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The first weekend of the New Year delivered a very welcome gift to Mid Canterbury farmers with more than 60mm of rain falling in some areas.

Methven recorded the most rainfall in Canterbury at 63mm, according to MetService. A station inland of Westport recorded the country’s highest rainfall over the weekend, at 138mm.

Valetta farmer David Clark said the 16mm of rain received on his property was a lifesaver for some crops.

With the oilseed rape harvest due to start in about a week, and ryegrass seed soon after, the rain came at the right time.

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Low well levels early in the season has seen some crops sacrificed to conserve water use.

On Valetta Farms sheep grazing pasture has not been irrigated for more than a month. Mr Clark said the recent rain will keep those paddocks “ticking along” until the crops are finished.

“We simply haven’t had enough water so we’ve had to be very selective about where we used it,” he said.

“This rain and the 40mm of rain we had before Christmas has been simply a godsend.”

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“Farmers who grew winter barley are just on the cusp of getting under way with harvesting,” Mr Clark said.

Despite water shortages, a cold spring and a very dry start to summer irrigated crops are filling up and generally looking good, but not so on many dry land farms.

“I think our crops are looking really good, but that rain before Christmas was the difference between getting some crops over the line or not,” Mr Clark said.

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■ WORKSAFE, MINEX

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Worksafe is on the hunt for unregistered quarries around the Ashburton District in an effort to ensure every quarry is a safe quarry.

In conjunction with MinEx, Worksafe is trying to locate unregistered quarries, even those that might be used only occasionally, as it works to create a safer environment within the mining and quarrying sector.

With four fatalities in 2015, two of those occurring on unregistered sites, a sea-change was needed in the industry to ensure all quarries followed best and safe

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practices said MinEx chief executive, Ashburton man Les McCracken.

“There are still some out there who believe they’ve got a right to cut corners and create unnecessary and sometimes fatal risks,” he said.

With Canterbury’s strong economy on the back of the Christchurch rebuild, demand for aggregate had increased and that meant the risks presented by using unregistered quarries could also be increasing, Mr McCracken said.

“Unregistered quarries that follow sound health and safety prac-

tices have nothing to fear; some unregistered operators may be operating perfectly safely but others are operating in a way that is just plain reckless and a tragedy is likely to follow.”

There are about 500 registered quarries in New Zealand but MinEx believes there could be twice as many in use.

Many of those could be small quarries on the back of farms, in rivers or forestry blocks that were only used occasionally but all would still use machinery and that meant appropriate health and safety practices were needed, he said.

Ashburton was one of seven places where a quarry health and safety forum was held last year.

Identifying unregistered quarries was not about persecution, it was about safety, Mr McCracken said.

“We’re trying to drag these people out and we need to hear from anyone who owns or anyone who knows about an unregistered quarry.

“People have this attitude that you can’t dob your mate in but what if your mate’s at risk of killing one of his workers? We just want to ensure that all quarries are safe.”

Woman collapses Ashburton St John ambulance officers were called to assist a woman who had collapsed outside the Catholic Church on Thompson Street in Tinwald at about 9.30 on Sunday morning. The woman, who was in her eighties, was taken to Ashburton Hospital with moderate injuries.

Ambulance officers also attended two incidents at the EA Networks Centre on Saturday afternoon.

The callouts occurred between 4.30pm and 5pm. A 10-year-old boy sustained moderate injuries and a three-year-old girl minor injuries. Both children were taken to Ashburton Hospital by ambulance.

Mum loses cancer fight A woman who discovered she had brain cancer weeks before giving birth to a baby girl has lost her battle against the disease.

Ruthee Carnegie died on Boxing Day surrounded by her family just two years after she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer.

The 38-year-old former child cancer charity worker received the diagnosis of a malignant and inoperable brain tumour in late 2013 midway through her pregnancy – and not long after celebrating her first wedding anniversary. The birth was able to go ahead after the first-time mum had specialist radiation treatment to the brain to avoid harming her unborn child. Little Abigail Rose Carnegie was welcomed into the family on February 6, 2014. - NZME

Five still in hospital

Rain didn’t spoil the fun for holidaymakers at Mt Somers. From left Mark Buckley, Alan Clarence, David Clarence, Vivienne Clarence, Ella Clarence, Debbie Buckley, Leon Clarence, Doreen Clarence and Charlie the dog.

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Five people remain in hospital after a serious crash involving several vehicles in Lindis Pass on Sunday afternoon. A 36-year-old man from one vehicle, and a 35-year-old man and three women aged 27, 30, and 31 from a second vehicle, were all hospitalised with serious injuries.

The cause of the crash, which took place at about 4.50pm was being investigated, police said.

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■ HOLIDAY WEATHER

Woman missing

Family reunion continues despite weather

A Christchurch woman who travelled to Auckland before New Year is missing and police say there are concerns for her safety. Sharon Helen Cross, 57, was last seen in Auckland at 1.30am on December 30. She was reported missing the next day. Police say there is a possibility Ms Cross has travelled to Dunedin. She is a European, approximately 174cm tall. Anyone sighting Sharon should immediately contact police on 111. Information can also be provided to the Auckland police on 09 302 6400 or anonymously via Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

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Wet weather didn’t dampen the spirits of four generations of the Clarence family who pitched their tents at the Mt Somers Domain for an informal reunion over the weekend.

The families came from Christchurch, Fairlie, Nelson and Temuka for the occasion.

“None of us had a house big

enough to accommodate all of us,” Vivienne said.

“It’s the first time we’ve been here and we’ve had a great time – the weather hasn’t been too much of a problem.”

Others may not have shared the same sentiment, with many people packing up and leaving before the wet weather hit on Sunday.

The Mt Somers community

celebrated New Year with a shindig at the nearby hall, but other than that it had been very peaceful, great grandmother Doreen said.

Alan had brought along his golf clubs and enjoyed a round on the Methven course on Saturday.

Charlie the dog also found favour with the family’s choice of holiday venue.

“He’s had a ball,” Vivienne said.

While Sunday’s rain kept most people off Lake Hood, yesterday offered up a reasonable day for water sports and the Turner family were quick to launch the boat for a spot of water skiing.

As the day wore on others followed suit.

The weather is forecast to improve over the next few days before another front drags more rain in from the Tasman sea.

Man’s body found in creek at canyoning spot Police say it is unclear how an Auckland man died during a canyoning trip deep in the Coromandel bush.

The 32-year-old’s body was found in a creek near Table Mountain, in the Kauaeranga Valley east of Thames, by staff from local canyoning company CanyoNZ on Saturday afternoon.

It is believed the man was canyoning alone at the time of his death but how he came to grief

remains a mystery.

“He was canyoning – he had all the ropes and gear with him – but quite what he was doing at the time or how he ended up in the creek at the bottom, we don’t know,” Waikato Police Senior Sergeant Rupert Friend said.

“Whether he was trying to climb up or down a cliff, or go through the bottom of the river below, we don’t know and that’s what we are trying to work out.”

Despite the body being dis-

covered on Saturday evening, it would have been too challenging to retrieve it then, Mr Friend said.

“It was obviously logistically not going to make sense trying to get it out that night, with fading light and the foul weather, so it was done yesterday.

“The operation took most of the day.

“Search and Rescue staff headed up first thing in the morning and didn’t actually get the body

out until late afternoon, because it was not an easy mission.”

Mr Friend said a thorough scene examination was carried out and an inquiry surrounding the death is now in the hands of the coroner.

A MetService sign had been placed at the entrance to the canyoning area and CanyoNZ had cancelled its trips on Sunday because of poor weather and high rivers.

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Vicious attack A woman was viciously attacked by a group of teenage girls in the carpark of Auckland’s Sylvia Park shopping centre yesterday.

The trio approached the woman about 8.15am and assaulted her before stealing her car. Two men were with them but did not participate in the assault. Police are appealing for information from the public about the assault and the offenders. The victim’s car has not been located. It is a silver Nissan Cefiro with the licence plate CRY691. A police spokeswoman said the attack had traumatised the victim.

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■ ASHBURTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

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Magazines at click of mouse Become a member of the Ashburton Public Library and you could have a world of magazines available at the click of a mouse.

Ashburton has joined the growing number of New Zealand libraries that have become part of the Zinio digital magazine network and that makes hundreds of popular magazines covering a wide range of subjects, available, free of charge to library members.

The service has been available as part of the library’s e-books portal for a couple of months, and technical librarian Nicky Farrell anticipates it will be well used over the summer holidays.

“It’s ready to use, it’s easy to use and we need to get the word out there,” she said.

Readers access Zinio by using their library number and password, complete their Zinio registration form and then select their magazine.

While the e-magazine service is similar to e-books it comes with a few advantages - there can be multiple borrowers of a magazine, multiple magazines can be borrowed at one time and there’s no expiry once the magazine is downloaded, Ms Farrell said.

“People can also ask for an

email notification each time a new issue comes out,” she said.

The range of magazines is wide and includes titles for children.

What is or isn’t available is decided by the magazine’s publisher.

Above - Ashburton library members are now spoiled for choice with their holiday reading, thanks to the new Zinio digital magazine network that has become part of the library’s e-book business. Librarian Carla Verberne checks out what’s on offer.

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Weekend rain welcomed by local farmers

Mid Canterbury crops benefitted from the wet weekend.

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From P1 However, he remains philosophical about the outcome of the harvest.

“It’s not a good harvest until it’s in the tin can (silo) – and there’s still time for the wheels to fall off yet,” he said.

“But the dryland farmers can only be disappointed, those crops haven’t had a decent rainfall since they went in the ground.”

MetService meteorologist Claire Flynn said a ridge of high pressure was pushing the rain front off the country, shepherding in some fine weather over the next few days.

“Temperatures in many places around the country are currently below normal for January, due to the southerly flow.

As the ridge builds over the country, temperatures should gradually return to normal during the week,” she said.

The fine weather is not set to last, however.

A low pressure system approaches the country from the Tasman Sea at the end of the week.

This should bring rain or showers to most places by the weekend, but to a lesser extent in the east of both islands.

■ NEW ZEALAND BLOOD SERVICE

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While many Mid Cantabrians were rushing around in a haze of holiday madness at the end of last year, others were giving a very special kind of gift.

The New Zealand Blood Service visited Ashburton in the week before Christmas to give locals the chance to donate blood.

New Zealand Blood Service donor recruitment team leader Alison Keast said that last year about 650 people donated blood from Ashburton.

Without dedicated donors the

New Zealanders spent an extra $397 million over December compared with the previous year, new figures from Paymark show.

Spending growth for the entire country was up almost 8 per cent to $5.493 billion compared with December 2014 - with the Bay of Plenty (10.1 per cent), Auckland and Northland (9.2 per cent), and Marlborough (9.9 per cent) among the regions seeing the biggest growth. In contrast, spending was static in Taranaki (0.2 per cent) and on the West Coast (0.4 per cent). Paymark pointed to a number of factors behind the overall increase in spending, including the Reserve Bank cutting the OCR, which flows on to lower mortgage rates, as well as continued GDP growth.

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By Caitlin Porter

Spending up

blood service would struggle to meet hospital requirements, she said.

Plasma donations however, are sadly lacking. Currently the blood service does not have the facility to collect plasma apheresis at mobile blood drives, as special machinery was required.

In the past, a few Ashburton donors have travelled to Christchurch’s donor centre on a regular basis.

Ms Keast urged anyone who was a regular traveller to Christchurch to talk to the blood service about the possibility of

becoming a plasma donor. The commitment would involve a donation every four to six weeks and within Canterbury the service is looking for 300 donors.

Used to treat people who have lost a lot of blood from accidents or other trauma as well as people who experienced severe bleeding through surgery, plasma is also used to create up to 13 lifesaving blood products.

These products help to boost the immune system of people with low antibody levels, control some autoimmune disorders and provide a clotting factor for peo-

ple with haemophilia.

The demand for these products is growing at a rate of 13 per cent per year, she said.

The process of giving plasma is not unlike giving blood. Instead of donating “whole blood” the donor gives only a certain part.

Blood is collected, the red blood cells, plasma and platelets are separated and the red blood cells and platelets are returned to the donor.

For more information contact the New Zealand Blood Service on 0800 448 325 or at www.nzblood.co.nz.

A post mortem examination has confirmed that a man who died after an assault in the Far North on New Year’s Eve suffered fatal head injuries from blunt force trauma. Lee Rata, 35, died in Whangarei Hospital on New Year’s Day. He was found on the side of Bonnett Road with critical injuries about 11pm on December 31.

