30 aircraft from the past to the future on display. Open daily with extended hours on a Saturday and Wednesday. Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.
1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome. Heritage Centre, West Street. Closed most public holidays.
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Moore Street Medical Centre, Moore Street, Ashburton, will be the duty practice for Saturday until 8am Sunday. Consultations will be by appointment only. To make a booking please phone 0800 700 155.
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MEDICAL SERVICES
IN EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY PHONE 111. For all other medical assistance outside of normal hours, please phone your General Practice team, 24/7, to speak with a health professional who will give you free health advice on what to do or where to go if you need urgent care If you don’t have a regular General Practice, call any GP team 24/7 for free telephone health advice.
DIAL 111 in the event of a Medical or Accident Emergency
Pharmacies
Lifeline
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COLDSTREAM HOUSE, CAMERON COURTS and PRINCES COURT all have DAILY, unrestricted visiting.
327 West Street, Ashburton, phone 308 1133. Open daily: 10am – 4pm, Wednesday: 10am – 7pm
Reservations & timetables, 24-hour service. Freephone for reservations: 0800 802 802. BUSES - Southbound: 9.30am, 3.20pm. Northbound: 12.30pm, 5.10pm.
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Ashburton Museum
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327 West Street, Ashburton, phone 307 7890. Open daily: 10am – 4pm
COMMUNITY SERVICES
If you do not have or cannot contact your regular dentist, please phone 027 683 0679 for the name of the rostered DUTY DOCTORS Sealy Street Medical, Sealy Street, Ashburton, will be the weekend dentist in Christchurch. Hours 9am - 5pm, duty practice for Saturday until 8am Sunday. Consultation will Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. be by appointment only. ELPLINE ERVICES Three Rivers Health, Allens Road, Ashburton, will be the Alcoholics Anonymous duty practice for Sunday until 8am Monday. Consultation Call 0800 AA WORKS (0800 229 6757) will be by appointment only. Please call ahead for an or visit www.aa.org.nz for more information. appointment.
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Mental Health - Call free on 0800 222 955. Please bring your Community Services Card. All non New Zealanders should bring their passport with them, Ask for the Crisis Team. New Zealanders should bring some form of ID. Safe Care - 24hr Rape and Sexual Assault Crisis Support. Phone 03 364 8791 Methven & Rakaia Area For weekend and emergency services please phone Victims Support Group Methven Medical Centre on 302 8105 or Rakaia Medical 24hr - Freephone 0800 VICTIM (0800 842 846). Centre on 303 5002 for details on how to access the Direct dials to a volunteer. after-hours service each weekend. Ashburton Office - 307 8409 week-days, 9am - 2pm, Healthline is a free health advice service. It operates outside of these hours leave a message. 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The toll-free number Alcohol Drug Help Line to call is 0800 611 116. Healthline is staffed by registered Call us free on (0800 787 797). nurses who are trained to assess health problems and offer Lines open 10am - 10pm seven days. advice over the phone. The service is free and confidential.
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Wises Pharmacy, Countdown Complex, East Street, will be open from 9am - 1pm Saturday, from 10am - 1pm Sunday and from 5pm - 7pm both evenings.
Ashburton Public Library
ANIMAL SERVICES Ashburton District Council 03 307 7700 - 24hr service.
Animal Welfare Centre
All enquiries - phone 308 4432 or 027 3329286.
Havelock Street. Ph 308 7192. Saturday: 10am - 1pm. Sunday: 1pm - 4pm.
Mid Canterbury Animal Shelter
EA Networks Centre - Pools
Veterinarians
Contact - President 021 1356 969.
20 River Terrace - phone 03 308 4020. WEEKEND HOURS: ASHBURTON VETS - Ph 0276 838 000, Sat and Sun 7am - 7pm. Public holidays 10am - 5pm. 149 Cameron Street, Ashburton: Duty vet: Ben Hallenstein. Full emergency service all weekend. Mail Closing Times ASHBURTON MAIL CENTRE VET ENT RIVERSIDE - Ph 03 308 2321, STANDARD POST: Mon - Fri 6pm 1 Smallbone Drive, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend 24-hour emergencies. POST DELIVERY CENTRES Allenton & Tinwald: Mon - Fri 5pm VETLIFE ASHBURTON - Ph 03 307 5195, Methven & Rakaia: Mon - Fri 4.30pm Cnr East Street and Seafield Road, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend 24-hour emergencies. ASHBURTON’S STREET RECEIVERS Business Area: Mon - Fri 5pm CANTERBURY VETS - Ph 03 307 0686, Residential Area: Mon - Fri 1pm West Street Clinic, West Street, Ashburton. Saturday clinic: 9am - 12 noon. Weekend emergencies: Steve Williams. Information Centre Vet Ent and Vet Life operate a joint after-hours SMALL Methven - Saturday, Sunday and public holidays 10am until 3pm. Phone 302-8955 or isite@midcanterburynz.com animal emergency service. To use this service please phone your vet as usual.
