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Overseas bid to buy land rejected

By Heather Chalmers

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The rejection of the sale of Mid and South Canterbury dairy and dairy support farms to an overseas buyer has been welcomed by Federated Farmers’ Mid Canterbury president David Clark, who says the move will provide more opportunity for individuals to buy farms.

The Canadian bid to buy more than 4500 hectares of South Island farmland, including 1000ha near Ashburton, was rejected by the Overseas Investment Office.

“I certainly wasn’t aware that these farms were for sale and most other farmers weren’t either,” Clark said.

“Whether they are selling all of the shares, or just a controlling interest, it’s still a big chunk of land being sold offshore and I welcome the decision.”

The OIO ruled Mercury Agriculture Ltd Partnership, 92 per cent owned by Canadian interests, could not buy the land because it was “not in New Zealand’s interests”.

Mercury had applied to buy up to a 68.3 per cent interest in Rangitata Dairies Limited Partnership and Rangitata

GP Ltd, which owns 1900ha at Rangitata, 1000ha near Ashburton, 212ha near Temuka, and 816ha near Cromwell. It also had leasehold blocks including 492ha near Ashburton.

The 4500ha block offered for sale was the amalgamation of many small farms, Clark said. “In the hey-day of the dairy boom, this syndicate and many others like it, had the biggest chequebooks in town. They outbid a lot of local farmers

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■■ ASHBURTON MSA

MSA a place to call home

By Sue Newman

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When Stuart Geddes first walked down the Ashburton MSA’s long, central corridor, it felt like coming home.

There was a sense of history, a sense that the complex was a place that was valued by the community and that, the MSA’s new general manager said, made it a place where he felt very welcome.

“You get a feel for a place. And when I walked in the doors here and walked down the hall you could sense its history. That history drew me to what the club was all about. It felt right.”

Geddes replaces Simon McDonnell who is currently passing on 27 years worth of knowledge and experience before he retires on December 20.

And in the two weeks they’ve been working together, Geddes said it was clear McDonnell had given his blood, sweat and tears to the MSA. “He’s nurtured relationships, guided committees. He’s been steward, caretaker and the fundamental catalyst to what happens here. They’re big shoes to step into,” he said.

Taking over the reins of a club that had been in existence since 1885 was an absolute honour, Geddes said.

“I take this on with humility and a real sense of responsibility.”

Learning the ropes is something Geddes has done on many occasions as he’s moved through his hospitality industry career.

He was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and started his working life in South Africa

New man at the helm of the Ashburton MSA, Stuart Geddes, is inspired by the club’s sense of history.

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Five years later he decided to hit the road and travel, getting as far as London before settling back into the hospitality workforce.

From there two opportunities came up – a position in the United States or one in the

Middle East. The States won and he moved to Detroit for a couple of years before family commitments drew him back to South Africa.

Another 15 years were to follow in his homeland, years when he would meet wife

to be Debra, marry and have a child.

“We met in the industry 26 years ago – and she’s still with me. A lot of couples meet each other in this industry, that’s the nature of the work. It’s a different kind of industry,” Geddes said.

During those years, he held a number of positions as general manager of hotels, with one in the Kruger National Park standing out for its location.

“Every hotel has its unique point. The bush was amazing and I do miss it. That was an amazing time in my life but it did mean Deb and Kyle had to live in town and I’d go home at weekends.”

Fifteen years down the track the Geddes family were keen to look at new options – offshore. Australia and New Zealand were on the radar.

An opportunity came up in New Zealand, Geddes checked it out and fell in love with the country and flew home to tell his wife they were moving.

“And my unbelievable wife was 100 per cent supportive.

“New Zealand reminded me of what I loved about Zimbabwe, the lifestyle that I’d had. It’s an amazing country to live in – the safety, the security and the lifestyle.”

That was 11 years ago and over those years, he’s managed hotels in Auckland, Gisborne and Nelson, but the time had come to settle down, he said The MSA job came up, Geddes liked what he saw in both the advertised position and the Ashburton District, but accepting that job came with one warning – this would be the last stop, his wife told him.

Tweaks to Tinwald roading to improve traffic flow

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

A new weighbridge for policing heavy vehicles is to be installed just north of Rakaia while minor changes are going to be made to improve traffic flow and safety through Tinwald.

In their report to the Ashburton District Road Safety Co-ordinating Committee meeting on Tuesday, the New Zealand Transport Agency outlined their plans to install a weigh rite station between the Rakaia River bridge and the Rakaia rail overbridge.

Sensors placed just south of the Rakaia township and north of the overbridge will detect when a very heavy vehicle travels over them and signs will direct the drivers to pull over in the new weighbridge area that will be on the corner of North Rakaia Road.

New Zealand Transport Agency maintenance contract manager John Keenan said a turning bay would be installed to allow northbound traffic to turn in to North Rakaia Road, amongst other small tweaks.

Ashburton Mayor Neil Brown voiced concerns that heavy traffic may struggle to

make the right turn once they are finished at the weigh station back on to the State Highway and struggle to build up enough speed to make it over the overbridge, but Keenan said he was sure those planning the project had taken those factors into account.

It was also likely that speed limit reductions to 80km/h through that area would be in place from the safe networks programme for the Selwyn River to Ashburton.

Changes in Tinwald will see the pedestrian crossing north of Grahams Road removed and replaced by a safe crossing

point south of Grahams Road.

“So we will shift the pedestrian crossing south but it won’t be a pedestrian crossing anymore it will be a safe crossing area with a refuge in the middle of the road,” Keenan said.

No parking lines will also be installed further down the State Highway to stop parked traffic blocking sight) lines of traffic turning off Grahams Road.

Keenan said they would be seeking funding for further improvements through the Tinwald corridor for the 2020/21 financial year.

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■■SALVATION ARMY

Local business support for Salvation Army

By Heather Mackenzie

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The Salvation Foodbank is $2000 better off thanks to the kindness of local business Rite of Passage.

Owners Aaron Walton and Jasmine Drew said they hope their gift will inspire others to donate to the cause.

Foodbank manager Judith Lilley knows only too well the strain the silly season can have on people. “This generous donation will go a long way to helping out local families in need.”

Christmas time is not always the happy, laughter-filled get-together it should be. Trying to stretch an already impossibly tight budget to cover gifts and extra food can push many families to breaking point.

Lilley said, “The demand for food parcels has grown year-onyear. It is not just us noticing the increase, all the agencies in Ashburton have too.”

Needing a helping hand is not just limited to a certain sector of the community. Judith pointed out that all walks of life can need a helping hand. “There are no barriers,” she said.

As established, this time of year can increase family stress, however the demand doesn’t stop when the tangled Christmas lights are back in their box and the last of the tinsel bits have gone up the vacuum.

Around the New Year corner is the back to school stress.

Along with credit card bills from Christmas spends to be paid,

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new uniforms and school computers need to be bought, so the stress for some goes on, and with it the need for donations

such as this one from Rite of Passage.

Lilley said, “We always welcome non-perishable food and

personal hygiene products.”

The foodbank is in the Salvation Army building on the corner of Cass and Wills streets.

■■WEATHER

Overseas bid to buy local land rejected From P1 “To now flog it all to an overseas investor, undermines the structure of family farming in New Zealand.

“It blocks individuals from moving up the ownership ladder, whether through shearing, contracting or sharemilking.

“If the blocking of the sale to an overseas investor means these farms will now be sold on the New Zealand market, I welcome that.

“I make a clear distinction between families that emigrate to New Zealand, integrate into our communities and farm the land

Aaron Walton and Jasmine Drew with foodbank manager Judith Lilley

Wind sees school bus services cancelled

versus overseas corporations and hedge funds who are locking up New Zealand’s productive land.”

While Government had tightened rules over the overseas purchase of farmland, foreigners wanting to buy land to plant forestry got a “free pass”.

“Government has got those settings wrong. It should be hard for both,” Clark said.

Rangitata Dairies intended to use the sale proceeds to convert 111ha of farmland to orchard and install irrigation and in-shed feeding in some of the dairy farms.

By Sue Newman

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High winds forced school bus services across Mid Canterbury to be cancelled yesterday afternoon, forcing hundreds of parents to become emergency taxi service providers for their children.

Pearson’s Coachlines has 29 buses providing school transport, and manager Mark Cook said all of those had been pulled out of service for the afternoon.

Conditions were simply too dangerous to risk, Cook said.

“We don’t do this lightly but even this morning we were getting blown around on the road

and it’s just not worth the risk,” he said.

While he acknowledged the cancellation would be an inconvenience for parents, Cook said he had spoken to all principals at schools served by the Pearson’s network and they fully supported the decision.

Generally when the district is hammered by high winds, only parts of the district were affected, but this time it was widespread, he said.

Cook said he had spoken to principals in foothills that ran their own school based services and to Methven Travel and all services in those areas were also

pulled.

With high winds predicted for the rest of this week, Cook said he would be monitoring conditions closely each day.

Ashburton College principal Ross Preece said the cancellation affected about a third of his 1200 students, but keeping buses off the road was the right decision.

Conditions were quite dangerous with debris being blown around and wind making it difficult to keep vehicles stable on the road, he said.

This is the first time staff at the college could recall a widespread bus service cancellation, Preece said.

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In brief Vaccination denied Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says it’s “outrageous” that a Samoan toddler was refused a measles vaccination in Auckland before heading back to Apia, which is grappling with a measles epidemic.

“I heard this last night and I thought it was outrageous, given this current situation,” Ardern said. She added that she would personally follow up with Health Minister David Clark to figure out what exactly happened. – NZME

Summer snow Those excited to kick off their summer plans with riding on Cardrona will have to wait — because of snow. Cardrona Alpine Resort has announced they are postponing their summer opening day as the mountain between Queenstown and Wanaka is covered in a blanket of snow. On their Facebook page, the resort shared Cardrona looking like a winter wonderland.

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SafetySquare fun at Bunnings Showing off their artistic talents at Bunnings on Saturday were Harry Reid, 7, Olivia Reid, 9 and Lucas Reid, 7.

While the activity itself may have been fun it came with a serious safety message – keeping children safe on driveways.

Children were given a Safe-

tySquare to paint in any manner they wished, bright colours and happy faces were certainly the order of the day.

Once the SafetySquares were finished the idea was for parents to take them home to put in a safe spot for their child to stand when vehicles are using the driveway.

The colourful squares also serve as a visual cue to remind drivers to be vigilant and safety conscious with children and vehicles to prevent driveway-based accidents.

In the past an average of five children a year have been killed on New Zealand driveways.

Lakes on flood alert

Of those 88 per cent were aged under four.

Aiming to reduce these numbers, Bunnings and the Parent to Parent organisation teamed up to create the SafetySquare, a national project that was held at every Bunnings store in New Zealand on Saturday.

Wanaka and Queenstown were on high alert on Tuesday night, as their lake levels neared flood levels.

Lake Wanaka’s waters were sitting just below flood level on Tuesday night and the MetService was predicting more heavy rain. Rain also closed several South Island roads.

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■■ MOVEMBER

MP’s mo raises more than $1500

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

It might be less Magnum PI and more backbench MP, but Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon is pleased his Movember effort raised more than $1500 for men’s health.

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It might have tested the patience of his wife and earned him plenty of good-natured stick from his parliamentary colleagues, but Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon is rapt at how well his Movember fundraising efforts went.

Falloon was the only MP in Parliament to take part in Movember, the fundraising movement based around raising awareness of men’s health issues, and raised more than $1500 for the cause.

The MP said it was something he had been meaning to do for a number of years.

“It’s always been pretty easy to find an excuse not to, a wedding coming up or a photo I’m expected to look tidy for, but this year I figured no more excuses,” he said.

“I was really hoping for a thick Tom Selleck style slug, it didn’t quite turn out that way but it filled in pretty well in the last couple of weeks.”

At the time of writing $1630 had been donated to Falloon’s Movember page which he said he was really happy with.

“I’m really happy that I’ve raised well over

$1500 for men’s mental health and suicide prevention,” he said.

“In the last year 685 New Zealanders took their own lives. Blokes often don’t talk about the problems we’re having, and as a result we feature too highly in those appalling statistics.

“Whether it be rural mental health or youth suicide, New Zealand has a real problem which unfortunately has affected me a few times in my life.”

While no other MPs took up the challenge, Falloon said they had been generous with donations.

“There was a fair bit of good-natured stick but they were all really encouraging,” he said.

Falloon said the moustache would not be making an extended stay with his wife Rose not a big fan of the facial fluff.

“I think I’ve tested Rose’s patience enough,” he said.

“I doubt I’ll do it every year, but will likely do it again some time in the future. It’s a great cause and I’m always keen to support it when I can, either by donating or growing a dirty mo myself.”

■■ST JOSEPH’S SCHOOL

Dress-up day raises money for charity When it comes to fundraising, the Young Vinnies team from St Joseph’s School take a lot of beating.

Throughout the year the students have staged a number of fundraisers for the charity St Vincent de Paul, but for Christmas they decided to do something a little different.

When they spotted a sign in Ashburton’s Warehouse offering to match every $10 given with a $25 gift for a child in need, the students were inspired.

They met, discussed the idea with teacher Cathy Reid and decided to hold a mufti-day with a Christmas theme.

On Wednesday students across the school arrived in outfits that

ranged from fairies and elves, to Santas and as painstakingly wrapped human Christmas presents.

And each came with a donation for the Christmas gift cause.

A best-dressed prize was awarded for each class.

Right – St Joseph’s School students donned their festive best for a fundraising mufti-day, (back, from left), Brendan McCrea, Macarena Ramirez, Isabel Wall, Lulu Kilworth, George King and, (front, from left), Arlo Parsons, Olivia Reid, Konrad Artz, Austin Brokenshire and Angus Robins.

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OUR VIEW

Owning Kiwi land is a Kiwi privilege U

nlike many countries, it’s been something of a freefor-all in New Zealand when it came to selling off our family silver – our land.

Certainly we’ve tightened up in recent years with the Overseas Investment Office taking a long, hard look at any applications to buy farm land. And, from time to time, it has said no.

A recent application by a Canadian company to buy around 4500 hectares of prime New Zealand land was turned down.

And with about 1000 hectares of that in the Ashburton District it’s a win for us that the sale was turned down.

A round of applause on that one.

Undoubtedly there are financial wins from selling our land to overseas investors, but there’s a lot more to land sales than just dollars. Our land is something we all have a kinship with. It’s part of who we are as New Zealanders and ownership of that land is something we should take a pride in.

Once a block of land is sold it’s gone from the Kiwi treasure chest. Yes, those overseas inves-

tors might turn it into a highly productive unit from which the district will gain wealth, but that’s not what land ownership should be about.

Many countries, particularly Asian countries, have tight rules around foreign ownership of land. Many require a local partner, others limit the amount of total value a foreigner can have.

In New Zealand, for too long, we’ve been happy to take the cash today, forgetting about what might happen down the track.

Land is the one commodity that is finite. What we’ve got today is all we’ll ever have but what we own today, if ownership of every slice of farmland is counted, would see much of that

in foreign hands.

Big moves were made to tighten up land sales to overseas buyers at the end of 2017. We’ve had a couple of years where those rules have applied, but what’s changed?

Our four biggest land owners are overseas forestry companies and, at the end of last year, almost 33 per cent of our bulk capital land stock in dollar terms was owned off-shore.

As well as the concern over allowing our Kiwi land to go out of Kiwi ownership, there’s the issue of price inflation. If an off-shore investor is in the wings, the selling price inevitably climbs out of the reach of a Kiwi farmer.

New Zealand needs overseas

investment, no question. The last thing we need to be is a closed economy. Without overseas investment we’d only be half the country we are and we’d be sinking quietly below the horizon at the end of the world.

But that doesn’t mean we should be selling off our greatest asset – our land. We should have called time on that decades ago.

Lease it, require a 50 per cent local partner, but don’t let an overseas buyer be the sole name on a land deed.

In terms of land sales to overseas companies, the horse has already bolted, but full marks to the OIO for turning down the Canadian request. Let that one decision lead to others.

after challenger Tom Leedham conceded defeat in the union’s presidential election.

In 2003, the two makers of flu shots in the United States, Chiron and Aventis Pasteur, announced they had run out of vaccine and would not be able to meet a surge in demand.

In 2008, A judge in Las Vegas sentenced OJ Simpson to 33 years in prison for an armed robbery at a hotel room.

Ten years ago: A jury in Perugia, Italy convicted American student Amanda Knox and her former

Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, of murdering Knox’s British roommate, Meredith Kercher, and sentenced them to long prison terms. A nightclub blaze in Perm, Russia, killed more than 150 people.

