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Baby Maddy one step closer to home

By Sue NewmaN

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When Maddy Flanagan cries mum Kylie Hende smiles, she knows those cries mean her seven week old daughter is thriving and that’s something Kylie and partner Caleb Flanagan have never taken for granted.

Maddy was born with mitral valve regurgitation and an emphysemic lobe on her left lung. That meant surgery and time in Auckland’s Starship hospital.

But next week, that could all change as Maddy and Kylie are scheduled to take a giant step closer to their Ashburton home – relocation to Christchurch Hospital.

For Kylie, partner Caleb and her sons Regan and Caleb, the weeks since Maddy’s birth have been tough, with mother and daughter in Christchurch Hospital and then in Auckland and Kylie’s mum, Karen Breakwell, becoming a fulltime carer for her grandsons.

Maddy underwent mitral valve repair surgery a week before Christmas and is likely to require further surgery once she is older

In brief Climbing wall A Guardian article that wrapped up the Ashburton District Council’s year stated that a climbing wall, planned for the EA Networks Centre had been removed from its to-do list. This is not correct.

The project has been programmed for the next financial year. It is expected to cost $350,000.

and stronger but she’s now growing, able to feed and is constantly smiling, Kylie said.

Post-surgery Maddy was on a respirator, but with that removed she’s rediscovered her voice.

“Now she’s got it back, she’s really using it to her advantage.”

When you have a baby who is very sick, it’s fantastic to hear her cry, to watch her smile and to be able to interact with her, Kylie said.

“She’s an absolute cutie.”

While Kylie has rarely left Maddy’s side since her birth, Christmas brought its moments of joy, with the family reunited when the Angel Flight Charity flew partner Caleb, sons Regan and Caleb and mum Karen to Auckland.

“My boys were so excited to see me and they gave me big hugs. At Ronald McDonald House they put on a huge Christmas meal and the boys were completely spoiled.”

Watching her family return home, however, was pretty tough, but knowing they’ll shortly be within driving distance has meant the new year is starting on the best possible note, she said.

Space camp funding When Ashburton College teacher Heena Shah travelled to a space camp in America she did so with support from three of the Ashburton District’s service clubs.

In addition to Ashburton Lions she was funded by the Rotary Club of Ashburton and Ashburton Plains Rotary.

Diving death Specialist police divers were sent to the Bay of Islands yesterday to help with the extraction of a diver who failed to surface near Moturoa Island. Senior sergeant Ryan Gray said the alarm was raised about 8.30am yesterday morning after the diver struck trouble near Moturoa Island, in the Bay of Islands. The Police Maritime Unit, a commercial dive boat and the Northland Rescue Helicopter attended the scene. The diver was confirmed deceased in the water after 10am. Police said the death will be referred to the Coroner.

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Right – Seven-week-old Maddy Flanagan, growing, thriving and ready to move from Auckland’s Starship Hospital to Christchurch Hospital, one step closer to home.

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■ ASHBURTON DISTRICT COUNCIL

No hosing restrictions – yet

By Sue NewmaN

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One of the few benefits of an early summer marked by more wet than sunny days could be the lack of hosing restrictions for Ashburton gardeners.

Most years hosing restrictions have been introduced by Christmas but this year they’ve only just made it onto the watch list, Ashburton District Council service delivery manager Neil McCann said.

While consumption rose on Thursday when the temperature

inched towards 30°C, with rain predicted tomorrow, McCann said he anticipated consumption would drop again.

That didn’t mean restrictions were off the radar, however, he said.

“We’re monitoring and checking every morning and we’ll look at it again on Monday.”

Restrictions are usually in place by this time but this year it was a different story, he said.

Over the past 10 years hosing restrictions have been introduced as early as December 3,

but every year has seen alternate day hosing in place well before Christmas.

In 2015 the council trialled a hosing restriction-free summer, hoping an education programme aimed at encouraging gardeners to water at optimum times would keep consumption down.

Restrictions returned the following year.

There have been downsides, however, to an extraordinarily wet start to summer McCann said and these are showing up

in rapidly growing grass and sprouting weeds around Ashburton and the district’s villages.

“We’ve had pretty perfect conditions for weeds and grass in parks and roadsides.”

Rain in the days before Christmas and then plenty of heat over the holiday break meant parts of the district were looking a bit untidy, but council staff and contractors would be back on deck on Monday and would start catching up on outstanding mowing and weed spraying, he said.

What a way to start the New Year.

A 19-year-old man from Timaru was arrested at 12.01am on January 1 for allegedly assaulting a police officer in Queenstown. Police say the man approached the sergeant from behind near The Mall and hit him in the head, knocking off his hat. He then attempted to run off with it. The man was charged and due to appear in Queenstown District Court on January 7. – NZME

Police dog at work Police dog Caesar is sporting a few scars after being stabbed in the head but the canine crime fighter has been cleared to hit the beat again. The 21-month-old dog was allegedly stabbed twice in the head after “a vicious struggle” with a man on December 22 at 6.30am.

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■ FARMING

Farming stalwart calls it a day

By Tim Cronshaw

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T

he Ashburton office of Federated Farmers won’t be quite the same now that farming stalwart Kevin Geddes has called it a day.

Geddes, 80, put his heart and soul into supporting the farming community for decades, latterly as a part-time policy analyst for the federation.

So when he “retired’’ on December 21, his departure marked the end of an era at the corner office on West Street.

Judging by a long list though, it will be a short-lived retirement.

A good portion of his time, he suspects, will be taken up with following his son’s aviation career and being astride a ride-onmower at his daughter-in-law’s function venue and their country garden.

Federated Farmers’ newest life member will continue managing the trust that owns several buildings, including the site of the branch office.

The workaholic will be involved in other charitable trusts, extending his long service with many non-profit groups and has already turned down other “opportunities’’ as the list grows uncontrollably.

The concept of him sitting at home would be a “total disaster’’ for him and his wife, Lorraine, he admits.

A full life in farming and working alongside rural support trusts, community groups and Federated Farmers has brought immense satisfaction.

“I have no regrets – I would do the same again in a heartbeat. I won’t slow down too much. I never expected to reach the age 80. How do you know?”

He survived a cancer scare and feels fortunate to be part of a blessed generation.

“Our food is better, our lifestyle is better and when you read history and old diaries of our forebears, we are extremely fortunate. There’s no such thing as luck – there is good fortune – which is improved through work. If I have anything going into retirement it’s that I do not intend to stop working. That’s what life is all about.’’

Geddes left the farm in 1998. He had been involved with Federated Farmers leading up to then, starting as a 21-year-old as a provincial executive representative for the Otago/Southland Council of Young Farmers Club in 1960.

“I was young then and knew everything and they were a lot of old duffers. It’s been downhill since then steadily. That was my first involvement and it’s wisdom now, the wisdom of ages,’’ says a self-mocking Geddes.

He rose through the elected ranks to sit on the national meat and wool executive and in his fifties was vice president of the Mid Canterbury branch.

Farming was difficult enough without adding the many responsibilities of representing Federated Farmers and the endless phone calls and meetings that entailed, particularly during the challeng-

ing 1980s.

“I was aged 50 at that stage. I say that this was something that I had to do. My family say it was hormones, a middle-aged crisis.

Essentially we were in a mess.’’

Federated Farmers had been arguing, from the late 1970s, that New Zealand had to become more market related otherwise its internal costs would choke rural and urban exporting.

Then the Labour government outflanked the National Party to win the 1984 election and introduced Rogernomics and brought about a market focus and exposed the New Zealand economy to global trade. The party set about removing tariffs, reforming the labour market, abolishing transport regulations and floating the dollar.

The dollar was expected to “float like a stone’’ but it revalued 30 per cent in the other direction.

Geddes said the sequencing of the reform changes was flawed during a period of hyper-inflation, a rising dollar resulting in a huge capital inflow into New Zealand which led to the day the New Zealand stock market crashed, October 20, 1987, and which wiped out millions of dollars. Drought did not help.

The result was a lot of farmer pain. In Mid Canterbury the export barley industry was wiped out totally because of the revaluation. Many small businesses exporting to Australia went broke.

Any farmer with too much debt was left vulnerable. Some of them had to up stakes and move on.

Geddes became the rural co-ordinator of the New Zealand Rural Trust and did what he could to help farmers rebuild their lives.

Leading up to then, Geddes had run the family sheep and beef operation, Braeside, in Maniototo from 1962 until moving to Carew, on 355 hectares, in 1973.

The mixed cropping and sheep and beef farm was renamed Braeside and they put in borderdyke irrigation – 100 acres a year which “damn near killed me’’ and set up a dairy unit in 1984. Later spray irrigation was installed.

Then in 1980 they sold some of the farm, keeping the dairy unit and putting sharemilkers on, and bought Cracroft for cropping and sheep and beef farming.

“We covered just about every farming enterprise at that time but the decade of the 1980s was pretty tough and we certainly weren’t exempt from that by any means.’’

They got through this troubling phase, later downsizing the farming operations, selling Cracroft in 1990 and keeping the dairy unit.

When a year-long contract with the rural trust finished, the provincial president came to him and suggested he next take up the reins.

Geddes replied he would rather work in policy than admin’ and he became the chief executive of Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers.

Another chapter as a policy analyst followed, and he and Lorraine, happily moved from the dairy unit to Ashburton 15 years ago, theoretically at retirement age.

Geddes received a Queen’s Ser-

vice Medal in the 2017 New Year’s Honours for services to agriculture and the community.

He remains a staunch farming supporter, citing rural-urban communication, biosecurity and the environment as his main “not concerns, but acknowledgements of the reality of life’’.

“We need to keep teaching our children that we are all linked to the soil and we may not move away from the soil because it’s our heritage and we must look after that.’’

New Zealanders have to be constantly on guard for more pest and disease incursions as an island nation that already has a record of unwanted arrivals putting pressure on agriculture.

“My generation drained the swamps and there will always be a balance but we must be pragmatic. Actually, by simply blocking up the drains we can returns the swamps back if that is what society wants. But of course you have property issues – who’s swamp is it?

“And, if you are going to expect a farmer to bear the cost of returning the land to swampland are you going to impose constraints on farming that have the potential to make farming unsustainable financially? That will always be a tension point. … In retirement I shall be watching.’’

He’s unlikely to ever completely shake off the policy analyst inherent in him, even in retirement, says Geddes, who is of Scottish and French heritage.

“The French wants to drink the wine and the Scottish doesn’t want to pay for it – life is full of balances and tensions.’’

Above – Kevin Geddes with his wife, Lorraine.

Below – Kevin at his investiture in 2017.

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Above – McIntosh Commercial Construction Limited builders (from left) Te Rangi Kireka, site manager Hadley Fletcher, and Hugh Donaldson took extra water breaks as the mercury rose in January.

Above – Calm before the storm – Lottie Hurst, 2, and little brother Hugo, 1, play in autumn leaves as warm temperatures graced Ashburton in May. Left – Ashburton’s Graham Taylor had very little sun to measure at his weather station in June.

Year of wild weather

In one of Mid Canterbury’s wettest years ever, there were floods, unseasonal snow and even a tornado. Susan Sandys takes a look back at a year of wild weather.

M

id Cantabrians mostly splashed their way through 2018, but it was not without its hot spells.

Temperatures soared over 34°C in Mid Canterbury at the end of January, making conditions tough for those working outside in the sun.

Builders on sites throughout the district drank plenty of water and some even ordered in iced drinks and went home early. At Ashburton Intermediate School, a welcoming powhiri planned for 2.15pm for new students was postponed until a cooler day.

Associate Health Minister Julie Anne Genter put out a press

release at the time saying that the Ministry of Health was starting to plan for hotter summers and was developing a nationwide Heat Health Plan.

“Climate change means summer temperatures are expected to rise across both the North and South Island, increasing the risk of heat stress and subtropical diseases,” she said.

They were risks Mid Cantabrians did not have to worry about for too long. On February 1, Mt Hutt staff reported five centimetres of snow as ex-tropical cyclone Fehi passed the South Island, leading to an outbreak of cold, southerly winds.

Niwa meteorologist Seth Carrier said summer’s extremes were mainly due to La Nina, causing hot and settled weather early in the season. This heated the ocean, contributing to the warm temperatures. Climate change was also likely to be a factor.

“Climate change is kind of in the background of everything at this point,” he said.

The big wet began in earnest and overall Ashburton had its third highest rainfall for February since records began in 1909. By March, Niwa reported Ashburton had received more than twice its average rainfall over summer, with 362 millimetres, the second

highest level since records began in 1909.

In April Ashburton received almost three times its average rainfall for the month. There was about 153mm, compared to the long-term average of 52mm.

The sogginess was followed by fogginess, and for the first half of June meteorologists such as Graham Taylor at Graham’s Weather Station had barely a ray of sunshine to measure.

“There’s been barely any sun, and very little rain,” Taylor said at the time.

Niwa figures showed that for the first half of June Ashburton recorded just 24.5 hours of sun-

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Above – Skiers flocked to Mt Hutt in what was a lean snow year.

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PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN Right – Ashburton hit national media headlines when a tornado struck near the town in November.

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in Mid Canterbury shine.

The lack of rainfall occurring at the same time heralded the beginning of what was to be a dry winter.

Dairy farmers had good conditions for calving as Ashburton received just 34.6mm of rainfall during August, well below normal compared to the long-term average of 61.6mm.

Early September Mt Hutt received it largest one-day snowfall for the ski season so far, when 25cm fell, but it was not enough to turn off the snowmakers.

Manager James McKenzie described the quarter-metre fall as “quite awesome”, and an easily

managed amount.

Mt Hutt went on to have a good season regardless of it being a lean-snow year, with the lack of blizzards contributing to fewer closed days and high skier numbers.

Then mid-October a storm dropped 45cm. Management may have felt Mother Nature was messing with them as just three days out from closing she had at last delivered the snowfall they had been waiting for all season.

Despite not being able to open until 12.30pm on the Saturday, management rated it the best closing weekend ever as huge crowds flocked to enjoy the fresh powder

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conditions.

Once winter was over, the rain returned.

It was the second wettest November in Ashburton since records began in 1909, contributing to Ashburton recording its third wettest ever spring. Snow flurries occurred in Mid Canterbury early in the month, leading residents to wonder whether they might ever see the sun again.

The sodden conditions took their toll on the district’s roads as numerous potholes opened up and sunshine bridges were washed out.

High river levels imperilled populations of endangered birds

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nesting on the Ashburton River as they were forced to hold off in trying to hatch eggs and raise young until later in the season.

In mid-November Ashburton hit headlines when a tornado struck near the town.

Farmer Randal Hanrahan was outside enjoying north-easterly conditions when he felt a southerly blow through and was aghast at seeing the dust devil form.

“It was freakish what it did and didn’t touch,” he said as he recounted the experience.

The twister upended irrigators, a tractor and mower as it moved within 25 metres of his house.

Leading up to Christmas Mid

Canterbury’s wild weather story continued, as a freak thunderstorm struck Methven on December 22.

Flooding threatened Methven homes and businesses and the town’s fire brigade had to pump water building up in surrounding areas.

Sun over Christmas was to be followed by cloud and a few showers with southerlies on Boxing Day, so it seems Mid Canterbury’s weather woes continue.

Rainfall levels for the year as of December 23 had tipped over the millennium mark, at 1009.2mm.

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Just a simple wish

By HeatHer Mackenzie Sandy Scott and her daughters Lauren and Gemma granted Margaret Spicer‘s wish of a shopping trip to The Warehouse.

Margaret certainly looked in her element, browsing amongst the clothing racks, checking out the Christmas goodies and chatting to people she knew.

Some time ago Margaret decided that driving wasn’t for her anymore.

That prompted her to give her car away to a family member and invest in a mobility scooter.

“The scooter is perfect for me. I can get

most places, however I find crossing busy roads too daunting so I pretty much just stay on my side of town,” she said.

“This is such a welcome treat for me as I can’t remember the last time I was in here.”

The little group built up an instant rapport so much so it looked like they had known each other for years, rather than the 15 minutes or so it took to drive to the Warehouse.

Gemma pointed out a black and white mini skirt to Margaret.

“You could wear this on Christmas Day.” “Oh goodness Gemma, it’s been years since I wore anything like that!” Margaret replied.

Right – (from left) Margaret Spicer, Gemma Taylor, Sandy Scott (girls’ mum) and Lauren Taylor.

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A fan of Christmas wishes

A simple Christmas wish

By HeatHer Mackenzie

Happiness for Val Snook was having her kitchen fan cleaned.

Left – Betty is loving her clean windows thanks to the hard work of Katelyn Hogg (centre) and Katie Polenar (right).

By HeatHer Mackenzie When Katelyn Hogg and Katie Polenar arrived to grant Betty’s window cleaning wish, she told them that she had some unwanted festive season visitors, mice in her conservatory.

“I know they are there as they keep eating my pet canary Charlie’s birdseed,” she said.

“We can help you sort that,” Katelyn said.

A quick phone call to the Guardian office and Betty was the proud owner of two new mouse traps, which Katelyn then set up around the house.

Betty was very impressed. “To date I’ve

caught four mice – Mum, Dad, Granddad and Grandma. Hopefully that’s the lot,” she said.

“I’m so grateful to the girls for helping me, I knew the mice where there, but I couldn’t set the traps myself.”

In the true spirit Christmas wishes Katelyn also helped Betty sort out how to operate her newly installed heat pump.

“It’s like a foreign language to me. I have absolutely no idea how to turn it on or anything about it,” Betty said.

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Wishing for a whiter than white fan.

For quite a while Val could see that the blades on her ceiling fan needed cleaning, but she couldn’t do it herself.

“Back in the day I was able to climb the ladder to reach, but unfortunately things and knees change,” she said with a laugh.

It was husband Barry’s job to clean the kitchen fan but since he died four years ago the job’s been left undone.

Thankfully, due to the Ashburton Guardian’s Christmas wishes and Guardian staff member Steve Stratford, her ceiling fan soon received its long awaited spruce up.

It’s now whiter than white.

“The Christmas wishes for the Elderly idea is just magic,” Val said.

“I cannot thank everybody enough. There are so many little jobs like this that people just cannot do. Having somebody come in, with a cheery smile to lend a helping hand is very much appreciated.”

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Honours for former Mid Cantabrians While they may no longer live in the Ashburton District, two people with strong ties to the district were among those honoured in this year’s New Year Honours.