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6am Country Calendar 3 0 7am Start Me Up MOD and Martin start up overlooked and abandoned classic cars. 0 7:30 Infomercials 0 9am Whanau Living 3 9:30 Tagata Pasifika 3 10am Pacific Island Food Revolution 0 11am John And Lisa’s Weekend Kitchen Noon A Place To Call Home PGR 3 0 1pm Kath And Kim PGR 3 0 1:30 Coast v Country 3 0 2:30 Design Junkies PGR 3 0 3:30 Fantasy Homes By The Sea 0 4:25 Embarrassing Pets Gus is an angry alpaca with attitude. 0 5pm The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm Country Calendar 3 0 7:30 Britain’s Got Talent – The Champions Ben Hart, Vicki Barbolak, Collabro perform. 0 8pm L Lotto 8:05 Britain’s Got Talent – The Champions Continued. 0 9:25 M Vermilion PGR 2018 Drama. 0 11:15 All Round To Mrs Brown’s AO 3 Agnes and the family open their doors to Sting, Shaggy, Gino D’Acampo, Christine Lampard, Peter Jones, and Deborah Meaden. 0 1:25 Coronation Street Catchup 3 0 3:25 Infomercials 0
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BRAVO 10am Yours, Mine, Or Ours PGR 3 10:30 Million Dollar Listing NY 3 11:30 Million Dollar Listing NY 3 12:30 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 1:30 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 2:30 Dress To Impress 3 3:30 Dress To Impress 3 4:30 The People’s Court 3 5:30 The People’s Court 3 6:30 The People’s Court 3 7:30 Botched PGR 3 8:30 Body Fixers PGR 3 9:30 The Real Housewives Of New Jersey AO Teresa awaits Joe’s release from prison, and transfer to an immigration detention facility amid rumours that she is having an affair with a toy boy in his 20s. 10:30 Murder And Justice – The Case Of Martha Moxley AO 3 11:30 Dress To Impress 3
Sunday
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6am Takaro Tribe 3 0 6:10 Custard’s World 3 0 6:25 The Wiggles, Emma! 0 6:35 PJ Masks 3 0 6:55 The Insectibles 3 0 7:10 Thunderbirds Are Go! 3 0 7:30 Super Dinosaur 0 7:55 Pokemon – Sun And Moon: Ultra Legends 3 0 8:15 Ninjago 0 8:40 Justice League 0 9:05 Regular Show 0 9:15 Dragon Ball Super 0 9:40 The Simpsons 3 0 10:35 F AP Bio PGR 3 0 11am Suburgatory PGR 3 0 11:30 8 Simple Rules 3 0 Noon Doctor Who 3 0 1:20 American Housewife 2:10 Australian Survivor PGR 3 0 4:40 House Rules 0 6pm The 100k Drop 0 7pm N Spartan – New Zealand v Australia PGR 0 8:30 M Crazy, Stupid Love AO 2011 Romantic Comedy. When a middle-aged man’s wife asks him for a divorce, he seeks to rediscover his manhood by learning to pick up girls at bars. 0 10:45 M Dumb And Dumber PGR 1994 Comedy. 12:50 M Someone Marry Barry AO 2014 Romantic Comedy. Three childhood friends scheme to find a wife for their socially inappropriate friend. Tyler Labine, Damon Wayans jr. 0 2:20 F The Bachelorette PGR 3 0 3:25 Home Improvement 3 5:30 Religious Infomercials
Lonely Planet – Roads Less Travelled, 5:30pm on Choice
SKY 5 6am World’s Wildest Weather PGV 6:50 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG 9:35 World’s Wildest Weather PGV 10:35 Blood And Treasure MV 11:25 Arrow MVS 12:15 The Flash MVS 1:05 Ax Men ML 2pm SmackDown Live MVC 4:05 Main Event MV 4:50 Blood And Treasure MV 5:35 The Simpsons Super Saturday PG 7:30 World’s Wildest Weather PGV 8:30 Counting Cars PG 9pm Ax Men ML 10pm Classic Pawn Stars PG 10:30 World’s Wildest Weather PGV 11:20 The Simpsons PG 11:45 The Simpsons PG Sunday 12:15 The Simpsons Super Sunday PG 2:10 Counting Cars PG 2:35 The Flash MVS 3:20 Main Event MV 4:05 Classic Pawn Stars PG 4:30 Ax Men ML 5:15 Chicago PD 16V
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6am Charles Stanley 6:30 Infomercials 9:30 Malaysia Kitchen 3 Alvin shares the perfect condiment for curry, makes braised pork belly, and is visited by Malaysian streetfood cook Jackie M. 10am Miguel’s Tropical Kitchen 3 10:30 Survivor – Heroes v Healers v Hustlers 3 11:30 Face Off – All Stars PGR 3 12:30 The Good Sh*t PGR 3 0 1:30 All Aussie Adventures PGR 3 0 2pm Fresh Off The Boat PGR 3 2:30 Fresh Off The Boat PGR 2:55 The Goldbergs PGR 0 3:25 Celebrity Name Game PGR 3 3:50 Beasts In The City 3 4:55 Grand Designs UK 3 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm
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6am Ben 10 3 0 6:25 Batman – Brave And The Bold 3 0 6:50 Max Steel 3 0 7:15 Hank Zipzer, The World’s Greatest Underachiever 3 0 7:40 Legion Of Super Heroes 3 0 8:05 Teen Titans 0 8:30 Batman – The Animated Series 0 9am Justice League Unlimited PGR 9:30 Samurai Jack PGR 0 10am SmackDown PGR 3 11am Raw PGR 3 Noon Ice Road Truckers PGR 3 0 1pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 3 2pm Pawn Stars 3 2:30 Massive Engineering Mistakes PGR 3 3:30 Antiques Roadshow 3 4:30 Hot Bench 3 5pm Addicted To Fishing 3 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm Portrait Artist Of The Year 0
6am Gardeners’ World 6:30 Monty Don’s French Gardens 7:30 James Martin’s American Adventure 8:30 Dream Gardens 9am The Water Brothers 9:30 Flipping Bangers 10:30 James Martin’s American Adventure 11:30 American Pickers 12:30 Building The Dream 1:30 Escape To The Chateau – DIY 2:30 American Idol 4:30 Food Safari – Fire 5pm Food Safari – Earth 5:30 Lonely Planet – Roads Less Travelled Lonely Planet sends photojournalist Dominic Bonuccelli on assignment down the road less travelled in Colombia. 6:30 Mysteries At The Museum
7pm M Beethoven 1992 Family Comedy. A St Bernard dog becomes the centre of attention for a loving family, but its vet secretly wants to kill it. 8:35 M Changeling AO 2008 Drama.
7:30 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces In New Zealand, George travels to the South Island where, at the foot hills of the Seaward Kaikoura mountains, a remote lodge made almost entirely of glass provides views across the valleys. 8:30 Antiques Roadshow 9:30 Hidden Britain By Drone 10:30 Discovering
7pm L Football – 7pm M Big PG 3 1988 Family A-League Phoenix v Comedy. A 12-year-old boy is Central Coast Mariners. transformed into a 35-yearFrom Sky Stadium. old man by a carnival wishing 9:15 Making New Zealand 3 0 machine. 0 9pm M Catch Me If You Can 10:30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? PGR AO 3 2002 Biography Crime. Clive Anderson puts the comedians through a series of games to total the points and announce a winner. 11:45 Infomercials 5am Hillsong TV 3 5:30 Charles Stanley
11pm The Selection AO 3 Instructor Care leads the remaining participants through an exercise he calls ‘integrity stations’. One candidate fails to complete the course, and may not be allowed to continue. Midnight Closedown
MOVIES PREMIERE
MOVIES GREATS
6:22 Hotel Mumbai 16VLC 2019 Thriller. Dev Patel, Armie Hammer. 8:22 First Man ML 2018 Drama. Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy. 10:39 Nothing But Trailers M 10:54 Burying Yasmeen MVLC 2019 Comedy. Jason Lott, Mike Langer. 12:08 The Sun Is Also A Star MVLS 2019 Drama. Yara Shahidi, Charles Melton. 1:45 Hotel Mumbai 16VLC 2019 Thriller. Dev Patel, Armie Hammer. 3:45 Marrowbone 16VC 2018 Horror. George MacKay, Anya Taylor-Joy. 5:35 Elvis Goes There – Sofia Coppola MC 2019 Documentary. 6:25 Mortal Engines MVC 2018 Action. Hugo Weaving, Hera Hilmar. 8:30 Top-End Wedding ML 2019 Comedy. An engaged couple go to Australia’s remote far north to find a missing mother of the bride and achieve their dream wedding. Miranda Tapsell, Gwilym Lee. 10:15 Ocean’s 8 ML 2018 Action. Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett. Sunday 12:05 Blue Iguana 16VLSC 2018 Comedy. Sam Rockwell, Phoebe Fox. 1:45 Before I Wake MVC 2016 Horror. Kate Bosworth, Thomas Jane. 3:20 Marrowbone 16VC 2018 Horror. 5:07 Nothing But Trailers M 5:22 Elvis Goes There – Sofia Coppola MC 2019 Documentary.