Five years ago: NASA’s newest space vehicle, Orion, accomplished its first test flight, shooting out more than 3600 miles from Earth for a hyperfast, hot return.

One year ago: Canadian authorities said they had arrested the chief financial officer of China’s

Huawei Technologies for possible extradition to the United States on fraud charges.

Today’s birthdays: Singer Little Richard is 87. Author Joan Didion is 85. Author Calvin Trillin is 84.

Actor Jeroen Krabbe is 75. Opera singer Jose Carreras is 73. Pop singer Jim Messina is 72. Actress Morgan Brittany is 68. Actor Brian Backer is 63. Country singer Ty England is 56. Rock singermusician John Rzeznik is 54.

Country singer Gary Allan is 52.

Comedian-actress Margaret Cho is 51. Writer-director Morgan J

Freeman is 50. Actress Alex Kapp Horner is 50. Actress Kali Rocha is 48. Rock musician Regina Zernay is 47. Actress Paula Patton is 44. Actress Amy Acker is 43.

Actor Nick Stahl is 40. Actor Adan Canto is 38. Rhythm-andblues singer Keri Hilson is 37.

Actor Gabriel Luna is 37. Actor Frankie Muniz is 34. Actor Ross Bagley is 31.

Thought for today: “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”

– Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788-1860).

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Thursday, December 5, the 339th day of 2019. There are 26 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On December 5, 2013, Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa’s first black president, died at age 95.

On this date: In 1791, composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in Vienna, Austria, at age 35.

In 1848, President James K Polk triggered the Gold Rush of ’49 by confirming that gold had been discovered in California.

In 1890, New Zealand held their first one man, one vote election.

New Zealand’s electoral law had been changed so that no one could vote in more than one general electoral district. This ended the long-standing practice of ‘plural voting’ by those who owned property in more than one electorate.

In 1901, movie producer Walt Disney was born in Chicago.

In 1932, German physicist Albert Einstein was granted a visa, making it possible for him to travel to the United States.

In 1933, national prohibition came to an end as Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, repealing the 18th Amendment.

In 1945, five US Navy torpedo bombers mysteriously disappeared after taking off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on a training mission with the loss of all 14 crew members; The Lost Squadron contributed to the legend of the Bermuda Triangle.

In 1952, the Great Smog of London descended on the British capital; the unusually thick fog, which contained toxic pollutants, lasted five days and was blamed for causing thousands of deaths.

In 1994, Republicans chose Newt Gingrich to be the first GOP speaker of the House in four decades.

In 1998, James P Hoffa claimed the Teamsters presidency

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Creating safe communities T

oo many of us know the damage crime can do in our communities.

Beyond the victims’ suffering, whole neighbourhoods can be shaken by burglaries or assaults, let alone more serious crimes.

Before the last election, crime had picked up and our prison population had exploded.

Labour echoed calls from communities across the country to first and foremost prevent crime, to minimise the harm associated with any crime, and to keep our communities safe.

That’s why we campaigned on increasing the number of police officers, after seeing the previous government neglect the force for much of its time in office.

And that’s why we committed to adding 1800 new police officers when we took over.

Today I’m pleased to say we’re making tremendous progress.

Jo Luxton

LABOUR LIST MP

Since we became Government, 1825 new officers have hit our streets.

Of these 171 have come to the Canterbury region.

We’re also working with the police to get their attrition rate down, so good officers stay in the force longer.

We are also working hard to ensure that the police workforce more closely reflects the community they serve, with a 29 per cent increase in constables who are women joining the organisation.

But keeping our communities safe is about more than just putting feet on the ground.

That’s why we’ve also given the police greater search and seizure powers to target the manufacturers and suppliers of synthetic drugs, to get these drugs off our streets.

And we’ve installed over 500 fog cannons in dairies, liquor stores and petrol stations across the country, to support our small businesspeople who were left to go it alone, and to reduce the risk of aggravated robberies at large.

This government takes community safety seriously and we’re making the investments needed to intervene early before people break the law, or commit more serious crimes.

The work of Safe Communities Ashburton District is to be applauded.

They aim to reduce crime and

enhance safety.

Of course, in May this year they were awarded Safe Communities accreditation.

Only 26 territorial authorities in New Zealand have this accreditation, which is most impressive.

I am proud to be part of a government that’s working hard to keep our communities safe. And while the Government plays an important role, I think we can all do little things each day with the same goal in mind.

Jo Luxton is a Labour list MP. 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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■■ NITROGEN LOSSES

Expert support for local zones

By Heather Chalmers

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Dairy farmers in the Hinds water zone still have an opportunity to receive individual expert support to reduce their nitrogen losses as part of a funded project.

The five-year DairyNZ project was focusing on how farmers in the Hinds and Selwyn zones could meet nitrogen loss limits while maintaining profitable businesses.

“It aims to give farmers confidence the limits are achievable,” DairyNZ project lead Virginia Serra told a field day at the Tait Family Trust farm at Lowcliffe on Tuesday.

“Many farmers have been making changes to reduce N loss for some time and this will continue to build on that.”

As solutions were farm specific, the project was working alongside a big group of about 50 farmers.

“As 43 farmers are now involved, there is room for a couple more from this catchment,” Serra said.

“We have chosen to work with a wide group of farmers, so that we have a range of options and scenarios as well as a geographical spread, across the Selwyn and Hinds catchments.”

In the Hinds zone, dairy farmers were required to progressively reduce their nitrogen loss beyond

DairyNZ’s Virginia Serra is leading a project showing farmers how to meet nitrogen loss limits while maintaining profitable businesses.

PHOTO HEATHER CHALMERS good management practice levels by 15 per cent by 2025, 25 per cent by 2030 and 36 per cent by 2035.

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want to achieve. From that discussion we can work out potential options and look at what will best suit their farming system.”

The project also drew on the expertise of farm consultants.

Serra said many farmers were reducing the amount of nitrogen

applied, but recommended that they “don’t touch” early spring applications.

“Some people got it wrong and reduced nitrogen applications too fast and at the wrong time and grew less grass.

“The nitrogen application you don’t want to drop is the early spring one, as that is when you really need it after winter. So, don’t touch that one, but you can make adjustments through the season and in autumn.”

Farm results from the project to date showed that nitrogen leaching ranged from 20kg to 145kg/N/ hectare/year.

There was a high correlation between nitrogen leaching and drainage. Drainage was mainly driven by rainfall and irrigation.

On irrigated farms, drainage could be reduced by improving irrigation efficiency. Soil type also had a big influence.

There was nearly no correlation between nitrogen input from fertiliser and pasture eaten per hectare which showed an opportunity to grow and harvest more pasture with less nitrogen applied on some farms, Serra said.

“One of the opportunities to reduce nitrogen fertiliser and maintain pasture production is better utilisation of nitrogen from effluent and reducing nitrogen inputs on these blocks.”

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Whether you prefer burgers or beans, it is clear that international lobbying against red meat continues to gain momentum.

The latest volley comes from a recent joint survey by researchers at Oxford University and University of Minnesota.

Their report, Multiple health and environmental impacts of food, went further than just the health benefits or otherwise of different foods, linking ingredients associated with improved adult health to lower environmental impacts. And vice-versa.

The researchers picked 15 foods, measuring their impact if they were added to what an average Western adult would eat on a daily basis.

The upshot, from a health perspective, was that the addition of 50g of processed red meat or pork per day, came with a 41 per cent increase in the chance of dying.

By contrast, consuming an additional 100g per day of nuts, fruits, whole grains, fruits, vegetables, legumes, olive oil or fish was associated with a significant reduction in risk.

“The problem with studies of this nature, is that no-one really eats like that,” said Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) chief insight officer Jeremy Baker.

“There are a host of variables, including food quality and balance”.

Baker said the additional issue was that

the studies had based the statistics on “generic” red meat across the world.

“We see red meat playing an important role in a balanced diet, and there are some really terrible plant based foods also, such as palm oil, so our focus really needs to be a bit more sophisticated and we need to understand nutritional aspects also”.

On environmental impacts, the report suggested that compared to a standard serving size of 100g of greens, a 50g chunk of red meat had emitted 20 times as much greenhouse gas (GHG) and 100 times as much land use by the time it got to the plate.

Baker said the numbers were skewed because they did not take into account offsetting from the 1.4 million hectares of native forest across New Zealand sheep and beef farms.

Professor of Food Science at Vrije Universiteit Frederic Leroy, said the “health and environmental” argument against red meat was a consistent theme led by anti-meat lobbyists particularly in Europe.

Speaking in Christchurch earlier this year, Prof Leroy said the impression from animal welfare groups is that the single biggest things the average person can do to combat climate change was to become vegan.

“Unfortunately, the entire chain of proof is not based on scientific method and has been skewed by commercial priorities”, he said

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Relationship with banks erodes Almost a third of arable farmers are feeling under pressure from banks, according to the latest Federated Farmers’ banking survey.

In the past six months, farmers’ satisfaction with their banks had continued to erode and the number who feel under pressure from banks had risen from 16 to 23 per cent, the survey showed.

“While most farmers remain ‘satisfied’ or ‘very satisfied’ with their banks, the number giving those ratings have slipped from 71 per cent in May this year to 68 per cent in our November survey,” Federated Farmers’ economics and commerce spokesman Andrew Hoggard said.

This was the lowest rating since the federation began the twice-a-year surveys in August 2015.

“This is disappointing, but not at all surprising given what we have been hearing over the past several months of banks getting tougher and changing conditions as they seek to contain or even reduce their exposure to agriculture, and also as they respond – prematurely – to the Reserve Bank’s proposals on bank capital,” Hoggard said.

Examples of changed conditions putting farmers under pressure included new or increased margins; shifting from fixed to floating interest rates (or vice-versa); selling assets to repay debt; requiring principal as well as interest to be paid; and more information or security being required.

Arable was the group with the highest percentage of farmers feeling under pressure (30 per cent) and they also have the lowest per-

centage feeling very satisfied or satisfied (60 per cent), although they also had the highest proportion feeling neutral.

“This might reflect a combination of some poor to average recent harvests, competition from cheap imported grain reducing demand and prices, and the fact arable farmers, because of the very nature of their businesses, have very lumpy farm incomes and thus need bigger overdraft facilities compared to other farm types. Banks generally want to see overdrafts reduced,” Hoggard said.

On the positive side, sharemilkers – often the farming group who in past surveys have felt under comparatively greater pressure from banks than others – have in the November survey expressed higher than average satisfaction rates.

One factor was that the average sharemilkers’ interest rates were now only marginally higher compared to other farming groups.

The current average mortgage rates across the more than 1300 survey respondents and all farming types decreased 0.4 percentage points to 4.6 per cent between May and November.

Sharemilkers’ rates decreased from 5.3 to 4.8 per cent.

“So, it would appear that banks have passed on cuts to the official cash rate, but this will also be a reflection of farmers who have re-fixed at lower rates after a few years at higher fixed rates.

“All in all, the key results from the survey conducted by Research First reinforce the need for banks to treat their customers fairly and for farmers and banks to be proactive in their communications,” Hoggard said.

Farmers’ satisfaction with their banks has continued to erode over the past six months.

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Emissions target will require new skills

By Gavin Evans NZME

Meeting the country’s 2030 emission reduction targets will require new skills and technologies that are not currently being planned for, the head of the Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki says.

The economic transformation envisaged to reduce emissions by as much as 50 per cent goes far beyond “training the pony express to run much faster,” WITT chief executive John Snook told the Emissions Workshop in Wellington yesterday.

You wouldn’t try and build 100,000 homes without having 100,000 builders and electricians, he said, yet there was little discussion about the “how and the who” involved in converting industry to electricity and biomass, installing solar panels at scale and maintaining a growing fleet of electric, and potentially hydrogen, powered vehicles.

“Who is actually going to do all this?” he said in a panel discussion.

“This is a workforce development problem and I see it not being discussed in this room.”

The government last month passed legislation that establishes carbon and methane targets to

help the country reach its target to achieve a net-zero carbon economy by 2050. That includes the setting of regular carbon budgets by an independent Climate Change Commission and changes to the emissions trading scheme to align with the new targets.

Almost half the country’s emissions come from agriculture. Given the challenge of reducing emissions from animals, much policy effort to date has focused on electrification of transport and industrial process heat.

Snook noted that New Zealand already has electric vehicles, yet there is very little training being offered for workers needed to repair and maintain them.

Workers installing gas pipelines today may in future need to be able to work on hydrogen pipelines, and those building highways may need to know how to work with recycled materials.

Snook said the challenge for training organisations like WITT is how to equip students with the skills needed to get them employed today, as well as the potential skills they may need in the relatively near term.

Builders need trainees today who can install gib board quickly and efficiently. But he said yester-

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trainers work to is still focused on jobs for today, and not jobs for the future.

Earlier in the conference, Catherine Leining, a policy fellow with the Motu economic think tank, said New Zealand is projected to miss its 2030 emissions commitments by the equivalent of 203 million tonnes of CO2, or about 2.5 years’ of gross emissions.

The country has lots of options to reduce emissions in agriculture, transport and stationary energy, she said, but there are many unknowns and “adaptive pathways” will be needed that send the right signals so that the right choices are

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day’s trainees also need to know about modern alternatives — particularly given they are likely to be the ones promoting those options to their employers in future and showing how they can be used.

Not training them in the new products is a dis-service to both the student and the wider industry.

Snook said that, in such a fast-changing environment, more training will probably have to be done off-campus, either in “bitesized” blocks on the job or online.

Merging of the country’s 16 polytechs into a single body may help speed that change, but he said too much of the national curriculum

made as new options and technologies emerge.

She said there also needs to be a more fundamental discussion as to whether we are going to impose a high emission price across the economy – and incur the costs to assist affected businesses and communities – or through a more moderate price, coupled with more targeted regulation to do the “heavy lifting”.

New Zealand emission units sell for about $25 per tonne of carbon.

Scenarios used in last year’s Productivity Commission study on transitioning to a net-zero economy assumed carbon costs would rise to between $75 and $250 by 2050.

Panellist Andy Sibley, general manager of innovation and new ventures at Contact Energy, said that sort of range is too wide and an obstacle to action for many firms.

But he pushed back on a delegate suggestion that prices immediately move to $100 a tonne, saying such a change needs to be signalled — probably over about five years.

WITT’s Snook said an overnight move to $100 carbon would result in a “quite dramatic” increase in unemployment.

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Hallenstein Glasson Holdings said its clothing retail chains had traded strongly ahead of Christmas, with sales up by 7.1 per cent on the corresponding period.

However, despite the increased sales for the 16 weeks to December 1, the retailer’s margins remained under pressure, it said. As noted in September, weaker New Zealand and Australian dollars increased the cost of imports and added to the tighter margins, the company said.

The retailer described the recent weakness in the greenback, which has fallen against both trans-Tasman currencies, as a significant shift.

The Kiwi dollar recently traded at 65.17 US cents, from as low as 62.61 in late September, after beginning this year above 67.

“The ability to raise prices to compensate is limited due to the current trading environment and increased promotional activity in the market,” managing director Mary Devine said in a statement.

“It is difficult to reliably forecast the total summer season at this stage as the December and January trading periods are key contributors to the overall result.”

In September the retailer reported net profit of $29 million for the year ended August 1, up from $27.4 million a year earlier, and beating guidance of $27.7 million to $28.2 million. Sales rose 3.4 per cent to $287.6 million.

The shares closed yesterday at $6.48 and have gained 62.4 per cent the past year.

Air New Zealand trials edible coffee cups NZME Air New Zealand has begun trialling vanilla-flavoured edible coffee cups for customers in the air in a bid to reduce waste.

Customers both on flights and on the ground will be served their coffee in the leakproof cups that double as an edible dessert bowl.

The airline currently serves more than eight million cups of coffee each year, and so far the cups have been a hit with the customers, according to Air New Zealand customer experience manager Niki Chave.

“We’ve been working in partnership with innovative New Zealand company ‘twiice’ to explore the future of edible coffee cups, which are vanilla flavoured and leakproof.

“The cups have been a big hit with the customers who have used these and we’ve also been using the cups as dessert bowls.”

Air New Zealand recently switched to plant-based cups that

are compostable but the company one day wants to completely remove all cups from landfills.

‘Twiice’ co-founder Jamie Cashmore says the edible cups could play a big role in demonstrating to the world that new and innovative ways of packaging are achievable.

“It’s terrific that Air New Zealand has partnered with us to showcase to its customers and the world that a little bit of Kiwi ingenuity and innovation could have a really posi-

tive impact on the environment while at the same time delivering a really cool and tasty customer experience.”

Switching to plant-based cups is expected to prevent around 15 million cups from going to landfill annually.

The airline will continue to trial the edible cups while it works on making them a viable long-term product for the airline to serve to its customers.