Ruth Putze

Former Methven woman, Ruth Putze (nee Currie), received a New Zealand Distinguished Service Decoration for services to the New Zealand Defence Force.

Putze, a former head girl at Mt Hutt was posted to the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation (UNTSO) from July 2015 to February 2016, and served as the Chief of the Observer Group in Lebanon, as well as the Senior National Officer for the New Zealand contingent.

In this role she was responsible for all UNTSO operations within Lebanon, the safety of the military Observer Group personnel under her command, and for maintaining liaison and a cooperative working environment between the Observer Group, the United Nations Interim Observer Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), other UN agencies and local communities.

As one of only two female commanders serving in the Middle East (both with UNTSO) and the only one in South Lebanon, her

Ruth Putze and her Distinguished Service Decoration medal. exceptional performance has made her a role model for women throughout UNIFIL and UNTSO. Her work ethic and ability to build relationships with her counter-parts and seniors across more than 40 troop-contributing nations, as well as community leaders and members of the national military forces, were significant factors in the success of her command.

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During this time she instituted and completed a number of important projects, including the replacement of the Force’s armoured vehicles and an enhanced induction training regime for new observers.

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George Bryant

George Bryant

George Bryant was educated at Ashburton Borough School and Ashburton High School, but now lives in Tauranga.

George received a Queens Service Medal for services to publishing and the community.

He is a Christian publishing pi-

oneer, a pastor and the author of 40 plus non-fiction titles.

His work is described as always been “on the fringes”, challenging the mainstream thinking of the day.

He spent 33 years in education, many of those as a secondary school principal.

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Dec 2018 At the end of each year, Guardian staff choose the best of the year’s photos to share with you all and reminisce.

Guest artist Barbara Nutsford hangs one of her pieces ahead of the Ashburton Society of Arts Christmas Show opening.

A band for the Mega Mitre 10’s Christmas in the Park undertaking final rehearsal and technical check.

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Crew from the Hundred Jumps Project and the Canterbury Westpac Rescue Helicopter with the cheque for $10,057.40 that was raised by the Hundred Jumps Project.

Above – The Ashburton Silver Band’s (front, from left) Sam Orr, Jolene Thomas, Joelle Watson, Sarah Leadley and Fiona Maginness (behind).

Right – Teachers Sarah Lassen (left) and Greta Hampton (centre) donate a variety of food and presents to the Salvation Army, gladly received

by Mike Allwright.

Below – Year 7 students at Ashburton Intermediate School were evacuated from their classrooms following the discovery of a fire in a rubbish skip at the school.

Getting ready to hide about 40 Santas at the Ashburton Museum were summer staff Connor Lysaght and Rosie Twamley with museum director Tanya Robinson.

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Kirst y Bentley WAS NEVER

JUST A STORY

Following a story that starts as a missing person alert and becomes a full-blown murder inquiry is about more than cold hard facts; when it’s in your own home town it becomes a whole lot more. For Guardian reporter Sue Newman (right) the Kirsty Bentley story became more than a job, it became, and still is, part of her life.

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ew Year’s Day 1999 dawned hot, very hot. The heavy early morning air promised a day that would be a scorcher, a day for seeking water and shade. Good for doing nothing much.

I’d drawn the unlucky marble.

While others in the news team were taking it easy, I was on call.

Traditionally the New Year beat in Ashburton is a non-event.

You could count on a few calls to emergency services, a few minor offences to follow up, a few photos of holiday activities to take and that would be it. Easy day at the office.

But not 1999.

Very early that morning the phone rang. It was a friendly cop.

“Just thought you might be interested, a teenager didn’t return home last night. We’ve set up a search around the river bed area.

Might be a few photos in it if you were keen...”

That a teen hadn’t made it home after a New Year’s Eve party wasn’t unusual. It might be something to keep an eye on. A few questions, however, indicated this one might be different.

The teenager was just 15. She hadn’t been seen since early evening the day before. She was a kid who would not simply disappear.

Her parents were worried and her friends were also worried.

Kirsty Bentley was not a kid who’d run away. She was a homebody.

Add to that, her dog was missing too – dog and girl, last seen walking towards the Ashburton River bed.

The day had suddenly got interesting. Pad, pen, camera and a trip to the search site.

Hours later, interviews with

friends, family and police filed.

Kirsty was still missing.

Her dog and her knickers were not. They’d been found and fears for her safety ramped up.

Within hours, the teen who’d stayed out too late became a teen who could be in trouble.

Twenty years ago, when it came to major crime, Ashburton was something of a sleepy hollow, but as the hours, then the days ticked by, the word missing was being replaced with murder.

A missing person in Ashburton becomes personal, they’re one of our own. The cops, the media, the search teams and the family, most knew one another and that meant Kirsty’s disappearance was never going to be just another story.

Journalists are supposed to be unemotional recorders of events.

In this case that was impossible.

For the Guardian team, Kirsty and

her family became very close to our hearts.

Over many days I spent hours with Sid and Jill. Sometimes they talked. Sometimes we simply sat in silence and I watched as they folded under the weight of grief.

And I watched and worried for them as they suffered through the agonies of unwanted media attention, as they dealt with the growing awareness that Kirsty may never come home. It was gut-wrenching stuff.

It was a time of high emotion for everyone involved in the search. Tears weren’t reserved for the family and Kirsty’s friends.

They became common currency for media too.

The toll Kirsty’s disappearance took on Sid, Jill and son John was clear in the way each withdrew and became wrapped in their personal sorrow. They became a

family that grief all but destroyed.

As the days ticked by rumour, innuendo and cruel gossip did the rest.

Through the 18 days that she was missing her family held on to a tiny sliver of hope that she might be found alive. That hope died when her body was found in the Rakaia Gorge. Grief took on a new shape. The search for Kirsty became the search for a killer.

As the anniversaries of her death ticked by, Kirsty never became just another story for the Guardian team, she and her family remained people we cared about. As Jill and Sid’s lives reshaped we never forgot them.

Twenty years down the track, Kirsty’s story is still in my heart, the hours I spent with Jill and Sid are burned in my memory.

Sid has died, Jill has moved on, but Kirsty has not been forgotten.

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20 years on, we may yet get an answer On New Year’s Eve 20 years ago Kirsty Bentley went missing. Reporter Kurt Bayer profiles the case as the anniversary of her tragic disappearance is marked.

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he cold case file amounts to more than 70 archive boxes containing 400 folders of documents and evidence.

Twenty years since murdered Ashburton schoolgirl Kirsty Marianne Bentley went missing while walking her dog, it remains one of New Zealand’s highest-profile murder mysteries. It still fascinates, chills and divides Mid Cantabrians. Locals are quick to offer a theory or toss out a name of a likely suspect.

In the late 90s, genetic crime solving was in its infancy.

But now, Detective Inspector Greg Murton believes that advances in modern DNA testing techniques could crack open the case.

The dog leash found around the dog’s neck – tying her to a tree at the Ashburton riverbank 50km away from where Kirsty’s body was later found – along with underwear found nearby will be included in new tests to be carried out by scientists at the Institute of Environmental Science and Research, New Zealand’s Crown Research Institute, in Auckland.

“The case is still open and being investigated,” Murton said “With the new forensic testing we are hopeful to get the right result for the family even after all these years. There have been other cases recently where murders that are 20 years old have been solved through DNA or other reasons, so we’re forever hopeful.”

DNA profiling – a process of identifying a specific pattern of DNA from a person or sample of bodily tissue – has revolutionised forensic science and global crime investigation. In New Zealand, there have been several high-profile examples where DNA has nailed criminals decades after they thought they were scot-free.

In 1995, in a joint project involving police and ESR, New Zealand created the National DNA Profile Databank. It involved the collection of DNA profiles from convicted offenders and volunteers on to a central database that is matched against DNA profiles obtained from unsolved crimes in an attempt to “identify any individual that could be linked to an offence through biological material left at the crime scene”.

Testing has advanced since and the new techniques will be applied to the evidence from Operation Kirsty.

In 2002, Jules Mikus was jailed for life after DNA evidence linked him to the savage rape and murder of Napier schoolgirl Teresa Cormack 15 years earlier.

It was also the downfall of

Above – Sid Bentley never stopped grieving for his daughter Kirsty.

Left – Jill Bentley may have moved on with her life, but her daughter remained in her heart.

Jarrod Allan Mangels. After a drunken Nelson night out in 2003, Mangels was asked to give a blood sample. His DNA was later found to match the DNA found on nail clippings from Maureen McKinnel who was strangled at her Arrowtown home on Boxing Day 1987 and dumped naked over the Arrow River Bridge.

Murton, who took charge of the unsolved crime file case in 2014, is hopeful for some test results

by the end of the year. But he cautioned that final answers still may be some way off – if they are ever found.

“It’s such a fine level of testing.

[ESR] have to interpret those results and then look at where we go from there,” he says. “More sensitive testing methods are great, but at the end of the day we still need a suspect to test this against.”

Over the years, hundreds of

local men have been spoken to by police during Operation Kirsty, including her brother John and ex-Royal Navy sailor father Sid, whose movements on New Year’s Eve were vague, and whose story later changed. Both said police treated them as suspects and vehemently denied any involvement, with Sid doing so right up to his death in June 2015, aged 64.

One theory doing the rounds was that John had killed his sister

and that his father helped him dump the body. He has said detectives appeared to think he was jealous of his sister because she had a boyfriend.

In March last year, Murton confirmed he was looking at double Ashburton Work and Income killer Russell Tully as a possible suspect. The former local diesel mechanic was ruled out after Murton quizzed him behind bars and came away satisfied with his alibi.

Kirsty’s mother Jill Peachy is kept up-to-date on the case by Murton. She’s aware of the new DNA testing and that it’s helped catch killers years down the line.

But she long ago ceased holding her breath.

“If it’s going to be, it will,” she said “I just hope the killer is sweating that one day they will be caught. continued over page

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... there is no reason why a 15-year-old should have been taken that way. However, I actually don’t have a lot of confidence that I will ever see that justice

Detective Senior Sergeant Lance Corcoran, officer in charge of the Ashburton Police Station at the time, shows the $50,000 reward notice that was posted in March, 1999, seeking any material information or evidence that would lead to a conviction for Kirsty’s murder. The reward was supported by television advertising.

PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN From P12 “I don’t have a face to hate, nor a reason to assess the ‘why?’ One day 20 years ago, I waved a happy bye-bye to my girl and then she was gone. There’s been nothing to show me what happened.”

December 31, 1998, had been a balmy day in town. Kirsty – a well-rounded, sensible, giggly girl who loved drama studies, poetry, choir singing, the Backstreet Boys, her boyfriend and friends – had been lounging in the library. She then did some shopping with best friend Lee-Anne Jellyman, grabbing lunch at McDonald’s, and popping in to see a friend at the dairy.

She would never know it, but she’d done better than she expected in her fifth-form exams and was loving what was turning out to be a long, hot summer. A pool party was being planned for her 16th birthday on January 18. She was bursting with excitement at the prospect of boyfriend Graeme Offord coming for dinner that night, with plans for him to stay over.

At about 2.30pm, she arrived back at the family’s South Street home before taking her black labrador-cross Abby for a stroll while her brother John, then 19, listened to music in his bedroom.

He remembers thinking Kirsty had been gone for a while but didn’t think too much of it.

“These sorts of things aren’t supposed to happen, so the idea of something bad happening to Kirsty was not even in my mind,” he says. “Mum came home and I asked her about it, expecting her to know. When she had a puzzled look on her face, I was a bit surprised.”

But on arriving home, mother Jill felt something was wrong.

Over the previous few months, she’d felt an unexplained dread that “somehow my little girl was at risk”.

Quizzing John, she noticed Abby’s dog lead was missing from the stool by the back door where Kirsty usually dropped it.

Jill headed towards the river, and as panic swept over her, she started running. But as she got near Abby’s favourite swimming hole, she turned around and ran home.

The Bentleys’ modest red brick home is just two doors down from the broad Chalmers Avenue, where the teen turned left with Abby in tow and wandered just a few hundred metres down the road that runs into a dead-end for motorists, and into the riverbank.

The river tracks have since been upgraded for mountainbikes and include one-way loops. Just off the trails, the bush is dense and

At 8am the next morning, an official search and rescue operation was launched. They scoured the Ashburton riverbank and after just two hours, they heard barking. A dehydrated Abby was found tied to a tree by a lead in an area of dense bush just off one of the walking tracks favoured by Kirsty.

Later that morning, they came across two items of clothing – underwear and boxer shorts – on top of blackberry bushes, which was identified as belonging to the missing teen.

Detective Senior Sergeant Lance Corcoran, who led the original Ashburton CIB investigation, felt from day one that the crime scene was staged by the killer to throw police off his trail. His view would be endorsed a decade later by top

Ashburton and the wider Canterbury district, rumours began swirling and fingers began to point. Hundreds of local men were spoken to by police.

On January 17, 1999 – 18 days after Kirsty disappeared, and with news coverage diminishing with every passing day – her body was found.

Two men searching for an illegal cannabis plot in the Camp Gully area of Rakaia Gorge – some 55km by road inland from Ashburton – stumbled across a badly decomposing body partially covered with sticks and scrub at the bottom of a steep embankment. Placed in the fetal position, she was fully clothed in what she’d left home in but was missing the underwear found by Ashburton

I’ve been through very black years of grieving and don’t wish to return to that. If Kirsty’s name is mentioned I smile. She is the Kirsty I remember prickly with blackberry and fallen trees.

When Kirsty’s father arrived home at around 6pm, things were not looking good. He immediately thought they should phone the police and lodge a missing person report.

The Bentleys, along with friends and police, started searching the neighbourhood, building yards, the northern riverbank and its paths.

As darkness fell, so did the mood. Kirsty had left home only wearing light clothes – a black tank top with a white butterfly-patterned blue sarong and black Colorado shoes with white soles.

international criminal profiler, retired British police inspector Chuck Burton, who reviewed the files in a bid to shed new light on the cold case.

“It’s an offender protecting his own identity by changing and altering the crime scene,” Burton said It just didn’t add up. There were no signs of the underwear having been torn or forcibly removed and the Bentleys didn’t think the lead was the same one Kirsty left home with. Nobody heard barking the night before either.

There were no other clues down by the river.

Over the next fortnight as the hunt for Kirsty widened across

River.

A post-mortem examination conducted two days later by forensic pathologist Dr Martin Sage concluded that given there was undigested food in her stomach – and it was known she’d eaten French fries with Lee-Anne at around midday on the day she disappeared — it was “most likely” she died that same day.

In the months after her death, police asked the public for information about a green Commer van which was reportedly seen in the area at the time of Kirsty’s disappearance and over the following days in the Mid Canterbury town as well as Camp Gully area.

It’s never been traced.

Corcoran is now in his 70s. He retired from the police at 55 – the age of compulsory retirement in those days – just months into the inquiry.

Although he doesn’t let the case haunt him, he admits thinking about it “from time to time”. The fact that a local schoolgirl was murdered in his community, made it more personal to him than some other cases.

Kirsty’s big brother John now lives in Australia and just like any life experience, it is a part of him but he doesn’t let it define him either.

“It’s not in the forefront of my mind, just a little thing in the corner that reminds me of how the world can be,” he says.

Lee-Anne Jellyman is now Lee-Anne Murray, aged 36 and a contracts administrator in Christchurch.

She has her suspicions on what happened that day 20 years ago, “as do most people, I think”, which she isn’t keen to share. She doubts she’ll ever see justice for her “sweet, caring, loyal, wise beyond her years” best friend.

“There is always the idea I would like to ask them why, but maybe I don’t want to know the answer to that question – there is no reason why a 15-year-old should have been taken that way.

However, I actually don’t have a lot of confidence that I will ever see that justice.”

Peachey, who now lives in Invercargill with second husband Noel Peachey, doesn’t have any theories on what happened to her daughter. And having no answers or any clues has been one of the toughest things to handle.

“But I think of the happy memories, not the day she died. I’ve been through very black years of grieving and don’t wish to return to that. If Kirsty’s name is mentioned I smile. She is the Kirsty I remember.”

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Scientologist stabbed The teenage son of a Scientologist has been arrested over an attack at the Sydney base of the controversial church where a “beloved” member died after being stabbed in the throat.

The 24-year-old victim was killed by a “traumatic” stab wounds after an incident at the $57 million Church of Scientology headquarters in Chatswood on Thursday afternoon.

The incident is alleged to have occurred on the driveway to the church after the 16-yearold was asked to leave.

Police said the teen was escorted from the premises – and as he was taken down the road a 25cm “very sharp kitchen knife” was allegedly produced.

Police said the 24-year-old, who is believed to be from Taiwan, died in hospital.

He was bleeding heavily from the neck when paramedics arrived.

The second man, aged 30, was treated for minor cuts and is in a stable condition.

Detective Chief Inspector Simon Jones said when officers arrived they asked the 16-yearold to drop the knife and drew their tasers to get him to drop the knife.

“At this stage it’s very early.

“It would appear the altercation, or the reason the young person has been removed from the premises, was only and solely in relation to a domestic incident that occurred yesterday.”

The victim couldn’t be saved, he said.

“At this stage unfortunately the 24-year-old male has passed away and inquiries are being made to contact family.

Both men were taken to Royal North Shore Hospital.

The teen was taken to Chatswood Police Station where he is assisting police with inquiries.

NSW Ambulance acting deputy commissioner Tony Gately described the 24-yearold victim’s injury as traumatic and said paramedics had done everything they could to help him.

Inspector Jones said both the men were employees of the church and they were trying to establish why the teen was

Johnny Depp ‘a monster’ Legal documents obtained by The Hollywood Reporter reveal new details into Amber Heard and Johnny Depp’s volatile relationship. “Johnny and I refer to his other personality, the part of him that is present when he beats me up – we call that the monster and have called [that] the monster for many years,” Heard said during a deposition taken in 2016. “I was petrified of the monster.”

In the deposition, Heard claims Depp threw a phone at her face “as hard as he could” and grabbed her by the hair. She described the room as being covered in broken glass.

The Sydney headquarters of the Church of Scientology. asked to leave.

“He had a lawful reason to be here originally and they’ve asked him to leave for various reasons, which we still need to get to the bottom of and speak to staff here on premises,” he said.