Detective Inspector Kevin Burke said yesterday that the team investigating Mr Rata’s death had been boosted to 22 staff. Mr Burke said the investigation team is now working on the inquiry to help with the large number of witnesses who need to be located and spoken to.

Mr Rata has been returned to his family, and his tangi is taking place in the Far North. He is expected to be buried today.

- NZME

Tararua quake A strong earthquake that shook the Tararua area and which was felt across the lower North Island has prompted closer monitoring of seismic activity in the area.

Seismologists are now specifically investigating whether the 5.1 magnitude quake, that struck at 1.07pm at a depth of 25km, about 25km east of Pongaroa, might have done anything to activate the huge “megathrust” fault that runs along the tectonic plate boundary that New Zealand straddles.

More than 800 people reported feeling the quake on GeoNet. It followed a “moderate” 3.7 quake 5km southeast of Eketahuna and preceded a “weak” 3.0 quake 30km east of Pongaroa at 1.25pm.

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Man still critical A man is in a critical condition in Christchurch Hospital after he was attacked at a house party, police say. The 59-year-old received serious head injuries on New Year’s Eve while at a “social gathering” at a house in Runanga. Dennis Bernard Crozier, 48, appeared in the Greymouth District Court on Saturday after being arrested for the assault. His lawyer, Richard Bodle, said Crozier did not want to apply for bail because police were still investigating the incident, and assessing the condition of the victim. He also had no previous record or offending while on police bail. He was remanded to appear in the Christchurch District Court on January 6.

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■ HEALTH

Doctor keeping busy in retirement Despite retiring more than 10 years ago, Dr Philip Munns continues to pop up in general practices around the district. The Guardian’s Caitlin Porter caught up with him recently.

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With a career spanning over 40 years, Dr Philip Munns has no plans to stop practising, even though he has been retired since 2004.

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familiar face around the district, Dr Philip Munns spent a fair chunk of December as a locum GP in Ashburton – even though he is technically “retired”.

Dr Munns retired on New Year’s Eve of 2004 and moved to Wanaka, but since then has put in hundreds of hours at general practices all over the district.

Born and raised in the United Kingdom, Dr Munns graduated from university at the age of 22 and moved to New Zealand to work in Canterbury. At age 30, he decided to settle in Ashburton.

One of only three doctors in Ashburton who delivered babies, he worked out of the same rooms for over 30 years until Dr Penny Holdaway took over his practice.

When Dr Munns retired he told the Guardian he planned to do relief work as a locum, but wasn’t sure where.

Since his retirement Dr Munns has worked all over New Zealand, from Hamilton and Ruatoria down to Cromwell and Alexandra.

However, at the end of the day, Dr Munns said he deliberately chose to spend the majority of his time working in Ashburton.

“I enjoy working … and I am comfortable in Ashburton,” he said.

He knows the systems in Ashburton and the flexibility of the local GPs allows him to plan his own “time off”.

It’s also nice to see old patients, he said. Recently he had a visit from a former delivery who now has three children of her own.

Wanaka is his home but he doesn’t work there. For obvious reasons, he said.

Dr Munns works full days, but no Fridays, for whichever GP needs a holiday – something that he didn’t have the luxury of doing when he was full-time.

“Getting away was just dynamite,” he said.

However, GPs knowing they can have set periods of time off was important, he said.

Not all his time is spent in

Ashburton, Dr Munns is off the grid during January and February so he can spend time in the home he built with his wife Tommie, in Wanaka.

While Dr Munns doesn’t do emergency or urgent sick leave locum work, he does plan his years out well in advance.

His 2016 calendar is already starting to look full, with chunks of time already carved out for return visits to Ashburton.

Dr Munns said he continues to work because he loves it, but it also helps to fund trips overseas to visit his children and grandchildren in Australia and the United Kingdom.

“You can only do so much fishing and golf,” he joked.

As he and Tommie also have a daughter in Christchurch, the frequent trips north allow them to spend time together.

Dr Munns said he doesn’t plan on working forever and will begin to slow down but for now he is content, occupying GP rooms wherever and whenever he can.

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■ YOUNG ACHIEVER OF THE YEAR

Love of rowing continues The Rotary Club of Ashburton’s Young Achiever of the Year Award recognised some of the district’s biggest talents in years gone by, but where are they now, and what are they doing? The Guardian’s Erin Tasker decided to track some of them down. Today we catch up with 2008 winner Duncan Grant.

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uncan Grant spent twothirds of his life dedicated to a sport which took him to the top of the world three times, before injury brought it all to a premature – and devastating – end.

It was the 2014 season, heading into the nationals and trials, when Duncan developed a stress fracture in his ribs.

The timing couldn’t have been worse and for Duncan it spelt the beginning of the end, and brought his dreams of one day wearing the Silver Fern at an Olympic Games crashing down.

As a lightweight single scull rower, Duncan was a world beater, but he never got to compete at an Olympics due to his specialist event not being an Olympic event.

He almost made it in 2012 as part of a lightweight four, and was eyeing up Rio next year, but his body had other ideas.

“I tried my best to put my best out there at trials, but I was on a lot of drugs to try and numb the pain and discomfort and it kind of led to being put on the shelf so to speak when it came to crews that year and I was kind of left to see if I could get myself back into shape rather than being put onto the injured list,” Duncan said.

Suddenly he was no longer a funded rower, so Duncan had to find a job. He started working as an insurance broker for AON, but a desk job did getting back onto the water no favours.

“Sitting at a desk didn’t make things any easier and I started to get a pinched sciatic nerve in my back and leg which led to numbness whenever I trained.”

Soon, a year had passed and as much as he didn’t want to admit it, the chances of him making it back to the top had all but disappeared.

“The body was telling me something that my head didn’t want to hear,” he said.

A successful career coming to such a sudden end was hard to accept, and adjusting to life without rowing took time.

“One day you’re a funded rower and the next day you’re basically unemployed.”

He spent 18 months with AON, before taking a job as a rowing coach for St Peter’s College in Cambridge.

For Duncan, the switch from being a full-time athlete to an everyday job had been difficult, largely because he hadn’t yet achieved all he wanted to in his career.

“The Olympics is the ultimate goal but not every rower gets to go there. It was obviously one of the last things I wanted to

Rowing took Ashburton’s Duncan Grant to the top of the world three times, before injury brought it all to a premature end.

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achieve, but looking back I’m still happy with what I did achieve,” Grant said.

What he did achieve was impressive; world championships golds in 2007, 2008 and 2009, bronze in 2006 and 2011, and 20odd world cup medals.

He beat many Olympic medal-

lists – including gold medal winners – along the way.

He came agonisingly close to making his Olympic dream come true at London 2012 as part of a lightweight men’s four which missed out on qualifying by just half a second.

It was disappointing, but it

was the hand fate had dealt, and Duncan said it was now time to move on.

“I’m a bit disappointed, I obviously wanted to crack on and tick that last box, but looking back I can’t complain about the times that I did have when I was in the team, and the results I did get.

Half the world cup medals I’ve got are golds,” he said.

Sport doesn’t last forever, particularly when it’s high intensity sport like rowing, but for Duncan it had ended earlier than he would have liked, at age 34. He’s never made an official retirement announcement, but he knows his competition life is over.

It was a career which began at boarding school as a 13-yearold, winning three golds, a silver and a bronze at the 1996 and 1997 Maadi Cup (New Zealand Secondary Schools) regattas, before Duncan made his first New Zealand team at age 22.

Early 2016, he will be back at the Maadi Cup at Lake Ruataniwha, but this time as a coach.

“It should be fun to sort of be on the other side, and to catch up with a number of old friends who have also made the transition to coach, from rower,” he said.

He’s enjoying coaching, and it was good to get back into a familiar routine after the shock of a “nine-five” job when his rowing career first came to its sudden end. Being an athlete in a sport like rowing can only last for so long, and Duncan was always prepared for that, and did parttime study throughout his career, completing a Bachelor of E Commerce at Waikato University.

In 2016 he plans to further his studies and has two trains of thought for his future – one involves post-graduate study with a view to an accounting role, and the other involves a teaching certificate, which would allow him to work in schools and still be involved with the sport that has given him so much.

“If you can’t do it, teach it,” he said.

For Duncan, Cambridge is home, and St Peters is now his team. He has a house there and enjoys the lifestyle, and is giving back to rowing by passing on years of knowledge and experience to the country’s future stars.

“I spent two-thirds of my life involved with rowing and on the water is where I feel most at peace, even in a coach boat,” he said.

His place may now be in that coach boat, but Duncan has also ventured back into the kind of boat he’s been more used to over the years.

“I did have some negative thoughts about it and was never going to get in a boat again,” he said.

“But we took the school on a training camp (a few weeks ago) and it was a nice day so I went for my first row in 21 months, and it was perfect conditions so it was actually quite nice.”

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he age old adage ‘no news is good news’ is all very well – unless you are in the business of reporting the news.

Ask any journalist from any form of media about the lull over the Christmas and New Year period and you’re likely to hear much the same story.

Some years a lot happens, not always news which could be necessarily be described as good by those affected by the event, but something for reporters to cover none the less.

Holidays present another problem for duty reporters – because everyone else seems to be having one.

Just finding someone to talk to can be difficult.

The dearth of breaking news is not solely confined to Mid Canterbury.

Nationwide media outlets have been digging deep to come up with news that is actually new.

A cat and some kittens died in a house fire in Palmerston North – a tragedy for those concerned, but a national news story?

In Christchurch yet another “quake house” was taken apart and relocated, this time to Nelson.

In Timaru the Caroline Bay carnival opened – as it does every year, and on the international scene, were we surprised to learn Prince William has become more emotional since becoming a father?

Were we even interested?

While news gathering opportunities have been, what can only be described as rather hohum in Mid Canterbury, we have spoken to many visitors and campers who have enjoyed their peaceful sojourn – yes it rained – but no one was flooded out, and by and large people went about their holiday pursuits without serious injury.

Thankfully there is always the weather to turn to, and while starting the New Year in a downpour may not be what campers had on their wish lists, it was certainly a boon for the district’s farming fraternity.

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Troops hunt militants Indian security forces have battled to secure an air base near the border with Pakistan, a day after a militant attack that killed seven military personnel and wounded another 20.

As night fell, it was unclear whether two or more militants were still at large after the weekend’s pre-dawn raid on the Pathankot air base in northwestern Punjab state. Four attackers have been confirmed killed.

“The area cannot be declared fully sanitised,” Air Marshal Anil Khosla said.

Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi said he hoped the two believed still to be at large would be “neutralised” overnight. Without recovering their bodies they could not be confirmed dead.

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That contradicted earlier statements by home ministry and army officials who, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the two holdouts had been killed.

The attack by gunmen disguised as soldiers came a week after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an unscheduled visit to Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in an effort to revive talks between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

Officials said the attack bore the hallmarks of previous suspected assaults by Pakistan-based militant groups, underscoring the fragility of recent efforts to revive bilateral talks between the often uneasy neighbours.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

Pakistan has condemned the attack and said it wanted to continue to build on the goodwill created by the impromptu meeting between Modi and Sharif last month.

Gunfire continued into the evening as security forces hunted the remaining attackers in the base, a sprawling compound just 25km from the border with Pakistan.

In a TV briefing from Pathankot, Air Commodore JS Dhamoon said the attackers had burst into a guards’ mess at the air base.

A guard chased after one of the attackers and killed him in the struggle, only to be shot dead by a gunman’s bullet. The other three attackers were neutralised in the late afternoon, said Dhamoon.

Indian leaders had already praised the armed forces for their heroism in the shootout, with Modi saying they did not let the “enemies of humanity” who attacked the base succeed.

But that appeared premature yesterday, as shooting broke out after midday, sparking a renewed manhunt on the base, from which Indian Air Force MiG-21 fighter jets and attack helicopters fly.

Military trucks were seen entering and exiting the walled compound throughout the day, including a demining vehicle.

Dozens of security guards continued their vigil, while protesters shouted slogans and burned a Pakistani flag nearby.

- Reuters

■ UNITED STATES

Iraqi tip-off about German terror attack An Iraqi national tipped off German police about a possible terrorist attack eight days before intelligence from the US and France led authorities to evacuate two Munich train stations on New Year’s Eve, Bavarian media reports.