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Ashburton Bowling Club Ashburton Bowling Club members’ results and other pertinent matters for the past week or so, are as follows: In our Saturday Rollover Triples on the 30, 1st were Margaret Carnachan and Charlie Rooke with 3 wins, 13 ends and 2nd with 2 wins, 13 ends were Alison Gibbs and Bob Wilson. It was a small turnout with members having other things to attend to.

On Monday morning, the 2, the Women’s Rosebowl fours was played at Hampstead on a lovely still morning. Ashburton’s Leonie Spargo, Wendy Suttie, Wendy Herriot and Gaynor Crack came 3rd.

Coming up this Sunday, the 8, is the Mixed Pairs and Fours, starting at 9.30am. Let’s hope for a fine day as it’s an early start and a longish day.

The Ladies Bowman Cup is on December 16 (previously November 11).

The Club’s Annual Christmas Dinner is on December 14 (previously December 7), 5pm for 6pm in the Club Rooms.

The Ladies’ Christmas Lunch is on December 19 at 12 noon at Stables.

Good bowling everyone!

Ashburton Dahlia Circle How time flies, the group held their last meeting for 2019 on Tuesday November 19.

A great attendance for our Rose Show and Christmas meal, 19 members sat down to the meal.

Roses were a bit battered from some hail the previous day, but still there were some magnificent flowers. Judging was done during the meeting following our meal, with Pauline O’Leary happy to do this task and steward for her was Will Rollinson. Thank you to you both.

Heather McEvoy’s rose named Blackberry Nip was awarded Champion Bloom.

Placing as follows from approximately 65 entries Leonie Rollinson 8 1sts, 3 3rds Joyce Read 1 1st, 6 2nds, 3 3rds Heather McEvoy 2 1sts, 2 2nds, 1 3rd Graham Gunn 1 1st, 2 2nds Alison Donald 2 2nds, 2 3rds John Hoogweg 1 1st, 1 3rd Jackie Ryan 1 2nd, Pat Tarbotton 1 3rd Our Annual Christmas dinner is always so very special as everyone contributed to the menu.

Ham and Pork, Salads, Carrots, Peas and new potatoes in the main course,

Ashburton Woodworkers Thirteen members were welcomed

by Bruce Ferriman, for our November meeting.

Bruce called for a moment’s silence for Brian Marsden who passed away recently.

Mentioned that long time member Dave Busby is leaving our club and moving to Christchurch. Hopefully he’ll join up with a club there as his knowledge, skills are too valuable not to pass on. Dave, the club will miss you, your talents, mastery and guidance.

We wish you all the best.

Show and Tell: Adriaan Slooten: pewter seed pod turned off centre, some carving, with smoke bush leaves.

Geoff Brown: various bowls: oak, walnut, mahogany.

Dave Strong: plate, platter.

Hinds Co-operating Parish Preschool Christmas Party.

The Hinds Co-operating Parish and supporters under the guidance of Mrs Rosa Bennett, held the annual preschool party at the St. Lukes Church hall and grounds on Wednesday November 27, on a warm but a rather breezy day.

A full bus-load of children arrived from the Pre-School Centre in Rogers street, and were soon joined by many more little ones and their mothers, followed by Alison’s great steamed pudding, pavlova, trifle, Ice cream, and fruit salads, followed by Christmas cake and cup of tea.

Special thanks to Sharon who came along to serve & clean-up for us. Also to Alison & Sheena Clark for setting up the tables and supplying all the dishes etc.

Our next get together will be a pot luck finger food evening down at Seadown with members Alistair and Joan Davey hosting us. This will be a very interesting evening to see all the areas Alistair producing the masses of dahlias. Along with his other bulbs etc. So much to enjoy. A newsletter will go out to members prior and be held wet or fine on Sunday January 5.

Kevin Challis demonstrated making a lidded box, his block of sycamore was turned into a cylinder which was divided into three segments, the lid, base and spigot.

With a parting tool he separated the base from the lid, then shaped the base, when satisfied he commenced to hollow out the centre with a gouge.

He then placed the lid section into the chuck where he continued to shape the outside, hollowed the inside then set to create a delicate finial.

There were moments we thought the lid would part before he completed the final cut. However Kevin had full control.

An excellent demonstration of technique, careful control of tools. Well done and thanks Kevin, a challenge for club members to come up with something similar for the next meeting.

grannies and care-givers. Over sixty children took part in the gathering, from babies to toddlers, to the nearly fives.

A bouncy castle was soon in business and swarming with little bodies, bubbles blew through the air, and lots of laughter and conversation amongst the grown-ups of all ages. It wasn’t long before Father Christmas made an appearance however, he arrived, not in a sleigh but a modern shiny bright red car with a red nose on the front of it.

Father Christmas in an interview later If others wish to attend please contact Joyce 02102458001 as we would love to have other interested persons, you are welcome.

Table shows for the dahlias will start on Tuesday January 21. Hope the growth picks up soon, as it has been slow, the hail has really cooled the soil, not to say the damage as well.

New members very welcome, contact Joyce as above.

To everyone young and old have a very Happy and Safe Christmas.

Hinds Women’s Institute The November meeting of Hinds Women’s Institute was held in the Davison Room on Wednesday November 27 beginning at 1.30pm with a warm welcome from the President Rosa Bennett. There have been quite a few sick members, thus apologies, but for all that there was a reasonable attendance and a warm welcome to our new member, June Black.

The singing of the Ode and recitation of The Aspirations was followed by business, the finances are in good heart, subscriptions are now due, and there was a good bit of correspondence received from National Executive Committee, including mention of a proposed statue of our Founder Miss A.E. Jerome Spencer and next year’s Conference, also a contest to see who can produce a template for a Centennial badge; using just three colours. Social media including WI’s Facebook page also discussed: and also “virtual members.”

A magazine from our link in Hampshire was circulated.

Congratulations were extended to those who put the Show Bay and Tray together, the latter gained a second, and the Bay a third, the theme of this being Fire and Ice. Birthday honours were accorded to Ruth Sheppard, and Lorraine Baughan won the raffle.

The activity for the day was organised

by Val Goodridge who was sadly, unable to be present so Jo Wilson took up this mantle and showed, along with Jenny Sinclair how a wreath for Christmas can be put together and the various bases that can be used.

There were some beautiful wreaths to be seen, most of the completed ones already done by Val, a Yuletide enthusiast.

Afternoon tea was then served by the hostesses, Ruth Sheppard and Jenny Sinclair, and it was really delicious. Jenny has kindly offered to host the December meeting at her home at Ealing on Monday December 9 starting at 11am with a meeting then on to a pot luck lunch, the committee providing the sweets. An exchange of a gift value of about $10 will

on told of his very, very long career, which included a stint in a shopping mall in Christchurch some thirty years ago, (experience does count!) so this jolly soul is to be seen everywhere, as every little one would know. He then gave out a present to the children helped by Kate and Rosa. Morning tea soon followed, a sumptuous spread provided by the Parish in large part.

Hinds Parish always enjoy hosting this event each year, and wish everyone a very happy and blessed Christmas with family and friends. also be on this programme.

Hinds WI wishes everyone a joyous Christmas and a happy and busy New Year.

RSA Women’s Section President Colleen Hands welcomed members on Thursday November 28. A minutes silence was held for our late Patroness Mrs Ella Ferris.

Apologies were received. The RSA song was sung. Also Happy Birthday to those with a November birthday.

Sympathy was given to anyone who has sadly lost a loved one. Sick members were wished a speedy recovery.

Christmas dinner on Monday, December 9 will be in the Gallery Room at the Hotel Ashburton. Cost $30, pay on the night. Please arrive at 5.30pm. Meal to be served at 6pm. The arranged Group will entertain. Usual raffles.

Christmas wishes were given to those who won’t be attending the Christmas dinner.

Bus trip on Wednesday February 5, 2020. Names in by 1st. Housie was played. As usual some were luckier than others. Members really enjoy the games.

Colleen is an excellent caller. Raffles were won by Ayleen Beatty and Wendy Marr.

Competitions: Bracelet: 1st Judy Peck, 2nd Colleen Wederell, 3rd Kelly-Rose Blackburn; Medium sized Santa: 1st Kelly-Rose Blackburn, 2nd Marilyn Coley, 3rd Colleen Wederell. Hostesses Alison and Wendy served afternoon tea, to end a fun afternoon.

U3A Hakatere/Ashburton Meeting – 26 November 2019 The final meeting of U3A Hakatere/Ashburton for 2019, was held at St David’s Church, Allenton on Tuesday, November 26.

The guest speaker was Professor Adrian Paterson, who is Head of the Department of Pest-management and Conservation at Lincoln University. He has been at Lincoln for 25 years where he has taught and researched animal behaviour, wildlife conservation and management, biodiversity and evolutionary biology. He told us what research shows us about how evolution influences society and particularly teenagers.

Professor Paterson began his talk with a quote from David Brin (2005): “We are genetically little different than our ancestors who dwelled in caves; and yet, equipped with Neolithic brains, we seek to design and operate an increasingly complex human civilisation, while plunging head-long into a century of rapid change.”

The talk was focused on “ourselves”, but was not about individuals. In any group

most people will do the ‘normal’ thing.

Professor Paterson put the question, “What is normal”. Ninty-nine per cent of the time that humans have been on Earth they have been hunters and gatherers, living in small groups. The foci of a teenager are themselves, appearance, relationships. parents, and health. Each of these foci were discussed. The influences on ‘themselves’ begin with pregnancy.

Mother and child sometimes share the same goals but more often are in conflict.

The child needing more than the mother gives. The embryo has to be implanted and stay that way. The placenta, a parasitic organ, is there for the baby, not the mother. The placenta ensures that there is a good blood supply taking nutrients to the baby. Chemicals are released to help the baby survive. The mother also has chemicals that counteract what the baby is taking. From the start the baby is looking after itself.

Colic was discussed and it may be a ‘disease’ of affluence. There is some evidence that developing countries have very low levels of colic. A study of 75000 babies showed that colic babies were not significantly worse in any measurements and were slightly larger.

Appearance is an important focus. Facial dominance determines how people are perceived by others. Symmetry of the face fluctuates.

A gene should build paired traits the same, such as legs same length, fingers same width, eyes same colour. Disruption of development or slight genetic mutations will cause imperfections. This is signal that some potential mates may be inferior to other choices. After a 30 second meeting a ‘map’ of a person can be formed.

Relationships - How do humans select mates? Males and females are likely to have different sexual selection strategies.

A study of over 10,000 people from 37 cultures on six continents examined how males and females rated various attributes in potential mates. In all cultures women rated financial prospects higher than men and women wanted men older than themselves. Men wanted younger women and rated beauty higher than women.

Parents - the basis of many of our fairy tales is the conflict between children and step-parents. This is understandable from an evolutionary perspective as the step-parent is not genetically related to the child. Most parents of adopted children put more positive support into adopted children than into their genetic children.

Moffitt and Capsi tested whether upbringing or genes contributed to antisocial behaviour and criminality. They found that a ‘bad’ gene and a ‘bad’ environment determined anti-social behaviour. Social policy and social expectations must adapt to a world in which everyone is different. Health is another factor in the development of humans.

The more that we research the whys of human behaviour the more that we see that evolution has shaped our responses to situations.

Professor Paterson was thanked and an end of year lunch was served.

Wakanui WI Fifteen members and three visitors met for our December meeting at the Hotel Ashburton where we all enjoyed a lovely lunch followed by a meeting.

Motto for the month – Friendship is the basis of understanding.

Members answered the Roll Call of your favourite Christmas food. Pavlova, raspberries, strawberries, trifle and Christmas pudding being among the favourites.

Toiletries for Ronald McDonald House were donated and will be delivered by Kay Herbert.

Congratulations and thanks were extended to members who had contributed their talents to the A & P Show Bay and Tray competition. Wakanui were placed first in the Bay competition.

National Executive requested Institutes discuss whether a statue of Miss Jerome Spencer, our founder, be erected to commemorate the 100 years of WI in New Zealand. Wakanui members suggested a plaque or a tree instead.

President Juliana wished everyone a Happy Christmas and a successful and healthy 2020.

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■■RUGBY

All Blacks coaching teams take shape

By Liam Napier

The by-product of leaving the appointment of the next All Blacks head coach so late and watching Dave Rennie, Jamie Joseph and Tony Brown among others commit elsewhere is the scramble to assemble coaching teams may soon hit Super Rugby.

For now, Super Rugby executives remain in the dark as much as anyone about whether they will retain their coaches for next season and beyond.

Make no mistake, these are anxious times for some.

Less than two months out from the start of Super Rugby, contingency plans are being widely considered.

Long term the potential openings could pave the way for Vern Cotter to return in some capacity.

The former Bay of Plenty, Clermont and Scotland head coach finishes his term with Montpellier in June and is understood to be planning to return home.

Cotter worked as Crusaders forwards coach between 2005-06 before leaving for France. Given his vast experience he would seemingly be a strong contender – in a similar mould to Gatland – to step in at any of the potentially vacated Super Rugby posts.

Alama Ieremia and Filo Tiatia, who are leading Auckland’s provincial side, form other candidates waiting in the wings.

New Zealand Rugby may attempt to blend elements of Foster and Robertson’s respective teams, including asking them to work together, but the selection of the next All Blacks head coach promises to spark a snakes and ladders reaction of coaching movement.

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Prepare for the dominos to fall whichever way the All Blacks coaching decision goes.

Whether Ian Foster or Scott Robertson gets the nod to replace Steve Hansen this month, Super Rugby will be the submissive victim.

Foster clearly has a foot in the door following his eight years as All Blacks assistant – the final part of which finished with the disappointing third place World Cup in Japan.

But with a team believed to feature John Plumtree, Greg Feek, Scott McLeod and, possibly, Leon MacDonald or David Hill, Foster will arrive for his interview this week well prepared and backed it seems.

At this point it’s a case of your play, Razor Ray. New Zealand Rugby is a largely risk-adverse, conservative organisation near always led by the safe option of what they know.

Robertson’s challenge is to, therefore, shake the cage of those charged with selecting the next All Blacks head coach enough to break from the established order.

Known for his inspirational theming, Robertson must deliver a compelling presentation to sell his alternate big picture vision which delivered three successive titles for the Crusaders.

The Herald understands his pitch will include respected Crusaders forwards coach Jason Ryan and Robertson is believed to have also recruited Hurricanes assistant Jason Holland, a scenario that may leave split loyalties in the Wellington franchise with Hurricanes head coach Plumtree on

Who will it be? Scott Robertson (left) or Ian Foster (right).

Foster’s team. After returning from Munster, where he played over 100 games, Holland worked as assistant under Robertson at Canterbury. He then joined the Hurricanes in the same role in 2016, assuming greater responsibilities across the backline and in attack since Chris Boyd’s departure to Northampton last year.

Holland would be in line to step up as Plumtree’s replacement at the Hurricanes should the head coach earn promotion on Foster’s ticket and step away from his current role.

But, equally, it appears Holland is also backing Robertson for the top job.

Two weeks ago the Herald first revealed Foster had targeted

Plumtree and former All Blacks prop Feek. That duo brings noted experience on the international and European scenes, having both worked with Ireland.

MacDonald is somewhat of a wildcard given he worked with Robertson at the Crusaders and has said he is committed to the Blues. He is, however, a sharp, valued mind and it would not surprise if Foster attempts to try and include him.

Hill, the former Chiefs and one test first five-eighth, spent time working on the All Blacks kicking at the World Cup and is committed to joining the Chiefs under Warren Gatland but would no doubt jump at the fast track option to the national team.

Sopoaga denies rumours he is leaving the Wasps NZME Former All Black Lima Sopoaga has hit out at rumours that he is leaving the Wasps after this season.

The 28-year-old first-five has struggled since his move to the English club last year and has recently lost his starting spot in the team to Jacob Umaga, the nephew of All Black great Tana who is highly rated up north.

A report from The Rugby Paper in the UK emerged over the weekend that Sopoaga’s contract with the Wasps won’t be extended beyond this current season, suggesting that the former Highlander’s option for a third season with the Wasps “is unlikely to be triggered”.

However, Sopoaga has taken to social media to shut down those claims, saying he’s “not going anywhere”.

“If everything rumoured about me were true, I’d be in five different places in the world at once, 7 foot tall and playing for the Lakers … ok the last two aren’t rumours, just my dreams,” Sopoaga wrote on Twitter.

“I’m not going anywhere. If you wanna find me, I’ll be chasing my 2-year-old on her scooter around Leamington.”

Despite a rough start to his time in the UK, Sopoaga believes he is finally starting to adjust to life in England after struggling

How it will change super rugby Whichever way the panel and board leans, New Zealand Super Rugby teams will be punctured.