Inspector Jones said the domestic incident yesterday did not relate to the church.

“However resulting from that incident yesterday the staff on premises made a decision he should leave,” he said.

He said a member of the teen’s family had been at the church yesterday.

The Daily Telegraph reported the family member was the teenage boy’s mother, who he was trying to see.

After his mother told Scientology staff what had happened between them the day before, they decided to move him off the premises, a church source told the Telegraph.

A man at the centre’s reception told news.com.au he had no idea about the circumstances surrounding the incident.

“We’re not going to report

anything right now,” he said.

Other staff in the church also said they were unaware of what unfolded in the driveway.

The Church said in a statement the man killed was a beloved member of the congregation.

“This very unfortunate matter is in the hands of the police.

“We cannot make any further comment beyond the fact that the victim was a beloved member of our Church,” it said in a statement.

“The Church is providing the police with any assistance needed in their investigation.”

A young Scientologist, who asked not to be identified, had not been aware of the stabbings until media crews arrived.

“I came down when the first camera crew showed up but I was told it wasn’t a huge deal,” he said. “It’s a huge building, a lot of people come from around Asia to study here. It offers a lot of services other (Scientology properties) don’t.”

The headquarters for the church was officially opened in the leafy suburb of Chat-

swood in December 2016.

The day included a performance of Waltzing Matilda by Aussie singer and Scientology member Kate Ceberano.

The imposing building was described at the glitzy opening as “a cosmic alignment of universal factors” by the church’s global leader David Miscavige.

More than 100 Scientology members are reportedly bussed into the fancy building daily to study Dianetics (the church’s key teachings on the science of the mind), take courses in purification to rid them of “toxic residues” and attend “auditing” sessions costing thousands of dollars to help them overcome their past and ascend to a higher level of existence.

It is also known as Advanced Organisation Saint Hill Australia New Zealand Oceania, providing advanced religious services to Scientologists from across Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region.

The centre is said to be its biggest spiritual centre outside the United States.

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Another celeb has touched down in Queenstown. Multi Grammy-winning British singer Sam Smith has been spotted enjoying the sun in Arrowtown.

His friend, Kiwi model Emma Champtaloup, posted a photo of Smith in Arrowtown on her Instagram account yesterday. Smith is seen pushing her baby in a stroller. The singer flew into Auckland earlier this week. He was last in New Zealand just two months ago, when he performed two shows in Auckland in November. The visit comes a few days after actors KJ Apa and Cole Sprouse rang in the New Year in Queenstown.

Death reports exaggerated

Trump starts the year in volatile fashion President Trump, 12 days into a government shutdown and facing new scrutiny from emboldened Democrats, inaugurated the new year yesterday with a cabinet meeting.

It quickly became a 95-minute stream-of-consciousness defence of his presidency and worldview, filled with falsehoods, revisionist history and self-aggrandisement.

Trump trashed his former

Stars hit Queenstown

secretary of defence, retired four-star General Jim Mattis, as a failure after once holding him out as a star of his administration. “What’s he done for me?” Trump said.

He claimed to have “essentially” fired Mattis, who had surprised the White House by resigning after the president’s abrupt decision to pull US forces from Syria.

And Trump, who did not

serve in the military and received draft deferments during the Vietnam War, suggested he would have made a good military leader himself.

“I think I would have been a good general, but who knows?”

Trump said.

He took credit for falling oil prices, arguing they were the result of phone calls he made to the leaders of oil-producing nations.

“I called up certain people, and I said ‘let that damn oil and gasoline – you let it flow, the oil’,” he said.

And Trump defended his push to fund his promised border wall, parrying complaints from Democrats who have called the wall immoral by remarking, “Then we have to do something about the Vatican, because the Vatican has the biggest wall of them all.” - PA

Olivia Newton-John has dismissed speculation over her health and told fans “rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated”. The Australian actress, best-known for starring alongside John Travolta in 1978 film Grease, revealed in September she had been diagnosed with cancer for the third time in three decades. Last month reports emerged in the US speculating about Newton-John’s health, but the 70-year-old star has now moved to assure fans she is “doing great”. On Twitter she said: “Happy New Year everyone, this is Olivia Newton-John and I just want to say that the rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated, to quote a very famous quote.”

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Dollar steadies after wild swings

The US non-farm payroll data for December, due out on Friday in the US, is expected to show 179,000 jobs were added in the month, up from 155,000 in November, a number that fell well short of expectations of 198,000.

The October jobs count was also revised lower from an initially reported 250,000 to 237,000, adding to growing indicators that

Kieran McAnulty from a prudential supervision point of view. However, the FMA said there were a number of holes, particularly around the lack of conduct requirements in the delivery of banking products without financial advice.

The FMA said its own limited mandate in dealing with banking conduct and the central bank’s resourcing constraints probably contributed to the industry responding to conduct risks more slowly and shallowly than would be the regulator’s preference.

McAnulty’s bill, which has yet to be drawn in the random ballot process for Members’ Bills, could pre-empt the timetable set out for dealing with the issues when the RBNZ/FMA report was released in November.

At that time, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Commerce Minister Kris Faafoi said legislation to improve oversight was likely to come after the banks had reported back in March on individual programmes worked up for them by the regulators. It would also let ministers consider any new issues raised in the final report of the Australian Royal Commission, due in February.

In a cabinet paper published on the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employee website, Finance Minister Grant Robertson and Faafoi proposed that the government revisit the potential regulatory gap, which would require considerable policy work. MBIE would lead the policy work and report to Faafoi.

“Without pre-empting the policy process, it is possible that a solution could require new legislative requirements,” the cabinet paper said. “If this is the case, consideration will need to be given to what these requirements could be, how they fit with existing legislation, such as the Financial Markets Conduct Act, and appropriate enforcement mechanisms.”

McAnulty’s bill, as written, would require lenders to provide six-monthly reports to the RBNZ on the number of complaints they received against the code, how those issues were resolved, and any other information required by the central bank. It wouldn’t impose financial sanctions, rather it adopts “the approach that sunlight is the best disinfectant.”

The RBNZ would then have to publish reports on the total number of complaints received, how they were dealt with for the system as a whole, and also for each individual lender.

Private banks currently have a voluntary code of practice that was recently updated by its lobby group, the New Zealand Bankers’ Association.

Its complaints process uses the Banking Ombudsman to help deal with complaints a bank can’t resolve on its own.

The ombudsman fielded 2433 complaints in the June 2018 year, down from 2741 a year earlier.

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Government backbencher Kieran McAnulty has jumped the queue in trying to impose a code of conduct on banks with a private members’ bill lodged just before Parliament’s seven-week summer break.

The Labour MP and junior whip lodged the bill on December 18. It would require the Reserve Bank, in consultation with the licensed banks, to issue a code of conduct for lenders. The code would set out good practice for how lenders interact with their clients and clearly outline banks’ responsibilities to customers when closing down branches or significantly scaling back service in a particular area.

McAnulty says there’s a regulatory gap relating to the delivery of banking products and how banks interact with customers but which doesn’t involve financial advice.

“This bill would address that gap by requiring the RBNZ and the registered banks to produce a code of conduct,” the bill’s general policy statement said. “The code would outline the principles of good banking practice and the banks’ responsibilities to its customers in the event of a branch closure or significant reduction in available services.”

Banking conduct has already come under the spotlight over the past year. The Reserve Bank and Financial Markets Authority investigated conduct among local lenders after an Australian Royal Commission into financial services uncovered widespread misdeeds across the Tasman.

The RBNZ and FMA didn’t find the same sort of misconduct as the Australian inquiry, but did discover significant weaknesses in lenders’ internal processes for monitoring conduct.

The Reserve Bank didn’t think there were any regulatory gaps

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of news that have been throwing markets about in thin holiday-affected trading. The Japanese market was closed for a bank holiday on Thursday.

If Apple’s experience is indicative of the broader market, then the share prices of a number of companies with extensive businesses in China are likely to come under pressure too, McIntyre said.

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“It’s hard to see what’s going to happen from here. Commonsense would say we’re going to get another test of the downside Apple’s off 10 per cent,” McIntyre says.

A warning from Apple Inc. that its December quarter sales were below expectations due to a slowdown in the Chinese market was one of a number of adverse pieces

the US economy is slowing amid President Donald Trump’s trade war with China.

Sabre-rattling from China over Taiwan and the fact that there’s no end in sight to Trump’s partial government shut-down aren’t helping sentiment either.

The US equities markets have just come through their weakest December in 10 years and now the S&P 500 and the Dow have had their worst start to January since 2000.

“Everyone’s been sitting on their hands and waiting for the next piece of news to give us guidance,” said McIntyre.

The New Zealand dollar fell to 95.35 Australian cents from 95.55 this morning, was steady against the pound at 53.02 British pence from 53.01, was at 58.83 euro cents from 58.73, 72.64 yen from 72.24, and 4.6004 Chinese yuan from 4.6000.

The New Zealand two-year swap rate ended the session at 1.9450 per cent from 1.9324 per cent yesterday while the 10-year rate rose to 2.5800 per cent from 2.554.

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The New Zealand dollar is little changed as investors weigh recent extreme volatility and look for some direction from United States equities markets and US employment data due out overnight.

The kiwi was trading at 67.02 US cents at 5pm in Wellington from 66.98 at 8.30 yesterday after earlier this week trading a very wide 65.88 US cent to 67.50 range.

The trade weighted index eased to 73.16 points from 73.18.

“It’s been a funny old day - the market’s left scratching its head a little bit after the extreme volatility we saw yesterday,” says Mitchell McIntyre at HiFX. The market found a little support and has been drifting higher after another plunge on Wall Street prompted sales of long US dollar positions to cover losses on equities.

The broad measure of the US share market, the S&P 500 Index, shed 2.5 per cent on Thursday, with the Dow Jones Index down 2.8 per cent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq falling more than 3 per cent.

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OUR VIEW

Health insurance needs overhaul T

here are a few things in life you can be sure of – that you’ll pay tax, that the cost of living will increase and that your health insurance premium will continue to rise.

Apart from emergencies, health care in New Zealand is pretty black and white – if you have insurance you get what you need, when you need it, but if you don’t you wait till the bed, the money and the surgeon are available.

The expectation is that we’ll all bite the bullet, take out health

insurance and while that’s good in theory for many Kiwis, health insurance is a budget item that’s never made the cut.

For a growing number who have insurance it’s the budget item

they’ve funded for years, but as they’ve aged, it’s had to go. Rising premiums have seen to that.

The private health insurance model is sound in concept, but only so far.

For some there could be a lifetime of premiums paid for little return, for others the returns will far outweigh the outlay.

The current system fails because premiums hit their peak at a time of life when Kiwis can no longer afford to pay, at retirement age.

It becomes a tough choice –

bite the bullet and continue to pay against the day your hips, knees or some other body part give out, or throw years of premiums out the window, cancel your insurance and hope like hell your body hangs together.

There has to be a way for insurance companies to make money without putting pensioners in the poor house.

Why not have a system where a person who has paid health insurance premiums for years is able to stop payments at 65 but continue

while skiing at the Heavenly Ski Resort on the Nevada-California state line; he was 62.

Ten years ago: Retired Lt Gen. Harry W O Kinnard, a paratroop officer who’d suggested the famously defiant answer “Nuts!” to a German demand for surrender during the World War II Battle of the Bulge, died in Arlington, Va., at age 93.

Five years ago: The Iraqi military tried to dislodge al-Qaida militants in Sunni-dominated Anbar province, unleashing airstrikes and besieging the regional capital. Acting with a court order, the family of Jahi

McMath, a 13-year-old California girl declared brain dead after a tonsillectomy, removed her from a California hospital to be cared for elsewhere.

One year ago: Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff, a book in which former aide Steve Bannon was quoted as expressing doubts about President Donald Trump’s competence, was released; New York City officials said the city had ended 2017 with 290 murders, the fewest on record in the modern era; the number of shootings and overall crimes had also declined.

Today’s birthdays: Former vice

president Walter F. Mondale is 91. Actor Robert Duvall is 88.

Juan Carlos, former King of Spain, is 81. Singer-musician Athol Guy is 79. Former talk show host Charlie Rose is 77.

Actress-director Diane Keaton is 73. Actor Ted Lange is 71.

Rhythm-and-blues musician George “Funky” Brown is 70.

Rock musician Chris Stein is 69. Actress Pamela Sue Martin is 66. Actor Clancy Brown is 60. Singer Iris Dement is 58. Actress Suzy Amis is 57.

Actor Ricky Paull Goldin is 54.

Actor Vinnie Jones is 54. Rock musician Kate Schellenbach is

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to access some kind of assistance through a simple payments less claims scheme.

If you’d paid $80,000 in premiums, claimed $30,000 in costs there’d still be $50,000 in your medical insurance bank. Let the insurer take 25 per cent of that balance as a policy break fee and you’d still have $25,000 of your own money to pay or part pay for fixing whatever body part is failing.

Everyone wins.

Too simple.

TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Saturday, January 5, the fifth day of 2019. There are 360 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On January 5, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed assistance to countries to help them resist Communist aggression in what became known as the Eisenhower Doctrine.

On this date: In 1066, Edward the Confessor, King of England, died after a reign of nearly 24 years.

In 1589, Catherine de Medici of France died at age 69.

In 1781, a British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burned Richmond, Virginia.

In 1895, French Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, was publicly stripped of his rank.

In 1925, Democrat Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming took office as America’s first female governor, succeeding her late husband, William, following a special election.

In 1933, Construction began on the Golden Gate Bridge.

In 1953, Samuel Beckett’s twoact tragicomedy Waiting for Godot, considered a classic of the Theatre of the Absurd, premièred in Paris.

In 1977, In New Zealand the occupation of Bastion Point began, the occupation was to last 506 days. Ngāti Whātua maintained the land had been unjustly taken from them.

In 1993, the state of Washington executed Westley Allan Dodd, an admitted child sex killer, in America’s first legal hanging since 1965.

In 1998, Sonny Bono, the 1960s pop star-turned-politician, was killed when he struck a tree

53. Actor Joe Flanigan is 52.

Dancer-choreographer Carrie Ann Inaba is 51. Rock musician Troy Van Leeuwen is 51. Actress Heather Paige Kent is 50. Rock singer Marilyn Manson is 50.

Actor Shea Whigham is 50.

Actor Derek Cecil is 46. Actresscomedian Jessica Chaffin is 45.

Actor Bradley Cooper is 44.

Actress January Jones is 41.

Actress Brooklyn Sudano is 38.

Actor Franz Drameh is 26.

Thought for today: “It is the job that is never started that takes longest to finish.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, English author (18921973).

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Liverpool’s Roberto Firmino heads the ball and scores his side’s first goal during their English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Liverpool at the Ethiad Stadium, Manchester, yesterday.

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City back in contention

BY ROB HARRIS Liverpool can’t now win the Premier League unbeaten. Manchester City has renewed hope it won’t be surrendering the trophy at all.

A title defence faltering a week ago is back on track for Pep Guardiola after City beat Liverpool 2-1 yesterday, inflicting the leader’s first league loss of the season in their 21st game.

Completing the packed festive programme with an engrossing encounter, Liverpool’s threatened a comeback when Roberto Firmino cancelled out Sergio Aguero’s first-half opener but Leroy Sane struck the winner in the 72nd minute.

A year after Liverpool ended City’s hopes of emulating Arse-

nal’s 2003-04 Invincibles, the tables were turned on a freezing night that saw the title race open up again.

“Pretty intense,” Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp said.

“It had wild moments.”

Back-to-back losses for City less than two weeks ago had put Liverpool on a seemingly smoother path to a first English title in 29 years.

Rather than going 10 points clear, Liverpool’s lead has been trimmed to four points by City, which reclaimed second place from Tottenham.

“It’s still in Liverpool’s hands, but our performance was beyond anything else I’ve ever witnessed,” City captain Vincent Kompany said.

“We went toe-to-toe with a very physical and aggressive team and we matched them for everything, if not more.”

City was spared from going behind by just 11 millimeters (0.4 inches) of the ball failing to cross the line in the 18th minute.

When Sadio Mane hit the post, City defender John Stones’ attempted clearance went straight onto goalkeeper Ederson’s head.

The ball looped back toward goal and Stones had to scramble to clear. It proved just enough, as goal-line technology ruled out the score.

With video review not entering the Premier League until next season, the eyes of referee Anthony Taylor saved City captain Vincent Kompany around the half-hour

mark. A sliding tackle into Mohamed Salah that Liverpool manager Klopp later said should been a sending off only saw Kompany booked.

“I thought it was a great challenge – was it not?” Kompany said.

The hosts scored in the 40th minute.

Aguero got away from Dejan Lovren and used his left boot to power the ball into the roof of the net.

“We need Sergio in this kind of game. The finish was incredible,” Guardiola said.

So too was Liverpool in the second half, showing just why the Premier League era’s perennial underachiever might yet win the English title for a 19th time.

The game’s equaliser was cre-

ated by the fullbacks in the 64th minute.

Trent Alexander-Arnold sent a diagonal pass to the far post where Andy Robertson volleyed the ball across the penalty area for an unmarked Firmino to head into an empty net.

City then roared back in front from a blistering counterattack.

Raheem Sterling cut in from the left and slipped the ball through to Sane, who fired a shot past Alexander-Arnold and in off the post.

“It was a very intense game for both teams and we were unlucky with our finishing,” Klopp said.

“We could’ve drawn, we could’ve won it.

“We lost, but it’s not the biggest problem.”

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Unfinished business

By Erin TaskEr

Erin.t@thEguardian.co.nz

Lauren Ellis and 13-month-old son Joe enjoyed some time at home with family in Hinds over the festive season, before Ellis makes her big return to cycling for her country later this month.

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Lauren Ellis dreams of standing on the podium at next year’s Olympics, a medal around her neck and her son watching from the crowd.

He might be too young to remember his mum’s moment in the velodrome spotlight, but if it happens, it’s a moment she’ll remember for the rest of her life.

When it comes to motivation, it doesn’t get much better than that.

But for Ellis, that dream is just part of what is driving her to get back to her best on the bike after a break to start a family.

A silver medallist on the track at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games, Ellis had already competed at two Olympics – Rio 2016 and London 2012 – but she had big hopes for Tokyo 2020.

She has unfinished business when it comes to the Olympics and is determined to give it one more crack.