On December 23, an Iraqi man went to a police station in the southern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg and claimed his brother, who lives in Iraq, knew the militants that were planning to carry out the attack, Suedwestrundfunk and Bayerischer Rundfunk radio stations reported yesterday.

State police subsequently interviewed the man’s brother, who claimed the attacks would be carried out around January 6 - the feast of the Epiphany, a Christian holiday observed in Bavaria - on Munich’s train network.

He gave the names of seven Islamist militants who he said were already in Munich at that time.

State police and Germany’s foreign intelligence agency BND failed to locate the individuals named by the Iraqi man, and two raids on Munich apartments on December 30 did not yield results, the report said.

On New Year’s Eve, German authorities received a “very concrete tip” of an imminent attack from intelligence sources in the US and France, causing them to evacuate Munich’s central and Pasing train stations.

No arrests have been made since and it remains unclear whether the people whose names were given to the authorities are even in the country.

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In brief Quake hits India At least one person is feared dead after an earthquake measuring 6.8 struck near Imphal in eastern India. The quake sent people running from their homes and knocked out power to the city near the Myanmar border. The US Geological Survey said the quake was 57km deep and struck 29km west of Imphal. It initially reported it had struck inside Myanmar.

Police and disaster response teams in Imphal reported that portions of walls, staircases and roofs in some building had collapsed. There were reports that one man died in a building collapse in Imphal, according to General Anurag Gupta of India’s National Disaster Management Authority. - Reuters

Stamp price rises Sending a standard letter in Australia will now cost $1 and take two days longer to deliver. The stamp price hike from 70 cents came into effect yesterday after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission approved the increase in November. The concession price for 5.7 million Australians will stay at 60 cents and greeting cards at 65 cents.

Customers will be able to speed up their letters by affixing a 50 cent priority label next to the standard $1 stamp. Australia Post has said the measures are essential after it lost $222 million in 2014/15 due to tumbling demand for its mail business, with Australians increasingly switching to digital options such as paperless billing and email.

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Residents pile ruined furniture, appliances and clothes along the street for disposal crews to pick up after last week’s flooding from the south fork of the Sangamon River, in Kincaid, Illinois.

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Swollen Mississippi threatens towns Residents of towns in far southern Illinois have been anxiously awaiting floodwaters from the swollen Mississippi River to peak, with hundreds electing to remain in their homes, as states downstream prepared for the rising waters.

The National Weather Service yesterday cancelled a flash flood watch for three southern Illinois counties, where record or near-record river levels had threatened to breach levees.

Days of downpours totalling 25cm or more in spots pushed the Mississippi and smaller rivers over their banks in several states. At least 31 people have died in Missouri, Illinois, Oklahoma and Arkansas, most of them after vehicles drove into flooded areas.

Nine people have died in the Illinois flooding and a dozen counties have been declared

disaster areas there, said Patti Thompson, spokeswoman for the Illinois Emergency Management Agency.

Several hundred residents near breaches in a levee in hardhit Alexander County in southern Illinois chose to stay put rather than leave their homes as a precaution, Thompson said.

Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner planned to continue surveying flood-damaged communities yesterday after touring several hard-hit areas the previous day.

The Mississippi receded further from dangerous levels at St Louis and farther south at Thebes, Illinois, and Cape Girardeau, Missouri, yesterday, the NWS said, while the Ohio River was cresting at Cairo, Illinois.

The Mississippi and Ohio rivers meet at Cairo.

Significant flooding was expected into mid-January along the Mississippi River at points downstream, from Tennessee to Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana.

“I hope it’s going to slow down,” said Kristy Morgan, an assistant manager of Little General Marathon Gas in Tiptonville, a small city in the northwest corner of Tennessee.

“All I know is they have been working around the clock doing sand-bagging,” Morgan said of city and county personnel and emergency agencies in the area.

The river is expected to crest at the moderate flood stage on Thursday in Memphis, Tennessee, according to the NWS. In Louisiana, where crests at some points along the river are not expected until mid-January, officials are checking levees daily.

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A man who drove a car at troops guarding a French mosque has been placed under investigation on charges of attempted manslaughter, the local prosecutor says, but investigators say they have ruled out terrorism for now. They said the 29-year-old Frenchman of Tunisian descent seemed to have acted alone in “a fit of anger” and did not appear to be linked to terrorist groups.

The driver, unemployed for several months, rammed his car into a group of four soldiers in a car park outside a large mosque in the southeastern town of Valence on Friday afternoon, investigators said. “He explained that when he parked his car in front of the mosque and saw the soldiers, he got the urge to ram into them because French troops are killing civilians in Syria,” Valence prosecutor Alex Perrin said.

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Call for Falklands talks Argentina has called for talks with Britain over the status of the disputed Falkland Islands.

“Argentina underscores its desire for a peaceful solution to the conflict and invites Great Britain to resume talks,” the Foreign Ministry in Buenos Aires said to mark 183 years of British control of the islands. The islands some 400 kilometres off Argentina’s coast are known in Argentina as the Malvinas and have been under British control since 1833. The nations fought a brief war over the islands in 1982 that left some 900 people dead. Residents voted overwhelmingly in 2013 to remain part of Britain.

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■ SAUDI ARABIA

■ AUSTRALIA

Saudis sever ties with Iran

Potential landslides for Vic fire towns

Saudi Arabia says it has severed ties with Iran over the storming of the Saudi embassy in Tehran.

It comes amid a worsening diplomatic crisis between the regional rivals following the kingdom’s execution of a prominent Shi’ite cleric.

Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told a news conference Iran’s diplomatic mission and related entities in Saudi Arabia had been given 48 hours to leave.

He said Riyadh would not allow the Islamic Republic to undermine the Sunni kingdom’s security.

The move comes after Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran and Shi’ite Muslim Iran’s top leader predicted “divine vengeance” for the execution.

Strong rhetoric from Tehran was matched by Iran’s Shi’ite allies across the region, with Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanese militia Hezbollah, describing the execution as “a message of blood”. Moqtada al-Sadr, an Iraqi Shi’ite cleric, called for angry protests.

Tensions between revolutionary, mainly Shi’ite Iran and Saudi Arabia’s conservative Sunni monarchy had already run high for years as they backed opposing forces in wars and political con-

Iranian demonstrators burn representations of the US and Israeli flags during a demonstration in front of the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Tehran, Iran, to protest the execution of Saudi Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.

PHOTO AP flicts across the Middle East, usually along sectarian lines.

However, the execution of a cleric whose death Iran had warned would “cost Saudi Arabia dearly”, and the storming of the kingdom’s Tehran embassy, raised the pitch of that rivalry.

Demonstrators protesting against the execution of Sheikh

Nimr al-Nimr broke into the embassy building, smashed furniture and started fires before being ejected by police.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani condemned the execution as “inhuman”, but also urged the prosecution of “extremist individuals” for attacking the embassy and the Saudi consulate in the

northeastern city of Mashhad, state media reported.

Tehran’s police chief said an unspecified number of “unruly elements” were arrested for attacking the embassy with petrol bombs and rocks. A prosecutor said 40 people were held.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards had promised “harsh revenge” against the Saudi Sunni royal dynasty for the execution of Nimr, considered a terrorist by Riyadh but hailed in Iran as a hero of the rights of Saudi Arabia’s marginalised Shi’ite minority.

However the Saudi and Iranian foreign ministers told Austria they have no interest in a further of heightening tensions between them, a spokesman for Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said.

Nimr, the most vocal critic of the dynasty among the Shi’ite minority, had come to be seen as a leader of the sect’s younger activists, who had tired of the failure of older, more measured leaders to achieve equality with Sunnis.

Relatives of Nimr, reached by telephone, said authorities have informed them that the body had been buried “in a cemetery of Muslims” and would not be handed over to the family.

- Reuters

■ AFGHANISTAN

Indian consulate in Afghan city attacked Afghan security forces have battled a group of gunmen near the Indian consulate in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, officials say, as gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades rocked the surrounding area.

The incident occurred while Indian security forces were still trying to suppress an attack on an air base in Pathankot, near the border with Pakistan that has killed at least seven military personnel and wounded 20 others.

With an unknown number of gunmen holed up in a house across the street from the consulate, special forces units prepared an operation to clear the attackers, police spokesman Shir Jan Durani said yesterday.

Two loud explosions and gunshots were heard earlier as the gunmen launched an attack from a nearby house, Muneer Ahmad Farhad, a spokesman for the Balkh province governor said.

No details were immediately

available on any casualties or damage or on the number of attackers and there was no immediate claim of responsibility.

Farhad said insurgents had hidden in a house near the consulate and struck after darkness fell.

He said the attackers had tried to enter the consulate but had not been able to and had shut themselves into a house across the street.

“Right now our security forces

are fighting them,” he said.

An Indian official said there had been no reports of Indian casualties so far and it was not certain that the consulate itself was the target of the attack.

The attack came amid renewed efforts to reduce longstanding tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad and restart peace talks with the Afghan Taliban as part of a broader drive to improve stability in the region.

- Reuters

Potential landslides are the latest threat to two Victorian coastal towns that lost more than 100 homes in Christmas Day bushfires.

Emergency services have assessed homes in Wye River and Separation Creek over the past 10 days, progressively allowing people back in after clearing their properties of hazards.

The towns have been cleared of airborne asbestos, and electricity and water have largely been restored.

But the possibility of landslides remains a real issue, Emergency Management Commissioner Craig Lapsley says.

“A fire moving through can move things, and all of a sudden what is a destructive fire ground can actually be another hazard of stability,” Mr Lapsley told reporters on Monday.

Some houses, while still standing, are no longer safe to live in due to their positioning on the land, he said.

Mr Lapsley said milder weather conditions have allowed crews to assess homes, but the relief looked to be short-lived.

“We move back into hot weather next week and we’ll move back into the January fire season again, which is something we need to be focused on,” he said.

Bushfires across Victoria have destroyed 139 homes since October, including 116 in Wye River and Separation Creek.

Emergency Services Minister Jane Garrett said 24 specialist forest firefighters from New Zealand were due to fly in on Monday and set up in dense, inaccessible bushland in the Great Otway National Park.

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■ NEW YEAR’S HONOURS

Sir David finally gets his re Multiple World and Golden Shears shearing champion and World records breaker David Fagan will now be known as Sir David Fagan KNZM, ONZM, MNZM after being made a Knight in the 2016 New Zealand New Year Honours.

Now 54 and having this year twice retired from top competition after a 33-year open-class career which reaped a phenomenal 642 individual wins in 11 countries, the Te Kuiti shearing legend and new Shearing Sports New Zealand chairman is considered by many as being long overdue for such recognition.

Sir David received the MNZM in 1999 and ONZM in 2007, however the ever-humble new knight said the honours were not about him but “big for shearing”.

He said there are 60 competitions on the Shearing Sports New Zealand calendar.

“That’s about 2400 people running these events, all voluntarily,” Sir David said.

“A bit of this is for each of them.

It’s not so much about me, as for the sport, and the rural industry which supports our sport.”

But he was quick to praise those close to him – father Chris (who died in 2002), mother June, now 90, still driving and living in Te Kuiti, brothers Robin, John, Ken, Geoff (deceased) and sister Helen, wife and the new Lady Wendy Fagan, son and fellow shearer Jack, and daughter and air hostess Jenna.

“Dad and Geoff would have been beside themselves, and it’s good that mum is here to experience this,” he said. Sir David’s

brothers propelled him onto the global shearing stage as he set about a record-breaking career, which includes many milestones which are unlikely to ever be repeated.

Many of his career highs were based around the World Championships, the Golden Shears in Masterton, and the New Zealand Championships he helped establish in Te Kuiti, as well as a series of world records he broke in the woolshed, and dozens of trips to the United Kingdom where he had more than 140 of his victories.

A Golden Shears senior finalist in 1981, Sir David’s big arrival was in 1984 when he was just beaten by brother John in the open final.

A record of 748 lambs in nine hours, one of the earliest attempts with new rules and under which he would set seven records, with bests of 810 on lambs in 1992 and 702 on ewes in 1994.

He had at least 43 wins on the Masterton stage, including two of his record five World individual titles, one of his record seven world teams titles, his record 16 Golden Shears Open titles from 1986 to 2009, and his record nine wins in the final of the national circuit.

Sir David has also won a record 16 New Zealand Open Championships finals in Te Kuiti, where he was a founding member of the King Country Shears committee in 1985, and has seen it through all 30 years of the New Zealand Championships that the event became.