6:56 12 Years A Slave 16VS 2013 Historical Drama. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender. 9:06 Our Idiot Brother MLS 2011 Comedy. Paul Rudd. 10:34 Law Abiding Citizen 18VC 2009 Crime. Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler. 12:19 Kick-Ass 2 16VLS 2013 Action. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloe Moretz. 1:59 Veronica Guerin MVL 2003 Drama. Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciaran Hinds. 3:35 Our Idiot Brother MLS 2011 Comedy. Paul Rudd. 5:02 Riding Giants ML 2004 Documentary. Jeff Clark, Darrick Doerner. 6:45 If I Stay M 2014 Drama. Chloe Grace Moretz, Jamie Blackley. 8:30 Robin Hood MVLS 2010 Action. A remake of the popular legend. Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett. 10:50 Fifty Shades Of Grey 18LSC 2015 Drama. Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson.
Sunday
12:55 City By The Sea 16VL 2002 Drama. Robert De Niro, Frances MacDormand, Eliza Dushku. 2:45 Riding Giants ML 2004 Documentary. Jeff Clark, Darrick Doerner. 4:28 If I Stay M 2014 Drama. Chloe Grace Moretz, Jamie Blackley.
CHOICE
6:30 Te Ao – Maori News 3 7am Tamariki Haka 3 7:10 Pukoro 2 7:40 Kainga Whakapaipai 3 7:50 Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 8:20 Huritua 8:30 Pukana 3 2 10am Swagger 10:30 Celebrity Playlist 3 11am School Of Training 3 11:30 City Slickers Rodeo 3 Noon IVF World Sprints 3 1pm Haati Grassroots Rugby 3 2pm Poitukohu Kura Tuarua 3 3pm The Pits TV 3 4pm Tangaroa With Pio 4:30 Ka Tu Ka Korero Series which aims to help participants overcome their fear of public speaking. 5pm My Country Song 3 5:30 Nga Tangata Taumata Rau 3 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News
11pm Te Ao – Maori News 3 The latest news, with an inclusive approach to Maori news by connecting directly with communities. 11:30 You Can’t Ask That AO 3 Midnight Closedown
SKY SPORT 1
11:30 Lonely Planet – Roads Less Travelled 12:30 Gardeners’ World 1am Antiques Roadshow 2am George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 3am Land Of Primates 4am George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 5am Mysteries At The Museum
SKY SPORT 2
6am Big Bash League (HLS) Hurricanes v Heat. 6:30 Australia v Blackcaps (RPL) Third Test – Day One. From the SCG, Sydney. 8:30 Super Smash (HLS) 9am Super Smash (HLS) 9:30 Big Bash League (HLS) Thunder v Stars. 10am Big Bash League (HLS) Hurricanes v Heat. 10:30 Australia v Blackcaps (HLS) Third Test – Day One. 11:30 L Australia v Blackcaps Third Test – Day Two. Coverage from the SCG, Sydney. 8pm Super Smash (HLS) 8:30 Big Bash League (HLS) Hurricanes v Heat. 9:05 L Big Bash League Stars v Renegades. Sunday Coverage from the MCG, 12:35 Maori All Blacks U20 v Melbourne. Fiji U20 (HLS) From Rotorua. Sunday 1:05 Maori All Blacks v Fiji 12:30 Australia v Blackcaps (HLS) (HLS) Third Test. From Rotorua. 1:55 L Pro14 – Benetton 1:30 Super Smash (HLS) 2am Super Smash (HLS) v Warriors From Stadio Comunale di 2:30 Big Bash League (HLS) Monigo, Italy. 3am Australia v Blackcaps 3:55 L Pro14 – Zebre v (RPL) Third Test. Cheetahs 5am Australia v Blackcaps From PA Stadio Sergio Lanfranchi, Italy. (HLS) Third Test.