For years, Ellis had been one of New Zealand’s top track cyclists.

When the New Zealand contingent takes to the track at the Avantidrome in Cambridge later this month for a three-day World Cup meet, Ellis will again be there.

But instead of riding as an elite rider as she had for many years before, this time she’d take to the track as part of a development team.

It was a strange feeling for the 29-year-old. After breaking into the big-time of New Zealand cycling’s ranks, Ellis had never really

had to worry about selection. But now, it was a different story.

She has been out of the picture for the best part of two years after taking a break to welcome baby Joe into the world, but now Joe is 13 months old and it is coming towards crunch time for his mum.

Ellis is as determined as ever to make it back to her third Olympics, but time is quickly ticking down towards Tokyo 2020.

Ellis knows she is capable of getting back to that world-beating level, it is just a matter of time and she just hopes she has enough of that commodity.

Joe was born at the end of November, 2017, and although in no real rush to get back on the bike, Ellis had Tokyo on her mind and wanted to keep up some level of fitness, so she only took a few weeks off before returning to gym work and the odd ride.

“I didn’t have any plans for coming back on to the bike until the Cambridge World Cup anyway.

“I knew I had time, so I didn’t push myself,” Ellis said.

She is getting faster and stronger every day, but admitted she probably isn’t quite where she hoped to be, having made the trade team instead of the elite team for Cambridge.

“I was aiming to be in the elite team but you have to reassess sometimes, and just to be in the

development team and be given a chance again is great,” Ellis said.

She has made a huge amount of progress over the past year, but knows she still has work to do.

“Every couple of weeks I’ll get a PB for the year. When I was fit I went for ages without seeing that progress.”

She found out she was pregnant just before the World Championships in 2017, and still planned on going to the worlds, but a chest infection she just couldn’t shake ended that plan.

Due just a few months out from the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in early 2018, Ellis also made the decision to miss that.

It would have been a huge call to try and get back to peak fitness so soon after having a baby, and Ellis has no doubt it had been the right decision.

The first couple of months after Joe was born were incredibly hard.

Nothing can prepare you for what awaits when you welcome your first baby into the world, particularly when that baby is colicky.

Being a top athlete is hard, dedicating your life to training and competing on some of the world’s biggest sporting stages, but that was nothing compared to having a colicky baby, Ellis said.

“As an athlete you’re so used to having control over everything you do, then you get a little baby who’s like ‘I’m not going to do

what you want and I’m just going to cry all the time’,” Ellis said.

But now, Joe is a happy, healthy one-year-old and Ellis is back on the bike working hard to get back to where she was before he arrived.

Ellis said she felt like she has unfinished business at the Olympics, so there was no shortage of drive.

“After Rio, I think if I had medalled and done really well I probably would have thought about retiring, but coming away with two fourths and being so close, I want to go back and give it another go,” Ellis said.

Being a top athlete now, compared to before she became a mum, is a lot different.

Before, if training plans changed at the last minute it was fine – cycling was her job and top priority.

But now, Joe was her top priority and life is a balancing act, the key to which was being super organised.

Ellis said she is lucky that her partner Tim is able to work parttime and had also taken parental leave when Joe was born. That made the juggling act a lot easier to manage.

With the Cambridge World Cup event now just around the corner – January 18-20 – the pressure is on though.

Ellis has also been selected for the next World Cup meet in Hong

Kong the week after the Cambridge event, and that will be the last shot at selection for the World Championships.

Hong Kong is set to be huge, both on and off the bike.

Ellis was yet to spend even one night away from Joe and going to Hong Kong will mean spending a whole week without him, while at the same time dealing with huge pressure to perform on the bike.

If she wanted to be a part of that New Zealand contingent in Poland for the World Championships in February, she will have to prove her worth.

After years of not having to stress over selection, it was an odd feeling, but Ellis is doing everything she can to ensure she is on the selectors’ minds.

While back home in Hinds over Christmas and New Year, she made the most of any opportunity to get back out on the bike.

She was back out training on those familiar roads where it all started for her back in her Tinwald Cycling Club days, and competed in the Jolly Potter race in Temuka between Christmas and New Year.

The more time spent on the bike, the better she is getting, and while she could understandably be feeling nervous or daunted by the tasks that lay ahead, Ellis said the main thing she was feeling right now was excitement.

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In brief

■ CRICKET

Break for coach, captain

By Niall aNdersoN The Black Caps have rested several key players – and their coach – for their one-off Twenty20 clash against Sri Lanka next Friday.

Captain Kane Williamson, Trent Boult, and Colin de Grandhomme have all been given a game off, while coach Gary Stead is taking a break before the India series later this month, leaving Craig McMillan to coach the side.

Tim Southee will captain the side in Williamson’s absence, and will have the services of Mitchell Santner to call on, as the 26-yearold returns to the international fold following knee surgery in March.

Fresh off his stunning 47 off 13 balls in the Black Caps’ ODI victory on Thursday night, Jimmy Neesham has earned a recall to the Twenty20 side, as has Henry Nicholls, while Scott Kuggeleijn has received his maiden T20 callup.

Black Caps selector Gavin Larsen says rotating the squad is important after a busy start to the home summer.

“It’s nice to have the luxury of freshening up a few of our key guys following a long tour of the UAE and a fast transition into the

performing strongly for their respective teams recently and deserve their chances should they come.

“Tim did a really good job leading the side against Pakistan and the West Indies last season and he’s got a nice mix of proven performers and some fresh faces to work with.”

Mark Chapman and Ajaz Patel drop out of the squad which played against Pakistan in the UAE, while Adam Milne and Corey Anderson weren’t considered for selection as they continue to get back to full fitness.

Todd Astle is nearing a return with Canterbury.

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Black Caps T20 skipper Tim Southee. home summer,” said Larsen.

“That presents a great oppor-

tunity for the likes of Henry, Scott and Jimmy – who have all been

Black Caps T20 squad Tim Southee (c) Lockie Ferguson Martin Guptill Scott Kuggeleijn Colin Munro Jimmy Neesham Henry Nicholls Glenn Phillips Seth Rance Mitchell Santner Tim Seifert Ish Sodhi Ross Taylor

■ TENNIS

Bouchard gets the boot from ASB Classic

By Michael Burgess Defending champion Julia Goerges has survived a major scare at the ASB Classic, being pushed to the limit by Eugenie Bouchard yesterday.

Goerges saved a match point late in the third set, before eventually prevailing 3-6 6-3 7-6 (8-6) in almost two and a half hours, to advance to the semi-finals.

In a contest of fine margins and played in horribly windy conditions, the difference was Goerges’ ability to dictate the rallies, especially when she advanced to the net.

That assertive approach certainly sealed the tiebreak, where the world No 14 wasted two match points before converting her third.

The result was tough on the Canadian, who lifted her levels well beyond what we had seen earlier in the week.

It was the match of the tournament so far, with ample drama, stunning shot making and so many twists and turns.

Conditions were extremely difficult.

A swirling wind was a menace on centre court, especially on serve, and it never really abated.

Given the climate – which also sent hats flying and meant all courtside umbrellas were taken down – the players coped extremely well, achieving, for the most part, a high quality of tennis.

Bouchard grabbed an early break,

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narrowly avoiding a collision with the umpires chair as she sprinted to retrieve a Goerges drop shot.

Goerges struggled from the start, with some uncharacteristic unforced errors, while Bouchard looked a completely different player from the one who struggled to get past lowly ranked Dutch qualifier Bibiane Schoofs in the second round.

Gone was the erratic stroke play that made that performance such a topsy turvy one, and more importantly Bouchard seemed to have the right focus, after her near meltdown on court in Wednesday’s second round.

The final set was a nail biter.

Bouchard edged ahead – with one kneeling backhand shot from the Canadian bringing the crowd to their feet – before a Goerges comeback.

Two errors in the ninth game gave the German a break point, but Bouchard showed admirable composure to save the situation.

Both players had further chances, with Goerges saving a match point at 5-6 with a courageous second serve.

Goerges was always going to be favoured once the match went to a tie break, given her superior serve and skills at the net and so it proved.

Meanwhile Viktoria Kuzmova has progressed to the last four of the ASB Classic, after a narrow three set win over American teenager Amanda Anisimova.

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Bevin the TT champ Patrick Bevin goes into the 2019 cycling season with an excellent chance at winning a World Tour time trial stage. If he manages to pull of such a feat, it will be done with the silver fern across his chest, after winning the national time trial championship yesterday. Bevin claimed victory by one minute and 51 seconds on the 40.4 km course in Napier, crossing the line in an superb time of 50 minutes and 45 seconds to claim his second time trial title. He was aided by bad luck striking defending champion Hamish Bond as a result of mechanical issues.

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Williams defends title One down, one to go for Georgia Williams. The 25-year-old has defended her national time trial title yesterday, riding to victory by 11.8 seconds on the Napier course.

Williams won the time trial and road race double last year, and could become just the second woman to ever do the double in consecutive years, after Melissa Holt accomplished the feat in 2008-2009. You wouldn’t bet against it after her dominance in the road race last year, which she won by a remarkable four minutes and 41 seconds after a long-range attack. - NZME

Adams eyes All Stars Steven Adams has emerged as a contender to make his first appearance in the NBA All-Star game after the first round of fans votes were revealed. The 25-year-old has drawn more than 261,000 votes from fans around the world wanting to see him appear in February’s showcase and was the sixth most voted frontcourt player in the Western Conference. The Oklahoma City Thunder centre is on track to have the best year of his time in the NBA this season, averaging careerbest numbers in almost every statistical category.

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Warner speaks out Disgraced Australian cricketer David Warner said his one-year suspension for ball-tampering allowed him to “grow as a human being” and spend more time with family. “Life has been good for me. I have been spending time with the family. I wouldn’t be able to do that if I wasn’t sitting in the sidelines,” Warner told reporters in Dhaka after he was unveiled as captain of the Bangladesh Premier League franchise Sylhet Sixers.

“Now it is down to playing cricket again and making sure I get Sylhet Sixers on top of the table.” - AAP

Pujara marathon ends

Julia Goerges is on her way to the semi-finals in Auckland.

Eight years after Alastair Cook surgically dismantled Australia, Cheteshwar Pujara has slowly and surely done the same to embarrass local batsmen and bowlers. Pujara extended his marathon knock into a fifth session and 548th minute before finally falling on 193, chipping a catch back to Nathan Lyon at the SCG yesterday. Pujara also offered a chance on 192, understandably tiring on the cusp of becoming India’s first double-centurion in Australia since Sachin Tendulkar’s SCG epic in 2004. The batsman’s highest score outside India and remarkable concentration throughout the series has put India in the box seat.

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■ GREYMOUTH

Rae backing the Coasters Trainer Kenny Rae is a longtime supporter of the West Coast racing circuit and he believes that John Messara’s recommendation of racecourse consolidation in the area is misguided.

Last year Rae was one of many participants affected by the abandonment of two of the four New Year’s circuit meetings, due to track conditions.

“I wasn’t going to go this year,” he said.

“It cost too much last year with the meetings getting called off but then you listen to the Messara Report trying to close these clubs down and if we don’t support them they will.

“They’re talking about shutting down Reefton, Greymouth and Hokitika and keeping Kumara, but Kumara is a swamp and there’s no community there, no motels or anything so people have to travel there.

“It’s a great circuit and it’s mostly voluntary, we were there nine years ago after the Pike River mining disaster and everybody just got behind it and kicked on.

“Without those races, everybody misses out.”

Despite being based at the top of the North Island, in Ruakaka, Rae along with his daughter and training partner Krystal Williams-Tuhoro regularly campaign horses throughout the South Island.

“Krystal does the horses at home and I’m the travelling foreman but as I’m getting older the travel is starting to get to me,” Rae said.

“We used to do this trip as a family working holiday but now my wife Lisa’s got a job and she couldn’t get time off and the other girls are going to a dancing competition on the Gold Coast,

Prom Queen back Multiple stakes winner Prom Queen is set for a raceday return at Kumara next week after suffering a minor setback recently. The Ken Rae and Krystal Williams-Tuhorotrained mare, who is on lease from Windsor Park Stud, injured herself during a thunderstorm late last year and her connections took a cautious approach with their star four-year-old. Prom Queen will likely be joined on her Queensland trip by Major Tom. - NZME

Balham thriving A replica Manawatu Cup run could see Balham successful in today’s Listed Gallagher Marton Cup (2200m) at Awapuni. Foxton trainer Emma Haworth reckons that’s well on the cards, suggesting the Don Eduardo eight-year-old was just as well heading into the Marton Jockey Club feature as he was when he ran a game second to Rock On in last month’s Gr.3 Manawatu Cup (2200m) at the same track. “We’re expecting the same sort of run we saw in the Manawatu Cup and he’s definitely good enough to win this,” said Haworth, who trains in partnership with her father David.

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McEvoy relying on Hills Trainer Tony McEvoy’s chance to defend the Magic Millions Classic rests with Hills who has to win her way in at the Gold Coast. The filly runs in today’s $100,000 QTIS Two-Year-Old Handicap, the same race her stablemate Sunlight won a year ago before winning the $2 million Classic at the same track.

Sunlight was already qualified for the Classic but Hills needs prize money to get her in the field.

She is the last horse standing for McEvoy with his leading contender Sun City ruled out on Wednesday with a leg infection and Just Zerene failing to qualify. Hills made her debut at Ipswich last Friday, beating a small but above average field.

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Trainer Kenny Rae is hoping for good things from Kaharau in the Greymouth Cup at Omoto tomorrow.

so I’m down here on my own doing seven horses and it’s not a working holiday, it’s just more work.”

Rae is hoping his hard work is justified with a case of third time lucky for talented stayer Kaharau in the Recreation Hotel Greymouth Cup (2000m) at Omoto Racecourse on Sunday.

“He’s won at Greymouth and had two starts in the Greymouth Cup and been beaten by The Gordonian both times,” said Rae,

referring to the Jo-Ann Gordontrained runner that he will face again in this year’s edition of the race.

The seven-year-old gelding was a winner at Cromwell in early December before a disappointing run at Wingatui, carrying the top weight of 60kgs, on Boxing Day. “Nothing went to plan at Dunedin last start, everything turned to shit,” Rae said.

“He’s come through the run

alright and I’ve been jumping him a bit too.

“He will probably be a hurdler sooner or later.

“His flat career is getting a bit hard because of the weight he’s carrying, but he won the Nathan’s Memorial carrying 60kgs and none of those horses at Greymouth on Sunday could do that.

“I think he’s on track and even if he’s not we’ve had a good run with him.”

- NZME

Perth trip now off the agenda for Tiger Tara In a surprise twist, a planned Perth raid has been scrapped from Inter Dominion champion Tiger Tara.

Trainer Kevin Pizzuto, who just a week earlier had confirmed the trip, pulled the pin yesterday.

“In the end, I’ve put the horse first,” Pizzuto said.

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“I know I said he was going and I was keen to, but I had some time to think everything through during the week after Christmas.

“What made me re-think it all was the stinking hot weather had up here.

“It’s flattened most horses and

must have taken something out of him as well.

“To ask him to go the long trip to Perth, after he’s already been to NZ and had two trips down to Melbourne this season, was asking to much when I really thought it through.

schedule will see Tiger Tara’s next major target the $100,000 Group 1 Ballarat Cup on January 19.

Then comes the $500,000 Hunter Cup at Melton two week’s later.

“I know the Perth people wanted to see him, but I’m sure I’ve made the right decision.” - HRNZ

“Travel is hard on horses, especially when it’s hot this time of year. I’d hate to flatten him with a trip to Perth after I’ve worked so hard to get him the best I’ve ever had him.”