He shore at least once in almost every competition in the country – there used to be 85 – and

Sir David Fagan in action at one of the multitude of the Golden Shears competitions in which he snar he made last season’s swansong a geographical highlight, with finals at 28 venues from Winton to

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red a number of successes. in the United Kingdom, shearing the last five of over 120 tests for New Zealand.

Usually in the same sentences as rugby great Sir Colin Meads, also from Te Kuiti, Sir David is idolised in Wales where he had a record 14 wins in the Royal Welsh Show Open from 1988 to 2014, which was this year won by his son.

Sir David was unable to secure one last individual win on the tour, but had the pleasure of shearing five finals with his son, and with Hawke’s Bay gun Dion King tying a test series against Wales.

Among Sir David’s prouder moments were his two-stand record of 1603 lambs in 1988 with Alan MacDonald, the pair having been born just days apart and growing up together around Pio Pio, near Te Kuiti. The two men also won the World teams title in Wales 1994-95 and were recognised at home with the Waikato Sports Team of the Year Award.

Sir David has also shorn and won hundreds of speed shears, many held in pubs and clubs, setting a World record for the fastest single sheep, while his Golden Shears performances include in 2003 a 15min 27.4sec Open final, still the fastest time for the 20-sheep, six-man showdown.

While he is at a loss as to who nominated him for the knighthood, the suspects would have been many with widespread grievance in the shearing sports and industry that his lack of recognition at New Zealand sport’s Halberg Awards over many years may have reflected a lack of public acceptance of competition shearing and woolhandling as sport.

Foundation in place for future irrigation growth There have been some great wins for irrigation over the past year.

But concerns still remain around how farmers will practically manage their nutrient run-off, mitigate other environmental impacts on-farm while affording access to reliable water for irrigation.

In 2015 we saw great strides in regard to policy direction. The fourth Land and Water Forum Report recommended central funding of environmental infrastructure like water storage and wetlands.

This infrastructure means freshwater can be captured for environmental benefits such as managed aquifer recharge and augmenting rivers in dry seasons.

Suggested amends to the Resource Management Act (RMA) will also help streamline the consent process and give more weight to national direction and collaborative processes for scheme development.

The Government’s 30 Year Infrastructure Plan included irrigation as part of the foundations for a prosperous New Zealand and recognised more needs to be done to ensure that economic and social benefits are maximised while still protecting the environment.

With these plans and policies laying foundations for pragmatic infrastructure development, a lot has also happened ‘on the ground’.

After much debacle and debate, a construction timeline has

Nicky Hyslop, Irrigation New Zealand been tabled for Ruataniwha in the Hawke’s Bay now that it has sufficient farmer uptake and investors circling.

Also in the North Island, the Wairarapa Water Users Project is moving ahead through its feasibility stage, investigating possible sites in detail alongside the level of farmer demand, both now and into the future.

Down south, Central Plains Water opened Stage 1, bringing water to the first 20,000 hectares of dairy, cropping and sheep and beef land between the Rakaia and Waimakariri Rivers; and consent

was granted for the Waimea Dam in Tasman to go ahead.

Scheme development has been bolstered by the 2015 budget allocation of $25 million of new funding to the Irrigation Acceleration Fund – which helps kick start irrigation projects with seed funding.

As an organisation, we continue to support our rapidly developing industry providing education and assistance to our members – and anyone interested.

We have run 16 Irrigation Manger workshops in 2015 with over 300 attendees, these have a focus on efficient water application for water, nutrient and energy savings.

Our biennial Conference and Expo continues to bring people together across the industry and in 2015 we launched our inaugural industry snapshot (http:// irrigationnz.co.nz/wp-content/ uploads/INZ-IrrigationIndustrySnapshot-4Nov15.pdf ).

Similarly, in preparation for yet another very dry summer in the South Island we extended our SMART Irrigation programme to include domestic irrigators with a new SMART Watering campaign in Canterbury.

Looking ahead to 2016, alongside our biennial Conference and Expo in April, we intend to hold an Infrastructure Forum in the first quarter of the year to allow industry to come together and discuss their needs for progressing infrastructural developments.

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Cemetery turned into a park

By Kathleen Stringer

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ome time ago regular readers will remember an article pertaining to the ‘old’ cemetery at the corner of Kermode and William streets. The article mentioned that the little used burial ground for some of our town’s earliest residents was closed and turned into a park.

While some members of the public knew its background, many were unsure of it.

Just recently a copy of the Ashburton Borough Cemetery Act, 1955 came across my desk, which explains why and what was done.

According to the document’s preamble no burials had taken place for over 50 years and the cemetery had become overgrown.

The Ashburton Borough Council experienced difficulty in keeping the land, headstones, monuments and grave surrounds in a neat and tidy condition.

However, they were unable by law to close it themselves – they needed a specific Act of Parliament.

The act allowed for the cemetery to be closed and all headstones, monuments and grave surrounds to be removed and the land levelled.

However the council was charged with laying out the area in lawns, ornamental trees, shrubs and gardens as well as erecting a memorial for all those buried on the site.

As far as records were concerned the council was also

Many years of neglect led to the closing and levelling of the William Street Cemetery. required to prepare as complete a record as possible of all those who are buried there and where they were interred.

Sadly, as the cemetery was so early records are incomplete,

although members of the Family History Group are trying to rectify that.

Frustratingly, the act doesn’t say what was to become of the material the council removed. I

know of at least one headstone that was transferred to the new cemetery. Another was rescued from the council yard many years later and replaced in the William Street cemetery.

The practical and decorative trivet The dictionary describes a trivet as a short-legged metal stand for holding a hot dish.

That certainly describes some trivets, but it was not always the case.

The name comes from the Latin for three, coming from the fact the early trivets had three legs, reasonably long, to support cooking pots among the embers of the fire, holding them level.

Later they became a stand for holding a kettle or pot on the hob beside the fire

rather than actually in it.

Some fire grates even had a swivelling trivet mounted on them that could be swung away from the fire to provide the right degree of heat.

As they evolved further trivets became devices for holding a hot dish, an iron, a pot or teapot off an easily damaged surface.

They often still had three legs but sometimes more. Ones for use with an iron often had the distinct pointed

shape and a ledge to stop the iron slipping off.

They also became more decorative and in some cases were purely decorative, as is likely to be the case with the one shown here.

It is in the shape of a horseshoe with the centre filled with a farm gate.

It is a good example of the iron founder’s art, although for some reason the wording around the arch of the shoe is unreadable.

Right - This trivet is in the shape of a horseshoe with the centre filled with a farm gate.

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Living in two worlds Mid Canterbury has produced some sporting superstars in recent years. Many are still in the news, but some you don’t hear about so often any more. So where are they now? The Guardian’s Erin Tasker found out. Today she catches up with former All Black Isaac Ross.

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oday, Isaac Ross is a gaijin.

But not for much longer.

Ross – a former All Black who grew up at Lagmhor - has been playing rugby in Japan since 2011 as a gaijin (a foreign player) but he loves it so much that he’s planning on applying for a Japanese passport which will make him one of the locals.

He moved to Japan after the 2011 Super Rugby Season, after applying to go there following his 2010 ITM Cup campaign with Canterbury.

“I felt it was the right time in my career to give myself and my young family a fresh start and a new challenge.

“And we have never looked back. We love it.”

Ross and his wife Arnia – his high-school sweetheart – now have four kids – Stanley 7, Franklin 5, Noah 2, and Isaiah, who was born on November 27.

The season in Japan runs from May until January or February, and the family spend their off season back in New Zealand, in Wanaka.

“We love the contrast between Tokyo and Wanaka.

“You really couldn’t get two worlds more further apart,” Ross said.

In Japan, the top league rugby competition is made up of all company owned teams.

Ross plays for NTT Communications – Shining Arcs.

“We are a mid-table team, but we have had the coaching guidance of my old Canterbury head coach, Rob Penney, over the past two seasons and we have gotten better each year.

“So we’re hoping to continue.”

Reaching the pinnacle of New Zealand rugby by becoming an All Black saw him play alongside some of the greats, and be coached by the best.

“But my favourite player I’ve played with during my career so far would have to be Kieran Read.

This geeky Napoleon Dynamite looking kid moved into my flat from Papakura to study at Canterbury University and went straight into the Canterbury Rugby Academy.

“We started our professional career together at Canterbury, then the Crusaders, then the All Blacks.

“I would almost go as far as saying that I taught him everything he knows,” Ross joked.

“But I would have to give most of that credit to the best coach I’ve played under, Rob Penney.

“Rob plucked me from Timaru Boys’ High School and offered me a spot in the Canterbury Rugby Academy and eventually in the Canterbury squad.

“This year I have been playing rugby professionally for 10 years, and now since Rob is my coach here in Japan, he’s been there for seven out of those 10 years.

“I’ve achieved a lot in rugby and he has, along with the huge support of my family, been a big driving force in that success.”

Ross comes from a rugby family.

Dad Jock and mum Christine both wore the Silver Fern and brother Adaam played for Mid Canterbury in this year’s Heartland Championship.

Like most rugby players, Ross has had his fair share of injuries – his worst, sustained in Japan in the 2012-13 season.

“I fully dislocated my right hip while playing.

“It took me about seven or eight months to recover from it.”

It was one low point in an otherwise enjoyable past few years.

Japanese has been hard to learn, but the club provided weekly Japanese lessons and Ross said he did most of his learning and understanding in his first year there.

“It was all a bit of a shock trying to learn, considering my favourite subjects a school were PE and lunchtime,” he said.

“But now I speak enough to at least go to a restaurant and order steak and not get brought back octopus.”

He’s also taking his studies a lot more seriously now, due to

Isaac Ross has reached the highest levels in New Zealand rugby.

Isaac Ross says he’s in the perfect place to raise his family. his plans to apply for a Japanese passport.

Being based right beside Tokyo Disneyland means the family is in a foreigner-friendly area though.

“If you go to a shop and the shop assistant doesn’t speak English, they will rush away to get someone who does.”

That sums up Japan to Ross.

He describes it as the perfect place to raise a family, and the safest place on earth.

“There are so many people living in Japan, but everyone is so courteous and respectful.

“Kids take public transport and walk to and from school by themselves from the age of seven (Elementary School).”

The Ross kids spend three terms schooling in a Japanese school and a term and a half in New Zealand schools.

“Japan is extremely safe and the children here have all the freedom that the older generation in New Zealand once had.

“Playing with neighbourhood kids on the streets and parks is still extremely safe nobody locks their homes or cars and you can bike and walk anywhere anytime of night and feel safe.

“We feel extremely lucky to be able to give our family this lifestyle which I would have never had any idea Japan would offer.

“If you leave anything anywhere, hours later, it will either be in the same place where you

left it, or handed in to an office.

“Last year I left my wallet on the bullet train from Osaka to Tokyo. I thought it was a goner for sure.

“I ring up Tokyo station the next day, and somebody has handed it in, cards, cash, the works!

“All still there .... that was definitely an ‘I love Japan’ day.”

There’s no pushiness, rudeness or chaos despite living in one of the world’s biggest powerhouse cities, and the food is amazing, Ross said.

It’s a place where he’s been able to find the perfect balance between rugby and family.

The Japan top league competition is essentially semi-professional.

Each company-owned team has just six registered foreign players; the rest are Japanese workers.

The club Ross plays for trains in the afternoons between 1pm and 6pm.

That means every morning he’s home to get his kids ready and take them to school.

“And most nights I’m home for dinner and in time to get my kids bathed and in bed.

“This is a big part of why I came to Japan, for family time.

“Playing in New Zealand I was away a lot and playing most weekends, essentially missing out on a lot of my kids’ younger years development.

“Here in Japan, we’re home for most of the day, we play most of our games in or around Tokyo and we get between three or four months off each season to spend in New Zealand visiting friends and family.”

While he’s not ruling out a return to New Zealand rugby one day, Ross said his family was happy in Japan and he wanted to continue with their Japan/ Wanaka contrast for as long as his body allowed.

He said his kids were keen on sport, but they were also keen on playing in the mud and eating ice-cream – sometimes at the same time.

“So to say a third generation of Ross All Blacks is in the making is a wee bit early to tell.

“And to be honest, they’re free to become whatever they wish.”

He loves rugby, and playing professionally, but knows there’s a small window to make money from it.