Either way the Hurricanes may lose a leading coach which would further unsettle a team that’s already lost gifted playmaker Beauden Barrett to the Blues and Ardie Savea to injury for the majority of next season.

If Robertson convinces of his credentials the Crusaders will be on the hunt for a new leader and forwards coach, hot on the heels of losing Ronan O’Gara to La Rochelle in France and Brad Mooar to Welsh club Scarlets.

Likewise the Blues will be weary of MacDonald being prised away.

Black Ferns captain to be a mum When it comes to rugby, there are few things Lesley Elder did not achieve in 2019.

It’s definitely been a big one for the talented athlete. She was named captain of the Black Ferns and led the side to Laurie O’Reilly Cup victory over Australia and the Women’s Rugby Super Series title.

She was also co-captain of the Bay of Plenty Volcanix.

However, it is off the field that Elder has announced what could be her most memorable achievement of the year; falling pregnant. In May 2020 she is going to be a mother.

“It’s really exciting, me and my husband have been planning this for some time now. It was really, really good news and we’re super excited,” Elder said.

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Lima Sopoaga with injuries in his first season.

“It was just coming into this year knowing I didn’t achieve the things I wanted to achieve,” Sopoaga told CoventryLive in September. “Reflecting on maybe my mindset, asking myself why I didn’t achieve those things.

“It came back to that and I boiled it down to, just worrying. Worrying too much about this and that. A whole bunch of other stuff.

“Just having fun and putting a smile on my face, at the end of the day it is just a game and is something I’ve always enjoyed doing.”

Wasps director of rugby Dai Young refused to comment on player movements, saying the talks about Sopoaga only started after he was dropped from the starting side.

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Five top 20 players named in ASB Classic NZME Italian world number 12 Fabio Fognini has been added to the line-up for this summer’s ASB men’s Classic which will feature at least five players ranked in the top 20.

The 32-year-old joins the already announced world number five Russian Daniil Medvedev, 15th ranked Canadian Denis Shapovalov, 17th ranked Russian Karen Khachanov and two times former champion American John Isner at 19.

Fognini made the quarter-finals in Auckland this year and went on to claim his first ATP Masters 1000 title in Monte Carlo in April. He reached a career high ranking of 9 in July.

Medvedev will be the star billing, appearing in Auckland for the first time after an incredible season where he reached his maiden Grand Slam final at the US Open after capturing his first Masters 1000 title in Cincinnati during his run of six straight finals. He also won the Shanghai Masters in October, the St Petersburg Open in his native Russia and the Sofia Open in Bulgaria.

Only seven of the top 20 have entered either Auckland or the new ATP tournament in Adelaide which reveals its player line up later today. Five of them are in Auckland but it’s understood that event has attracted 16-time grand slam winner Novak Djokovic.

Adelaide being a new tournament having replaced the tour event in Sydney, has provided stiff competition for ASB Classic tournament director Karl Budge with a majority of the players ranked between 20 and 40 opting to play there.

The likes of this year’s semifinalist Jan-Lennard Struff and quarter-finalist Taylor Fritz have both entered Adelaide however Budge does have the extra carrot of having five wildcards (up from three) up his sleeve which Adelaide doesn’t.

This is due to the new $US15 million ATP Cup launching across the Tasman in Brisbane, Perth and Sydney on January 3.

The 10-day tournament features 24 teams playing in Groups of four over the first six days before quarters-finals in Sydney on the Thursday before the ASB men’s Classic. Sixteen teams will

be eliminated by Wednesday meaning some players who get knocked out early are likely to want a wildcard to play in Auckland.

Budge received dispensation from the ATP for the additional wildcards which Adelaide didn’t due in part to the logistics of players making late decisions for trans-Tasman travel.

It opens up the possibility players of the ilk of Dominic Thiem, Roberto Bautista Agut, Kei Nishikori and Diego Schwartzman becoming available almost at the last minute.

Regardless the 17 strong line up already assembled is as competitive as ever such is the depth on the ATP Tour. Auckland has picked up enigmatic Frenchman Benoit Paire who has had an outstanding season capturing two ATP titles and is ranked 24 in the world.

There are seven players who have competed in the Next Gen ATP Finals during their career.

Among them are top 20 stars Medvedev, Khachanov and Shapovalov while American Frances Tiafoe, Norway’s Casper Ruud and Frenchman Ugo Humbert all played in Milan last month and are tipped to have big futures.

Four of the top five ranked players in the field have cracked the top 10 in the rankings within the past two years and Fognini, Khachanov and Isner have 28 tour level titles between them.

This year’s runner-up ex-Kiwi Cameron Norrie, ranked 53, returns but defending champion Tennys Sandgren will need a wildcard or enter qualifying as the American ranked 68 is entered but as the fourth alternate with the cut off for main draw acceptances being 62.

Veteran Spaniard Feliciano Lopez is the last direct acceptance and the 38-year-old will be a popular addition to the tournament.

He has been as high as 12 in the world and has won seven ATP singles titles.

Former champion German Philip Kohlschreiber, a semi-finalist this year is another who has missed out on the main draw and will need either a wildcard or enter qualifying.

The ASB men’s Classic starts on Monday, January 13 with the final on Saturday 18, two days before the Australian Open starts in Melbourne.

College Year 9/10 cricketers shine The Ashburton College Year 9/10 cricket side recorded a narrow but impressive victory over their Weedons rivals on Saturday. Playing in the Canterbury Country Competition, Ashburton College travelled to Rolleston College for the match but were on the wrong side of the coin toss and found themselves batting in the first innings. An innings of 69 from Hamish O’Reilly set a good platform for them as they scored 212 all out. In reply, Weedons came close to the target but eventually ran out of overs and finished their inning at 202/7 with bowler Sam Orr (pictured above) playing the role of chief destroyer with figures of 3/22. The Year 9/10 side have two more matches remaining in their season.

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Israel Folau, RA settle NZME Former Wallaby Israel Folau has settled his legal dispute with Rugby Australia (RA).

The 30-year-old was seeking $14 million in damages for wrongful termination after RA sacked him for a code of conduct breach when he said on Instagram “hell awaits” gay people.

RA was determined to hold its ground and a marathon mediation session on Monday failed to yield a result.

However, yesterday afternoon, Folau and RA released a joint statement saying they had reached an agreement, settling for a confidential amount.

“Rugby Australia, NSW Rugby and Israel Folau have today settled their legal dispute following the dismissal of Israel Folau after he posted a religious message on social media,” the statement read.

“The social media post reflected Mr Folau’s genuinely held religious beliefs, and Mr Folau did not intend to harm or offend any person when he uploaded the social media post.

“Mr Folau wants all Australians to know that he does not condone discrimination of any

Israel Folau kind against any person on the grounds of their sexuality and that he shares Rugby Australia’s commitment to inclusiveness and diversity.

“Rugby Australia and NSW Rugby do not in any way agree with the content of the social media post. Inclusiveness is one of rugby’s core values and it welcomes all people to the game, including all members of the LGBTI community.

“While it was not Rugby Aus-

tralia’s intention, Rugby Australia acknowledges and apologises for any hurt or harm caused to the Folaus. Similarly, Mr Folau did not intend to hurt or harm the game of rugby and acknowledges and apologises for any hurt or harm caused.

“Rugby Australia and Mr Folau wish each other well for the future. The parties do not intend to comment further on the terms of their settlement as it is confidential.”

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■■MOTOR RACING

A love of all things motorbike

By Heather Mackenzie

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In 2005 Cliff Dray and his wife Alison decided it was time to leave their home country of England and move to New Zealand.

Originally Dray planned to continue his career with the police force, living and working in Christchurch. However, plans made half a world away can easily change, and this one did.

Not long after they moved here a position at McKay and Donaldson Yamaha came up, Dray’s love of motorbikes won out, he took the job and has been with the company ever since.

General manager Dray doesn’t regret leaving the police force at all.

“I am doing what I love with far less stress, it’s perfect,” he said.

Dray’s passion for bikes is not confined to the new, space-age looking machines at McKay and Donaldson, it extends to a love of older bikes too.

Racing in the Mike Pero Southern Classic at Levels Raceway just out of Timaru is a highlight of his year. Dray has been competing in the event since it began six years ago.

This time Dray took two bikes to the event – a 1971 Suzuki T250 and a 1980 Yamaha RD350 LC. “Can’t beat the sound of a twostroke,” he said.

Both bikes can be a bit of a handful to ride.

“Two-strokes have a very peaky engine.”

For the uninitiated that means all the power and speed is in the top end of the rev range.

“That makes for a very explosive power-band over a small amount of revs.”

A minor tweak of the throttle could see you shoot off in the wrong direction at high speed, not what you need on a race track.

The Yamaha is a particular favourite with him for a couple of reasons. When Dray first got the bike it was just an engine, a frame and some wheels. Over a two-year period he rebuilt and restored this rare bike to its former glory.

There is an emotional compo-

Cliff and Alison Dray at last weekend’s Mike Pero Southern Classic in Timaru. nent to his attachment too.

“I used to own one just like this when I was 17, it’s great to own one again. Riding it makes me nostalgic for my youth and the ’80s.”

There is no limit on the oldest classic bikes racing, but the newest have to be pre-1995.

Dray had an interesting formula for working out what constitutes a classic bike racer.

“You take your age and add it to the age of the bike, if that totals over a hundred then you’re a classic bike racer.”

His classic bike score was 110.

Given there is a pre-war 1930s

racing class, some of the riders here would score over 140, he said with a smile.

Holding these classic racing meets ensures these bikes are loved and maintained rather than sitting in a shed rusting away.

“The bikes have to be in good condition to race. Any with oil leaks or loose bolts won’t pass pre-race inspection and will not be allowed on the track.”

Motorbikes are not the only classic things in the pits that need looking after, the riders need attention too.

“I am really lucky to have Alison with me at all these races, she’s so

SBW gives his all in the gym NZME Code-hopping superstar Sonny Bill Williams has shown off a new training program that’s left his high performance managers stunned.

Williams has been in Kingscliff, on the northern coast of NSW, conducting his own pre-season training camp ahead of his high-profile move to the Toronto Wolfpack to play in the second tier of the English Super League.

Williams is leaving no stone unturned ahead of his Super League debut at the end of January, news.com.au reports.

Nine News Sydney reported on Tuesday night the 34-year-old has been conducting a “torturous training camp” at the Surfing Australia high performance centre in Kingsliff.

High performance coach Michael

Crisp said Williams’ unique training regime is designed to protect the former All Blacks star’s body and give him the best chance possible of remaining injury free when he’s still playing professional football at the age of 36 in Toronto.

“He’s amazing.” Crisp said.

“He’s 34. 110 kilos. He’s like three humans.”

Williams has been working with former Roosters strength and conditioning guru Keegan Smith, the son of former Roosters coach Brian Smith.

Smith says Williams’ training camp is unlike anything he is aware of previously being used to train rugby league athletes.

“The kind of training that we’re doing, I don’t think any player’s ever actually done to prepare themselves for footy,” Smith said.

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supportive. I couldn’t do it without her.”

Alison makes sure Dray eats regularly and stays hydrated – two things that Dray is passionate about.

“Staying hydrated and eating properly makes a huge difference to my concentration levels and physical performance.”

When you are racing your classic bike at 180 kilometres an hour down the back straight focus is paramount.

Next on the classic bike racing circuit for Dray is Ruapuna in January and then Pukekoe at the beginning of February.

His son Lewis is due to come home for good from England soon. Dray mused that when that happens Lewis may take over racing the Yamaha and he will stick to the Suzuki.

Lewis certainly won’t have a problem handling the tricky twostroke. A handy bike racer himself, he took out the New Zealand 250 Production Championship in 2016.

“Alison and I are so proud of him.”

Dray commented it was much easier to race himself than to sit in the stand and watch Lewis hurtle his way around the track.

SPORTS DRAWS AND RESULTS RESULTS ■■ Golf Ashburton County Vets December 2 Christmas Match played Tinwald Dave Tilson 44, Bruce Dickey 43, Owen Everest 42, Neil Rayner 41 and Barry Goodridge 40 Nearest the Pins No 12, P Kiddey, No 2, N Andrews, No 6 S Dunlop, No 16 D Horrell Next Match January 6 at Rakaia

DRAWS ■■ Bowls Ashburton Bowling Club

December 6 Toyota Friday Triples Kindly sponsored by: Toyota/Skip-2-It Flooring Xtra 12.30pm start Whites or Club colours to be worn.

The following skips have entered teams.

M Anderson, J Argyle, N Atkinson, T Blain, G Body, P Collins, G Eder, G Eddington, H Goodall, D Gutberlet, B Harper, B Harrison, R Herriott, D Hickman, A Hill, B Holdom, B Hopwood, T Inwood, T Johnson, D Kinvig, E Maw, D Muir, R Prendergast, M Quinn, M Reid, N Sharplin, J Smart, W. Suttie, GT, P Whinham, B White, B Williams For information contact: G Eder 307 7498 December 8 Mixed Pairs/Fours 2 men/2women – 9.30pm start Kindly sponsored by: NBS Whites or club colours to be worn.

The following skips have entered teams.

M Anderson, P Collins, G Eder, R Gutberlet, R Herriott, A Hill, B Holdom, J Kewish, B Mayson, A Mackenzie, P McElwain, B White For information contact: G Eder 307 7498

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■■ INTER DOMINIONS

Majestic Man makes a statement

By Michael Guerin

Brad Williamson returns to scale after taking out a heat of the Inter Dominion trotters’ series with Majestic Man. PHOTO RACE IMAGES

M3 Christchurch Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Addington Raceway Meeting Date: 05 December 2019 NZ Meeting number: 3 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 12.05pm (NZT) AVONHEAD TAVERN SPRINT HEAT 1 C3q, 295m 1 36248 Jax Jewel 17.37............................D Roberts 2 36275 Cash A Roo 17.27 S &.....................B Evans 3 85852 Smash Damage 17.17..................... M Grant 4 31437 Broken Penniless 17.40..................G Cleeve 5 84118 Ineffable 17.34.................................. B Dann 6 48387 Punch On Jessie nwtd...............J McInerney 7 85785 Amuri George 17.33...................J McInerney 8 18555 Feral Kaiaka 17.45...........................M Butler 9 68868 Dyna Elliot 17.31...........................C Roberts 10 67885 Goldstar Halsey 17.41 S &...............B Evans 2 12.22pm AVONHEAD TAVERN SPRINT HEAT 2 C3q, 295m 1 44673 Smash Over 17.32........................... M Grant 2 28287 Know Scrutiny 17.24.......................G Cleeve 3 86451 Golden Bay 17.13 J M..................... McCook 4 82588 Goldstar Avalon 17.31 S &...............B Evans 5 41164 Punch On Buzz 17.28................J McInerney 6 58248 Opawa Oscar 17.24.........................R Wales 7 34344 Sozin’s Noir nwtd.......................J McInerney 8 72172 Just Izzy 17.35.................................. B Dann 9 68868 Dyna Elliot 17.31...........................C Roberts 10 78787 Raptor Attack 17.18...................A Bradshaw 3 12.40pm AVONHEAD TAVERN SPRINT HEAT 3 C3q, 295m 1 27814 Mega Dream nwtd..........................R Adcock 2 15158 Mitcham Becky 17.34.......................C Steele 3 15273 King Kali 17.19................................. M Grant

M9 Waikato Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Cambridge Raceway Meeting Date: 05 December 2019 NZ Meeting number: 9 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 4.12pm (NZT) YVETTE BODIAM PHOTOGRAPHY SPRINT C1, 375m 1 17487 Just Nia nwtd....................................M Black 2 2358F Botany Esmay 21.27........................P Green 3 5648x Miss Sweet Pea nwtd........................ S Clark 4 56837 Stellar Babe 22.10.........................P Cleaver 5 678x3 Platinum Spirit nwtd.......................... S Clark 6 85126 Go Falcon 21.41 W &.......................T Steele 7 33363 Zipping Romeo nwtd J &......................D Bell 8 74416 Smash Burton nwtd R &......................L Udy 9 75577 Tilly’s Silly 21.55 R &............................L Udy 10 548x8 Thrilling Dexter 21.39........................S Lozell 2 4.36pm $5,000 BONUS EARLY QUADDIE SPRINT C0, 375m 1 My Bro Bobby nwtd....................... H Mullane 2 2 Amaro nwtd................................ A Lawrence 3 Kapai Stewie nwtd W &....................T Steele 4 623 Thrilling Murphy nwtd....................... K Walsh 5 34 Little Leaf nwtd...................................E Potts 6 Little Mermaid nwtd W &..................T Steele 7 Kapai Chris nwtd W &......................T Steele 8 33423 Shaynee nwtd...................................S Lozell 9 4 Cointreau Time nwtd.................. A Lawrence 10 56584 Xena Poppy nwtd R &..........................L Udy 3 4.54pm FARMLANDS COPRICE STAKES C1, 457m 1 24421 Opawa Delight 25.97.........................B Craik 2 35864 Canya Sniper nwtd.............................E Potts

Brad Williamson might have missed his plane on the way to the Inter Dominions on Tuesday night, but he still got the chance to fly.