WA’s loss is Victoria’s gain, with Pizzuto confirming the revised

Timaru harness Today at Phar Lap Raceway

Timaru Harness Racing Club Inc Venue: Phar Lap Raceway Meeting Date: 05 Jan 2019 NZ Meeting number: 8 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 2.10pm EQUINE VETERINARY SERVICES & MORE FM MOBILE TROT $7500, non-winners 3yo+., 2000m 1 0000P Fekitoa (1) fr .................................. K Butt (J) 2 807 Easy Pickings (2) fr ..................... B Hope (J) 3 Break Free (3) fr ...........................K Hadfield 4 60045 Sunrise Spur (4) fr........................J Versteeg 5 0 Stratmores Dream (5) fr ..................... R May 6 530x Majestic Chevron (6) fr ................N McGrath 7 8230x Jake The Mus (7) fr .......................B Orange 8 40067 Pastrana (8) fr ......................... C D Thornley 9 x700P Quaestor (9) fr......................... S O’Reilly (J) 10 79008 Raining In My Heart (21) fr ................J Gray 11 x7555 Cosmic Sun (22) fr ...........................S Ottley 12 4 Palisade (23) fr ................................... D Butt 2 2.45 LONE PINE BUILDING MOBILE PACE $7500, non-winners 3yo+., mobile, 2000m 1 02360 Mynanasgotnoteeth (1) fr .................R Close 2 88 Katchalight (2) fr................................J Dunn 3 57x79 Lilbitbettor (3) fr ............................ G O’Reilly 4 Laydeenwaiting (4) fr.................... S McNally

5 22465 Glenthorne (5) fr...................S Tomlinson (J) 6 53xPx Ready To Rumble (6) fr .................B Orange 7 78535 Tabitha Franco (7) fr ........................... R May 8 42x32 Bella Veloce (8) fr .................... C D Thornley 9 00977 Franco Hatton (9) fr .....................T McMillan 10 4Px3 The Dude (21) fr..................................B Butt 3 3.17pm REMEMBERING ‘BOOMER BAILEY’ PACE $7500, non-winners 3yo+, stand, 2600m 1 Strong Enough (1) fr .......................... R May 2 6000 Myth Or Reality (2) fr...........................K Cox 3 Ultimate Rocker (3) fr ................... S McNally 4 70067 Master Milano (4) fr ...........................J Dunn 5 75909 Out Of The Shadows (5) fr ...............S Ottley 6 80x00 Social Media (6) fr ................... S O’Reilly (J) 7 09706 Victor Tango (7) fr................... J Morrison (J) 8 00060 Chain Reaction (8) fr ...................T McMillan 9 05384 It’s Me (9) fr ............................. C D Thornley 10 7040 Onedin Smiler (10) fr...................... G Shand 11 098 Darryl Kerrigan (U1) fr...................L O’Reilly 4 3.52pm GEORGE SHAND MEMORIAL TROT $8000, 3yo+ r40-r55, stand, 2600m 1 01062 Missie Castleton (1) fr ........................ R May 2 0x509 Break Out (2) fr ............................ G O’Reilly 3 50600 Eyre’s A Rag Doll (3) fr .....................J Dunn

4 x0330 Grand Princess (4) fr........................S Ottley 5 03606 Don’t Look Back (5) fr ...................B Orange 6 00291 Clifden Clowers (6) fr ............. J Morrison (J) 7 2762x Highland Star (7) fr........................ K Butt (J) 8 6x317 Look Ahead (8) fr ............................. J Smith 9 019x9 Aldebaran Bonny (9) fr ..................L O’Reilly 10 Time In A Bottle (U1) fr .................... C Ward 11 39800 Red Harbour (U2) fr ................ C D Thornley 12 97x82 Jaw D Nancy (U3) fr ..................... S McNally 13 1 Maria Tsarina (U4) fr .......................... D Butt 5 4.27 NIGHT N DAY PARK & MORRISON’S SADDLERY MBL PCE $7500, non-winners 3yo+ f&m., 2000m 1 55030 Shot In The Dark (1) fr ................... A Faulks 2 008 Pacific Chal (2) fr.......................... G O’Reilly 3 8x695 Marianna Bromac (3) fr ................ S McNally 4 94 Katie Daly (4) fr ........................... B Hope (J) 5 80 Panda Girl (5) fr.................................. R May 6 0 Stella’s Delight (6) fr ................ C D Thornley 7 80768 Supreme Lincoln (7) fr ........... J Morrison (J) 8 88 Szybka Lane (8) fr.............................J Dunn 9 Takemybreathaway (9) fr ........... R Houghton 10 x6577 Lilac Change (21) fr .........................S Ottley 11 64594 Canstar (22) fr ...............................B Orange 6 5.00pm PORT BLAKELY & LJ HOOKER GROUP

MOBILE TROT $8500, r63., mobile, 2000m 1 80050 Galleons Glory (1) fr........................J W Cox 2 51xP4 Neverneverland (2) fr ................... S McNally 3 834x4 Crusher Collins (3) fr .........................J Dunn 4 P0356 Agatha Tyron (4) fr ................. J Morrison (J) 5 x8810 Sea Rover (5) fr...........................T McMillan 6 00209 Idle Moose (6) fr ............................B Orange 7 x9485 Another Chapter (7) fr ........................ R May 8 08664 Alvira Hest (8) fr ............................. A Faulks 9 1x73 Sioux Princess (U1) fr ............... L McKay (J) 10 0x000 Lightworkofit (U2) fr.........................B Munro 7 5.30pm LASER ELECTRICAL TIMARU & NEVELE R MOBILE PACE $8000, 4yo+ r40-r51., mobile, 2600m 1 30660 Limoso (1) fr .....................................S Ottley 2 91460 Regal Suzy (2) fr .......................... G O’Reilly 3 07900 Eja Patron (3) fr ...................... J Morrison (J) 4 x0009 Den’s Legacy (4) fr ........................ K Butt (J) 5 42685 Arden’s Winstar (5) fr ....................B Orange 6 x0997 The Go To Man (6) fr .......................J W Cox 7 25274 Sounds Lika Gem (7) fr .................L O’Reilly 8 323P1 Dark Rage (8) fr ................................. R May 9 08300 Rosinupthebow (9) fr ........................R Close 10 42017 My Patronus (21) fr ...................... S McNally 11 60x89 Machsgain (22) fr ................................K Cox

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6.05pm BROSNAN TRANSPORT PASSING LANE MOBILE PACE $8500, 4yo+ r52-r63., mobile, 2600m 1 03319 Hot Starff (1) fr ............................. S McNally 2 6x3P0 Anytime (2) fr ....................................J Dunn 3 10573 Paul’s Verdict (3) fr ................. J Morrison (J) 4 45654 Pembrook Legacy (4) fr...................... R May 5 x0810 Awayovernight (5) fr ......................L O’Reilly 6 42518 Trailer Park Girl (6) fr .....................B Orange 7 69779 Mr Midnight (7) fr...................... J Kennett (J) 8 50560 Enchantee (8) fr ........................... G O’Reilly 9 86349 Nimah Franco (9) fr ................. C D Thornley SELECTIONS

Race 1: Jake The Mus, Majestic Chevron, Stratmores Dream Race 2: Glenthorne, Tabitha Franco, Bella Veloce, The Dude Race 3: Strong Enough, Ultimate Rocker, It’s Me, Onedin Smiler Race 4: Jaw D Nancy, Missie Castleton, Maria Tsarina, Look Ahead Race 5: Marianna Bromac, Katie Daly, Takemybreathaway Race 6: Sioux Princess, Agatha Tyron, Idle Moose, Alvira Hest Race 7: Dark Rage, Sounds Lika Gem, Regal Suzy Race 8: Pembrook Legacy, Trailer Park Girl, Nimah Franco 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

Sunday racing www.guardianonline.co.nz

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Wyndham harness Tomorrow at Cromwell Raceway

Wyndham Harness Racing Club Venue: Cromwell Racecourse Meeting Date: 06 Jan 2019 NZ Meeting number: 7 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 10.38am NEW WORLD/O’CALLAGHAN & WALKERS BUILDER MBL PACE $8000, non-winners 3yo+ mr46 to mr50., mobile, 1800m 1 675x5 Candidasa (1) fr .........................C Ferguson 2 5 Team Kiwi (2) fr .............................R Holmes 3 675 August Joy (3) fr ................................A Beck 4 Maximilian (4) fr ............................T Holland 5 Changed My Mind (5) fr ................ K Barclay 6 35x75 The Arbitrator (6) fr ................. M Williamson 7 47084 Forty Wives (7) fr.................... S Walkinshaw 8 068 Dream On Jaffa (U1) fr............ C D Thornley 9 80x7 Superstar Legend (U2) fr .............T Williams 2 11.02am TOPLINE FENCING/INTL GARDEN RESCUE MOBILE PACE $8000, non-winners mr40 to mr44., mobile, 1800m 1 49323 Star Ruler (1) fr ............................T Williams 2 20548 Trompeur (2) fr ........................ M Williamson 3 78500 Mach O’Melley (3) fr ...................... A Armour 4 69702 Ohoka Matty (4) fr .........................B Orange 5 42797 Dreaminsover (5) fr .......................T Holland 6 65096 Rafa Novak (6) fr 7 x6826 Bullys Princess (7) fr .................M Hurrell (J) 8 90685 The Last Straw (8) fr .................M Anderson 9 80420 Maahes (21) fr...................................A Beck 10 34403 Ay Boy (22) fr ..............................B McLellan 11 60x95 Bobbie’s Medley (U1) fr ...................J W Cox 3 11.26am CROMWELL NIGHT ‘N DAY AT JOLLYS ROAD TROT $8000, r40-r47, stand, 2600m 1 00955 Matai Jetstar (1) fr ............................ A Milne 2 0x7P9 Svelt (2) fr....................................... K Franks 3 8x000 Cheeky Pat (3) fr ....................... R Heads (J) 4 00099 Glendhu Gem (4) fr ................. N Williamson 5 74045 Imran Khan (5) fr ...................B Laughton (J) 6 09x00 Miss Bamboocha (6) fr 7 40070 Muscle Pat (7) fr ...........................T Williams 8 059P0 Wayward Roc (8) fr ...................... B Norman 9 62990 The Rev (U1) fr .................................J Dunn 10 06534 Sage Trouble (U2) fr ...................C Ferguson 11 27705 Larch (U3) fr .....................................S Ottley 4 11.50am MACCA LODGE/GOODMAN PLUMBING MOBILE PACE $9000, 3yo+ r40-r51,r52 w/c., 1800m 1 8x952 Si Si Senor (1) fr .............................M Jones 2 45x76 Magnate Mara (2) fr ............................G Lee 3 00000 Dissolution (3) fr ..................... J Morrison (J) 4 76670 Rozzano (4) fr ......................S Tomlinson (J)

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5 P2735 The Doorman (5) fr .........................J W Cox 6 69390 Matinee Idol (6) fr 7 58290 Lady’s Lass (7) fr...................... T Robertson 8 50928 Man I’m Good (8) fr ............................ A Kyle 9 41659 Kansas City Jim (21) fr..................T Holland 10 74498 Rake (22) fr ...........................B Laughton (J) 11 9x816 Rockahula Joe (23) fr .......................S Ottley 12 908x0 Knockmanaugh (24) fr .............B Williamson 13 06950 Veneto (25) fr .................................. E Swain 14 3856x Thaboyz Toy (26) fr ......................T Williams 15 60002 Franco Sherborne (27) fr......K Tomlinson (J) 16 52109 Sharnae (U1) fr ....................... M Williamson Emergencies: Dissolution, Veneto 5 12.14 GATE CROMWELL/OSBORN ENGINEERING TROT $8000, non-winners 3yo+, stand, 2600m 1 9588x Sweet Jeweliette (1) fr............... R Heads (J) 2 x3322 Deborahs Gem (2) fr ............... M Williamson 3 7 Inessa’s Dream (3) fr.................... B Wallace 4 480x3 Flying Monkey (4) fr ......................R Jenkins 5 Superfast Kiwi (5) fr................. N Williamson 6 989x7 Dream Of Pat (6) fr 7 484 Lady Zara (7) fr .................................. A Kyle 8 Sunny Valley (8) fr ................... C R Thornley 9 30988 Spur Me On Gently (U1) fr ....... T Robertson 10 50063 Dora Explorer (U2) fr........... D D McCormick 11 x65P3 Whatwillbeewillbee (U3) fr............ B Norman 12 2 Majestic Simon (U4) fr ............ L McCormick 6 12.44 HOKONUI HONDA/RIVER ROCK EST/CROMWELL BREW.PACE $8000, non-winners 3yo+, 2600m 1 506x2 Bettors Atom (1) fr......................C Ferguson 2 00964 Valzona (2) fr ................................T Williams 3 89087 Tact Denzel (3) fr ...........................T Holland 4 x8060 It’s A Laugh (4) fr.............................. A Milne 5 40x5 Balraj (5) fr .............................. C D Thornley 6 4849x Official Cullen (6) fr ...............B Laughton (J) 7 37007 Smirken (7) fr ......................... J Morrison (J) 8 2 Shadow Dancer (8) fr .............. L McCormick 9 x6555 Futura Easton (9) fr ...................... B Norman 10 It’s My Opinion (10) fr ........................A Beck 11 0 Adio Ella (11) fr 12 6 Johnny Speight (12) fr............. N Williamson 13 8P Itz Queen Of Arts (U1) fr .................J W Cox 7 1.14pm BH20 PLUMBING LTD/ PUTNEY ROOFING MOBILE PACE $9000, 4yo+, w/c. jun.d, mobile, 1800m 1 00322 Ideologist (1) fr ......................B Laughton (J) 2 x4432 Triroyale Brigade (2) fr..............C Faithful (J) 3 10 Blazin Creek (3) fr ............... K McNaught (J) 4 x6660 Lis Amore (4) fr 5 45865 Divinia Bellezza (5) fr .................. J Alford (J)

6 89057 Vigoroso (6) fr 7 24x33 Miss Fandango (7) fr ..................... K Butt (J) 8 64851 Bush Man (8) fr ....................S Tomlinson (J) 9 32421 Sounds Bettor (21) fr.............. J Morrison (J) 10 7296P The Red Robber (22) fr 11 78209 Queen Of The Nite (23) fr .........E Barron (J) 12 73570 Von Richthofen (24) fr 13 35326 Betstars Blue Jean (25) fr .........M Hurrell (J) 14 07476 Franco June (26) fr 15 05541 Tom Rule (27) fr ...................K Tomlinson (J) Emergency: The Red Robber 8 1.49 MEAD STARK CROMWELL/TIM WHITE FARRIER HCP TROT $9000, 3yo+ r48-r59 discrhcp, stand, 2600m 1 31913 Michelle (1) fr ..................................M Jones 2 19998 Scarlett Lane (2) fr .................. N Williamson 3 04x21 Get Lucky (3) fr ........................B Williamson 4 x5497 Lynette The Vet (4) fr ...........................G Lee 5 01375 Young Stranger (5) fr ............... C R Thornley 6 167x0 Sugarinspice (6) fr.........................R Holmes 7 12x Full Noise (7) fr ............................. B Barclay 8 35205 Sugar Cane (U1) fr.................. L McCormick 9 64179 Franco Josiah (U2) fr .............. C D Thornley 10 50300 Justamollyarcher (1) 10M..............R Jenkins 11 0x236 Beg Hall (2) 10M ........................... K Butt (J) 12 7754x Majestic Connies (U1) 10M..... M Williamson 9 2.24pm PGG WRIGHTSON REAL EST BUSINESSES CUP (MBL PACE) $9000, 3yo+ r52-r59., 1800m 1 77243 Dachy (1) fr ............................. N Williamson 2 35753 No More Change (2) fr ...............C Ferguson 3 67590 Ideal Draw (3) fr 4 43409 Sadhana (4) fr 5 402x1 Arma Indie (5) fr ................................J Dunn 6 Px764 The Tin Soldier (6) fr ............... C D Thornley 7 52279 Sheezus (7) fr 8 x3283 Jody Direen (8) fr ......................M Anderson 9 89108 Quite Ideal (21) fr .................... M Williamson 10 10 Kotare Yolande (22) fr 11 83210 Lincoln Skipper (23) fr ...................R Holmes 12 21676 Archman (24) fr 13 x2514 Allaboutdreams (25) fr .................. B Barclay 14 95861 Kotare Elite (26) fr ...........................J W Cox 15 82252 I’m Trouble (27) fr ................... J Morrison (J) 16 33891 Sweet Mary (28) fr ...........................S Ottley Emergencies: Sadhana, Sheezus 10 2.59 HAVTIME BREED/M&S LITTLE CROMWELL CUP (HCP PACE) $14,999, r56-r110 spechcp, 2600m 1 65745 Mr Handleman (1) fr ................ N Williamson 2 15011 Ivana Legacy (2) fr ........................ A Armour

Nathan Williamson will be trying to win the Cromwell Cup behind Mr Handleman tomorrow.

3 66860 Donegal Carrickfin (3) fr ......... J Morrison (J) 4 14703 Benio Ben (4) fr .............................B Orange 5 06331 One Direction (5) fr .........................J W Cox 6 23533 Mach’s Back (6) fr ......................... K Barclay 7 46433 Bettor Enforce (7) fr...........................A Beck 8 x0733 Clive (8) fr......................................... G Ross 9 59059 Four Starzzz Shiraz (U1) fr ..K Tomlinson (J) 10 58176 Melina Lowe (U2) fr ....................C Ferguson 11 58122 Mr Kiwi (1) 10M ............................. B Barclay 12 33111 Mucho Macho Man (2) 10M ......M Hurrell (J) 13 01566 Kilowatt Kid (3) 10M .................B Williamson 14 59674 Tiziano (4) 10M ....................... M Williamson 15 37x49 Royal Bengal (1) 20M ...............M Anderson 16 43x09 Especial (2) 20M ..........................T Williams 17 49565 Queen Bee Bardon (U1) 20M 18 07602 Zadaka (U1) 30M ..............................J Dunn Emergencies: Donegal Carrickfin, Benio Ben, Queen Bee Bardon 11 3.34pm BAYLEYS CROMWELL/REGAN TODD RAC-

ING HANDICAP TROT $14,999, r60-r110 spechcp, stand, 2600m 1 32348 Gorilla Playboy (U1) fr ............ J Morrison (J) 2 86568 Playboy’s Brother (1) 10M 3 5P132 Globe Trekker (2) 10M ..................R Jenkins 4 52880 McLovin (3) 10M .......................... A Lethaby 5 4899x Valmagne (4) 10M....................B Williamson 6 02122 War Admiral (5) 10M ............S Tomlinson (J) 7 08395 De Vito (U1) 10M ..............................J Dunn 8 42736 Splash Cola (U2) 10M............. N Williamson 9 x1D83 Pres The Belle (1) 20M.................T Williams 10 04349 Sundons Wish (2) 20M..................B Orange 11 01323 The Dominator (U1) 20M ........ C D Thornley 12 03082 Jen Jaccka (1) 30M ................. M Williamson 12 4.09 WOODLANDS MOTORS/SPEIGHTS ALE HSE PALMY NTH PACE $9000, 3yo+ r40-r55, stand, 2600m 1 9x008 Raksbet (1) fr ............................M Hurrell (J) 2 7296P The Red Robber (2) fr ............... R Heads (J) 3 x0668 Allandale (3) fr...............................R Holmes 4 0x00x It’s All Over Now (4) fr 5 13 Chiller Bay (5) fr ............................B Orange 6 6937x Loma Jaccka (6) fr ........................ B Barclay 7 07476 Franco June (7) fr 8 77121 Ambassador (8) fr ................... N Williamson 9 53230 Groomsman (9) fr 10 25x90 Dangerous (10) fr 11 00x70 Magical Matty (11) fr 12 27292 Beau Vista (12) fr ......................... A Lethaby 13 22714 Barrett (13) fr...................................M Jones 14 04847 Jacks N Jazz (14) fr ...................C Ferguson 15 66008 Fiery Ferret (15) fr 16 83300 Martin McGuinness (16) fr ................J Dunn 17 6x1x3 Wolf West (17) fr ..........................T Williams 18 70026 Gypsy’s Choice (U1) fr ............ M Williamson SELECTIONS Race 1: Team Kiwi, The Arbitrator, August Joy, Forty Wives Race 2: Ay Boy, Star Ruler, Maahes, Trompeur Race 3: The Rev, Sage Trouble, Imran Khan, Larch Race 4: Knockmanaugh, Si Si Senor, The Doorman, Man I’m Good Race 5: Deborahs Gem, Dora Explorer, Whatwillbeewillbee Race 6: Balraj, Shadow Dancer, Adio Ella, Bettors Atom Race 7: Ideologist, Triroyale Brigade, Betstars Blue Jean Race 8: Full Noise, Young Stranger, Beg Hall, Get Lucky Race 9: Arma Indie, I’m Trouble, Sweet Mary, Dachy Race 10: Royal Bengal, Kilowatt Kid, Bettor Enforce, Tiziano LEGEND: X - Spell from racing of at least 3 months P - Retired (or pulled up) from race L - Driver unseated U1 - Unruly beginner {C} - Concession driver {C.cl} - Claiming concession driver which allows horse to start one class down