“And it’s not a secret that most rugby players leave the beautiful shores of New Zealand for overseas contracts to challenge themselves in a different environment, experience a change in culture and also to increase their current salary.”

The reality was, New Zealand playing salaries just couldn’t compare to those offshore.

“Put it this way, if I was still playing in New Zealand, I couldn’t afford to live in Wanaka.”

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Thorndon off the agenda A start for the boom galloper Hasselhoof in the Gr.1 Thorndon Mile has been ruled out.

“He’s not suited by set weights and penalties at this stage of his life,” said Donna Logan, who trains the exciting son of Tavistock with Chris Gibbs.

“He would get two kilos off Kawi and if it was a handicap he would get seven, it’s such a long trip down to Trentham for our horses, it’s easier to get them to Sydney.”

Hasselhoof, whose half-brother (Lot 168) by Rip Van Winkle will be offered by Pencarrow Stud during the Premier Sale at Karaka, is instead likely to return to Ellerslie on January 24.

“Tentatively, we’re looking at the Karaka Stayers’ Cup on Karaka Million night,” Logan said.

Unbeaten in six appearances, Hasselhoof is now the joint $8 favourite with Vavasour for the Gr.1 Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Cup, although a run in the two mile feature has yet to be locked in.

“We’ll see what happens over the 2200 metres next time first – we’ll know a lot more after that,” Logan said.

In the meantime, the stable’s focus is on their home meeting at Ruakaka today.

“We’ve got a really nice team of young and untried stock ready to go,” Logan said. “Mongolian Machete is a lovely horse, Cambridge should be a really good chance as well as Segenhoe and Wyndspelle.”

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Filly gets serious Serious Satire is progressing well toward a return to full time work at her Cambridge quarters. “She’s on the water walker and she’ll be back in the stable on Monday week,” trainer Stephen Marsh said. Serious Satire won the Gr.3 Gold Trail Stakes in the spring and was spelled after she jarred up when unplaced in the Sarten Memorial.

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No Telegraph lead-up Stakes winning sprinter Silver Eclipse will make her next appearance in the Gr.1 JR & N Berkett Telegraph at Trentham later this month. The five-year-old is a past winner on the course and missing the Gr.1 Railway Stakes due to the rain-affected ground won’t affect her chances. “She goes well on the fresh side,” said racing manager Garry Cossey.

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Ready to fly

Hasselhoof with Matt Cameron aboard winning at Ellerslie.

Peter Lock believes it’s only a matter of time before Hiflyer makes his mark at the highest level. “He’s the best horse I’ve ever had anything to do with and what he’s done so far has all been on raw talent,” the Te Aroha trainer said.

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M2 Whangarei gallops Today at Ruakaka Raceway

Whangarei RC Venue: Ruakaka Meeting Date: 05 Jan 2016 NZ Meeting number: 2 Doubles: 1 and 2; 3 and 4; 5 and 6; 7 and 8 Trebles: 2, 3 and 4; 6, 7 and 8 1 1.00pm (NZT) FELL ENGINEERING MAIDEN 2100 $7000, MDN, 2100m 1 96200 Global Warrior (1) 58.5............... Z Moki (a3) 2 53057 Ifra Dancer (10) 58.5 ..................G Cooksley 3 8x606 Affogato h (3) 58.5 .............................M Hills 4 3087L Tama Akarana (13) 58.5 ...............M McNab 5 7000 Ray’s Legacy (4) 57 ....................T Thornton 6 5338x Lipsipsuc (5) 56.5...............L Magorrian (a1) 7 7x036 Choreography (6) 56.5 ...............M Cameron 8 0x9 Lin (8) 56.5 ......................................S Collett 9 9790 Ebony Ayes (12) 56.5................ M D Plessis 10 30x00 Primrose Hill (7) 56.5 ......................A Collett 11 0x00 Round Midnight (2) 56.5 ... U Holmquist (a2) 12 x7070 Thornbury h (9) 56.5 ................... C Dell (a1) 13 99. Just Call Me Marg (11) 55 2 1.35pm COWLEY’S HIRE CENTRE 2YO MAIDEN 1000 $7000, MAIDEN 2YO, 1000m 1 33. Hot Move b (1) 57.5 ...................M Cameron 2 Mooghamir (3) 57.5......................... C Grylls 3 Nova Swiss (6) 57.5 ........................S Collett 4 Olympic (2) 57.5..........................T Thornton 5 Wyndspelle h (8) 57.5 ..................... K Myers 6 Showpin (4) 57.5 .................A Schwerin (a3) 7 3 Attitudzeverything (7) 55.5 8 Choux Lace 55.5 .......................... Scratched 9 Elope To Vegas (5) 55.5 ............ M D Plessis 3 2.10 NZB INSURANCE PEARL SERIES RACE F&M MAIDEN $12,000, MDN F&M, 1200m 1 53370 Who’s Queen h (10) 57.5 ................ K Myers 2 4040x Quick Answer h (3) 57.5 3 Elsabe (8) 57.5............................T Thornton 4 Entree (14) 57.5 5 Onthesauce (13) 57.5 6 45x5x Champagne Diva (12) 56 ................S Collett

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7 Honour Princess h (4) 56 ...........M Cameron 8 Kirstee (1) 56 .................... U Holmquist (a2) 9 Miss Gucci (5) 56 ............................ C Grylls 10 Itellyouonething h (9) 56 ...............M McNab 11 No Pushover (2) 56 .........................A Collett 12 Picnic Bay h (11) 56 .................. M D Plessis 13 Single Moment (15) 56.............A Jones (a1) 14 Southern Castle (7) 56 ........A Schwerin (a3) 15 67x Thewayweroll h (6) 56 Emergency: Thewayweroll 4 2.45pm CERVUS EQUIPMENT MAIDEN 1200 $7000, MDN, 1200m 1 2245x Pieomie b (9) 58.5..................... M D Plessis 2 4443x Dashin (11) 58.5 ........................ Z Moki (a3) 3 29x55 Supermatic (12) 58.5 4 0 Hafemeister (2) 58.5 .....................M McNab 5 657x0 Zedsational (6) 58.5 ........................ D Nolan 6 Flash Suggestion (7) 57 .................. K Myers 7 56. Van Gogh (13) 57 8 Pistol Pete (5) 57............... U Holmquist (a2) 9 Raffia h (1) 57 .................................S Collett 10 The Kaihu Kid (4) 57 ..................G Cooksley 11 4040x Quick Answer h (8) 56.5..............T Thornton 12 657x Ruby Bloom (3) 56.5 .......................A Collett 13 Kirstee 55 ..................................... Scratched 14 67x Thewayweroll h (10) 55 5 3.20pm TRIGG CONSTRUCTION 3YO MAIDEN 1400 $7000, MDN 3YO, 1400m 1 04 Red Raven (3) 57.5 ................... M D Plessis 2 Mongolian Machete h (6) 57.5 ...M Cameron 3 5 Smiling Art (11) 57.5 .........................L Innes 4 Commander (2) 57.5 ..........L Magorrian (a1) 5 Imperious Prince (15) 57.5.........R Elliot (a3) 6 9x Mighty Mak h (14) 57.5 ...................S Collett 7 0 Presumption (13) 57.5 8 Sly Dog Stud (12) 57.5....................A Collett 9 0x Sonorous (1) 57.5 ........................... D Nolan

10 0x87 The Rover (10) 57.5 11 Uncanny (9) 57.5 ....................... Z Moki (a3) 12 Messua (4) 55.5 .................................M Hills 13 9 Odisha (5) 55.5 .............................M McNab 14 9 Society Princess 55.5 .................. Scratched 15 2. Cambridge h (8) 57.5 16 0x543 The Chief (7) 57.5 ...............A Schwerin (a3) 17 Crimson Court 57.5...................... Scratched 18 03600 Running Smooth 55.5 .................. Scratched Emergencies: Cambridge, The Chief, Crimson Court, Running Smooth 6 3.55 KAMO CLUB MAIDEN 1400 $7000, MDN, 1400m 1 6x258 Zucchero (3) 58.5...................... M D Plessis 2 29x55 Supermatic 58.5 ........................... Scratched 3 0x280 First Of A Kind (9) 58.5 ..............G Cooksley 4 x4578 Nipabrandy h (16) 58.5 ................... K Myers 5 57x Nelson Park (12) 58.5 ................. C Dell (a1) 6 x680x Heartnsoul (6) 58.5 .......................M McNab 7 2. Cambridge h (17) 57 ..................M Cameron 8 0x543 The Chief (15) 57 9 Bold Warrior (14) 57 ...........L Magorrian (a1) 10 Crimson Court (13) 57 .................... C Grylls 11 Sebring Dragon (10) 57 .....................M Hills 12 63Fx0 Black Lace (1) 56.5 .........................A Collett 13 Macario (7) 55 ............................R Elliot (a3) 14 03600 Running Smooth h (11) 55 ..........T Thornton 15 Mongolian Machete h (4) 57 16 0 Presumption (5) 57 17 0x87 The Rover (8) 57 .................A Schwerin (a3) 18 0000x Holly Rose (2) 56.5 Emergencies: Mongolian Machete, Presumption, The Rover, Holly Rose 7 4.30pm FORD FIESTA R65 1400 $7000, Rating 65 Benchmark*, 1400m 1 x0287 Amadeus d (12) 60 ....................M Cameron 2 16x52 Marciano td (3) 60 ..................... M D Plessis 3 0000x Aladdin d (4) 59............................... R Jones

Matt Cameron has an excellent book of rides at the Whangarei meeting at Ruakaka today.

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0x699 Handsome Hermes m (8) 58.5Magorrian (a1) 10x44 Riverdeep d (2) 58.5 .........................L Innes 18x79 Street Wars d (10) 58.5 ......................M Hills 60040 Her Choice t (9) 58............ U Holmquist (a2) 0690x Wayne d (1) 58............................T Thornton 77319 The Tilbury dm (7) 57.5 .................M McNab 2x407 Overnightsensation th (13) 57.........S Collett 300x9 Bitethebullet (6) 56 ..................... Z Moki (a3) 2x18 Cinematic b (5) 55.5........................A Collett 5660x Capriella (11) 55.5 .......................... C Grylls

8 5.05pm SKANDEL & MAWAH VELLOUS OWNERS PAY HOMAGE MDN $7000, MDN, 1600m 1 0x430 It Can Only Be You (9) 58.5......... C Dell (a1) 2 0x266 Segenhoe h (5) 58.5 ....................... K Myers 3 Onewa Road h (12) 58.5 .............T Thornton 4 2. Vicente h (1) 57..........................M Cameron 5 50 I’m Not Phazed (11) 57 .................M McNab 6 0 Espinoza (16) 57 7 0 Summer Warrior (2) 57 ...................A Collett 8 75629 Be Beautiful (7) 56.5 .................. Z Moki (a3) 9 0000x Holly Rose (6) 56.5 ..................A Jones (a1) 10 Justrush (4) 56.5 ........................R Elliot (a3) 11 8442 Maytra Dee (10) 55 ....................G Cooksley 12 8x638 Le Petite Rouge (13) 55 ..................S Collett 13 56x80 Macakizi (8) 55...................L Magorrian (a1) 14 x2086 Show Lover (3) 55 ........................... C Grylls 15 25 Head Office (15) 57 16 380x6 Zeani (14) 55 Emergencies: Head Office, Zeani Blinkers on: Hot Move (R2), Who’s Queen (R3), Pieomie, Hafemeister (R4), Nipabrandy (R6), Her Choice, Cinematic (R7), Summer Warrior, Zeani (R8) Blinkers off: Thornbury (R1), First Of A Kind (R6), Aladdin (R7) Winkers on: Red Raven (R5) Winkers off: Choreography (R1), Who’s Queen (R3), Holly Rose (R6), Holly Rose (R8) Pacifiers on: Holly Rose (R6), Holly Rose (R8) Pacifiers off: Ebony Ayes (R1) SELECTIONS Race 1: Choreography, Lin, Affogato, Lipsipsuc, Ifra Dancer Race 2: Hot Move, Mooghamir, Nova Swiss, Wyndspelle Race 3: Kirstee, Miss Gucci, Itellyouonething, Champagne Diva Race 4: Flash Suggestion, Raffia, Pieomie, Van Gogh, Dashin Race 5: Cambridge, Mongolian Machete, The Chief, Presumption Race 6: Cambridge, The Chief, Nelson Park, Zucchero Race 7: Cinematic, Riverdeep, Her Choice, Amadeus