The Oamaru driver and Majestic Man were airborne in their heat of the trotting series as they threw down the gauntlet to their rivals with a stunning all-the-way win.

After some brilliant but luckless performances at Alexandra Park in the past, Majestic Man was able to find the front and Williamson, driving for his trainer father Phil, barely looked around as Majestic Man controlled the 1700m mobile before racing clear of Habibi Inta, Massive Metro and Winterfell.

Williamson knows he is lucky to have a serious Inter Dominion winning chance at such a young age but he was also lucky just to be in Auckland at all.

“I missed my first plane out of Dunedin but it wasn’t my fault,” Williamson sheepishly said after the win.

“I tried to check in and there was nobody

at the counters and then nothing went right.

“I was lucky to get here at all because there was only one seat on the next plane, otherwise I was going home to watch.”

Majestic Man’s gate speed is going to be a handy weapon come the $150,000 final on Saturday week but he has also been superb when coming with one run in races like the Rowe Cup so he has plenty of strings to his bow. The second trotting heat of the night, and fourth overall, went to Temporale who has re-emerged after trainer Tony Herlihy struggled to pin down soreness issues which bothered him last season.

Almost at his wit’s end, Herlihy sent the former Rowe Cup winner out to friends Michelle Wallis and Bernie Hackett to beach train and they have worked the oracle, with Temporale having been faultless this campaign.

He was beaten off the gate on Tuesday night but soon retook the lead and held the sizzling late run from Marcoola while Paramount King showed his first night win was no fluke with a massive third.

Christchurch dogs Today at Addington Raceway 4 87877 Know Cause 17.29..........................G Cleeve 5 86733 Cawbourne Britty 17.22................C Roberts 6 88581 Princely Gold 17.15....................J McInerney 7 52131 Goldstar Willa 17.39 S &..................B Evans 8 83721 Citizen Aguero 17.30.................J McInerney 9 68868 Dyna Elliot 17.31...........................C Roberts 10 78787 Raptor Attack 17.18...................A Bradshaw 4 12.58pm AVONHEAD TAVERN SPRINT HEAT 4 C3q, 295m 1 55135 Nikko Baxter 17.32.....................J McInerney 2 57176 Justin Ryan 17.27 S &.....................B Evans 3 56326 Enchantee 17.51........................R Blackburn 4 35557 Famous Lee nwtd S &......................B Evans 5 65475 Homebush Sayer 17.54.............J McInerney 6 66513 Know Logic 17.21...........................G Cleeve 7 74752 Reign Of Fire 17.36....................J McInerney 8 88837 Black Tori 17.35..........................A Bradshaw 9 68868 Dyna Elliot 17.31...........................C Roberts 10 67885 Goldstar Halsey 17.41 S &...............B Evans 5 1.16pm THURSDAY PLACE PICK SPRINT C4, 295m 1 81F62 Special As 17.30 J M....................... McCook 2 33576 Busy Rocca 17.29............................ M Grant 3 58411 Goldstar Spotty 17.25 S &...............B Evans 4 17662 Hilton Hangover 17.15...................... B Dann 5 44461 Chitina Tin 17.15..................................A Lee 6 24614 Ohana Lad 17.48................................C Weir 7 15112 King Toliman 17.32........................C Roberts 8 65156 Elodea 17.39..............................R Blackburn 9 84576 Opawa Lacy 17.04...........................R Wales 6 1.33pm KOLORFUL KANVAS DASH C2, 295m 1 31312 Prince Zulu 17.45.......................... L Waretini 2 34315 Gracie Lee 17.30.......................J McInerney 3 75426 Opawa Jumper 17.15.......................R Wales

4 12476 Goldstar Liberty 17.32 J M............... McCook 5 1468x Smash Achiever 17.16..................... M Grant 6 87813 Homebush Boden 17.44............J McInerney 7 67665 Go Gunna 17.25..............................R Wales 8 46664 Call Me Flo 17.16...................... A Botherway 9 86164 Punch On Rex 17.39..................J McInerney 10 78167 Aroha 17.19.............................. A Botherway 7 1.51pm FLAIR SPRINT C4, 295m 1 26522 Fidgety Feet 17.21...............................A Lee 2 44234 Platinum Marshal 17.00................C Roberts 3 68627 Goldstar Dodge 17.26 S &...............B Evans 4 35374 Taieri Terra 17.34.............................R Casey 5 25277 Inside Affair 17.16..............................J Dunn 6 73212 Starr Blueblood 17.34................J McInerney 7 36151 Little Krakatoa 17.24..................A Bradshaw 8 12657 Culvie Ness 17.28 H &.........................Taylor 9 84576 Opawa Lacy 17.04...........................R Wales 8 2.07pm THE FITZ SPORTS BAR SPRINT C5, 295m 1 15213 Lisa’s Boy 17.24...............................R Casey 2 62118 Smash Attack 17.22......................... M Grant 3 73352 Treville 17.27......................................J Dunn 4 62455 Ketchikan Kim 17.25..........................J Dunn 5 66188 Disobedience 17.19 S &..................B Evans 6 34231 Hankenstein 17.19.....................A Bradshaw 7 25632 Platinum Paisley 17.08.......................J Dunn 8 33641 Jinja Ellie 17.24.................................A Joyce 9 25717 Billy Frost 17.37............................... M Grant 10 78286 Hilton Forabet 17.16......................... B Dann 9 2.25pm BEACH CAFE & BAR STAKES C3, 520m 1 61454 Goldstar Yankee 30.54 S &..............B Evans 2 88865 Replica Casino 30.37......................B Pringle 3 38743 Opawa Sweet 30.23.........................R Wales 4 2x87F Ophelia Allen 30.09.......................D Roberts

5 42124 Bashful Buffy 30.55....................J McInerney 6 67365 Joe Bonanza 30.39....................J McInerney 7 31351 Creme Brulee 30.26...................... L Waretini 8 21547 Dyna Xarvel 30.53........................C Roberts 10 2.42pm SWIMMING GOAT AT STUD DASH C5, 295m 1 46413 Homebush Boots 17.24.............J McInerney 2 55154 Wildebeest 17.20.......................A Bradshaw 3 63147 Pita Ramos 17.14..............................J Dunn 4 17438 Memoir 17.39 H &................................Taylor 5 14283 Smash Wild 17.07............................ M Grant 6 12314 Versailles 17.07..................................J Dunn 7 25511 Beck Eleven 17.04........................ L Waretini 8 32824 Chanyaka 17.23................................ B Dann 9 25717 Billy Frost 17.37............................... M Grant 10 17358 Super Over Drama 17.12 S &..........B Evans 11 3.01pm HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY SYDNEY CLEEVE C4/5, 520m 1 12136 Start The Show 30.02....................R Adcock 2 51853 Thrilling Watch 30.60....................D Roberts 3 51275 Know Refusal 30.35........................G Cleeve 4 35735 Egomaniacal 30.08.......................D Roberts 5 63527 Avenger Bale 29.82.......................C Roberts 6 22182 Double Speed 30.11......................R Adcock 7 34736 Know State 30.01............................G Cleeve 8 1521F Our Jolene 30.14.............................R Wales 9 42x87 Bertie Allen 30.01.........................C Roberts 10 45617 Opawa May 30.21............................R Wales 12 3.19pm PROTEXIN SPRINT C4, 295m 1 23468 High Dreamer 17.11......................... M Grant 2 85561 Dyna Quark 17.52.........................C Roberts 3 61758 Homebush Aimee 17.34............J McInerney 4 73386 Forehand Raid 17.19.........................J Dunn

5 35632 Man Of Letters 17.38...........................A Lee 6 46634 Goldstar Major 17.24 S &.................B Evans 7 14574 Fickle Mistress 17.36 H &....................Taylor 8 315x7 Jaded Affair 17.33......................... L Waretini 9 84576 Opawa Lacy 17.04...........................R Wales LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance, fstd - First Start This Distance, 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track SELECTIONS: Race 1: Smash Damage, Jax Jewel, Cash A Roo, Feral Kaiaka, Broken Penniless Race 2: Smash Over, Opawa Oscar, Sozin’s Noir, Golden Bay, Just Izzy Race 3: King Kali, Princely Gold, Mitcham Becky, Mega Dream, Cawbourne Britty Race 4: Know Logic, Justin Ryan, Enchantee, Famous Lee, Reign Of Fire Race 5: Busy Rocca, King Toliman, Goldstar Spotty, Hilton Hangover, Opawa Lacy Race 6: Prince Zulu, Opawa Jumper, Goldstar Liberty, Call Me Flo, Gracie Lee Race 7: Fidgety Feet, Platinum Marshal, Little Krakatoa, Culvie Ness, Starr Blueblood Race 8: Platinum Paisley, Lisa’s Boy, Treville, Hankenstein, Jinja Ellie Race 9: Creme Brulee, Dyna Xarvel, Goldstar Yankee, Ophelia Allen, Opawa Sweet Race 10: Versailles, Beck Eleven, Homebush Boots, Pita Ramos, Wildebeest Race 11: Start The Show, Double Speed, Avenger Bale, Our Jolene, Know State Race 12: High Dreamer, Homebush Aimee, Dyna Quark, Man Of Letters, Opawa Lacy

7 35728 Our Hemi nwtd U &............................Cottam 8 62F74 Paddy’s Passion 21.30..................... T Green 9 81748 Raging Demon 20.99 R &....................L Udy 10 34654 Busy Flash nwtd W &.......................T Steele 9 7.44pm SUPERIOR CHUNKY DOG ROLLS SPRINT C4/5, 375m 1 37631 Does He Exist 21.33........................R Roper 2 61844 Kiwi Gal 21.27 U &.............................Cottam 3 54165 Thank You Next nwtd.........................B Craik 4 43413 Call Me Leo 21.11............................ T Green 5 73147 See Eye Be 21.04......................... H Mullane 6 18536 Suspicious Minds 20.89.....................B Craik 7 86353 Typical 21.25......................................S Ross 8 41315 Captain Kev 21.09 W &....................T Steele 9 x788x How Goodesy nwtd........................... S Clark 10 8.15pm FARMLANDS VIRKON STAKES C3, 457m 1 66666 Gray Bale nwtd.............................M Roberts 2 56561 Luke Skywalker 25.91..................... L A Hunt 3 568x5 Opawa Light nwtd..............................E Potts 4 43356 Odnoc Ankie 25.85.....................P Ferguson 5 23232 Zoro 25.85.................................. A Lawrence 6 23116 Thrilling Stomp 26.05....................... K Walsh 7 68544 Billy Bright 26.10.........................P Ferguson 8 27753 Jinja Bailey 25.95 U &........................Cottam 11 8.45pm MIKE STENT DECORATORS LTD STAKES C4/5, 457m 1 51178 Keysile 25.56...............................P Ferguson 2 24164 Barossa nwtd............................. A Lawrence 3 24285 Sophia Noir nwtd........................ A Lawrence 4 82212 Athenais nwtd....................................S Ross 5 37166 Robson 25.51..............................P Ferguson

6 21661 Sakichi 25.86..............................P Ferguson 7 14423 Stefano 25.57............................. A Lawrence 8 56617 Our Rick 25.62...................................E Potts 9 31132 Tuff’s My Mum 25.93..........................S Ross 10 54753 She’s For Us nwtd.........................M Roberts LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance, fstd - First Start This Distance, 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track SELECTIONS: Race 1: Platinum Spirit, Miss Sweet Pea, Botany Esmay, Zipping Romeo, Go Falcon Race 2: Amaro, Thrilling Murphy, Shaynee, Kapai Chris, Little Mermaid Race 3: Opawa Delight, Looby’s Story, Silenci, Little Teegs, Canya Sniper Race 4: Stay Rich, Zipping Luther, Ford Man, Talkabout Sophie, Pliskova Race 5: Gain Capital, Snoopy’s Hero, Elouera Mist, Don Morocco, Sovereign Pride Race 6: Thrilling Peta, Bigtime Jacob, Charlow, Talkabout Izzy, Idol Ajay Race 7: Smoochie, Waiterimu Ripper, Monsoon Malabar, Enjoy The Perks, Dyna Bryleigh Race 8: Native Scout, Pat Tama, Paddy’s Passion, Blitz ‘Em Rene, Prerogative Race 9: Call Me Leo, Suspicious Minds, Captain Kev, Kiwi Gal, Typical Race 10: Thrilling Stomp, Zoro, Jinja Bailey, Odnoc Ankie, Luke Skywalker Race 11: Robson, Keysile, Stefano, Athenais, Sakichi

Waikato dogs Today at Cambridge Raceway 3 23748 Sir Kinloch 26.03..............................S Codlin 4 17343 Little Teegs 25.83....................... A Lawrence 5 52321 Looby’s Story 26.21................... A Lawrence 6 34232 Silenci nwtd.................................P Ferguson 7 87725 Dignity Dented nwtd......................... T Green 8 551 Baileys Nice 25.94..................... A Lawrence 9 22674 Thrilling Arnold nwtd........................S Codlin 10 46674 Jinja Babe nwtd..................................E Potts 4 5.13pm GARRARDS HORSE & HOUND SPRINT C1, 375m 1 57838 In Focus 21.66...............................P Cleaver 2 16453 Stay Rich 21.46 M &......................... J Smith 3 5x318 Pliskova nwtd.................................... S Clark 4 53251 Zipping Luther nwtd J &.......................D Bell 5 75526 Talkabout Sophie 21.54....................M Black 6 21154 Black Bridge 21.72...........................R Roper 7 61252 Ford Man nwtd R &..............................L Udy 8 8x736 Shambi’s Girl nwtd......................K T Herbert 9 73447 Agbeze nwtd.....................................M Black 10 548x8 Thrilling Dexter 21.39........................S Lozell 5 5.44pm VETORA CAMBRIDGE SPRINT C2, 375m 1 2218T Sovereign Pride 21.44.......................S Ross 2 45571 Seven Sharp 21.56..................... W Toomath 3 67365 Grey Way 21.72.......................... G Pomeroy 4 223F1 Snoopy’s Hero 21.44........................... D Ray 5 17663 Gain Capital 21.22.............................B Craik 6 F4535 Blocker 21.67 R &........................N O’Regan 7 18232 Don Morocco 21.33........................P Cleaver 8 57616 Elouera Mist 21.33 J &.........................D Bell 9 21367 El Narco 21.57.................................P Green 6 6.14pm CHRISTMAS EVE @ CAMBRIDGE RACE-

WAY SPRINT C3, 375m 1 8x367 Limpy Jackson nwtd J &.......................D Bell 2 14663 Idol Ajay 21.44 W &..........................T Steele 3 27414 Sheyna 21.17....................................S Lozell 4 52611 Bigtime Jacob 21.24..........................B Craik 5 21124 Thrilling Peta 21.18.......................... K Walsh 6 18328 Charlow nwtd R &........................N O’Regan 7 13271 Frizzled nwtd.................................M Roberts 8 62567 Talkabout Izzy 21.33........................... D Ray 9 24375 Over Indulgence 21.66....................P Henley 10 22347 Botany Wayne 21.24........................P Green 7 6.44pm AFFORDABLE PET ACCESSORIES STAKES C1/2, 457m 1 12225 Smoochie 25.85......................... A Lawrence 2 44642 Monsoon Malabar nwtd U &...............Cottam 3 78774 Hua Hua nwtd...............................R McPhee 4 34214 Enjoy The Perks 26.13....................P Henley 5 78351 Kapai Tahi 25.94 R &...........................L Udy 6 58425 Jinja Nice nwtd...................................E Potts 7 56441 Dyna Bryleigh nwtd.......................M Roberts 8 61333 Waiterimu Ripper 25.94 R &................L Udy 9 767FF Happy Days nwtd.............................P Green 10 22674 Thrilling Arnold nwtd........................S Codlin 8 7.14pm CLUBHOUSE SPORTS BAR & CAFE APPRECIATION SPRINT C4, 375m 1 21424 Pat Tama 21.35................................. S Clark 2 55611 Prerogative 21.39 U &........................Cottam 3 53586 Relevance nwtd R &.............................L Udy 4 3774x Jinja Murphy nwtd W &....................T Steele 5 52745 Blitz ‘Em Rene 21.23 U &...................Cottam 6 55512 Native Scout 21.34...........................P Green

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Thursday, December 5, 2019

Ashburton Guardian 19

Second win leaves Sniper in charge

By Michael Guerin It is going to take a very good horse to deny Ultimate Sniper the Inter Dominion Pacing title in nine days’ time.