Greymouth gallops Tomorrow at Omoto Raceway

Greymouth JC Venue: Omoto Meeting Date: 06 Jan 2019 NZ Meeting number: 6 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 5, 6 and 7 1 12.22pm GREYMOUTH STAR MAIDEN $10,000, MAIDEN, 1500m 1 48772 Acre (15) 58.5 2 09x34 Diplomat (4) 58.5 .........................T Moseley 3 34055 Lincoln Zephyr (9) 58.5 ............... C Johnson 4 x7948 Heart Of Fame (12) 58.5 .........T Jonker (a3) 5 8x076 Our Boy Baz (14) 58.5 ........... B Murray (a2) 6 Senator Dann (10) 58.5 ....... R Mudhoo (a3) 7 25 Fantasy Flight b (3) 56.5 8 53 Lively Interest (1) 56.5........G Saejorhor (a4) 9 07580 Madam Makfi (6) 56.5 ... K Chowdhoory (a3) 10 455 Te Mokopuna (11) 56.5 ........... G Jogoo (a1) 11 07x Rosie Marie (7) 56.5 ................. D Hirini (a2) 12 066 Just Another Day (2) 55 ........K Mudhoo (a1) 13 0060 Nifty (17) 56.5 14 87x9 Divinexcuse (16) 58.5 15 x099x Tavistella (8) 56.5 16 00x90 Freightman (5) 58.5 17 3x000 Realm (13) 56.5 18 x0454 Our Boy Ritchie 57 ....................... Scratched 2 12.57 VERNON & VAZEY TRUCK PARTS $12,000, Rating 82 Benchmark, 1500m 1 83084 Timy Tyler m (5) 59.5 ..............Z Bholah (a3) 2 37556 What’s Up Alf m (2) 57 .. K Chowdhoory (a3)

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Auckland Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Manukau Stadium Meeting Date: 06 Jan 2019 NZ Meeting number: 9 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8; 9 and 10; 11 and 12 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 10, 11 and 12 1 1.23pm (NZT) SPEEDMAPS ON TAB MOBILE APP SPRINT C1, 318m 1 87878 Twelve Gauge 19.10 ........................M Black 2 63247 Parra Eels 18.97 R & ..................N O’Regan 3 48534 Bigtime Dean 18.96 A &..................Williams 4 F2117 Aussie Dame 18.95 .........................P Green 5 52426 Unconscionable 18.61 R & .................L Udy 6 72363 Scott No Value 18.51 .....................S E Hunt 7 43784 Bigtime Champ nwtd ........................S Lozell 8 63667 Snippy Pippi nwtd R &.........................L Udy 9 83548 Rockin’ Robyn nwtd........................ S O’Neill 10 83788 Doug Deep 18.65 R & .........................L Udy 2 1.41 LAST ONE STANDING 20 JANUARY SPRINT C0, 318m 1 22675 Monsoon Malabar nwtd U &..............Cottam 2 7567 Cheeka nwtd A & ............................Williams 3 44344 Pukekohe Smurf nwtd .......................H Scott 4 Decision nwtd................................... S Clark 5 6563 Kai Nan nwtd.................................. G Farrell 6 66786 Bigtime Claws nwtd A & ..................Williams 7 54622 Just Maddie nwtd .............................M Black 8 74538 Karaoke Prince nwtd R & ............N O’Regan 9 5x7 Platinum Tears nwtd ......................... S Clark 10 76677 Magic Eight Ball nwtd R &...........N O’Regan 3 1.58 DELI’S SPORTS BAR CLENDON INN SPRINT C4, 318m

3 745x6 Dressedtokill m (4) 55.5 .......... G Jogoo (a1) 4 63075 Two Thirty tm (3) 54 ............... K Cowan (a3) 5 01395 The Bumper m (1) 54 ............. B Murray (a2) 3 1.32 JOHN & YVONNE GRANT MEMORIAL MAIDEN $10,000, MAIDEN 2YO&UP, 1100m 1 72490 Bluey’s Chance (1) 58.5 ..........T Jonker (a3) 2 37560 Plushenko (6) 58.5 ................K Mudhoo (a1) 3 3089x Ted Talks (4) 58.5 ................... K Cowan (a3) 4 7x Ready Now (8) 57 ........................T Moseley 5 Jadore Lumiere (9) 56.5.................. J Morris 6 5779x Three Shots (12) 56.5 .........J Anderson (a4) 7 9x673 Frosted (11) 55............................ C Johnson 8 47x Car Pie (3) 55............................ D Hirini (a2) 9 00x95 Montreux Miss (5) 55 ........... R Mudhoo (a3) 10 700 Arctic Lady (7) 55 .......... K Chowdhoory (a3) 11 2080 French Cut (2) 56.5 12 500x8 Skedaddle Skedoo (10) 58.5 Emergencies: French Cut, Skedaddle Skedoo 4 2.07 GREYMOUTH BUSINESSES SPRINT $10,000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1100m 1 4258x Villeret m (2) 59..................G Saejorhor (a4) 2 x0737 Promising m (5) 57.5..... K Chowdhoory (a3) 3 60258 Nopele (4) 57 ......................... K Cowan (a3) 4 4413x Ajay Tee (8) 56.5 ..................... G Jogoo (a1) 5 034x9 La Roccetta (1) 55 ...................... C Johnson 6 33567 Hapi Ella (3) 54.5 .........................T Moseley 7 83678 Boyslightup m (7) 54.5 ........... B Murray (a2)

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ing 65 Benchmark*, 1500m 1 69039 Bruegel (11) 59.5 2 20545 Dutch Courage (6) 59 ............. G Jogoo (a1) 3 48001 Tee Gee Ell (13) 58.5 ..............Z Bholah (a3) 4 32001 Gifted m (3) 57 ........................T Jonker (a3) 5 x0746 Supagili (10) 57 ............. K Chowdhoory (a3) 6 667x7 Prawn Star (1) 56.5 ................... D Hirini (a2) 7 105x4 Mamma Sans (4) 56 .............. B Murray (a2) 8 x1904 Miss Diorella (5) 56 ......................... J Morris 9 7x084 Brakbar (7) 56 ............................. C Johnson 10 09000 She’stoohottotrot m (8) 55...... K Cowan (a3) 11 x0469 Rebel Rose m (2) 54.5 .................T Moseley 12 93809 Whitney m (12) 54 .................K Mudhoo (a1) 13 01860 Florence Ivy (9) 57.5 Blinkers on: Dressedtokill, Two Thirty (R2), Ready Now (R3) Blinkers off: Bluey’s Chance, Skedaddle Skedoo (R3), Abbey Kay (R4) Winkers on: Bluey’s Chance (R3), Brakbar (R7) Winkers off: Dressedtokill (R2) SELECTIONS Race 1: Lincoln Zephyr, Lively Interest, Diplomat, Rosie Marie Race 2: Timy Tyler, Two Thirty, What’s Up Alf, The Bumper Race 3: Ted Talks, Bluey’s Chance, Montreux Miss, Plushenko Race 4: Hapi Ella, Ajay Tee, Nopele, Promising, La Roccetta Race 5: Overtheriver, Kaharau, Duffers Creek, The Gordonian Race 6: Katiem Marie, Florence Ivy, Rock Solid, Fishermans Blues

Race 7: Bruegel, Brakbar, Prawn Star, Dutch Courage

Tanya Jonker is down to ride Show MacCool in the Greymouth Cup at Omoto tomorrow.

Auckland dogs Tomorrow at Manukau Stadium

1 53221 On Da Quest 18.68 R & ......................L Udy 9 67858 Audrette 18.45.................................S Codlin 8 71378 Opawa Pink nwtd W & ....................T Steele 2 16111 It’s Pawsible 18.61 ..........................P Green 9 86787 Agbeze nwtd .................................A Cleaver 9 3.43 CAROL’S TAB CLENDON INN STKS C3, 527m 3 72167 Statman Dave 18.72 ..................H Laagland 6 2.51pm TROPHIES PLUS SPRINT C2, 318m 1 42616 Good Job 30.66 ..............................P Green 4 84863 Nangar Panther 18.53 ....................C Henley 1 3337x Nasa 18.78........................................B Craik 2 15775 Zugzwang nwtd .............................. S O’Neill 5 36161 Jetsun Paint 18.62 .........................G Wilson 2 28318 Yella Ella 18.79 R &.............................L Udy 3 12253 Hey Khali 30.90 U &..........................Cottam 6 71178 Beat The Butcher 18.36 R & ...............L Udy 3 26865 On Fleek 18.56 .................................B Craik 4 68xF4 Secret Rory 30.98 .......................... G Farrell 7 54133 Bombshell Blonde 18.64 .............. H Mullane 4 46452 Token Jasper nwtd ........................... S Clark 5 21335 Jinja Bailey 30.36 U & .......................Cottam 8 36526 Amazing Contact 18.58...................S Codlin 5 21727 Was Just Saying 18.59 R &.................L Udy 6 16656 El Narco 30.69 ................................P Green 9 67375 Mega Munchies 18.61 U &................Cottam 6 71577 Sonic Attack 18.48 ...........................S Lozell 7 47281 Ti Amo 30.73.....................................B Craik 10 16844 Kiwi Gal nwtd U & .............................Cottam 7 87446 Bruce Banner 18.71 ..................... H Mullane 8 25723 Hitch A Ride nwtd ........................... T Green 4 2.16pm GREYHOUND FUNCTION CENTRE SPRINT 8 37555 Guru’s Choice 18.80 A &.................Williams 9 44657 Blocker 30.81 R & .......................N O’Regan C2, 318m 7 3.08 $15,000 GUARANTEED PICK6 SPRINT C1, 318m 10 4.01pm QUALIFIED PET SERVICES SPRINT C5, 1 73258 Talkabout Izzy nwtd............................ D Ray 1 211 Waiterimu Ripper 18.80 R & ...............L Udy 318m 2 25513 Rocky’s To Much 18.73 A & ............Williams 2 85265 Bigtime Winnie 18.90 A & ...............Williams 1 72441 Retired Mouse 18.71....................... T Green 3 64346 Gotcha Millie 18.65 ...................... H Mullane 3 87542 Nexus 18.99 ................................... G Farrell 2 51154 Wong Way 18.44 U & ........................Cottam 4 76143 Bright Concept 18.80 R & ...................L Udy 4 46587 Opawa Blair nwtd A & .....................Williams 3 14246 Mad Harry 18.47 .............................S Codlin 5 45741 Bigtime Logan 18.64 A & ................Williams 5 41645 Agistri 18.68 ...................................S E Hunt 4 81622 Kapai Lana 18.57 R & .........................L Udy 6 57334 Hows Your Mum 18.62 ....................S Codlin 6 1477 Thrilling Denzel nwtd........................S Lozell 5 5x164 Tough Torque 18.57 ..........................E Potts 7 88574 Hallo Star 18.23 R & ...........................L Udy 7 48654 Tilly’s Silly nwtd R & ............................L Udy 6 13168 Fishing For Lisa 18.65.................. H Mullane 8 44631 Bigtime Sophie 18.62 ........................E Potts 8 F6786 Mr. Tucker 18.85 ...............................M Black 7 22214 Jinja Mongo 18.38 W & ...................T Steele 9 71577 Sonic Attack 18.48 ...........................S Lozell 9 76858 Mighty Mezz 18.87 R & ...............N O’Regan 8 38151 Fantastic Amy 18.53 ........................S Lozell 10 37555 Guru’s Choice 18.80 A &.................Williams 10 83548 Rockin’ Robyn nwtd........................ S O’Neill 9 66365 Over Indulgence nwtd ....................P Henley 5 2.33pm CITY OF PALMERSTON NORTH GOLDEN 8 3.26pm HEWLETT ELECTRICAL SPRINT C3, 318m 10 15388 Barwon Annie nwtd ........................C Henley CHASE 29/3 STAKE C1, 527m 1 21267 Jetsun Woody 18.66 ......................G Wilson 11 4.17pm MT WELLINGTON TAB SERIES FINAL 1 11157 Born Quick nwtd W & ......................T Steele 2 87435 Botany Wayne nwtd ........................P Green C1f, 527m 2 x7776 Jack No Lag 30.89 ......................... Y Castro 1 33FF4 Hua Hua nwtd ................................ G Farrell 3 74854 Irinka Stono 18.74 R & ................N O’Regan 3 64658 Jetsun Stampede 31.39 .................G Wilson 2 45313 Little Moo 30.50 U & .........................Cottam 4 76618 Bigtime Ottey 18.99 .........................S Lozell 4 47427 Vicarious nwtd R &......................N O’Regan 3 83311 Gao Gao 30.81 .............................. G Farrell 5 11243 Botany Esmay 18.71 .......................P Green 5 17564 Deception Diva 30.81 W & ..............T Steele 4 23243 Idol Ajay 30.90 W &.........................T Steele 6 74572 Waerenga Star 18.63 U & .................Cottam 6 81735 Opawa Big nwtd ............................. G Farrell 5 83842 Secret Lily 30.79 W &......................T Steele 7 83762 Billy Bullet 18.68 ...............................H Scott 7 1264x Talkabout Sophie 31.33 .................. K Walsh 6 35521 Salvarotti 30.70 .................................B Craik 8 52221 Your Valentine 18.59 .........................B Craik

7 8 9 10

77652 Home Bound nwtd R & .......................L Udy 64754 Bigtime Clyde nwtd ...................... H Mullane 454F5 Billy Bright nwtd .........................P Ferguson 81735 Opawa Big nwtd ............................. G Farrell 12 4.34pm JACK’S WHOLESALE MEATS SPRINT C1, 318m 1 54667 Jetsun Jamie 18.72 ........................G Wilson 2 641F8 Brick With Eyes 18.45 R & ..........N O’Regan 3 55325 Kuridrani 18.71 ..............................A Cleaver 4 62653 Hop On Mate 19.00......................... T Green 5 84756 Sly Cath nwtd A & ...........................Williams 6 56455 Tribal Conquest 19.12 R & ..................L Udy 7 47265 Jay Grim nwtd ................................ G Farrell 8 16213 Banjo Hope 18.94 A & ....................Williams 9 83788 Doug Deep 18.65 R & .........................L Udy 10 76858 Mighty Mezz 18.87 R & ...............N O’Regan SELECTIONS

Race 1: Aussie Dame, Scott No Value, Bigtime Dean, Twelve Gauge Race 2: Just Maddie, Kai Nan, Pukekohe Smurf, Karaoke Prince Race 3: Nangar Panther, It’s Pawsible, Beat The Butcher, On Da Quest Race 4: Bigtime Sophie, Talkabout Izzy, Rocky’s To Much Race 5: Born Quick, Opawa Big, Jack No Lag, Talkabout Sophie Race 6: Token Jasper, On Fleek, Sonic Attack, Nasa Race 7: Waiterimu Ripper, Nexus, Mr. Tucker Race 8: Your Valentine, Irinka Stono, Jetsun Woody, Botany Wayne Race 9: Jinja Bailey, Good Job, Ti Amo, El Narco, Hey Khali Race 10: Fantastic Amy, Jinja Mongo, Kapai Lana, Mad Harry Race 11: Gao Gao, Salvarotti, Idol Ajay, Little Moo, Secret Lily Race 12: Kuridrani, Jetsun Jamie, Banjo Hope, Hop On Mate LEGEND: fsdt - First Start Here nwd - No Win this Distance fstd - First Start This Distance 31 13 - Best Winning Time This Track

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No stopping green machine

Celtic A proved too hot to handle on the netball court in 2018, going through the season unbeaten to be crowned Mid Canterbury Netball’s premier one champs. But, what will 2019 bring?

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The 2018 Mid Canterbury Netball season belonged well and truly to Celtic A. Unbeaten all season and defending the title they won the year before, there was simply no stopping them. Erin Tasker takes a look back at the season that was.

For the past two seasons, the Mid Canterbury Netball premier one competition has been well and truly dominated by one slick team.

Celtic A have been the team to beat and in 2018 no other team was able to do it.

Now the question on everyone’s lips with another season looming large, is can someone give them a run for their money in 2019?

Each season, teams can change – players come and players go, players take time away to have babies, while others return from having babies.

But Celtic A had been a pretty consistent force over the past couple of years.

In 2018, there was no stopping them, with the green machine dominating proceedings from the season’s opening whistle.

When the final whistle of the season sounded, Celtic A had wrapped up their second Mid Canterbury Netball premier one title in a row, beating Methven A in the final 30-24.

So what made Celtic A just that little bit better than any other team this year?

Coached by Angela Leadley – once a pretty handy player herself – Celtic moved the ball through

the court with relative ease and speed week in, week out and opposition teams struggled to combat it.

But where they were a step above all others, was in the defensive end, where Anna Holland and Gina Woodhouse combined to form a formidable defensive duo that gave team after team a massive headache.

They made it incredibly tough for teams to get the ball into the shooting circle and picked up a steady stream of rebounds, and tips and intercepts through the midcourt, pouncing quickly on any loose ball which was then turned into points at the other end by their reliable shooters.

A few teams came close, but never really threatened to hand Celtic A their first defeat of the season, until the final where a determined Methven A side took to the court with nothing to lose.

They knew they were up against it and were well and truly underdogs, so they went into the match with the goal of leaving nothing on court.

And they didn’t.

Celtic A started strong, as everyone expected them to, and by half-time the score had blown out to 18-10.

Methven A had a huge mountain to climb to get back into the match, but they were determined to give it a crack.

They’d pulled back one goal by three-quarter time and started the final quarter well to narrow the margin to five.

With five minutes to go, and with Methven’s own dynamic defender Sally Carr in top form, Methven were back within four and a nail-biting final few minutes of the season ensued.

A couple of late intercepts by Carr gave her side a sniff, but they were matched by a couple of late errors which ensured that Celtic A held on for the win.

Also coming out on top on the 2018 Mid Canterbury Netball finals night was United A, who took out the premier two crown, in what was possibly the biggest shock of the season.