Race 8: Vicente, Head Office, Segenhoe, It Can Only Be You

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Southland Greyhound Racing Club Venue: Ascot Park 5 31825 Thunder Dragon nwtd ........................J Allen 5 74577 Another Russ nwtd.................J T McInerney Raceway Meeting Date: 05 Jan 2016 NZ Meeting num- 6 77551 Regalyn 23.02 ...................................B Eade 6 24464 Protonic Pedro nwtd ......................... B Dann ber: 3 Doubles: 2 and 3; 4 and 5; 6 and 7; 8 and 9; 10 and 7 48475 Glenn Is Goodesy 22.90 ................. M Grant 7 78453 Ebony Fancy nwtd........................... M Grant 11; 12 and 13 Trebles: 1, 2 and 3; 4, 5 and 6; 7, 8 and 9; 8 4311 Bursar nwtd ...................................R Adcock 8 11234 Storming Norm 23.16.................. B I Conner 11, 12 and 13 9 7868x Arcane Rampage nwtd ................C Roberts 9 7868x Arcane Rampage nwtd ................C Roberts 1 1.08pm (NZT) WWW.SOUTHLANDGREYHOUNDS. 10 38778 Albie McLeod 22.82 ..........................B Eade 10 38778 Albie McLeod 22.82 ..........................B Eade 4 2.00pm ADDED ENERGY C0, 457m 7 2.52pm SGRC $50 LEATHER LEADS C2/3, 457m CO.NZ C0, 390m 1 Opawa Janet nwtd L & ....................... Wales 1 24131 Abrasador 26.39 ...............................B Eade 1 4 Alex Rumble nwtd ..................J T McInerney 2 5 Opawa Poppy nwtd L & ...................... Wales 2 8x856 Elephant Gunn nwtd .....................R Adcock 2 75 Max Stix nwtd...............................C Roberts 3 25644 Princely Money nwtd ..............J T McInerney 3 84787 Lagoon Twist 26.52 ......................C Roberts 3 68261 His Nibs nwtd .....................................J Allen 4 4632F Freckle Flyer nwtd ..............................J Allen 4 78431 Homebush Chopper 26.03 .....J T McInerney 4 66 Krista Barista nwtd ........................... B Dann 5 3 Opawa Libby nwtd L & ....................... Wales 5 41115 Miss Valley Inn nwtd .....................C Roberts 5 5232F Another Casino nwtd..............J T McInerney 6 32 Slyness nwtd ......................................J Allen 6 24144 Lagoon Belle nwtd .......................C Roberts 6 85321 Doosh nwtd ............................J T McInerney 7 23 Majestic Action nwtd J & .................D Fahey 7 7548x Opawa Stella 26.11 L & ..................... Wales 7 36544 Another Jet nwtd ....................J T McInerney 8 4346 Reality nwtd ..................................... B Dann 8 62776 Homebush Buck nwtd ............J T McInerney 8 Opawa Blair nwtd L &......................... Wales 9 64386 Octagons Ghost nwtd ....................J Guthrie 8 3.10pm ASCOT PARK CONSORTIUM C1, 390m 9 6447 Rookie Racer nwtd...................... B I Conner 10 47566 Light Thaw nwtd .................................J Allen 10 6447 Rookie Racer nwtd...................... B I Conner 1 22451 Devilskin 23.37 .......................J T McInerney 2 1.25pm WELCOME TO THE NEW YEAR C1, 390m 5 2.17 SOUTHLAND & OTAGO PHOTO FINISH C2, 390m 2 14257 Deborah Bay 23.04 ........................J Guthrie 1 11561 Patchwork Alice 22.96...................... B Dann 1 43342 Johnnybruce nwtd ..................J T McInerney 3 77474 Thrilling Shrimp nwtd .................. B I Conner 2 32687 No Bro nwtd ................................ B I Conner 2 34622 Baduzzi nwtd..........................J T McInerney 4 21374 Cawbourne Ohio 23.35 ................C Roberts 3 52766 Sketchy Steve 22.97 ....................... M Grant 3 2F552 Opawa Leigh nwtd L & ....................... Wales 5 54568 Stenson 22.60 ................................. M Grant 4 45268 Homebush Riley 22.81 ...........J T McInerney 4 85184 Cawbourne Hint nwtd...................C Roberts 6 28587 Crystall McBell nwtd...............J T McInerney 5 83387 Homebush Bruno 22.73 .........J T McInerney 5 56766 Apollo King nwtd ................................J Allen 7 76688 Grayson Blue nwtd .................J T McInerney 6 85143 Another Jamie 22.73 ..............J T McInerney 6 45763 Paddy The Baker nwtd ...........J T McInerney 8 78827 Another Spin nwtd..................J T McInerney 7 22312 Joyner Kersee 22.87 .........................B Eade Emergencies: 7 88847 Another Vespa nwtd ...............J T McInerney 8 22164 Kentaro Baxter nwtd...............J T McInerney 8 77868 Shez Keen nwtd ................................S Keen 9 8x862 Scary Canary 23.41 ..........................B Eade 9 67176 No More Beersies 22.73 ............. B I Conner 10 7868x Arcane Rampage nwtd ................C Roberts 9 7868x Arcane Rampage nwtd ................C Roberts 10 38778 Albie McLeod 22.82 ..........................B Eade 10 34665 Opawa Lean Meat 22.55 L & ............. Wales 9 3.27pm OTATARA SPRINT C1, 390m 3 1.42pm WHO WON THE TIPPING COMP? C1, 390m 6 2.35pm HOLIDAY TIME SPRINT C1, 390m 1 51336 Joey Baxter nwtd ...................J T McInerney 1 54788 Homebush Spike nwtd ...........J T McInerney 1 45722 Belfast Eejit nwtd....................J T McInerney 2 85568 Nicksta nwtd ...........................J T McInerney 2 33244 Glory Hog nwtd ......................J T McInerney 2 27575 Wally Baxter 23.37 .................J T McInerney 3 76688 Homebush Messi nwtd ...........J T McInerney 3 76753 Opawa Viv nwtd L & ........................... Wales 3 27F73 Adrenalin Kick nwtd ...............J T McInerney 4 62773 Another Key nwtd ...................J T McInerney 4 74868 Apollo Baxter 23.80................J T McInerney 4 58376 Subterfuge nwtd .................................J Allen 5 21555 Tilt nwtd.........................................R Adcock

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73586 Business Boss nwtd ..........................S Keen 56545 Crystal Flame nwtd ......................... M Grant 44878 Sailors Collar 23.20........................J Guthrie 8x862 Scary Canary 23.41 ..........................B Eade 7868x Arcane Rampage nwtd ................C Roberts 10 3.45 GREYHOUNDSASPETS.ORG.NZ C1, 457m 1 11113 With Pride nwtd ................................ B Dann 2 11135 Tamara May nwtd ............................ M Grant 3 23451 Thoracic 26.57 .......................J T McInerney 4 53366 Opawa Knocka 26.57 L & .................. Wales 5 55166 Pianissimo 27.50......................... B I Conner 6 34267 Cawbourne Kin nwtd ....................C Roberts 7 18512 Lagoon Mytye nwtd ......................C Roberts 8 41554 Cawbourne Eden nwtd.................C Roberts 9 46274 Heritage Watch 26.76 ....................J Guthrie 10 345F8 Filante nwtd..................................... M Grant 11 4.02 SGRC $26 FIVE WIRE MUZZLES C1/2, 457m 1 78321 Arcane Sabre 26.46 .....................C Roberts 2 51536 Thrilling Hunt 26.48 ..................... B I Conner 3 11137 Cawbourne Kristy 26.25...............C Roberts 4 44252 Zipping Sonny nwtd ...............J T McInerney 5 32542 Fekitoa nwtd ..................................R Adcock 6 26221 Nina Baxter nwtd....................J T McInerney 7 51463 Shines Bright 26.07........................ H Cairns 8 33644 Expect Delay 26.61 ......................... M Grant 9 46274 Heritage Watch 26.76 ....................J Guthrie 10 18671 What I Like 26.12 ...................J T McInerney 12 4.20pm JUSTRACING.COM.AU C4, 390m 1 41686 Human Instinct nwtd ..............J T McInerney 2 15568 Uno Brent 22.92 L & .......................... Wales 3 43433 Opawa Opal 22.98 L & ....................... Wales 4 22447 Air Express 22.77...................J T McInerney 5 76177 Wunzee nwtd .........................J T McInerney

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58375 Lots Of Beersies 22.90 ............... B I Conner 11473 Tell The Boys nwtd .................J T McInerney 47531 Mojo Burst 22.39 ............................. M Grant 74684 Homebush Rocky 22.70 .........J T McInerney 15678 Another Fan nwtd ...................J T McInerney 13 4.37pm RACING AGAIN 26TH JANUARY C3, 390m 1 14661 Good Genes 22.69.......................... M Grant 2 15147 Wrinkles 22.80 .......................J T McInerney 3 28326 Opawa Bart 22.96 .............................B Eade 4 12353 Opawa Crusade 22.63 L &................. Wales 5 63427 Kingman 22.42 ................................ M Grant 6 26818 Thrilling Spell 23.00 .................... B I Conner 7 31134 Technic nwtd .................................R Adcock 8 71136 Homebush Errol 22.79 ...........J T McInerney Emergencies: 9 67552 Homebush Slinky 23.23 .........J T McInerney 10 85653 Opawa Colin 22.46 L & ...................... Wales SELECTIONS Race 1: His Nibs, Alex Rumble, Opawa Blair, Another Casino Race 2: Opawa Leigh, Paddy The Baker, Cawbourne Hint Race 3: Bursar, Regalyn, Glenn Is Goodesy, Arcane Rampage Race 4: Majestic Action, Reality, Slyness, Opawa Janet Race 5: Patchwork Alice, Sketchy Steve, Homebush Riley Race 6: Storming Norm, Ebony Fancy, Belfast Eejit, Protonic Pedro Race 7: Abrasador, Miss Valley Inn, Lagoon Belle, Opawa Stella Race 8: Devilskin, Cawbourne Ohio, Stenson, Scary Canary Race 9: Joey Baxter, Crystal Flame, Nicksta, Scary Canary Race 10: With Pride, Thoracic, Opawa Knocka, Lagoon Mytye Race 11: Fekitoa, Arcane Sabre, Nina Baxter, Shines Bright Race 12: Mojo Burst, Air Express, Homebush Rocky, Uno Brent Race 13: Good Genes, Wrinkles, Technic, Opawa Crusade 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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McCullum ‘struggling’ Brendon McCullum’s back injury is more serious than first thought.

The New Zealand captain is out of today’s fifth and final ODI against Sri Lanka at Bay Oval and was not in the T20 squad for the next two matches anyway.

McCullum damaged his back crashing into advertising hoardings at Christchurch during the second ODI on December 28.

There had been slight hopes he might have been ready for the fourth match at Nelson on Saturday, which only lasted nine overs.

But now he will rest until the start of the ODI series against Pakistan.

“He’s really struggling,” New Zealand coach Mike Hesson said yesterday.

“He hasn’t progressed as well as we’d thought. He will get a further assessment.

“Obviously he wasn’t playing the T20s so he’ll have a decent break before Pakistan arrive and certainly before Australia arrive.”

The schedule has Pakistan starting their tour with three T20s, to follow straight on from Sri Lanka’s two 20-over games on Thursday at Mt Maunganui and at Eden Park next Sunday.

That will give McCullum another 21 days to recover before the first ODI against Pakistan at the Basin

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Brendon McCullum: Out until the Pakistanis arrive.

Reserve on January 25.

Australia’s highly-anticipated return trip starts with three ODIs, beginning at Eden Park on February 3.

That tour becomes the main focus for McCullum, who is retiring after the second test against the Aussies in Christchurch, starting February 20.

New Zealand Cricket management hope to know more today

about fast bowler Tim Southee’s left foot injury, which struck in Nelson early in his bowling stint in the third game at Nelson last Thursday.

Southee suffered the injury in his first over and struggled from that point.

He won’t play today and is unlikely to feature during the two Sri Lankan T20s which round out this week.

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Joel Paris has been nominated as key to Australia’s next generation of fast bowlers after the West Australian left-armer was named alongside Kane Richardson and Scott Boland in a 13-man one-day international squad to play India.