That was the booming message the four-year-old sent to his rivals in the strongest pacing heat on Tuesday night when he was again three wide for much of the race yet still beat stablemate Cruz Bromac.

His win mirrored his stunning first night run when he was three wide for 1400m of his 2200m heat but on Tuesday night was perhaps even more impressive as he was three wide the entire opening lap.

That he could still surge clear at the top of the straight was a graphic example of his incredible stamina and he should only be better over 2700m in Friday night’s last round of heats and the final.

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Right - Ultimate Sniper and Natalie Rasmussen win their second heat of the Inter Dominion series.

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Waikato BoP harness Today at Cambridge Raceway

Waikato Bay Of Plenty Harness Inc Venue: Cambridge Meeting Date: 05 December 2019 NZ Meeting number: 7 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 5.29pm (NZT) FARMLANDS TROT $8000, non-winners 3yo+, stand, 2200m 1 Cepheus (1) fr.............................A Matthews 2 44x40 Strength Of Heart (2) fr................A Poutama 3 Wishing Crystal (3) fr................. J Abernethy 4 64 Majestic Harry (4) fr...........................M Teaz 5 50 Reign (5) fr.....................................R Paynter 6 63 Mums Star (6) fr............................ D Butcher 7 60090 Tears Of Joy (7) fr..........................Z Butcher 8 4x Shanhill (8) fr............................. M McKendry 9 80 Empress Of The Sun (U1) fr............O Gillies 10 70x06 Manchester On Fire (U2) fr............T Mitchell 2 5.59pm DOWNBYTHESEASIDE-$4800 SPECIAL PRICE MOBILE PACE $8000, non-winners 3yo+., mobile, 2200m 1 064 Drum Beat (1) fr.............................Z Butcher 2 9 Doctor Love (2) fr............................. M White 3 57800 Comedy Act (3) fr..............F Schumacher (J) 4 37876 Blair Boy (4) fr.................................S Phelan 5 30 Coming In Hot (5) fr.....................J Stormont 6 Richmond Tiger (6) fr.................S Abernethy 7 653x3 Golden Quest (7) fr..................... T Cameron 8 6xL44 Bettor Get It On (8) fr.....................B Butcher 9 P6925 Reckon Im Smart (21) fr...............A Poutama 10 03 Brookies Jaffa (22) fr...................P Ferguson 11 75870 Johnson Step (23) fr.................. J Abernethy 12 x8734 Machteer (24) fr............................ D Butcher 13 790x8 Blake (U1) fr........................... L Whittaker (J) 3 6.29pm GAVELHOUSE.COM ENTRIES DUE

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Cruz Bromac would have lost few fans in second, with stewards questioning Mark Purdon over failing to hold the parked out position at the 500m mark, with the inquiry being adjourned.

Earlier in the night A G’s White Sock continued his remarkable form turnaround since joining Barry Purdon just a week ago when he powered to the lead and was then too good for Chase Auckland.

The night was a mixed bag for the Australians though, with Colt Thirty One all but out of the series after being trapped wide and dropping out but My Kiwi Mate, San Carlo and Bling It On still have hopes of making the final.

WEDNESDAY MOBILE PACE $8000, 4yo+ r40-r60. jun.d, mobile, 2700m 1 09x0x Veneto (1) fr............................ A Harrison (J) 2 66330 Happy Place (2) fr................. D Ferguson (J) 3 72382 Hit The Sky (3) fr.....................Z Meredith (J) 4 95x43 The Batmobile (4) fr............... O Thornley (J) 5 02300 Russley Rush (5) fr................... T Hanara (J) 6 37x14 Wildestdreams (6) fr............... L Whittaker (J) 7 25131 Sabreur (7) fr............................... C Smith (J) 8 05108 Peter Forsberg (8) fr...................K Bublitz (J) 9 32190 Destined For Heaven (21) fr...F Schumacher (J) 10 64234 The Lone Ranger (22) fr........... N Delany (J) 11 95115 Vanhalem (23) fr......................... A Drake (J) 12 5856x J Bee (24) fr...............................S Rapley (J) 4 6.59pm MARSHALL RACING STABLES MOBILE PACE $8000, non-winners 3yo+., mobile, 2200m 1 23045 Super Actor (1) fr..............F Schumacher (J) 2 94 Cruzee Mach (2) fr.........................B Butcher 3 87 Sheza Kamikaze (3) fr...............S Abernethy 4 96439 New Frontier (4) fr........................J Stormont 5 87485 Courtney Jane (5) fr.......................T Mitchell 6 60x57 Billy Idol (6) fr............................. R Frampton 7 0x003 Dametoro (7) fr.............................. D Butcher 8 62 Cassius (8) fr...................................S Phelan 9 87932 Yankee Dancer (21) fr....................Z Butcher 10 7x477 Manhattan Sunshine (22) fr........ T Cameron 11 6 Shanroad (23) fr........................ M McKendry 12 Fleeting Major (24) fr.................... K Marshall 5 7.29pm PAK N SAVE TE AWAMUTU MOBILE PACE $8000, r40-r47,r48 w/c., mobile, 2200m 1 67x06 Major Blink (1) fr.......................... J Robinson 2 45084 Lady Santanna (2) fr.....................R Fensom

3 04655 Bugalugs (3) fr............................P Ferguson 4 0898x Cool And Calculating (4) fr......... S E Butcher 5 87502 Quick As Fire (5) fr............F Schumacher (J) 6 80x79 Our Wicklow (6) fr........................A Poutama 7 0x395 Arty Pharty (7) fr.............................. M White 8 48657 Beaudiene Emerald (8) fr........ A Harrison (J) 9 96644 Molly Dooker (21) fr...................... D Butcher 10 60349 Mr Incredible (22) fr........................B Butcher 11 78477 Allonblack (23) fr............................N Chilcott 12 0P617 Bettor Trenz (24) fr.........................Z Butcher 13 0x692 Clifton Flutter (25) fr.....................J Stormont 6 8.00pm ASSET RECRUITMENT MOBILE PACE $8500, 3yo+ r55-r65., mobile, 2200m 1 55345 Charlotte Royal (1) fr....................J Stormont 2 18642 American Me (2) fr..................... J Abernethy 3 19246 Double Or Nothing (3) fr.................Z Butcher 4 2151x Shandelier (4) fr........................ M McKendry 5 32317 High Point (5) fr..................... D Ferguson (J) 6 1x019 Armed Reactor (6) fr...................P Ferguson 7 40108 Simon (7) fr....................................T Mitchell 8 99312 Romanite fr................................... Scratched 9 4x503 Fleeting Grin (21) fr....................... C Webber 10 30929 Flying Steps (22) fr........................ D Butcher 11 55x11 Claytons Bettor (23) fr..................A Poutama 12 56527 Court On The Edge (24) fr.............B Butcher 13 3371x Afortunado (25) fr.......................S Abernethy 7 8.30pm BLACK DOG FURNITURE HANDICAP TROT $8500, r48-r80 discrhcp, stand, 2200m 1 33514 Presidential Jewel (1) fr................... M White 2 34610 Splitting Image (2) fr.............. D Ferguson (J) 3 2x619 Lady Be Good (3) fr..................... K Marshall 4 22388 Aoraki (4) fr.......................F Schumacher (J) 5 3979x Anna Kate (5) fr...........................P Ferguson

6 68037 As Free As Air (U1) fr................ M McKendry 7 10800 Our Spitfire (U2) fr..........................T Mitchell 8 28006 Natty Pagger (U3) fr.................... T Cameron 9 10710 Superfast Ninja (1) 10M...............A Poutama 10 09017 Lukyanova (2) 10M................ L Whittaker (J) 11 81873 Luck Of The Moment (3) 10M......J Stormont 12 1P534 Grey Stoke (U1) 10M.....................Z Butcher 13 64135 Gershwin (U1) 45M....................... D Butcher 8 9.01pm JLN BUILDERS MOBILE PACE $8000, 3yo+ r48-r54., mobile, 2200m 1 21398 Runcle (1) fr.................................A Poutama 2 81P28 Captain Max (2) fr..........................B Butcher 3 6009x McDaknife (3) fr........................... K Marshall 4 5028x Toro Delago (4) fr........................P Ferguson 5 4080x Mighty Monica (5) fr......................R Fensom 6 x0520 Ideal Agent (6) fr.................................L Neal 7 63560 Drum Withers (7) fr................... M McKendry 8 1587x Bella Roza (8) fr..............................S Phelan 9 80670 Unfinished Business (21) fr... D Ferguson (J) 10 34P18 Lindi Lincoln (22) fr........................Z Butcher 11 4126 Im A Denny Too (23) fr................ T Cameron 12 79008 Santanna Mach (24) fr...................T Mitchell 13 07532 Lynton Creek (25) fr...................... D Butcher 9 9.31pm CALDER STEWART TROT $8000, r40r46,r48 w/c, stand, 2200m 1 27000 Aldebaran Bonny (1) fr...................T Mitchell 2 047x6 Our Rosa (2) fr.............................S Cornwall 3 62386 Burt Munro (3) fr.........................P Ferguson 4 05738 Mackerelli (4) fr....................K Blakemore (J) 5 04x70 This Sky Rox (5) fr...................... T Cameron 6 64x65 Flying Taine (6) fr...........................N Chilcott 7 x0809 Secretofthesea Smile (7) fr... D Ferguson (J) 8 P4657 Majestic Stride (8) fr..........F Schumacher (J)

9 08396 Danke (9) fr..................................... G Martin 10 28x80 Stow (10) fr....................................B Hackett 11 89098 Keystone Cavalier (U1) fr....... L Whittaker (J) 12 96969 Grenado (U2) fr.......................... J Abernethy 13 68000 Savitskaya (U3) fr................................L Chin 14 7008x Rave Nation (U4) fr....................S Abernethy Pacifiers on : Empress Of The Sun (R1), Natty Pagger (R7) 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 SELECTIONS: Race 1: Mums Star, Strength Of Heart, Manchester On Fire, Shanhill, Majestic Harry Race 2: Golden Quest, Richmond Tiger, Coming In Hot, Brookies Jaffa, Johnson Step Race 3: Hit The Sky, Russley Rush, Happy Place, The Lone Ranger, Veneto Race 4: Super Actor, Yankee Dancer, Fleeting Major, Manhattan Sunshine, Courtney Jane Race 5: Bugalugs, Cool And Calculating, Quick As Fire, Major Blink, Allonblack Race 6: Double Or Nothing, American Me, Afortunado, Flying Steps, Charlotte Royal Race 7: Natty Pagger, Superfast Ninja, Grey Stoke, Presidential Jewel, Anna Kate Race 8: Ideal Agent, Im A Denny Too, Runcle, Bella Roza, Santanna Mach Race 9: Flying Taine, Stow, Aldebaran Bonny, Majestic Stride

5 7x8 Saigon Hot Night h (10) 57................. Z Moki 6 6x6x5 Admire (6) 56.5.............................. L Allpress 7 5782 Caption (5) 56.5............................. H Andrew 8 86x2 Posh Porotene (3) 56.5.....................M Singh 9 65053 Global Diamond (1) 56.5.....................R Elliot 10 00x05 En Zed Foxy (14) 56.5.............J Fawcett (a1) 11 x0070 Classyas (8) 56.5.....................C Burdan (a3) 12 3 White Hibiscus (11) 55...................... C Grylls 13 8x564 Rockley Beach (12) 55......................S Collett 14 290 Yes I’m Royal h (13) 55....................S McKay 8 5.17pm RACING DEC 27TH & 29TH 1800 $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1800m 1 32212 Into The Deep (1) 59.5..................... J Parkes 2 27x06 Beached As Bro td (4) 58.5 3 69909 Call Doubt tdmh (10) 58.5........T Taiaroa (a4) 4 257x1 Declarada (3) 57.............................. J Riddell 5 49x00 Regal Rock h (9) 57..........................S Collett 6 75x55 Bella Blue tm (11) 56.5 7 00x00 Cleaver h (7) 56.5............... S Weatherley (a) 8 x3643 Jazamour th (2) 56...........................S McKay 9 40x06 Aratoka tmh (6) 55.5...................... L Allpress 10 27724 Sky Hi Rahtwo tm (8) 55.5.......J Fawcett (a1) 11 06280 Brahmarahma (5) 55.5.............. K Asano (a2) 12 L0887 Mister Geronimo (12) 55.C Burdan (a3) Blinkers on : Eureka Rising, Callyrose (R1), Barney Rubble (R2), Barney Rubble, Borrachon (R4), Borrachon (R5), Jenever (R6), Mongolian Dynasty, Classyas (R7) Blinkers off : Scherzo (R6) Winkers on : Sweet Fields (R2), Joshua One Nine (R4), Take A Gamble (R7) Winkers off : Zareeba, Callyrose (R1) LEGEND: Runner Form b - Beaten favourite at last start

c - Won at this distance on this course d - Won at this distance on another course h - Home track m - Won in heavy going t - Won at track X - Spell of three months Race Information hcp - handicap mdn - maiden nmw - no metropolitan wins opn - open r80 - rating 3yo - nominated age 3yo & up - nominated age and up 3yo f - nominated age and type 3 & 4yos - combined age groups c&g - colts and geldings cg&e - colts, geldings and entires e&g - entires and geldings f&m - fillies and mares hwt - high weight sw - set weight swp - set weights and penalties spa - set weights, penalties and allowances wfa - weight for age wlt - welter weight wfp - weight for age with penalties and allowances SELECTIONS: Race 1: Zareeba, Not Usual Dream, Princess Jenni, I Am A Craftsman, Octavious Race 2: O’Charm, Ifndoubtgetout, Boutonniere, Barney Rubble, Kick Start Race 3: Heza Looker, Boutonniere, Oceana Lad, Regal Reward, Shipshape Race 4: Beaudz Well, Dee Keepa, Barney Rubble Race 5: Our Creed, Not Usual Litening, Gold Bracelet, Eros, Smarty Pants Race 6: Blue Arrow, Scherzo, Dundeel’s Girl, La Strata Race 7: Tubthumping, Posh Porotene, Caption, Mongolian Dynasty, Global Diamond Race 8: Into The Deep, Declarada, Jazamour, Aratoka

Taranaki gallops Today at New Plymouth

Taranaki Racing Club Venue: New Plymouth Meeting Date: 05 December 2019 NZ Meeting number: 4 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 1.07pm (NZT) EPSOM & ASCOT WITH GEORGE & WHEELS MAIDEN $10,000, MDN, 2000m 1 07x I Am A Craftsman (7) 58.5................M Singh 2 x5006 Not Usual Dream (2) 58.5................ J Riddell 3 8 Octavious (1) 58.5...........................S McKay 4 58x08 The Barman Pays h (10) 58.5...S Weatherley (a) 5 7 Take That 57..................................Scratched 6 08933 Zareeba (6) 56.5............................... C Grylls 7 80204 Princess Jenni (3) 56.5.................. L Allpress 8 66660 Detonate (8) 56.5........................... H Andrew 9 9808 Eureka Rising (11) 56.5................R Hannam 10 6809 Just Like Rosie (5) 56.5......... M Hudson (a3) 11 Violet Belle (9) 56.5.................C Burdan (a3) 12 50 Callyrose (4) 55............................... J Parkes 2 1.42pm WEST END BOWLING CLUB MAIDEN $10,000, MDN 3YO, 1100m 1 3422 Ifndoubtgetout (11) 57.5..................... Z Moki 2 x426x Regal Reward (7) 57.5 3 3x3x Boutonniere b (6) 57.5..................... J Parkes 4 3 Barney Rubble h (8) 57.5 5 3 Kick Start (9) 57.5 6 My Wine (15) 57.5 7 27x42 O’Charm (3) 55.5...................... K Asano (a2) 8 45x3x Meritorious (2) 55.5.......................... C Grylls 9 0x5 Aeroette (14) 55.5 10 8x Sweet Fields (4) 55.5..........................R Elliot 11 6 All That Jazz 55.5..........................Scratched 12 Lite De Fuze h (12) 55.5..... S Weatherley (a) 13 Miss Maple (1) 55.5....................... H Andrew