It wasn’t a shock that they won the final – they’d dominated premier two in the final few weeks of the season – but what was the shock, was the fact that they were in premier two at all.

While Celtic A were shining bright at the top in premier one all season, the rest of the teams were actually extremely well-matched.

At the start of the season the six

teams lining up for a shot at the premier one competition were Celtic A, Methven A, Ashburton College A, Hampstead A, United A and Southern A. Automatic promotion/relegation awaited at the end of the first round, and Southern A found themselves down the bottom so they went down to premier two, while the top team in premier two made the step up to premier one.

That side was Mt Somers, a new team formed at the start of the 2018 season.

It may have been a new team, but it was full of familiar faces, including a number of players who had played premier netball for other clubs in recent seasons before giving the sport a break.

Keen to come back and play top level netball, but without the added commitment of trialling and practising, they came together to form a new team under the Mt Somers banner.

Their first game in premier one resulted in an edge-of-your-seat 33-32 thriller victory over Ashburton College A, and while wins were hard to come by from there for the Mt Somers side, they did enough to make the semi-finals of the third and final round – where they went down to Celtic

A – and kept their place in the top flight.

Promotion/relegation also awaited at the completion of round two, and just who was in danger of dropping out of premier one came down to the final round.

That team turned out to be United A and they took on the top side from premier two – Celtic B – in a promotion/relegation match, and lost.

While the Celtic club was over the moon to have two sides in the top tier for the first time, the proud United A side was well and truly gutted.

The side was coached by former United A player Claire Tappin and it was the first time she could recall in the almost 20 years she’d been involved with the club, that United A had not been in the top grade.

But, what was done was done, and they turned their attention to premier two and won it with ease.

Now, their goal is to get back into premier one as quickly as they can, and with the experience of the 2018 season so fresh in their minds there will be no shortage of determination and drive when they take to the court for the opening round of the 2019 season.

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Dec 2018

Above – Lauriston’s Liam O’Connor looks to connect with the ball during his side’s loss to the Tech Stags.

Left – Ashburton tennis player Tessa McCann is presented with her winnings after taking out the Canterbury Open women’s singles title.

Right – Ashburton swim team member Bede Giera powers through the pool during a 100m mixed medley at Ashburton’s EA Networks Centre.

Below – Tony Sheppard lines up a putt on his way to victory in the Lynne Trophy.

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Assistant Farm Manager Vacancy We are currently milking 1250 cows through an 80 bale rotary shed with ACR and protrack.

Located in the Ashburton area.

We are looking for a motivated person to join our team.

MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT – PART-TIME Broaden your accounting career and extend yourself in the fast-paced media industry.

• Flexible role, 20-30 hours per week • Fantastic opportunity to gain varied accounting experience • Support business decision making As a valued member of the Management Team and working alongside the General Manager, you will play an integral role providing information on business performance along with analysis of financial data for decision making in the company. There is potential to project manage the company transition to a cloudbased accounting package in 2019. You will also head up the Admin team ensuring support and accuracy of routine departmental accounting and admin tasks. This role is key to ensure regular Management and Admin functions run smoothly and so you’ll be asked to roll your sleeves up and take on a variety of tasks.

Key responsibilities of the role include: • Weekly forecasting of revenue, profit/loss and cashflow • Preparation of month end financial summary including commentary • Variance analysis, investigation and reporting • Preparation of annual budget • Calculation of provisional tax payments • Preparation of trial balance for year end accounts • Assisting in identification on areas for improvement Your accounting career will include: • 2+ years relevant work experience ideally with month end reporting and budgeting • quick learner able to easily understand the mechanics of business • Confident user of Accounting software and Microsoft Office including solid Excel skills • Previous experience with implementation of cloud software would be an advantage • Be adaptable, self-managing and efficient • strong analytical and logical problem solving skills • Ability to manage multiple priorities, especially during busy times • Strong attention to detail • Motivated personality • Excellent oral and written communication skills • Preferably you will have a relevant qualification, however, consideration will be given to candidates with relevant experience, who can demonstrate themselves to be a fit for this role.

To apply, please email your CV, cover letter and relevant work references to: Kirstin.c@theguardian.co.nz Please note only New Zealand residents will be considered for this role.

TRAVEL

TWICE daily weekday commuter shuttle to Christchurch resumes Monday, January 7. Text or email in advance to ensure pick-up. Service will only operate if there are prior bookings. On Thursday, January 10, the off peak runs will not operate due to vehicle maintenance. Text or call 02108385112 or visit www. midcanterburyshuttleservice. co.nz

TRADES, SERVICES

PLANTS, PRODUCE

Raspberries 56 Tinwald Westerfield Mayfield Road

Allenton Netball Club AGM Monday, January 21, 2019 6.30pm Allenton Rugby Clubrooms, Melrose Road We welcome new Members Enquiries: mverrall@xtra.co.nz

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

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION

PAINTER Available: Quotes, new houses, older houses, anything needing painting. Contact Sam on 022 542 8927.

AKAROA - CHARMING, spacious holiday home, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, all electric heating. Sky, all mod cons, short walk to village. Phone Brian 307 8000 or 308 6180.

MEETINGS, EVENTS South Rakaia Bach Owners Association, Inc Annual General Meeting Will be held at the Settlement Shed 3pm Saturday, January 19, 2019 M Price Secretary

HEALTH & BEAUTY

SHELLY, Open Chinese Phone

health massage.

9am 9pm. lady, Ashburton.

022 684 1692.

Guardian Situations Vacant

All welcome Rev. David Bayne Ph 307 7355

Advertisement Rates

Three bedroom home with log burner provided.

Contact 027 380 5661 to discuss further.

Hakatere Marae Coordinator The Hakatere Marae Coordinator’s primary role is to support the delivery of the Komiti’s Strategic Plan.

Working 20 hours per week, this role includes offering secretarial support, facilitation and coordination of events, activities and marae bookings.

This position is an integral part of the Komiti and will provide a high standard of support in a professional capacity that reflects the vision, goals and philosophy of the Komiti.

For more information or to apply, please contact: Michelle Brett Chairman, Hakatere Maori Komiti mabrett42@gmail.com or phone 027 323 8957.

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GEANA and Amma Two beautiful Asian ladies, professional Chinese massage, excellent service Two ladies special, $200 per 1/2 hour. In/out calls.

Phone 021 046 3414.

Applications close Friday, January 18, 2019.

GARDENING

LIME Chip for sale Westside Hire, 171 Alford Forest Road. $38 per scoop. Call now on 308 0006, compost and bark too.

Pick-up and delivery options, You can even hire a trailer!

FOR SALE

03 307 7936

ACCOMMODATION, RENTAL

HOUSE for rent. Three bedroom with single garage.

Central location. Sunny.

Warm. No dogs. References required. Phone 027 6719 819.

WANTED to rent - Country home preferably within 30 minutes of Ashburton.

Three/four bedrooms plus shedding. Professional family would prefer, long term from Jan/Feb 2019. Phone 303 9818 or 027 574 3710.

SCOOTERS - new and secondhand three and four wheel electric scooters and wheel chairs. Call Fred Reddecliffe at Electric Mobility Ashburton today.

Phone 308 3602.

73St, Burnett Ashburton Members I.B.A.N.Z & & Brokernet Ltd. LevelSt, 2, 73 St,|Ashburton Members of NZBrokers I.B.A.N.Z & NZ Brokernet 2, 73 Level Burnett Ashburton | Members of|of I.B.A.N.Z Level Level 2, 73 Burnett St,2, Ashburton |Burnett Members of I.B.A.N.Z & Brokernet NZ Ltd. NZ Ltd.

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MOTORING

Applicant must have a clean criminal record, be drug free as pre employment drug testing will be required as well as random drug testing throughout employment, have a full drivers licence and current work visa.

63 Princes Street

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Phone 308 1338

FRESHLY dug new potatoes, Nadine and Osprey. 2kg $5 or 4.5kg $10.

Bennett, 22 Melrose Road.

You will need at least two years’ experience as Herd Manager or one year in a 2IC role.

Level 2, 73 Burnett St, Ashburton | Members of I.B.A.N.Z & Brokernet NZ Ltd.

Southberry OPEN 7 DAYS 9AM - 6PM

The successful applicant will be expected to be able to manage all aspects of day to day dairy farm tasks.

10.30am Worship Every Sunday

LIVESTOCK, PETS

BUYER of unwanted animals.

Cattle, bobby calves, horse and all farm animals. We also sell pet food. Call Nick’s Pet Food 0272 101 621, A/H 03 348 9439.

POULTRY Boys. Pullets for sale, ready now. Phone Justin 027 785 7533 or 307 8583, Gavin 027 662 2107.

HIRE

GENERAL hire. Lawnmowers, chainsaws, concrete breakers, trailers, and more. All your DIY / party hire, call and see Ashburton U-Hire. 588 East Street. Open Monday-Friday 7am - 6pm; Saturday 7.30am - 5pm; Sunday 8.30am 12.30pm - Phone 308 8061 www.ashburtonuhire.co.nz

307 7900

9am - 12.30pm ASHBURTON DISTRICT FARMERS’ MARKET. Lots of produce, products, hot and cold drinks and much more. See you there! West Street Car Park.

9am - 12.30pm CRAFT MARKET. Children’s clothing, jewellery,

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

9.30am ST DAVID’S UNION CHURCH. Worship service led by Rev Jim Young, 48 Allens Road, Allenton.

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

10am ST PAUL’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Combined worship service led by Rev Helen Wallis, all welcome. 65

MONDAY 9.30am ASHBURTON COUNTY VETERANS GOLF ASSN. All welcome to the first event for 2019. Rakaia Golf Club.

10am MT HUTT MEMORIAL HALL.

Jan 5, 6 & 7, 2019 Rawleighs, toys and more. West Street Car Park.

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

10am - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM.

A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future.

Ashburton Airport, Seafield Road.

10am - 4pm TROTTS GARDEN. Internationally recognised, open daily, weekends by arrangement, entry fee applies. info@trotts. co.nz or phone 027-640-4094.

Racecourse Road.

Oxford Street.

10am ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. No service, the service is at St Paul’s, 65 Oxford Street.

10am ST STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH. Holy Communion. Park Street.

10am ASHBURTON BAPTIST CHURCH. Morning service, all welcome. 67 Cass Street.

10.30am VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word.

131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

10.30am

GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Worshipping God and transforming lives. 63 Princes Street, Netherby.

11am - 4pm THE PLAINS RAILWAY. Steam train rides, museum village open. Vintage machinery display’s and more! www.plainsrailway.co.nz Maronan Road, Tinwald.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future.

Ashburton airport, Seafield Road.

7pm VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Worship God and study his word.

131 Thomson Street, (Tinwald School hall).

NZ Alpine and Agriculture Encounter, Art Gallery and hall of memories. 160 Main Street, Methven.

10am - 4pm TROTTS GARDEN. Internationally recognised, open daily, weekends by arrangement, entry fee applies. info@trotts.

co.nz or phone 027-640-4094.

Racecourse Road.

1pm - 3pm ASHBURTON AVIATION MUSEUM. A great selection of many aircraft from the past to the future. Seafield Road.

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6am Mastermind 3 0 6:35 Fishy Business 0 7am Tiny House Nation 7:45 Tagata Pasifika 8:10 Praise Be 8:40 Topp Country 3 0 9:15 Our Big Blue Backyard 0 10:05 Moving Out With Tamati 3 0 10:30 Waka Huia Summer Series 11am Attitude 0 11:30 Dream Catchers 0 11:55 Extreme Road Rescue 3 0 12:55 Tiny House Nation 1:50 Women In Blue 3 0 2:50 Robson Green – Grand Slam Fishing 0 3:55 Tipping Point Lucky Stars 4:55 The Celebrity Chase 0 6pm 1 News At 6pm 0

6am Paw Patrol 3 0 6:25 Thomas And Friends 3 0 6:35 Sofia The First 3 0 7am Alvinnn!!!

And The Chipmunks 3 0 7:10 Chuggington – Little Trainees 3 0 7:15 Powerpuff Girls 3 0 7:35 KC Undercover 3 0 8am Heihei On 2 0 8:12 Tamariki Take Over 0 8:15 M Pokemon The Movie – I Choose You! 2017 Animated Adventure. 0 9:50 Teen Titans Go! 3 0 10:30 M The Little Vampire 3 2000 Adventure Comedy. 0 12:10 Ugly Betty 3 0 1pm America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 1:25 The Real O’Neals PGR 3 0 1:55 Life In Pieces PGR 3 0 2:45 Home And Away Omnibus 0 5pm Love Connection 0 6pm The Middle 0 6:30 The Big Bang Theory 0

6am Life TV 6:30 Brian Houston 7am Charles Stanley 8am Leading The Way 8:30 Turning Point 9am R&R 9:30 Both Worlds 3 0 9:55 Arranged 3 0 10:45 The Great New Zealand Dance Masala 3 0 11:10 XVenture Family Challenge 3 0 11:35 Gone Fishin’ 3 Noon Entertainment Tonight Weekend 1pm Motorsport – Jaguar I 1:30 Motorsport – Formula E Street Racers 2pm Motorsport – SsangYong Racing Series 3pm Motorsport – US Formula Drift: Long Beach 3:30 Motorsport – US Formula Drift: Long Beach 4pm Motorsport – Whanganui Street Race 5pm Towies 3 0 5:30 Caught On Dashcam 3 0 6pm NewsHub Live At 6pm

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

Noon Top Gear PGR 3 0 1:05 War News PGR 3 2pm The Great Indoors PGR 3 2:55 Homes By The Sea 3 0 3:55 Hot Bench 3 4:20 Tennis – ASB Classic (HLS) Women’s Week – Day Six. 0 5:30 Prime News 6pm The Great Escapers A couple from Scotland move to a millionaire’s playground; two French restaurateurs branch out into weddings; two adrenaline junkies diversify into the B&B business.

6:30 Te Kaea 3 2 7am Takaro Tribe 3 7:10 Pukoro 2 7:40 Pipi Ma 7:50 Te Mana Kuratahi – Primary Schools’ Kapa Haka 3 8:20 Smooth 3 8:30 Fitness In The Whare 3 9am Te Kaea 3 2 9:30 Grid 3 10am My Party Song 3 10:30 Fresh 3 11am Native Affairs – Summer Series 3 11:30 R&R Noon Basketball – Fiba World Cup Qualifiers 2pm M A Troll In Central Park 1994 Animated Adventure.

Dom DeLuise, Cloris Leachman, Charles Nelson Reilly. 3:30 Haati Grassroots Rugby 4:30 IVF World Sprints 5pm Tagata Pasifika 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Matangi Rau 3

7pm Big Cats In Ruaha, Tanzania, lions form huge super prides to hunt giants. 0 8:10 Amazing Hotels – Life Beyond The Lobby Giles and Monica travel to Oman to visit a resort seeking to blend local tradition with modern tastes. 0 9:20 The Job Interview 0 10:20 Broadchurch AO 0

7pm M Zootopia PGR 2016 Animated Adventure. A rookie rabbit police officer and a cynical con-artist fox must work together to reveal a conspiracy. 0 9pm M Suicide Squad AO 2016 Action. A secret government agency recruits a group of incarcerated super villains to stop a powerful, ancient entity. 0

7pm House Rules PGR 0 8:30 M The Bourne Identity AO 3 2002 Thriller. A man who washes ashore with bullet wounds and amnesia must elude assassins as he regains his memory.

Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen. 0 10:40 Blue Bloods AO 0

7pm Storage Wars PGR 7:30 Mediterranean With Simon Reeve PGR 0 8:30 Seal Team PGR 9:30 N NCIS – New Orleans PGR 0 10:30 60 Minutes PGR

7pm Taha Tauiwi 3 7:30 Kaikohe Demolition 3 8:35 M Changeling AO 2008 Drama. In the 1920s, a mother deals with corrupt police when she hunts for answers to her son’s disappearance, only to be confronted by a truth that will change her.

Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich.

11:20 Murder Calls AO The murder of Australian woman Kelly Hodge made headlines. Now, for the first time, the phone call from the grave that solved the case. 0 12:15 The Inside Word PGR 0 12:40 Attitude 0 1:10 Coronation Street Catch-Up PGR 0 3:05 Infomercials

11:20 The Originals 0 12:10 M Carrie AO 2013 Horror.

Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Gabriella Wilde. 1:50 Love Island UK 3 2:40 Meet The Parents 3 0 3:30 Infomercials 4:05 My Wife And Kids 4:30 Regular Show 3 0 4:45 Crazy Love 3 5:30 Infomercials

11:30 NCIS AO 3 Gibbs finally meets Ari, the Bete Noir terrorist who wounded him before escaping. 0 12:15 Infomercials

11:30 Football – English Premier League (HLS) The best bits of the week’s games.

12:30 Closedown

11:05 Te Kaea 3 Maori Television’s daily news programme. 2 11:35 Closedown

Zootopia

7pm on TVNZ 2

BRAVO 6am Tabatha Takes Over 3 6:45 Tabatha Takes Over 3 7:35 Tabatha Takes Over 3 8:20 Tabatha Takes Over 3 9:10 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 9:35 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 10am Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 10:25 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 10:50 I’m Having Their Baby 3 11:45 Catfish 3 12:30 I Killed My BFF PGR 3 1:30 Dance Moms 3 2:30 Dance Moms 3 3pm Streetmate PGR 3 3:30 Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 4pm Say Yes To The Dress Atlanta 3 4:30 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 5:30 Love It Or List It – Vancouver 3 6:30 Million Dollar Matchmaker 3 7:30 Streetmate PGR 8pm Streetmate PGR 8:30 M Into The Blue AO 3 2005 Thriller.

10:30 Manzo’d With Children AO 11pm Manzo’d With Children AO 11:30 Catfish AO 12:20 Infomercials 3

Mediterranean with Simon Reeve, 7:30pm on Prime

SKY 5 6am Last Man Standing PG 6:25 Mountain Men PG 7:20 The Librarians MV 8:10 Gulliver’s Travels PG (Part 1) 9:50 Stranded M 10:45 Scorpion MV 11:40 Ice Road Truckers PG 12:35 Mountain Men PG 1:30 Raw MVC 4:15 SmackDown MVL 6pm Main Event MV 7pm Last Man Standing PG 7:30 Scorpion MV When Director Carson orders Scorpion to play in a softball game against the Homeland Security team, there is more than just bragging rights at stake.