6:30 Gallagher Premiership Highlights Show 7:30 Pro14 Weekly Highlights Show (HLS) 8:30 L Pro14 – Ulster v Munster From Ravenhill Stadium, Belfast. 10:35 England v Barbarians (RPL) From Twickenham Stadium, London. 12:35 Women’s – Barbarians v Wales (RPL) 2:35 Pro14 – Blues v Scarlets (RPL) From Cardiff Arms Park. 4:35 Pro14 – Ulster v Munster (RPL) 6:35 Gallagher Premiership – Sale v Harlequins (RPL) 8:35 England v Barbarians (RPL) From Twickenham Stadium, London. 10:35 Women’s – Barbarians v Wales (RPL)
0 Closed captions; 3 Repeat; 2 Maori Language; HLS Highlights; RPL Replay; DLY Delayed. CLASSIFICATIONS: 16/18 Approved for persons 16/18 years or over; AO Adults only; C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audiences; PG/PGR Parental guidance recommended for young viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. Local Radio: NewsTalk ZB 873AM/98.1FM FM Classic Hits ZEFM 92.5; Port FM Local 94.9, 98.9 and 106.1
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DISCOVERY 7:30 Gold Rush PG Rise of the Machines. 8:20 Outback Opal Hunters PG 9:10 Outback Opal Hunters PG 10am Outback Opal Hunters PG 10:50 Outback Opal Hunters PG 11:40 Outback Opal Hunters PG 12:30 Expedition Unknown PG Chasing the Snake Kings. 1:20 Alaska – The Last Frontier PG Boat Rescue Mission. 2:10 Raising Wild PG A Little Slice of Home. 3pm Finding Escobar’s Millions PG Family Jewels. 3:50 The World’s Deadliest Weather Caught On Camera PG 4:45 The World’s Deadliest Weather Caught On Camera PG 5:40 The World’s Deadliest Weather Caught On Camera PG 6:35 BattleBots PG 7:30 World’s Deadliest Weather Caught On Camera PG 8:30 Secret Space Escapes PG 9:25 Gold Rush PG Rise of the Machines. 10:15 The Day I Ran China PG 11:05 BattleBots PG 11:55 How It’s Made PG Sunday 12:20 How Do They Do It? PG 12:45 What On Earth? PG 1:35 Wheels That Fail PG 2am Wheels That Fail PG 2:25 Evil Lives Here PG 3:15 Web Of Lies M 4:05 Sinkholes – Swallowed Alive PG 4:55 Weather Top Tens PG 5:45 Weather Top Tens PG
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6am Heathrow – Britain’s Busiest Airport 0 6:45 Tiny House Nation 3 7:35 Tagata Pasifika 3 0 8am Praise Be 3 0 8:30 Yours Faithfully 3 0 9:20 How Not To Get Cancer 3 0 10:10 Waka Man 3 0 10:30 Waka Huia Summer Series 11am Secret Scotland 3 0 11:55 The Job Interview 3 0 12:55 Coast v Country 3 0 1:55 Outback Truckers PGR 3 0 2:50 F The Checkup 3 0 3:50 F Big Cats 3 0 4:55 The Family Chase Family teams of four must answer quick-fire questions, with each correct answer earning them $2,000 as they seek to stay one step ahead of the chaser. 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0 7pm N The Casketeers PGR 0 7:30 N Seven Worlds, One Planet Antarctica – A land of survivors in the most hostile conditions. 0 8:45 World On Fire AO 0 10pm Motorbike Cops 3 0 10:30 N Pure AO 0
6am Paw Patrol 3 0 6:25 Thomas And Friends 0 6:35 Puppy Dog Pals 3 0 6:55 Alvinnn!!! And The Chipmunks 3 0 7:10 Masha And The Bear 3 0 7:15 Dorothy And The Wizard Of Oz 0 7:35 Elena Of Avalor 0 8am M Brother Bear 2 2006 Animated Adventure. Voices of Patrick Dempsey, Mandy Moore. 0 9:10 M Hoot 2006 Family. Luke Wilson, Logan Lerman, Brie Larson. 10:40 M Space Jam PGR 1996 Animated. Michael Jordan, Wayne Knight, Theresa Randle. 0 12:10 M The Best Of Me PGR 2014 Romantic Comedy. 0 2:25 Kevin Can Wait 0 2:55 M Honey, I Blew Up The Kid PGR 1992 Family Comedy. 0 4:40 House Rules PGR 0 6pm The 100k Drop 0 7pm M Beauty And The Beast PGR 2017 Family Fantasy. A selfish prince is cursed to become a monster for the rest of his life, unless he learns to love a beautiful young woman he keeps prisoner. 0 9:15 M Pulp Fiction AO 1994 Drama. A montage of one day in the lives of a group of criminals. 0