14 Mozart’s Mistress h (5) 55.5.......... L Allpress 15 Missouri (13) 55.5 16 Crimson Star (10) 55.5 Emergencies: Missouri, Crimson Star 3 2.17pm NULOOK ALUMINIUM MAIDEN $10,000, MDN, 1100m 1 Oceana Lad (4) 58.5......................... C Grylls 2 x426x Regal Reward (1) 57.....................R Hannam 3 3x3x Boutonniere b (2) 57 4 3 Barney Rubble 57..........................Scratched 5 3 Kick Start (12) 57 6 Heza Looker (7) 57.......................... J Parkes 7 00x0 Buster’s Habit (6) 57 8 9634x Shipshape b (11) 56.5.............. K Asano (a2) 9 68x Excuse My Hotness h (10) 56.5 10 Shanghai Express h (5) 56.5......... L Allpress 11 45x3x Meritorious (3) 55 12 6 All That Jazz h (9) 55........................S Collett 13 Missouri (8) 55 4 2.52pm STELLA ARTOIS MAIDEN $10,000, MDN, 1200m 1 0x Joshua One Nine (7) 58.5........J Fawcett (a1) 2 3x3x Boutonniere b (5) 57 3 3 Barney Rubble h (3) 57.....................S Collett 4 5430x Beaudz Well h (4) 57.......... S Weatherley (a) 5 8 Borrachon (9) 57.............................. J Riddell 6 00x0 Buster’s Habit (1) 57.............. M Hudson (a3) 7 362 Dee Keepa h (8) 56.5 8 55x4x Vistock (10) 55.......................... K Asano (a2) 9 6 All That Jazz h (2) 55....................... J Parkes 10 8x Midnight Magic 55..........................Scratched 11 Crimson Star (6) 55.......................... C Grylls 5 3.27pm SMOKEYLEMON MAIDEN $10,000, MDN 3YO, 1400m

1 x9202 Our Creed (12) 57.5.......................... C Grylls 2 79x3 Not Usual Litening (11) 57.5............ J Riddell 3 56 Streak Of Power (7) 57.5..................M Singh 4 All In Chilly h (10) 57.5........................ Z Moki 5 8 Borrachon (2) 57.5........................... J Parkes 6 Eros (4) 57.5 7 4 Gold Bracelet (9) 55.5.................... L Allpress 8 4 Porotene Charm (3) 55.5.........C Burdan (a3) 9 847 Smarty Pants h (1) 55.5...... S Weatherley (a) 10 x58x5 Dundrum (6) 55.5..............................S Collett 11 Lyn’s Orchid (8) 55.5 12 968 Savappiel (5) 55.5..................... K Asano (a2) 6 4.07pm LANDMARK HOMES MAIDEN $10,000, MDN, 1400m 1 95x03 Blue Arrow (6) 58.5..................J Fawcett (a1) 2 4000x Scherzo (14) 58.5............................ J Parkes 3 Dalmatia (9) 57................................ J Riddell 4 362 Dee Keepa h (4) 56.5........................S Collett 5 30725 One Way Street (5) 56.5 6 3x Reliable Miss h (1) 56.5................. L Allpress 7 26x0 Dundeel’s Girl b (8) 56.5................... C Grylls 8 08467 Midnight Spark (2) 56.5...........C Burdan (a3) 9 55x65 Jenever (7) 56.5........................ K Asano (a2) 10 6x86 La Strata h (10) 56.5........... S Weatherley (a) 11 36x08 Hermes (13) 56.5.............................R Kozaki 12 40x80 Scomadi (3) 56.5.............................S McKay 13 28 Rose Of Delgatie b (11) 55...............M Singh 14 Korbel h (12) 55.................................. Z Moki 7 4.42pm SLOTS AVAILABLE FOR $101,000 FEB 1ST MAIDEN $10,000, MDN, 1600m 1 2x728 Tubthumping (2) 58.5....................... J Parkes 2 670x4 Take A Gamble (7) 58.5................R Hannam 3 43 Mongolian Dynasty (9) 57................ J Riddell 4 9 Not Usual Glorious (4) 57... S Weatherley (a)

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www.ateventcentre.co.nz Cabarnet Full bodied and well-rounded well that’s just the lads. Come and support the lads that are putting on these fun filled concerts to raise funds for Variety Theatre Ashburton. Featuring Tainui Kuru, Chris Woods, Heath Walters, Tony Kelly, Daniel Wilson and Luke Glendining.

These six men will belt out songs from a wide range of genres and areas from the Bee Gees to Queen in a night full of entertainment.

Registration for the

Ashburton District Community Christmas Lunch 2019

Celebrating 20 years – Mid Canterbury Summer Singing School

The lunch is being held at the Tinwald Hall, cnr Graham and McMurdo Streets, Tinwald at 12.30pm on Christmas Day and there is no charge.

This lunch is for anyone who would like to share Christmas Day with others.

Celebrating 20 years of musical theatre camps this show has it all. With students from the past and present there will be 110 students who will showcase their talents. The gala evening on Saturday night will include an alumni choir.

Theatre Seating $30

Fri & Sat, 7.30pm

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Daily Events THURSDAY 9.30am AGE CONCERN EXERCISE CLASS. Weekly classes. Seniors Centre, 206 Cameron Street.

9.30am - 11am BALMORAL HALL LINE DANCERS. Join our friendly group for fun exercise during term time. Balmoral Hall, Cameron Street.

9.30am - 11.30am MID CANTERBURY BADMINTON CLUB DAY TIME SECTION. New members very welcome, rackets available. EA Networks Stadium, River Terrace.

FRIDAY 6am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Sweaty Betty’s Circuit training in hall, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

9.30am - 4pm ST JOHN SHOP. Opportunity shop open daily, donations welcome. 129 Tancred Street.

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Sunday 8th December

PLUS Foodbank donation please

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Birthday Greetings

St Stephens Church Park Street, Ashburton 12 noon and 5pm

$5 Door sales only $5

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

December 5 & 6, 2019 9.30am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON TOY LIBRARY. Open Thursday and Saturday mornings for toy hire. Victoria Street, The Triangle.

8.30am - 1pm ASHBURTON MENZSHED. Come and join fellow sheddies for some fun and fellowship make/fix something in our new workshops. 8 William Street.

9.30am - 4pm ST JOHN SHOP. Opportunity shop open daily, donations welcome. 129 Tancred Street.

10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main St,

Methven.

10am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Fit Kidz for preschoolers and caregivers. 48 Allens Road.

10am - 4pm HOSPICE MID CANTERBURY OP SHOP. Quality clothing and homewares. Donations welcome. 71 Tancred Street.

10.15am MSA TAI CHI. Beginners refresher and learning of Tai Chi for arthritis. MSA Social Hall, Havelock Street (not school holidays).

10.45am MSA TAI CHI. Stretching exercises for all abilities. MSA

Social Hall, Havelock Street (not school holidays).

11am AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern 308 6817. Holy Spirit Church. Thomson Street, Tinwald.

1pm ASHBURTON MSA PETANQUE SECTION. Club day, new players welcome. Boules supplied. 115 Racecourse Road, Ashburton.

1pm AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern 308 6817. St Peters Church, Allenton.

1pm AGE CONCERN STEADY AS YOU GO. Supportive fall prevention group, all abilities welcome. Phone Age Concern 308 6817.

Buffalo Lodge rooms, Cox 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 Rd. 7.30pm GLENYS’ DANCE GROUP. Old time/sequence dancing. Learn to dance. everyone welcome. Allenton Scout Den, Melrose Road.

10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL. NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main Street, Methven.

10am - 4pm HOSPICE MID CANTERBURY OP SHOP. Quality clothing and homewares. Donations welcome. 71 Tancred Street.

10.30am - 11.30am WALKING NETBALL. $2. EA Networks Centre, River Terrace.

12pm MID CANTERBURY CHOIR CHRISTMAS CONCERT. Guest Tainui Kuru will perform, admission $5 at the door plus a gift of food for the foodbank. St Stephens Church, Park Street.

12pm - 2pm ASHBURTON JUSTICES OF THE PEACE

1pm - 4pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY GROUP. Open for research, visitors welcome.

Ashburton Heritage Centre, West Street.

Closed most public holidays.

5pm MID CANTERBURY CHOIR CHRISTMAS CONCERT. Guest Tainui Kuru will perform, admission $5 at the door plus a gift of food for the foodbank. St Stephens Church, Park Street.

ASSOCIATION.

Signing any document a JP can witness, open Tuesdays and Fridays. Ashburton Community House, 44 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 Rd.

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Cryptic crossword

Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

ACROSS 1. Quietly smiled about showing them, perhaps (7) 5. The newspapers: does that ring a bell? (5) 8. After six, anger can turn to bad temper (7) 9. Find a tree in a particular churchyard (5) 10. Steady application one found in the old French coach (9) 12. Russian space station turned back on the brink (3) 13. A role to play when separated (5) 17. The game got by a slovenly woman (3) 19. Is being shot at like the ashes in the grate (5,4) 21. Room with a window built out of a college (5) 22. Use of the teeth, when cig is being rolled (7) 24. Part that swells out by about six hand breadths (5) 25. As the years roll by one doesn’t get any, junior (7) DOWN 1. In a low den I’d got to split (6) 2. Was mutilated, having been through the wringer (7) 3. A record of one’s progress may be committed to the flames (3) 4. Between Poles, anger sounded a warning (5) 5. Artificial material from which one may style rope (9) 6. It may have to be corrected with the 3Rs, Old English (5) 7. A plan to mechanise, in a lost fashion (6) 11. Changing of the Guard supporter, a bit at a time (9) 14. Making of money by saying phrase not heard before (7) 15. Soak it up in bar: sob about it (6) 16. With the REME, King George formed a combination of companies (6) 18. Closely examine somebody on the gridiron (5) 20. London City area, in being teetotal, one will criticise as being worthless (5) 23. European currency system will not get off the ground (3)

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ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): We need each other. We show it in different ways – kind statements, tearful interactions, public acknowledgments – all serving to bolster connectedness and communicate the strength of a relationship.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): While a thing certainly seems acceptable when more people are doing it, this in and of itself shouldn’t factor into a moral- or value-driven decision. The question that really matters: Is it right?

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Because you have invested in another and hold for them an unspeakable depth of love, tears may come instead of words. It speaks not to weakness but to the sacredness of bonds.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): If you stick out as being very remarkable, you’ll either be promoted or, like the tallest flower in the field, cut down. It is better not to attract jealous attention now.

Blend and lead from the inside.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): Your social savvy and your ability to read people will be put the test with the many opportunities inside this day. You bring up the scene just by being yourself.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): You will feel compelled to study a person you wouldn’t typically think of as a role model. There’s a quality here that you will absorb, though perhaps it will remain beneath your awareness for a time.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): There was a time you would have tried to avoid embarrassment at all costs.

Now you don’t worry so much about seeming foolish or being wrong because mistakes are a rite of passage in any worthwhile endeavour.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): Many comparisons aren’t worth making, questions that waste the time it takes to ask them and roads that lead nowhere. You’ll avoid those traps by deciding what you want and going exclusively for that.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Feelings are mysterious, irrational and arbitrary. We want to blame someone, but who? Maybe it’s no one’s fault. and neither is it your own. Still, it falls to you to move yourself into a new emotional place.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Love involves sacrifice.

Sometimes the sacrifice is a simple matter of accepting who another person is and what they want without trying to influence or control that.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): If you’re not getting the kind of attention you need, then figure out how to get it or go elsewhere. The faith of others is crucial to your plans. Without support, it’s too easy to lose faith.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): The boundaries and expectations you hold inside a relationship are just as important as the nurturing and affection you give. All of these things will co-exist today.

Previous cryptic solution

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Previous solution: den, dens, die, dies, din, dine, dines, dins, dis, end, ends, ens, ide, ides, ids, ins, nide, nides, sei, sen, send, side, sin, sine, snide

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Wind km/h mainly isolated cloudy drizzle drizzle few showers fine showers clearing showers

isolated snow thunder flurries

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rain

snow

hail

60 plus

Canterbury High Country

TODAY

TODAY

Fine. Northerlies, strong at times.

TOMORROW Fine with increasing high cloud.

Northerlies, strong at times.

SATURDAY Partly cloudy. Northerlies.

SUNDAY

Adelaide Amsterdam Bangkok Berlin Brisbane Cairns Cairo Calcutta Canberra Colombo Darwin Delhi Dubai Dublin Edinburgh

fine cloudy fine fine fine fine fine fog windy thunder fine fog cloudy cloudy drizzle

fine

Rain about the divide with possibly heavy falls and snow to 1500 metres in the south at first. Partly cloudy with a few showers further east. Wind at 1000m: NW 50 km/h, rising to gale 80 km/h from afternoon, easing to 50 km/h overnight.

Wind at 2000m: NW rising to gale 85 km/h everywhere in the morning, rising to severe gale 100 km/h from afternoon.

Hamilton

fine

Napier

fine

TOMORROW

FZL: About 2600m

Frankfurt Geneva Hobart Hong Kong Honolulu Islamabad Jakarta Johannesburg Kuala Lumpur London Los Angeles Madrid Melbourne Moscow Nadi

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cloudy fog showers fine showers fine showers showers thunder rain fine fine cloudy rain thunder

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11:47 6:03 12:11 6:17 12:34 6:50 12:56 7:05 1:20 7:32 The times shown are for the Ashburton River mouth. For the Rangitata river mouth subtract 16 minutes and for the Rakaia river mouth subtract 4 minutes.

Rise 5:44 am Set 9:02 pm Bad

Bad fishing

Rise 5:44 am Set 9:03 pm

Bad fishing

Bad

Set 2:33 am Rise 1:40 pm

Set 2:56 am Rise 2:40 pm

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Rise 5:44 am Set 9:04 pm Bad

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Wellington

showers

Nelson

fine

Blenheim

fine

Greymouth

showers

Christchurch

fine

Timaru

fine

Queenstown

some rain

Dunedin

shower

Invercargill

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River Levels

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cumecs

1.47

Selwyn Whitecliffs (NIWA) at 2:00 pm, yesterday

Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 2:00 pm, yesterday 1155.4 Nth Ashburton at 2:05 pm, yesterday

16.6

Sth Ashburton at 2:05 pm, yesterday

29.0

Rangitata Klondyke at 3:00 pm, yesterday

590.0

Waitaki Kurow at 3:02 pm, yesterday

512.1

Source: Environment Canterbury

Canterbury Readings

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Forecasts for today

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overnight max low

Auckland

FZL: Above 3000m in north, 2300m in south

Tides, Sun, Moon and Fishing m am 3 3

NZ Today

Periods of heavy rain about the divide, but scattered falls developing in the east.

Wind at 1000m: NW 50 km/h, rising to gale 80 km/h mid-morning, and to severe gale 110 km/h in the afternoon.

Wind at 2000m: NW severe gale rising to 120 km/h in the morning.

Partly cloudy. Late showers as northerlies change southwest.

Thursday, 5 December 2019

A strong west to northwest flow covers New Zealand.

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6am Breakfast 9am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3 0 10am Tipping Point 3 0 11am The Celebrity Chase 3 British celebrities Eddie Edwards, Michelle Dewberry, Sarah Willingham, and Shaun Ryder set out to win money for charity by outwitting The Chaser. 0 Noon 1 News At Midday 0 12:30 Emmerdale PGR 0 1pm Coronation Street Catchup 3 0 2pm Coast v Country 0 3pm Tipping Point 0 4pm Te Karere 2 0 4:30 Border Patrol 3 0 5pm The Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0

6am Infomercials 6:30 Paw Patrol 3 0 6:50 Quimbo’s Quest 0 7:20 Yo-Kai Watch 3 0 7:45 Unikitty! 0 8:15 Doc McStuffins – Toy Hospital 3 0 8:35 Puppy Dog Pals 3 0 9am Infomercials 9:30 Religious Infomercials 10am Neighbours 3 0 10:30 Mike And Molly PGR 3 0 11am Army Wives PGR 3 0 Noon Mom AO 3 0 12:30 2 Broke Girls AO 3 0 1pm Judge Rinder PGR 3 2pm Will And Grace PGR 3 0 2:30 Home And Away 3 0 3pm Shortland Street PGR 3 0 3:30 The Bureau Of Magical Things 0 4pm The Evermoor Chronicles 3 0 4:30 Friends 3 0 5pm The Simpsons 3 0 5:30 Home And Away 0 6pm The Big Bang Theory 3 0 6:30 Neighbours 0

7pm Seven Sharp 0 7:30 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces Specials 0 8:30 Love Your Home And Garden Alan and the team are in Nottinghamshire to help Joshua, a 15-year-old wheelchair user. 0 9:30 Coronation Street PGR 0 10:30 1 News Tonight 0

7pm Shortland Street PGR 0 7:30 Police Ten 7 0 8pm F Neighbours At War PGR 3 0 8:35 F Travel Guides 3 0 9:40 Have You Been Paying Attention? 3 0 10:40 Two And A Half Men PGR 3 0

11pm 20/20 AO 3 Current-affairs programme presented

by Carolyn Robinson, featuring international content and in-depth investigative pieces. 0 12:05 The History Of Comedy AO 3 0 1am Te Karere 3 2 1:25 Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 3 2

11:10 Police Ten 7 3 0 11:40 First Dates US 12:35 Private Practice 3 0 1:20 Shortland Street PGR 3 0 1:45 Infomercials 2:45 Army Wives PGR 3 0 3:30 Lethal Weapon AO 3 0 5:05 Neighbours 3 0 5:30 Religious Infomercials

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A newly-married woman seeks to connect with her husband’s teenaged daughter while raising her own seven-year-old daughter, but the teenager proves to be a threat to the happy blending of two families.