8:30 CSI – Cyber MV 9:30 CSI – Miami MV 10:30 Supernatural M 11:25 The Librarians MV

MOVIES PREMIERE

MOVIES GREATS

6:35 Nothing But Trailers MVLSC 6:50 Never Here 16LS 2017 Thriller. Mireille Enos, Sam Shepard. 8:40 The Dinner 16VLC 2017 Drama.

Richard Gere, Laura Linney.

10:40 Atomic Blonde 16VLSC 2017 Action. Charlize Theron, James McAvoy. 12:35 LBJ ML 2016 Drama. Bill Pullman, Jeffrey Donovan. 2:15 A Quiet Place MVC 2018 Thriller.

John Krasinski, Emily Blunt.

3:45 Welcome Home PG 2015 Drama. Luke Perry, Erica Cerra.

5:10 Truth Or Dare MLS 1996 Drama. Susan Lynch, John Hannah.

6:50 The Mercy ML 2018 Drama. Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz.

8:30 Tomb Raider MV 2018 Action. The fiercely independent Lara Croft sets out to find her father in a fabled tomb on a mythical island.

Alicia Vikander, Dominic West.

10:30 The Snowman 16VLC 2017 Drama.

Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson.

7:35 Wrath Of The Titans MV 2012 Fantasy.

Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson. 9:15 Jersey Girl MLS 2004 Comedy Drama. Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Liv Tyler.

10:55 Iron Man 3 MV 2013 Action. Robert Downey jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Guy Pearce.

1:05 J. Edgar MVL 2011 Drama. Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer. 3:20 Bride Wars ML 2008 Comedy.

Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Kristen Johnston. 4:50 The Devil Wears Prada PGL 2006 Comedy. Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway. 6:40 Gone Baby Gone 16VL 2007 Crime. Casey Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris.

8:30 Non-Stop MVL 2013 Thriller. After being left at the altar, a woman has a brief liaison with a handsome stranger on a plane, which ultimately puts her and everyone else on the flight in danger. Lacey Chabert, Veronica Cartwright, Betsy Russell.

10:20 Step Brothers 16LSC 2008 Comedy. Will Ferrell, John C Reilly.

11:55 Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes MV 2011 Action.

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12:30 Close Up – Christoph Waltz PG 1am Welcome Home PG 2015 Drama.

MONDAY Luke Perry, Erica Cerra.

12:15 Scorpion MV 1:05 Last 2:25 Truth Or Dare MLS Man Standing PG 1:30 Main 1996 Drama. Susan Lynch, Event MV 2:20 The John Hannah. 4:05 The Mercy Librarians MV 3:10 Stranded ML 2018 Drama. Colin Firth, M 4am Last Man Standing Rachel Weisz. 5:45 Tomb PG 4:25 CSI – Miami MV Raider MV 2018 Action.

Alicia Vikander, Dominic West.

5:10 CSI – Cyber MV

MONDAY

1:40 Bride Wars ML 2008 Comedy. 3:10 The Devil Wears Prada PGL 2006 Comedy. 5am Gone Baby Gone 16VL 2007 Crime.

SKY SPORT 1 6:30 Soccer Saturday (DLY) 8:30 Football – A-League (RPL) Adelaide United v Phoenix. 10:30 Cricket – Big Bash (HLS) Stars v Thunder.

11am Cricket – Big Bash (HLS) Scorchers v Heat.

11:30 Cricket – Blackcaps v Sri Lanka (HLS) Second ODI. Noon The Cricket Show 12:35 L Cricket – Women’s Super Smash Blaze v Magicians.

From the Basin Reserve in Wellington. 3:50 L Cricket – Super Smash Firebirds v Kings.

From the Basin Reserve in Wellington. 7:30 Golf – PGA Tour (HLS) Sentry Tournament of Champions – Third Round.

8pm Darts – BDO World Championship (HLS) 9pm Basketball – NBL (HLS) Breakers v Wildcats.

9:30 Fox Sports News 10pm Cricket – Australia v India (HLS) Fourth Test – Day Four.

10:30 Football – FA Cup (RPL) Blackpool v Arsenal.

MONDAY

12:30 Fox Sports News 1am Tennis – Hopman Cup (HLS) Final. 2:30 The Crowd Goes Wild Best of 2018.

3am Tennis – Women’s ASB Classic (HLS) Match of the Day – Final. 4:30 Tennis – Women’s ASB Classic (HLS) Final. 5:30 Golf – PGA Tour (HLS) Sentry Tournament of Champions – Round Three.

0 Closed captions; 3 Repeat; 2 Maori Language; HLS Highlights; RPL Replay; DLY Delayed. CLASSIFICATIONS: 16/18 Approved for persons 16/18 years or over; AO Adults only; C Content may offend; L Language may offend; M Suitable for mature audiences; PG/PGR Parental guidance recommended for young viewers; S Sexual content may offend; V Contains violence. Local Radio: NewsTalk ZB 873AM/98.1FM FM Classic Hits ZEFM 92.5; Port FM Local 94.9, 98.9 and 106.1

6am Jimmy’s Australian Food Adventure 6:30 Through The Bible With Les Feldick 7am James Martin’s French Adventure 8am 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammies 9am M Jimmy Neutron – Boy Genius 2001 Animated Action. 10:30 Craft It Yourself 11:30 Living Free With Kimi Werner 12:30 Collectaholics 1:30 Dara And Ed’s Road To Mandalay 2:30 Flippin’ RVs 3:30 Life At The Extreme 4:30 Gordon’s Great Escape – South East Asia 5:30 Gourmet Farmer 6pm The Boat That Guy Built 6:30 Running Wild PGR Kate Winslet and Bear tackle Wales’s Snowdonia Mountains as she discusses her upbringing and career, set up camp in windy conditions, and swim in an icy ocean.

7:30 American Pickers 8:30 M The Ghost Writer AO 2010 Thriller. A ghostwriter hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister uncovers secrets that put his own life in danger.

10:30 M Queen Of The Desert AO 2015 Drama.

1am Flippin’ RVs 2am American Pickers 3am M The Ghost Writer AO 2010 Thriller.

A ghostwriter hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister uncovers secrets that put his own life in danger.

Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan.

5am Life At The Extreme

SKY SPORT 2 6am Tennis – Brisbane International (HLS) Match of Day Six – Night Session.

7:30 Cricket – Blackcaps v Sri Lanka (HLS) 8am Basketball – NBL (RPL) Teams TBC. 10am Fox Sports News 10:50 Cricket – Australia v India (HLS) Fourth Test – Day Three.

11:20 L Cricket – Australia v India Fourth Test – Day Four.

Morning session from the SCG, Sydney.

2:35 The Big Break 3:05 L Cricket – Australia v India Fourth Test – Day Four.

Afternoon Session from the SCG, Sydney.

8pm Cricket – Blackcaps v Sri Lanka (HLS) Second ODI. From Bay Oval in Tauranga.

8:30 Cricket – Women’s Super Smash (HLS) Blaze v Magicians.

From the Basin Reserve in Wellington.

9:10 L Cricket – Big Bash Strikers v Sixers.

From the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide.

MONDAY

1am Cricket – Super Smash (HLS) Firebirds v Kings.

1:30 Tennis – Women’s ASB Classic (HLS) Finals.

2:30 Football – A-League (RPL) Adelaide United v Phoenix. 4:30 Pro Kabaddi Playoff (RPL) Teams TBC. 6Jan19

DISCOVERY 6:35 Treehouse Masters PG 7:30 How It’s Made PG 7:55 How It’s Made PG 8:20 Aussie Gold Hunters PG 9:10 Outback Pilots PG 10am Expedition Unknown 10:50 Gold Rush PG 11:40 Alaskan Bush People PG Bird and the Bees. 12:30 Air Rescue PG 12:55 Air Rescue PG 1:20 Alaska – The Last Frontier PG A Yuletide Thanksgiving. 2:10 Robson Green’s Australian Adventure PG South Australia.

3pm Robson Green’s Australian Adventure PG Northern Territory.

3:50 Robson Green’s Australian Adventure PG 4:45 Robson Green’s Australian Adventure PG 5:40 Sydney Harbour Patrol 6:35 Sydney Harbour Patrol 7:30 Blowing Up History PG 8:30 Outback Opal Hunters PG 9:25 Expedition Unknown PG 10:15 Expedition Unknown PG 11:05 Gold Rush PG 11:55 Air Rescue PG

MONDAY

12:20 Air Rescue PG 12:45 Deadliest Catch PG 1:35 How Do They Do It? PG 2am How Do They Do It? PG 2:25 Homestead Rescue PG 3:15 Treehouse Masters PG 4:05 Treehouse Masters PG 4:55 How It’s Made PG 5:20 How It’s Made PG 5:45 Treehouse Masters PG

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DEATHS

SMITH - CHAMBERS – Tania and Murray along with Lisa and Lester are thrilled to announce the engagement of Guy and Alicia.

CLELAND, Averil Gwynne – On January 1, 2019.

Peacefully at Rosebank Resthome, Ashburton. Aged 90 years. Loved wife of the late Trevor (Tex). Loved mother and mother-in-law of MARTIN, Betty – Years go by Robert and Marianne, life goes on (Blenheim) Jeannette and but memories Max Molloy and Alasdair and last forever.

Alison. Loved Nana of Ben, Love is never lost. and Jonny; Kerryn, Tim, Jenny, and Edward; Sam, The Martin family. and Hamish and their partners and great Nan of all her great grandchildren. A loved sister and sister-in-law.

Messages to the Cleland family, PO Box 472, Ashburton 7740. At Averil’s request a private family service has been held.

DEATHS CLARKE, Noeline Joan – Noeline died peacefully at Ashburton Hospital on December 29, 2018 with family, aged 77 years. Loved wife of John, loved mother and mother-in-law of Linda and Perry, and Tony and Lisa; special Ma of Kieran, and Gareth; and Daniel, and Kirsten. Former Deacon of St Luke’s Church at Hinds.

A courageous woman, now at peace.

Special thanks to Dr Eti Avnit, the Ashburton Palliative Care team, and Ashburton Hospital nurses and district nurses for their compassion, caring and sense of humour over the past 17 months. Messages to the Clarke family, c/- PO Box 6035, Ashburton 7742. A service for Noeline will be held at St Stephen’s Anglican Church, Park Street, Ashburton on TUESDAY, January 8, 2019 at 11.30am followed by interment in the Hinds Cemetery at 2.00pm.

0800 263 6679 CLARKE, Noeline Joan – Sadly Noeline passed away on December 29, 2018. Loved daughter of the late Mary and Jack Howden. Loved sister of Margaret and Keith Collins (both deceased), Shirley (deceased) and Ron Donaldson, Allen (deceased) and June Howden, Pat and Ray (deceased) Gibson, Beverley and Eddie Totten (Perth). A bright, cheerful, loving aunt of all her nieces and nephews.

Will be sadly missed.

CLARKE, Noeline Joan – Loved sister-in-law of Noeline and the late Joe Clarke, the late Margaret and Stephen Chisnall, the late Dureen and Stan Scheib, Mina and the late Arthur Taylor, Gordon and the late Eunice Wood, Robert and Cathie Clarke. Loved by all her nieces and nephews.

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Wind at 1000m: NW 45 km/h rising to gale 85 km/h in the evening.

Wind at 2000m: W rising to gale 65 km/h, and to 90 km/h in the evening. Possibly rising to severe gale 100 km/h in evening.

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Rain about the divide, with heavy falls, spreading further east later.

Wind at 1000m: W gale 85 km/h, rising to severe gale 100 km/h for a time in the morning, then easing to 45 km/h in the afternoon and to 35 km/h in the evening.

Wind at 2000m: W gale 90 km/h, rising to severe gale 110 km/h, for a time in the morning, then easing to gale 65 km/h in the afternoon and to 45 km/h in the evening.

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Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 2:00 pm, yesterday 169.4 Nth Ashburton at 2:05 pm, yesterday

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A high over the country is weakening and moving off the North Island. A strengthening, warm, northwest flow over the southern Tasman Sea pushes over the South Island and onto central regions this afternoon.

A front spreads north over the South Island tomorrow.

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Passed away on December Loved and missed.

31, 2018, in the loving care of Mum, Dad, Janene, Katrina TOMORROW the staff at Yvette Williams and Vaughan.

Cloud increasing. Rain spreading north Retirement Village, Dunedin; aged 92 years. Loved wife of during the afternoon and evening as gusty FUNERAL the late Fred, dearly loved northwesterlies change southerly. mother and mother-in-law of FURNISHERS Geoff and Liz Rea (Napier), MONDAY MASTER Paul and Heather Rea MONUMENTAL MASON Rain easing to isolated showers early (Arrowtown) and Jude and Warren Lees (Clyde), much E.B. CARTER LTD morning. Southerlies turning northeasterly. loved Nana of Kate and For all your memorial TUESDAY requirements Summer Sears, Andrew and Often cloudy with a few showers spreading New headstones and designs Gretchen Rea, Jay Rea, Amy Renovations, north. Northeasterlies turning southerly for Rea, Tom and Laura Rea, Additional inscriptions, Greg and Lucy Lees, Abbie a time.

Cleaning and Concrete work and James Barnes. Loved Carried out by qualified WEDNESDAY Nana Alma to her great tradesmen. grandchildren Ella Sears, Morning cloud, then fine. Northeasterlies Billy, and Alfie Lees, Charlie, 620 East Street Ashburton strengthening.

Ph/Fax 308 5369 Noah, and Eve Barnes. or 0274 357 974 Alma’s family would like to ebcarter@xtra.co.nz World Weather thank Carolyn and all the NZMMMA Member Adelaide fine 25 15 Frankfurt other wonderful people at Amsterdam cloudy 9 4 Geneva Yvette Williams. A private Bangkok cloudy 30 23 Hobart family celebration of Alma’s Berlin drizzle 7 3 Hong Kong life will be held. Messages to Brisbane fine 31 22 Honolulu the Rea family, PO Box 246, Cairns showers 32 23 Islamabad Cairo fine 19 10 Jakarta Arrowtown 9351.

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Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

Your Stars ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): It’s said that a great library is a diary of the human race. If you visit one, you’ll be privy to the human mind and heart.

If you don’t, you’ll certainly grow your mind on juicy information you get somewhere else.

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): The change you’re thinking about may seem risky to others, but not to you. You have a strong vision of where you’re going, trust yourself.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): You’re used to things clipping along at a snappy pace, especially in the case of promptly returned communication. So try not to be offended by the lag time you experience today. Pause and let others catch up.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): True friendship is a gift, the benefits of which double up on themselves, boomerang back and forth, and spread out to the world in ripples of goodwill. False friendship, on the other hand, is a curse.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): You’ll get the amount of attention you need, but only if you ask for it. And you should definitely ask. Otherwise, people won’t understand your preferences and expectations.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): An open mind is a loophole.

It allows you to gather wisdom even from a person who offends you. It allows you to find insight to lead a better life even from someone you disagree with 80 percent of the time.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Your kindness always comes back to you, often not from where you invested it.

Also the timing can be unpredictable. You’re not overly concerned as giving brings you joy, but sometimes you do wonder. Have faith.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): In case you were doubting your ability to work under pressure, today will provide you with such a time crunch and a resource shortage, it’s almost funny. It will be after you’ve succeeded, which you will.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): There are many people who might fulfil similar needs for one another, but none of them creates exactly what you do in a relationship. Those who recognise the uniqueness of you are worthy of it.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): Potential is not a thing you can buy, but you can invest in it, which is always a gamble. Before you invest anything – time, energy or other – into the potential of a thing, do a massive amount of research.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): There’s a lot that will need to come together to pull off your plan, and it’s absolutely possible, but your conviction will make the difference, too. You’ll have to believe and believe hard.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): No matter how close you may be to another person, even living in the same house and doing the same things, you are each in your own reality. Share that and you’ll find out how different those realities are.

ACROSS 1. A hundred classic birds providing homes for troglodytes (5) 4. Final one written in postcard that may be moulded (7) 8. It is between the prefix in terms of absent manuscript (5) 9. Minor explosion heavenly body makes as chart-topper (3-4) 10. Place one can drink may be a sort of magnet (3) 11. Don’t shout so enthusiastically if it lacks warmth (9) 12. There isn’t any nitrogen on the unit (4) 13. Be shipshape and get the boat ready to sail (4) 18. One will worship such a deep curtsey (9) 20. Girl loses her head, and he’s addle-pated (3) 21. Instigate American backing on the street, one will propose (7) 22. Cockney sock-supplier may be used by basket-maker (5) 23. Without sex appeal, necessary change made to stage flats (7) 24. Article followed by first couple of readers in that place (5) DOWN 1. Not being ramblers, they tend to go up out of bed (8,5) 2. Vehicle holds tree chopped up by old serviceman (7) 3. Con needs to be so rigorous to narrow things down (6) 4. Barker Junior, favourite dancing to tune master plays (6) 5. Am a family man in France, according to current measure (6) 6. One’s right, as spelt out on spine of book (5) 7. Trim as Chester may be, it gets lit up seasonally (9,4) 14. Come to see how one may convert goods to cash (7) 15. Not much wind, so it’s practically a walkover (6) 16. Intricate rate of progress at sea to try right away (6) 17. Small department holding gold to send permanently abroad (6) 19. Uncertain if Virginia will take half the guests (5)

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ACROSS 1. Gamble (4) 3. Dead-end street (3-2-3) 9. Penned (7) 10. Bush (5) 11. Dodging school (7,5) 14. Fire residue (3) 16. Killed (5) 17. Token concession (3) 18. Completely understood (7,5) 21. In the midst of (5) 22. Removed grime (7) 23. War memorial (8) 24. Various (abbr) (4)

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Across: 1. Contemplate 8. Actor 9. Rat race 10. Branded 11. Robes 12. Rulers 14. Exotic 18. Clamp 19. Attuned 21. Chariot 23. Phial 24. Disconcerts 6 4 Down: 1. Chamber 2. Netball 3. Erred 4. Parody 2 7 5. Anthrax 6. Era 7. Press 13. Replies 7 15. Tangier 3 9 16. Cuddles 17. Tattoo 18. Cache 20.

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Previous solution: age, ale, angel, angle, gal, gale, gel, gen, glean, lag, lane, lea, lean, leg, nag

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