Shane Watson, Usman Khawaja and Joe Burns were the big names left out of the squad, while veteran batsmen Shaun Marsh and George Bailey were included.

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A partnership record BJ Watling has held twice was taken away from the Black Caps test keeper yesterday. England pair Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow broke the sixth wicket partnership record, putting on 399 as England reached 629 for six declared against South Africa. Bairstow (150 not out) joined Stokes (258) at the wicket with England 223-5 and they took the tourists through to 622 before Stokes was run out.

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Scotland’s Gary Anderson lifts the trophy after winning the final of the PDC World Championship yesterday.

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Anderson goes back-to-back Scotland’s Gary Anderson has defended his world darts championship title after defeating England’s Adrian Lewis 7-5 yesterday.

The Flying Scotsman took out the maximum 170 check-out to break Lewis’ throw in the 12th set.

Lewis was the last player to win back to back titles in 2012.

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www.guardianonline.co.nz CRYPTIC ACROSS 1. Somehow drove around the scale and toppled (12) 8. Raised status of blonde perhaps, following directions (8) 9. Get the pitch right for the melody (4) 11. Avoid old Venice leader around beginning of December (5) 12. I am the favourite American incentive (7) 13. It’s the Devil to be in it, in police custody (4) 15. Need to make some changes in the Garden of Paradise (4) 19. What fisherman may have on the Rugby field?

(4-3) 20. Get one in the mire or make me go around Birkenhead (5) 22. The way one walks to the entrance, by the sound of it (4) 23. We lads do turn and hardly move (4,4) 24. Weapon used in pit between courses? (6,6)

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YOUR STARS ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): If your entire identity is based on your success in one area of life, you’re lessening your chances of having a great day. What else do you have going on with high-five potential?

TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): The dating world is a complicated place. It’s a good thing your natural instincts kick in to help you navigate it either for yourself or your loved ones. If you give advice, it will be brilliant. If you take advice, take your own.

GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): Laughing helps you make it through. Don’t wait until you’re feeling bad to look for the funny. Stock up so you’re ready when the weird days hit. Today will bring comic treasures.

CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): You’ve become what you once envied and that brings little satisfaction. The way it pushed you to grow really mattered all along.

Don’t let that stop you envying something new.

LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): It’s human nature: Nobody likes things crammed down their throat. You’re adept in the art of persuasion today, which will include leading by example so you don’t have to launch into the hard sell.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): Regarding the sort of change that happens today: Give it time to sink in. Let it ruminate for a few days. Don’t go immediately back to what you’re familiar with. Live in the transition.

LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): Some secret thing is distracting you — it’s hiding right below the surface of your awareness and nudging you softly. It wants to be uncovered. All you have to do is ask yourself a few questions and you’ll figure out this little puzzle.

SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): From Penicillin to Velcro, many important and useful discoveries were made by chance instead of contemplation. However, when you contemplate, chance will favour you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): It’s not that you’re unhappy with the way things are. You just happen to be fascinated by the potential of things.

It’s how your mind is working today, leaping into an imaginary future and carrying reality along with it.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): If you feel tense walking into the room it’s only because you have an agenda beyond what others have. Relax into the mood and it will be easier to get this agenda across.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Do you really make the world better by following your bliss? Be warned: These days it will take a lot more courage and planning to devote yourself to your own enjoyment.

PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): You’re excellent at drawing boundaries now. You’re so clear on what you will and won’t do that you can say it fast and with a light touch, getting the message across instantaneously.

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Family Notices 22 Ashburton Guardian DEATHS

GLASS, Edward Benjamin, (Ted) – Reg. 238804, WWII, Sgt, 2NZEF, 23rd Btn. Formally of Rocky Gully Road, Albury and Strathallan, Timaru. Passed away peacefully at Talbot Park on Monday, January 4, 2016, in his 96th year. Dearly loved husband of Margaret for 69 years. Loved Father and Father-in-law of Evan and Heather (Methven), Lorraine and Noel Rolton (Fairview), and Noel and Marg (Albury).

Grandad and friend of Kimberley and Kev, Charlotte and Paul, Rebecca and Ross, Brad and Sam and Great Grandad of Isabelle. Friend of Aiden and Liam, and Dequila.

Loved brother and brother-inlaw of Ben and the late Yshbel Glass and the late Noeline and Allen Kidd. A celebration of Ted’s life will be held at the Aoraki Funeral Services Chapel, 160 Mountain View Road Timaru on Friday January 8, 2016 at 2pm followed by private cremation. Messages to The Glass Family, PO Box 4091 Highfield, Timaru.

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Fine with high cloud increasing. Northerlies, easing for a time.

FRIDAY Cloudy periods with a few spots of rain.

Northerlies easing.

SATURDAY Southwesterlies and showers developing.

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A large high moves onto New Zealand from the southwest and remains until early Thursday. Later Thursday and Friday, a low over the Tasman Sea extends a trough across the South Island. The trough moves east over the rest of the country on Saturday, followed by a disturbed southwest flow.

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6am Country Calendar 3 Doug Avery finds out how to beat drought, even though he farms in one of the driest places in the country. 0 6:30 Going Going Gone 3 0 7am Peter Andre’s 60 Minute Makeover 3 0 8am Dickinson’s Real Deal 3 9am Infomercials 10am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 30 11am The Chase 3 0 Noon Whanau Living 3 12:30 Cook Me The Money 1:30 Come Dine With Me UK PGR 3 2pm May The Best House Win 3 2:55 Tipping Point 3:55 Te Karere 2 4:25 The Chase 0 5:25 Millionaire – Hot Seat 0 6pm One News 0 7pm The Chase Australia 0 8pm Britain’s Busiest Airport – Heathrow Cameras follow cleaners, ground staff, and flight crew as they get the world’s largest passenger plane ready for departure; a royal guest pays a flying visit.

0 9pm One Born Every Minute AO 0 10pm Nigel Latta 3 0 11pm Nothing Trivial AO 3 What is a pyrrhic victory? Is Michelle is on top of her game, or on a crash course to disaster? Emma makes Brian face his demons. 0 11:50 Happy Families AO 3 0 12:40 Te Karere 3 2 1:05 Infomercials 5:35 Te Karere 3 2

CHOICE TV 6am Benny Hinn 6:30 Alexander’s Lost World David Adams begins his Odyssey in present day Greece. Aboard a fullscale replica of Jason’s ship the Argo, he explores the legend of Jason and the Argonauts.

7:30 Gardeners’ World 8am House Crashers 8:30 Love Nature 9:30 Jamie At Home 10am Poh’s Kitchen 10:30 TBC 11:30 Beverly Hills Pawn Noon Alexander’s Lost World 1pm Our Guy In India 2pm Chris Tarrant – Extreme Railway Journeys 2:55 Gardeners’ World 3:35 House Crashers 4pm Love Nature Weekday 5pm River Cottage Forever 5:30 Rachel Allen’s Everyday Kitchen 6pm The Get Growing Roadshow 6:30 Buying The Bayou 7pm Auction Hunters 7:30 Location, Location, Location 8:30 Buying And Selling With The Property Brothers 9:30 Fantasy Homes By The Sea 10:30 Auction Hunters 11pm River Cottage Forever 11:30 Rachel Allen’s Everyday Kitchen

WEDNESDAY

Midnight House Crashers 12:30 Benny Hinn 1am Gardeners’ World 1:30 House Crashers 2am Love Nature 3am The Get Growing Roadshow 3:30 Buying The Bayou 4am Location, Location, Location 5am Buying And Selling With The Property Brothers

TV TWO

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TV THREE

6am Infomercials 7am The Dr Oz Show 3 Dr Oz introduces natural weight-loss tool, yacon syrup, which he has had tested by 60 women.

7:50 The Ricki Lake Show 3 Extreme lifestyles are discussed.

8:40 The Queen Latifah Show Bad Judge’s Kate Walsh; New Girl’s Lamorne Morris plays Queen’s Celebrity Dating Game.

9:35 Infomercials 11:35 Baggage Noon The Biggest Loser 3 0 2pm M Baby’s Day Out 3 1994 Comedy. Joe Mantegna, Lara Flynn Boyle, Joe Pantoliano. 0 4pm Entertainment Tonight 3 4:30 Million Dollar Minute 3 5pm American Ninja Warrior 3 (Part 1) 0 6pm 3 News 7pm Home Free 0 7pm Road Cops PGR 3 0 8pm M Battle Los Angeles AO 7:30 House Rules PGR 2011 Action Sci-fi.

With four-and-a-half days to A squadron of US Marines go, the teams are in for some becomes the last line of unexpected setbacks. 0 defence against a global 8:30 M Minority Report invasion.

AO 3 2002 Sci-fi Thriller.

Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Rodriguez. 0 Samantha Morton. 0 10:15 2 Broke Girls AO 3 0 10:45 F The Whispers AO

6am Creflo Dollar 6:30 Angry Birds Toons 3 0 6:35 Transformers Rescue Bots 3 0 6:55 Stitch! 3 0 7:20 F Ben 10 – Omniverse 3 0 7:45 Kung Fu Panda 3 200 0 8:10 Austin And Ally 3 0 8:35 Kickin’ It 0 9am Infomercials 10:30 Regular Show PGR 3 0 10:40 Baby Daddy PGR 0 11:10 The Voice Australia 3 0 12:35 The Good Witch 0 1:30 Judge Rinder PGR 2:30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 0 3:30 Jungle Bunch News Beat 3 0 3:32 Angry Birds Stella 3 0 3:35 Jamie’s Got Tentacles 0 4:05 Kirby Buckets 0 4:35 Good Luck Charlie 0 5pm America’s Funniest Home Videos 3 0 5:30 My Wife And Kids 3 0 6pm Friends 3 0 6:30 The Middle 3 0

12:30 Body Of Proof AO 3 0 1:15 Infomercials 2:20 The Originals AO 3 3:05 Grey’s Anatomy PGR 3 0 3:50 The Vampire Diaries AO 3 0 4:35 Posh Nosh 3 0 4:40 Full House 3 0 5:10 Joey 3 0 5:30 Infomercials

11:10 3 News 11:40 Motive AO 3 Flynn and Vega investigate a case of mistaken identity, and discover a link between the killer and the victim that threatens to expose an even more dangerous secret. 0 12:35 Infomercials

FOUR 6am Sesame Street 3 6:55 Peppa Pig 3 7am As Told By Ginger 3 7:25 Danny Phantom 3 7:50 The Wild Thornberrys 3 8:15 Chuggington 3 8:30 Hi-5 House 3 8:55 The Moe Show 3 0 9:05 Peppa Pig 3 9:10 Fireman Sam 3 0 9:20 Thomas And Friends 3 9:30 Bob The Builder 3 9:40 Barney And Friends 3 10:05 Infomercials 2pm Sesame Street 3 2:55 Pingu 3 3pm Emma! 3 3:05 Peppa Pig 3 3:10 Ella The Elephant 3 3:30 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom 3 3:40 George Of The Jungle 3 4:10 Fairly Odd Parents 3 4:35 Mr Young 3 5pm It Only Hurts When I Laugh 3 5:30 Life’s Funniest Moments 3 6pm Punk’d 3 6:30 How I Met Your Mother 3 7pm The Simpsons PGR 3 0 7:30 Face Off PGR The 11 remaining artists face another individual challenge to mash-up two animals and create a new species.

8:30 M Hard Target AO 1993 Action Thriller.

Jean Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen.

10:20 Burn Notice AO 3

11:10 Entertainment Tonight 3 11:35 Infomercials

PRIME

SKY SPORT 1

7am Deal Or No Deal 3 7:30 Home Shopping 11:55 The Doctors 12:50 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon PGR 3 1:45 Downton Abbey PGR 3 An idea of Mary’s gives Anna new hope; Mr Carson and Mrs Hughes cannot agree; Edith faces her greatest fear.

2:50 Storage Wars – Texas PGR 3 With a tornado approaching, the buyers go to East Texas to buy a locker before the storm hits.

3:20 Antiques Roadshow 3 4:20 Tennis – ASB Women’s Classic (Highlights) 5:30 Prime News 6pm Escape To The Country British couples or families search for the perfect country home while exploring the surroundings of each location.

7pm Modern Family PGR 3 Claire has a first-class experience; Sal’s friends discover she is a changed woman, or is she? Under duress, Jay teaches Manny how to deal with bullies.