11:15 Catch 22 AO 3 Yossarian needlessly expends energy to avoid a feared mission, but disaster catches up with him. 0 12:10 Vanity Fair PGR (Starting Today) 3 0 1:05 Coronation Street Catchup 3 0 3:05 Infomercials
12:05 M Nightmare On Elm Street AO 1984 Horror. Robert Englund, Amanda Wyss, Johnny Depp. 1:45 Claws AO 3 0 3:25 Regular Show 3 3:35 Infomercials 4:10 Religious Infomercials 4:40 Home Improvement 3 0 5:30 Infomercials
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7pm The Block Australia PGR 0 8:30 M Fast And Furious AO 3 2009 Action. 0 10:25 Blue Bloods AO Danny and Frank enlist the help of Detective Anthony Abetemarco to get justice for Lt Gormley after a gang attack him outside his home. 0 11:20 Hawaii Five-0 AO 3 When Chin is kidnapped by a Mexican cartel, Five-0 must rescue him before he is executed. 0 12:05 Infomercials
MOVIES PREMIERE
Seven Worlds, One Planet 7:30pm on TVNZ 1
BRAVO 6am Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 6:45 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 7:35 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 8:20 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 9:10 Dress To Impress 3 10am Dress To Impress 3 10:50 Botched PGR 3 11:40 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 12:30 Million Dollar Listing NY 3 1:20 Million Dollar Listing NY 3 2:15 Million Dollar Listing NY 3 3:20 The People’s Court 3 4:10 The People’s Court 3 5:05 Hollywood Medium With Tyler Henry 3 6pm Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 7pm M Daddy Day Care 3 2003 Comedy. Eddie Murphy, Steve Zahn, Anjelica Huston. 9pm M Get Him To The Greek AO 3 2010 Comedy. 11:20 Pregnant In Heels AO 12:10 Infomercials 3
6:12 Mortal Engines MVC 2018 Action. Hugo Weaving, Hera Hilmar. 8:17 Top-End Wedding ML 2019 Comedy. Miranda Tapsell, Gwilym Lee. 9:57 Ocean’s 8 ML 2018 Pulp Fiction Action. Sandra Bullock, 9:15pm on TVNZ 2 Cate Blanchett. 11:45 Blue Iguana 16VLSC 2018 Comedy. Sam Rockwell, SKY 5 Phoebe Fox. 6am Counting Cars PG 1:25 Before I Wake MVC 6:25 The Flash MVS 7:10 NCIS – New Orleans MV 2016 Horror. Kate Bosworth, Thomas Jane. 7:55 Main Event MV 3pm Mortal Engines MVC 8:45 The Amazing Race PG 2018 Action. Hugo Weaving, 9:35 The Flash MVS Hera Hilmar. 10:25 Pawn Stars PG 5:05 Bob Fosse – It’s 10:55 NCIS – New Orleans Showtime MC 2018 MV 11:45 Ax Men ML Documentary. 12:40 Montana Wild M 6:10 Bad Times At The El 1:30 Counting Cars PG Royale 16VL 2018 Drama. 2pm The Amazing Jeff Bridges, Chris Hemsworth. Race PG 3pm Raw MVC 8:30 Shazam! MV 2019 5:45 SmackDown MVC Action. A 14-year-old boy finds 7:30 NCIS – New Orleans MV he can become a superhero 8:30 Criminal Minds 16VS by shouting out one word. Just as the team closes a case Zachary Levi, Mark Strong. in New York, Morgan’s visit to a 10:45 Swimming With Men survivor opens up again. ML 2018 Comedy. Rob Brydon, 9:30 Criminal Minds 16VS Jim Carter. 10:30 Chicago PD 16V Monday 11:25 The Amazing Race PG 12:20 See You Soon 16S
Monday
12:15 SmackDown MVC 1:55 Chicago PD 16V 2:45 NCIS – New Orleans MV 3:35 The Amazing Race PG 4:25 Criminal Minds 16VS 5:10 Criminal Minds 16VS
PRIME
6am Life TV 6:30 Brian Houston 7am Charles Stanley 8am Life TV 3 8:30 Turning Point 3 9am R And R With Eru And K’Lee 3 9:30 Getaway 3 10am Sara’s Australia Unveiled 3 10:30 Sandcastles 3 11am Tasty Conversations 3 11:05 Big Angry Fish 3 0 Noon Ocean Bounty 3 0 1pm Motorsport – Muscle Garage 1:30 Motorsport – Jaguar I-Pace 2pm Motorsport – Porsche Carrera Cup Australia 3pm Motorsport – FIM Speedway Grand Prix 4pm Motorsport – Monster Jam 4:55 Gone Fishin’ 5:25 Fish Of The Day 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm
2018 Drama. Liam McIntyre, Harvey Keitel. 2:10 The Row 16VSC 2018 Horror. Lala Kent, Randy Couture. 3:45 Bad Times At The El Royale 16VL 2018 Drama. Jeff Bridges, Chris Hemsworth.