Emmanuelle Vaugier, Niki Koss, Matt Socia. 0 4pm Entertainment Tonight 4:30 NewsHub Live At 4:30pm 5pm Millionaire Hot Seat 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

6am The Powerpuff Girls 3 0 6:30 Batman – Brave And The Bold 3 0 7am Sky Sport News 8am Game Shakers 3 8:30 The Moe Show 3 0 9am Million Dollar Minute 9:30 The Crowd Goes Wild 3 10am The Doctors PGR 3 11am Antiques Roadshow 3 0 Noon Sky Sport News 12:30 Madam Secretary PGR 3 0 1:30 Man With A Plan PGR 3 0 2pm The Late Show With Stephen Colbert PGR 3 3pm Wheel Of Fortune 0 3:30 Jeopardy 4pm A Place In The Sun 5pm 3rd Rock From The Sun 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm New Zealand Football Show 6:30 Courtside 7pm The Project 7pm The Crowd Goes Wild 0 7:30 Moving Out With Kanoa 7:30 Outback Truckers PGR PGR Trent dreams of living the 8:30 Return To Downton PGR 0 surf life in Gisborne, but do 9:35 Louis Theroux – his family agree? 0 The Night In Question AO 0 8:30 M 24 Hours To Live 10:50 The Late Show With AO 2017 Thriller. 0 Stephen Colbert PGR 10:35 NewsHub Late

11:05 NCIS – LA AO 3 Callen must interrogate his father, who was found in an NCIS patient’s hospital room during a radiationpoisoning case. 0 Midnight Infomercials

MOVIES PREMIERE 6:55 Spitfire PGL 2018 Documentary.

8:35 Between Worlds 16VLSC 2018 Thriller. Nicolas Cage, Franka Potente.

10:05 Kin MVLC 2018 Action.

Myles Truitt, Jack Reynor.

11:50 The Nun 16VC 2018 Love Your Home and Travel Guides Horror. Demian Bichir, Garden, 8:30pm on TVNZ 1 8:35pm on TVNZ 2 Taissa Farmiga.

1:25 Spitfire PGL 2018 BRAVO SKY 5 Documentary.

6am Jeopardy! PG 6:25 Wheel 3:05 Red Sparrow 16VLSC 2018 6am Infomercials 3 Of Fortune PG 6:50 The 10am I Found The Gown 3 Thriller. Jennifer Lawrence, 10:30 Million Dollar Listing Simpsons PG 7:15 Can’t Joel Edgerton.

Pay? We’ll Take It Away NY PGR 3 11:30 Snapped 5:25 Time Out MS 2018 MVL 8:05 Border Security PGR 3 12:30 Dying To Comedy. Tessa Thompson, – Australia’s Frontline M Belong AO 3 1:30 Below Melissa Leo. 8:30 Ice Road Truckers PG Deck – Mediterranean AO 3 9:15 Storage Wars – Texas 6:50 Wonder Wheel PGVLS 2:30 Four Weddings UK 3 0 PG 9:40 CSI MV 10:25 SVU MV 2017 Drama. Kate Winslet, 3:30 The People’s Court 11:10 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take Justin Timberlake.

4:30 Million Dollar Listing It Away MVL Noon Jeopardy!

8:30 Escape Room NY PGR 3 5:30 Love It Or List PG 12:25 Wheel Of Fortune PG MVL 2019 Thriller. Six 12:50 Helicopter ER M It – Vancouver 3 strangers find themselves in 1:35 Piha Rescue PG 6:30 I’m Having Their circumstances beyond their 2pm The Force MC 2:25 CSI Baby 3 control, and must use their wits MV 3:10 Can’t Pay? We’ll 7:30 Hollywood Medium to find the clues before they Take It Away MVL 4pm The With Tyler Henry Simpsons PG 4:30 Jeopardy! die. Taylor Russell, Logan Miller.

Tyler brings warnings from the PG 5pm Wheel Of Fortune PG 10:15 Lady Bird 16VLSC other side about his love life for 5:30 Storage Wars – Texas PG 2017 Drama. Saoirse Ronan, fashion legend Carson Kressley. 6pm Ice Road Truckers PG Laurie Metcalf.

8:30 Below Deck AO 7pm Border Security – 11:50 Swept Under M The crew deal with the results Australia’s Frontline M of Abbi’s decision to leave the 7:30 CSI MV 8:30 Hawaii Five- 2015 Thriller. Devin Kelley, boat; Tanner must deal with a 0 MV 9:30 Valor MV 10:30 SVU Aaron Ashmore.

MV 11:15 Ice Road Truckers PG Friday serious stomach illness; Kevin 1:20 Time Out MS 2018 Friday continues his redemption Comedy. Tessa Thompson, tour with a risky dinner-menu 12:05 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away MVL 12:55 Wheel Of Melissa Leo. choice; Simone is frustrated Fortune PG 1:20 Jeopardy!

2:41 Nothing But Trailers M with the lack of opportunities PG 1:40 Border Security 2:56 Wonder Wheel PGVLS on board.

– Australia’s Frontline M 2017 Drama. Kate Winslet, 9:35 The Real Housewives 2:05 Valor MV 2:55 Hawaii Justin Timberlake.

Of Orange County AO Five-0 MV 3:40 SVU MV 4:34 Escape Room MVL 10:35 Snapped PGR 3 4:25 Storage Wars – Texas 2019 Thriller. Taylor Russell, 11:35 Dying To Belong AO 3 PG 4:50 CSI MV 5:35 The 12:25 Infomercials 3 Logan Miller.

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9:36 Anna Karenina MS 2012 Drama. Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Emily Watson.

11:41 Red MVL 2010 Action.

Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman.

1:30 Celeste And Jesse Forever 16LS 2012 Comedy Drama. Rashida Jones, Andy Samberg, Elijah Wood.

3pm Twilight Saga – Breaking Dawn: Part 2 MV 2012 Fantasy. Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson.

4:55 The Man From Uncle MV 2015 Action.

Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer.

6:50 House At The End Of The Street MV 2012 Horror. Jennifer Lawrence, Max Thieriot, Elisabeth Shue.

8:30 Life Of Pi PGC 2006 Drama. After a disaster at sea, a young man is marooned on a lifeboat he must share with the ship’s only other survivor, a Bengal tiger with whom he makes an unexpected connection.

Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan.

10:40 Non-Stop MVL 2013 Thriller. Lacey Chabert, Veronica Cartwright, Betsy Russell.

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12:23 The Man From Uncle MV 2015 Action. Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer. 2:16 House At The End Of The Street MV 2012 Horror. 3:53 Life Of Pi PGC 2006 Drama. 5:56 NonStop MVL 2013 Thriller.

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6:30 Paia 3 6:40 My Mokai 3 7:10 He Rourou 3 7:20 E Kori 3 7:25 E Ki E Ki 7:30 Haati Paati 3 7:40 Huhu 3 7:50 Huritua 3 8am Fresh 3 8:30 Kaitangata Twitch 9am Te Ao – Maori News 3 9:30 R&R 3 10am Tangaroa With Pio 3 10:30 My Reggae Song 3 11am Tautohetohe – On The Road PGR 3 Noon IVF World Sprints 3 12:30 Funny Whare – Gamesnight PGR 3 1pm The Stage – Haka Fusion AO 3 1:30 Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 2pm Toku Reo 3 2 3pm Paia 3 3:10 My Mokai 3 3:40 He Rourou 3 3:50 E Kori 3 3:55 E Ki E Ki 4pm Haati Paati 3 4:10 Huhu 3 4:20 Huritua 3 4:30 Globe 3 5pm Polyfest Kapa Haka 3 5:30 Nga Kapa Haka Kura Tuarua 3 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 6:30 Te Ao – Maori News

7pm Whanau Living 3 7:30 Whanau Bake Off 3 8pm Funny Whare – Gamesnight PGR 3 8:30 Marae DIY 9:30 Rere Te Whiu AO 3 10pm The Hui – Kaupeka Wha 10:30 Te Ao – Maori News 3

11pm Te Kauta 3 Chat show featuring guests who reminisce about their younger days and some of their naughtiest secrets.

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SKY SPORT 1 6am Wind Back 8am The Season Hamilton Boys’ High School. Behind the scenes of Hamilton Boys’ High School rugby.

8:30 Gallagher Premiership (RPL) Bath v Saracens.

From Recreation Ground.

10:30 Gallagher Premiership (RPL) Exeter Chiefs v Wasps. From Sandy Park.

12:30 Gallagher Premiership (RPL) Worcester Warriors v Sale Sharks. From Sixways Stadium.

2:30 Gallagher Premiership (RPL) Northampton Saints v Leicester Tigers.

From Franklin’s Gardens.

4:30 Gallagher Premiership (RPL) Bristol Bears v London Irish. From Ashton Gate.

6:30 Gallagher Premiership (RPL) Harlequins v Gloucester.

From Stoop Memorial Ground.

8:30 The Season Hamilton Boys’ High School.

Behind the scenes of Hamilton Boys’ High School rugby.

9pm The Season Hamilton Boys’ High School.

9:30 The Season Hamilton Boys’ High School.

10pm Women’s Sevens – World Series (HLS) Day Two. From Infinity Park Glendale, Colorado.

11:40 L Sevens – World Series Day One. From the Sevens Stadium, Dubai.

5:30 The Season Hamilton Boys’ High School.

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6am Gardeners’ World 6:30 Fishy Business 7am Gordon Ramsay – Ultimate Home Cooking 7:30 Jelly Jamm 8am Secret Life Of The Tasmanian Devil 9am Dream Gardens 9:30 Chris Tarrant – Extreme Railway Journeys 11:30 Mysteries At The Museum 12:30 American Pickers 1:30 Where The Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle 2:30 Mine Hunters 3:30 Orang-utan Jungle School 4:30 Hairy Bikers’ Chicken And Egg The Hairy Bikers look for the best chicken-and-egg recipes in the world. Biking across Europe, the Middle East, and America, they celebrate the versatility of both chicken and egg.

5:30 Mysteries At The Museum 6:30 American Pickers 7:30 Yukon Gold PGR In week two of the 16-week Yukon Gold mining season, second-generation miner Karl Knutson aims to finish up at Sulphur Creek, where he aims to pull seven kg of gold.

8:30 Discovering… The Doors 9pm Discovering… Talking Heads 9:30 Paranormal Survivor AO 10:30 American Pickers 11:30 Mysteries At The Museum Don Wildman unearths relics from the world’s greatest institutions to reveal secrets from the past, examining each artefact to illuminate the hidden treasures. 12:30 Gardeners’ World 1am Hairy Bikers’ Chicken And Egg 2am My Dream Home 3am Orang-utan Jungle School 4am Paranormal Survivor AO 5am Mysteries At The Museum

SKY SPORT 2 6am Blackcaps v England Second Test Wrap.

From Seddon Park in Hamilton.

8am Marsh One-Day Cup (HLS) Final.

8:30 Blackcaps v England (RPL) Second Test Wrap.

From Seddon Park in Hamilton.

4pm Blackcaps v England (HLS) First Test.

From Bay Oval in Tauranga.

6pm Blackcaps v England (HLS) Second Test.

From Seddon Park in Hamilton.

8pm Blackcaps v England 2008 (HLS) Fourth ODI. From McLean Park, Napier.

9pm Marsh One-Day Cup (HLS) Final.

9:30 ICC Cricket 360 The latest cricket news and recent cricket action from T20, ODI and test cricket, as well as off-field interviews and features.

10:30 Australia v Pakistan (HLS) Second Test, Day Five.

From Adelaide Oval.

11:30 Blackcaps v England Second Test Wrap.

From Seddon Park in Hamilton.

Friday

1:30 Blackcaps v England 2008 (HLS) Fourth ODI. From McLean Park, Napier.

2:30 Marsh One-Day Cup (HLS) Final.

3am Women’s Big Bash (RPL) Melbourne Stars v Melbourne Renegades.

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DISCOVERY 6:35 Fast N’ Loud PG Hot Off the Pantera. 7:30 Car Crash TV 7:55 Car Crash TV 8:20 Deadliest Catch PG Now or Never.

9:10 Aussie Lobster Men PG 10am How It’s Made PG 10:25 How Do They Do It? PG 10:50 Sydney Harbour Patrol 11:40 Swamp Murders M What Lies Beneath.

12:30 Blood Relatives M So Lonesome I Could Die. 1:20 Murder Calls M Torched Heart. 2:10 Car Crash TV 2:35 Car Crash TV 3pm Deadliest Catch PG A Brotherhood Tested.

4:45 Fast N’ Loud PG PanTera’s Labyrinth.

5:40 Sydney Harbour Patrol 6:35 Gold Rush PG Monster Red Lives.

7:30 Gold Rush PG Motherlode Mountain.

8:30 Outback Opal Hunters PG 9:25 Sharks Of The Badlands PG 10:15 Shark-Croc Showdown PG 11:05 Great White Abyss PG 11:55 The Laws Of Jaws PG

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12:45 Shark After Dark – 2019 PG 1:35 Great White Shark Babies PG 2:25 Tiger Shark Invasion PG 3:15 Sharks Of The Badlands PG 4:05 Shark-Croc Showdown PG 4:55 Great White Abyss PG 5:45 The Laws Of Jaws PG

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Natalie Bateman (left) and Jan Lee after receiving their awards at the Mid Canterbury Netball AGM at the Ashburton Motor Lodge on Monday night.

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Dedicated to netball Mid Canterbury Netball gave out both a life membership and a service award at its annual general meeting on Monday night.

Natalie Bateman received a life membership for her more than 20 years of voluntary service to netball in Mid Canterbury, while Jan Lee received a service award for her dedication to umpiring.

Bateman’s involvement in netball in Mid Canterbury began in 2001 when she gained the first steps to coaching course, level one and level two (part A).

She went on to coach a number of Mid Canterbury representative teams – junior A, under-15, under-17, under-15 development and under-15 Gold – and she was Tînwald School’s netball co-ordinator and coach.

She coached for the Ashburton College Netball Club at various levels over a number of years and has been a member of the

Mid Canterbury Netball junior committee, coaching committee, competition committee and spent time as coaching convenor.

She has facilitated coaching modules (My Little Team and Me, and Starting out in Coaching), and trained as a presenter for the first step to coaching and level courses.

She has her level one coaching award and has been the duty manager for juniors and seniors, and uniform co-ordinator for three years.

In 2015 Bateman received a Sport Mid Canterbury Volunteer Award and at the 2017 Sport Mid Canterbury Awards she was nominated for the outstanding volunteer award.

This year Bateman has attended six CCA1 coaching courses, was an under-15 selector and duty manager for the summer league.

She’s also been involved with the Hampstead Netball Club, which she joined in 2016 as a coach, and in 2016 her junior team won Team of the Year, and she received Hampstead’s Most Conscientious Club Member Trophy. In 2017 she received the club’s Coach of the Year Trophy and she is currently secretary of the Hampstead Netball Club.

Service award recipient Jan Lee is an unsung worker in Mid Canterbury Netball circles, who is keen to develop and learn where umpire coaching/assessing skills are concerned.

A giver without any expectation of reward, Lee passed her Netball New Zealand Part A Theory in 2004 with the highest mark in New Zealand, and the following year she gained her New Zealand Regional Qualifying Umpire Practical exam.

She has been a member of the umpire

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committee since 2006 and helped with the test banks of questions for players, assisted with club umpire sessions, presented at junior umpire sessions and attended centre tester workshops.

Lee has been a centre tester panel member, has umpired representative fixtures, secondary school tournaments and local premier and senior grades.

She has also been accredited with umpire coach and assessor at zone level, and was appointed as an umpire coach in 2018 at the South Island Secondary Schools’ Tournament.

Always available and willing to help young umpires, Lee was in 2016 awarded the Leech Cup for senior umpiring and in 2019 the Sheena Tyrrell Cup for umpire coaching.

She always gives of her time and quietly goes about any required tasks.

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