7:30 Jamie And Jimmy’s Food Fight Club 3 8:30 Prime Rocks – Cream PGR

6am Motorsport – Dakar Rally (Highlights) Stage One – Rosario to Villa Carlos Paz. 6:30 Football – A-League Highlights Show 7am Football League Show 7:30 Football – A-League (Highlights) Central Coast Mariners v Wellington Phoenix.

8am Red Bull – Tip To Tail 8:30 Tennis – Women’s ASB Classic (Highlights) Day One. 9:30 Fox Sports News 10am Cricket – T20 Big Bash League (Highlights) Hobart Hurricanes v Melbourne Renegades.

10:30 L Cricket – International Blackcaps v Sri Lanka – Fifth ODI. 2:35 The Cricket Show 3:05 L Cricket – International Blackcaps v Sri Lanka – Fifth ODI. 7pm Cricket – T20 Big Bash League (Highlights) Hobart Hurricanes v Melbourne Renegades. From Blundstone Arena, Hobart.

7:30 Fox Sports News 8pm Motorsport – Dakar Rally (Highlights) Stage Two – Villa Carlos Paz to Termas De Rio Hondo.

8:30 Fight Night Fighters TBC. 10:30 Football League Show

11pm Cricket – International (Highlights) Blackcaps v Sri Lanka – Fifth ODI. From Bay Oval in Mt Maunganui.

11:30 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon PGR A celebrity chat show.

12:30 Home Shopping

11pm Football – A-League Highlights Show 11:30 Motorsport – Dakar Rally Midnight Tennis – Women’s ASB Classic (Replay) 4am Second Serve 4:30 Cricket – International (Highlights) 5am Cricket – T20 Big Bash League 5:30 Cricket – International (Highlights)

MAORI TV 6:30 Pukoro 3 2 7am Dora Matatoa 3 2 7:30 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 3 2 8am Pukana 3 2 8:30 Te Kaea 3 2 9am Patapatai 3 9:30 Fusion Feasts 3 10am Korero Mai 3 2 11am Toku Reo 3 2 Noon Korero Mai 3 2 1pm Toku Reo 3 2 2pm Ako 3 2 3pm Waka Ama Sprint Nationals 3 3:30 Pukoro 3 2 4pm Dora Matatoa 3 2 4:30 SpongeBob Tarau Porowha 2 5pm Matika 3

THE BOX 6am CSI MV 6:50 The Simpsons PG 7:15 Storage Wars – Texas PG 7:40 Crash Investigation Unit M 8:05 Survivor – Samoa PG 8:55 NCIS MV 9:45 Criminal Intent MV 10:35 Criminal Minds MV 11:25 RBT MC 11:50 Border Security PG 12:15 CSI MV 1:05 Pawn Stars PG 1:30 NCIS MV 2:15 CSI MV 3:40 Survivor – Samoa PG 4:30 Storage Wars – Texas PG 5pm The Simpsons PG 5:30 NCIS MV 6:30 Pawn Stars PG 7pm Storage Wars – Texas PG 7:30 Criminal Minds MV 8:30 Elementary MV 9:30 CSI – Cyber MV 10:30 Criminal Intent MV 11:30 Criminal Minds MV

WEDNESDAY

12:30 Survivor – Samoa PG 1:20 CSI MV 2:40 Criminal Intent MV 3:25 The Simpsons PG 3:55 Elementary MV 4:45 CSI – Cyber MV 5:35 Pawn Stars PG

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SKY SPORT 2 5:30 Te Kaea 2 6pm Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te Motu 3 2 6:30 Ako 3 2 7pm Tangaroa With Pio 3 7:30 Toi Whakaari 3 2 8pm Waiata 8:30 M Shakespeare Behind Bars AO 3 2005 Documentary.

10:15 Te Kaea 3 2 10:45 Paepae 3 2 11:15 Closedown

DISCOVERY 6am Wondernesia PG Raja Ampat.

6:30 Deadliest Catch PG Collision Course. 7:30 Gold Rush PG Rivers of Gold. 8:30 Mythbusters PG Food Fables. 9:25 Nasa’s Unexplained Files PG 10:20 How The Universe Works PG 11:15 I (Almost) Got Away With It M 12:10 Deadly Devotion M 1:05 Who The (Bleep) Did I Marry? M 1:30 Who The (Bleep) Did I Marry? M 2pm How It’s Made PG 2:25 How It’s Made PG 2:55 How Do They Do It? PG 3:20 Auction Hunters PG 3:50 Gold Rush PG 4:45 Secret Space Escapes PG 5:40 Mythbusters PG 6:35 Edge Of Alaska M 7:30 Kings Of The Wild M 8:30 Men, Women, Wild M 9:30 FBI Takedowns M 10:30 How It’s Made PG 11pm How It’s Made PG 11:30 Gold Rush PG

WEDNESDAY

12:30 Evil Kin M 1:25 Disappeared M 2:20 Wondernesia PG 2:45 Savage Family Diggers PG 3:15 Deadliest Catch PG 4:10 Dirty Jobs PG 5:05 Dangerous Flights M

Britain’s Busiest Airport – Heathrow, 8pm on TV One

MOVIES PREMIERE

Modern Family 7pm on Prime

MOVIES GREATS

7:20 Hours ML 2013 Thriller.

Paul Walker. 8:55 Honour 16VLSC 2014 Thriller. Aiysha Hart, Paddy Considine. 10:40 Bafta: A Life In Pictures – Ben Kingsley PG 2012 Documentary. 11:05 The Wedding Bros 16LS 2008 Comedy.

Dan Fogler, Brendan Sexton III. 12:25 The Pyramid 16VLC 2014 Horror. 1:55 Paul Blart – Mall Cop 2 PGV 2015 Comedy. Kevin James, Raini Rodriguez. 3:30 Honour 16VLSC 2014 Thriller. Aiysha Hart, Paddy Considine. 5:15 Wild Card MC 2013 Drama. Jennifer Finnigan.

6:45 The Purge – Anarchy 16VLC 2014 Horror. Frank Grillo, Zack Gilford. 8:30 Adventures Of A Pizza Guy 16VLS 2014 Comedy.

10pm The Butterfly Room MVL 2012 Horror. 11:25 Paranormal Movie 16VLSC 2013 Comedy.

7:55 Girl With A Pearl Earring PGC 2003 Drama. Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson. 9:35 My Best Friend’s Girl 16 2008 Comedy. Kate Hudson, Dane Cook. 11:15 Hancock MVL 2008 Action. Will Smith, Jason Bateman. 12:50 Jerry Maguire MLS 1996 Drama.

Tom Cruise, Renee Zellweger, Cuba Gooding jr. 3:05 Girl With A Pearl Earring PGC 2003 Drama.

Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson.

4:45 Calendar Girls PGC 2003 Comedy. Helen Mirren, Julie Walters.

6:35 Gran Torino 16VL 2009 Crime.

Clint Eastwood. 8:30 The Village MV 2004 Thriller. Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, William Hurt.

10:20 The Dukes Of Hazzard MS 2005 Comedy. Johnny Knoxville, Jessica Simpson, Seann William Scott.

12:55 The Purge – Anarchy 16VLC 2014 Horror. 2:40 Adventures Of A Pizza Guy 16VLS 2014 Comedy.

4:10 Paranormal Movie 16VLSC 2013 Comedy. 5:40 Bafta: A Life In Pictures – Ben Kingsley PG 2012 Documentary.

12:05 Rush Hour 2 MVS 2001 Action. Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker.

1:35 Close Up – Matthew McConaughey PG 2:05 Calendar Girls PGC 2003 Comedy.

Helen Mirren, Julie Walters.

3:50 Gran Torino 16VL 2009 Crime.

5:45 The Village MV 2004 Thriller.

WEDNESDAY

WEDNESDAY

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

5Jan16

6am The Fishing Show 7am Cricket – International (Highlights) Australia v West Indies – Third Test, Day Two. 7:30 Cricket – International (Highlights) Blackcaps v Sri Lanka – Fourth ODI. 8am Fox Sports News 8:30 Football – Chelsea TV Crystal Palace v Chelsea. 11:30 Cricket – T20 Big Bash League (Highlights) Hobart Hurricanes v Melbourne Renegades.

Noon Cricket – International (Highlights) Australia v West Indies – Third Test, Day Two. 12:28 L Cricket – International Australia v West Indies – Third Test, Day Three. 2:35 Cricket – T20 Big Bash League (Highlights) Hobart Hurricanes v Melbourne Renegades.

3:05 L Cricket – International Australia v West Indies – Third Test, Day Three. 8pm Cricket – International (Highlights) Blackcaps v Sri Lanka – Fifth ODI. 8:30 The Cricket Show 9pm Cricket – T20 Big Bash League (Highlights) Hobart Hurricanes v Melbourne Renegades.

9:35 L Cricket – T20 Big Bash League Adelaide Strikers v Perth Scorchers.

WEDNESDAY

1:05 Cricket – International (Highlights) Blackcaps v Sri Lanka – Fifth ODI. 1:35 The Cricket Show 2am Cricket – International (Highlights) Australia v West Indies – Third Test, Day Three. 2:30 Cricket – International (Highlights) Blackcaps v Sri Lanka – Fifth ODI. 3am Cricket – T20 Big Bash League (Highlights) Adelaide Strikers v Perth Scorchers.

3:30 Football – A-League Highlights Show 4am Football – A-League (Replay) Brisbane Roar v Perth Glory.

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Ana Ivanonic: Determined to make consistency a bigger part of her game, starting in Auckland this week.

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Perfect record on the line Ana Ivanovic is aiming to be a more consistent player in 2016, and maintaining her perfect record in Auckland would be the ideal way to start.

The 2008 French Open winner was earmarked to be one of the dominant players in women’s tennis after making her Grand Slam breakthrough aged 20 but she hasn’t won another Slam since.

Stringing together consistent results has been a constant issue, and with that in mind, a return to the court where she triumphed in 2014 could be a wise decision to kick-start a rise back to the elite echelon.

“I have great memories from this tournament and I hope I can repeat that success and get a few matches under my belt,” said the 28-year-old.

“I think my fitness, movement

on the court and inconsistency - that’s sort of connected and I worked a lot on that during the off-season.

“I worked a lot in the gym and also on the court, so I’m really looking forward to improving that during my matches and competitions.”

There can be parallels drawn between Ivanovic’s Auckland stint in 2014 and this year’s tournament.

On both occasions, Ivanovic arrived in Auckland ranked 16th in the world and as the second seed, after failing to win a WTA title the season before.

A chance to repeat her 2014 success at Auckland, where she holds a 100 per cent winning record, could be a valuable beginning to her 14th year on tour, with 2014 being one of the best.

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She made six finals, winning four, and momentarily moved back into the world’s top five.

Although she reached last year’s French Open semi-finals - her first at a Grand Slam since 2008 - Ivanovic couldn’t get past the second round in the other three Slams, highlighting the frustrating lack of consistency which has plagued her game.

With that now in the past, Ivanovic is looking to start 2016 in a place which holds fond on-court memories, and believes improvements made in the off-season could aid her back to her former lofty heights.

Ivanovic has focused on her serve as another important facet to improve after she finished sixth on the WTA Tour in double faults last year, racking up 235 in just 47 matches.

“I worked a lot in the off-season on my movement and also my serves so hopefully I can bring that together on a match court.

“Making my serve a little bit more of a weapon - I feel very confident on the practice court so hopefully I can put it together.”

Ivanovic is facing a qualifier in the first round and has the likes of young American prospect Sloane Stephens and former world No1 Caroline Wozniacki on her side of the draw.

If she can get through that unscathed, it could forecast the start of another rise up the rankings for the Serbian star.

Today’s schedule has been released, with Caroline Wozniacki and Venus Williams on court in the afternoon and Ivanovic headlining the night session.

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will play the final match tonight.

Out on centre court yesterday Ivanovic and Kirsten Flipkens have surprised the top seeds in the doubles - Czech combination Lucie Hradecka and Andrea Hlavackova - winning 4-6 6-4 10-3 in an entertaining match.

Meanwhile Svetlana Kuznetsova is through to the second round, after Mona Barthel retired hurt in the third game of the second set with a stomach complaint.

The German had looked out of sorts from the start, producing some wild shots, and she complained during the match of feeling unwell before calling it quits after 49 minutes, for a 6-2 1-1 (retired) victory.

Still, it was a tidy display from the 30-year-old Kuznetsova, who reaches the second round here for the first time since 2012. - NZME

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