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CHOICE
6am Religious Programming 7am Nella The Princess Knight 3 0 7:30 Religious Programming 10:30 Sport Box The best of the past week’s sports from New Zealand and around the world. Noon 100 Day Bach 3 0 1pm Heroes And Survivors PGR 3 0 2pm Mad About You PGR 3 2:30 Antiques Road Trip 3 4:30 The Great Australian Bake Off 3 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm The Great Escapers A couple try their luck with a bar in Spain; another couple swap Jersey for a French holiday complex; British hoteliers hand their livelihood over to friends. 7pm Storage Wars PGR 0 7:30 Pilgrimage – The Road To Rome PGR 0 8:30 M Charlie’s Angels – Full Throttle PGR 2003 Action Adventure. 0 10:45 SmackDown PGR
6:30 Waiata Mai 3 6:40 Tamariki Haka 6:50 Kids’ Kai Kart 3 7am Darwin + Newts 3 7:10 Huhu – Te Tunga Rakau 7:20 He Rourou 3 7:30 Potae Pai 3 7:40 Kainga Whakapaipai 3 7:50 Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 8:20 Huritua 8:30 Waka Ama Sprints 9am Globe 3 9:30 Swagger 10am Cam’s Kai 3 11am Ride Or Die PGR 11:30 Waka Man 3 Noon Toa – Toa O Aotearoa PGR 3 12:30 IVF World Sprints 3 1pm Touch Rugby – National Championships 3 2pm M Beethoven 1992 Family Comedy. 3:30 Marae Kai Masters 3 4:10 Off The Grid With Pio 3 5pm Ipukarea 3 5:30 Matangi Rau 3 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News 7pm Off The Grid With Pio 3 7:30 F Artefact 8:30 M Big Fish AO 2003 Drama. The tale of a son trying to piece together the truth of his dying father’s elusive life, based on his tall tales and myths. Billy Crudup, Albert Finney, Ewan McGregor. 10:40 Te Ao – Maori News 3
11:45 60 Minutes PGR Jon Wertheim looks at the messy break Britain is trying to make from the European Union; Bill Whitaker profiles the Wright family, who live a lifestyle straight out of the Old West. 12:45 Closedown
11:10 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 Tuohu Kau. 11:40 Closedown
MOVIES GREATS 6:13 Robin Hood MVLS 2010 Action. Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett. 8:33 Fifty Shades Of Grey 18LSC 2015 Drama. Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson. 10:38 City By The Sea 16VL 2002 Drama. Robert De Niro, Frances MacDormand, Eliza Dushku. 12:28 If I Stay M 2014 Drama. Chloe Grace Moretz, Jamie Blackley. 2:13 Robin Hood MVLS 2010 Action. Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett. 4:30 Rush Hour 3 MVS 2007 Action. Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan. 6pm The Dark Knight MV 2008 Action. Christian Bale, Heath Ledger. 8:30 Legally Blonde PGS 2001 Comedy. When a blonde sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend, she decides to follow him to law school to get him back. Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson. 10:10 Johnny English PGV 2003 Comedy. Rowan Atkinson, John Malkovich, Natalie Imbruglia. 11:40 Fast And Furious 6 MV 2013 Action. Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson. Monday 1:47 Rush Hour 3 MVS 2007 Action. Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan. 3:15 The Dark Knight MV 2008 Action. Christian Bale, Heath Ledger. 5:43 Fast And Furious 6 MV 2013 Action.
SKY SPORT 1 6:25 L Pro14 – Leinster v Connacht From RDS Arena, Dublin. 8:40 L Pro14 – Edinburgh v Southern Kings From Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh. 11am French Top 14 – Agen v Lyon (DLY) 1pm Pro14 – Dragons v Ospreys (RPL) From PA Rodney Parade, Newport. 3pm Pro14 – Zebre v Cheetahs (RPL) From PA Stadio Sergio Lanfranchi, Italy. 5pm Pro14 – Leinster v Connacht (RPL) 7pm Pro14 – Edinburgh v Southern Kings (RPL) From BT Murrayfield, Edinburgh. 9pm Gallagher Premiership – Gloucester v Bath (RPL) 10:55 Gallagher Premiership – Tigers v Bears (RPL)
Monday
12:55 Gallagher Premiership – Saracens v Warriors (RPL) 2:55 Barbarians v Wales (RPL) From Principality Stadium, Cardiff. 3:25 L Gallagher Premiership – London Irish v Exeter Chiefs From Madejski Stadium, Reading. 5:50 L French Top 14 – Toulon v Castres
0 Closed captions; 3 Repeat; 2 Maori Language; HLS Highlights; RPL Replay; DLY Delayed. CLASSIFICATIONS: 16/18 Approved for persons 16/18 years or over; AO Adults only; C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audiences; PG/PGR Parental guidance recommended for young viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. Local Radio: NewsTalk ZB 873AM/98.1FM FM Classic Hits ZEFM 92.5; Port FM Local 94.9, 98.9 and 106.1
6am Gardeners’ World 6:30 Through The Bible With Les Feldick 7am Leading The Way 7:30 Food Safari – Fire 8am Food Safari – Earth 8:30 Lonely Planet – Roads Less Travelled 9:30 Mysteries At The Museum 10:30 Better Homes And Gardens Noon Tom Kerridge’s Fresh Start 12:30 Antiques Roadshow 1:30 Hidden Britain By Drone 2:30 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 3:30 Bondi Vet 4:30 Rick Stein’s German Bite 5:30 Toy Hunter 6pm Storage Wars – New York 6:30 Jamie And Jimmy’s Food Fight Club 7:30 Outback Vet Dr Rick must ensure a spoilt three-legged pub dog is not over-indulging. 8:30 M Hysteria AO 2011 Romantic Comedy. Story of the invention of the electromechanical vibrator in the era of Victorian prudishness. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce. 10:30 Toy Hunter 11pm Bondi Vet Midnight Jamie And Jimmy’s Food Fight Club 1am Rick Stein’s German Bite 2am George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 3am Outback Vet 4am Better Homes And Gardens 5:30 Storage Wars – New York
SKY SPORT 2 6am Big Bash League (HLS) 6:30 Australia v Blackcaps (RPL) Third Test. 8:30 Super Smash (HLS) 9am Super Smash (HLS) 9:30 Big Bash League (HLS) 10am Big Bash League (HLS) 10:30 Australia v Blackcaps (HLS) Third Test. From the SCG, Sydney. 11:30 L Australia v Blackcaps Third Test – Day Three. From the SCG, Sydney. 8pm Big Bash League (HLS) 8:35 L Big Bash League Sixers v Strikers. From Coffs Harbour International Stadium, Coffs Harbour.
Monday Midnight Big Bash League (HLS) 12:30 Big Bash League (HLS) 1am Super Smash (HLS) 1:25 Super Smash (HLS) 1:50 Super Smash (HLS) 2:20 L India v Sri Lanka First T20. Coverage from Dr Bhupen Hazarika Cricket Stadium, Barsapara. 5Jan20
DISCOVERY 6:35 China’s Treasure – Guizhou PG 7:05 China’s Treasure – Guizhou PG 7:30 Secret Space Escapes PG 8:20 World’s Deadliest Weather Caught On Camera PG 9:10 BattleBots PG 10am Expedition Unknown PG Chasing the Snake Kings. 10:50 Raising Wild PG A Little Slice of Home. 11:40 Alaska – The Last Frontier PG Boat Rescue Mission. 12:30 Alaskan Bush People PG Fowl Weather Friends. 1:20 Gold Rush PG Rise of the Machines. 2:10 Mega Marine Machines PG Firefighting Super Ships. 3pm Mega Marine Machines PG 3:50 Mega Marine Machines PG 4:45 Mega Marine Machines PG 5:40 Mega Marine Machines PG 6:35 Mega Marine Machines PG 7:30 Weather Gone Viral PG 8:30 World’s Deadliest Weather Caught On Camera PG 9:25 Masters Of Disaster PG 10:15 Incredible Engineering Blunders – Fixed PG 11:05 Expedition Unknown PG 11:55 How It’s Made PG Monday 12:20 How Do They Do It? PG 12:45 Naked And Afraid XL PG 1:35 Wheels That Fail PG 2am Wheels That Fail PG 2:25 Naked And Afraid MLC 3:15 Naked And Afraid MLC 4:05 Naked And Afraid MLC 4:55 Naked And Afraid MLC 5:45 Naked And Afraid MLC
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Full moon
Rise 5:57 am Set 9:18 pm Bad
Bad fishing Set 2:06 am Rise 3:29 pm
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Rise 5:58 am Set 9:18 pm Bad
Bad fishing Set 2:30 am Rise 4:33 pm
New moon 25 Jan 10:43 am
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FZL: Rising above 3000m
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Wellington
fine
Nelson
fine
Blenheim
fine
Greymouth
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Christchurch
fine
Timaru
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Queenstown
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Dunedin
fine
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clearing
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Selwyn Whitecliffs (NIWA) at 2:05 pm, yesterday
Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 2:00 pm, yesterday 148.2 Nth Ashburton at 2:00 pm, yesterday
9.90
Sth Ashburton at 2:00 pm, yesterday
8.99
Rangitata Klondyke at 3:00 pm, yesterday
125.6
Waitaki Kurow at 3:03 pm, yesterday
495.4
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Ashburton Airport Temperature °C At 4pm 13.3 15.6 Max to 4pm 11.9 Minimum 12.9 Grass minimum Rainfall mm 0.0 16hr to 4pm January to date 0.2 Avg Jan to date 6 2020 to date 0.2 6 Avg year to date Wind km/h SE 15 At 4pm Strongest gust SE 33 Time of gust 12:30pm
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